.TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Ad "Epitome of the Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest
Three miners! were shot in a conilict
with miners at Scranton, l'n.
The Canadian parliament voted
against prohibition by a minority ot 42
-' J. II. Fields thot his wife and two
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ons iiiiu ii.iumpit.-u auicmv near uti
ena, Ivy.
Columbia College has conferred the
Bachelors degree on Miss Mary Par
sons Hankey.
At Pittsburg Frederick Herman
killed his baby, beat his wile fatally and
cut his own throat.
The steamer Tern was sunk by a
collision in the British channel and
nine persons were drowned.
The Kentucky distillers have de
decided to ceaso the production of
whisky until October 1, 18S8.
The calaboose at Mackinaw, III., was
burned, and Edward J.ahart, the only
prisoner, perished in the (lames.
Two firemen were killed and several
other people badly burned by a gaso
line explosion at Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Governor of Sonora, Mexico,
has offered a reward of $."00 for the
head of each hostile Apache Indian.
Havemeyer's immense sugar re
finery in Williamsburg, near New YtTrk
city, was totally destroyed by lire.
Loss, .$1,000,000.
Five men were killed and many
wounded by an explosion of dynamite
cartridges at thu Inmun mines, near
Chattanooga, Tenn.
A construction train fell through a
trestle on Huntington's new railroad,
near Newport, Ohio, and fatally in
jured four workmen.
A Chicago canning company has
concluded a contract for l,f)00,000
kilos of canned meat for the French
army and 3,000,000 for the navy.
The residence of a farmer named
James Edwards, living at South Man
itoba, was burned and three children,
aged 7, 12 and 14, perished in the Haines.
The crown prince of Germany is suf
fering from a disease of the throat
which is pronounced incurable. The
removal- of the- larnyx . is the only
chance to save his life, and that is only
a chance.
Advices from Panama report a land
slide on the El Pedero farm in Con
cordia, burying Senor Pedro Arestropo,
his wife and nine children and servants
in the house. In all sixteen persons
were killed.
Shocks of earthquake have occurred
at Vernotne in Turkestan, and the
town was almost entirely destroyed.
About 20 persons were killed and 125
were injured. Among the latter is
General Ariede, Governor of Seniiret
tchinsk. The rice fields of Louisiana near the
Gulf, are ruined by the saltwater being
driven all over them by an east wind.
If a bright suushino follows the sub
sidence of the Hood not a head of rice
will be made for thirty miles along tho
east bank of the Mississippi.
Fire broke out in the stables of the
Mound City Street Car Company, in
the outskirts of St. Louis, and two
alarms were turned in. In the space
of one hour 151") mules were burned
and the stable totally destroyed. The
loss will probably be' iffiO.OOD or more.
An serolite of vast dimensions fell
near St. Joseph, Indiana. In falling
it struck a huge oak tree which it com
pletely denuded of its branches and
passed downward, completely burying
itself in the earth to the depth of eigh
teen feet. From the great orifice
made it is estimated the .erolite
weighed about two tons.
Hailstones strangely shaped, pointed
and weighing over a pound each, re
cently fell in tho districts of Aitosand
Carnabat, between Adrianople and
Shumlnon, on the south slope of the
Balkan mountains. In lioumeha hail
stones destroyed the harvests and
killed many laborers and cattle in the
fields, and pierced tho roofs of houses.
Mrs. Albert Brooks, of Juniata,
Michigan, who last fall went to Den
ver, Colorado, and received .fSO.OOO be
queathed to her, suddenly disappeared.
Mr. Brooks employed detectives, but
eecured no information. He then re
ceived a letter fiom his wife stating
that sho was held captive by a gang of
men who had secured .$20,000 of her
money and wanted all. She said she
hud been tortured by them.
News has reached San Francisco
that a pearl-fUhing licet near West
Australia was struck by a galo April
22, by which many boats were sunk
and 210 lives were lost. Another gale
near New Zealand prevailed from May
Dth to 11th, which wrecked the ship
Northumberland, capsized the steam
launch Boojum, whereby four men
were drowned, and sunk the schooners
Julia Pryco and Ueward, and the
steamers Maitaki and Lalla Ropkh.
Tho steamer Chumplain was burned
off Charlevoix, Michigan. The boat
was running ten miles an hourj when
jtho tlame8 suddenly started up beneath
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fceven bodies have already been re-
covered. 1 ne I'liammaiu was vaiueu
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.
A. W. Gulp's hotel a't Elvina, Cal.,
was burned. Loss, $"),000.
Thirty-five cases of spotted fever arc
reported in Paradise, New
Salt Like City will shortly be lighted
with incandescent electric lights.
A rabbit cannery is said to bo in
successful operation at Nampa, I. T.
W. E. Wright was drowned while
bathing in the surf at Eucinas, Cal.
Sagebrush is still the fuel used at
the mining works in Tuscarora, New
James Hansen committed suicide
with strychnine at Santa Monica, Cal.
Joshua Baffncr, watchman at Sand
Point, W. T., was drowned in Clarke's
Fork.
A teamster and nine horses were
burned to death in a lire at Kcdwood
City, Cal.
August Hoffman blew himself to
pieces with a shotgun in San Diego
county, Cal.
A thief broke into the postollice at
Garfield and Mole $100 worth of stamps
and .$(!0 in money.
Queen Victoria has sent $100 to the
fund for the erection of a home for
girls in Los Angeles.
At Stockton, Cal., Loyd Harrison
shot and killed William Koran during
a quari el over a foot race.
Hugh Phillips, of Klickitat county,
W. T., has German carp in his pond
weighing twenty pounds each.
Mrs. Gustavus Murhard died of ap
poplexy while bnthing in the Colum
bia river near La Camas, W. T.
A skull was washed ash.ne near
Lewiston, I. T on the Clearwater. It
was doubtless that of an Indian.
Louis Napoleon, Chief of the Pity
allup Indians, died and was buried at
the reservation near Puyallup, W. T.
E. S. Spence, ex-Mayor of Los An
geles, has subscribed $50,000 toward
an astronomical observatory for South
ern California.
John M. Wilson, son of H. C. Wil
son, of Bed Blutr, Cal., shot himself
through the heart. No cause is as
signed for the deed.
A young son of J. S. Yoacham, of
WaUonville, Cal., fell from a tree and
his head was impaled on a picket fence,
fatally injuring him.
Ed. Hayes and Dennis Enright, two
old time miners, of Missoula, Mon
tana, were drowned in Bitter Boot
river by the upsetting of a skid'.
Wild pigeons are numerous on tho
fields and timber between Centralia
and Chehalis. Many hunters are kill
ing them, but still their number in
creases. The Sacramento Knights of Labor
give notice that they will prosecuto vi
olators of the law forbidding the pur
chase of Chinese products for public
institutions.
Michael Spearman, who was em
ployed in the Pacific Boiling Mills on
the Protrero, near San Francisco, was
instantly killed while adjusting a belt
on one of the pulleys.
A cablo railroad anil water company,
with $150,000 capital stock, has been
incorporated at Seattle. It proposes
to supply the town with water as well
as with street railroads.
Trains will pass over the swithback
on the Cascade branch at the rate of
seven miles an hour. It is pronounced
perfectly safe if no faster time Is made
than eight miles an hour.
Eugene Win.ler, a baker, of Butte,
M. T., while his wife was away on a
three weeks' visit married another girl.
Wife No. 1 discovered the fact and
Winzler now languishes in jail.
The damage done to Shaw's Hot
Springs at Carson, Novada, by the re
cent earthquake appears to bo perma
nent. They are going dry. Steam
boat Springs are also nearly ruined.
Frank Forrest, an ICllensburgh (W.
T.) hotel keeper, made a brutal attack
on his wife a short time ago, but was
knocked down by a rolling pin in the
hands of a spectator, and is now in
jail under $.1,500 bonds.
following is about tho size of the
leading cities of California at present :
San Francisco, .110,000; Los Angeles,
50,000; Oakland, 45.000 ; Sacramento,
30,000; Stockton, 20,000; San Jose,
10,000; San Diego, 12,000.
A brutal stabbing affray occurred at
Old Yakima, W. T. A man named
Richmond, n teamster, and well known
as a brutal, violent man when ho ha
the advantage, stabbed a man named
Bell in the groin with a bowie knife
and then ripped the knife upward cut
ting the man's liver half in two. As
the man fell the savage again struck
him in the back, indicting another
wound.
Five thousand acres of crops in the
Skagit valley, W. T., are under water.
Among tho heaviest losers is Anthony
Barrett, who lost 150 acres of crops by
inundation, and his house and house
hold effects by fire, caused by the ris
ing waters coming in contact with a
barrel of lime, resulting in combus
tion. Tho cultivated lands on tho
Olympic marsh and tho Swinnomish
flats, including many hop ranches, are
nundated.
Small pieefs of rock from a big
blast completely riddled tho roof of O.
II. Blount's store in tho Siskiyous.and
one laigo rock entirely demolished tho
front porch. By the same blast a
freight wagon 300 yards uway on the
road, heavily loaded with cement, was
struck by a llying rock and knocked
over off tho road and down tho grade.
The driver had been warned, and took
his eight hort-es away before the shot
was tired.
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest in a
Condensed Form.
The taxable property of .Morrow
county is $840,35-1.
Win. Dutcher caught a nine-foot
6turgeon at Oiegon City.
A cheese factory near Lebanon is
turning out 100 pounds per day.
A few days ago a whale drifted
ashore ou the beach at Coos Bay.
The total aniountsent frcin Portland
to the Nnnainio sufferers is .$4,5)50.
A wrestling match for $1,000 a side
is to take placo at Baker City soon.
Grasshoppers are making their ap
pearance in portions of Harney valley.
The last term of court cost Jackson
county within a few dollars of $5,000.
The largest crop ever raised in Mor
row county will be harvested this year.
The Oregon and California Kailroad
pays about $10,000 taxes in this State
annually.
A heavy hailstorm did much dam
age to Hardens and young cornfields
about Weston.
Edward Wallers was thrown from a
horse near Beaverton and his' collar
bone was broken.
The assessment of Klamath county
will amount to $1,000,000, ngaiiiH
$700,000 last year.
A largo amount of wool and grain is
being hauled into tho warehouso for
shipment at La Grande.
A new pojtollice has been estab
lished at Meda, Tillamook county, with
Wallace Yales postmaster.
Out of eighty bands of sheep in
spected in Gilliam county, fourteen
wero found affected with the scab.
Hyman Abraham, of Portland, has
been appointed Collector of Customs
for the District of the Willamette.
There are fewer salmon in Pine
creek this spring than ever before.
Only two or three have been caught
this season.
Postmasters appointed : Klamath
Agency, Sarah Emery; Lewisville,
Polk county, B. F. Smith ; Price, Min
nie M. Logan .
Tho Oregon Gold Mining Company,
of Cornucopia, is now employing 100
men. The new mill has been deliv
ered at tho mine.
Tho farmers of Eagle valley have
commenced cutting their alfalfa crop.
They cut threo crops a year, averaging
in all six tons to the acre.
John C. Simpson, senior member of
the firm of Simpson Bros., Coquille
Bay, was diowned on Coquillo bar.
His body had not been recovered at
last reports.
A vein of coal and another of cop
per oro have been discovered by the
deep cut for the railroad near White
Point, on the southern side of the Sis
kiyou mountains.
Pendleton is to have another Hour
mill, of one hundred barrels capacity,
to bo built by the Fanners' Custom
Mill Company, organized with a capi
tal stock of $30,000.
Number of bands of old sheep in
Morrow county, 101; number of sheep
in Morrow county, 231,403 ; there were
28.7S5 wethers driven east from Mor
row county this spring.
Horse and cattle dealers in the
south fork of the John Day country
have signed an agreement to use all
lawful means to discourage the run
ning of sheep in that vicinity.
A natural bridgo has been discov
ered fourteen miles from Oakland,
Douglas county, which is said to bo
higher and longer than the famoijs
Virginia wonder.
The County Commissioners' Court
at Salem has fixed the different' boun
ties on scalps of animals at tho follow
ing figures: Panther or cougar, $5 ;
bear, $3 ; wild cat or catamount, $2;
wolf orcoyotte, $5 ; musk rats, 10 cents.
An unknown white man was found
floating in the riveratThe Dalles, with
a bullet hole in the Duck of his head.
Tho body was. beyond recognition on
account of decomposition. The man
was apparently about live feet eight
inches in height.
The State Railroad Commission ha'
recommended the Oregon Pacific Com
pany to replace with Howe truss or
other substantial structures the tempo
rary bridges Nos. 21, 30, 4i and 09
now .standing, and which arc not con
sidered safe in high water.
Governor Pennoyer paid a visit to
the penitentiary recently and ordered
the construction of a fan for the pur
pose of disposing of the cinory dust
from the polishing wheel, which was a
cause of great inconvenience, botli to
tho laborers and those connected with
tho institution.
G. D. Stcddard was shot and killed
by L. L. Backus near Verona, Colum
bia county. Both were farmers and
tho killing was the result of a quarrel.
After tho shooting Backus stole a
neighbor's rillo and took to the woods.
Ho was pursued by officers, and defy
ing tho command to halt was fatally
shot by I hem.
A terrible accident happened at tho
south end of tho Siskiyou tunnel, on
the O. t. C. 11. It., resulting in tlo
death of a young man named Joseph
Farleigh. Uo got between two cars,
and tho cars coming together caught
his head and crushed it, driving a bolt
into it, which resulted as above stated.
Adolph Liebonow shot and killed
Mrs. Lillio McCourt at Pluenix. Tho
murdcier surrendered himself. He
says the shooting was accidental, It
is believed, howover, that tho act was
caused by jealousy. Mrs. McCourt left
her former husband, Liebonow, a year
ago and was divorced from him, but
ho wanted her to return to him.
AGRICULTURAL.
Devoted to the Interests of Farmers
and Stockmen.
KnlNlue I'lilrltciiN Xntttriilly.
Of all the work connected with poul
try, none is more troublesome or
tedious than the looking after sitting
hens and thoir nests while incubating.
If the hens are allowed to sit in the
poultry-house where they laid, and
where the other hens are laying, a
great many vexatious annoyances oc
cur. Two hens will sometimes tight
for one nest and h break tome of the
eggs, or the sitting ben goes off, and
on returning finds the nest occupied
by an intruder. This state of affairs
is fully set forth by persons who
strongly recommend incubators; but
as every farmer has not time to attend
to an incubator, I will give little of
my own experience in raising chickens
by the natural methods, aided by a
plan which most farmers can follow.
I have a small building divided by
a wire partition into two parts, with a
door from ono to the other.anda small
yard made with wire netting, also di
vided. I have a slide from each com
partment into each yard. Tho size of
the house will depend on the number
of chickens desired. Two rooms, foui
by siv feet, with yards twice that size,
will be large enough for fourteen hens
to sit in, and if these sit twice it will
be equal to fifty-six sitting hens. In
most cases the houso may bo used a
third' time, raising several hundred !
chicks.
When my hens get broody I set a
"lot together in one house, using small
shallow boxes for nests not over j
eleven or twelve inches cquare so
that two hens cannot crowd into one
nest. I set these on the floor all '
around the sides ami a few inches
apart, so that a greedy lieu cannot
reach the eggs from the next nest, as
such hens are very apt to break tho
tenth commandment. I leave water
and food in the house, so that the hens '
can eat or drinkat any time when they 1
come off tho nests. There are no
perches in the houses or anything they 1
can get on above the nests. A dust '
box sunk level with tho floor, with ,
sand and ashes, and with a little car
bolate of lime or carbolic acid sprin
kled in from time to time, placed
where the sun shines on it through the
windows on clear days, will keep the
hens clear of parasites. A little sod j
or grass in the yards is good for their
health. I don't have trouble once in
fifty times in removing a setting hen.
I let her sit a few days in the nest bIio
has been laying in, to see that she is
in earnest, then I remove her one even
ing to the sitting-house, placo her nest
on the tloor (as above), and if a num
ber of others can bo removed at tho
same time so much tho better. Then
1 hang something up over tho window
to shade the light a little. This may
remain for a few days, until ono learns
that all mean business, and as soon as
they settle down tho shade should bo
ruinoved, and tho slides into tho yards
may be left open, that tho hens may
get fresh aii whenever they please.
The advantages of this system may
be easily seen by. those who have had
to spend a largo portion of their valu
able time in spring watching tho sit
ting hens or lifting them off and driv
ing them back to their nests every
day. As many as possible should bo
set at or about tho same time a few
days are not of much consequence
so that if tho hens change nests it
would bo of no importance, and if
there are no more nests than hens and
tho nests are a little way from each
other, so that the hens cannot quarrel,
things will go on very smoothly, 'and
much loss of time and vexation will
bo avoided.
Tho second batch of sitting hons
should bo set in tho next compartment
so that thoy all come out together in
the samo way as the first. Tho house
should bo well ventilated oveiy day,
and never bo tightly closed. As the
hens hatch thoy should bo removed
with the chicks to their coons whero it
is intended to raise them.
The outlay of money for such a
building to thoso who raiso any num
ber of chickens is trilling compared
with tho outlay of time required by tho
old-fashioned way, and much is saved, I
as the hens do not break so many eggs.
Of course the nests should bo looked
to and kept clean, but if a little sul
phur be sprinkled in them.'or, what is
hotter, some tobacco stems bo used
with the straw in making them up,
few will be troubled with vermin. Tho
lions should bo lifted off at times
if thoy do not get off of thoir own
accord to see that no broken eggs foul
tho nests. If only a few chickens arc
wanted, a placo 4x8 feet with alow
roof and a door opening out in each
room, divided, will answer well. '
Hemp Culture.
The cultivation of liemp (heniquen)
is the principal agricultural industry
of Yucatan', and of this tho greater
portion is imported jnto and. con
sumed in tho United 'Statnx. Mm im.
ports thereof during tho year 1885
amounting to 30,101 tons, valued at
$2,501,000. Wo are, therefore, largely
interested in this industry, which is
carried on in a veiy primitive manner.
Tho plant, says Consul Thompson, to
whom we arc indebted for tho follow
ing facts relative to its cultivation, is
a species of agave. It jis best propa
gated by cuttings, tho 'young plants
being allowed to grow at will until
three years old, after which thoy are
transplanted into regular lows and
fields. Eight years are giyon them to
maturo.into plants nblo to bear tho
cutting, and then tho profits of this
patient waiting will continue to How
uninterruptedly for many years if
moderate euro is exorcised. The
leaves are cut by a peculiar instru,
meat, a cross between a sickle and a
carving knife, called by the natives
corlrn, and aie made into a systematic
'bundle of about twenty-live each, and
( carried by tho laborors upon their
backs to the tram car or cleaning
wheel, where they are passed through
the proems before mentioned. This
cleaning-wheel is the only kind of ag
ricultural machine, as we understand
the term, in use upon the farms of
Yucatan. Even the plow is practi
cally unknown. Each mccateof hemp
land should produco yearly four arro
bas of merchantable hemp. Arroba is
the equivalent of twenty-five pounds,
therefore each acre, or ten mecates,
should yield at least 1,000 pounds of
heniquen fiber ready for shipment.
To cut and pack 1,500 leaves is con
sideied to bo an ordinary day's work.
These 1.500 leaves, when cleaned and
dried, will produce about three arro
bas, or seventy five pounds of liber.
One cleaning-wheel, with two men to
tend it, is calculated to clean easily
7,000 leaves per day. A 400-pound
bale of fiber, cut off from the plant,
but still in tho leaf is estimated to
cost $1, or 1 cent a pound; when
cleaned, bleached and baled, ready for
shipment, the cost is probably a small
fraction over 2 cents a pound. A hemp
plantation containing 10,000 mecates,
or 1.000 acres, should produce an
nually 1,000,000 pounds of merchant
able hemp.
Heniquen fiber is the principal ar
ticle of export from Yucatan to tho
United .States. During tho fiscal year
ending .luno.lO, 18S4, there was ex
ported from Progreso, Yucatan's port
of entry, heniquen fiber having a value
of over $2,500,000, American gold.
During the calendar year of 1SS4 the
amount of hemp shipped to all parts
from Yucatan reached tho figures of
233,311 bales, averaging 400 pounds
per bale. The value of the above, ex
pressed in Mexican dollars, is $3,331,
(501). In American coin the value is
expressed at $3,015,301. The duties
and taxes of State' and National Gov
ernments amount to the sum of $137,
000, Mexican money. Over six-sevenths
of tho above exportation went to
the various ports of the United States,
New York leading with 180,078 bales.
l'otalo Nrali.
The skin of the healthy potato tuber
consists of a layer of cork cells of uni
form thickness, and when tho skin is
injured or a portion of it cutaway, the
wound heals by tho formation of a now
layer of cork, which reprodpees itself
in a manner very similar to what takes
place when tho skin of an animal forms
again over a wound. When tho potato
tuber grows in water, or when tho soil
is kept unduly wet, the cork layer in
creases in thickness, at various points,
producing a multitude of little warts
upon the surface. Whore these warts
occur tho cuticle is less resistant than
otherwise and decay of the tissues un
derneath is likely to tako place. If tho
excess of water about tho tuber con
tinues for a considoniblo time, decay
sets in and the starch and tissues of
tho tuber become discolored. When
under favorablo conditions the decay
is arrested, tho cork layer forms be
tween the decayed and the healthy
parts of the potato, and the potato is
"scabby."
This affection of tho potato is ac
cordingly tho result of excess of moist
ure, either because of its texture or on
account of tho occurrence of a pro
tracted period of wet weather. Stablo
manure and other fertilizers influence
it as they affect Die state of moisture
in the soil. Stablo manure may also
aggravate the disease by filling the
soil with the spores or seeds of molds
or fungi, which taking root in the in
jured cork layer may favor decompo
sition of tho tuber and protract the
healing process. Saline fertilizers, like
potash salts, may antagonize scab by
hindering tho growth of fungi.
Overloaded Fruit TreeH.
Orchardists find the task of ticking
off the young peaches from tho over
laden trees to bo no trilling one, and
would bo greatly pleased if the frosts
had nipped about four-fifths of the
blossoms that finally grew into fruit
upon most of tho trees about town. As
an indication of the excesses into
which tho trees fall in fi iiitago in this
clime it is worth mentioning that W.
B. Colton found by actual count the
other day that ho had picked 1,0(50
young peaches from a tree less than
four years old from tho bud, and there
are still left too many peaches on the
tree. Mr. J. Scott brought down town
tho other day a number of twigs full
of double and tripplo peaches. These
woro from trees which have novor been
irrigated. Tlioy are on high ground,
and boro an excellent lot of peaches
last year. Some of tho plum trees in
town aro perfect marvels of excessive
bearing, in many cases there being a
sufficient numburof young plums on a
singlo tree to make a full crop for
nearly t hundred trees if thoy could
bo properly distributed. Ashland (Or,)
Tiling,
With proper attention a peach treo
will produce three hundred pounds an
nually, on an average, fr ton years,
that time being about as long as it
would bear with profit, when it should
bo dug up and a new tree substituted.
An acre will accommodate 100 trees.
They will bo protty close during the
last yours of their bearing life, but will
do well enough. At H cents per
H)imd each tree will produce $ I 50
wortli yearly or tho 100 trees $150, or
$1,500 for the ton years.
John Capitra, of Orovillo, Cal., owns
one of tho finest cherry trees in that
State. It is now eighteen yctirs old,
stands nearly sixty feet in height and
measures five foot nine inches in cir
cumference. It is of the white Oxhart
variety and last year bore by actual
weight 2,225 pounds. This year ho
estimates that it will proijueo not less
than 000 pounds moro' than last year,
or over 2,b00 pounds.
ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.
Up Slulr, liown Stiih-i. In Kitchen nml
In (tin I.ailj'ft I 'ill-1 nr.
A cabinet umber recommend- a mixture of
threw jwrts linseed oil and ono part spirits of
turoiitino as mi excellent preparation tor
cleninnsnnd restoring furniture, eieciaUy
thnt which ii somewhat ifinrred or scratched.
It covers slight scratches, restores tho color
of the wood mid Rives it hitrons surface.
Apply with n woolen cloth mid rub dry with
woo fen.
A Omul family llpucrta
One of the best fnmily deceits cnu lx mado
cither in city or country of apples and stulo
bread, says Mks Julia Corson, in llnrier':.
Hnir: Peel ten good sized apples, core mid
slice them, and stew to a pulp with sugar
enoitch to sweeten; meantime thickly butter
the sides nnd bottom of nn onl earthen dkb,
nud press all around them crumbs from th
insidoof a loaf of bread, having them nenrly
nn inch thick; w hen the npplu Is done mix
with it a tnhlcspoonful of butter and ono egK
licntcu; put the npple into thu dish without.
disturbing tho crumbs; over the surface put
an Inch thick layer of ci-iiiuIm dotted with i
few bits of butter, nnd bnko the pudding
until tho crumbs at tho sides are brown; turn
n platter, just largo enough to inclose tho dish
it hiti its rim, over the pudding dish, quickly
turn Inith upMilt) down, so that tho pudding
will slip out ou tho plntter, dust it with
powdered sugar, and servo It hot.
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Device In rioor Co erttic.
Out of n discarded cnrot of largo slzo
enough that is bright and clean can often tw
got to mnl.o a squaro or rug for the center of
the room; then the tloor nround can be
stained with wnlnut or cherry stain. This
fashion of rug and stained tloor is hi every
way desirable in summer time. It gives a
ccol, refreshing, artistic apix-nrnnco to tho
room ; it does nwny it h tho dust constantly
arising from nn nil ovev carpet, for tho rug
can Ik) taken out of thu house nnd beaten
clean whenover necessary. Unfortunately
somo floors nro too rough anil poor to Ihj
stained. In that enso t.nko the good jarts of
tho old carpet to cover around tho sides of tho
tloor nud buy for tho center of tho room ono
of tho "squares'' that coma for that purpose.
New nnd Dnlnty 1'lllow Sham.
Among new things in pillow shams are
white silk handkerchiefs of small sizo joined
together with antique) insertion nnd trimmed
nround with nntiquo lnce. Cream white, soft
pink, jwilo blue, or yellow handkerchiefs,
small in sizo and laid over a Silesia lining,
nit) just now n pretty fashion in shnms for
guest chambers. For every day uso small
linen handkerchiefs joined with Torchon and
edged with tho samo nro received with great
favor, for they nro not only pretty nnd in
expensive, but they do up charmingly.
A l'l-ci for Kltrlicn Use.
Tho ordinnry method of extracting juice
from fruits, lard from scraps, etc., by plac
ing tho material in a strong ling or cloth and
squeezing nnd wringing it by hand is exceed
ingly irksome. Thoro are screw presses niado
for tho purjose, but thoy nro moro or less
expensive, unit aro to bo found in few
kitchens.
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KITC11K.V l'llKSS
Much nid may bo derived from tho use of a
simple lover press, mndo ou tho principle of a
lemon squeezer. It requires two persons,
however, to manage this one to hold thu
material in tho bag or cloth nnd tho other to
apply tho pressure. Tho cut hero given Miows
how tho samo press may l)o arranged to bo
worked by ono iierson. Ono of tho halves of
tho press U hinged to n piece of hoard two
feet long and fourteen inches wido, nud set
upon ii table with ono end elovnted in tho
'manner shown in tho llguro.
Such a press will bo found especially con
venient among housewives who nmko their
own jellies mid wines, as with its nid tho
julco may bo pressed without cither unduly
tiring or staining tho hands.
To Keep' Piles Away from Window.
For n preparation that will prevent Ail's
nnd other insects from lighting on and Knock
ing windowi, etc., Tho Kclantlfle American
recommends n strong Infusion made by boil
ing smart weed for n few minutes in water.
When cold apply to tho glass, and for twenty
four hours it is quite eU'ectual in keeping
away flies and other Insects.
Murk Criili.
Mock crab is a relish made by breaking up
half a ound of soft rich cheese with a fork
and mixing it with a teaspoouful of dry
mustard, a K:ilUHxmfiil of xqptT and a des
sert spoonful of vinegar; servo it cold with a
plato of thlu breud and butter or crackers.
DYSPEPSIA
Up to it few weekK nno I considered
myself the champion Dyspeptic of
America, During tho years that k
havo been iitllletetl I have trlru
almost overythliiK claimed to bo ;i
upeclflo for Dyspepsia. In tho hope oi
lludlHH Honu'thlutr that would alt'onl
pcrmauont relief. I had about made
up my mind to abandon nil medi
cines when I noticed an endorsement
of KlmmniiH IjIvci' Kcnulntor by a
prominent Ucoiulau, a jurist whom
I know, nnd fouuludcd to try Its
etfectx in my caso. I havo used but
two bottles, and am HutlHiled that I
have htruek tho right thln at lust.
I folt Its beneficial effects almost im
mediately. Unlike all other prepara
tions of a hlmllar kind, no special
instructions are required as to what
one shall or rf.mll not eat. This fact
alone ouht to commend it to alt
troubled with Dyspepsia.
J. X. HOLMES,
Vlnoland, X. J.
CONSTIPATION
To Kecure a lteuulur Habit ut lloily
without t-littiiKliitf the Diet or 1)1-oi-kuiiIzIiik
the System, take
SIMM0NSLIVERREGUL1T0R
USLX GENUINE MAMMm'HtU r
J, H. ZEILIN A CO., PhilaMphia.