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About East Oregon herald. (Burns, Grant County, Or.) 1887-1896 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1890)
a variety of guns, differing widely as “A LITTLE NONSENSE.*• to weight and bore, have about conclud —She—“I wish the car would come ed that the lighter the gun the better. Live and Clay Pigeon Shooting and The day of heavy-weight guns for trap along.” Ho—“1 thought you liked 1* > w Experts Do It. or wing shooting has passed away. The walking best; in fact, you said so.” She Fraucotte gun, the Scott, Greener, Wes —“Oh, that was before we bad the oys ley and Richards are widely used. ters.”—Munsey’s Weekly. l*h« Propet Equipment for a C lub of Be- These guns cost all the way from nine- —With the Parental Blessing.—Mr. finner.-' at Trap Shooting A Sport Stickney—“I have come, Mr. Henpeck, d|*t Is Growing Mure Popular Every Year. to ask for the hand of your daughter.” Mr. Henpeck—“Bless you, my boy, take ■ [COPYRIGHTED tsyU.J her; and may the Lord have mercy upon For the busy man who lows the sound your soul.”—Time. of a gunl yet u bo can only indulge in —Jaggs—“I think I am entitled to a a shooting excursion once or twice a pension.” Pension Agent—“What is year ip (fo season, it is .a standing re your claim?” Jaggs—“\ II, my feel gret tbalhis lack of practice between ings were hurt by several people calling season« pi its his hand out of trim for the me a coward because I wouldn’t enlist.” birda. He finds that he is bv no means —Philadelphia Inquirer. as good a shot at the opening of the —Mrs. Gadd—“That new family next season al he was at the close of the pre door to you must be pretty well off; vious year, and it takes very nearly his they’ve got a planer.*' Mrs. Gabb— whole hfLday to regain his old skill. “Huh! They don't own it; it’s rented.” ButtbisEs all being rapidly changed. ‘.‘How d’ye know?” “By the way they Trapsbqot.ing, which has taken hold of bang on it.”—Philadelphia Record. the public fancy to a very large extent 1. Clay Pigeon Trap. —“Can you tell me where I’ll find the 2. ‘-The But.” | rackfl in recent years, affords the opportunity Senator?” said the wife of a prominent 8. Pigeon with Clay Tongua tlfeifl for practice so greatly desired, and if servant of the public to a page at the 4. Old Style Clay-Bird. of all J the sporpman is lucky enough to be a “J member to f a club, he can have all the teen to five hundred dollars. A good, sapitol. “Yes, ma’am; he is in the ante room,” “Dear! dear! That man seems nth (J practice h” wants at little loss of time hard-hitting gun with Damascus steel to think of nothing but cards.”—Wash >erhJ and small cost. He has the satisfaction, barrels, English walnut stock, check ington l’ost. ! up .J too, when he takes his holiday, of find ered aud engraved, can be bought for —“You look as if you had been kissed ‘rd or J ing bims< If no longer awkward and fifty dollars and upward. by a breeze from the Wild North Land,” In loading for trap shooting, for a Mil J blundering with rhe gun. His hand said a poetic young lauy to a pretty othn J and eye Ire quick, his aitn is true and twelve-guage gun. three drams of powder friend, whose cheeks were glowing with «« cut J he is able to hold his own with other and two wads are put back of one or Dolor. “O no!” was the laughing reply; oompetijbrs in the hunting-field. one and one-eighth ounces of No. 6, 8 * “it was only a soft heir from Montreal.” Trapshooting was, until a few years or 10 chilled shot, according to wind and —N. Y. Ledger. ciutgj. Trap confined almost woolly to profes- distance. *bl« ago, ooi —Righteously Indignant — Barber U(thts| siona|8,*iand very few amateurs were I Under the rules of the National and (suggestively)—“Your hair is very dry •wanl J skillful Enough to be ranked as experts. American Association which have been and harsh, sir.” Customer (wrathfully) 'o m J Now, however, there arc clubs in every revised within the last few weeks any “And one of your earB is a good deal <1 the J big city, and some of the amateur sports weight gun is permissible, but it must bigger than the other, but you don’t like men would not make at all a bad showing not be over ten-bore in calibre. The to have people twitting you of it, do « ed, gtu J even by tho side of such distinguished powder charge is unlimited and the you?”—Chicago Tribune. enib^l shots M " «llogard us, ~ Dr. Carver and other I charge of shot for ten-bore guns is fixed —Minnie—“What made you speak to Each of the trap and hunting- at one and one-quarter ounces. he ha noted guns | , contestant must shoot at three or more that poor beggar so sharply? Perhaps h the lougi field. In she was really deserving of help.” icthHj Trap shooting with artificial birdsis birds before leaving the score. Mamie—“Maybe she was, but she inter le gave. one of the tie least expensive sports, vet yet doubles both traps are sprung simul rupted me just as I wa^s having a good ureS[. one of fiie most enjoyable. So many taneously and each contestant shoots at cry over the poor girl in my novel dying blsoTB, improwbi.>nts have been made recently i three pairs, firing at two birds while on the rich man’s doorstep.”—Terre in the manufacture i, mam' ------ of ' clay '....... pigeons :------- that •' ‘ , both are in the air. When the traps are Haute Express. men the natural I action of the bird is now i set in a straight line, instead of in the —“Do you think your sister likes to •erty. simulated with remarkable fidelity and ' segment of a circle, a rapid-firing sys have me come here, Jamey?” “You bet ble us. -r practiceiat the inanimate birds is con tem is used, the traps are screened and You take her to the the-a-ter and bring numbered and the marksman stands op 1 it, or i! sidered Just as good for the marksman posite the first trap, shoots his bird and her candies.” “1 am glad I can make USUI as though he were shooting at live pig her happy.” “Yes, and the young feller W el«.]| eons. A great many clubs use the arti- then passes on to the right shooting what she’s engaged to don’t mind it exclusively, the most prom from the successive traps till he reaches either, for it saves him that much money • ard h-.; inent in the East being the German the end of his score. For live birds the toward going to housekeeping.”—Life. ry thint I Gun Club, of New York, and the South boundaries for both singles and doubles —A Pertinent Question.—A Texas in every I side Club, of New ’■!< N. J. The favor are fixed as the segment of a fifty-yard clergyman, who ata former period of his enueiq j ite birdslare the Ligvw>ky clay pigeon, circle and a dead-line where the marl s- life had gambled a little, was absorbed nen who | with clay tongue; “the Bat” which may man stands. The rise for 10-bore guns is thirty in thought just before divine services be thrown from a clay pigeon trap or a ity of j________ regular Ibat the American ciay clay yards, for 12-bore twenty-eight yards, began. He was approached by the or . j rvg'uiar i ul trap; me Uli11} bird, wbfich is exceedingly hard to hit, for 14 and 16-bore twenty-six yards. The ganist. who whispered, referring to the itly bejJ but whop hit is easily broken, and the rule as to ammunition is the same as for opening hymn: “What shall I play?” s that nJ Standard and Keystone, both of which clay birds. There are clubs in a num “What kind of a hand have you got?” re ;rp y, I are facsimiles of the blue rock pigeon. ber of States affiliated with the Amer sponded the absent-minded clergyman. n. One of the birds formerly used had a ican Association, and all shoot under —Texas Siftings. the rules quoted. —A Strike.—Paterfamilias was giving ■ paper tongue; but it was found that in The organization of a trap shooting Johnny Freshleigh. ’93, some wholesome this would become limp nowin : wet weather The most reliable club is not a very expensive affair. advice on the ma*ny opportunities that and refuse to The best way for a company of ama were to be had at college, and that he teurs to proceed about it is as follows: ought to make the most of them, quot Let them first secure their ground and ing, as a final word, the maxim of Crom then buy three traps for clay birds, well: “Not only strike while the iron i of iU which will cost them about two dollars. is hot, but make it hot by striking.” »ctsof These traps can throw any kind of A^id then Johnny struck his father for a e case artificial bird, and are easily changed cool hundred, not only making the metal h the to shoot in all directions. A first-class hot, but his father too.—Harvard Lam afternoon's sport at the clays won’t cost poon. the members over two dollars each, al A THOUGHTFUL WIFE. lowing them forty shots apiece. They • mate should dig a pit on the ground about Stie Gets Up a Pleasant Surprise fur Her Over-Worked Husband. a force three or four feet deep, and protect it Wife (with solicitude of tone)1—It ; of the by a screen for the use of the men who 1 very set tho traps. If they want to kill must be very lonesome sitting all by hich c» live birds a trap can be made very yourself at night, John, balancing' your wr ùde cheaply by any carpenter. It is a box books, John. Husband (tenderly)—It is, my darling. keeptteiL shaped device, ten by eight inches long W.—I have been thinking about it for >r these jsl and seven inches deep, and can be some time, and now I have got a pleas is sprung□ L Dr. Carver's Unique Pose. either of wood or metal. >ome and 1. The Approved Posidon. It should be painted green, which ant surprise for you. II.—A pleasant surprise? 3. The Hu linglianfs Position. color does not distract the eye of the W.—Yes, dearest. I sent for mother Ion of the! have aiclay or a wooden tongue, The marksman. The trap is secured in place x posed ? I best clay pigeons, when bought in quan by two iron pins driven through the yesterday and I expect her this evening. be the n tities for the use of clubs, cost about bottom and into the ground. It consists I mean to have her stay with us quite ractingfJ two cents each. of six pieces held together by hinges awhile. She will take care of the house ilers, seal In s4me recent big matches shot in and so arranged that when sprung to at night and look after the children, and I can go down and sit in the office i fluence fl this neighborhood the birds cost an av release the pigeon the top and sides, )us powfl erage of two dollars apiece, and in a front and rear, shall fall outward, leav- with you while you work. II.—The dev----- that is to say, I ìeat of tu‘1 match (between Dr. Knapp and Major couldn’t think of you going down-town. due to th»! Floyd Jones not long ago several hun W.—It’s my duty, dearest. I ought to lmost eno dred bBds were kill ed, costing a dollar have thought of it before, but it never each. *Tb'* pigeons for these contests came to my mind till yesterday. O, nsion of M come from different parts of the coun John, forgive me for not thinking of id lower try, but the best are from Baltimore, your comfort sooner. But I will go and ry to afl where the famous blue rock breed is sit with you to-night. i and cor;. raised«!? The blue rock is a small bird; H.—To-night! Why I—I—the fact is, i the pr*»-. Jhard, firm and l?eavy for its size. A I got through with my books last nigh t. md case : great many gunners who have not had W.— You did? How delightful! And r in the? much Experience in live-bird shooting you can now stay at home every even im of hon^make we mistake of selecting big birds ing. I’m so glad! nquestiosjBunder »he impression that they are the And the delightful wife ran off to in very :> ¿strongest and the fastest flyers. Ex- mako preparations for the reception of n gettingiports, however, will pick out the small, T11K THAI» SHUT AND OPEN. her mother, while the husband with e boiler firm Mfd, as they know’ by experience that they will fly faster and are in every ing the whcle affair flat on the ground. somber brow sat looking at the picture in the glowing grate of a poker party o often ter suited for the traps. There is a lateral sliding door on the with one member absent.—Boston Cour it )B ¡Booting either at live or artificial rear end, through which the bird is ad ier. it care in mrus birds a good deal depends upon the mitted, and the front is barred like a or those 1 weather. Windy weather has an effect coop. MARRIAGE IN PERSIA. In the center of the trap is a >1 lowed both on t.he flight of the live birds and metal or wooden tongue, pivoted on a It is Held to Be a Shame for a Girl of Six e raised \- the artificial ones. If the day be hard spring, and to this tongue a red rag teen to He Unmarried. nd the -‘-I— and ___ cold and pretty windy, the live is attached. To spring the trap the Persia is, par excellence, the country /a ter, so birds got up wilder and the clay ones puller takes hold of a cord attached to a where marriage is made easy, especially rature DU;J BaturBlly sail faster with the wind. 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 ____ These traps should throw the bird, startled by the noise and the ness of attire, the cheapness of the ma |<btfd ' from forty to sixty yards. The sight of the red rag, flies upward with terial used by the poor for clothing and Stands six feet behind the shooter a rush. the low price of their usual fare, such and pul r's commend, ir In two cases lately brought by the as bread, fruit, mutton and chicken, all B too early, tlx- marksman ran Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to tend to make it very inexpensive to sup the bird and he is then entitled Animals in Trenton and Philadelphia, port a family. the heath L In single bird shooting, the decisions were in favor of the right and dnn^l It is held a burning shame for a girl of le rate and-3 the rfth is regulated according to the of the clubs to shoot live birds. A few sixteen not to be married, and old maids gun us< d and runs from thirteen to of the States stilly prohibit pigeon shoot red to.-*2 are practically unknown in Persia. One •igbtefen yards: in doubles it is from ing. Connecticut being one of them; but of the many sisters of the Shah never eleven With in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl married, but she was for that reason Proceed, j singlet. one barrel only’ is loaded at a vania and in the West generally, the a source of wonderment to the people. time. sport is allowed. »wns in Love in our sense is unknown among Position has a good deal to do with nor —PlaywrigLt—“How do you like my the Persians. r. such a •,- succeflil in trap shooting. Although the Boys, if of good family, get a seeghay weddiif J markthian in all except the National new drama?” Friend—“I'm delighted and often a couple of female slaves when neeT’fr* bs may MMMH0 any with it. The dialogue is so natural, ¡je on you know.” Playwright (with a blush but sixteen or seventeen years old. >ny of *4 standin Young fellows will, also, if their fathers find »< <>f those of his own choice of pleasure) — “O, you flatter me ” funeral be influential, be appointed toafat office The late Friend—“Not a bit of it. Your characters e chord • ungraceful and ineffective. talk commonplace and bandy old jokes, A hen hut half grown. Thus the son of x>ii red J J Ira pki' just the same as people do in real life. the present Minister of Foreign Affairs u n ev ***31 ' Mousheer-ed-DowlehI. when but four Ml ; the barrels raised to an angle You've made a great hit, an intensely here realistic one, 1 assure you.'*—Boston teen and standing but five feet high, was of fort I ready for the ancy, **"9 made Governor of Kaswin. an important Transcript. word. And flourishing province, and al that age u. —The Worm Turned. — Mr. Bully Rag ■lltogar s {n variably held bis gun be rung. »J 5 —“Now. sir. you have stated, under had already a small but select andoroun. lo w 1 elbow, with the barrel slightly Fintiij *■ lie was. it is true, more mature in ccording to Hurlingham Club oath, that this man had the appearance M>r. Hu’ Will you be good body and mind than many an American >r. Carver's pose is unique. His of a gentleman. boy of eighteen, and he did not admin Is held porfcctly straight, the enough to tell the jury bow a gentleman ister affairs of the province worse than bis looks, in your estimation.”* Down id grasping the barrel far for** bad his prede< essor, a man of sixty. be corp» ; d the stock of the gun near but trodden Witness—'Well, er—a g. ntie When full grown the young man takes object JR Bing the chest below the armpit. man looks—er—like—er—.’* Mr. Bully a legitimate wife, usually chosen among little R osition officially adopted by the Ragg—“I don't want any of your ers, sir; bis female cousins, and the seeghays de i«t*1 | association and approved by and remember that you are on oath. (or “temporary wives'*) are then dis en bytkj t clubs is to have the stock of Can you see any body in this court room missed. but are often reinstated later uestt » J i held lightly below the armpit. who looks like a gentleman?” Witness on —Cor. London Time«. dr <raFn| higher than the elbow, the bar- (with sudden asperity)—“I can if you'll — Bright grenn colors are dangerous to a level with the chin, the stand out of the way. You're not trans when first put on. because poison« are »g t and the feet squarely placed, parent.” —I *uclc_____________ ¡ 5 used in the coloring matter. left foot advanced. This po —A Boston sign bears the artless t»- lls for the least change before — Even the humblest toiler in the land scription: “Cigars and cigarettes sold is actually delivered. can resolve to live for a hire purpose.— er important consideration is on the babbath for medicinal purposes Washington Star. Eastern experts, while using S.U.- d.(J 1 J -REAhY! PI'LL!!” PANO. ---------- A LAMENTABLE FACT. THE FEMALE DEMON. Tlie Rapid I>erny of Sound Lit- r.iry I'aste in the United state«. A River Fienil Anciently Believed to Haunt the St. Lawrence. There was never a time a hen so many books were published in the English lan guage as now. They come flying from tne presses of the great publishing houses on both sides of the ocean in such showers as to darken the literary heavens and to obscure for us the great lights set in the intellectual firmament for all men and for all time. It is also, of course, true that there was never so much reading done. The messenger boy carries a cheap novel in his pocket and snatches time to read it, and from this boy upward through the scale to the man of learning in his library, every one is a reader, each in his own way. zlnd what do all these people read? By far the greater number of them might answer with Hamlet: “Words, words, words.” for there is little else within the covers of the worthless books which form their mental sustenance. It is a lamentable fact that the rank growth of cheap and ephemeral litera ture has not only crowded the classics of the English tongue from the market, but devot on to reading of the shallow and crude sort has perverted the public taste, dissipated the public mind, and is giving us a generation which can not swailow or digest a wholesome literary meal. Nor is this confined to the less intelli gent and educated people. Our colleges and high schools fail to surround their pupils with a literary atmosphere or— save in the case some individual whose natural bent is too pronounced to be denied—to seAd into the world men and women of nice literary taste. A story is told of the great Liszt that he once took a pupil of rare promise and kept him playing an exercise month after month. Occasionally the learner would mildly hint at his desire for a change, but List only told him to be patient At last, at the end of three years, the mas ter said: “You may go and need not come here again!” “Why? Have 1 of fended you?” asked the astonished and distressed scholar. “No; but you play that exercise perfectly. That means that you can play any thing. I can teach you no more.” The story is apocryphal, but *t teaches a great lesson. All really broad and comprehensive critical taste in letters depends upon a knowledge of the mas terly works which furnish our only fixed standard. Put a school boy on a desert island with only a copy of the Spectator; compel him to read this every day for five years to avoid mental starvation, and he will come out with a better foundation upon which to build a lit erary education than h is equally bright fellow who has been at home reading without direction or advice the books from half a dozen circulating libraries. But the classics can not stand beside the “popular” books of the day. “Airy Fairy Lillian” will easily drive “The Scarlet Letter” from the field: “Ouida” is far more than a match for Thackeray; Bellamy is a more acceptable philoso pher than Carlyle or Emerson, and so it goes until one pauses in glad surprise when he sees any one with a copy of any worthy book in his hand.—Detroit Free Pre as. In a very entertaining article enti tled “Some Legends of the Old St. Lawrence,” contained in the New En gland Magazine, J. Macdonald Oxley writes as follows: Retracing our course somewhat, and doubling the Gaspe promontory, we find ourselves in the Baie des Chaleurs. whose entrance is guarded by the Island of Miseou. than which no other spot, rot even Anticosti itself, has borne a richer harvest of legend. Tales of marvelous monsters, and traditions of war, famine and shipwreck, and harrowing human suffering abound. Once it was a very prosperous fishing center, but that day has long since passed, and now only a handful of French Canadians eke out a miserable existence, aided by the har vest of wild hay which grows upon vast meadows daily overfiewed by the tide. According to Governor Deny, the island possessed in his time—that is two hun dred or more years ago—a notable natural wonder, which is thusdescribed: “A few hundred yards from the beach there spurts from the briny sea a gush of fresh water as big as your two fists, which retains its freshness for a space of twenty yards, without in any wise blending with the surrounding salt liquid, either at high or low tide. Tho fishermen come there in boats to fill their casks, and draw it up as if it were from the reservoir of a fountain.” Anil Mr. Lemoine, who is still with us, avers that the truthfulness of the old Gover or’s narrative has been vouched for to him by seafaring folk frequenting those shores. But the most famous and far-spread legends of Miseou are those connected w’ith the Gougou, concerning which mys terious monster we had better let its first chronicler, Champlain, speak for himself. I translate the following from his Voyages: “There is,” he says, “a wonderful thing here, well worthy of mention, which many of the natives have assured me is a fact, to-wit, that near the Baie des Chaleurs lies an island, upon which dwells a monster with the form of a woman, but eff dread ful appearance, and of such a stature that the top of their masts would reach only to her waist. They describe her as being appalling. She has devoured many of their number, and continues to do so, putting her victims when she has i seized them in a huge pocket, which some, who Lave been so lucky as to es cape from her dreadful clutches, de scribe as being big enough to hold one of their vessels. This monster is con stantly making horrible noises, and bears the name of Gougou, and when the natives speak of her it is always with bated breath and trembling lips. Yea. the Sieur Frevert de Saint Malo, while on a search for mines, assures me that he passed so close to the lair of this dreadful creature that he and all on board the vessel heard the strange hiss- ;ng noises she made, and that the na tives who were with him told him that was indeed the Gougou and were so ter rified that they hid themselves wher ever they could, dreading least she had come to bear them off. I am of opin ion.” continues Champlain, by way of judgment upon the evidence before him, “that the island is the residence of some demon which takes delight in torment ing the people in that way.” GENESIS OF | | | I DEATH. Complexity of Organization Fatal to the Perpetuation of the Organism. From the dawn of life the structures best adapted to ^surrounding conditions have betyi victors: whatever features have proved useful have been seized up on by natural selection and secured ! dominance. The enormous mass of the I lower forms have persisted to this day, because the balance established between i them and their surroundings has re : mained unaltered- But wherever the I balance between living things and their I surroundings »has been disturbed new . demands have been made upon them, to which they resj»onded, or, failing that re sponse, perished. Hence it is in the i first complexity of structure, the first departure from simplicity, that the seeds of death were sown. For that death be comes a necessity. S b far as its occur rence by natural causes is concerned, we know that as 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 isles«ened. 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 n >t 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 on<-<*elled 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 be 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 does 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 th® male been, the drone perishing while pairing, def th being due to sud den, nervous shock.—American An- —Jupiter, Fla., can boast of the most intelligent mule nn record. The ani mal is twenty-one vears old. Every night he proceeds to the life-saving sta tion. It is customary for the man on watch to di sc h<irge his roston signal (a r**d light) whe n vessels come too near the beach. Th e mule has “caught on” to what this m agnal means. So every night at eight < »’clock the sailor’s four- legged friend proeeeds to walk the lieach, and if a1 vessel comes too near the shore the nnule, instead of a coston signal, sends f<orth a neigh that makes night hideous. “Port or starboard your helm,” is tl*e order on the ship, an4 away sail the u’.y tars In perfect safety «nd with a gra teful heart to th® four- legged patrolman. HOUSEHOLD BREVITIES. —Two ounces of common tobacco boiled in a K^llon nf watoi’ ruhb*Ml “«» with a stiff brush, is used to renovate old clotheH. It is said to leave no smell. -Chicken Fricassee.—Cut the chicken into pieces and boil it until tender in just enough water toi’overit. then drain it and fry it brown in plenty of nice butter. Remove it to a dish, th'cken the butter with flour and add the liquor in the kettle, making a rich gravy. Ln v some small slices of toasted bread in the d’sh with the chicken and pour th® gravy v» r all. after seasoning it to taste. To Corn Beef.— For < ne hundred oounds 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 tlx beef while the liquid is boiling. When the beef is cool pack it closely. Let lh< brine become cold, then pour it over the beef, add a small bag of salt and e 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 molts, 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 Broad. -Boil two teacupsful of oatmeal as for porridge, and add a teaspoonful salt, and when cool, half a teacupfui molasses and the same amount of yeast, if the home-made is used, oi half a small cake of compressed yeast: stir in enough wheat flour to make tlx batter stiff as ran well bo stirred with a -poon. Place it in well greased bread pans, and set it in a warm place to rise, as it must be very light before it is baked. Bake an hour and a quarter. 1’he 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 <l«*h of which one 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 d(M*s not relish it to cultivate a taste for this easily digest« d food. Its cheapness s another merit, and it. bears a lucky name, or it would not be such an im portant accessory at every wedding. 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 ju ce and grated rind of two lemons, three well lieaten egg«, or, if eggs are plentiful, the yelks of six then stir in the apple «auce. I tn® pt”! with nice pastry, fill with the to -1Sure and take in a quick ov»-n L ». the whites of th® eggs stiff, add a b’.’. e sugar and spread it on th® t ■. of ihe vc#® and return to oven a mvturo v Orange Judd Farmer — Turn a man with I v htue w Be wall. If he in pertec'J v a»v. j>.*d «ad symmetrically made bxs 4- i x/uob the wall, his now • h/a/ acbe* away, his thigh* iBche® the vuv of his tor« three um THE FACTS ABOUT SHELLS. Where th** Ch«»h*eHt Vmleth*-» < .»i n* l-'ron* mik I Uh tt 'I lie.» Ar«* Worth. There are only a few people who know any thing about the beauty of color and form in shells, yet Ruskin ranks the nacre 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 shades 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 are perfect and the color beautiful, shaded rich in the shadow and delicate and tender in the light, bring often S25. Smaller, less perfect shells are $5 and 88. Sea trum pets mottled in shades of brown are sought after by collectors of curios and fine specimens readily bring 880. “Those strange-looking shells with many horns are sea scorpions,” said a shell dealer talkingof his wares, “these little ones are spider shells. The num ber of horns varies with the place where the shell is found. This one you see has only six horns while this has eight and this one seven. They all came from different location». They are worth about 81 each. This shell (hold ing up an exquisite crumpled shell) is a murex from the Mediterranean Ocean. We have black and white, pure white like this one, white touched with rose* color, and crimson like this.” Ho took up last a beautiful murex shaded in rose-colors and bringing to mind the roseate purple dyes which the Syrians obtained from the liquids secreted by a species of this mollusk. “Such shells,” contirued the dealer, “are one and two dollars each, according to their quality. This small whorled 3holl 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 brow'll 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 ear shell, the opening singularly shaped like the human ear.” The dealer now displayed a number of beautiful whorled flat shells of exquis ite mother-of-pearl. Some were cut out and traced 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 come chiefly from the Indian Ocean and are bronght 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 tho shells is also done by the sailors, who cover the surface with paste and etch the patterns on and out with acids, sometimes tracing out the air chambers in the whorl.” The undecorated nau tilus-shell is generally preferred by col lectors of curios and makes a beautiful hanging basket for a sunny window, where its lovely iridescent colors can be seen in their full beauty. Beautiful conch or fountain shells are also shown at the shell store. From the queen conch, which is shaded in the loveliest browns and copper reds, shell cameos are cut. There are also many kome-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 decorated tho mantel shelf. Ther6 is th© mettled tiger cowry, tne marbleized, and the serpentine cowry and others called from their marking. “Some of the sea snails in the Indian Ocean produce the most beautiful mother of pearl, but after all,” said the dealer, “it is difficult to get good specimens of shells in this country, and wo have to pay high for th<‘in when we got them. London is the great market for shells, which are brought there from Zanzibar, Singapore and ot her ports under control of the British Government. Very beau tiful shells are also sent from Mada gascar and all coasts of the Indian Ocean and from the Mediterranean.”—N. Y. Tdbune. _ _ BRITISH INVESTMENTS. The Result of Their Pouring Into the 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, the impossibility of finding any other country where it can be so safely invested, she should turn in tho direction of the United States, which alone of all nations seems to combine all the elements of safety and profit. From a list recently published it appears that the amount of English money which has been invested in indus trial enterprises in the United States has equaled, in the last two years, about 81,0<>(>,(»()(> a week, amounting in all to about 8100,090,000. * * * It is not difficult to estimate the ultimate influences set in motion by s ich a prac tical union of material intero ts bet w<*en the two gn at English speaking nations of the world. Mr. Gladstone, in his Paris speech, ref<*rring to the predic tion that at the end of another hundred years the population of this continent may be 000,000,000, recognized “th® prospective and approaahing right of America t.o be the great organ of th»* powerful English tongue”; and. allud ing to tho United States and Gr»*at Britain, added these significant words, that “there was no cause upon •■art!) that-should now or hereafter div; n from the other.” That the in* mankind at large will he advan* • >1 by a close bond of union between t*o xr«*ut; Anglo-Saxon nations, n un i i u . >L and nothing will contribu ** moc* ***r- tainly to this harmony chan ■ u la. Ity of interests which is •• ’ta. i o »»• created by the investment; x druish oapital in Aux ri-an ¡nd t outer- prises. Erastus W rian. inNor’11 \ uer- ican Review ________ l.onfeviti *>• «»inen. Pt<agre**abl® thoagti 'he I mato of England may au -eifcr tile uninitiated. y®titw ayea^n Jy ®und>«oiv® <» lun- flevity. In o Mr GI ..kton. wbone 1. M»d >1 »'I •dvarh-ed oid up* ar*» well known •Srvugnoui. no *o*id, there ar® *tw or ’wn <x:tog®narian mem tiers of the GREAT NAPOLEON. Why H® Wn* Sent to St. Helena bjr the Government. After Waterloo and the dissolution of the grand army Napoleon returned to France. The storm of revolution was already gathering; the tide of opposi tion to him had arisen and overflowed Franco; his son had been passed over by the Chamber of Representatives; his own services as General had been re fused; he had endeavored to escape the vigilance of the British cruisers that guarded the coast, and finally he went on board the Bellerophon and surren dered himself to the commander. Captain Maitland. The great, fallen leader was informed that there were no conditions to be made in regard to the surrender of Napoleon, but that he should be conveyed to England to be re ceived there in such manner as the Prince Regent should deem expedient. He had written to the Prince Regent from Rochefort that he had terminated his career, and, “like '1'hemistocles, 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 the most powerful, the most constant and the most generous of my enemies.” The concurrent testimony of the historians of the times is to the 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 the battlefields, by dis ease, 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, those were the 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, lie was detained on the Bellerophon until August 4 and then transferred to the Northumberland, and on October 15 arrived in St. Helena, never to leave it alive.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. CROWNED AFTER DEATH. Tlie Only Queen Who Never Knew Her Royal Station. There is no more remarkable page in all history than the one which tells of the crowning of Inez de Castro’s flesh less skull as Queen of Portugal. She had been married clandestinely to young Don Pedro, and was murdered three years later by assassins instigated by her father-in-law. When the young Dorn heard of her death he was beside him- seJf with grief and rage. Two of the ¡wassins fell into his hands and suffered terrible torture, which only ended by their hearts being torn out while they were yet alive. When Pedro came to the throne a few years later he had the bones of Inez taken from the grave, placed upon a magnificent throne, robed in royal purple, and actually crowned Queen of Portugal! The court was sum moned and compeled to do her homage, just as if she Wore a real living Queen. One ficsniess namx held tho scepter and the other the orb of royalty. On the second night of this weird ceremony the flesh loss Queen was borne before a grand funeral cortege extending^ several miles, each person holding a torch. Lyinf 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 driven to tlx* royal Abbey of Alcobaca. where tho bones were interred with a< much pomp as though she had died but yesterday. Tho monument erected to tlx* Qurrn who was never a Queen during life, is still to be seen in the abbe- , standing near the one erected to her royal husband. “Pedro, the Just.” Jt is said that the whole cause of this outrageous proceeding was an attempt of Philip II. of Spain to secure tlx, throne on tho grounds that the mar riage of Inez was illegal. These events occurred during the three years follow ing January 1, 1347. the date of the mar riage of Pedro and Inez.- THEY How LIVE ON CREDIT. Petty Ofix-liil« In R usm I m Nwlndle TriiMtinic Tra<le<*m«*n. Full four-fifths of the officials of SL Petersburg receivo less than $50 a month. Most of them have a houseful of childn'ii, and they must all spend part of the y< ar in town, where lodgings and provisions are expensive. I have at last got a clew to the mystery how they manage it. It is all don® on credit. Tho creditof a petty official is prtvtical- ly inexhaustible. He and the majority of his compeers live—at least in the country—at the expense of credulous tradesmen. Their spouses, especially, are born geniuses in this department of industry. “From th® very beginning,” says a well-known publicist, “they established their bourn*hoJd on a basis of fraud. In their houses strangers ar® sure to In» taken in. Bv•<*ry man, woman and child who conx*s in contact with them is pluckmi like ;an eider duck.” M<»t of thew peopl® pay only half th® rent covenant ed for. and some manage to get their meals thrown in. Th® 'ra*l<*smen wiio<'omtM*t® with each other suicidally, w Ipo oat their last veer’s debts nattier t han rnn their heads into now nooses. The peddltvrs and bagmen, who ar** continually sibroiling about these ;,d&ees gs of wares on their bnek«*. »mall flies for the spider* weiw woven t>y those “gentlemen. ’ Fhe lady of the bimt«» 'W her worthy vpouso n the eager I y lisfe- »•rung for thi® cries of the ignorant venders, wbr r , having no buuks, give e [mid in pwruiew*. suddenly ’IJo • ry: Children s boatoi •* Hi CThildreti’s Issota!** is watted nMvny lee® pPeasant things, x be »is • Atsd -b Asnp