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ENOVNO: ENrIRs.
Wen who have Won R"nnwii IN Ways
that are Nut Lovely,

The eating wager 'wo Wlails ,lty for
thirty successive days now under way in
New York has called forth the following
printed item which was first published in he
Sch,haric RcP"bDcoa, October. lss03
For many years there hvcd in .Nbauy or
Waterford. man named Peter Els, or
Ellison. lie died about three years
ago. AT the time Of his death hc must have
been near 10 years of age. The writer saw
him at Saratoga Springs in the Summcr of
1876. lie was then large, loose mlic, biz
boncd man. not much under six feet in
height. lie was known as 4 m st enormous
cater. \ dressed turkey, weighing twenty
one pounds, was rastcd and ol wager
Ellison ate the whole Of il a one sitting or
within about the Usual time occupied at din
ncr, together with tread and some Kind OF
wine. y dozen years ago a New York
sporting man made an oiler in the way Of Il
bet 10 the atc..John Molrisscy, that he could
produce man who would cat I twenty
three pound turkey, roasted, and vixen lie
named Peter Ellison as hls man, Mr.. Morris
scy said Il know the man, aud The offered
be, was not accepted
\. the time alluded TO- when the writer
met Peter Ellison, the old man related tho
particulars of an eating ma Clt between an.
other and himself which tool. plnc" many
years before at SncdkcI's on Loag Island.
then wcll-known roadside inn much flc-
qucntcd by lovers Of the horse. The dinner
was TO consist ol bsolcd Spring chickens,
bread, and wine The chickens were to be
split open at the back and brollcd whole, or
as Peter termed it, lin spread eagle style,
and each TO take the half given hin by Tic
carver and referee. Ellison ate lh.riy-two
halves, being sixteen chickens, and won the
bet.
In the Spring of lS4i, at the season OF
making maple sugar Il student Of the scmlu-
AIRY at Manchester. Vt, Albert pettIbonc,
then 10 years old, after eating what he wanted
of hot maple sugar at he sugar house o! his
father, in that town, tiuishcdu eating TWEEN
ty-four hard boiled eggs This was witness
ed by number of Pctlib1nes fellow stu
dents, whom he had invited TO the sugal
house 10 cat maple sugar and sce the process
of ''sugaring of"
During The first Clolcra season in this
country, that of 1882, two women living in
the Marslay or kniskcrndorf ntighb)rhJod,
now in the town of Espciance, SchohatiC
county, sat down by themselves to dinner
of boiled green corn, After eating awhile
they bantcred one another a' 10 which could
cat the mos. of that succulcnt dsh when
green and properly boiled. One of the WON.
en- ate twenty-siX ears Of corn and the other
twenty-nne. The latter felt no ill-oil,o,,
from her extraordinary meal. The other was
almost Immediately taken sick and died with
in lhirty-six hours The do'iors said she
died of AsistiC cholera.
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DICK EMS.
The Greut NoveIi.ps Popularity.

Mr. Mowbray Morris, writing of Die
kcns i'll the Fortnightly Review, has this
to say Of his popularity 1t is stated, and
on the very best authority, that within
the II years that have passed since Die
ken's death no less than APPS, 900 vol
umes OF his works have been sold in Eng
land alone A long way the first ou tins
astonishing lisG stands ''Pickwick, while
David Coppertield," the second, is al
most equally far i'll front OF "Dombey and
SON. Little Dorritt' has found nearly
as many readers as Martin Chuzzlewit,' -
while, with the exception of Edwin
brood, "The Tale of Two Cities" and
Great Expectations" take the lowest
place.
Nor has his popularity been confined
to England or to English speaking peo-
pie. French, German, and italian, Rus
sian and Swedish translations of his work
appeared during his lifetime ; when he
was still but young man the pages OF
Boz We're devoured, we have been told,
with enthusiasm i'll Silesian villages
"Pickwick, it is said. and ON no less cir
cumstantial authority, was found equal,
when all else failed, to the task OF sooth-
ing the sleepless nights of Mehetnet Ali
Mr. Foster has publishLl IA story Of 1
strange half-human recluse who had built
his cell AMID the eternal SHOWS o
the Sierra Nevada, and who found il
"Pickwlck" and in "Nicholas Nickleby'
the only intercourse with humanity thai
he desired. If it were true, as has beer
said by one who has certainly managed t.
refnte his own words-if it were true tina
present popularity is the only safe pres.g'
| n al " nt
should await Charles Dickens.
And yet present popularity, a vogue
how brilliant and irresistible soever i
may be, or what manner of prologue i
may furnish to future glory, is quite an
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~. Or course the quantity here men.
toned can be reduced, keeping the same
proportions. Bake in mufiln-r rings in n
quick oven.
An excellent soup is made by boiling n
small beef soup bone for two hours. add
ing while there is time for them to cook
j tender, three onions, two carrots. two
small round turnips, n little cabbage and
celery chop these all very fine a little
cream is an agreeable addition to this
soup. Many cooks serve this with the
vegetables and rolled crackers others
strain the soup and thicken slightly with
n little corn starch or flour stirred in the
cream or milk. 1T is simply II matter Of
taste
There are people who think they can
not eat or digest anything which is made
iight by the use of soda or of baking
powder, and there really are those who
cannot. For them recipe is here given
for wafiles which are raised with yeast
and which will be found highly satisfoc'
tory One quart of flour, one quart of
sweet milk, five tabespoonfuls or about
half n medlum-sized cup Of yeast, at
least one teaspoonful of salt. Mix we'll.
and let it stand all night. In the morn
'''i "a 'h' VI melted
butter and two wcll-beatcn eggs, Bake
in waifie-irons, and cat without fear o.
pain or distress.
An excellent pudding il made by soak
ing one pint of fine nice bread crumbs in
pint of sweet milk beat the yolks of
SIX eggs and the whites OF three till they
are very light ; beat in with them one
coiiee-cnp of sugar, one tablespoonful of
melted butter stir these i'll with the
breadcrumbs. add the grated rind and the |
Juice of one lemon Bake in deep pul- |
ding dish. When done, spread a layer Of .
tart Jelly over the top, and then merin-
que made of the whites of three eggs
which should be reserved for this pur- .
pose Set it in the oven to brown the .
top This takes very short time if the .
oven is hot, not more than four minutes !
being required for it.
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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STARS.
Newton, Gay. the Duchess of MarIbor-
Ough and VOliaire.


In March, Noltaire was present at the
funeral of oir Isaac Newton. 1t was
spectacle winch made profound impres
SION on nm, ana he ever afterward de
lighteu TO recall now he had once beer
'iIe uehl2en oi country III which the first
pnlcers oil the state contended for the
h0hof oil supporting the pail OF man
whose sole distinction had lain IN intel
iectuni eminence How differently, he
,hougnt' would the author OF 'Prncipla
nave iared Ill iaris lie subsequently
iiaue the acquaintance OF the phlloso-
Pher niece MIS-. Conduit, and OF the
physician amt surgeon who attended hlm
III ms l"st moments IRON them Inc
learned many interesting particulars. 1t
Is, pernaps'. worth mentioning that Wa
owe owe. 10 'olt''lre the famous story OF the
i'tiiiiiS Oh the apple, ana the preservation
oi .Ie reply which Newton is sud to have
gwen 10 .he person VINO asked INN how
ne tii'u discovered the laws OF the UNI
TeIs'' ih 'le course oi this year he met
gay VINO showed nm the "Beggar ;
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other matter from that glory itself, from
the real definitivc glory, the one thing, NJ
Nj. Renau tells us, which has the bcs
chance Of not being altogether vanity
That postority will regard Dickens as he
was regarded in his lifetime, or even as
we now regard him, is, of course. out o
the question. "To the public" said
Prof. Ward, in II lecture delivered at Man
chester in the year of Dickens's death
"to the public his faults were often inse.
parable from his merits and when oui
critical consciences told us that he was as.
tray in one of his favorite directions, the
severest censure we had for him was that
he was growing more like himself than
ever" That the critical conscience OF
posterity will have far severer consure
for Dickens than this one cannot doubt
nor indeed can any one thoughtful for the
fame of English literature desire that it
should not.
"No man," it has been well said, "can
trust himself to speak of his own time and
of his own contemporaries with the same
surencss of judgment and the same pro-
portion as of times and men gone by."
Even Goethe could not criticise Byron MS
he criticised Shakespeare or Moliere.
Not, indeed, that Dickens rested from
criticism during his lifetime. So sudden
and universal popularity as his, So ori-
ginal, 50 self-contained and self-relant
genius, could not but attract criticism or
what often passes blythe ename OF criticism
among contemporaries, both kindly and
otherwise. He found, indeed, plenty of
both but all, or almost all, the criticism
no encountered in his lifetime took bias
# Ii al L..
siasm or the bias of opposition. the one
perhaps an irresistible consequence of
the other-the enthusiasm seeing all
things in him because Of his marvellous
popularity, the opposition seeing nothing
i'll him but that popularity, which, ac-
cording to its wont it made every effort to
explain away.
Neither bias is, of course, so strong
now, and particularly the bias OF opposi-
tion, which is i'll most cases the soonest
counteracted by death. Nevertheless, to
form Just estimate of his work, to weigh
its merits and it's defects, and to strike
balance between them, is still perhaps
impossible, must certainly even for us of
Il later generation, be very difficult
Brought up, ~ most Of us have been, in
the faith OF Dickens, whose earliest laugh
ter has been stirred by Sam Weller and
Dick Swivcller and Mr.. Micawbcr, whose
earliest tears have flowed for the sordd
wretcheduess of David Copperiield's for
lorn childhood, or for Florence Dombey
toiling up the great wide vacant stairs,
with her brother in her arms, and singing
as she goes who have stolen trembling
after Jonas Chuzzlewit through that aw-
tul wood, or stared with face as pale as
Pip himself at that grim midnight visitor
Ill the lonely Temple chambers to such
ii must surely seem little short OF profani,
ty to consider too curiously the old fami-
liar pages, to stand afar off, contemplating
with cold, impartial scrutiny the old
familiar figures, us though, like Trabbs
boy, We dld not know them
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PACIFIC COAST WEALTH.
The Millions Owned by the Rich Men
and Women of the = west.
From the St, Louis Globe-Democrat.l

From the 81. Louis Globe Denocrat.l
The biggest fortunes on the Pacific
coast are those Of the Central Pacific
Railroad magnates, and Ex-Governor STAN
ford is the richest of the group. His
wealth is estimated at S75 200, 900 that
is, his yearly income is equal to the inte-
rest on such n capital. and his property is
constantly increasing in value. He owns
more than $4,000, 600 alone in San Fran
cisco III real estate, to say nothing of his
farms, vineyards, breeding ranches, etc.
The cx-Govenor has but one child, Lee
land, Jr.. a lad of about 10.
The richest widow ON the Pacific coast,
or in the country for that matter, with the
possible exception of Mrs Cornelia
Stewart, is Mrs. Mark Hopkins, widow of
one of the Central Pacific syndicate. Her
husbands estate proved up to S23, 600, =
600, and the only two men who could JUS
tify Oh the widows bond as executrix
We're Leland Stanford and Charles Crock
er, two Of her husbands business asso-
ciates. They We're compelled to justify
i'll twice the amount Of the estate, and
each swore that lie was worth SAG, 600 600.
Mrs. Hopkins is an elderly woman. They
had no children, but had adopted son,
"h'iii Hh'h' 'i'l'hiho hhn lubl W
Miss Crittenden, proteye of hers. pro.
viding her with the dot Of princess.
There are other heirs to the estate, but
the adopted sou, Tim, will get the bulk
of it.
The richest young and unmarried
woman on the Pacific coast is Miss Jennie
Flood only daughter of the bonanza king
When her fathers income from the biz
silver bonanza was Mt its highest Il,
bought 81, 400, 900 Of United States pei
cents and gave them to his daughter out
right, having been registered in her name
He also gave his son Sl,000,000 in thu
same securities, but the latter does no
promise well, and the bonds have gon,
back to the fathers bank vault for SAT,
keeping. Miss Jennie is charming
young woman, rather plain, it is true, ant
away out of her teens bnt she Is good
sensible girl, wholly free from display o
affectation. She:is deeply pious, an,
there has been some talk of her takin,
the veil. There was also some talk at on
time OF marrying "Buck" Grant, Mis-
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THATIBAD HOY AGAIN.
How lie Contributed to thr Fn,niI,
Happiness.


Yes, said the hoy, with a vacant look,
Il take no interest in the pleasures ol the
chase any more, though did have II ltllr qui-
ct fun this morning at the breakfast table,
You see pa is the contlaricst man ever was
II complain that anything al the table
doesn't taste good, pa says il l. all right.
This morning took the syrup pitcher and
emptied out the white syrup and put in soHc
put some on my pancakes, and pretended
to taste oi it, and told pa the syrup was
sour and not fit to cat. Pa was mad in a
second, and lie poured Cut some on his pau
cakes and SAID was getting too rouloundcd
particular. He said the syrup was good
enough for him, and he sorrcd his PAN
cakes and fired some down his neck.
lie is sa Giul darned lypucritc that's what
he is. could sec by his face that The cod
liver oil was nearly killing HIM, but hr sad
the syrup was all light, and that it | dunt
cat niue he'd break my head, and by gosh, |
mad to t il, ami pa sal he guessed he
hadu't got much appetite and h. would inst
drink cup of coffee and cat doughuut, |
like to died But | fclt sorry 10, ina Ma
aiu't got n very strong stumm ok and wren
she cot some OF that cod liver oil in her
mouth, she went W stains sikrrn horse,
and IA had to help her, and she had po raj
gia all the morning, | cat pickles To take the
taste out of my mouth, and then | laid for
the hired girls, They cat TOO much syrup.
anyway, and when they got on to that cod
liver oil and swallowed a lot of it. one
of ihcm an nirish girl, she cot up from
! the table, aud put her hand on her cors and
said, 'Howly Moses md went cut iulo the
kitchen looking as pale as ina does when she
puts powder on her face and the other girl,
who is Dutch she swallowed Pancake aud
said, Mine Colt, vas de matter from me,
and she went out and leaned on the coal hin.
Then they talked Irish and Dulch, and got
clubs and started to look for me, and
thought | would come over here. The whole
family is sick, but it is not from love, like
my illness, and they will get over it, while
shall I'LL an early grave. Pa and are going
to Chicago next week, and III bet Wen have
some fun. Pa says need change of air,
and think he is going to try to lose me
It's cold day when | get left anyhow, that
l cant find my way back Well, goodbye
old rotten potato"
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4 Hlach lie.

Mrs, Johnson Macy, one of the society
ladies OF Austin, sent the colorc,l bov she
has employed about the place to Mrs.
flapiack'S boarding-house with Il note.
Tina hoy came in about an hour, and re-
ported that Mrs. Flapiack was not in.
Ibid yuu see her sister ?'
NO mum, she had dcnc gone out too. 90
"Wcll, then, did you not give the note
To some OF the boarders -
"No, mum, dc hoarlcrs had done gone
ont too.
"Well. you could have left the note
with the cook
The cook had done left too.
Wei, now, You must 60 right back and
see II there is not somebody about the
place, and give them the note-do Won
hear?'
The boy hesitated and the lady asked.
impatiently:
What are YOU waiting for -
please, mum o.
well, what is it?'
"ploasr mum, what street docs she lib
.,n y'
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from the Chicaso Tribune

'Lur.Iuc McCaifcry stood in an orcl win.
dow with the sunlight beating in warm. gold
cl waves about her slight form, and al her
right his hand oulstretched iu eager expec-
iancy, while half mperiOus, half pleading
look shot from his big brown ewes. was
MarmadUkc ehort The girl had been stand
ing there nearly thirty seconds with1I t
speaking, tue light streaming in upon the
soft waves of hair, the fathomless ewes. and
the calm sweet IN uih. 1t was not a youth
iul face the bloom and flush had faded long
ago, but II was - grand and womanly, there
was such an l-kuow-Low 10. dc-up
look upon IT, that in comparison mere cirlish
ltcltlness lost inmea.urably.
At the moment Pansy Perkins entered the
room. She had twisted an azure scarf around
her shoulders, and her yellow hair fell about
her like Il cloud. Throwing kiss to Lur-
line, whose silence she did not al all under
stand, Pansy lifted away TO the piano at the
other end OF the room and began TO lower
rents IN the vicinity. SnatChCs OF the soft
muimurlng music filled the air and made the
place seem strangely sad. The twilight was
approaching, and rs the dark shadows fell
the music sohhcd and surged through the
room. Lurlinc listened inten,ly, and finally
she spoke:
you really wish to break our engagement
then = she asked
Manadukc spoke no word, but the inclin
alton of his head showed that the eirl had
not guessed amiss
And lou will marry panSy:"
Again the head was bowed. and the dim.
pied chin met his bosom.
IT hen VIII give you the ring with pleas
mc could wish for no swccter revenge go
said the girl.
What do lou mean asked the man. his
tace pallil with fear
Il mean she said her every word falling
upon hls tinted ear aS fall the carth.clo up
On coffin, THAT, besides PLAYING the piano.
she sometimes ,ings'
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4 Quick Way TO settle Small onence,, :,

In Geneva aud some other parts Of
switzerland very practical custom
exists for the rapid punishment of certain
petty Offenders. A policeman who seer
u republican keep his house open after
closing houis, q cabman, driving after
dark without his lanterns lit, or n servant
shaking n carpet out of window over.
looking the street, does not summon fthe
transgressor before magistrate, but
serves him with card, which, setting
forth the nature of his offence, adds, al
you acknowledge yourself to have COM
mltted the aforesaid breach of police reg
ulations, you are to pay fine of five
francs at the police office on such day.
III you deny your guilt, you are hereby
summoned to appear on such day at the
Tribunal of Police, where you will have
to answer to my charge" By this sys-
tenn the expense, waste of time and worry
involved in attending at police court TO
meet trivial charge are avoided, and no
injustice is done, since the accused has
the right of appeal to magistrate if he
thinks he has been improperly fined
Take tradcsmen who adulterate their
goods. Last year there was opened at the
prefecture de police in Paris laboratory
Tor the analysis Of food and drink; and
here for a small fee anybody may cause
WINE, butter, milk, ETC., to be examined,
and may receive a report on them. Armed
with such n document, the victim of
trade roguery has only to lodge a COM
plant at the police office of his district,
and III less than two hours the offenders
shop will he visited by inspectors who
Will commence an examination of his
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The Singing Fish

In some parts of the world there is si.
pcrsll'lon that fish can be attracted to tLa
surface OF the water by music. and it ism,
uncommon spectacle to see an Indian stand.
ing IN the bow OF his canoe with spear poised
while his companion n child
cllclls lev pantive notes from A reed nt
intervals. Such notion is Of course ah
sufdi since fish give very few signs of hear.
ing proper, and are only affected by sounds
OF such violence that, communicating their
vibration TO the water. they cun be ap.
P'ecialeu ny common senslbility, Just as
person wh1 is "st0nc deaf" can ner.
ceivc and experience a dsarrceable sen.
satlon on the report OF n cannon near
AT hand. Tame fish confined in an
aquarium may not be alarmed at the most
poisletOus movements or moderately loud
hescs close to them; but. if the glass be
thin' the slightest tap will cause them 10 flash
away. II is curious that the so.called ",ino.
ing ilsh' Of the Indian Ocean and Spanish
NAN IS YET unknown 10 uGturalsts is t,
say tue hsh iisilt may be known. ard no
uoubt Is, but the particular species which
chits Inc remarkable sounds has NOT
oeen ldchtlhed, nor has the precise
mode Of their production been discoy.
cred, though many hypotheses have
been framed. have heard them on sever.
al occos ons ON still nights. lying at anchor
ON Greytown-a rhythmcal, monotonous
hut not unmuscal twangine, like the strokes
"i jew s.harp family heard on deck. Lur
loudly audible in the hold. especially of am
IRON snip, and proceeding apparently from
directly underneath her keel. Black sailors
attribute supernatural origin TO these tink.
Iings' and declare that they are caused by
scamcn who have found watcry grave try.
ing to gtt back into the vessel. believe
Iha' nothing would induce niger 10 90 be-
,,'w Wh"A 'his harmonious hammoinr !.
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Chaiinr Cross Hotel stands ~, ,to ,i,. -.
the lIunacrford maTkc, ~. Iln"cnrfoH Wy si'r W. VI
kcr stood uron ho si,c of ,Ia a,l ~" " - t',' "a
impeclnious Sir TJward iJua,rors'.i o.' VI .Le
was represented there by h,. h-o,ir,I' or a,i WIZ
the viz which rrowncI ,hn Lns, - ,','ei ~,
reproduction in stone IF ,o -. i.ie'tse ts.
wiichIhc sncndthrift haro,ct hoL y w ao n0'
l!ar.! hy hi, bmsl rirra ia. s,aI 80 ,,,.'
Youths as spcudlbri,t ,rd i,nro,,,,.;',', ~ WY
ihn ,l,,,I. L,. ,i;.,.-, ~" 'hl,'u"Ious' ol
s'roji Th' ,a, nif' Vti7oia.e W.i' ana IN great
ma, ,cl .,,,,.. VIZ "..DlMIc' o"'e'S uounl
~, ,,,, 'cu".'cs 10 ng IN barracks
root ;J' ," TI, top near get there on
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How orient Is Thy beauty How divine
How dafk's the glory of the earth TO lhlnc!
Thy yelled eyes Outshlnc heavens greater light
tnconqucred by the shady cloud of night
Thy curlOus trcssrs dangc, al unbound,
Win unaffected order to the ground
How orient Is Thy beauty How divine
Nor myrrh, nor cassia, nor the choice perfumes
OF nnctiOus nlrdu. or aromatic fumes
OF hot Arabia, do enrich the air
With more delicious sweetness than the lalT
Reports that crown the merits Of Thy name
With heavenly laurels OF eternal fame,
Which makes the virgins nx their eyes upon Thee
And all that view Thee are enamored on Thee.
Who ever smelt the breath Of morning nowars
New swcctencd with the dash OF twilight showers
OF pounded amber, or the flowing thyme,
Or purple violets In their proudest prime
Or swelling clusters from the cypress tree
So sweets my love aye, far more sweet IL He
so fair 80 sw ect that Heavens bright eye is dim,
Aud lowers have no scent, compared with Him.
--FTanei, Quarlss.