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HOW TO cooK cUcuMBERs.

Cucumbers properly cooked are very
nice dish. In fact, quite as nice as they
are as salad. An exceedingly good way
to serve them cooked is to first prepare
a sizeable dish of potatoes cut in straws
two inches long and tried light golden
brown in hot fat. ~. ~
Peel fresh cucumber, cut it into
rounds about two inches in thickness,
SCOOP out little from the centre OF
each slice, leaving a thin layer at the
bottom to hold a mixture. Lay them in
shallow stewpsu, cover them with q
rich white stock, adding the juice Of
half lemon and q teaspoonful of castor
sugar. Let them simmer gently until
just tender, being careful not to let them
cook long enough to break. i
Mince chicken or any white meat, and
season with pepper and salt. Into cup
full of this minced meat stir q gill OF
cream and set in vessel in pot of boil-!
ing water until it is thoroughly heated,
and at once fill the cucumber cases with
it, keeping them hot meanwhile.
Place on a hot platter and surround
with the fried potatoes. Serve a cucum-'
Der case filed with minced meat aud q
large spoonful of the fried potatoes to
each persou.-New York World. @
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TO MAKE. BLACK COFFEE,

Take six light tablespoonful Of
coffee beans from the jar; grind them in
q mill, neither too coarse nor too fine.
Have well.cleansed French coffee pot,
put the coffee on the filter, with the
smaller strainer over, then pour on q
pint and a half of boiling water, little BY
little, recollecting, at the same time,
that too much care cannot be taken TO-
impress on those making the coffee the
necessity of having the water boiling
thoroughly, otherwise it were as useless
to attempt the feat as to try and raise
musk melons at the North Pole, not
withstanding that the coffee be of the
yer, first quality. When all the water
is consumed put on the cover, and let in
fuse slightly. but on no account must il
boil again; then serve in six after-din-
ner cups. Coffee should never be pre-;
pared more than five minutes before the
time to serve.-New York Voice.
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A Market for Disease.

The great surgeons and physicians
have become so eager to invent some new
process of treatment to alleviate or cure
morbid phenomena that the poor wretch
who develops in his syatem novelties OF
suffering liable to occur to the wealthy
may, from worldly point OF view, con-
slider himself in high clover. He has only
to let the specialists know of it and ne
finds himself the central attraction when
ever he appears among them.
In New York City, as we'll as in Lon
don, Paris. Berlin and Vienna, there is
thriving market for the possessors of
curious maladies, and in this city is
place known to the initiated few where
those willing to give themselves up to
the surgeons scalpel can tnd purchasers.
Once within the portals OF this secret
exchange the dying subjects become as
stock in the cattle market. Doctors Will
buy the privilege of investigating their
diseases without an idea of operating on
the subjects themselves. but to make>a
large bonus by selling them to other doc
tors who are making a specially of their
respective diseases.
Many young doctors make it a part OF
their profession to hunt up in the dis
pensaries and in the streets those suffer-
ers, and deal with them. as brokers do
with produce. OF course, the best GUS
TONERS are the most eminent specialists
connected with the large hospitals, or
the great surgeons who have their own
private hospitals in which to pursue SCI
enti6c study apart from their fellow
workers and out of reach of the law. The
majority of them are clinical professors,
who are always anxions to show rare
forms of diseases to few OF the STU
dents in their classes able to subscribe
an extra fee OF from $100 to $500 for an
extra lesson over the body of subject
dying of some new inAiction. If the
Professor pays $1,000 for such subject,
he frequently makes several thousand
dollars on the deal. But when such
sales are effected the victim is at once
taken from life of pain and misery, and
nothing is too good for him. He is,
among other things, assured that if be
dies and leaves his body for further and
indefinite investigation, his estate will be
paid much higher bonus for that priv.
lege, as such an autopsy is very unusual.
The surgeon who is left this liberty we'll
knows its value in forwarding his fame.-
St. Louis Globe. Democrat.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

The New Testament was first printed in
Irish in 1902.
Jewellers report that gold dollars are
extremely scarce.
The only kind of fruit which appears
not to flourish in California is the
apple.
In South America there IS a race OF
cats to which "meowing" is an un-
learned accomplishment.
A Russian can plead infancy for a
long time, as he doec not come of age
till he is twenty-six years old.
One of the fine jewels in the posses
sion of the Shah of Persia is pearl for
which one of his ancestors paid $685..
900.
The first wheat raised in the new
world was sown on the Island of Isabella
in January, 1894, and on March 80 the
crop was gathered.
A camel of the largest size has been
known to drink from thirty to fifty gal
Ions of water and then travel without
any more for twenty days.
It is strange, though true, that in
Asia and Africa, where grass will not
grow, the most beautiful flowers an d
shrubs flourish to perfection.
Cranes, storks and wild geese fly fast
enough to make the trip from Northern
Europe to Africa in week, but most of
them rest north OF the Mediterranean.
Corot, the French landscape artist,
painted only seven hundred sketches.
But twelve thousand "Corots" have
been sold in the Hotel Drouot auctions.
The largest schooner in the last pub.
lished Government list is the Golden Age,
1763 tons, built at Abbott's Bridge,
Ohio, in 1888, and hailing from San
duakv
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the world; and so the people cling to
their mountain home, though they do
not know how soon they may be riven
away. The cable dispatches report that
lar,e area of this tillable land has been
overwhelmed, and that thousands of
people have been driven from their COT
tages. :,
Mount Etna is on the eastern seabo ard
of Sicily. 1t has been the theme CT
poets and historians, and is often re-
ferred to by classical writers. Its
height is 1854 feet. From its sum-
NIT the sea and country around can he
seen a distance of $50 miles, affording
one of the most magnificent of prospects.
The gently lowing lavas which reared
the mighty mountain covered a large
area, and the road which runs around
the lower slopes is eighty-seven miles
long. Two cities, Catauia aud Aci
Reale, and sixty.three towns or villages
are built around the base or on the
slopes.
The large picture of Etna shows quite
q number of little elevations on the
mountain side. They are among the
most characteristic features of the vol
cauo. These minor cones, once the out.
lets of lava, are scattered all over the
mountain and number about 600, many
of them being only insignificant monti-
cules.
The first eruption within historic times
is believed to have occurred seven cen
turies before Christ. Twelve eruptions
of importance, some of which ere ated
great destruction, are recorded as occur.
ring before the Christian era. One OF
the most disastrous outbursts occurred in
1859 A. D., when Catania was destroyed
in few minutes and Is, 900 people were
buried beneath the ruins. 1t was the
day of the feast of St. Agatha, and the
cathedral of Catapia was crowded with
people, all of whom were buried by the
overwhelming stream of lava. The
victims included several bishops and
fortv-four Benedictine monks. A fairly
complete record of the eruptions since
the Christian era is accessible. One OF
the most terrible of them occurred in
March, 1869, when fssure nearly
twelve miles il length opened in the
side of the mountain mile from itssum-
nit. 4 crater opened at the lower
terminus of the fssure eecting red hot
stones and sending out vast quantities OF
sand and ashes that coverel the country
for distance of sixty miles. Then the
new crater began to pour out torrent
of lava which soon presented front two
miles wide and slowly rolled down the
mountain. 1t speedily destroyed Bel
passo, a town of 5000 inhabitants. The
torrent continued to flow, and few days
later destroyed the town of Mascalucia.
Then the lava divided into three streams,
destroying seventeen villages US 1t made
its way toward Catania. When the lava
reached the wall of Catania, which had
been reared to height of sixty feet to
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of baseball. and among the players none
is more earnest, skillful and enthusiastic
than Scotch terrier dog that belongs
somewhere in the neighborhood. He is
none of your aimless and playful pup
pies, running hither and thither after
the ball, but dog that knows what's
what and attends to special line OF
business. His favorite position is be-
bind the bat, and there he will crouch
with eyes and ears forward, nerves at
their highest tension and jaws wide open,
looking for all the world like Mike Kel-
"; if he had another pair of legs. he
will stop a hot ball and the swinging of
the bat never rattles him. He has his
eyes on no one but the pitcher, and when
the ball leaves his hand he knows it is
his. When he catches it he lays it on
the plate for some one to throw it back
to the pitcher. The other evening while
quite crowd were watching he ran
away off to one side and caught foul
on the fly that had sailed away up in the
air. 1t was play that would have been
o credit to Arson himself. The crowd
on the bluff above applauded vigorously y
and the dog wagged his tail in recogni-
ton.
He will never bother with ball until
it Is back of the plate-in fact, does ex-
actly what $4,000 catcher does in some
of the crack clubs. Almost every eve
ming he goes down there and waits for
the boys, and when they choose uo sides
he feels disappointed if he doesn't get
position. When he is not given a
chance to be catcher, he will, if told to
do 80, stand Immediately behind the
catcher and make perfect back stop.
When he drops into position then he
looks for all the world like an umpire,
and is more intelligent than most OF
them, according to common report. Hes
a dog catcher, but not dogcatcher. If
baseball in Quincy goes to the dogs, here
is one recruit already.-Quincy Ul.)
Herald.
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within historic times. Now, as hereto
fore, earthquakes have presaged and &C.
companied the outburst of lava. Loud
explosions have been heard. Fissures
have opened in the side of the mountain,
and lava. issuing from them, has been
flowing down the gentle slope, follow
ing the line of least resistance. Passing
below the region of barren rock and
scorie, the molten stream overwhelmed
the vineyards and villages in its route.
The lava invaded the town of Nicolosi,
half way down the southern slope. This
is the place where tourists who ascend
Etns to see its wonderful crater and to
witness the magnificent sunrise from its
ummit usually begin their climb. It is
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Giles told them. A deathly pnllor over
spread Dorothea Lees face. Janet felt
her hands grow cold in her own.
Mani" exclaimed Janet. "Canst look
on he, unmoved? What can you do?
How can you serve US? See! She IS
fainting.'
But Dorothea Lee did not hear Giles
Ellis answer: she had tainted dead away.
Janet grasped Giles arm as she looked
down on her mother. -Dost see what thou
hast done? Be quick. I say be quick
ere she comes to- while I am in the
mood. If she should die IN one of these
faints will be her murderer. What is
it you wish?"
II want you to wife," said Giles, curt
~. s'Tis oil ask" There was faint
tinge of color in his sallow cheek, but
his eyes cleaned with triumph.
SO you bring me an order giving US
our freedom, promise.
Aye, You promised Proctor also.
Janets figure seemed to rise above
Il did But we're Proctor here, he
would not ask me to keep my promise.
He would bid me save my mothers life. y
Something more than thy promise is
needed ere I move. Swear thou wilt
marry me-"
Janet looked up, and clasping her
hands, said: Il swear in the sight Of
heaven to be thy wife if thou wilt bring
me freedom for those love-but not
otherwise" Then, looking him firmly
in the face. and with cheeks as white as
her mothers, who lay like one dead be-
side her., Janet Lee added, fercely:
Now, Co."
So saying, she thrust him from her
presence, knelt over her mother, and
yielded to tears for the first time since
she was imprisoned.
TTo RE coSr1SuFp.1
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RECIPES.

sorrel Soup-Put two tablespoontuls
of butter in saucepan, set on the fire;
when melted put in pint of sorrel and
stir until heated, add a quart of soup
stock, salt and pepper aud boil three
minutes; beat the yolks OF three eggs,
put them in the soup tureen, pour the
boii,ng soup over, stirring until mixed.
French Salad Dressing-Take one tea
cupful of vinegar, one teaspoon'ul OF
salad oil or the same quantity OF fresh
but.e-, a pinch of mustard, one OF salt,
and q tablespoonful of sugar. Let these
simmer over the fire while you beat two
eggs thoroughly. Then stir the eggs
into the other ingredients. taking care
that they do not boil. 1t should present
q smooth, velvety appearance. ..'.s
Crab Apple Jelly-The small varieties
of Siberian crab are best for Jelly; wash
and wipe and cut in halves, and cook
slowly with water enough to cover;
when soft, dip into a jelly bag and hang
up to drain over night; measure and put
over the fire to boil ten minutes. Allow
three .fourths of pound of sugar to one
pint of juice, put in the sugar and boil
i've minutes, then test. Crap apple Jelly
is very easy to make.
Lettuce and Tomato Salad-Pare OIL
the outer green leaves of white head OF
lettuce, wash and drain it and then cut
the leaves in two and put them in bowl.
Have two fine, firm peeled red tomatoes;
cut them into thin slices aud place them
over the lettuce. Serve with the follow
ing dressing: Mix with pinch Of salt
and half pinch of pepper in wooden
salad spoonful of vinegar, add a spoon
f,,l and q half of oil and mix we'll.
Sweet Picked Green Tomatoes-SIce
one peck of green tomatoes and four
green peppers; place in a stone jar,
sprinkling each layer with salt;
cover with boiling water and let stand
over night. In the morning drain well
through a collander and add four
large onions sliced, an ounce of whole
cinnamon, an ounce of cloves, and two
pounds of brown sugar. Put in kettle
ana nearly cover with vinegar, boiling
until tender. Set away in jar, and the
next day, if the sirup is thin, draw off
and boil 1t down until it is like thin
cream when cold.
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MOUNT ETNA IN STATE OF ERUPTION.

ton, and q cloud of vapor enveloped
everything. Thirty-six people were killed
on the spot, and twenty-six survived
but "a few hours.
In 1S52a party of six English tourists
were surprised by a very violent erup-
ton as they were ascending the noun
tain. This outburst continued for nine
months. The tourists were ascending
from Nicolosi to witness the sunrise
from the summit. As they approached
the upper hut, known as the Casa
Inglese, the crater commenced to give
forth ashes and flames of fire. Suddenly
an earthquake shook the mountain and
the mules fed in terror. The tourists
hastened down the mountain and reached
Nicolosi in safety.
Out of the ighty-four eruptions on
record, q paratively small number
have been of extreme violence, while
many have been Of slight and harmless
character. Eruptions occurred in 1865,
1868, 1859, 1874, 1879, 1883 and 1886,
the most violent of which were those in
1866 and 1886. The outburst of 1886
destroyed vineyards and farm lands
valued at $3.50, 900.
Mr.. Hare says that the general ap-
pearance of Etna is very little changed
since the time OF Strabo, who described
the lower slopes as covered with forests
and planted grounds. Strabo told how
the destructive volcanic ashes ultimately
produced most fertile soil, admirably
adapted for the culture of vines, and also
how the upper mountain is bare and
covered with ashes, which are buried
under snow in winter.
Comparatively few tourists make the
ascent of Etna, which is laborious.
Those who do undergo the labor, how
ever, feel amply repaid by the glorious
view from the top. The ascent is only
possible in summer, and June, July and
September are the months best adapted
for the journey. The tourists, starting
from Nlcolosi, have journey of about
thirty miles before them. The general
desire is to be at the summit to see the
sun rise, and the climb is made during
moonlit nights. The hardest part of the
climb is the approach to the great crater,
where the deep ashes are hard to wade
through.
The Casa Inglese, 2942 metres over
the sea, is the last resting place beneath
the great crater. The house was built
in 1911, when the English troops occu-
pied Sicily, with contributions by Eng
lish officers, in whose honor it was
named. The wealth er is always very cold
near the top of MouDt Etna, much snow
is found, and tourists are sometimes 30
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Color Blindness.

From three to five per cent. of men
who are capable of acting as pilots or
engineers are kept out of the work
through color blindness. Total color
blindness is very rare, but the green-red
blindness is very common. Unfor-
tunately for these sufferers from the de-
fects of nature, the signals on the water
and railroads are always green and red,
making it impossible for them to accept
positions that they might otherwise be
adapted to by nature. After examining
several hundred patients, Herring con-
cluded that while greeu-red color blind
ness was quite common, total color blind
ness or yellow-blue is very rare. 1t is
suggested, then, that if red signal lights
had distinctly yellowish tinge and the
green ones blush tinge, no accident
from color blindness would ever happen.
Yankee Blade.
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The TrufIle is an Edible Fungus.

The trufle is an edible fungus that is
very little known in this countrj, except
among professional cooks. 1t is found
here in canned state, wherein, accord
ing to epicures, it is far inferior to the
fresh vegetable. 1t imparts a very
peculiar and delicate flavor to anything
which is cooked with it. Cut in small
obloug pieces, it is used to decorate
aspic jellies and other cold dishes as we'll
as delicate entrees. A few trutles are
frequently added to coquilles, chicken
croquettes, or any finely favored mince.
The smallest jar of truffles which holds
only half pint cost sixty cents. There
fore this delicacy is used here chleh7 to
give flavor to other dishes. New York
Tribune
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benumbed when they reach the craIer
that the guides cover them with warm
ashes for while. At the summit the
travellers find them selves on the narrow
rim of the crater, which is three miles
round. The view is unspeakaby grand,
as peak after peak catches the light OF
the rising sun. Etua being the one
great mountains of Sicily, there is moth
ing to intercept the sight. But the most
interesting part of the view is the great
mountain Itself with its multitude of
lesser cones sprinkled around its sides,
and the zigzag paths of the different
lava streams plainly revealed through the
zones of snow and ashes; then forests,
and lastly luxuriant cultivation. The
icy cold usually prevents prolonged
stay at the summit.
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pursuers. The nautical bicycle consists
of two canoe.tike boats. with the bicycle
in the centre. The accompanying
illustration, however, may give an idea
of what the proposed nautical bicycle
looks like. The suggestion, as shown
in the cut, is long pair of cork pads
covered with canvas, similar to the life
preservers used on steamboats,, attached
tc the side of the saddle of bicycle.
When the rider arrives at stream be
plunges in. The cork pads rise to the
surface of the water, and he crosses by
turning his feet, with as much ease as
horse swims, and with much greater
speed, enabling him to escape pursuers
on foot or on horseback. All that
would be necessary would be to have the
pads sufficiently large and buoyant to
support the weight Of the rider and his
ouIit.-Star-Sayings.
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probabls that the present eruption has
destroyed the favorite path of tourists
and buried or carried away the Casa de-
Bosco and the Casa Inglese, two. huts
built on the route where the animals
used in the ascent are foddsred and
tourists rest while.
There are no mountain slopes in the
world 30 covered with vineyards, farms,
and villages as those OF Mount Etna.
About 800, 900 people live on its sides.
They have become accustomed to the
dangers that always threaten. The rich
ness of the soil, formed of decomp osed
lava and vegetable mold, has made the
slopes of Etna one of the garden spots OF
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protect the city from lava flows, it &C.
cumulated against the obstruction until
it rose to the top of the wall. Then the
fiery cascade poured over the wall, de-
stroying part of the city. Another
portion of the stream overthrow 120 feet
of the wall and poured through the city
until it reached the sea, which it entered
in stream 600 yards broad and forty
feet deep. At first the stream had moved
at the rate OF thirteen miles in twenty
days, but its progress was less rapid as it
lost part of its heat, and in the last
twenty-three days it moved only two
miles. As the lava river entered the sea
the waters began to boil violently, and
millions of fish were killed. The volume
of lava emitted during this eruption
amounted to many millions of cubic feet.
Ferrara estimated that the length of the
stream was at least fifteen miles, while
its average width was between two and
three miles. 1t covered nearly forty
square miles of surface.
A still more destructive outburst,
though it was not marked by so great
discharge of lava, occurred in 1893,
when violent earthquake shook Catania
to the ground, burying 1S,0U0 inhab.
itants. Fifty towns of Sicily were de-
stroyed. and it is said that at least Co.,
600 people perished.
During the eighteenth century quite
a number of eruptions occurred, some of
great violence, though most of them did
little damage. During an eruption in
1882 a number of people were watching
the progress of the lava when the front
of the stream was suddenly blown out
as by an explosion of gunpowder. The
red hot mass was hurled in every direc.
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Nautical Bicycles.

General Howard. in arecent interview
upon the use of bicycles IN courier SER
vice, said:
"In many instances couriers have been
compelled to make their horses swim
streams, and bicycles cannot swim, you
know"
In this General Howard was mistaken,
for bicycle can swim, though the ones
used in that way heretofore would not
be sufficiently speedy to get away from