The Royal Baking Powder is in
dispensable to progress in cookery
andt to the comfort and conve
nience of modern housekeeping.
Royal Baking Powder makes hot
bread wholesome. Perfectly leav
ens without fermentation. Oual
ities that are peculiar to it alone.
Edition'! Pint Marriage.
The story of Ellison's first umrriags
shows how completely he is dominated
by the exjierimeMinjr fever. He had
never thought of getting married, but
: when some of his friends urged upon
him the adviauMlity of taking a wife he
ssented and said that if they wonld find
a niee girl he would marry her. He
finally picked out a pleasant faced girl
from his factory and asked her to marry
him. She consented, and Edison agreed
to leave his beloved laboratory for a
day's wedding trip. On the way from
the cbapel in which they were married
to the rail way station the carriage passed
the laboratory. ...
The temptation was too mnch. Edi
son stopped the carriage and, telling the
bride that lie would follow her to the
station in time to catch the train, he
plunged into some experiment that had
occurred to him during the church ser
vices. Hour after hour passed. The
poor bride waited all the afternoon in
the station and was then driven back to
the house. It was 11 o'clock at njrrht
before his assistants could tear Edison
way from his laboratory and get him
home.
When he is at work Edison loses all
count of time. He will keep the whole
establishment on a rush for hours at a
stretch, and seems astonished when any
one hints that it might be well to get
something to eat. Heis capable of work
ing all day and night without showing
fatigue. Chicago journal.
Speed and Form In Shin.
The primary condition for high speed
is fineness of form, so that the water at
the bow of the vessel may be separated
and thrown to one side and brought to
rest again at the stern and behind the
vessel with the least possible disturb
ance, and the measure of efficiency of
form for the maximum speed intended
is inversely at the height of the waves
of disturbance. ,
a A. ship that has been designed to attain
a speed of fifteen knots will, when mov
ing at twelve knots, show a very slight
disturbance indeed, and in one designed
for eighteen knots, when moving at this
lower speed, it will be scarcely observa
ble; but however fine the lines of a ship
may be. he must at every speed pro
duce some disturbance, although it may
be very sligut, as the water displaced hy
her must be raised above the normal
level and replaced at the normal level;
hence, nt or near the bow of a ship there
is always the crest of a wave, and at or
near the stem the hollow of one. '
' When a vessel is going at its maximum
speed, and is properly designed for that
speed, the wave should not be very high,
nor should it extend beyond the im
mediate neighborhood, of the bow; like
wise the wave of replacement should be
the same at or near the stern of a ship,
and the "wake" or disturbance of water
left behind in the track of the ship
should be narrow. A., E. Beaton in
Scribner's.
The Huailana Cowl J-loiruiets.
Charles Emory Smith, United States
minister to Russia, speaking of inci
, dents of his residence abroad, said:
"I should say that the Russians were
a contented people, and 1 may add, from
what 1 saw, the stories of the nihilistic
societies are greatly exaggerated. Of
course, it most be remembered that I
am judging only from cities like St.
Petersburg, whose population is 1,000,-1
000, and Moscow, whose population is
800,000, while the total population of the
country is something over 100,000,000."
"Did you find any difficulty with the
Ianguage?"he was asked.
"I did not have to try," said Mr. Smith
with a smile. "Russian children general
ly have a Herman nurse, an English gov
erness, and French tutor, so that by the
time that they appear in society they
are masters of these languages. The
czar himself speaks English remarkably
well." Philadelphia Times.
A Cat That Plays the Plana.
Milton Moshier, of Shelton, Conn.,
heard sounds from his piano the other
morning, and knowing that no one was
in the room be began to be a believer in
spirit, Uu investigation he found his
cat prancing up and down on the key
board, seemingly delighted atthe sounds
produced. After that she was watched,
and whenever tne piano is left open she
will play upon it to the best of her
ahility.--Cor. JNew Vork Bun.
Mr. Hrokmeyer Cut It Short.
When Lieuteuaut Governor Norman .1
'Colman was about to close his career an
president of the state senate he deemed it
an appropriate occasion on which to dellne
his political platform and to discuss the
theories of government. Hearose to speak
at 11:30 o'clock. His successor, the Hon
H. C. Brokmayer, occupied Hn anteroom,
ready to be inaugurated when summoned
by the senate. He was also primed wit a
speech that was to be the effurt of his life.
Governor Colman had just finished his
"thanks" at 11:45 o'clock. At noou he was
sayiug, "And, in the second place, fellow
citizens." Mr. Brokmeyer grew more and
more nervous. He paced up und down the
narrow confines of the anteroom, and sent
out messengers to ascertain when Mr. Col'
man would quit. At 12:15 o'clock Mr. Col
man was beginning to classify his subject
into subdivisions, and at 12:80 he had
plunged into the tariff with all the entail
aiasm of his ardent democratic nature.
Mr. Brokmeyer was furious. His oppor
tunity was gone, and his remarks were un
fit fer publication. At 12:46 Mr. Column
closed, with an eloquent peroration, and
then sent a committee to escort Mr. Brok
meyer to the senate chamber. Mr. Col
man's face was wreathed In smiles as he
introduced "the lieutenant governor of
Missouri," but the lieutenant governor
wore a savage look which boded no good.
After the brief ceremonies of swearing in,
Mr. Brokmeyer frowned at Mr. Colman,
glared at his audience, and said sharply:
"Setlfttnm I hnna tn llHVA hA fnrhnun.
t ATIPA Slid MatRtA lwt fit fhia fliatinrriiiui.u.,
body. in the administration of its affairs.
The senate will stand adjourned until to
morrow morning at to o'clock."
Rap! Rapl Rap!
-And 'the shortest inaugural speech on
record had passed Into the official report of
the senate's proceedings. St. Louis Re
public.
Coata Id Theaters. .
What ought one to do with one's coat,
hat and umbrella on entering a res
taurant or other place of entertainment?
What one ought not to do is to hang
them on the nearest peg. However in
vitingly these conveniences may offer
themselves, it is at yonr own risk that
you intrust your property to their keep
ing. You have no remedy if (as will
sometimes happen even in the best regu
lated restaurants) somebody makes off
with them, leaving a very inferior as
sortment of articles behind. If, how
ever, a polite waiter offers to help one
off with one's coat, all is well. If he
takes your property and bangs it up for
you he does so as an agent of his em
ployers, and you can recover from them
if it disappears.
This principle has been asserted for
theatrical cloak rooms by a decision
against Mr. Augustus Harris in the
Westminster county court. A gentle
man had left his coat and hat with Mr.
Harris that is, in Mr. Harris' cloak
room on the occasion of one of the
fancy dress balls at Covent Garden.
They disappeared. He bad to leave
without his property, and has only lately
and partially got some of it back. His
honor said (we are glad to see) it was
monstrous to say that merely nominal
damages were sufficient. Pall Mull
Budget j
' Why Called "Omnibus." j
The father of the popular name "om
nibus," according to Richard Rauf
mann's story of "The Omni bus in Paris,"
was a certain M. Bandry, of Nantes, at
the beginning of our century. The Pas
cal coaches, which obtained a monopoly
from the king in 1MB for carrying his
subjects at five sous a bead, along three
different routes in Paris, were first used
by the bourgeoisie. But after a few
years gentlemen and ludies of high birth
and courtly breeding ruled that It was
not vulgar to ride in a Pascal chariot or
"five sous coach."
The use of these public conveyance ,
by the "quality" was noted as an iin-1
portant event in the journals of the
time; but It resulted in the exclusion of
the common people from them, and the
virtual appropriation of these privileged
coaches by the aristocrats. The favor of
"the classes" ruined the monopoly, how
ever, which only paid so long as its
coaches were crowded by the masses, or
"omnes." So the Pascal chariot disap
peared from the streets of Paris because
it bad ceased to be omnibus, or a demo
cratic vehicle. Pall Mall Gazette.
Only One Boas.
Peddler Is the boss of the bouse in I
Bridget tilie u, on' yer talking to hen
"But 1 mean the other bum"
"Sine, they only keep one girl here."
Soakers tiuuxuma. .
THE HOUSEHOLDER'S DIFFICULTY.
A Comparison of the Old Way and tlie
Mew Way of Iluying and Hulling.
Any householder, whose happiness It
is to pay for the supplies of a family,
most be aware of the extreme difUcnlty
of getting with any uertuinty a steadily
good urticle of almost any sort. It is
easier iu the case of luxuries, for the
reason that for those the demand is more
limited, the number of purchasers small
er, the number of producers correspond
ingly small and the chance of tracking
bail work or untruthful statements great
er. But fur the things which every one
must have, and which most must have
as cheap as may be, buying is a lottery
with a miserable prevalence of blanks.
You can get virtuous butter for a dol
lar a pound, bnt the search fur eatable
butter at forty cents a pound is a -weary
and depressing pursuit. It is the same
with the innumerable articles of cloth
ing and materials of clothing. From
the hat that grows gray in a month's
service to the shoe soles that will not
stand a day's rough tramping, the things
that are turned out in large quantities
for "the million" are not trustworthy.
I think tiie chief reason is that in our
complex ntid widely ramified system of
exchanges the producer and the con
sumer rarely come into direct relation
with each other. The former rarely
knows, and still more rarely cares, for
the opinion the latter may have of him,
! of his methods, his character and his
goods. The seller deals today with one
set of buyers, tomorrow with another,
: and so on, and the buyers change their
places of purchase with the greatest fre
quency. The relation indicated by the old fash
ioned words "custom" and "custouior"
is dying out, and with it the possibility
of accountability and the hope of profit
able honesty. The type of modern re-
! tafl dealing is that most abominuble de-
! vice the "bargain counter," where cheap
ness, real or imagined, is the main thing
i considered. Scribner's.
A llllsfful Ignorance.
Mature has evidently done wisely in
hiding tomorrow behind an impenetrable
night, What a dismal plight it would
b for Flora to foresee Reginald's angry
impatience and possible profanity in the
sudden May day shower, and so for an
incident which has not yet occurred to
feel that she must give him the mitten!
Wecan hear the poor girl sobbing, "Reg
inald, 1 love thee, but never more be
suitor of mine." But why, in the sum
mer moonlight, as they loiter by the sea
and breathe the lover's vow, should they
listen for the laugh of fate? Why, be
cause of that mi fallen shower of May
upon furniture yet nnstuffed. should
they lose the hour which, whatever be
tides, will be theirs forever? Why should
Flora know Reginald except as time
gradually reveals him?
Would yon have her see today the thin
white hair on the shining dome that
shall tomorrow replace this brown lux
uriance of curls? Would you have her
aghast untimely at that ponderous form
which shall hereafter supersede this
slight ond elastic figure? Would it to
better" for her orfor him if she could hear
the sharp, impatient word that from
those tender lips she never yet has heard?
Who knows? Perhaps that she has
never suspected the possibility of that
sharp word may make it impossible.
Who knows? Perhaps when May day
moving comes there may be no sudden
shower. George William Curtis in Har
per's. - A Huge Turtle.
About two miles below the junction,
in this county, can be found a deep bole
of water in Current river.jn which a
large turtle, measuring about four feet
across the back, has been seen at differ
ent times for the last fifty years. Various
plans have been devised and put into
execution to capture the tortoise, but tip
to the present time to no avail, as be
seems to be proof against spikes, spears, j
gigs, gunpowder and dynamite.
A few days since a hunter residing in
that neighborhood, while passing along
near the river bank, espied his turtleship
basking in the sunshine on the root of a
large oak. Quickly bringing his Win
chester to his shoulder (a 48-caliber) he
fired, the ball striking the monster fairly
between the eyes. But judge of his
chagrin and surprise when the turtle, in-,
stead of tumbling over dead, quietly let !
go his hold and swam away as placidly
and unconcerned as if he bad been
thumped by a gravel.
Upon examination the hunter found
that the ball, after striking the turtle,
had glanced upward and imbedded itself
in the body of the oak to a depth of six"
Inches. It is supposed that the monster
shellfish made his way up from the Mis
sissippi river in thegreat freshet in the
spring of 1841. Eminence (Mo. (Current
Wave. .
Bow Half U lllanclied.
It will be observed that, if the papilla
is obstructed or incrusted with deposits
from the sweat glands, such as sodium
chloride or organic salts, the sebaceous
secretion not being able to reach the pa
pilla the hair is deprived of its coloring
material. This we believe to be one of
the most common causes of blanching
of the hair. The skin eliminates a small
quantity of salts, a little carbonic acid
and a large quantity of water. The
average amount of solids, according to
Foster, in the fluid perspiration or
sweat, Is about 1,81 per cent , consisting
of common salt and organic salts gener-ally.-Hyland
O. Kirk in Mew York
Times.
Taking Out ftniiiiliur Htalna.
Now that 'the children ore ruining
their pretty frocks with fruit stains, the
following easy method of taking the nti
' sightly blotches out of white material
, may be found useful. Moisten the spot
and hold it under a burning match and
the sulphurous gas will causa the stain
to disappear. This will not do, how
ever, for colored goods, ns it will take
out the color. But if, while the stain is
fresh, you put it over a cup nud pour
j boiling water fliroug h it, it will almost
always take out the spot if it is done be
fore washing. Soap almost invariably
fixes any stain.
t It is well, too, to remember at this
' season of tho year that you can prevent
! your pretty new ginghams from fading
if you let them lie for several hours in
water In which has been dissolved a
goodly quantity of salt. Half a pint of
Bait to a quant of boiling wnter is the
rule, Put the dress iu it while it is hot,
and after several hours wring it out dry
and wash as usual Mew York Tribune.
She Held the. Pint Salon.
The late Mrs. Coventry Wnddell was
Said te be the first Mew York lady who
ever held a salon. By birth, pusition
and fortune she was eminently fitted tor
tho place she held in society bofore her
husband's loss of fortune. Every one of
note in fashionable, artlstio or literary
circles might be met at hor receptions.
Of late years, since her husband's death,
Mrs. Wnddell had gone into society a
little and had entertained quietly at her
house in Fifteenth street, She was gaa
erons to a fault, and in spite of liar re
duced circumstances gave largely to
benevolent objects. Harper'B Bazar.
Girl and Ileolpruoity,
The aim of all true friends of Roches
ter is to make it a manly college Wo
have quite enough little girls and worn
en here already; hence we do not want
anymore. Again, tills is not a matri
monial agency. We have several mar
ried men within our walla, and could
you but hear them as they pour their
woes into our sympathetic ear, you
would surely have pity on us and with
draw your marshaled forces.
I Finally, sisters, we believe in recip
rocity. Admit us to Vossar and Welles
ley, let us prepare for college in Living
ston Pork seminary and Miss Doolittle's,
and we, with open arms, will say come
and welcome. Rochester Campus.
White Hair Turning Illaok.
A most singular freak of nature has
manifested itself here. Mrs. Mary Fran
cis, when she was young and also while
she was in the prime of life, had very
black oyes and a beautiful head of very
black hair. She is about seventy years
old now, is in good health and a rich
widow. When she was about fifty her
hair began to turn us white as snow, and
so remained until about a year ago, when
it began to turn black again, and has
now, without the use of any artificial
means and purely as a freak of nature,
almost wholly returned to its original
dark color, and is as long and silky as
when she was a young woman. Sara
toga Cor, Albany Journal.
Salt water Hood for Cleaning.
Rattan and willow chairs should be
cleaned, like straw matting, with salt
and water. First thoroughly remove the
dust; then wring a cleun cloth out of salt
and water, rubbing chair or matting dry
with the other hand as yon go on, or at
any rate, as quickly us you can, so that
it may retain none of the moisture,
Mew York Journal.
' A Horn Diplomat.
"Did yon give your schoolmaster any
thing during the holidays?'"
"Yes," said the bad little boy, "I gave
him a bottle of lotion to soften hit
hands." New York Epoch. .
WE ' CAN HOT
SPARE
healthy flesh nature never
burdens the body with too
much sound flesh. Loss of
flesh usually indicates poor as
similation, which causes the
loss of the best that's in food,
,1 tne taworming element.
Scott's Emulsion
of pure cod liver oil with hypo
phosphites contains the very
essence of all foods. In no oth
er form can so much nutrition
be taken and assimilated. Its
range of usefulness has no limita
tion where weakness exists.
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Its proprietors offer W0 reward for an
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