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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Chocolate Biscuits: Mix some choc-
olate powder, with white OF eggs, and
powdered loaf sugar, into paste. Mold
this into biscuits and bake them at a
gentle heat OH a sheet of white paper.
Griffin. Ga, has the Target peach
orchard in the South, containing so. 900
trees and covering most of 600 acres.
On the same farm are 1000 grated ap-
pie trees and 5000 pear trees.-C Chicago
Times.
DR.. T. ii. Hoskins, of Vermont,
who has been a fruit-grower for thirty
live years and owns an orchard of over
1000 trees. is willing to confess that
there is great deal. still to be learned
about the business" He adds: Il
have never found tho kind of men that
knew it all of much value as teachers"
Tho Agricultural Department will
i'll future make special efforts to collect
for publication crop and market reports
of European countries. and Commits
Sioner Loring has appointed Edward j.
Motfat, of New York, agent for the de-
partmcnt for this purpose. He will be
made deputy at the London Consul
generalship.
TO mark tools: Cover the part to
be marked with thin coating of tallow
or beeswax. Then, with sharp in
strument, write the name in the tallow,
cutting clearly into it. Then fill in
the letters with nitric acid. Let it re-
main from one to ten minutes. Then
dip in water and rub of, and you will
have the mark etched.-N. Y. san.
Pianos and organs are becoming
common at farm houses. This is all
right, as farmers daughters have as
much right to the refined accomplish
ments rs city ladies. But in addition to
music, farmers daughters ought to
know how TO wash. iron. cook a good
meal. make bread. make shirts and
dresses, and then the man who marries
her gets fortune, whether she has
money or not.-I0Ua State Register.
To Prepare Spiced Blackberries: To
six quarts of fruit take two and one-half
pints of sugar, one and one-half pints of
vinegar. One-half ounce of cinnamon
(ground), one-half ounce cloves, one
half ounce allspice and 4 little mace
broken in small pieces. Boil the sugar
and vinegar together. with the spices,
putting these last into muslin bags.
Then put in the berries and let them
scald. not boil.-Dcnrcr Tribune.
A correspondent of the Fruit Re
corder says that cotton soaked in tur-
pentine and hung among the branches
of plum trees just as the blossoms are
falling and frequently renewed until the
plums are half grown will effectually
protect the fruit from the depre dations
of the curculio. If gum camphor or
any of the essential oils. such as pep
permint, pennyroyal, sassafras, ETC., are
dissolved in the turpentine it produces
an odor so strong that it becomes intol-
cradle to all insects.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17
A Clergyman on the Bicycle.

The bicycle is not a toy or a boys
plaything. A largo proportion of its
riders arc grown men, and many Of them
heads Of families engaged in business
and professional Life. There is nothing
common or unclean'' shout it. Its
cost. delicacy, grace and beauty must
prevent it ever becoming vulgar. 1t is
genaeman's fancy, and when once mas
tered can be used with rs much grace
and ease as the ordinary saddle horse.
And ministerial dignity stands in no
greater peril of compromise than it does
by horseback riding. 1t has become
such common vehicle on the roads
about Boston as to no longer excite any
more FeFa&fi ~ than wouitf -grget
the appearance of any other hand
some turnout. Beside affording the
most exciting and pleasurable ex-
ercise, it is being used by many
of my ministerial friends in this locality
in much of their pastoral work. From
its back the pastor can enter the sick,
room of the most sensitive patient, with
out the smell of the stable upon his gar
ties which are apt to distract the mind
when restive horse stands for an hour
in fly-time jerking at his reins and i'm
patient at the delay of his lingering
master. If an exchange is to be made
with brother at distance, and Sun
day ride becomes necessity, there is no
violence to be done the conscience by
taking public conveyance, but quietly
gliding into the saddle of a nOiseless
steed, you go spinning away in graceful
style to the distant church, and when
there no heated horse is to be groomed
or blanketed, but pushing your slim
steed into 4 wood-shed or unused room,
all care is dismissed from the mind, for
he needs neither grain nor water, and
will await silently the movements and
pleasure of his owner.
l know a gentleman who, as professor
in one of our best universities, was
rapidly breaking down through over
work and nervous prostratiOn; he has
not been able to sleep more than two
hours consecutively in the twenty-four
for the last three years. He has been
using the bicycle about four months and
is now able to sleep soundly all the night
through. and eat as heartily as at any
time in his life.
Ihave another friend who is the work.
ing editor of one of our largest church
papers, who was almost broken down
when he took to the bicycle few years
ago, who now does most heroic work all
the year round, sleeps sound, eats hearth
ly and has renewed his youth, as his
active. 1.-the step and vigorous articles
testify. He wheeled himself up the hill
again to perfect health. We have a
large number of clergymen in this vicini-
ty who are realizing the great benefit of
this modern centaur invigorator, and the
number is rapidly increasing.-Rev. S. L.
Gracey, in the Christian at Work.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17
The West Indian Ghost.

Our house on the Pedro Town plain is
much infested hy whole host of very
Objectionable duppies. And lest the
word should prove absent from the En-
glish dictionary, it may be well to ex-
plain that duppy is a familiar West
Indian creature or entity, closely re-
sembling in most points Of structure
and function our ordinary British ghost.
The negro mind still lives and moves in
a primitive atmosphere of duppies,
obeah-men, witchcraft, love-philtres,
and bodily West African devils; so that
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17
A New Disease.

Mrs. Nose Schumburg is a very can
did woman. There were several lady
friends from Galveston at the house q
few days ago. Nose was not present,
being down at the store.
"H How is your husbands pishness
coming Onp" asked one of the visitors.
"Not so goot as wants. Every once
In vile he gets one of his honest spells,
and then we hardly makes exspenshes.
You don't know how pad I feels ven
Nose gets one Of dose honest spells. -
2eras SJtings.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17
SIW.UER NOON

ahe landscape STEPPED in drowsy ianpuors lies
IA QuiVer IN transparent waves. the air
IIaheis all the sceie the sapphire skies
are fiecked with ciordlets floating here and
there.
Inc sluggish pulse Of life seems heating low.
~ Inc Lour Is strangely still 10 bird-snnr fIoats
FROM stiriess branches where IA while AGO
Narbled such music from such ha,py throats
oniy bee-song. among clover sweets
Droned IN the intervals of lazy ili.ht :
sound more silent still than silence greets
MY dreamy senses, and there .loats in sight
linen out of sight, caudy butterfly;
ANA from beneath weed an insect trills
MS one heart-aong. scarce louder Than sigh:
ii sigh or song his little heart it fills.
Soft waves of shade, with riffs of light between.
, In silent ripples like babys smile
In sleep, stray up and down the meadows green
Dappled with daisies; and muse the while
With songless. stirless lirs and folded hands.
ANA dream the spirit of this REGAL time
Comes gayiy tripping from lair tropc lands
With ardent whispers OF the SUNNY chime.
Oplenitude of sweets. O summer noon,
ger bee and bird. or weed and flower and me.
wizard spell IS wrought. but all too soon
The hour Is fed, but not its poetry
-BoStDa Irdnscritt.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17

"A French statistician has calculated
that if all telegraph wires were tackled
on end to end they would reach forty
six times round the world. Belgium has
a greater telegraph mileage in proper
ton to its superficial area than any other
country in Europe, Switzerland comes
second and Great Britain third. Russia
has the least.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17
Frank Il. Gould. of Portland. Me-.

Frank L. Gould, of Portland, Me-,
aged %, died the other day of starvation
He had a mother and three brothers and
sisters to support, and as he could get no
work, went without food to keep them
from starving. The sad case was dis
covered too late to save young Gould,
for he was attacked by gastric fever, and
died in great suffering Boston Post.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17

An actor who resembles the late
Artemus Ward, and can mimic his man.
ner, is to exhibit the PANORAMA Of
Among the Mormons' in London, and
deliver the original lecture.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17

Sixteen hundred American revolv-
ers were recently ordered for tho South
Australian police forces.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17

-Inordinate demands should be met
with bold denials.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
A Shark Caught by a Clam.

Among the discoveries recently made
in the great Dead Sea of the West were
some gigantic oyster shells moro than
six feet long, each pair of which once
contained an animal that the average
boy could not lift. To day the only
really large shellfsh is of the clam
family. 1t is named 1ridaena gigas, a
contemporary tells us, and is found in
the Pacific Ocean, the length of his life
being sixty or seventy years. 1t grows
embedded in the coral, and is fastened
to the rocks by cord called the byssus,
which is SO tough that it can be cut
only with an ak. The shells them
selves are SIX feet long, each valve
weighing more than $50 pounds, while
the animal part often weighs thirty or
forty pounds.
When alive the tridaena lies with its
great valves ajar, capturing any food
that may pass within its scalloped
edges. A shark was once caught in this
way. Swimming along in search OF
food, he unwarily passed in the door of
the great CLAIMS house, his tell rudely
striking the animal. Like q flash the
tremendous jaws snapped together,
squeezing the man-eater as if he were
in wise, and rendering him utterly
powerless. AS the tide went down the
sharks head appeared above the water,
dashing about and churning up the sea-
The hubbub attracted the attention of
some natives, who soon captured both
shark and clam.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
A Bold SwindIer.

A Frenchman bought an island off the
coast of Australia for about $3.50, and
announced his intention of founding @
New France. The protector called him
self marquis, and succeeded in obtain
ing subscriptions amounting to 10, 900,
600 francs from colonists who joined in
the expedition. The emigrants sailed
in vessels bought with their own money,
the marquis not accompanying them.
When the colonists reached their desti-
nation, desert, and not the rich soil
and attractive surroundings promised,
greeted them. Hunger and sickness
killed many of them, and the rest were
brought home by kind shipmasters. The
protector meanwhile was organizing
new enterprises. 1t was reported that
engineers had found precious stones in
the land of New France, and that agri-
culture was fourishing. Moro subscrip-
tions poured in. Soon, however, the
imposition was discovered. The Omar
quis' is to be tried for manslaughter,
embezzlement, and for enrolling a mill
tary command in France-a body OF
soldiers who were to guard New France.
Two fresh vessels were being equipped
in Barcelona when he was arrested.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
He Wanted FuII Value.

A few days ago farmer on the line
of the New York Central lost COW by 8
collision with train, and started i'm
mediately for the managers office tc
effect settlement.
81 understand that she was thin and
SICK" said the manager after the old
man had explained his business.
"Makes no difference" replied the
farmer doggedly. "She was COW, and
I want pay for her."
Chow much?" asked the manager,
laconically.
'Two hundred dollars p returned the
farmer.
"Now, look here" said the manager,
kindly, chow much did the COW
weight"
"About 400, I suppose" answered
the farmer.
Sand we'll say that beef is worth ten
cents a pound on the hoof."
TITS worth heap more than that on
the COW catcher - retorted the old man.
''But we'l call it that, what then ?"
''That makes $40," said the manager
quietly. "Shall give you check for
S40?"
81 tell you 1 want $780," persisted
the old man.
"But how do you make the differ
ence ?" inquired the manager politely.
Sim willing to pay full value, $40.
How do you make the $16O?"
swell, SIR" replied the old man, ris-
ing in wrath, 81 want this dod burned
railroad to understand that I'm going
to have something for the good will of
that COW r.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
A Human BeanstaIk.

The Pail Mall Gazette says:-Jean
Condoist has been brought to Paris as
a medical curiosity from the Haute
Caone. According to a medical con-
tributor to Partisan contemporary,
this youth, aged IS, took start on the
18th of May, 1881, being then six feet
three inches high, and found one
morning that he had grown an inch.
Every week since then has he registered
himsel, and on the 14th of September
this human beanstalk had gained nearly
five inches; he grew five inches
more before the Goth of January,
1882, and seven more before March
Is, and he now stands feet 10
inches. All this has been accompanied
by great pains in the back, AMI he
stoops considerably; but since last
June it is his legs only that have grown,
and bis feet are already twenty-four
inches long.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28

A QUEER MODE OF SELF DEFENSE
oldest of all defensive methods is that
of swapping off the tail. The blind
worm, or slow-worm, is little snake
like lizard common in the Old World.
When alarmed it contracts its muscles
in such manner and degree as to break
its tail off at o considerable distance
from the end. But how can this aid it I
The detached tail then dances about very
lively, holding the attention OF the Of
fender, while the lizard himself sinks
away. And for considerable time the
tail retains its capability of twisting and
jumping every time it is struck. The
lizard will then grow another tail, sc
as to be prepared for another adventure
There are other lizards which have
a similar power, though in less degree.
Popular Science Monthly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28

Mrs. Hunter was carrying two bun
dies aboard the day boat for Albany, IN
New York, when Mr.. Snyder kindly re-
lieved her of half the burden. On deck
they sat down together, and as they
sailed up the Hudson they rapidly grew
well acquainted. though previously tota
strangers. He was a widower, aged 81,
and an Ulster County farmer; she was
a widow, aged 35, and seamstress in
New York. He asked her to marry him.
She was surprised but not offended.
She asked for time to think the Offer
over. Certainly-he would give her
until the boat reached Newburg. Then
she must go ashore with him and gel
married, or stay on board and remain
single. just as the plank was about to
be hauled in at Newburg, she said,
" Yes," and the couple went off with
the two bundles. A Justice performed
the ceremony, and Mr.. and Mrs. Snyder
travelled on by rail.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28

the third year his father said to him that
he did not think that he would be fool
ish enough to plant any of those poor
potatoes. The young man said that ne
was going to plant a big patch OF them,
and to their surprise they got some OF
the largest potatoes that they ever had.
MY opinion is that it takes sometimes
several years for some kinds OF grain and
potatoes to become acclimated. Some
kinds will yield an enormous crop the
first year. A year ago last spring got
one potato from Ohio called Lees favor
tie, and it yielded some mammoth pota-
toes. This year had seventy hills OF
them, and they yielded at the rate OF
about three hundred bushels per acre.
They were two weeks earlier than the
Early Rose or the Early Vermont, and
they were much smoother in the skin
than the other potatoes. For size and
beauty my Early Ohio were next to
Lees Favorite. The Early Vermont
h ad the most potatoes to the hill, but
GQ6y were 5uldAloIs NY oOAiOoo Wa
also yield pretty large crop.
REv1v1Na FRUIT TREES. -S. ID. Pratt
Penn Yam, N. Y, gave his experience
in reviving fruit trees before the New
York Farmers Club. The trees were
standing in soil strongly inclined to clay
with q turf around them that had not
been removed for years.
After pruning the trees properly, re-
moving all indications of worms, etc.,
and washing the body and branches
with soap suds, Mr.. Pratt began opera
lions by first removing the turf two feet
around the tree. Next with a garden
pick, the ground wes loosened from six
to twelve inches in depth, taking care
not to injure the larger roots. Twenty
or thirty quarts of loose dirt we're re-
moved, leaving large cavity shaped
likes saucer. bout one pint of unleached
ashes were sprinkled about the tree, and
upon this chip manure was placed,
nearly filling the cavity. Another pint
of ashes was sprinkled upon the fertil-
izer, which was gently pressed down,
and tbs whole covered with the loose
dirt taken from the cavity, leaving the
surface nearly as it was, excepting the
turf. A young orchard was treated in
similar way.
The effect, according to Mr.. Pratt's
statement, was wonderful. Plum trees
that were "going to the bad" revived.
Peach trees that had presented small and
shriveled leaves threw out fine foliage,
and cherry trees yielded larger and
fairer fruit than before.
SWEET Corn FOR WINTER UsE.-Mrs.
D. @. Joscelyn, Minneapolis, Kan, ad
vises in the Fruit Recorder the follow
ing mode of preparing sweet corn for
winter use as giving better results than
canning or drying: Take the corn when
just in the milk scald it just enough
to set the milk /; cut it off and pack it in
a stone jar with layer of corn end
layer of salt; one pint of salt to gallon
of corn in layers alternately; fill the jar
and weight it down, and cover to keep
out dirt, flies, etc., and when one wants
to use it, freshen it and season to taste.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
A Cape Cod Sketch.

In the rear of Town Hill, at Province
town, Mass, on the seaward slope of the
sand dunes, is the most pathetic burial
place that mans necessity ever created.
The sea sand drifts among the tombs,
tufts of beach-grass takes the place of
turf, and the murmur of the sea is never
absent from it. The few flowers that
bloom upon the graves are planted in
soil brought from the marshes, and are
kept alive by frequent watering. Per-
haps one-third OF the sleepers here were
victims of the sea. Some were in the
navy, some in whale-ships, others in the
merchant marine but the great major
ity were fishermen who had ventnred
out in their slender craft on the storm
lest of seas. An old resident approached
as was reading an inscription on a
messy tombstone in memory of an old
sea captain and his two sons, "lost at
sea September Is, 1886" "Poor fell
lows" said my friend, 81 knew them
we'll. It was to have been the captains
last voyage, for he had snug home on
shore and an excellent wife to share it.
The elder son was fine young fellow
of %, who expected to take command
of the ship on her next voyage the
younger lad of Is. They sailed on
the brig Rienzi on whaling voyage,
and were returning full loaded, when,
almost in sight of our harbor, sudden
squat struck the vessel, and, being lit
tie. top-heavy, she careened IN an instant
and went down with all on board. The
bodies of the captain and several of the
crew were washed up on shore few
days after. The captains funeral SER
mon, I remember, was preached by the
orthodox minister, from the text, "The
harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not saved -; and he handled
his subject after the manner of ortho-
dox ministers forty years ago. But you
never see poor creature take on so as
the captains wife did. Husband and
sons-all she had-taken at a stroke,
and no hope of meeting them i'll the
next world either, for she was pro-
lessor and they wasn't. She didn't say
anything, didn't even shed tear but
just grew thinner and paler, until in
three months time we laid her away be-
side Der husband"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
The MOther-in-Law's Kiss,

Speaking OF different kinds OF kissing
good-by, Nashville correspondent of
the Louisville Courier-Journal says ::
"But we had all other kinds, from the
lather-gagging and Jolly popping be-
tween the country pumpkin and his gal,
to that most delicate and refined oscu-
lation which merely sips honey drop
from the lip of his faithless fair one,
and bushes and jumps aboard with a
wave of the hand. Then came the
rare intervals, of course; so rare that a
sight, to say nothing of taste (if there
be any taste to it), is worth. remember
ing. 1 saw him kiss his beautiful wife
(for all wives are beautifully, and his
sister, and then drew near his mother
in-law like a martyr made ready to
hand. She approached her affectionate
son "a son according to the statutes
in such cases made and provided), and
as she did so, she bowed her scrawny
neck, twisted her mouth as far around to
the right side of her head as she could
get it, puckered her lips, put on the
agony of one who is about to have a
tooth pulled, turned the off side of her
head to the always dutifuI son-in-Iaw,
who planted a something between a
snap and snarl just behind her left
ear. This is literal description of the
mother-in-law kiss. If she had been
doomed to burn at The stake, or bite q
caterpillar III two, she couldn't have
made an uglier face. Such is life
long the femi-civiliz ID"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-28
A True Bill.

The colored people are very eager to
take advantage of their educational OPP
portunities, and having once learned to
write never lose an opportunity of ex-
pressing themselves in black and white.
Malvina, the colored 'cook lady" of a
white Austin family, insisted on hand
ing in every day an itemized account OF
her expenditures at the market, and
here is sample memorandum:
"Osten, Angus 9teen.
One scent soup bone. ............1O scentccs.
Two 10 scent loves of bred. ...... 80 scentces.
A quarter's wuff of termatersus. =. 80 scentces.
Which makes one dollar and 5teen scentces."
As her mistress-we mean the white
CONAN who hires her-onIy gave her q
dollar, Melvina asked for the other
twenty cents. The foregoing document
reminds one of some of the Star-route
accounts. Strings.