Highest of all ia Leavening Power. Latest V. S. Gov't Report ABSOLUTELY PURE OLD LETTERS. Last night some yellow letters fell From out a scrip I found by chance. . Among them was the silent ghost : The spirit of my first romance, And In a faint blue envelope A withered rose long lost to dew .;, Bore witness to the dashing days ' When love was large and wits were few. Vet, standing there all worn and gray. The teardrops quivered in my eyes, To think of youth's unshaken front, The forehead lifted to the skies. , How rough a hill my eager feet ' Flung backward when upon its crest I saw the flutter of the lace The wind awoke on Helen's breast! How thornless were the roses then. When fresh young eyes and lips were kind, When Cupid in our porches proved How true the tale that love is blind! But red and white and poverty . Would only mate while shone the May, Then came a bag of golden crowns And Jingled red and white away. t Grown old and niggard of romance, I wince not much at aught askew, And often ask my favorite cat - What else had red and white to do? " And here's the bud that rose and sank - A crimson island on her breast. Why should I burn it? Once again ' ' Hide, rose, and dream, liod send me restl . Norman Gale. Evened Up Matters. r Says a writer in the St. Louis Post Dispatch: This is a true story; could give names and places if it were nec essary. A French gentleman visit ed a relative in St. Louis, and being a great sportsman at home was taken out one day to shoot prairie chickens. One got up, the Frenchman fired and missed, but as the bird sailed along in its peculiar way he thought it mortally wounded and ran a mile to catch it before he found out his mis take.' , Next year the St. Louis gen tleman visited the French relative at his chateau in Normandy, and being a great sportsman at home was taken out one day to shoot hare in the park. The gamekeeper placed him at the crossing of two well worn paths. ; Soon a big hare came trotting along, and St. Louis raised his gun. "Please don't shoot him, monsieur," cried the keeper. "That is old Antoine, the fa ther of all the hares !" The gun was dropped. Then another hare came along.Tand the gun was raised. "Please don't shoot her," cried the keeper. "That is old Fiftne, the mother of all the hares I" The gun was dropped, and as the keeper said that the three or four more hares that came along ought not to be shot : because they 1 were the children of Antoine and Fi fine St. Louis retired , to the chateau indisgust 1 A Story of Gladstone. , Mr. Gladstone, as a. rule, is the model of punctuality at dinner time, both as a host and a guest. He, however, when staying at the house of one of his wealthiest supporters, recently made,' a baronet, in the neighborhood of Norwich, Mr. Glad stone did for once keep both his host and the other guests waiting in the drawing room for several minutes after the servant had announced dinner. At last the premier entered the room, smiling and rubbing his hands benevolently. Looking all around, he inquired in most genial tones, "Are, we all mustered?" As the host happened to have accumu lated a large fortune by the manu facture of mustard those present were for a moment inclined to unjustly suspect our revered premier of per petrating a pun at his entertainer's expense. London Court Journal. The Desert of Sahara, The greater part of the desert of Sahara 'is, it has been ascertained, from . 6, 000 to 8,000 feet: above the level of the ocean. The desert is not rainless, but showers cover it with grass for a few weeks every year, large flocks and herds being main tained upon its borders, and the oases are depressions in which water can be collected and stored. It was at one time believed that the whole of the desert was below the sea level instead of only a comparatively small part of it. Alexandria Corre spondent. . The Wrong Treatment. "I say, what made the Hubers change their medical man all at once?" ' :, -. "You see, the last one they had treated their daughter the wrong way." , i . "In what way?" "He went ' and married another girl I" Appenzeller Kalender. Among the curious but not lest acceptable wedding presents the Duchess of New York received is an Irish .spinning wheel, sent to her by the Hibernian colony in Chicago. The whole machine is made of bog oak, and the spindle is part of a rebel' Irish pike, the head of which drew blood at Vinegar hill in 1798. , r; :' At different times the pope has leen known as his paternity, beati tude, grandeur, apostolic majesty vicar of St. Peter, vicar of . Jesu Christ and servant of the servantn of God. ' - Customer (in a restaurant) See bere, waiter, I've found a button in this, salad. WaiterThat's all right, sir; it is part of the dressing. Mm ROSA EONHEUR'3 LION. The Groat French Artist's Fet Model Which : Died In Her Arms. . : Rosa Bonheur loves the animals she paints and is in turn adored by them. She showed her recent pur chase, a magnificent lion, who purred and writhed like a gigantic cat when his owner fearlessly stroked his mighty ,- head. Then, showing the head of a most superb specimen of the African lion transferred to can vas with startling realism, she tells the story of Nero. He was her first pet lion and was reputed untamably ferocious and lived for several years in the garden at By. At last one day Rosa Bonheur was about to travel and disposed of Nero to the Jardin des Plantes. She parted with him reluctantly, for he was a great pet and would greet her , always with a peculiar little note of welcome. When she returned from her wan derings, two years later, she went to see Nero and beheld a sad sight. The poor creature had not been so carefully tended as he was used to be at By.' Ophthalmia bad set in, and the splendid brute lay blind and ail ing, unheeding the curious crowd that stared at him. Rosa Bonheur watched him for a moment and then called "Nero I" The effect was mag ical. The lion rose to his feet, ut tered his accustomed note of wel come and sprang toward the well loved voice with such impetuosity that the shock against the bars sent the sightless brute rolling, stunned, back on the floor. The great artist took him back, soothed his last days with tendance and petting, and final ly he died in her arms at the foot of the staircase at By, his huge paws clinging to his mistress, as if implor ing her not to forsake him in his death struggle, and his last move ment being a feeble attempt to lick the hands that held him with such infinite tenderness. "You see," said Rosa Bonheur as she meditatively ruffled her new lion's mane, "to be really beioved by wild beasts you must really love them Paris Let ter in Philadelphia Telegraph. ; A Japanese Recipe.- Fish is the chief article of diet of the Japanese. Dried and salted it is, with rice, the only food of the lower classes. But every one, is fond of fish, and there are a thousand ways of dressing it daintily. Crabs are killed by making them, swallow a bumper of sake, which is probably anything but pleasant to them, but gives them a very delicate taste. The spirit called shoyn, which is made of the fermented juices of several dif ferent kinds of grain, and which tastes like Liebig's extract diluted with brandy, seasons large fishes admir ably, but generally the Japanese pre fer to eat them raw, and they are not altogether m the wrong. - No hors d'oeuvre can beat that ob tained from the following recipe: "Take out the bones of a very fresh dorado or sole ; cut the flesh into very small pieces almost mince it, in fact ; cut. into thin slices a few fresh gher kins;' put in a pickle dish a series of layers of chopped fish and gherkins; add salt and pepper to each layer; sprinkle over the whole a little vine gar and the juice of a lemon; fet the dish stand for a few hours before serving." Try this recipe, and you will see. Harper s Weekly. 1 '" ' How Indeed? . ,: V Won't you hand me the nutcrack er, please, my dear?" blandly remark ed Mr. Fewsmith to his wife at the dinner table. . . "With pleasure," was the answer, "but I am sorry to see you so addict ed to the nut eating habit. I have heard that Darwin or some other great man has said that nuts were never intended for human consump tion because they are so well protect ed in their natural covering; that they are intended by nature only for germination." . ". -. . : "What I should like to know," re sponded Fewsmith, with his best com pany manner, "is how they can be more appropriate for the German na tion than for free and independent Americans." New York Tribune. ' .' ' '"' - ' - ' London Culture. : Culture i3 declared by London fash ionables as the reverse of smart. This one would gather from the three fol lowing remarks the first from a middle aged lady quoted by a week ly journal:' 1 ' - -.., , ' "It's the dream of my life to go to Venice. Fancy floating about in a lagoon! And the Viennese are so charming, too, I believe !" - -', .- A pretty girl exclaimed: "Oh, yes, the 'Heavenly Twins.' I must get it. I love dear George Eliot." ; ;r ' " " And a young man said quite seri ously : "Ah Ibsenite? No, I'm in the army . "Exchange. ' '. A Crucial Test. "Well, Henri, how does the watch go that grandpa gave you?" "Oh, papa, it ought to go very well., I took it to school, and all my p.'ay mates have been winding it up.'' - Bocage. ' . v ' r HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. How Bx-Congresgman Ranney Hid Himself of a Troublesome Bedfellow. . Ex-Congressman A, A. Ranney of Massachusetts, who is accredited with the leadership of the Boston bar, gave evidence very early in life of the strength of purpose which has characterized his subsequent career. ' As a boy it was decreed by his stern old father that he and an elder broth er should occupy the same bedroom and share the same bed. The future congressman disliked this arrange ment exceedingly, for the substantial reason that his brother possessed a constitutional tendency to kick the person with whom he chanced to be sleeping out of bed. On cold winter nights young Ranney would.awaken shivering, to find that his restless bedfellow had acquired in the course of an erratic slumber all the bed clothes and was wrapped up in them like an Indian papoose. ; The boy bore this infliction uncomplainingly for many weeks. Never a word said he in the family circle of the kicks he was obliged to submit to, or the cold baths of freezing temperature which roused him so often from pleasant dreams. ' . . , - , One night, shortly after 12 strokes had rung from the deep toned bell in the tower of the Town . hall, the household was awakened by a loud hammering, which seemed to pro; ceed from an upper room. Father Ranney hurriedly donned his trousers and taking a good, stout club for pro tection stole up stairs to take the thief unawares. The hammering grew louder as he approached the room occupied by his sons. He crept softly to the door and listened. Bang went the hammer again and yet again, and with each stroke a heavy nail seemed to have been driven f ur- therhome. . . . Ranney pere waited no longer, but threw the door wide open. A strange spectacle confronted him. His elder son lay fast asleep and snoring on one side of the bed. , On the opposite side the future congressman was kneeling on the floor, busily engaged in nail ing the bedclothing to the sideboard of the couch. , - ; "What are you doing there?" roar ed tne irate tamer. v ' ' i "Why," replied this extraordinary boy calmly, "I was just fixing these bedclothes so that he couldn't kick 'em off, as he has been doing for the last six weeks." Then there was a scene, but the boy did not lose his temper, although he complied with his father s command to remove the nails he had driven into the bed. But it is worth noting that shortly atterward he was given a bed to himself .New York Herald. The "Cruel Plant." In one of the papers of the Cana dian institute I find two excellent ar ticles upon a species of cannibalistic plant, known to the residents of the tropical portions of America as the cruel weed," or "strangler." The scientific" name of this botanic oddi ty is Physianthus albens, and it is in digenous only to the western hemi sphere. The flowers of this queer plant are provided with five pairs of jaws, which are so arranged as to quickly close upon the proboscis or head of any unsuspecting moth or other insect which may attempt to extract honey from the blossom.- To make sure of its prey this cruel flow er holds fast as long as the insect struggles, slowly releasing its grasp as soon as the writhings of the dying creature cease. ..-.. According to the botanists, it be longs to the milkweed family (tribe or order of asclepiads). " The flowers are pure white and very fragrant and much like the tuberose in gener al a ppearance. Those who may wish to know more about this curiosity will find a very readable and instruct ive article on the subject in Hender son's "Handbook of Plants,"., article Physianthus." St., Louis Republic. Talkativeness and Divorce In Japan. Mr. Hanniker : Heaton has been gathering some very interesting mar riage statistics concerning the cus toms in vogue in different countries, from which one reads with amuse ment, and perhaps with a certain de gree of amazement, that throughout Japan a man may get a divorce if his wife talks too much. Ordinary peo ple may suppose that this harsh law will have the effect of curbing lo quacity, but it has not. Japanese la dies are the most talkative of their sex, and divorces are common among them. In Thibet a woman is entitled to three husbands. In Melbourne a man may secure a divorce if his wife gets drunk three times, or if she ha bitually neglects her household du ties. Pearl Oysters. It has been found by Saville-Kent that the pearl oyster reaches matu rity in a shorter time than was for merly supposed. He thinks that un der favorable conditions a period not exceeding three years suffices for the shell to attain to the marketable size of 8 or 9 inches in diameter, and that the heavy shells of . five pound or six pound weight per pair may be the product of five years growth. Pub lic Opinion. - ' Necessary to Baptism. . "What must precede baptism?" asked the rector when catechising the Sunday school. , "A baby," exclaimed a bright boy, with the air of one stating self evi dent truth. London Tit-Bits. . FRAUDULENT LOTTERY SCHEMES Clever Devices and Bogus Circulars by Which Many People Are Being .-. , , Swindled, New Orleans, Lb., June 23, 1894. Since the Louisiana State Lottery Company removed to Honduras and resumed business under the name of the Honduras National Lottery Com pany, the patrons of this great concern have been eager bait lor clever operators, and every month thousands of people are taken In by lot tery schemes which purport to be the original Louisiana State Lottery. The modus operandi is to send a bunch of tick ets to some prominent person, inclosing a com- Flimentary t.cket good for (8,000. The party is ustructed to sell one-fifth of the ticket to s me other well-known prominent person and keep the other filth for himself. Another condition is that the party must remit $100 in payment for tickets, at least three days before tue '-drawing." in order to make the offer appear genuine, a circular of the Honduras National Lottery Com- Eany is inclosed with the address of J. H. Lom ard & Co., New Orleans, La., carefully stamped In red ink over the address of Paul Conrad, Pu erto Cortez, Honduras, C. A., care Central America Express, Port Tampa City,Fla. As a matter of tact, the Honduras National Lottery Company has no such agency in New Orleans and Lombard & Co. never had any connection with this company. The New England States are flooded with the bogus circulars, and a num ber have already been swindled. Boston (Mate.) Herald, June US. The Salary Too Small for Both. "When L. Q. C. Lamar was made secretary of the interior, nearly every young man who had known him in Mis sissippi went to Washington to get a job," said H. F. Cole, of Water Valley, Miss. "Among the number was John Youngblood, editor of the Oxford Globe, who called at Mr. Lamar's office on the 8th day of March, 1885. The secretary was of coarse glad to see him. Young blood had once been Mr. Lamar's pri vate secretary. He expected something big, but a clerkship only was tendered him, and this he declined. "Time wore on, and Youngblood, in common parlance, 'went broke.' Could his old friend, Mr. Lamar, let him have fifty dollars? Mr. Lamar could and did. Two weeks more, could his old friend, Colonel Lamar, let him have a hundred while he was : waiting to be placed? Again Mr. Lamar could and did. A month rolled by. Youngblood's board bill was due. , He had to live while wait ing, and he knew no one else in Wash ington except his old friend from Ox ford. His board bill was settled. The next day he called again and wanted to be accommodated. He was. "After Youngblood went out Mr. Lamar turned to Colonel Muldrow, his assistant, and said: 'See here, Henry, Youngblood has got to get away from Washington. Find some place for him. Both of us can't live on $8,000 a year.' "The next morning Youngblood was made superintendent of the Arizona schools and was sent to Yuma, where he later died." St. Louis Repnblic. In the Pursuit of Pleasure. . . Mrs. Langtry is now forty years old, but her energy in the pursuit of pleasure is still untiring. Last season her whim was for racing and race horses, and hav ing made a success on the turf, as she usually does in all her business enter prises, she is going in for yachting, and has purchased the steam yacht Lady Mabel at the modest figure of $125,000 I for an . extended cruise through the i south seas. Exchange. NKAKING THE . GRAVE. 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