The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 19, 1892, Page 6

PIECES OF CARPET. Flew a Clever Manager Makes Them Into Darable and Pretty Rugs. Im bomes blessed with an attic anda thrifty “house-mother,” pieces of car-| peting often accumulate—too good to! throw away. because new or nearly so, yet apparently too small to be of any use. In Germany, that “‘land of econ- omy,” a clever manager hit upon a plan for utilizing the remnants in her stock, and her experience may afford sugges- tions equally available im this country Her material supplied three rugs, durable znd satisfactory. ‘or the first and handsomest, best pisses were cut into squares of actly the same size, six inches. Then, | with strong black linen thread the: were sewed together on the wrong} side and the after be- ing thoroughly dampened, were pressed smooth with a y hot iron. If this preliminary work is carefully done the | piece of earpet will be smooth. Draw | in the center of the ruga large bouquet of flowers. This must be something that asily worked, so that the va- rious blossoms will look as though they were scattered over it, and embroidered in laid-work according to the natural colors of the flowers. Odd bits of zephyr wool can be used in this way. The] seams not concealed by the flowers must } be feather-stitched, the lines running lengthwise with red, the cross ones with dark olive. The effect will be pretty to omit the flowers and use only the feather-stitching. The rug should then be again ironed on the wrong side and carefully sewed on a piece ot stout sacking. The border of the one described was made of a band five inches wide of black plush. In the second rug the smaller pieces were cut into the shape of fish-scal one and one-half inches wide and tw« and one-half long. The rounding por- tion must be cut into small points or coarsely buttonhole stitched to prevent raveling; sew these with stout thread on a foundation of two oval pieces of sacking, twenty-four inches wide and thirty inches long. Commence sewing the scales around the outer edge, let- ting each succeeding row everlap the other two-fifths of an inch, and finish seams, PITH AND POINT. “WILD BEAST” STORIES. Bamors of Mysterious Animals in the Rural Districts. Country people are as eager to ac- cept any rumor of a strange and dan- | where he can get at it readily when he | STous creature in the woods as they | wants it again.—Galveston News. jare to believe ina ghost-story. Th —As another proof of woman's ina- want it to be true; it gives them some bility to keep a secret we notice that ae ee eae ane “ane while a man covers his suspenders 2 prams ats = their palates. ives a new rest woman wears hers openly.—Yonkers | (7°) Palates ican ate au Statesman. to the woods, as the ghost-story giv | mire Hayes yi uoamns Alligaros, ES Waitng— A few years ago the belief 1 My name is Ebenezer— Hes t 2 Ite & nine T dvies doepioe: current in neighborhood And, oh, how quick I'll drop it zen rich Unele Ebby dies! —Harper’s Bazar. —It doesn't take a bitof meanness eatof a rascal to polish him —Ram’s | Horn. —Man always buries the hatchet our that a dangerous wild animal lurked in the | woods about, had been now here, seen in the dusk. Some b day as I passed an I that stood in his wife begged lex the sp some shman’s shanty in the woods, you understand it?” Wagg—“Yes. I understand it, but I was brought up never to laugh at old a —All He Wants pekt loved the un ope me out «© to accor lay into the a pai meas fa Ze th Now. woman Hen- he married so g, wh distanee roac eae She much during courtship that he had no | Ome distay ee | peace of mind until he made her his| Ws Stralc to go alone for water on ac wife.” “Has he peace of mind now?” | COUnt of the “wild baste.” ‘Then, to cap the climax of wild rumors, a hor: No; he has a piece of hers every day. Boo ea was ‘killed. “One of my neighbors, an rene -_ * * inte ne a and i serve —Visitor—"What is the history of | SY) sent man and a good observer, aera : S went up tosee the horse. He reported that patient? He looks so happy. z ; that a great gash had been eaten in the Warden of the Insane Asylum—*He is. : : ‘That man, madam, succceded in getting | 1OP Of the horse's neck: parvo ae Succeeded In Betung | was bitten and scratche that he a white vest that fitted him around the neck, and it made him insane with joy."—Clothier and Furnisher. —Life’s Toilet. “Powder your face with care," So reads a new cosmetic. Time will do that, never fear, He has given bis word prophette; He will powder with care, and b And give you a pose esthetic. —Detroit Free Press. —An Accommodating Boy.—Old Lady (sharply to boy in drug store)—‘I've k been waiting for some time to be v and killa horse. But how eagerly the ed on, boy.” Boy (meekly)—‘Yes'm; | people believed it! It tasted good. It wot kin Ido fer you?” Old Lady—‘I} tasted good to me, too, but I could not want a two-cent stamp.” Boy (anxious | believe it. It soon turned out thet t to please)—“Yes’m. Will you have it was convinced it was the work of some wild animal like a panther, which had landed upon the horse’s back and fairly devoured it alive. The horse had run up and down the field trying to escape, and finally, in its desperation, had plunged headlong off # high stone wall by the barn and been killed. Lwas compeled to accept his story, but I pooh-poohed the conclusions. It was impossible that we should have a panther in the midst of us, or, if we had, that it would attack ch your hair, the center with a button. The pieces remaining after the tw« rugs above described were made were cut into strips five or six inches long and two-fifths of an inch wide; fifty stitches were cast with knitting cotton on & wooden knitting needle of medium zc, and a strip of the cloth was knitted between each stitch of the knitting cotton. When ten skeins had been used, nearly all the bits of cloth was exhausted, and the rug had reached the size its maker de- sired. It was lined with sacking like the others. Brussels carpeting could be made into the first rug only; the other two would require three-ply or ingrain, unless the workwoman had patience enough to bind each of the pieces of the second around the sides and bottom, overeasting the tops to prevent raveling. The braid bindings add to the beauty of the rug, and the work can be done on the sewing ma- chine.—Mary J. Safford, in Good [ouse- keeper. THE ‘SULLEN HAMSTER. Russians Regard it as an Unsocial Ani- mal. As the squirrel was said by the old Norsemen to bring all the news of the animals to Thor, s the merriest and most sociable of beasts, so in the talk of the Russian peasants the hamster is the synonym for all that is sullen, avaricious, solitary and mo- rose. en in color he is unlike any other animal, being light above and dark below. This gives the hamster somewhat the same incongruous ap- pearance that a pair of black trou! and a light coat lend to a man; in other respects he is like a large, shaggy guinea pig, with very large teeth and puffy cheeks, into which he ean cram a vast qaantity of rye or beans for trans- port. Each hamster lives in a large, roomy burrow all by himself. in defense of which he will figgt like a badger against any other hamster who may try toenter. Fainily life he wholly avoids, never allowing a female inside his bur- row, but keeping her at a good distance and making her find her own living for herself and family. The last burden is, however, not a serious one, for by the time the young ones are three weeks old each discovers that family life is a great mistake and sets off to make a bachelor burrow for itself and save up beans for the winter. For, in addition | to its other amiable qualities, the ham- ster has that of avarice in a marked de- gree, and heaps up treasures of corn, rye, and horse beans far in excess of his own private wants for the winter. His favorite plan is to dig a number of treasure chambers, all communicating with a central guard room, in which | the owner eats and grows fat until the hardest frosts begin, when he curls himself up to sleep until the spring. because he wi But this life of leisure does not begin | But Sometimes It Is Not Altogether Ap- until the harvest has been gathered. | horse was killed by another licked?” vicious beast that had fits of murderous —A little eight-year-old Irish boy in hatred toward its kind. The sheep and one of our public schools was reproved | Calf were probably not killed at all, and by his teacher for some mischief. He ] the big dogs had had a fight among was about to deny his fault, when she | themselves. the panther legend said: “I saw you, Jerry.” “Yes,” he | faded out, woods beeame as and our tame and humdrum 3 not get up anything exciting that will hold, and have to make the most of such small deer as coons. foxes and woodchucks.—John Burroughs, in Cen- tury. replied, as quick as a flash. s before. We can them there an’t much yous don't see wid them purty black eyes of yourn.” That was the soft answer that turned away wrath. “T tells —Domestie Inequality.—Professional Nurse (who has been met at the door by the housemaid)—“I come from Dr. Wiseacre, who said I was needed at the house immediately. Is your mistress very ill?” “Oh, no, indeed, ma‘am. Mistress isn’t ill at all. It is the cook. If mistress had been sic we'd have sent her to the hospital.”"— Pharmaceuti Er COLDNESS (OF SPACE. It Is Estimated to be Many Degrees Below the Freezing Point. We rarely realize, I think, how easily the earth parts with its heat, and how cold space is through which the earth sweeps in its orbit. Nor do we com- monly appreciate how relentlessly space sucks away the heat which the earth has garnered from the sunbeams, out mitable depths. “Way out in space is a cold hat fairly fail to grasp its meaning. haps three hundred or four hu IDEAL AND THE REAL. THE into its AStudent Who Swallowed a Red-Hot Idea. Connected with the men and teach- ings of every college are its traditions. From class to class come down certain | degrees below the fr stories of men and customs which illus- | water, some philosoph trate the ideas of different years. In the beginning of the revolution Dr. Witherspoon was president of Prince- ton college. He was a Scotchman by birth, and a man of strong ec so intense we dark And night this us of recesses beyond oy eur hi und fighting ommon with demoniac power to reduce ou sense. be to its own bitter chill It was the hion of the time to hold our summer and winter m- the ideal theory the e —a practical denial of tence of matter. The ideal f losophy taught that external life, and what we call the material world, are the creatures of fancy. This system of philosophy was even more that time than materialism presentday. tures are idue of th been able in spite of ned by the t which we have ikeep hold of s of space. o reduced Our margin ntat jon nig ean a is at the | believe the astronomers and physicists when they tell us areduction of It is d that Dr. Witherspoon, find- | the sun’s heat by seven per cent. anda ing it impossible to reason upon. this 1 1 the number of winter matter logically with people whose | days woul >to bring again to our minds were on tire with the ideal the- | hemispher age of ice, with its ory, entered the class-room one morn- | inevitable desolation. The balance is ing, and in the course of his remarks | really a nice one between the heat we said: ly gather from the sunand the share “Young gentlemen, if you think | of it which we lose T. Miteh- there is nothing but ideas in the world, | ell Prudden, in Harper's Magazine. just go out on the campus and butt ae = your heads against the college walls! A Spoke in His Wheel. You will at least get an idea of mat- They had just been introduced. She ter.” was a pretty country girl, On another occasion the students | wheelman, prev: in space. ain of his personal appear- were at supper, at long tables with a | ance when clad in cyeling costume. tutor presiding at each. There was He—I assure you there is scarcely a one student of the class who did not | man who does not find the wheel suit believe in the theory of ideas. They | most becoming. had hot mush and milk for supper; all atonce they were disturbed by this student uttering a dreadful ery. Everybody started up to know what was the matter. The student said: “Mr. Tutor, 1 ask your pardon. I have just swallowed a red-hot idea.” The tutor bowed, and the apology was received without any evidence of amusement.—Chicago Journal. MUCH IN A NAME. She(doubtingiy)- _He—As for my per- t Llook one hundred per cent. better in bieycle costume than in an or- deed! everybody dinary business suit. She (innocent awful you business suit! yi—Dear me! How must look in an ordinary —Once a Week. Alters the Case. “Do you think your father would ever forgive us if we married without his consent.” “Yes, Harold, but I know | | | propriate. mamma While the crops ave ripening, the ham- | sters work incessantly to increase their hoards, and as much as three hundred | weight of grain and beans have been taken from a hamster's burrow. After harvest the peasant's often search with probes for the treasure chambers of the robbers, and during the present scarcity | in Central Europe they will no doubt | exacta heavy tribute from the ham- sters’ stores.—Spectator. Anything for Peace. -Greene—I was over to Oldpop's the} other night, and the baby began crying | for the moon. Cheeseman—Did they spank the Hite! scamp? Greene—Not much, they didn’t. ole pop sent right over to the Steenth Street. theater and borrowed a property moon. | —Puek. Hobbs—I think young Smith deserves a lot of credit for keeping up so fine an establishment on so small an income. Dobbs—Well, he gets it. He owee pretty nearly everybody aroun town. | —Judge. a ee ee | i “Come, Mousey,” he called from the {head of the cabin stairs as the boat | landed. The passengers watched, wondering meanwhile if Mousey were a black-and- | tan, or a Skye terrier. - “The boat's nearly there, ealled again. Were there two of them? All eyes | were strained, but nothing answered te never would.” old man. . “But wait, Harold; poor papa hasn't a penny of his own—it’s all in mamma's name!”"—Chicago News Record. —The lynching of the brothers at Redding, Cal., some novel features even to thi Birdie,” he the call. The whistle of the steamer | observer of the methods of vigilantes. lew,.and again the man peered | It is probably the first case on record | anxiously down the cabin stairs over | in which the mob spent an hour anda the heads of the up-rushing crowd. | half in opening the sheriff's safe to get “Ducky,” he called, loudly, ‘aren't | the jail keys. Then, again, this was you coming?” | doubtless the first time on record that No “Ducky” «put in appearance and | men were hoisted into the air by means again he callod in a pleading tone: | ofacrank. Add to this the silence of ‘B-a-b-y! why don’t you hurry the avengers and we get a unique oc- We'll be the last to get to the boat.” currence, such-as it is to be hoped will Then a woman weighing at least two ot have a parailel again. hundred and fifty pounds appeared on == the ‘stairway carrying a big lunch! —The British government is t basket, two camp chairs and several | two gunboats for service on Lake Ny- shawls and rugs. jassa. The presence of the armed “Im coming, hubby,” she said placid- | ly, and everybody who saw her got out , of the way as they recalled Mr. Shaks- | peare’s pertinent inquiry; ‘What's in | @ name?”—Detroit Free Press. ves- sels on the lake will be of material as- sistance in arresting the slave trade at one of its great sources. Gunboats al- | ready patrol Late Tanganyika for the | same purpose. now there. It | | —Hospital Cook (to dealerin poultry) dogs had encountered it in the night, —“Please send me upadozen setting and one of them was nearly ines D. Why setting hens?” | killed. Then a calf and a sheep Hospital Co “So that they will set | Were reported killed Cae merely: de- } | on the patients’ stomachs, of course.” | Youred. Women and ne —Wooden—"You don’t sceem to smile | #fraid to go through the woods, and jatmy joke. What's the matter, don't | Men avoided them after sundown. One and he a | “Oh, well, mamma be hanged if the} Ruggles | presents | ‘areful | A Sharp Slap at Carnegie London, Oct. article this morning iu regard to Mr. | Andrew Carnegie’s gift to Ayr as why Ayr doesn’t provide its own tib rary, il- lionaires? ier 6.—The Cronicle in an instead of depending on Carnegie would be be employed in best: wing bis surplus wealth on his American loyees f confidence ou I. requires plenty of the part of th consented t in Who passiv bloodshed at Home-| stead to pose as th e benefactor of! |r Pucker long ways from the flint |losk tothe electrie bution. The | is now worked by au rin the A i the ei Hit! a | were require ve the gun | ie tote the pi drop the ot the other to work the firing} may date back 3 ore Vhis fact makes it ne have a remedy with Abretoor idable dis taken at fi can readily be cured it gets a serious hold cn the Ys Hore in its e ges will cure cons: It is guaranteed to bring when used for throat, lungs and chest en 4 gener wo ease. A cough wh betore amation of the lu ma, whooping cough, s pleasant to take, pertect!y can always be depended on. Sold by HL ‘Tucker. Whe you ar the opportunity for making money not very good. Jaehne, the New | York ex-alderman, is te come out of Sing Sing the 15th Wien he is discharged he will be given a new Inst. suit of clothes, a ticket to New York jand $23 besides $92.21 when he ens tered the prison will be given beck to him. ion Cure ee. It cures Sold by H L ‘Tucker. Citizens of Rich Hill are diseuss- ing the question of 2 sewerage sys jtem. Our neighbor could not spend j mouey to a bette: xdvantage to pro mote the welfare of that construct ity than fo vada improvement haprovemernt sewerage, has sewerage aad it is an is inealeulable value to Nevada Dem Cror brone Shiloh’s ly relieved at Hi L Tucker's Germany is get ready to play The Ger tands next to In 1889 the lat which a part on the high seas. I jman merchant marine s that of England est year from figures have been vessels 39. published, German made 6 522 te In the commerce of the seas the United States should | ake a hand. 34 voyages, carryi of cargo For lame back, side cr chest, use Shi- h’s Porous Plaster. Price Sold by H L-Tucker. socts. Io France cleves som encouragement. dramatic literature re- Dram gross reciepts of each piav aid are 7100 allowed tiexets to theau for eve ry pe rfor as they have written. niserable by Shiloh’s Cure is Sold by H L Tuck- surface is Perhaps the earth’ | gradually drawing towards the cen- ter. Four different peaks in Idaho jare from thirteen t» thirty three feet lower by actual measure t than | An old physictan | tice, having had plac an East India simple vegetable rem: and permanent cure Bronchitis, rrh, throat and eee ead a ive and ra ity and all Nervou hav ing tested | its wonder retired i | jerank; but now ox wn is sufficient. | | | By touching a switch he can train and operate the gua at will, so as to fire a single shot or at the rate of 1, 200 a minute. You should not be without it. 3 Eyery family i: liable tohave a here-| irs taint of « iption in in ite penitentiary | ranes get 12 p-r centof the (they were fifteen years ago. Geolc-| jgists do not attempt to explain j - Consumption Cured. for Infants and Children. *Castoria is so well adapted to chikiren that Castoria cures Colic, Cons Sour Stomach, Disrrhas, Eructation, Kids Wortas, gives sleep, and promotes di stion, at injurious medication, T recommend it ag superior to any prescription: knowntome.” 4H. A. 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