*REA1>¥! PILL If BANG. I The Proper Equipment fur a Club of Be- gtnner» at Trap shooting A Sport Growing More Cupular Every Year. ■ 8, though Held. field. Trapshooting is exactly Trap shooting with artificial birds birdsis o v mi ri c i anm'fa xrof legap. . one of th« least expensive sports, yet most enjoyable. So many urexpeM one °t hisovt-j inipro||b i©nts ‘ have been made recently manufacture of clay pigeons that is prae in the ® anl men «3 natural 1 action of the bird is now forty. simulated with remarkable fidelity and ble us • practiceiat the inanimate birds is con- »it, or:' 3^2^Hust as good for the marksman as though he were shooting at live pig - >g else 31 eons. A great many clubs use the arti nptioiul ficial birds exclusively, the most prom ■ard bi-: inent in the East being the German ry thittI Gun Club of New York, and the South- in erenl aide Club, of N' a - N.J. The favor lenwtliJ ite birdsLare the Liguwsky clay pigeon, with clay tongue; “the Bat” which may men be thrown from a clay pigeon trap or a ntyof ition if J regular [bat trap; the American clay bird, which is exceedingly hard to hit, Uly U./I s that ttu8 but wheji hit is easily broken, and the Standard and Keystone, both of which ire are facsimiles of the blue rock pigeon. n.”-M One of the birds formerly used had a paper tongue; but it was found that in • NOWlU wet weather this would become limp and refuse to work. The most reliable TH. M the s o the i of its I iicts of e case oi th the fa ;x posed i the M i treme» r materii^^^^ a forceJ&H of th? a el’»' I very on-.» hich c»* 3 ‘•r side L: keeper'® or thesepújBB ns sprung y 1 lMt Carver's Unique Pose. lome and J 1. The Approved Position. 8. The flurlinghum's Position. lion of the have a clay or a wooden tongue, The x posed» best clay pigeons, when bought in quan be thed tities for the use of clubs, cost about ractingta two cents each. •Here, sen In »ni" recent big matches shot in 1 fluence o'« this neighborhood the birds cost an av- jus powel erage^bf two dollars apiece, and in a leat of tbeffl mate Hi .’between Dr. Knapp and Major duetotbrS Floyd Jones not long ago several bun lmost eu drc.l Wfll fl» were killed, costing a dollar ’• tx-hBT fbe pigeons for these contests nsionof« i _y -y come from different parts of the coun- ul lower. try, the best are from Baltimore, rytoa« where the famous blue rock breed is 1 ;lni1 raised. The blue rock is a small ............ bird; i the praa -bard, firm and Heavy for its size. A and casft casa.f great tnuny gunners who have not had and r in the Is much Bxperience in live-bird shooting >m of horj J make pie mistake of selecting big birds nquestionfl under Rhe impression that they are the in very strongestit and the fastest flyers. Ex- in getting! perts, however, will pick out, the small. ie boiler firm bir<l as they know by experience that th< will fly faster and are in every o often«! J way bett< r suited for the traps. it is necm j 1B •&<" ting either at live or artificial it care ioy| birds a good deal depends upon the or those 'Jja weather. Windy weather has an effect J lowed»« both on the flight of the live birds and e raised: ? the artificial ones. If the day be hard nd the te. \ and ©obi and pretty windy, the live vater, so • :’1 birds get up wilder and the clay ones rature ma; ■ | naturally sail faster with the wind. a boiler* All maU lies at artificial birds are shot ed. The^ from three or five traps set level, five s, ofturnix yards apart in the segment of a circle the boilfi? or in a straight line and numbered con- tbetoo*d aecutfively. These traps should throw 1 the furrgthe fund) the Mis bird ’ from forty to sixty yards. The open, «flpulltr» or d puller stands six feet behind the shooter tat willfll and puli'- at the latter’s command. If boiler ter he pulls poll-' too early, the marksman can the heatbtj refuse [th- bird and he is then entitled In single bird shooting, 1 and duriig to another. gulated according to tho lerate and-] the rfe< red ta-s| gun uied and runs from thirteen to eighteen yards: in doubles it is from eleven - xteen yards. With singles, one barrel only is loaded at a Proceed* »was in M»3- time. PcMtlion has a good deal to do with t nor the # n such »q success wedding«J mark sum all except the National ' sSSOCita• may assume any jre on standir funerah1- find st of those of his own choice e chnrel*^BHfful an^ ineffective. Th. lra Pai joured os: of his bun almost resting on his right «y were |p and arreIs raised to an angle here aney, «h jrd. u. Bogflr! s invariably held bis gun be- rong. »•« 1 ¡the FiMUj raised, wr. Hk rules. I Dr. Carver’s t*ose is unique« His bis .be corp* object • little 4 ile in * j en bj ’M uestn *4 lir .■virsit*’j fo-inij i.-S-T-l Francotte gun, the Scott, Greener, Wes ley and Richards are widely used. These guns cost all the way from nino- [coPVHKiirrzD !■«).) For the busy man who lov. s the sound of a gunfyet w bo can only indulge in a »hooting excursion once or twice a year in tSo- season, it is .a standing re gret that li is lack of practice between r.-aaoixa ants ids hand out of trim for the bird, H>- finds that he is by no means a» good a shot at the opening of the aeason aa he was at the close of the pre vious yeir and it tikes very nearly his whole htB.day to regain his old skill. But this'is all being rapidly changed. Trap shcioi ing, which has taken hold of the public fancy to a very large extent rack©.! in recen| years, affords the opportunity ilkid for practice so greatly desired, and if of an J the sportsman is lucky enough to be a momberpf a club, he can have all the It uj__________ tith a/ practice no h wants at little loss of time and small cost. He has the satisfaction, if upd too, when he takes his holiday, of find- !‘rd or ing himfrelf no longer awkward and matt J blundering with the gun. IIis hand other j| and eye ire quick, his aim is true and we cut J h* I mmu J u to hold his own with other 18 BDdJ competitors in the hunting-field. CUBtoJ ^rap Shooting was, until a few years table J ago, confined almost woolly to profes «tilt J sionals, and very few amateurs were ‘ward J skillful enough to be ranked as experts. vo and J Now, however, there are clubs in every big city, and some of the amateur sports- wanted! men would not make at all a bad showing ; .men wui even by th© side of such distinguished shots as Bogardus, Dr. Carver and other V. rx ♦ trap ■••in u and nil hunting- i i 11 n 11 ii • r_ he had J noted fflns of ♦ the id Con a variety of guns, differing widely as •‘A LITTLE NONSENSE. * A LAMENTABLE FACT. to weight and bore, have about conclud ---------------- Ileruy of Sound Literary Tasts —She—“I wish the car would come The Ku phi In ed that the lighter the gun the bettor. the United Stat.-«. Live and Clay Pitreen Shooting and The day of heavy-weight guns for trap along.” Ho—“I thought you liked There was never a time uhen so many E >-v Experts Do It. or wing shooting has passed away. The walking best; in fact, you said so.” She books were published iu the English lan —“Oh, that was before we bad the oys 1. 8. 3. 4. Clay Pigeon Trap. ‘ The Bat.” Pigeon with Clay Tongue Old Style Clay Bird. | teen to five hundred dollars. A good, hard-hitting gun with Damascus steel barrels, English walnut stock, check ered aud engraved, can be bought for fifty dollars and upward. In loading for trap shooting, to" a twelve-guage gun.three drams of powder and two wads are put back of one or one and one-eighth ounces of No. «, 8 or 10 chilled shot, according to wind and distance. i Ender the rules of the National and American Association which have been revised within the last few weeks any I weight gun is permissible, but it must not be over ten-bore in calibre. The powder charge is unlimited and the charge of shot for ten-bore guns is fixed atone and one-quarter ounces. Each contestant must shoot at three or more birds before leaving the score. In doubles both traps are sprung simul taneously and each contestant shoots at three pairs, firing at two birds while both are in the air. When the traps are set in a straight line, instead of in the segment of a circle, a rapid-firing sys i tem is used, the traps are screened and numbered and the marksman stands op posite the first trap, shoots his bird and then passes on to the right shooting from the successive traps till he reaches the end of his score. For live birds the boundaries for both singles and doubles are fixed as the segment of a fifty-yard circle and a dead-line where the marks man stands. The rise for 10-bore guns is thirty yards, for 12-bore twenty-eight yards, for 14 and 16-bore twenty-six yards. The rule as to ammunition is the same as for clay birds. There are clubs in a num ber of States affiliated with the Amer ican Association, and all shoot under the rules quoted. The organization of a trap shooting club is not a very expensive affair. The best way for a company of ama teurs to proceed about it is as follows: Let them first secure their ground and then buy three traps for clay birds, which will cost them about two dollars. These traps can throw any kind of artificial bird, and are easily changed to shoot in all directions. A first-class afternoon’s sport at the clays won’t cost the members over twro dollars each, al lowing them forty shots apiece. They should dig a pit on the ground about three or four feet deep, and protect it by a screen for the use of the men who set the traps. If they want to kill live birds a trap can be made very cheaply by any carpenter. It is a box shaped device, ten by eight inches long and seven inches deep, and can be either of wood or metal. It should be painted green, which color does not distract the eye of the marksman. The trap is secured in place by two iron pins driven through the bottom and into the ground. It consists of six pieces held together by hinges and so arranged that when sprung to release the pigeon the top and sides, front and rear, shall fall outward, leav ters.”—Munsey’s Weekly. —With the Parental Blessing.—Mr. Stickney—“I have come, Mr. Henpeck, to ask for the hand of your daughter.” Mr. Henpeck—“Bless you, my boy, take her; and may the Lord have mercy upon your soul.”—Time. —Jaggs—“I think I am entitled to a pension.” Pension Agent—“What is your claim?” Jaggs—“\ 11, my feel ings were hurt by several people calling me a coward because I wouldn't enlist.” —Philadelphia Inquirer. —Mrs. Gadd—“That new family next door to you must be pretty well off; they’ve got a planer.” Mrs. Gabb— “Huh! They don’t own it; it’s rented.” ‘.‘How d’ye know?” “By the way they bang on it.”—Philadelphia Record. —“Can you tell me where 1’11 find the Senator?” said the wife of a prominent servant of the public to a page at the japitol. “Yes, ma’am; he is in the ante room,” “Dear! dear! That man seems to think of nothing but cards.”—Wash ington Post —“You look as if you had been kissed by a breeze from the Wild North Land,” said a poetic young iauy to a pretty triend, whose cheeks were glowing with color. “O no!” was th© laughing reply; “it was only a soft heir from Montreal.” —N. Y. Ledger. —Righteously Indignant — Barber (suggestively)—“Your hair is very dry and harsh, sir.” Customer (wrathfully) “And one of your ears is a good deal bigger than the other, but you don’t like to have people twitting you of it, do you?”—Chicago Tribune. —Minnie—“What made you speak to that poor beggar so sharply? Perhaps she was really deserving of help.” Mamie—“Maybe she was, but she inter rupted me just as 1 was having a good cry over the poor girl in my novel dying on the rich man’s doorstep.”—Terr© Haute Express. —“Do you think your sister likes to have me come here, Jamey?” “You bet You take her to the the-a-ter and bring her candies.” “I am glad I can make her happy.” “Yes, and the young feller what she’s engaged to don’t mind it either, for it saveshim that much money toward going to housekeeping.”—Life. —A Pertinent Question.—A Texas clergyman, who ata former period of his life had gambled a little, was absorbed in thought just before divine services began, lie was approached by the or ganist, who whispered, referring to the opening hymn: “What shall I play?” “What kind of a hand have you got?” re sponded the absent-minded clergyman. —Texas Siftings. —A Strike.—Paterfamilias was giving Johnny Freshleigh. ’93, some wholesome advice on the nia’ny opportunities that were to be had at college, and that he ought to make the most of them, quot ing, as a final word, the maxim of Crom well: “Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.” A^id then Johnny struck his father for a cool hundred, not only making the metal hot, but his father too.—Harvard Lam poon. A THOUGHTFUL WIFE. SSie Gets Up a I’leaaant Surprise for Her Over-Worked Husband. Wife (with solicitude of tone)—It must be very lonesome sitting all by yourself at night, John, balancing) your books, John. Husband (tenderly)—It is, my darling. W.—I have been thinking about it for some time, and now I have got a pleas ant surprise for you. H.—A pleasant surprise? W.—Yes, dearest. I sent for mother yesterday and I expect her this evening. I mean to have her stay with us quite awhile. She will take care of the house at night and look after the children, and I can go down and sit in the office with you while you work. H.—The dev----- that is to say, 1 couldn’t think of you going down-town. W.—It’s my duty, dearest. I ought to have thought of it before, but it never came to my mind till yesterday. O, John, forgive me for not thinking of your comfort sooner. But I will go and sit with you to-night. H.—To-night! Why I—I—the fact is, I got through with my books last nigh t. W — You did? How delightful! And you can now stay at home every even ing. I’m so glad! And the delightful wife ran off to mako preparations for the reception of T1IX TBAP SHUT AND OPEN. her mother, while the husband with somber brow sat looking at the picture ing the whole affair flat on the ground. in the glowing grate of a poker party There is a lateral sliding door on the with one member absent.—Boston Cour rear end, through which the bird is ad ier. mitted, and the front is barred like a MARRIAGE IN PERSIA. coop. In the center of the trap is a metal or wooden tongue, pivoted on a It is Held to Be a Shame for a Girl of Six spring, and to this tongue a red rag teen to Be Unmarried. i.s attached. To spring the trap the Persia is, par excellence, the country puller takes hold of a cord attached to a where marriage is made easy, especially leather strap on top; a single tug re among the poor. For a mechanic, sol leases the fore-end of the top and as it dier, laborer or servant, is no more ex comes up. the sides and ends fall away pensive for a man to maintain a family with a clatter. At the same instant the than to maintain himself. The few ar spring on the tongue is released and ticles of furniture required, the scanti the bird, startled by the noise and the ness of attire, the cheapness of the ma sight of the red rag, flies upward with terial used by the poor for clothing and a rush. the low price of their usual fare, such In two cases lately brought by the as bread, fruit, mutton and chicken, all Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to tend to make it very inexpensive to sup Animals in Trenton and Philadelphia, port a family. the decisions were in favor of the right It is held a burning shame for a girl of of the clubs to shoot live birds. A few sixteen not to be married, and old maids of the States stilly prohibit pigeon shoot are practically unknown in Persia. One ing. Connecticut being one of them; but of the many sisters of the Shah never in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl married, but she was for that reason vania and in the West generally, the a source of wonderment to the people. sport is allowed. Love in our sense is unknown among —Playwright—“How do you like my the Persians. Bovs, if of good family, get a seeghay new’ drama?” Friend—“I’m delighted with it. The dialogue Is so natural, and often a couple of female slaves when you know.” Playwright (with a blush but sixteen or seventeen years old. of pleasure) — “O, you flatter me ” Young fellows will, also, if their fathers Friend - “Not a bit of it. Your characters be influential, be appointed to a fat office talk commonplace and bandy old jokes, when but half grown. Thus the son of just the same as people do in real life. the present Minister of Foreign Affairs You’ve made a great hit, an intensely 1 Mousheer-ed-Dowleh). when but four realistic one, 1 assure you.”—Boston teen and standing but five feet high, wa* made Governor of Kaswin. an important Transcript. —The Worm Turned. — Mr. Bully Rag and flourishing province, and at that age —“Now. sir. you have stated, under had already a small but select andoroun. He was, it is true, more mature in oath, that this man had the appearance of a gentleman. Will you be good body and mind than many an American enough to tell the jury how a gentleman boy of eighteen, and he did not admin looks, in your estimation.” Down ister affairs of the province worse than trodden Witness—• Well, er—a gentle had his predecessor, a man of sixty. man looks—er—like—er—.” Mr. Bully When full grown the young man takes Ragg—“I don't want any of your era. sir; a legitimate wife, usually chosen among and remember that you are on oath. his female cousins, and the seegbays C^n you see any body in this court room (or “temporary wives’*) are then dis who looks like a gentleman?” Witness missed. but are often reinstated later I (with sudden asperity)—“I can if you'll on —Cor. London Times. loft mo Is held perfectly straight, the left hai> . grasping the barrel tar for ward ©nd the stock of the gun near but taing the chest below the armpit. Position officially adopted by the al association and approved by Bt clubs is to have the stock of B held lightly below the armpit, [higher than the elbow, the bar- d to a level with the chin, the stand out of the way. You’re not trans ct and the feet squarely placed, parent.” —Pu ck.____________ B left foot advanced. This po —A Boston sign bears the artless In Jis for the least change before scription: “Cigars and cigarettes sold is actually delivered. •r important consideration is on ths Sabbath for medicinal purposes Eastern «aperta, while using calf." — Bright green colors are dangerous when first put on. because poisons are used in the coloring matter. — Even the humblest toiler in the land can resolve to live for a hire purpose.— Washington Star THE FEMALE DEMON. A River Fiend Anciently Believed to Haunt the St. I.awrence. In a very entertaining article enti tled “Some Legends of the Old St. guage as now. They come flying from Lawrence,” contained in the New En the presses of the great publishing gland Magazine, J. Macdonald Oxley houses on both sides of the ocean in writes as follows: such showers as to darken the literary Retracing our course somewhat, and heavens and to obscure for us the great doubling the Gaspe promontory, we find lights set in the intellectual Armament ourselves in the Baie des Chaleurs, for all men and for all time. It is also, whose entrance is guarded by the Island of course, true that there was never so of Miscou. than which no other spot, not much reading done. The messenger even Anticosti itself, ha.s borne a richer boy carries a cheap novel in his pocket harvest of legend. Tales of marvelous and snatches time to read it, and from monsters, and traditions of war, famine this boy upward through the scale to the and shipwreck, and harrowing human man of learning in his library, every suffering abound. Once it was a ven one is a reader, each in his own way. prosperous fishing center, but that day And what do all these people read? Bv has long since passed, and now’ only a far the greater number of them might handful of Fr<‘nch Canadians eke out a answer with Hamlet: “Words, words, miserable existence, aided by the har words,” for there is little else within vest of wild hay which grows upon vast the covers of the worthless books which meadows daily overflowed by the tide. form their mental sustenance. According to Governor Deny, the island It is a lamentable fact that the rank po.sensed in his time—that is two hun growth of cheap and ephemeral litera dred «>r more years ago—a notable ture has not only crowded the classics natural wonder, which is th us described: of the English tongue from the market, “A few hundred yards from the beach but devot on to reading of the shallow there spurts from the briny sea a gush and crude sort has perverted the public of fresh water as big as your two fists, taste, dissipated the public mind, and which retains its freshness for a space is giving us a generation which can not of twenty yards, without in any wist* swallow or digest a wholesome literary blending with the surrounding salt meal. liquid, either at high or low tide. The Nor is this confined to the less intelli Hshermen come there in boats to fill gent and educated people. Our colleges their casks, and draw it up as if it were and high schools fail to surround their from the reservoir of a fountain.” And pupils with a literary atmosphere or— Mr. Lemoine, who is still with us, avers save in the case y/ some individual that the truthfulness of the old Gover whose natural bent is too pronounced to or’s narrative has been vouched for to bo denied—to sefid into the world men him by seafaring folk frequenting those and women of nice literary taste. A shores. But the most famous and far-spread story is told of the great Liszt that he once took a pupil of rare promise and kept legends of Miscou are those connected him playing an exercise month after with the Gougou, concerning which mys month. Occasionally the learner would terious monster we had better let its mildly h'.nt at his desire for a change, first chronicler. Champlain, speak for but Lizt only told him to be patient At himself, 1 translate the following from last, at the end of three years, the mas his Voyages: “There is,” he says, “a ter said: “You may go and need not wonderful thing here, well worthy of come here again!” “Why? Have I of mention, which many of the natives fended you?” asked the astonished and have assured mo is a fact, to-wit, that distressed scholar. “No; but you play near the Baie des Chaleurs lies an that exercise perfectly. That means island, upon which dwells a monster that you can play any thing. I can with the form of a woman, but of dread teach you no more.” ful appearance, and of such a stature The story is apocryphal, but it teaches that the top of their masts would reach a great lesson. All really broad and only to her waist. They describe her comprehensive critical tast« in letters as being appalling. She has devoured depends upon a knowledge of the mas many of their number, and continues to terly works which furnish our only fixed do so. putting her victims when she has standard. Put a school boy on a desert seized them in a huge pocket, which island with only a copy of the Spectator: some, who Lave been so lucky as to es compel him to read this every day for cape from her dreadful clutches, de five years to avoid mental starvation, scribe as being big enough to hold one and he will come out with a better of their vessels. This monster is con foundation upon which to build a lit stantly making horrible noises, and erary education than his equally bright boars the name of Gougou. and when fellow who has been at home reading the natives speak of her it is always without direction or advice the books with bated breath and trembling lips. from half a dozen circulating libraries. Yea. the Sieur I’revert de Saint Malo, But the classics can not stand beside while on a search for mines, assures me the “popular” books of the day. “Airy I that he passed so close to the lair of Fairy Lillian” will easily drive “The this dreadful creature that he and all on Scarlet Letter” from the field: “Ouida” is board the vessel heard the strange hiss- far more than a match for Thackeray; ;ng noises she made, and thut the na Bellamy i.s a more acceptable philoso tives who were with him told him that pher than Carlyle or Emerson, and so it was indeed the Gougou and were so ter goes until one pauses in glad surprise rified that they hid themselves wher when he sees any one with a copy of any ever they could, dreading least she had worthy book in his hand.—Detroit Free come to bear them off. I am of opin ion.” continues Champlain, by wav of Press. judgment upon the evidence before him, “that the island is the residence of some GENESIS OF DEATH. demon which takes delight in torment Complexity of Organization Fatal to the ing the people in that way.” Perpetuation of the Organism. From the dawn of life the structures best adapted to ^surrounding conditions have beep victors; whatever features have preyed useful have been seized up on by natural selection and secured dominance. The enormous mass of the , lower forms have persisted to this day, i because the balance established between them and their surroundings has re mained unaltered. But wherever the balance between living things and their surroundings »has been disturbed new demands have been made upon them, to which they responded, or, failing that re sponse, perished. Hence it is in the first complexity of structure, the first departure from simplicity, that the seeds of death were sown. For that death be comes a necessity. S® far as its occur rence by natural causes is concerned, we know that a.s organisms get older (although this applies more to animals than to plants, in which the cells, as they become liquified or converted into wood, are overlaid with new cells) their power of work and of renewal is lessened. The cells which form the vital fabric of tissues are worn by continual use; the waste exceeds the repair, and death ulti mately ensues, “because a worn-out tis sue can not forever renew itself, and be cause a capacity for increase by means of cell division is not everlasting, but finite.” Why there should be this limit to cell division we can not say. but it is clear that with the modifications of or gans according to the work which they discharge there results a subtler struc ture which is less easy to repair and is shorter of duration. The one-celled or ganisms have found salvation in sim plicity. We are, therefore, driven to the conclusion that since there is, prima facie, no reason why growth should bo limited or why function should come to an end, death must have been brought about by natural selection, which deter mines survival or extinction from the standpoint of utility alone. There needs no showing that it is to the ad vantage of the species that individuals should die. Their immortality would be harmful all around: nay, impossible, unless vigor remained unimpaired, and the multiplication of offspring docs not overtake the means of subsistence. “For it is evident,” as Mr. Russell Wallace remarks in a note which he has con tributed to Dr. Weismann’s essay, “that when one or more individuals have pro vided a sufficient number of successors, they themselves, as consumers of nourishment in a constantly increasing degree, are an injury to those successors. Natural selection, therefore, weeds them out, and in many cases favors such races as die almost immediately after they have left successors,” as, e. g , among the male bee«, the drone perishing while pairing, death being due to sud den, nervous shock.—American An- —Jupiter, Fla., can boast of the most intelligent mule on record. The ani mal is twenty-one years old. Every night he proceeds to the life-saving sta tion. It is customary for the man on watch to diM’harg»* bis coston signal (a red light) when vessels come U k > near the beach. The mule has “caught on” to what this signal means. So every night at eight o’clock the sailor’s four legged friend proceeds to walk the beach, and if a vessel comes too near the shore the mule, instead of a coston signal, sends forth a nejgh that makes night hideous. ‘ Port or starboard your helm.” i.s t“e order on the ship, and away sail the joP-/ tars in perfect safety »nd with a grateful heart u* th® four legged patrolman. HOUSEHOLD BREVITIES. —Two ounces of common tobacco boiled in a gallon nf wata» rubbed with a stiff brush, is used to renovate old clothes. It is said to leave no smell. Chicken Fricassee.—Cut the <• hick en into pieces and boil it until tender in just enough water to cover it, then drain it and fry it brown in plenty of nice butter. Remove it to a dish, th eken the butter with flour and add the liquor in the kettle, making a rich gravy. Ln y some small slices of toasted bread in ihe dsh with the chicken and pour the gravy v. r all. after seasoning it to taste. —To Corn Beef.—For < ne hundred pounds of beef take twelve pounds rock salt, one quart molasses, two ounces saltpeter, three gallons of water and one ounce of soda. Put. all together, boil, and skim until clear, then dip in the beef while the liquid is boiling. When the beef is cool pack it closely. Let thr brine become cold, then pour it over the beef, add a small bag of salt and l weight to keep the beef under the brine. — Liver Pudding.—Take two nicely cleaned hog's heads, two lights, two liv ers and the best parts of half a dozen melts, half a dozen sweetbreads and three or four kidneys split open. Soak all in salt and water over night and boil with two slices of salt pork the next morning. When done add some of the grease skimmed from the water in which they were boiled and grind in a sausage mill. Season with pepper, salt and finely chopped onion, and press into a mold. — Household. — Oatmeal Bread.—Boil two teacupsful of oatmeal as for porridge, and add a teaspoonful salt, and when cool, half a teacupfui molasses andthesame amount of y ist. if the home-made is used, oi half i small cake of compressed yeast: stir in enough wheat flour to make the hatter stiff as can well bo stirred with a spoon. Place it in well greased bread pans, and set it in a warm place to rise, as it must be very light lie fore it is baked. Bake an hour and a quarter. The above quantity will make two loaves. —Rice is almost a remedy in itself for some kinds of sickness, as cholera and bowel complaints. It makes easy work for the digestive organs, and being so nutritious it is valuable to both the sick and the well. It is a <14**h of which on« never becomes tired, and once a day is not too often to place it before the fam ily. It would I m * advisable to one who does not relish it to cultivate a taste for this easily digest« d f«xxi. Its cheapness s another merit and it bears a lucky name, or it w’ould not be such an im portant accessory at every wadding.— The Housekeeper. —Apple Tarts. — Pare and cook very tender a dozen sour apples. Mash fine and pass the same through a sieve. Beat smoothly together one and a half teacupfuls of sugar, half a teacupful of butter, the juice and grated rind of two lemons, three well beaten eggs, or, if eggs are plentiful, the yelks of six eggs, then stir in the apple sauce. Line pans with nice pastry. All with the mixture and lake in a quick oven. Beat the whites of the eggs stiff, add a little sugar and spread it on the top of the pies and return to oven a moment to brown.— Orange J udd Farmer. — Turn a man with bis face to the walL If he is perfectly molded and symmetrically made his chest will touch the wall, bis nose will be four inches away, his thighs flve inches and the end of his toes three inch««» FACTS ABOUT SHELLS. THt GREAT NAPOLEON. Wliure the « lioh-rst Varieties Uonie From nml XX li it They Are Worth, Why He Was Sent to St. Helena by the ItritUh «»overnment. There ar«» only a few people w ho know any thing about the beauty of color and form in shells, yet Ruskin ranks the nacr«» of shell far above tho colors of jewels excepting only the opal in its native rock. Among rare shells the thorny or porcupine clam, which is found in nature in all variety of shados from a rich crimson to a pale rose flushed white, and in pure white, is one of the most expensive. Good specimens in which all the spines aro perfect and the color beautiful, shaded rich in the shadow and delicate and tender in the light, bring often $25. Smaller, loss perfect shells are $5 and $8. Sea trum pets mottled in shades of brown are sought after by collectors of curios and fine specimens readily bring $30. “Those strange-looking shells with many horns are sea scorpions,” said a shell dealer talkingof his wares, “these little ones are spider shells. Tho num ber of horns varies with the place where the shell is found. This ono you see has only six horns while this has eight and this on«» seven. They all came from different location». They aro worth about SI each. This shell (hold ing up an exquisite crumpled shell) is a niurex from the Mediterranean Ocean. Wo have black and white, pure whit® like this one, white touched with rose* color, and crimson like this.” Ho took up last a beautiful mu rex shaded in rose-colors and bringing to mind the roseate purpl«» dyes which tho Syrians obtained from the liquids secreted by a species of this mollusk. “Such shells,” contirued the dealer, “ar«» one and two dollars each, according to their quality. This small whorled 3hell is a music shell; if you look at it closely you will notice a very fair repro duction of a bar of music with notes. This small shell is in the shape of a harp and takes its name from that, and this specimen is a tent shell; the black and brown lines on its surface look something like a field of tents. This long-spiked shell is a pearl oyster from the Mediterranean, and this is an olive shell. This is an «»ar shell, the opening singularly shaped like tho human ear.” Tho dealer now displayed a number of beautiful whorled flat shells of exquis ite mother-of-pearl. Some were cut out and trac«?d near the opening in a pattern resembling Honiton lace and mounted on a piece of shell as a base. “These.” he said, “are nautilus shells. They como chiefly from the Indian Ocean and are brongbt here by sailors, who sink the rough shells in any decaying part of the fruit that usually forms a portion of their cargo, and this fruit acid is strong enough to remove completely the out side coating that lies over its beautiful mother-of-pearl. The ornamentation of the shells is also done by tho sailors, who cover the surface with pasto and etch the patterns on and out with acids, sometimes tracing out the air chambers in the whorl.” Tho undecorated nau tilus-shell is generally preferred by col lectors of curios and makes a beautiful hanging basket for a sunny window, w’her«» its lovely iridescent colors can be seen in their full beauty. Beautiful conch or fountain shells are also shown at tho shell store. From the queen conch, which is shaded in tho loveliest browns and copper rods, sholl cameos are cut. There are also many home-like, old-time cowry shells, which recall the faint rose leaf fragrance of old-fashioned parlors, where one or more of these smooth usually mottled shells always decoraU'.d the mantel shelf. Therb is tho mailed liger cowry, trio marbleized, and the serpentine cowry and others called from their marking. “Some of the sea snails in the Indian Ocean produce the most beautiful mothor of pearl, but after all,” said tho dealer, “it is difficult to get good specimens of shells in thi.s country, and we have to pay high for them when wo get them. London is the groat market for shells, which ar«» brought there from Zanzibar, Singapore and other ports under control of the British Government. Very beau tiful shells are also sent from Mada gascar and all coasts of tho Indian Ocean and from the Mediterranean.”—N. Y. Tribune. BRITISH INVESTMENTS. After Waterloo and the dissolution of the grand army Napoleon returned to France. Tho storm of revolution was already gathering: the tide of opposi tion to him had arisen and overflowed France; his son had been passed overby the Chamber of Representatives; his own s«*rvices as General had been re fused; he had endeavored to escape tho vigilance of the British cruisers that guarded th«» coast, and finally he went on board the Bellerophon and surren dered himself to the commander. Captain Maitland. The groat, fallen leader was informed that there were no conditions to be mad«» in regard to the surrender of Napoleon, but that he should bo conveyed to England to be re ceived there in such manner as the Prince Regent should deem expedient, ile had written to the Prince Regent from Rochefort that he had terminated his career, and. “like Themistocles, I come to seat myself at the hearth of the British people. 1 place myself un der the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Highness as tho most powerful, the most constant and the most generous of my enemies.” The concurrent testimony of the historians of th«» times is to tho effect that Napoleon's life was in imminent danger in France. Blucher had threat ened to execute him, and he gave him self up because there was nothing else to do. No graver questions ever faced a civilized nation than the disposition of Napoleon and Jefferson Davis when their public careers came to an end. In Europe the experiment had been tried of banishment, or rather restraint to Elba, but that had failed. Europe would never be at peace; its awful slaughters on tho battlefields, by dis eas«», exposure, in all the ghastly forms of war. would not cease unless the cause were securely, permanently re strained; while to hold him beyond the reach of activity in Europe would be to imprison him. This was the condition, these were tho reasons, that led the British Government to decide to send him to St. Helena. For this purpose an act of Parliament was passed “for the better detaining iu custody of Na poleon Bonaparte,” «nd another act providing for the proper and special government of the island of St. Helena. Ih* was detained on the Bellerophon until August 4 and then transferred to th«» Northumberland, and on October 15 arrived in St. Holena, never to leave it alive.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Keault of Their Pouring Into tlie United State*. It is no wonder, then, with a constant, aggregation of capital pouring in upon Great Britain, with an inability to make it yield a profit within her own domain and, still further, tho impossibility of finding any other country where it can be so safely invested, she should turn in th« dir«‘ction of tho United States, which alone of all nations seems to combine all tho elements of safety and profit. From a list recently published it appears that th«? amount of English money which hasboen invested in indus trial enterprises in tho United States has equaled, in th«» last two y(‘ars, about $1.000,000 a week, amounting in all to about $100,000,000. * * * It is not difficult to «estimate th© ultimate influences sot in motion by such a prac tical union of material interests Iwtween the two gr« at English speaking nations of the world. Mr. Gladstone, in his Paris speech, ref«‘rring to tho produc tion that at the end of another hundred years the population of this continent may be 600,000,000, recognized “th«» prospective and approaahing right of America to be the great organ of th«» powerful English tongue”; and. allud ing to th«* United States and Great Britain, added these significant words, that “there was no cause upon earth that-should now or hereafter divide on«» from tho other.” That the int« r< At of mankind at large will be advanced by a close bond of union between two great Anglo-Saxon nations, noon«* can doubt, and nothing will contribute mor«» cer tainly to this harmony than th«* mutual ity of interests which is certain to be created by tho investment of British oapital in American industrial enter- prises.—Erastus Wiman, in North Amer ican Review. l.ongevity <>» t.i> gii<«ti *tare<*mrn. Disagreeable though the climate of England may ap|»ear to the uninitiated, yet it is apparently conducive to lon gevity. In addition to Mr. Gladstone, whose mental and physical vigor at an advanced old ag«» aro well known throughout th«* world, there ar© some nine or ten <M*tog«*nirian members of the House of Commons. In the House of Lords no less than thirty of th«* peers a loe. who is the father of the House, being ninety-one. and th«* Earl of Alber- marie, who fought as an ensign at Waterloo, ninety years of a/»*. <>n th«* active list of th© British Navy wc find the name of Admiral Sir Provo Mallis, of Hhannon. and ( hi-sapi-ake fain©, who is now a Im ut to enter upolri his ninety- ninth year, while on th © bench there ar© no less than four ju'l;?<*s who have r asH« d the air»* of fvr»*HCO re years. — N. Y. Tribune. CROWNED AFTER DEATH. The Only Queen Who Never Knew Her Royal Station. There is no more remarkable page in all history than the ono which tells of the crowning of Inez de Castro’s flesh less skull as Queen of Portugal. She had been married clandestinely to young Dom Pedro, and was murdered three years later by assassins instigated by her father-in-law. When the young Dom heard of her death ho was beside him- stof with grief and rage. Two of t he aAAassins fell into hi3 hands and suffered terrible torture, which only ended by their hearts being torn out while they wore yet alive. When Pedro came to the tbron«» a few years later he had the hon«*s of Inez taken from th«» grave, placed upon a magnificent throne, robed in royal purple, and actually crowned Queen of Portugal! The court was sum- monod and com peled to do her homage, just as if sft© were a real living «/neon. One rfr'.-inn»ss nanu held tho scepter and tho other the orb of royalty. On the second night of this weird ceremony the fleshless Queen was born«» before a grand funeral cortege extending* several miles, each person holding a torch. Lying in her rich robes, her crown upon her grinning skull, in a chariot drawn by twenty coal-black mules. Queen Inez, the only Queen who never knew her royal sta tion, was driv«*n to the royal Abbey of Alc.obaca, where the hones were interred with as much pomp as though she had di«*d but yesterday. Tho monument erected to the Queen who was never a t^ueen during lif«*, is still to bo seen in t he abb«»- , standing near the one erected to her royal husband, “Pedro, the Just.” It is said that the whole cause of this outrageous pr<>c<*«*<ling was an attempt of Philip II. of Spain to secure the throne on the grounds that the mar riage of Inez was illegal. These events occurred during th«» three years follow ing January 1, 1317. the date of the mar riage of Pedro ami Inez.- THEY LIVE "ON CREDIT. How Petty Ofllclals In R unr I m Swindle TruMtluv Trade*.men. Full four-fifths of the officials of St. P«*t,«*rsburg recoivo less than $50 a month. Most of them have a houseful of children, and they must all spend part of th«* year in town, where lodgings and provisions are expensive. 1 have at last got a clew to the mystery how they manage it. It is all done on credit. The creditof a petty official is practical ly inexhaustible. He and the majority of his compeers live—at least in th«» country—at the expense of credulous tradesmen. Their spouses, especially, ar«» born geniuses in this department of industry. “From the very beginning.” says a well-known publicist, “they established their household on a basis of fraud. In their houses strangers are sure to Im taken in. Every man, woman and child who comes in contact with them is plucked like an eider duck.” Most of these p«*ople pay only half th«» rent covenanted for, und some manage to get their m«*als thrown in. The tradesmen, who compete with each other suicidally, wipe out their last year's debts rather than run their heads into now nooses. The peddlors and bagmen, who ar© continually strolling about those places with their bags of wares on their backs, are not too small fli«*s for the spiders’ webs woven by those “gentlemen.” Th«» lady of th«» house or her worthy spoils«» holds watch <»n the balcony, eagerly list ening for the cries of the itinerant venders, who. having no books, g;ve credit, and aro paid in promises. Suddenly ’ho cry: “Children’s boots! Children’s boots!” is wafted along, with many less pleasant things, upon th«» balmless breeze. “Walk in here through the wicket to the right,” cries th© landlady from her porch. And th© victim walks in, shows his wares, bargains, haggles and leaves several pairs of boots. And so a family of three, four or flve persons manage to live in the country, if not exactly on the fat of the land, yet on tid-bits of whatever is in season, and can afford to play cards with neighbors and relations, and go to a concert or private theatricals now and again.—$L Petersburg Letter.