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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-11-23

Lighter and KeeRer Tools and I'm.
pLements. implements made of steel
are lighter, stronger, and keensr than those
of iron, so are they better adapted to use
by manual labor, by horse power, or by
the power of water and steam. A man
walks easier with light shoes, light clothes
and spends his time more directly upon
the work before him in proportion as there
is less labor between himself and that work.
Give man an iron axe, aud he besides be-
coming discouraged, finds his blows to tell
less efficiently and with less precision than
when there is an edge or sharp steel be-
tween his hands and the tree. The same
applies with al kinds OF blunt, unscIenti-
1cally shaped implements. A hoe of right
inclination will 60 under and lift the soil,
while another will drag over 1t. A Tipped
drill will go under the grain of Bessemer
steel rail- while such drill as is ordinarily
used in boring cast iron will only operate
to render the fbers more compact, and
will have about the same difference OF ef-
tect in boring as blunt and sharp edged
ak do in cutting. Every carpenter knows
the difference In properly and improperly
filed saw, and in two different Tipped au-
gers. E. sloping plowshare will sccur and
run lightly under the soil, while blnnt
one will clog and drag through 1t with
difficulty. The same Is true of the cutting
edge of turning tool for iron, wood, or
steel, or the plane for either of these. With
the discovery of a process for cheaper
steel, it is practical to give very much
diminished weight of metal in carriages
and carts as we'll as in railroad cars and
any other machinery requiring strength
and llghtness. The chief snccess of Amer
lcan manufactures IN competition with the
older nations, where labor IS cheaper and
manufacturing longer and m IRE economl-
cally established, is their lightness, strength
and peculiar adaptability to the labor they
are TO perform. A ditch digger handling
shovel weighing but i've pounds and
lifting five pounds of dirt will work with
much more animation and to much more
purpose than if raising five pounds Of dirt
on shovel weighing ten pounds. The
same Is true IN all mechanical appliances
and powers, whether of pump. a steam
engine, water wheel, or any other. Inc
cost of raising dead weight is often the
difference between failures and success
COOP roads are evidences OF civilization,
and true index of the thrift and pubic
pirit of those sections which they traverse.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-11-23
Don't You Forget III

A woman who wanted the Common
Council of Detroit to pass an ordinance
to forbid goats from running at large In
her neighborhood, called at a store on
Michigan avenue to ask the proprietor
what sort of a petition she must send
in.
"Why, you want to state the case
just as you have stated it to me-" he
replied.
"But how shall begin?"
"Well, let's see. 1 believe they usu-
ally start off with: ''To the Hon the
Common Council"
'I don't believe iti'' she exclaimed,
and turning to a customer she appealed
to him to decide.
81 am not certain how q petition
begtns," he said, ''but L know that it
must end up with: "And we will ever
pray"
''Not much we won't" growled the
woman, latter drove of goats has
walked all over the roof of my house
for the past year, and eaten up three
calico dresses, two sheets and a bed
quilt for me. Maybe the butcher next
door knows how to fix it."
She went in and stated the case to
the butcher; and he thought it over and
replied:
''It seems to me that it should begin
with something like: TO your very re-
spectacle body, and close with: Il am
youI very obedlent servant; but I'm not
sure"
Servant! Do you suppose that I'm
doing apybody's kitchen work.
"No, madam; but it's the form, you
see."
''Well form or no form, I'm not going
to call myself anybody's obedient serV-
ant. I'll write the petition myself" +"
The stepped to the desk, drew a
long breath, and in five minutes had
finished. 1t read:
'Tm being bothered to death by
goats; and if you don't pass law to
stop it there will be q row in the old
Eighth Ward, and don't you forget It'll"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-11-23
YaVer Aga.

faver Aga, the eminent ALBANIAN brl-
gand chief, is just now much-to-be- pitled
man. He commenced business early IN
the year 1858, ever since which time he
has been actively engaged In the pursuit
Of his avOcatons, extending his cCnnec-
tons steadily until all the banditti of the
province came to be in his employ and un-
der his supreme command. Having
amassed a handsome fortune, his sole re.
naming ambition was to complete his
twenty-ifth year of his pubic career In
harness, so to speak, and then, alter cele-
brating his jubilee festivIty, to retire into
private life, carrying with HIM the respect
and ,teem of his surviving clients. Now
but for the inconsiderately precIpitate ac-
tiOn of the Turkish authorities Of Janina,
the worthy Aga's wholesome ambition
would doubtless have been realz' d very
few months hence Unhappily for his
hopes, a military expedition was sent out
against him the other day, which succeed
ed after a severe engagement with Yaver's
principal band, In capturing him as well as
the managers and cashiers OF his several
branch establishments, who were in atten-
dance upon him with their annual reports
of profits and losses at the time when his
retreat was surrounded and stOrmed by the
Ottoman soldiery. As YaYer Aga has
been forwarded to Stamboul in chains,
there to he dealt with accord 1g to the
rigor of the law, it may be considered I'M
probable that he will celebrate his Jubilee
as free and independent bandit next
spring. Let those who will drop a tear
over the frustrated aspirations of one
whose predatory perseverance has been so
ill rewarded by destiny.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-11-23
THAT NIGHT.

You and l, and that night, with Its perfume and
glory!
The scent of the locusts, the light OF the moon,
And the violin weaving the walters sorry,
Enmeshing their feet In the weit of the tune,
TIL their shadows uncertain
Reeled round on the curtain,
While under the lrellis we draHk In the June.
Soaked through with the midnight, the cedars
were sleeping,
Their shadowy tresses outlined in the bright
Crystal moon-smltten msts, where the fountains
heart, leapng
Forever, forever burst, full with delight;
And its lips ON my spirit
Fell faint as that near II
Whose love ike Il lily bloomed out in the night.
Oh, your glove was an odOrous sachet OF bllsses!
The breath of your fan was "a breeze of Cathay !
And the rose at your throat was a nest of spilled
klssesl
And the music-in fancy hear ii to-day,
As ii sit here confessing
our secret, and blessing,
My rival who found us and waltzed you away.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-11-23

Professor Guthrie has succeeded in
producing blue-black protective coating
on polished steel by dipping it In melted
nitrate of potassium. The bloom greatly
improves the appearance of the steel, and
it appears to wear well.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-11-23

In China, table salt is served in fluid
state like vinegar, and is said to be very
convenient when used in this way.
BOILED starch Is much improved by
the addition of little sperm, or little
salt, or both, or little gum arabic Uls-
solved.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-11-23

A s1x-HUNDREO-PoUND man: The gen.
tleman stepped on the coal dealers
platform scales and asked to be weighed.
The dealer said: "Why, certainly |" and
called to the man inside to take the
weight. And the man thought it was
coal he was weighing and shouted back
the weight six hundred pounds.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
White Dresses.

White dresses are exhibited in every
style, from the plain white muslin,
simply trimmed with ruffies of the same,
to the most costly and delicate toilet of
satin and lace. Between these two con-
trasting modes is wide range of fab
RIGS and garnitures, and one of the lead
ing tissues is white nuns yelling in
cream or ivory tints-a dress of this
material being this season almost as
general, and as popularity worn upon
every occasion as the regulation black
silk toilet has always been, as it is seen
alike at church and ball, garden party,
funeral, clock tea, or wedding, and
upon the promenade as well as for in
door wear. Among bewildering ar
ray of elegant white costumes some
imported, others made in this city
were three toilets of particular beauty.
The first was dinner dress of open
work cream-white yelling and cream
white MORE, the trimming upon the I'M
derskirt consisting of shell-pleated
founce of the yelling, bordered with a
fiat band of white satin, this pleating
being caught up at intervals, making
the trimming to fall over the skirt in
fan-shape. Across the front was scarf
draped a Ia Grecque, with deep Dor
dering of the open-work adjoining both
edges. The Camargo bodice of the
MORE was trimmed with satin and lace,
and buttoned up the front with Rhine
pebbles. Another dress of ivory-white
Sicillienne had the plain French gored
skirt simply trimmed with fringed-out
ruche of the same, the only other trim
ming being two broad bands of pale
blue crepe. embroidered in silver, which
bordered the tunic and the band around
the low square opening in the neck
This opening had high inner chem
isette of white tulle laid in soft folds
and finished with iyory-white lace. The
whole dress formed chaste and dainty
contrast to the many elaborate and
high-colored toilets placed in juxtaposi-
ton, as did also third dress of milk
white Grape over an underskirt of white
surah, trimmed with fiounces of the
same, edged with crepe Fittings. Above
this was low-necked, peaked bodice
of the surah and an overwaist of the
crepe.-NeU York Post,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
Domestic Recipes,

Whortleberry Pudding. -One quart
of berries, one pint of molasses, one cup
of milk, a teaspoonful of soda, one
pound and two ounces of flour, one tea
spoonful of cloves, one of cinnamon,
and one nutmeg; boil two and half
hours. Serve with butter sauce.
Corn Cakes. Take sufficient ears of
corn, slit the hulls through the middle,
and scrape off the cob, pressing with
the flat of the knife to obtain all the
milky substance. add salt, two beaten
eggs, flour enough to make the whole
adhere together; divide into two table
spoonfuls on Il hot buttered iron grid
die or frying-pan, and cook light
brown on both sides.
Stewed Kidneys. away the fat,
skin and cut each kidney into thin
slices, put the slices in y stewpan,
dredging them first with flour; then put
in two ounces of butter, salt and pep
per; let them stew ten minutes; then
add two glasses Of claret and the juice
of a lemon. In ten minutes the kidneys
may be served in its sauce with chop
ped parsley.
Bonnv- Clabber. This dish is in per-
lection in the summer, when milk sours
and thickens very quickly. 1t should
be very cold when served. A nice way
is to pour the milk before it has thick
cned into glass dish, and when thick
set on ice for an hour or two, and it is
ready to serve, and is really very pref
ty addition to n luncheon or supper-ta-
BILE. Serve in dessert-plates with sugar
and cream.
Currant Catsup.-Three pounds sug-
ar, five pounds currants, one table
spoonful cinnamon, one tablespoonful
cloves, one tablespoonful all-spice, one
teaspoonful each black pepper and salt,
one-half pint vinegar. Stir the currants,
and stain them; then boil all together
fifteen minutes. Grapes and raspber-
ries are good in this way.
Mock Duck.-Take round steak;
make stutfing as for turkey; spread the
stuffing on the steak; roll it up and tie
it; roast from half to three-quarters of
an hour.
Potatoes 4 Ii Lyonnaise.-These are
much simpler than the name implies.
Rub lump of good butter ov>. the in
side of a clean, smooth, slightly-warm-
GU ShllISt, luII III SoLlc COlll UOIIluS pO-
tatoes cut up, add pepper, salt. little
chopped parsley, and perhaps the least
bit of onion very fine. Shake from time
to time. and see that they do not brown,
Fried white is the accepted slang in
fashionable hotels for this mystification
in the art of potato cooking.
Boiling Tongue. clean. and
put in kettle of boiling water. Skim
well at first, and place where it will
slowly but constantly boil. Too rapid
boiling hardens the tibrine. and renders
the meat hard and tasteless, without
really fastening the process of cooking.
A pod of red pepper in the water will
prevent the unpleasant odor of boiling
from filling the house Add l.alf a pint
of salt, and keep the tongue covered
with water until done. Boil until it can
be pierced easily with a fork, take out,
and if needed for present use take of
the skin and set away to cool; if to be
kept some days do not peel until want
ed for table.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
A Yueatan Industry.

A correspondent o. TIE Te1iIe Record
calls attention TO an industry At Yuca-
tan, when is rapidly assuming great
importance. Yucatan, thou b one OF
the largest of Mexic IN states, Is one ot
the poorest divisions IF the republic.
Silver ard geld has it none. 5dgar-
cane il a perennial gro With there. Bot
nothir is done with it, and the crops
of gram are insufficient to answer the
home demand. In 1880 the posula-
ton was estIm ated at 302 900, and the
landed prhperty available for taxation
gss rated at less than s, 100000 The
industry which ab5orbs the attention
of the people is the growth of henequin,
a species of hemp, for which there is
an active demand in the United States.
No especial skill is required OF the far
mer, and the work OF drying and pack
ing Is very simple. 1t is calculated
that the hemp costs the planter, baled.
less than thres-quiri ers OF a cent per
pound. Add as much more foi freight
and other charges to New York, and
deduct the total from the selling price
at the port of ian port;Ition, tot cents,
and il is not surprising to learn that
everything else is neglected at Yuca-
tan for henequin The successful re-
suits Of the business have, it is reported,
brought about wonderful changes in
the people aud the country. The for
mer are more thrifty and enterprising
than before railways have been pro-
jected, and the city cf Merida, now
numbering 80 600 inhabita Is, and the
seaport of Progreso, with five or Elk
thousand inh abitsnts have grown fast
and strong since q start has Deen made
by the henequin cultivation The his
tory of the industry again proves that
more enduring wealth may be
gathered from the surface of the earth
than can be am used by burrowing in
lts depths
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
Humor i'm the House of Lords.

Lord scarborough asked her Maj
esty's government whether it was their
present opinion that the Suez canal
was not within the purview of the con-
ference now being held at Constantine
pie, as stated in another place by the
first lord of the treasury.
Earl Granville dare say the noble
lord has read how Louis XIV. got into
the habit Of addressing one of his mic or
courtiers by occasionally asking him
how many children he had got. The
answer was always two, but at last the
courtier replied that he had eight, and
on the king expressing some surprise
the courtier said he was afraid of Dor
ing his majesty by always saying the
same thing. Laughter.) Well, 1 am
little in the same position, because q
noble lord asked Inc the same question
that is now on the paper, and l answer
ed it a fortnight ago. | can only, there
fore, bore Jour lordships by repeating
what said then-namely, that Mr..
Gladstone, answering a question put to
him without notice in the house OF
commons, stated that the neutraliza-
ton of the Suez canal was outside the
reference to the conference, but that il
was perfectly impossible to separate the
subject of the Suez canal entirely from
the Egyptian question proper. (hear
hear. Daily Telegraph Parliamentary
report.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08

The regular annual examination OF
applicants for admission to Yves. Point
was concluded Saturday. only fifteen
Of the forty one being passed. Lemuel
w. Livingson, colored appointee from
Florida, was among the ones rejected.
Upon being questioned as to what par
ticular portion of his examination Liv-
ingston was deficit in, Adjutant Hoyle
stated that under the rules an answ er
to that question could not be made
public; that Livingston was simply
found deficient, not duly qualified for
admission, and was directed to settle
his accounts with the treasurer and de-
part. One of the applicants rejected
was an appointee of the adjutant gen
eral of the army.
Dom Pedro, emperor of Brazil, rides
out, it is said, in plain black coach
which. III point of style, would scarcely
bear comparison with the average pub
lie hack of New York. The vehicle is
drawn by six mules, and followed by
twelve cavalry guards, most OF them
negroes, and some of them smoking
cigars. The emperor wears plain black
clothes, bows to all who bows to him,
and even raises his hat when saluted
in like manner. He looks many years
older than when he visited this country
in 1876, ID wears detected express
ION, As tn ough disappointed and de-
spairing in his hopeless attempt to
bring his subjects to sense of their
backwardness and inspire them to seek
such Il plane OF civilization as exists in
some of the lanGS he has visited.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
Reflection on a Red Nose,

A stumpy. strongly built young Mil
esian. with bibulous complexion and
bandage around his head, was up in
the Jefferson market police court yester-
day charged with being drunk and as
saulting policeman.
Pm = stranger here, yer honor"
he answered. IAN | ounly arrived on
Sunda'. l was dyin' wild the drouth,
an as | KEN up the street l saw this
red nosed perliceman standin' near a
tavern. Good morning. sor.' SAYS 1;
kin We tell me where | can buv good
glass o whiSkey?" Not ter-day,' says
he, some other day. fur its agin the
law 10 sell on Sunda'' If the bars are
closed says perlitely, how do We con-
thrive to kape up the color av yer face?'
Thin he grabbed me by the troth and
flung me out into the road Come out
here, SAYS j. an I'll wrassle We over
me showlder.' Before | had half hoult
on him he struck me lick wild his club
an kicked the heels from in undher me.
If I'd had fair play 1 cud have stud
him on his head"
He escaped with fine of SO and =
months commitment. York Her
aid.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
Murat Ha1sted's A dyice.

To the inquiry: (Which is the most
correct way to ask young lady to take
your arm, and which arm are you to
offer?" Murat Halstead replies as fol-
lows:
Well, ask her to take your arm; do
not grab her by the elbow. You might
gently and softly inquire, "Will you
take my arm?" 1t is rather solemn to
say, please take my arm''-unless you
are afraid she is about to get hurt, and
you are substantially asking her to save
herself. In that way you may, without
impertinence, show tender solicitude.
AS to which arm to offer, other things
being equal, the one next your heart.
If you are taking her out to dinner,
something will depend on the location
of the DINING room and your place at
the table. If you are on the street, the
safest rule is to take the outside place so
as TO serve rs 4 body-guard against
runaway horses. The presence of few
boys with velocipedes or tricycles on
the sidewalk might change the situation.
Above all things preserve your COM
posure that you are good
man and bear up bravely.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
Precautionary,

"What 1 want TO inquire is" he said,
as he leaned over the desk, IF you
think this war in Egypt will affect the
stock of the Suez Canal?' 1T may,
replied the head clerk. ITO any seri-
Gus extent?'' We'll, can't say. Are
you = stockholder?'' No" Did you
think of investing?'' NO" Then.
how can you be affected by any change"
''Well, l, dunro. Pm great hand to
trade bosses. and if teller should come
along and offer to give me S25 in Suez
Canal stock and 4 purity fair hoss for
nv five-ycar-old mare I'd want to be
posted 1 got stuck once with S5O
worth of stock in railroad which was
to run from Wisconsin to Africa, and
the hull family had to 60 without han-
nels for seventeen months 80 you
think it would be safe to take Suez al
par, eh?''
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
The Al,sant VITA

What fume of preparation the house
hold has been in for MONTH The last
odds and ends Of the winter wear had
to be packed away, and once more the
odor of camphor was elsewhere. Those
dainty articles of rertu which tempt the
wrong end of the maids dust brush
were TO be put beyond reach. The fam
lily plate (auction, perhaps) must be
locked up where thieves could not
break through and steal. The dreSSma-
ker has sent home all she had finished.
There are fearful complaints of misfts
and charges of bad faith-'.no woman
ever did have such an abominable time
with dressmakers." 1t is almost train
time. The carriage pulls up at the
door, and the good man of the house
bundles in the wife, the nurse, and the
young and loudly protesting baby. She
is gone off for the summer for the bene-
fit OF her health, poor thing! She has
told him that the separation will kill
her, but he babe her bear up under it
for his sake.
The scene shifts, discovering her with
in sound of the roaring pillows, trying
to bear up under it for his sake. What
pretty young mother picture as she
wheels the little coach for at least FIVE
minutes after breakfast, baby Embedded
in laces and frills, her own attire as ele-
gantly simple as money and artistic
dreSsmaker could make it. And with
what matronly air she yields to the
gentle persuasion of that obiging, SYM
pathetic young man whose heart is
grieyed to see her running her health
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room. How he points out to her the
roomy grandeur of old ocean, as they
stroll along the beach. The little shells
that he picks up and places in her hand
tell a story of their own. Even in the
bath Ia does not neglect her, to the
envy and malicious speculation OF IN
married, but less attractive, ladies with
out escorts. Against the heaviest break
ers he supports her as the stone wall
the clinging vine. Woman is no match
for the walters at q summer resort, and
the attentive young man sits beside her
to see that she gets the full worth of her
husbands money. Then there are long
drives that end all too soon. He is with
her at the hop, and the madness of their
whirl is the admiration of the young
sters and the CONSERVATION of settled
folks. After the hop, soft crabs and
cobblers, and then endless tete-a-tetes in
quiet corner of the piazza or stroll
on the starlit beach. Sometimes they
sail together, and she has been seen to
rest her seasick head upon his willing
shoulder.
When the husband runs down for a
day, the obliging. sympathetic young
man is not so plentiful as blackberries
in harvest; for the time he has eliminat-
ed himself, and the envious young girls
are lust dying to tell her husband all
about it. But these summer delights
come to an end, and when she goes
home she throws her sunburnt arms
around George dear" and tells him
how she longed for him. and how stu
pid it was without him. But baby
thrived on the salt sea air, and then she
had promised him to try to bear up I'M
der it for his sake.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare,
When strong affection stirs her spirit up!
philadelphia Press.