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THE SERVANT QUESliON An Appeal to Housekeepers and Heads of Families Everywhere A despatch from Chicago sayts !-- Rev Frank De Witt Talmage preached fro.'.i the following text : Psalm cxxiii, 2, "As the eyes of a maiden unto Jhe hand of her mistress." That the housekeeper as well as the servant can be negligent in her duty there is no doubt. The psalmist, as a spiritual diagnostician of the heart's weaknesses, asserts it. He figuratively seems to place the mistress as a prototype before her domestics. Then, as a young artist crosses the seas to study at the feet of the old masters and sits day In and day out copying a Raphael's "Sistinc Madonna" or a Paul Veronese's "Last Supper" or a Reubens' "Descent From the Cross" or a Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment," the psalmist raises the mistress upon a pedestal as a model for the servants. Day in and day out the actions of the parlor are being duplicated in the kitchen. Adam Clark, tho great commentator, interprets these words of my text in the following way : "As servants look to their masters and mistresses to see how they do their work, that they may do it in tho same way," so may wo correct some of the evils found in the kitchen by exposing the evils practiced in the parlor. All lotheci in brood- to be sympathetic with her troubles, then the housekeeper must he sympathetic with theirs. Her knowledge of her servants ought not to be limited to their service. She should take an interest in their personal convcrns and give them coun-in their difficulties. Trials i of trials of the house) old will be all the easier to bear if the housekeeper and her servant meet them with clasped hands, each calling the oilier her sister. DUTY OF THE HOUSEKEEPER. Sympathy, Cod given, practical sympathy, can break down many barrier which to-day separates t kitchen from the parlor. The housekeeper is the servant's model, also in devotion to the home. The vants will inevitably fail to appreciate the dignity and nobility don,die service, unless their mi tresses feel that the highest horn any woman can have is to preside over and dedicate her life to her The name of home ought to have for every true housewife a charmed sound. It ought to be spelt by her, as her grandmothers used to spell it, in many letters of gold. It ought to be spelled in tongues of flame, glow- ought rilistoi 1 I other 1 o be spelled tters, "opportunity;" in an->rd of nine letters, "happi-It ought to be spelled in cloth. All feminine unfaithfulness ,wr> words, the one of eight and the of threo letters, "maternal It ought to be spelled In an-rord of seven letters, "liber-The true wife should never > be anywhere but under the of her home. But though Anderson, the queen of the in stage, gladly abdicated her in example theatrical throne in order to be ist be true fluecn of her aomostic f"'PsidC a dan" Christi-.n'gerous tendency of this age is for lothers to vacate their domestic thrones. They want to hand over the kitchen to their cooks. They want to leave their children under the exclusive control of the nurses. They want to be separated from their husbands, oi their clubs. They want ally educated in evcryth: except in the old fashi id injustice selves near a kitchi in a stupid and stolid head with a waitress' cap or nestle in the selfish heart of the girl who, wearing «>; a nurse's apron, pushes the baby's |*" 1 1 carriage along the avenue. If the ' head of the house wishes her ser- , 11 vants to be faithful and ♦••»» w i Amer then she must first set of faithfulness. She m,' and kind and loving anc like to her servants and people with whom she comes ii tact in her domestic walk of life. INCULCATE HONESTY BY TRE-CEPT. The housekeeper is her servant's model. That implies that the mistress must be honest if she wants > be honest. Plato, 1 the ■ laily . . philosopher, once tried to con-! lca™in**ow to be a S°°d housewife vey the idea that an evil man's and mother, deeds could bo concealed, at least HONORABLE EMPLOYMENT, for a time. He illustrated this cs it a disgrace, as many women thought by the story of the fabled I scem to think it is, for a mother to Gyges' ring, which could make the be secll wheeling her baby carriage 1V™J along the street with her own liesh >f" md blood in that carriage? For my to the naked eye, "Thus," Plato the Greek, "the truly honest t T think guch a blic si ht man is the one who would be hon- I Qf h(,r js a far mo,.c est at all times when 1 e could I* : Ilonornb,c ono tnan fol. sucU a woman illto^" h Butr.^anco„-!- be ^i^^^P-o, be^l^^ hidden? The eyes of rivals, of V"" " u'l " fU1C ,° subordinates, of emiplyees, are keendr»^n- b" ,,Say '", y°"' °' and see more than we know. They wives nnd '"others, that you can-are apt to imitate, too, both the nevcr ?eV.yo' good and the bad, so that iviate ■ may cause deterioration through whole circles of his social inferiors. In the home, as in business, the example of dishonesty has always the tendency to recoil on the wrongdoer. The merchant who connives at his clerk's cheating of the customers in his interests must not be surprised if the clerks cheat him In their own interest. If a farmer knowingly sends false weights to market, and when he is packing a barrel of apples places the good apples upon the top of the barrel and a lower grade of fruit beneath, that farmer is teaching his farm hands to be deceitful in their relations to him when they are gathering the fruit. He is teaching his men to lie as he has lied and be dishonest as he was dishonest. If the bank officials criminally misplace the institution's trust funds, there is those bank employees will default, and in the emptied safe of that bank the sins of that financial institution will, like the proverbial chickens, come home to roost. A step further ! If a housewife will bid hor waiting maid answer the front door bell and tell the would be caller that she is out. when sho is in, that mistress is teaching her servant to be a liar in all things as well as in part. If a wife is false in her dealings with her grocer and butcher and washerwoman and false in her financial dealings with her servants, she need not be surprised if the laundress steals the stray handkerchiefs and collars and the cook sinfully wastes the butter an-i filches the cupboard, and perhaps goes so far ns to sell the potatoes and the eggs. If a housewife, to protect herself, is unjust to her servants, and turns them off at a moment's notice when she is leaving for the country vacation, then she should not grumble If her servants treat her in the same DISHONESTY IS CONrACIOIIS. Dishonesty is contagious. Dishonesty is an immoral germ winch is apt to spread through a whole family as the diphtheria germ often in the olden timc3 used to destroy all the children of on; household. The sinful plague of dishonesty and untruthfulness and unfaithfulness does not always enter a home by the back door. It is sometimes comfortably installed in the boudoii long before it appears in the servants' quarters, and its first nap in j a household is taken upon the par-lor sofa and not by resting until you yourself fully realize that the greatest work and the most honorable work you can have is that which is to be found within the four walls of a consecrated home. Tho housekeeper is her servants' model. Then she must give to them her love as well as her sympathy. "Oh, no," some housewife answers, "I could not love my servants. I could sympathize with them in their troubles, but I could not love them. Why, if I loved them I should have to receive them into the holy of holies' of my heart. I should in one senso have to make them part of my family. ^ 1 can Yei my f chi ld-ri love ur do- creep into their hearts and make your interests their' interests. THE SERVANT OF ALL. Oh, mistresses! Oh, housewives and housekeepers, in your dealings your servants may you reveal a gentle Christian life your household. In your prayers, in your consecration, in your family altars, in the purity of your life, may you always help your household vants to look beyond the grave and to look up. The.n, when your mestics, through your Christian ample, walk, hand is hand with Je Christ thero will be no "servi question." Why? There shall be unfaithful and slothful domestics. Housewives and housekeepers, heed well tho importance of consecrating your lives to Christ, not only *-your own sake, but also for the sake of your servants. Remember that is far easier for you to commit a ! against those whom you suppose be lower than you than it is against those whom you suppose are above you. It is easier for a parent tc sin against a king. And remembei to defy a parent. It is easier for c king to do an open wrong to a sub ject than for a subject to flagrantly rin Against a king. And remember further, that God judges our act just as much by how we treat cattle as our masters, our underlings our husbands and wives. May the Spirit inspire every housewife to live such a holy life that her servants can well take her as a spiritual model and can seo in her face a reflection of the loving smile of Jesus Christ, who willingly became the ser- THE S. S. LESSON. Text of the Lesson, I. Sam. xxvi., 5-12. Golden Text, Luke vi., 27. 5, 6. Then nnswered David and said, » * * Who will go down with mo to Saul to the camp? And Ab-ishai said, I will go down with thee. After . the parting of David and Jonathan in the last lesson David in due time made his headquarters in the cave Adullam. and, having placed his father and mother under the caro of the king of Moab, he became captain of about 400 distressed and discontented men who gathered unto His own brethren wore also ng them (chapter xxii., 1-4). Saul in his anger having, by the i of Daeg, slain eighty-live priests, Abiathar escaped and told ~ id, and to him David said these memorable words: "Abide thou with fear not; for he that seeketh my seoketh thy life, but with mo i shalt be in safeguard" (xxii* 23). Probably many years of David's persecutions ' aro covered by the words, "And Saul sought him every ; but Cod (lelivere.fhim not into hand" (xxiii., 14). But in the twenty-fourth chapter, as well as in lesson, Saul each case David rett David having been Saul had in n to seek him my I onion looked upoi bally painting th his home when he vants were part of himself, troubles should come those s< would cling to him and love 1 account of the love with whi loved them. You can learn t i jut the s work for you from a higher motive than that of getting money. They can learn to love you. CORDS OF AFFECTION. Housewives, if you will only learn to love your servants and make their interests your interests, that love would be returned to you in a thousand blessings. Wo can prove tiiis by the silver cords of affection which bound some of tho southern planters to their black slaves. Did not those slaves return their masters' love by a noble devotion? There was many and many a woman in the south who, after her husband had been shot in the civil war, would have starved to death had not the strong limbed negroes who worked for her as "slaves of the law" continued, on their own frco will, to work for her as "slaves of love." There was many a wounded Confederate soldier who would have died had not his body servant, who easily could have escaped into the northern lines, gladly and willingly and ■ prayerfully nursed him back to health strength. There is many a ser-working to-day as a hireling in home who if she was loved by kitch.cn chair. The mistress, in i her mistress would return a wealth Bpite of herself, is an exemplar to; of affection and devotion such as she tho domestic. Very often when the herself does not believe herself cap-hoc tewife is finding fault with her ■ able of giving. The true intcrpreta-soi-tant she is denouncing the mal- tion of love means simply this: If formed results of her own evil life. you love your servants, you will take The housekeeper is the domestic's ! them into your life and' make their model also in the matter of sym-: interests your interests And by paithy, If *Iie wishes the servants 1 your loving them they will lot you he will, and in ins good for evil, assured by spies very deed come having 3,000 olunteer to accompany him to Saul's camping place, and Abishai, l of Jeremiah, responds. Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into hand this day; now therefore e smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the earth at and I will not smite him tho second time. Having come to where Saul and his people were by night they find them sleeping. and Abishai thinks that David's God given opportun-slay his enemy, and ho wil-Hngly offers to be the executioner. iame Abishai wanted to take i's head off when he cursed and threw stones at him. He ! also who delivered David the giant Ishbibeuob and slew I. Sam. xvi., 5, 6, 9; xxi., 16, He was a valiant, natural man, d not seem to know much of acious long suffering of Jeho- . David said furthermore, As the Lord liveth the Lord shall smite him or his day shall come to die or he shall descend into battle and perish. Tho Lord forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the Lord's anointed. Such confidence had David in his God that he could leave every one and everything in His hand without anxiety, sure that the counsel of the Lord would stand and the counsel of His enemies be brought to naught. Therefore he could say, not as a mere theory, but from his own experience; "Fret not thyself because of the evildoers, for they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb. Rest in the Lord «tnd wait patiently for Him" 12. They were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them. David's suggestion to Abishai was that they take the spear anid cruse from Saul's head, which they did, awl going a good distance away cried out to Abner, the captain of Saul's host, that he was a valiant man1, but had not taken good cure of his muster, for he might have been sJain by one who took away tho rtpeair and cruse fi-omi his mas-tor's head. The reason of their beirig able to do this was that the Lord bad caused special steep to Odme upon them. •JUL. Then said Saul : I have sinned. Return, my son David. * * * Behold, I have played the fool a«d baive erred exceedingly. David's kindness to him htaxl him in his power seems to have touched his hand heart, and raid he would no more do him harm'. But he had also teemed penitent when David snared him the former time (xxiv, 1(5-19). He was unreliable toward Cod and man, unstable, disobedient, self willed, not willing to be controlled by God and therefore controlled by the evil one. 22-24. Behold, as thy life was pJUch set by this day in mine eyes, so lot my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord and let Him deliver me out of all tribulation. Pirn Id .reoogr.jzcd the Lord's hand in Savl being placed in his power arid also in his being kept from touching him. From his own experience he wrote, "The meek well He guide in judgment nnd the meek will lfo teach His way" (Ps. xxv. 0). Meekness covers so much gnahSifcJ and is so necessary the word must be received with meekness, arret, being saved by His word, we mw't take upon us His yoke wflno is meefk aud lowlv in heart and follow I Sim (Jas. I, 21; Matt. xi. 29). David's desire for full deliverance brinjgs to mjnd these words of Paul. "The Lord siha.ll deliver me froim every evil work and will preserve me unto Ms heavenly kingdom, to whom he glory for ever and ever. Amen" (,11 Tito, iv, 18). 25, Then Saul said to David : Blessed bo thou, my son David. Thrm s/lralt both do great things anil also sfhalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place. Whether Saul wished what he said of David ndgjht come true or not we cannot say, but they did cotme true, for Cod had so purposed it, and David neat on and grew great, nnd the Moid God of Hc*t.s was with him (M Sam. v. 10). The purpose of God concerning David's r:rn shall glso be perfoilmed, notwithstanding all the devices of the enemy, even of (Satan himself. rice Ifia. ix. 6. 7: Kuke i, 35, 33. David and Saul each going his own way suggests the mil-, two ways*--the wav of the Hglsteov.s aivtl the way of the wicked. 2 chiefs of PHYSIQUE OF ENGLISHMEN. Government Will Find Out What Changes Are Occurring. The inquiry which tl is about to addrc-s:« t the medical profe&si physique of the English people is not only justifiable, but most wise. Two immense changes are passing over our population, and it is necessary to ascertain in a definite and, for the time, final way what the effect of those changes ujion tho health of the population really is, says the London Spectator. The people are rapidly quitting J'^'f ffi Recipes for the Kitchen, f o Myikne and Other Notes 1 & for the Housekeeper. * • e ••©«e»©o®e©e©o9»®»«oeo WAYS WITH CAULIFLOWER. Cream-ol'-eauliflower Soup.--Cook in a double boiler until perfectly tender ono pint of finely cut* cauliflower with one quart of milk, then press through a coarse sieve, and return to tho lire; season to taste with salt and pepper, and add one tablespoon-ful of butter, and ono dessertspoonful of corn-starch stirred smoothly in a little cold milk. Cook, and stir until perfectly smooth, then serve at once with small oblongs of buttered brown bread. Boiled Cauliflower.--Pick off the outer leaves, and cut off the stem close to the flowers. Wash thoroughly in cold water, and allow to soak with tho top downward in cold saltwater, allowing one tablespoonful of salt to each gallon of water. This will draw out all hidden insects. Then tio it in a piece of cheese-cloth to keep it whole, place stem downward in a kettleful of slightly salted boiling water, and let cook, closely covered, until tender. When done, lift from the water, remove the cloth, place it in a heated dish with the flowers up, pour cream sauce Cauliflower au Gratin.--Boil the cauliflower. Melt ono ounce of butter in a frying-pan, and stir smoothly in it one tablespoonful of flour; thin with one half pint of milk, stir until hen add four tablespoonfuls ie, ono half teaspoon-d a dash To make the i off the yellow rind of a lemon Vsin£ great care to reject every bit of thW white, which is very bitten Pour the grated rind into a bottle, and cover it with alcohol. CorW tightly and set away for three weeks/ when it will bo found ready for use. strong, of grated < ful < Stir the country for the merely that the great cities growing till.--to take only oik star.ee--it is becomling a serious difficulty to supply thern with good water, but the idn«r towns tiro growing till in other countries they would be accounted cities. "Whereas?," said the Earl of Meath. in the LorxJs debate of Monday, "in 18'5V1 the urban population of England and W'nlos was 8,990,000, out of a total population of 17,927,000. or 50 per cent., in 1801 it was 25,-000,000 out of a total population of f$2,000,000, or 77 per cent." That is an enormous change in the condition of Britioli life, and it involves by a sort of necessity other changes, the full effect of which it is needful for a wise community to Then there is a second which has passed over the people and which for good or evil, must, one would think, affect the national health. We have ordered every boy and girl during nine years of the growing time to go to school--that is, to sit quiet few hours, "to bend over de.siks and to use their minds instead of their har.ids and feet. That tie effect upon the intelligence of the new generation is, on the whole, most beneficial we should be the last to deny; indeed, we only wish that tiie period of education could be lengthened by two years; but do we know anything with certainty of its effect upon health ? Many observers dec] aire that not at all good; that schools are perfectly i confinement is too grc part the cause of the doncy, the craving for mo ■Jiich, they say when the riitc ci lentnry I thirty i: , marks i ing wat of the done longer, t hen pour flower, and serve hot. Baked Cauliflower With Cheese.-- Boil the cauliflower until tender, break into small pieces, and put a layer in the bottom of a buttered baking-dish. Cover with cream sauce, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese, and add another layer of cauliflower. Finish with a layer of the grated cheese, and brown delicately in a rather slow oven. Savory Cauliflower.--Boil the cauliflower, and set aside to cool. Prepare one pint of egg-bntter, and add teaspoonful of minced pars- ley and grated cher cauliflower ii hot butter, place them o immediately. Mashed Ca Mower with tender, romo oughly drain well, press tablespoonful of mild ie. Dip each sprig of this batter, and fry in When they are done, i a hot dish, and servo liflowcr.--Boil me whole oni : the < the c . When [ tlior- aulifh hrough a coarse sieve, men aau a lump of butter, a few tablespoonfuls of sweet cream, and salt and pepper to taste. Cauliflower in Butter.--Break a firm head of cauliflower into sprigs, and cook in slightly salted boiling water until about half done. Take up, drain, and- put in a saucepan with two ounces of melted butter, the juice of one lemon, two tablespoonfuls of chicken stock or cream, a dash of cayenne and one small cupful of water. Cook until the cauliflower is tender, take up, strain tho gravy, add to it one cupful of thick white sauce, pour it over the cauliflower, and serve. Scalloped Cauliflower.--Break the cauliflower into small sprigs, and cook in boiling salted water until tender. Place the pieces In a buttered pudding-dish, and pour over them a sauce made as follows: Mix well one half pint of bread-crumbs, three cupfuls of sweet milk, one beaten egg, two teaspoonfuls of salt, a little pepper and one cupful of diced cooked chicken, veal or tender beef. Bake in a moderate oven until delicately browned. Salad .^-Sti lillowi Drain r for i boil- im t quit the alcohol from the rind after, three weeks, and pour it »ver fresh-' ly grated peel, rejecting the first rind and use like any lemon extract.-Instead of clear alcohol, one can use equal parts of alcohol and simple syrup, using in the recipe the same as the alcohol. If one doesn't caro to make the extract in this way, it is still possible to make a substitute for the storo article, which will give good result! at little expense. Purchase of a drug-, gist five cents worth of oil of lemon, and use it by tho single drop, in recipes where a teaspoonful of lemon extract is called for, or dilute th« oil by adding simple syrup until it seems as weak as ordinary lemon ex-Orange extract is made by soaking orange peel in enough alcohol to cover it, and then adding the strained juico of one large orange. Tha use of orange and lemon flavoring in the samo cake makes a pleasing change. Vanilla extract is more expensive to make than the others, but it is also much more difficult to purchase vanilla flavoring, a very little ol the made flavoring will flavor a pudding, cake, or a freezer of cream and when it is once used one sees the advantage of making it at home. Purchase of a druggist one-fourtR of an ounce of vanilla beans, one-half ounce of tonka beans, and one-haU pint of alcohol; boil and cool one-half pint of clear water, and put it, with other ingredients, into a bot> tie; cork tightly, and sey away for two *eeks. Then add one-fourth ol a pint of water, boiled and cooled, and one-fourth of a pint of alcohol; set away a week longer, strain, bot« tie and it is ready for use. Use only a little at first, until by using it on« finds out how much should bo used THE CARE OF CLOTHES. Too much cannot be said upon ths airing of skirt and waist after being worn. When removed they should be carefully brushed and mended, it there are any repairs to be made, and then hung over a waist hangei or the back of a chair near an open window, with the wrong side out. Fo» thin, fluffy waists, or those of handsome silk or satin, it is an excellent plan to stuff the sleeves with white tissue paper and put the garment away on a hanger. A charming reeeptablc for summer shirt-waists, which should always bo laid their full length and very lightly one over tho other, may bo obtained by taking an ordinary wood-o feet long by three ig it with some profit the inside covered to match or in contrasting goods, ... and tho covered lid attached by two or three fancy brass hinges. MOST EXPENSIVE HAIR. Every year, two or three days after the fete of St. John, a market of human hair is held at Limoges. Girls, matrons and old women, from tha country around, bargain to obtain tho best price for their tresses, which are shorn off in the marketplace. White hair always fetches the highest price, because the color cannot be produced with dyes. It is often worth S25 per pound. Oroy hair comes next in market value, then flaxen-colored, golden auburn, light and dark brown, in that order. Tha cheapest is black hair. deep, and c j and arrange these____ inly do not notice that \ bowl lined with crisp, tender lettuce-effect or that tendency among the leaves. Mash the yolks of four hard-children of the well-to-tio; but then ; boiled eggs, and cut the whites into they leave home a little later, they (petals; arrange these over the cauli-perfoctJy fed, and they obtain j flower in imitation of daisies, and when out of doors the equivalent of a sound gymnastic training. At lcaelt, they are as healthy little animals as could well be wished for. moreover, none of the cares which at that period begin to press upon those who have to earn their living. The effect of sitting for six hours, the effect of years of readinig upon whose fore-fatihers could not read, and the effect of mental d<>-velapmerit upon the ill-fed are all •fleets with a material and direct bearing upon health, and have been far too carelessly studied. 'Wo do not feel at all sure that they are wholly beneficial and trust that they crumbs, and one cupful of en wilt be most carefully examined, for ul"l'h '« by cooking if the derision is'that fhev are ff«'< her one tablespoonful each pa.-tlv injurious the remo.lv is in butter and flour, thinning with hands. It is onlv at this: cupful of milk, and just before period of their lives that we have: moving from the lire adding full control of the masses of child- plain French dressing. Cauliflower Fritters.--Cook a head of cauliflower until half done, then take up, and drop in cold water to keep it white. Break it into sprigs, and dip each sprig in rich white sauce slightly warm, and lay aside to cool; then dip in rich egg-batter, and fry delicately in hot butter. Drain on unglazed paper, lay in a heated dish, and garnish with fried parsley. Cauliflower Croquettes.--Chop two cupfuls of cooked cauliflower quite lino, add one half cupful of fine hread- , and it should be utilised t TjOSt, to promote the welfare VOTING BY ELECTRICITY. Members of the Liverpool Town Council will shortly be able to vote ■bile sitting in their seats. They re adopting a novel system of taking divisions. Each councillor will have two electrical buttons in front of him. One of those will be marked "For" and the other "Against." ! As he pushes ono of the knobs a small disj will appear against his 'name on an indicator placed prominently on the wall of the council chamber. The clerk will thus be able to count tho votes from his seat and they can easily be checked by until another division is taken. nil well, and set aside to cool; then form into croquettes, egg and breadcrumb, and fry in butter to a delicate brown. Cauliflower Mince.--Allow one cupful of finely chopped cooked chicken or veal to two cupfuls of chopped cooked cauliflower. Moisten with chicken or cream sauce, season to taste with salt and pepper and a little finely minced onion, cover with buttered crumbs, and bake for twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Creamed Cauliflower on Toast.-- Break a firm white head of cauliflower into sprigs, soak in salted water thirty minutes, then cook in boiling salted water until perfectly tender. Take up carefully, drain, and lay on squares of buttered toast. Pour cream sauce over the cauliflower, and HOME MADE EXTRA A LADY SHIP DOCTOR. Mile Sarah Broido, a young lady doctor, has obtained a professional engagement on board a steamer plying between Marseilles and Algiers. Tho circumstance is to bo noted as Mile Broido is tie first French "doc-toress" who has been engaged on board ship. Hitherto ships' doctors has it nil their own way, but they tho doctoress. Already Mile Broido'a example is being followed, and two others of her sex are applying for medical berl hs on other steamerr registered at the port of Marseilles. HUGE BLAST. The quarry ot Dalmeny, on Lord Roseberry's estate, in Scotland, was recently the scene of the largest blasting operation which has over been carried out in Scotland, if estimated by the number of holes which were fired at one time. Twenty-seven holes, tarrying in depth from 6 ft. to 17 ft. were bored, and these were charged with 300 lbs. of blasting gelatine. All the holes wero con-i nected up and fired simultaneously by electricity, the blast bringing down altogether about 4,000 ti 5 per pound of e of I ONE WSAS ENOUGH. Id man. "Love he y; ves I i For soft glai 1 hurl i tho self from bleeding, ks two yonder hundred feel The old man shook his head. "I'm something of a liar myself," he said, "and one is enough for a> small family like mine." LHs.E ENGLISH PIPES. Owing to the increasing favor witlr which the English pip* »nd tobacco are regarded in Germany, Baden cigarmakcrs experienced a falling ot of trade last year. ANOTHER NEW VORD. In future sight-testing opticians nr<. to be known as "opto'ogists." Tht British Optical Assoc.atlon bee-