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ORATING FRUIT. ,. om. " nf" 7i., n """ . i of Nuw orK' "n tx" ,ratlng fruit, give, some rSStfM " says our SJB 3 apph wlU yield V1 . f ... , :. i-i f I'll I I, A I tfn . 1 n apples weighing tounus ui c.r - I",und!:., ho prefer one that tW' , and slices at the name ' M are several 1,'oou 11 . . .. .i .m,. will prepare ,J perfect order. Bleach- tbJKbelWP1 " ! .,,.,,1.1 bo diseour- ith alV . , ,ll11..hi.r of mbm P .1 ,1 f,.r nmil time i ..I,..- imut It. 1 111 t. ,es ami p . . u noon an rnni the bleai f f...iil until It i-riM MP .t,.. i'o or ' " " bed run it from the fW . .t hrneklsh water-not too !.... "rS;; .h, dr..,. fn.lt would then Vl Nurture and damage .1. It-. ' ,i the fruit fordrying on trays tnW'1 , V galvanized wire cloth. Sv-U twl i,,,1",,v,! u:" the evaporator m i " ', .,. I take out the fruit ' .arlv and spread It ahout ten 6 , ... ,.n curing lloor. where hoveled over "JTT unff In tlllH wuy ,me ld'; L the dryer while it in still W, L. Having fuel and inereas- - . i it - ui I I.- imi- , the working j - We alto goi """" ..... -, for tho eolor will jequumy " ' I better. . . ..rjfH1M.rilU-d apples u nqi Backed for r.usieru ii F..i.iinHftv pounds. Two pieces i-.l Lgr ..hi. cd in tho boxes next the 30 PT.J laid so that thoy will fold k each wav from tho contor. lapping n..n the Hide oi me uox. mm men ii ...... lull in MMVfl fill tile tliaf slices - with one-half lapping so us to hp. . -in., fnrinir: then tho box in ,ei IBlil'' ' . ,i ,f ,... f,...;. led from me oudwum " kamohlf dried n prosB is necessary ric"i.'it tiftv pounds into tho boxes com- IV I ni . . .. . . mil. i tu , used, iiipu wuvuiivi v. pdred by hand; Ppread on trays ilh the tr.lt SlllBS CCAl nil) mil-, unu leched like apples. They are packed twenty-five pound noxes. i uo not y dry berries, but finish in the our g room, snoveiuiK w" Four lHIUtKls oi oiaea niii i i- ',Bie8 will make a pound of dried fruit. luntiS. . . i ..i ., h,a will make eiyht DUnei VI - a - iwinnds.1 ilsiB u i n uiiiw the waste can lie jir. i.v.v. d.V" ""mde into vinegar worth 3 a barrel. aKi. ....... nni unenk encouriiL'itlL'lv of 10 uuva "v'w ' t a " - -tove evaporators lor market (.''inM .,u lint thinks a wnll-oruani.ed .Urjivr'uo, w". o toblishment, properly managed, is rofitable. Western New lork mark- 'vtlBets, at tho writing, woro offoring 0 'OH ...,k f,,r nrinie apples, eiiual to H cents 0,MnXew York t'ity. St. Paul Globe. 7m T0 OURE DIPHTHERIA. Turpf ntlne Sulci to He Alinnut SperlHr to the Dlteaae. II'.. Un.. ..n .. i . .-ii nnrMiainnu riv uge of turpentine In diphtheria. Kecommended originally in Germany and claimed to be almost specific, it was there, also, that the employment of tho drug wus subject ed to the most severe criticism. Some recent publication l have again drawn attention to the alleged value of this HkUAnoe, and most remarkable among these is an article which appeared in the Tkerapeuttieht Monutsheftc. The author naaertl that he has employed turpentine in diphtheria for tho last four years. In that time he lost only five cases out of sixty that came under treatment. Two of the fatal cases concerned infants, who appeared mori bund when first taken, and died a few hours later. Tho other fatal cases - .t. n.. .. , k HCIC IV1SU UUU811UIIJ BUVUIC 1MM11 llli start, two dying in tlnrty-six Hours, and one surviving five days. This is certainly a noteworthy record, as diphtheria statistics go. Tho oil ol turpentine was administered in dram flonen throe times a day. Sweet spirits ot niter was used as a corrective, in the proportion of ono part of the spirits to fifteen of turpentine. Symptoms of intoxication were never observed by the author. In addition to the turpentine, a 2 per cent solu tion of sodium salycilate was given every two hours in tablespoon doses. A gurgle of chlorate of potash solution waslikewise employed whenever possi ble. Under this plan of treatment rapid amelioration of local signs and constitutional symptoms was observed. Usually improvement began at once, and it was rarely necessary to push the drug beyond five or eight doses. It 'hould be remarked in this connection, however, that a very generous and titnulating fluid diet (strong broth, P"rt wine, milk) formed a feature ol Dr. Reese's plan of treatment. Those who are inclined to be skeptical in re frd to the utility of medicines in the everer forms of diphtheria (and the profession contains many such) will searcely accept the author's figures without a challenge. On tho other hand, for the very reason that violent diphtheria ordinarily justirrea sc floomy a prognosis, we are ever ready to employ any means which may possibly reduce its frightful mortality. TiWc is no reason, therefore, why the turpentine treatment of this disease bould not be given a fair trial. Htdical Record. A wonderful real estate dealer foes business at Gladstone, Mich. He on't sell a lot unless the buyer signs I forfeiture contract not to allow hlsky selling on the premises. In Boston the neck of a chicken is lled Napoleon, beause it is the bony Prt Albany Union. OF GENERAL INTEREST A man at Tatnall, Ga.. has twenty seven brothers and sister living. A gentleman In Portland, Ore., has succeeded in training a young elk t drive in harness. The annual value of the wool crop is from 176,000,00(1 to 90,0uu,0u0, vary ing with thu market value. One of the most prosHrous farm ers of t'uthlert. Ga., is a Hebrew. He lH-gun business there as a baker, then became a merchant, and finally took to agriculture, which Is very un usual for a Jew. Aunt Til Ruley, n colored woman who lives in Marion County, Ky., is su,id to lie one hundred ami twmity-ono years old. She never nursed George Washington, but she recently walked from her home to I'bunon and back, twenty-eight miles, to attend a circus. In Cuba a woman never losvs her maiden name. When married her husband's name Is added to her own. but she is always called by her Chris tian and maiden names. Children take tho name of both parents, but place the mother's name after tho father's. The telephone was put to a novel use in Toronto. A citizen who had been summoned to :ippear at the p. Hoe court for breach of a by-law, find ing that ho would be unable to appear In person, telephoned tho facts to headquarters, admitting his guilt, and was lined one dollar and costs through the same medium. William Watson, an old settlor living eight miles northwest of Wind sor, III., died at his residence, nt the age of seventy-six years, and was buried in a coffin that he made sixteen years ago for himself. It is of walnut wood and ho has kept it in his house ever since, and two weeks before his death had it brought into his room and placed at the foot of his bed. A hen in Canada scratched up $400 in old coins a few days ago, and about the same time an Ohio hen was dis sected and found to have dug up somo where in her wanderings and swallowed a quantity of gold dust. These facts indicate that a new career of useful ness and honorable distinction is open ing up before tho humble burnyard fowl. Long may she scratch. The room where tho Court of A poals sits in the Otpltol at Albany is described as the most gorgeous in its nppointments of all the court roomB in tho country. The wood work is beautifully carved and panels are of mahogany and onyx. The carpet was woven to order across tho water. Por traits of all tho judges that have over sat in tho court are placed in panels about tho room. According to the census of 1880-K1, tho last ono taken, there were at that time 20,980,686 widows in India, of whom 6611,000 were under nineteen years of ago and 27H,!tOO under four teen years. According to tho nntivo custom, none of those widows aro at liberty to marry again. Tho same census gave tho total female popula tion at y'.),700,000, and of those only 200,000 were able to read. A phvsician giving a bit of his own personal experience, and havinga constitutional tendency to sleepless ness, says that nothing has ever given such decided rolief as eating heartily just before going to bed. Ho objects to the use of tho customary night-cap as a remedy against sleeplessness both becauso alcohol is injurious to an empty stomach, and becauso it does not induce a natural sleep. But ho thinks that adults should bo liko babies, who sleep best with a full stomach, without night-mare, or other unpleasant results. A Turkish police court in Con stantinople was investigating the caime of tho death of a young and beautiful Circassian slave, found floating in the liosphorus, with her hands and feet firmly bound with thongs. The court had the bodv identified as that of a c-irl who belonged to a wealthy Turk Then it rendered the decision that tho deceased came to her death by drown ing, she having cast herself into the sea with the purpose of taking her own life. The flrmnoss of this pur pose was shown by tho solidity with which she had bound her own hands and feet before throwing herself into the water. An Anecdote of Greeley. Horace Greeley was always sensitive to error in his proofs, and Bometimee broke loose in his wrath. An inverted comma stung him like a mosquito. A mistake in a table of election returns set him into such fury as tho red flag nf the, picador kindles in tho Catalon- ian bull. "Henderson," he once said to tho compiler of those Bterile statistics, who had made an error of two votes in the returns from tne Molly-muck-a-chuck district in tho Mooseluemaguntic region of North nt.m Maine. "I discharge you; I don't want to seo your face around here any more." But Henderson was at his post as usual tho next morning. "How is this, Henderson?" said George Rip- lev, as ho came into the omeo ai nis customary hour. "I thought Mr. n.w discharged vou yesterday. Yon he did." said Henderson, "but I didn't put any confidence in what ho said." One day Mr. Greeley wrote that if a man were to shoot haphazard out of a window he would. te morawj rpfinonsiblo for any harm no mignv uu In print the "haphazard" became ..hlf a vard." a rhetorical conversion that so depressed Mr. Greeley's spirits that he had no strength to discharge anybody, not even Henderson, raw -.. his constant resource in great . tinnui crises.-6'an WWUM Argonaut. FIGURES IN WOOD. Mow It. .l.i ImtUiii, iiuiIm unit Other 1'npn UMiKar NI(D( Are tUile. Tlie wooilen Indian it one of the most frequent sights to bo seen In the city. lie can bo seen in all quarters -on the river front or in tho swell neighbor hood of Madison and Kifth nvenues. Very little Is known by the average be ing as to how these Indians are manu factured. Some people think that they are made by Italians, while others im agine that they are turned out of any ordinary saw-mill, The manufacture of these figures in New York Is confined to three estab lishments, one of which is located on Canal street, just off the Bowery, and when a reporter called at that shop he found tho proprietor busily engaged in putting the finishing touches to an 'Injun." "Business is just as brisk as ever," said he. "In fact, wo never have a dull season. There is always a steady demand for our goods. If any thing, trade is on the Increase on account of the Increase in the numlior of eignr stores. The decline of wages forces a good many cigar makers to eavo their trade and go into business for themselves. That, you see, makes it better for us. "Yes, there are new figures all tiio time, but the Indian was the first set tler, and he is likely to stay. The latest thing out is a base-ball player. He is in great demand just now. but will not last very long, for there is something new coming up all the time. Tho figures bring from M to $60 each, ac cording to size. Tho 'dude' that used to be such a familiar sight llOOWpdMt, "In making a figure we first take the ig of wood which is of a soft variety. and is usually worth about twentv-tlvo or thirty cents a foot and cut it into shape with a broad-ax. That is called 'roughing.' Then the face is carved out with delicate instruments, then the body work is finished with n chisel. After that the figure is mounted on Its pedestral, and is ready for painting, which, however, Is never done until after the figure has been sold. "The figures are not sold according to their size, but their prieo is governed entirely by the amount of work upon them. The nearer a figure is to nudity tho more work there is on it." Metal figure! cost nbout live times as much as those that are made of wood, but are not any more durable, if one of them tumbles over it breaks, and the repairs cost almost as much as the whole thing originally cost. There are only Ave journeymen en gaged in this work in Now York City. They work eight and nine hours a day and receive fcUO and (LOO for it. Tho best workman gets the highest pny and works tho shortest hours. The three New York firms control tho busi ness in this city, Brooklyn and the Now Jersey suburbs. They also send a large number of figures West. A'. T. World. WATER ON A FROLIC. An Ejl TTItaiSI Denrrlliei How Waler- pout Worlo. Eye-witnesses describe tho water spout as presenting n most impressing and beautiful spectacle It formed about half way between Point Clear and Battle's wharf and procoeded slowly toward the shores, roaring at first with a very loud noise. It struck Battle's wharf near the shore and cut it off as neatly as if it had been sawed off. The spout sucked up a great lot of splintered wood and went dashing inland, carrying with it a mass of whirling debris, in tho midst of which hundreds of fish were mingled. The waterspout proceeded up tho lane, tore off the corner of a barn and thon foil to the ground with a loud noise, deposit ing tho lend of broken wood and fish. Captain L. H. Kennerly gives a graphic accouut of the phenomenon. Ho says that ho watched tho waterspout from beginning to tho end. There was a very heavy black cloud in the sky off the point, and all tho clouds In the neighborhood were seen moving toward tho center of the black cloud. He knew thon that a waterspout was forming, and cnllod attention to tho atmospherio disturbance. Pres ently tho water of tho bay. about ono hundred yards oft the end of a long wharf, begun to boil and whirl nround with a loud noise. This whirlpool was directly beneath tho black cloud. Tho black cloud then formed in funnel shape and let down a point, revolving In a direction contrary to the whirlpool below. Soon tho two bodies of water joined in forming a column about fifty feet in diameter in tho middle and reaching up about a mile in the air. As soon as the junction was formed tho greater part of tho rushing water ceased. The column stood apparently motion less for about fifteen minutes, and had an angle with tho horizon of about sixty degrees. Tho funnel at tho top was dead black, but tho body of the waterspout was slate color. At the bottom, where the spout spread out into a pyramid, tho water was green and white. It was a magnificent sight. Then the whole mass began moving toward Battle's, and came majestically along, bending more and more as it advanced. When it reached the shore, just where the wharf joins tho shore, he spout bent in tho middle, and a re port of electric discharge and a flash of lightning announced that the spout was broken. The greater part of the water was sucked up in the heavens as the spout parted in the middle, and the remainder fell with a great noise, en veloping the wharf and breaking it down for a distance of perhaps fifty feet reaching from the shore to a small house situated on the wharf. The effects of the spout were felt on land slightly. It was only a remnant of the gyrating water that hit the house on land, and the damage rvfulting was small. MMe HegUUr. I lit I'M-roliina unit Valiia In thi Nhitp of Untiling him! Msnurr. There U considerable diversity of opinion as to the value of straw on the ' dairy farm. That it has a value not j to he despised it conceded by all, but yet the practice differs very much in the methods ot handling It. At the ex treme Hist wo find tho farmer hus- j handing it with almost as much care as he doe tho grain that comes from iL He not only preserves it dry and in good condition, but runs it through the cutting box, mixes the ground feed with it and feeds it to the cows in hut 1 little exess in amount with the quan tity of hay or other stover that is fist in the same manner. While it may not be necessary or even economical In the Western far- 1 raer to pay quite so much attention to the straw of the farm that his content- 1 porary of the Kust does, yet It is safe 1 to say he In most cases underrates its value when properly handled. Wo he- ( lieve the old practice of burning the straw has )oon entirely done away with on the dairy farm even at the ex treme West, but allowing it to rot in large stacks when threshed at some distance from the stable is still too often tho practice. it is a common thing for book-writers to tell us the relative value of straw as compared with good hay, but these tables are often misleading from the fact thatoue straw is not like another straw, especially in feeding value. The straw that has become too ripe or the one that is too Immature are alike almost worth less for feeding purposes, while the one that was cut at the proper time has a groat deal of good In it. Then the straws of different grains have not the same feeding value. Oats mid rye make an indifferent feed compared with the straw of wheat and barley. Espec ially do we recommend this latter arti cle. The farm praotleo of cutting bar- y in rather an immature state to pre cut the grain from shelling out in the field conduces greatly to the feeding value of the straw. 'I he only serious objection to the use of barley straw lies u the villainous habit the little barbs have ot getting in the eyes of the cows, but they rarely do any serious harm if letalono. Tho men who handle the straw are more apt to suffer from this barb nuisance. We must not oviHook the usefulness of straw on the farm In tho shape of bedding and manure. There can bo nothing better to put under the cows than dry straw, and when wo consider its manurial value it will pay to haul it from a considerable distance, even when a fair price has to bo paid for it. Tho great trouble with straw Is its extreme bulk compared with its weight, This objection can only bo overcome by ingenuity on the part of the dairy man. There are many dovleos for load ing and unloading it that remove the bulk objection In a largo measure, while tho rack for hauling it may !e made nearly double the size for other purposes. Baling it is yot too expen sive on the farm, and it Is to bo hoped that some method of handling it iiiueh better than any now in practice will soon be invented. Ono thing is certain and that is that whatever trouble there may be in handling straw It is far too valuable to be allowed to rot in tho field, and no man should nllow these monuments to his lack of enterprise to roar themselves in his fields and tell his neighbors how shiftless ho is. A vtcviean Dairyman. JAPANESE COURTESY. How Ariiinlntnrps timet Kuril Other l Met-tlnK In th Street. When a couple of Japanese acquaint ances encounter each other in the street, no matter whether high or low, male or female, old or young, they stand with their feet somewhat apart and bow repeatedly while rubbing their bended knees with tholr hands, draw ing in their breath as they rise and closing their lips with a sudden gasp as they Hop down again. Tho conver sation opens with a sigh and a dry cough: "Schibaraku o mo nl kaknri maten," i. e., "It is a long timo since I hung upon your eyos (I havo not soon you this long while)." Reply: Deep sigh with a short cough. I. o., "Yes, alas! alas! I havo long boon doprived of the pleasure of gazing on your features." Q.: "How is it with your respected husband and tho charm ing baby?" R.I Sigh and cough as before, 1. e "Best thanks for your kind inquiry; they are both quite well." "Since I last had tho pleasure of hang ing on your eyes, you havo grown much oldorand also rather stouter." R.: Highund cough, i. e., "Many thanks for the compliment, but I am afrnid you flatter me." And so on, ad libi tum, until they part again aftor series of bows. If the salutation takes place in tho house, where tho cleanliness of the mats affords fuller play to tho in stincts of politeness, they kneel down, place their elbows and hands, palms downwards, on the floor, and touch tho mat with their forehead. They remain in this attitude, gently mur muring complimentary phrases, inter rupted with sighs, until eno of them, feeling the blood rise to his brain, cautiously lifts his head to poop whether his vis-a-vis has changed his position; if this Is tho case they both slowly work their way upwards; but if the other still keeps his head on the ground, the first ono quickly ducks down again, so as not to lie outdone in politeness by his partner. Tokio Let ter. m m 'The Poodle Dog" restaurant, the San Francisco Delmonico, was yelept by the Frenchman who started it "Se iwuletd'or" (The Golden Hen), which was too much of a jawbreaker for the natives; hence the present uaino. STRAW ON THE FARM. A LITTLE CONGO HERO. Story of m liny Win. Itr.rnnl III. Mother's lloily r'roill i Crornillli. On the Congo, near tho equator, live tie lla-Ngala, with whom theoxplorer, Stanley, had his hardest battle when he floated down the great river. They are the most powerful and Intelligent of the Upper Congo natives, and sineo Captain CoquilhuL four years ago, es tablished a station in their country they have become good friends of tho whites. A while ago. iui exciting event occurred in one of their many villages, and Essalaka. the chief, went to Cap tain Coquilhat to tell him about it. "You know the big island near my town." he said. "Well, yesterday, soon after the sun came up, onuof my women and our little boy started for the island in a cano'i. The boy is some dozens of moons old. Captain Coquilhat says about twelve years old. He says that while his mother was piuldllngshe saw something in tho water, and leaned over to look at it. Then ho saw a crocodile soize his mother and drag her out of the canoe. Then the crocodile and the woman sank out of sight. "The paddle was lying -In the canoe. The boy picked it up to paddle back to the village. Then' ho thought 'O, If I could only scare tho crocodile and get my mother back!' He could tell by the moving water where tho crocodile was. He was swimming just under tho surface toward the island. Then th boy followed the crocodile just as fast as ho could paddle. Very soon tho crocodile reached the island and went out on land. He laid the woman's body on the ground. Then he went back Into tho river and swam away. You know why he did this. Ho wanted bin mate, and ho started out to find her. " Then the little boy paddled fast to where his mother was lying. He jumped out of the boat and ran to her. There was a big wound in her breast. Her eyes were shut. He felt sure she was dead. He is strong, but he could not lift her. He dragged her body to the canoe. He knew the crocodile might come back at any moment and kill him. too. He used all his strength. Little by Utile he got his mother's body into the canoe. Then he pushed away from the shore and started homo. "We had not seen tho boy and bis mother at all. Suddenly wo heard shouting on the river, and we saw the boy paddling as hard as ho could. Every two or three strokes he would look behind him. Then we saw a crocodile swimming fast towards the canoe. If he reached It you know what he would do. Ho would upset it with a blow, and both the boy and his mother would bo lost. Eight or nine, of us jumped into canoes and started for the boy. Tho crocodile had nearly overtaken the canoe, but we reached l!, in time. We scared the crocodile away, and brought tho canoe to the shore. Tho boy stopped out on thn ground and fell down, ho was su frightened and tired. Wo carried him Into ono of my huts, and took hit mother's body In there, too. i thought she wus dead. "But after a little while sho opened hor eyes. Sho could whisper only twe or three words. She asked for the boy. We laid him beside her on hoi arm. She stroked him two or throe times with her hand. But sho war hurt so bm'ly. Thon sho shut her oyef and did no! open them nor speak again. O, how the littlo boy cried! But lit had saved his mother s body from tin crocodile." As Essahiku told this story the teare coursed down his cheeks. "I have seen in this savage tribe," writes Cap tain Coquilliut, "men and their WW who really love oach other, and verita ble honeymoons among young couples. Tho child feels for his father tho feiu and respect which his authority in spires, but he truly lovos his mother, and has a tender interest in her oven after ho becomes a man. AT. 1'. Bun. PROMPT DECISION. The l'ower of the Ability lo Make Vie ol l'roiltlotni Moment. It has been well said that "purpost is tho edge and point of character the superscription on tho loiter of talent that oharacter without it is blunt ot torpid, and that genius without It it bullion splendid but uneireulntlng." Even errors -if they imply nothing criminal or of evil intent may be translated into something splendid, something magnificent, by virtue of de cision. When Mr. Disraeli, in his flrsl great effort in tho House of Commons, met not only with unsympathetic listen ers, but with contempt so complete that ho was compelled to sit down with his oration unfinished, ho drew his hat over his eyes, and, with a resolute shake ol tho head, said to himself rather than to the House of Commons: "Tho day will come when you will hear mo. ' And in spite of rebuffs, many and se vere, he persisted In getting on his legs on every available opportunity, at tacked those who had supported, as well as those who had opposed him, and thus, by grand decision and mag nificent audacity, be translated his failure into a training for success a success which, not improbably, future historians will find to bo somewhat qualified by the faith which Mr. Dis raeli curried to an extreme, based on tho conviction that this decision and magnificent audacity could atone for great errors in statesmanship. Ho cer tainly never showed that "habitual In decision which has been called tin chief evidence of weaknoss; evincing either a want of capacity to apprehend what is best, or a want of energy to pursue it" "Strike the iron whllo it is hot," says the old proverb. There is a pro pitious momen'. when outer circum stances, like the heated iron, are soft and pliant; decision, directed by In sight, is as a hammer In tho skilled hand to mold them to iU pattern. Waytv Fortune ROBBING THE TREASURY. How it I . in 1 1,- l I. -i I, lnnii(eil to I ! Hliili on a Knnill NitUrjr. When worn out or rautilateil notoa ure redeemed they are taken to tho re demptiou department of the Treasury and counted, cut in two lengthwise, oach half counted in separate rooms, .ml each lot then separately rodueodto pulp, some of which reappears In oi un met in the form of toy animals anil other figures which are sold at the souvenir stands of the Capitol and at the various shops in the city. One of tlie accountants has held the position; since IMA, and has been all that tlma one of the most skillful and trusted em ployes. She is of mature age. and la fat and well kept, like a woman ol wealth nmlil leisure. Her methods were simple, and yot required the cool lies and skill of an accomplished prostldlg Itatcur. Her accomplishments woro worthy of Hermann in that respect. Surrounded by her associates In similar work, she would deftly tear notes In pieces, paste t hem together so as to form one more complete note than the pack age originally contained and then ab stract a complete note of large denomin ation. The packages would foot up cor rectly and seem tube untampered with. How long this has been going on, w both er she is tlie only light-fingered lady in the business, and how much has boon stolen no one can tell, for each day all that has been counted is reduced t pulp. The deficit discovered in the one lot, when an expose of this woman's performance was accidentally made, amounted to within a few dol lars of 1,1100, and tho amount pur loined may, therefore, foot up to A large sum. All the time she has lioen engaged in this work, at least for sev eral years, it has been a subject of comment in the neighborhood whero she lived, and still lives, that she put on remarkable airs for a woman that received only 7 dollars a month. She purchased a tine house years ago, and furnished it ill the most elegant stylo, and not long after pun base. 1 an other. Recently she has been engaged in erecting an expensive country mansion In one of tho suburban villages. For several years she has kept a line team of horses and an elegant carriage, In which, however, she would not ride to the treasury. She would not patron ize tho street cars, though, but each morning and evening had a livery man come with a coupe ami carry her to and from her place of honest toil, by which sho became a capitalist. 11 aA" intjtoih Cor. Fh(Mttpk4 Vc.i. LOTTO IN ITALY. a Qaaae Whlek Peveaes th nrnins ot i in- I'oor with Kesulsrlty. The Italians aro natural gamblers. The national game of lottOi now under the patronage and control of tho Gov ernment, is patronized to an inerodl blo extent. The chances of winning are less than few and far between; but rich and poor, priest and peasant, pat ronize it with persistent regularity. The poor actually go without food and pawn the very beds they lie on in order to buy their weekly tickets. Tho gamo Itself is of simple form. Numbers from 1 to !) inclusive are placed In a largo revolving wheel, and at noon on Satur day, in the presence of the municipal officers and Government representa tives, live numbers are drawn forth by Ave different children gathered at random from the waiting crowd. These numbers are then publicly pro claimed as tho winning numbers for thowoekand telegraphed far and i. ar. ProvlmiB to tho Saturday drawing that is to say from Sunday morning till Friday night -tickets aro sold. Tho purchaser chooses his own num bers, ami he may buy two or three or four or five, just as ho pleases. It la needless to say that to choose five win ning numbers is akin to a miracle. Two numbers not unfrequcntly como out, und occasionally a lucky investor hits on throe; but thoso aro rare ex ceptions, and, as at Monaco and othor public tables, tho percentage is so heavily In favor of tho bank, that the people lose tholr money with delicious regularity. To prevent cheating and possible collusion, tho offices aro closed for tho sale of ticket on Friday night and remain unopened till tho day after tho drawing takes place. Tha prizes vary in value in proportion to tho amount paid for tho ticket, and are tempting enough to keep the poor still poorer, while the Government coffera grow full and overflow, Chamber? journal. The Fecundity of Fish. It has boon calculated that, as fish produce so many eggs, If vast numtiora of the latter and of the lish thomsolvee) were not continually destroyed and takon, they would soon fill up every available space In the seas. For in stance, from 60,000,000 to 70.000,000 codfish are annually caught on the shores of Newfoundland. But oven that quantity scorns small when it ia considered that each cod yields aitout 4,600,000 eggs every season, and that even 8,000,000 have been found In tho roo of a single cod. Wore the 60,000, 000 cod taken on tho coast of New found loft to brood, the 80,000,000 fe males producing 5,000,000 eggs evory year, it would give a yearly addition of 160.000,000,000 young codfish. Other lish, though not equalling the cod, are wonderfully prolific. A herring weigh ing 6 oz. or 7oz. is provided with ah. nit 30,000 eggs. After making all reason able allowance's for tho destruction of eggs and tho young it has been estima ted that in three years a single pair of herrings would produce 164,000,000. Buffon calculated that, if a pair of her rings could bo left to breed and multi ply undisturbed for a period of twonty years, they would yield an amount of lish equal in bulk totheglobe uu which we llve.-JV. Y. ivtU