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 *at that nadneYer :e Michael r.^o'^. At Qt that it •»le army « citadel' "age facei ^1 sworda, Guard of revolt, aa now that 'g enough :ar himself liis miiiia. ot aa weak ^eers came hundreds, lalace and what they ited neith- know, he palace, ble below, "nberlains â- e grouped i the on* other even issed from ook of the hted as to aded as to it this was tainly did for he was iger broth- protecting ie one who 1 anybody, narily tall a dignity 3 brother's liat deadly I his dark, aoyish fea- re age. ' (Johnny), the rioters foot of the ce aoMier, illy touch- his spear ith a gleam Russia's en- after days, .f us." :man stood snraged by ;ie moment Lve changed en another arm, shout- ^tepka [8te- broken into ;, and let's ;fore it's all Iready been rce (iiiards- Lole palace, cari'ying oft' ing the fur- heir spears II the walls, hoed with bello%\"ing proar and terrific, till stairs he- ld end their every livinsj leuing din hile figures retreatmg The loyal n had taken the rescue mutineers, (for many â- weapons in thought it 3 quickly as the rioters, of the loyal taircase, on were still cheerily er boy, dis- lanotf to be tiians and teach these 1 after-years y- of Russia scow to-day ow of small isiau friends ets a mutin- in front of Early. stairs in the d said, "I doing?" and called, nt door, but iure of niis- door, with a look ia l" frightened. aamma. little voice •cm, per sake lafk. ers " lee almost unper tha* when »"t- cover, a»l sat t-sfo- ^ad tak- aU oveff I HOUSEHOLD. About Patching and Damii^. The people in this world who get beyob^ the use of patches on garments are few and exceedingly foolish. We formerly^ knew the wife, now deceased, of a miUionairfe ^ho to her dying day took great pride in her ability to patch clothes neatly, not from parsimonious motives, but because she »-as a very sensible woman. Our esteem for the lady was all the greater on this ac- count. But not every one is able to neatly lay a patch or dam a rent who desire to do so, hence we advance a few helpful suggestions In patching start by cutting a piece of material of a size slightly larger than to completely cover the worn place. Cut it ac- curately by the thread nothing looks more untidy than a crooked patch with unshapely corners. Next turn in a narrow fold on the four sides of the patch, lay it in place outside the worn part and tack fast. Sew it on all around, either like a seam, or else fell it. If it lies close and Qat the tacking thread may then come away. Now the work must go on from the wrong side, by first cutting away the worn piece, lea\-ing enough margin to turn in as for a hem. Cut little nicks at the corners to al- low it to lie flat, and fell it all around. The torners should be as well shaped as are those of the patch. To have the piece square on the right side, and then an ill-shaped circle of much smaller dimensions on the wrong side, as one sometimes sees, is to spoil the work so far as looks go. To neatly match the stripes or figure of the gaiTnent by the new material is one-half in doing fine patching. When a patch is completed lay an old handkerchief or other thin cloth evei^ it and press out with a hot iron. Flannel may be mended in the same way as described, only that instead of the edges ieing folded in, leave flat, and instead of ).eing felled they should be herring-boned all round. Sheets and similar articles that are worn thin by long use, and • are too weak to patch must be darned. For this, real darning cot- ton, not that used for stockings, but a soft, fine article m vde for the purpose, should be used. When darning take' quite half an inch extra on either side, and not just the very thin place itself and that only. If so done there is danger of the mended part not get- ting through the first wash without breaking out. ly ruuning several lines of strong sewi'.ig cotton round the thin part before do- ing tlie darning it will strengthen the fouii'lation greatly, and will not show after- wartis. Use a long, fine darner for fine fabrics, a thicker one for coarser cloth. Take a thread and miss two threads uniformly, going straight across. Leave a moderate loop at the end to allow for shrinking, tarn and go back again, getting your stitches on a line witli each other. add a portion of the floor, then the whites ana starch, flavor to taste. Lemon Cakb.â€" One cup of sugar, oi lMlF"dt^ of Irat^r, l^krse ^ggs, one-half dkp of sweet milk, one and one-half cups of floor, one teaspoon of baking powder, one leoton. Cream the butter and sugar beat in yolks of eggs add milk, portion of floor, beaten whites of eggs, grated rinde of lemon, remaining flour, and Icut the juice of lemon. Beat the cake thoroughly and get it into the oven as quickly as possible. It must not stand after the lemon is added. Tomato Catsup. â€" One-half bushel of to- matoes, three large onions, one quart of cider vinegar, one cup of brown sugar, one tablespoon of salt, whole allspice, cinnamon, cloves and red pepper to taste. Scald and peel the tomatoes, add to them the cmions, peeled and cut in small pieces, and boil till all are perfectly tender. Strain through a sieve, addvin^ar, sugar and spices, replace on the stove and boil two hours. Waste In the Kitchen. Waste in the kitchen is often very great from ajiparently trivial sources. In cooJiing meats the water is thrown out â- without rumeviag the grease, or the grease from ilie dripping-pan is thrown away. Scraps of meat are thrown away. (.old jifiiatoes are left to sour and spoil. l)ricil fndts are not looked after and be- come wormy. Vinegar and sauce are left standing in tin. â-  A{)ples are left to decay for want of "sorting over." Tile tea-caunister is left open. 'ictual3 are left exposed to be eaten by roio.,' l)i)iies of meat and the carcass of turkey are thrown away, when thej' could be used in uiivkinggood soups. .â- ^iiu'^u' tea, cotFee, and rice are carelessly pi!ld in the handling. S );ip is left to dissolve and waste iu the â- W.ltl'!-. iiisi'.-tdwels are used for dish-clotha. Xiipkins are used for dish-towels. Tiiwh!- are used for holders. Brooms and mops are not hung up. -Xlore coal is burned than necessary by nut arranging dampers when not using the lire. Lights are left burning when net used. Tin dislesare not properly cleansed and driod. iJood r.ew brooms are used kitcticn lioorji. Silver '^poons are used in scraping kettles. Crfikin is left to mold and spoil. Mustard is left to spoil in the cruse, etc. Vir.egnr is left to stand until the tin ves- sel bcoonies corroded and spoiled. I'i'kles become spoiled by the leaking out M i\ aporation of the vinegar. Pork spoils for want of salt, and beef be- «uso tlie brine wants scalding. Hams become tainted or filled with ver- â- sin for want of care. Cheese molds and is eaten by ^ermiu. lea and coffee pots are injured on the Kove. ^Voodenware is unscalded and left to »irp and crack. Is the Gnlf Stream Ohanging? Captain J. W. Reynolds, of the steam- ship City of Alexandria, which arrived from Havana the other day, iMlded his testimony to the eccentric action of the Gulf Stream. He says "The course that I usually follow coming from Havana usual- ly gives me from a three to a three and one- half knot current along the Florida coast, and nearly to the latitude of Savannah, and from there to Hatteras a two to two and one-half knot current. The current is stronger, however, in the sununer than in the winter, and knowing this I took par- ticular pains to choose the course where I could expect the most favorable current. Along the Florida coast, where I expected a three-knot current, its strength was not more than one knot, and from below Savannah to Cape Hatteras I had no current at all. We usually see strong ripples along the edge of the Gulf Stream, but I saw none on this trip. I don't know the cause of this change, but I can hardly attribute it to the effect of strong gales in setting the current back. From Havana to the Florida coast we had a moderate head sea, and thence a smooth sea up to Sandy Hook. The winds were from the westward rather than the north, and the barometer was steady." m â-  w m A Bain of Shot- Among the phenomena reported from South Carolina during the earthquake en- gagement, was rain falling from a perfectly cloudless sky. This is surpassed, however, by a story told by two Charleston gentlemen, traveling in the interior about that time, who were treated to a shower of shot, and neither of the gentlemen was "shot" at the time, either. The war had been over too long for it to be any spent shot fired by the blue or the gray, and not even a shot tower was in sight. They gathered some of it up after it had continued at intervals for some time, and found it to be the ordinary shot used by sportsmen. Where it came from is a mystery. Perhaps it came from some comet as it shot throiich the air. The Boss Liar. The train had started off. A young man rushed breathlessly into the depot. " Got left did you " said the ticket seller. " Of course I got left," he responded. Then some one said he could go across the bridge and catch the train, and' another told him when the next train would go, and vari- ous suggestions were made. The chap look- ed at the disappearing train a few seconds, when some one asked " Where were you going?" Then the wicked fellow said, " Oh, I wasn't going in the train. My wife's motiier is on that train and I wanted to kiss her be- fore she left. " " Liar " roared twenty-four married men in chorus. A Symptom of Lunacy. They meet. " So you are still on the invalid list " " Alas, yes, and I have taken gallons of niedicine." " Perhaps you take too much medicine." "Well, I've tried everything. Last Sum- mer I tried sea bathing and now I am trying electricity." " N"o wonder you are in bad health after in scrubbing j going through salt and battery." And then as the awful truth dawned upon them, they both burst into maniac laughter and fled from the scene. A Satisfactory Ezpknatioii. " Something you wanted, madam "" he queried as she was going out of the store. " Why, I came in for a pair of shoes, and I've waited twenty' minutes and no one has come near me. I've got tired." " Wait just one minute," he whispered. " I've spent twenty-five minutes with this lady with the big feet, but it won't take five to fit your little No. 2's with something nice." Although she wore 5's she smiled and sat down to wait. mice and â- im the »k«- I ever »»"» bed so early oo. Eecipes. CoRy Bre.4d. â€" One pint of com meal, one pint of flour, one-half cup of molasses, one tftapoon of soda, one teaspoon of salt. Bake " slow oven, or steam one hour. Corn Meal Mttffins. â€" One cup of flour, •"f cup of corn meal, one cup of sour milk, *e teaspoon of salt, one tablespoon of melt- " butter, one teaspoon of sugar. Bake in t^ irons, in quick oven. JiixoEK Snaps.â€" One cup of molasses, *^ cup of sugar, two-thirds cup of lard, ^^"^°ird cup of cold water, one tablespoon soda, one tablespoon ginger, flour suffi- L^!f*«roll. Put molasses, sugar, lard and j *wr in a pan, and set it on the stove till j '^oines to a boil, then remove it and let it I W.L " ^^ich add soda, ginger and flour. 7 thm and bake in quick oven. I nil 'fv ^^^^' â€" One cup of sugar, one-half J°|°"tter,yolk8of three eggs, one-half ifl ^^eet milk, one and one-half cups LJ*" '"iedialf cup of currants, one tear |^° °\"akuig powder, spice to taste. 14 n-*^*^® ^wX manner of cake mak- l4„ "Jj^age the currants with flour before » JiDg them to the cake. Hel^' Starch Cake.â€" One cup of sogar, \xl =^P of butter, whites of three eggs, i^Z "^^P °^ "^^^^ inilk, one teaspoon of IV°P°^der, one and one-half cups of U '.„5^'^*^^ *="P of corn starch. Rub bdt- «ia sugar to a cream stir in milk BOIEHTinG ICATTEBS. tr?- It Was a Sunday-School Melody. " Pat McClure " " That's me, sir." " Charged with disorderly conduct." " How so, sir V " rhey complain that you alarm the neighborhood where you are working at car- rying a hod at a new building." "Yes, sir, I do sing; but it's a quiet Sunday-school melody, sir." ♦' What's that " •' Still there's mor-tar follow." Toaohing Her on a Tender Spot. Magislrateâ€" " The young lady says tha* your continued staring at her annoyed her excessively." „ Prisonerâ€" "I never intentionally annoy- ed a woman in nw life, your honor." Magistrateâ€"" Then why did you stare at herso perristentiy?" xx_ j t Prisonerâ€" "Because she is pretty and 1 cooldn'thdpit." ' „ Youpg womanâ€" "Let him go. Judge." To make whitewash that will not roh «fl^ i AfdiilittiA white (rliw. ,\ Colemah's mustard-oil is a good renedy for local rhcamatism. It is used extmially in friction twice daily. The edoor of viaegar may b^'lpmntd by filtsrins the AnA through jijrBilai. Its strbngtnis not impaired by the'prbcess. A few drops of acetic ether administered in water will, it is said, revive penons who have been made insensible by inhaling ilium- inating gas. It is asserted that dynamos generate a. laiger quantity of electricity when W(^ked in a cloeed chunber under increased pressure than when exposed to the ordinary preteore of the air. The blood of the higher vertebrates has long been osed for the manufacture of albu- men which has a high market value. Recent inquiries show that equally good albumen can be obtained from the blood of fishes. Persons who are colour-blind are usually either red-blind or green-blind, and their infirmity is almost always confined to one colour. Cases of vioIet-bUndneM are rare and no instance is known of a person un, able to distinguish between blue and yellow. Peacock green stain for wood A green stain is produced by a solution of verdigris in nitric acid then, by dipping into a hot solution of pearl-ash, the color may be changed into blue. By varying the strengths of the solutions used, the exact shade desired can be obtained. Every one does not know the proper way to put out a lamp that has no extinguishing apparatus. None of the cheap ones are thus provided, and they should be put out as fol- lows. The wick should be turned down un- til there is only a smMl flickering flame. Then a sharp puff of breath should be sent across the top of the chimney, not down it. Moles may be removed by cautery, by excision, by caustics, by ligature, by elec- trolysis. Of all these methods, electrolysis is the best, because it leaves very little scar and causes comparatively little pain. Caus- tics cause the least pain and are easily ap- plied, but their operation is tedious, and they are apt to stain and disfigure, the skin. Formula for camphor-balls, popularly re- garded as a specific for "chaps" and abra- sions Spermaceti, two ounces refined white wax, two ounces almond-oil (sweet), a quarter of a pint. Melt by a gentle heat, and add camphor (in sha^dngs) one ounce stir until all are dissolved thoroughly and beginning to cool, then pour the mixture into slightly-wanned moulds or egg-cups. A drachm of balsam of Peru may be added while it is dissolving. Mr. Thomas Andrews has carried out a long series of tests on pieces of iron and steel submerged at the mouths of rivers, where the fresh water began to mix with the salt water of the ocean. The tests have proved that in these circumstances the corrosion is from fifteen to fifty per cent, greater than, when the article is submerged in pure ocean water. This increased action is attributed by Mr. Andrews to a galvanic action that is brought into play by the difference of po- tential caused by the niixture of the waters. â- â- â-  â-  â- â- â- Â» itm • How To Drive. To fit a horse for making a long journey successfully, and with safety to health, life, and limb, or to make a shorter dis- tance speedily, and with like results, re- quires more skill and judgment than is ordinarily brought to bear in such cases. Tlie Natiomil Live Stock Journal asserts that the feed should be clean oats to the limit of perfect digestion, with a moderate amount of bright hay, iu no case sufiicient to " fill the horse," because in that con- dition he can have neither speed nor bottom. As a rule, give no com to a horse intended for other than slow work. The same rule should apply to what is termed " mill feed," except in the form of an occasional feed, the object being to loosen the bowels. The giving of such a mess, as a habit, should be avoided. On ttie road the horse should be driven moderately for the first hour or two, that full digestion may be completed upon anyfood within him. An observant man canmeasure the feelings and ability of the horse by his outward manifestations, and to spur a horse on that is usually ready to do his duty, but for the moment lags be- cause of being under some physical inabil- ity that lie cannot throw off, is both inhu- man and imwise. If there is a journey of a day or more to make, the horse should be spared at the start, given a walk now and then, with an occasional full stop, and it will surprise most men to see how quick- ly he will i-egain his lost energies. The Arab maxim says, drive moderately until the horse has sweated and dried otT three tunes, and after that you can let him go forward freely and he will not disappoint any reasonable expectations. If it is ob- served during the early part of a day's drive that the horse belches wind and al- ternately passes it also, it will be idle to expect any gieat performance until this condition passes off. In such a state the abdomen will usually be more or less dis- tended, and no horse can give even a mod- erate display of his good qualities while in this state. While on the road for a jour- ney the horse should be fed his principal meal at nif ht, first giving him water. If the horse leaves a quart or so of his oats at the night feeding, he will rise from his night's rest at tmree or four o'clock and finish the feed. This is better than to give a full feed in the mwning just before start- ing. The full night feed of oats will be digrated and mainly assimilated 1^ the time the morning start is made, and must be mainly reliea open to sustain the horse through the day. This is simidy becaoae digestion is interrupted and done i,i a great disadvantage while the horse is under active exercise, hence, to a degree, food beoomes a bordoi while the hone is doing full duty. So, lightly fitted and discreetly managed on the road, the horse, reasonably weU oJculated for driving, will be op to the standard fixed by the poet " ConngeoiM^ U^t-monthed and rare-footed. " MEH AID WOMEV. Prerider' Grsvy employs hb Idnn hours in instmeting his little grandt^ild. Mar- guerite Wilson, in reading, writing, and arithmetic He is said to take thu task veryserionsly. That Mile. Maigueiite does, prdlwUygoeswithont tdlmg. A newspap^ was received the other day at the Boston Post Office, addressed "Mr. Greorge H. Handel, care of the Handel and Haymi Society." Some thirty yeais ago there came to the Society a letter addressed, "Messrs. Handel and Hayden, musicians." It is not convenient to forward the paper. During the famous Repeal and Emancipa- tion agitations at Cork, the late Wm. Hayes, whose death, at the age of ninety -one, was announced in London, was a conspicuous figure. In 1826 he had a dispute with a Catholic lawyer named Brioe, and shot him dead in a doeL Thereafter Mr. Hayes kept aloof from political matters, and devoted himself to reiii(ion and works of benevolence. We observe the announcement of the de- ccaw of the aged Baroness de Foreet (before Le.- marriage. Mile. Josej^ine de Lavalette), who heroically effected her father's escape from the cells of those condemned to die in the Bonaparte struggle. The plan was con- cocted between herseu and h^r mother, Mme. de Lavalette, after the same manner as Lord and Lady Nithesdale's in the Jacobite Re- bellion. A good story of clerical wit is revived in the papers lately, the anecdote of old Bishop Mountain, of Durham, whose apt quotation of a Scripture text elevated him to York. That archbishopric falling vacant. King George 11 asked his opinion as to the proper person for the office. Dr. Mountain wittily replied: "Hadst thou faith as a grain of mustard seed, thou wouldst say to this Mountain " (laying his hand upon his breast), " Be thou removed, and cast into the sea " (See). The king was so amused by the sally that he laughed heartily, and bestowed the preferment. Lord Savernake, who has lately succeeded to the vast estates of the Earl of Aylesbury is probably the worst spendthrift in the ranks of the British peerage. He is twenty- three, receives over ?260,000 per year owns three of the most splendid country seats in the island and is a marquis, thrice an earl, a viscount, twice a baron and a bar- onet. He drives a cab presides at music halls fights in the street like a butcher has been twice in the police court this year for a street battle is an accomplished sharper and married a variety singer of no character. Mr. H. Rider Haggard, whose South Af- rican Romance, "King Solomon's Mines," achieved such a success, is a barrister by profession. At the age of 10â€" rhe is now only 30 â€" he accompanied Sir H. Bulwer as secretary to Natal, and served on the staff of Sir Theophilus Shepstone during his n»is- sion to the Transvaal, and it was during the time he was at the Cape that he acquired the local knowledge which he has turned to good account. His first effort in literature was a history of events in South Africa, published in 1882 under the title of "Cete- wayo and His White Neighbors." Mr. J. C. Forbes, R. C. A., of Toronto, has just returned from a four months' trip to the Rockies, where he has been sketching with a view to putting on canvas some of the most characteristic scenery of that re- gion. Mr. Forbes has been most successful, in the opinion of those on the spot, in de- picting the grandeur of the mountains â€" no â-  tably the " Hermit " in the vicinity of Roger's Pass. In addition to several large canvases, Mr. Forbes will paint some dozen or so smaller onts, descriptive of life in British Columbia, forming on the whole a most interesting gallery for exhibition in the coming Spring, and for subsequent ex- hibition in England. The latest London Canadian Gazette says An interesting gathering took place at the Colonial Exhibition on Saturday evening, when, at the invitation of Mr. D. Tallerman, a dinner was given in the Royal Commission Dining Rooms to illustrate the food resources of the Empire. The bill of fare consisted of over thirty dishes, on which were salmon from British Columbia, shad from Prince Edward Island, mackerel from New Brunswick^ cod and lobster from Nova Scotia whitefish, trout, and pickerel from Lake Huron Australian rabbits and Australian mutton and beef. Among the vegetables were Canadian beans. The sweets consisted of Fiji airowroot puddings, Canadian farina pudding, tartlets and pas- try of Canadian flour, and Canadian apple jelly. The fruits were pineapples from Singapore, Victorian pears, Victorian white cherries in syrup, and Canadian apples and pears. There were also Canadian cheese and butter and Western Australian and Canadian honey. owe it to your friends to got new dxMB suit Mr. Swellington Jonesâ€" WeU, ahall have to owe it to my taikr. my Hstunl That he Shonld. "Mrfc SweOia^on; Jo n e a R eally, dear, yoo if I do I Kot a Fami^ ICaa. " Gimme a cooplo o' tickets fer the showt" said a eountiyman at the box office. "Tes, sir for the family circle?" " Sh 1" wturnedtfao oooatiyuu), and then he whispered: ' " Ko, not fer tiielainily oirdo. Too see I've only been maxried Ixmt foor boors. Mister. Jest put as in 'moog yoong folks." Soman London. In A. D. 50 Caesar founded Lundininm, or Augustsi. Eleven years later the Britons revolted under Boadicea, sacked the town, massacred the inhabitants, and burned every building, and the limits of the discov- eries of the ashes of this conflagration, coupled with the discovery of walls of too great a thickness to be those of ordinery buildings, seem to define the extent of the first Roman London as follows The north- em boundary, Comhill and Leadenhall- street the eastern, Billiter-street and Mark- lane the western, the east side of WaU- brooB, and the southern, of course, the river. Within these limits, and nowhere beyond, wherever pick and shovel have penetrated deep enough â€" that is, to an average depth oi 18 feet below the present sorface, charred remains and other evid- ences of intense heat have heem. found, and to Sir Christopher Wren, to whom the task was confided of reboildiiu^the city after the fire of 1666, is the creut due of having made the discovery that tiiere was an em- bryo London previous to the compara- tively big city of the later Roman domin- ion. Cannon-street was evidentiy the cen- tral point Li Bosh-lane, in 1666, was discovered the remains of a very large, building (probably a Basilica, or hall of justice) and the pavement of a house which, from its size, most have been llie Gover- nor's residence, both imbedded in a thick black layer of ashes and charred wood. About here the buildines appear to have been tolerably dense. For m drnging for â- ewers in Qoeenrstoeet, Scott's yud, and Boili-lane in 1840, tiie workmen came rugfoa innoanaUe walla of soeh solidity that ^ey cooldriiot be deatroyed; and) at the foot of Lambeth ffill, one 10 feet thick and 8 feet high, which might have been a fragment of the oldest London Tvrec walL AUwii pert ofLbaAan walk Jioi marshy, for in Thames street, always a rich mine of Roman remains, we ^d that the buildings onen^tliedare aUBost invariably boilt open stout daken piles. The Wallbrook, too. Uke the Sherboome and the Langboume, must have been someyiing n^w* ' than a mere â- treatei tat the timMr m^fiaha of a fair- sized bridge have been discovered, and the cawseway leading from it in the direction of what is now' Princes street, consisting of big stones ^dd upon regular \^yer8 of earth and wattles supported by timber, as if a quay had run aumg the banks. MUSDESED WXEJl F£B(nrS. The Pee WtmXky gi» sed to Have Bee KUled by TlMir If elskken. It has been ascertained that the Poe family of eight persons, supposed to have been ac- cidentally burned to,death in Knox coun^, Tenn., a month ago, were murdered. Their throate wore first cut from ear to ear. The family had two neighbors â€" John Worm and his paramour â€" who, on account of their reputation, were not permitted to enter Mr. Po^'s house. These neighbors had an ille- gitimate chil 1, a boy about 10 years old. They lived some thirty yards from Poe's houte, and, becoming enraged because they were not socially recognized, they formed the design of murdering the entire family. The boy, suffering under a severe chastise- ment from his reputed father, now tells the whole story. He says his mother was talking about the matter several days, and that it culminated during a night when Mr. Poe was absent from home. When his father and mother left home for Poe's house they forbade his going with them, but he slipped along with- out their knowledge and saw them enter the house. The family, all of whom were females, were asleep in one room. The boy's father with a razor cut the throat of each victim, while his mother picked the bodies up, placed them in the aoiddle of the floor, piled the contents, of two beds on them, and then set fire to them and the house. Mrs. Poe's lit- tle baby screamed until the smoke smothered it. The boy told his story in such a straight- forward maimer as to lead to an investiga- tion. The man and woman were at once arrested. A sewing machine, beds, and several other articles recognized as belonging to the mur- dered family were found beneath the house of the accused persons. They were at once placed in jail at Barbourfsille. No doubt of their guilt is entertained. The excite- ment is terrible, and it is likely the prisoners willbelynche4. Bulgarian Affairs. At the close of the last war between Rus- sia and Turkey, the Turkish province of Bulgaria, the sufferings of whose Christian inhabitants under their Mohammedan rulers had brought on the conflict, was made a self-governing state, not wholly independent of Turkey, but bound to her by slender ties. This was the work of England, Austria-Hun- gary, and the other Powers prompted by a desire to prevent Russia from again interfer- ing in Bulgarian affairs, and so advancing toward the coveted city of Constantinople. Inasmuch as Bulgaria could not be trusted to maintain unaided her position against the Russians, it,was agreed by the Berlin Treaty that all the European Powers should be, in a manner, protectors of the little state. Rus- sia, however, has spared no means to secure the friendship of the Bulgarians, with but little success. The German â€" Alexander â€" who was chosen to rule this much-protected principality, won the affections of the peo- ple for himself, and so became distasteful to the czar, who is strongly suspected of being the cause of his downfall last August. How- ever that may be, Alexander left the country amid the tears of his adopted subjects, and the agents of Russia set about canvassing for the new election. The Berlin Treaty ordered that the Prince of Bulgaria shall be freely elected by the population and confirmed by the Sublime Porte (the Turkish imperial government), with the consent of the Powers. No mem- ber of any of the reigning houses of the great European Powers may be elected Prince of Bulgaria. It was the intention of the signers of the treaty to remove the govern- ment as far as possible from the influence of any single Power, such as Russia, Eng- land, or Austria- Hungary. The prince is chosen, not by the people directly, but by the Sobranje, a representative, body. This bodj' met at Timova, and after a week spent in discussion unanimously elected Prince Waldemar to fill the vacancy caused by Al- exander's abdication^ There was no out- spoken opposition to this candidate, although it seemed to be regretfully understood that Waldemar would represent in some degree the unpopular Russian influence. Prince Waldemar is the youngest child of King Christian IX. of Denmark. His sifter, Alexandra, is the wife of the Prince of Wales, and his sister Maria is the wife of the Rus- sian czar. It may be that it is to these re- lationships, together with the fact that his brother George is King of Greece, that Wal- demar owed his election. His father, the Danish king, has advised the prince to de- cline the proffered honor, and Bulgaria has yet to lodE for a ruler. Russia does not admit that the Sobranje was legally chosen, and it is hardly probable that any one will accept the throne while Russia opposes the election. â-  â- â€¢ mm* HeConldn't Wind It. A New York judge who was trying a man for robbing a woman of her gold watch as she was stepping on a horse-car did a neat piMe of cross-examination. The man claimed that the watch was his and the wo- man was mistaken in identifying it as hers. Suddenly the judge asked, " Where's the key " The prisoner fumbled in his pockets and said he must have left it at home. The judge asked him if he had wound the watch frequentiy with the kSf, and he said "yes." Then a key was procured, watch and key were handed the prisoner, and he was told to wind the watch. He opened the case but could not find any place to use the key, because the watch was a stemwihder. The sentence was five years and a h«U[. To polish glass and remove slight scratches rob toe surface gently, first wi^ a clean pad of fine cotton wool and afterward witii a simi- lar pad covered with cotton velvet which has been diarged with fine rouge. The surface wUl, under this treatment, acqoire a polish of great, brilliancy, quite free from the pre- sence of any scratdies. i i V