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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04
Hints for the Cook.

RASPBERRY JAM.-The fruit being
passed through a cane or copper sieve,
and reduced by boiling about quar-
ter of an hour, add the sugar pound
ed small, to every pound OF the origin
oil weight add three quarters of q
pound of good loaf sugar, continue
boiling and stirring it till it will set on
plate, the sharper it boils the
better the quality and color; in
known quantities these jams could be
boiled to time, but not otherwise.
PoTATo CRoQUETTEs.-To one pound
of mashed potatoes add the beaten
yelk of one egg, little salt and pep
per, two tablespoonfuls of bread
crumbs or cracker meal, and one
tablespoonful of milk. Stir over
the fire until quite dry. Then place
on awell-houred board, shape in GRO
quotes, roll lightly in the flour, glaze
with the beaten white of the egg,
strew with bread crumbs and set aside
till quite cold and firm. Immerscint
hot fat until brown, drain and serve
very hot.
CocoANUT SouP.-Three ounces OF
grated cocoanut, three pints of veal
broth, some cold water, hall pint of
CT m, a little rice fio'~; salt to suit
taste; add the cocoanut to the veal
broth, and boil it gently for one hour;
then add to tia little cold water add
sufficient rice flour to make the SOUP
thick enough; season to suit taste; and
the cream, and then simmer all for n
quarter OF an hour; nutmeg or mace
is an addition liked by some.
GERMAN CREAM. Boil one pint of
cream with six ounces of loaf sugar
and the peel OF hall a lemon cut very
thin; as soon as it boils take it away
from the fire and let it stand until
nearly cold; then add the Juice of two
lemons and wineglassful of brandy;
pour the mixture from one dish to an
other quickly for ten minutes and il
Will be ready to serve; this cream
should be made twelve hours before IL
is served.
SPONGE CAKE CREAM.-Cut nine
small sponge cakes in two and Mace
them at the bottom and sides of a
glass dish; pour half a wineglassful of
brandy and the same quantity of
sherry over them; add some raspberry
Jam or Jelly, warmed little; cover
thus with another layer of cakes and
a9d the same quantity OF brandy and
VINE; have ready hall a pint OF cold
boiled custard, favored, and when
ready to serve pour this over the
whole; add few pieces of candied
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

IT seems strange, upon considera.
ton Of relative advantages, that bridges
over rivers should be so ubiquitous and
tunnels under them so scarce. Your
tunnel offers no shade OF obstruction to
navigation. 1t is far cheaper to make,
especially II the space to be traversed
Is wide. 1t Is eminently safe. Bridges
have time and again collapsed. thrown
trains to the ground, and. with or with
out the able assistance Of the car stove,
put scores OF passengers to torturous
deaths. But If properly constructed.
: tunnel will never fall in, and with
good management its darkness need
DO no excuse for collisions.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

The cry OF the navy is for seamen.
1t has been estimated that not less than
1000 more men will be needed to fill
the crews OF all the ships OF war now
fit for service. A very large portion
OF the crews OF the navy are foreign
ora In whom little dependence could
b placed In case OF foreign war.
But the only way in which American
seamcn could DO secured would be to
abolish the aristocratio system that
has grown up in the navy. and throw
all ranks, from midshipman to admiral,
open to promotion for merit. Until
this shall have been done the navy '-in
continue TO- be- manned by foreigners;
and with all its splendid and costly
ships 1t will be, so far as its seamen
arCconcelned. American only in name.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

IT IL now a question If the United
States has not been too hospitable-if
our people have not been more liberal
than prudent in their admission of
newcomers. They are warned from
time to time that they are receiving
into the system of their body polite a
crude material faster than it can be as
simulated. But there is a general in
disposition to narrow the gates to
American citizenship, and the alien is
still naturalized and invited to partici-
pate In the solution OF all the difficult
problems OF federal. state and munich
pal politics before he has become suffi-
cicntly acquainted with the country's
language to translate its constitution.
What return is asked for this hospltal-
TYP Simply that the foreigner shall
recognize that in becoming a citizen of
the United States he has ceased to be
citizen elsewhere. and shall obey the
country's laws and aid in perpetuatinc
IT. institutions
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04
Kate Could Not Eat the Salad,

Kate Chase Sprague tells this story
OF visit to old Gen. Winfield Scott,
at Cozzen's West Point: "He gave us
seats at his own especial table, and
was very kind to us, but was
terribly afraid of him. One of his
greatest pleasures at the table was to
mix the most fiery of salads, which he
would send by his own man (who
always stood behind his masters
chair with the generals compliments,
to the favored few. My gastronomic
tastes were far from being developed,
and the old gentleman's red pepper
and mustard nearly killed me. |
simply could not eat the burning stuff.
Feeling the generals eye upon me, I
vainly tried to swallow it, but failed
ANONYMOUSLY, with tears coming into
my eyes with the effort. To add to
my discomfort and modification, a
voice roared out in deep tone from
the generals throne: "The little Chase
does not like my salad"
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04
Women as Inventors

Statistics which has been prepared
at New York for the approaching
centennial anniversary of the Patent
Office prove that inventive genius has
no sex. 1t will be encouraging to
female wage-workers to learn that
women inventors have made a record
in the Patent Office of which they NAV
well beproud. Application for patents
OF their own invention have been
made by over 8, 200 women since the
Patent Office was organized. These
inventions, while covering wide field
OF articles for women's use, include
such unexpected inventions as sub
marine telescopes, processes for hard
ening copper, foot stoves, refrigera-
tors, and even locomotive driving
wheels As early as 1890 a patent
was granted to Mary Kies, OF Con
necticut, for an improved method of
straw weaving with silk or thread.
Many patents We're issued a few wears
alter to women for improvements on
corsets, loot stoves, spinning wheels.
mocassins and ice cream, eree5ers.
During the war great number of
women inventors came forward with
many designs in canteens, military
caps, ambulances and ali kinds OF
hospital appliances. Prior to the
war the number of women applicants
Tor patents was small. ONLY three
patents towomen wereissued in $50:
IN 1860 there were only four, in 1870
there were sixty, in 1850, ninety. In
1857 the number rose to 1877 and has
been increasing steadily ever since.
The inventions of tho women com.
eare well with those OF the men in use.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

WE have debarred the Chinese from
crossing our frontiers. We were forced
70 that prohibition rs necessary
measure OF self-defense, and, as rule,
1t 10 rigidly enforced. Yet the Chinese
DO not assassinate the officers OF the
law, nor pillage factories whose owners
have refused their demands. They
are far loss inimical to public order
than Thousands Of immigrants from
countries that boast of high degreo
Of civilization.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04
CHAPTER XVII.

10 make up ones mind; TO vow to find
young woman who has disappeared
without leaving trace. is one thIng-to
nd her is another. Such was at least
tne experience OF two men, who, from
aiuerent motives. were equally anxious to
ma the fugitive. The first Maurice Her
vey, the second Frank Carruthers.
Hervey, who. first having paid a visit
70 oakbury, had in some way managed to
learn that Beatrice, the boy and and The
nurse had gone to London, babe hasty
adieu to Blacktown and returned to the
capital The more he studied the situs-
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

To BE continually rubbed by a nut
meg-grater would probably prove
nearly the most cruel torture which
could be devised. When two people
live incessantly together it is just
possible that both may be as smooth as
nutmsgs or both may be as rasping as
orators; but by far the most common
case II for one to be nutmeg and the
other crater.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

IT Is reported that French chemist
has discovered new method OF brew
ing beer, by which all the injurious
elements OF the amber beverage are
entirely eliminated. II France will
now impart the secret to Germany the
Kaiser would no doubt be willing, in
return, to restore those conquered
provinces and swear eternal amity
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

IT Is said that an enormous reser-
voir OF clear fresh water has been dis
covered 120 feet below the surface OF
the Desert OF Sahara 1t has long
been dream Of scientists and capital
lists to irrigate this great waste, and
possibly the wnter for this purpose
may lie beneath its barren sands.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04
In slow GERMANY.

The waltz had its beginning in Ger
many, and thence was taken to France.
shortly after which it was introduced
into England. Hungary was the biz III
place OF the galopade or gallon and
from Poland came the stately polonaise
or polacca and mazourka.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

Electricity is employed in Berlin
cafe to boil coffee. A platinum wire
passes in spiral form through several
glass jars, the electrical current quickly
raising the water contained to boil
ing point, and the coffee is thus pre-
pared in the view of any one in the
room. A small electric railway con-
veys the coffee to the several tables,
SO that the guests may help them
selves to their liking.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

IT would save great deal OF post
mortem litigation If men OF wealth
would make affidavit before dying.
whether they are married or single,
and, II married. how many wives they
are leaving to put in a claim for their
name and property.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

NEW YORK city has nearly twice as
many millionaires as either London or
Paris, and probably no effete monarchy
can teach them anything in the line Of
lodging taxes.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04
A Huge TurnIp.

Vegetation grows TO vast proportions
In the fertile northwest. A turnip
measuring four feet in circumference
and weighing fifty pounds has been CD
exhibition at the new Whatcom, Wash,
chamber OF commerce.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

IT doesn't look as II the war on Gig
arettes had accomplished much when
1t appears that profit OF II per cont.
on US, 900, 900 is annually made out of
the business Of manufacturing them.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04
Fashions Fancles.


Cloth-like fabrics are very popular
this season.
The Louis Quinze coat basqueis one
OF the leading styles for house and
street wear,
Effective trimmings for an evening
dress are the ieweled butterflies that
are sold in sets, to be used for the
hair, shoulders, front of corsage, and
amid the drapery of the skirt.
Gilt and black passementeries and
gimps are used for new costumes,
while gilt frog ornaments are used on
the front of basques and there are
flat, open-interlaced insertions of gilt,
and also gilt cord OF twisted strands,
that are used on the edge of seams
and basques.
Green is the favorite color for fancy
articles. and pretty little purses for
young ladies are of green leather,
ornamented with n silver monogram.
Silk is more used than it has been
Tor many seasons, and panels, waist
coats, and sleeves of silk in most of
the wooden stuffs are now seen.
Bengaline is the particular choice
OF the season, both plain and figured
because it is soft in drapery, lustrous,
rich looking, and not expensive.
Light shades prevail for wooden
materials, while cheviot, diagonal and
serge willie be employed for travelling
and street gowns.
The hair band. or small coronet, has
been received for hair dressing, and it
Is set with jewels, just like the old
fashioned article, and is equally becom-
ing with high or low coiffures.
A new Partisan fancy is to have
small jewels sewed upon the material
OF the dress, and in some cases even
knitted into the stockings.
Yellow is the favorite color of the
season for dressy toilets, and for the
decoration of palmer gowns, while
white strewn with tiny sprays of pink
roses and forget-me- nots is n most eff
| fective combination for waistconts
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

fulness and ingenuity. The most pro-
fitable inventions of women are those
OF costumes and clothing and artistic
designs of wall paper and decorated
china ware. Evening Telegram.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04
CHAPTER XXVI

WORD IN SEASON.
after one or two uns iccessful attempt,
Ia,iu.ners round Mrs. John Rawlings In.
stalled behind the family counter at No
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04

The Methodist church REQUIRES Il,
this country about l,000 new ministers
every year to keep its pulpits supplied.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-06-04
ABOUT THE WOMEN FOLKS.
INTERESTING GOSSIP AND IN
FORMATION FOR THE LADIES.
New Silks for Summer Gowns
Fashions Fancies--Summer
Mlllinery--Women as In
ventorS--M othS.
New Silks for Summer Gowns.


Changeable twlled silks more finely
twilled than surahs, with designs Of
dots, stripes, waving ribbons, and
baskets OF flowers, in ecruor white,
promise to rival the smoothly woven
India silks as summer dresses. They
are made into charming dresses by
Paris modistes, who delight in color
this season, and add silk OF bright
contrasting hue for their trimming.
Thus green and red changeable silk
strewn with ecru baskets of flowers is
trimmed with pale blue surah facings,
and has a collar, plastron, and point
ed belt of Louis Seize embroidery of
rose-buds and gold done on pale blue
cloth. The seamless bodice with coat
skirts is favorite model. The fronts
gathered on the shoulders cross dia-
gonally to lap under the blue belt and
the changeable silk laid over pale blue
surah, each frill cut with selvage
finish. The wide back is shirred
at the waist line. The coat skirts are
three loops, ten inches deep when
doubled, of the material showing fac
ings of pale blue. They are slightly
full, and are gathered to the bodice
back OF the pointed belt under q twist
or scarf of the twilled silk. The NUT
ton leg sleeves are very long, and
without trimming. The skirt OF five
breadths has the front breadth
turned under at the foot, and faced
with blue to match the coat skirts,
then falling open on each side on
flounce OF pale blue silk. This design
is not confirmed to changeable silks,
but is beautifully carried out in foul
ards, as one with gray ground strewn
with large white leaves, made up with
a collar and belt of gold embroidery,
and facings of yellow India silk in the
frill and coat skirts.
Chameleon silks, as the changeable
silks are called, are imported in glossy
taffeta with tiny dots and figures, to
be used for sleeves, vests, and Aounces
OF wool dresses, and also in heavier
faille, with chine flowers and ribbon
stripes for entiregown. Alovely house
dress of yellow silk shading to pink
has chine bouquets of violets, roses,
and carnations. 1t is made all in one
piece, the skirt sewed to the round
waist, which fastens invisibly in the
back under % plastron of olive green
velvet that extends the length OF the
bodice in front also. The silk is pleat-
ed full on the high shoulders, and
drawn without darts next the velvet
pieces. A single under arm form is on
the side. A standing frill of velvet
edges the low rounded throat. Sleeves
full to the elbow have gathered frill
below. The skirt of six breadths has
three breadths for the front and sides,
extending around to meet at the back,
where three other demi-trained
breadths are massed in pleats in
scarcely an inch of space at the waist,
and spread out widely below White
embroidery in upturned points is set
Mt the foot of the skirt
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01
NO NEED OF CHURCH.

Sermons Supplied by Telephone by an
Enterprising English Company.
The attempt to connect the pulpit of
Christ church, birmingham, England,
with the telephone system is not suf-
Tered to become nero barren expert
mcnt. The telephone company has
lately perfected the arrangements, and
is now supplying oral sermons at pri-
vate residences on rather extensive
scale. Naturally, says the Chicago
Herald, it is the bed-ridden and the
sick who most appreciate the advan-
taGc of being able to hear preacher
without attending service. A dozen
yards or so of loose, flexible cord is at
tachcd to the ordinary receiver and a
special U-shaped instrument supplied
to fix on the head, with an ear box for
each car. Thus provided it is possible.
it is said, for the sick to hear comforta-
bly, while in bed. In Il quiet room the
tolling of n bell can be heard half an
hour before services; the prayers can
be followed, the responses emphasized
and every word of the sermon distin-
guishcd; while solos in the anthems are.
we are assured, heard as distinctly MS
II one stood next the singer. Even n
casual cough among the audience is
distinguished. There is stated to be a
lady at Smallheath who has been bed
ridden for three years, and whose spir-
itual wants are thus supplied; another
at Edgbaston, who has not been able to
attend church for seven years; and in
the birmingham jcwelry district there
are Il dozen watchmcn who, being on
duty every Sunday, could never hear a
sermon except in this fashion. Twenty
four calls, representing, it is calculated,
some sixty subscribers, are stated to
have been received at the telephone
office from Christ church one night last
week and similar number in the
morning. Subscribers in Manchester.
Nottingham, London, Coventry, Stat
ford, Wolverhampton and Worcester
have also uvailed themselves of this op-
portunity of being supplied with q
spoken sermon at a trifing cost.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01

RELICS OF soNAPARrE.
Articles OF Apparel Worn by tho Litti
Corporal In tho Campaign of 1914

Articles of Apparel Worn by tho Little
corporal In tho Campaign Of 1914.
The last genuine relics of the first
Napoleon have now been transferred
from the Louvre museum to that of the
uotel des Invalides, says the London
telegraph. They comprise IN authen-
tic "Redingotc grise," which cost 100
francs at Lejeune's, and the s'littlc
nat which was blocked by Poupart &
Co. and was afterward worn by the
emperor in the campaign of 1914. A
great deal of dispute and discussion has
arisen about these two articles, the
transfer of which to tho Invalidcs has
long been delayed, as in January last
q representative of the Empress
Eugenie put in claim for them as
being the private property of Napoleon
I'LL, and therefore liable to be
restored to their owners, like other OBJ
Jccts lent to the museum. After care
full search there was found in the
archives of the Louvre letter dated
February, 1854, signed by the imperial
grand chamberlain, the Due dc Bassano,
in which the chief conservator of the
Louvre was told that the emperor
wished the coat and hat to be placed as
historical relics in the Musce des
Souvcrains. On the strength of this
letter the state has now asserted its
rights to the curiositics, and presidcn-
tial decree authorizing their transfer to
the Hotel DIES Invalides was issued re-
Gently. Among tho other Napolconic
articles sent to the Invalidcs are n little
tri-color coclladc in silk, which the en-
lperor wore at Fontaincbleau when bid
ding farewell to the Imperial guard, and
which he had in his hat when landing
at Porto Ferrajo in May, 1914; uni
form of general of division in which
the first consul appeared Mt Marcngo; a
state sword, engraved by Fillbcrg, of
StoclSholm; n flag of one of the rcgi-
ments of Chasscurs OF the guard; the
seat used by the emperor in Saint
Helena, and, lastly, the camp bcdstead
i'll which he died. This object was
given to Napoleon III. by Prince Murat.
Visitors to the Invalides will soon be
able to see those interesting mcmcn-
toes of the great Napoleon, which have
been lying by in the Louvre since 1871.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01
SACKED BY FIReFLiES.

Millions of tho Flushing Insects Go
Through Pennsylvania Village.
This town was one night recently
treated to most remarkable and beau
tiful spectacle, says Dunbar (Pa.)
correspondent of the PHILADELPHIA
Times. Shortly after dusk the pcoplc
were surprised and puzzled to behold
what appeared to be q cloud of light
come sweeping up from the woods ly-
ing back of the town, but on it's reach
ing the streets it was seen that the
light was occasioncd by an immense
swarm of fireflics This swarm, num-
boring millions, dispersed itself through
the village, Illuminating everything
with light more golden than that of
day and warmer than the moons cold
beams.
People recognized each other without
difficulty and the print of IL newspaper
was to be read with ease. The houses
were filled with the darting, flashing
insects, which seemed to be panic,
stricken from some mysterious cause.
Lamps were extinguished by the
swarms and carpets ruined by them as
they were crushed by the foot, while
delicate plants and flower beds were
destroyed by the weight of the cluster
ing flies.
1t took several hours for the swarm
to pass through the town, but Il SLOWLY
disappeared in tho direction of the riv-
CT, lighting the fields as it went, alarm
ing the country people as it approached,
and arousing the cattle and poultry,
which seemed to mistake it for dawn.
Nothing being seen Of it next day and
no report of it being seen elsewhere
having been received, it is believed that
it gradually dispersed itself over the
marshes. Where the insects came from
is also u matter of conjecture, as well
as the reason for the sudden invasion.
On the morning after their visit they
were found in drifts under the hedges
and fences and against the sides of the
houses, while quantities of provisions
left exposed were DESTROYED by their
presence