Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1881, Page 7

- 7 t4 bone-crusbing fangs the animal from which our canine teeth derive HOME MATTERS, A Prpprva made after the well-known recipe for cornstarch blancmange is made Fich by adding two tablespoo ous and | grated | of chocolate to the cornstarch before it is cooked. Make a thin custard ding, To Prevent CxHoxrxe, break an egg into a cup and give it to the person choking to swal- low. The white of the egg seems to catch around the obstacle and remove it. does not answer the purpose, white is ail that is nec A Nice Way oF Coox the meat fine; season with sait, pepper, a little onion or else tomato catsup. Fill a tin bread- and pour over the pud- try aaotier. Tue pan two-thirds full; cover it over with mashed | tato, which has ‘been salted and has milk in lay bits of butter over the top and set it into a Duteh or stove oven for fifteen or twenty minutes. Tne “Qcvees Avye Stove-Screes,” lately in- | troduced in England, consists of a curtain sup- Ported by two brass uprights and a cross-bar, each having a telescopic action, so that the sereen can be adjusted to the width or heicht ot the fireplace. After having done duty daring summer as a fire-place screen, it can be turned to account in winter as a fire-sereen. Axomatic VineGar.—Put into a stone jar one handful each of dried sage, mint, lavender, rose- mary, Wormwood, rue, and a large tablespoon- fui of whole cloves; pour over these ingredients agalion of scaidinz bet vinexar; cover the jar iy. and p it covered ‘a Week where S$ contents will keep just lukewarm; then strain it, dissolve in it an ounce of powdered camphor, and putit into glass stoppered bottles.—Juliet Corson. Watt Decoratross.—There Taugh at or despise in the desire, which is uni- Versal just now, to decoratemhe wal genuity -d in convert day things use of a fan is to all. put two « the sticks—it mak if between d—and iy you have a is both ornamental Y. Post. Tue Frames or Tor.er LooKts Now painted. They have to bi and are usually painted before be A mirror-frame in velvet on a toilet ta! and lace, painted twined with blue ribbon, iy. The two side-pieces were 16 inches long and 4 inches wide, and the top and bottom pieces were Sinehes long and 4 inches wide. The corners have to be filled in with wood or velvet. Some- times only the corners are painted, and a mono- gram ornaments the top piece.— Art Amateur. Gas TREATMENT OF Wuoortxe Coven.—In the treatment of whooping-cough in gas works, as lately resorted to, expecially in London, the purifying chamber consists of a largéroom with doors and windows freely open, and each con- tains twenty-four vessels, holding five cubie meters of depurating substance—lime and sul- phate of iron mixed with sawdust—throuzh whieh the gas has to pass. When the work- men are emptying and refilling these vessels, the children with whooping couzh are placed around it, and inhale the vapors which escape; they are in an atmosphere contain Monium sulphide, carbolie acid, and tarry pro- ducts. “As to the efficiency of this treatment, ‘one physician reports that of 120 cases perse- Yered with, in twenty there was entire failure, forty-eight showed improvement, and the rest ‘were cures; it is thouzht, however, that it acts only upon one element of the malady, viz., ca- tarrh. Mcsuroows.—The eommodating plant. ing in old tubs, in le to order, ¢ made up. ina. mounted in dark-blue thy. mushroom is a very ac- We have seen them grow- out-of-the-way corners of sheds, in abandoned green-houses, on shelves in Stables, and in every case giving apparently a good and healthful crop. All that is needed for Success is a temperature from 50° to 60°, some fresh horse manure and a little spawn. Hav Procured what fresh horse manure is ne mix it well with about one-third of its bulk of good loam, and you are prepared to make your beds in whatever place you. prefer. Hf you determine to form beds, inake them Rarrow—certainiy not more than five feet im breadth and about fifteen inches in height. The material must be made compact by beating down, as evenly as possible. If un- der cover. the beds may be made flat on the top; but ifinthe open air.they should be rounded to shed the rain. After the beds have been made a week. there will be considerable heat ced by the fermentation of the manure. cks of spawn should have been secured pre- and they can be sent everywhere, post- age or expressaze free. at about thirty ceats a | pound. Break them into pieces as larze as wal- nuts, and insert inthe beds just below the sur- face, about ten inches apart. One pound of opts is sufficient for a space two by six feet. there seems to be much heat, do nothing for @ week or ten days, until it somewhat subsides. m cover the bed withaninch or moreof good earth, pressing it down with the back of a spade. It is not likely in a large bed water will be needed at all; but if the material should ap- posters dry, water lightly with warm water. in smal beds, or pails, or anything of the kind. it is probable water will be needed once or twice. Mushrooms will begin to appear in about six weeks after planting the spawn, and can be gathered for three or four weeks. In gather- ing, take up the mushroom entire, leaving no in the bed, and placing a little earth in the hole male by its removal. When the crop is gathered, cover the bed with a little more earth, beat it down gently, and give a pretty good moistening with tepid water, and in about & month more another crop will be produced. Viek"s Illustrated. Hye ‘© OF THE TeEgTH.—A hard crust is the best possible dentifrice. I never could get my- self to believe in the natural necessity of a teeth- brush. The African nations, the Hindoos, the ives of southern Europe, the South Sea Is- landers, the Arabs, the South American yege- tarians, in short three-fourths of our fellow men, besides our next relatives, the frugivorous animals, have splendid teeth without sozodont. I really betieve that ours decay from sheer dis- use, the boarding-house homo lives chiefly on Pap—wants all his meats soft-boiled, and growls at cold biseuit or an underdone Potato; *in other words, he delegates to the cook the proper functions of his teeth. We hear occasionally of old men getting a second. or rather third, set of teeth. I met one of them in northern Guatemala, and ascertained that he had become toothless during a twelve-years’ sojourn in a seaport town, and that he got his mew set upon his return to his e, Where cireumstances obliged him e the hard corncake diet of his boyhood His teeth had reappeared as soon as | their services were called for, and would biy never have absented themselves if a pap diet had not made them superfluous. An artificial his best incisor ‘Upon an unex; bone. Every old dentist knows hundreds of city customers whom the daily use of a tooth brush did not save from the necessity of applying, before the end of the fortieth . for a complete “celluloid set.” I do not say that a soit tooth brush and such dentifrices Be an cargleg burned arrow: harm, but, for sanitary purposes, such precau- must be supplemented by dental exercise. achild invigorate its teeth by chewing a crust, or, better yet. a handful of St. John's bread” or carob beans, the edible pod of the Mimosa siliqua. Children and whole tribes the northern races seem to feel an instinctive esire to exercise their teeth upon some solid substance, as pet squirrels will cnaw the furni- ture if you give them nut-kerneis instead of nuts. ‘Thus Koll tells us that the natives of southern are addicted to the practice of chew- ing a vegetable product which he ut first sup- to be pumpkin or melon seeds, but to be the much harder seed of the Turkish sunflower (Hetianthus is 2, Their Batioval diet consisis of milk, fukuruz (hominy, with butter, etc..)and boiled ‘mutton, and they seem to feel that their Turkoman jaws need Hennig J more substantial. The schoolboy habit ghawing pen-holders, fingernails, ete, may have similar significance. The Mimosa siliqua would yield abundantly in our Southern states, and its sweet pods would make an excellent substitute for ebewing-cum. Our ice of sipping ice-cold and steaming-hot 8, turn about, has also a very injurious effect upon the brittle substance that forms the ename! of our teeth; no porceiaine-glaze would stand such abuse for any lenzth of time, and ex- has taught huaters and dog-fanciers it destroys even the of fel keeper says that in a restau- man who buys the least wi neise and show. 5 if oneezg | ¢ Cop Mrats.—Chop | is nothing to} A Lesson in Phrenolegy. Round-eyed persons see much, live much in the senses, but think less. Narrow-eyed per- sons, on the other hand, see less, but think more and feel more intensely. It will be observed that the eyes of children are open and round. Their whole life is to receive Impressions. It is oniy when childhood is maturing toward man or Wwoinanhood that theaght comes, if it comes at ail. Bat what is it that most leads to reflection? nr errors, our short-comings, our teach us to think before we act, to nh step, to weigh every motive. Whea, therefore, tye upper eyelid—for it which has the test amount of mobility— droops over the eye, it indicates not merely re- flection, but something painful to refleet about. Hence the length or drooping of the upper eye- id betokens confession and penitence. The | drooping of the haif of the eyelid from the outer | angle to the center indicates the disposition to confess one’s faults to parents or seniors, to a ther confessor,” or to the Supreme Being. The drooping of the half of the eyelid from the inner angle to the center betokens a disposition to repent, and to “do works meet, for repent- ance.” Closely allied to these signs are those of prayerfulness and humility. The former is indi- cated by the muscle which turns the eye directly upward. The faculty of hamility is indicated b; the muscle which turns the eye directly dow! ward. as represented in the pictures of Ma- donna. Prayerfulness is usually } connection with the sign of confession, |and pumility in connection with | penitence; ‘the reason of wh | between the faculties of penitence and humility there is the sane close connection as between | confession and praver. One who has more praye: than humility has the eye turned habitnally somewhat upwards, so that the upper part of i is a little covered by the upper eyelid, ht Space between the iris and the lower lid. The reverse is true | one who has more bumility than pra faeulty of truth—that is, the love of it—i: cated by the musele which surrounds the eye. and wrinkles. Justice is indi muscle which causes perpendic inkies between the eyebrows. wrinkles under the eve, for which some pers are remarkable, indicate the love of mathe- ematical accuracy: and wrinkles curving up- wards from the outer ai of the eye and eye- brow indicate probity or personal truthfulness. There are three degrees of the facuity of justice. The first is a kind of exactness or strict honesty in small money matters, which some people would call closeness, and is indicated by a single per- pendieular w brows. The second is the dispusition to re- quire justice in others, and is indicated by two perpendicular lines or wrinkles, one on each side of the center—a very common si: The | third is conscientiousness, or the disposition to apply the rule of justice to one’s self, and is in- dicated by three or more wrinkles or lines, especially noticeable extending above the eyebrow when the muscle is action. The love of command is indieated by one or more short transverse root of the nose, exactly It may be seen in great in masters and teachers, and in those generally who are fond of exercis- ing authority. In those who are wanting in the ulty of command frequently acts with that part of justice which reprimands, or requires others todo right, and both togetter produce that frowning and lowering brow which is so terrible | to evil-doers, or to those who loye to be ap- | proved rather than coademned.—Phrenological Magazine. ‘The Dying Year. AUTUMN THOUGHTS ON THE SOLEMN HUSH OF NATURE BY THE SAD-EYED PurT OF WYOM- ING. ‘From the Lamarie Boomerang. There can be nothing sadder than the solemn hush of nature that precedes the death of the year. The golden glory of autumn with the billowy bronze and velvet azure of the skies above the royal robes of oak and maple, be- speak the closing hours of nature's teeming life and the silent farewell to humanity's gauze underwear. Thus while nature dons her regal robes of seariet and gotd in honor of the farewell bene- fit to autumn, the sad-eyed poet steals s wiftly away to the neighboring ciothes line, and in honor of nature’s grand blow-out dons the flaming flannels of his friend out of respect for the hectic flush of the dying year. Leaves have their time to fall, and so has the price of coal. And yet how sadly at variance with decaying nature is the robust coal market. Another glorious summer with its wealth of pleasant memories is stored away among the archives of our history. Another gloomy winter is upon us. These wonderful colors that flame across the softened sky of Indian summer like the gory banner of a royal conquerer come but to warn us that in a few short weeks the water- pipe will be busted in the kitchen and the deco- rated wash-bowl will be broken. We flit through the dreamy hours of summer like swift-winged bumble bees amid the honey- suckle and pumpkin blossoms, storing away perhaps little glucose honey and buckwheat pancakes for the future; but all at once, like a newspaper thief in the ‘night, the king of frost and ripe, mellow. chilblains is upon us, and we crouch beneath the wintry blast and hump our spinal column “4 into the crisp air like a Texas steer that has thoughtlessly swallowed a raw cactus. Life is one continued round of alternate joys and sorrows. To-day, we are on the top wave of prosperity and warming ourselves in the glad sunlight of plenty, and to-morrow we are cast down and depressed financially, and have to stand up the washerwoman for our clean shirt or stay at home from tha opera. The October sky already frowns down upon us, and its frozen tears begin to fall. The little birds have hushedsheir little lay. So has the fatigued hen. Only @ little while and the awning chasm in the cold, caim features of the Mhanksstving turkey will be filled with volup- tuous stuffing and then sewed up. The florid features of the polygamous gobbler will be wrapped in sadness, and pie will be a burden, for the veal cutlet goeth to his long home, and the ice-cream freezer is broken in the woodhouse. Oh, Time! thou bald-headed pelican with the venerable corn-cutter and thesecond-hand hour- glass, thou playest strange pranks upon the children of men. No one would think, to look at thy bilious countenance and store teeth. that in thy bony bosom lurked such eccentric schemes. The chubby boy, whose danger signals hangs sadly through the lattice-work of his pants. knows that Time, who waits for no man, will one day, if he struggles heroically on, give him knowledze and suspenders, and a solid girl, and experience and a soft white moustache, and eventually a low grave in the valley beneath the sighing elms and the weeping willow, where, in the misty twilight of the year, noiselessly upon his breast shall fall the dead leaf, while the silent tear of the gray autumnal sky will bie sink into the yellow grass above his hea A Balladine. From the Fair Journal. ‘She was the prettiest girl, Iween ‘That mortal eyes had ever seen; Her name is Annabel Christine, Her Were curied with bandoline, Her cheeks were smoothed with vaseline, Her teeth were brushed with tine dentine, Her lace was wasied In coaline, Her gloves were cleaned with gasoline. She Wore a dress of grenadine, Looped over a skirt of brilliantine; Her petticoat was bombazine, Her foot was shod with a kid bottin ler wounds were healed with ne ‘Tin they hed ir republte Ai i “y Teac] ’ repul rgentt Where they were married by the Dean” And lived On oleomargarine. —__—__+e-___—_ A Story is told in Michizan about one of the members of the Detroit conference which is too | good to keep. He was spending a day in the | country, and was invited to rane. They had chicken for ainner, of course, much to the gnef of a little boy in the household, who had lost his favorite hen to provide the feast. After dinner prayer was . and while the preacher ‘Was praying a poor little lonesome chicken came running under the house crying for its absent mother. The little boy could restrain himself no longer. He put his mouth down te a hole in the floor and shouted: “Peepy, peepy, I didn't kill your mother. They killed her for that big preacher's dinner.” The “, Was sald very z qi 2 if z He i made large in| sons | nkle or line between the eye-| in| About Breakfast. SUGGESTIONS 48 TO PREPARING AND PUTTING IT ON THE BOARD. Christian Union. In France the first breakfast consists simply of a cup of coifee and a roll, while in England it is a hearty meal composed ofvarious substantial dishes, both hot and cold, of which the mem- bers of the family partake at their convenience instead of assembling at a stated hour. Our busy American life seems to demand something more substantial than the one and more prompt and regular than the other, and American break- fasts are made a special feature by some of the French restaurants. The housekeeper should study variety in the breakfasts she offers her family, not only from day today, but changing a3 much as possible with the seasons. The things which are most suggestive of comfort on @ cold winter's morning are by no means tempt- ing in July, when we need not only lighter clothing bat lighter food. Too often the meal loses all character in a continual round of steak orchops the year through, and dainty dishes which are really less expensive are ignored. Cold meats or chicken can be easily made into, | cToquettes, or minced and welt seasoned an | Served on slices of water toast. Eggs can be cooked in such a variety of ways that one need never tire of them, and the same may be said of Potatoes. In their season, tomatoes siiced and served with Mayonaise dressing or a simple dressing of oil and vinegar are vy nice for breakfast. There is no more wholesome or tempting addition to the morning meal than ruit served as a first course. QOat-meal_por- \ ridge, too, is so healthful an article of food that it should be used universally. If it is neces- sary, in order to economize time in the morning. | to set the breakfast-table the night before, it should be carefully covered with an old linen tabiecioth orsomething of the kind kept for the purpose. The tea orcoffee service should be placed in line at one end of the table before the hostess, and it is no longer customary to stand | them on a tray. which are the prettiest if they are pure white, are put at the opposite end of the table for the one or more substantial lishes and at the sides for vegetables. A table | setin this way looks mach better than when st and hostess sit opposite each other at of the table. as_in that case all the larger dishes are crowded in the centre. A fork should be placed at the left of each plate and a knife atthe richt. The tab poons and salt- | stands are arranged at the corners of the table. first course, as oranges or peaches, a plate upon which is a doily, tinger-bowl, fork and fruit et at each place. After the fruit has been removed the more substantial part of the breakfast is brought on. The pot in which the coffee is made should be of a kind which is presentable at table, as the coffee is not so good if it is poured off the grounds into an urn. If it is aot possible to have cream tor It boiled milk ha spoonful of condensed milk in each cup to make it richer is the best substitute. Cakes | to be eaten with sirup should be served at the last of the meal, and the plates and the knives and forks changed for them. It is well to have all the plates which will be needed ready for use on the butfet, except in winter, when tiey may be consigned to the plate-warmer. eae Sr Risen ‘The Five Tenors. A story is told in most Parisian greenrooms of “The Manager and the Five Tenors.” The man- ager had engaged a French operetta troupe to perform in a city of South America. He was the most polite and generous of managers. He offered high terms, promised his proteges a beneat apiece, made the best arrangements for their comfort on the voyase out, and at last had the satisfaction of steaming off with them all. The day when they started was a fine one, and as soon as the shores of France had faded ont of sight the eompa' k up their spirits, began to sins But very soon they stopped, and tive gentlemen were seen to stare at one another with consternation. They were all five te ie . how is this?” dene. “I was d only tenor. That is my case toc ed in another. and so said they all. The er had slunkdown into the cabin during this altercation, but he was called up again and was requested to furnish explanations. “Calm your minds,” he said in a cheerful tone. “You are five tenors now, but I calculate that four of you will be carried off by the vomito negro as Soom aswe land, and I promise that the one who survives shall be my only tenor.” Under this grim jest may perhaps lurk a grain of tact, which it would be well not altogether to lose sight of.—London Daily News. ———— ‘Fobacco as a Match Maker, From the London Daily Telegraph. All the nervousness, embarrassment and febrile excitement attendant, upon the question” in highly civilized countries are avoided by young men of the Tchulian Tartar variety desirous to marry, whose simple and discreet custom it is to ‘ascertain their chances of success or failure in matrimonial enterprise by the following proceeding: The Tehulian Corlebs in search of a wife having filled a brand new pipe with frazrant tobacco. stealthily enters the dwelling of the fair one upon whom has bestowed his affections, deposits the pipe upon a conspicuous article of furniture, and retires on tiptoe to some convenient hiding place in the neichborhood, local etiquette re- quiring that he should execute this strategic movement apparently undetected by the dam- sel of his choice or any member of her family. Presently he returns without further affectation or secrecy, and looks into the apartment in a casual sort of way. A single zlance at the pipe he left behind him enabtes him to learn the fate of his proposal. If it hasbeen smoked, he forth an accepted and exultant bridegroom, if not, the offer of his hand and heart has been ir- revocably rejected as not even worth a puff of tobacco. By this ingenious expedient the pain and humiliation of verbal refusal and fruitless pleadings are spared to luckless wooers, and Tartar maidens are saved from importunities justly regarded as peculiarly trying to female sensibility. The pipe, considered as a matrimo- nial embassador, has at least: this to recommend. it—that it may be relied upon to commit no breach of confidence if its mission prove sue- cessft ———— ‘The Names the States, HOW THEY ALL CAME BY THEIR QUEER TITLES. From the New York Times. < The Hon. Hamilton B. Staples read a paper at the annual meeting of the American Antiqua- rian society, in Worcester, on the 21st instant, in which he discussed the origin of the names ofseveral of the states. His conclusions were as follows: New Hampshire gets its name from Hampshire, England. Massachysetts is derived from an Indian name, first given to the bay, Signifying “near the great hills”. Rhode Island has an obscure origin; the “Island of Rhodes,” the “Island of the Roads,” and a Dutch origin, “Red Island,” were mentioned, the first seeming to have the best historical support. Connecticut is an Indian name, sinifying “land on a long tidal river.” New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela- ware and Maryland were passed over. Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia have a royal origin. Maine was ae os the Seco it ve supposed to contain the ‘mayne portion” of New England. Vermont has no especial ques- tion, except that it is claimed to have first been an alias—New Connecticut, alias Vermont. Kentucky popularly signifies either a -‘dark and bloody ground” or “a bloody river.” but its origin signifies “the head of a river,” or “the long river.” Tennessee comes from its river, the name being derived from the name of an Indian village on the river—“Tanasee.” Ohio is named after an Indian name, signifying “something great,” with an accent of admira- tion. Indiana comes from the name of an early land company. IUinois from the Indian—the name of atribe. Michigan is claimed to mean “lake country;” It probably came from the name of the lake, “Great Lake,” which bore this before the adjacent land was named. Louisiana is from the French, Arkansas and Missouri are Indian—the former being beauti- ful; the latter is claimed to mean in its original “muddy water,” which describes the river. Iowa in also tte with (apseres meaning. Texas is popularly supposed to be Indian, but may be Spanish. Florida is Spanish, pe sabre land.” ine =e dr peta ae in. _ It is probably Indian, 8 Spanis! in is claimed. California comes from a S| b ro- mance of 1510. Nevada takes its name fromthe mountains, who get theirs from a resemblance is Indian, “sky tinted water." Nebraska i va er.” Nel ig va- viously rendered “shallow water” and “fiat country.” Kansas is from an Indian root. Kaw, the French. Missisaippl is “great Alabama is Indian d a tribe, signifying, as lac aide Se The heretofore despised banjo is to be elevated to the firs rank as e mmsteal Inetruveent. fete one has discovered that it isof very arcient origin, and of course that is much in its favor, 2s many deUght in is if fruit which requires handling is to form the | “popping | Far! Animals of Maine. From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal, Oct. 15. The value of the fur business done in the state of Maine annually exceeds $100,000. The largest individual dealer is a man in Brewer, who handles $35,000 worth per year. Thennmber of far-buyers in the state is not large. Their chief suurces of supply arein the regions at the head-waters ofthe Kennebec, and Penobscot rivers, and the streams entering into them. Sportsmen and occasional hunters fur- nish a few peits, but the bulk of the furs is fur- nished by the professional There are many hundreds of men in Maine who earn their i trapping, and fishing, and who do nothing else, except, perhaps, actas guide for ck ers inthe summer months, for the whole year. They are just about starting now, and will re- inain till the latter part of November. Every year the fur catch decreases, and the bounds of the trapping lines are gradually “becoming more limited. While game of most kinds is retreating further into the forest and becoming scarce, it is said that the number of moose and deer, which are protected by law, is increasing. In num- bers the muskrat exceeds any other kind of game trapped for its fur in Maine and handled | in Lewiston. They are caught in common rat traps, and 50 of these small traps are sometimes set by one trapper. Immense quantities of them are caught. ight or ten thousand of them are shipped from Lewiston annually. Most of them are exported to Germany and Iialy, where the skins are dyed and furnish a popular fur for linings and ladies’ apparel. *They are among the cheapest of furs. A very large quantity of skunk fur is also shipped from this city. It is used for trimmings in this country, and is often passed off for Alaska sable. The larger part of the skunk catch probably goes to France and Germany. The otter is one of the most valu- able and rare fur-bearing animals tra Maine. Not more than 1,000 otters are a caught in the whole stat ake & beautiful and warm fur, which is highly valued | by the Russ’ Greeks and Chinese. The fur is | ad: brown, and two kinds, one being | soft, short and thiek, and the other longer and | coarser and intermixed with the former. The value of a dressed skin runs from #10 to $18. Many of the otter skins caught in this state are | sent almost around the world in the course of | trade, before reaching the place where they are | finally worn. They are sometimes sent from | Lewiston to New York, thence to London, to Leipsic, Moscow, Nijni a destination in Chin: some high and 1 | number of “fishers” are trapped in a good many sables annually find ‘their | way to this market. The value of our ble or beech marten is much less than that of the Russian sable, which is the most costly of all furs. It is a small animal, about three times as large as the common we Only about 25,000 are annually taken. These | small skins sell at $25 to $200 each. The chief | demand is in Russia, where the use of the sable is monopolized by the royal family the fisher (an animal resemb! the fox) is rich and soft and dark brown in color. It is very little used in this country, but goes chiefly to Poland, Germany and Russia. The annual sale: of red fox furs in Lewiston are very large. Most are exported. The Russians use the red | backs, and the Greeks use the bell which are white. The fur of the bear, of which many are every year, is used both for robes and for ary purposes. Thousands of beavers are led on the streams flowing into our vers every year. The! a 2 s ele in the fur trad purpose has been greatly diminished b; the employment of silk and ot materials. It makes handsome trimming and tine collars and gloves for gentlemen. ‘The lynx is an ani the traps. The naturally grayish, with dar mourning attire. Minks are fre quently found not far from home, and many come down from the Dead riy mink ft favorite fur in this eoun- and coney skins are used exter and for trimmings. means a yulzar fur, and is not patronized solely by woodmen. Nearly all the raccoon furs ar sent to Russia, where they are worn as coat linings by the Russian noble: see A Battle with Ice. - THE CORWIN’S HARD STRUGGLE IN REACHING THE BEACH OF WRANGEL LAND. John Muir in the San Franeiseo Bulletin. After cruising along the Siberian coast for a few days and calling at the Cape Wankern vil- laze to procure as many as possible of the arti- cles taken by the natives froin the wreck of one of the lost whalers, we found ourselves once more on the edge of Wrangel ice, and once more in dea: yg on the norning of Aucust9. Ahugh white bear came swimming through the drizzle and gloom and black heaving waves toward the ship as we lay at anchor, guided, doubtless, by scent. He was greeted by a volley of rifle balls, no one of which injured him, however, and for- tunately he could not be pursued. The fog lasted in dismal thickness until 1 o'clock in the morning of the 11th, when we once more saw the hilis and dales of Wrangel land hopefully near. We discovered a lead that enabled us to approach within perhaps fifteen miles of the nearest portion of the coast. At times we thousht ourselves much nearer, when the light falling tavorably would bring out many of the smaller features, such as the subor- dinate ridg on the faces of the moun- sand hills and the small dimpling hollows with their ditferent shades of color, furrows that seemed the channeis of small streams and the peculiar rounded outlines due to glacial action. Then pushing eagerly through the hue drifting masses toward the nearest cape, judging by the distinctness of its features, it would suddenly seem to retreat again into the blue distance, and some other point catching the sunlight wouid be seen rising grandly across the jazzed hummocky ice plain, relieved against the blue shadowy por- tions to right and left as a background. It was not long, however, after tracing one lead after another, and coming always to a stand-still with the ship's prow against ice of enormous thickness, before we were forced to the conclu- clusion that all efforts made hereabout would now be vain. The ice did not seem to have been broken or moved in any way for years. We turned, therefore, and made our way back to open water with difficulty and steamed along the edge of the pack to the northeastward. After a few hours’ run we found the ice more promising, showing traces of having been well crushed and pounded, enabling us to bear grad- ually in toward the land through a wedge-shape ledge about twenty miles in length. Next morning, steaming ahead once more to the end of our water lane, we were rejoiced to find that though there was now about eight or ten miles of ice separating us from the shore it was less firmly packed, and our little vessel made a way through it without difficulty until we were within two miles of the shore, when we found the craggy blocks extremely hard and wedged closely, but a patch of open water near the beach, now plainly in sight, tempted us to continue the struggle, and with the throttle thrown wide open the barrier was forced, and by 10 o'clock am. the Corwin was riding at anchor less than a cable's length from a dry gravel bar, stretching in front of the mouth of ariver. The long bat- tle we had fought with the ice was now iairly won, and neither the engine nor hull of the ship seemed to have suffered any appreciable damage from the terrible shocks and strains they had undergone. Going inland, along the left bank of the river, we found it much larzerthan it at first appeared to be. There was no snow left on the lowlands or any of the hills or mountains in sight, excepting the remnants of heavy drifts; nevertheless it was still about seventy-five yards wide, twelve feet deep and was flowing on with aclear, stately current at a speed of about three miles an hour. While the snow is melting it must be at least two hundred yards wide and twenty feet deep, and its sources must lie well back in the interior of the country. Not the slightest trace, however. coyld we find along the river, along the shore or,on the bluff to the northeastward of the Jeannefte party or of any human inhabitants. A land | more severely soli- tary could hardly be found ‘where on theface of the globe. = ~ = ———_—+oo “MR. hilar began a citizen as ne entered an office near the City Hail, # one year ago to-day I came in here and ‘éiilled you a liar. I believed what T said, and fora year we have not spoken to each other. Within a week past I have found out that I was thfstaken, and | now apologize tor my harsh woffs and sorrew that japenase.” I was ever led’ .” “Mr. G.,” repliéd th extended his hand,’ “your frankness frankness. During the lastyear but one you and I were friends. You borrowed uened ox seventy dollars of me in small sums, and never paid a dollar. This last yeapgve have been ene- intes, and Lam ahead fin: . White Fmay jong: to forgive you, I out fer the in- Basle) of any growing tne 3 inise by nodding to each of vee our own way ontside.” “Sir, F to you in or The fur of | ‘The French Pelice System. ‘The police of Paris is under the direction of a Prefect, who Is appointed by the minister of the interior, and who is required to reside at the prefecture, which stands on the Quai de I'Hor- loge; adjoining the palace of justice and the prison of the Conciergerie. He has under his orders a force of nearly seven thousand police- men in uniform,twenty-one officers of the pence, eighty district commissioners of police (Com- missaires), five hundred detectives and a num- ber of agents secrets, or private paid informers, known only to himself and to thetwo or three principal members of his staff. This staff con- sists of the directors, sub-directors and clerks of twelve sections: each of which transacts a special class of business; thus there is the “Bureau des Etrangers,” “Bureau de la Surete Generale,” *-Bureau des Garnis” (for the super- vision of hotels and lodzing-houses), and so on. For administrative purposes, Paris ts divided inte twenty wards (arrondissements) and eighty quarters. Each ward has a force of about three hundred and twenty-five policemen, conumanded by an officer of the peace; and each quarter a police station, manazed by a commissaire. The officer of the peace is the captain of the police corps in his ward; he wears a silver-laced uni- form and sword, ranks with a captain in the army, and is always a well-educated gentleman, of a status mueh superior to an English super- intendet He is never chosen from the rank: of the police sergeants, but is generally selected eromivchat oar may call the upper or gentlemen- detectives of the prefecture, or else from among the secretaries and clerks to the directors. His pay amounts to about £200 a year, and he is lodged in the Marie of his ward, where he is | provided with a comfortable suite of apartments with coal and gas free. His duties are to super- intend the men of his brigade, to go rounds of j inspection in order to see that they are on their | beats, and on important occasions, when great crowds have to be kept in order, or when riots have to be suppressed, he takes command of his brigade in the streets. Three times a ‘day he sends reports to the chief of the municipal po- | lice at the Prefecture concerning all that has oc- curred within his ward. In addition to the bri- gades in the twenty wards, there is a “Brigade Centrale” of two hundred and fifty men and an officer, who, likethe A Di of the London police. form a reserve available for special | duty As the area and population of Paris are barely equal to half those of London, the seven thou- sand Parisian policemen form a stronger force than the ten thousand and odd who guard the Enzlish capital: and we must add to them the gendarmes and republican guards, who, thouzh under the orders of the minister of war, may really be described as mounted police.’ The | Parisian policemen, who used to be called ser- gent de ville wut is now termed gardien de la pair, has nothing to do beyond keeping order in the streets. escort prisoners in the cellular vans from the Is tu the law courts, and stand by them in the criminal docks: who attend at theaters, casinos and all places of publi il who | line the streets whenever there is any pageant. |B: On the race-courses soldiers are’ generally | B&! pressed into service to keep the course clear and thns policemen are never diverted from their regular beats and duties. i so important that a policeman should learn to know all the people in the district where he is stationed that a man’s beat is scarcely ever changed. The average term of service in the force is fifteen years, and during that time a man will have to walk, daily and nightly, the till he knows the fae oman and child in the locality. By day each policeman walks singly; by night they always go in pairs, at tin’ the populous Their pay t gradual! ighty pounds. It is the republican guards who | } sidered | Gon of ix pounds | P. Every ward of Paris, as above said, has four | quarters, and each quarter has its police station ith a commissaire. The commissnire de police is an official having no equivalent England. He is the eustos morum, the censor, the execu- | wistrate of the district where he resides, He is not a justice. for he has no power to pass sentences; but he has unlimited power as to ordering ‘the arrest of persons whom he may as suspicious ch: and as arrest France generally involves three days’ deten- pats the liberty of the subject e's merey.—Cornhili Magazine. Eating Before Sleeping. AN OLD-TIME RULE REVERSED BY AN ADVOCATE OF LATE SUPPE! From the New York Journal of Commerce. « Man is the only animal that can be taught to | sleep quietly on an empty stomach. The brate ereation resent all efforts te ¢oax them to such | a violation of the laws of nature. The lion roars in the forest until he has found his prey and when he has devoured it he sleeps over until he needs another meal. The horse will paw all nicht in the stable and the pig will squeal in the pen, refusing all rest of sleep until Yesterday morning a man witha load of fowls, country produce, &c., stopped in front of the house of a prominent citizen, and the good wife came out to inspect the display. “Guess I'l take those two wild ducks for to- morrow’s dinner.” “Guess you'd better take something else, madam,” said the produce man. “I met your husband on the road this morning with a wagon, two horses, three dogs, and a handred rounds of cartridges, making for the big duck | slough.” “Oh, Indeed! The poor man.” replied the lady. “You had better give me four ducks; he may want some when he gets home.” ——__——_+e~_— Grandpa’s Whiskers. Boston Journal. Grandpa — kiss wee Sallie; he Says BO, Says his whiskers thick and bushy Prick her so. Grandpa's head ts smooth and shiny m the top, Where the hair bean (o thin, amd Would not stop. Grandpa kisses; Sallie questions, tls sald. So) “Grandpa, why not put your whiskers your head?” M. Tappen. ———__—_-e- = “You are no gentleman, sir,” said the irate Mrs. Hambone as Mr. Trimmins stood at the front door, waiting for the expressman to carry away his trank—he still owed her for two) weeks’ sustenance. “I know it, madam, I feel | it. I have frequently le the same remark to myself in my solitary moments. I'm no gentle- man, buat I must eat.’ ¥. Com. Bulletin. In case of fire Alb: firemen will not touch | the electric light wires, but will ent down the By this means they avoid the danger ‘ing from wire cutting, which is said to be serious, LS? OF LERTERS WASHINGTON ATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 188i. EETTo obtain any of these Letters the applicant must gues “ADvEwtise> LersEus,”” and give the date of | "Tf not called for within one month they will be sent e to the Dead Letter Offica Arthur CC Mra rmstead Emily Atwood Hetiie Absua Laara Allen Lottie Avs Mary Keys Ann Lewis Brooke ive Baney Annie Bary Amel jack Amie E Beump Catherine i Bramen Catherine Marshall Emma ‘Bamell Elizabeth, jaca FP Mra dy Geo Mrs Marshall Hattie Moreton Idah ‘Maurow Jennie L Maxon J'S Mrs Gen Miner Jennie Miller Loin Mi rc: rool $ jain eCurdy Flora. Nelon Sarah E 08 ‘Pa: Mary F Pitney Matis inknes) Mai Pyne lbert Mra Prosen Surah Races Dawson Bridget aroane Mrs Eddie Sputter B Mra Smoot CQ Mrs Exisn She Edmond? ary Sheiton Emeline Etison Ma Siauzhter Fannie B Swann HC Mra Green Annie Godfrey Bertie Mrs Gray killen Mrs ‘Catherine Thomson Fiorence ‘Thomas JW Mrs Tompson Laura 108 HE: Huss Charlotte ne they are fed. The animals which chew the cud | Hack: have their own provision for a | before dropping off to their night Man can train himself to the habit of sleeping without a preceding meal, but only after long years of practice. As he comes into the world nature is two strong for him, and he must be fed before he will sleep. A child’s stomach is small, and when perfectly filled. if no sickness disturbs it, sleep fellows naturally and inevita- bly. As digestion goes on the stomach begins to empty. A single fold in it will take th little sleeper restless; two will waken it; and if it is hushed again to repose the nap is short, and three folds put an end to the slumber. goric or other narcotic may close its eyes again, but without either food or some stupefying drug it will not sleep, no matter how healthy it may be. Not even an angel who learned the art of minstrelsy in a celestial choir can sing a babe to sleep on an empty stomach. We use the oft-quoted illustration, “sleeping as sweetly as an infant,” because this s'umber ofa child follows immediately after its stomach is completely filled with wholesome food. The sleep which comes to adults long hours after partaking of food, and when the stomach is nearly or quite empty, is not after the type of infantile repose. There is all the difference in the world between the sleep of refreshment and the sleep of exhaustion. To sleep well the blood that swells the veins in the head during our busy hours must flow back, leaving a greatly diminished volume be- hind the brow that lately throbbed with such vehemence. To digest well this blood is needed at the stomach, and nearer the fountains of life. Itisa fact established beyand the possibility of contradiction that sleep aids digestion, and that the process of digestion is conducive to refresh- ing sleep. It needs no argument to convince us ofthis mutual relation. The drowsiness which always follows the well-ordered meal is itself a testimony of nature to this inter-dependence. The waste of human life by the neglect of this lesson is very great. Thedaily wear and tear of the body might be restored more fully than it usually is if this simple rule was not so systema- tically violated. Sleep is wonderfully recupera- tive, but it may be shorn of half its benefits by unfavorable conditions. Foul air in the bed- chamber leaves the sleeper almost as exhausted inthe morning as when weary with the day’s labors he sank upon his bed. A gnawing stom- ach, empty of food, takes out of the nightly leep that refreshing sense of comfort which properly belongs to it. It leaves the blood to throb in the heated brow, and haunts the slum- ber with an ever present source of disquiet. It is like the sleep which the mother takes while her sick child is under the care of watchers in another room. An uneasy stomach is just like an aching heart in its effect upon the nightly re- pose. A healthy person who goes to bed on a fall stomach will always awake in the morning with a better eat for his breakfast. If dinner is eaten in the middle of the day and a light sup- aes is served at six in the afternoon, & hearty luncheon should be provided at ten in theeven- ing, or Just before the hour of retiring. The rule should be to eat at the last moment before going to bed, whatever that hour may be. And his latest meal should not be of “light” viands, asthis phrase is commonly un . 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