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Shaman, of Iowa, ac- cording to a \Vestern paper, is now acting as a clerk in a country store in the north- eastern part of lows. ‘ The archdiocese of Baltimore has had but nine Roman Catholic archbishops,and .three of them were converts from the Protestant Episcopal church. Arthur Bentz, a six-year-old boy, of Lebanon, Pa.,died from the efi'ects of swal- lowing a tadpole, which his little companion :had forced into his mouth. There are 15,000 salaried employee on the lists of New York city, and the total expenditures of the city government were $89,000,000 for the year. The rightof a telegraphor telephone com- pany to cut limbs from trees toprevent their interference with the wires is to be tested by the United States Supreme 'Court. Miss Frances E. Williard attributes h‘er .gain in health and weight to the fact that while she was visiting in England they 'made her cat five hearty meals a day. At Washington there is a list of all the known anarchists in the world, and their lace of residence when last heard from. he French Government has a similar list. ‘ Mrs. F. Marion Crawford is an enthusi- astic sailor and accompanies her husband on many of his yachting expeditions. She is also an accomplished inguist and musici- an. So valuable are her jewels that Mrs. Pot- ter Palmer never attends a ball or party of any kind to which she wears them without a private detective to form part of her es- â€"COI‘L. Carp has become soplentiful in the sloughs along the Columbia river in Oregon that .fishermen have offered to supply farmers with any desired quantity for manure at $5 per ton. One of the most industrious ministers in Georgia is W. M. Jones, colored, of Pratts- burg. He works a crop during the week and walks 29 miles every Sunday in filling his appointments. Dr. R. Baynes, of Rockland, Me, is 99 ‘years old, but has good teeth and eyesight, uses neither liquors, tobacco, tea nor coffee. .and sleeps in an iron chair for the sake of its supposed magnetic value. Miss Grace Hawthorne, daughter of the well-known writer, is a famous pedestrian and thinks nothing of a 10 mile walkâ€"not before breakfast erhaps, but any time be- The gratest handle factory, where han- dles of axes, hammers, and all sorts of tools are made of the best hickory, and are ship- ped by the millions toall parts of,the world, is located at Louisville, Ky. . It is proposed to erect an electric over- head road from the Chicago Post Office to the Exposition grounds, to transit the mail at a high rate of speed. The road will be built over the tops of the houses. Mrs. Sophia Wansir,of Sheboygan,Mich., has grown rich by a peculiar industry. She built a gas works several years ago and sold it to the town at a great advance. Now she is building the village waterworks. Mrs. Stella B. Conger, wife of ex-Senator O. D. Conger, of Michigan, died recently and her will leaves him the sum of $150 a month, and makes provision for his funeral and for the erection of a suitable monument over his remains. At the Boston Schoolboys’ Society reun. ion recently Joseph D. Jones gave his rem- iniscences as a schoolboy 92 years ago. He is 97 years old. Nobody can be a member of the society who has not been out of school a full half century. Etna, N. J., can boast of the strongest woman§in that state. Her name is Kate Kuhn, and she is styled the female Sandow. Sheis only 19, but hssa handsome and symmetrical form, and her muscles stand outlike those of a trained athlete. James R. Sovereign, the new General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, is about 43 years of age. He was a stone- cutter and designer until 10 years ago, when he and a printer established a paper at Atlantic, 1a., where he has since lived_ To-dsy Boston possesses,besides the Com. men and Public Garden, thirteen public rkr, with an area of nearly 2,000 acres. n addition there are something like 150 public squares, gardens, burial grounds and places not built upon, nor likely to be built upon. The town of Williamsbridge, N. Y., is controlled politically by a woman “ boss." She is Mrs. Elizabeth Heilman, and is known as “Queen Elizabeth.” She is postmistress, deals in real estate, is a lobbyist at Albany, is a notary public, and she made Williams- bridgs a good, hustling town out of the sleepy village it was. lncidentally,shs has made $150,000 during the past four years An Ohio 1awsuit,involviug the ownership of 1.500 acres of valuable real estate, was settled lately by the aid of photography. The turning point of the suit was as to whether an old deed, executed seventy-five ears ago, had five signatures or only four. There were spaces for live, but only traces of four visible. The clerk of the court was ordered to have the deed photographed by an expert. He took it to Was ington for this purpose. The negative developed some evidence of the missing si store. but on FISHING PERMITS. last he Obtained by Foreigner-s Before The: Begin Angling. With a view to the more efficient protec- tion of game fish, and the prevention of abuses by foreigners angling in the inland waters of the Dominion of Canada, the following fishery regulations have been adopted : 1. No person, other than a British sub- ject, shall angle for fish or take any bass, maskinonge, pike, perch (pickerel) or trout in Canadian waters, without having first ob- tained therefor an angler’s permit, issued by the local fishery omcer in each district, under the authority of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 2. Each person, not a British subject: shall pay for such angler’s permit a fee of $5, for a period of three months, or a fee of $10 for a period of six months. 3. One angler’s permit only shall be issued to each applicant. Such permit shall not be transferable, and can be legally used only by the person whose name appears q thereon. Each holder of an angler’s permit shall be required to produce and exhibit his permit when called upon to do so by any fishery officer. 4. No person shall use, under an angler’s permit, more than one fishing line, provided with not more than three hooks. 5. No person shall, under an angler’s permit, take, catch or kill, in one day, more than twelve bass or pike, perch (pickerel), twenty trout or four maskiuonge. 6. No bass or pike, perch (pickerel), shall be retained or kept out of the water under six inches inlength and no trout shall be retained or kept out of the water under six inches in length, but every person who takes or catches any of the fish mentioned, of a less size than the minimum measure- ment named, shall immediately return such undersized fish to the water from which they were taken, and shall, ‘if possible, liberate such fish alive. 7. No person holding an angler’s permit shall export, sell or offer for sale, any fish caught with book and line. 8. Any person or persons violating any of the above regulations shall be liable to the fines and penalties provided by the “Fisheries Act," chap. 95 of the Revised Statutes of Canada. 9. Nothing in these regulations shall affect the rights of any person or persons holding leases of fishing rights from either federal or provincial authorities. 10. Foreigners, when temporarily domi- ciled in Canada and employing Canadian boats and boatsmen, shall be exempt from the regulations requiring permits. â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€".â€"â€"â€"- BATHING ACCIDENTS. Remarkable Case or the Resuscitation of a Bother In San Francisco. In connection with the sad fatalities that occur from time to time where there are bathing and boating facilities, one of the haunting feelings one has in reading of them is that if only the attempt to restore consciousness had been continued long enough the life that was suspended might have been saved. In such cases it is dif~ ficult to say when the possibility of restor- ation has gone by. There was a remarkable case of resuscitation of a bather in San Francisco the other day, which should be published far and wide in order that efforts to save the apparently drowned may not be relaxed in any case that is not absolute- ly hopeless. A young man who could not swim was fishing from a rock at the Land’s End station in San Francisco harbor, when he lost his footing and fell into the water. Some women who had accompanied him did not notice the accident at once. having strayed off to gather shells. W hen the young man’s body was finally recovered it had been submerged fifteen minutes. A gentleman not familiar with the rules of restoring animation in such cases Worked ' on the body for some time ineffectually. Finally a man connected with the local life-saving station came up, and but for his arrival death would have undoubtedly resulted. The teeth of the young man were so tightly clenched that it was neces- sary to force a wedge of wood between them before the Inn s could be relieved of water. Then the be y was turned face upward, and the operation of restoring respiration was begun. Kneeling over the body the life-saver took hold of the waist. Raising his knee as a pivot, he threw his weight forward, at the same time squeezing the waist with his hands so as to force every- thing in the chest upward out of the mouth. The pressure was deepened as he slowly counted one, two, three, and then he let go with a final push, and took his first position. The same movements were repeated on the body.at a rate increased from four or five times to fifteen times a minute. From time to time the body was turned on the stomach. and again on the back, and this continued for at least two hours until the gasps had deepened into full breathing, and convulsions had given place to a condition of exhaustion. Whiskey was then administered, and the young man was wrapped in blankets. For several days he remained quietly at home, in order to avoid the danger of congestion of the lungs, which might have been caused by his exposure to the air. -â€"-â€"â€"â€"-.â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" British Fruit Crop. The tabular report in The Gardeners Chronicle shows that apples are greatly de- ficient this year. Only two reporters in the whole kingdom mention a crop above the average, and those two are in Scotland. With regard to pears, an almost equally remarkable result is recorded, but of an opposite character, pears being almost everywhere abundant. Plums are general- ly deficient. Cherries, on the other hand, are remarkably abundant, there being forty-five “average” reports from Scotland, and no fewer than 1'26 from England, .kc. Nuts are not much grown in the northern counties, but in the south they are rather above average ; walnuts. however, suffered from the frost ; strawberries have been uni- versally scarce, and bad in quality : cu:- ABOUT THE HOUSE. “ A Tidy Little Woman." " She is such a tidy little woman," I heard him say, and as I looked in the di- rection toward which his eyes were fixed, I saw one of my neighbors who is always tidy and nest in her attire, whether at home or abroad, and I thought that the admiration of the stranger was a very high compliment to her. What had been said before the remark I overheard I do not know, but I am sure it was of a complimentary nature from the tone in which what I did hear was spoken. Then 1 got to thinking of the home life of my neighbor. She has a nice family and a nice husband, and I know as well as I can know anything that they are nice, because she is so nice herself. I am as old as she is, and we grew up from child- hood together, and have always been the best of friends. After she was married she did not forget the little graces of dress and ornament with which she used to adorn W herself to attract her lover, and as a conse- uence her husband continued to be her lover all the time, and being that he did not allow himself to become untidy and careless, and when the children came they grew up after the fashion of their parents, and now the whole family are neat in their appear- ance. So niany times when a couple get married they act as if it were useless to dress neatly just for each other, and I think this has more to do with estranging people from each other than almost anything else. They see each other in disarray every day, and their neighbors in nest clothing when they visit them, and the comparison makes them think they have made a mistake, and that after all it would have been better if they had chosen other mates. I have been thinking over the.people I know and I find it to be a rule that will apply in nearly every case, that afi'ections in families can be gauged almost exactly by the personal neatness or lack of it in the members of a family. It is surely more comfortable to know that we look nicely, and any one is more attractive when neatly dressed, and if I am not mistaken in my deductions,it is worth while to try an experiment in this direction, if the only result is in personal comfort and the distinction of having a stranger call one "a tidy little woman.” Fruit Stains. At this season unsightly stains are ound upon many pieces that come into the family washing. Before these articles are put into the water they should be treated as follows: Place the stained part of the cloth over a bowl and continue pouring boiling water over until the stain disappears. If this is done soon after the article is stained there will be no trouble in most cases. Oxalic acid will also remove fruit stains. Put three ounces of the crystals in a bottle with half a pint of water, and have the prepara- tion ready for use. When stains are to be removed have a large pail of water and a bottle of household ammonia on hand. Wet the stained parts with the acid and then rub. When the stains have disap- peared put the article in the water. Wash thoroughly in several waters, and Wet the parts with the ammonia, that all trace of acid may be removed. Finally rinse again. Photograph Frame. For cabinet photos get two large envel- opes of heavy paper, the size of a cabinet. Paint awreath of flowers, oval, round for- 1 square, in the centre of each envelope and cutaway the paper from the design. Punch 9 little holes, about g of an inch apart, down the corresponding edges of the two envelopes, leaving the flaps on the outer edges of the back, and lace together with 1% yards of 1-inch wide ribbon. The photos are then slipped in at the back, the painted design forming a pretty frame for the faces. The frames thus laced together will stand alone and are pretty and inexpensive. Paper Mats. If grease spots are allowed to get on a kitchen floor it is difficult to entirely obs literate them, scrub and clean as much as you will. A good way to avoid having any spots around the stove is to use, if unable to purchase oil-cloth, mats made of two or three sheets of heavy brown paper stitched together on the machine, so that any grease that may spatter out will be caught by them. Being so inexpensive new ones can be made as soon as the old ones become badly soiled. Recipes. Pork (lake.â€"Two cups sugar, one of mo- lasses, one pound fat pork out fine, two pound of raisins, one cup sour milk, one cup hot water, one tablespoon cloves, ciua- man and soda each; one nutmeg, eight cups flour, no eggs. Rice and Tapioca Pudding.â€"Three tablespoonfuls of rice two table- apoonfuls of tapioca, four tablespoon- fuls of sugar, a little grated nut» meg, one quart of milk. Bake in a slow even, two or three hours, stir occasionally during the first hour. This pudding can be made the same way with rice only, but is better with the tapioca. ' Snow Puddingâ€"Dissolve one box of Cox’s elatine in one pint of cold water, for a alf hour. Then add one pint of boiling water. “ hen this is cold, add two cups of sugar, and the whites of six eggs, well beaten together. Flavor with almond or vanilla, and beat all together with an egg-beater, until very stifi. Then pour it into molds. Make a custard of the yolks of six eggs, and one quart of milk to poul- over it when served. Serve cold, is nice dessert for hot weather. _______.*.â€"â€"..â€"â€"_â€" Where He Was Trained. AN ELECTRIC LUNCHEON. It Was Soon lead! After the Cook Touch- ed Ilse Button. Prompily at 11 o’clock a party of fifteen were gathered in a. roomy kitchen watching a white~capwd chef as he rapidly prepared the food for our luncheon,says a correspon- dent of the New York Herald. There was no suspicion of a fire, nor did he seem to consider one a necessity, and if he had there was no place to build one. Quickly the preparations went on. Then, in a minute, presto ! a square plug attached to a wire was run into a hole in the wall, and in a minute or two the pot was sending forth odours of soup that were tantalizing to our olfactories. But whence had gone the heat? While the day was terribly hot, one could hardly believe it was warm enough to boil beef stock, nor was it within the province of the chef to call to his aid magic power, so we hit on that little plug so snugly fit- ting in its socket as the cause of all this mystery. True enough the plug was respon- sible. 'Ihat simple act of inserting apiu in a socket had made an electrical connection with a live wire, and the subtle fluid that speeds along the wires from huge dyna- mos had done the rest. That was all there was to it. It was cooking by electricity with a heat of an intensity unknown to range fire. but so easily controlled that a child might attend to the process as well as a grown person. Rapidly the dishes followed each other in order of preparation, and it was more than interestin to note how easily all was ac- complishe . No raking of fires. no soiling the hands with coal dust or ashes, no hot stove lids to lift and burn the fingers. It was all so simple that fifteen people stood about with 0 en mouths and staring eyes, taking in wit eager attention all the de- tails of the process. The men,of course,went into a discussion marked with more or less knowledge of electricity, but the women took the ground of utilityâ€"that was where a sympathetic appeal was made to us. We who have labored with refractory stoves,who have had chimneys refuse to “ draw," and grates that would clog upâ€"we appreciated the full value of “pressing the button,” and letting Mr. or Mrs. Electricity do the rest. Just fancy how nice it would be to have a stove with six, eight, ten, or as many lids as you want, each one heated to any degree that might be desired. N o more moving of every pot or pan on the stove in order to set back one kettle that requires only simmering, while a hot fire is necessary to get the Sun- day roast done “to a turn.” It was luxury to watch that cook. The soup was nearly ready, it only needed a few moments before serving, so the little key that regulates the heat is turned ; but the rice must boil faster, so on is turned the switch, and it boils just as fast as you wish. The even is a little “ slow,” but that is easily remedied â€"â€"another turn of the key, and away the temperature soars as high and as hot as you may think necessary. The plates are on the warmer,but are cold, and now is the proper time to heat them. Stick in another plug, and though you see nothing, it is acertain- ty that they will be ready when required for use. Ambiguous. predecessor 2 Cannibal Chiefâ€"He has gone to the interior. Born in the Army That Went to Moscow. France has'an interesting old pensioner who has just presented himself at the Ministry of War to receive his yearly pension for about the fifteenth time. His name is Thomas. He is now over 80 years old and expects to draw his pension for at least twenty years more. Thomas was born in the French army during the dis- astrous retreat that followed the burning of Moscow. It was at the time when the scattered remnants of Napoleon’s army which had set out with such delusive ho sof con- quering Russia were making t e historic passage of the Beresina, where so many of them perished, that Thomas was born. His father was in the lmperial Guard, and his mother accompanied her husband on the campaign. Both father and mother were killed, and the new-born child was taken care of by the Russian Government. He was placed in an institution for orphans. When Thomas attained his majority he left Russia for France, where he entered thearmy. For nearly half a century now he has been a pensioner. _â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"- Circumstances Altar Cases. In Paris, where bicycling has become very common, an ardent wheelmsn was lately vaunting the advantages of his favor. its amusement. “I assert," he said, “that the bicycle is in every respect more servicable than the horse." “And I.” said another man, "can prove to you the contrary, by citing to you a case Mrs. De Style-4‘ Ht" you noticed “16 where you would have much preferred the quiet dignity and repose of our new foot. honey man 2" Bachelor Brother (a traveler)-â€"“ Y‘s-s I "\Vhat case is that 2" , “The siege of Paris. If on had attempted British and Forcigiifi) Marriage is' growing popular again in England. The register for the first quarter of 189-: exceeds the first quarter of any year since 1833. ‘ It is computed by a Scotch paper that thereare now «enough papers in Great Britain to form, four abreast, a procession considerably over 100 miles in length. Great Britain and her colonies have ‘37.- 905 ships of all kinds : France has 13,978 ; Germany, 2,635; Russia, 4,406 : Ital , 0,310. The united shipping of the world is estimated at 107,137 vessels. The Queen has been pleased to approve that a militia cavalry battalion of which the Duke of York is honorary colonel, shall be in future designated as " The Duke of York’s Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars Yeo- manry Cavalry. " It is announced that the Marquis of Lorne has written the libretto of an opera, which will be set to music by the Scottish composer,Mr. Hamish hlcCunn. The first performance will robably take place be- fore the Queen at Windsor Castle. Coquelin Cadet intends, it is said, to form an album of the letters of congratulation which are pouring upon him on the occa- sion of his receiving the Cross of the Legion of Honor. IIt has been given him not as an actor, but for his military services in 1870. The Turkish Government has ordered the aqueducts of Solomon in Jerusalem to be put into .repair. They will bring water into the city from the fountains of Arroul. A tunnel 4,000 yards long will be built at a cost of £403,000. The aqueduct was still in working order in the time of Christ. The masts of Nelson's old ship, the Vic- tory, having rotted at the base, are to be taken out and replaced with iron ones. The use of of this metal for the Victory's masts has called out criticism from all sides, which, as the ship is kept in commission avowedly as a matter of sentiment, seems natural. Sir Robet Hart, the Inspector-General of Chinese customs, entered the service in 1859 at the age of 25, and in four years reached the top. In 1861 there were only three ports open to Europeans,now there are thirty, while the service employs over 700 Europeans and 3,000 Chinamen, and the coast is guarded by twenty armed cruisers of the latest type. The main church of the great monasteryof San Franscisco,in Mexico, which since 1869 had been in Protestant hands, is to be res stored to Catholic worship. The foreclosure of a mortgage, which could not be paid off, brought into the hands of a wealthy Cath- olic gentleman the building, in which ser- vices wcre attended for three centuries by Spanish viceroys and in which the first Te Deum of Mexican independence was cele- brated. For the famous charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava only one Victoria Cross was awarded to an officer. It was given to Lieutenant A. R. Dunn, who saved the life of a non-commissioned officer by.cutting down three Russian Lancers, and later in the battle also saved the life of a private. The decoration was recently sold at public auction in London. At a late meeting of the Royal Society an appliance called a thermogen was exhib- ited. It was a quilted cushion, with fine wxres arranged inside by which it could be heated to any desired temperature by elec- tricity. It seems to have been used with success in the hospitals, where it makes it possible to _keep up the temperature of patients during prolonged operations with hemorrhage without such cumbersome ap- pliances as blankets and vessels of hot water. A new plan for mounting telescopes so as to avoxd unsteadiuess resulting from concussion of the earth’s surface has been proposed by Sir Howard Grubb, the English astronomer. He proposes to mount thematrument so that it shall practically float on a liquid support, and in this way he hopes to do away entirely with those slight jars which are so detrimental to stellar photography, ‘making each star a streak instead of a dot. The incompetence of the interpreter in the Caserio trial attracted general notice. It was due to the rule thatin France no foreigner can serve the State exceptas a street sweeper in Paris, and even there the number of foreigners must not exceed one- tenth of all the sweepers. As a result an Englishman cannot teach English in a Public school, nor can an Italian interpret before a tribunal. Amusement was caused by the fact that Caserio understood the French of the iudge better than he did the Italian of the interpreter. The En lish naval manoeuvres have brought to ight many defects that need a remedy. The steam-steering apparatus of a great many ships broke down and ren- dered them unmanageable for a time. One reason for this seems to be that strength has frequently been sacrificed for lightness. It was also shown that the first-class cruisers of the Crescent class can be loaded at the rate of only nineteen tons of coal an hour. which, as they carr 850 tons in their bunkers, means thati would take at least two days, working day and night, to load them completely for sea. Germany has for years possessed the most efficient pigeon service in Europe. At Strasburg there are 600 birds, at Motz 600, at Thorn 1,000, and they are kept b the hundreds at other centres, such as ainz, Cologne. Kiel, and Dauzig. The whole frontier is connected by pigeon post with the military head uarters and with towns in the interior. he service is supported by an appropriation of about 89,000 a year. The practical use of the pigeon post was fully demonstrated at the siege of Paris in 1870. Since then it has becomes recog- nized part of the military organization of all Euro n countries except Great Britain. ussia has now on her Polish frontier alone, 3,000 birds, and appropria- tes yearly 810,000 for pigeons ; the French appropriation is twice as large A Severe Test. Winkersâ€"“ How did Van Brief make such a failure of politics ?" Binkersâ€"“ His head was so full of legal phrascology that when he started to mks a speech, he used the same style of langu. a e." 8“ Well 2” (4 I " Well, the campaign was over before 1;. ' ‘ i“ th I . enlarging it ten imes e w o e name came could fly "yummy rsuts,‘raspberrics, and gooseberries fairly think he must have been a waiter in a rail- i to 8“ your bicycle then think you would forth distinctly. good. i road restaurant." have found it pretty poor picking."