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as nutritious and wholesome. In the
middle ages he was used as medicine
and pounded in a mortar. Stewed In
milk. he was regarded as q specific in
lunp diseases. He has always been eaten
in the south of France, where ne doe
immense damage to the vines, and the
grape growers are glad to be rid of hin
and make money at the same time by
sending him to market. Indeed, he
forms an important source OF revenue,
and his yearly sales in Paris alone are
said to approximate 1, 600, coo francs.
While he feeds chiefly on the grape leaf,
he is also fond of cabbages, and, indeed,
will eat any green herb OF tender leaf.
For this reason the snails, when gath
cred, arc always placed in casks and
kept without food in a cool place for at
least two months in order to purify
them. They have q fancy for both hem
lock and belladonna, and cases OF poison
ing sometimes occur as a result OF eating
snails which have not been properly
cleansed-i. e., starved-befOre being
brought to table. He is classed by the
dealers as among shellfsh and is III
great demand as a Lenten delicacy.
Heaps Of them are exposed for sale on
the counters at the halles, side by side
with Holsters and crawfish, for the craw-
fish is another French dainty. 1t has
long been the custom i'll Bordeaux to &C
on Ash Wednesday to the commune of
Canderan, which is noted for its oscar
gotcries (snail farms) to feast upon es-
cargCt by way IF winding up b car
-nival and beginning Lent.
Along the Cote dor and in the lower
Alps snail picking furnishes employ
Eent to hundreds # people and is car
ried Oh much as berry picking. In tie
carly morning, when the Shiny trail OF
the snail glistens wherever he has crawl
ed during the night, the pickers go forth
with baskets and pals. They find the
snails i'll damp places, resting on the
under surface Ct leaves and veins and
gather them just as the farmers hey
picks dewbcrriCs or hucklcberries. These
are snails of natural growth, wild snails,
we would say.
But snails are largely cultivated for
the market, and one farm near Dijon il
said to clear Z, 600 francs a year from
its snails, which are fed upon cabbage
and clover. There are many large snail
gardens i'll the cantons of Switzerland,
and Ulm has for many years been ia
Elcus for its cscargotcries. Great num-
bers CT snails come 10 Spain, and the
Midi from the African states bordering
Gil the Mediterranean, bushels of them
being exported from Algiers every week
during the season.
You will find them on the bill of fare
IL every restaurant i'll Paris, O you may
buy them i'll the markets, either alive or
boiled i'll strong salt ard vinegar water
and drawn from tho shell all ready for
cCoking. iii which state the Partisan
h~ousckeeper prefers them, and in which
she pays a cent apiece for them.-What
to Eat.
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CRANKY GUESTS.


EXperAenc0 OF Hotel Ciefks An DaAAS
with Some Of Them.
II cannot sleep in that room" said Q
guest at a hotel in this city last evening
as be walked to the desk in the office
and threw the key upon it.
What is the matter with it?' asked
the clerk.
There is nothing the matter with it
except that the bed is i'll the wrong
place" the guest replied. For moro
than 20 years l have slept in q bed with
the head toward the north, and it has
become such a habit with me that 1T
would be actually impossible for me 70
sleep with the head i'll any other Glrec-
ton.
lit will be impossible for me to give
YEA a room containing a bed with the
lead in that direction" said the clerk.
The hotel is well filed tonight, and j
have only two vacant rooms, but Will
have the bed turned for you. Calling
a porter. the clerk instructed him to
turn the bed in the sentleman's room 81
that tho head would be 10 the north.
The guest followed the porter up stairs.
and as nothing further was heard from
him it is presumed that he retired and
Slept peacefully.
There is no accounting for tastes,
said tho clerk, turning TO the reporter.
"and the funny experiences we have II:
the hotel business would fill a volume.
Before tie night is over we may hay,
calls for beds with their heads turned to
every point Of the compass, and OF
course we are obliged to accommodate
every one.
II remember an instance like this
several years ago. A man slightly in
ebriated came into the hotel one night,
and producing a pocket compass said
that he wished a room where the head
of the bed should be placed to the
northeast. We sent two boys with him.
and they turned the bed as requested.
The joke was tina: the compass was
furnished with a little stop, which held
the indicator in a certain position. 1t
so happened that the gentleman's bed.
which had been carefully placed north
east according to the compass, was i'll
reality placed with the head to the
south. The man discovered his mistake
the e morning and was cured of the
fad. "-Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Cremation Growing In Favor.

The movement il favor Of cremation
as against earth burial is growing in
England. The other day Mr.. William
Rathbone, ex NJ. p, stated in public
that he had made provision for cre:na.
ton i'll his OWL case Gil principle and
with q view to promoting the reform.
AT this moment a new crematorium is
almost ready fer use at Liverpool. It Is
q neat building CT red sandstone, simple
and chaste i'll design. The main door
opens into q small chapel. From this
room the coffin will be carried after the
burial service is read into a small apart
ment beyond and there placed upon ali
iron frame running Oh wheels and rails
in |. line with the furnace and pushed
noiselessly into the abode of flames.
From the chapel the clergyman, fol.
lowed by the relatives of the deceased,
will ascend a stair on the opposite side
from the door by which the coffin has
been removed into q small gallery over
looking the door Of the furnace. From
this gallery the service prescribed for
the grave will be read and the mou
ers will take the last look of the coffin
as it disappears within the furnace.
The situation of the crematorium at An
field is wisely chosen, being in the heart
Of a pretty suburban neighborhood and
accessible from all parts of the city.
There is an Office, with a cottage for the
caretaker attached, at the entrance gate.
The crematorium will be opened for
public use not later than April L.
Westminster Gazette.
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The Care of Parks.

A point to be insisted upon is that il
Is not sufficient to purchase land for
parks. They must be planted with care
and maintained with taste, and to keen
them i'll condition renewed expenditure
is necessary. They cannot merely be
purchased and left to nature and the
public. They must be cultivated, pruned.
policed, and the expense Of preserving
their beauty and usefulness must not BE-
~begrudged BY taxpayers who reap such
great advantages from them. Too MANY
nave the idea that the purchase Of q
park is the end of the matter. This is
Tar from being the case, and exertions
u constantly be made to secure lib
erai appropriations for its proper main
tenancee. Much difficulty exists in i'm
pressing this fact upon citizens, but in
time they will realize that a great art
demands continuous liberal support, and
we may be sure that they will then be
Is generous in maintaining and improv-
ing the parks of the country as they
nave proved to be in purchasing them
Mary G. Robbins in Atlantic.
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DETECTED THE R~EPEATERS.
ceHe fbHHoUhs HIcn CAuBeU " hOIl
sale Arrest of Voters.

During the reconstruction times in
Alabama, just after the late civil war,
all of the state and county offices were
administered by the Republicans. This
was from 1866 to 1874, when the Dem
Ocrats again secured control of the gov.
eminent and have held it ever since.
The election Of George S. Houston, a
Democrat, as governor in 1874 was one
of the hottest vel held i'll the state, and
many We're the tricks practiced on both
sides in that election. Possibly the most
novel was a device put into operation at
Mobile. Repeaters were common in
those days, and this device was used BY
the Democrats to catch the negroes, who
had learned the repeating trick. All of
the negroes voted the Republican ticket
then.
On tho election day mentioned the
polling places were opened, and the vot-
ing commenced. The Democratic cleo
ton officers at the boxes had secured a
stock of small fshhooks with which to
carry out their new plan. Whenever a
negro voted, an officer stuck 4 hook i'll
WV soiti D sSSt IIOLt. WItIe IL COu1u Do
plainly seen. After having exercised his
constitutional right of voting, "Cuffy"
proceeded to another polling place and
sought to vote a second time. He was
t%hereupon arrested and put i'll Jail upon
a charge of fraud. The scheme worked
like a charm. By noon 175 negroes had
been arrested and jailed. The whole
sale arrests SO frightened the negroes
who had not voted that they refrained
from going to the polls that day, and
the Democrats won the election.-Chi
caoo Ti1nes-Herald.
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CAUGHT IN THE ACT.

1ne Ieiitale Tracks on the Tapestry BE.
trayed Him.
Four or five Washington pastors were
having a pleasant little meeting the
other afternoon at the study Of one Of
them, and they were having compare
lively as much fun out of it as that
many FOUNDERS would have had at a sa-
loon knee deep in Al varieties of tipple.
They were telling Sunday school stories,
as a rule, but they swung around after
awhile TO temperance.
In my youth in Virginia, said the
host, 1--WE had, what is rare NOWADAYS
to wit, q lot of more or less Seedy and
shabby genteel old fellows who went
about the country delivering lectures on
temperance and getting out Of it only
about SO much rs would clotht and feed
them. Some of them were no doubt good
n conscientious men. but among them
were many who, notwltiist lltllng their
professions, dearly loved to take "A glass
OF something warming to the inner man.
Most of these tipplers We're very par
ticular not to have the rulnor get abroad
that they eve tasted the vile stuff, and
when they took their drinks they OBJ
served great secrecy. / remember there
was Il whom we thought to be a most
abstctnious old fellow, and no one
thought he ever tasted a drop, particu-
larly IA maiden aunt of mine who lived
with my mother and was as rigid a
temperance woman as ever came out of
New England. Ny mother was much
moro liberal and wanted always to en-
terrain these workers in the good cause,
but my aunt had become so suspicious
OF al Of them except this particular enc
that he was the only N who could find
IL nights lodging at u place.
"One night this old chap came to stay
I'll night. and he had such a severe cold
that my mother prescribed a rubbing of
COOS. grease on his feet and toasting it
in by the fire before he went to bed.
Now. as it happened, in the room where
he slept there was a new carpet which
my amt had presented to my mother as
a birthday gift, and there was an old
fashioned sideboard in the same room,
with % i've gallon jug Of good whisky
on it, which somebody had forgotten to
put inside and lock up. At s O'Clock the
black boy carried i'll the goose grease to
u guest and left him sitting before the
fire.
Just what happened after that no.
body knows, but after the guest had de-
parted next morning and the servants
went to straighten up the room they
found tracks innumerable between the
fireplace and the sideboard, and in some
way it was discovered that the old fell
low, afraid Of taking cold, had creased
his socks and toasted the grease into his
feet through them, and while the toast
\ ing was going on he made regular and
frequent trips to the jug. Of course, if
the tracks on the carpet had not betrayed
him, no one would have ever noticed by
the jug that he had been drinking out
of it. He never came back again, and
don't know whether my aunt was more
panied over the ruined carpet u over
tho ruined idol, fer she had the greatest
confidence il the old man. "-Washing-
fo1, Ctar
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uWbonanx 5entiNel.
HER FAN.

E7at4sf OF feathers and perfume Of lAces,
Carved sticks Of ivory. daintily white:
P1umpl little Cupids, with mischievous faces
All, could I but read your expression arightf
Say, do you know, are you wholly unfeeling.
AS you pelt one another with roses SO sweetf
Do you not know that my heart she is stealing,
To trample it under her pearly shod feett
/,
Almost ] think you exult in the glances
Your owner bestows when she seeks to en-
slave.
Know you no cure for wounds from loves
lances2
Have you no power her victims to save?
Swiftly she whirls in the maze of the dances:
Slyly you laugh as you peep from each fold.
And thus one more victim of coquctry's fancies
Questions in vain-his fate is untold.
Lucy Mayo Warner in Boston Budget.
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A DISH OF SNAlLS.
Profits In Snails of More Than 1,OOO,O 600
Francs Annually.


1t may surprise many readers to learn
that the common garden snail, regarded
as an unmitigated pest by agriculturists
i'll this country, is used for food BY
thousands Of persons, and when properly
cooked is esteemed adainty dish by cpl
cures in all the great cities of the world.
Not only is this the case in foreign coIn-
tries, where the overcrowding of the
population renders it obligatory that
everything edible should be eaten, but
here III America, where in New York
the arrival of the French steamers with
their cargoes of snails is an event of i'm
portance in gastronomic circles, and the
leading French restaurants advertise the
dish as q special attraction. Like other
homely animals which serve for food.
the snail changes his name when he
comes to the table and takes the French
title.
Thus, as the pig becomes pork, the OK
beef and the sheep mutton, the snail fig
ures on bills of fare as l'escargot. a
much more imposing designation. Like
many other dishes esteemed by epicures,
it comes to US by way of France from
Italy, for the French, who are the mas
tiers of the world i'll cookery, learned the
art originally from the Italians. The
ancient Romans, whose emperors and
mobiles lived to eat, and who not infre-
quently spent afortune on a single feast,
considered ~l'escargot a choice deli
cacy. Pliny mentioned it as among the
table Injuries of his day, and Apicius, in
a treatise on cookery, enumerates sew
eral ways Of cooking the dish, the most
e~xtraEagant being with Il sauce OF sweet
herbs, milk, butter, cheese, boiled wine,
wheat -four and saffron.
L'escargot has always been regarded
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NEWS.

With a view Ct erlargiug the town O. -
port. I have divided my fine small plantaissa
measuring five arpenfs trent on Bayou NJ ~
fGurche. situated between LOckPorf ape -
offered for sale.
Persons desiring 10 huv and 70 eesn -
that beautiful village sbOnld write or can =
me for full particulars. ,rv
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COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.
Questions That VIII Come Before the
Municipal SOlOns.

The Council will meet this evening. Coun-
Gilman Montgomery will call up the ordi-
nance for the improvement of Indiana ave-
nue., which has failed to pass before for the
lack of one vote. 1t is pretty well under
stood that the ordinance will be passed to-
night, but this depends on all the thirteen
councilmen who voted for it before being
present to vote with the two who were OPP
posed to it, but who are said to have
changed their minds. Citizens of Indiana
avenue who are opposing the ordinance
have tried to keep their friends in line,
but they seem to think now that the ordi-
nance will pass.
There is a question as to whether the
contract made by the Board of Public
Works with J. r. Mccarthy, of st. Louis,
for the removal of garbage for the next ten
years will be ratified, as several members
of the Council say Mccarthy made much
better terms with st. Louis, although his
contract there is not to run more than half
as long as the one in this city. Dewar's
ordinance requiring all theaterS be con-
structed as nearly fireproof as possible will
be reported faVorably by the committee on
public safety and comfort. with one or two
possible amendments of minor impor-
lance.
Mayor Taggart is to return the gerry
mander ordinances. 1t is supposed he will
sign both, although they are clearly in yio-
latiOn of the letter and spirit of the char
ter. The Democrats have enough votes to
pass them over his veto if he were in
clined to exercise that power. Both the
ward and precinct boundaries go into effect
as soon as they are approved. Plans for
contesting them have not been completed,
but it is the intention to attack them in
the courts, for reasons heretofore published.
Mayor Taggart's promise to the citizens
committee that steps would be taken by the
administration within thirty days to pro-
Nrid 7 no . TrI- loss
head off the movement on the Council al
though the committee thinks it Well TO pre-
sent petitions signed by several thousand
people and arrange TO take the counCilmen
over the ground meantime, in order that
they may learn the character of the land
1t is proposed to buy. The suggestion that
the park board is likely to be declared un-
constitutionally organized has thrown some
thing of a damper on the administration,
and no steps of great Importance will be
taken, it is said. until an opinion has been
prepared by City Attorney Curtis.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS NURSE eH
Has Grown to BE Il Great Business
Fine Cattle for Export.

Has Grown TO be UESat
Fine Cattle for Export.
President Rauh, of the Indianapolis stock
yards, in conversation yesterday SAID ne
knew of no line of business when had ue-
veloped to such proportions In SO snort
time as has that Of indianapolis as morse
market. Three years ago when Blair &
Baker established the first weekly auctloh
sale of horses and sold as high as sixty
to eighty per week, it was predicted that
if would be a short-lived business. From
this beginning has come two such estab-
lishments which sell from LOO to l2OO
horses per week, and Indianapolis has come
to be famous for it's horse market, Each
month increases the number or buyers from rom
Eastern States, from Southern States and
buyers of horses for export In the last
few months fully one third OF the horses
sold have been exported, and now the eX-
porting of mules sold at these sales mas
been commenced and Mr.. Blair says II
promises to be large business. Last month
good coach horses brought better prices
than at any time for many months, and for
good draught horses there is a gooq ue-
mand. Fewer scrub horses are now oHereu,
SO many are being used on farms and for
teams about the city work. Without ques-
ton as good coach and draft horses as are
bred have been sold on this market in the
last few months.
There is another point worthy of note,
says General Traffic Manager Graybill, OF
the stock Yards Some of the finest cattle
EVER 'exnorfed from this country have gone
from Indiana, and have been sold at the
Indianapolis stock yards. Let one drive
down the Bluff road twenty-five miles and
he will see hundreds of as large, fine cattle
fattening in the fine pastures of that valley
as are to be seen in the world. FRANKLIN
Ianders of this city, has gained consider
able fame by the fine cattle he has raised
for exporting, and Greene county, Indiana,
has a great name in foreign countries for
the fine cattle shipped. With each year,
Mr. Graybill says, this special line of stock
dealing is greatly developing.
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Everybody and his cousin went to Gin
cinnat yesterday.
The Hamilton good-roads bill is as good
as dead in the Pennsylvania Legislature.
The indianapolis Cycling Club made a run
into the country down the river yesterday.
William Watson, of Mueller & Watson,
Went with the crowd to Cincinnati yester-
day.
Edward Pfeffer. foot Watson and c. F..
Snapp are training daily on the Irvington
track.
A new lamp is on the market which is
lighted by a percussion cap without opening
the lamp.
L. B. Chapman of the Columbus Bicycle
Company, is in the city on his way 10 81
Louis and Western points.
An organization has been effected in
northern Indiana TO construct cycle paths
from Butler to Auburn and Waterloo ana
possibly to Fort Wayne
Samuel Drueker rode to Noblesvilie and
back alone yesterday afternoon, just TO see
how long it would take him. He did not
break any records, but made 1t in good
time
Major r. p. Davidson and his company of
soldiers from the Northwestern Military
Academy, of Chicago. will probably leave
Chicago for Washington June I. IL IS not
through Indianapolis There will be twelve
in the party.
A Philadelphia court has rendered an i'm
portant decision regarding the rights OF
Wheelmen. 1t is to the effect that Whlle
a bicycle has equal rights in the road with
heavier vehicles, it must make greater con-
cessions in giving the right-of-Way on 9c-
count of the ease with which II is handled
Walter K. Lands, one of the editors of
the Marion Chronicle, while riding after
nightfall without lamp on his bicycle was
captured by the police and his WIieel coli
fiscated as bond for his future appearance
The Chronicle approved the lamp ordi-
nance. but its editor was the first to SuHer
Office and Sanctum.
This is the same Mr. Lands, well known
in Indianapolis newspaper fraternity CIR
cles, who achieved fame few summers
ago by riding over tramp who was sleep
ing across the bicycle path on the canal
The tramp although made very sore by
the experience, astonished the rider by
springing to his feet and protusely begging
his DardOn.