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Violin YIllnpes-

No musical instrument is deserving of
greater care than the violin. A good
one will last for centuries, and improve
with age. A newspaper writer tells
something of the people who make the
best viollns, in Markneukirchen, with
It's surrounding villages, Klingenthal,
Fleissen, ROhrback and Graslitk, in Sax
ony, where there arc about -, 900 people
who do nothing but make violins. The
inhabitants, from the little urchin TO the
old, gray-headed man. the small girl and
the old mother, are all engaged in maxi
ing some parts of n fiddle.
A good instrument consists Of 90 diff
feTent pieces. Tic older men make the
finger board from ebony and the string
holder OF the screws. The small boys
make themselves useful 10y looking after
the gue-pot A man with strong,
steady hands and clear eye puts the
different pieces together and this is the
most difficult task Of all
The women generally occupy them
selves as polishers This requires long
practice, and family having daugh-
ter who Is good polisher is considered
very lucky.
Even n young man, when he goes
a-wooing, inquiries whether the young
girl is a good polisher, and il she is il
certainly will increase his affection for
her at least twofold. The polishing
takes a good deal of time. some of the
best yiolins being twenty and even thirty
mes polished
Every family has its pee lliar style Of
polishing and never varies from that.
There is one that makes nothing but a
deep wines color, another citron color,
yet another an orange color and 80 on.
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InserlptIons I'm Saxon Housos.

Many OF the houses in saxon villages
bear an insc iptlon Of some motto or
often, says the YouiP4
CoppaRioa, these sentences show great
seeming 20 reflect the
ch rracteristics o. the house owner. The
following examples OF such homcly
literature are taken from "The Land Be
yond the Forest -
81 Till money get from my father in-law.
Ny roof alas must be covered with straw. .
OF course adorns q matched cottage.
Another has a more serious ring:
Within this house guest today.
SO long the Lord doth let me live:
But when lie bids, J must away,
Against bis will cinnot strive.n
The mistrustful character OF the Saxon
thus finds vent.
Trust yourself 20 every one:
lis not wise 20 trust 10 none
Better, though, 90 have no frien1
Than on many 20 depend
Another wIso body writes
" How 70 content every man.
is n trick which no one can.
lt 70 do 50 You can claim.
Rubthis ont and write your namo"
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WISE WORDS.

A good conscience is the finest opiate.
1t is better to do well than to say
we'll.
You must love in order to understand
love.
Goo nature should lead in the list of
the virtues.
The friendship of the artful is mere
self.interest.
No place, no company, no age, no
person, is temptation free.
The majority OF people are most
generous when they have nothing TO
give.
Education begins the gentleman, but
reading, good company aud reflection
finish him.
Woman is the Sunday Of man. Not
his repose only, but his joy She is the
salt of his life
Look up, and not down look forward,
and not back look out, and not in and
then lend hand.
All. when shall all mems good be each
mans, and universal peace lie like shaft
of light across the landl
lie is rich whose income is more than
his expenses, ana he is poor whose ex-
peuses exceed his income.
How cunningly nature hides every
wrinkle of her inconceivab,e antiquity
under roses and violets and morning
dew
You may deceive all the people some
of the time, and some of the people all
the time, but not all the people all the
time
Marriage is the best state for man IN
general, and every man is worse man
in proportion as he is unfit for the mar
ried state.
A good book is commendable for two
reasons, because OF the thoughts which
IL contains and because of the thoughts
which it suggests.
man without discretion may be com
pared to a vessel without helm; which,
however rich its cargo. Is in continual
danger Of being wrecked.
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VeaI in Tcmpting shnpes

Many very delicious dishes may be
lade Of veal. To be good, veal should
rs about two months Old, when the flesh
will be firm, with pink tingc, aud the
bones hard. Veal is divided into fore
and hind quarters the fore quarter IS
divided into loil, breast, shoulder and
neck, the hind quarter into leg and loin.
Chops are cut from the loin, and the lcp
is used for outlets and filets. The loin,
shoulder and fillct and breast are used
for roasting. The knuckle and neck are
used for soup, stcws, pies aud croqucttes.
Fricandellcs Of Veal Put on one gill
of sweet milk and half teacup Of bread
crumbs 10 boil until thick Chop a
pound Of lean veal very fine, and add to
tue bread crumbs and milk; season with
a tablespoonful Of butter, salt and pepper
20 taste, take from the fire and stand
aside 10 cool When cold form into
small balls, dip in beaten egg and fry in
butter until a light brown take up care.
fully. Thicken the gravy in the pan with
two tablespoons OF flour, then add pint
Of soup stock, stir until IL boils Put
the fricandelle5 into saucepan, pour
over the gravy and let simmer one hour
When ready 20 serve add n tablespoonful
OF Worcestershire sauce.
Veal Loaf -Chop three pounds Of
lean veal and pound OF fat pork very
fine; roll a dozen crackers and moisten
with teacup of sweet milk and two
well beaten eggs mix all together and
serve with nutmeg allspice pepper and
salt. Make IN the shape Of n large loaf
and bake an hour and half butter
frequently with little butter and hot
water; take up dry, set away to cool
when ready to serve, slice thin.
Fricandeau Of Veal Cut thick
slice four or five pounds from fllet Of
veal, trim it, and lard the top Put some
pieces OF pork in kettle, with some
slices Of carrot, an onion stuck with
cloves, stalk Of celery and bunch Of
parsley. Put in the meats, sprinkle with
pepper attl salt, and cover with n creased
paper. Fill mp the kettle with sufficient
boiling stock TO cover the meats. Put
on q tight lid. Set in hot oven for
two hours, aud serve with tomato sauce
Blind Hare. Miuco three pounds OF
veal and three pounds Of beef mix with
light we'll beaten eggs. % pint OF sta'c
bread crumbs % littld pepper and salt
two grated nutmegs and tablespoon.
fsl Of cinnamon. Form into an oblonQ
cake, roll in cracker crumbs and bake in
hot oven three hours.
Veal Patties -Mincc little cold
veal and ham, allowing onc-third ham to
two-thirds veal add a hard boiled cug.
chopped, and seasoning of pounded
mace, salt, pepper and lemon peel moist
en- with little Qiavy and warm Make
puff paste, roll thin and cut in round
pieces, put the minCo between two OF
them pinchinQ the edges together, and
fry in hot grease.
salmi Of Cold Veal.-Puf two or three
ounces butter in a saucepan, when
be nfclts stir in two tab'cspoOnsful Of
-four, when this bubbles add slowly a
half pint good broth. @ chopped onion.
q bunch Of sweet herbs, pepper and salt
60 tsste, and q tablespoonful of current
Jelly and mushroom catsup each cut
some slices from cold roast Of veal. Law
them on tho prepared gravy, after it has
simmered hficon minutes add % squeeze
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ennth nnd Wnat.

By an explosion OF dynamite Mt Negaunee,
Mich, Fred Hamburg and Charles Sundberg
wcro instantly killed. Sundberg'S back waa
terribly torn, and staple from tho door was
found in IL, Every bone In Hanborgsu body
was broken.
A SUPPLEMENTARY report on the defalca-
tion OF Tate tho kentucky Treasurer. swols
the amount OF his shortage % S2i7,O0J,
THE Union Labor aud tho United Labor
parties have boon holding National Conven
tions in Cincinnati, but were unable "a
unto on tho land question. aud adopted
separate platforms The Union Labor mon
nominated A. J. Streeter, of Illinois, for
President. and Charles IL. Cunningham for
Vice President. The United Labor party will
make nominations at some future day.
THERE was revolt at tho Virginia Ro-
publican state Convention in Petersburg,
and two sets OF Dclcgates-at Large, with OK.
senator Malone Mt the head OF one, and John
:. Wisc leading tho other, were nominated
for the National Convention.
MINNEsorAs DEMOCRATIC STATE Gov.
vENTIoN met nj st. Paul, and n delegation
was elected TO the National Convention which
is instructed 10 vote as "A unit for Cleveland's
denomination. A tariff reform platform was
adopted.
WILLIAM GEORGE has been hanged i'm tho
pcnitcntiary at Columbus, Ohio, for mur
dering an old farmer I'm MuskinRum County.
AQUINcY dll) dispatch says that tho total
area Of cultivated fields submerged by the
CFent HOOD IN tho TWO loNoe ulhtrlCLS II
100000 acres, aud the loss 20 crops will nggro-
cato S3,0O000O
EDWARD WmMAN, of st. Charles, Mich.
killed his wife because she persisted In join.
ing u church he objected to, and then shot
himself through the heart.
FouR horse tbioves wOro lynched by vigi-
lantes at Woodward, Indian Territory.
HAIL fell at Pratt, Kan, with such force
rs 10 destroy all tho growing croTs and kill
many pins and cattle
ROBERT SMITH set fire 10 tho jail in which
he was confined nt Cairo, Ill. and was burned
To death in the destroyed prison.
FRANCIS T. NICHOLS was innugurated as
Governor OF Louisiana at Baton Rouge.
w. l.. BANCROFT OF Port Huron, Mich.
has been appointed General Superintendent
Railway Mail Service vice T. r. Nash, re-
qigned.
THE General Conference OF tho African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Chuch, which has
for three weeks been i'm session nc Newberne,
N. g., has ad djourned to meet at Pittsburg,
Penn, in May, 1892.
Born houses OF the Louisiana Legislature
have elected Randall l.. Gibson as United
St0tes Senator to succeed himself
Tho Democratic Convention for tho Thir-
teonth Congressional District OF Illinois has
renominatcd Congressman w. M. Springer
by occlamation.
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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
CLEANED FRost ALL SOURCES,
The Main Facts Related Without
Unnecessary Words
Eastern and Middle states

TnE BROOKLYN Democratic Club gave n
banquet at the Academy OF Music in honor
OF Secretary of tho Treasury Fairchild.
FRSp. MApspEN, the popular playwright
committed suicide few days ago at his homo
in New York city. His daughters wrong
doing was the cause
PErER J. QUINN. bookkecpcr for G. g.
Dixon s. Co. builders. OF Pittsburg. has alb
seconded. His accounts show shortage OF
$4,000.
JouN L. WEBSTER, OF Norridgowock,
Me. tho oldest attorney in Somerset County,
was killed. by fall from railroad bridge.
AT the General Conference in New York,
Rev. DR. J. II. Vincent and Rev. DIR. ]. N.
Fitzgerald were elected Bishops OF tho Metho-
dist Episcopal Church.
Ar n saw mill In Hcwittviile, ST Lawrence
County, N. ", Horace Ellis, aged rs years,
fell upon tho saw. His heal was severed
from his body and dropped through hole In
the floor into the river
HOWARD GAsKTLL. twelve years old, and
John Williams, aged fifteen, SONS of we'll
known Lockport IN W citizens, wero
drowned In the canal near that city while
fishing.
THE Maine Democracy assembled In con.
voution at Augusta and nominated ticket
headed by William l.. Putnam for Governor.
Delegates were elected TO tho national con-
Vention who are enthusiastic for Cleveland.
Resolutions woro adopted favoring reduc-
tion OF tho tariff.
Two men were killed by a varnish OK.
plosion In Philadelphia.
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nms signed by the Governor.


The following additional bills have been
signed 10y Governor Hin:
Amending tho act providing for pensions
for members OF the National Guard
Appropriating Si9, 900 for additional build.
ings &C the Hudson River State Hospital.
Providing for dredging tho channel OF tho
Seneca River and the Old Bear Race, I'm
Waterloo, TO facilitate the passage OF canal
boats
REQUIRING the deposit of public moneys
I'm solvent banks by public officials
Amending the act for the formation OF
free public libraries.
Amending generally the Consolidation Act
relative to public instruction.
Mr. Nates's bill amending generally tho
Military Code.
Authorizing Boards OF Education OF cities
and villages and union free schools and TruS-
tees ot public school districts 60 establish
schools Tor industrial training and FOR teach
ing or illustrating the manual or industrial
arts
knarging the powers Of agricultural and
horticultural societies.
Empowering the eStabli shment upon Swim
burne Island by the Quarantine Commission.
erS Of crematory for the inciuer0tion ot
lodieS OF persons dying at the Quarantine
Hospital ot contagious or infectious diseases,
but prohibiting the cremation OF bodies OF
per sons whose religious views are opposed To
this method OF destruction.
Regulating the Organization Of Fire De
partments in villages organized under special
charters.
Amending the act authorizing the fixing
of salaries OF sergcants and detective ser
gcants of police in New York city.
Making an appropriation OF S3O,O)O for
dredging the kre Basin, Hamburg Canal,
Ohio Hasin, and Rock Harbor, IN Buffalo
Authorizing the purchase OF land 10y the
United States for n Government building In
Buffalo.
Amending the act authorizing the forma-
tion OF driving park associations.
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Wnahinrton.

THE Senate has confirmed tho nominations
os Robert B Roosevelt, Of New York, 10 be
Minister 90 the Netherlands; Thomas Brown
10 be Consul at Paramaribo; aud o. III
Ernest, 10 be n member OF tho Mississippi
River Commission.
TIE new Unitel States steel cruiser Balu-
moro building nt Cramps shipyard, Phia-
delphia. will bo launched on July 4. Mrs
Cleveland will christen 10 and tho President
will witness the launching.
ACCORDING 10 the present arrangement,
the Tariff bill will be laid aside by the HOust
for the present, and appropriation bills will
be taken no in tho following order and
passed The legislative, the District OF Col.
umbia, and tho Post Office bills
A BILL has b0en referred 20 tho House Nil.
itnry Committee for the appropriation Of
e., 100000 20 bo used in experimenting with
dynamite and other high explosives with a
view 10 determining the most suitable for Sos
coast defences.
The Chinese Minister no Washington, nc
compauied by his suite, has sailed for Lima
20 look after Chna's interests in Peru
THE wife Of senator Sawyer, Of Wiscon.
sin. died MondnY, at her home In Washing
ton. Of paralysis
THE President has approved tho act for the
relief Of the Mechanics National Bank Of
Poughkoepsie " Y.
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The ABSENCE OFLITTLE WESLEY
Since little Wesley went, the place soens all
so strange and still
Wy miss his yell o "Gran'papr' as 1 d miss
the whipporwilli
And TO think uso to soold. him fer bis ever
iastin' noise.
When only riclolIect him as the best O little
boys
wisht hundai times a day at he q come
trompin' in,
And all the noise he ever made was twic't as
loud agin,-
IL 'u'd seem like some soft music played on
some fine instrument,
'Longside o this loud lonesomeness, sence
little Wesley went
OF course the clock don't tick no louder than
it use to do
Yit now they stimes it pears like il 'u'd bust
itself in two
And, let rooster, suddent-uke, crow som'ers
clost around,
And seems 5 ef. mighty nigh IT, it 'u'd lift me
OF the ground.
And same with all the cattle when they bawl
around the bars,
In the red o airly mornin', er the dusk and
dew and stars,
When the neighbors' boys at passes never
stop, but jest go on,
A-whistlin' kind o to theirse'v's -sence little
Wesley's gone,
And then, o nights when Mothers settin' up
uncommon late.
A-bilin' pears er somepln, and set and smoke
and wait,
Tel the moon out through the winder don't
look bigger n a dime,
And things keeps giItin' stiller -stiller-stiller
all the time-
/ We ketched myself wishin' hke-as clumb
on the cheer
To wind the clock, as ! hev done fer more n
fifty year
A-wishin' at the time he'd come fer MS to go
to bed,
with our last prayers, and our last tears,
sence little Wesleys dead
james Whitcomb Raey, in the CenturK
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The last persons judicially executed in
England FOR witchcuft were woman
and her daughter, nine years Of age.
who were hanged At Huntingdon i'm
1Iic. The last judicial execution in
Scotland for witchcraft was a woman in
l722, who was condemned 60 death D,
tho Sheriff Of Suthcrlandshire. There
l. on account OF woman having in 1921
been put into tar barrel aud burnt at
DornOch, Scotland The penal acts
against witchcraft were repealed in 1876
in The reign OF George IT, In 1851 Ruth
Osborne. suspected Of wiichcraft, was
murdered by riOtOus mob az Trinp. in
England; Thomas Collcy, one of the
leaders Of the mob, was tried at the
ensuing county a.sizes, found guilty and
hung In chains on the spot where the
murder was committed - Tid- Bifs.
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HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Mako tho Kitchen Attractive.

Considering the fact that so many wo-
men are obliged to pass great portion
OF their time in the kitchen, why not
make II an attractive apartment rather
than stow IL away in the basement, or in
some dark corner OF the house, as is now
too frequently done Most houses dis
play pleasant sitting-rooms; but il we
Judge OF the conveniences and general
pleasantness of the kitchen 10y the rooms
in front Of the house, we utterly fail in
our conjectures. To make a little show
in company rooms, how many actual
kitchen comforts are denied in many
householder 1t is surely better to begin
our furnishing at the kitchen aud
work toward the front as we are able.
Let the kitchen closet be we'll stocked,
even though the parlor suffer little. -
AgeRt's Herald
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Pencook Feather Fan.

Take small Chinese fan, round or
slightly oval in shape, cover it with
dark green paper muslin or any dark
green thin material; cut the feathers
about four inches long, measured from
the top of the fibers Have a bottle Of
mucilage ready; begin by clipping the
tibers remaining on the quill, from
which has been cut the tops, takes these
fibers and glue them all around the edge
of the fan, so they will extend about two
inches over the top of the fan. Take
the largest size Of the feathers and glue
in the center Of the top and have them
about one inch longer than top of fibers.
Keep on glueing one feather after an
other, arranging so the smallest will
come TO he bottom. When the first
layer has been placed all around the out
side edge Of the fan begin the second
layer. Keep on until one side is all
finished; let it dry then begin on the
other side; when allis finished and dry,
take a curling knife or any other blunt
knife or shears and begin curling the
long fibers into nice large and soft
curls. Those on the edge curl closely
down TO the edge. Next wind the han
die with peacock blue ribbon, finish with
a full bow with long ends of the same
and you will have a beautiful fan. be
tyOit Free Press
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a PARTY ~ titho collectors and police wfts
attacked by q mob nt Iianihdd. Wales, AID
in the conflict that followed thirty-fve per
sons wero injured, soven of them seriously.
~ a connagrOtion a. Calbuzowa, in Gall.
cia, four hundred houses md Tho public
buildings Of tho town have been burned.
AHoCr forty prominent Homo Rulo lead-
crs, headed by Mesrs ParncH and Dillon,
havo issued n manifesto in reply 90 the Popo's
late rescrpt against the Land League
FIVE hundred persons havo been drowned
by floods in Mssop1tam'a
TnE Emperor OF Braz has recovered from
the severe attack OF pleurisy that threatened
his life.
FrvF lumbarmen were crossing ths Aroog
took River in New Brunswick. when their
boat upect and three OF thon were drowned.
NEw ZrALAvD has ratified n law which
prohibits the landing Of Chinese under any
circumstance
Cubbage Williams and several others
cut a tree near Tfoupvillc. Ca. The
hollow, which was tOlerably rye, was
found 10 be hllcd with honey and comb
for a distance OF - feet. After secur,
ing the hon 'y, enc Of the b )ys cat into
:he tree above the portion use BY the
bees and founi "a iattlesnake three feet
long As there was no hole in the tree
excert the one which contained the
honey, iho supposition is that the snake
crawle1 up the hollow before the bees
began TO hive and The honey comb had
odeclually blocked his exit.
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Now zealand now contains great mum
hers of wild cattle which have descended
from those lost by the farn ors during
tic Maori wars which ended in 1861.
Hunting these animals Is an exciting and
dangerous sport The game is not easily
secured. as tho animals hover seemingly
Tor protection about thickets filled
with long twining crccpcrs, in which
progression is very difficult Into ,hcse
vines they dash no the slightest alarm,
tcemiuR fully aware that neither horse
uof man cau follow them
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purpose when the bill came 20 be discussed
In detail 10 was found that proviso Rad been
inserted authorizing the Postmaster General
10 allow rent, light and fuel 20 third-claSs
postmaStcrs. who hitherto have had 60 pay
their own rent This provoked such lengthy
discussion that the ontire measure went over
as unfinished business.
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Instruction for Laying Carpets.

Carpets are often badly LAID down,
either from ignorance or carelessness.
The carpet, neatly folded, should be
brought in and laid down as il is folded,
the way the widths are TO run. Ii must
then be unfolded by degrees, not dragged
open any way. When the carpet is
thoroughly opened out, let the centre
width be laid perfectly straight from one
end TO the other, timed tack put at
each end 20 keep it in his place and all
the other widths laid straight according
to the first When one end OF the
widths is straight and thoroughly
stretched, let it be tackled down with
timed tacks at regular intervals, begin
ming at one end and working towards
the other. When this first end has been
firmly fastened down. let one side, at
right engles TO the end nailed already,
be tackled, taking care TO pull it ont
'taut,' as the sailors say. When the
side and end at right angles have been
fastened down, the corresponding side
and end are easily managed, aud the
thing is done. York World.
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of lemon juice take up and serve on
toast. - Couris gra0l.