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BUDGET OF FUff. CUKE FOR CHICKENS COllNB. If you have chickens with a wartish •substance on tholr feet they have corns, and they will, like ourselves, suffer much from thorn and becomo lame. Ob tain somo pine gum, take a pieco of cloth, cut holes in it for tho toes to pro trude through, put gum on tho corn, •wrap tho cloth over it, and tio around the shank. In about two weeks remove the covering and tho corn will be gone. Before handling the gum grease the finseis and it will not stick to them.— Now York Independent. TREATMENT Of FELLED TIMBER. In an Agricultural Department bulle tin occurs this advice. Always remove the bark from felled limber to aid seasoning, but not from the standing tree. Ntvcr allow the log to lie directly on tho moist soil. If winter-felled, shape tho timber to size, within two weeks after foiling and leave it placed on blocks—not upon the soil—in the forest, or, if shaped at home, placo in u dry, airy, not windy position, away from sun and rain. If dried too rapidly, wood warp3 and splits, the cracks collect water, and the timber is then easily attacked and de stroyed by rot. With large logs, checking may be prevented by coating the ends with some fatty or oily substance, rnixod with brick dust. SWEET VERSUS SOUR CREAM FOR BTTTTER. The relative merits of the sweet eream and the sour cream methods of making butter have been tested by G. E. Pat rick, F A. Leis;hton und D. B. Bisbee of the Iowa Station. Sweet cream, fresh from tho separator, was thoroughly mixed and then accurately divided in two equal parts by weight, one of these parts was churned immediately at fifty - two degree Fahrenheit. The other was ripened at sixtj degrees and then churned at fifty degrees. The butter.uilk was tested for fat, and the butter was au- aljzed. In the nine tests, the yield of butter from sour cream was three per cent, larger than from sweet cream. The sour cream usually churned quicker than the sweet, and the butter contained two- hundredths of one per cent, more casein. The losses of fat in churning, washing and working uere lets with sour than with swcit cream. In nine trials tho average difference was nearly one-half pound per hundred pounds of butter made. After be,ng kept five months the sweet cieum butter acquired some what of the tl.ivor and aroma of ripened cream butter, and was in better condi tion.—Amcricau Agriculturist. ABOLISH TH E BLINDERS . Tho best handlers of horses of all classes are condemning tho blinds. Any thing applied to obstruct the sight in jures the eyes. As to tho influence of curbing or controling the horse by hid ing from him frightful objects, the blind has proven more disastrous in a general way than beneficial. If a horse passes some object not fully understood by him, and causing fright, the shutting oil from view of this scarecrow by the blinds only increases tho fear—he doesn\t know how soon this frightful object may pounce upon him. This condition of fenr has caused many a persou severe injuries by being kicked by the fright ened animal approached from behind his bliodfold. The moment you lay hand on the hor60 he nearly jumps out •of his hide, while if he could see that it was only the approach of a man he'd be perfectly reconciled. Any horse of or dinary sense can soon be taught not to scare at flags, cars, covered wagons, umbrellas, etc., by letting him see them and understand them. The secret of educating a horse to be a sai'e driver is not to keep him ignorant of the charac ter of everyday objects on tho road. Give full power of all his senses; let him see, hear and smell, if need be, to satisfy his fears. —Live Stock Indicator. now TO OHOW BERRIES. The stiawbcny Bhould be planted eighteen inches iu tho row and four feet between tho rows and grown on the matted row system. Care 3hould be taken that tho plants don't get too thick in the row. Use only a few of the best varieties that do welt in your vicinity. Blackberries and raspberries should be planted three feet in the rows and eight, feet between the rows, leaving a ten -loot space every fourth row to drtvo through to get out tho dust. Strawberries can bo planted between tho rows of black- buries and raspberries and two or three •crO[ s can be taken from them before they interfero much with each other. The first year musk and watermelons can bo planted in tho rows of blackberries and raspberries and trained along the rows; if vines get too long pinch them off. I only name asparagus, strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries as my main •crop for tho reason that they have paid mo best in my vicinity. A man must al ways grow what people want. If I were differently located something else might pay better. Grapes, currants, goose berries, pie plant, and a number of other things might pay better. Growing early vegetable plants in hot beds, also straw berry, blackberry, and raspberry plants have paid me well.—Chicago Times. IXSPECT' YOUR HERD. One of the most discouraging sights in tho spring to tho breeder of thorough. ibred cattle is to sec them losing tho hair from their necks and sides, looking very much as though they were lousy. They may not bo exactly inflicted with lice, but tho troublois very nearly allied to it, .and with young calves it is a very great •detriment to making sales of them. Sul phur and lard mado into an ointment .and rubbed on them is usually a good remedy, but tho main trouble gonorally .comes from neglect and part starvation. In other words, calves taken good caro .of and kept scrupulously clean are sel- •dom, it ever, troubled -with this distress ing' disease, and every breeder ihould be ^ashamed of having it mako lU appearance in the herd. If you, gentle reader, own the herd but do not handle it, we advise you to put on your hat and top coat tho first thing in the morning and go to the stable for a thorough inspection of the quarters and food of those calves. You will probably find tho beds wet under the top straw that looks dry, whilo the pans, buckets or troughs they oat out of are probably sour and have the creases stuffed with old food.These aro apparent ly small things, but in the lifo of a calf they are of the greatest importance. Tho fact is that in these days it is nearly im possible for a rich man to raise calves, simply because no one for pay will take the trouble to keep the littlo things and their eating tools clean. Tho slaughter of the innocents is going on all tho timo, and that through sheer laziness on tho part of often well-paid attendants. If we can say ono word that wilt save tho lives of only a tew of this army of highly bred calves, we will be only too thank ful. We have lately been on farms with great pretentions as breeding establish ments, with somothing like one hundred and fifty milk cows dropping their calves all seasons of the year, and yot there would not be moro than a half dozen young calves on the farm, and some of them evidently hastening to the grave. The losses from this quarter can scarcely be over stated, and it is time someone was preaching a crusade against tho shameful slaughter. We call it a slaugh ter simply hecauso it can easily be rem edied by the owners of tho herd holding the herdsman in charge strictly responsi ble for the loss.—American Dairyman. FAR M AN D HARDE N NOTES. Pullets are rarely too fat to lay. Light Brahroas are good winter layers. Generally tho be3t turkoys for breed ing are those two years old. If turkeys can be given a free range they can be rb ised very cheaply. When you can keep fifty hens profit ably you can readily keep more. Chopped onions fed twice a woek now will help to keep the fowls healthy. Ear.y matured, stock cost less than those tuttt grow and mature more slowly. If earth is used as an absorbent in tho poultry house remove it before it be comes foul. The black knot in the plum treo has become so geuorul as to cull for legisla tive action. Young chickens will readily oat wheat when two weeks old; and it is better for them than com. Some of our well-known horticulturists claim that there is too much summer pruuing of grupes. A good rule is to use the largo roosters of the small breeds and the small roosters of the large breeds. A poor hen will not lay at all; a fat one will lay few eggs, and these will not be good for hutching. Millet and sorghum seeds make o splendid feed for young poultry, whether in the brooder or with the hens. Wheat is one of tho best feeds you can givo your fowls to produce eggs; it is also good to feed young chicks. Strictly choice fowls that are known to be suen command ijood prices all tho year round in the city markets. It was state I in a bulletin from Coi noil Station that \hilling tomato plants is of no advantage, neither is trimming.\ With those who carry tho stock over winter the manure if carefully handled and treated will prove a source of profit. When the poultry can run out it is best not to feed them too much. If they have a good appetite they will hustle around more. The chicks of all breeds are nearly 01 the samo size until they weigh a pound, so that for broilers breed counts but little. Inquiry is developing for turkeys ol large size, twenty-rive to forty pounds I eing about the size of the modern tur key idea. W. E. Farmer tells that cold storago grapes pay one for holding thorn until the great surplus has worked off from the market. Do not try to keep too many chicken! in a flock. More, dollars will bo got from a flock of fifty well kept than 100 that are crowded. While there is leisure is a good time- to make a good suppiy of pens that will restrain the old hens und let tho clucks run at large. Already the smoldering fires of tht incubator arc beginning to burn, and e three weeks' trial trip will soon be on. Now is the timo to set things in order. Iu a discussion before tho American Pomotogical Society, Van Lsndley claimed that Edward's winter is a fine winter apple for North Carolina, and one of the best keepers in the middle of North Carolina. Successful cultivators of small fruits, many of them, do not cover their straw- berry plants until the ground is frozen, then they spread coarse hay over them thick enough to concoal tho plants, but not enough to smother them. Energy and n good shovol of ample capacity for handling snow are two of the requisites about the chicken yard now. Give them dry ground at once after a fall of snow, that thoy may be reg ular in their exercises each day. Each year the poultry industry grows more prosperous. More eggs and poultry are produced each year, and each yeat tho prices are higher than the year bo- fore. This indicates that wo aro bo- coming a nat'o i of poultry oaters and that poultry is going to becomo good property for somo years to come. Many experienced and successful snoop owners declare that the wool alone will pay for the keep of tho sheep, and that the money derived from the salo of lambs and mutton should be clear gain. Upon such a basis there would seem to be little doubt that the profit from them muit be greater than from any other class of stock. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. A Rent Day Idyl—Artistic Deapond- enoe—A Trifle Mixed—Notwith standing — Old liana; - ' Syne, Etc., Etc. t have a little cottaje with the roses climb ing-round, i.nd a pretty little garden whsrs the bloa- »mi all abound; Thaakjis brightest azura now, and I am also blur, ?or while the ciew Is falling, there 's the rent a falling due. —Crake 's Magastne. ARTISTIC DESPONDENCE. Carver—\I'm but a hower of wood.\ Marino Painter—\And I but a drawer »f water.\—Detroit Free Press. NOTWITHSTANDING. She—\What an awfully tall man iord Lofty is!\ He—\Thoy say he's painfully short.\ —Truth. IN THE PARLOR CAR. He (from Bo3ton; very musical) — 'Wagner's works are simply grand.\ She (from Chicago)—\Oh you ought to see Pullman's!\—Truft. OLD LAND STNE. She—\Maude? Oh, sho's one of the friends of my youth.\ He—\I didn't take her to be as old as that.\—Kate Field's Washington. A TRIFLE MIXED. He—\My remark wa3 a trifle compli- :ated.\ She—\Yes; the triviality and com plication were distinctly visible.\— Washington Star. NOT -REASSURING. Nervous Passsnger—\Aro you sure there is no da 1 ir?\ Officer—a bit. The captain's /use gone to take a nap because it's too foggy to see anything.\—Tit-Bits. toll HOW MANY LOOK AT IT? Master (to class)—\Now Jones, jie how many seasons there are?\ Jones—\Two.\ Master—\Only two? Name them.\ Jones—\The cricket and tho baseball seasons.\—Million. NO SMAOK AT ALL. Timid Youth—\Miss Gracie, perhaps .ay coming so ofton may seem—may leem to—to smack of undue persist- sncy.\ Demurod Maiden — \George your coming here has—has never smacked of anything yot.\—Chicago Tribune. HE WAS. MissBlcokor—\Is Mr. Blanky a well- .cad man? Dues ho seem familiar with the best authors?\ Miss Lakeside—\Well I should say he was. He calls Shakespeare \Willie and he boards with the author of 'Dash- away Dick; or, Forty Buckets of Blood!\'—Truth. TERROR. \Did you ever see a ghost?\ \Once.\ \Were you scared?\ \Was I scared? Wa3 1? My false .eeth were in a glns3 on a table three feet away from tho bed, and they actually rattled so loud that they woke tho neighbors.\—Indianapolis Journal. PAINFUL OPERATION. Strawber—\What is the matter, old man? You look shaky.\ Singerly—\I am. I just had an inter view with my dontist.\ Strawber—\Wnat did he do—extract a tooth?\ Singerly—\Worse than that. He ex tracted twenty dollars\—Life. SAFELY ASSURED . Gazzam—\I have imported SOTIC pic tures from Germany by way of Ham burg. Do you think there is dangor of their carrying cholera germs?\ Maddox—\Are they oil paintings or water colors?\ \Gazzam—\Water colors.\ Maddox—\Well if the water in colors was boiled I'd think you'd safe.''—Judge. the be PLEASANT TASK . A female lion-tamer, young and fair, beckoned on the big lion, Nero, and it came and took a pieco of sugar out of her mouth. \Why I could do that trick!\ ex- claimed a spectator. \What! you?\ retorted the fair per former. \Certainly—just as well as the Hon J\ —Revue des Sports. MIE BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE OF ROMANCE. Fond Mamma—\Mabel my dear, have you any reason to think—pardon me, my daughter, but it is to me a matter of the highest concern—hare you any reason to think that Algernon Swackhammcr, tho wealthy and highly connected young professional man, regards you with more than ordinary interest 1\ Queenly Daughter (with a yawn)— \Yes ma, I've got a dead cinch on him if I want him.\—Chicago Tribune. MEDICINE TO T0.E RESCUE. Ho was a young doctor unknown to fame, with pronounced ideas about polite ness, and she—well—she could talk. He had tried to look interested while sho exorcised her one accomplishment until his head aehod, and now as they aro nearing her home sho looks up with her most coquettish glance: \Now doctor, you must tell me what to do for this dreadful soro throat.\ A gleam of hope lights his tired face as he responds gravely, \Keep your mouth shut.\—Life. HELPING HIM OUT. He was a bashful lover and had courted her long. Sno know he loved her and knew that he was afraid to pro pose. Sho resolved to help him out. \When I get married I hope to see you at my wedding,\ sho said. \Heavens!\ ho gasped, \I hoped to marry you myself.\ \Well she rejoiced, as her cheeks flushed to the huo of a rosy sunsot, \I ncant I hoped to^see you there a* the room.\ Then he fainted with joy.—New York Prasa. Ifcat of the Sun's Surface. Whftt is the actual hent of the sun's surface! Various estimates hare beea made, but as they rary from one thou sand and a fraction to millions of degrees there is little prospect of an immediate and reliable answer to the opening ques tion. Secchi gare it as his opinion that the temperature could be but little, if any, short of ten million degrees of the centigrade thermometer. Sporer thought that it might be 37,000 degrees, while Pouillet brought it down to somewhere between 1400 and 1761 degrees of the same tcale. M. Becquerel, Professor Laogley and Sir William Thompson all agree on about 3000 degrees of centi grade, making their deductions from calculations based on Eolar photospheres. According to M. St. Clair Derillo the temperaturo of the sun's surface does not exceed 2800 degrees; this also agrees with the experiments mado by both Bun- sen and Debray. Sir Robert Ball, the Astronomer Royal of Ireland, in his \Story ol the Heavens,\ page 495, says: \We shall probably be well within tho truth if wo state the offective tempera ture of the sun to be about 18,000 de- degrees Fahrenheit. That some of tho above estimates aro placed too high and others too low thero is littlo doubt. Take that of Secchi for an instance. What instrumont or system of reasoning would givo a man an in sight into what 10,000,000 degrees of heat really means? On the other hand, we have every reason to believe that M. Pouillet placed tho degree of ictual tem perature of the solar surface far too low. Professor Young nrguc3 from an original and logical standpoint. He says: \When heat is concentrated by s burning glass the tomperaturc at the focus cannot rise abovo that of tho source of heat; so, if wo do not count on tho loss of heat by its transmission through the glass, the temperature at the focus should be the same as that of a point placed at such a distance from tho sun that the solar disc would seem just as large as tho Ions itself viewed from its own focus.\ If this is the true explana tion a pyrometer and a burning glas3 would give the sun's actual surface heat. —St. Louis Republic. Savage Solomon Islautlir.?. A passenger from the Solomon Islands, one who has had some years' experience trading with the natives and who arrived recently in Sydney, gives a melancholy account of life among tho black follows. One might have thought that the days of head hunting were at an end and that in view of tho commercial intercourse which for many years has been carried on between tho whites and tho islanders of tho Solomons, this barbarous custom would havo passed with mauy others into history. But it appears that quite tho contrary is the fact. Head huutinr is openly carried on both at Malayta and San Christoval, and the nativo is regard ed young and inexperienced by his fel lows who has not shed human blood. Then, as to cannibalism, it is un doubted that it exists and is largely practiced by certain tribes. Tho custom is to cut up the bodies of the victims and sell thorn piecemeal, pretty much after the style of an itinerant butcher, and evidence in the shapo of human bones left after the cannibal feasts is abundant on the islands. To what fearful extent it is carried on in the bush on Malayta or San Christoval can only bo conjectured from what is absolutely known to occur on the coast. It is said to be more than a white man's life is worth to venture far inland, or for the matter of that a black fellow's cither, if he belongs to a bcaoh tribe, for the \man of tho bu3h\ is by no means particular. Why thoy tolerate a whito man's presence at all on their territory is explained, appatently, by tho fact that thoy are fond of tobacco and of a few manufactured wares he is in a positiou to supply them with. Ho receives in return copra, beche-de-mer, or ivory nut, and the intercourse is so far mutually satisfactory; but thero aro few, if any, white men who would caro to trust themselves far away from their hut or fire nrms, for however friendly the natives iu the immediato vicinity may appear, thero aro few to bo implic itly trusted.—San Francisco Garonicle. THE IROtf H0KSE. l'rcsitlents Who JIurrled Widows. Three of tho first four Presidents cf the United States married widows. . Tho wife of John Quincy Adam3, who re ceived her education in England, created a great sensation in the Nation's Capita! The wife of Martin Van Buren, Hannah Hoes, lived but a short timo after her marriage, dying about seventeen years before her husband'3 election to tha Presidency. President Tyler's second wife wa3 an ardent Roman Catholic, and Mrs. Polk was a calm-mannered Presby- lorian. Mrs. Millard Fillmore had bec-n a school teacher, and the courtship was carried on under difficulties, as the lever could rarely afford the expense of n journey to visit his fiancee. Mrs. Frank lin Pierce was the devout daughter of a clergyman and mado the White House a centre for charitable aud roligious enter prises.—New York Commercial Adver tiser. The Camphor Industry iu Jn;mn. The State Department is in receipt of of a very interesting report from W. H. Aborcrombie, Unitod States Consul at Nagaski, Japin, upon the camphor in- dustry in Kin Stiin. Tho method ol manufacture of this important staple, as described by Consul Williams, is quito unique A wooden tub is filled with the camphor wood minutely cut and the tub placed upon an iron pot over a furnace. Tae tub is connected by n bamboo pipe with a case underneath, both of which are filled with water. Whon tho furnace is heated camphor in solution passes through the bamboo pipe und being cooled by water adheres to the bottom of the upper case. Three men are required at each furnace. The camphor tree* arc owned by the Government. — Wash ington Star. A Real Hero. K£A MirlfcZsiv**:.^; -Mi*** t*i $/z ~«ir_ Androw Pcssotti is a poor Italian of Pittsburg. But if a record of tho world's heroes could be made up, Pcssotti's name would stand forth in lettors cf light. Tho man who was willing to risk his own lifo in saving two children, un known to him, who were playing on a railroad track, and threatened by a s ap proaching engine, deserves to bo re membered. And the locomotive did not spare him, for ho will be maimed for life, if he recovers from tho injuries he received. -Score one for the oft ibused SODS of Italy,—Rochester (N. Y.) lerald. BUILDIXG kOCOMOTIVE RACERS TO ANNIHILATE TIME. fluie Works That Tarn Oat Tlireo a Day— Picturesquo Features ol Manulactitre'— Silver- Mounted Engines. TRANGE that Philadelphia, which is reputed a slow town, should produce,the fastest* lo- comotires in the world. Yet such is the fact. A great factory there, which is the biggest of the kind in ex istence, turns out 1000 mighty iron hoiscs with sinews of forged steel every 'year. It completes three of these engines every working day, and at a pinch it can increaso tho number to four per diem. That is the rate of output, though, of course, such gigantic machines cannot be begun und finished within twenty- four hours. Forty-five days are ordin arily required to ma.ee a locomotive, though the task ha3 been performed in seven days. It would take five mcu a year to build one, if thoy had to do everything, starting with tho raw ma terials. A Philadelphia man made the first lo comotive that evor pulled a load. I was the famous \Old Ironside3,\ built in 1832 for tho Germantown railroad. Up to that time tho steam horse had been generally declared useless for practical purposes. After this achievement orders Mowed in upon tho inventor. Tho fac tory which he created now sends its lo comotives all over tho world. It has supplied the engines for tho newrailway in the Holy Land from Jaffa to Jerus alem, which was opened for traffic Oc tober 1st last. Some weeks ago the speed record ot locomotives was brokon on tho Reading Railroad between Philadelphia and Jer sey City by an engine which mado a mile in thirty-seveu seconds. Five miles were also covered in three minutes and twenty-five seconds. Going at such a rate tho engineer does not venture to put his head out of tho cab window. If he did so be could not breathe and tears would bo blown out of his eyes. On the stretch of track spoken of tho fastest trains in tho world aro run every day, covering miles in forty-two and forty- threo seconds right along. A mile in thirty-seven seconds signifies ninety-four miles an hour. There is no doubt that a speed of 100 miles an hour will soon be reached and exceeded. The new '•compound\ engine, which has double cylinders for high pressure and low pres sure, represents tho most highly devel oped type of locomotiro thus far pro duced. Burning anthracito coal, it is >mokeles; A good locomotivo will travel about 1,000,000 miles before it wenr3 out. However, the lifo of an engine depends as to its length upon tho treatment it receives. With ordinary service it ought to last twolvo years. When a locomotivo gets old it exhibits symptoms of debility as palpable as those which affect a human being under like conditions. Its mechan ism rattles, it \runs hot,\ and the en gineer in charge of it reports something wrong about it every night, while every fireman is attacked by a spell of indispo sition whenever he is assigned to that engine. Under such circumstances choice must be mado between rebuilding the wornout machine and \scrapping\ it. Rebuilding co3ts so much that the profit in it is doubtful. If \scrapping\ is de cided on the ongino goes to the \grave yard\ and is torn to pieces for old motal. For that purpose a locomotivo that cost 510,000 is worth only $250, its material being melted up for the construction of acw engines. The manulacture of a locomotivo be gins with castings of tho various parts which can be made of iron in that shape. For this purpose so-called \dummies\ arc turned out in certain regular forms, the material of which thoy aro composed ocing a mixturo of flour, molasses, and sand. The dummies, having been baked in ovens, aro put into the molds and the molten metal is pouicd around them, liter which they are broken up and the ;astings aro taken out. In this way it is possible to produce an claborato cast ing, like the cylinder of an ongine with all its attachments, in the same piece. The steel for locomotive boilers is sup plied by contract in tho shape of flat, rectangular shoots. Before it is accepted the tensile and breaking strength of each one it tested. Next it is marked off by measure with chalk lines for rivet holes, which are punched through it by a ma- ;hine that does the work as quickly and easily as if it were a slice of choose. Then the sheet is trimmed to the proper size by a great steel knifo which cuts off the edges like paper. Finally it is turned into a curved shape by passing between huge rollers and is riveted to other (beets, which make up tho cylindrical tube of tho boiler, by means of red-hot iron bolts. A boiler-making shop is notoriously the noisiest placo on earth, but it is surprising to find how soon ono jets used to the clamor, so that it would be possiblo to lio down and sleep amid it all. There is nothing liko getting ac customed to things. Tho most picturesque feature of tho manufacture is the \hammer shop,\ where parts of locomotive frames are formed out of huge steel bars. The latter, coming whito hot and glowing from tho roaring furnaces, aro quickly swung by machinery to enormous anvils, tvhore hammers woighing several tons md run by steam perform the functions jf so many titanic blacksmiths. After svery few strokes tho bar is turned, so that the crushing blows shall mako it square. Or, if an axle is being wrought in tMs fashion, the hammer has a somi- ;ircular strip cut out of its fiat bottom, 10 that it shapes the bar in a cylindrical form. This kind of work sevorely taxes ;he physical powers of those who perform it. Two men must hold each bar and turn.it on the anvil by means of a long steel handle, which is fastened to the bar when the latter comes from tho furnace- by attaching, it with n blow of the ham mer. At every stroke of the \hammer :hoy experience n tremendous jar. Con sequently, though tho men who are en gaged in this labor are strong and hearty looking, net ono of themjs sound. All\ of them aro badly sprained or ruptured, io that thoy aro obliged to wear trusses and other such devices. The wori re quires great .skill and commands from iiO to.§60 a week for capable operators. - Steei wheels also are mado.by tho steam hammer provided for the purpose with a die for forming them Into the proper shape. Everywhere in the fsctoiy elec tricity and hydraulic pow er arc employed. An electric crane runs up and down* the greatest of the shops', which cover many' blocks. To pick up an entiro locomotive bodily is a small affair for it. It readily carries a weight of 100 tons st the rate of 200 feet a minute, and sets it down i s gently as if it were a six-weeks baby within one thirty-second of an inch of any spot that may be desired. After all the parts of an engine hare been made' they are assembled in the erecting shop and are put together. The boiler is put upon tho cylinders, the different parts of the frame aro attached, tho wheels are fastened on beneath and the cab is added by carpenters. The boiler is sheathed with, wood, which, being a non-conduc tor, keeps the heat in. Over this sheath- ing a sheet-iron coat is put. Ono of the very last finishing touches to a locomotive is tho putting on of the cowcatcher. This is purely and simply a jim-crsck. being of no uso whatever. Whon an engine is finished at tho fac tory it is pulled by a littlo locomotive out of the erecting shop to tho tracks outside which connect with the Reading Railroad. If it has been manufactured for a railway at a considerable dis. tonco it is shipped as freight, boing towed \dead\ over the rails to its desti nation, with all its movable parts packed away in tho tender, lest thoy should bt stolen. If the locomotivo is to bo de livered to a customer not far away it gets up steam and does its own running. A man is sent with cvory ongino to sot it up, fire it and start it a-going. All en gines aro mado with convertible parts, so that if an engineer in Oregon should tola- graph that the piston rod of locomotiv« No. 2302 was broken a duplicato certain to fit with absolute exactness could tx forwarded immediately. Ever so many kinds of locomotives ate turned out at the Philadelphia works, from tho clumsy-looking but powerful \Mother Hubbard\ to tho \Dirt Burner,\ which will burn anything, even brickbats, if only tho stuff has a little coal mixed with it. A locomotive co3ts from $8000 to $11,000, according to tho elaborateness of its parts and tho number of driving wheels. Fancy onginos are mado for almost any price, to suit tha tastes of purchasers. Companies in South America want silver mountings on their locomotives, which are expensive. Tha fire boxes of engines designed for service in South America are commonly made ol copper, becauso iron is quickly eaten up by the chlorines and other chemical ele ments found in the water of that part of tho world.—Boiton Transcript. A Sworilsmau's Cruel Trick. During tho Turko-Russian War, a cor respondent was among the loungers who had stood in a Constantinople street to watch tho march past of a regiment of Zeibecks. When thoy wore all gone, there came by an old hoja (a holy man), dressed in green robe and caftan, and wearing yellow slippers—solf-proclaimed as one who had mado the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wa3 followed by a very small donkey, laden with small panniers. On the foot-walk stood a Circassian, who had been flourishing in tho air, whilo the troops went by, a formidablo- looking yataghan. This man wa3 now standing, with an admiring crowd about him, licking the back of his wrist and shaving off tho hair that grew there by way of showing tho edge aud tompor of his weapon. It must havo boon set as finely as a razor, and, like a razor, it was btoad-backed and finely beveled. Just as tko old hoja went by, and tho placid littlo donkoy followod at his hools, tho Circassian stepped into tho horso- road, gave tho weapon a braggadocio swing, and at a single blow cleanly divided tho head of the poor little ass from the body. Tao hoad fell plump; but for a second or two the body stood, spouting a vivid streak of scarlet from the neck, and then toppled over. Tho old green-clad hoja turned at tho noise made by tho crowd, saw tho blood stained sword waving behind him, un derstood at a glanco what had happoned, and fled as fast as his yellow pantofles would carry him.—San Francisco Arso- naut. The Laryost Mississippi Catfish. \Tho largest catfish over captured on tho Mississippi was caught about three yean ago, two miles from Cairo, by a colored fisherman,\ said John G. Harvey, of Murphysboro, Hi., at the Lindoll. \He was a monster, sure enough, and more rcscmblod a whale than a catfish. The colored people had been talking for a long time about having seen a big fish in the waters. They had shot at him repeatedly, and had sot all sorts of trot lines to catch him without succo33. Finally there came a rise in tho rivor, and when tho water receded from tho swamp back of tho river tho fish was grounded and captured. Ho weighed 312 pounds, und whon cut open there wa3 found-in his stomach* two fish hooks and a line, a tenpenny nail, a gold ring, and—the most curious thing of all—a registered letter addresed to tho Hon. Walter Merriwethor, of Richmond, Va., which had been lost for two wooks, and which had given tho postal authorities unbounded trouble. The question was and is, how did that letter over find its way from tho postal caf to tho fish's mouth?\—St. Louis Republic. A Novelty in Railroad Equipment. Tho Iat03t novelty in the rolling equip ment of tho Pennsylvania Railroad is a \clearance car.\ It was constructed for the purpose of assisting the chief engi neer and his assistants to mako accurate measurements of tunnol dimensions in order to determine what tho clearance distances are for cars and merchandise. Ono of tho reasons for this car boing built was the constant inquiries riial camo to the company from shippers ol World's Fair merchandise of so many shapes and sizes that it was impossible to tell whether it could safely oo sent through the tunnols. The clearance car is virtually a flat car with a raited plat form on one end, with an arch stretching above it and measuring rods surrounding it. The train of which the clearance car is pare is made up of two other cars, one tor tho engineer to lire and sleep in and another equipped with an electric light system to assist in inspecting dark tunnels.—Now York Telogram. Tiro Dumb Heroes. Heroes of two of tho day's croniclcs aro a Newfoundland dog in Duluth and a black and whito' cat in Brooklyn. Tho dog saved a child from fire and lo3t his own life in smoke. Tho cat roused a family to what would soon have been a deadly peril from flames, and has earned a snug homo for tho re3t of its life. Fate distributes veiy unevenly its rewards foi good service.—New York Commercial HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. ' FIG PtJDDINO. . -frfeSS One-half pound of figs, one-quarUr'. pound coarse sugar, one tablespoontul ot golden syrup, one of milk, one-half .vja?^ pound flour, one-half pound suec, thretr <.ajjg eggs, a little nutmeg. Chop the Hgiy-^M ind suet finely, then mix with the flour, ' ~*|»| sugar and eggs; warm the golden syrup -'\\'?jJ!pj and milk, stir into the mixture, pour '£j into a buttered basin, cover with a < ?o3 floured cloth and boil for four hours.— * Now York\ World. COOKING MUSHROOMS. \Idalia\ wrote very prettily to the Woman's World and Work Department several days since inquiring hew to cook cepes or mushrooms. Presumably Idalis means canned mushrooms, as the fresh ones aro not often to be had in this town. The finest mushrooms in the world grow in Ireland, and there the best way of cooking them is to stew them in sweet cream, with pepper and salt. Stewed in a littlo butter or oil, seasoned to taste with only pepper and salt, and arranged on slices of soft toast is one of the daintiest ways in which this edible can be proparcd for breakfast, dinner or lunch.—New Orleans Picayune, IMPROVED BEEP A LA MODE. Tako a piece of top sirloin weighing' seven or eight pounds and bind it as nearly round as possible with a broad bandage of muslin. With a narrow, sharp knife, make holes entirely through it and about an inch apart. Fill some of these with minced bacon, others with minced oysters and still others with a forcemeat made of crumbs, minced and fried onions, parsley and seasoning, or you may make a forcemeat of all these ingredients, including the bacon and oysters and fill all the holc3 with it. Season well with salt and pepper using a very little nutmeg and rubbing the mixed spices well into tho incisions. Place in a baking pan, add a cup of hot water or stock and bako slowly two hours basting very often and dredging with flour when half done. Take off the muslin beforo dishing, thicken and strain the gravy and send to table with the meat.—American Agriculturist. Advertiser. A PINEAPPLE CAKE. A delightful pineapple cako, which may bo used for a dossort more properly than for supper, is mado as follows: First make an inexpensive sponge cake. With a patent beater stir up three eggs, whites and yolk3 together, till thoy aro very light. Add a cup and a half ol powderod sugar and tho juice of half 8 lemon, and beat again till foamy. Pul two cups of pastry flour in a sieve with one teaspoonful of cream of tartar-and half a teaspoonful of soda. Stir a scant half cup of cold water on the eggs and sugar, still using tho beater. Sift the flour, cream of tartar and soda into the remainder of the cake. Spread this spongo cake out till it is about half an inch thick in ono large pan of circulai shape, or two smaller onos, and bake it rather slowly, so that it will bo moist. It will take about twenty-five minutes. While it is baking peel a ripe pineapple, removo all the eye3 and the core and pound the pasto to a pulp, adding sugar enough to sweeten it. Spread ovet the sponge cake enough of tho pineapple pulp to make a layer about a quarter of an inch thick. Spread over the pineapple a meringue mado by beating the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth with three tablcspoonfuls of powdered sugar, and add about a tablcspoonful of lemon juice. Spread this meringue on the cake, over the pineapple, and set it back in tho oven to cook slowly for ten min utes, when it should be a delicate brown and well risen. If you wish, and are an expert in the use of tho pa3try bag and tubes, you can put on a layer of orna mental rings and scroll-work in meringue over a plain layer, when the meringue is spread. When this cake is thoroughly cold it is ready to serve.—Now York Tribune. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Half the battle in washing dishes ii keeping tho dish cloths and towels clean, To clean bottles, cut a raw potato into small pieces and put into the bottle with very little water. Some hou3okeepor3 servo lemon with mutton, but most people prefer a com bination of tart and sweet. If knifo handles becomo yellow rue with fine sand paper. Never let thi handles soak in the dish pan. To removo white spots from furniture, rub with pumico stone, then with shel lac, vatnish well thinned with turpen tine. To clean polished stsel cover with > paste made of sweet oil and emery pow der. When dry rub off with leathei dipped in the powder. Paraffin will softon leather which hat been hardened by water aud rc3toro its supplooess. A mixture of cream and ink is an excellent thing to rub on ladies' fine kid boots. To soften' sponges and remove from their crevices the sea sand and grit, first soak and squeeze the sponge through sev eral cold waters, then put it over the fire to boll for a quarter of an hour. A flannol cloth dippod into warm soapsuds and then into whiting and ap plied to painted wood will romove all grease and dirt. Wash with clear water and dry. This will not injure the most delicate colors. A use for common salt recently given is to rub it into the roots of tho hair to • remove dandruff. Rub it in lightly al night, not using a great quantity; in the morning it is all gone, only leaving s slight dampness. Molt fresh mutton suet, smear the sad iron with it whilo it is hot, then dust it well with unslaked lime, pounded and tied up in muslin. Irons so protected will keep many months. Use no oil upon them at any time except salad oil. < Place your wet umbrella handle down-, ward to dry if you would have it last long: The water will drain off quickly and evenly down tho ribs. If placed handle up the water all runs to the top and soaks the cloth and lining around the ring, which it keeps wet a long-time and causes to soon rot out. Javolle water, used for turning white. tho dirtiest linen and removing stains, is composed of bicarbonate of soda four ^ pounds, chloride of linioono pound. Put, tbo soda into a kettle over the tire, add, ' •no gallon of boiling wator, lot it boil-\ ,-om ten to fifteen minutes, then stir, in ne chloride of lime, avoiding lumpsifj 'so when cool. This is good for reowj^j i .n fruit stains from white clothing,,!\'\'\' 1
