HELEN LAKEMAJf ;
on,
Tho Story of n Young Girl's Strug
gle With Adversity.
BY JOHN JL MUSICIC,
Am-nou ok "Thk Uankeii or IlnDronD,"
"Wai.tf.h uiiownfikld." Ktc
.Copyright, 1S9S, lyA. 2f. Krllogg Xtutpaprr Co
now, ut l :itn lorliio present going to
requi.st that our betrothal vows be sev
ered. 1 am not worthy of you now."
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nnspiitoil that his nronod.il be with-
u raw u.
"Now. Warren wont on, " we are
free to go where wc will, and choose
whom we may, are we not?"
Yes." she answered, sadly.
When I avowed my love and pro
posed marriage, you were poor. I
loved you then. Now you are rich and
may desire u husband who is in your
own sphere."
"What do you mean?" she asked.
" Do you not remember the wild,
waste lands set apart to you?"
"Yes."
" A miner has discovered a valuable
lead and silver mine upon them. Ho
has sent by me a proposition to you to
give you one hundred thousand dollars
for half tho tract."
Helen could hardly bcliorc her ears,
yet Warren convinced her of the truth.
" 1 could not hold you to your be
trothal vows made when we were equal.
You are now free, and can choose my
self or whomsoever you may for a hus
band." For an answer she threw her arms
ttbout his neck and wept for joy.
Air. Layman, who had an eye to
business, at once begun suit agaiu-t
Judge Arnold for false imprisonment,
in the name of Ids client. The .Judge
who was alarmed, ottered to compro
mise the matter by deeding the l'lumber
farm back to Helen.
When Helen heard of the proceed
ings she went to Newion and ordered
the suit dismissed, saying:
" I can forgive as I hope to be for
given. "
Nor would she even take- tho farm by
way of compromise. Tho Lord had
been good to her, and she would per
mit the Judge to retain it. Such a noble
nature conld not fail to be the subject
of favorable comment all over Sandy
Fork neighborhood. Even Mothers
Tartrum and Grundy sounded her
praises as a "good gal."
Warren Stuart sought a location for
tho practice of his profession in a Wcst
ern county, and, after a year's absence,
he returned to claim his sweet young
brido.
"sin: Tiim;i' hkk aiois
NKCK."
The wedding was a quiet nfl'air.
Our friend, the peddler, was present, ho
having insisted upon furnishing tho
oride the wedding outfit, which was of
the iinest., he said, all wool with fast
colors, not a shoddy thread in 'em."
Rev. Allyn Blaze'oflioiatod.
Helen had disposed of her mining
lands at a fabulous m-iec to thin
Western people. Tho mines only
proved fair, though remunerating the
purchasers.
One more visit to see that the grass
and flowers were growing on flio
graves of those she loved, and thou,
kissing her many friends adieu, the
young bride left Sandy Fork with her
husband for their now home, made
comfortable by her own wealth and
industry.
Pete, the peddler, sometimes roams
there in his wanderings, and is always
a welcome guest. He disposes of his
pack invar.'ably at the doctor's house,
whore it is made into clothes for tho
people at the poor-house.
Our story is finished, and if it
should make tho burden of oven one of
thoso unfortunate girls who work in
other people's kitchens lighter, we
shall feel that this story has not been
written in vain.
the knd.T
Dr. James G. Hyndman, of tin
Ohio Medical College, tells how tin
only Catholic priest in America win
wears a beard canio to let his whisker
grow. Tho priest, whose pastora
duties are performed in Cincinnati, i
subject to throat trouble. On the ad
vice of Dr. Hyndman ho lot his bear
grow ami had no further inllammatio!
in his ih mat. His superiors, howevei.
objected to the innovation and tlx
priest was obliged to go to Rome to ob
tain permission to wear whiskers.
General Hadeau notes that Granl
and Leo met once, and only once, af
ter the surrender at Appomattox. Il
was soon after Grant's inauguration iif
President in I860. Leu had gone It
Washington on some matters concern
ing railroads, and had taken the op
port unity to call on Grant. The latter,
referring to Leo's main purpose, said,
with a grim humor, "You and I, Gen
eral, lime had more to do with destroy
ing railroads than building them.'
Rut Lte did not smile, continued tin
cnhvorHtioii gravely, and the remark
able pouit nf tho interview set-ins U
have been that it included no other ref
erent e to tho oaiU
A1I0UT HIS
THE KUSSIA DOCTOR
A Tragic ivnd Umantio Story
from Roil Idle-.
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ADAPTXD FROM THD jKHVtA. OP Mlf R.
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IIY MB?. FHANSS A. 811 AAV.
Trai(Uion CrirgUt,h, hr A. A'. Ktllj
XfttrKftp'r xnpuxy.
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rHAHii i.
cwytwuli modest dwcll-
,?s?ft5WUr ig of tho physi-
Inn who iliif-n hi.H
iwj?, ' etum from a resi-
loncc of many
& 'oars in K a s an.
iad- gone by tho
lame of "the Rus
dan Doctor," was
so densely c m -bowered
in cy
press and wild
grape vines that
one could scarce h,e found tho door
knob but for its bghtness from con
stant scouring. V large, old-fashioned
garden, in inch both llowers
and weeds were tiowcd to grow at
their own sweet wi, stretched far be
hind the house, an ended in a forest
of beeches, a paththrough which led
to a dilapidated ntic temple on the
brow of a hill. T,$ temple, which oc
cupied an open spto, was Hanked by a
weather-beaten stae table, surrounded
by wooden benchr, nnd had, evident
ly, been reared b- some lover of nat
ure. Rut the deih or absence of its
owner had all owe the place to fall
into decay, and i one in the little
town had cared o expend time or
money for its restration.
Dr. Arnim ElbUil had won great re
nown and an extejled practice in that
distant Russian c't Wonderful stories
were told of his sltll, which had, in
deed, been phenonnlal. These stories
the Russian scrvaitl Ivan, whom he
had brought honiewith him, endeav
ored to confirm in lis broken German,
resorting to exprossi'c pantomime when
words failed him. According to Ivan,
Ids master had citf off innumerable
noses anil ears, to ay nothing ot arms
uid legs, and no ore had ever felt pain
under his knife, licrcdible things in
glass jars adorned his sleeping-cham
ber. These Ivan dated evcrv mornin
with reverential aw and not without
i secret longing for ho spirits in which
'hey were preserved .The doctor somc-
'unes wondered tint the spirits in
these jars had so oftm to be renewed,
mil that his store xf Turkish tobacco
lisappeared in suci incredible ways,
As none of the othoiservants smoked,
Mid tho housckeejer detested the
"filthy weed," Ivan must have been
the sole transgressr. In spito of
sheeks often disteniHl, and an odor of
Bxcellent tobacco hejnrried about with
aim, ho denied this persistently, and
the doctor coiitentc.j' himself with an
occasional scolding, j Unable to speak
Russian, although le both read and
ivroto tho languaie. he had been
jbligod to make out a list of reproving
it a
ivords from the dictonary. This li
which began with 'rebel" and ended
with "dog," ho woild read from his
Basv-ciiair with "Tint solemnity; the
Icliutiucnt standiii''' before him and
listening with an aiiof utter annihila
:ion, until, at the list word, ho would
kiss the seam of his mister's coat, and
sli like a guilty thin; over the thresh
ed.
Fraulein Mariaiue, the doctor
cousin and housekeeper, had often in
sisted on the dismissal of this "sav
age;" but Ivan was to the doctor a liv
ing reminiscence of a strange, active
life on a foreign soil. Ho had
thought to remain niKasan to tho end,
but the inheritance, af a small fortune
through the death of a distant relative
ho had scarce knowa awakened in him
:i s.idden homesickness for Germany,
and for tho secludid little town afar
from railways, where his cradle had
stood, and which in an age of restless
activity still dreamed . on as it had
dreamed on for huulreds of years.
Having purchased this vine-wreathed
house which, during nil thoso years in a
foreign land, hail stood before him
a sort of enchanted vision, he sum
moned his orphaned cousin Marianne,
a model housewife, as his minister of
tho interior. Marantic indeed sighed
mentally that her cousin had chosen
for a home his native town rather than
some great capital, with its constant
succession of ncv faces ami amuso
ments. Rut yet the idea of reigning
sole mistress of a household appeared
so beautiful and enticing that she
would have followed the doctor to tho
ends' of tho earth. Sho had always
liked him; sho felt great respect for
him; his only fault in her eyes was an
open aversion tfcniarriage. A physician
who remained binglo was, to say tho
least, unwise. Arnim would ward off
her frequent reproaches on this score
by declaring that tho unmarried
physician, liko tho Catholio priest, fs
much more eflicient than tho married
one, being wholly devoted to his call
ing without tho distraction of outside
interests.
" Only those undeterred by thought
of wife or family saerilico themselves
cheerfully, if it comes to that." ho said.
"My patients csn attest that I am not
destitute of a heart. Hitherto I have
had no time for love to the individual;
nowlt Is too late. Why need I marry
when hands like yours keep my house
in order and Ivan serves mo so faith
fully? Why Htok to realize personally
those torment which tho poets tolls us
are inseparable from lovo, when I have
scon and still mo so much of pain and
sorrow in the livos of other?
In that foreign land our Russian
doctor hud wai tho name of "fathur"
by arduni devotion to hie calling. The
ailments of uldldiou had been his cs-
1 it..tl ii iv In that ombrr university
city, there was scarce a boy or girl of J
tho poorer classes who did not know i
him, did not run after him as he passed
along the streets and press its dirtv
nose to the lappel of his coat. Many a
beautiful pair of woman's eyes also fol
lowed the manly figure with the
thoughtful, noble face. Many a rosy
mouth smiled upon him, many a fasci
nating lady teacher offered to assist him
in mastering that extremely difficult
foreign idiom. Rut all these entice
ments were lost upon tho doctor: he
had no' time for them.
And, besides, there was ono living
remembrance that, liko a pastel picture
undinnncd by time, roe constantly
before him. Waking and dreaming
there was ever present to him the face
of a young girl wholly unliko these
dark-eyed foreign beauties a pale, al
most childish face with piquant nose,
lustrous b'ue eyes, light-brown hair a
lelicate, petite ligure with charming
hands and feet, and a joyous, musical
voice.
This fair maiden who had thus capt
ured the fancy of a somewhat grave,
bookish studert, was the only child of
French emigrant, a widower, who
lived proudly isolated in tho vine
wreathed house, intrusting tho educa
tion of his daughter to an elderly
French governess. Tho garden wall
had then, as now, an artistically
wrought latticed gate on the forest
side. In the fine season, Arnim, who
loved to study in the. open air, would
take his Greek and Latin books to the
forest, where he was sure to meet a
child-like figure in a white dress with
rich embroideries and dainty ribbons,
skipping up and down tho broad, peb
bled path. To tho amazement of our
student, she always wore loose, light-
colored kid gloves. Sometimes she
stood close to the gate, her graceful
head pressed against tho cold iron bars
the broad-brimmed hat hanging from
her neck by its blue ribbon, while tho
eyes that gazed wistfully into tho dcep-
greeu of tho forest mayhap caught a
glimpse of the student whowalired hes
itatingly past, and sometimes lut a book
fall to impede his progress.
This blonde child was qmto unliko
other younr K'nls of the little town
the sisters of his school-fellows. Sho
did not at all resemble the burgomas
ter's daughter, who was considered a
model of good breeding and lino man
ners. To Arnim she seemed coarse be
side this stranger, who had about her
something of the liliellula, something
of the airy jrrace of that sliimr.icring-
winged creature, destined to llit about
for one brief summer's day, and then
die.
Tho forei.ni maiden sometimes' ap
peared on the promunade a somber
walk shaded by lindens, which sur
rounded the little town but never
without, her governess, a severe-look-
in"; fantastii'.-illv-dressed and eldcrlv1
Frenchwoman. Now and then she
would hang upon the arm of her father,
and both would he chatting merrily.
But tin seldoiU happened, as tho Mar
quis traveled ljack and forth a great
ileal, passing but little time at. homo.
Once ui)i)ii a pring day, when the
first May llowei were in bloom and
bird-songs enlivened the forest, as Ar
nim passed alon the wonted path, a
great leather ball flow over tho gato
and hit him in thclright eye. A sudden
cry of pain escapild him, his book fell
to the ground, audi momentarily blind
ed, he grasped afi-r the nearest tree.
The key turned hastily, tho gate
creaked on its billies, and an excited
liguro in white apiW.red before him.
Soft little hands stught with gentle
force to withdraw his own hand frcn
Ids eyes, and a sweenvoice spoke con
doling words in Frenili then to Arnim
.in almost unknown nuigue.
THEIIt KIKST ACQUAINTING!-:.
Ho set his teeth this young girl
nnst not know how he snffe'rod. And
yet he was helpless, for ho coufil not
open ids eyes. Angry at this help
lessness, he thrust back tho little hands
now gloveless, and turned afay. But
they would not bo shaken off. Once
more they wero extended, anilthe voice
took on a pleading accent. Little its
ho knew of French, Arnim was iwaro
that tho girl was begging his forgive
ness, ami wanted to take him to tho
fountain in the midst of tho garden.
His ieet still resisted, but his head and
heart wero already on the way, along
which ho at length suffered himself to
be led.
Soon he felt over his inflamed eyo a
moist perfumed handkerchief. The pain
abated, tho well eye Mowly opened nnd
gazed into the lovely face that, flushed
with mingled archness and anxiety,
bent toward him. "Merci bicn mailt'
moitelie," he said, heroically recalling
ono of his few French phrases.
" Ilortente!" cried a sharp woman's
voii-o. The girl's small hands tou a
web of lace from hop neck, laid it over
the handkerchief and knotted it around
the young student's soft blonde luiir.
Than hurriedly slipping on her gloVes
t-ho showed hop pal lout out throuich pio
;atu. As she did so, his ear cauuht en-
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Cyclonic.
Volcnnlc Hitil Other nnnccrom
Tj-ip f Vh-.
A wave is a thing of beauty, but it is
only a joy to those who watch it march
ing in splendor and foam from the safe
refuge of the shore. It is a very naus
eating condition of voyaging. It makes
the bone of ships creak a if they were
full of rheumatism. It tills tho brain
with a sense of ch-io. and one moment
swings the moaning traveler to the
stars and the next plunges him into an
abyss hideiu- with gloom and the hiss
ing ns of millions of snakes. To meas
ure waves in a severe tempest is even
more difficult than to mark effects.
When tho weather rises to such fury as
makes the seas colossal enough to ren
der the determination of their height
exceedingly important, there is usually
too much anxiety, anil even distraction,
for observation. The weight of tho
wind is so violent that it is almost im
possible to show one's face to it.
For the true Andean sea ono must go
down to Cane Horn perhaps to as far
as sixtv degrees south. There are sail- '
ors who, standing at the wheel of a ship i
running before these seas, will never
willingly look behind them, lest the
sight of the oncoming rampant of
green water, arching toward tho taff
rail, should unnerve them. Standing
on a deck twenty feet above the water j
line, you yet look up at the crest of
these seas as at the top of a mountain.
The gigantic grace, the huge majesty
of these liquid Titans can not be de
scribed. It is necessary to be hove-to
to appreciate their height, volume and
power; to watch from the low broad
side Iheswelling approach of the mighty
mass, with its freckled front and foam
less head flickering in bottle green to
the dull light of the gray sky; to feel
the sweep of the ship up the enormous
acclivity, and then, while for tho space
of a breath only, sho hangs poN.ed
with upright masts and shrieking rig
ging on the headlong brow, to look
down and behold tho valley beneath,
into which the vessel an instant after
slides like a comet.
It is difficult to write of the seas
which run in heavy weather. off the
southern-ino.-t point of South America
without risk of being charged with ex
aggera ion; they must be soon, and a
liltlo spell of custom will winder ad
miration easy. It is impossible to be
tossed by them in such vessels as now
make the passage of the Horn without
wondering by what miracle of hick or
phenomenal merit of seamanship the
old navigators were enabled to boat
against them in their small, half
decked boats, some no bigger than a
Deal lugger, without a touch of the
wealherly qualities of such craft.
Rut let it not be supposed that the
high wave is tho dangerous one. '1 he
regular running surges may all bo as
tall as the biggest hotel in London with
a ninth fellow among them as high li
the monument, and yet none prove
nearly so dangerous as the pyramidal
seas of the cyclone. Of all forms of
vexed water the cyclonic agitation is
the worst. Here is a whirlwind of as
tonishing fury so many miles in diaine
ter. For a little while it runs a steady
sea, but presently its gyrations brings
up a surge from another quarter, then
comes the lull, followed by a frightful
outtlyof storm from a direction opposite
to the point from which tho wind
last blew. The seas, coining into
collision, fight like wolves. They snap
and howl, leaping high in collided
shapes in the very similitude of sentient
passion. Tho staggering of tho ship is
indescribable. There is no rythmic
swing to give her motions something of
tho vibrations of the pendulum. Her
decks are lilled with water, while her
bows dive into a chasm that has opened
under her forefoot, a valley yawns
under her stern and a hill of water
Hashes up on either side. It has not
been suggested that the a'titudo of the
cyclonic wavo should bo determined.
Probably there is no eyo alloat equal to
such an undertaking.
Another very uncomfortable sea is
tho volcanic wave. It is not very long
ago that a vossol, steaming through
quiet waters on a dark night, was sud
denly hurled up by an invisible billow
that was reckoned to bo between thirty
and forty feet high. Throe such waves
passed under her, the last being the
least in volume, and then all was dead
flatness of ocean again. Tho stoutest
heart might well thump to such an on
vounter as this. London 'lelegruph.
Character Training at Home.
It is well for our moral roformors,
who aro just now so hard upon tho
common school for its deficiencies in
moral training, to remember that the
fair contrast is not between a groat
school in tho lower wards of a metro
politan city and an ideal family in tho
most socluded, social, suburban pre
servo; but hotween that school and tho
homes of its children, and the swarm
ing strcn's where they aro "tempted of
tho dovil" at every corner, and crowded
liko droves of cattle on the way to and
from tho school-house. If tho critio
would follow tho children from their
school hours through tho tost of tho
week, ho would seo that a majority,
even in the best community, aro never
under moral, sanitary, social and re
fining rtitluoucos so elevatod as in tho
school-house. Nothing Is gained by
such overstrained and ono-slded pict
ures of the defects of tho charaeter
traiuing side of tho public schools as
wo are often called to witness in our
educational gatherings. They do great
injustice to the teachers and schools,
and play into the hands of those niitllg
n an t ooeloidnMias, who forgot that even
a burning zoal for religion does not
UU8U from telling lies about tho people's
common school. Education.
TERRORS OF THE SEA.
PULLMAN'S PALACES.
The Trno Story of tho OrlRln of Great
litlilln (niivrnlr-tirr.
Various accounts of George M. Pull- j 1'rench c"""ut
man's invention of the palatial sleep- Dr. Pasteur is getting moro and moro
ing cars that bear his name aro alloat. famous every day, and his experiments
They do not agree in general or in par- with his euro for hydrophobia aro turn
ticulars. In imler to get an oxact and ing out successfully,
authentic statement. Assistant Super- Sinco Jenncr's great discovery of in
inteiulent .1. W. Stockton, of tho Pull- Jculatiou with virus for tho prevention
man company, was asked for tho facts. )f small-pox, it has been tho object of
Mr. Stockton reflected a moment, and 'dentists to discover moans for thoprc
then said that Mr. Pullman told him rontion of other diseases in a similar
tho whole story some two years ago. j manner. Ry means of tho microscopo
His narrative was very interesting, not niinuto organisms, or microbes, wero
only in itself, but as an illustration of discovered to bo tho causo of many
tho" possibilities of useful inventions ; diseases of man and animals, and tho
when attention is dueo fastened upon 1 question was to determine to what cx-
thoin.
Mr. Pullman's statemont, as Mr.
Stockton recalls it, was substantially
as follows: After tho idea had been
conceived and the patonts obtained,
Mr. Pullman went to Chicago and hail
his first ear built there, nutting all his
Tho cost of '
money Into the venture
tho work was about $13,1)00. In all its
essential features the car was tho
model on which the Pullmans of tho
present day are constructed. Tho build
ing was, of course, watched with tho
utmost euro and impatience, but, curi
ously enough, it was found, after tho
car was done, that it was so wide that
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where it was to run. As Mr.
Pullman had put all his funds
into the coach, and no ono else
was ready to contribute for construct
ing a new one on a smaller scale, ho
naturally lost heart in some measure.
The car was stored at Chicago, and tho
enterprise was given up for tho time
being. No use was made of the vehicle
until the assassination of President
Lincoln finally gavo tho inventor tho
desired chance to enter on tho road to
famo and fortune. Mr. Lincoln's body
was to bo taken from Chicago to Spring
lield for burial, and tho question of its
transportation was brought up. Some
one suggested that this unused palace
drawing-room sleeping car bo em
ployed, and Mr. Pullman hurried to
get it ready. Tho Chicago & Alton
railroad, under the strain of tho groat
excitement of tho time, sent out gangs
of men forthwith along tho lino to nar
row up tho station platforms and re
move other obstructions so that the oar
might pass. This being done, tho car
was used as was proposed, and, as all
tho great newspapors of the world wore
intent on publishing every item of in
terest about thu burial, Mr. Pullman's
invention of course became tho subject
of universal comment. From that
moment its success was assured.
Tho Pullman Company as it now ex
ists was founded in 18G7 with a capital
of $1,000,000. Its stock to-day repre
sents nearly $10,000,000, besides $2,000,
000 debenture bonds. Tho Pullman ears
are operated on nearly 80,000 miles of
railway in the United States, Canada,
Mexico anil Fngland, and in spito of
somo grumbling about charges, aro
universally recognized as tho finest
railroad equipment in any part of the
world. Boston Olobe.
SWEET POTATOES.
How to l'litnt iimT Cultivate! tho Tender
Vouiie Sprout.
Tho sweet potato can not bo planted
out before what may bo called good
corn weather, and as this will not occur
before June, tho middle of April is timo
enough to start tho bed. Eighteen
inches of manure, or just enough to
givo a gentle bottom heat, is sutlielont,
tho sun under tho glass doing most of
tho work. After the bed is mado and
boat started it is ready to plant. Lay
over tho manure six inches of sandy
soil; if all sand, just as well or better.
Halve tho potatoes leiigthwiso and lay
flat on the sand they may nearly cover
tho ground. Sprinkle over tho top
just enough sand to barely cover tho
potatoes. After tho young sprouts I
have started their roots into this sand
nnd thu tops aro about six inches high,
they are slipped off, and each shoot Is
a plant and ready for tho ground.
Only a light, friable soil will grow
them profitably. This is thrown up
by tho plow into ridgos four feet apart.
Tho plants aro dibbled out on thoso
ridges ono foot apart tho cut worm
often destroys quantities of the sets,
and must bo watched for, destroyed
when found, and other sets put out
whero needed. At least a couplo of
ciops of sprouts can bo taken from one
set of tubers, and any timo in Juno
will do to plant thorn, so there is no
danger of not having plenty of plants.
It takes from 8.000 to 10.000 sots por
acre. Stable manure is tho host St.
Louts Jlepublican.
White Specks In Butter.
Your correspondent says in substance
that white specks are occasioned by
dry croam. With all her precautions,
If she will placo in tho churn with hop
cream a quantity of thickly-soured
milk sho will find a corresponding
quantity of whlto specks, as sour milk
is tho one and only causo of whlto
specks. The sour milk forms a sub
stance liko cheese curd, which Is sepa
rated only by tho process of washing,
while washing with a barrel churn tho
specks can nearly all bo eradicated. Sho
takes great stock in water setting, and
hero we will agree with hop. on tho
ground that when milk is sot in a cream
er the cream Is taken from the milk while
tho milk Is perfectly sweet and free from
any sour milk to form white specks, and
from our experience wo havo becomo
thoroughly convinced that no farmer
can profitably conduct a dairy without
a good opo.imepy, ospoolally a winter
dairy, as the los of cream in extremely
cold weather will moro than offset - tho
expense of a good ercaiuopy. Country
Qc itleman.
DR. LOUIS PASTEUR.
Wonderful Wucoverle Mnilo by tho Great
tent diseases conld bo prevented
by inoculation of diluted or weakened
poison into tho system for preventing
tho discaso usually produced by tho
poison.
Louis Pasteur has mado many won
derful discoveries in this new branch of
"lciliuinc lu,t before that ho was well
Known as a successiui scionusi in cnum
ical nnd physical matters. Ho was born
in Dolo in" 1822 and was appointed
toucher of ehomlstry at Resancon, anil
then at Dijon, and finally was nppointcd
professor of chomistry at Strassburgin
1819.
In 1857 ho conducted ll o Normal
school In Paris, and in 18G3 was ap-
Sor lcySo,
bonne Ho was compelled to resign
tho latter position as ono side of his
body became paralyzed; but ho grad
ually recovered his health Hutllcjonlly
to be ablo to tako up his chemical re-
! searches, and in order to enable him to
give his full attention to his studies,
the French Government has granted
him an annual pension of 12,000
francs sinco 1871, which has been raised
to 20,000 francs recently.
Since 1870 Pasteur has given all Ida
attention to contagious disoases, such
as anthrax, chicken cholera and rabies
of dogs. All these diseases aro caused
l3 parasites of microbos, and ho claim
ed that by inoculating part of tho poi
son in small quantities and very much
diluted into tho system a person Is loss
apt to bo affected by tlieso disoases,
than thoso who have not been thus in
oculated. Troussait previously mado experi
ments with tho blood of animals suffer
ing from anthrax, butPastour has suc
ceeded in raising anthrax Vacllli In a.
drop of blood, and by preserving tho
germs upon certain substances, thoir
strength as a poison was diminished to
such an extent as not to causo any dis
ease. Injoetion of this diluted poison
protected animals so that very few suf
fered .from anthrax when formerly on-
tlro herds woro killed N. 0. Picayune.
IMPOSING ON NATURE.
Cnmlloit Fruits Which Will Keep Well
In
Any Cllmiitc
Until quite recently all of tho can
died fruits that wore seen at tho Broad
way fruit stores and confectioners
wero Imported from France. Now most
of them come from California. Tho
French fruit is put up in a moro showy
manner and brings a higher pricothan,
tho domestic fruit. Rut tho California,
product is just as good eating, and
with a little praetico will equal tho im
ported fruit in appearance.
Tho niothod of preparing tho fruit is
simple, but requires good judgment to
be successful. In tho south of rranca
It has grown to lo a groat industrj-, as
nearly all of Europo Is supplied from
that soctio-i. In preparing tho fruit,
pears, pineapples and quinces aro
pared; citrons aro quartered, and tho
pits of cherries, apricot and poaches
aro removed. Tho fr.ult is then im
mersed in boiling water, which quickly
penetrates tho pulp, dissolves and elim
inates tho juice. Then tho fruit is re
moved and tho water drained off, Icav
ving only tho solid portions of pulp in
tact. This is thou immersed in lnrgo
earthen pans, in a sirup mado by dls
sohing sugar in water. Tho sirup in
turn ponotratos tho pulp and gradually
replaces tho fruit juices. In about six
weeks it is thoroughly impregnated
with sugar, and Is takou out and wash
ed In pure water, if it is to bo glazed,
it is dipped into a thick sirup and loft
to harden In tho opon air. This pro
duces a transparent coating. If tho
fruit Is to bo crystallized, it is dippod
in tho sirup and then driod slowly in a
kiln boated to ninoty degrees. This
produces a granulated appearance. If
properly done, candiod fruits will bear
transportation to any climate, and will
preserve thoir quality and flavor for a
year.
Tho imported fruits aro put up in
neat bonbon boxes with glass fronts.
The California fruit is assorted and
placed in fancy paper boxes, holding
ono or two pounds each. N. 1'. Mail
and Express.
European Postal Statistics.
Tho Austrian Ministry of Commerce has
just issued a statistical publication on
thu post and tolegraph services during
tho your 188G. Tho returns show an in
crease of GJ per cqnt. in tiio letter post,
and tho accounts for tho same year
closed with a surplus of noarly 4,000,
00011. Somo Interesting figures arogivoit
rolativo to postal intercourse, which is
ludicativo of tho degreo of civilization
In the various European countries.
First of all comes Groat Britain, with
1,-180 letters and 410 newspapers for
every hundred of inhabitants; then wo
havo Switzerland, with .1,27-1 letters nnd
2,181 newspapors; and Germany, with
2,43-1 letters and l,lfi2 nowspapors.
N'ext follow Belgium, the Netherlands,
Denmark, Franco anil Austria-Hungary.
Tho corresponding figures are
ror Austria 1,773 mid Sill, and for Hun
gary 7G9 and 301. At tho end of thu
list stiijd Russia nud Bulgaria.. X.
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