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A Good Gun Of Coffee.

A correspondent of the New York
Times vouches for the excellence of the
following recipe to make good coffee:
Buy the best coffee and grind it to the
consistency of ordinary cornmeal. Into
a French teapot put an ounce of coffee
for every person. One pound OF coffee
will make sixteen cups, and no more.
Have everything clean, and as soon as
the water in the teakettle begins to boil
moisten the coffee gently, and leave it to
soak and swell tor three minutes: then
add a little more water; don't be in a
hurry; continue to add water until you
have obtained not more than a large cof-
fee cupful of the extract. If carefully
done the entire virtue of the coffee will
be in the cupful of liquor at the end of
five minutes. For four persons use a
quart of pure milk and have it piping
hot; heat the large cups by pouring into
them hot water; now divide the coffee
into the four cups, each of which will be
o%nc-quarter full; fill with the boiling
milk. This is pure breakfast coffee, the
coffee of the gods, of which no man
after drinking would be SO base as to call
for a second cup. Such coffee cannot be
had at any restaurant in New York. He
that drinketh 1t this morning will be
unhappy if he fails to get it tomorrow
morning. But these instructions must
be followed to the letter.
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The Coral Animal.

This single coral animal quite unlike
an insect, and it is quite time for books
to omit that designation-coral insect.
is like the sea anemones, Actinias. or
tea.howers, some species Of which we
acc on the rocks of our northern coast.
it is q small tut e of flesh, with q stom-
ach, and tentacles surrounding it, which
move about in search Of food and con-
duct it to the mouth. The nervous sys-
tenn and blood system arc OF tho most
simple kind. Of course, in a creature so
low in the scale Of life, there is no
head, nor are there special organs OF
sense, such as for seeing and hearing
They are popularity called animal flowers.
This little creature soon develops a
hard covering or shell, secreting from
its exterior a shell from the lime which
is held in solution by the sea water, just
rs the clam or any shell-tsh secretes the
lime coverings are analogous to the
skeletons of higher animals, though in
one case the lime skeleton is inside, IN
the other outside: After a little the
soft Young coral, having settled itself
upon a solid footing on the bottom OF
the sea, like myriads Of others around it,
exhibits q white calcarious coating on
portions of it, and in a short time has
deposited from its soft exterior and par.
t~itions of its interior a solid lime tube,
with dividing walls. This is coral "pure
and simple"
A great block many feet in diameter
is no more than simply a congregation
of many of these. When the little single
coral is nerfect in its lime tube, it buds,
md increases itself thereby, adding con
tantly either in this way or by the
emission of eggs.-Ne~ York Eps~iw
Past
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lifted arms as he wanders forth from out
their village. The range of the Hima:
layas is before him. Huge, stern and
snow. covered, up the mountain-sides,
over rocks and cragggy places, along the
beds of streams, through gloomy ravines,
past dismal caves, the home Of the wolf,
the hycna. the mountain bear and the
tiger. No fear deters him, no danger
daunts this Hindoo ~ascetic.
The shrine in its snowy altitude has at
last been reached. The altar on which
he has to lay his Offering is at last before
him. There, in the dismal gloom, alone
by himself, with the twinkling holy
light before him, which has burned
steadily in this mountain recess for thou.
sands of years, in anguish and in grief
he throws himself down before the altar,
and thus prays: ooh, Mystic Light, en-
blem of the universal, of the hope, OF
peace; you who irradiate this gloom with
your rays, irradiate now, I bcseech you,
by your light, my heart with hope. In
spire me with courage, and if thou who
represents the eternal will show to me in
this my sorrow, the face OF one whom
my heart loveth, aud let me hear the
voice of him for whom 1 suffer-then
will l still continue my vow, and will
ascend to the shrine that is across these
mountains, and pray there and live there
as RAMS servant"
Half 6emented from the danger of
his travel, overcome with joy that the
shrine has been reached. can it be won
dered at that this poor fanatical creature
sees in his imagination the face OF his
son and hears his voice? In an ecstasy
of Joy he again proclains his intention
of still pursuing his vow, till, perhaps,
the strength of the troubled frame has
been exhausted and the brave heart sobs
out its life.
And the end. Down in the ravine is
his body thrown by the heartless priests,
to serve as food to the yelping Jackal
and snarling hyena.-Sm Francisco Call.
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When jamie turned BACK at last, Aunt
Hannah was surprised and delighted to
see a gay smile on her face; not the re-
gret and disappointment she had feared
But Mrs. Clegg only groaned when she
was informed of it.
"Shc thinks he'll come back to git her,
I s'pose," she said, with %despairing
resignation "She can't sec yit that he
don't want nothing of her."
The weeks went by.
Spring deepened and mellowed, and
was giving place to summer. The cherry
trees bloomed; the old maple which
Dayton had sketched filled its
branches with leaves of a tender green.
What does she think nov, Iwondera"
said Mrs. Clegg, grimly.
She was mending stockings by the
kitchen.door. Aunt Hannah was pairing
potatoes near by.
''Does she believe yit that he's ever
coming near here again?" said Mrs.
Clegg. II don't know, Hannah. but
what we're the most unfort'nit set on
earth, take us all round"
Poor Aunt Hannah dropped a tear into
the potatoes. Things were hard.
"There's that money" Mrs. Clegg went
on, miserably. II don't see as there's
no kind O. hope o'gettingit; and circuit
amt going to wait forever. l ruther
guess, Hannah, that we'll be packing up
to go to the poorhouse before long,"
There was a clatter of hoofs. and a
sudden pause before the house.
"Orcutt again, probly," said Mrs.
Clcgg.
But no, that could not be Orcutt-
that slender person in a neat summer
suit, with q jaunty straw hat somewhat
on the back of his head, and-.of all
things! with his arm around jamie.
That Teller again." Mrs. Clegg
gasped.
The s'feller" had come through the
hall briskly, with his arm still around
jamie, and was standing before them,
smilingly.
"Give us your blessing" he was say
ing, gaily.
And before they had had time to COM
ply, he was pulling out his pocketbook
and undoing twas taking a roll Of
bills therefrom and putting it into Aunt
Hannah's hand.
''For the spinning-wheel," he said,
squeezing the hand he pressed it into.
II sold my picture. And that's for Or
cult. jamie told me about it, you
know" he added, in a torrent of ex-
PLANTATION.
"You're Il dear, good boy" cried Aunt
Hannah, with q joyful burst of tears;
s'and l always knew you was-so there"
But Mrs. Clegg was surveying him
doubtfully.
"You don't mean to say" she said,
slowly. that you're a-going to marry
herr"
Don't II" cried Dayton, jovially.
"We didn't reckon, Hannah and J."
said Mrs. Clegg. gathering up a corner
of her apron instinctively, THAT you
wanted nothing of her."
And she was not wholly convinced
that he did until circuit had come fer
the last time-till the little house was
decked for a wedding, and jamie, smil-
ing and fearful, had gone away in the
hack at the young artists side.-Emm@
4. Opper, in Saturday Night.
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Largest Locomotive in the World.

W. A. Croffut says in q New York let
ter to the Detroit Free Press: I have this
week met Mr.. E. G. Corthell, chief en-
gineer of the Tehuantepec Ship railroad.
which Captain Eads has projected to
open the isthmus below Mexico so Is to
take ships from one ocean and drop them
quietly into the other, and I asked him
"What's new?"
swell" he said, 1--WE have found out
this week exactly how we q draw our
ships. Captain Eads has always been
asked: How can you drag the great
ships over if you get them on the twelve
rails you propose to lay downY He has
replied, with engines feeling certain
that engines Tor the special work would
have to be built. But we have just re-
ceived a letter from the chief engineer
| of the Mexican Central railroad, which
will not only astonish you newspaper
men and ~non-experts generally, but will
surprize even railroad men. It shows
that they are manufacturing in Mexican
shops the largest locomotives in the
world"
He handed the letter to me, and from
IL l quote as follows:
81 send you herewith blue prints OF
some of the engines we have just made
for the Pacific and Gulf branches of this
road, which will have three aud a half
per cent. grades Q85 feet to the miIe)
and twenty-degree curves. The drivers
are flexible, moving independently of
each other and OF the cylinders and
boiler. = x X Figure seven represents
the engine under consideration. This
engine can carry a weight of 1S0, 900
pounds and haul G, 1000 tons at a speed of
ten miles an hour on a straight and level
track; 9, 300 tons up a one. half per cent.
grade, and 1.400 tons up a one per cent.
grade.
"But I would call your attention to
the consolidated type of engine repre-
sented by figures 8 and 8. This en-
CINE has sixteen drivers, will pass q
curve of twenty to twenty-five degrees
with ease, can carry a weight of $40, 900
pounds and its drivers can haul 5000
tons at ten miles an hour on a straight
and level track, 5000 tons up a one.half
per cent. grade and 1900 tons up a one
per cent. grade"
"These are tremendous motors, said
Mr.. Corthell, "as civil engineers and
railroad men will fully understand.
Three of these last engines will draw the
largest ship that sails the sea up the
heaviest grades on our line. One of
them will draw it sixty per cent. of the
distance; and one of them will draw at
least three.fourths of the vessels all the
way from ocean to ocean,"
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4 EVENING

The autumn night is dark and cold;
The wind blows loud; the year grows old;
The dead leaves whirl and rustic chill; e.
The cricket's chirp is long and shrill;
The skies that were so soft and warm ~
Mutter and bode Of gathering storm.
And now, within the homes of men
The sacred hearth-ires CLEAN again,
And joy and cheer and friendship sweet
Within the charmed circle meet. -.
The children watch with new delight ?.
The first fire, dancing redly bright,
That drives away the dark and cold;
And Grace's slender fingers hold
A braided fan from Mexico,
To make the broad flames flare and glow.
Alert, alive, they leap and run
Like fierce bright streamers Of the sun;
They shine on Roberts placid face,
And tint the pensive face of Grace,
And chase away the doubtful gloom
From every corner of the room.
Oh, pleasant thought! that far and near
Are gathering round each hearthstone dear
Bright faces, happy smiles, and eyes
Sweet with the summers memoriesl
Oh, holy altar-ires Of home! ~:
h far and wide the children roam,
Your charm for them shall still endure.
With love so strong and peace 50 sure.
Celia Thanter, III st. Nicholas.
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WEARIED.

Dear Nature, hide me in thy Utmost heart,
Safe from the pangs Of doubt and ~strife.o'
will,
My own and others; I would fain lie STILL
Bathed in thy silence, of thy life a part;
Unconscious and unerring as thou art,
Bear me as mothers bear their babes, until
Of thy pure strength my weakness takes
its fill.
And I may dare on some new course to start
Find some quiet grave wherein my soul
May lie as bodies lie when life is fled.
Freed from the madness of its own control,
By wisdom's self through unknown
changes sped;
In sleep unvexed of dream of end or goal,
And, living still, be all as good as dead.
Emily Pfeifer.
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Yine-ar Made of SaWdust.

A sign in a Third avenue grocery win
dow reads: "pure Russct Cider, &c. a
Quart"
THAT cider was never moved by n
breath of country air." said a man in q
blue check jacket, who was passing the
window, land it was never any nearer
m apple than it is now rs it stands in
the barrel, at the rear of the grocery"
"Made of sulphuric acid and glucose,
then" suggested q companion.
"No, that's too cXpcnsivc.'
"What is it made OFF,
"Sawdust. l work in the shop where
it's made. Pure apple cider is worth
thirty cents a gallon. Sawdust cider
costs about onc-fourth Of that. We take
the sawdust from a couple of wood yards
-hemlock. hickory, maple-cvcry kind,
Just as it comes. We dump it into a big
rctort and heat it with a coal fire. Just
forty-seven per cent. of what boils over
is crude vinegar. 1t has to be purified a
bit and boiled down a little, but it is
pretty good vinegar. When the wood
reaches a certain point in the heating
process it becomes charcoal, and is cooled
off and sold to filter makers. We can
beat the grangers on the vinegar bust
ness and not half try."-New I0'& Sun.
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Stock Gambling.

"The "ebucket shops" situated in the
large towns and cities of the country
are the instruments by which on immense
amount of gambling is carried on. The
proprietors of these nefarious establish
ments surreptitiously obtain quotations
from the Stock Exchange. Tickets are
refused to them by the Western Union
unless four members of the board vouch
for the worthincss of each applicant.
The quotations desired are furnished by
persons who have bound themselves to
that telegraph company not to do so,
and who have obtained injunctions from
the courts restraining the corporation
from removing their instruments. For
mer insolvent members of the Stock Ex-
change, now known as exempt men,
bers,' arc among the users of the know
ledge thus acquired.
In these bucket shops a blackboard,
with list of stocks at prices quoted in
New York inscribed thereon, is dis
played. Speculative clerks and others
are invited to bet upon these quotations
under the pretense OF the put
and call system. For example
one is induced to buy, on a mar
gin of 81 per share, five shares of Mis-
souri,, Kansas, and Texas stock at 1Gf.
If it rises to III, he gets back his mar
gin and gains IS. If it drops to lot, ne
loses his margin or bat. The secret Of
ruin in thousands of instances is to be
found in the gamblingo Of bucket shops.
Yet the wealthy %patronize and are feeccd
by them. Quirk, of Knavevillc, keeps a
bucket shop, and receives the quotations.
He conidentially informs his trusting
patrons that he has certain knowledge
that an inactive stock is about to rise in
price-say the Denver and Rio Grande,
now selling at nine and %pcrsuades
them to venture 81 per share to the OK.
tent of 5000 shares. This done, he
t~elegraphs to a broker to "sell 5: 1000, D.
and r. G.-quick. quick" in blocks
from eight and three quarter to eight.
The selling broker, alone or with assist
ance, makes his offers, which are &C.
ceptcd by another broker to whom Quirk
has telegraphed to buy the stocks offered
ct those prices. The last quotation,
eight, fixes the price. The telegraph an
nounces it at Kuavcville. The SIS, 600
margin, minus the one-fourth of one per
cent. brokerage on the fictitious sales. is
swept into the swindler's pocket.-Hmr-
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N. De Ferrani's collection of postage
stamps cost him $500, 600.
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Lowell, Mass, has four chimneys over
two hundred feet high.
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tOrmcnlS ana 1nally clectS that OF nOlo-
ing up his right arm forever should he
survive, and should he die, to visit the
most sacred shrine in the High EIima-
laya.
"You must begin new,' says the
goroo; 'show your zeal at once; nor
must you in anger drop your arm should
your son die"
"Nevcr," grcans the unhappy man,
and forthwith holds up his arm.
The sun sets, the night comes on, and
there in the darkness and in solitude,
with his dying boy before him, and sleep
and fatigue Weighing heavily on him,
watches that man-watches the cbb of
life, watches the death, the mourners
and funeral pyrc, with his arm high over
his head, pointing his fingers to the sky,
he gazcs on the smoke, from the burning
body of his son, floating h~eavcnward,
and with fearless eyes he breathes the
PRAYER that it is but the will Of God.
His bread can no longer be earned, no
longer can he follow the bullocks to the
pillow, no longer continue the duties of
the mechanic; so without adieu, without
tears on either side, lie leaves his family
to finish the VOW by a long pilgrimage.
lie passes from one village to another,
from one province to another. Winter
storms and summer heats do not dissuade
him from pcrsevcring in his attempt to
reach the sacred shrine perched on Him.
alaya's highest peak. Everywhere he
goes the men, the women and the chill
dren respect him. His cry to the great
god, Ram, who has taken from him his
first born, to give him strength to fulfil
the VOW he made to insure his happiness
in the hereafter, is not UNDECIDED. Timid
children bring him food, their fathers
give him aid, and the women, with curl
Gus, fearful eyes, watch him with the up
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wildered girl, and wiped her eyes on a
corner of her apron, already limp with
previous outbursts.
Aunt Hannah, however, discrcetly Sc
Letting a moment when her sister was
not obscrvant, went up stairs, guilty,
to see the picture, and stood before it in
speeches. admiration.
1t was Janie's very self. The fluffy,
yellow hair; the sweet, half-smiling
mouth; the turn of the head-were per-
feet.
The old spinning-wheel, too-she
would have known it anywhere; and the
yellow silk was as natural as life.
"What be you going to do with it,"
she said, turning to Dayton at last, and
regarding him with new respect.
"Sell it, film lucky enough" said the
young man, smiling. PPM going back
to the city tomorrow to exhibit it. If
it %sells," he added, incomprehensibly,
"l'll pay you for the spinning. wheel,
aunt Hannah"
The next day, therefore, saw him
ready for departure.
jamie stood with him on the porch,
waiting for the village hack which was
to take him to the station. The spinning.
wheel had gone the day before.
Aunt Hannah lowered nelr the door,
with an anxious eye upon them; Mrs.
Clegg had sat down solemnly in the
darkest corner of the sitting-room, and
refused to stir out of it for any leave
taking.
A cloud of dust was coming up the
road; the hack was in sight.
"Good-by, JAMIE" said the young
man, softly. 81 am coming back, you
known'
He had it in his heart to say far more,
but he told himself that the proper time
had not come.
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WORKING REPUBLICANS.
NEWS FROM BEYOND THE FLAT

EcKHAEr, July %, 1885.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Henry Atkinson, of Homecoming,
paid Eckhart, visit Sunday; also
Joseph N. Robinson aud family, of
Paw Paw, w. Va.
Michael Rorak is treating his house
to new coat of paint.
The improvement at the NJ. E.
Church of a new porch is nearing COM
pletion.
The bush meeting in the Porter
grove Sunday, 10Th, was largely at
tended. Rev. S. S. Wilson, of Eek
hart, preached at 1Ot a. m. and Rev. W.
T. l.. Weech, of Frostburg, at p. m.
About 9 o'clock Sunday evening the
quiet of our village was broken by the
cry of ''fire !" caused by the explosion
Of a lamp. After throwing his wife
and children out of window the land
lord escaped himself. By this time a
few of the old citizens came to the
rescue and put the fire out. The
damage was slight.
The western end of our village on
Monday evening of this week was dis
turbed by case of wife beating.
When, o when will the whipping-post
be established here ?
The landlord and wife. beater were
hoodlums, names unspellable.
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FOR THE SENATE.

FRosTEURG, July 20, 1885
To the MINING JOURNAL.
In the last few issues of the JOURNAL
| have read under the headings of
political Notes" and "Correspon-
denco" several articles anent politics
and candidates for the respective Of
fees to be filed this fall.
The Senatorship seems to have alb
sorbed all the other officer, as it is the
principal topic of conversation when
politics is mentioned.
AS a democrat | would like to see a
democrat elected, and the democrat
who can carry the districts situated in
the coal region is the man for the party
to nominate. | take pleasure in pre-
senting to the party the man who can
do this, viz: J. Semmes DeVeemon,
now Of Cumberland, but who was for
many years a resident of Homecoming,
the centre of the coal region.
Mr.. DeVecmon is well and favorably
known, not only to the mercantile
community of the county, but also to
the toiling masses, by all of whom he
is esteemed and honored for his UNI
form urbanity and gentlemanly bear
ing as we'll as sterling worth.
|, therefore, propose for Senator
j. Semmes DeVecmon, who will not
only be elected by a handsome major
ity, but will add strength to the balance
of the ticket.
DEMOCRATIC LABORING MAN.
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The Great Pcnnsylyauiato

The Great Pennsylvania to the West.
Before ma ng their arrangements, W
wonld advise all those whocontemplatc Il trip
to any OF the Western States or Territories to
consult the many advantages Offered by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Its train service is
quick and reliable, its employees courteous
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found, and trip over its line is more akin to
the pleasures of a holiday than the irksomc
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OF its numerous agents will cheerfully furnish
such information as may be desired, and all
inquiries addressed to Mr.. Y. e. Watt their
Western passenger agent at Pittsburg 10
reply.