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units LIVES mum KINGS AND EMPERURS MORE FOR- TUNATE THAN PRESIDENTS. With [he Snmrslfnous lilo Stars. the inn 19110 the “con Ilin'e Always l’layt-d u bConspicuous Purl ~50 l-‘nr Thi~ Century films Hull :1 Bloody Bufordâ€"The .‘ln jorlly of am: Assassins are llullnns. lili’heu some time ago the spots noticed on the sun awakened the interest not only “of the scientific world, but of the more tirivolous portion of the community, the opinion became prevalent among the latter thnt the phenomenon foreboded misfortune The opinion was founded Astrologers had and disaster. apparently an preceden f. «discovered that the constellations were ex~ actly in the same position as on the day that Christ expired on the cross. A French astrologerâ€"Morin de Villefrancheâ€"whc published the horoscope of our Lord, had predicted that on the 23rd of March, 1894, the solar system would present the same suspect as it did over the heights of (lol- goths. eighteen hundred and six by -one years before. In popular superstition the stars, the ~sun, and the moon have always played a conspicuous part. Battles have been fore- sliadoWed in the clouds ; on the eve of great luntastrophes the sun has set in blood-red A comet heralded the death of .iulius Caesar, and Bonaparte told f‘am- lanceres that his fortunes hung on the Many other examples were adduced to support file presumption that the sun's spots indi- -::u.ted harm. Events appear to have justified thcsc pessimistic predictions: the first half of (Ms year has been rich in fateful accidents : destruction of property, loss of life,natural cataclysms, and BLOODSHED WITHOI‘T WAR, flames. oscillations of one particular star. culminating in the assassination of M. Sadi Unmet. Stately and magnificent as was the page- ;mt of his funeral, it nevertheless created immense difficulties for those whose duty air. was to regulate it according to the laws «of etiquette, us ordained in the case of the demise of the head of the State. Since Louis XV., with the exception of Louis 111., not one ruler of France has died in the exercise of power. Louis XVI. was dethroned and gnillotined : the Directcire wasoverthrown by Bonaparte; NapoleOn was twice banished and breathed his last .away from the land he had made so great; Charles X. and Louis Philippe were exiled; ,mapoleon Ill. never reentered Franc-e after Sedan ; M. Tliiers resigned , Marshal Mac- Mahon and M. Grevy were compelledâ€" although for difiereut reasonsâ€"to vacate :hePresidential chair before their term of .olfice expired, and finally M. Carnot was murdered nearly an the close of his sepben- note. Strangely enough, at an epoch when ‘mouarcliy is supposed to be the object of universal hatred :when supreme authority vested in hereditary dynasties excites the loudest curse of the radicals, Anarchists, and Socialists, Kings and Princes have been more spared than the Presidents of republics, against whom the weapons of assassins have taken more deadly aim. We have seen Booth and Guiteau killing Lin- coln and Garfield; Garcia. Moreno, Presi- dent of Ecuador, murdered in front of the Cathedral of Quito in 1875. Menendez Salvador, Gill in Paraguay, Balsa and 'Gutierrez in Peru, and several others have met Vic‘ent deaths. This century has been fertile in more or less successful attempts against the lives of rulers of States. As early as 1,800 Damer- ville and twenty-four of his accomplices were arrested the day before the execution of their well-planned plot to kill the First Consul; and in the same year a bomb burst in the Rue Nicaise fifty seconds before .flonaparte was expecbeil to pass the spot. Moreau, I’ichegru. and George Cadoudal 'were arrested for conspiring against the life of Napoleon' I. in 1804, and in 1509, at Schoenbrunu, Frederick Slsby, a. Protestant clergyman walked up to the Emperor DA .csu I.\' IIASI), .and was only prevented from plunging it into his heart by the ripid interposition of ~3. soldier of the guard. Napoleon offered :.he man his pardon, which he reins. ed, saying that he Would never rest till his purpose was accomplished. Under the restoration the moat odious crime of the century was perpetrated ; the young Duke de Berry fell, an innocent victim, under the knife of Leave! as he was leaving his carriage to enter the opera. house. It may be mentioned here that so many murders have been attempted from the steps oicarriages, the State cenches are made without outer steps and retain the oldâ€" .fashioned system of steps that are folded and placed inside the door. Under the monarchy of July the King escaped seven attempts at assassination. In November, 1532, Bergeron fired at Louis Philippeand missed himnorrowly. In 1835, followed by his sons and a brilliant stall, the King was reviewing the troops on the Boulevard du Temple, When a. laud report chock the houses, and immediately the ground around him was strewn with dead and wounded, among them Marshal Mor- tier, Due de Trevise. The King and his sons were unhurt. Fieschi, the perpetrator of the outrage, was arrested in the little yard of a house whence he fireda succession cfrifle shots through the blinds of the third storey; he was taken, trie‘l, sentenced. and ~ executed with his accomplices. In June, 1836, Alihnud, a friend of M. Urevy, fired a gun at Louis Philippe. the bullet passing ' over the King’s hat; a. few months later Mcunicr discharged his pistol point blank ahf. his Majesty, the shots proving harmless. In 1337 an engineering workman was arrest- - ed *irwenty-four hours before he succeeded inplactng and exploding on the King’s path an infernal machine he had constructed: his name. was Champion, and, like Pichegru, be hung himself in his cell. Under Napoleon III. , murda‘ous attempts 'J‘ere not wanting; the Emperor escaped almost miraculously from the knife of (ireppo, the revolver of l’ianeri, and thel bombs of Orisini, which \xoi'xnro on KILLED 13¢. Prom ii. Orsini, Pieri, (ireppo, Fieschi) l’ianeri, and many other criminal: of the same stamp were Italiuns ; it would seem as if the thirst for x'eiigeancc and reckless disregurd of life of their race specially predisposed them for such assaults. Out of France they are less frequenf,witl| the exception, however. of Russia, where the record is long from 1801, when Paul, I. was murdered in his paluce, till 1881, when Alexander II. was exthSed to a series of attempts terminating by the fatal explosion of the Nihilistic bombs on the quay of the Neva. In 1879 the train on which the. Czar was supposad to travel between Livadia. and Moscow was wrecked,justifymg the precaution which aIWays sends off two trains almost simultaneously. without its being known in which the Emperor and imperial family have taken their seats at the last moment. Another time the dining salon of the Winter Palace at St. Peters burg was blown up a few minutes before the Lzar entered ii. with his guests. It has never been clearly proved whether Alexan- der II. was saved from an accident or a premeditated crime on the railWay train at Borki. Queen Victoria was shot at twice without any affect: once in 13-10 by a. youth of eigh- teen, Edward Oxford, and not many years ago by a. semilunatic in London. In Spain Queen Isabella. was wounded in the arm by the knife of the priest Merino, who aimed at her heart as she was going in state to return thanks at the sanctuary of Atecha for the birth of her son. In 0472, in the Calla Alcala in Madrid, a ruffian, whose name was never ascertained and whose chief was killed on the spot by a de- tective, fired into the carriage containing King Amadeus and the Queen. In Portugal, Prince Ferdinand,conaort of the Queen Maria do. Gloria, Was shot at twice in 1837, and his son, who succeeded ' the Queen on the throne, died a. mysterious death, attributed to poison. In Austria, the Emperor Franz Josef miraculously escaped the dagger of an as- sassin in 1850, and a votive chapel was erected in Vienna on the same spot in commemoration of his safety. Less for- tunate, his brother Maximilian fell in Mexico under the iii'LLETS 0r Till-Z SOLDIERS of Juarez, and his son perished in the yet unexplained catastrophe of Meyerling. In Italy, the Minister Rossi was foully murdered in the streets of Rome; Pope Pius IX. barely avoided the gun of a man hidden behind the horses of l’hidias; the Duke Robert of Parma fell at night under the stabs of an assassin; King Umberto was sawed at Naples by the courage and presence of mind of his Minister, Cairoli, from the knife of Passavanti, who proceeded exactly as Caserio did in his more successful nasaulf on Carnot. In 1958 Milano attacked Fer- dinand II. with the point of a bayonet, and Lecca fired on Urispi within the last LWelve- month. In Germany, the worshipped Emperor \Villiam I. was fired at by Nobilinu on his way to the unveiling of the collegsal statue of Germanic, the deed exciting the horror and indignation of the united Fatherland he had created. Less exalted personages having, hoWever. achieved some celebrity and thereby called ' upon themselves the hatred of the sectarians or Anarchists, have in turns been exposed to these cowardly and fanatical crimes, Gambetta, Jules Ferry, Freycinet,Flonuet, were all the target of assassins; threatening letters were daily addressed to M. Casimir- Perier even before he assumed the perilous post of President of the French Republic. It is to be hoped that the bloody record of the century will not carry to posterity any other names devoted to the execution of all honest men whatever be their religious or polictical convictions. _____.,â€"____.. Curious Facts. No one has been within 460 miles of the north pole. “Pilgrim’s Progress" has been translated into 203 dialects and languages. The value of public school property in the United States is estimated at $400,000,000. An electric railroad 300 miles long is to be built connecting Boise City and Lemo- ton, Ind. The heaviest cyclist in the world is said to be Dr. Meldoo, of Dublin, who weighs 378 pounds. He also plays lawu tennis. A 17-year-old girl who was arrested in Brooklyn recently on the charge of va- gruncy could converse fluently in si 2: lan- guages. The experiment of using compressed air for street car propulsion has been tried in Massachusetts. The results were considered satisfactory. Dcuf mutes are holding a convention at Muucie. Inil. One of the exercises is the daily rendition of “Nearer My God to Thee," in Sign language. In the interior of Australia is a series of greatlakes which are occupied by water only at long intervals. The mud which remains when the water is absent is filled with the bones of geologic monsters. A better paid author than Zola has been discovered in Bishop Balsley, of ltibe, Denmark, the author of “Luther’s Little Catechism.” A curious critic has calculated that one single verse of the Lord‘s Prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread,” aceom- panied by the explanatory remark. “Pray for that only which you need,” has been worth $1,000 to the bishop. Mrs. Matilda Lange has filed a bill for divorce in the Chicago Circuit Court against her husband, Robert George Lauge. The complainant is a. dry goods saleswomau. She says she. married the defendant because he had adopted the prefix “Baron.” After the marriage, she says, she discovered the title did not benefit her any, as it was fictitious, and she was obliged to earn a living for two instead of one, as she did previously to her marriage. In a Quandary. Mr. De Styleâ€""Well, are all your ar- rangements for a. summer at the fashionable resorts completed 2’” “Mrs. Dc Styleâ€"“Nearly, but I'm in such uquandary. I have arranged to send our house plants to a florist, our cat to a out home, and our dog to a. canine boarding house, so that all will be well cared for until full ; but what in the world shall I do; with the baby '3" i ' than331000000300. The mum hentlofthe ROUND THE WHilLE WORLD WHA'I lS GOING ON IN THE FOUR} CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. l “Wu-1d llvrins or Inter-Ml ] uzip- , Hill and Vow ('hronlcled Briefly-Informing pollings of lh‘rcnl Dale. Bricks said to be from the tower of Babel are plentiful at Blrs Nimrud, Babylonia. The King of Greece is an excellent-swiim mer and has a perfect passion for fishing. The French have introduced coffee cul- ture in Tonquln with good prospects of success. Most of the Asiatic countries have been ruined by the system of “ farming the taxes." The only remains of the once splendid French possessions in India are two towns. , Almost all the Turkish taxes are farmed out and the resulting corruption is very great. A bout 40.10) tramps, it is estimated, are traveling over Germany all the year- around. A club in Berlin, called the Giants, ad- mits to membership only men who are six feet in height. The ships and other vessels that passed through the Suez Canal last year paid .514,- 000,000 in tolls. l‘oisonous snakes are so numerous in Ven- , ezuela that a snake bite is almost as common there as in India. Abdul Aziz, the Sultan of Morocco, has married the daughter of Mulai l‘lrshid, an uncle of his father. The Hessian fly is reported to have «lone great da-nage to the wheat. fields of New Zealond last season. In the l’hilipine Islands there is a. plant which bean a. flower nearly a yard wide, and weighing ‘22 pounds. The United States of Colombio seems to present the best field for miners of any of the South American States. A merchant in Germany has been fined heavily for using a quotation from the Bible to head an advertisement. 0: the 305‘. private stallions in Italy which i were approved by the official inspectors .scvt'nleeu were American. The Duchess of Hamilton has had a large stable built for her cows and goes there daily to milk her favorites. Ac Corunna. Spain,. is the oldest light- house in the world. It was built nearly eighteen hundred years ago. Gold production in Venezuela. is falling off rapidly, and the cost of transportation is high, but an improvement is looked for. India ranks third among the countries of the world for Wheat production. Its total wheat crop last year was "203,000,000 bush- els. In one suction room in London during a single season over half a million birdskins from the West Indias and Brazil were sold. Most of the numerous temples throughout China are painted red; everything lucky and pleasant among the Chinese is vermil- lion color. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Goths, in his capacity as Duke of Edinburgh, is still to draw $50,000 a year from the British treasury. There are in Lancashire alone 320 indus- trial and providentsccieties, with an aggre- gate of upwards of a quarter of a. million members. Queen Victoria. was the originator of the decollete style of dress out intirely off be- low the shoulders and decidedly low in front and in the back. The Seychelles Islands, which politically form part of the British colonyof Mauritius. are supposed by many to be the original Garden of Eden. If the Hollander-s actually undertake to drain the Zuider Zee, the first item of ex- pense will be a. monster dam that will cost at least $18,000,000. Roughly speaking, the British EmpireI extends over one continent, 100 peninsulas, 500 promontcries, l,00(- lakes, 2,000 rivers and 10,500 islands. The Austrian Empress’ brother, Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria. has resumed at Merun his free practice as an oculist for the benefit of the poor. An Australian farmer reports a crop of 750 bushels of Algerian cats from ten acres of land. Another one eclipses this by a crop of eighty bushels to the acre. Brussels has started a Car. Club, which has just held a successful show. There were 110 entries, including five Siamese of great beauty, and three Manx cats. In the Nib> Valley some 75 prayer meet» lugs for Women and girls are held weekly, With an uVi-mgc attendance of 1.230, of wh‘ m 421’ are able to lead in prayer. Lady Burton possesses a necklace of human bones, given by the king of Dahomey to Sir Richard Burton when he made him brigudicr-gcneral of his corps of Amadons. Queen \Vilhelminn, who is the very ideal of a healthy little girl, rides a bicycle oc~ casionally when she is at the charming old- fashioncd castle Het Loo, near the Hague. Dr. de Bossy, the leading physician of Havre,receutly celebrated the IOlstanniver- sary of his birthday. He is still able to attend Without assistance to his large prac- tice. The combined assets of the Rothschild family in Europe are not less, it is said, family is Nathaniel, Lord Rothschild, of London. Peru in the Samoa. hydraulic mine has what is estimnted to be the largest bank of auriferous gold in the world, yielding $50,- 000 a year, or two-thirds of the gold pm. dqu of that country. There are at the present time 17,051 Wesleyan Methodist Sunday~ schools in great Britain, an increase of 503 in ten years The children number not less than 948.51,)5, an increase of 106,4):>.. In New Zealand the exports of dairy pro- ducts advanced in twenty years from $45,. 000 in 1372 to $1,500,090 in i592. The colony now has 174 establishments of all kinds for the manufacture of butter and cheese. The Empress Eugenie is devoted to Eng- lish wildflowers, and in the spring her floral decorations are carried out with primroses, wood violets, cowslips, anemones, bluebells and other familiar blossoms. Cremation is gaining favor in France and Japan. Last year, in the crematory at the Pen- Lachaise crematcry, Paris, there were 3,741 cremations. In Tokio, the chief city of .lnpan, the average number of cremations ‘is thirty a. day. The Bridgman school for girls, at I’ekin, China, has recently determined to receive no more girls with bound feet. The native Christians at l’ekin, as the result of an en- fhusiastic meeting, have formed an Anti- foot-binding Society. The coronach, or mourning for the dead, is still heard in many parts of Scorland as well as lreland. it is a weird chant, cries of lamentatlon being mingled with remon- strances addressed to the departed for leav- ing his friends and relatives. Several variety theatres in London have just started a. new scheme of giving two performances, each lasting about an hour anda half each evening. The same pro- gramme is given at each performance, and the prices have been cut one-half. A Hanoverian botanist has discovered a microbe in the atmosphere, pure cultus of which will convert sugar into on acid identi- cal with that of the lemon. This discovery is expected to revolutionize the citric acid industry and injure the lemon growers. A keeper on the Wadhurst l’ark estate, Kent, recently shot a fine female specimen of the white-tailed eagle, the first of the kind ever known to have been captured in the South of England. The l‘ird measured seven feet six inches across the wings, and three feet from beak to tail. In the museum of ivory collected by the Princess Maud of Wales there are to be found tusks of wild boars shot by the Czar of Russia. and sent; to enrich her collection, the wake of elephants shot by her father and uncles, and the teeth of alligators, sharks, walruses, seals and lions. Prince Bismarck is not a. wealthy man in the American sense. The mortage on his estates requires. him to pay about $30,000 uvery year. The income from his Fried richsruhe property has been as much as $00,000 a year, but if has averaged only about half that sum. His entire income is not far from $100,000. HAMILTON'S TALL CHIMNEY. II “1” be I37: l-‘ccl High, and It For! 1 Inches In Dlamelrr al the Bose. Hamilton‘s smelting works at Huckle- berry Point are being built rapidly. The buildings and the immediate ground used in connection therewith occupy about six acres of land. The chimney alone will be a big affair. It will be 125 feet high, and 14 feet 4 inches in diameter at the base. It will be a steel shell, and will have an open- ing of six feet, clear of the fire brick which will line it. The foundation for it, which is almost completed, is ‘24 feet square, and it is a solid bed of stone and concrete,about seven feet deep. The chimney will be self« supporting, being bolted by a number of 2- inch steel rods. The foundations for the three heating ovens are completed. Each of the ovens will be 65 feet high, and ‘30 feet in diameter, and the foundation is 65 feet by 23 feet. The foundation is seven feet deep, the big hole having been filled with stone and cement. The foundation for the hoisting tower is also finished. The towar will be 100 feet high, and its founda- tion consists of a solid bed of stone to the depth of seven feet. The tower foundation is 30 feet ‘2 inches long and I4feet 10 inches wide. The hoisting tower will have two cages of iron and steel frame, and it will carry stock to the furnace. The founda» tion for the furnace proper is 30 feet square, and there is a. depth of six feet of solid cement, sand, and stone in the bed now. There will be four more feet of solid bedding, howover, before the brick wall goes on the foundation. Nearer the bay is the casting-house, where the iron will run from the furnace. An immense stone wall, which takes in both the furnace and the casting-house, is nearly all built. It in~ eludes on area of 160 feet by 50 feet, and the wall is 1:! feet high. The boiler-house, the foundation of which is now under con~ struction, has a bed for four boilers, and four more are to he added. It is 30 feet square, with a solid bed of 3:1; feet in depth. There is only one more foundation to be built, and that is for the big engine and pump-house. It will be as substantial as any of those mentioned, for the monster engine will weigh 140 tons, its flywheel alone being calculated to weigh 30 tons. Altogether about $25,000 has been spent on the work so for. >7â€"<.â€"â€"â€"â€"~â€"~ Horrible ale of Spanish Jealousy. The Central News sends out a report of a terrible tragedy in Barcelona. resulting from feminine jealousy. Piercing shrieks were heard at midnight on Tuesday proceed- ing from a house in the Calle de Sepul~ veda, and on the police breaking into the building they found two women on the floor of one of the rooms locked in each other's arms with their clothes burning fiercely. Both were taken to the hospital; they were frightfully burned. and the younger girl, named Rosa, expired within a. few minutes, and the older woman, Inez Alfaiez, lived an hour only. The latter had time to make a confession. It. appears Rosa washer servant, and she became in» sanely jealous of her and plottel vengeance. She bought a. large quantity of spirits, threw a. portion of the spirits over her own clothes and calling Rosa, locked the door. She then threw the remainder of the spirits over the girl and set fire to the horror~ stricken servant, holding her tightly to prevent her from succeeding in saving her- self. The girl before expiring declared solemnly that her mistress’s jealousy was unfounced. Maw A Narrow Escape. Dashawayâ€"“Ah, general, just got back from your yacht trip in the Mediterran- can ‘3" The General-”Yes, sir. near losing our lives, sir." I)ilSlllLW8-yâ€"“(20L caught in a. gale?" The Generalâ€""Nu, sir; worse Lliuu that, air. Dashawayâ€"“Didn‘t get ashore r a rock, did you '3’ The Generalâ€"“No, sir ; we ran out of whlakev- ” Joann} And we came run 011 Household. N Hot Weather Topics. To keep the house cool, throw open the doors and windows in the early fifming hours, allowing a plentiful supply f the fresh, cool air to enter and circulate through. Sprinkle porch floors and door- steps. As soon as the heat begins to assert itself, close the house again, and in the parlor and bed-rooms shut out the sunlight for a. time. There is nothing more restful than a. cool, shaded retreat like this. It. will be found that the cool air is kept in the house, and the heated air kept out. By degrees, as the sun leaves the various parts of the house, the doors and Window's can be opened to let in the fresh air, and Store up a. cool supply for the night. In these times few are without screens to ex- clude flies, and afair share of summer com. fort is thus assured. Salads are very cooling and should be . generally used. An old physician was heard to say that in lettuce the right amount of opium was present to act favor. ably upon the nerves, and advised its use daily so long as it could be obtained. Fresh vegetables and cooling fruits ,ahould form the larger share of the summer , diet, verv little meat being necessary to keep up the furnace fires of the system. From a hygienic standpoint the use of meat during hot weather is unadvisable. Cooling drinks, taken in moderation dur- ing the heated term, are aceeptoble. and should form a. part of the daily refreshment. Directions for their preparation are so com- mon that they need not be given here. The remark of the old lady who said that she drank hot tea. in winter to warm her up and in summer to cool her oil, is one that meets with approval by many, and most women contend that all other preparations cause thirst rather than allay it. Iced tea is rather popular and very refreshing when sipped slowly, as all iced drinks should be. But none of these devices are of so much account as the habit of taking life quietly I and calmly, and not Worrying. There are some who rail incessantly against the weather, and complain loudly of their OWn sufferings from the heat. The effect is two fold. This heated condition is intensified, ' and every one about them feels the discom- fort of their complaining. Nor is It entirely necessary to sit in the shade with a. palm leaf fan and iced lemonade to keep comfort- able. Those who keep quietly about their duties, cheerfully accepting what cannot be helped. are less apt to suffer from heat. They have not reduced their powers of endurance by the wearing habit of frettin , and moderate exercise and moving about is quite as conducive to comfort as sitting still. Thus the capable housekeeper who has quietly gone about preparing dinner,saving herself all useless steps by careful planning, will be quite as apt to sit down to the meal with a rested and happy countenance, as the languid summer visitor who has spent the entire morning in a vain effort to keep cool, while bewailing the heat in her own particular case. Useful Recipes. Chocolate Meringue.â€"-Use three pints of milk, one-quarter of a. cake of chocolate grated and wet in a little cold milk, one cup of sugar, four fablespoonfuls of corn- starch, a. little butter and salt and the yolks of three eggs. Flavor with vmillat Bake halfan hour. Beat the whites of the eggs to a. stiff froth. Add a small cup of powdered Sugar. Spread over the pudding and color it a. light brown. Lemon Dumplingsâ€"One pint flour, one heaping teaspoonful baking powder and salt sifted together. Mix with a. cupful of milk or water. Make a. syrup of one-half cupful molasses, one-half cupful sugar, two cupfuls water and two lemons sliced fine. Bring to a boil and drop in dumplings and cook 15 minutes. Turn them once while cooking. \Vhen the dumplings are taken out, add a. ligtle butter to the syrup and pour over t em. ' Tomato Salad. â€"Peel threelarge tomatoes, slice and lay in a. salad bowl. set on ice for one hour; pour over half a pint of plain salad dressing and serve. Cream Pie.-â€"Put a. pint of milk on to boil ; moisten a. tablespoonful of cornstarch 'with alittle cold milk and stir into the boiling milk, add half a. teacupful of sugar. Beat the whites of four eggs and stir care- fully into the boiling mixture, take from the fire and llavor with vanilla. Line pieâ€" paus With puff paste, set in the oven to bake; “hen done, fill with the mixture and act in a. very hot oven to brown. Shepherd’s Picâ€"No matter how coarse the beef is if it is gently stewed beforehand -â€"-cut it up into small, neat pieces,and have ready plenty of peeled potatoes : season th meat nicely with salt and pepper, and of- ter cutting the potatoes in slices, season them also: then arrange a layer of the latter at the bottom of a. large pie dish and sprinkle them well with finely chopped onion; next put in some of the beef, cover with more potatoes and onion, and so on un- til the dish is sufficiently full, after which moisten with water, cover with a light, rather thick crus‘. and bake in a moderate oven until thoroughly cooked. If the crust is done enough before the meat and pots.- toes,a.s often happens when the pie is a very large, substanti alone, layn. piece of greased paper over the top to prevent its burning. and just before serving, pour‘in through the hole, which of course should always be made in the top to allow of the steam es- caping, some nice gravy, mode by boiling dowu any bones,cooked or uncooked,which may be at hand. Boiled greens and more potatoes should be served as an accompani- ment. Elderberry Cordial.â€"Tske eight quarts of berries and pour over them four quarts of boiling water. Let stand for I? hours, stirring now lind then ; strain well,pressing out all the juice. Add three pounds of sugar to four quarts of juica, one ounce of powdered cinnamon, and half an ounce of powdered cloves. Boil five minutes, and set away to ferment in a stone jar. with a. cloth thrown lightly over it. “'hen it is done fermenting, rack it off carefully, not to disturb the lees. Bottle and cork well.