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 ii .n ;^i l-t m If 'MMffi ~ii'e»- ""'""'Wfll"pwiTP'spp' Chef-TataaVc •tin -Cdcvy "If yoo don't get amy thing elae there jm ike, yon will My you never tutod mch nl- •da and i So spoke » iriae friend to na m we were starting for a hiatorie town in Provence, France, and while we conld joyfolly testify to many other delights in which tlut viait resulted, yet have we the mioet fragrant memories of the salads and saaees ot the little inn wh«re we lingered for more than a month that winter. It was such a very home-like plaoe that we had not been there any time before we were on friendliest terms with the whole establishment, from Madame in her little gayly decorated "borean" jnst off the conrt- yard, to Jean, the fat cook, who held daOy confabs with as in one half -covered part of the portico near the dining-room. Jeah was quite a character. He had his own way of doing a thing for example, he never on these occasions came into the room; we have seen him quite indolent there at other times. On rainy mornings, our breakfast over, we would behold the prudent chef making his way across the court "holding a large umbrella over his.head, and not to be lured from his usual place. He would chat affably on various culinary subjects, asking our opin- ion on this and that in the most compliment- ary manner, now and then giving na frag- ments, as it were, of the most delightful sounding recipes. At last a time came when he actually wrote down some of these. Later he told us that he knew he might make a fortune in England, forâ€" as many letters he had received testified â€" he conld get'enormous wages in a club or some great nobleman's house, but Jean preferred hum- bler laurels and lower earnings in his own Provence. ^.And his fame did go abroad. To the superior excellence of his salads and sauces more than one guest at the little Hotel Imperial has subsciibed. Jean assur- ed us that tiie first oonsideration in a sauoe was the amount of, aweet or salt naturally in the article to be dressed, for talt and sugar, he observed, were far more important elements than one believed until one thought with seriousness upon it. White sauces were his chef-d'ceuvrt. A fine one for fish which we have since used successfully fo^ certain vegetables and ragouts, was made as follows Put into a porcelain stew-pan a good sized lump of butter; when it melts add one pint of cream of rich'milk let this heat through, and add a good pinch of salt, some Cayenne pepper, and the heart of an onion chopped tolerably fine. Smooth to the consistency of paste two table-spoonfuls of flour in a little cream or milk, and taking care to stir all the time, pour this in slowly. Let it all boil up, ke«p oh stirring, and then put it at the back of the fire. Have ready, well crumbled, the yolks of two very hard boiled egf;s. Beat these well into the sauce. Just before pouring it over your fish or other article to be dressed with it, let it boil up once more, but taking care to stir well all the time. As a sauce for small new potatoes, for boiled lobster, for chicken hash, veal stew, etc., this is excellent, but too much care can not be taken in following the directions exactly, the melting of the butter first being very important, and to be recommended in all white or cream sauces. An egg salad can be made by boiling eggs eight minutes, and placing the yolks in unbroken balls on a dish,' pour- ing over them the above sauce with one table-ipoonfnl of salad oil beaten into it. Garnish with sprigs of parsley and the white of the eggs cut in crescents. It is also ex- cellent poured over bits of toast which have been previously dipped in boiling water. Our Provence cook made a delicious celery tauce by boiling pieces of celery tender, and adding to some go d stock a little white wine. Then thicken this with'flour, a little butter, and some pepper and salt. Boil up with the celery, and pour hot over the ar- ticle, fowls, etc., to be dressed. All small white fish when dressed should have either a cream or a white wine sauce, and for the latter stale champagae may be used to excellent advantage, but never when the sauce is to be served cold. The Apache Indians. The Apaches have'smoke signals by day and fire beacons at night, and systems of tel^^phy understood only by themselves. The displacement and overturning of a few stonea on a trail, or a dent or broken twig. b a note of warning like the bugle call to disciplined troopa. The many croaaea dot- ting the road-aides of Arizona and New Mexico mark the gravea of murdered men. "Theoountiy aeemaonevaat grave-yard," writea Snaan E.,Wallace, "if we may judge by the frequency of theae rude memoriala." Trained Yxj thur mothers to theft and mar- der from childhood, they are iaored to all eixtremea of heat and oold, hunger andtidnfe. Tliey are cunning aa the red fox, inaatiato M tigera, and ao ingeniona inpnpaifag for mpriaea that tiiey will envek^ tbemaelvea inagnV blanket and sprinkle it oanfnlly with«artii,aoaator«aamUe agnattaWid. der, to be pwMd within afewfaak Agaivltii^ win irltk fmii giMB, aad, lyiiC a9»aa*Byportia.**f Para naiy the :boiiifefa«i 1» â€" diha weather. fztm tiie JUMi.:^ to thelMaaac^f into tiiia flakes and laid an aackiagor epaAe doA atratohed on fcamea reatiid to raiao thaas from the groond. ]33Mwaxia tamed over freqaently, and oy?a «on a Hy spriaUed with t6lX water if there b» not dew or rain safSdent to mmaten it. The wax ahonld be MeadiedinaboatfDar weeks. H. VA aad E. SeraelBliave lately written a memtrfr ob the deptha to wbioh sobr raya penetrate iaaaarine water. From a aeriea of experinenta made In the monlfc of Mairch. of thia year at YUle-franche-aurrMer (Medi- tenraaeen) analogoua to those ^revioofly eaxried out at the Lake of (xenevm, the an- thoraconclnde that in fine weather the laat rayaof U^tarediaa^ated inthe Mediter- ranean at a depth of abont 400 metera. N. J. Herioonrt haa aubmitted a paper to the Academy of Sciencea, Paria, in which he tni«t«^tM that all watera, of whatever origin,' contidn curved badlli of variable forma and dimenaioos; that the oarved bacilli do not exist in the atmosphere under their characteristic form, bat are tiiere, hi^ever, in the condition of germa, and ,that all substances capable of serving as nutriment to germa or bacteria contain curv-. -ed bacilli. T, ^o method, sa^a the Engineer, has. yet been discovered fw removing;^ obstacles from jmeumatac tubeepreferaUe -to that ie- sorted to in Paris. The poiikion of an ob- Bfarnction|is determined- iiy. simply firing a p^tol into the tube. The reanltiiig wave of eompressed air, traversing the tube, strikes 'the' impediment, -and ia then d«fle;ted'back to its origin wh«re it iyi^edagynatadeliflate diaphragm,itskidvalBeiiigBeoored'el^tiic- ally upon a very senutive chronograph, on which alio the instant of firing the pistol haid previonaly been recorded. The wave of sound on reaching the diaphragm is re- corded, and then reflected back, a second une striking the obstacle and retoming to the diaphragm. This operation being sev- era repeated, succesnivemeasuranent are thus made of the time required by the sound wave to traverse to and fro within the pneumatic tube, and the exact position of the blocking matter is ascertained. Looks Like War. A despatch fromTeheran states that 1,000 Persians are at work constructing the Trans- Caspian railway. War-like preparations are still being continued by Russia. Rum- ors are in circulation in the bazars of Tehe- ran that war will probably occur after the Trans-Caspian railway is completed toMerv. The Russians are bridging the river Murg- hab on the confines of Afghanistan. Eight hundred Russian infantry are at Old Sar- akhs. The Persians are fortifying the Per- sian Sarakhs and building barracks there for troops. A foundry has been started at He- rat for the casting of heavy gans. A St. Petersburc despatch states that a telegraph oflSce haa been opened at Merv. Russian advices from Vladivostock say that a Russian steamshio which attempted to enter Port Hamilton was intercepted and forbidden to enter by an English man-of-war. The English are said to be fortifying the port. The i^la tOrndf: Sentety. LondeB, the ether LAXES OfiXitJ^thLT, lata At the olths Reyei Geegn^- Sir •petar Ltaaedan peed a paper en the eo«itrlei and tribes he had recently viaitad weat at Atfghaniatan. He gave .an jntareeting de- icriptlen of the geography of the Maigheb .valley and the euatoma of ita people, and qiiosed a aingalar account of the Namakaar, or aalt htkm of Yar-«lan, viaitad and de- scribed thna by Capt. Yate :â€" Yar-mlan meana "the annken ground, and no word can better deacribe the gener- al appearance of the valley of theae lakee. The total length of the valley from the Kan- gmalion the weat of the Band-i-Dozan which bounda it on the eaat, is about 30 mUea, and its great breadth abont 11 miles, dividing ato two parts by a connecting ridge which runs across from north to south, with an height ot about 1,800 feet, but has a narrow whiih rises to some 400 feet above the gen- eral average. To the west of thia ridge liee he lake from which the Tekke Turkomans -from Mervget their salt The valley of this â- lake is some six miles square, and is sur- rounded on all sides by a steep, almost pre- e^itona descent, impassable for baggage enimals, so fares I am aware, except by the 'tterv road, in the northeast comer. The level of the lake I made to be about 1,430 'feet above the sea level, which gives it a li^cent of some 400 feet from the' level of the connecting ridge, and of some ddO feet below the general plateau. The lake itself "^u in the centre of the basin above de- ^l£ribed,and the supply of salt in it is appar- entiy. unlimited. The bed of the lake is one sbli(^ ioiaaff of hard aalt, perfectiy level and covered only by one or two inches of water. To ride over it waslike riding over ice or ce- ment; the bottom was covered with a slight sediment, but when that was scraped away the pure white salt shone out below. How deep this deposit may be it is impossible to say, for no one has yet got to the bottom of it. To the east of the dividing ridge is the second lake, from which the Saryks of Penjdeh take their salt. The valley in which this lake is situated is much the larger of the two. The valley proper is itself some fifteen miles in length by about ten miles in breadth. The descent to it is precipitous on the north and west sides only, the eastern and south-eastern end sloping gradually up in a succession of undulations. The level of this lake is apparentiy lower than that of the other I made itout to be some 800 feet above sea level. The salt in this lake is not so smooth as in the other, and did not look so pure. It is dugout in flakes or strata, generally of some four inches in thickness, ia loaded into bags, and carried oft on cam- els for sale without further preparation. The Gaiibs. The Caribs, or Caras, who are met in Brit ish Honduras, existed, it is said, as a power- ful race in prehistoric times, and spread gradually, under different names, over the globe. They themselves assert that they came from the North. At the time of tiie discovery of America they were in a complete state of decadence, although they had been previonsly a highly dvilized people. The Caribs in British Honduras aell yama and a kind of bread called cazava at Belize. In a erowd thdr peculiar language, which re- eembles tiie sound of gloo-gloo indefinitely repeated, attracts attention at once. Odd ly enough,, they use tiie French nnaierala up to ten, though French ia aeldom apoken in British Honduraa.* The Carib women dreaa in akbts, bat wear no jacket over their low- necked under-gansMBt. Hiey like gaody turbans and otnaoMalfk ' ' i • ' t From the Lowest Boiu^ to;the.Bi|^ects Many years ago a glover*! i^^rentioe in Edinburgh suddenly made up hia adnd to be a atadent. For a long time tfaie thonght had glowed and burned wfthin him, bat he was very poor, and didly bread waa an urgent neceeaity. The Outlook waa not inviting; no candle had he at home, ao after ahop boon wen over he Tesorted to li^ts in ahop win- dowa, and when they wen put oat a lamp- post waa climbed. Jait think how oncomf wt able he maet have besn â€" holding on hy one hand, book tightiy eUadied in the oKher, and hia eyea literally denmring tiie e^^ page. KooneneadbetoldtiwtWahaivw- fang aad tUieling after knowladfa waa an^ty BatiB6ed. lUa yoong bmb iieoaaie one at tiM meat hiiiiiant Qtisnlal adholan in the world, aad tteflnt book faAiaUe priBtadr iaScetlaadwaahiB^eiik. ':^; He Fiefened to Walk. " She'spretty hot, ain't she " said a back- woods passenger, addressing the engineer of a Mieiissippifcteairer tbatwas racing with another boat. " So-so," responded the en- gineer, as he hung an additional wrench on the safety-valve cord to stop the steam from escaping. "I reckon well overtake that craft soon, " pursued the stranger. " That's about it, " returned the engineer, giving the cords another twitch and hallooing through the trumpet to the fireman to " shove her up." "One hundred and ninety -five," hummed the passenger, looking first at the gauge and then at the boilers. " That* s where she's rusticating," put in the engi- neer. The passenger ran his fingers through his hair nervoasly, and walked about the decks for a few minutes, when he came back to the engineer and observed, " Hadn't you better leave that boat go?" "Can't doit Must pass her." "But s'poein' we should blowup?" "WeU," aaidthe engineer, aa he peeped over the guard to see how fast he waa gdng, " if it ia the will of Providence for the boat to blow up, we'll have to atand by it." Then he hallooed to the fireman to coal, and give her a little more turpentine and oiL The next moment there waa a aplaah In the river but before the yawl could be lowered, the man had auooeeded in reaching the abore and hallooed out, " Go en with the race. I Kuess I'll walk, 'â- â-  A Loying Stepmother. In order to punish her stepson, a boy 12 years old, a woman living at Minneapolis tied a rope around the boy's wrists and hung him out of a second-story window on the slanting roof of a bay window. After putting the boy out of the window, the mother dosed it so that it rested on hia wrista, tied the rope to a trunk, aad put a nidi hi the window so tiiat the lad could not raise it to help himaelf. A great crowd of men and women collected in the street, but no one dared to interfera untfl Sent. Kirkham'a little girl came aad notified her fatiier, telUng him that a boy wm being hong. Mr. Kirkha m harried out, aad ia Vite of the fact that the woman aaid she ** would Uke to see a pdice officer oome into her hooae," went in and took the boy down. Hiahandawen black, oaaaed by atoppiag the flo w of Meed, aad the rape had eafehk «iBt Intt* allanioaa fbe {atbar nnaand eiitiwi W ie n Willi the hy and waSSn jwktelte arfonaMkeoL He vridhalM iMepiaaMea tat ildkbt4»i^ good. a new tfai l»y'l*ft"«yffM^i w W---;.^ i ^-1 It is ondentoedaf B^m^rfffiami Gravy wiUiMfcte i^^ifam^f^ Adoadof long and two milae wide throng the state ef Oedinila, Mexieo.. Jamee KomoI LoweU wttfeei that hefa not and has not been, a candidate for the pred- denoy of CibmeU unlnral^ nor for any other podtion. In the town of Momenoe, near Kuikakeei, Illinois, sixty peraona wera pdeoned by ea ing dried beef anppoeed to have oome from diseased cattie. The treaaure thua far diacoverad by the French inthe royal palace at Hue ia valaed at $2,000,000. The Kmg of Anam ia hdd a priaoaer. Chriatopher Mann, the ddeat man in Mia- aoori, and a companion of Daniel Boone^ died at hia home near Independence, at the age of 111. Laborers on the Piaheen railway in India are deaerting b; the hundred on account of the ravages of cholera in the sections through which the road ia building. By an arrangement with the Do minion government, twenty tiioasand Hungarians are to be settied in the Canadian Pacific raQway belt in the Nortiiwest lierritory. Unpopular tax levies, caused a serious riot at Lerida, Spun. The niilitary were called out and fijred upon tte ifipb, .filing three men and wounding' a ^ge nunber. One soldier was also killed.. The indebtednepf of W, A^ Japkypn^ the absconding Texaa, cattle king, ia noif known to be at least $113,000. A scqre of cattien;^ and planters are rained by the fallare. jack- son is believed to have carried filOO,000 in cash away with him. At Qgden, Utdi, Judge Powers, Preudei^t Cleveland's appointee, from whom thepoly- gamists expected clemency, imposed the ex- treme penalty of the law â€" aix montha' im- priaonment and $300 fine â€" upon two prom- inent Mormona convicted of ill^;al cohabi- tation. At Philaddphia, recentiy, a hotd runner known as " Charlie the Swede," plunged a knife into the back of Joseph Maguira, with whom he had long been at enmity, and then leaped into the Delaware river and swam towards Camden. Next morning his dead body waa found in the river. Maguire'a con- dition is critical. At Green i:Civer ialand, in the Ohio river, near Evansville, Indiana, Charlea Harding and Jamea Townaend fought six rounds with bare knuckles, the stake being the hand and heart of Miss Sadie Coming, a rural belle, for whoae affectiona they had long been rivala. Harding proved victor, and will claim his bride as soon aa he can see out of his right eye. Townsend was severely punished. At East Saginaw, Michigan, recentiy, sev- eral hundred strikers visited all the saw-mills and salt works in operation on both sides of the river, and compelled them to close. Mr. Warner, one of the mill-owners, was choked for offering resistance, and two negroes, who went to his relief, were roughly handled. At Bay City the strikers made an orderly street parade, headed by a band of music, after which a committee of their number held a oonference with the mill-owners ask- ing that ten hours constitute a day's work and no one be discharged for participation in the strike. No agreement was reached, the mill-ownera accepting the first propod- tion but declining to entertain the aeoond. HMTOMOALiT^ ' PepeInnooentIV.(l254)p,^ BHiBdedphnoaophic study Lj*" A deereeof QementV. diieS*"' 4rabioead Chaldee to bettalS monailnrlea. Sylvester H. ^^ ietradnced Arabic .*«tn What to Take to Ficnics. At thia aeaaon of the year the queetion what eatablea to take to picoioa atiaee ao fre- qnntiy that a few suggestions may be ao- cepteble. Many people lose ai§^t of tiie fact that good bread:aad batter and odd meat an artideaof which tiiera ahooldbe an ample aappty, even at theooat of going without some delieaciea. A email apirit- lamp will enable one to get; with very little trouble, a cup of hot tea, ec^ or dieoolate. Heraia a abort list of good tUagaiiom wUoh to make edectionafor a luncheon in the wooda Battered tUn bnad* battered rolls, pressed chicken, brdM ohi^en, tongae, ham, preaaed ooraed^beef, eardinea, atafbd ^Sa, hard boiled: egga, broiled amoked ad- mon,]^cklea, divea, cradcers and eheese, orange marmalade, hard gingerbread, cake, odd coffee, cold tea, lemonade. Then are many fruit syrapa whieh, mixed with oold water make palatable drmks. Lemon juioe for lemonade should U extracted at home and carried to the pionio grodnda in bottlea. The augar may be pat witii it or added with the wator when the lemonade b wanted. When ice can be tranaported the bill of fan may be improved greatly. For example, "I^da maybe peeked in ioe, and they wlU befooadtemptiag whea dinaer ia aanouno- ed. leeoreamaad sherbet alao wiU make the med eeem a handled per eanl better on ahotday, aadaBttle ieein thelemoaade wOl anke it ao «aah aiora tefced^ m to lepayone far ttetroable ef oarnfag the ioe. Brt have good taeid a«db«ll« aw. way. UbweatefiitdlNife «n^^^ I f i i ea n a » Dt i tfia^a^,s n^J^^H^l^ Europe. The CoreeswereasmaUtribeof on the coast of Nortii Ca»lia». ?*« aUiea of tiie Tuararoras in u -J^* tteBeglidiinl711.andw.«at!^, they have amce diaappeared fr,Jr'1 of the euth, and their dial.«f :. ^*j forgotten. Inatitutiona for idiots are of i^ in tiie United States. In 18181^7' admhted an idiot boy bto thid-T dumb asylum at Hartford, ni ^* was stirengtiiened. The fint t^i^ i idiota was opened in a wug of the pl^^ Institute in South Boaton, late j, „ efforts to briij. peace m Prahoe was a meeting of fljj. and Christians at Charong 989 A. D solemnly anathematized all who ph^ poor and attack the clergy. Xhe jT ment of peace was held tobea ni««,l removing Divine diapleasure, andbi, after a terrible pestUence m Limog,, clergy ordered a fast, and the "P J Peace " was concluded by the seigi^mj the duke. In andent times the awampy, ipoa-. ritoryoftheNetherlanda wh borS thick foreata, which prevented it from wholly waahed away. The wretdud itanta of thia watery waste were raise mounds for dwellug-pUKwi v^ frequent floods. Strange aa it seeas, r^oe of savages, living on fiah and innch of their time in trying to km selves from drowning, grew into s gn^ powerful nation. Their ,hardah^ the school of courage and peraeverucei enabled them to surpass races placed mora genial conditions. They aiit overflowing rivers fertilize the loiloftii country, which became a garden of pnfe ive industry. The ocean, that thnttamii engulf them, they kept back by enla ments, while covering it with thdi merce. But ,^6 chief glory of thii waa not in their industrial enterpriiei wealth, or in the triumpha of their and arma, but in the serrioea whieh rendered to the cause of hnnun libertj justice by theirresistance to oppreisioii. Hobart Pasha. The career of Hobart Pasha, just lect England on a miasion to the Saltan, been an eventful one. The second m the Earl of Buckinghamshire, he wu in 1823, and first saw active sen-ice still a boy in the expedition for sapj the slave trade in Brazilian waters, Di 1848 and 1849 he served as Lientenut board the Queen's yacht. He waa mi ed when in command of H. M. JS. Driret the captnro of Boomarsund and became ?i Captain in 1862. Six years later hensi; pointednavd adviaer in the Turkiihiernt In 1869 he commanded the TnrkiBh which waa aent to Crete and brought tii aatiafaotory issue the delicate diplomitici gotiations which were carried on at Sja He was subsequentiy promoted to i rank of Pasha and became Inspector-Go' d of the Turkish navy. Daring thent f contrived-to dude the vigilance of the Bt siana and at great risk ancesafnllr n blockade of the Danube m one of the Solivi gunboata. In 1880 he was named Mi and Navd Aide-de-Camp to the Si Four years ago he married Mias Katbli Horo, who belonga to an ancient Anglo man family which settied inlrelaade back aa 1160, and who has tiie rare "" tioa of bdng a countess of the Holy Empin in her own right. Mrs. Hampden has devoted a great part o^ life to worka of charity, and ia no« dent of moat of the Catholic sowtes i^n /aiaance at Constantinople. Hobart Pi*| stands very high inthe favour and fa* of the Sultan, and is doubtleaa "' rene# that anti-Rusdan EngUshand^ alliance which existed under Beacoii«*| but has been broken under Gladstone. Oanada in Selginm* A witty correspondent of The Jvf\ Times, London, Eng., who ia "d"' ,. Antwerp exhibition with his "'^«^«^'2I and the "editor," after criticising tb« "Jl show of the British department stthei^l aatioad exhibition, thus descants •! Caaadiaa court: "Passing from '^l Disgraceries, we enter a really ^. ananged court. Surdy this must be I land too. There are the royal amft ara the Union Jacks, there are â€" ^. twoamart men with 'Canada' on »* keepgnard. Weare on tiiegw»»V^ ed to the meet go ahead of aU o°^^ VtM gTMit Dominion of Canada. J^%1 cithis eenrtonly makes oo^'^^^l ti the hondliation to the moth" '"^^ Am greater. Mr Canadian C^ »fie drawee wdl of Us Govbi«»^ 'tl^lia apparent everywhere, fr^T^j )gli^|»|2CkMi^4iaa wood dovs to ^traaeea and eziti. ,-eth» »»«»'•'»«**•* Make dark "â- ""'^f i_^to««goee ?-*.«»• ^^am blended totooi ^oVthe«iriUtagbii( Oar flioagtta with lai !^i-OBUtf»songofold I And slag it sweet and I^BrtttagstafalnawUle Ot nnmbMS more than CHAPrEB II.â€" |Nowthatyoahavec r for a cup of tea," di loftheVioarage. • muffled with ivy, as [eTsn the waU whio e-ground from th r into the poroh stand __ I it open and ho iVwhiohldo, nothi he poroh and entry ai hey aeemdark after 1 jeirithout. Miss I I Venetians in the lit I puts me into a chair. iRest here for a men I sad admire my wood [of those frames and ey are exquisitdy car Kb relief â€"Inrds, anim of every colour. or over the mantelshc ioate leaves and bloaa I wild raspberry, the photographs in f ram I comer brackets sure an beautifully modellet I are of fret-work, th ^ped, and ending in the. he room is small and a lows, one looking u 1, the other into the i he house. It has not Bpied â€" ^the books and |tables have a set-out ap nted jar of a dull esthe Bds on the hearth, fiUe I fen the harmonium 1, the muuc neatiy ar ' You don't do much of i ^y to Miss Irving when I a snullng look round ' I never dt here," she ai f shodders " but I kee I to please my vidtora lived them in my have heard the ten at It-to thdr friend rward." I* I wish you would tal lie." â-  ' ' I have come back for t iiss trving's studio is " over the hall. It is I littered with wod »P« of cardboard, wi • aheets of copied muuc ~1 corner, a ^ano in th eoomes in gloriously, t ^hawthorn and sweetbr [;ti»fags upon it, standa *i which haa been ha Jpnrpose; close to it a IJ^stdkinatdlblue r Do you like this better f Agreatdealbetter. It l'OJ».I can gueMl Th l^youaiinklamno 7.^»^tt»t-etapid cc â- ^