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5 VlwfiW delicacy noticed in the finest cake, biscuit, rolls, etc., which expert pastry cooks declare is unobtainable by the use of any other leavening agent Found Htm at Last. She hud been away all snmmer. The mountains bad felt her stately tread; the sea had taken her to its ever chang ing bosom and folded her in its billowy arms. She had flirted from Old Point to Bar Harbor, from Mount Mitchell to the Adirondacks. She had tasted the sweets of hope; she had drained the bitter cup of disappoint ment Now she is at home again. Home, the Mecca of the weary pil grim; the Canaan beyond the wilder ness; the altar aronnd which we all kneel in thankfulness; the dear walls which take us to their loving embrace and hide ub from the comfortless world without. Home again, and a peace had come to her she had never known since she had gone out in June as the birdlet from its nest. At the front door her dear old father, who had been at his desk ten hours daily all the weary while she was away, met her. "My daughter!" he said, holding out his arms to her. Like a tired wanderer, footsore and heartsick, she came to him. Trustingly, confidingly, restfully, she laid her soft white face, in its frame of golden hair, upon his bosom. "At last," she murmured, "at last I have found some one to be a popper tome." And the dear old father, in the tumul tuous joy of having his darling child again, didn't catch on. Detroit Free Press. The Coit of Italian Optra. Talking of money reminds me that Bignor Vianesi says he left the Paris opera, where he has been conductor for the last four years, because the salary was not large enough and the work too exacting. He received $2,400 a year for ten months' work, and very hanl work at that. He comes to America and gets $8,000 for seven months. Mr. Abbey's salary list is a formidable one. Miss Van Zandt gets $1,000 a performance, Miss Eauies, $800; Lasalle, the French baritone, 5800; Mme. Albani, $00, and five other singers from $100 to $500. There is n chorus of eighty, averaging $20 a wees, or $1,600, and an orchestra costing $3,000 a week. The expenses of giving opera with such a company cannot fall below $5,000 a performance, so that even at five dollars for a parquet seat, the price for the coming season, Mr. Abbey may not make a fortune. The average cost of the German performances at the Metro politan last season was $2,600. New York Epoch. Tbe Wedding Flower. The flowering of the "Wedding Flow er," at Kew this year, is an event of more than ordinary interest, both to botanists and horticulturists. It is the giant not only of the genus Iris, but of the whole natural order to which it belongs. It is found wild only in a small island off the east coast of Australia, thousands of mites distant from the habitant of any other Iris. While all other Irises may be grown ont of doors, or with a little pro tection in winter, this one is happy only when treated to subtropical conditions. Id) value in horticulture is due as much to its stature and elegance of foliage as to the size and beauty of its numerous flowers. i The flowers last only one day, but there are so many of them that the flowering season extends over a long period. This Iris is knowu far and wide as tbe wedding flower. London Garden. r A College President's Chase. Harvard men who attended chapel one morning last week were very much sur prised tosee President Eliot pursuing one of the students as the men were leaving the building. Those in the immediate vicinity heard a very short but animated conversation. "Young man," said the president to the individual in question, who turned around surprised, "young man, excuse me, but yon have my hat" It was indeed true. In the confusion of leaving the chapel the student had picked - up tbe wrong hat and was making away ,,wa'rh the president's fest tile. Boston No acid except that from the grape is used in the Roval Baking Powder, The Royal imparts that . peculiar sweet ness, flavor and Absolutely $ Pupa i What Philadelphia Kate. During one year alone Philadelphia has devoured 185,475 slaughtered and dressed calves, 511,142 Bheep, 548,940 hop and 50,290 barrels and 87,890 boxes of poultry. The hens who were spared from the hatchet had to lay for the city 15,984,600 dozen eggs. Over 312,183 bar rels of apples had to be shaken from the trees and 3,069 carloads of potatoes dug up from the ground. During the twelve months the city made havoc of 11,118 packages of dried green peas, 119,521 packages of dried fruit and 855,837 packages of berries. The cooks con sumed 16,489 tierces and 75,031 tubs of lard, and in the kitchen and on the table disappeared from view the tremendous amount of 256,591 tubs, 33,384 firkins and 87,846 boxes of butter. A huge heap of crackers must have been swallowed along with the 226,459 big boxes of cheese. During one year Philadelphia con sumed nearly 3,500,000 bnshels of grain, including nearly 1,500,000 bushels of corn, 877,508 bushels of wheat, 98,425 bushels of rye, 1,056,300 bushels of bar ley and 203,600 bushels of malt Out of these 877,508 bushels of wheat were manufactured 195,002 barrels of flour, and from this flour were baked 52,650, 640 loaves of bread. Most of the flour used by the bakers and the good house wives is shipped from the northwest, al ready barreled. This manufactured into bread would easily swell the total to nearly 150,000,000 loaves, or their equivi lent to a certain extent in rolls, buns and bakery. Philadelphia eats daily an enormous barbecue of 510 calves, 1,410 sheep, 1,510 hogs and 7,550 poultry, besides a huge banquet of at least 6,000,000 oysters. 525,526 eggs, 856 barrels of apples and 9 carloads of potatoes. Philadelphia Kec ord. Wrecked by Mirage. A mirage in the Carribean sea was the cause of the total loss of the new Ameri can barkentine Steadfast, while bound from Port of Spain to Philadelphia. When the Steadfast sighted the lofty peaks of Ht. Croix the atmosphere as sumed a peculiar light color, and it be came impossible to detect the Bky from the island, everything assuming a sim ilar shade and color resembling the cir rostratus clouds, hiding the entire lower portion of the island. The peaks and mountain appeared to be twenty miles away. The tops of the mountains seemed to be inverted, the tall cocoanuts appearing to grow from the sky to the earth. The sugar grinding mills were pouring their smoke downward, and the workmen working upside down. The Steadfast was kept under easy sail aud perfect con trol. Everything went well until a grinding sound was heard, and a sudden tremor went through the ship. The ves sel crashed over the reefs and was soon fast on the rocky shore, where her wreok still remains. The mirage made the island appear twenty miles away. Bos ton Transcript. What is "Trotty?" I ask for information. I have been reading lately a very clever novel about English artist life and English smart society. Twice over in the story a smart young woman is made to describe cer tain articles of costume in a bride's trousseau as "quite too awfully trotty for words." I have never to my knowl edge heard the phrase "trotty" used in that sense. Is it an epithet of London smart society? If so, what is its sup posed derivation? Is it imported from America, as most of our slang phrases lately are? Any information on this point kindly supplied will be rewarded with the best thanks of this writer, who feels a considerable interest in slang, hat likes it genuine when he can get it. -Justin McCarthy in New York Herald. Bobert Shaw, of Snow's Falls, Me., went to sleep in a field the other day, and when he awoke he was minusa good pair of trousers. Field mice, which swarm in Oxford county, had gnawed the gar ment into shreds and carried it away. Recent experiments upon the electro lytic generation of pressure from gases formed in a closed space have been very successful,, and a pressure of 1,200 at mospheres has been obtained, Sueh u Thing as Too Much Dignity. It is all very well for a traveling man to bo oil his dignity, but if he overdoes it he is apt to encounter the full linfnro which, wi are told, prido goeth. When I first went on the road, I had a uiortal objection to the word "drummer" and resented the term whenever applied to me. On my second Journey I called upou an old fashioned uierchunt in a Texas town whose name was on our books and to whom my predecessor had always sold large tills. I introduced myself with a good deal of dignity and handed him my card. "Oh, you're 'b new drummerlVe- marked the old gentleman in a some what patronizing tone. I was nettled considerably, aud correcting him said; "No, I am their traveling man. I am not a 'drummer.'" The merchant was quite as good at repartee as I was, and looking at me half in pity and half in contempt he said with a sneer, which he mode no at tempt to disguise: "Oh, that's so, is it? Well, I was look ing out for 's drumuior, but if you ain't he I'vo nothing for you." No amount of persuasion or apologiz ing had any effect on the old gentleman, to whom the representative of a rival house sold a first class bill the same aft ernoon. The lesson was not thrown away on me, and now a man can call me a Hottentot, provided he accompa nies the salutation with a good order. Cor. St Louis Globe-Democrat. Three Great Navigators. To review the work of Columbus without referring to that of Vospucins and Mugelfim would leave the Btory of new sea and world discovery discon nected and incomplete. This will bo patent when it is remembered that, though a believer in the rotundity of the earth, it was not Columbus but Magel lan who first physically demonstrated that fact by circumnavigation. Aud Ma gellan might have failed but for the pre vious work of Vespucius. The latter had explored the Atlantic coast of South America farther south than any of his predecessors, and the south Atlantic ocean eastward to the islands of South Georgia, nearly to the parallel of Cape Horn. By this journey Vespucius demonstrat ed with a considerable degree of cer tainty that the strait, which had for some years been looked for, leading to the elusive unknown sea that bounded the eastern coast of Asia, was not to be found through the new lands of the west north of 54 degrees south, at all events. The mouth of the Amazon, the bays of Eio Janeiro and of the La Plata hud been explored and were found to contain fresh water, so that through none f these could an entrance to the unknown sea on the farther west be found. Thomas Magee in California!!. Hawk 3oses a Very Old Feature. It is a mistake to suppose that the hawk nose is confined to Hebrew own ers, though the persistence of the qual ities which it indicates makes it most frequent in the race which it principally adorns. A pictorial addition to the his tory of these noses was recently discov ered in a graphic caricature drawn by the clerk of the court on the edge of a fifteenth century record of a plaintiff whose nationality the least expert "nas ologists" would have at once detected, without the legend, "Aaron filius dia boli," which the artist had been at pains to inscribe beneath it. But the "hawk nose" is at least equally the possession of the Syrian and the Syrian Arab, as it was of the Phoenician of old all shrewd, money getting races. Vespasian possessed it in perfection, and though it is news to us that when young he "retrieved his ruined fortune by horse dealing, a science always no torious for its unscrupulous dealing and sharp, dishonest practice, he was de scended from a thoroughly business par ent and bequeathed his carefulness in money matters to bis son Titus, Lon don Spectator. A Conversation lu Scotch. The Scotch dialect has a peculiar use of vowels, which is as unintelligible to English ears as the cooing of the wood dove, but which seems to be easily understood by those accustomed to the vernacular. Here are a few specimens culled from reminiscences of Scottish life and character. The conversation is between a shop man and a customer, and relate to a plaid hanging at the shop door. Customer (inquiring the material) Oo? (Wool?) Shopman Ay, oo. (Yes, of wool.), Customer A' oo? (All wool?) Shopman Ay, oo. (Yes, all wool.) Customer A' ae oo? (All same wool?) Shopman Ay, a' ae oo. (Yes, all same wool.) Detroit Free Press. A Cautious Lover. Jopn Shorger has been paying his at tentions to Miss De Smythe. He bos come very near proposing several times, but did not dare risk it for fear she might refuse to accept the nomination. Ue got around it very nicely, however, while escorting her home from church. He said: "Miss De Smythe, if there is anything in the world I dislike it is to have a young lady refuse me. I wish you would tell me if you would say 'yes' in case I were to ask your hand in mar riage?" She suggested that he try it, but he thought he had better wait awhile until be could see his way more dearly. Texas tunings. Three Costly Ilollinuses. This is the season of the year whim the great army of gardeners employed by New York's millionaires who have a fad for flowers are puttiug-tlieir hothouses in Blmpe for the winter. 1 met Jay Gould's chief gardener yesterday and he told me that everything was in excellent hnHi at the railroad king's $500,000 hothouse up the Hudson. A lot of choice plants and exotics have just arrived from India and other eastern countries. John Hooy's difficulties have not de terred him from looking after his pet flowers in his grand hothouses at Holly wood, N. J. I am told his chief gardener has had several conferences with Mr. I Hoey during the past two weeks about his favorite flowers aud their care. Mr. Hoey is passionately fond of flowers, and selects the Beeds and bulbs himself, and' at times superintends the work of his gardeners. Another man who has a half a million dollar hothouse Is tho Standard oil king, John D. Rockefeller, who has a palace on the Hudson. It has not been completed long and his gardeners are constantly re ceiving new additions. Mr. Uockefuller says ho will have the finest flower show in the world in a year or two. New York Telegram. ' . Crime Decreasing. - All the criminal returns published of late have happily tended to show that crime is deorcusiug, The judicial sta tistics for the punt year hear the sums testimony. Whether under the head of "criminal classes at largo" or "in local and convict prisons and reformatories," the figures show a steady decliue, The same is true of the houses of bud char acter, by which is meant such ae are the resort of thieves, depredators aud suseeted persons. In England and Wales there are 2,688 houses of this de scription. It seems rather odd to be told that ol these 345 are public houses and 265 btei shops, because if they are known resorts of such characters, why are their licenses not withdrawn? Is it for the reiisou once given by a French administrator that they serve the ends of the law by providing places where those who are wanted by the police can easily be found? The knowu houses of receivers of stolen goods had declined from 718 two years ago to 724 lust year, London Telegraph. Itewanis to the (innd and Had, Every schoolgirl and boy in Bellmore, L. I., knows Lawyer George A. Mott A few days ago he visited tho village school iu that place with the pockets of his overcoat bulging ont with prizes for the pupils. The prizes were for good conduct and excellence in different studies. More than a dozen boys and girls were mode happy. Two prizes still remained, and then Mr. Mott re quested the teacher, Miss Fish, to call up the worst hoy in the school. A bright eyed urchin named Clinton Moore was produced by Miss Fish in response to Mr. Mott's request He was presented with one of the remaining prizes and promised to try to do better. Wheu Mr. Mott asked for the worst girl in the school saucy Jennie Hicks raised her hand. She received the other prize. New York Sun. The "Ilasln" of an Apple. One end of the apple hears the name of "basin" and contains the remnants of the blossom sometimes called tho eye of the fruit. This part of the apple is deep in somuvarieties aud shallow and open in others. This ib tho weakest point in the whole apple as concerns the ques tion of the keeping quality of the fruit, If the basin is shallow and the canal to tho core firmly closed, there is much less likelihood of the fruit decaying than when it is deep, and the evident opening connects the center of the f niit with the surface, Professor B. D, Halsted iu Popular Science Monthly. A Gigantic Tombstone. One of the largest tombstones in the world is to be found over the grave of a Georgia hermit named Scarlett, who be fore lie died selected a monstrous gran ite bowlder, 100 by 250 feot, and directed that he be buried under it A small cave was excavated beneath this minia ture mountain, Scarlett directing tho work. It remained thus for some yearB, and when he died he was entombed there, and the bowlder remains as his headstone. New York Recorder. Duties at liome Neglected. Rev. Mr. A , in Fclin's Grove, Pa,, had just commenced his sermon one Sunday morning when a boy some 8 or 9 years of age got up, and walking straight up to the minister asked in a voice loud enough to be heard by the congregation: "May I go home? I forgot to feed the pigs." Consent was given, but the effect upon tho minister as woll as upon the congregation was far from serious, Chicago Herald. A Prospeot of a Lively Time. "Will you apologize for blowing smoke m that lady s facer' "Apologize nawthin. "Very well, I intend to thrash you, and before I do I think it only fair to tell you that I am Tranian, the heavy weight rusher of Harvard." "That's all . right, young feller. I'm Liver Gilligun, the middleweight cham pion of Hobokon." Harper's. 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