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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-20
Picking Out Good Oranges.

To very many an orange is an orange,
the only variation distinguishable being
in size and corresponding price, while
those who know the difference between
Florida Seville and 'Messina' or
anges and considered experts The
FLORIDA Catechism' tells us better than
that. We learn from it that there are
'over thirty varieties of sweet oranges,
not to mention the natural stock, :
which is larger and handsomer fruit
than the sweet orange, and is excellent
for orangeade and marmalade, but, be-
ing very sour, is seldom shipped North.
The medium sizes are apt to be the
choicest, and probably the very sweet
est orange that is marketed is the rusty
coated and rather Unlocking orange,
which might be considered inferior by
an amateur. Furthermore The way to
detect oranges is to 'heft' them in your
hands; pick out the thin-sk heavy
fruit, and you are all right. The light
weight fruit is apt to be juiceless, con-
dition caused either by a slight freezing
while on the tree, or more probably, by
the poverty of the soil in which it grew.
All this applies to the sweet oranges.
The kid glove oranges are grown in
Florida from two stocks brought, re-
spectively, from China and Tangiers:
Hence they are called Mandarin and
Tangerine oranges. Both are small ;
the skin is loose and easily removed,
and the sections fall apart so readily
that lady can eat one without solllng
her gloves; hence the name.
Some other interesting bits of infor-
nation may be picked out from this
'Catechism. 'An orange that is entire
ly dead ripe in December will hang on
the tree until March, and is ready at
any time to be picked and shipped )
while so far from deteriorating, the
longer they hang on the trees the sweet
er they grow,' and Florida oranges, pur-
chased in February and March, are
therefore apt to be better than those
procured early in the season. Again,
the notion that, to know what an or
ange is really like, one must 60 where
the oranges grow appears to be a popu-
lar falacy, as we are told that 'the or
ange picked from the tree is no ripper or
better than the orange on the fruit stall
in the North
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-20
Airing Beds.
Chicnao Tribune.


Too much stress cannot be laid upon
the advisability of airing beds thorough
ly. To carelessness in this regard may
be attributed the close offensive odors
which frequently meet one, not alone
in the homes of the poorer classes, but
in the bedrooms of the high priced
hotels. 1t is not enough to turn down
the coverings, only to draw them back
half an hour later. The unsavory fact
that the body actually loses weight dur
ing nights slumber shows clearly that
more vigorous methods of treatment
than these are required to free the bed
coverings of the exhalations from the
sleeper. Counterpart, blankets, and
sheets should be stripped from the bed,
well shaken, and hung on two chairs to
prevent their gathering dust by resting
on the floor. The mattress should be
half turned and propped against the
foot-board, SO as to allow the free access
Of air tp both sides. Pillows and boil
sters should be beaten eneTgetlcally.
Then, even in the bitterest weather, the
windows should be opened wide, if only
for ten minutes, that the atmosphere of
the apartment may be completely
changed.
Nor is this enough. Two or three
times winter, oftener in summer, the
mattress should have half days sun
ming. The cotton-cloth mattress covers
mentioned before do much towards pro-
tecting the bedding from perspiration ;
but even with this thorough 'sweeten-
ing in the sunshine is occasionally es-
sential. This course should not be fol-
lowed with bolster or pillow. The heat
of the sun acting upon the animal grease
in the feathers produces an unpleasant
odor. The best method of freshening
pillows is to lay them on the fresh turf
in the shade. When this is out of the
question let them be hung on the clothes
line.
While the custom of keeping guest
chamber always in readiness for chance
visitors has its advantages, there are
strong reasons against having the bed
preparediuntil just before it is to be oc-
cupied. There is a comfort about
newly made bed that disappears from
one left standing for weeks or even days.
A dampness seems to gather about the
sheets, a mustiness about the blankets
and bedding, that gives the occupant
an unpleasant sensation that the couch
has not been properly aired, and awak-
nsfears of colds, rheumatism, and other
aeshly ills.
A plentiful provision of extra cover
ing should always be prepared for the
guest room. Many visitor who breads
to hurt the feelings of hostess or is too
little at home in house to ask for ad-
ditional blankets has shivered all night
in handsomely appointed chamber, or
been reduced to piling his own garments
upon the bed to secure the needed heat.
The silk or satin duvets stuffed with
elder down are at once the warmest and
lightest of covers. But when these can
not be procured an excellent substitute
may be made of colored cheese cloth,
lined with batting or French
wool wadding. Very pretty those with
one side cardinal red, the other light
blue, the stuf1ing between being held in
place by tufts of worsted to match.
These are preferable to the heavy alleg-
ed 'comfortables' sold in stores.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-20
SOIOmOn's Stables.

A correspondent thus describes one
of the most famous of the ruined monu-
ments of the greatness of Jerualem:
Descending fight of stone steps, we
found ourselves in most wonderful
series of underground vaults. These
vaults evidently boasted of an antiquity
of centuries anterior to the Christian
era, and yet were marvelously well pre-
served. In some places the rubbish was
so deep that we were within ten feet OF
the arched roofs, and again it was at
least forty feet to the roof, showing,
the real attitude of the supporting piers.
We wandered hither and thither by the
aid of candles, sometimes in stygian
darkness on the brows of greedy chasms,
and then again in broad daylight. ]
suppose these magnificent vaults reach
over acles of ground, and perhaps honey
comb the whole mountain. Doubtless
further investigation would bring to light
discoveries of great interest. | measur-
ed one of the stones, and found it to
be just sixty feet long and perhaps four
feet square. Without much thought, L
incline to the belief that these really
were Solomon's stables, and therefore
among the wonders which the Queen of
Sheba inspected. reason this out on
very simple grounds. Solomon certain
ly had some magnificent establishment
of this sort. for we read in the twenty
sixth verse of the fourth chapter of First
Kings that he 'had forty thousand stalls
of horses for his chariots and twelve
thousand horsemen.' The Jewish bevels
on the stones throw these vaults back
to a very remote past. These two facts
dovetail together we'll. Beside that,
Josephus speaks of vast subterranean
vaults of the temple, in which people
hid themselves at the time Of the invest
ment of the city of Titus.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-20

B9rFew are qualified to shine in com-
pany, but it is in most mems power to
be agreeable.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-20
Invitations That Mean Nothing.

The writer had been entertained for
the first time at the house of a certain
hospitable old gentleman, and both were
sitting with half an hour to wait the ar
rival of the carriage in which the host
proposed to take the guest to the rail
way station, when the former said: 4
want to have you to be sure to come
and see me again, and if you don't have
any business calls this way, come with
out them He then added apologeti-
cally: Il suppose I ought to have said
this when bidding you goodbye at the
station, but like to say things when l
think of Them There was charming
naturalness in the old mans invitation
and whole-souled hospitality not to
be misunderstood. They would have
been almost lost if the invitation had
been reserved for last act of formaiity,
as many are in the habit of doing. One
may be justified in taking but very lit
tie stock in come and see me again,
when accompanied by a goodbye.
Though a suitable feeling may stand
behind the invitation in such a case,
yet it is not to be compared to the GER
tainty that exists in the less formal
mode. If one is staying at a friend S
house for a portion of a day and is about
to leave before meal time, he must not
think of accepting an invitation to re-
main for the meal when it is made at
the time of departure, the guest, per
haps, with hat in hand. The host could
not say in palmer language, 'Stay and
dine with me. l do not expect you will
and rather hope you will not, though
you have license to force yourself up
on me- Yet how many people are
there who issue their invitations in just
this formal way, as if to get the credit
of hospitality without comforting 1t up
on any one.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-20

sgThe chains of habit are generally
too small to be felt till they are too
strong to be broken.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-20

s@-Lord Hampden, who presided at
a recent dinner of the London Cab
drivers Benevolent association, COM
mended to the members the following
lines, which he said he had hung up in
his own stables:
Up hill-whip me not.
Down hill-hurry me not.
On level road-spare me not.
Loose in stable-forget me not.
Of hay and corn-rob me not.
Of clean water-stint me not.
With sponge and brush-neglect me
not
Of soft dry bed-deprive me not.
Tired or hot-leave me not.
Sick or cold-chill me not.
With bit and reins-oh, jerk me not
When you are angry-strike me not
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-20
na~He wrote: "A Din is very queer

D9-H He wrote: "a pin is very queer
sort of thing. 1t has round head
and sharp point; and if you stick pins
into you they hurts. Women use pins
to pin on their cuffs and collars, and
men use pins when the buttons is off.
You can get pins for S cents a paper
but if you swallow them they will kill
you; but they have saved thousands OF
lives 'Why, Thomas, what do you
mean by thatl' asked the teacher. The
boy answered: sBy people not swallow
] in of en-
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-20

B@- Out in the boundless west when
a young fellow gets married the first
thing he receives is serenade from the
local band. This generally reconciles
him to any sort of treatment, and he
settles down and is happy afterward.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-20

@Passionate persons are like men
who stand upon their heads; they see
all things the wrong way.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-02

threw over her grapncls, aud two seeu
used the oars to give her headway. We
had not pulled fifty feet when the irons
took hold, and drew the boat back to
the spot by means of the rope.
Then, standing on the scat in the
stern, / lifted mt the obstruction, and
II came slowly up. II had just APP
peared at the surface sufficient for me
to make out that IL was boiler-iron
torpedo when there came an awful ex-
plosion. At the same instant our boat
was lifted high in the air and broken to
pieces, and scarcely comprchended
what had occurred until found myself
in the water at least two hundred feet
below the point of explosion. My hair,
whiskers and eyebrows were badly
slnged, and my clothing was on fire as
came down after the flight. While l
had escaped the other three men were
killed outright and horribly manglcd,
and the great wave created swamped the
boat working few hundred feet below
us and drowned one of her crew.
While swimming for this capsized
boat man stood on the bank of the
river and fred four shots ut me from a
revolver, and with the fifth he killed the
colored man who had given us informa-
ton. The victim stood on the bank,
about midway between the two boats,
and was shot through the head. The
torpedo was no doubt exploded by cleo
tricity, and the man who fired the shots
was the operator who exploded it. - Cor.
Detroit Free Press.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-02
GOVERNMENT BALANCES.

Interesting Statements From the Books
of the Register of the Treasury.
The statement of balances due to and
from the United States from 1889 to
June 80, 1885, on the books of the Reg
lister of the Treasury has just been
printed. 1t shows that we owe small
amounts to about seven hundred and
fifty individuals, on account of 'dcce-
dents trust fund.- aggregating $780,
080,94. The "decedents' trust fund.- is
composed of the proceeds of the per-
sonal estate of American citizens who
die aboard, leaving no legel representa-
tive, partner in trade or trustee, which
the Consuls of the United States are
required to transmit to the Treasury,
there to be held in trust for the lawful
claimant. We also owe on account of
outstanding liabilities" 1868, ,4OS,51,
but this is not an Indebtedness in the
same sense that the other is. When p
draft is given to any one in liquidation Of
debt due by the Government and it is
not presented or paid within the
space of three years, in order
to close the account of the dis
bursting officer who drew it, the Treas
urer is required to deposit the money
which it represents in the Treasury to
the credit of the person entitled to pay
ment, and into an appropriation styled
outstanding liabilities" The balances
due to and from the United States on
the accounts of the various officers of
the Government are clearly shown in
the following recapitulation of the Reg
lStpr.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-02
-Washington Cor. N. y Post.
PRECOCIOUS CHILDREN.
Early Promise of Talent Frequently Not
Followed by Or ent Achievements.

Early Promise of Talent Frequently Not
Followed by Great achievements.
The idea that genius reveals itself
early in life does not at once recon-
mend itself to common sense. Observa-
ton of nature as whole suggests, first
of all, perhaps that her choicer and
more costly gifts are the result of long
process of preparation. And, however
this may be, there is certainly more
moral suggestiveness in the thought that
intellectual distinction is the reward of
strenuous adolescence and manhood
than in the suppositlon that it can be
reached by the stripping at bound
through sheer force of native talent.
And it may not improbably have been a
lively perception of this ethical signifi-
cance which fostered in the classic mind
so widespread disbelief in early prom
ises of great intellectual power. We
find typical expression of this senti-
mcnt in the saying of Quintilian: 'lllud
ingeniorum velut pr;ecox genus non
temere umquam pervenit ad fru-
gem" That is to say, the early promise
of talent is rarely followed by the fruit
of great achievement. 1t lis evident that
this saying embodies something like
general theory of the relation between
rank of talent and rate of development.
When superior intellectual ability shows
itself at an early date 1t is of the sort
that reaches its full stature early, and
so never attains to the greatest height.
On the other hand, genius of the finer
order declares itself more slowly. In
order to estimate the soundness of this
view, two lines of inquiry would be nec-
essary. We should need to ask, first of
all, what proportion of those who hal
shown marked precocity have after
ward redeemed the promise of their
youth; secondly, what number of those
who have unquestionably obtained n
place among the great were previously
distinguished by precocityP These two
lines of investigation are, however, in q
measure distinct 1t may turn out that
a large proportion of clever children
never attain to any thing but 10
mediocrity in later life, and yet that the
majority of great men have been re-
markable as children. Science
MOnthiy.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-02
pIrH AND POINT.

Speak OF a mans eagle eye, and
he'll give you his hand mention his
parrot nose, and he'll give you his fist.
Portland Aiuertiser.
--"Wcre you ever in an engage
mentl" inquired an innocent rustic OF
militiaman. "Ycs, one, replied the
breach Of promise" ,
"A professional maxim for lawyers.
Whatever you do, do It with your might.
Many a member Of the profession has
made his fortune by working with .
will.
"A maiden lady says that II single
life is bad, IL stands to reason that double
lfe is twice as bad; but ladies rarely un-
dcrstand mathematics. Y. 1els-
gram.
Julian Hawthorne says that one
day he wrote for twenty-six consecutive
hours without pausing or rising from
his chair. He must have got up two
hours before day. -Norristo,on Herald
The jury brought in verdict Of
mot guilty" His Honor said admon-
ishingly to the prisoner: "After this
you ought to keep away from bad COM
pany" 'Yes, your Honor, you will not
see me here again in hurry. &C CHICAGO
Tribune.
IL am perfectly at home in tho
water" said an old topper as he plunged
into the surf. THAT Is where you have
the advantage over water,' was the un-
feeling remark of bystander who
knew him. m.--Boston Post.
Miss Beauty: THAT gentleman
seems to know YOU" Miss Hight:e:
"Yes; did you ever see such impudence
he actually bowed" Miss Beauty:
.Have you never met himp" Miss
Highte: "Only at Spirit Lake. ]
should think he might have sens
enough to know that summer-re.e
sort engagements don't count in
town. ."-Des Mo;nes (La.) Leader.
Office boy Ito editor): There's q
man outside who says he wants to pay
some money" Editor: "Did he give
his namep' Office boy: "No, sir"
Editor: "Well, you find out his name
and all about him and what he wants to
pay money for, and then come and tell
me before you let him in. In the glori-
Gus field of journalism, my boy, the
prudent man will always be found on
the safe side.-N. Y. Herald.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-02

10 II it hadn't been for the delay. He
had four friends killed in the fight.
Colonels and Majors, II I remember
right, and he was taking their bodies
home.
Now, listen again; the web is almost
wovc. IL must have boon about eleven
o'clock when we got down to Savannah.
The night was black, the rain was fall
ing, and the Tennessee rolled likca flood
Of ink to the sea. There was wharf
boat, or another steamboat, Mt the levce,
and we rounded up and went alongside.
AS we came down heard man speak
from the other boat in u loud. emphatic
voice: Here she Is. Hurry up. hurry
up. was standing on the guards look
ing at the scene by the wild glare of the
pine torches which the negroes had light
ed on both boats, and, whether it was that
our boat rebounded when she bumped
the other. or whether she hadn't got
quite up to her, or whether the blaze Of
the torches dazzled him, can not say;
but saw the man step between the two
boats right into the river. heard the
splash, and saw him rise to the surface
Like cork he was carried along for
about the length of the boat, and was
gone. just then some gentlemen
stepped on board our boat. One of
them was addressed as Doctor and he
was crying like child. To him said:
who was that manP' The Governor
of Wisconsin, said the doctor, and
passed into the cabin. The web was
wove; the omen had won. The care
less prophecy of bit of chalk was full
filled.
"You don't mean to say that chalk
ing the Governors name on the coffin
had any thing to do with the accidentP"
II don't say it, for l don't know it. ]
can only say to you what General
Crocker used to say to me: Thar are
more things in Heaven and earth. old
Ratio, than you ever dreamt Of But
will say this, that 1 didn't feel right
when first saw the name thar; and
haven't felt right about it since. wish
it had never been wrote thar, that's all
ay."-BroDn Forester, TN Chicago
! Times.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-02
PICKING UP A TORPEDO.
The Somewhat Hazardous Occupation OF
u bold Union Mariner.

The Somewhat Hazardous Occupation OF
u Bold Union Mariner.
Twas among others detailed from the
Federal steamer Monongahela to search
the Red river between the Tensar and
the Mississippi for the torpedoes which
had been planted by the Confederates
before our fleet appeared in those waters.
These torpedoes were of all makes.
shapes and sizes, from II pork barrel
half-full of powder, to be fired by
electricity from the shore, to glass
demijohn holding ten pounds and to be
exploded by contact. Some were on
the surface, some just under it and
some on the bottom. We went out in
gangs of four in row-boats to hunt for
these terriiicrs, each boat being pro-
vided with grapnels, nets, boat-hooks
and whatever else was needed for fish
ing up the monsters. We had to 90
slow and exercise great caution, for the
channel was tortuous and no one cOul Id
guess Mt what point we would come
across u torpedo. While the woods
were shelled two or three times day by
our gunboats, the Confederate swamp
cats were by no means driven out.
They had every chance to secretc them
selves along the banks, and we realized
that if we came upon an electric tor
pedo which could be exploded from the
shore we ran every risk of being blown
sky-high.
We had been at work three or four
days and had tishcd up seven or eight
ugly-looking fellows, when we got into
part of the channel which ran within
fifty feet of the right hand bank. just
Mt this time colored man who had
been lying out in the swamps for sew
cral weeks waiting for his delivcrance
informed us that he had observed men
planting something in this bend about
two weeks before. He thought there
were wires leading from it to the swamp,
but we secuted about for couple of
hours without being able to find that such
was the case. The bank was dense
Jungle in which thousand men could
have concealed themselves and the gum
boats could not she'll it from the posi-
ton they had taken.
1t was about an hour after dinner that
we moved up and began graphing in
the bend. The boat in which was sta
toned turnsd her bow down stream.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-02
NY LOVE AND I.


I.watchcd the vessel from the shore,
Which from my arms my treasure bore,
Until my tear dimmed eye
No longer could Its pnssa9e trace,
Or mark the still increasing space
Divide my love and I.
Then to my lone and silent hearth,
Which echoes to no sound OF mlrth,
turn my steps again,
TO walt TIL cross the stormy sea
Tho first glad tIdinus come to me,
welcome as summers rain.
And months go by-I watch and dream,
For hope has dawned with brightest gleam
To tell OF coming bliss,
When my weak arms again infold
My treasure as In days OF old,
And 1 no Joy shall miss.
watch no more for whitening sails
Borne onward by propitious gales,
To bring the wnnd'rer home,
Across the broad and restless sea
That bore my love away from me,
No tender mlssives come.
dream no more with iashes wet,
OF perils That his path beset,
For now the weary feet,
BY Time and Space no longer chained.
Fair Beulan's heights serene have gained,
And walk the golden street.
Oh Beulah land. that lies so far
Beyond the ken of world or star,
And yet SO wondrous near,
Where my beloved doth abide;
And yet how often to my side
He comes. my soul to cheer.
Not ocean depths, or trackless plain
Can the freed spirit now detain;
Neither can mountains high.
Death, like an angel ure and bright,
With magic touch, did but unite
Once more my love and I.
Mrs @. II. X. Poore, in Good Housekeeping.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-02
A Pernicious Practice.

The common practice of leaving a
broad row of weeds along the fences OF
the meadow is not to be recommended.
on the contrary, it is to be most strong
ly reprol'ated as being wasteful, insight
ly and disgraceful. Aclean meadow is
pleasing sight to see, and one that
makes farm attractive. A neat farmer
has his fields bordered by n broad band
of grass, upon which tho teams turn
when plowing, and which is mown for
hay, and regularly dressed with manure
when the other part of the field is. This
is turning land to good use that would
otherwise be wasted, and is most con-
venient practice. 1t gives passage for
the horses and reaper and keeps the
farm free from weeds, besides ailording
two or three cuttings OF hay every year.
N. Y. Times.