Year: 1875

" WHAT is the use, in these days, trying
to be honestY" exclaimed a grumbler
"Oh, you ought to try it once and see,"
retorted one of his companions.


A LECTURER made his debut in st.
Louis recently, and began by stating
that he had caused the doors to be
locked, so that no one could escape until
he had finished.


A PHILADELPHIA horse.car, conductor
found pocket-book containing 800,
and after two days vigilant search dis
covered the owner and restored the
property. AT a private meeting of the
other conductors he was denounced for
his reckless disregard of the opportuni-
ties vouchsafed him by mysterious
Providence.


WHILE excavating q street at Helena,
Ark, week or two since, the workmen
struck huge iron lid or cover eight feet
below the street surface. On raising it
an immense cavern was discovered, the
dimensions of which were very large.
The chamber is believed to be the work
of former civilization. 1t is now partly
filed with water.


MANY years ago the city of Baltimore
invested three and quarter millions in
the, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and
raised the money by issuing bonds at
g. per cent. interest. The annual divi-
dends upon the stock thus held by the
city have long been 10 per cent, leaving
a clear profit of $4,000 year for the
benefit OF taxpayers.


THE plaid suit excitement appears to
be subsiding as rapidly as it began The
fashion was decidedly overdone, as other
fashions have been time and again, and
now ladies are not averse to admit the
fact. Black silk, discarded and neglected
for time, is joyfully taken up again,
and now the fashionable girl of the
period rattles and rustles happy and
radiant in the heaviest gros grain.


ONE who has tried it says that a cup
of coffee is a sure barometer if you allow
the sugar to drop to the bottom of the
cup and watch the bubbles arise without
disturbing the coffee. If the bubbles
collect in the middle the weather will be
fine ; If they adhere to the cup, forming a
ring, it will be rainy; and if the bubbles
separate without assuming any fixed po-
sition changeable weather may be ex.
pected.


A REAL hero is he who in the presence
of danger conceals his fear lest others,
becoming teror-stricken, might lose
their senses. Such a man was found in
the person of Roman Catholic priest
in New York, who recently urged his
large congregation 20 leave the church
and enabled them to do so with absolute
ignorance of the cause, and yet before
they were fairly out flames broke forth
under the altar where the priest had
been standing.


THE Maine ice dealers now realize fully
the great blunder they made last year in
going into the business so largely. They
cut about 100000 tons, not more than
half of which has been sold There was
perfect fever for ice-cutting carly in
the season, owing to the failure of the
crop in New York State, and the busi-
ness was carried ON not only on the great
rivers, but on ponds and little streams.
Dealers who at first asked 81 ton would
have been glad to get $3.50 later in the
season.


PAUSE, rash youth, if you are in the
habit of removing the postage stamp
from your sweetheart's letter and press
ing the under side of the stamp to your
lips under the rapturous delusion that
the honeyed labels gave it adhesion to
the envelOpe-oh. pause, for Williams, of
the Norristown Herald, detected at the
postoffice the other morning the lady
loves coachman applying the stamp to
his last letter she sent him. So perishes
forever another of loves young dreamsl
-Danbmy Neios. -t. .....


POTATOES are a standard article of food
on most tables, but they are often so
badly cooked that they are neither pala-
table nor wholesome. AS breakfast
dish they are excellent We like them
prepared thus. Select the smaller ones.
leaving the larger ones for dinner-scrape
off the skins of new potatoes, put them
into cold water for ten minutes, have
water boiling, and cook them twenty
minutes; pour off the water and add
cup of milk or cream, and thicken it with
q little flour and butter rubbed together.
Butter never floats on the surface when
mixed with -four thus, nor docs the flour
trouble you with Jumps. 1t is just as
well, however, to leave out the butter,
mixing the -four with little cream
Prairie Farmer. f t.


A New HAMPSHIRE school-teache
lately was questioning one of his class
upon the anatomy of the human body,
and, standing upon one foot and swing
ing the other foot and limb, he inquired
how many bones he was moving. Sew
eral incorrect answers were given at first,
but after 1t had been answered correctly
the question was asked if any of the
scholars thought differently. A little
fellow, not yet in his teens, raised his
hand Immediately, signifying that he dis
agreed with his schoolmates, and the
teacher, repeating the question: " How
many bones was ] moving?" was aston
ished to hear the little chap increase the
proper number by one, in the same
breath giving as his reason: "You were
moving your jaw-bone, too"


THE st. Louis Republican tells this
story: There is fact lately come TO
light in small town where there is a
great deal of primitive simplicity, that
the presentation of a shirt by woman
to the man she wants to marry will cut
the heart out of love. One young girl
tried it, and made her lover glistening
white shirt with her own pretty hands.
He retired to his boarding-house, put it
on and went straightway to see and
make love 10 another girl. Clad in a
clean shirt he felt above the seamstress
who had made il, and she lost his coveted
company. She did not sit down and
whine over the linen that had gone astray,
but took pistol in her delicate hands
and tripped her way to the boarding
house aforesaid She met the unsus-
pecting lover, and presenting the pistol
told him to take off that shirt. He hesi-
tated and was lost. He saw desperation
in those eyes and death in the pistol He
peeled and handed the girl the soiled
garment, which she took on the point of