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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17

Many stories have been written
about mlrsges and delusioaS but
none more interesting and curious
than that OF the Silent City illusion,
which makes its appearance near the
Pacific Glacier, In Alaska
The discovery OF this wonderful
mirage was made by the Indians,
who often tell OF the city which was
built In the clouds. The mirage can
be seen in the early part Of July from
to 6 p. m. 1t rises from the side Of
the Pacific glacier.
II appears like heavy mist and
soon becomes clearer, and one can
distinctly see the spectre city, welt
defined streets and trees, tall spires,
huge and odd-shaped buildings.
which appear to be ancient MOSQUES
and cathedrals.
1t is city large enough to contain
25, 900 or 80, 900 inhabitants. As yet
no one has been able TO identify it,
although several have claimed TO
recog nize the place. There is no city
like it in Alaska, nor in any country
about it for thousands OF miles
Some claim it is city in Russia.
others say it is city in England, but
none can tell what or where it is
The mirage was given the name Of
''Silent City," as 1t appears to one
like dead city; thcrs il nothing TO
indicate that it is the pictured reflec-
tion OF an inhabited place
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
COOKING FOR ISvALrDs.

Broiled Beef Juice-Broil one-h-lf
pound of round steak one or two min
utes, on each side, cut in small bits,
squeeze out the juice, salt and serve.
Stewed Beef Tea-One- half pound of
round steak cut fine and soak in one
half pint water for half an hour, let it
heat, not boil; strain, salt and serve.
Egg Gruel-Beat well one egg, white
and yolk separately; pour one cup
boiling water or milk to the yolk, add
one teaspoonful of sugar, mix and stir
in the white.
Beef Essence-Put one pound of raw
beef cut fine in glass jar set in cold
water, heat gradually, not quite to boil
ing, and keep there two hours, strain,
season and serve hot
Raw Beef Sandwiches-Scrape fine
two or three tablespoonfuls of raw,
Juicy, tender beef, season slightly with
salt and pepper, spread on thin slices
of bread and toast slightly.
Stewed Beef Essence-Cut one-half
pound of beef into bits, salt it and in a
few minutes squeeze it; let it stand
for half an hour, heat real hot, but do
not boil it, and serve at once.
Cruel, Cornstsrch, Rice or Wheat
Flour or Arrow Root-Wet two tea
spoonfuls of -four in cold water or milk,
stir into one cup boiling water, add
salt, boil five to eight minutes, thin
with one-h half cup milk.
Broiled Steak-Wipe the steak with
a clean wet cloth, take piece of the
fat to grease the gridiron and broil
over hot fire four or five minutes;
turn often; put on a hot plate season
and spread with butter.
Indian Meal Gruel-One tablespoon
full of -four and two tablespoonfuls of
meal, wet in little cold water and stir
into one quart of boiling water and
with one teaspoonful salt boil thirty
minutes, stirring often.
Broiled Beef Tea-Broil one-half
pound of lean, juicy beef one minute
on each side, cut in small pieces, pour
over it one-half cup of boiling water,
squeeze it, salt the juice and serve in
stantly. Do not heat it again.
Milk Porridge - Boil twenty five
raisins cut in quarters, in water enough
to cover them, twenty minutes, when
plump and the water has eyaporated
add two cups of milk, and, when boil
ing, add one teaspoonful of -four
rubbed to a paster, let it boil up then
with little cold milk edd the white
of an egg well beaten.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
CABLE SPARKS.

AN outbreak of hostilitIes In Samoa is ex-
Fpected.
A CONGRESS of military unions at Baden
has decided in favor OF the army bill.
GERMANYs finance mini ter, MIGUEL, says
be is opposed to the imposition Of an imperial
income tax
II is said that the Czarewitch Of Russia
has been betrothed to Princess Alice, Of
Hesse Darmstadt
The Badapesth express train was wrecked
at Keiskemet, Hungary, and ~ persons were
injured, many of them fatally.
THE regulations proposed by the United
States for seal-hunting in Boring sea are dis
tasteful to the British counsel.
THERE has been but little change In the
condition of affairs in Honolulu, according
to advices received at San Francisco.
The episcopal jubilee money received by
the Pope amounted to 9,06O,00 francs, Of
which 600 900 came from America.
THE Italian government has taken steps to
pun sh the bank plunderers. The manager
of the Bank of Naples has confessed his
guilt.
COUNT ZINzKI declares that the race track
incident in Vienna, in which he rode down
his trainer, was due to a fractions and un-
centro!a horse.
People are said to be dying by thousands
from cholera in the valley of the Tigris, and
fugitives from the afflicted towns are spread
ing the epidemic through Turkey.
The journals recognized as organs Of the
Vat can eoncer in d nying that the Pope has
modified his scholastic lolicy heretofore
enunciated in regard to the United States.
REV. THOMAS SPUR6EoN arrived in San
Francisco from New Zealand, He will hold
a two weeks revival at Chicago with MIR.
Moody before pr ceeding to take charge Of
the London Tabernacle
TIE discovery of dynamite bombs near
the residence OF tn ex-Queen of the Sand
witch Islands has occasioned great alarm at
Honolulu, whe. c, it is said, plot existed to
blow up the government barracks.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
The Hen Language.

NJ. Preyot du Houdray, French sci
enlist, interested in the attempts Of
Professor Garner to learn the monkey
language, took it into his head that if
monkeys could talk to one another,
there was no reason in the nature of
things why other animals could not do
so too. and procuring phonogrsph he
proceeded to the barnyard to investi-
gate the speech of the fowls there.
After large number of interesting
experiments, he concluded that hens
have singular language, by means Of
which they communicate with one
another. His deductions are said to
be marvellous, and he is now lecturing
the Academy of Sciences on the hen
Language. New Orleans Picsyune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
Do You Wish
the Finest Bread
and Cake?

1t is conceded that the Royal Baking Powder is
the purest and strongest of all the baking powders.
The purest baking powder makes the finest sweet
est most delicious food. The strongest baking pow
der makes the lightest food.
That baking powder which is both purest and
strongest makes the most digestible and wholesome
food
Why should not every housekeeper avail herself
of the baking powder which will give her the best
food with'the least trouble?
Avoid all baking powders sold with gift
or prize, or at lower price than the Royal,
they invariably contain alum, lime sui
phuric acid, and render the food unwholesome
Certain protection from alum baking powders can
be had by declining accept any substitute for the
Royal, which is absolutely pure.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
Eat Bananas and Turn Brunette.

Those who eat heartily of bananas
may run some risk of becoming tawny
or copper colored. This may be in
ferred possibly from the peculiarities
of plumsge in the turaeos OF Africa.
As long as the weather is dry these
birds are gay, the primary and second
airy feathers being gorgeously crimson,
but when rain comes the color is washed
out, and the birds seem to be humilia-
ted and ashamed at the transformation.
But the color returns in dry weather.
The cause of the colorstion has been
traced to copper in very pure state.
A single feather burned gives the char
acteristie indication. The source of
the turacin has now been traced to
bananas, on which the turacos feed
chiefly. All the aborigines who make
bananas diet are very deeply tinted,
but the color is sooty rather than red.
The North American Indian cannot owe
his coppery hue to bananss He has
only known of this fruit on reservations,
and chiefly by the Feelings. San Fran
cisco Call
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17

A good man who lives in a thinly
settled locality has the misfortune to
be extremely deaf. His voice is re-.
markably loud in his devotions, and
1t is reported that his morning prayer
can be heard for half a mile. A
neighbor, not long since, having coca
sion to visit his house in the morning
found its owner at prayer, and, rot
wishing to interrupt, he waited out
side. The tones of the voice within
grew louder and louder. Each sen.
tence was spoken with more vehe.
mence than the preceding, until the
prayer ended with a prolonged shout
Of amen" The visitor was about to
knock, when the sound Of the wife's
voice arrested him. With a skill
born Of practice, she almost rivaled
the tones of her spouse as she shouted.
well, guess you've drove all :he
rabbits out o the swamp this morn.
inpi"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
Sawdust Building Bricks.

The sswdust is dried and screened.
to remove the coarser particles. and is
then mixed with cement, lime, and
uand in the following proportions !;
One part cement, two parts lime, five
parts sharp sand, and two parts saw
dust. The sawdust is first mixed dry
with the cement and sand. The final
mixture is pressed into blocks, which
are said to be cheap and useful. There
is as much lime and more than twice
As much sand as sawdust in them.
Scientific American.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
Where the Telegraph is Least Used.

The four countries in the world
which possess the smallest telegraph
facilities are Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay
and Persia In the first named there
are only thirty six telegraph offices in
the whole country and but 1900 miles
of wire In the territory of Paraguay
there are only $40 miles of wire in OPP
Grafton, and the entire telegraph SER
vice Of that country requires the SER
vices of but twenty eight persons. One
line of $50 miles, owned and operated
by the Government, runs from Asuncion
to Paso de Patria, the limit of Para
guayan territory, and the other $50
miles by the railroad from Asuncion to
Pirapo. Owing to high water and
carnpfres in that country the line is
often interrupted for days at time.
At Paso de Patria the line breaks, there
being no cable over the Alto Parana
River, which is three miles wide. Com
munication is therefore by canoe,
which takes messages over in the morn
ing to the Argentine side and returns
to the Paraguayan side at night. An
important telegram is often delayed
ten or fifteen hours Hartford Cou-
rapf
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17

IT takes knowledge of God to tell
man what he is.
SAYING good bye to our sins one at
time is slow work.
THE man who is resting in God Is
always busy for Christ
WHOEVER opposes truth is bound
to come out loser by it.
THE place for the revival to begin
is in the preachers heart
MEN are most like Christ when
they are suffering for him.
THE man who thinks as Christ did
will try 10 do as Christ did.
LOVES name can be written only
in blood drawn from its own heart
SOMETIMES little troubles on earth
open very big windows in Heaven.
TIE devil has no fault to find with
the man who is in love with himself
HUMAN nature on the throne is no
better than human nature in the gut
Ter.
In is grand thing to belong to
church, but grander enc to belong
to God.
PEOPLE are scarce who do not talk
more than they should about them
selves.
PEOPLE sometimes make the most
noise in church when they are sound
asleep.
THE man who talks much about
himself will always have tired au-
dience.
SOME preachers fail because they
preach about Christ instead Of preach
ing him.
EVERY man who is right with God
is man on whom the deyil keeps
close watch.
THE world is full of people who
want to do good but are in no hurry
to commence.
The heart is the largest thing in
the world, because it taxes more than
the world to I'll it.
ONE Of the saddest sights upon
which angels have to look is the life
of lonely child.
WHETHER We get to Heaven or not
is to be decided by what we love, not
by what we know.
1F you want to have power to lead
others, learn to control the man who
wears your own hat.
WIEN we get to Heaven we win
all find that we have had something
to do with building it.
The woman who paints her cheeks
and the man who dyes his whiskers
never fool but one person.
OUR first parents made Gods bless
tngs means of cu;sing themselves.
People are still doing that.
THE fact that the devil is opposing
4 man ought to be sufficient evidence
that he is on the Lords side.
EVERY time man sins he has one
more reason for trying to prove that
the church is full of hypocrites.
WHENEVER good thought knocks
at the door OF the mind, Jesus Christ
is asking to come into the heart.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
TAKE CARE OF THE OVEN.

The condition of the average stove
oven in which food and pastry are
baked is not such as to inspire adj
miration. In fact, perfunctory sort
OF sweeping is about all the cleaning
our stove ovens ever receive. In a
great many cases remnants of dishes
which have boiled over remain for
months charred ON the oven bottom.
Now all this negligence in the care
OF the oven undoubtedly affects the
food cooked in it. In some parts of
England where brick ovens are used
the walls of them are whitewashed.
This purifies them, as common white
wash, it is well known, is an excellent
disinfectant. OF course, it would not
be possible to treat an ordinary iron
stove oven in this way, as the lime
would corrode the oven. In some
parts of Europe, the ovens are tiled
and these may be easily washed clean.
There is no possible objection to wash
ing out the oven of an iron range. II
this is done systematically at least once
week from the beginning, the oven
will never get in the black sooty con-
dition in which it is SO frequently
found.
When anything boils over in the
oven, it should be allowed to burn to
char, as it then may be easily scraped
off and brushed out After this the
oven should be thoroughly aired. 1t
is great mistake to bake delicate
dessert or cake or pie in the same oven
with dish of meat which has been
favored with onions or strong spices
The flavor of the meat will invariably
affect the more delicate dishes. The
shallow closet under the baking oven,
commonly called the beating closet,
where dishes may be temporarily kept
warm after they are cooked, should be
kept as clean as the stove oven. 1t is
certainly very disagreeeble and
hard job to clean stove which has
been neglected, but it is small matter
to keep stove clean, if you begin at
the beginning and never allow it 20
become clogged with SCOT and dust
and the debris of food The fiues OF
every oven should he cleaned out once
a month. New York Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The diamond; in a sufficient heat,
will burn like charcoal.
The will-o' the wisp is caused by de-
cay of the vegetable matter.
A Frenchman is experimenting with
a phonograph upon the language of
hens
A speck of gold weighing the mil
lionth part of grain may be easily
seen by the naked eye.
On clear night an ordinary human
eye can discover about 1000 stars in
the northern hemisphere.
No fewer than $4,000 peach-shape
jelly fish were counted in cubic foot
of phosphorescent water taken from
the sea on the English coast.
One heat unit equals 772 pounds, and
the heat that must be extracted from
one pound of water to convert it into
ice equals 109,6 1924 foot pounds.
The crab when living near the oceans
surface has well developed eyes; in
deeper water only eyestalks are pres
ent-no eyes, while in specimens from
still deeper water, the eyestalks have
Joined, forming pointed beak.
There is a gun in the British navy,
twenty-two-ton Armstrong, which hurls
a solid shot distance of twelve miles,
the highest point in the arc described
by the shot being II, 900 feet above the
earth's surface. The discharge of the
gun cannot be heard at the place where
the ball strikes.
Recent catalogues show that ento.
moloo;sts have found asa snac;as of
spiders in the upper Cayuga IN. W
Lake basin, $40 in the District of CO.
lumbia and $40 in New England Doc
tor George Marx has compiled list of
POP species which have been found in
the polar regions of the globe.
If nound Of coal is subiect 10 a dry
flistillation. and the products and resi-.
duals treated rbamicallv nv the nro.
cesses for obtaining the well-known
coal tar coIors tbe one no,nd so treat.
ed will Weld enonob magenta 70 color
900 wards If flannel, vermiIlion for
25OG yards. aurina for 100 Yards and
alizarine sufficient for 155 wards Of red
cloth
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
OLD POTATOES MADE NEW.

At the season of the year when pota-
toes are apt to be strong tasting, and
to be less appetizing than at any other
time, it is well to try to present them
daintily at the table. TO remove the
rank taste, soak them several hours in
ice cold water, then wash, cut out dark
spots, and boil in the skins When
done, pour off water, set on back part
of stove, with u thin linen cloth spread
over them, then peel. Some prefer to
steam them altogether. If this way of
cooking is liked better it is advisable
to peel them before putting over the
fire. Potato salad is rather an appe-
tizing dish at this time of the year.
1t may be made by putting layer of
sliced onions, cold potatoes, and hard
boiled eggs in turn in deep dish. and
then pouring over the usual may onaise
dressing American Farmer.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17

PAPER money developed from the
bills Of exchange or certificates Of the
banks and was probably first issued by
the italian bankers Of the fourteenth
century. Governments found it an
easy way Of obtaining money in times
Of necessity; being, in effect forced
loan from the people. Paper bills are
promises to pay and when the Gov
ernment issues them In exchange for
supplies or services it has actually
borrowed just so much from the man
TO whom it pays them. 1t, however,
allows him to pass this note In pay
ment of his debts, so instead of beng
loan from him singly, 1t is loan
from the whole people.
The ease with which the notes may
be issued has led many Governments
into disastrous experiments in time
Of war and stress the promises being
issued In such profusion that they be-
come of no value.
The continental currency issued
during the Revolution by the AmerI-
can Congress and the assignats OF
the French Revolution NAV be in
stanced. Paper money depends for
its value on the ability OF the au-
thority that issues it to give value
for 1t when payment is demanded.
When the issue O. the Civil War was
In doubt the value t the ereenbacks
issued by the United States sunk to
one-third their face value. due partly
TO a lack of confidence in the Govern.
ment, and due still more to the GER
taintY that payment of the notes
must be indefinitely postponed.
Even when the war closed and there
was no longer doubt Of the Govern
ment the currency was deprecated
for thirteen years The Government
was in the position of the man known
to his neighbors as good but slow
pay" HIS notes pass at discount.
The Government was known to bs
good for the amount and 1t was GER
tain that it would be ready to redeem
Its notes some Gay, but that was not
enough for the man who wanted to
see the money right away. He thus
passed the note at a discount.
The value of paper money thus de-
ponds at any given moment on the
promise of the Government to redeem
1t. II the promise will be met when
the notes are presented they pass at
their face value. II there is doubt
on this point the notes must pass at
o discount, greater or less, according
to circumstances If there is no
chance that they will ever be paid
they are worth nothing at all AS
the United States Government has
stood ready since 1879 to redeem III
gold any notes as SION as presented,
Its currency passes without question
at its face value.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17

One day the swell artist was pass.

One day the swell artist was pass.
ing the house Of the younger one, says
the Boston Globe and the latter called
TO him: "Mr. Chrome, l have Just
finished two pictures. entirely differ
emit in subject, and would like to have
your opinion OF them" The great
man said he would be only too happy
to look at them, So ushering him
into the house and opening the par.
lor, the owner pointed to two pictures
hanging on the wall. and said: There
they are. One picture is of my father,
copied from an old-fashoned ambro.
type the other is a painting of Lily
Pond" The artist, after adjusting
his eyeglasses AMI looking carefully
at the PAINTINGS moment, turned
and asked: (which one did you say
was your father, Mr.. Madden"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
In a rar,, rawnsnos.

The number of pledged articles al
the Mont de Piete, the national
pawnshop in Paris, that have been
renewed during the year is 307, $40.
The term renewed indicates that
small sum has been paid in order that
the objects may not be sold, but re.
main in pawn for further term.
There is a timepiece which was
pledged for f6 in 1885, and which has
been paidtannually ever since.
A silver dish-cover has been pledged
for seventy years and a piece of lace,
upon which only I2f. was lent for
seyenty-flye years.
The fact hardest to explain is the
presence of an UMBRELLA green
Bingham OF enormous dimensions, tho
original proprietor of which. or his
inhcritors, have duly paid the fee for
its renewal for the last sixty-threo
years
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
HOUSES CRUSHED.
Torrent Caused by Cloud Burst at a
Mexican Mining Camp.

A cloud-burst at San Jose de Graeia Min
ing Camp. in Pueblo, caused rusa Of water
which tore up trees and carried along hugh
fragrants of rock
Some houses in its course were crushed
in. turying the inmates. Houses which :
sisted the torrent quickly filed with water.
and the people IN them b d 10 escape from
the upper stories en- rusely fashioned ais.
The surviving Inhabitants have saksn
re age on the mountain sides. Relief ~
been forwarded by the State Government.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17

One of the queerest railroads Oh
this continent is the Salisbury and
Havey, In New Brunswick. 1t is
but twenty miles long, and although
1t connects with the Intercolonial
Road, an admirably constructed line,
1t is confessedly unsafe. A printed
notice hung up in the cars cautions
passengers that it is well to get out
and walk on reaching a certain
bridge, and it was long the custom
to push the cars over this crazy
structure before the mighty engine
was trusted upon its rotten timbers
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17

A disillusionized woman reports on
her experience and observation of
matrimony that marriage is Just
this: You have a beautiful wreath
and veil on your wedding day. The
flrst week passes we'll. The second
week you have your mouth full of
clothespins. The third you are trot.
ting two miles with basket looking
for cheapmeat. And after that you
are looking for cheap meat all the
rest of your life.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
German
Syrup

JUDGE ]. B. Hill, of the Superior
Court, Walker county, Georgia,
thinks enough of German Syrup to
send us voluntarily a strong letter
endorsing it, When men Of rank
and education thus use and recon-
mend an article, what they say is
worth the attention of the public.
1t is above suspicion. Il have used
your German Syrup" he says. for
my Coughs and Colds on the Throat
and Lungs. can recommend Il for
them as a frst-class medicine. -
Take no substitute. q