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the recent death Of the latter among
her most valuable documents, goes far
toward clearing away much uncer-
tainty from this point. This paper
bears a recipe for "Frankfurter
Brende,n n cake of which Goethe was
passionately fond, which he mentioned
in letters to his friends, of which he
slowed away amazing quantities at
every opportunity. The recipe says /:
Mix a pound of powdered almonds
with a pound of powdered sugar (;
sprinkle with rose water, n stir till
brown and dry over a light fire. Pour
into a dish coated with sugar and
cover with a cloth. Cool over night
and the next day mix with whites OF
eggs and four ounces Of fine flour.
Roll out the mass to half the thickness
OF the back of a knife and cut out
with a wooden form. Twenty-four
hours later bake in tin moistened with
hot water.
Of this ''Frankfurter Brende" Franz
Grillparzer, the king of Austrian
dramatists, wrote in 1866 to Frau Won
Bischoff THE Frankfort cake you
sent me afforded me the first oppor-
tunity of my life to measure myself
with Goethe although only in biting,
and has given me new proof of the
fact Goethe, even in his ripest age,
was an entirely different fellow from
me. At all events, he had better
teeth" In his younger years. how
ever, when his teeth were at their
best, Grillparzer thought better of
Goethe's cake, for, after tasting it
once, he commented Yes, Goethe
occasionally may have written bad
things, but never ate bad things.
The California Girl.
The Siskiyou girls not safe to trifie
with, either in an aInatory or ~jocular
way, remarks the San Francisco
Chronicle. Her life has been spent
esthetically. She is conversant with
nature from early childhood, and
having nothing else, probably, to do,
she reads her lessons in mountain
streams and storm-beaten rocks.
Miss Siskiyou is a healthy and strap
ping dame. She has remarkable
strength and her powers of endurance
would shame a San Joaquin mule
into committing suicide. Generally
she is a capital shot, and with her
brothers and father has assisted at the
slaughter of bear, which abound in
the mountains. She is expert with
the rod, and as O rider she could give
points to the most daring queen of
the circus. She comes of a predatory
race, for these mountains are in
habited by a class of people who de-
clare that they would die of suffoca-
ton in a village and that God in
tended man for the mountains and
wild beasts for him to forage upon.
Under such conditions we find a tall
and sinewy girl, with a foot ample in
its dimensions, long but not broad, an
ankle thin and well set, and an enor-
muos length of limb. Her bodyis slight
and willowy, her shoulders broad and
straight, the chest but little developed,
the throat thin, supporting a swell
head with very marked features. Her
hair is generally tawny, her eyes blue,
her nose hooked, her mouth thin but
large and furnished with strong white
teeth. Her voice is metallic, and it
has O queer ring in it as one accus-
toned to command. She pays no at
tention to dress, and is unguilty of
any attempt to make herself attract
i've.
Her fIirtations are limited and so is
her acquaintanceship. She admires
the festive cowboy, while she has a
wholesome contempt for the lumber
man, whose occupation h deems
girlish. But her whole soul-at least
that portion of it which, poor girl, she
has-is given up to the professional
hunter, for in these mountainous
wilds there live men whose business
it is to hunt, as the rancheros offer
respectable rewards for the skins of
coyotes, bear and mountain lions, and
a skillful shot can make more money
at this pursuit-which to him, after
all, is pleasure--than can the man
who herds stock.
The German Girl in Love.
The German girl in love is as artless
as the German girl out of it. She
gives her whole heart all at once to
her fiance, and is not ashamed to let
every one know she has done it, for
secret engagements are unknown in
Germany. In fact, an engagement,
like Il death, in Germany, is hurried
INTO the newspapers a few hours after
its occurrence. The German giil then
talks, as she thinks, only of her future
husband. While not preparing her
elaborate trousseau, which includes
everything under the sun that a
oma needs to wear or keep house
with, she writes poetry to her young
man. She is an exceptionally "practi-
cal" yonng German woman il she does
not send him at least seven pages of
her verses daily, and if she is inclined
to be romantic she doubles or quad
ruples this amount. She lives in his
presence and is dumb in his absence.
She dances, laughs, talks and walks
with no other man.-JeaaneSS Miller
Magazine.
How They Caught the Postmistress.
A party of Hartford young ladies,
visiting last Summer at a back country
town. found great difficulty in getting
their mail.
The train would arrive and the let
ter bag reach the Office, but then there
was a long delay. They laid it to the
postmistress reading the postal cards,
which they insisted she did at each
mail.
By and by one of the girls came
back to Hartford and then she wrote
her friends a postal card saying at the
end
Il hope Miss Bowersox 1.-THE post.
mistresslwill not take all the after
moo to read this postal card"
The friends were promptly at the
post Office and the mail came slowly,
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