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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-12
INDIAN MUMBLETY-PEG.
How It Is Played By the Hindoo
Bcys-A Hop Scotch Court IN
Hindostaa.
BY GERARD BRENAN.

Every town-pred American boy knows
how TO play the time-honored game
styled variousIy "tip-cat" or 'mumhlety-
peg In England also this famous SUIT
ter pastime is vastly popular, ana the
historians of sport pretend to trace its
history back to the early Saxon times
Few people. however, are aware that
'.ttp-cat," or 'mumblety-peS, IS indulged
in so far east as India, T. that the ouS4ey
tive adopts at the game. ,.,,,
In India 'tip-cat' is Known as HguiIli
danda," id est, ''cat-stick-' The little
Hindoo5 or Mahometans scoop out
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-12
SOMETHING TO DO FOR MOTHER.
A Shoe Bog,
CBY HARRY ADAMs.)

One of the most convenient pieces of
furniture that can be made for the bed
or dressing room is a Shoe box and seat
The Illustration shows simple and
neat idea for such a box, and as it is
very easy matter to- make one. there
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-12
THE pA(IF|( EXPRESS o.

NO. IS EAST FIRST SOUTH STREET,
Salt Lake City, Sept; |, 1887. To whom it
may concern-The following goods. re-
naming on hand. unclaimed or otherwise,
addressed as below, will be sold at public
auction to the highest bidder at the office
of the company in this city on Monday,
Oct 4, 1897, If not called for and charges
and costs paid before said date. Sale
to commence at $3.50 a. m. and continue
from day to day until sold.
JOHN T. DANIEL, Superintendent
j. A SANBORN. Agent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-12
INDIAN HOP SCOTCH.

parts of India But the pet sports of the
Hindoo city boy are Observation-Disclosures" and
gulli-danda, or as we would say, hop
scotch and 'rtip-cat.''
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
POTATO md TOmnfn Salnd.

Boil in their jackets four medium
sized potatoes. While they are boil
ing make a French dressing and slice
into it one good-sized onion; as soon
as the potatoes are done, drain, salt
and dry them. Remove the skins and
cut the potatoes while hot into the
dressing; toss them carefully until
every piece is well covered. Put the
mixture on cold dish and stand aside
until serving hour. Then garnish the
dish thickly with parsley; sprinkle
over the dish tablespoonful of finely
chopped parsley or celery tops; small
picked beet may be chopped fine and
placed diagonally across the dish.
Sardines or picked herring may also
be used as garnish and to give vari-
ETY., and one may also stir into the
dressing teaspoonful of Anchovy
paste.
Scald, peel and cool small sound,
well-shaped tomatoes. Dish them
neatly on lettuce leaves, and put over
each teaspoonful of mayonnaise
dressing. Keep in cool place until
it is time to serve.-Mrs. S. 7. Rorer,
in Ladies Home Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

NJ. G. Tuttle, bailiff of the Com
mon Pleas Court, Cleveland, Ohio,
will spend his vacation in introducing
device for putting life into lazy
horses. 1t is an electric appliance to
be fastened to the harness. A battery
is carried in the drivers pocket. In
stead of whipping horse, the driver
speaks to the animal and at the same
time touches q button attached to the
rein. The horse is given slight
shock, which is said to have wonder
full effect on the animal. New York
Telegram.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

An attempt is being made to galvan-
ize into new life the medieval city of
Bruges, Belgium, and to shake off the
rust and dust of its long ages of
quiet by converting it into seaport.
A great canal is now being cut from
the seashore at Ostend to Bruges, a
distance of twenty miles. Electric
power is being extensively utilized,
and this is the first application on
grand scale of this agency in Bel
GUM. Not only are the huge 25O-ton
cranes operated by electricity, but
electric power is being applied to the
brick-making machinery, and during
the present year will turn out about
1S,000,0 900 bricks for the sluice works
and docks.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

The widening market for fruit and
the action of therailroad companies in
giving the growers facilities for reach
ing the market in the great centres of
populations have led to more serious
attention being given to horticulture
in many parts of the country, some of
which are more or less remote from
the large cities, notes the New York
Sun. The conditions in the central
West, the Southwest, and on the
Pacific Slope have been reflected from
time to time in these paragraphs.
Just now grape growing, which for
some time has Jagged in Florida, has
reached SO prosperous an activity
about Orlando that grapes are being
shipped from the Niagara vineyards at
the rate of a carload day.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

Many dropping flowers will freshen
wonderfully if the tips of the stems
are trimmed off and the ends are then
held in hot water for few moments.
When making corned beef hash
moisten it with little beef stock, if
you have it, in place of water. A
pinch of sugar added with the salt and
pepper helps to bring out the flavor.
Marshmallow stuffed dates make a
delicious after-dinner sweet. Remove
the pits from the dates, fill the space
with marshmallow end roll the dates
in powdered sugar. One marshmallow
will stuff four dates.
NsWhen one is hurriedin mailing let
ter, and the only available postage
stamp is found to be without sufficient
glue, moisten the stamp, rub it on the
gummed flap of an envelop, and quick
ly press it in place upon the letter.
In ornamenting summer cottages
bare corner may be made very effec-
tive at trifing cost. Secure an
empty nail keg from hardware store,
cover it with ebony paint and gild the
hoops. Partly fill the keg with sand
to give it weight and fasten a piece of
board over the top little larger than
the keg. Place it in the vacant corner
and cover the wooden top with
fringe-trimmed square of pretty silk
or cretonne. Stand an unused ginger
jar or cheap effective vase upon this
pedestal and fill it with grasses, dricd
ferns and cattails.
To stiffen sheer handkerchiefs,
laces, wash silks, or any other thin
fabric, it is best to use gum arabic
starch. To make it, put into bottle
one ounce of gum arabic and pour
over it one cup of cold water; stand
the bottle in dish of cold water and
place it over the fire until the gum is
dissolved; then strain it through fine
sieve or piece of cheese cloth into an
other bottle. When it is cold put in a
half gill of alcohol, and it will keep
and be ready for use when needed.
When dainty laces are to be stiffened,
half teaspoonful of the starch, mixed
with small cupful of water, will give
the lace ample stiffness, adding
larger amount Of the starch as it is
needed for different fabrics.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

Soak half box of gelatine for two
hours in enough cold water to cover it.
Turn over it cup of boiling milk, and
stir until the gelatine is dissolved.
Heat one pint of milk to boiling point,
and stir into it three tablespoonfuls of
sugar and the well-beaten yolks of
four eggs. Do not allow the mixture
to boil after the yolks are added, but
take from the fire and stir frequently
until partly cool; then add the dis
solved gelatine. Flavor with tea
spoonful of vanilla, lemon or
orange, and finally add the whites of
the eggs beaten light. Line lightly
buttered pudding..mold with fitted half
inch slices of rick, black fruit cake.
Fill the lined mold with the custard,
and set it in cool place for a number
of hours or overnight When serving,
turn the mold of pudding out upon a
dish, and heap roundit whipped cream
that has been suitably favored and
sweetened.-The Housewife.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

In exploiting its resources Kansas
is now directing attention to its min
eral deposits and their possibilities.
1t produces coal, building stone, zinc,
salt, gypsum, oil, gas, cement, min
eral water and clay, the output of all
these in 1895 being worth about So
600, 200. This was triple the output
of 1855, and is regarded as promis-
ing much for the future. The State
stands first in the production of gyp-
sum, its output being more than dou-
BILE the combined product of all the
other States, Michigan excepted. 1t
is eleventh among the coal producing
States, eighth in oil production, and
fifth in gas, having an oil and gas
area of 5000 square miles. Nearly q
million and half barrels of salt are
marketed annually, and about 1000
tons of zinc. The zinc-bearing ore
is very rich, the yield being &C { per
cent,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The small British torpedo boat
Turbina attained speed of thirty
three knots an hour near Spithead,
England.
In England and Wales the DEATH
rate from typhoid fever has declined
from 277 per million in 1S76-80 to 1876
in 1S91-94.
A large Dussand microphonograph,
now being constructed for the Paris
Exhibition of 1900, is expected to
make the voice heard by 10000
people.
A medical authority asserts that
death caused by fall from a great
height is absolutely painless. The
mind acts very rapidly for time, then
unconsciousness ensues.
There are about one hundred grains
of iron in the average human body,
and yet so important is this exceed
ingly small quantity, that its dimi-
mutton is attended with very serious
results.
AT present it is estimated that there
are in the worlds oceans 7,O00,O 900
cubic miles of salt, and the most
astonishing thing about it is that if all
this salt could be taken out in O
moment the level of the water would
not drop.
Professor Dubard, of Dion, con-
tributes to the Province Medicale an
article showing that tuberculous dis
Ill IL 1a1 IL
fishes (carps) and frogs, and can be
communicated to these animals ex-
perimentally.
The United States Government has
been invited to participate in an in
ternational conference to be held in
Berlin from October II to 16, to dis
cuss the leprosy question. An ex-
hibition appropriate to the conference
and lectures on leprosy will be given.
The Schenectady IN. Y. Locomotive
Works has received an order from
Japan for twelve passenger locomotives
for the Kiusiu Railway Company. The
engines are to be of the American
type, with cylinders sixteen inches in
diameter and twenty-four inches
stroke. This order is said to be the
first of series which will be placed
in this country.
Nature provides a series of hooks on
the front edge of the hind wings of in
sects, each hook fitting into a groove
on the hind edge of front wing. The
front and hind wings are thus fastened
together on each side while the insect
is flying, and are unfastened at other
times. This explains why you have
occasionally noticed one of the species
flying, apparently with two wings,
and have seen him display four upon
alighting. This arrangement is ex-
tremely convenient for such little
creatures as the honey bee, which has
to enter small holes, where large ex-
panse of wing would be useless.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

The London Chronicle calls atten-
ton to the remarkably low death rate in
many of the model dwellings in that
city. In particular there is found in
the houses of the Metropolitan Asso-
citation for Improved Dwellings of the
Working Glasses, which is now in its
fifty third year, a death rate of only
9.64 to 1000. The inmates of these
houses number 6430, and are housed
in fourteen blocks in different parts of
the city. This rate is only half the
rate for the whole of London.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

In the course of some "reminiscences
of President Franklin Pierce, G. M.
Mcconnell tells this story in the Chi
cago Times-Herald: Some days later I
went with the member of Congress
whose Secretary was to call on the
President on some urgent official bust
ness. Ny chief was q very absent
minded man in some respects, and in
catching up the short cloak then worn,
on leaving home, and throwing it over
his arm, he had inadvertently caught
up with it certain intimate garment
of his own which happened to be on
the same chair, While he stood talk
ing with Mr.. Pierce he for the first
time shifted this cloak from one arm
to the other, and to my dismay this
garment-an undershirt, in fact
dropped to the floor between them.
Mr.. Pierce saw it, but its owner did
not, and turned to depart. The Presi-
dent saw my look of horror and heard
the expressed snort of his own Secre-
tary behind him, but only the faintest
flicker of smile flashed across his
face, and as the gentleman-quite as
courtly as himself in the act of
turning he caught up the ridiculous
estray, twirled it with deft move
ment into wad, so to speak, and
passed it, unseen by its owner, to me
as he moved partly between us and
bowed us both out of the room with
grave, urbane, unruflled courtesy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

The system of vertical handwriting
adopted by the school boards of many
Of the larger cities is held to have
scored triumph in Boston already in
turning out pupils who write rapidly
and legibly, the two prime qualifica-
tions in chirography. The paramount
virtue in handwriting is legibility. No
matter how pretty and artistic hand.
writing may be, if it cannot be read
easily it falls short of its purpose
This is secured in conspicuous de.
gree in the vertical system, while q
majority of pupils add to it both sym.
metry and grace. With such results
it will not be necessary for graduates
Sf the public schools to take course
In penmanship after they have en-
sered store or office, as they have
frequently been required to do in
cities that boast the thoroughness and
efficiency of their public school
methods
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.


Ice cream for waiting invalid may
be made in four minutes, as recently
proved by a cooking-school expert
ment. Put two tablespoonfuls of
cream into bowl, sweeten with pow
dered sugar, flavor with a teaspoonful
OF clear strong coffee, beat light with a
cream whisk for one minute. Then
put it into half-pint oyster pail, fit
on the cover carefully, and set the
small pail into a quart one, filling the
space between them with shredded
ice and fine salt Three minutes
turning in this freezing mixture will
give a saucer of smooth coffee ice
cream.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
Artificial "Antiques."

A case came before a London Mag
istrate the other day, involving the
possession of certain antique" or
molu articles about which there had
been an abortive trial. A firm of deal
ers claimed them, and two workmen
did the same. The latter were partic-
ularly assertive in their ownership,
saying they ought to know, because,
as a matter of fact, they made the ar.
ticles. To prove their point they set
to work and showed, to the amuse-
ment of critical audience, how Or
molu was made antique" by the aid
of pumice powder.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

Little Girl-"Mamma, is this sum-
mer?"
Wise Mother-"Dear me, will you
never learn to know the seasons? Now
remember. When it is so hot one day
you can't breathe, and so wet and
chilly the next that you can't go out,
it's summer; when it sud denly gets so
cold that everybody shivers, and ice
and snow appear, it's autumn; when
it becomes warm and balmy, and the
birds sing, and grass gets green, and
trees begin to bud, it's winter; when
the winds start up and cyclones sweep
over the country, and blizzards carry
death and devastation in their wake,
and the rivers freeze, and the snow
piles up three feet high, it's spring" !"
New York Weekly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

On board of Her Maiesty's ship Pal
las, cruiser, at anchor in Boston
harbor, there is very remarkable cat.
the pet of the officers and crew, and
a sort of mascot.
This cat has unique habit of div
ing off the side of the vessel and get
ting fresh supply of fish for himself
at times. Most cats are afraid of
water, but not so this tabby, and the
officers and crew are naturally very
much attached to such distinctiyely
sailor cat.--New York Telegram.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

Another idiotic exhibition of shoot
ing backward with rifle at a woman,
the aim taken from a lookingglass,
has proved fatal, this time at Berlin.
An expert named Kruger, after shoot
ing various objects from the hands
and shoulders of his sister, put bull
let through her head in the presence
of 1000 persons.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

Hard sauces are preferred by most
persons to liquid ones. One that is
very good is made by rubbing to a
cream two cups of brown sugar and
one cup of butter, adding three table
spoonfuls of milk, one by one, at the
last, and beating the whole at the
least one hour. A teaspoonful of van
lila should be stirred in just before
serving. Another sauce is made from
one cup of granulated sugar and nearly
one-half cup milk, boiled together to a
thick syrup, and then stirred till cool,
when it may be favored; or two cups
brown sugar, one and one-half cups of
milk; and butter the size of a walnut
may be boiled to the consistency of
honey and then strained.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
A Remarkable Cat.

Professor Hill, of Princeton Uni
versity, once owned very remarkable
cat. 1t had but two legs, having been
born that way. But in spite of this
deformity it was most engaging pet
and walked glibly upon its two fore
feet and frisked about as lively as cats
blessed with four legs. When she
died her skeleton was mounted and
now reposes in glass case in the uni
versity museum.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

Customer--"My wife has been pes
tering the life out of me to get her an
easy chair. She's always nagging
about something, and if it isn't chair
it'll be something else, and it's hardly
worth while getting one; but, still, [
thought I'd drop in so as to see what
you had. She'll be sure to ask. p"
Furniture Dealer "Here, sir, is a
chair so perfectly easy and comfortable
that she'll fall asleep the minute she
touches it,"
"Cracky! I'll take it. I"
New York Weekly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

Stranger-'I should like to retain
you in an important case. 1t is fight
over child"
Great Lawyer-''Between husba nd
and wife?"
"No; she is an orphan and has no
near relatives. The contest is between
distant relatives on both sides of the
house"
"Ah! I see. How much is she heir
ess to?"-New York Weekly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
Public Land in Missouri,

According to the figures furnished
by the Department of the Interior last
year, Missouri has still 617,000 acres
of public land subject to entry, sur
prising quantity considering the age
of the State and the price at which
land is held in the more densely set
tied portions. The land offices for
this State are located at Bonneville,
Jronton and Springfield.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

LIE SLATEB
often said she was
working her fing-
ers to the bone,
but nobody seemed
to care.
Titles 81 S t er
Alice was t h e
''f n s h i o n a b | e"
dressmaker d in
Roseberry row,
and Tillie was her
assistant. She cut
buttonholes, sewed
straight seams on
the IN a C h i n e
pulled out basting
threads, helped to
cook the meals.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

1t says much for the recuperative
powers of st. Louis, Mo-, when the
fact is realized that already 5000 of
the buildings blown down or damaged
by the great tornado have already been
either re-erected or repaired.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

"Does your husband act as he did
before you were married, Mrs. Lightly?"
"Much the same. When he goes
out at night he remains very late"
Detroit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

r Massachusetts has established
eighty-fve free libraries since the
public library commission was ap-
pointed in 1890; Connecticut forty
since 1891, New Hampshire 130 since
the same year, and Vermont fifty-nine
since 1894.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

1t is shown by the annual report of
one of the largest mining companies
in Colorado that since the organization
of the company the average cost of
producing 81 in gold has been thirty
seven cents.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORlES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS,

The Married Mans Discovery Under
Mitigating Circumstances-An Expert
Observer-Going by Contraries-Both
sNervous-Force of Habit, Etc, Etc.
The Happy Mani tell you, old
fellow, a man doesn't know what real
happiness is until he's married"
Cynical Married Friend-"Then he
finds it consists in being single. -
Brooklyn Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

'Did you tell that young man not
to call here any more?" asked Mabel's
father, severely.
"No-no."
"Why not?"
81 didn't think it was necessary. l
don't see how he could call any more,
now. He calls seven times week.
Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

Suitor (nervously)-"Mr. Matchitt,
I-er-why-e your-er- daughter
I wish to-er--speak-"
Mr.. Matchitt (also nervously)-'Look
here, young man; out with it. If you
wish to marry my daughter, say SO.
Don't keep me sitting here in this
awful ei''-Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
It "Dopes" Flies.

A stupefer for flies is made by one
teaspoonful of black pepper, two tea
spoonfuls of moist sugar and two table,
spoonfuls of cream, and place little
Of it in saucers whe>A Aies abound.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

Askins-"What do you think will
be the outcome when you propose to
Miss Swift"
Teller-"She is such contrary
girl that I am inclined to think she
will accept me because l feel sure she
will reject me?"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

Bridget-"Sure, ma'am, wud call
your attenshun to the beautiful sun
set out av the kitchen winder."
Mistress-"That's nothing, Bridget.
You ought to see it rise some morn
ing. Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

"My MOTTO" said the summer
boarder, ''is live and let live.'''
"Hypocrite!" sneered the mosquito
which had been perched on his nose.
Only by precipitate retreat had it
been able to avoid crushing blow
Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
Under Mitigating Circumstances.

Jinks-"How much do you think
a minister ought to get for marrying a
coupler"
Filkins - We'll, if wholly unac-
quainted with them, perhaps he might
be let off with six months. Town
Topics.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
An Expert Observer.

Charley Checks-"Wouldn't yer
like ter be an umpire, Sammy, an get
into all de games free?"
Sammy Spots-"Naw! What would
be de use? Dem fellers never see nut
tin Nv de game. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

She-'Look at that poor moth hut-
tering around the light"
He-'"That's better than having it
futtering around my overcoat. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
"sEAR YE ONE ANoIHER,s RuRpENs.n

n any little word OF ours
Can make a life the brighter;
If any little song of ours
Can make one heart the lighter;
God help US speak that little word
And take our bit of singing,
And drop il in some lonely vale
TO set the echoes ringing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

"Julia had her husband'sp photograph
taken with his head stuck in news
paper"
"Why did she do that?"
"She said that was the way he always
looked to her when he was ct home"
Chicago Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16

II any little love of ours
May make life the sweeter;
II any little care of ours
May make another's fieeter;
If any little help may ease
The burden of another;
God give us love and care and strength
TO help along each other.