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 [â-  gl THE HOUSSHOIjD. Tetted Beoeipti. A CoTTAos PcDsiFO !â-  » okke wttii m nnce to it, and it la made aa a cap oaka, with a cnp of aweet milk, three egga, half a cup of butter beaten fint to a oream, with a cap of angar, and three oapi of.flonr into wUch liaa been pnt two tea-apoonf nla of neam of tartar, and one of aoda. The flaTorir-g ia lemon, and hot fruit aanoe Bhonld be provided with it. An Otstbb Pik ia a nice luncheon or dde-diah at thia a aa ao n and it eaaily made from freah or canned oyiten. FOl a pudding diah with oyatera, anuU spUt craokera, oream, more oyatera, pepper, aalt, and bat- ter. Let them atand on the top of the atove until boiling then cover the top of the diah wi h a rich onut quite thick, and bake until the oruat ia browned delicately. Serve hot. This ia a good diah to accompany any kind of fowl or game. Try the following receipt for one raperior lemon pie Four yolka and two whitea of egga, four deaaert apoonf ula of angar to each egg, a, lump of batter the tize of a walnat, and two lemon*. Strain the juice of both and grikte the rind of one, which atrain with the juice. Beat all together, and bake quickly in a rich nnder-cruat. The two re- maining nhltea may ba ased with four dea- aert spoonfuls of powdered sugar, and the gra- ea rind of i no lemon to make a meringue for the top. KoAST Chick EK are a delicacy, if the chick ena are of good quality. Obtain, if pcaaibie, chickena with a whole brdast-bone, tiusa them neatly, and let tbem be careful- ly singed pot cdery dressing idside each ciiickeu tie a piece of buttered piper or a alice of bacon over the brtaat, and roaat in a moderate oven, buting frequently. Time of roa^ting, abaut an. hour. About tea min- utes before they are done remove the paper or bacon, and apriukle them freely with aalt. Serve with plain gravy in a boat, not in the diah garnish with thin alicea of broiled bacon rolled up. Treacle (Molas.sbs) Pudding.â€" Half a pound of flour, quarter of a pound of suet, half a tea- apoonf ul of carbonate of soda, aalt, one tea epQonfnl of ground ginger, tea-cup- ful cf treacle, quarter of a pint of milk, cue egg. Chop the auet aa fine'y as poaaible, and put it into a baain with the flour, car- bonate of aoda and ganger. Beat up the egg, mix the tieacle and milk with it and atir thia into the mixture in the baain, add more milk if required to make the pudding moiat. Grease a b^isin thoroughly, put the pudding mixture into it, cover with a greas- ed paper. Uave enough boiliog water to some half-way up the basin in a saucepan, and steam for two houra. Baked Chicken Pie.â€" Prepare two or tliree plump chickena, by cantful drawing, singeing, cleaning, and cutting o£F necka, wii^a and drumsticka. Joint the breasts, â- Idea, and backbones, and pnt th;m in an earthen stew pot, into which has been pre- viouly placed three slices of sweet, fat, salt pork. Simmer till tender. Take out the chicken, stain off the liquor and lay the chicken in laytra in a deep dish, alternating with oysters, a few bits of cracker, butter and aeaaoning to taste. Orer the whole pour the atrabied atock, and cover with a rich paate half an inch thick before baking. Mike iuciaions In the form of leaves ^ud bake slowly one hour. The remainder of a j chicken wUI make a fine soup, with stock j in which a veal- bone has been cooked for a ba^e, and celery root for an Ingredient. Cbanbekbies are a winter luxury stewed and eaten with granulated oatmeal for breakfast every morning, they will make a new liver, or at least make over an old one, so that it is as good as new. For sauo?, pick over one quart of sound fmit, to this put two gilla of water cover and let them simmer till the cranberriea are tender, then add a good half-pound of granulated sugar, and stir all together till the sauoe is a rich nuhBB, and serve in an amber glaaa diah. A famous houaekreper gives the following aa an excellent formula for cranberriea To two quuts of cranberriea allow two and a half copa of sugar. First boil tbe cran- berriea in a pint of water for a few moments, mash them against the aides of the kettle, then add the sug^ stir antinuHlly until they boil up twice, then pour them out to eool. Beefsteak Pudding. â€" "Cheshire Cheese" receipt Make a crust of chopped and sift- ed kidney suet, in the proportion of a half of a pound of suet, freed from skin, to a pound of flour, prepared by mixing with it a small salt-apeon of aalt and teaapoonful of Royal Baking Powder^mix thoroughly, wet with cold water, roll out with as little flour aa poaaible, and line a pudding-mbld which bas been well buttered. Take two or three pounda of jucy rump-ateak, ti^ or three lamb's kidneys, and a amall can of of mushrooma cut op the steak, and put a thick layer in the moll. Season to taste, adding a tablespoonful of wt^^^ catsup. Add next a layer of mushrooms, then a lay- er of kidney, then bcief, then mushrooms again, which will fill the mold. Seaiaon, add- ing another table spoonful of the catsup, if preferred, and cover with paate, wetting the edge, ao that it will close tight, and allow- ing a little room for the awelling of the pabtry. Tie in a cloth whi h has been dip- ped in boiling water ani floured, and steam two hi ura or boil gently for the aame time, keeping the pot replenished with boiling water. Oyatera may be employed in place of muahrooms, but It will not thq^ be "Cheshire Cheese" Beefsteak Padding, though It may be very good. Plum Puddwo. â€" One half pound of kid- ney suet, half pound of raisins (Smyrna and Malaga mixed), half a pound of freah brWd ommbs, one Ubleapoonfal of floor, dx ounces brown mgu, four oimcei onage Kiel and citnm mixed, a Utile salt, one- arth of a gntad nutmeg, a pinch ofpnl- T«rized gbigtBr, half dosen eggs, asmaU cup of sweet oream, and one rf ourrant ieUy. This Is snffisieBt for a good sized pudding. Stone the raidiis, and aoak them in the k«lted ourtant jelly. Now trim ttie beef UdneT-iataBd chop it wj fine, with one noonfnl of flour, mix H weU with the ohunbijof bread, ho;ni sow, and the eggs vail buttered, fold op and tie to the l«vd dflha Piidi?f"gi ao a« to make It roond tiMT phP'ff' " p«4MBg hto a saaoepan of alltiiiaiBa tiieoonwaof boDins water, and let it boll at least foor hemâ€" oAnnant boQing. Take oot and lat diBin in a sieye; oot It from tii* top so as to keep on a level, then torn It oot on a diah, removing tbe napkin oarefully, so as not to d storb tiie fine part of the Mddlog. S^kle with a UtUe aloohoL You may apply a match to the pudding when It U on the table. Serve the sauce separate. Tlus pudding may be cooked in a mould, the mould well buttered, and the pudding tied In a napkin, also well buttered. Boil four hours. FEBSOHAL- Bar- King Thebaw is not a full-blooded mese. Hismother was aShin. Miss Lalla Scott, who ia becoming famoua ai a pianiat, was bom at Stratford, Oat., De- cember 19. 1866, May Agnes Fleming, the nivelist. Is a Canadian by birth, althoagh she hai lived in the United States for many years. The Halifax Critic, Nova Scotia's literary paper, is edited by Prof. 0. F. Fraser, the blind principal ot the Nova Scotia achool for the blind. BbT. A. J. Townsend, rec n'ly chaplaia at the Hal f ax garris n, and bro.her-inlaw tf Mr. John F. Stairs, M P., has been appoiated garrison chaplaia of Dublin. Mr. 0.iver King, who has jost won the priza offered lor a piano concerto by Messrs. Brinsmead Sons of London, £:«:., wa4 piaiJat to the Princess Louise whUe she was in Canada. PrinceiB Liuiae and the Marquis ef L-rDe are preparing lor Good Words an article on "Our Railway to the Pacific," the Prmcesa contribating tte picturea and Lord Lorae the letter preaa. Widespread regret is expressed In Lon- don at the departure of Masurus Pasha, wbo has represented the Porte, there for thirty-four years. The eminent Christian atateaman ia now 78 years old. British Columbia has given women the franchise in municipal and civic eleotiona on the aame qualifications aa men but no woman ia allowed to be a member of a muni- cipal council. Rsv. Henry Ward Beectier, delivered a lecture at Gait, Ont., the other evening for which he was paid $350, and the Gait Seporter estimates that he received fodr dollars for every minute that he spoke. Qaeen Natalie of Servia recently pur- chased forty sewing machines and set seamstresses at work on them in the palace at Belgrade, making garments for the troops, whish she cut out with her wn fair hands. The Winnipeg New4 says Sir A. T. Gait will represent Winnipeg in the next Parlia- ment of Canada, and tlukt (mother Cabinet will be made in order to give him a port- foUo. Sir Alexander Campbell probably retiring. Mr. John Antrim, who resides near Leba- non, Ohio, claiaa's to be a great grand ne- phew of (George Washington. His grand- mother, on the mother's atde, married Col. Scott, who was the son of Washington's oldest skter. Major-General Laurie, of Nova Scotia, who commanded «t SwUt Current during the North- West rebellion, la now on the Servo-Bulgarian frontier serving as com- missioner tor the national society of £ng- luidforfurm'shingaidto woimded soldiers. Mr. Chas.Canniff James, B, A., classical^ master of the Cobourg collegiate institute, has been appointed professor of chemlatxy and geology In the Ooelph Agricoltoral College. Mr. James took honors in science in Victoria University, having been the gold medalist of this year. The fine statue of Queen Victoria, which has been placed in a niche on the west front ot Lichfield Cathedral, is the work of tiie Prinoeas Louise. It repreaents Her Majesty clad In mediiaeval costume, wearing a diadem and veil thrown back, and holding In her right hand a scepter and in her left a globe. A Michigan gfarl outdid her companions in a craze for autograph albums by having about one hundred Utters from the same number of men bound in a volume for her parlor "able. As the missives represented her extenaive and unuaually aentimental correspondence aince she had arrived at the age of chirography, the collection proved very interesting to callers. The late M. Perrin of the Ccmedie Fran- cais when a young man was betrothed to a remarkably beautiful young woman. She fell ill with smallpox and was diifigured for life. The first person to visit her when she was allowed to receive any one was M. Perrin. " Ah I" said she, with a smile, yon have come to be set free from your engagement " " I have come," said he, " to haaten the day of our marriage ' Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish Minister at Washington, seems to be fully alive to the tact that his country will shortly nc»d more guns. He came on from Washington last week to incpect Lieutenant Zalinaki'a new dynamite cartridges, and inaiated upon every deteil of the manufacture being ex- plained to him. He expressed his satisfac- tion and a wish to order some for Turkey should lis Government consent. William E. Cramet, editor of the Mil- waukee Wiseonain, is one of the most re- markable journalises of the Northwes^ He has been deaf sinoe boyhood and is totolly blind, J et 1 e one of thahardest wcrkers and most thoroughly posted men in the profes- sion. He has been In harness nearly fiftv yean, and his office hours are as reenlM u when he was young. He knows the city thoroughly, and can without difficulty so alone to any point or hooae he may desfre to visit. l^erlohest woman In South Amerloa b Isadora qooafaio,ef Santiago, Chili Th« Cibto, and she traces her ancestry baok to fiN»m her hi»bwds miUions of aores^HoS ""«?•?• fl«»k« "d herds, owkl.' ooppS and laver mmea, wiMt of Iron staunddn Hoelting works and a rallw? S^Sg fe^hi?^" 'i^ •av.rallSlion.TySi! From her coal mines alone she ha »»{« «£- WfOO per monS: The'tnS fa which ihe lives cort $1,000,000, and the g~»d. are a marvel of b^^"2dSi,SS fcjffif" ![ ""•" *»»»«»y manifest in Bsiboads in Evsiy Lwd- By the completion last month rf the rail- road from Cape Town to the Saoth Aftloan diamond mines at KUnberley, Htnm caw have soppiantod the tiraaome a^gM ua great oxh«ons of the Doteh and British traders for aboot 700 nules along the direct rooto toward the ZsmbtsL The advent of the locomotive into the very reglwi whore MoFFAiT and .LiviNOSTOKB lived among benighted savages U not only mn e^rU|mM of the sobstantial progress of South Africa, but also illnstratss the impulse that ia now moving dvilized nations to penetrate nev fields of commerce with railroads. These enterprises seem to be jostifiM by similar ventores already completed. Sooth Africa's 1,562 miles of lines, all owned by Cape Colony, paid all working expenaesand nu^tenance during the firtt ux months tbu year, and three ana a half per cent, to apply on the interest aooonnt. The British Bar- mah railroads retomed dz per oant. divi- dends last year, and have paid good Inter- est since the day they were opened. Gen. Strachey, the greatest authority on Indian railroads, estimates that the benefits aoora- ing firomher railways to India amount to over £30,000,000 per annum. It la found also that immense and promis- ing re({iona \lill oontioue to be Isolated until they are tapped by railroads Mr. Holt Hallett has shown that tae cost of, caravan traffic in Indo-CSihta la from fifty to one hun- dred times as much as by railroads. The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has declar- ed that railroads are indiapensable to ooen new marketa for British oommeroe In Bar- mah, Siam. a^d western Chinst. Gan." Gor- don wrote in 1882 " A belt of arid sdad of 280 miles separates the Egyptian Sbodan from cvUization, and till thia la spanned ilo real progress can be made. The route from Suakim to Berber is the natural routo to be opened. When that railway ia jiompleted an entire change will take place in the whole of thia country." WhatGoirdon aaid of the Soudan the Inten^tional Association now says of the Congo â€" that the populous and fertile up-river regions will not be worth a penny to commerce until the worthless dis- trict of the lower river is spanned by rail. The fact also that railroads are needed to farther the political purposes of some great natinna ia giving a remarkable impulae to certain large enterpiiaes. Had Knartoum been placed within easy reach of Europe by the completion of lamail's railroad from Wady Haifa past the Nile oafaraote, Eng- land would have been spared the waste of treasure and blood that her failure .in the Soudan involved. No fresh war cloud be- tween England and Russia on the Afghan border will cateh them with r*ilroads pro- jected but unbuilt. Englahd's |iron loute from the Arabian Sea to Afglu^dstan has this month reached the Quetta plateau through the Bolan Pass. The work on Rus- sia's transcasplan road is advancing day and night. It is now approaching urv, and Russia expecta to carry It on to Bokhara and Tashkend. For the purpose of giving facilities to her troops, England loaned the money to Cape Colony with which the rail- road to Kimberley has jaat been completed. From all comera of the world we are hear- ing of rallroada projected, surveyed, or in course of building. In Venezuela, for In- stanoe,.eight or nine different lines U greater or less extent are under contract, surveys are in progress, grading- and traok laying are considerably advanced on two lines, and are soon to commence on others. Portugal has granted a concession for a railroad from Ddagoa Bay in East Africa to the Transvaal border to connect with the Transvaal rail- road which it Is reported will be built by Garman capital. The more progressive among tbe Boers say they must have rail- road conneotloa with the sea. To Its rail- roads is largely due to fact that South Af- I ica now stands tenth on the list of the chief foreign nations dealing with England. It is in the Oriental world, however, that new railroad schemes are moat rapidly ad- vanobg. The King of Siam Is eager to con- nect his capital with the Chinese frontier by rail, and has promised to build this road if the Lidian Government irill build a road through Barmah to meet the Siamese sys- t m at the frontier. The leading Chambers of^Commerce In Great firitian sent agents to report upon the feasibility of this project, and Mesara. Hjllett and Colquhoon have returned home with enthusiastic endorse- ments of the scheme. In China the power- ful Viceroy, Li Hung Chang, has for some time been urging the need of railroads and telegraphs. His influence, aided by the support of other able statesmen, has already given to China over 3,000 milesof telegraphs, manned by Chinese operators, and the little nine-mile railroad near Tientoln, and is pav- ing the way for railroad schemes that, it is bekeved, will in the course of time reach a large development In China. The railroad that Is to connect the chief towns of Siberia b slowly adyanciog eastward, and surveys for projected lines are in progress in Asia Minor, the Euphrates vaUey, and Persia. The development of some of these projects will be the work of many years, and some of them will donbUcsa utterly fall. Yet It is one of the moat sigaifioant signs of thetimaa that these achemes have entoied so largely into the purposes and ambitions of the iwm- merolal world. It may yet be one of tiie chief glories of this century that It intro- doced on a large soale among the less pro- grMtive race those inventions and facUitiea which have assisted Western oivlUzatlon to outotrip all others. I **".TJ° °«"P^**° °"«* ^oo^y abont the incqoalities of the human lot are aenerallv aUttleblfaid totiiose gr«.t.to« l?SSi and blessfagtiiat no class can mooopollM. and no wealth can buy. *^ ' A lady of fashion, while pualna bv a orowd^oming from tiie OpwTHoSe Ead •M,yar state whafrye-maysmU-hT mJI adrift en flie starboud aid« I" ladiea in Scotland ware going to the kfek The one said to tiie »tl«r, " WiuTtt no a I'-SJ*' thing ttnt tiie BrUlA^^yl yjrtorioiis oTor theFronch intha iSttleV "Not a bit," said the othwl^yT. «S^ MAXIMS FOBMBBOHABTS. Tme bravery i Aowi. ^J.^^^^ without witiieases what oiiamjjt beoap- able of doing before all the world. Hethnttidksbigand ""f^^S. t£ is nnivers^y condemned aa a trooble- some and lU bred companion. Beware of carelessness no fortone wU sbmd it long. You are on tiie high to»Ato ;SS the moment yon tidnk yourself rich enough to be careless. Affectation in any part of « ««™8« 'j lishtiDg up a candle to our defaote, and SverfSu. to make osbe taken notice of, either as wanting sense or wanting sincerity. The man who never filled in business oan not possibly know whether he h»» "7 " Kit" in him, or Is worth a button. U is tiw man who faUs, then rises, who is really great in his way. There b nothing witii which men are ao liberal as advice. It may benefit or blight a life, or save or ruin a man. Good amoe ia bettor than gold. It should be given with wisdom and received with cautton. Every man b a debtor to hb bosinesa, from which as men do, of coarse, seek to receive countenance and profit, ao oaght they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. Character b a fabric. Every faculty b a spinner, spinning every day ite threads, and almost every day threads of a different color; and character b made up by the weaving together of all these Innumerable threads of dally life. The generality of mankind create to them- selves a thousand needless anxieties by vain search after things that never, nor never wUl be found upon earth. Let us be con- tsnted with our lot, and endeavor to make It as happy as we can. Signal BeyeDe:e Thirty -six years ago occurred t^e battle of ChilUanwallaih at which the E iglbh ran an appallingly narrow chance of being de- feated by the co nrageons Sikhs opposed to them. Ihough England did gain the day, it was only by an enormous expenditure of brave men's Uves. A commemoration pillar b erected to their memory. In the garden of the Chelsa hospital. Thb battie however one of the severest ever fought by the Britbh on the soil of India, b abo noteworthy because of the shadow of misfortune and disgrace overhanging It. The fourteenth regiment of dragoons, in the midst of the engagement, suddenly tumcMl in retreat, and nearly caused a panic In the army. Its commander, Capt. King, over- come by shame afterwards committed sui- cide. Previous to hb death he repeatedly de- clared that he gave no order for retreat, and knew no reason why hb troops should have fled. But the order was hearid by maey of- ficers and men, uid the captain's word was not believed. Public opinion gave a verdict of cowardice against him. The clrcumstancea of the battle have, how- ever, been recently revived, and new evi- dence has come in, which, if true, frees both officer and men from the worst charge which can be preferred against soldiers. In tne regimen^ says thb exonerating voice, was a private who, for.some reason, bore a g udge against hb colonel. Though he had sought for an opportunity of taking revenge, none had presented Itself. But the man was a ventriloqnbt I and at last hb chance came. On the day of the battle, at the critical moment, when it was infamy to take one ba ckward step, the ventriloqubt threw hb voice close to the colonel and ;alled.â€" "Threes about I" It was the signal for retreat The regiment was a model of diacipllne, and had always obeyed as one man. It did so now with fatal promptitade, and in the melee of the battle-field, ita retreat was aoon converted Into belter skelter flight. The soldier bad avenged hb wfong at the ex- pense of his comrade's honor, and at the rbk of defeat to hb country. Lake Glazier, the newly dbcovered source of the Mississippi, ia a sparkling little lake, which nestles among the pines of a wild and unfrequ^ted region of Minnesota, just on the dividing ridge which forma the great watershed of North America. It b about a mile and a half in greatest diameter. The waters of the lake are exceedingly pure, coming from aprings. " *^ ' bar WISDOM'S The more you say, the Ui '^a Siniplicity of character U -ft suit of profound thonghw F*" The plant of happbeasl"" I out the air of cheerfuSi^*H,^l The innocence of tha^j i I notiiing of the miachief af tk ^* ^1 Make friends with your can, but never make friend. xV ' "fedttj- «M TheliMvestgatiieredlath.«. I past b to be brought horn, fo,*^«l J tbe present. ""wrt^^'l Many people mUtake it»i^ '.^•"" '"«»%;, Promises made in the tin, »i « I quire a better memory tSjJi'Hj ly possess. '""P«opl,o •! Deprive the people of tke »,. per subsbtence *^and yo" Zj"" "f troy the n rtion. ^*^ »»d Cheerfnlneas b an PxceUent w^i, i^thehJirt.'""'"'"'^**"'!?" We should be as cheerful of „.. I ofonr actions, and a.?arfrLZ2 as from doing ill. f*««|| For a gold surrency the p«ple i^, encouraged to aacr.fi » theb !?'â-  llbertiea,tiiefr children and » Gold and Bilver would be better „. medals of commerce than as flnct!,.«:, gal tenders in the hands of epcc£j' Give no quarter to those vices rtuJ of thine inward family, and £ijf: ia temper plead a r|ght «d To avenge one's self ia to ecnfeatliiid has been wounded; butij ianotthewii a noble nund to be wounded by uvZ] Who is wise? He that leani ft«„ one. Who b powerful He tbit ton. his paaaionr. Who b rich! He nd content. Those that would be safe have necdj suspicious of the tempter. Theta that surrounds a party ii not farfroBlii surrendered. He who ezpreases in hia eondict ia and charity acuomplbhes the QNtbuk works ;.the good man ia, in bit inj,| greatest of all artists. Public opinion is a weak tyrant ctnu with our own private opinion iriutii thinks of himself, that it ia which deti or rather indicates, hia fate, it doea ua good to admire whitii and beautiful but it doeiniiifiiitd;! go od to love it. We grow like whtt liij mfre, but we become one with fki love. The foundation of f;ood labor bi sphere is a goud man, and all thit iik to give breadth, depth and hllncstii will react in ultimite improvemeitr hb work. Knowledge must be made vital hi heart before it can bloaaomlntocondi^i the contianal paaabgof right feeii|ii right action alone can form i cluuracter. A Swindler's Sharp Trick A French nobleman played igi«^ ecarte with a foreign C^unt. Theiitterr and the Frenchman pulled oat lO.OOOir and handed them to the wInBer.flioj ly seoared them in hia pccketbeok m* hbme. Early next morning a goto of aristocratic bearing and decoritedi the order of the Legion d'Honnenrm* into the apartment of the foreign Wfl was still asleep. "Moneitnr,' hes«] tones trembling with eic»"°*°V'l°llj in your hands the honor of awhole WJ "Indeed!" "Kindly tell me. »",T who played with M. de H.?" "Ya „" won 10,000 franca and heraidyoi. '1 in bao k notes, and I have them here, "t sir, the notes are fahe. L«t night fe» of the nefarious practices of out re* and 1 came in heaven's name to mi g exchange them for ten "ibeK [n brought." The noble foreigner »t «wi changed the notef. In the eveBni«»' not a little surprised to msethisopF^ the"clab. and tc be asked *» S""' "31 The foreigner curtly refaeed, vmf an explanation. Tm Count dre* JJI pocket the exchanged notee f^f^J in the morning. They were !»!««• tleman with the decoration! wm » French swindler. '•-'_. I- Ho*' «..^" ^«ofl«naeman*sr Awtnd has brovght horn to dinaerj: Â¥^' ^^"0* ^rndtnumdiitg) Y«s, I " ooght lO." wateas: Bijttou tPSAK mmabkably wbll. twfaci.1' TOBoS;,. â- â€¢â-  ^°"â„¢' IHAVK.I,IVBDHEB«ALLMTUFK. i^ BoHmSS?*' "» " «™^0» I I AM SUBKMT HUSBAND TOLD ««