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DOMESTIC HINTS. sour stock. Bono a log or shin of beef weighing ten pounds, saw the bono in three purls and lako out the marrow. Set the bone to boil in six quarts of water. Put the marrow into another sauce-man with tho meat, cut it up small, add a pound of bacon; turn it well about until it is fried a nico brown, then add tho liquor pf tho bones, cover up and simmer two hours. Strain it through a sicvo and set away to cool. Tho fat may then bo taken off, and it will bo ready for any soup that may be required. ni:i:i' ijkoth. Take a log of beef, cut it in pieces; put it into a gallon of water; skim it; put in two or three blades of mace, somo parsley, and a crust of bread; boll it until the beef aud sinews are tender. Toast broad and cut into slices; put it in a dish; lay in tho beef aud pour on tho broth. STKWKD VEAL. Wash well a knuckle of veal, put on to boil with water enough to cover it and add two blades of mace, salt and a little whole pepper; when tondcr lay it in a dish and strain tho broth over it MUSIIItOOMS. Cut off tho lower part of tho steins, peel and put thorn into a saucepan, with just enough water to keep them from burning. Put in a little salt and shako them occasionally. When tender flavor them with butter, popper and salt. Servo on buttered toast. MOILED TONGUE. Soak it all night beforo using it, and bo careful to wash out all tho salt which is put into various crevasses to prcscrvo it. Noil in plenty of water till tender, ltemovo tho skin beforo sending to tho tablo and garnish with parsloy. CUItI KlUTTEUS. 1 Scald ono quart of sweet milk and, when hot, -pour in two glasses of warm wator and ono tcaspoonful of liquid ren net Tako it from tho fire after stir ring in tho water and rennet and lot it stand, until tho curd is formed and sep arated from tho whoy; thou drain off tho whey and dry the curd in a clean cloth, beat tho whites of five oggs, light, and boat tho yolks with two tablospooufuls of lino sugar; then whip in tho curds .until well mixed; add to this nutmeg to suit tho tasto and four tablospoonfuls of prepared Hour, beat until tho batter is smootho and thick, have ready somo butler in a frying pan and when hot drop in tho fritters, fry quickly, drain upon a warm stove, spread a napkin on a dish and lay tho fritters on; when drained sift on dry powdered sugar and oat with jelly sauco. "WALNUT CAKE. Threo cups of prepared Hour, ono cup of butter and two of sugar; four eggs, ono cup of cold wator, two even eup fuls of English walnut kernels cut into small bits, cream, butter and sugar, add tho beaten yolks, tho wator, then tho tlower and whipped whites alter nately, lust of all tho nuts. .Mix thor oughly and bako in small tines, or in a larjror mould, in ono that has a funnel in tho center. TOASTED l'OTATOES. Cut whatever number may bo uocded of cold, boiled potatoes into slices, longthwlso, about, a quarter of an inch thick; dip each slice iu Hour, and lay thorn between a wire toaster. Have tho Jiro clour, and whon both sidos aro nicoly browned, lay tho slices on a hot dish, put a piece of butter on each, and bcuson with' popper Mid salt How a Man Doos Shopping. You had better put them down on a ploco of paper," said Mrs. S. on giving hor iirst order. "Oh, no," said Mr. S., my memory is good." "Well, then, a jpool of CO Coatos' black thread." Yes." "A yard of not too dark and not too light calico." "Yes." "A small hammer, a can of peaches of tho Pussadona brand, a dozen small pearl buttons, two yards of cardinal ribbon, sill, on ono side and satin on the other." "Yes," said Mr. S., thoughtfully. "A pair of slippors for baby, a dozen lemons, a good tooth-brush, a pine apple, two ounces of sky-blue Gorman yarn, an ounce vial of homeopathic mix vomica pellets, a" "Walt a second." Knid Mr. S.. couutlmr on his lliijrers. 'Aud a bottlo of vanilla extract, and a yard of triple box-plaited cropo llsso rushing, and threo yards of small ichocked nainsook and" Hut Mr. S. Hiad seized his lint and was running for tfiutlon. What tho noor man Itho brought homo was a yard of bed-tleklng, 'three yards of black cropo; a bottlo of vlnogar, eight yards of naukeon, a scrub liriuiti. a notind of irrcon yam, sixty "spool of coat thread, n yard of very blank calico and a pint bottlo of homcopalhlo pills." "There, my dear," throwintr down his packago triumph antly, "I don't think you'll llnd a thing missing. Who says .1 man can't do BhoppingP" Aci Vork Sun. What Famo Said. Fntno was button-holed by tho long halrod poet nnd dramatist who said; "I havo written a. dozen sonnets. I havo written a great lyrlo poom, and I havo written ten plays. What havo you done with those children of my mind?" "I am your friend," replied Fame. 'Ono of your sonnets lives, and ono of your playa has boon presented In tho .llm nmsmima. but out of consideration for you I have turned all tho rostovorto Oblivion, who will euro for them." Texas Siftlng$. NEWSPAPERS IN AMERICA. Somo Curious 1'ncts ConcornliiKl'heru Culled from tho Amcrlcnn News paper Ulrcctory. Two editions of the American .News paper Directory aro published this year jy George 1'. Howell & Co. Ono is Jatcd 177C, and you can almoat mac it inder an old-fashioned copper cent It jontains in sixteen microscopic pages i list of tho thirty-seven newspapers that wore printed in the United States jf America 110 years ago. Wo observe .hat seven of them aro still alive. It is ihe other and tho larger volume which i iii.il.-- moro immediately auapicu 10 mo seeds of 188G. The contrast is im pressive. Almost as big as an un lbridired dictionary, with nearly two thousand pages crammed with matter .ntcrcsling to every newspaper man and to evorv newspaper advertiser, it s in the fullest sense a directory to tho American press of to-day. Tho caro and accuracy witli which new facts have been collected and old statements revised, the alert intelligence of tho jditing, tho thoroughly systematic plan if classification and arrangement, aim narticularlv the obvious conscieivtious- 1 w ai'ss and good faith of tho methods cm- ployed, give to this work an importance ivhloli tho public have not boon slow to recognize. Tins is the eighteenth year jf tho AMEU1CAN NKWdl'Al'EU DIIlECTOItV. A tolerably closo acquaintance with ts successive editions warrants iv iu laying that every issue has been an nipiovemcnt on its predecessors. There aro now mtblishod m tlio Unit- sd Slates 14,160 newspapers and peri neals of all classes. The not gain of .ho year has been GGG. The daily nows- aiers number 1,210 a gain of 3J. Canada lias G7D periodicals. There arc tbout 1,200 periodicals of all sorts, vhicli, according to the ratings and es linates of tho editor of tho directory, injoy a circulation of moro than 5,000 topics each. Tho increase in tho week y rural press, which comprises about .wo-thirds of tho wholo list, has been nost marked in States like Kansas aud SJcbraska, whore tho gain has been re flectively 21 and 18 per cent Kansas ilso shows tho greatest gain in daily lowspapors. Tho weekly press is ,'iiinlng in Massachusetts, whilo tho nagazinos and other publications aro osing ground there. Tho tendency of noli publications toward New York Dity as tho literary center of the coun rv. is shown by tho establishment hero if no loss than Iwenty-threo monthly icriodiculs during tho year. Somo of the curiosities of nowspapor itatislics aro worth a paragraph. Thoro no 700 religious and denominational lowspapors published in tho United States, and nearly one-third of tliom no printed in Now York, Philadelphia, 3oston, and Chicago. Now York is sir ahead iu this respect, but CHICAGO LEADS HOSTON. . I'ltreo newspapers aro devoted to tho iilkworin. six to the honey bee, and md not less than thirty-two to poultry. I'lio dentists have olglitoou journals, bo nhonographers nine, and tho deaf uul dumb aud blind nineteen. There ire three publications devoted oxelu ilvely to philately, and one to the torpsi ihorean art. Tho prohibitionists havo 121) organs to the liquor dealers' eight. L'ho woman suffragists havo seven, tho mndy-niakors threo Gastronomy is vprcsontod by three papers, gas by .wo. Thoro are about GOO nowspapurs H'intod In German and forty-two iu '"Vouch. The towns which havo most jroneh periodicals are New York, Now prleans, and Worcester, Mass., four ipleco. There aro more Swedish prints ban French. Two daily newspapers iro printed in tho Holiomlan tonguo. l'ho toughest names aro found among ihe Polish, Finnish and elsh press; lor instance tho lhicnwiety, and tho I'rzjacicl Ludi, of Chicago; tho Uirfyxwalla in Sanonmt. of Ohio, and .lie V U'uwr, of Utica. N. Y, Thoro is )no Gaelic publication, ono Hebrew, )no Chinese, and ono in tho Cherokee auguage. All those facts have a direct interest o philosophers and students of so slology. There is no butter gauge and ogister of American civilization than ,ho newspaper directory. Xeio i'ork Musio in Cincinnati. I mot a gontlonian well known in tho justness circles and on 'Change iu tho rotunda of tho Burnett last night, aud isked him why ho was not at tho festi val. "Festival be blowed. ......I i You don't wife would havo to got 1 went once, "Thought tnaybo your ivant to go?" "If shu doos sho will joiucnuo else to take hor. and 1 got all 1 wanted." "How was that? "Two yours ngo I took my wife and ivont to tho blasted thing. Crowded as iheol. Finally managed to get to our joats. and all we could seo was a crowd ot --idiots tilliifg up tho stage. Pretty soon n fellow popped up aud yollod for tils' lite. Then the wholo gang yelled. Next a woman rushed out and gave a torrltie shriek, and thou tho wiioiogang shrieked. That was onoujih for inc. I grabbed my wife by tho arm ami said: Come along, I ve got onougn; i m go ing to get'out of here. That stuff may ho music, but I'll bo blanked if I'm ed ucated tip to it.' No-siroo-bob, you iou't catch mo at any moro May festi vals. " Cin ci m h at i Kn Q n t rcr. The Language of tho Train. "To sit on ono scat and put your feet on another signifies, "I am not accus tomed to upholstered furniture nt home." To occupy four scats on ono ticket means, "I am a hog." To lean half way out of the window in order to sec the country means, "There aro no glazed windows in my house." To turn a front scat and rido backward, staring the whole car in the face, means, "I may not bo pretty, but I think lam." To expectorate on tho car lloor moans, "I have no carpets at homo." To say of the station that you "cannot see the town for tho houses," signifies, "I have never been anywhere before." To drink all tho wator in the tank and go to sleep at eight o'clock In the morning means, "I was out with the boys last nigth." To bo bounced off tho train signifies, "I am dead broke." To chaso your children away from your own scat to bo entertained by tho other passengers signifies, "I cannot afford to keep a nurse." To talk so loud tho wholo car can't help hearing you signifies, "I am telling all I know." To bore a reluctant stranger with your conversation signi fies that yon ought to be taken out and shot To eat your dinner with both hands means that you would cat like a gentleman if the railway company gave you time. To whistle in tho car signifies that you havo no car for nuisic. To drum on tho window witli your fingers shows that you do not know how to drum. To walk through tho car with a lighted cigar in your mouth indicates that it is your first cigar. ' To do any or all of tlicso things just whon you feci like it signifies that you arc away from homo and aro going to enjoy yourself in your own way, and you don't caro who knows it To 'bo run over by a truck load of theater baggage on tho plat form signifies: "1 seem to bo in tho way." To go into tho restaurant and coino out wiping your mouth with the back of your bund signifies, "I am a prohibitionist, but I am not bigoted." To eliango a $50 bill for a plain old fanner from Schoharie means, "I am out $50." To run up town five min utes when tho train stops only three means, "I am liable to get loft" To buy an expired limited ticket over tho Boston & Maine, and try to rido over tho Eastern railway with it means, "I am a fool." To save a half-fare by tolling t ho conductor that your ninc ycar old boy will bo five next June means, "1 am a nur. ror nmeiy-iivo passengers to get into a car that will seat fifty moans, "Somebody is going to stand tip "'llobcrt J. Jiurdcttc, in Pathfinder Guide. The Modern Shakespeare. "Sweet bov! Sometimes when con- ----- scions of mortality, and comes to nin the hint that thou may'st die, I pine for mausoleum larjra enough to empha size tho lovo 1 bear to thee." "Nay, cherub, do not freight thy soul with that. A small sarcophagus will do for me." "Marry, 'twill not. for in this pres ent day greatness dotli chiefly run to monument, and tho' tho world tny grandeur knowoth not, a mausoleum will arouse them to it" "Mayhap tny wit ' doth pierco tho pith of truth, but, mark thee, there bo grades of greatness, girl. Somo brands there are that blossom not till death and only live in marble obolisk, somo bo thoro of the sage, socratio sort that roar their cenotaphs of wisdom's words, and some thou find that aro content to curve their in-monioriams on tho beans of nion." "Carve, saidst thou, boyP" "Marry, that lits thee to my sire, in deed! for often hath ho mouthed him of thy ways, ami vowed thoy cut him to tho very quick." "I'll warrant .thee, and were his whims consult concerning question of my monument, he'd say to roar no col umn to tho dead but rear tho spinal column of tho quick." "E'en so, but thou great Cicsar had his foes, and nuthless lives in costly monument, and so, that thy sweet mer its may endure, whon thou art dead I'll woo the sons of wealth to start a mau soleum fund for thee." "Good friend! Sweet friend! An' thou would'st please thy boy and make him conscious of the charity that would uproar to him a costly pile, woo thorn whilst I and my approval live, for pile of shekels roared to us in llfo is worth ton piles of niarblo after death." Vonkcrs (litxetlc. A Happy Thought Young wlfo to husband"! don't seo how wo can iret alonir this way much longer, hills como in ovory day Unit wo can't pay and 1 am worried to death about thorn. Husband (discourugingly) "I'm sure I don't see what wo can da I have boon on the wronsr side of oil for threo months now and couldn't buy otiniK'h orildo stuff to blow 1110 111) if I hud to nuv cash for it. Wife (happy with a bright idea) "Wo mlL'ht 11 y lo hurono." Husband (.admiringly) "That's just it. What a clovor little woman you nro. 1 know wo couldn't swim thoro, tho walk would bo certain to bo too damp and wo have no inonov to nay for a stoanier passage. Now you have sug gosteil tho very thing. Suppose you got tho wings ready to-day and I'll hustle around aud procure food enough to carry us over.' Mio -1 or umvue flOYA' W Troyal r 5f ff POWDER Absolutely Pure- TI.ii tinwilcr never varies. A mnrvol ot purity, ntreii(!tli and wliolr rsomeucss. Moro economical than tho ordinary kinds, and cannot bo sold in competition with tlio multitude (ot low tost, short weight aluia or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Koyai. 1Jaki.no I'ownnu Co., 100 Wall St, X. Y. CENTENNIAL HOTEL BAR. E. MILLER. Proprietor. Havinc fitted up tho Centennial Hotel Uar-room, and removed ny stock ot Wines, Liquors & Cigars to that nlncc, I am better prepared than ever to entertain and rcgalo niycuBtoiners. I keep none but tho best of KuKtcru lilqitorN, Milwaukee, AValla AValla, and Union Ilecr. Also, the Finest Branfls of Cigars. -COMMERCIAL- Liyery ai M Oi'i-osiTi: Ckxtenniaij Hotel. JOHN' S. ELIOTT, PItOPKIETOR. iraviiiR furnished thin old and popular lioHtelrv with ninnle room, plenty of feed, pood hostlers and new busies, is better preparcil than ever to nccouimouaio cus tomers. Sly terms aro reasonable. HOVE TANNERY. Adam Ciioshman, Pkoimuetoh. Has now on hand nnd for sale tho best of HARNESS, LADIGO, UPPER and LACE LEATHER. jilEEP SKINS, ETC. Paid for Hides and Pelts. -RAILROAD- Near tho Court House. A. V. Uijnso.v, - Pnoi'itiKTOK. Union, Orejjon, Kino turnoutw nnd first-class rigs for tho accommodation of tho public Konerully. Conveyances for commercial men tv spe cialty. , , JMrTho accommodations for feed cannot bo excelled in tho valley. Terms reasonable. HOT LAKE! Situated four miles west of Union depot on south side ot tho O. R. it N. t'o.'a rail road. L'T In Comfortable liooins. Hoalth for tho Sick, and Host for tho Weary. Especially adapted for tho Holiet ot Wo men. Is under tho HiipervUioirot ono whe has had thirty year' experionce. fcJ. 1 NEWHAHD, Proprietor. SMOKE OUR "PUNCH" Rest Havana Pilled Five Cent Cigar. 5 Jones Rros., agonts, Union. E. GOLLIXSKY & CO. A Positive Cure. MEN, young, middle-uiied nnd old. slnglo or married, and all who suffer with LOST 3IAMIOtl, Nervous Debility, Spermatorrhiea. Pomlnal fosses, sexual uecny, nmiu;' .ucuiurj, Weak Eyes, stunted development, lack of l......k....Uli.ul lil.iml f.tnllllpii till pediments to nmrrinse; also blood and akin 1 lit. 41 f..lll.. Mitteuitef, 'pulilH, uruiwuiiB, mm milium, iw,..,. huImu uitfilliiifti wore tliroiit. ulcer. offects ot mercury, kidney und bliulilor troubles, wont; duck, uiiriiniK unuc, mcuu tinene. ouorrhu, cleet, stricture, receive Kearoltiuu treuiiuem, prompi, rouei uuu r..- i;r.. Ulltf ... ...w. ... ... Hutu Si:hh consult confidentially. It in At . t .1 .1 .. troubltf, call or wniB. re iisir Odl at once; '-'5 year experience. Terms Cash, uiiico uoiir a. in. iu o p. m. DR. VAN MONCISCAR, 132- 1U1 Third St Portlaud, Orejon MITCHELL $c LEWIS CO., (LIMITED.) taifii'v. Racine. Wis. Brand, Portland, Orepi j Manufacturers of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, PMAiTQNS Buckboards, Road Carts, Spring Wagons, Etc. CANTON .IPPER PLOWS, HARROWS. ETC. G CHILLED PLOWS. AND 1DKAL ilihu Ains. SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST. FREE. MITCHELL & LEWIS GO,, Limited. 192-191 Front St., Portland, Oregon. . KIMBALL Pianos & E. M. FURMAN, Agent WALLA WALLA, HOWLAND Muufacturcrs ot Main Street, Union, Oregon. Keep constantly on hand a largo supply of Parlor and Bed Room Sets, Bed ding, Desks, Oflico'Furniture, etc. Upholstering Done in ihe Best Style. Lounges, Mattresses, and all Kinds of Furniture mado to order. Your patron age solicited. JONES -Dealers in Groceries, Toteoes and Cigars. Variety and Fancy Goods, Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. Musical Instruments, Picture Frames, Bird Cages, Baby Carriages, Etc. Candies, Nuts and Fruits, Sclisol Books, Stationery, Periodicals, Novels, Etc., of Every description. Orders from all parts of the country promptly attended to. PHOTOGRAPH - GALLERY. Jones Bros., .xBtisi:s. All Kinds ot PMoppliic Wort Doie in a Superior Manner. Now Scenery and Accessories Just Received. All Work Warranted to Give Satisfaction. YIEWS OF RESIDENCES TAKEN ON APPLICATION. and Dealers in mm mmm. Organs WASHINGTON MRITOEY. & LLOYD, ITURE