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-•4ria%iiriiii Mil >PJ*<*M. imA^ imi»wi1«ii •«M IMM i- About the ....House 99 9* 9*94444***9 * 99^999 SOMl-: CHANUUltY COOKKUY. Sauce â€" Add 1 cup boiling water to 1 qt curelull7 picJiod crunbcnies mid cook slowly until the skins buijit, then stir in 2 cups graiiulatod sugar, and siinmcr 10 uiiHutrs lon^or. Tuin into molds and let get cold. Crun- beiries cooked in this manner will jelly beautifully un<i are by many preferred with turkey to the strain- ed jelly. Cooking loo long develops a more acid taste, and will make tlio akinu tough and indigestible. TarOâ€" Line a deep perforated pic dish with good paste, und fill it with cranberry sauce cooked as in preceding recipe. Put several strips of puti paste across the top in lat- tice fashion and bake in a (|uicl< oven. Pudding â€" Mix together 1 beaten egg, I cup sugar, 2 tablespoons but- ter. 2 J cups sifted (lour, 1 teaspoon baking jiowder, and 1 cup chopped cranberries. Turn into an oiled mold, cover, and steam for I hour. Serve with any sweet liquid sauce. Cranberry Olives â€" Hpread slices of turkey, veal or roast beef with cranberry sauce cooked as in lirst recipe, sprinkle with grated crumbs, season lightly, add some little bits of butUT, roll up and tie. Dip in melted butter, roll in seasoned crumbs (using salt, popper, minced onion and celery for seasoning) and brown lightly in a quick oven. He- licious for breakfast, lunch or tea. CABBAGE RELISHES. Pried â€" Chop cabbage fine, place in a frying pan containing 1 cup bacon dripping. 1 pt boiling water, 1 tea- spoon soda, 2 teaspoons sugar, _i. pepper pod, .salt to taste. .Stir c ten, cooking until brown. Poum â€" Slice a solid cabbage ve thin. .Season with .salt and peppr Add i or 1 cup good cream, accor ing to size of cabbage, 2 teas^poo sugar. Stir vigoi'ously with a fo: and just before ^erving stir in much cider vinegar as you have us. of ci-euui. Keep very cold. Cold Slaw â€" .Slice a solid head vc., thin. Season with salt, pepper a^gcitej sugar. Stir in enough cider vinegi. to have it real sharp. Cream Slaw â€" Slice very thin. Place in the pun tablespoon butler. When hot, | in the cabbage, with a verv lit' water. done, aeat 1 ogg very light ai â- "" I gives relief nlniost instantly Htn- in slowly, then J cup sol' ao| but strenath that gives I'lil-ion's Ner to "ginger" thoiu. To two pound. of fruit allow two pounds of sugar and .a pint of water, with one ounce j of tincture of ginger or ils txiuival- eiit in fiL'sh ginger root. Make a ' syrup of the .sugar and water and j cook the pears in it until tianspar- eiit, but not until they break. The pears should be chipjied into small pieces. A|)ples may he |;ut up in the same way. CANADIAN TOUES. Sir Alfred Jones Working Details of Scheme. Out ing. Cover up and let them cook until grapes are boated through. Carefully turn off all juice and rill with hot syrup as thick as molu.sses. Seal at once. They are delicious. Jelly may bo made by taking the .same pro] orlions of juice as are used for crab apple jelly. HOW TO PUKSKRXK PEKKS, {â- ather, diuring a walk through the woods, an armful of ferns, selecting perfect ones ; la.v simoothly between newspapers and put to press under a trunk. 'Iheso nuiy so remain un- til returning to the city. Fill rose bow l s half (if .sand and stir.lf tbes e 3R PRODUCE 5 PRR F. t. HILL & C( Got Lame Back or Lumbago'* are I No need of tlmt now. That surt of- a solid hcjjr it I "an be knocked out in .short order,' Pol.siin'a Norviline which is live ti" ^^ i .strunKiT than any other, penetratinf'' - -- â€" ,. ... tliejoiice thrnusjh the tissues, reaches'" i.et siinmcr until thorough' ii.g j source of sufl'ering, drives it; out and ' Beat 1 ogg very light ai | gives relief almost instantly. Not nK cream. .Salt and pepper to taste Warm .Slawâ€" Hoil together tne beaten yolks of 2 oggs, 2 table- spoons each sugar aiwl s-oiir cream, 1 tablespoon butter, uiid 1 cup vine- gar. Pour this over finely cut cal)- bage that has been seasoned with Salt and popper. Servo at once. FANCY CAKKS. .Sublime Cakeâ€" Beat the while of 1 1 eggs to a slilY froth, add to them the yolks of 3 eggs well beaten and IJ cups powdered sugar well sifted, 1 teaspoon lemon extract and 1 cup (lour sifted live times, with 1 ttjuspoon cream tartar. Bake in a moderate os'en in an ungreasvcd i)an. Place the pan up.'iido down for cake to cool slightly lifted on one side, and it will drop out or can bo easily removed by slipping a knife around the edges when cold. Hose Cake â€" Two cupsi powdered sugar. 3 cups sifted flour, whiles of (i eggs beaten still, } cup butler, 1 oup water, 2 teaspoons baking pow- der. Color part of the dough |)ink, flavor wiUi rose, and bake in lay- ers, two white, the middle one pink. Make u filling of icing, and put with same. Ornament the top with three roses made as follows : While the icing is still wet, arrange candied rose leaves in circles, lotting thein overlap a little. Three layers make them about right. Leave a small circle in the center, into which drop the .volk of hard-boiled egg pulver- ized. It will stick while frosting is Wet and a little care will make the imitation of roses perfect. VARIOUS UFX'irElS, fJreen Corn Puilding â€" Praw a sharp knife through eacn row of corn lenglhwi.se, then scrape out the pulp. To one pint of this corn add one pint of milk and one pint of cream, throe eggs, thoroughly l)cat- en. one taldespounful of butler, two tabk'spoonfula of sugar, ono-half tublespooiifut of flour. Bake for one houi', stirring occasionally un- til it thickens. Foamy I'udding .Sauce â€" Cream half a cupful of butler, add a cui>ful of powdered sugar and flavor with van- illa. Set usidu until just before serving, then add r fourth of a cup- ful of hot milk und the while of an egg licatcn to a foam. Beat till light und foam.y. Spiced ( J rape.-*â€" Take sevea pounds of fruit, three and a half pounds of sugar, one pint of vinegar, and one labletiioonful each of cinnamon, cloves, nllspice und grntcd nutmeg. Pulp the fruit, boil in the vinegar until soft, pre.ss through a colander, add the shins, sugar und spices ; (hen boil until thick. Canning (Jrapes Whole â€" Pick only sound gnipos olT the stem, being very earetiU not tu break 'he skins. Fill cans with grapes, then cover with cold water, [xut into a kettle or boiler paokrid with hay lUid wa- ter, and keep Uio cans from tuoak- â- -' I'lU minor You .vijl "'â-  Knitting is declared by spocialisls in the treatment of rheumatism to be a, most helpful exercise for hands liable to become sUIT from the com- plaint, and il is being iire.scribed b.v pliv nicians boi'ause of its elliciency in liml'eriiig up the hand of such .sulToreis. I'^or persons liable to cramp, putm lysis or uuy other uf- fcclion of the lingers of that char- acter, knitting is regarded as a mo.wt benollcial exercise. Besides, the simple work is said to be an excel- lent diversion for the nerves, and is recommended to women suffering from insomnia and depression. In certain sunitariuuis patients are en- couraged to make use of bright steels, and the work is so pleasant that it is much enjoyed by them. The latest dovelupmont in the tourist direction id a scheme for cir- cular tours at an inclusive; iirice be- tween Great Britain and Canada. Sir Alfred .Jones, of London, is in- teresting hini.self in Ihe matter, and is Working out the details of the ar- raiigemenls that have to be made. Hailwa.v interests on lioth sides of the Atlantic have to be upproachod to ensure the perl'oct working of the idea. Sir Alfred's main bu-sis is that a pas.songer ought to be able to go to a tourist agency and pay for a ticket which would cover all o.xpensi's, including tho.se by sea and land, both iraveling and hotel. This, in Sir Alfred's opinion, would great- ly stimulate travel between the two countries. It is his linn belief that Knglishnieu have overything to gain by a journey through the vigorous lands of the West and by a study of their methods of life. He recent- ly .sent out a number of working men to study trade conditions in Canada and the United States. It is to give the same advantages to people in a better position that he is evolving the present scheme, which, it may lie staled, would af- fect a con.siderablo reduction in the expenses at present necessarily in- cidental to a tour in the New World. The principal cities and re-sorts in Canada will be embraced in the ar- rangemenlA. No details are yet set- tled, and the scheme could not be brought into working order before next season. SUCCl!)S«PUL EL.SBWHFHE. .Sir Alfred .Jones, who has an Im- poi'ial motive in everything ho does, has found that by making similar provision for thixjugh booking to the West Indies and the Canary Is- lands, travel to these places has been steadily on tne increase. "At present," said .Sir Alfred Jones, "through a .scheme similar to the one I am developing for Can- ada it is po.ssible to go lo the Can- ary Islands and back for £l.'i, which includes both hotel and traveling expenses. No less than 3,00(> peo- ple availed themselves of this oppor- tunity last .'cason, and this year people are going out in Ihe summer for the .sake of the sea voyage. '.Jamaica will s<ion boiomc very po[>- lUar us a New lUviera resort. It is one of the countries of the future" Itegarding the new Canadian and South African service. Sir Alfred .said that it was opening a totally new market to Canada, and as such would bring a prosfierity to the two colonies which would react favorably on the empire. raNTS TJO HOUSEKIOEPKRS. It is swld that two ounces of permanganate of potash thrown into a cistern whore the water has be- come foul will purify it completely. Uusly iron articles if left over night in a balh of sour whey can be cleansed more easily than in any other way, according to an ex- change. Tomatoes may bo canned at home by paring them without scalding or cutting, putting Iheiu in a kettle on the back of the stove and lotting the juice draw out .slowly. When there is auiflicient juico so they will not burn, let thom cook till done, then can in the usual fashion. Use no Water in them, or they -will spoil. Very few people dry sweet corn these days. But it is good for a change in midwinter, for it seems to have a different flavor from the canned. Babies' knillod hoods, crocheted and knitted wool shawls, etc., can be nicely cleaned by rubbing them in dry flour. A nice way to use hard pears is ».- e:lioctkic battkry in a man. Anybody who shakes hands with Henry Longman, of Summervillo, Pa., gets an electric shock of con- fusing power. Three years ago. while peeling lanbark he was struck by lightning and has ever since pos.sessed the queer power <it trans- milting an electric shock to every- thing ho touches. By passing a blade of a knife between his thiunb and linger during the [rocass of a storm ho charges the metal so strongly that heavy weights can be lifted. When llies alight uion him they drop dead, and when he is in a dark room his eyes shino like in- candescent lights. Whenover a storm approaches Longman becomes so strongly charged with electricity that it~ is dangerous to touch him. He says he feels n. inconvenience except that ho dare not go near a moving locomotive for fear of being drawn against it and killed. RATS IN A PO.ST OFPICK." From Tunis it is reported that the post ollico there bus lately been infested by thousands of rats, which gnaw at and destroy the letters. A troop of cats introduced by the au- thorities have not succeeded in driv- ing the rals away, and the i>ost- master advises the public to inclo.se their letters in small metalic tubes. "Why don't you git a Panama "Too conunon I W'y da borues' hot like rao ?" II be wearin' 'eia next year. PIEEPONT MORGAN. What the Great Financier Looks Like. Imagine a face which combines the chief characteristics of Bismarck, Cecil Rhodes and Lord Roberts, and you can get an idea of what Mr. Pierpont Morgan is like. There is not another face like it in the wide world. Like the two historical gi- ants lirst mentioned, he is tall, bo- ing over six feet in height, and fair- ly heavy. One's lirst impression of Morgan's countenance is that it is a fierce one, but a subsequent glance reveals an underlying good nature. It has enormous powers of expres- sion, and is marked by strong lines. Life has written a great story up- on Pierpont Morgan's countenance, wliich tolls of battles, hopeless, hard- fought, but won openhanded with- out dissimulation or subterfuge. Written in his countenance are his life secrets, hard work, indomitable will, tremendous powers of observa- tion, and assimilation, elephantine toughness tempered by flexibility, and enormous, volcanic vital force. Morgan docs not conceal his emo- tions, nor does he attempt to do so. When pleased he signifies his pleasure by emphatic approval, if of a hum- orous kind by the heartiest of laughs. To look at him is to al- most catch the infection of his in- tensely energetic nature, and he in- fuses all with whom he comes in contact with his spirit. Like most Americans, ho smokes incessantly, large strong cigars. He oats much, drinks moderately, works hard, and sleeps hard. The only sign of failing about him is his hair, which is growing thin. What remains, however. Is crisp, bright, and silvery. He is one of those huge masses of vitality which every now and again, as in cases of Napoleon, Bismarck, Gladstone, and Cecil Rhodes, alTect the destines of their generation, and there is no living personality pos- sessed of so much gigantic energy backed up by such colossal wealth. SCREWS YOU CAN'T SEE. The minuteness of some of the screws made in a watch factory may be measured by a statement that it takes nearly 150,000 of a certain kind to weigh a pound. Under the micro.scope they appear in their true character â€" perfectly finished bolts. The pivot of the balance-wheel is one two-hundredth of an inch in dia- meter, and the gauge with which pivots ai'e classilied measures to the thousandth part of an inch. Each jewel hole into which a pivot fits is about one tlve-thousandth of an inch larger than the pivot to permit siitlicient play. The finest screw for a sinall-size<l watch has a thread of 260 to the inch, and weighs one one hundred and thirty thousandth of a pound. .Jewel slabs of sapphire, ruby, or garnet are first sawed into slabs one-fiftieth of an inch thick, and are shellacked to plates so that thoy may be surfaced. Then the in- dividual .tewels are sawed or broken off, drilled through the center, and a depression made in the convex side for an oil-cup. A pallet jewel weighs one one-hundredth and fifty thous- andth of a pound ; a roller Jewel a little more than one two hundred and fifty-six Ihoiusandth. The larg- est round hairspring stud is one twent.y-fifth of an inch in diameter and about nine one-hundredths of an inch in length. ANTI-MICROBE SIEAVINO. In Jermyn street is what is said to be the only antiseptic, microbe- proof barber shop in London, Eng- land. The first im-prcssion is ra- llior grimly suggestive of a private operating .surgery. The walls are tiled. There is no upholstery any- where. The chairs are of metal, with head subjected to frequent dis- infecting. The ba.sins are made with pedal taps to avoid Ihe cor- taminating touch of human fipgers. Everything your eyes rest on seem.s to say: 'There are no germs on me.' The barber is clad in sterilized overalls. He explains that that is to prevent any of his own personal and private stock of microbes from migrating .to you. Before bt^inning to operate on you he dips his hands in some germ-destroying solutton, and ho a.ssurcs you that the razor is sterilized afresh for each customer. From a cap.sulo ho empties into a sterilized vessel just enough .soap powder to supply the lather needed for the shaving job. It seems that danger may lurk in soap that has been used to shave some other fel- low. The price charged for the" op- eration is sixpence. POISONOUS PARSNIPS. It is a curious fact that the com- mon edible rarsnip â€" Pastinaca saliva â€" when allowed lo run wild, becomes a akin poison, acting upon the cu- ticle somewhat after the manner of Rhus toxicodendron, and also thai variety of primula known as ot>- conica. Another peculiar fact is that it is especially poisonous when the dew is upon it, though when dry it is said to bo rerfcctly safe. It produces in the former condition quite a sinart-rash. Some years ago in a poisoning case which j roved fatal, the doctor in attendance kept the parsnips, regarding the idcnlit.v of which there could be no doubt, as they contained the tooth-marks of those who had eaten them. He suli- seiiucntl.v planted them, and they grew to be the real garden par.snip. .Tunt why these transformations from pohsonous to non-poisonous should take place nus not >-et been fu.ind out. SOME STARTLINB TRIALS ODD EXPERIMENTS FOB TEST- ING INVENTIONS. Sixteen Hours in a Submarine Boat in 30 Feet of Water. A diver, though supplied with air from the surface, and in communica- tion with his crew In a boat abo'va him, rarely remains under water for more than four hours at a time. The French naval authorities recently de- termined to subject their new sub- marine, the "Morse," to a submer- sion of sixteen hours on end, say. Loiidor Answers. The "Narval," a previously built boat of the same type, had been sub- merged for twelve hours, and her crow had suffered frightfully. But the "Morse" was said to bo better fitted with air-i"enewirg appara- tus. ITie boat was sunk in harbor one gloomy winter day, and lay at the bottom of nearly 30 feet of wa- ter. The cold was intense, as it was impo.ssible to SPARE SUFFICIENT AIR, for any kind of flre. The silence, of course, was absolute, and the four men who composed the crew were as cut off from their fellows as though they had been in another world. The air became heavily charged with fumes of poisonous caroonic acid gas, and the men were obliged to freciuently inhale oxygen, and rub their nostrils and lips with a pom- ado made of lime. "Minutes," said one of them af- terwards, "seemed like hours." But the time at length elapsed, and the "Morse" pumped out tha water from her tanks, and ros. again to the .surface, with all aboard safe and sound. In their efforts to give the publifl confidence in their novel invefttions. inventors frequently make startling trials of their apparatus. Mr. Probst, of Geneva, has devised a wonderful life-Saving suit, which ia made of indiarubber. and so buoyant that half the body of the wearer re- mains out of water. Air-tight poc- kets hold water, food, even tobacco and matches, a trumpet for signal' ling, a torch, and a big knife with which to FIGHT OFF SHARKS or similar man-eaters. Nothing could be more thorough than th€ trial to which Mr. Probst has sub- jected his invention. He has spent seventeen days consecutively In tha open .sea off Havre, eating, and even sleeping, among the tumbling wave-crests. Almost equally alarming was a tesl made recently of a new me- chanical brake, for which its invent- or, on engineer named Meares, claimed that it would stop a train travelling at fifty miles an hour within twenty yards. To test it, an old line leading to a disused col- liery in Lancashire was utilized. Tha rail was continued to the very verga of the pit-mouth, so that, if the brake failed, nothing could save the inventor from falling headlong into the depths beneath. A large number of people gathered to watch the test. A light engine, with Meares alone as pas<«nger, driver, and stoker, was worked to full speed and came roaring along the track. To those who watched it Keemcd beyond belief that it could bo voile*! "P '" ^^'^ given space. But. just as it seemed on the point of crashing into the black gulf, the inventor moved a handle, and. as if by magic, the engine stopped, with its front wheels not ten feet from the pit-mouth. To prove that his newly-invented motor-cycle was the most powerful yet built was the reason of Mr. Lockingo's recent attempt to ride up the Penton Pass, in THE AUSTRALIAN ALPS. The pass is nearly three thousand feet in height, and in places only eight feet wide, with a drop of three or four hundred feet to the torrent below. Hud the motor failed to work in such a place, rider and ma- chine would probably have fallen headlong over the unprotected edge. As a matter of fact, the motor did fail, but fortunately in a spot whera the road was wider. So Mr. Lock- ingo managed to dismount in safety. The terrible airship tragedy ol May In-st was the result of an in- ventor putting too great conlidencfl In the iJroduct of his brain and hands. It was on Monday. May 12th. that the people living in th« Avenue du Maine, in Paris. wer« aroused from sleep by a most ap- palling crash, followed by a glar« of flame. Rushing out. they found the street blocked with the tangled remains, steel plates, and broken cordage. Anwlig the ruins lay two crushed and mangled forms, those ol Senhor Severo. of the Brazilian Par- liament, and Suchet, his engineer. Shortly after five o'clock that morring the inventor had started from Vaugirnrd in his brand new air- ship "Pax." for a first TRIAL OF ITS POWERS. At a height of 1.500 feet above th« city the great balloon suddenly ex- Vloded, and it and its pa.sscngera shot downwards through the air. The test was the more foolish be- cause the inventor had hardly ever been in a balloon before, and hod only finished work upon his machine a few minutes before it was inflated. "Papa, will you give me a good sound licking?" "What for. Bob- by?" 'Well, I am going to play truant and go bathing, and I don't want to be bothered with a futuro," n' i r