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TEA. â€"â€" One Moonful of tea is al- lowed for each person ; pour on a little hot; water, and let come to a boil ; add as much hot water as is necessary. JOHNNY CAKE â€"Two I milk, one egg ; piece of an egg, beaspoonful of pint of meal and one M of flour, a. little salt a! sugar. CORN BREAD â€"â€"Oue quart of butter- milk, one quart of Indian meal, one quart of fin“, one small teacuD of molasses, two teaspoons of soda. 3 little salt : then make a loaf in a small milk pan. Bake one hour. SLAP-IACKH.â€"Une quart of milk, one pint of Indian meal, seven spoonfuls of flour. a. little salt. four eggs; beat the eggs light ; add milk, flour and meal, and bake on griddle or “ spider.” Eat with syrup. _ I V_‘ "I ’ '1'- INDIAN MUsH â€"Wet up two cups of Indlan meal and two tablespoons of flour with a little cold water ; stir them into one quart of boiling water ; boil half 311 hour, or more, stirring constantly; put in about: a teaspoonfnl of salt in the meal. Eat with, cream milk or syrup. GRAHAM Pumaâ€"One tescup of Gm ham flour, rue teacnp of mllk or water ; beat for a few minutes, add a little salt ; have your cups Ior baking in the oven heating ; take them out. and grease them ; fill on the top of the stove as quickly as you can ; bake in a hot oven. tn,__._ WHEAT MUFFINS.â€"â€"One quart of flour, one pint of sweet milk, two eggs Well beaten, two teaspoons baking powder, large tablespoon of butter, to be melted and pub in the milk ; a lit-lo salt ; add vhe milk and melted butter to well beaten eggs ; lastly, add the flour; bake in eggs ; lastly, Bun Lnu LlUuL , Hana w muffin tins. CHOCOLATE â€"Put-. into a pan sets in inling water, one pint of new milk and one point of boiling water ; stir into it three heaping tablespoons of grated choco~ late, mixed to a palate with cold milk; boil it fifnaen minu'es, taking off the scum as it: rises, and serve with sugar and cream. HOMINY AND FARINA.â€"Al a change a leh of hominy or fax-ma ls very palatable. Farina should be mixed thinâ€"about llke meal mushâ€"and boiled about an hour (over hot water). Hominy should be soaked in cold water over night, and boiled for an hnur, with a little salt, in the morning. EM; with sugar and milk, or butter and sugar. FRUIT.â€"-If possible have Mme klnd of fresh fruit for breakfastâ€"whatever is in seasonâ€"berries, melons. peaches, pears, grapes or any rips fruit. In winter oranges are very nice. If these are un- attainable have baked apples, apple uauce, stewed prunes or some kind of canned fruit, only never banish the frutt dish from the breakfast table. COFFEEâ€"Wth and brown the coflae carefully. grlnd coarsely and allow for each cup one tablespoonful of ground coffee. Moisten with egg and cold water and pour over it bolllug water, cover closely and place on the back of the stove until just before serving. then bring to a boil and add a little cold water to settle. Al ways put on the miles the first thing in the morning. Lady Doctors in India. Of all the boom which England confer upon India, lsdy doctors are, probably, the most needed. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Medical Women for India association will receive a liberal support from a discriminating public. This society collects funds for bringing out lady doctors to India, starts dispen- saries, and is at present building a large hospital at Bombay, which is superintend~ 1......1.‘ uvu .o... n. ’__._v' ed by women, and open to female patients only. The Grand Medical college of India has thrown its doors open for female students. and the Bombay univer- sity has admitted all female students to compete for degrees on the same terms as male students. The good work was originated by Mr. Kettridge, an Ameri- can resident in Bombay, and Mr. Surabji Shapnrji, a Parsee gentleman. Dr. Edith Pechey, the first English woman doctor in India, had nine patients on the first day she arrived at Bombay, in De- cember, 1883. Before a. fortnight had passed there were three hundred, and the average number has ever since then re- mained one hundred a day. As “' there is work for tWenty lady doctors at Bom- bay alone ” although at the London school for medicine, in Henrietta street, two thirds of the students are preparing for India, the demand will not soon be supplied. A gentleman who has travelled exten- sively in the Northwest, talking to a re- porter on the alleged marvellous skill in in the use of the rifle possessed by the halibreeds and Indians, says such an idea. is absurd. He states that he has been well over the prairies. where the fast dying out bufl‘alo roam, and states that the reported “dead shot " power does not exist among the inhabitants. “ They have,” said he, “no opportunity of obtaining it and do not Want it as they have no great game to kill. There are very few Indians who know enough to use a rifle at fifty yards if they had them which they have not. The papers lead to the conclusion that every Indian has 3. Winchester rifle, which is absurd. There are some old rifles scattered about of an antique rim fire pattern, but not in great numbers. The Indians for‘the most part use the old brummagen shotguns, and a large portion of these are flint locks. When they go to trade at the Hudson’s Bay posts they are com- pelled to buy shot and powder enough to do their hunting during the season, and this it is sometimes hard to make h em d3. Bamnmsmncmm‘s. Arms of the Rebels. ar as is necessary. KE â€"T.vo cups of butter- : ; piece of butter size of spoonful of saleratue. one l and one heaping spoon- little salt and a spoonful of Horrors of the Fortress of St Peter and St. Paul. But first of all something about this bas- tile of the czar, this inferno of despotism. a building of terrible memories, defiled by more horrors even than its famous proto- type which the populace of Paria, nearly a century ago, levelled with the ground i It is huge, hideous. and slab-sided. and surmounted by a thin and tapering spire that looks like the end of a Brobdiguaglan syringe. The fortress in in the centre of the city and faces the imperial palace. During the day it is in part a public thor- oughfare, and people pass through a nar- row defile of gloomy and tortuou: vaults, where heavily-armed sentinel: march to and fro, and stone saints in niches hold aloft burning tapers, But at nightfall all ,___ LL.‘ any.» uu......5 vâ€"r--â€", is closed, and when darkness covers the capltsl and the queys of the Neva are all nglow wlch gas lights the prison here ded- icated to St. Peter and St. Paul remame shrouded ln gloom, like some huge maw, ever ready to swallow up all that Is best and noblest of the unhappv land which is cursed by its presence. Round the fort- ress reigns a deep silence ; but four times in every hour the big clock in the syringe- ahaped chapel spire chimes a psslm tune in praise of God and the czar. c _- _--.... 1A.”. r-u-v-r vâ€" “\n. _._._ ".7 The casemates are cells, five paces long and three wide, equal to about seven and a half feet by four and a halfâ€"dens into which a little light struggles through a strongly-barred slit. The walls stream with moisture. For furniture the inhab- itan1 has a straw mattress and a thin quilt, ‘ a jug, the image of a saint, and a pail which serves '0 rall purposes and remains there day and night. The air of such a. place. surely one of the dark places of the earth. besides being cold and damp. must be unspeakably foul. But even Worse than dampness. and ioulness, and gloom is the solitude to which the prisoners are con- demned, for the fortress is organized on the strictest cellular system. Every pos- sible precaution is taken to prevent them i from communicating with each other. They never meet, never speak to each other, are not even allowed to exchange a word with their jailers. A warden inform hidden under severe penalties to answer a question. however meaningless or inno- cent. To prevent him from obtaining favors or information, either by caiolery or collusion, the turnkeys are made to visit the cells in couples. and, to prevent prisoners from communicating with each other by knocking on the walls, every al- ternate cell is either altogether amenant- ed or occupied by a zendarme. 1 111., Once a day the door is opened and the wardens signify to the inhabitant by a gear ture that it is the hour for exercise. Si- lently he rises from his little bed and ful- iowe his custodians into a narrow yard, so hemmed in by high walls as to seem like the bottom of aweli. Here he paces to and fro for the allotted time, like a. wild beast in a cage, and is then led hack to his den as silently as he was brought out. The prison is full of people, yet for every inhabitant of its cassmates, its bas‘ions, its rsveiins. and its curtains there is the isolation of death No books are allowed in this dismal solitude, not even the Bible. If a prisoner wants religious consolation he may look at his saint and raise his thoughts hesvenward, if he can. It is no wonder that men immured in these dark places sometimes go mad. But in spite of every precaution prisoners do occasionally con- trive to communicate with their friends. A little money in Russia goes a long way, andeven tnrnkeys have sometimes D )wels. So it comes to pass that news from the casemates does occasionally reach the out- er world. For clothing the prisoners have the gray dress of common malefaotors. In- stead of shoes and stockings, their feet are wrapped in rags. Even in the depth of winter the cells are seldom warmed, never sufficiently; at least the fuel as- signed for the purpose is insufficient and embezzled at that. Hence the cells are always damp. Water streams down the walls and freezes in pools on the floor. So intense is the cold that when the dl‘ rector makes his rounds he never take: off his fur closk, and shivers even then. All that the prisoners have to protect them~ selves from the terrible cold are a com- mon sheepskin coat and cap, such as worn by the moujiks. They psss most of their time in bedâ€"what else can they do, poor wretchesâ€"and even there they are well- ‘ nigh frozen to death, for besides being insufficiently clad they are poorly fed. For breakfast, as for supper, they have a A v- _....___ ..-, ___ ,_‘ jug of warm water and a lunch of black bread and butter; for dinner they are‘ given a basin of cabbage soup. a cake of buckwheat bread and a. pot of kwass, a sort of beer made of water mixed with black bread and fermented. Twice a. week they have pea. soup instead of cab- bage soup ; on Sunday: the soup is accompanied by a morsei of meat. Nor is the food. scanty though it be, good of its kind; the butter is generally rancid, the meat putrid, and the breadâ€"except the crustâ€"so badly baked that when thrown against the wall it sticks like mortar. ,A IILL‘A LA; ubâ€"â€"â€"_â€" V__ v In summer the prisoners are little bet- 1 be]: ofi' than in winter. In is during the warm months that. the prison, bullc upon missmatic marshes, developes all its unhealthy qualifies, and the hygienic condition of the fortress, the gloom and dampness of the cells, the bad and insufficient dietary, the depression arising from solitary confine- ment, intensify every unfavorable in- fluence and render the life of prisoners not preternsturaliy robust one long agony. TIIE CZAR'S BASTILE. The thread of the silkworm ls so small that many of them are twlsbed togenher to form our finest sewing thread. But that of the spider ls finer still, for two dracth of it by weight would reach 400 mflen. «MQW A Siberian Prison. Deadly Foes of the Salmon. Stephen Ellis, who made the first fly that caught a salmon in California, and who has. probably, as much experience in salmon-fishing as any other man on the coast, is able to give some facts with relation to the destruction of fish which ‘ confirm opinions that have for a long time been held by the fish commission- ers. The source of greatest destruction is, in his opinion, the seals. In ‘he Columbia. river, where he has fished for many years, he has often had the entire catch ot a. not destroyed. He has seen seals pursuing fish, driving them from one end of the net to the other, and biting pieces from their bOdies. It is seldom that they take more than one bite, and that is usually from the neck, and the wound is of so serious a. charac- ter that death usually ensues. As a seal will eat at least thiHy pounds of fish a. day, the number of full destroyed to procure this amount must be very large. But even when s seal has ap- peased his hunger he still continues to inflict wounds on the salmon in simple sport. Mr Ellis has seen seals bite pieces from salmon and then throw them from their mouths, having already eaten enough. In his opinion seals destr ‘y at least one-third of the salmon that seek ‘ entrance to the river through the golden enough. In his opinion seals destr ‘y at least one-third of the salmon that seek entrance to the river through the golden gate. Another source of destruction ex- ists in the fine nets set along ihebanln of the river, in which the salmon fry, from four to six inches long. are caught as they come down from the spawning grounds. Millinn- are yearly Caught by Chluemen and Portuguese and dried for export. They never come to this market and are not only virtually lost. but their destruction constantly diminishes the number of fish by which our waters must be stocked. These two causes alone are sufficient to account for the constantly diminishing number of salmon in the Sacramento and Columbia rivers. A correspondenfi wrim: I once went in- to a well-km) wngcircua luchedaytlmeâ€"it la a far better known circus than Gmnehte'a, but. I shall not name ih, as 1 do not wish to be obliged to prove my words in a llow Circus Children are Trained court of lawâ€"and I saw a poor little devil of about eight or ten wears of age going through his morning drill in the ring; He had nothing (u but a shirt and a pair of trousers, and he had to make a certain number of somerssults, five or six. with- out stopplng, from one line drawn in the dust to another. In order to come back to his starting line he had to pass every two or three minutes, giddy and panting, between the cushix ned ring and a. gentle- man. one of the proprietors of the circus, who held in his hand a. long heavy cutting whip, such as I imagine a cow-boy might ‘ use to subdue a buck jumper. If the lit- tle beggsr performed the prescribed num- l her of somersuults. Mr. Merryman let him pass with a. smile and oneâ€"r)an oneâ€" long playful cut across the shoulders. a. facetiousness which always elicited a. bowl from the victim and a. grin from the grooms. But if he failed in one of his somerssults, if. as often happened, the lit:le arms were too weak to support the body in the reverse position, then the cruellest jockey that ever sat down to finish by a neck was an angel compared to Mr. Merryman. The long cutting whip travelled. with on indescribably horrible sound. from the nape of ti: at child’s neck to the calves of his legs, and the flimsy cotton shirt and rugged breaches were lit- tle or no protection. I was only aboy then, and could do nothing but go away ‘ sick. From that day to this I have never , been able to go to a. circus, though I hoped, until I read Mr. Whittington's letter, that the system had disappeared along with a great many other barbari- ties. New. I shall never go into a. circus again, for whenever the young gentleman in pink tights and spangles should appear smiling, his sallow cheeks smeared with rouge, somehow or other a. horrible vision of a waled back would come before my . eyes "nd the swish of that terrible whip wzould sound In my ears M What a Jealous Ila-band Overheard In His Own “case. 'There is a man In Bloomington who would give almost anything if somebody would take him out in the woods and commit suicide on him, He is ludicrous- ly jealous of his wife, and is always pry- ing around the house at hours when she thinks he is off on s. duck shooting ex- pedition or something, trying to find out if she hue any callers The other (lav he got a letter for her from the post oflice, and when he had adroitly owned it. by the aid of steam from a tea kettle which he keeps on his (flice stove for the pur- ‘ pose, he dlECOVEI'td to his dismay that some female friendâ€"evi?ently a go-be- tweenâ€"was going to send Brown up to stay with har the very next time heâ€"her husbandâ€"should go out of town, and she desired to be informed when she should , send him. He then resealed the letter and delivered it to his wife who smiled complacently as she read it then he told her he was going ducking that afternoon and would not return for several days. He hung around the house, however, and late in the evening a. man with a large dog came, and both ent 'rec-l the house by a back door. “He ws' ' ed that door for hours, but no tiniih 9 out, and about midnight he s inpe in the front door With his latch key and was quietly work- ing his way to his wife's room, when the dog hegsu making a fearful racket. “He is there !" exclaimed his wife un- der her breath, but loud enough so he heard her. “Oh. Browny, save me !" Wasn't lie mad. though? H3 listened egaln and heard : “ H h.h1_- ‘...-. °77I3§I131Efihmwm Don't make any noise, dear, and maybe he won’t. know you are here. If he opens the door, you can catch him by the throat and choke him to death." Great heavens ‘. His own wife plotting to murder him 1 How the jealous hus- band's blond did boil 1 He listened again, however. and his wife wanton : “Don't make a bit. of noiav, dear. Be a good fellow, now, and lie down by me, and in the morning I will give you the best breakfast you ever had.” I ,1 Then all was still. The jealous husband was so angry he could scarcely contain himself, but he was too cowardly to enter hla wlfe'e room, and he stood there and shivered, waiting for the morning to dawn and his enemy to come out where he could shoot him. and heard his wife speaking words of endearment to Brownie all the rest of the night. When his wife came out with the dog in the morning, he sprang through the door and cried : “Sho av me Brown. Let me get 1: him and kill him, and then I will kil you, bane Woman I" When hel amed that Brown was the dog, and that; her sister's husband had brought; him up to protect her in his ab- sence, and had gone out the front door whle he was watching from the rear, he felt; bad and he has not: yet recovered. A Storv Concerning a Corpse. The latest sensational occurrence, and need it be said. it is positively vouched for, about which the public is talking, is as startling as it will certainly seem to most people improbable. The story con- cerns a corpse, and the narrator of it is described as a. person whose veracity is beyond suspicion, and who is no believer in the supernatural. This lady loan a dear friend recently, by name Mrs. Fossett, and the body was laid out. for the grave, the lady triend of the deceased “watch- ing" by it during the night preceding the funeral, as is the custom in certain parts of America. She was sitting near the body, she relates, gazing sadly at the fam- iliar features. when, moved by her feel- ings, she asked in a low voice, “Where are you now ’2" Certainly she did not ex- ‘ pect an answer to the almost involuntary question. But it came. “At the sound of my voice,” the lady relates, “the body turned on its side and sat up. The eyes opened ; and the body that had been dead lived and spake." Mrs. Fossett said she had been in heaven, where she had me: her mother and various departed friends â€"â€"in short, she gave a graphic description. of her experience in the spirit-land to her astounded watcher. Then the voice grew fainter, the body fell back on the bed, and death resumed its rights. Of course, without casting any reflection on the lady’s good faith, we should say she had 1 been dreaming. and that the surroundings ‘ were responsible for the character of the dream or vision. But the narrator of the story maintains the contrary, and says it was “all a reality.” SHOWING HIM BRO‘VN. Mr. Jay Gould has, it seems, a female ‘ rivel in Wall street, whose success will furnish another argument to the advo- cates of women’s rights. This is Mrs. Harriett Green, who is said to be worth at the present time $35,000,000 or $40,000.. 000 She inherited from her father, E. M. Robinson, a large shipowner and'spec- ulator. the very respectable sum of 89,- 000,000, and further secured by law an- other uice little propertv of $4,000,000 at the death of her aunt. But she inherited with those fortunes other still more valu~ able mattersâ€"a really extraordinary fac- ulty for speculation and a passion for economy. Mrs. Green is, in fact, an ac- i cumulator of the old school. No palaces in Fifth Avenue, no Meissonier pictures, no 3250000 steam yachts for her. Even now she never spends no more than 5,- 000 a. year out of an income of upwards of a million. When she married her hus- band she was already worth nearly 320,- 000,000; but Mr. and Mrs. Green both had their own ways of carrying on busi- ness. which they did separately. But the husband was not so successful as the wife, for he loatmoney in hisspeculations, mad ended by getting into debt for $800,- 0 0. A Successful Lady Speculator. 0rdnanro Sunk at the Siege of Gibraltar Taken From the Deep and to be Pre- served as Memento". Some interesting mementoes of the siege of Gibraltar have just been landed at the Royal Arsenal, Wooiwich, from the atesmship Wye. They consist of three guns and a. mortar which have been recovered from the rrench and Spanish ships sunk in the bed of the Mediterran- ean. These Veseels were no doubt sunk bv the fire of the British under General Elliott, between the years 1779 and 1783. They are in a very fair state of preserva- tion. Two of the guns. which are about nine feet long and of six and eight inch bore respectively, have on the breech a shield bearing a. cross, the whole sur’ rounded by a wreath of laurel leaves. 011 the Cascable of one of the guns is a g-rifliu with extended wings and claws there be- ing a band of ornamental griifins round the muzzle and an eight pointed star on the chase. On the breech is 3 represent- ation of a man's face with a large mous- tache, the mouth forming the touch-hole. These guns bear no inscription. The third gun is a long brass nine-ponnder, and has the Words “Le Flambeéu” on the chase, and round the breech is a. partly efl'aced inscription of which the words “Strasbourg le 17 Xbre 1767 par J. Bte- Dartelu, Commisre des fontes de'-â€"â€"re- main legible The mortar is of brass and is highly ornamented. 0:1 the breech is a shield surmounted by a crown and sur- rounded by field pieces and trophies of war. The war trophies thus singularly recovered after gre&t lapse of time have been brought home by order of her Ms.- jesty’s government to be preserved as me- mentnes of one of the greatest sieges on record. Girls. don't be in a hurry to get mar- ried. If yru are but 16, don't allow such an idea. to get- into your head for at least four years. Don't evrl‘ run the risk of it by uermitting any young man to get so far as proposing the point. Fight them off, and. make them wait or go to some- body who is ready. Don't live under the impression that you must accept the first love~sick youth who proposes. Be patient, deliberate, and sagacious There is a. World of happiness for you between 16 and 20. The World wouldbe a dreary old world if it were not for the sweet faces of young girls with their piquant sayings and melting smiles. After you have reached 20 it Would be well to consider the matrimonial problem with‘some se- riousnees. Then, if you have learned to think and deliberate you will probably make a. suitable selection, and marriage With a. worthy young man in not only a, woman's privilege, but, unless married 00 young, her best and highest develop. ment, mental and physical, can be attain- ed in this state. Men and women were made for each other, and a. very old but nevertheless true iruiem is that a. harm? marriage isthe very Garden of Eden. An unhappy marriage is the very reverse,and the greatest of all calamities that can be- fall a. pure, afl' ctionate, and noble wo- man. ’ The Cuban cigar-makers are mainly colored people, although man creoles and Spanish emigrants engage in the trade. The cigar-makers form the roughest and most miserable part of the population of Havana. Their conduct is regulated by the good or poor yield of the tobacco crop. If the yield is good and abundant there is hardly any way to manage the men properly. as 3 great want of workmen is then felt. If the crop is poor there are plenty of hands, and with the reduction of wages they become quite tractable. When high Wages are paid the cigar-mak- ers become unmanageable. and manufac- turers use every means to entice laborers from one house to another, often bribing and loaning money with no prospect of ever being repaid. Hundreds of dollars are spent sometimes in inducing a single workman to leave one place for another. In times of scarcity of hands the state prisoners are released. In 1851 the gov- ernment, freed eight hundred convicts to supply the wants of tobacco manufac- tories. One great nuisance, that in this country we do not feel, consists in having to pay to employees. their earnings three times per day. Don‘t flurry to get Married. Young ladies in America need have no fear of becoming queensâ€"before they are out; of their t: ens, or afterwardsâ€"and they can be thankful for being saved the trials that) royalty brings. Fancy the shattering of sentiment it must. coat a girl who has made up her mind to marry, to be obliged to go alone before a crowd of men. and tell them of it, and the favored young man’s name. Queen Victoria, how- ever, got through that kind of ordeal very nicely._ . up u 1 nd,Ln_ 11---..- In'bhe lately published Ctoker Papers, in pretty picture is given of the scene in which Queen Victoria. announced to her eighty-tibiae Councillors her intention of allying herself in marriage with Prince Albert. “Ayv- u. “Her majesty was handed in by the Lord Chamberlain, and, bowing to us all round. amt down. saying, ‘Your Lord- shlps' (we are all Lords at the Council Board) ‘will be aeated.‘ She then un~ folded a. paper and: read her declaration. “I 71,; _ RECOVERED RELICS 1y she did look as handsonfe’and an inter eating as any young lady I ever saw. Cuban Cigar-Makers. Got Through It Nicely.