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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-24
Persimmon Seeds for puttons.

Perhaps in nothing more than in the
art of making buttons did our southern
women show their skill and ingenuity.
Some were crocheted and were of all
sizes. easily made of white or black
thread, and very durable. Others were
covered buttons, but the moulds, which
have since those days been furnished to
us in such abundance by our Connec-
ticlt friends and brethren, were then
made of pieces of Dashboard or old
boxes. the cloth used to cover them
being filled up with small locks of our
own white feecy staple to give them
the desired roundish appearance. But
the prettiest, as well as the most dura-
BILE. of all our buttons were those of
persimmon seeds. These are beauti-
full dark brown color, very smooth and
glossy. and needed only to be washed
and dried and have holes bored In them
TO be ready for use. Out of the fruit
of the persimmon tree we made de-
lightful beer, while the buttons just
seemed as if made for us, and put
down among our woods to be had for
only the trouble of picking and wash
ing them.
We talk sometimes of Yankee skill
and ingenuity, and yet as we look back
upon the past and think of how we
managed when thrown upon our own
resources, it seems as if. while trying
to separate ourselves from them, we
were showing ourselves in many ways,
to be OF the same ingenuity as we'll
as of the same blood and lineage
Blue and Gray.
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PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Major Elijah Halford, it is reported,
has again taken hand in newspaper
work. He is engaged as editorial cor
respondent of the Christian Advocate,
of Omaha, a Methodist publication
1t is reported from London that Ad-
miral Benham's action at Rio elicits
not so much criticism as expressions
left for an American admiral to do
what the English have from the be-
ginning wanted to do.
Mr.. Chauneey Depew has an arti-
Gle in the February Nineteenth Cen
fury on the prospects of free trade in
the United States. 1t is, says Mr..
Smalley in his London cable, the first
complete and rational account pub
lshed in England of the present state
of parties in America with reference
to this question. and Of the political
and economical forces by which it
must be determined.
\ great sensation was caused in the
Caucasus a few weeks ago by the
execution of Prince Rhode in the
rnarket-place of Tiffis The prince
entered the station at Tifis recently
in an intoxicated condition and picked
a quarrel with a police officer on duty
in the building. In the course of the
quarrel the prince drew a dagger from
his pocket and stabbed the officer
so severely that he died a few hours
later. A trial was held and Prince
Rikodze was condemned to death. An
appeal was made to the car to par
don the aristocratic murdered, but he
declined to interfere. He belonged to
a wealthy and influential family.
John Russell Young. who made the
tour of the world with General Grant,
writing of Admiral Benham in the
New York Press, says: II recall Cen
eral Grants saying that he thought
Benham an ideal officer, and that he
did not believe there was a clearer
head and at the same time kinder
heart in the service. General Grant
spoke with unusual opportunities of
knowledge. Benham was captain in
command of the Richmond, which con-
veyed General Grant over the China
sea They lived for months upon
terms of daily intercourse and in the
closest intamacy, and it is within my
personal knowledge that no one was
more esteemed by the ex-president
than the gallant gentleman who has
added new glories to the American
flag in Rio Janeiro. Benham has a.
talent for silence; rather reticent
than otherwise; modest, with flashes
OF pleasantly never in a hurry nor at
loss as to what should be done:
firm, determined and, like most of the
really brave men have known, ruling
without ostentation or exhibition of
| temper"
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ANOTHER MYTH SHATTERED.
The Prince of Wales Not the Leader
OF Fashion in England.


The news that the Prince of Wales
appeared recently in evening dress in
a coat which was the color of claret
has had a remarkable effect upon the
large contingent of men to whom the
vagaries of fashion are of absorbing
moment The theory that the Prince
of Wales is the leader Of fashion in
England prevails only in America. He
is a short, pudgy, little man, with moth
ing approaching a figure, and he is ex-
ceedingly conservative in his attire at
all times. None of the oddities OF lash
ion which occasionally gain a momen-
tary sway over the London swelis IS
followed by the Prince of Wales. Ii
he has any influence at all 1t IS OF a
conservative and restrictive nature.
The men who lead the fashion are very
we'll known to the London tailors, who
bid eagerly for the privilege or dress
ing them. There are a dozen or more
of these dandieS in the Guards club,
and they are mostly military officers
of rank, though not, as rule, men OF
title. Each one has a certain following
in other clubs and the band of well
dressed men who may be seen any
day going along Pail Mall from one
club to another. so closely resemble
their leader that, any one of them could
pose as a 1DOQcl IOf the IdllOI. "a 1Ou-
don authority in these matters COM
piled a list once in the Referee, Which
is distinctively sporting paper. read
by "noblemen and gentlemen on Sun
day mornings, of the men whose infiu-
ence practically guided the London
world of fashion. There are upwards
of ninety names on the list. These
men, who dress precisely alike, have
undoubtedly given the Keynote to the
tailor. About the time that light frock
coats and light hats achieved great
prominence among sporting personages
the entire racing contingent of swells
from the London clubs turned up on
the first day of Ascot dressed in black
frock coats, black hats and dark .trous-
ers. Their attire was. precisely SINH
lar to that of the regulation dress OF
the loungers in Hyde park in the after
noon. All the outsiders wore racing
clothes of the latest pattern. This
one display of sober attire by the ac-
tual leaders. however, killed the fash
ion of light racing clothes for all time
1t is said that the Prince of Wales
wore snuff colored frock suit that
day, the swells having failed to notify
him of their sudden change of front
This would seem to dispose of the idea
that the Prince of Wales leads the
fashion in Great Britain.-New York
Sun.
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FOREIGN FINANCIAL NOTE:


over 600 gold claims have been register
ed in Matabeleland, and it is stated that
gold has been found in quantity.
The impression IN London is now that
the Indian currency. dilemma IS clearing
the way for international bllletaillSIn.
Switzerland has decided to establish a
state bank to regulate the rate of dis
count and supervise treasury business 1or
the confederation.
The firm of Barring Bros & Co., limited,
paid 20 per cent. dividend for 1898 and pay
cash on cali and investments amounting
to $4,000 000. 1t has a reserve fund OF
100000 and its capital is $5,O0O,OO0.
The London Financial Times says: As
the closing of the Indian minis forced the
repeal of the Sherman law so the repeal
Of the Sherman law has rendered impos-
sihle the reopening of the Indian minis.
The Agricultural society of France
thinks the United States and the Latin
Union together strong enough to impose
monetary law On the rest of the world
in the direction of free coinage of silver;
Mr.. Alexander del Mar estimates the
gold production of the world in 1898 at
f26, 22S,672 and of silver 1853 400, as
against f24, COS, 4S0 and t1T795, 649 respective
~ in 1892. He charges the reports of the
director of the mint with unreliability.
Germany and Russia have lately been
very large consumers Of copper for war
material and electrical purposes. Ameri-
English copper from France. The con-
sumption increased in every country last
year but America
Professor Suss, the Austrian geologist
thinks that Africa has been over-rated as
gold producer. He thinks that the
Nltwa tersrandt will reach its maximum
Of production this century, and that
Mashonaland-the land of ophir-has been
exhausted. He is of the opinion that the
gold standard alone cannot exist, and that
the world must revert to silver.
Reports made to the Sheffield chamber
of commerce state that America. and Ger
many are capturing a large portion of
British trade with Brazil. The reciprocity
treaty between America. and Brazil has
secured a great advantage for America.
over Great Britain, for whereas fifteen
standard articles of American produc-
ton are admitted into Brazil free OF duty
the duties on cotton and wooden manu-
features from England were increased GO
per cent
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GUN AND sABER.

1t is said that for centuries when
ever the Spanish soldiers wanted ex-
ercise they picked a quarrel with the
Moors.
A memorial window to General
Stonewall Jackson is to be placed in
the Presbyterian church at Lexing-
ton, Va, of which he was formerly a
member
General Boynton, the well-known
newspaper correspondent, has been
awarded by the secretary of war the
five-pointed bronze star for distinction
in action.
The sudden changes of climate ne
cessitated by the moving of the troops
from one quarter of the world to an
other increase the annual mortality
of Europe by fifty thousand.
Lieutenants ]. H. Alexander and
Charles Young, of the Ninth Cavalry,
are the only two celored officers in the
United States army. The Ninth cay
airy is composed entirely of colored
men.
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New York. Feb. 2S.-The Posts Wall
street: The heavy break in silver bull
lion was by Ear the most striking
financial incident of the day. AS long
as the recent market weakness was
ascubed TO the liquidation sales by the
Bombay regulators, there was reason
to believe that the lowest price was
seen week ago. But the London mar
ket authorities have plainly been on a
false scent, and this week, almost for
the first time, it is acknowledged that
the heavy and sudden increase in the
production overwhelmed the market.
Not least significant is the known fact
that thisS weeks break in silver has
been largely caused by cable offers
from New York at prices below the
earlier London market The future
price of silver rests now perhaps less
on. the Indian and Chinese demand
than on the bottom figure at which the
large American producers are content
10 sell
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Pate de FoIe Gras Made From Alb
normal Goose Livers.

normal Goose LiVerS.
The pate de foie gras is one of those
choice epicurean dishes with which few
outside of the upper ten thousand are
acquainted It is a royal dish in that
it was first made for royalty. but
there's nothing to prevent the plain
everyday American from eating it,
providing he has the money to pay
for it and the taste to enjoy it. Now
adays ii is found on the bills of fare
of all the first-class restaurants. The
finest pates de foies gras comes from
Strasburg.
Here is the way the young geese are
prepared in Strasburg for this culinary
masterpiece. Up to the age of six
months they run loose in a grass field
They are then put by themselves in
pens, and are so closely confined that
they can really only wiggle their
beaks These pens, or cages are ar
ranged tier upon tier. The geese are
fed at regular times and stuffed to
repletion. Some fivE or six strong
farm women attend to this.
They take the goose by the neck,
and with rude wooden spoon, while
they squeeze the beak open with the
left hand, poke into the gullett with
their right boiled corn meal. 1t takes
from ten to twenty days Of this en-
forced feeding to enlarge the liver to
an abnormal size.
In the first days of feeding the geese
become apopietic. and it is necessary
to take them by the feet in pulling
them out Of the cage, and to handle
them carefully. This is to avoid cere-
bral congestion. When the liver is
thought to be sufficiently SWOLLEN,
which is known by the deformed con-
EDITION of the bird, they are killed.
A sharp knife is drawn across the
base of the skull. This sewers the
for the bird to cool he is rapidly
stripped of his feathers and hung in
the open air. In Alsace, and notably
at Schiltigheim, the houses are deco
rated from top to bottom with these
hanging geese.
The stomach is opened by a single
slit of long sharp blade, and the
delicate liver is extracted whole. In
France this great delicacy can be
bought for moderate price. about
forty to fifty cents of our money.
The livers undergo severe examina-
ton by experts. and unless they pre-
sent a uniform and slightly pinkish
appearance they are rejected. The
process of preparing the pates de foies
gras for packing in little tins for the
market is q secret process, carefully
guarded, and dates back for many
centuries.
The chef Of the hotel Martin says
the pate is prepared in this manner:
Put at the bottom of an earthen dish
some thin layers of lard. Lay it
around so as to form bed for force
meat of finely chopped goose livers.
Mix little of the forcemeat with
truffles and put back Let it cook
slowly in the oven for an hour to
blend the ingredients thoroughly New
York World.
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BUSINESS IMPROVING ABROAD.
Increased Activity in Steel Making
nnd Ship Building In England.

Confidence in a business revival in
Great Britain is becoming daily more
marked and grounds for it are growing
more obvious. The great. industrial
branches of iron and steel. engineering
and ship building all show increased
activity over January. of last year, and
the number of unemployed in the skill
ed trades is quite notfceably less. Rail
way receipts are also steadily rising
and stock exchange people are behav-
ing as if it were quite certain that the
long dark corner has at last been turn
ed Alsopp's ordinarN stock, for exam
pie, which stood at 15S seven years
ago and tumbled to 121a in 1892, was
quoted at 5312 in the first week of the
present year. Today is has reached s.
This is regarded as, a typical stock on
the exchange and the fluctuations il
lustrate fairly what the whole market
has been like. On the other hand
both wine and spirits and the tobacco
trades report no signs of Improvement,
and the collection of the income tax
is the slowest for years. One feature
of the tobacco market is the great fall
ing off in importations of Havana, ci-
CARS, due to the enormous increase of
cigarette smoking. Curiously enough
wine dealers ascribe to the same cause
a marked diminution in the consump-
ton of higher class after-dinner wines.
Cigarettes, it seems, kill cigars and
claret alike.-New York Times.
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small onnortunittes.

Opportunity was well pictured as man
running, his hair as we'll as his garment
streaming in the wind. Whoever would
seize him must catch his hair and hold
fast. lest opportunity should slip out of
his grasp.
Our opportunities for little pleasures,
the small delights of life, come constantly
to every one. Yet SO leeting are they
that they disappear as swiftly as we per-
ceive them. Therefore, we cannot wait
a day or an hour to grasp whatever
pleasures life offers us, Stop and enjoy
quickly the sunshine, the sweetness of
falling rain on the thirsty earth, the
colors of the sunset, the solemn light
of the stars, the heartiness of the even
ing gathering, the brightness of the warm.
well-ordered home, the cordial greeting of
friends, the exchange of sympathy from
heart to heart; the unconscious grace of
little children-the happiness that comes
from perceiving these things, and possess
sing the ability to make the most of
Them
/, Do not wait to enjoy these until tomor-
row or next week, or even until your
present employment is finished. The aus
picious time is now. The leisure of the
busy man or moman is as great today
as omorrow.-Harper'S Bazar.
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The Results Of Low Wheat Prices.

When wheat gets down to so or 60
cents bushel. gets down to stay down,
there viii be totally different set Of
growers. Those who are the producers
now are not harvesting purposely for
such prices. They can't. Every BUSH
el sold now at ruling quotations is a
sale which represents a real loss to the
man who sowed and matured, harvest
ed and shipped. Every bushel sold now
represents a crippled farmer, repras-
ents the cutting down of buying power
among that class Of people who are not
hoarders but users of money; who in
ordinary times, under normal condi-
tons. are responsible more than any
others of our citizens for the creation
and maintenance of activity in bust
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Reason for the Fail.

New York, Feb, 2S-The break in
silver in London and the consequent
drop in prices here. is said by dealers
in this city to be but the collapse of the
bull movement being manipulated by
Indian banking houses and mercantile
firms on the strength of the probable
duty on impOrGations to India. The
failure of the India council TO favor
such action, and the fear that other
changes are likely TO be made in the
financial system of India has, it is
thought brought on liquidation move
ment on the part of the holders of sill
Yer. which has brought about the
heavy fall in the price.
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viii Not he Re-opened.

Calcutta, Feb. 2S.-The Bengal cham
Der of commerce discussed the resolu-
ton that the best interests of the
country demand that the minis be re-
opened but adopted-69 to 16-an
amendment to the effect that the mints
should net be re-opened.
The feature Of the silver question in
india is the abnormal movement of all
produce towards the ports. the object
being to raise money IN Europe upon
the products so forwarded.
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TO Renovate white Canvas shoes.

A great many girls have white cam
vas shoes SO. soiled from the summers
campaign that it is impossible to clean
them. These may be transformed into
a very pretty pair of evening shoes
by the magic of few cents worth of
gold paint. Mix the gold paint very
thin and coat the entire shoe. After
going over the shoes the second time,
dust them lightly with the dry gold
powder and lace them with narrow
ribbon the color OF the dress with
which they are to be worn.
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MINING sroCKs-
BOSTON QUOTATIONS.
NEW YORK GENERAL MARKET.


HOPS-Dun
WCOL-Quiet; domestic neece. I9a@:
pulled. 20G26; Texas, 16oi5.
COPPER-Quiet. lake. $50.
LEAD-Qciet; domestic, SIG
TIN-Weak: straits, 1900; nominal.
1cOFFEE-Options opened quiet at I'M
changed to ~ points decline; ruled quiet.
and barely steady under disappointing
European advices. closed dull at I'M
changed to 10 points decline Sales. g. al
bags. March i5.65fJ $50; April 15.35d15 80.
May. 15.25al5.30. June, 100; spot Rio dun,
easy; No. Z. 179s.
S15GAR-Raw. weaker: fair refining,
1915; Inuscoyado Se-test. 1i-16; refined.
dllll
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Norton Done In.

Columbus, O., Feb 2S-Mikie Nor
ton. of Cincinnati, and Johnny La
vaci, of this city. fought for the ban
tam weight championship of Ohio to-
night. Lavack was awarded the fight
in the eighth round On points. Norton
was completely done up.
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What stronger Proof

Is needed of the merit of Hoods Sar-
sapariila than the hundreds of letters
continually coming in. telling of mar
velous cures it has effected after all
othr remedies have failed? Truly.
Hoods Sarsaparilla possesses peculiar
curative power unknown to other
medicines.
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on WALL STREET.

New York. Feb 23.-Nall Street
'rbree-ouarters Of the trading was done
in Industrials and Sugar. the latter max
ing a net gain OF 1ia on favorable tariiS
Isrospects At the close the general tone
was fairly hrm and the changes merely
fractional
Governments firm.
Petroleum quiet, S0is asked.
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WITH 4 Dull AND
SIfKENINI1 IHUD.
The Heavy Break in the White
Metal Yesterday.
REASONS FOR THE
SUDDEN PLUNGE.
Collapse Of the Movement Manipu-
lated BY Banking Houses.

z'he Action Taken Yesterday by the
BENGAL Chamber of Commerce In
hfcates That the Indiars MINIS
viii Not BE Re-opened-Lead
Also LoNver-But Two Cities Re-
ported by the Clearing House
show an Increase.
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SCORED MORE KNOCKDOwNs.
Red COniey, of Leavenworth, Bests
Roberts, of San Francisco.

Leavenworth. Kan, Feb. 23.-The
wrestling contest between Bish Kane,
of San Francisco, and Billy Fisher, of
Kansas City, Graceo-Roman, won by
Fisher in 80 minutes.
The wrestling match was preceded
by siX-round boxing contest between
5. L. Roberts, of San Francisco, and
Red Conley, of Leavenworth.
Conley was awarded the decision on
points, he scoring four knock downs to
Roberts two
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satisfactory. The directress has en-
ployed for some time as table artist a
struggling young French woman, who
makes a living thereby--Chicago Rec
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

Chicago, Fen. .
Receipts, 5000; steady; native
steers, 3.S005.00; stockers, 2.15G315.
HOGS-Receipts, $4,000; active; 10G15
lower; rough, heavy, 4.S0Q4.90; packers
and mixed, 500d5.10; prime, heavy and
butchers weights 5.15n520; assorted light,
5.l5f1525.
sHEEP-Receipts. 5000; steady; I'M
changed.
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NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.

New Y OK, i 90. -.
Money on call, easy 10, closed ~;
prime mercantile paper, 3ls6l5lsSo; sterling
exchange firm, with actual business in
bankers bills. 4SS4 GI4SSi2 for denend;
1851 ssh for sixty days.
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CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.

TDICdEO,
WHEAT-Active; opened Il higher, but
sold of y Oh the advance ia duty on
wheat in France and tile expected adj
vance in Italian duty but the offerings
were readily absorbed and the shorts be-
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ness circles. Theories about changed
or changing conditions count for moth
ing when they run up against rough
edged facts like these.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
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LIVERPOOL QUOTATIONS.

Liverpool, -t'cn. -.
IS 1sd05s I'd; No 2 red western winter,
IS 91zdN5s.
CORN-Quiet: mixed western. IS Cd.
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GovERNMENT BoNDs.
THE -CLEARING HOUSE.

New York, Feb. %.
The following table compiled by Brad
streets shows the total cIearances at the
principal cities of the United States for
the past week;
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London. Feb. 2s.-The failure Of Hill.
Comes & Co. merchants, of Manchester,
B9enos, Ayres and Rio de Janeiro, is an
nOunced
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Hoods Pills cure constipation by re-
storing the peristaltic action of the
alimentary canal. They are the best
family cathartic. 131
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cHIcAGo GENERAL MARKET.

Chicago, Feb. @.
WHEAT-Steady; cash. 5S1a: May, 81.
CORN-Steady; cash, 341z; May, 81.
POKK-.lasy; May, 12.221.
IARD-Easy; May, 1-22lz.
RIBS-Easy; May, 6.321a.
RYE AND RLEY--Nominal.
FLAX-1.3915.
TTM0THY-4 Il
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When a reformed saloonist turned
his sample room into a Sunday school
room, he said it would be good ex-
sample for the youth.-TesSas Siftings.