= THE DREAMERS» — THE CAUSES OF MUTISM. 1 Addicted to Playing Faro. « Festivals < f the Alaskans. The festivals—which, as we have said, are numerous—are of Um held in a sort of com- mou hall called the kashga. which is built of the same pattern as the semi-subterranean winter houses. but is often as large as sixty feet square and twenty or thirty feet high. This kasbga also serves for various other purposes. It is used for the public bath; for the deliberations of the council of elders in communal questions; for the preparation of skins and the manufacture of sleds; for the reception of visitors, and for the sleeping place of males who have no huts of their own. The festivals consist of binging and dancing of a primitive character, and then gorging with fish and blubber, with the ad­ ditional luxury of melted reindeer fat, when it can lie procured. All the food, both fish and flesh, goes through some process of cook­ ing before being eaten; although the-‘higher". it is fbe more it is appieciated.—Chambers* Journal. Beef of Mexican Cattle. There is something peculiar about the beef of Mexican cttttle. From the 6 months calf to the 3-year<>ld cow or steer, the meat is tender. Between the ages of 3 and 7 years the meat is tough. After the seventh year the beefs begins to grow tender again, and an an­ imal of 14 years furnishes the best eating of all. These cattle do. not mature until they are 6, and they continue to fill out until they are 7 aiid 8. Fifteen to 18 years is a fair The Mexican butcher has methods pecul­ iarly his own. all the meat from the bones, and in thin strips. When Ameri­ cans first went into tho country in considera­ ble numbers they found great difficulty in getting either steaks or roasts. No«’, how­ ever, the native butchers supply meat as desired for their American trade, and con­ tinue to sell stri¡is to the Mexican customers. —“W. B. 8.” in Globe-Democrat. Visiting Card Scrap Books. <, *4 Some of .the ladies of Washington save the visiting cards they receive and paste them in scrap is»oks for preservation as souvenirs. They are quite yiteasant mementoes of Wash­ ington life, particularly if the collection contains tho names of the society belles and the statesmen opè is continually reading about in the newspapers. A senator’s wife or any lady of social prominence usually gets a large bowlful of cards at every reception, but they are often duplicates, and the sum tot^j' for the season will not be more than 300 or 400, for that is*about the number of habitual caltys at the capital. I know of u lad/, now «¡lending her thirteenth season in Washing­ ton, who has preserved the card of every j^r- sm that has called upon her during this en­ tire time. ’ They fill half a dozen large scrap books and are several thousand in number.— Philadelphia Times. Struck a Vein of Thought. The sayings of tittle folks are very much the vogue just now, and well they may be, for there are no brighter sayings than those of children, and certainly none more genuine or void of affectation, ami the more apj>ar- ently remarkable the reputed saj ing the more certain the reader may be that it if genuine, for no grown person could possibly invent things half so good as those which come spontaneously out of the mouths of children. Little Hans, the diminutive son of a very large anti German, lost his «isxer And playmate. **The angels came and U»ok her away,” said his weeping mother. Hans was very thoughtful and still. At last he said: “Mamma, if papa was to die tbe angels touldn’t tarry him, tould they » Dud would have to tome hisself.’—Boston Herald. Innovation at Paris Balls. A rather interesting innovation in dancing parties has been made lately in Pans. It consists in arranging the ladies who take ¡»art in cotillons according to the colors of their dresses. Harmonious tints are thus evolved, and unexpected vagaries of color become manifest to the eye of the artist. In a diversified party the effect is often novel and startling. It is said that the fastuvo comes from Vienna.—Home Journal. # Not Rest to Interfere. “Keep die orway» befo’ yo’.” the big orator waa laying just o> I recogniied in him a ¿eacon in the colorali church up the creek. “Keep die orways befo’ yo’. Nerah meddle iu udda folkaes’ binxm, ’specially whar it am a geminan an* bis wife. Let ’em fight it out ior demselvea. Yo’ll git mo’ cumec dan hliwsins of yo’ don’t”—Pittsburg Dupatch. f (a == NEW YORK’S WINTER GARDEN. Bannuda's Groat Profit In Batelng Early Vraatablro for the Metropolis. Bermuda, the winter parodias of the guide Htory- books, ¡weseasee a deeper intereat for the ma­ Onr fiw brigaile of guard» waa aareraly cut up «ben the Highland— drew near, and jority of New Yorkers than aa a Alon» IMuppU« to. w-lthy with then, as Kinglake tells us, a man in one n< the regiments reforming on the slope, cried, frrah ».«.tabl«» in WinNT. Ttore «re • tho»”*nd wmw who eat ------- Bermuda Ber- bur urvpjuiu ------- —- • potatoes, . . in U the deep and honest bittern«« --------- ---------- uiuuaaiRj 'Lat the SeoUmeu go onl they’ll do the mutla oniom and Bermu.l* beete to out who . ■ ... A » 1:___ — 1—1 ~1 px. to .....I balk in th. «¿»ÍA1 climate r\f of tho toe work !” and with bis three kilted battalions. Sir Colin, whose boiw * ** “nder him’ island. Although the Bermudas are in about advanced to ' meet twelve of the enemy. the same latitude as Charleston, the prox­ “Now, men,” said he, ‘ you are going into imity of the Gulf Stream gives them a warm, • «-lion, ami remember this, that whoever is moist climate that wonderfully stimulates woumled, I dou’t care what his rank is, must vegetation. The soil is very rich, and all lie w here be falls. No soldier must carry off conditions combine to make the islands the wounded men. If any man does such a most perfect garden spot in the world. The Ching his name shall be stuck up in his parish statistics of the production of the Bermudas kirk. Be steady-keep signee—fire low! are something startling. The principal island of the group is shaped Now, men, the army is watching us! Make somewhat like the letter 8, and is only me proud of my Highland brigade!” • Bo beautifully doe* the author of “Eotben” twenty-two miles long, following its curves, —an eye witness of this part of the battle— or eighteen miles as the crow flies. At its describe their movements, that we cannot widest part the distance across the island is resist quoting hint again. “The ground they only one ami a half miles. The total area is had to ascend was a good deal more steep and 12,378 acres, of which not over 1,400 acre* broken than the slope close beneath the re­ are cultivated. The remainder is made up doubt. In the land where those Beote are of rugged hillsides and timber land. Tue bred there are shadows of sailing clouds soil suitable for gardening lies in pockets skimming up the mountain side, and their and basins, and the largest plots cultivated paths are rugged and steep; yet their course do not exceed four acres each. So prolific is smooth, easy and swift. Smoothly, easily are the 1,400 acres that the wants of the and rwiftly the Black Watch seemed to glide population of 15,000 people are supplied, and up the bill A few instants before ami their in one year produce valued at over >500,000 tartans ranged dark in the valley ; now their was exported. plumes were on the crest” Another line Tho island is divided into small farms of came on in echelon, and another still—the from twenty to thirty acres each. The land Cameron and the Sutherland Highlanders. is valued at from >150 to >250 per acre, and And now, to the eyes of the superstitious farms of twenty-five acres with a good dwell­ Russians, the strange uniforms of those !>>re ing and outbuildings rent for >500 a year. A kneed troops seemed novel and even terrible; little over half of the population are negroes. their white, waving sporrans were taken for The whites first came to the island from- the heads of low horse«, and they cried to Virginia, but have been largely inc reate d each other that the angel of light had de­ by English settlers in recent years. Fruits parted and that the demon of death had and gram are raised for home consumption, come. but the chief occupation is vegetable grow­ A close and deadly fire was now poured in­ ing., The Bermuda onióna, which are cele­ to these “gray blocks,” as Russell calls the brated for their mild fl tvor, large size and Russian squares. No particular sound fok handsome appearance, «*.’ « planted in hot­ lowed, save the yelk of the wounded, while beds in October. In December they are the Highladders “cast about” to reload; but transplanted in the open bflds, and the first after théir next volley « strange, rattling bulbs are shipped to this n.arket about the noise was heard, as the bullets fell like rain middle of March. The potatoes and beets among their tin canteens and kettles which are planted in December and January. Some the enemy carried outside their knapsacks, of the roots are pulled and shipped as early for they were all right about face now. A as tho first of March, and by the end of the wail of despair floated over these gray coated month these vegetables are at their best. The masses of Muscovite infantry as. they broke tomato crop is planted in December, set out and fled, throwing away muskets, knapsacks in January, and ripens from the middle of ami everything'"that might encumber their March until June. The largest production Mt as ! on a for Central Africa. flight; and now for tije first tifile ròte tue Almost all round Africa, and most mark­ Highland cheer.-^Cassell’s “British Battles in any one year was in 1882. The average valuó of the crop exported is >400,000. Ninety edly along the coast of Guinea, there on Land and Be*.” per cent, of all the produce shipped comwr-to runs, for the breadth of from 20 to 150 New York.—New York Mail and Expresa miles inland from the coast, a belt of mala­ Wanning Young Rattlesnakes. rious country, consisting of low lying plains They showed me two things among many How to Handle Dynamite Safely. and vast mangrove swamps, which are cov­ ered with masses of decaying vegetation. down at the Joilet prison the other day that Dynamite, when handled with ordinary The climate is hot and moist, the sun I «eats linger with me like a dash of bitter in the care, is not nearly so dangerous an explosive fiercely down, and the foul fog which it old lady’s cup of sweetened tea. One was a as ordinary gunpowder In fact, dynamite draws up from the stagnant waters is baby with a face like a young tough and an does not explode easily, bqt requires a sharp charged with death. If it does not destroy inherited disposition like that the wolf cub detonation to cause it to exhibits its immense the life at once, at least, like opium eating, draws from its dam, which they were caring strength. To fire dynamite a fulminate cap it slowly saps all the vital forces. The nobler for $nd rocking in a clean and pretty cradle, is employed, wuich is itself exploded,by an beasts of burden themselves sicken and -d'i&* its depraved convict mother served electric current from what is known as a crime. I 1 ques­ ratchet machine. The electric current in its in this pestilential atmosphere. No amount out? tier term * for a revolting *" tion the policy of warming and succoring passage through a small portion of platinum of care enables them to live out their natural •> term. Woe to the European visitor who young rattlesnakes, but I go further back wire in the cap raises the temperature of tho leaves his vessel and incautiously passes a and question the law that allows criminals to platinum to a white heat. This ignites tho night upon the shore! He sometimes falls a propagate tbeir species. If-it is against fulminate, which detonates, striking tho victim at once-or, worse still, he carries about humanitarian usage to give such babes to the dynamite cartridges with a blow of about henceforward a sentence of death within heathen huntsmen for crocodile bait, then, 700 pounds, and exploding them. An ord> himself. Sierra Ijeone itself has long been for mercy's sake, get back of the humanita­ nary blow with a pick or iron drill will not ex­ known as “the white man’s grave.” Those. rian view of the mattej^and make it against plode a dynamite cartridge, but will explode Eurojieans who manage somehow or other the law for criminals raise children. the cap. < It seems au ini practical thing to do, but is to acclimatize themseves are generally the The whole source of danger lies in the fact it auy more so than half the things accom- least favorable specimens of their race. that the men using the explosive do not un­ It is not, as Mr. Bly den pointe out, the derstand that it is the cap and firing machine done, “fittest,” but tae “unfittest,” who survive. I ’ don J ’t pretend to say ” ’ how ’ it * can - be j _ they must handle with care. A properly The finer and more manly African races who but I know that if a lot of flesh devouring prepared and electrically connected charge live behind the cnast ranges of mountains wolves were loose on your prairies there will seldom if ever fail to explode. Careless­ and within the central plateau, with its more would be a a way found soon enough to cut ness in connecting the wires from the caps moderate teni’ierature and invigorating air, off the. increase. A colony where the off­ and in giving the firing machine more work when they venture down to this fever stricken spring of bad men men and evil women could than it can do, often results in leaving a por­ region, themselves gradually degenerate, l»e taken at birth and reared in habits of vir­ tion of the charge unexploded to the immi­ physically and morally, even as did the tue and industry at public expense, would nent danger of tho men on resuming work. hardy Samnites of old when they pressed strike a more telling blow for the abatement The employment of dynamite in all rock down from their mountain fastnesses in the of evil in the world than any mission work work has been carried to such an extent in Central Apeiuanes to the luxurious shores of or prison reform. A glance about us at the recent years that ordmary miners, men who Campania. With noble self-devotion, but, it houses and the neighborhoods where the from the nature of th«r education are totally must be added, with strange short sighted­ worst'children swarm is enough to make a unable to comprehend'the requirements for ness, European missionaries have thrown pessimist out of anybody who looks into the absolute safety, and allowed to place and fire themselves into this bojeiess region, and, future.—“Amber” in Chicago Journal. charges. This is all wrong and should be with rapidly enfeebling bodies and minds, prohibited by law. No one unfamiliar witli have labored on among a people who are How an Army W m Routed. /the requirements should be allowed to under­ physically incapacitated, even if Christian­ It was way back in the fifties when “Alad­ take such work. Putting ignorant and care­ ized, for any vigorous exertion, till death din” was having a run at the old Bowery less meu in a ¡xjsition to handle any of the released them. Not a single missionary set­ theatre that John Williams, now the property modern high explosives is almost certain to tlement, except the few struggling stations man at the .Academy of Music, then a boy, result in a disastrous explosion and the con­ along the pestilential Lower Niger, has, I conceived the idea of having some sport with sequent killing or maiming of a number of believe, yet bten planted 100 miles from the the supers who composed the army of the men too ignorant to protect themselves.— West African coast, among those nobler Chinese emperor. Suspended over the center George H. Benjamin in New York Tribune. races, such as the Mandingoes or the Fulahs, of the stage in those days was a property one convert am<>ng whom would be worth, as plephant, stuffed with straw and sawdust, New Anecdotes of Grant. a center of new influence and as an omen of and which, from long disuse, had become Aropos of reminiscences concerning Gen. hope for the future, any number of natives almost pulp from dry rot. When the army Grant is this, which comes from his old of the coast.—Nineteenth Century. oi supers were being maneuvered on the stage home in Galena. Williams slipped aloft and cut the ropes. Gen. Smith, one of the old residents of the V He Could Telegraph, Too. Down came the elephant and, bursting into place, *?as at dinner one day, before the war I heard a funny incident the other day. a thousand fragments, completely enveloped was fairly inaugurated, when a servant an­ Mr. G. L. Woolley, the electrician of this the army in a cloud of dust and straw. The nounced: city, was dining at the Superior house in supers were put to flight and the action of “Some one to see you, sir.” Cleveland, and it so happened that the only the play suspended for the moment Search “A gentleman, JamesP other occupants of the table with him were was made for the culprit but when found he “Well, no, sir; he’s just a common man. I a be^y of lady telegraph operators. Mr. pretended sleep and so stoutly denied his gave him a chair in the hall.” Woolley has l»een very successful in his busi­ guilt as to carry conviction of his innocence. The “common man” was the tanner Grant, ness, and is able to gratify a strong penchant It was not until some months later the truth the future commander in chief of the army that he has for diamonds, and he generally was known.—New York World. of America. wears one or two of startling proportions. A few years later two gentlemen called on He is also an expert telegraph operator. As a young man who was located in a Chicago The Rabbit Plague. soou as they were seated one of the young boarding house. Two pieces of pasteboard ladies began to size him up; then placing her . J. T. Campbell, United States consul at were sent to his room; on one was written in knife blade between the tines of her fork, Auckland. New Zealand, says in his latest re­ pencil the name U. 8. Grant The other she imitated a telegraph sounder and tele port to the state department that >12.000,000 bore the cognomen of Gen. Grant’s friend have been expended in New Zealand in tie and chum, J. Russell Jones. graph«! to her companions: “Get onto his nobs with the big diamond.” last eight years in the effort to overcome the The young man on whom Gen. Grant was Woolley caught on at once, and as soon a” rabbit plague.—New York World. calling was Eugene Smith, the son of Gen. all the girls had turned their attention to Smith, of Galena. The “common man's” English officers who are acquainted with name was then foremost in the world. him be, in the same manner, telegraphed: the Grecian army declare that 20.0UO Greeks "Ah, there: Are you all on F At one time the ladies of a certain church A general stampede of the ladies followed, would not be a match for 12,000 troops of in Galena gave a series of tea parties for any other nation. There is no fight in them and they dined somewhere else that day.— some charitable organization. Mrs. U. 8. unless they can turn brigand.—Detroit Free Grant belonged to the church circle, but Grand Rapids Telegram-Herald. Press. would not give the tea party. “I haven’t a whole set of china in the For the benefit of those who are getting house,” she said in excuse, “and I will not tired of “Truly rural” as a cure for stam­ ask company to eat off broken or nicked mering, the following is respectfully submit­ dishes. ”—Detroit Free Press. ted: Pronounce rapidly, “She sells sea shells; shall she sell sea shells?” Qrjdut Menu Holders. a , The very quaintest devices characterize Simply inhaling fresh air largely, by deep some of the dypdu holders in use on fashion­ inspiration is sufficient to nip an incipient able tables; such as a thin slice of cucumber cold in the bud. dr lemon, so realistic as to suggest damage to the table cloth, or colored crackers, the re­ fers? side »bowing the number and nature of lishes to l>e terved. A decorated card or a painted satin ribbon wtth the menu card laid Th* re is more genius in application than uuderreath is the conventional style. in anything elsa. 'Mr Catto ca.pb.1’. It is an open secret that the great com­ moner. Thaddeus Btavrns, was much ad­ dicted tceplay mg faro, and at times be was a high bettor. He preferred to play against the dealing of Gen. Wilkinson, who was his personal friend and a gentleman in every at­ tribute, although following the profession of gaming. Every night, when the weather l«n-initu*d. Thaddeus Stevens entered Gen. Wilkinson's establishment, took.his favorite seat at the table, which all players intuitively yielded him as a pre-emptive right, bought >100 worth of checks and silently made hia play. When the hour of midnight came Mr. Stevens invariably retired, whether winner or.loser, and Gen,-Wilkinson provided himx with a “night liner” Hack, tooled by an aged colored driver, who carefully drove the great commoner home to his lodgings and returned to report that ail was safe.—J. J. Noah in Philadelphia Timex . THE HIGHLANDERS AT ALMA. A m —‘ •- !»»**—• Jerry Denny signed with 1 «2,500. * The Athletics have twelve it home. It is three strikes, and ths Jiankful. Clarkson gets >500 for vard players. Balti more’s new ground will until next year. « The Washington team was the reason to be shut out. The Omaha club went all | Boston for its unifonns. It has not yet been decided wfc tain the New York team. Games will be close this y«a< will be a falling off in batting. Mike Kelly didn’t go to Eur ported. Ho is at his home m | New York. Peter Sweeney, a well knows player, has signed with tho Troy i The National Association « Scorers will meet in St. Louis in aext. Harry Wright has sold his otsi 3ostou club to Boden, Billings A < 4.000. t The Philadelphia managers hi Capo May to inspect a gro»n> •ractice. The schedule meeting of the Ce iy I vania league will be held at ] mel on April 6. • Tho book Mike Keflyi hcnefit Healy more than any otbsr pH in the League. RELIGIOUS GLEANINGS. Iowa has 352 Presbyterian church« 24,713 communicants. Out of 40,000 Sioux Indians there «ml of them still iu heathenism. Tho contributions of the English P f * rian church to the sustentation fund is year ending Dec. 31, 1887, amount« toC 525, as compared with >212,955 for th« 1886. 8 The total number of churches sod | ing stations in England and Wales ini tion with the Welsh Presbyterian* commonly called Calvinistio Method 1,394. f In Winnipeg, Man., an IcelandicL l church was recently consecrated. Tto of the building is 42 by 06 feet, sod f 1,000, and the pastor is Rav. Jon Bjsrr There are said to be 2,000 Iceland«« I in Winnipeg. According to the tables of Her. 1 Dorchester, D. D., of the evanyh^ nomination for 1886, the totpl of ctan congregations in the United Stat« w 744, of ministers, 83,8'4, and commuS 12,132,65L That is 1 Evangelical M church in every 518 inhabitants The good tidings come from Syiil the late attempt of the Turkish sot« to force new and intolerant restriction the cause of Christian education bfl earnestly resisted by the diplomatic i ientatives of the different po^or*» "^ utterly failed and has finally be« drawn. •' Fruit »pong* Strawberries, raspberries or btadj may be used in the following recipe ft licious cold diissert: Boak half a pJR gelatine two hours in a half cupful « Mash a quart of straw berries and cupful of sugar to them. Boil half a ' yf sugar with a cupful of water gen* twenty minutes. Rub the berries thr< rieve. Add the gelatine to the boiling and take from the fire immediately;» the berries. Set the whole in a psa water and beat five minutes. Add the of four eggs and beat till the mixture to thicken. Put into molds ami «et al harden. 8 .vs with creapi and «M^»