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< .:^ Mau'a Ideal Wife. Tobrkt ilio iiiuu alalkiu ID their swe«t uDaell ish itiyle Itotit tb(t way a woman acU, who adores oui WLtliout guile. It enough to iiiaku a wouan just despair ol belu' a wilu, I'or to hikiisfy iMr liufband Blia otUBt givo I4in up Uor life. , Kor sbo uiiistn'i Lie too hacdsamo, nor particu larlv plain, t'urL'preity blied It' flirdo', and il not, eLe'd tr\ tiigain OvV ehriekin' aodasatirtiD' tliroiiEb all tliii days aad uiglits; CmliD a] truth and jcitioa and otlier fanoied ritil.ts. 'J'::en Mjo must have serpent wisdom, yet he h.irmlush as a dove, Have o'liimou si'tisu iu pleDty, yet Ixi like tho faaiulB abuvi^-- Ae iiin^c-nnt aud igoorai^t ot all wigkodcesa on earth All! I>ehi-vu the yarns be tolls her of biidoiiiKS Irom his birtb. Ot conriio uhe makes her clotblrg. which mu»t ci<> :t to nothing cost, Tlicugh the neighbors mustn't K<-e that her drei s in style has lost. hliu will cook to great perlec'.iou aud bo a thoroiiitb nurse, Ai:d toud her babea, aud tie\ er Sbk toLavo i: 1 ti7ate purse fihc'll gtii've to *>e hor gracious lord aworkiu' luug aul hard, And grant be uepds a coiihtant chaiiRO, his preciou» bealtb to guard ; And m'lny comforts she 11 bewilli:i toiLlwaisdu without. Hut tboy re purchased for his btnent. wi'.li ureat dergtit. no doubt. Juit !auc\, when thi< ideal »i!e dies wearily aud worn. H'lw alHIcted he will show hiu;.stflf. for wotUs be quite lorioru. And declare t lall v^bokLew hti' nl.jwati louadoil b> ins love. Atvtry perfect woman gnue, t .> vai*. for liiui abu\'u J vM I C'l- \i;- ChiLi.;-) lU, A'.:.', 1;;. I-«3. ROUP ON UKAl'(;UT. IIOTT ibj Maglrlaii of thr Kitchen F'eaxea BID I'atrons. Flow they maDaf{e to ^ct up bo maoy diM'ereat kinda of doapa in the email ree- taursnta ia pax/.lint;. Accordinfj to ac iaveiti^atioD it ia done (bus : Here oomoa a V niter with an order for vegetable soup. Xt:s cook lif la the lid of a bix boiler of clear Koip, made by boiling bones and porapa of boef, matton, chicken, veal, eto. IJat of Ihia boiler the cook dips a bowlful cf olear aoap, and into it he pops in ijniok encceesion a little from each pot of boiled %'egelable be ia savior for that day. Xhere ia your vegetable eoup Ik it ('ons mme ? From a bif{ pitcher he |iccr8 into the clear atock eome brown tbicksDiog fluid. Ia it macarooi ? & pot of boiled macaroni i« near st band, and >>'' forks a few atrini^a into the botvl. Ia it C-'.tail .' A big tin of condensed ox tail B.:up sta da on a handy shelf, and a 'jpoon- fnl lenda its flavor to the atock. la it c'^icken . He tbra-^ta a pair of tonga int-j the boiler and briiiga np mor.sela from the depths antil enough scraps of cbirkon aru found to ptt-i mubter. U it tomato/ A F.'jUirt of weak but thick tomato 'alsup d.oa tho business. Is it rice 't Home of tho rice pudding in available. Koast Ian b and roast mutton come from tho same juiit at its toacli, and, by kid nf an UDCtooud ealad and some jelly, ho t«:il roast venison at a pinch. Uuaet rib o." roast loin from the same piece of boef depend) altogether on bis carving The \eal is veal, or it ia chicken for salad, or it id turkay for fricassee, or it ia rabbit for o' w, or It ia lamb for pie, just ae ho do'iirea. The plain old cod, too, if boiled, i>i tarnjd iutu boiled halibut, or haddock, o." bluetisb, and if baked becomes baked balibt t, or bluetisb or haddock, rtt his irimpla touch. With tho aid of >i few biting sauces tliey become almost anything one cai name in the way of fiah. Ihibim^rf • The lllood Or:iiige. U'ha blood orange is a mere variety A the av.eet orange, obtained by cultivation, and •l;;)ears first to liave been raised by the Hpanish gardeners in the rhillippine illands from the capital of which â€"Manila â€" it together with the well-known rigars formed at one time one of the chief articles cf export. On its firat appearance in I'^urope it excited a contiderable i.eniation, •ad in the laat century very high prices Vk'ere domandod tor the trees v.hich bore tho wonderfid fruit. None, however, now kro brought here from Manila, tho Mupply being derived al moat entirely from Malta, where threat pains and attention are be- Btowed upon their cultivation. It was for • ling lime supposed, and the idea is not yet (joito extinct, that tbe blood oranges wre produced by the grafting of the orange «7ith pomegranate, but thsro ia not tbe eligbtesli foundation for this belief. A You igHportlni: IMhu I^uvrh fHU.OOU to Ills IMother. I'rederiok Brown, a well known nportiog man, of Washington, who died in Haratoga on Sunday, made a will leaving bis mother ^hO,000. This amonnt he has won from the bookmakers in tho last year. At the laat me^'ting ot the Jockey Club in IMHt^ bere ho "went broke," aaving from tbe wreck only a diamond ring, which he pawned tor iV). Borrowing MO ho started with thia capital and won Jii.OOU during the apring meeting. He followed the horaea to Bionmoutb, Hheepahead and Saratoga and von right along. Ue depoaited 1!l7,000of bia winnings in a Saratoga bank. Brown was a yoang man ot good habits tnd well liked. â€" iJapital. Fullj Bfiuipprd. I-'oni Mereâ€" Yoa are tally prepared to enjoy yourself at the picnic? Prudent Daughterâ€" Yea, indeed. X have two nmbrsUaa, waterproof and ovorshoos, knd Charley has two lovely new lifopre- •ervers. Optlmlstto. Gladys (effusively)â€" Oh, I'nole Joe, the f;yp8y who told my fortune saya I am to marry a nobleman. L'nole .Joeâ€" Well, let's hope for tho best. Yoa may die, yoa know. " BitniiiTV DiHF.isE haa no lyiiiptomB of its own," aaya Dr. Roberta, of the (Ini- veraity ot New York Oity. Additional proof «rhy Warner's Hate Care cares no many disorderx which are only ayinptrnnii of kidney diseaae. " How can you tell a poor cigar without ^limoking it, Hmith ? " " By looking at the Motare on the box, my friend. It the pio- ra ia pretty the oigar is bad." IHoomiig- (IU.; Pantaijraph. OBIBMNBS!) IN tiKW TOBK. There Are More Trees and 8h»de Here Than Aur Couutryiuan Would Ilelleve. " If I go home and tell my wife I've been Bleeping under blankets ever aiuoe I came to New York, she won't believe me," said one man to another on an elevated train yesterday, "but it's a tact, nevertheless. I'm liopping with relations on the west side, between the river and the Park, and maybe that's made it aomowbat cooler, but, aa far as I can see, almost any part of New York is cooler than up in tho Utate, where I live, especially at night. "Then there's another thing about New Y'ork that would sarpriee country folks who think the oity in summer ia just one step this Hide of tho bad place; that's tbe trees. 1 remember reading in the story books about tbe poor city children that never saw green grass or treea from year's end to year'a end, and didn't even know that flowers grew anywhere except in shop windows. Well, I've been around New Y'ork pretty considerable, and it kind o' strikes me that it would be all fired hard work to bring up a child in the city and keep it from seeing trees and grass every- where it went, and tlowers, too. I'm goio' to tell my wife the next time she wanta to get cooled off, aud at the aamc time not lose sight ot trees and t;rasa and green things, to come right to New York. It beats the seashore all hollow." J he coantry man was a littlo enthusiastic, perhaps, but there waa a deal of truth in what he said. New Yorkers are so used to it that they never stop to think about it, but to a man coming here with precon ceived ideas ot the desert nature and terriblu heat of oity etreeis, the amount ot ebaau and greenness about tbe city ia surpriciug. It IS hard for a person in New Vork to find a position upon any street corner from which trees, vines, or green grsii are not in sight in one direction or the other. Ot oonrse, above Fifty-ninth street there la (Central I'ark always in sight from any cor- ner lip to aod beyond Hum street on either aide ot the city, liesides this, there la Riverside I'ark. from Seventy necond to liiotb, MornionHide I'ark, Mt. Morris Park, aod other green breathing plaoea below tbe liarlem, while tho beautifnl Boulevard, with its park strip in the centre and its four rows of lusty young elms, even now begin- ning to form a double arch over tho street. West Knd avenue, with rows of young trees doing well on either side, Eighty-sixth street, with ita little grassy ecjuares and trees in front ot every house, and other shorter utretohes of tren shadowed streets make it certain that even when this part of tbe city eball be oloaely boilt up there will be no lack of greenness and shade. Below rifty-ninth street there are nearly a do/.en small parks, with more to come, bat the singular thing, when notioed for tbe first time, is the freijaenuy of trees along the built-Dp streets. Ii probably won't be believed al first tboagbl, bat it is a fact, easily verified by pi>rs.>ual inspection, that from I'lfly. ninth street to (irand street the Bixth avenue eltivate.i railroad does not cross a single street on which trees are not visible to a passenger. In a taw inatanoes there will be only one or two scrubby little trees straggling tor existence npon the curb ; mor» frcqaently tbe treea are numerons enoii;{b and vigorous enough to aroh the atrcet. On Kitty-third street they are so near the tracks that passengers can almost reach out and touch them aa the train rusbea by. Besides the trees along the curbs, there are freiiu'.iit glimpse.i ot green from the centre ot blocks, and sometimes trees tall enough to wave above four- story bonaea 'an bo fien, rliowiiig tint in baok yarda there is abundant itreenneaa for private enjoyment. There are also thousand! of windows where boiei filli»l with flowering plants and vines are kept, and oftun there are glimpses of sunflowers aud other hardy plants blooming in yards or in boxea upon roots. I'leasantest ol all are tbe vinos that of late years have been freely planted in front of honses on residence streetb. These have grown so thrif lily that in hundreds of instances thev reach a dense mass of vivid green from the sidewalk to the roof, some- times spreading out so as to cover almost the whole front ot the hoaso. Two or three such vines illaminato beaatifnlly a block ot dull brown stone trnnls. ISelow (irand street the rule ceases to hold good that a passenger on the elevated can aee trees on every street crossed, but it is largely because the streets are so crooked that often not over a block or two is in sight in any direction from the train. In the dry goods district trees are few. but to ward the river, wherever people live, there is f^enorally at least one tree in sight frum every corner, and from Chambers street, where the ('ity Hall I'ark oomes into sight, down past Kt. Paul's and Trinity, Bowling Ureen and the Battery, there is always something green npon which to rest the eye. There are fewer trees in proportion to popalation on the east than on the west side of the oity, but oven on the east aide they grow at frequent intervals, and thrive in the most closely built districts. There will be more ot them, too, when the new small parka are made.- Afcio Y<rk Sun. On Tliiio. Some people are always in a hurry and generally always behind hand. The two go together ; for hurry is the child ofaatateot mind rather than ot a train of ciroam- atanoea. The methodical man is never in a hurry. He moves alonx in his orbit, as Ooetho saya the stars do, " without baste and withoat rest." Ue knows what ia first to be done, what next, and bow long each item to bo attended to will reqaire. lie sees in an exigenov what can be omitted or deferred, and what mast be done according to the programme he haa made. If he ia due at a certain train he is there on time with five or ten luinatea to spare. It a certain task is to be done by a certain date, tho work ia ready a little in advance ot tbe date. Kzchumje. Poor Creature. -How ia your pretty ooasin coming A. on 1 B. â€" I regret to say that her chances in lite are elim. " Clreat heavena I Is she ao dangeiKOsly ill V" " Klie is not ill at all. Her ohanoea in lite are slim beoaiiae sho ia engaged to be married to a dnde." A report iioarrent in Ohioagu that tho Northwestern A: Milwaukee Railway ays- tema are to be amalgamated. 8ABAH ALTHEA HILL. The Stormy Career of tile Woman Wlio Is Now Judge Terrr's Widow. Sarah Althea Hill, whose stormy career in California haa given her national notoriety, was born in thia old French town just forty-nine yeara ago. She cornea ot good stock, her father being Samael Hill, a prominent attorney, and her mother Jolia Hloan, daughter of a wealthy lamber dealer. Bhe had one brother, Hiram Morgan Hill, and her parents both died in 1854, leaving the two orphans an estate of $40,000. She ia related to acme ot the best families in the coantry, among them the Wilkina, Blojiiaand Rodneys. The girl had good opportunities tor scjairiag an education. Bhe attended school at Danville, Ey., and finally gradaatcil from St. Vincent's Con- vent in this town. Bhe bad a governess iu the person of Mijs Barral, a sister of ex- Congressman Hatcher. Her grandfather, Hiram Sloan, was her guardian, and he appears to have held a slack rein. The young ward developed a spirited temper, and soon after reaching legal age made her money fly. Bhe grew up to womanhood in much her own way, and waa noted tor her beauty and temper. Sarah was a girl of more than ordinary personal beauty. She was plamp, of medinm height and poase^sed a lovely complexion. Bhe was fair, but not a pronounced blonde. Bhe was scheming and ambitious to excel in perscnil charma. These traits made her unpopular among her girl companions. It was said of her, too, that thoagh she was a spendthrift in some things, she worahipped money and gave her attention mostly to those who posaeased it. Bhe ia remembered by her frienda here as something of a flirt, and at one time she is said to have had three engagements to marry on her bands. The hero of one of those engagementa, Mr. Leanders, ia a prominent politician reaid- ing in Boatbeaat Missouri, and another re- sides in Kt. Louis. Her conqaeata in that section of the State were numerous during the time sho held sway. She waa fast, but her name was never tarnished with scandal. In love affairs Miss Hill was tyrannical, and more than one cf her lovers bad to suffer under her iron rule and eccentric wbimg. To show how cruel she was to her lovers the case ot tbe one she really loved will euflice. He was then a yoang man, but is now a Missouri politician of national fame. They were engaged to be married and one nigbt attended a bop. Sarah Althea became angry at her escort, and when tho ballroom was entered she went upstairs and never came baok until time to return home. The yoang man was angry and determined to break tbe engagement. Sarah Althea beard of it, summoned him into her bewitching presence, and the old infatuation returned so .-strong that he determined to swallow tbe insolts, but Sarah had heard that he had told his triends that he intended to break the engagement. She determined on revenge. Bhe never looked lovelier than on tho night her luckless lover answered her call. He was powerless before her and preaaed bia auit with more energy than ever. Bhe said nothing until he waa ready to leave, and aa he stopped for a goodnight kiaa on the threshold she turned her bead and, with her eyea bla/.ing, aaid : "Mr. , you can go. We will cry i|aita. I don'l want to see yon agaiu." The yonog man almoat full down the steps and never saw her afterwards. Now the story goes that Sarah Althea waa really in love with this young man and ex()ected to win him baok. In this she failed, and in September, 1H70, dis- gusted and brokenhearted aod with only the wreok ot her fortune, she started for California. A young ancle, named W. Hloan, accompanied ber to the I'aciflaooast. He was wealthy and took his handsome niece to bia mother's home. Sarah and tbe old lady did not live in harmony, aud Mr. Hloan gave bis niece a fine suite ot rooms in a prominent Ban Francisco hotel. It was there she met Senator Sharon. Her brother, Hiram Hill, waa a reclileas youth, and followed her to California, where he married a wealthy woman of Spanish blood. Sarah Althea haa never returned to the home ot her childhood.â€" c'.i/)« Girardeau ( ilo.) Special fo Philadelphia I'ret: The City of Berlin. Frederick the Great worked hard to beautify thia town of his choice, bat it can- not be said that, with all bis offorta and all the energy ot reoent yeara, it ia a town which striked a stranger familiar with London or I'aria aa one of grandeur or even of dignity. To begin with, there only exists one church ot architectural interest iuterest, because the beauty ot the Klos- terkirche haa been destroyed by additions made about tho middle ot the present con tiiry. As for the cathedral, that ia a late, domed odifloe, no larger than a decent parish church in thia country. Thia povorty is ani(|ne. Look where yoa will over Kuropo and yoa will not find a aingle town of capital importance so void ot tliat orowningornainenttoacity, aUne eocleaiaa- tical building. Tbe detect cannot be exag- gerated. Such buildinga are the dar- abls t3cord ot a city'a lite ; eaob weather-beaten stone baa an interest no less linman than acientifio, â-  10 less romitntiothan artistic. We have oar St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, tbe I'arisians their Notre Dame, Vienna ita St. Stephen's, Rome ita St. I'eter'a ; but there are no anoh sermona in atone to be read in Berlin, no bnilding to be admired lor ita beauty or revered tor ita age. Conceive Paris without Notre Dame. The effect is nothing short of robbering French literature ot Victor Hugo I Nor is Berlin maob better off (or secular buildinga. None of them â- ave an inoous'derable fragment ot tbe old Sohloss data earlier than the 17th century, and the balk ot the old Sohlosa is a decay- ing plaster faced pile ot that unfortunate period. The palaces of the late Kmperor William aod of the Emperor Frederick as crown prince were boilt, tbe former some ."SO years ago, tbe latter .HO, and, though both insignificant in si^^a compared with Buckingham palace, may be admitted to oompete with it in point of style.â€" Afa<- mil'iiii'a Magazine. THE CHBBBT. The Past and Present Onlture of tkU Fruit â€" IU Olassiacatloua. Downing separates the cherry into two claaaea- Urat, tbe Bigarreana and Hearts, and second, the Dukes and Morelloa. These amonnt almost or qaile to distinct apeciea. The Hearta and Bigarreaus, being atrong and vigoroaa growing trees, are somewhat tender in many naotioos of coantry, especially iathe level, fertile west, and are therefore not so generally caltivated, though as a rale the fruit is of fine quality. According to Dr. Warder, tbe Hearts aud Bigarreaas are not entirely reliable oxcept on soils where the American chestnut is an indigenous growth, or at leaat saooeaa- ful when introduced. Tbe Dukea and Morelloa are more hardy and fruitful, thia class embracing varieties like tbe Kentish, which are quite aniversslly popular. Although in some sections a profitable fruit, the cherry has scarcely held its own in point ot popularity along with other classes of traits daring the last quarter ot a century. Thia is perhaps partly due to the overshadowing popularity of the strawberry and other small fruits coming into competition with it, by reason ot their ripening at cr near the same season. In some partioalara, however, eapecialJy for culinary purposes, the cherry is not likely to be entirely superseded by any ot its best of rivals. The late Dr. Kirtland, of Cleveland, O., made the improvement of tbe cherry, which sicceeda admirably in that section, the specialty of bia life work. In this way be gave to the world a number of valuable varieties. More recently new introductiona are being made from abroad, through the energy and perseverance ot Professor Bodd and others, with encour- aging prospects. We may hope from this source to obtain varieties directly aod in- directly which will prove more hardy and valuable,especially nortbcf tbe present limit of cherry culture, as intimated above, very little, if any, efTori has yet been put forth in the impriivement ot our native species, ot which Professor Gray mentions at least four. The arts of borticalture, aided by the hand ot time, may yet subjugate to the uses ot man some or all ot these now un- tamed speoies. The cherry succetdi well on dry soils. In orchards, where there ia ample room tor large treea, and in climates where it is not subject to tbe bursting ot the bark, standards with four or five feet ot clear trunk are to be preferred. For door yards, where shade and ornament are taken into acoount, standards ot tbe free growing sorts are the moat suitable. For fruit gardens of limited extent, and in lo<:alities where the bark of tbe trunk ia liable to burst, the dwarfs or low stand- ards are moat appropriate and profitable. Pedeatrian, to big, fat polioeman on Broadwayâ€" Well, Mr. Officer, how do you stand thia hot weather? Polioemanâ€" Principally on the ahady side. Wifeâ€" "Look at all tbe things I bought with that little money. Yon can no longer â- Â»y I'm extravagant." Hubbyâ€"" Bot all tbOae thinga are tor my uae. Aa aoon aa TOO ^egin to bay thinga for yoorself you'l /Dsedl a bank.' Weariness. A tramp knowa what it ia to be leg- weary, a tariii laborer to be body-weary, a literary man to be brain-weary, and a sorrowing man to be aoul-weary. Tbe sick are often weary, even ot life itaelf. Weariness is generally a physiological "ebb-tide," which time and patience will convert into a " flow." It is never well to whip or spur a worn-out horse, except in tbe direst straits. If he mends bis pace in obedience to the stimulus, every step is a drop drawn from bia life-blood. Idleneaa is not one of the faults of the preseot age ; weariness is one ot ita cominoneat experi- ences. The chequea that many a man draws on bia phyaiological resources are innumerable ; and, aa these reaoaroes are atriotly limited, like any other ordinary banking aocoant, it is very easy to bring about a balance on tho wrong side. Ade- quate rest is one kind of repayment to the bank, sound sleep is another, regular eating and good digestion another. One day's holiday iu the week and one or two months in the year for those who work excep- tionally bard usually bring the credit balance to a highly favorable condition ; and thas with care and management physiological solvency is secured and main- tained. But a physiological torlane ia aa good a thing, or even a better thing, than a money fortune. Stored resooroea, well invested, keep tbe mind easy and the body youtbful. It, however, a man have not these, but only enoagh of atrongth to go on steadily from day to day, he should watch carefully against cxoessive weari- ness. A foeling of prostration is the dark thunder cloud that portends a change in the atmosphere. Health, like weather, may " break," and when once it is broken nobody knowa when tbe barometer will mark " set fair " again. Wearinesa, com- ing on iu tbe ordinary course ot work, without any special and temporary cause, ie nature's demand for an immediate holiday. The horse is tired. He does not want the whip, but a month's run in a qaiet and abundant pasture. Aa nothing in the world can properly satisfy hunger except food, so no drug or stimulant ot any kind except rest can restore the weary to energy and health. Tbe doctor's tonic ia a very good thing in its way, but it will no more act as a substitute for rest than a glow worn'a light will aerve the same par- poae aa the moon. â€" llo$pital. He Took u rit. A gang ot men were at work on a oity atreet when a alight, beardless youth laid down his pick, and approaching the fore- man said to him : "Can 1 take a fit, sir?" " Take what ? " asked the foreman. "A fitâ€" I feel one coming on," replied the young man, without emotion. " Why certainly," said tbe foreman. Bo the yoaag man walked overta a bit of grass under a leafy tree -it was a anew atreet in the suburbsâ€" and had a fit. Then he went and washed his face, came baok to bis place in tbe line, and took up bis pick and straok into work. After the day's work waa over the yoang man aaid to the foreman: "You don't mind my having fits?" "No â€" I goesa not it yoa do a fair day's work." "Well, you see, I ased to work for a batcher, to' he wouldn't let me take fits â€" said it intertereei with buaineas â€" an' I thought you might feel the same way about it." And that young man works hard with piok and shovel and takes a fit onoe in a while aa you or I might take a drink of water. â€" Pithburg Diipatch. â€" A phyaioian in New York reports that daring an epidemic ot diphtheria in that city there were five times aa many cases on tbe shady aide of the atreet aa on the sanny aide. THE NBT BBEAKS. A Homent of Horror for Uonslear Fay^ naud and S,000 People. Monsieur Baptiste Peynaud, who diTea from a tower at Rookaway Beaoh, L.I., said to be IsOteet high, into a bignet stretched below, broke through the net Friday after- noon. X'eynaod started to make the jump at 2 p.m., with the oaaal formal prepara- tions. More than 5,000 spectators were on the shore and in numerous boats, large and small. The net into which the dive or tall is made is about thirty feet long and fifteen wide, and is made of good, stoat cordage. In the centre ia a piece of heavy canvas about six feet square. When Peynaod dives he tries to land as near the centre ot the canvas aa be can. This ensures an equal strain on all parts ot the net. The net is stretched eight feet above the shallow water at the shore. It was getting to be low tide at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, and the water below tbe net was about eight inches deep. Peynaud mounted the tower as usual and when he got to the top^gava the aama dramatic look about him. After bending over in the narrow opening in tbe platform at tbe top a minute or so, and looking in- tently at the net to gauge bis jump, hia body straightened itself and he shot down- wards like an arrow. When he had de- scended 50 or DO feet the apectatora could see that hia body waa slowly tnrning, aa that he could land in the net on bia back, with his head towards tbe tower. He fell on hia baok, but bis aim had been bad, and bis body etrock half on the canvaa and half on tbe netting. Tbe cords in tbe netting parted with a snap, a prolonged rip was heard, and the people turned pale and closed their eyea to shut cut a horrible scene. Peynaud rebounded in the air two or three feet, came down again feut firat, and slid through tbe rent in the net. Aa he did so, however, he grasped the loose shreds of netting on each side, and slowly let himself down into tbe water, where ha stood with a look of blank amazement on his pale face. He stared at tbe top ot the tower, al the hole in tbe net, and then at hia feet, and seemed to wonder what had happened to him. He quickly recovered himself, however, apd made his customary graceful bow and wave of the band. Facts About Coffee. The [ileasures ot coffee are by no means dissipated in tbe warm seaaon, when " ho coffee i.s not needed as a means ot defying tbe diaoomtort of cold weather. Cold coffee is a delicious beverage when well made. Coffee ice made ot strong ooSea fro/ien in a freezer and served in cups with whipped cream is a dainty desert, or • convenient part ot the afternoon tea menu ; coffee soda is a peculiar summer drink, and few p'jople accustomed to the morning cup otcofTee make any difference on acooant ot the weather in thia most important feature of tbe breakfast table. An expert in coffee maintains that tbe best coffee ia made in tbe old-fashioned tin coffee-pot. " Don't give me any new patent arrange- ment for making coffee," be saya, " the old tin pot is the only kind of cooking utenail that preserves tbe aroma and the full davor of the cotTee." After the coffee haa been boiled and settled pour it in good atreogtb upon • cup half tilled with cream and bot milk. Most true coffee epicuiea have a beverage prepared with full strength that will give a delicions aroma and a true but dolicata flavor to a cup ot rioh cream and boiled milk. Rather peculiarly the averaga Ame'ican drinks aboal the same amount of c :fee now that be did eighteen yean ago In 1870 the average ooosumption for each person was 7i pounds ; iu 1S88 it waa 7;f pounds, showing that the taste torcoffea uuiiher increases nor decreaaea.â€" B<M(<m J urnal. m The Care uf the Finder MalLt. Tbe half-moon, which ia esteemed ao great a beauty, if carefully attended to, will increase in time, and even when it haa been almoat obliterated will grow to ha very beautital, anya UedictilGlatiict. Many people think that pushing the skin back from the nail will show it more, and that by this practice the delioate hem, as wa call it, whiob holds the upper and ander skins together, is totally destroyed, and the ends ot tlis lingers have an ugly yellow growth encircling tbe nail instead of the delicate framework whiob nature intended. Then the way iu whiob tbe nail is cat can totally change the shape ot the fin<4ers. By cutting the nails close at the sides and keeping the corners from adhering to iha skin, bang-nails can bu avoided. Whara tbe nails aru thin and inclined to break, trotjuent oiling is neueasary, and tbe naila should never be polished except when soma oily aobdtanoe ia aaed beside the powder. This keeps the nails more pliable, and no matter how thin they are, it properly treated they are no more liable to break than thicker ones. Another thing that ia bad tor tbe nails is polishing them too roughly. They shoald be lightly toacbad and not rubbed until they beoome heated. This is one cause ot white spots coming on the nail and marring ita beauty. A Trick Worth Try lag. Baker Brothers, of Candler, Georgia, have invented a novel way ot catching owls or night hawks. They have set up a long pole near tbe fowl house. The pole ia about sixteen feet high with tbe top end sawed off smooth and a little steel trap is set on top ot the post, fastened by a string to the post below. Notches are cut in the post by which it is easy to climb. On a moonlight night tbe owls when they are around ara likely to light on something near the fowl hoase. Tbo other night an owl was heard not far off and, thinking that he would be likely to come for a chicken daring th« night, the brothers went out after supper and set the trap on top ot the pole. Befora they went to bed the family heard a flatter- ing in that direction and, going out, foimd that they had trapped an owl that measured four feet five inches from tip to tip. » Brodle to Oo Over Niagara Falla. Steve Brodie haa fully decided to attempt what no man has done ami livedâ€" float ovac the American Falls at Niagara. He will leave New York tor Niagara today and de- vote some time to making himaelt familiar with the dangers he most encounter. Tha falls are 16G feet high. The oompensatiaa for the terrible risk Brodie will take in ad- dition to the fame to be won by the imdar- taking is a parse ot 91,500, oontribated by hotelmen and railway men. •J' i I ^ .' J I J: ^/ .^^