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About the I ....House I TRIED riECIPJIS. Celery Huladâ€" One boiluU I'gg, ono faw cRg, Olio tablespoonful of salad oil, one teaspoonful of white sugur, one sultspoonful of suit, ono salt- spounful of pepper, four tnblespoon- hils of vinegar und ono toaspoonful of made mustard ure required. l{ub the boiled ej;),' line and smooth and beat the oilier inffredients into it : then put on the celery, which has been cut into bits about an inch long, and serve before the vinegar wilts the celery. ColVce Crcouii â€" Stir into one pint of cream in a suvicepan one-half pound of collee. Boil one minute and strain through a cloth. Wnsh the saucepan and again put into it the cream, with the beaten yolks of â- even eggs. Let it boil up once and BUgar to taste. Li round Nut Candyâ€" Boil together one pint of molasses, one gill of brown sugur and two ounces of but- ter. When this is thick, add one pint of parched and shell ground nuts ; then boil lifteen minutes. I'our in a shallow buttered dish to hard- en. Veal .Saladâ€" Cut cold veal into small pieces and add uu equal quan- tit.v of clioi)ped cabbage and two hard-boiled eggs, chopped rather line ; season with celery salt. Pour over all a good dressing, mix well, set it awuy to cool and garnish with celery tips before serving. Beaten Potatoes â€" Boil large pota- toes until .soft, drain and dr.v thor- oughly over the fire. Warm a pint of milk and two ounces of butter in a saucepan. Mash the potatoes through a colander into the milk and butter, adding salt and pepper. With a wooden spoon or paddle beat this niixtuie until dry and stilT, press into a howl, then turn out in form on a dish, roughen the surface light- ly with a fork, brown it in the oven and serve hot. Corniiieal Gems â€" Two wcll-boat.cn eggs, a half cupful of .sugar and a tablespoonful of butter. Dissolve one teaspoonful of soda in two large cupfuls of sour milk and add to the eggs and .sugar. Sift a teaspoonful of salt with one cupful of flour into the micture, stir in enough cornmoal to make a stilT batter. Bake twen- t.v-five minutes in well-greased, hot gem pans. Molas.ses Cookies â€" Ono cup of mo- lasses, one-half cup of sugar, throe tablespoonfuls of lard, two tea- spoonfuls of soda in almost a quart of water, a little salt, spice to taste, and one-half cirp of warm wa- ter. Cut into s(iuare.s and bake. Veal Chee.S(> â€" Prepare etpjal quan- tities of boiled venl and smoked tongue. Pound the slices separately In a mortar, moistening with butter as you proceed. Then pack it in a jar or pail, mixing it in alternate la.vers ; first the tongue, then the veal, so that when it is cut it will look variegated. I'ress down hard and pour melted butter over the top. Keep in a dry place and well covered. Nice for lunch and for sandwiches. EASTKn TOKENS. It really isn't necessary to have a full purso in order to make little gifts for the Eastertide. Many dainty trilles can be made at home, which arc almost, if not more ac- ceptable, than llowers or books. The knack of combining the right colors in the use of the hits of vel- vet that accumulate is a great help. Those which seem most appropriate are white, yellow, i)ink and also green. The hare, which in Uermany is supposed to lay the Easter, egg, little yellow downy chickens, eggs, Easter bells and lilaster lilies arc used more or less in fashioning the ICaster remembrance. But whatever the gift may he, the loving wish that goes with it is what really makes it. Pincushionâ€" A daint.y little wicker basket with pink ribbon drawn tluoiigh the handle, is tilled with half a dozen snuill eggs, made by filling with bran, covering with white cloth and then with white silk as smoothly as possible. This would delight the heart of any child. Frame for small photographs â€" Cut cut of cardboard three largo bolls. In tlie center of each a circular, square or bell-shaped piece is cut out and the frames covered with white China silk embroidered in white and purple violets. The bells are connected by narrow satin baby ribbon, white aiul violet colored, with ro.scttes of the same at the top of each bell. Hlottcr and penwiper â€" Cut two jdcces of white blotting paper an^l ono of water color paper in the shape of a largo egg, for the top. Fashion a small rabbit out of cot- ton and cover with white velvet. Cut pieces for the ear.s. lining with pink silk, and sow in place, putting in two glass beads for the eyes. When fmishcd. Bunny is placed at one side in a sitting position with a scrap of white felt between his paw.s which ia to l)c used as a penwiper. A few stitrhna carefully taken through the water color paper will keep the rabbit in place, or it can Ije fastened by means of library paste. Two holes are pimrhed at one end of the blotter, and a ribbon drown through and tied in a bow. CaUndai'-iAllhougb the year ia W.11 on its w«y, it ian't too late to T CANADA'S r* «Ma«J LEADING L«. RESIDENTIAL f UNIVERSITY NEW CALENDAR NOW READY For Calendar and all Information, addresB, 12â€"14 give ono of those little articles, which marks ofT each da.y as it goes, whether the sun shines or the rains fall. Cut a piece of brown cardboard in the shape and size desired, and place a date pad at ono side. Out- lino in pencil on a piece of paper one or more rabbits and transfer by means of tracing paper to the card. Cut a piece of white velvet corre.s- ponding 1,0 the shape of the rabbit, which looks best if drawn stretched to its full length read.v to take a leap, and paste the velvet onto the outlined rabbit, the eyes being drawn in with pen and ink. A Cover for PTymn Book or Bible seems particularly appropriate as an Easter gift, and is made of white satin embroidered in an Easter lily design in the center of the top, with a small monogram, on the under side. . â-  -;;i-. FOB THE SICK. Jelly â€" Soak one-half box of gela- tine in a gill of cold water half an hour ; pour on one-half pint of boiling water ; add juice of three lemons, two cups of sugar, one-half pint of grape or raspberry juice, and whites of two eggs beaten stilT. Mo.'ss I.enionane â€" Soak a quarter of a cup of Irish moss in cold water, a few minutes until it begins ' to soften ; rinse well through .several waters. Put into an earthen dish ; pour a pint of boiling water over it and set on back of stove where it will keep hot (without boiling) for half an hour ; strain, add the juico of ono lemon, sweeten to taste with sugar and rock candy. It may be taken hot or cold. Very soothing for cold on lungs. King Edward Sandwiclv â€" ^Four eggs and their weight in flour, butter and sugar. Mix and bake very thin. When cold put stewed fruit or jelly between and cut in linger shape. Frost the cako before cutting. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. ColTec stains are quite diflicult to remove, and .i:!phur seems to do the work most efiicn. iously. Moisten the spots and hold tlum over a bit of smouldering sulphur in an iron dish. As sulphur is an acid, the spots Rheumatism Cured. tira. fiifofTat Had to T&ke H</p8^ dermio Injections to Reliava Hsr Pein. PERMANENTLY CURED BY MUNYOH'S RHEUMATISM CURE. "There i. no punishment too severe for thoE. who decelT. th. .lok."â€" HuirroK. "I would -hare spellt of rheumatUm, Ut4 at time, it would give m« great dii- trcia in vaj back and side. Many a thne I have had to take an injection to rsUsre the pain. I dbtained a rial of Mvmyon'a RheumatJsn Cure at ibhe free diatribution, and I am &ow letting quite irell. I have had no pains since, and can move around freely and naturally. I «m very glad 4o give my experieneci for (he beneflt of anyone who may b. suff- ering in a .imilar manaer." â€" iMrs, F. Uoi Utt, 128 Mutual street. Toronto. mrNTON'a semxdiec. Munjron's Pile Ointment cures pUea, price So. Uunyon's Eye Cur. cures weak eyes, price 2Sc. Munyon's Vltallier restores lost power to weak mon. l>rlce tl. TBXS XZDICAL ADVICX. I'ertonil letttrt ttfdrrtird ta Pr«*. Utia* yoD, I'hltadelptiU, (' i>..\ . rostdning <le< tills of elckneM, irdll be ahtnertd prompt' I; and frM advice as to trealmeat w^U M tlrwu must be washed at once in water containing a little soda and am- monia. it may be well to remember the assertion that gra.ss stuins can be removed by rubbing the place with molasses, and afterwards thorough- ly washing it. Hot water will take out every kind of fruit stain â€" if used soon. But the stained place must not be wet or washed prior to the use of the hot water. Tho very best codfish is cured whole, consequently tho.so who pur- chase the fish instead of the de.ssical- ed article get better quality. The choice cut of a codfish is a piece cut from tho centre. (ienera.ly speaking, pumice stone or sand soap will remove the brown discolorations on agate and tinware resulting from oven-baking, or the repeated heating of water containing mineral substances. l{ico is one of the most valuable of foods, and miglit profitably re- place so much moat and tri-daily use of potatoes in our housekeeping. Jt has a higher jHjr cent, in nutri- ment and is more digestible than |)otatoos. DEAD MEN WHO ARE LIYIM CURIOUS BELIEFS ABOUT DE- CEASED CELEBEITIIiS. Millions of People Who Firmly Believe That General Gor- don Is Still Alive. Is General Gordon Dead? Of course. There can be only one an- swer to that solenni question â€" an equally soleiim aflu-mative. Never- theless, it is a curious fact that there are living, at this present mo- ment, some millions of peoi)le who firmly believe that tlie question should be answered in the negative. All over tho souLliorn and central Soudan, the nati\t's are quite cer- tain that the "(ireat White Paaha" is only biding his own good time to reajipcar antl nile over them once mxarc. .And even among Englishmen the belief is bj- no means e.xtinjct that Gordon, when Khartoum fell, csicuixsd the mafjsacie, and retired in- to the untrodiden wilds of Western Kordofan. "It is precisely what he would have done," say many of those who knew him best. "Disgusted with the treatment meted out to him by a Government i^ secretly regaixled as faithless to its tru!,l. he determined to efface himself rather than retiuii to England." Thousands of Irish peasants hold a somewhat similar belief with regard to Parnell. "Their great leader," the.y argue, "saw that the cause ho had at heart was, for the time be- ing, irretrievably lost, so he arrang- ed a i)retended death and a sham burial, intending to return to 'life' apKl his tenqjoiarily a!)an<ionod tasik whenever the time should be siifll- ciently oppnrtaine." "Uidiciulous! " you say. Of course it is. Hut the belief is widespread and' unsliaken among an otherwise slwewd and not j)articularly imagin- ative people. \'ery wuird and very pretty is the story which has grown uji in Bur- ma regarding her late Majesty QUEEN VICTOKIA. It is only a legend, of course, but it is a legend wiiich is being to-day told serioiusly to tlu'ir disci]iles by thousands of Buddhist juiests in hundreds of Budtlhist monasteries. Queen Victoria, they aver, was once a Burmese maiden, and they explain their extraordinary allegation in this wi.se Early in the nineteenth century there lived in IJangoon a girl. very poor, but very pious, who devoted her life to holy works, and liocamu known fe.r and wide for iier charity anil her geMtlene«.s. Eventually her assiduity in doing gooid. coujiled with her fasts and her abstinence from sleep in order that .'-â- he niiglil devote more time to pray- er, undeiiiiined her health. She I'elt herself to be dying, and with her last breath silie jirayed Gautama Butldha that, when she should bo re- incarnaUvd it should be where s.he would be enabled to do the maxi- nuiin of good to tho greatest number of her follow creatures. This was on Slay 21, 1819. lluddha cast his eyes athwart the world, and finally sent the .sold of his di.sciple flitting across land and sea to I^ondon, where it pas.sed into the body of the daughter of the Ihichess of Kent, then l.ving new-born in her cradle in Kensington Palace. What became of the infamous Nana Sahib after the collapse of the lt\- dian Mutiny'* The answer to this question, could it be correctly giv- en, would unlock one of the most |)uvr/ling and interesting of modern historical mysteries. All that is known for certain is that, after tho fall of Delhi, ho retired northward with a considernlilo following, that he was attacked and defeoted in the Jorwah Pass by Sir Hope Grant in May, 1859, and that he was after- wards reported to be in considerable force in Nopaul, on the frontiers of fhidc during the autumn of the same .vear. When, however, on this latter oc- casion, a recoiuioitering party was despatched against him. he sutiHonly and MYaTEUIOUaiA' VANISHED. Nor from that day to this has aught rleOnite been hoard of him. 'Phe Indian Qovenuncnt gave out later on that he took to tho Junglo anil died there of fover. This was a convenient and plauflible theory, hut there was no jot or tittio of IVX>ot to substantiate it. Nor did tihe authorities really believe very strenuously in It themselves, as is I>roved by tlip fact that they con- timied long afterwards to offer per- iodical rewards for his capture, and that so late as 1871 a person said to be he, but whoso identit.y was afterwards di.sj)roved, was arrested by their orders at Gwalior. Nor did the natives of India cre- dit it. Indeed, they are jiractically uiiuninious in a.s.sorling that lie uh- caped, with a small following, into Thibet, where he turned priest, and rose to be a sort of permanent sec- retary and princijial advisor to the Grand Lamu. "And this is why," they will add confidently and confi- dentially, "no Englishman has been permitted, during the past forty years, to enter Lhasa." Such is the story. All that can be said is that, if NaJia is really liv- ing in IJiasa to-day, he nnist ho a ve."y old man, for he was rearing his fortieth year when the Mutiny broke out. It is, of course, tho Eastern doc- trine of the transmigration of souls which causes Eastern lands to. teem with stories of dead people â€" dead, that is, lo the warld at large â€" who are yet averred to bo very match alive to those who see them with the eye of faith. A striking instance of how deep- rooted is this belief was afforded by the pre.'ence at the Delhi Durbar the other day of an old Hindu. who claimed to be none other than the re-incarnated General Nicholson of Mutiny fame. Nor wore either per- .suasion or argument of any avail against his dogged assliirance. The old chap had been orderly to the general, and had soothed his last moments after he had fallen mortal- ly \voun*Jed in front of the Cashmore 6 ate. WHEN NICHOLSON DIED in the fiesii the other Nichol.son, the soul, ."vpirit, call it what you will, passed into the body of his servitor. "How else," asil-ced the veteran sim- ply, "was it that I, a sim- ple Sepoy, rose, ere tho war ended. to be subadar. Was it I, aforetime a timid man, who af- terwards was always in the fore- front of the battle'? No, ray mas- ters. The form and tho features were mine, but the spirit was the spirit of Nicholson Sahib." And in the end, to humor him, place and l>rec-e*lence was given him in that gorgeous, stately procession, amid rajahs and mnharajahs, princes, hol- kars. and nizams. You might live in Constantinople many years without liearing aught concerning the Masked Prisoner oJ tlie 'Yikliz Kiosk, for the Turk is na- turally .secretive, and the spies of the Government are everywhere. NevortJieless, there is not a native btit has heard of him, and is as sure of his identity as of tlieir own. He is. so they avor. none other than that .\bdul-Aziz who reigned as Sul- tan from 1801 to 1876. and who. on Jutie 4 of tho latter year, was said to have connnitted stiicide by open- ing with a pair of scissors the veins of his arms. But this, sa.y they, was a fairy tale, devised by the pre- sent Sultan, Abdul-Hamid. After- wards, in 18.81, he was said to have been iniu-dered. But this, again, the populace will not believe Instead, they insist, he has been all these years confined within the walls of .Abdiul's fortress-palace-prison, see- ing nonie save his guards, conversing with no one â€" dead, and .yet alive. .\i!|d over his features he wears a waxen mask, cimningly moulded in the likeness of his saiccessor. Mtirad. the brother of the present Sultan, who was depo.svd after a reign last- ing exactly three months. This latter it is, if tho babble of the Constantinojile coffee houses is to be believed, who was really mur- dered by Mi<lhat I'aalia and his ac- complices. And in order to cover up the foul crime the titil.v Oriental plot was conceived, which decreed that a man said to be dead, but really alive, should jjersonate a man said to bo alive, but in reality dead. â€" Pear.son's Weekly. A THOUGHTFUL HUSBAND. I A laily who is s«)bject to heart dis- â-  ease took tea last Sunday with a ; neighbor, and while sitting at tl^ble 1 her hu.sbaud ru.s'ncd in withowS a : hat and in his sihirt sleeves. I "Be calnv!" he exclaimed hurried- I ly to his wife; "don't excite your- i self, j'ou knoll you can't stand ex- ! citemont, and it might be worse!" I "Good gracious!' cried tho wife; I "the children' areâ€" â€" " "They're all right. Now, Mary, j don't get excited; keep calm and I cool; it can't bo helped now. We nriis-t beaj- there visitations of Pro- vidence with philoso-|)iliy." "Then it's mother!" gasped the wife. "Your mother's safe. Got on youlr things, but don't hurry or worrj'. It's too late to be of any use, but I'll lly back and .see what I can do. I only came to tell you not to get excited." "For mercy's sake," implored the almost fainting woman, "tell me the worst!" "Well, if you will have it, the conr sequences be on your own head, Mary. I've tried to prepare you, and if you will knowâ€" -don't excite yourself; try to keep calm â€" but our kitchen chinmey's on fire, and all the neighbors are in our front garden!" She survived. CHOOSINCr THE WEDDING DAY. A curious old marriage custom, called locally "the settling," still survives in Coujity Donegal. Irelantl, and in the Scottis'h di.'jtricts of Kin- tjTc and Cowal. After the marriage has been publicly announced, tho frierhds of the cou;ple meet at the house of the bride's parents to fix a suitable date for tho marriage. A bottle of wlusk.y is opened, and as each guest drinis to their happiness he names a date. When each guest has named a date an average is stJ'uck, at\d "settling" is complete. Neither the bride nor bridegroom ever thiniks of protes'ting against th* date so curiously chosen. MR. CARNEGIE'S LTBRABIES. Mr. Carnegie has given, chiefly within the last two years, 730 lib- rary buildings. In the month of July last 276 apiplications for lib- rary buildings were received by him from all parts of the English speak- ing World. When he arrived in New Y'ork recently from Europe he found awaiting him applications for 450 ailditional buildings. At present he lias on harrtl 385 now applications, majiing in all under consideration now more than 800, "the groat ma- jority of which," he says, "will, no doubt, be given." aaiS6iKHajWH«ioo*iwtoi5<KHji3caoa i MmdTMSc It make& no dlfffirenco wJietlier it Is chronic,, acute or indanunitory' cf the mu3cles or loljita cares and cures promptly. O Pricp. 25c..»sd OQc* 9 6fi£HMH3tt0OCHMH3oocK:aiMK3caci>a 9 w^ay s PILLS AND OINTMENT should be in EVERY CANADIAN HOUSEHOLD. REDUCED COPIES OF GENUINE LABELS. Pill: - Black on Green. Ointment :â€" Brown acd Green on White. HOLLOW AY'S PILLS are of immense value to the weak and ailing. Although thoroughly searching, their action is so gentle th.it delicate persons need have no hesitation in taking them; indeed, they should never be without a supply. The Pills give speedy relief In cases of Headache, Biliousness, Nausea, Dizziness and Trembling Sensations. Females will find them highly efficacious. HOLLOW AYS OINTMENT is pre-eminently a household remedy; once used it is sure to have a permanent place in the family medicine cupboard. It quickly allays inflammation and irritation, and is in the highest degree soothing and healing Apply it to Bruises. Burns, Scalds, Cuts, Wounds, Boils, Abscesses, &c. It also relieves and cures Bronchitis, Asthma, Sore Throat, Quinsy, and other affections of the Throat & Chest