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stAre You Going To Kiss Me?"
From The Belfast (Me) Journal

stAre You Going To Kiss Me?"
From The Belfast (Me) Journal.
If ever 60 into new locality again,
I will study up my geo 1raphy better
than I did this time; for my ignorance
got me into most uncomfortable pc
sition. As the boat neared Sanford, I
was standing with others On the deck,
when very pretty young lady came up
to me, and with sweet smile On her
face, looked into mine with pair Of
lovely eyes, and asked: "Are you going
to kiss me, sir?" lfsome one had offer
sd to lend me ten dollars | could not
have been more surprised, and hardly
knowing what to say, anu in order to
gain little time, I gasped out, Pardon,
Miss, what did you ask?" I felt that she
knew I heard her, but she sand sweetly,
care you going to kiss me, to night?"
There was no misunderstanding her this
time. I heard her, and so did others,
and felt the blood rushing into my
face, and l stammer:l ont, Il would
like to accommodate you, Miss; / would
truly; but | have a wife and thirteen
small children on board with lie, and
if my wife should see me kissing yuu--"
kissing me, you hateful old tEln4! who
asked you to kiss me?" "You did" I
yelled; "You asked me twice" "You
old 'ool, asked you If you We're going
to Kissime-K ssime City to- night; don't
you know anvthing?' and off she went,
and if ever anybody felt ueaner than I
did I would like to exchange photo
graphs with him
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rs specialist. It lis not safe for i man to
attempt O. raise cattle, horses, hogs, and
sheep for breeding purposes, ct the same
stime keep large mum Der Of cows and
run an extensive dairy, or raise cane and
have q sugar mill, or so extensivel into
grain and raise hogs for pork. This
would be spreading too wide, and many,
il not all Of the enter prises will suffer
neglect. One mans ca pacity is not sur
ficient for all of these complicated.
branches Of ind ustry. Better way is for
a man to make HIMSELF specialist "a suc-
cess in one branch. Conqueri j. thorough
". Nearly all men who have made
themselves eminent in the world have
devoted their lives to the one branch 0:
study and industry. There is scarcely 9
branch of farm work but is full enough
for one mind, if fully mastered and
made g success. And this + especially
the case with most of the new branches
of farming which have been introduced
within the last fifty years. If you look
around it will be seen that previous to
that time it was not expected or required
that farmer should be a man of hard
study as well as hard work, But the new
enterprises and plans Of farming require
the fullest exercise of both of these
powers of man to keep abreast of the
push and energy Of the agricultural and
commercial world, both of which are
now required to be mastered to insure
success.-Des Moines Register. H.
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Heavy Carcasses OF Fat Meat.

From the housekeepers' and the COM
mercial point of view, as wonderful as
these mighty piles Of meat were as ex-
amples of what perfection the breeding
and feeding of cattle have attained, it
was very plainly apparent that two or
three points have been carried too far.
The carcasses were too fat for profitable
consumption, and also for canning or
sailing and altogether too large for any
economical use. The buyer wants a
whole porterhouse or lion steak if any,
and at least a two rib roast if q roa # at
all; but how many arc there who ask for
four or five pounds of steak in Single
cut or tw,-rib roast weigAi % or 25
pounds! Then as to the fat com pared
with the lean, 60 per cent. of the former
to 40 per cent Of the latter would not
be an Unfair estimate, to say no hing of
the bone which with the fat must be
thrown out. making beef from very
heavy and fat carcasses very dear food
New Yorker.
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A Successful Editor.

John A. Cockeril', managing editor Of
the New York Word, issupposed to be
the best-paid newspaper man in this
country. His salary Is $4,000 year,
and in addition to this sum, be derives
q handsome income from Ger tain shares
of stock in the st, Louis Post Dispatch,
presented him some years ago Mr.. Pulit-
ger. Nobody enyies him his good for
tune; he has honestly earned it by hard
conscientious and good work. In 1879
he was out of employ .nent in Cincinna-
ii, and offered to 20 to work Tor B. NJ.
Chambers, proprietor of the St. Louis
Times, for. $25 a week. Cham bers was
o clumsy amateur and knew nothing of
.CockeriRs splendid abilities, and 80
paid NO attention TO his letters. Cock
erilRs streak Of good luck seems to haye
struck him the day he associated him.
seAe with Pulitzer. The partnership ,s
g strange one, and was sneered a. and
laughed at for d long time When Cock
Grill 6rst went tothe ST. Louis Post-Dis.
patchevery body predicted he would quit
IN disgust in less than two months. That
was four years ago. For four years
Pulitzer and hs have been as mildly
friendly as sucking doves, and their
professional success is 9 matter Of record.
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married men and women, the conn.
dante OF many q tender passion. Ace
does not Wither the beauty of her dis.
pos ton. 81 She never SANDERS, never re-
tails ill natured gossip; but on the 9th.
er hand though prompt to put in sea
ssonabie word on q crisis, does not deem
1t her mission. to set all the people
around her right. She makes an admir-
able aunt, and is very necessary to the
comfort Of large circle of cousins
Many q young fellow on the threshold
of life bears "a kindly remembra of
her for the good nature and tact With
which she helped him to steer clear OF
shoals where he might otherwise have
been wrecked.
Contagious Diseases Among Cattle.
The reception of the committee from
cattle growers at the Chicago convention
by the com mittees on agriculture OF both
houses of congress is gratifying to those
who hope something will come FROM all
this effort. The prevailing feeling is "a
vorable to legislation. The danger is
that too many plans will be presented
and insisted on by their originators as
being the best and only good one.
:. There is no doubt that bills will he in.
troduced with the approval of the com
mittees in congress and may ne passed
without serious objection. 1t will be
well, however, for the cattle interest to
infyrm their representatives iii congress
Of their wishes in this matter.
Some are still SO incredu'ous as to
think there is no no such thing Us pleu~
70 pneumonia in, this country, but in
this they show only their ignorance.
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Kate Field at salt Lake.

Miss Kate Field repeated her lecture
on Evenings with ! ickensn in Salt
!. Lake City for the benefit OF the Mormon
Hospital, She spoke in Social Hal. "a
Mormon building deeiicated by B CHAM
81 Dung, and is probably the 6rst Gentle
who ever stood on its FLAT orrli. Her
audience were almost exclu lively Nor.
mon, attentive, but unresponsivs Just
before the lecture began Governor MIR
ray entered and his entrance created.
Econsid erable ems rk the lines are SO
strong II Drawn here between Saint
and Gsntile. When qnestipnetl 90 to
why he came, Governor Murray replied:
/ ss Z Hanted to silpw NY respect for AZ iss
Field. and = thought III erevers she could
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An ELEPHANT in Battle.

During battle ia India the driver of
the elephant carrying the colors Of the
army had just given the command to
halt when he was, shot dead. The; ele-
plant never stirred . foot, refusing 10
advance or retire, as the conflict became
hotter and fercer. until the !. Mahrattas,
seeing the standard still flying steadily
in its place, refused to believe that they
were being beaten and rallied again and
again round the colors. And all this
while, amid the din of battle, the patient
animal stood straining it's ears to catch
the sound of that voice it would never
hear again. At length the tide of con-
Quest left he field deserted, Mahrattas
swept on in pursuit. of the flying foe, but
the elephant, ike ) rock, stood there,
with the dead and dying around. and
the ensign waving in its place. For three
DAYS and nights it remained where its
y master had given the command 20 halt.
No bribe or threat could move It. They
& hen sent to 3 village, 100 miles away.
and i ruught the mahoat's little son. The
/ noble hero seemed then TO remember
how the driver had sometimes given his
ani horlty to tlle little child and imme-
tiiately with all tue shattered trapplngs
changing Is he went, paced quietly and
slowly WAY ss8 g
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Alcohol, and the Heart Beats.

AS rule it will do we'll to let the pro.
cess Of life in our bodies 90 on without
noticing it, for doubtless il would make
US very nervous to have the internal ma.
chinery in motion before our eyes. But
to prevent people from abusing that DEL
lcate machinery, it often becomes Deces-
sary to show it; and if a person addicted
to wrong indulgence is made 'snervous"
by the sight, it may save him from being
something far worse. ..,
DR.. n. 3. Richardson. of London, the
noted physician, says he was recently
able to convey q considerable amount OF
conviction TO an intelligent scholar by a
simple experiment.. The scholar was
singing the praises Of the "Ruddy Bump.
en-" and saying, he could MOI get through
the day, without it, when DR.. Richard
son said to him. -.
"Will you be good enough to feel my
pulse as stand here?"
He did SO. I.said. "Count it careful
ly; what does it say?"
"Your pulse says seventy. four"
then sat down in chair and asked
him to count it again. He did 80, and
said, "Your pulse has gone down to
seventy"
i then lay down on the lounge, and
said, - -
"Will you take it again?"
HE replied, "Why, its only sixty
four; what an extraordinary thingp
I then said, "When you lie down at
night, that is the way nature gives your
your heart rest. You know nothing
about it, but that beating organ is resting
to that extent, and when you reckon it
up, it is great deal of rest,
BECAUSE in lying down the heart
| is doing ten strokes less
a minute. Multiply that by sixty and it
is six hundred; multiply it by eight
! hours, and within q fraction it is five
| thousand strokes different; and as the
heart is throwing six ounces Of blood at
every stroke, it makes difference of
thirty thousand ounces of lifting during
| the night.
""When I lie down at night without
! any alcohol, that is the rest my heart
gets. But when you take your wine. or
grog you do not allow that rest, for the
| influence of alcohol is to increase the
number of strokes, and instead ofgetting
this rest you out on something like fit
teen Thousand extra strokes, and the re:
| suit is you rise up very seedy aud unfit
for the next days work till you have TAX
en- a little more OF the ruddy bumper
which you say is the soul Of man be-.
| low" g.
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THE LEAN ONE.

This is the fate of thin beauty:
At l2-sicsly, pale and uninteresting.
Weight, forty pounds.
At l6-Delicate, slender, sprightly
and graceful Weight, eighty POUNDS.
At 2''-A study for a painter. 1.-the,
sinuous, Grecian 10 face and mould.
Weight, 10O pounds
At 25-Queenly in form and motion,
with peachy complexion, small delicate
hands and wee little feet Weight, l20
pounds. j. >,s<....
AT 3O--Beginning to fade; veins show
on hands, cheek bones just indicated.
Weight, los pounds.
AT 35-Eyes retreating; fine lines. on
forehead; cheeks concave; form wiry.
Weight, ninety pounds, -, - ~
; At 4o-Face -hatcEet shaped; nose and
chin very sharp; two holes where the
cheeks were; hands like claws; form. all
gone; a living skeleton. Weight seven
ty pounds.
Moral-You buys your wedding ring
and takes your Observation-Disclosures
Call. +. 49,. /, ~, .-.. =,
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n The Real American Bird.
From the New York Herald. .#

When plans for our national insignia
were under discussion, DR.. Franklin adj
vocated elevating the American fur
key to the dignity which was finally
ASHAMED to the American eagle, In in
stermepiate geneTationsth there have been
those WHO thought that the honor
should be transferred t., the American
oyster or to the ca, vasback duck. II
we were to consult foreign opinion at
the present day., as5indica-ei in our
special cable dispatches to-day from
Paris and Berlin, Frenchmen and Ger
mans would confer itupon the Aneri
can hog. He is noble emblem, ac
scording to. the Clarion and to the French.
Academy of Medicine aud to Professor.
sVirchow, of cheap sns wholesome food
for the toiling millions Of unhappy
Europe. And they are right.
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Two Beauties.
THE FAT ONE.

This is the fate of fat beauty:
At l2-Plump, fat and ruddy. Weight.
seventy pounds.
1t 16--Plumper, fatter, exuberant and
bursting bud. Weight, 120 pounds.
At ga blossom bloemed, volup-
tuous, exuberant. Weight 100 poun ds.
At ga full-blown Juno. Massive,
statuesque. Approaching heroic size. I'm =
posing. Begins to find car seats too small.
Wedges when she sits down. Very ex.
hoerant. w eight 1870 pounds.
At 30-Matronly. Imposing still, but
the finer contour of form swallowed up
slightly in adipose. Magnificent but bar
rel like.
At 35-Large. Too large. Compile xion
brick red. Double chin. Short of breath.
We ght, 200 pounds.
At O-Gone. Remains Of a once mag
uifcent woman. Vast remains. Impos-
ing ruins. More double chin. Walk
waddle. Sad. Weight, 220 pounds
lGraphic.
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Recipes for HEOme'

CooKIEs-On9 cup butter, one cup su-
gar, two eggs, we'll beaten, one teaspoon
FIJI soda. aud one tablespoonful ginger;
flour to make soft dough; roll thin and
bake quickly.
ROLL JELLY CAKE-Three eggs, we'll
beaten; one cup butter; one cup sugar;
one cup -four; one teaspoonlnl soda, and
nutmeg to suit your taste; ;, bake ten min
utes in long pan; spread with jelly and
roll; wrap in cloth around it till cool.
LAZY WoMAN's P1E.-Two eggs, two
tablespoons sugar, two heaping table,
spoons -four, two-thirds of a pint of
sweet milk; flavor same as custard pie,
and bake without crust in q buttered pie
tin.
CURRANr PuDD1NG.-Two eggs, one-
fourth cup sugar, two tablespoons butter,
two-thirds pint sonr milk, and one. half
teaspoonful soda; -four enough to make
thick batter; then flour one teacuptul
of English currants, stir them in, and
steam one and one-half hours; to be
eaten with cream and sugar, or pudding
sauce. l.
To CAN FRUw.-Put a teacupful of sugar
for each can, in two quarts of water, boil
and skim, then drop in fruit enough for
one can, let it heat through, and can it.
By this process your fruit will be whole
and light colored. -
y LEMON JELLY-Juice of one lemon,
one cup sugar., one egg, one tablespoon
full butter; boil till thick.
Ifyou wash lemon stains in soda
water before washing in other water.
it will restore its natural color. Wet
iron rust or mildew in tar1aric acid
water and lay it IN the sun, and it will
take it out; wash the clothes as soon
as the spots are gone or the acid will rot
the clothes. ".sl3s =. ID. ,:,.,, H.,
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Agassiz Upon Life and Death.

From the Philadelphia Ledger. .ss
& An esteemed correspondent Of the
Public Ledger favors Is with the
following impressive extract from Pro.
lessor Agassiz toa friend 81 Professor
Meek, who has been an inmate of the
Smithsonian building fer nearly twenty
years, wasseized with violent hemorrhage
Of the lungs, from which he did not re.
cover. I urged him to make will. but
he said 1t was unnecessary at present IS
he would soon be we'll again; in tbis,
however, be was mistaken. He was q
remarkable man., with general powers
of mind; he devoted himself for nearly
ithirty-fYeyears exclusively to one study,
that Of the shells found in the geolog-
ical formation of this country, as COM
pared with the living shells In different
parts Of the world. In this study he
esta blished q wide reputation, sincehis
iabors are highly ppizeG as determining
the relative ages Of the various geoglog-
ical formations of this country. T. H..
"His sickness and bis death have
deeply impressed me with the instability
and uncertainty of all worldly objects,
az we'll as with the wonderful phe-
nomena of life and death. Although
these are constantly occurring around US
and must be exhibited in our own case
sooner or later, yet they are never fully
realized in all their magnitude. How
momentous the changed Now a living,
intelligent being, and in a minute. per.
haps, a mere mass of inert matter. We
awake to consciousness and find our
selves in q world of ever changing
scenes, which we call knowledge, amuse
ourselves with Aeeting shadows, and
then sink again into upconsciousn to
awake hereafter--but when? or wherei
or what?
s'This is the great subject which ap.
parently should absorb all our attention,
and render everything else of no &C.
count; yet it is, perhaps, a wise dispen.
sation that we cannot, realize its magni'
tute, and are left free to discharge the
duties of life. We are parts of an i'm.
mense system; mighty maze, but not
without plan and purpose, there is a
sufficient reason for cur existence, could
we find it, and since we are endowed
with the idea of good and evil, of love OF
justice and benevolence, we may, in
consideration OF these, conclude it oul
duty, short as our lives may be, to en-.
deavor to improve ourselves and our fel.
low men, and leave the world wiser and
better for our having lived. By SO do
ing we shall best advance our own hap
piness, and the we'll being Of our race.
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Daughter Slavery.

FroI, the New York Letter.
Perhaps the most complete form of
slavery to be seen in New York is slav-
cry 10 ones daughters. All literature
has paid homage to woman, but in our
age practical life does it.
The New York wealthy man has
daughter or two He pays but little at
tention to them while they are children,
but it suddenly occurs to him that they
are growing beautiful. His wife is sure
of this fact and she begins to dress the
girls while they are still children in all
the elegance of princesses. They are
sent to neutrality-suspicious., to riding schools,
and to the finest seminary and put IN
the opera. box, allowed to know what is
going on at al the theatres, and carried
to the watering places, and
before they know ANYTHING of
their country they. are sent to Europe,
where, as my friend, the consul, who
has just arrived, avs be has seen girls
not II years OF age provided with ward
robes of Is to 80 silk dresses, with hose
of variegated silk, diamonds in their
ears, and everything that life ought to
yield toward it's termination they are
satlated with upon the very TIN eshold.
With fine food and wine their complex
ions become elegant; they are seldom
away from the dentists week having
their teeth fixed. The most cosmopo]i-
tan socirty is introduced to them, and
they look down with Indifference upon
the bows of their own age; or, if they
marry by An act of nature, soon upbraid
their husbands for not keeping up the
luxury thei: parents spoiled them with.
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Eloped With His. Fathers Bride

Eloped' With His, Fathers Bride.
Y John W. Hines, the cashier Of Great
BARR gton bank, arrived at Pitts6eld,
Mass. lie was accompa led by a little
lady whom he registered as his wife al
hotel. Hines is a good-looking young
fellow of s25. It appears that young
Hines father recently married again
Last week he returned from North Egg
remont with his young bride, who is
connected with one Of the, best known
families in the country. She is an heir.
ess Of a large fortune. Last fall she
met the elder Hines at a husRing bee
and fell in love with him. He escorte d
her home that night, paid her frequent
visits, and IN three weeks the wed.
ding took place. Shortly after
Mrs. Hines was introduced to
her step-son. He was smitten with her
He told Mrs. Hines that his father was
over 6l years old and concealed his grew
hair and " hiskers BY q liberal use o. dye
Hines assured her that the story wa.
true and utged her to leave with him
With 81 600 they de j buying small far j,
IN Sheffield, ! and they started off for the
depot. A iarmer's boy with aload 8
straw soon overlook them and inyite,
them to ride. They accepted, climbins
up and consealing themselves under tn:
bundles of straw. They reached thestis
pot Just as the milk train was going Of,
and got aboara. The young mans lathe
arrived III the afternoon, but the youn
couple had fed. They are said to hay
gone to Forth Adams. 35s IS a1s
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The Single Woman.
rom the Southern Exchange.

e IUH1 OOUtHetH n -
There is NO sweeter and no more in-
teresting character, whether in fiction
or il real life, than the spinster who has,
for some good reason, refused lovers
proposal, and being now past the hour
of old msid. The ordeal through which
she has passed seems to have refined
her feelings. and Of itself mss nsibly
drawn to her the regards of all who
I kno N her history. Such a one is emf
neatly loyeabs he and sy thetic, forward
Id all good u orks, the warm triend@of
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During the recent arrest of Migrants i
Paris, nearly twenty men over nine
years of age were arraigned Several Il
those taken had not slept in 8 bed. e.
cent when In jail. for .hlrty years.
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Sa# Wv Actor, the American Minister
ct Rome lives q very secluded life, only
giving an occasional dinner party to the
Legation The RastIeIios, Palace, where
ne res ies, IS as closely strut UP as Though
there. we're 10 AMERICAN NJ imster there.
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Refreshments For Little Party,

ASSAESSAASukS TOE d Earty.
A correspondent asks for information
in regard to the refreshments she shall
serve at q little party of twelve or fifteen
persons. A few dishes, perfect Of their
kind are much more satisfactory than
great variety less dainty prepared.
Sandwiches made Of bread baked the
day before, and of nicely minced boiled
ham, seasoned with little vinegar and
mu tard and q few drops of oil, with
coffee for which genuine cream has been
provided, may well come first then
chicken salad with cucumber pickles
and olives; after which, serve cream
with two or three kinds of cake, and if
you choose, grapes and oranges. The
oranges should be partly peeled and the
skin divided in eishths, and the points
turned over toward the orange itself. If
this is done an hour before they are to
be served the peel will keep its place.
Ii the refreshments are served at small
tables, at which two ladies and two gen.
tlemen sit, two finger bowls are all that
need be placed there, Immediately after
they have indicated i'll some way that
they have finished supper. At whist
parties, where time is to he considered,
it is pest to use the small tables, 50 that
those who have an unfinished game on
their minds can complete it speedily,
while 1t is still possible to remember
that he jack or ten spot are now high.
IN. Y. Post.
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afford to 80, Icould . Moreover, wish
10 support everything ia Utah, that IL
compatible with loyalty 70 the Govern.
sment.