A RECEIPT IS xTLL.
ting bad all been Boonred until she
m iee her face, or grotesque caroa
Z of ber face, in each and every one of
ft'? sparkled, or l'kled-forit
.now twilight ia the bnght June
Eiiie- the silver burnishod until
wXr l't nor speck marred its mil.l
? t- the loaves of bread baked until
h frwpy cniHt took on the right shade
$Lvtiwt n; ? yon WM 8C?,b-
i il's only unaerubbod corner of the
ivhen-whun Miss Cameron's deep,
Jb precise voice came to hor from
JSX -ot through yet?"
' ..itniost, lmrBm," answered Molly.
,i tijiofc it i" "gn uluo lua" j,uu woro
it declared the voice. "You must
-n te. aei
1 . i... Inula.
We are going to the lee
rop!nir. Miss Georeette and I:
gg Mr. Malcolm also wishes to go
1 1 1. Al,1ivA irk lrvlr 11 t lift
"u mi. if fa nAPanaarff llinf
ton nhoul'' leave soon as possible.
"Yes, ma'am," said Molly, meekly ,and
finished her scrubbing with her tears
fulling ft "J thik- roor little Kirl!
!he bad tried so hard to please her mis
tresses, or rather her mistress for Mies
fiewgotte was but a reflection of her
tliler sister and her efforts had been
met with a grim silence that betokened a
begrudged satisfaction, until the last
two weeks that is, in fact, until Mr.
George Malcolm came there. Mr. Mai
f jlm was a sort of step-brother to the
Mis'ses Cameron (his father, a widower,
with two boys.hod married their mother,
g widow, with two girls,) and they in
heriting nothing in tlio way of proporty
for their own father, he generously made
them an allowance from the moderate
fortune loft him by his. Generously
gad forgivingly for they bad not ren
dered a tithe of the respect, to say noth
ing of affection, which was his due, to
their indulgent and kind-hearted step
father, choosing to look upon their
mother's second marriage as an insult to
the memory of the parent whoso not-at
gll-amiable characteristic had been his
only legacy to thorn.
The cotUgo in which they lived,
gitnated in the prettiest part of Meadow
tille (the furniture within being their
own, the Inquest of a maternal grand
mother) belonged to Mr. George; and
here be had come in search of solitude
gad quiet, fir the first time in twelve
rears or more, to spend a month or two
in thinking out and arranging plans for
starting a large business in a neighbor
ing city. And, as I have already inti
mated, things had changed much for tho
worse with Molly, the servant-maid,
since his arrival. The grim silence had
given place to the most open fault-finding,
when Mr. Malcomb was not within
hearing. The coffee was too strong, the
tea too weak, the chicken undone, the
steaks burned, the eggs boiled too hard,
the rooms badly swept, the shirts poorly
ironed; and all these complaints, with
many more, the elder spinster, con
firmed by the younger, gave her to
understand had originated with the
guest.
"What a hard man to please he must
11" Molly said to herself many tiinss.
"And yet he has one of tke handsomest
and kindest faces I ever saw; and he
spoke right pleasantly to me the first day
he came, and offered me his hand (how
Miss Camoron did frown) ; but I pre
tended not to see it, for I knew it was
not my place to shake hands with bim.
It is strange he should have become so
fractions. He was so good and merry
and kind when I was a little girl. I've
beard father say often he'd rather shoe a
horse for him than any one else in the
village." And then she would fall to
thinking how grand he used to look to
her childish eyes when he came riding
cp on bis bay mere to the smithy where
she spent half her time watching her
father at the forge. And he always
brought her a gay picture book, or a
pretty ribbon, or a box of candies, or a
bright new silver pieoe one Christmas
it was a gold one and claimed a kiss
(good gracious! how ber cheeks flushed
at the remembranoe!) for payment when
he rode away again. How happy, bow
very happy she had been then, with that
dear father and dear old Aunt Nanny
o happy that she had scarcely ever felt
the loss of her mother who died in giv
ing her birth, lint when Molly was fif
teen, the blacksmith, so strong and
ruddy that it seemed impossible pain or
sickness could ever come near him, fell
si k, and after lingering, sorely crippled,
for nearly two years, died, leaving notb.
ing to his darling but bard work.
Yea, there wan one alternative: to be
tone Mrs. Jake Willow, and mis
tress of tho forge again; but Jake
was a rough, vulgar fellow, and Molly,
inheriting the delicate tastes and gentle
ways of her mother (who had been a shy
pretty young governess before she mar
ried the handsome blacksmith), shrank
from the loud voice and rude laughter of
'ler would-be husband. And so, in
preference to accepting Jake's offer she
became and Heaveu knows this was a
hard enough thing to do maid of all
work in the cottage of the Misses Cam
eron. Poor little Molly! prettier than
many a princess with lovely, blaok
fringed gray eyes, and hair of the very
darkest brown hair that wonld cnrl in
spite of her, to Miss Cameron's great dis
pleasure. "If I had such untidy hair," that lady
would ofted declare, glancing approv
ingly into the mirror at the flat, dyed
"bands that made a triangle of her narrow
high forehead, "I would shave my
head," and "We'd certainly shave our
beads," would echo Miss Georgette.
The kitchen flr.or finished, the rugs
shaken and returned to their places, the
bread put away in the big stone jar in
he cupboard, Molly sought her own
room (which, trutb to tell, was no room
at all, but a corner of the garret rudely
partitioned off.with only a small skylight
to admit light and air there were rooms,
empty, unused rooms, in the attic, but
"they were much too good for a ser
vant," Miss Cameron said; and "very
much too good for a servant," agreed ber
sinter) to make ready for her flitting.
Molly looked around it as she tied
her straw bat over ber rebellions tresses,
and again the tears filled her eyes. It
had not been a happy place of rest to
her, but it had been a place of rest.and a
shelter, and she bad been glad to have
it, fearing to leave it lest worse lack lay
beyond.
And she would not have been com
pelled to l-ave it had it not been for that
unfortunate mirror, and the unceasing
complaints of the old bachelor. Old
bacholor! Whv. hn
old after all. for he was only one and
twenty (sue was then between five and
six) when he gave her the ribbons and
books and silver niiwixi nnrl hIia pv
him the kisses.
But the sound nf rlnsintr almttam
broke in on her reverie, and reminded
her that her departure was waited for,
uu inning ner bundle in ncr band, she
ran quickly and lightly down the stain
to the Parlor, when tlm nmi.lon
ladies sat erect und stern, with their
bonnets already on in readiness for the
lecture.
"I'm going now," said Molly standing
in tho doorway, her sweet, patbetio face
with its pleading gray eyes and quiver
ing lips, in no way touching what her
mistresses were pleased to call their
hearts. "Goodby, ma'am. Good-by
Miss Georgette."
But the only reply she got was: "Bear
in mind that von are still indebted to us
eight-ami twenty dollars. If, however,
you should prefer to purchase a mirror
yourself in place of the one broken by
you, we will consent to receive it, pro-
. i .. i j . - . .
viuen is is in every respect as gooii as
that left us by our grandmother. And
in that case we will agree to refund the
eight dollars, your last month's wages.
w huh we nave retained as the first in
stallment of your debt; which is really
much more than could havo been ex
pected of us."
"Oh, yos, indeed, very much moro
than could hn.ve boon expected of us."
nui r run rod Miss Georgette.
"For such gross carelessness Miss
Cameron went on.
"Indoed, ma'am," interrupted Mollv,
her cheoks flaming and her eyes spark
ling,"as I have told you.I never touched
it, I wasn't even near it. I was sweeping
the other side of the parlor when it fell,
ami the cord it hung by was all moth-
iten, and had parted just in the middle
hi I showed you at the time."
"Should bo punished, continued
Miss Cameron, not paying the slightest
attention to the girl. "And one word
more. Please to remember that we nave
your signature to an acknowledgment
tlm you considor yourself, responsible
for the breakage."
"Ion frightened me so that I scarcely
knew what I was signing," said Molly.
"But as I have promised, I will pay you,
for it shall never bo said that my father's
daughter broke her word. I'd give you
the few dollars I have saved, if I had not
to keep them for my own support until
I get another place. Poor Aunt Nanny
can only give me sueiter, ior, as you
know, she bos depended almost entirely
on me for food and clothes ever since
my fathor died."
"Yes, and a very ridiculous thing for
both of you," snapped Miss Cameron,
with a oold snap, "biie migut mucii
better sell the hut she lives in for kind
ling wood, and go to the poorbouse, and
you might much better save your wages
to pay for the things you Dreau. i or
break you will to the end of your days
I never saw a person with such fly-away
hair as yours that was not vain, careless,
and frivolous. You may go."
"Yes, indeed.you may go," added Miss
Georgette.
And the poor child went out into the
road homeless and almost, friendless,
with a shadow on her fuir young face
and a pain in her young heart. But she
had only turned into the long lane that
led to old Nanny's cottage when some
one came quickly to her side, and said,
in a kindly voice, "Molly! poor little
Mollv I" and there was Mr. Malcolm.
And Molly, in her grief, thinking only
of him as the friend of her childhood,
who bad known her as the darling of the
kindest of fathers, flung her bundle
down and burst into a passionate flood
of tears.
"They were hard on me, your sisters,
Mr. Malcolm." she soblied "very hard
on mo. I did my best for them. I
worked and I am -not very strong,
though I am a blacksmith's daughter
from morning till night, and yet I could
uot please them. And it was not ray
fault about the mirror. It was not it
was not it was not. Though Miss
Cameron insists that I Btopped sweeping
to look at my curly hair. I can't help
its curling; I did everything to make it
straight; I fed it back so tight over and
over again, that my head ached awful
and knocked it with the broom. She
was a little better before you" came; but
after you came, and complained so much
about the tea, and the coff jo, and your
shirts, and everything "
"I complain!" exclaimed her listener,
breaking in upon her rather confuted
narration of her wrongs. "Why, I never
complained of anything. How could I?
there was uothiug to be com
plained of."
"She oaid you did. But I begpardon,
sir" suddenly remembering the differ
ence between the candy and kisses time
and tho present. She is your sister, and
-mv troubles are nothing to you."
"She is my sister an extremely long
step off," he replied, gravely; "and your
troubles are a great deal to me; and
furthermore, I think I see a way a
Tileasant wav out of them. Let me
walk with you to your AuntNannyX
and there, with her to advise us, we'll
falk matters over."
"Oh, it's such a poor place, Mr. Mal
colm! Miss Cameron called it a but, and
aid it was onlv fit for kindling wood."
"I've been in much poorer places,
Mnllv." said he. and picking up her bun
die, he walked by her side to the old
soman's cottoce.
Two weeks passed by. A poor drudge
from the workhouse, whose chief (in fact
wliram sole) recommendation was "no
wages," had taken Molly's place in the
Misses Cameron's kitchen. Mr. Mal
colm had gone away on businesi directly
after her coming, and on the evening
appointed for his return the two sisters,
attired in aresses oi uuu grj, uurc
lieved by a sinale touch of color, sat
fnvervtbine in the bonse being in heart-
chilling, dreadful tony order,) one at
one h narlor window, awaiting his arrival.
'He must be coming; I think I hear
wheels," said the elder, in ber usual pre
cise tones.
"Wheels." repeated ber sister.
And "wheels" they were, but not the
shel of a carriage, but tnose of a truck,
and this truck, on which lay a long
wooden box, stopped before the colUge
door.
"A mirror for Miss Cameron, the
driver called out as he jumped down.
"K mirror!"' repeated the spinster, nn
mhm to restrain a gesture of surprise
And "A mirror!" aaiJ Miss Georgette,
with another gesture of surprise.
"Yes. ma'am: from Willard's, New
York. Whore is it te be taken?"
"First unpack it out hero, com
manded the lady, recovering her self
possession. "I can't have the house lit
tered up with splinters and shavings."
"Ao, indoed " ohimea m iuiss
Georgette, also recovering her self
possession. "Splinters and shavings!"
So the box was uupacked at tho road
side, and the mirror taken from it proved
to be better and handsomer in every re
spect than that it had been scut to re
place. "I've brought wire to bang it with,"
said the man, as be carried it into the
house; "so there'll be no danger from
moths this time."
"Moths!" said Miss Cameron, glaring
at him. And "Moths!" echoed hor sis
ter, also glaring. And they both con
tinued to glare, as though called upon
to superintend a piece of work highly
repugnant to their feelings, until the
mirror was hung, and the driver agaiu
in his place on the truck.
"Of course, ueorge sent it, sam .uiss
Cameron, when the man had driven
away. "But Mary Brown must pay for
the other all the same. Oar having 'his
makes no difference in leg ml to the
agreement with her."
"No difference in regard to tlio agree
ment with her," assented Miss Georgette
when who should walk in in a gray
silk walking dress, a bunch of crimson
flowers nt ber throat, and another at her
belt, und the most coquetish gray hat,
adorned with more crimson llowors but
Molly herself?
"Good-evening, said she smilingly.
"I have called for a receipt in full."
"A receipt in full! And for what,
pray? Have you brought the money?''
asked her whilom mistress. "And have
you brought the money?" ochoed her
other whilom mistress.
"No, I have not brought tho money,
answered Molly; "but I bavj S'?nt you a
mirror that more than answers all your
requirements."
"lou! from both sisters at once. And
again, for the second time, in ono short
hour, they wore guilty ol being sur
prised, and letting their surprise to be
seen.
" Yes. I. I have the bill with me. A
receipt in full, if you please."
Miss Cumerou arose, waiae.i in a
stately manner, with Molly following
her, to her desk tu the dining room, seat
ed herself, took pen, ink ami paper, ami
began:
"Received from Mary ii when
"Stop a moment," said Molly: "my
name is no longer Mary Brown."
"And what may it be? inquired Miss
Cameron, regarding her with lofty con
tempt. "1 11 answer that question, answeroa
Mr. Malcom, suddenly appearing, and
possiug his arm around the slender gray
silk waist, thereby crushing the bunch
of roses in tho natiy belt "Mrs. George
Malcolm."
The uen fell from Miss Cameron s
baud, and for the first time in her life
that estimablo womau went into hyster
ic's, whither her equally estimable sister
immediately followed her.
And Molly, taking her leave at that
moment, never received any receipt in
full, or otherwise, after all. Harpers'
Weekly.
Teaching the Iudlans.
A visit to the Indian school, says the
Albuaueraue (N. M.) Keview, made re
oently by a reporter, was found to be one
of no slight interest. Prof. J. S. Shearer,
the principal, is working zealously and
interestedly in the cause of Indian edu
cation, and the very encouraging results
of his efforts are evident upon examina
tion of the institution and its pupils. Be
Kinninu with tho very ncccssaay convic
tion that Indian children are to be far
differently trained from white pupils the
professor and his able faculty have not
bound themselves by educational exam
ples, but have workod out a system of
tuition for their own use, which has
been highly suocessful.
The number of the pupils of the
school was, until recently, limited by tho
government, so far as its contribution to
their maintenance was conoernod, to 50.
To each of these an appropriation of
$120 a year is made by the Indian Bu
reau. This sum, of course, is found
to be insufficient for the needs of
each of these wards and the Presby
terian Board of Homo Missions here
aids in the work by making up the quar
terly deficit. Besides this, occasional
contributions, more especially of clothes
for the girls, are received from friends of
the school in the East, after whom many
of the childrou are named, after discard
ing the Spanish noaencluture possessed
cn entering.
The plan of the school combines for its
scholars mental and physical work, rest
and recreation in proportions which op
pears to have led to the best results as re
spects both the health and the education
of the pupils. The day and night are di
vided into five hours of school work, teu
aud a liulf for sleep, three for labor, and
five and a half for recreation, sedentary
or recreative, as the tastes of the chil
dren may lead them to choose.
In the school-room objoct teaching is
found to be most successful, and the
progress made by the little Pueblos in
the studies to which they have so far
been introduced is really very gratifying.
In working hours the garden attached to
the school, containing 10 acres of land,
receives their attention Robert Helbig,
the gardener and baker of the school,
overseeing and directing the labor. Cul
tivated solely by this gardener and the
boys of the school, the garden is now in
condition to supply the table of the in
stitution with a more abundant und
greater variety of vegetables than is
seen on the table of any private family
in the city. A detachment of the boys
is now also building an adobe stable in
the yard, which a few duyi will be com
plete. Very lately, throngh the efforts of the
friends of the school, an anditional ap
propriation was granted,, allowing 25
more scholars. These it has been de
cided to take from the Apaches and
Moquis, and the two parties are expected
to arrive very shortly.
H Ci'Etu Ilm.-The Troy Times
tells how a clergyman cured a balky
horse. He took along a book and a
lunch basket, and when the horse, as
uual, made a dead stop, fell to rending,
and when the animal, tired of standing,
started op, cried "Wboa!" compelled
him to wait Lis pleasure for a good share
of the day. It cured the balking.
I nolle School Tiathm.
On (attention Las been called, by a
gentleman who seeks all ways of doing
good, nd doing it wisely,' to the work
nd whys oi u lady teachers in the pub
lic schools. Ilia insistance is that they
are worked over hours, or, as we wonld
state it, the.v are compelled to give moro
time toVeportsand HaUntics than they
do to thp leaching of their oIusm s. There
is certainly some excess of red tape in
the condition in the several lesions, and
there is overwork in the not easy task of
stating die average crop of development
In eucu juvenile n.iud. School reports
are like those from the agricultural do-
nartment, w here there is ouo guess at
ucreuge aud another guess us to what
theliunt'st w ill lx. The most couscion-
. -. .1 .ii i .
tious oiiieiu-uers niniiiiers in every re
ort slid
makes to her principal, aud be
in Ins
port to
turn blunder sgmu iu the re-
lie superintendent.
KtUl
is supervision of the w ork, this
holding of every teacher to full r. port of
duty done, is a matter of necessary disci
pline, unt when it becomes so involved
and intricate, so loaded with checks and
balauot that thero is really never any
near suvroaeh to absolute truth, it be
comes work of sujHtn rogation, giving
the teacher the more work and the pupil
tho lesi attention. Tho teacher who bus
sbiyod Jong after school to balance ber
account, who finds as all of us do fiud
who stiklr, that there is a lack in our
own comprehension of the next day's les
son, or worse than that, knowing the
lesson and not knowing now to make it
easy for the new comprehension, there
is a mental toil whioU occupies hours
after tho school house doors are locked
and breaks tho honest nap. We see
these "school inarms" on the street cars
every morniug, sometimes meditative,
and soinetimes cramming from a text
book. ,
We never accuse thorn of having too
much leuure, und wonld be glad if thejr
working hours could be reduced. The
school hours taken ulone, ure not too
long, but tho school day only applies to
the children and not to faithful teachers.
It is ant to bo forgotten that the aptitude
to teach is a very separate thing from the
aptitude to leurn.sud that muny teachers
toil in the lute evening aud in tho morn
ing watth for ways and methods of tell
ing what they kuow and what, if they
caunot plainly tell, makes the day a fail
ure. Out of all this comes tho conclu
sion that teachers should not bo com
pelled to keep an accurate bank account
of the intellect and progress of their
pupils, and the checking off of right and
wrong answers never added to Uwcning
efficiency. Book keeping is not teaching
and there ought to bo some leisure left
for Btndy and refreshment of the teach
er's mind.
But it is not well to be too sentiiueual
about this. So far as vacations are con
cerned, the teachers in thepublio schools
have ample rest. The long vacation of
the summer covers from eight to nine
weeks. The Christmas holidays give an
other woek. The secular holidays,
if they fall on a Thursday, lost over till
the next Monday. Every Saturday is a
holiday. To no other profession-
salaried profosHion is the same liberty
of vacation conceded. It happens to no
other business man, working on a salary,
that he can lock up his desk and be out
of bis ouioe one thud of the year, but
as an offset to that the business man bus
more momentary liberty of action, and
many of them decline the offer of long va
cation. . Bu.s a rule tbey da not suffer
the atniosnbere of a school-room which
has its only parallel in the stench of
police court. It has a very depressing
effect upon the nervous system. Tho
children are not nice in their habits, as
perhaps may be delicately illustrated by
the story of a reverend Doctor of Divin
ity who was accused of burning Incense
iu his school-room. He pleaded guilty,
but placed bis defense on the ground
that some smells were better than other
smolU. His smoking applo tree bark
had no ecclesiastical significance.
Our conclusion is that the kind of work
publio school teachers are compelled to
do. and the circumstunces under much
tbey render it, should make ns consider
tho drag of their toil and lessen tbeyards
of red tupe in which they are now wound
np. Theirs is a life of hard work, but
not harder than that of tho household
which is faithfully attended. But it'is a
responsible work, and one above the
rules of ordinary servitude. Newark
Advertiser.
f'ash;uiiab' -Ur tf.
Dressed in the deepest and blackest of
crape, iu tho richest of silks, and the
most conuotish of widow s caps, tho be
reaved one finds that her lost husband
has made but little difference in the rou
tine of her daily lifo. Probably the
prinoipal cliang3 sho feels in his loss is
in her income, and men have ere now
been known dosiirnedly to curtail the
finances in such instances iu order to in
sure thut they should ut least be missed
in some degree.
But if the fashionable widow is easy
in nurso she is rarely sod st heart. She
knows that she is for the time at least, i
prominent point and an object of atten
tion in her own circle. She is aware
that her cun becomes her. and thut she
looks vouner in her weeda than she had
looked for several years before. She is
not lone before she looks around ber f n
some diversion from the strict retirement
that her world is supposed to enforce
upon widows. It is in reality far from
strict. She can co abroad with a few
chosen soirits. and who that sees her
lauch and chatter, flirt and amuse ber
self as she does, could imagine that she
is a widow of but a few weeks' standing?
Even if she remains in England, she
id at no loss to fiud ways and means of
entertainment. Her "chivaliori serv
onti" Iiuva liv no mAuna all disaooesred
tbongh some few have taken fright, who
wero very nervous as to matrimony .They
are afraid she might marry them. Her
suit is thus reduced, but those left are (
the choicest spirits, and there is invari.i
bly a friend who, being married, has her
own set of admirers, ana ueiween mem
the two ladies can usually muster a very
pleasant party. Tuere are visits to the
tditv. Daid incotr.. the incognito in this
instance consisting of leaving the widow's
csp and heavy crape at borne. L here is a
musical hall or two, much frequented in
a quiet way by fashionable ladies of Lun
dou. Our widow makes ber party and
goes to these, accompanied by ber frisky
friend
"Poor Harry would never hear of mj
going," she says, "but this will be an
excellent opportunity."
There are trips to Brighton aud pleas
ant little evenings thore, nusiispeeted by
tho world. Places further utield thuu
Brighton are visited, and a little quiet
gambling helps to make tho months fly
srouud. The year of deepest weeds and
Rtriet seclusion is soon over, and few who
have seen the quiet face in public, under
that most proper if most coquettish
of caps, could have guessed how merrily,
for the most part, the days have gone.
The second year is that in which the
widow m really happy. The somber
depths of ber inouruiog cast aside, she
enters the world again aud ruxns ber
jewel case. Eveu with a very booomiug
widow's cap on, life is more or less a
blank to a womau if she can not wear her
jewels. Now, however, tho diamonds,
pearls aud opals may reappear, and wun
what renewed delight are they uot worn?
iHious of dresses in delicate half tints,
pearl gravs, soft lavenders, mixtures of
white ami g'ay, or black and white, float
before ber miud.soou to lai realised.
Her years uhseuce from bulls and
parties and crowded rooms has renewed
icr beantv, and the same retiroiuont has
brightened her cyos aud tingod her
hecks with tho freshness of enjoyment
with which sho prepares to re enter tho
world. Now indeed is the fashionable
widow a dangerous und seductive
lest n re. She kuows that she is prettier
than ever, and the consciousness makes
her moro certain of coming victories,
gives a gentle softness to Iter manner.
Beware of widows iu their second yean
Always dangerous, they are thuu more so
than ever.
There are. of course, widows, indeed,
whose erief does not wholly consist 111
yards of crape, jet jwelry, aud a white
crimped cap. These are apart from
those nl whom 1 have been wriuug,
and with them the fashionublo
widow has nothing to do.
While they brood over their lone
liness, she revels in her freedom. They
look out into the coming years with a
blank sense of dreary loss, while she
looks forwurd to tho future with as much
Iiodov anticipation as she over could
have done to tier marrinKO.
Light-hearted ns a girl, sho fools
younger every day, and from her own
point or view there is no more enviuuie
beiug to be found in this world than a
onug, handsome, rich and lively widow
whose heart is not inconveniently soft,
nor her feelings too acute to prevent her
going through lifo, "well pleased and
care ess," and extracting from it as much
ot the pleasuro and as little of tlio pain
as may fall to tho share of any mortal
creature I Loudon Journal.
Ihe Juinel Sale.
TheJumcl sale has created unusual
excitement among real estate doalors,
who aro improving an opportunity whieu
nover will occur again. It is the most
important sale ever held in this city, or,
indeed, on the entire oontineut. Aside
from the storied mansion, there are 11230
lots, representing 80 acres. The largest
previous land auction was that of Henry
Kekford farm, which was hordly one
quarter in point of size. The present
sulo also included the Broadway prop
orty, at the corner of Liberty Btreot,
which brought g.Hu,uuu, uemg mora
than 10 times its cost. The advauoe in tho
landed estate, however, is still groator.
It wss bought by Jumul in 1810 for
819,000-a suin, which had it been put
at compound interest, would aruoum to
82,000,000. The property, however,
will bring doublo that sum. xiizu
prices, lUdeoa, are necessary, biuob mo
expedse of fiftoen years' litigation is
now to be met, and were I sddictod to
riddles, I would ask the reader to guess
its amount. Without any such delay,
however, I will add that during a rcoont
call at the Juninl houso, Mrs. (Jaryi, one
of tho heirs, informed me that it is $700,-
000. This is tho heaviest bill of costs
ever made against anv estate in Amorica.
O'Couor's foe alone is $100,000, and the
paymont of this immense debt has been
nostDoned until a solo shall be made.
Charles O'Conor, who is now four soore,
will thns recoivo bis pay for sorvioes be
gun sevontoou yeais ago. This is tho
lonirest dolav in the payment of law fees
in the record of our courts.f N. Y. Cor-
Troy Times.
Kitchen Knowledge.
"Never too old to learn," and hero are
a W thincrs we huve loarned at our
linnae.
That ripo cuoumbors make good swoot
pickles.
That clubored milk Is hotter than wa
ter for freshening suit flh.
That a niece of cork is hotter than a
cloth for applying brick to knives.
That apples wlucn tone a long iime
to bake should have a little water in the
pan. 9
That if we w ish to prolong our lives,
we should put one day between washing
and ironing.
That salt pork will be nico, nearly as
fresh, if soaked in swoot milk and water,
in equal parts.
Thut liver should be thrown into boil
ing water after being sliced thin, and
then fried iu lard or drippings.
That pie crust will not be soggy if it is
brushed over with the white of an egg
before the fruit is put in.
Wash pantry shelves with hot alum
water to rid them of ants.water bugsand
other troublesome insects.
Stoves blackened when entirely cold
will keep the cloau look a great deal
longer when tbey are polished when the
tiivn ia warm.
That half a cup of vinegar in the wa
ter will make an old fowl cooa nearly
quickly as a young oue, and does not in
jure the fls'or in the least.
Emeri n's hi oophf.
The devil it an ass.
No great men are original.
Beauty is its own excuse for being.
To be great is to be toiaunderstood.
What belongs to vou gravitates to yon.
Ornat believers are always reckoned
infidels.
Consiatency is the hobgoblin of little
Talent makes counterfeit ties; gonius
finds the real ones.
. Character is a reserved force which
acts directly by presence and without
means.
Krerr man is a a notation from bis
ancestors.
dHOIIT hits. .
Spring pants are so attenuated in stylo
that wheu a young man of the poriod
sits down in them he will wish he had
stood up and saved rent. Elu ira Tolo
gram. Oswego' new jail will cost about 818,-
O'.H); but this does not include the cost of
the silver bath tubs, tho fresco of the
banqueting hall and tho dados of the
billiard room and green-nonse. ruck.
The boy who said that pins had saved
a great muny people's lives by their not
swallowing them, might now say that
tho water lias saved a great many boys
lives this B'Mison by it's being too oold to
bathe in. Sum. Jour.
Agony! No; the man who has got
tangled in a mowing machine doesn't
know what agony is. The person who
docs, is the woman who has got a secret
she is dying to tell somebody, and does
not know auybody she can trust it with.
The Bev. John Jasper, the distin
guished upholder of the theory that "do
sun do move," thinks that bis acientifio
critics would better remove the "mokes"
from their own eyes before trying to
"blow the beans out of bis'u."
A Montville couple wero marriod on
Sunday in a buggy, the clergyman
standing under an umbrella beside the
road. Tlio clergyman had his umbrolU
in anticipation of a storm, probably,
though why ho should havo expected a
storm so early in the young people's
mrrriod life is not explainod. Boston
Transcript.
"Sometimes," romarkod Fogg, re
moving bis cigar, "j $ wish that I had
never boon born, or that I had died in
my childhood." He puffed away for a
moment or two, aud then added, with
something like bis customary cheerful
noss: "Well, 1 have not altogether lived
iu vaiu. 1 have made a fairly good
husliand for Mrs. F., a woman who
could never have got anybody else to
many her."
YYbftl Mr a should leirn.
By all means let the girls loam how to
cook. What right bus a girl to marry and
go iuto a house of her own unless she
knows how to superintend overy branch
of housekeeping, and she cannot prop
erly superintend unless she has some
practical knowledge herself. Most men
marry without thinking wbotuer me wo
man of his choice is cnpuble of cooking
him a moal, and it is a pity he is so short
cighted, as his health, his cheerfulness,
and indeod bis success in lite depend in
a very great degreo upon the food he
eats; in fact, the whole household is in
fluenced by their diet, reed them on
fried cukes, fried meats, hot bread and
other indigestible viands, day after day,
and they will need medicine to make
them well. A man will take alcohol to
counteract the ovil effeots of such food,
and the wife and children must be phy
sicked. Let all the girls have a share in
the housekeeping at home before they
marry; let each superintend some de
partment by turns. It need not occupy
half the time to seo that the house is
properly swept, dusted and put in or
der, or to prepare puddings and make
dishes, that many young ladies spend in
reading novels mat enervate doiu minu
and body and unfit them for every day
lifo. Women do not, as a gonerai ruie,
got vale faces by doing housework.
Their sedentary habits, in ovor-heated
rooms, combined witb Hi-chosen food,
are to blame for bad health. Our moth
ers used to prido themselves on their
housekeeping and fine needlework. Why
should not we? (Baltimore Sun.
rat YunnelflD Bis Place.
Id an admirable address on Sunday
school teaching, Dr. Eggloston gave this
foroible illustration of the value of per
sonal sympathy with children in every
effort to gain a hold on and lead them;
"A half-witted follow or a 'natural' as
tho Scotch would oall bim found a
misting horso,. when all search for him
hod failed, and a liberal reward had
been offered for his reoovery. On his
bringing back the horse to its owner,
the question wus askod of the simple
minded follow:
"Why, Sam, how came yon to find the
horse, when no one else could?'
"Wall, I just quired where the horse
was last seen, and thon I wont thar, and
sat on a rock, and just axed mysol', if I
was a horse, whar I would go, and wbat
would I do? And then I went and 'ouud
him. ,
"Sain putting himself in the horse s
place, in the simplicity of bis feeble
wind, is enablod to go to the borso and
lead bun back to the right place. II
would le well if evory Sunday-school
teacher, before sitting down to a class of
children, would ask himself after Sura's
sort: 'If I was a boy, bow won hi I feel,
and what would I want?' He would thus
be far more likoly to get a hold on theso
boys, and bring them along with him
herover he pleases to go. n.iuu
Words.
Milk affHted
bv the Condltloa or the
'Ovr
On this subject the Live Stock Jour
nal says: The comfort of theoow lias
much to do with the quality of the milk.
In hokweather the annoyanoe produced
by flies, and excitement produced
by fighting them, makes the night's milk
poorer than it would otherwise be.
Chemical analysis has shown great full
ing off of fat of the milk in the same oow
when chased by a dojr. Any unnsnal
excitement of the cow affects the fat in
hni milk. In a cose where cows went
into a etreoui in hot weather, and stood
sevoral hours in the watr above tho
knoe, there wa a falling off of the but
ter prod not from the sume quantity of
milk. This is acconnted for by the extra
food required to Keep up the animal heat
in consequence of the ouinal beat carried
off by tht water. When we consider the
fact that milk is secreted from the
blood, we Can readily see the effect that
must tie produced by excitement oo the
nervons system of the cow In a
case occurring in Albany, N. Y , where a
nervous cow was milked by a passionate
mau wbo wuippeii aim ouierwiso m
treated her at milking, the milk was
given to a child who hod been healthy,
but, after using this milk, became ill
and snflerwl from ink-annul irritation,
followed by a fever which seemed to
effect the brain and nervous syttem.This
Nines was traced directly to the milk of
this ill treated cow.
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