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FAKM AND HOUSEHOLD. Miscellaneous Home Hints. When white linen becomes mildew ed it should be washed in warm water, with a little borax, and then rinsed in :lean water. After this put it into a ;ub of water containing a little hydro chloric acid; then rinse and dry in the sun. When the rubber rings used for clos ing preserve jars become so hard as to oe useless, their elasticity may be re stored by leaving them for half an aour in two parts of ammonia and 3ue of water. Oil-cloth may 'be improved in ap pearance by rubbing it with a mixture af a half-ounce of beeswax in a sau .erful of turpentine. Set this in a warm place until they can be thor aughly mixed. Apply with a flannel cloth and then rub with a dry flannel. For adhesive labels dissolve 1 1-2 oz. common glue, which has laid a day in cold water, with some candy sugar, ind 3-i oz. gum arabic, in 6 oz. hot water, stirring constantly till the whole is homogeneous. If this paste :s applied to labels with a brush and allowed to dry, they will then be ready 'or use by merely moistening with the ongue. Ants can easily be exterminated by putting about two ounces of lard oil n a small tin can without a top and jurying the can about half-way in the iarth near the ants' nest. Leave it antil the next day, and, if any ants ure seen outside of the can, pour a ittle more oil into it stir it with a stick and let it stand a little longer, .when the last ant within traveling dis ance will be drowned in the oil. If you are troubled with sleepless less, times of mental confusion, head aches, (especially headaches aggravat ed by eating, and relieved by open air) , swimming in the head or vertigo, and irritations affecting the sitrht or hear ing,perhaps you ore drinking too much coffee. It is an article of such com aion use, and one so generally thought well of, that people are slow to attri bute to it any of the ordinary ne'-VOUS listurbances which it may be the cause af; and especially because it has, like many other narcotics, far more effect :or evil upon some constitutions than apon others. For burns and scaHs nothing is more soothing than the white of an egg, which may pe poured over the wound. It is more cooling than sweet oil and cotton, which was formerly supposed to be the surest application to allay the smarting pain. Kansas Farmer. If powdered nioves are scattered where red ants are it will be found very 5ectual in driving them away. A leading dentist says the teeth should be washed with a stiff brush on rising, and with an old used brush im- - mediately after each meal always em ploying lukewarm water or holding sold water in the back part of the mouth until it is warmed. Never eat an atom alter the teeth have been washed for the night. Always use the brush slowly, lest by a slip a tooth aiay be scaled or broken. After .-neals let the bristles of the brush be moved up and down by a twisting mo tion, making each one a toothpick. A yellowish tint to a tooth is proof of its soundness; hence, do not seek to keep them of a pearly whiteness. It destroys them. Cuttings of geraniums may be made it any time this month or until the time of frost. By making cuttings and rooting them now good flowering . plants can be procured for the Winter. The later cuttings, if kept from bloom ing in the Winter, will make budding plants for next Summer. A Boy's Sleep. It is a mistake to awaken children too early in the morning. If a boy -sleeps until 8 o'clock, because he does aot go to bed until 10 or later, the remedy lies not in waking him early, but in putting him to sleep early. It he goes to bed early and sleeps late, that fact alone is reason enough foi not waking him. A great deal of harm may be done by applying to growing children the term of "early to rise," "rising with the sun." etc. In old times, when artificial light was scarce and dear, and many people were obliged to go to bed with the fowls, lying abed in the morning was a sign of laziness. This tradition has come down to us with so much force that many believers in it think it a virtue to cut short the rest of even young children; whereas sleep is absolutely necessary to their health anddevelop ment. If a boy who does not sit up 'late sleeps until 8 o'clock, it is a sign that he needs more sleep than most boys; and it is too sweeping, as it is cruel, to say "wake him early." A parent has no more right to starve a :lnld of sleep than of food; not as much, in fact, because a child is often ;n danger of eating too much, but sel dom in danger of sleeping too much; certainly not when his sleep is a part -of his regular night's clumber. Ladles' Wraps. A London letter in the Hartford Times-says: Wrraps play a much larger-part in stylish dressing in London than in New York, and to Ameri can women upon a first visit the seeming incongruity of light dresses accompanied by heavy wraps and even nsr capes is a constant subject of remark and sometimes ridicule. But Knglish women know what they are about. The sun through the day is wry ho'!;; ths air out of the sun's di eci influence very cool, and over the whole atnvosphere, the moment the suii has gone down, falls thin, trans parent, vaporous mist, followed by clear, eooL refreshing eveiihigs and mghttf., when covering for comfort is actually needed. An English woman, therefore, never goes out without a -wrap; ot necessarily for wear, bat for emeasetniies. Wraps as part of the costume are less common than in New York, but there is much more style and expense put into independent wraps, or rather this kind of wrap is more commonly worn. For example: Upon a recent afternoon at Lord's where perhaps 10,000 people were as sembled and from twenty to thirty drags, the toilets were all of the light est and thinnest material thin, open worked embroideries over batiste, lace over silk, transparent wools and gauze or net embroidered and' draped upon satin or china silk. With such costumes in cream and canary, pale blue and strawberry, flesh pink and terra-cotta were carried long cloaks of ruby plush, wide capes lined with plush, with hoods and long ends that can be thrown over the shoulders, and dolmans of chuddah cloth or India wool, silk lined and fringed or trimmed with pendant braids in the color of the cloth. Courtesy at Home. One is forcibly reminded, in going from place to place, how small and seemingly trivial often are the things which go to make or mar the comfort and peace of home. In some house holds there is a genuine good will and kindness which only wofks out half its mission, for the reason that it does not express itself in little courtesies of speech and action. These are more important than some of our busy men and women may realize. The ready "thank you," "if you please," etc., at table and elsewhere, the quiet "excuse me" when obliged to pass di rectly before or inconveniently near another; the loving "good night" and cheery "good morning" although little things, are helps in making a happy home. Courtesy is but a ready overflow of kindness and good will to all, and is therefore but a natural ex pression which costs nothing, but which often cheers an aching heart, and which never fails to make home brighter and more attractive to the old and young. Raising Calves. There is no subject in connection with the diary of greater interest to the general reader than that of rais ing calves. This is one of the points in the diary farm. With all the mod ern notions and undoubtedly correct ones, too, if we had a wife who loved to feed calves, we would like no bet t er business than buying up the can ditates for "deacons" and making good profitable veal of them, says the American Dairyman. ' Prof. Henry gives some fresh ideas on the subject. He says that, from carefully conducted experiments, he finds that skim-niilk is worth 25 cents per 100 pounds for feed to calves. More calves, he says, are injured by over-feeding than by under-feeding. Feed t hree times a day moderately, not colder than 98 deg. Farenheit, and find this out with the thermometer. Teach the calf to eat whole oats by the time it is three weeks or a month old, by slipping a few small handfuls into its mouth just .after it has drank milk. When it has learned to eat them, keep a supply before it in a little box. If you haven't oats enough for the horses and calves both, let the horses go without rather than the calves. Don't waste time to grind the oats. Bran, oil-meal and same other arti cles are good, but oats are the most satisfactory of all. He never knew of a calf eating too many. Selection of the Best Seed. The season of harvest is with us,and there are a few things that it will pro fit us to bear in mind. From many of the crops, selections should be made for the next year's seed. As the potatoes are earthed, we will be best able to select the most vigorous seed from the strongest hills. Theevidence as shown by the N. Y. Experiment Station is, that the stronger the po tato, the stronger the hill from which it grew, other things being favorable, the greater and better will be the progeny. The cereal producing the strongest plant, the most and best ears, and the maximum stalks, may be expected to produce progeny superior to the plant less robust or less prolific. The finely formed, good-sized, early-ripening squash, cucumber, pumpkin, or other vegetable, should not be overlooked, if seed is to be sought for in the crop. A wise man will judciously select his own seed, in the manner that best pro motes his own interests; he will care fully store it away from mice and other vermin, in a place where its vegetative powers will not be impaired, and on the advent of another season, will be properly equipped for planting. But if a farmer's crop be poor, and the seed inferior, the wisest course will be to get better seed from another source, as a profit will result in the next crop that will over-balance the money expended. Farm Hints. The least painful way of slaughtering a calf is to hoist it up by the hind legs over a pulley and then immediately cut thethvoat with a sharp knife so as to sever all the veins and arteries at one stroke. This suddenly arrests all sensation because it stops the supply of blood to the brain and paralyzes that organ. The blood escapes very quickly and the flesh is drained com pletely, leaving it white and clear. Professor J. W. Sanborn refers to the cooking of food for farm stock as having been, after innumerable trials by farmers, "in most cases abandoned in silence" and "living again only in the praises of new beginners." In proof of this statement he quotes from cer tain "hill and satisfactory tests" at the Maine Agricultural College, con tinued during nine years. Without entering upon the philosophy of the matter," Professor Sanborn contents himself by "warning against this infatuation." 'Apples and Abstinence." The most prolific source of disease among human beings as well as ani mals, is over-eating. We are ever on the watch for dainties. Web. meaning housewives are eager for recipes for dishes and confections to tempt the appetite of persons not hungry. The consequence is lives wasted by chron ic dyspepsia; sick and cross children; malarial ailments so called which are produced or encouraged by bilious disorders; the frequent diarrhoea and dysentery of the summer season; and who knows how many cases of fevers from too great plethora and head aches from overworked stomachs? Eat only when the appetite is good, and simple food. When one rejects oatmeal mush or plain bread and butter and wants cakes and dainties, he or she is suffering from gluttony. F. Warner. Take the advice of an old man, 0 dwellers upon farms, and substitute fruit for fat. in your summer cooking. Overloading the stomach and over working the liver with meats, gravies, cakes and pies that are half made up of greasy ingredients alluring to the taste, through being aggravated by sweets, is the chief source of headaches and all the wretchedness of dyspepsia and tax of doctors' bills. One of the best physicans I ever knew said once, in a moment of confidence, that he never took any medicine but "apples and abstinence." For myself, after having for years endured the mis erable effects of diet supxjlied by lard dispensing cooks. I have not had oc cassion to consult doctor or druggist for nearly twenty years since living wholly on plain, regular, limited diet , and now, in old age, I begin to really enjoy life. T. Yokefellow. Some Feeding. Mr. J. M. Murcey of the Iowa Agri cultural College, gives the following feeding experience and some observa tions thereon: "Aug. 28, 1884, 14 shoats, weighing 1,935 pounds, were bought for 5 cents per pound. Dec. 1884, 13 sold for 3.15 per 100, the average weight being 340 pounds. For convenience deduct 138 pounds from the total weight of 1,935 and there re mains 1,797 pounds, which cost, at 5 cents per pound, $89.85; 4, 49S pounds sold for 3. 75 per 100, S10S.67; gross receipts, 78 82. The growth of 2, 701 pounds from Aug. 28 to Dec. 31 must have required, according to re liable experiments, at least 225 bush els of corn. This at 25 cents per bushel leaves a net profit oi only $22.57. These figures are valuable. They show that a splendid gain can be made on buttermilk and dry corn, which was their feed almost the entire time. It seems to me that those farmers having splendid con veniences for breeding swine will gen erally make the greatest profit by sell ing shoats, weighing say 90 to 110 pounds, for 1-2 to one cent above reg ular, market price. Such prices are readily obtained of other farmers in this locality. All young animals are the most profitable, givingthegreatest increase in live weight from the least food. This statement is not generally believed among feeders and yet it re mains a scientific truth nevertheless.' THE JAPANESE FLOODS. Harvesting Onions. When the tops of onions begin to turn yellow and fall down, it is time the bulbs are harvested. They should not be leit in the ground much longei than this, as they are liable to com mence a second growth, which very much injures the keeping quality. They may he pulled with a wooden rake, or light diggingfork. Some grow ers let them lie on the ground after pulling, two or three weeks to dry; others put them in small piles after three or four days, to sweat; leaving them thus two or three weeks, after which they are again spread for a day or two, and than stored. The bulb; may be put into barrels, or spread upon the floor of a loft, or store-room. If on a tight floor, they should not be piled more than a foot deep, though they may be safely piled 3 or 4 feet deep in bins having slatted bottoms. If kept over Winter, they should be protected from severe freezing. Men's Full Dress. Boston Herald. The evening full dress suit of the coming season will vary but little in actual appearance from that of pre ceding years. The coat, as a rule, will be made of fine diagonal worsted cloth, although for elderly gentlemen broadcloth is frequently worn. The fronts of the garment are so cut that when lying ciose into the body the ends of the roll will meet. The well-peaked lapels are to be exceedingly light, with five button holes, a trifle below the third of which they are made to turn. Silk facing covers the lapels to the but ton holes. The collar is to be made a trifle less in width than the top of the lapel, its outer edges ranging very near ly with the outside edges ot the lapel. The edges are bound about one-eighth of an inch in width, and thegarment's corners are all slightly rounded. As has been stated, the garment should be made of worsted, and the trowsers "and vest of the same material. Should the coat and vest, however, be made of broadcloth, the trowsers are to be made of doeskin. Within the last two years there has been a gradual but marked change ir the cutting of trousers. The change is undoubtedly for the better. The "skin tight" garments of the last few years are to be known no more. Man's leg covering is still to be shapely; that is neither verging on bagginess nor tight ness. . The trousers for full dress wil follow this rule, and at the botton: will, this year, end with a very slight spring, and in many cases a narrow binding will be sewed on the seams al the sides. The vest varies but slight ly from those heretofore worn. Tht opening is very decided, and in forre should be somewhat of the shape of a shield. The buttons are four m num ber, and are about two inches apart The garment is finished with a collaj that rolls slightly. A Description of the Awful Calamity Clipped from a Hiogo Paper. The last mail from Japan brought the Hiogo News of July 9 last, which contains the following description of the great flood at Osaka Fu: The magnitude of the late calamity that has fallen upon Osaka Fu makes it desirable that a full account of the disaster should be given to the public. And yet it is very difficult at present to do more than to state some of the fasts that have been obtained from re liable witnesses, and also to give some of the hasty estimates made by high er officials as to the extent of the de vastation. On Saturday, the 27th of June, after the first week of rain had ceased, the view from the mountains ten miles east of Osaka revealed what seemed to be a great lake extending many miles north and east from the foot of the Castle. A large part of the fruitful valley between Kyoto and Osaka was flooded. The damage done at that time was so great that the sympathy of the whole nation began to be expressed in substantial offer ings, and it was hoped that the worst was passed. But two or three days of heavy showers followed by the many more of drenching rains result ed in one of the gravest calamities that has befallen the Empire for a century. On Wednesday, the 1st July, the road north of the Castle was literally jammed with thecrowdsof men, wom en and children that were being driven before the flood like sheep. The rain fell in torrents and the wind blew a gale, while the wretched people, de-sertir- one thing after another that they "ad tried to save, at last left all and ran for their lives. It was evi dent by this time that, if the storm continued, the Concession too would be in some danger, and the foreigners began to send their families to Kobe or up to the higher ground of the city. Next morning the whole Concession was flooded, the deepest place being three or four feet. The authorities kindly put boats at the disposal of the foreigners, and these, with canoes, took the place of wading and of jinrikisha. With this depth of water the current in the river was violent. The wooden bridges, one after another, were washed away in great sections, and came drift ing down with tremendous force upon the three iron bridges of the Conces sion. Thousands of spectators gather ed on roofs, or waded out into the streets to see these bridges strike, ex pecting of course that they would go through with hardly a check in their speed, but they struck as if against a mountain. Every effort was made to break in pieces these wooden bridges and to save the iron ones, and in the dangerous work it was exciting to see the utter recklessness of both men and officers, and admirable to note the forgetfulness on the part of the officers of their dignity as they J'oined with the coolies hand to land. The immense strain on these iron bridges, however, made them lia ble to break at any moment, and as the water was rapidly rising on the Concession, and the streets were be coming swift rivers, the Fu authori ties, who had already repeatedly offered their assistance, sent once more about midnight to beg the resi dents to leave the Concession, stating that they could not at all foresee where the calamity would end, and when once the bridges gave way it might no longer be in their power to do anything for the safety of the set tlement; they kindly offered to put a policeman in each house, and if the worst came they would save what property they could. And they put at the disposal of the foreigners the roomy North Honganji, the highest ground in the center oi the city. Hardly had this exceedingly kind offer been made when General Takashima sent two military gen tlemen to express to the foreigners his deep anxiety over their situa tion, and to beg them all to remove at once. He most courteously invited them to use as long as they desired thenew and commodious hospital near the Castle. The residents gladly yielded to these warning and generous offers, and by 2 o'clock A. M. on Friday, the remaining women and children except one household had crossed the Seifu bridge and were immediately escorted to the Castle hospital. By this time over one-third of the city was flooded, when in the sur rounding country most heart-rending scenes were taking place. Thirteen villages just northeast of the castle were entirely blotted out of existence not a vestige remaining. Another village oi 500 houses has hut one left standing. The miserable people were driven to the river banks, and into trees, and crowds of toads and huge snakes were their companions. A na tive paper has an article entitled "The Misery of Hell," in which a man who had climbed a pine found the snakes above him and the flood beneath. Thousands of people took refuge in their cramped second stories and on the roofs of their houses and as no instant relief was possible for so many, they re mained there without food for three days in some cases. Many at the sight of the awful calamity, or from the stain consequent on seeing their children swept away from any help, where crazed by grief. Seventy-live poor creatures where rescued from one godown so emaciated that some of them were unable to stand. Children were born on the relief boats, and it is reported that births took place on the roofs of houses during the typhoon. It is also said that every man, woman and child of one village where caught in the flood and perished before help could arrive. Among the rumors which are hard to verify we hear that scores of helpless women and children where swept away at once by the breaking of a large section of the river bank beyond the Mint where they were huddled together. A high official estimated that the number of bodies recovered was 1,000, but the number of lost is now roughly placed at 15,000. The damage done ments of dens people, an the old Ford Theatei was put at $10,000,000, but nowon i SKULLS AND BONES. would hardly care to suggest any sum that would cover the total loss of : n.. Cbastly Collection in the Army Medi property. cal Museum. j Washington Star. There is one place in Washington that very few Bight-Keens visit. It is a mu j seum with a very extensive and novel collection, composed entirely of frag- and it occupies r, on Tenth j street, in which Lincoln met his tragic i death. The once gay theater is now i associated with skeletons and death. The first floor, where the pit was, is ; occupied by the clerical force of the j medical department of the army. The : dress circle contains the library, and a few articulated skeletons, while the : peanut gallery, where the street arabs ! used to assemble at night to applaud I the acting and drop peanut hulls and ' orange peelings on the bald heads in i the pit, is given up exclusively to the ' fragments of dead men. There is sel I dom anybody in tho museum except the attendant. At the entranceof the j library a group of skeletons stand I grinning a sepulchral welcome, those I in front standing in a careless attitude 1 "too naked to be ashamed," while I those behind leer over their shoulders with an air of familiarity that is of I fensive to a person of delicate sensi- bilities. I Near the door is a sign and an index finger, which tells the visitor that the museum is up-stairs,and these grinning gibbering skeletons seem to feel acyni cal satisfaction in directing the way to the upper room where are collected the relics of ruined men. One tall. fine look ing fellow stands with his foot on a skull. The rest stand with their toes turned in and their long, bony fingers spread out at their sides or twisted to gether. Some of them are young, spry, dandified skeletons, with head erect and polished white foreheads and a full set of pure white teeth, while others are hollow chested snaggle toothed old. creatures, and others again are black and shrivelled up, like witches' imps, j They all have that offensive, familiar j grin which seems to say that they j hope to know you better later on. Up stairs there are rows of glass ! cases all the way around the wall.and j close together from east to west across the room, there are large glass bottles, like preserving jars. Some have human j hearts in them, some hold the longs j and liver. Others hold kidneys,spleens, i eyes, noses, ears or fingers of men who j have been a long time dead. Among ; the spleens is that of Guiteau, which j is a third larger than any of the rest. I One case is devoted to arms and less that have been amputated, and show how nice and slick the surgeon's knife and saw went through. Someofthem are all lacerated and torn to pieces by gunshot wounds most of thecxhibits are the scraps of men picked up off the battle field. One heart has two big ounce bullets imbedded in it. Another has a deep gash in it and near by is a dirk knife. Another case is devoted to horrible looking hands and feet put up in glass jars. All are swelled up and lacerated. Some have the flesh torn away and the bone and sinews left bare. A solitary thumb reposes fci a small bottle, while a little finger is crooked up in another. An eye torn from its socket by a musket ball is soaked in alcohol; odds and ends and all sorts of fragments of dead people are collected there like the scraps for a crazy quilt. But the chief of the collection con sists of small fragments of bones. There is a section of the backbone of Booth in a glass case not many feet from the spot where he shot Lincoln. There are all sorts of human bones shattered by shot and shell. Skulls with great big lead balls sticking in them; big bones with fragments of iron shells crushing them into powder; joints broken apart by musket balls; there are skulls, ribs, legs, and arms shattered and shivered by all sorts of missiles of war, and in some cases the lead and the bone have become wed ded together. There are over 9,000 specimenes of bones fractm-ed in cur ious ways by shot. There are plaster casts of different cuts of the human body that make the eases look like a butcher's stall. Then there are more articulated skeletons. There is the great French skeleton, a giant in pro portions, every bone as white as ivory, teeth all perfect like pearls, toes turn ed out, and palms of the hands ex tended with all the grace of a dancing master. "Look at those teeth," said one of the attendants to the reporter. "He is proud of those teeth. None but a French skeleton could have teeth like that. Yon can always tell a French man by that. There's a Yankee. None at all!" Only one canine, and half the jaw rotted away. That's because they use too much tobacco. If Americans knew how it ruined their skeletons they wouldn't chew so much. A Frenchman has a right to be proud of his skeleton. I should be ashamed to be a skeleton without teeth. That's a mighty fine looking woman there," and he dusted the glass case that pro tected a set of delicately fashioned bones. "She's French. See her teeth; like pearls. If you want to make a good skeleton takecareof yourteeth." These articulated skeletons are the only actors now on the stage that used to afford amusement to Abraham Lincoln, and their bony fingers point out the spot where he met his death. A Sketch of Hettie Green. From Washington Letter to Cleveland Leader. Hettie Gr.een is the sharpest woman on Wall street and the richest woman in New York. She is over forty years old and she numbers her fortune by as many millions as there are years in her life. Her mother was somewhat of an heiress and her father had in creased the family pile to 9,000,000 at the time of his death. This fortune Hettie, as the only child, inherited, and she at once went to work to in crease it. Much of her fortune was in vested in ships, but these she consider ed dangerous and sold them and placed the proceeds in good interest paying mortgage. She bought these mortgages of small towns all over England, traveling about and investi gatingthesecuritiesfor herself. Short ly after her father's death a maiden aunt of hers died and left her $4,000, 000 more. The $13,000,000 that Hettie Green thns inherited she had increased by careful speculation to about $20,000,000 at the time she married E. H. Green, of New lork. Miss Hettie had an ante-nuptial con tract with him whereby he agreed to pay all of the household expenses and to leave her property of $20,000,000 and more in her own name. After her wedding she kept up her business work, and through her husband got into Wall street speculation. She did the spec ulating herself, however, and made while her husband lost. She could buy large blocks of stock and would bull and bear the market as she thought best. She has made money right along, and is now said to be worth forty odd millions. She is very economical withal, and though her in come must be several millions a year, her total household expenses are not over $5,000. She rides down Broad way in a five-cent 'bus, carrying per hans $100,000 in her reticule, and she used to walk to parties through the snow, pulling old woolen stockings ov er her shoes to keep her feet dry and save buying rubbers. When she got to the place of entertainment she would pull off her socks and hang them on the hat rack to dry. She kept her silver and securities at John Cisco's bank, and the bankers say she came periodically to the bank with a box of whiting and polished her silver herself. When Cisco failed, not long ago, it took two cabs to carry awj'.y the plate, and the securities which Mrs. Green had on deposit were found to be over $2o, 000,000. Hettie Green has two children, a boy and a girl. The girl is 13 and the boy 14 years old. The boy is an invalid, but his mother says she intends to make him the richest man in America. If she keeps on piling up money at her pres ent rate she will probably succeed. He Felt Discouraged. Cleveland Plain Dealer. He had a wearied, sad-eyed expres sion, as if booked for a funeral, and was awaiting the hearse and mourn ers. A sympathetic friend sought to sound the secret of his woe. The wearied man responded: "I feel discouraged." "Tut! You mustn't give way to grief in that despairing way. You know what the poet sang: 'Hope springs eternal in the.human breast. "Ah, yes! But it ain't for me. When a man's seen what I'veseen hope ain't for him." "Bless my soul, what can have hap pened?" "I'll tell you. Mayhap it will give relief. You know how steady I've been sitting up to MissHopsnood?" "Everybody knows you sat up to her like a sick kitten to a warm stove." "She encouraged me, and I felt I was solid till first one and then another got to whispering that she was sitting Gus Tombell out 'n out. I wouldn't believe a word of it. Didn't she go with me to ice cream parlors two or three times a week and picnics, and didn't that show I was solid? So I believed she was all right and wouldn't hear to a word contrary." "That's right. Don't never listen to busy talk." "That's what I was determined till to-day. A person told me a little while fhaf ho Qaw T'nm Mill esf'nrtin.T Kate home from the matinee. That didn't worry me. I knew he was all right and thought everything of me. So I started up to call on her. It wasn't my night to pay my regular visits, but I wanted to go, just to show them I knew it was all right. I met her ma at the gate. She said I'd bet ter not go in. That sounded queer, but I did not let it bother me at all. Then the old man he was smoking his pipe under a tree he chipped in; said he guessed Kate wasn't expecting me to-night. That was quee-, too. Still, I wouldn't allow myself to be discouraged. I was sure Kate could explain everything, no matter how it looked. On the step I met Kate's little sister. She kind of snick ered, and had a curious, cute look in her eyes as shesaid: 'Kate won't best like to see you to-night.' This was the queerest of all. But still I wouldn't give way. Something told me to keep a stiff upper lip and not be discouraged. And I determined I wouldn't . So I walked right into the parlor, and then " "What?" "I saw Kate sitting on the lounge with that Tom Mill he with his arm round her waist and she with her head flopped down onto his breast." "Then you gave way?" "Then I felt discouraged and came away." Mr. Jones, the revivalist, in his ser mon in Cincinnati said: "I don't be lieve any of Darwin's theory unless you invert it. Invert it, and my judgment is. it's a fact. We came from the blessed hand of God perfect. But I look about me and I think the world is running to monkeys." A published portrait of Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr., one of the early settlers of Ohio, leads to an old remin iscence in the Hartford Courant: His father was a resident of Middletown, and his singular nameoriginatedthus. In the early history of Middletown, Mr. Jonathan Meigs asked a lady to become his wife. She refused him, and Meigs felt so badly that he left her house weeping. She, observing his grief, cried out to him when he was a few rods from her, "Return, Jonathan Meigs." He went back, she accepted him, and they were married. He declared that the words uttered by the young woman gave him more comfort than any other he had ever heard. Therefore, wishing to express his gratitude, ha named his first child Retuu Jonathan Meigs. The son became postmaster general of the United States and governor of Ohio.