Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1886, Page 18

OMAHA DAILY DECEMBER THE HOME AND FIRESIDE. BHow to Make Home Attractive, Oheery and Mirthfal, KEEPING HOUSE FOR NEIGHBORS Obedience of Children-Too Much Kweoping—foys' and Girls’ Clothes — Hints r Housckeepers, Attractive Homos, As the long winter evenings are up: on us how much may be done to make home attractive. Women who have sons to rear and dread the demotalizing influ ences of bad associates, ouglt to under- stand the nature of young vanhood. It is oxcessively restless, It is disturbed by vain ambitions, by thirst for action, by longings for excitement, by irrepressible desires to touch hfe in manifold ways, If you, mothers, rear your sons so that their homes are associated with the repression of natural instinets, you will be sure to throw them in the society that in any measure can supply the need of their hearts. They will not go to the public houses at first, for love of liquor—the, go tor the animated and Ilar- ious companionship they find there, wh they find does so much to repress the disturbing restlessness in their breasts, See to it, then, that the homes compete with public’ place their attractiveness. Open your bl by day and light bright firés at night. Hluminate your homes. Hang pictures upon the walls, Put books new: pers on your tables. Have music and en tertaining games. Banish demons and dullness and apathy, that have so long ruled in your household, and bring in mirth and good chee Invent occu tions for your sons. Stimulate their am- bitions in worthy directions. While you make home their delight, fill them with higher purposcs than mere pleasure, Wiicther they shall pass happy boyhood and enter upon manhood with refined tastes and noble ambitions depends on vou. Believe it possible that with ex- ertion and right means, a mother muy have more control over the destiny of her boys than any other influence whatever. Women Who Keep House to the Nelghbors, Kate Upson Clarke: Women are al- ways somewhat supersensitiye about their work, ‘There is probably no point on which this supersensitivene: displuyed than that of housekeepin, be ealfed a *“siack” housckeeper stings a womnnn to the quick, no matter how de- served the impeachment may be; yet, the moment & woman does that she is exoit- ng herself in - her housekeeping to do ore than she otherwise would for fear that “people will talk;” that moment she begins to endanger her whole theory of life.” It is this keeping house so as to plensa society and to placate the “‘neigh- Bors" which 1 a{ the bottom of muolsof the overwork and the belitthng of the mind which are the bane of housckeep- Pleas: try to keep your house s ' suys a clever writer, “or_else a stepmiother will bring up your children.” “This simple but strong prescription of the matter throws a Hlood of light upon it. It intimates that a housckeeper has duties Dbesides keeping house, and paramount to that one, A lhousckeeper is usually a wife. A wife, besides seeing thut Ler husband has clean rooms to live in, well-cooked meals and neat clothes, should make herself a companion to him. His mind is_usually sharpened by his activity in business or ll('::lu~~|l»|1:|l Jife. She must see to it that her own mind is kept as sharp as possi- ble by reading and study. Ske should try to remain so far a8 her eflorts can go what she probably was in the days of their courtship—the most intevesting per- son in the world for him to be with. Above all things, she must keep herself well and strong, or else good spirits, which are the most eharming attribute in cither man or woman, will be lacking Then she is usually a mother. Her ildven are fuil of questions. ‘They de- her companionship and her conversa- tion. Whose el; n be so good for tl s hers? She should see to i+ that they fhave these in full measure and of good wuality. She is also a member of some socinl cirele. The greatost work that womun cun do to improve the social fabric 1s, of course, in the home; but there are many outside duties which no self pecting woran should negleet, and for which she shouid have s portion of her time and strength e keening of the house, then, is only one of severid voeations of the house nd_subordinate to those of the and the social being That ay, the keeping of the home in which family and fricnds are to be ted and sheltered 15 only a means to the se- curing of their health and happiness. Just us soon as a woman begins to think of the cleaning and cooking as ends in themselves, and devotes herself to them to such an extent that her usefulness in higher spher mpaired, she is mak- ing u mistake. Keep the balance true. Remember that the objects of our earthly :..n ure to keep our loved ones well and vy Lelegate conversation about the house- holid afluirs to the background, unless the humorous side is uppermost. See that pEood meats, in and sobstantial, ar served, no matter what eleaning or othe work 15 going on. Do not tire yourself out with trying to do double work in a duy. By system this can be avoided Never mind what “the neighbors” say. ) continually in mind thav you ar keeping house not for the sake of keep- house, but to make a home in which husband and children ana friends shall thrive and rejoice continuully Obedience of Children. Health and Home: If you wish to muke w noble man or woman of a child, your constant thought should be how to ain w complete ascendency over it, Do this s0 unconsciously and efiectually that obedience will be like a necessary part of its nature. Itis then only that the pareat 1s certain of furnishing tho best iy al for true. mauvhood and womuuhood The erying evil of the hour is that so few parents know how, or care how, they ean hold” supreme authority over their own oflspring. A perfeetly trained ehild will tind” disobedience an uncomfortable task. A fecling of discontent and un Bappinoss comes vatarally when it fails to obey. 15 thel power Piabie Fusten as with filinl obedience \yihing more despotic in its over man than a deeply-rooted iron bands the habit of and a child can only with an effort snike off a spontancous feeling to obey. ~ We now refer tothe well-trained child, But how is it with one that lacks proper bringing up? I'lie secret is this: Most parents do not wuderstand their children’'s nature. How muny know, or fully realize, that obedience is the tirst and most important losson thut man must learn from infancy, and continue learving until life is extinct 1t is & lesson of greatr importance thai reading and aritbmetie, and it 18 much harderto thoroughly master. Never ex pect a ehild to Know how to obey until You have taught it. In order to do this You lust understand 1ts nature. - Space forbids us to elaborate as to the n necessary for this accomplishment, Let us warn our readers, howe the “divine rights of parénts” can have o intyence in gaimng wuthority ove the child. Do you expect a horse to carey out your wishes if it never has been trained? The fault 18 with the trainer. Obedience should not be taught be- canse it saves the parent much unpleas antoess. Thisis the only selfish way of the subject. Teach this lesson because it 18 a high duty. Temporary benefit and usefulness to the child is small in com parison with the lasting benefit which must ensue. Indirectly, future morality, health, fidelity, nobleé ambition, honor and in all depends on this lesson, once learned Do you wish a child with & healthy body and healthy mind? If it fails to obey you while an infant how can you be assured that it will follow the thousana and one commans “social progress and the “laws of health,'" are constantly de clining Too Mueh Sweeping. The advisability of giving every a ment a vigorous' “broom cleaning Jeastonce o weck has been so strenou insisted npon by <ome notable house keepers that it _has by many been con verted into an imperative duty. But looking at the matter in an unprejudiced light, one _eannot see why a drawing. room, inhabited perhaps a fow hours of the nfternoon and evening, or an unoc- cupied guest chamber, should require the smune amount of purification demanded by a sewing, sitting or dining room. The dust-pan and brush are labor-saving ma chines that do not receive due apprecia. tion. By their aia in removing a little dust here ana little there, the business of sweeping a whole room may be deferred at times, when at the first glance any thing less thaa a_complete routing out of furniture and dirt would seem impos- sihle. _ “Let Out.” How fast_the arms of the little people lengthen, Very few of their aprons and dresses but that the sleeves must be changed before the garment is outgrown or outworn. 1t is well to make allow- ance for growth when making sleeves, either by u tuck whose edge is concealed under or at edge of trimming, or by turn- ing in at arm-pit. But in_either case the goods, when faded, plainly show where the thrifty seamstress has “let out” the slecve For gingham dresses that will wear but fade, try turning a_decp hem at the wrist, cdging it with pretly colored braid. Now tnrn back this hiem like a curving euff—n stitch or two wall hold it in vlace—till the little arm needs the ad- ditional length to the sleeve. For the Housekeeper. In cleaning silver kerosene muy be used with advantage. Carpets may be brightened by dusting with a damp flannel mop. Ants may be driven out by springling the floor with Persian powder. Stains on wood can be removed with strong vinegar or salts of lemon. Egg stains can be removed by rubbing with common table salt. Leather chui ts may be revived by rubbing them with well-beaten white of CE. Sandpaper will whiten ivory knife- handles that may have become yellow with use or age. Simplest polish for oiled furniture.— tub oiled furniture with a woolen cloth saturated slightly with oil. A brilhant black varaigh for iron stoves and fire-places is wade by stirring ivory- black into ordin hellae varmsh. White paint that has become discolored may be nicely cleaned by using a little whiting in the water for washing. A good coment for china_is ordi carriage varnish; if put together neatly aeture will be hardly perceptible, and it is not affected by water. To clean bronzed chandeliers, lamps, ete.—These articles should only be dusted with a feather brush of soft cloth, as washing will take ofl’the bronzing. Galyanized iron pails are not desirable receptacles tor drinking water. The zinc couting is quickly affected by the water, forming u poisonous oxide of zine To clean looking-glasses. — Sponge down the glass with gum and water, equal parts; then dust down with whiting and finish with an old soft silk handker- chief. Carpets, after the dust has been beaten out, may be brightened by scattering upon thém corn meal mixed with salt; and _then sweeping it off; mix salt and meal in equal proportions. Cement for china, glass, ete.—Dissolve half an ounce of guw aecacia in a wine er, add plaster of paste; u]llpl_y with n sh to the parts to be united, For cleaning brasses belonging (o ma hy furniture use either powdered whiting or scraped rottenstone, mixed with sweet olland rub on with a chamois ar s better than ice for keepimg v putting a little vinegar on the fish it will keep perfectly well even in very hot weather. Fish is often improved in flavor under this treatment. Lo prevent pohshed stecl from rusting, after cleaning, and when not in use, take a cloth, with w very httle sweet oil on it, and wipe the Theladlover o, a8 slightly but evenly to oil the surface. Steel knives which are not in gencral use may be kept from rusting if they are dipped in a strong solution of soda~one part water to four of soda; then wipe dry, roll in flannel and Keep in a dry place Shippery-elm bark is a good remedy for sealy boilers, and has been suceessfully used for a number of years, It is placed in the boiler and left there, the scale fall- ing off in flakes, which showd be at once removed Silver becoming black may be avoided ping that which is not often used nton flannel bags, with smull bags about the size of a thimble filled with bits of gum-camphor, packed in around the articles. Inseets may be destroyed with hot alum. Put itin hot water and let it boil until the alum is dissolved. Apply hot, with a brush, and all crecping things are instantly destroyed without” danger to human life or injury to property. To clean steel ornaments.—Dip a small brush into some parafline oil and then into some emery powder—such as is used in the knife machines—and well brosh the ornaments, aud all the rust will soon come off; pohsh with @ dry leather and duster. Places at the tables for guests at dinner may be designated in this way: Have an alphabet made of tin, have each letter about thr inches high, and the little tin forms deep enou to hold a little sand or wet moss. ‘Then fill the forms with tiny fowers and leaves. To Remove Grease from Cloth.—Drop on the spot some oil of tartar or salt of wormwood which hasbeen left in o damp place till it turns into a fluid; then imme diately wash the place with luke warm water, and then with cold water, and the spot will dissappear. fed hangings may be restored by beating the dust from them and bruskhi- ing, then apply o strong lather of castile s04p by means of a hard brush; wash th lather off with clean water and afterward with alum water. When dry the colors will generally be found to be restored, To give u fiiic color to cherry-tree wood {ake oue ounce of orchunetta; cut it iuto two or three bits and put it to soak for forty-cight hours in _three ounces of good olive oil, Witn this oil anoint your Cherry-tree wood after it is worked and shaped as you intend it, aad it will give a fine lustre, Polish for leather cushious, ete.~Beat well the yolks of two eggs and the white of one; mix a tablespoenful -of gn and & teaspoonful of sugar; thicken it with wory bluck, add it 1o the eggs, and use as common _blacking; the seats or cush- jons being left y of two to harden. This is good for dressing boots or shoes. To protect brasswork.—Yellow brass may be made to keep its color, without appearing varnished, by means of a thin varnish of white shellac or a coating of collodjon. It will retain its color. for a long time withont a protective coating of any Kind, if the finish is sufliciently fine. A light film of gold is the best possible coating for brasswork Boiling water should rot be poured over tea trays, japanned goods, ectce., a8 it will make the varnish erack and peel off, have a sponge wet with warm water and a little soap if the tray be very dirty, and rub it with a cloth; if it looks smeary dust on a little flour, then rub it with a cloth, If the tray gets marked take a o of woolen cloth with a little sweet oil and rub on the marks To detect iron from steel difficult, says a Belgian journal, tinguish between iron and steel tools They have the same polish and work manship; use will commonly show the difference. To make the distinction qmekly place the tool npon a stone, and drop upon it come diluted nitric acid (four parts of water to one of acid), Ii the tool remains clean it is of iron; if of steel, it will show a black spot wl touched with the acid. These spots ¢ be casily rubbed off. RELIGIOUS, tools—It is to dis ‘The growth of the membership of Protest- ant churches in Japan is now about 500 a month, “The bishop of Virgnia has just visited nine colored congregaticns in which he confirmed over 200 persons. The population of Baltimore is 552,100, The churehes, when full, will accommodate less than 150,000 persons. In London, with its 4,704,512 inhabitants, an average of 400,000 attend morming ser: vices, and 410,000 in the evening. The Baptists have raised nearly £19,000 for the buildin - of a new church in ‘the City of Mexico. More than $5,000 are still needed. The number of adherents to Roman Ca- tholicism in India is reported to 1 in- creased from 700,000 in 1847 to 1,6 in 18 Sinee April 1last to October 1the receipts the American Bible society have been 64,04, and 500,54 volumes have been is- Dally prayers are now a part of the rontine on board every vessel of the British navy, and on the Sabbath there are frequently two services. . According to the report of the British and Foreizn Bible society for 1583, the Bible has been translated, in whole or in part, in 34 languages, A foreizn missionary society has been or- ganized in Bavaria for the piirpose of es lishing missions in_the new territor Germany in East Africa. The supreme court of Arkansas has de- cided that a Second Adventist can not law fully ignore the Sabbath beeause he obseryes Satirday as his Sabbath, ‘The Methodist church in Canada has thr local preachiers who are millionaires—W. Sanford of Hamilton, John McDonald of To- ronto, and G. A, Cox of Peterboro. ‘The Church missionary society of England has recently reccived from its missionaries in China the offer that they will themselves sup- porta missionary for five years if the society will send one to do advanced work. The Germans in Jerusalem havi congregation of their own, and und man auspices some excellént mission work is done. "The congrezation now Las 154 mem- bers, of whom, However, twenty are Arabs. Relations between the pope and the gov- ernment of Italy are unusually clouded and strained. ‘The” government proposes the total suppression of the Jesuits and confica- tion of their proverty, amounting to $70,000 a year. A recent collection in two Swedish churehes in Minuesota in response to an ap peal for a missionary church there, resulted in $10, all in coin. over 1,500 picces being pen- nies, and only six coins were as large as i 2 cent' piece. The United Presbyterian Cvpt has a working force of 215, five of these are foreign, 15 “There are 21 organized congre; unorganized mission stations, membership of 1,542, A marriage was solemnized recenty in what is known as the Old Piney Creek D'res- byterian - chur near ‘Tancytown. Md., Although this chirell is over one hundre years old, this is the first marriage ceremony ever taken place in it. he four synods of Georgia, A South Carolina and 17 aving demned Professor Woodrow for his evolu tion theories, the board of directors of the Charleston theological seminar, removed i and he will bave to go elscwhere. This controversy which had divided the southern Presbyterian church as it has not been di- vided for years, demoralized the school so that it has been closed for years. —~—— OATIONAL. mission in Twenty- are native. tions and 49 with a total con- EDU ‘There are 6,000 educated men and women inour numerous mission fields, besides a ek larger number of native helpers. ‘The sum of $10,000 was bequeatlied will by the late Samuel Jolnson, of ¢ for thie erection of a zateway at (h trance to the yard of Harvard colle Of all education, that of the earliest y leaves the most ineradicable traces, More i done toward the determination of charact for lite during the first live years than in any ten years afterward, Almost the entire army of school teachers is composed of women, “They stana in_our city sehools in proportion 1o ten o one of the otfier sex. Tuis alone entitles to thew to representation on the board, “Ten years ago the appropriation for public instruction in France was 59.00,000 franes: this year it is 152,976,000, A large part of this 15 for sehool houses ‘and furniture and the Liring of teachers in small parishes where the pesantry have had no instiuction for generations, “Ten per cent of the students in the unjver- sity of Zurich are women, ‘Twenty-ni® of them are studying medicine, fourteen philos- onhy, and twa political ceoriomy, ‘There are now forty-eight female students of medi- cme in London and in Paris 105, Within the last seven years itcen women have taken a medical dezree in Paris, “The trusiees of Johns Hopkins university have unanimously elected R W, Garrett & member of the ather who died two years The long delay 15 supposed to have been due (o the opposition of the Garretts to the questions of uniyersity buildings in the elty instead of at Clifton, the country seat of thé founder, Miss Mary 8, Brennan, matron of unt Auburn Young Ladles' institute, n Cincinnati, has received from the board of inspectors of statlonary engineers the first license to run an engine ever issued to alady in the United States, if not in the world, Miss Brennan is a vefined and intelligent young ludy, being 8 college graduate, and ‘rom her neat appearance and cultured con- versation she is tie last person in the world that would be taken for a practical engineer. - Chunks of Chinese Wisdom, A slow pot boils quickly when the cook fulls usleep. All who go to the children, Whoever gambles shoots silver builets, A hog cats, sleeps and thinks, but the glutton docs not think. A widow is like an old fits a second foot Pestilence, vice and drunkenness are the three dragoons which stole the orange of immortality from the keeper of para- dise. A wan speaks with one voice; u pen with a hundred, and a printer’s type with ten thousand, Who reads a bad book tattoos his soul A setting hen never gets tived. Whon & pig squeals Le is unhappy Some men difter from apes culy in not having tails and being wole to talk, The soul's frst home wasa clam or woin, and very often it waunts to go back te its original resting place. The father of a title, and not the son, is the one to be respected Who eats books has bad dreams The father and mother of progress are hunger and pain. Bin is a whip with which men are lashed to virtue. in his 1iCAZ0, nain en enth hell hate shoe; it never TALES OF WITS AND WAGS, An Incident of the War Told by a Vet« eran Liar, THE HAPPY FAMILY PAINTER Domestic Discipline and the Latest Gag—Preparing for Christmas Plekings From Plumb- ors' Bills. The AT M 1 am a happy 1 paint the wooden ‘animals for 1 paint their eves, their hair, their tai noses and their feet Until the connoiseur proclaims their beauty quite complete, And Speiglenach regards me s the foremost of his joys, Who thus can paint the animals e sells for X-mas toys. Happy Animivl Painter, artist, and my aame is Angelo, Spiegalbach their But prithee let me tell you, for it isa lovely joke, About the free-and-easiness that marks my master stroke 1 daub the camel here and there, 1 daub the lion too I paint the hedzehog bottle green, the gyras- cutus blue; 1 paint upon the polar bear a pensive purple smile And on the coach-dog yellow spots 1 prodi- gally pile. In fact I use the kind of paint that happens at my hand, And naturalists smile at what they cannot unders But for those scientific men I eare not over- much, Or what they say about my work; it's all the same 1 Dutch, One day a country visitor made some unkind . remarks When | was painting feathers green upon some meadow larks. I told him that to suit myself 1 painted spot or strive, And that he please would pack that down and smoke it 1in his pipe. 1 claim that wooden animals that o about on wheels And cannot howl or eat or drink or ¢'en Kick up their heels, Are not a bit more natural than are the lively tones I paint upon the wooden skins that cover up o bones, What it T put inagenta stars upou the wary Iyu What if [ clothe the tizer and rhinoceros in pink To pleasc the little boys and girls my art [ o'er emplov, g I paint the orinthoryneus green to fill their souls with joy And though with y mule I touch, It'sall thesame to me because 1w'sall thejsame in Dutch, low, red ot blue thearmy Come, Tsaae, feteh the ostriches. the lorses ana thie kids, | And pile them up before me here in little pyramids, And then fetely up the little Noal’s arks and set them in ar I've gotto paint by 5 o’clock to-night a gross or K0, And then fetch on a pot of pamnt, the first comes to hand, And T will make these animals suit any dis- tant land, And while I paint I'll dance a jig, because my joy Is such “That I can suck my thumbs and say, i the same in Duteh, “An Incident of the War, Judge: “Yes, I have been at_an army reunion. Veterans of the Forty-third Minnesota volunteers. Ah, what recol- lections swell up in the patriotic heart as we grasp the old familiar hand and drink out'of the same canteen once more, By the way, Strauss, I'see here some of the same old checse.” “Yah; dot vas Oneida gounty Sviss cheese. It yas smell a ¢ loud already.’” “Touching meident connected there- with, Stranss. Some more of the same? Yes:'we wero ordered out to ambnsh the celebrated Washington artillery at Chas- tanooga. Midmight, L not'a word to De spoken. General HooKer, with cloth siippers, led ns on tiptoe. We crept up the side’ of Lookout mountain and got nicely located when a cannon boomed on the top of the ridge and a shell dropped among us, ahd, exploding, twenty men bit the dust.” “Dot vas pad. Trink me.” “Hooker whispered to the oflicers and wo erept awny nbout amile and loeated on the west side of the mountain. Not a twig snapped. Silent as death, when that eannon boomed again and sixty men cold in death.” Chiminy erashus! try dot unner mit me,” “Yes, Hooker was startled we urose Lo creey vy an odc sort of noxious vapor, a gentic cffluvia, was ap- parent, and Hooker called a council of of- ticers, *Ush dot s0? Hafe some peer.” “Uf you We retired a wmile ana of course gave up the gation for the time. But cimmerian darkness the us clear mto eamp. Now fact recorded m the archi what an archive is, th: our _brigade had a brick of Switzerkuse in his pocket, and the Washington tillery had been shelling the sm night.” You go rightd avhay out ob dis, 1 pelieve you vas a chestnut.” Stranss, on my sacred honor, his name was Baumgartner and he came from Cincinnati. Give us a-—"" “Py chiminety, you get clse I sehell vou'mit'de bung don’t velieve you efer sehmt aber somepody shoot vou for stealing schickens., Dem rebels vas peen schell ing your nose unt tinkitvasa camj firc. an unner mit yon but when half investi through the rebels shelled Strauss, it is a s, if youknow Dutchman in out of dis starter. I 1 powder American Domestic Discipline, San Franciseo Ingleside. Billy Bolen jumped out of his hed He van at his sister and ent off her head; “This gave his dear mother a greatdeal of pain : 5 ’ Let us hope little Billy won't do it again, Sammy found a lueifer mateh : He set it alight in a farmer’s thateh: Soon barn, hay and horses were ushes and dust, And Saminy’s papa turned away in disgust “Where is your sister? Margaret, tell ! Mother, I pushed her into the well,” “Very unkind or you, Margaret, reall 1 thonght you loyéd your sister dearly Baby sat in the window seat, Mary tipped ber into the stréef Baby's brains were dashed out in the Aud mawma held up ber foretnger rey, 0 Mury Grandpa had gold in the brass-nailed trunk: randpa gave Harry some: Harry got drunk Then to get more the trunk Harry got Intc And graudpa thought Harry cught to be spokei 10, 0N, see, if you please! Master Johnathan Marm ! He's bitten a pie *Oh, dear!” eriesthe mother, in aceents ‘L hope it won't disagree with the child e right out of y arin ! Jild, “Who strangled Jack, with Lis collar and chain?” 4 “I did, mamma, and 1'll 4o £ geain ! And 1] stri 0, 400, When 1 get big and strop, “Lhat’s right, my { ar boy—to confess when you're wroug. Much has been'sald, and more has been sung, OF the open ingenuousiess of the young ; But we own we'd like better the infant de- mocraey Were it even endowed with the gittof hypoce- TACY, Let's have a new motto inserived an our banners— If we can’t have, good wmorals let's strive for €004 munue: Between the Twa Detroit Free Press: Uncle Billy Lutham, 19 an aged colored man who claims to be able to forctell the weather for scveral months ahead, was asked yesterday, as he was wandering around’ the market, if it was to be hard or soft winter, “Am vou in de poultry business querted in return “No.” St you weather, of co'se, so de poultry spile. Am you scllin’ umbrelias “If you war you'd want a soft wif rain ‘bout free times a week Bein' as you hain’t got no_tickler in- terest in de matter your question am de clarcd outer order, :I|\‘|\\' meeting am adjonrned,” plied the man as he moved " he war you'd want stiddy cold wouldn't winter, old Preparation, Rambler, The damsel doth don her sweetes smiles, And froi her face aftection radiates: Unto fher suitor pretily shie prate Exerting all her sorceries and wiles. now She would not anger him for anythin For Cliristmas rapidly 15 drawing nih, And, as the chill December days £o by, Slie keeps hier eye upon a dianond ring. But other jewels are to ier not barred: She's never known a shining gem to spurn. She purchases, hig kindness to return A audy, inexpensive Chiristmas card. What Saved Ike, Attanta Conatitution. In one of the Atlanta courts a few days ago a white man was arraigned for making an assault upon a lank, race- horse looking darkey named Ike, who is sort of mujor domo at n Petars street wagon yard. 0 on, Ike," said the justice, “and tell what the man did in the fight.™ “Der wan't no fight, jedge; I nebber touch dat white man.” “Well, what did he do?” “You see, jedge, it was jess disser w. [ wuz settin® on de hoss troff, gittin on (20 outside uy an wattermillion, when dat man cum in de lot an’ “gin ter r'ar round abont his hoss, and say T am't gib hit nuf’ sheil corn yit."” “Well#” “Den I say sumpin® ‘hont de hoss bein® puny, an hit won't do for o foce his ap- pertite, and den de man he git ter cussin’ o' me, an’ diveckley I cuss him, and ‘den lie fludg himself onter me ober de hoss trofl, and when I was gtttin’ untangled he run his hand back arter his pistol, an’, jedge. 1f it hadn’t been for prov'dence ob de Dawd I'd er been a dead nigger right this minnit." “If it had not been for the providence of the Lord.™ b ¢ ah, dat is do trafe, sho.” “What do you mean by that? “Well, yer see, jedge, dat ar white man dun forgot his pistol at home, an de Lawd lemate outrun him. He Caught. Her. New York Jowrnal, “Meat ma by moontight alone,” A buteher thus pleaded bis cause, “Awl I give thee, I can, love, no more,” A cobbler sighed softly. But laws! When the plumber tuned up his sweet pipe, And sang with a voice soft and mellow, *, Lot me like a sold'er fall down” She gave her fair hand to that fellow. The Latest Gag. BufMalo Courier: If you want to be very new, and the “same time vy just take your vietim by the coat and whispel . we don't say chestnut any longer alo. We've Zot anew gng.” He will, of course; look disgusted at the turn the conversation is taking, and you hasten to add, “We say ‘locomotive.’” This will ehange his facial expression to onc of surprise, and then you crush him, “You do you?” He 15 interested by this time, and answers promptly, “*No; where»” The only answer to this last query is, t the depot,” and if your victim doesn’t langh you can. Anything “You arc ch dthe judg don’t see where thut comes in, Hated to Have Texas Siftings being drunk, you got to say “Charged with it, am [¥" “Yes yon ©Alw d 1o payin® cash, but a8 you sy wed, just let it stand on'the books for the present, and some day, when I'm down this way, I'll_drop in und settie;”” and the prisoner picked up his hat and started to go. “Stop there!” eried the judge, “and answer to the charge.” “ILanswered, didn't 1Y Tain’t used to havin’ things charged sh down for everything’s my motto. Book accounts make trouble. ettlements make long friends, eh CT'lmake ashort settlement with you, you'll find,"" “Didn’t know my credit was <o good here. If I eame last night and asked it, though, I must have been drinkin’ sure, ‘eanse 1’s agin my principles. 1 say, jedge, how much tinie can you give me? “Sixty days,” said the court. “Thankee, jedge. 1f you'd said thirty it might haye cenmped “me a little, bt sixty is all vight . Don't send the account to the bank for collection—I'll be here on'time, But don't let any of your clerks charge a night's lodging up to meagain, It ain’t my way of niluing business. If Lhadn’t been drunk—"" “Yes; as you say, if you hadn't been drunk you wouldn't have been locked up and compelled to spend sixty days on the 1sland “But, jo charged Charged. rged with what have ge, I thought you said it w and you, too, Go below Saved, Rambler: “Darling, my merciless, and to-morrow without house or home." Nay, husband; do not despair. you not remember that, when we Wed in the happy holidays, six months I resolved to save five for cve v paid the plumbers? you kept It up until now " Yes, dearest,”’ “Then we are 50,000 creditors are may see us Do were, short cnts suved, for Tonly owe - - # ns. “Itell you it's so!” Only Detroit Free Press St can't be!” “But it st 1"l bet you 5 on 1t!"" I'll take that bet!” Two young men who entered a saloon on f\hnf zan ayenue the other day were muking use of the sentences above guoted, and as the bartender pricked up his cars one of them handed him $5 in bills and the other a §5 bill, and the taller of the two smd *We have a little dispute, abide by your decision, 1 eral Grant setved three terms as presi- dent. My friend here s he on! served two. Whichever wias t the $10." Yo oth and will y that Gen that's the way of it added the irant served but two terms,” the saloonist. added ‘L am,’ “Then the money 15 mine,” obscryed the shorter stranger, and as the bur- tender handed it out he continued “We'll all have some beer on this Just give me those swall bills .and the change for the five.” ‘They had been gone half an hour when the referec had occasion to look ut jthe bill, It was an 1864 counterfeit, - Cats with big whiskers catch rats, don't always Aloud voice is the 6cho from an emply bead 'WELVE PAGES IINTS FOR THE TIOLIDAYS Seal Caps, Seal Gauntlets, Seal Walking Gloves, Seal Turban Caps. $6 and $10, Special Bavgains. Celebrated Silk Mufilers, Silverman Seal 1 jull line of the Caps_and _Gloves, Silk Suspenders, Silk Handkerchiefs Novelties in Holiday Neckwear, Gloves and Ho sil Knit Caps, Jersey Caps, Toboggan Caps. Good Warm Knit Caps, 40¢, 75¢ and $1. ——YOUMAN'S HA'TS, - H. B. KUDSON, Agent. | Millard Hotel Block, AND DRAM Maurice Barrymore will star next season. Roland Reed seems to be satistied with Humbug, Sarah Bernhardt left the north Sol Smith Russell shows Christinas week. . Lillian Oleott reappears in New York as Theodora in January. M. B, Curtis will shortly take his Caught in a Corner to Philadelphia. ved Harrington and his company visit the Pacitic const next summer. Barry Sullivan, Cork’s distinguished son, will be welcomed next season. Mne. Janish and her company pended business for the present. Buftalo Bill's Wild West show, York ia termea a “cyclone success.” Minnie Maddern will present Caprice in Detroit the latier hall of this week. John Tempicton's “Mikado' lately went to grass in Reading, Pa. Clara Morris is again very ill, vnd is not likely to play any more this scason. Ada ’s “Ring of lron’’ company has succumbed to the inevitable at Grand Rapids, Mich, Agnes Herndon will begin hoer season in Chicago next month under Joseph Jessel's management. Mabel Jordan, Georze is playing with much theater, London. iss Ellen Terr and Miss st” with 1rving. A “Black Crook” road has a ballet of six. stands, and no return. 11, L. Higginson, of Boston, Iately donated £20,000 to the Syniphony society for the pur- chase of first-class instrumen Carl Rosa has bought M. and will hnmed adapted for th Billy Rice, Billy Sweatnam and Barney Fagan have formed a new minstrel company, to trayel under WilllamFoote’s management. A hat and cloak room has been fitted up in connection with the Lyceum theatre, N. Y., for the express purpose of inducing Iadies with tall hats to leave the latter ofl during the performance. Ballet daneing is a Yrrl'y good business when you once wet the bang of it “Thus Maure,” the _exponent of the Spanish fan- dango, gets $10,000 a year, Rosita gets $12,000 and Subra $6,000, The composer of Ameriean comic opera, claims to public consitier: in which “Adonis™ Dixey as no-respondent, Herr Niemann, the famous German tenor, now with the opéra company in New Yorlk is the husband of the actress Mine, Seebacl who made so happy an impression in this Country SOue YEars ugo. It M. Field. of the Boston museum, is to be warried to Miss Endicott, of Canton, and Isane B. Rich, of the Hollis'streel theater, is to be united with Miss Baboo, daughter of an old Boston apothecary Hermann, the conjurer, who has a handsome little sum of money laid aside, is Tooking for a good site in "New York on wlhieh to build & theatre to be devoted to the uses of conjuring alone. Mr. Robert Stopel’s new opera “Unita," is now in rehearsal at the New York Casino. ‘I'he great musical learning and brilliant talents of Mr. Stoepel insure a large share of interest in the new work. Mme. Scalehi and her husband, Signor Loili, have a delightful home near ‘Lurin, which, in their absence, is practically turned into a hospital for the poor people of the neighborhood. Itis ealled Soha, after its mistress, Miss Alice Vane, an Enclish actress, ar- rived in this country five or six weeks azo to fillan engagement with Mr. Lester Wallaclk, but soon was prostrated hy a paralysis of the spine, and will probably never agiin appear on this stage, though she may live for years, When Marie-Roze Mapleson appeared at Glasgow as Elsa in “Lohengrin,” 1,000 uni- versity students marched 10 the” onéra house ina body, took possession ot the galleries and after the opera presen 10 the singer a diamond set locket and chain and themselves dragged her carriaze to her Lotel, Itis alleged that Myra Goodwin will vo to London and open at the Gaiety theatre in May. Emma Goodwin, her sisfer, has been acting in_England for séveral seasons. ‘The statement as to Miss Goodwin coniliets with with the announcement that Miss Auderson is to open in May at the Gaicty, e CONNUBIALITIES, MUSICAL TIC, Lima yesterday for up in Boston have sus- in New company Jordan’s_daughter, success at 1oole's has temporarily lost her v is tilling lier place in company now ey pi on the ¥ one night “Mizpah,” a new numbers’ among his jon a_divorce s has been med Mrs. Fester,a Green Bav, Wi, wilow recently married, as her fourth hushod, the sexton who had dug the graves of tie other three. ‘Twelve brides shyly pressed the president’s hand during his afternoon’s reception, They came from all points of the compass, butall blushed alike. J. B, Aldrich, recently released from Jack son, Micli., prison, after serving a term for bigdmy, has married his eighth wife, the last boing a'sister of one of his former vietims Robert Muehlman, of Detroit, drew §:i4 i the bank, intending to be married the next morning. During the night a burzlar entered nis toom, ehloroformed him and stole the woney, ' His wedding has been postponed in consequence, A very interesting ceremony took place in the parish church of Cedars, near Montreal, on Tuesday morning, when a widower Charles Roy, was married 40 Mrs. Pilon, & widow, and the son of Mr. Loy warried at the sie thne 1o the daughter of Mrs, Pilon A very sensational wedding took place Thurday night In Cleburne, Tex, The cere mony was performed by a justice of th peace, who united the romantic pair under lie starlight, between the banks of the ereck, Only the necessary witlesses were present Willie ines, the Su.entoen-yoar-old son well-Lio farmer at West Point, Ga,, married Miss Newscome, In_ order (o keep his fatiier from following him the young man sasliod the family carriage and threw i sadid’e into the well, Waushington gossips are fully that Seeretary Lamar is to be manrica within the next fes weeks. They argie that, us he Das takien a lrze house on' N sticet instead of ocenpyine his vachelor apartments at Ui P ts, e st e contemplating an mmediate watrimonial venture, John W, Beale, of Latayette, Ind., was to have been mareied on November i 1o Miss Mattie Bates, but ou that ttay ne disappeared feturning howe s week later he wade an apology 10 Miss Bates and they weie marriod on Tlanksgiving day. Dumediately alter the ceremoney he excised himsell and L not been seen since. Hasit loved y i in_ nortl when lier parents ret son-in-law he ran away and succeeded in - req Minn., where they were i fracted cousiderable alteuts convineed with lin 1292 Donglas st. | Mr. Hasit was shight and meek, and his bons nie bride was six feet tall and weighed 2.0 pounds. Mrs. Frederick, a danghter of the late Colonel William Lewls, of Sweet Springs, Greenbrier county, W. Va,, has recently been loft a Jarge fortune by a gentleman named Montyoniery, who courted her in_early life, Disappointed, he went to the East Indies and there acquired great wealth, He died_res cently, bequeathing his fortune to Mrs, Frederick on condition that she asumes his name. A young lawyer of Ellaville, € A young ‘wonian ., bantered At Soelnl wathoring to marry him, To his evident surprise she told him ‘to get the license. e wouldn't be bluffed, and ot the iicense at once, while others of the party sent for a clereyman, He knew nothing of the joke, and when the nir entered the parlor arin in a hought it ~ strange that the = spec laughed, ~But he began solemnly, whi party wondered which of the {wo weaken first, and the contracting parties each wished' that the other would ask the minister 1o stop, When the first question was_ asked the young man concluded that the affair had gone far enough, and he broke nks and fled, much to the' young woman's relief, s S SINGULARITIES, Johu 11, Plielps, of Seranton, Pa., has & hen that steals ehickens from other hens, In Cheyenne, W. I a wmaltese cat drives the cows to and from “the pastures as sue= cessfully as a_cowboy can. Pittsburg has produced the boss rat. It whipped a eat and fought two dogs for nearly an hour before giving up the ghost. It was six inches long. A perfectly white buzzard is the curiosity of which Union Springs, Ala., and the resi= dents of that town are 8o proud of it that no one will shoot at it. Punxsutawney, Pa., has a crow that is fonder of chewing gtm than 1s a Boston Hle steals pennies and buys it from o man who knows lis weakness. A Pittsburg confectioner has a dog and a horse t e as fond of kissing each other verage young married couples A, Kaeh oceupies the same stall and the two are inseparanle. A large and sound Missouri. pumpkin, ro- cently cut open, was found to be filled with thrifty vines and leaves. ‘The seeds had sprouted and sent out vines, though theie were no signs of decay,the meit being sound and sweet. “The bird spider of tropical Ameriea has a body only four and one-half inches long, but is no slonieh for all that. s legs are soven inches long, it lives on young birds and it ems o bidteh not less than 1,500 eges at a time While at her home about six miles above Madrone, Cal,, Miss Ophelia Cochrane, who ixastudent in the San Jose normal school, shota lynx weighing over twenty pouuds and aboit thice feet long. She says” it is the stlyns she ever saw in that neighbor- hood. A parti-colored baby is reported to have been born itly Aberdeen, Mass. 1ts. father is a very bluck negro: its mother is a Dight mulatto” Half the ehild’s body is black, the other half nearly white: the hair on one side of f1s head s kinky; on the other, light and straight, while one eye is black and the other blue For years a loon has had its home on the chuylkill, near Philadelpnia, but the other v it flew into the Zoological Garden d was capture Around its neck was a li silver collar on which was engraved “Nemo, the hermit, 18017 The head keoper of thé arden savs that hie has no doubt about the bird's great age . L. Freaericks, of Fon du Lae, Wis., has alien that knocks the spots outof a patent incubator. One day re I”{ Mr, Fredericks found her under a house adjoining his resis dence with a brood of eighteen healthy chicks. As the mereury registered fifteen de- grees below zero two days last week, and as the hen had but little shelter, the fact scems remarkable, A sucking colt in Santa a half-filled sack of barley in the n, and, after nibbling at it, pieked it up with its toeth and earried it {o its dam, wio was tied fitty feet away, and put it down in front of Lier, Phe owner saw this, took away the bag and hid it in another part of the . ‘T'he colt found it again, and again carried it to its mother, who this time was allowed to eat the grain, RRosn, Cal., found, g - : EPPERMINT DROPS, your nose at the tabie, itask some one else Never blow cannot_help theirs for you. Afterall has been said in derision that ean b, it must be acknowledged that busives men like a bustle, Tho “Vanishing Lady” is a new trick bes ing performed in New York. The vanishing alderman has beconie an- old trick in- thaf city. A poem recently printed is entitled “Swmile Whenever You Cin.” It was nol written b a prolibitiouist, we believe—New Yorl Graphic. “I'hie Alta California inquires “Why do the* newspapers always speak of a ‘cool mils Jon'?" " We presume it is because they think it an ice thing to have, Petroloum V. Nasby is now engaged in writing articles in advoeacy of prohibition, When asked why he wis 50 0pposed to whise le replied: “Because 1 bave gob enongh.” Customer—But ain't the trousers too long? Tailor—Too long? Dey is made 1o fit a man ctly your size. 1f your legs happen to be adrifle short you must” quarcel mit nature; not de tailor, “Do you put an *e’in whiskey here" asked a new veporter of a Kentucky paper, “No,” replied the editor, who wis slightly deaf; “we pul nothing in whiskey h We take it stralght.” A slon i e rooms of a western hotel reads as rollows; “Indian clubs and dumb-bells will not be permitted inany of the rovms. Guests in need of exercise cun go down o the kitehen and pound a steak.” Nothing pleases & horse-car more than 10 see & spoony couple Ket aboayd hisconveyance, e knows lie will haye an opportinicy 1o pass off & plugged quarter of two in chaige without fear of deteetion, Various ex assert that President Cleveland his no expletive such 1 sy the clornal I of Andiew Jick bt we have iton the anthoiity o several dozen oftiee ker 4 ug his this one: *Not by & Dan conductor -~ The style in K Vhicago Herald I taurants, " said 1 eon think Kansas City must head of th Among the eant nsas Oy, 1kin' about res reial traveler, *f be pluced at the that line, ns in 4 1estille h reads pocession in miny lown there jeer sig is one wh GUR FI AKES ALK, { A YARD WIDE AND ALL WOOL, ANNEL (