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Sam Stevenson, of Michigan, is the rich- est member of the lower house of Congress. He is tall and thin and wears hand-me-down clothes. There are more arbesian wells in Califor- nia. than any other state in the Union. One county claims 457 of these weils. The New York Central has consolidated the New York and Chicago limited with its north shore limited between New York and Chicago. WHAT UNCLE SAM IS AT.’ Among Edison’s recent patents in one for an improved form of lamp filament and a method of magnetic ore separation. After judgments aggregating $93,566 had been secured against, Weber Brothers, 8. Milwaukee dry goods firm, a. receiver was asked for and appointed. Miss Kitty Wilkin,of Idaho, is the owner fabrown more named Mollie, who, al- hough 38 years oldI has just, become the other of a handsome colt. A passenger who arrived from Havre at New York the other day was named in the sneamer’l list, as Jules Verne. At Red Cliff, 00L, a woman candidate for Mayor, was defeated ata recenbelection largely by the vows of women. The water than pours over the Falls of Niagara. is washing the rock away at the rate of five yards in {our years. It is said the first horse was brought to this continent; in 1518. There are now in the United States alone 14,056,750 horses, valued at. $941,000,000. A planner in Apalachiconl, Fia., has grown an immense cabbage j. a single staik with firm well-developed heads. The only surviving full rank lieutenant- generals of the Confederacy are Generals Gordon and Longstreet. Miss Elizabeth Fleming has been chosen court. crier in the United States Disbrict Court. in Portland, Ore. General A. J. Pleasant/on, origmator of the blue glass theory, died at his home in Pliladelpbia, aged 86 years. After a courtship of two hours Jas. Wood and Miss Mary Stewart were married recently near Youngstown, 0. One meal a. day is all that is eaten by the Rev. John S. Eberle, of Glendale, Pa..and that. is eaten at noon. For thirty years this has been his habit. A trust mortgage for $1,200,000 on 139 miles of the east. end of Lhe Burlington, in- cludmg the equipment and depot. grounds in Chicago, has been filed. Boston has a floating hospital. American railroads have 35,000 locomo- tivea. The 23,000 newspapers in America em- }ioy 200,000 men. New York has a. temperance society that permits moderate drinking. Dr. Burtsell, who has just returned from Rome, says the papal delegation to America 15 no he a. permanency. Reading receivers have agreed to the plan for the rehabilitation of the road drained by a sub-committee of the Earl Olcou reorgani- zation committee. Charles McIlv aine,an American expert on fungi. claims to have eaten full meals of over 400 species of tondabools without. ever having been poisoned. ently appointed Minister to Russia, once eclined to fight a. duel on the ground that e was then studying for the Presbyterian I ministry. EClifford Breckinridge, of Arkansas, re- A freak of nature, alarge tree which possess the characteristics of a pine and an oak, may be seen near Ashbumhsm, Mass. In the fall of the year pine bus [311 on one side and acorns on the other. ITEMS ‘17 INTEREST ABOUT THE QUSY YANKEE. Neighborly Interest In Illa Doilgfiâ€"“fll- «rs 0f .‘lmnuu and Bllnh (unheer From llis Daily Record. Reports from Arkansas indicate that the cotton crop will be the largeu ever picked in the State. Major Fred Brnckett will be general man- ager of the Baltimore centennial expoeiuon to be held in 1897. A little store in Philadelphia has this sign beside the door: “Coal, oil, wood, milk and other nonons.” The Hotel Guernsey at Asbury Park was burned. The gueaw escaped and lost nonh- ing but. their clothes. It cost George be John, of-New Orleans, a. fine of 3,} l7 the other day for plucking three rare exoticflowets in Fail-mount Park, Philadelphia. ' It is estimamed that no less than $00, ‘000 reached the treasuries of the mission. my societies during 1893 from the Christ;- isn Endeavor societies in the various denominational churches. One 0} the largest aassafms trees in this country is in Central park, New York. The customs authorities of Boston have decided that the works of Zola. are immoral, but not obscene. An order has been issued by the New York Central and Hudson River railroad (orbidding the employment of father and son on the same engine. The Johnsons outnumbzr th! Smiths by 700 in the Chicago directory. United States Fish Commissioners are hatching 50,000,000 lobster eggs. Secretary Gresham is the prize smoker of the Cabinet. His allowance of cigars is 20 a day. The dredging of Ogdensburg harbor, for which $20,000 19 available, wxll shortly be commenced. Most of American slate is quarried in Eastern Pennsylvania and New England. The thirty-two teeth in the mouth of John McDarby, of Salmon Falls, Mass” are all double. Biddeford, Me., hasa. 98-year-old physi- cian, Dr. Westbrook Farrar, who is still in ctive practice, and, what is still more as- ;onishing, visits patients on a. bicyCle. Brooklyn has eight miles of water front, here over $300,000,000 of goods are stored very year. his the fourth American city I: manufactures, producing over $180,000, ‘00 a. year. One-third of the deaths among American Indians are due to consumpfion. John Jacob Astor is the inventor of an automatic road sweeper, on which he has taken out, a patent, and which, it, in claim- ed. will be of great. service in clearing roads of dust anti other obstructions. A Boston syndicate has purchased the Eiifel Tower, and that structure will be brought there. The promoters of the Bal- timore centennial celebration, which is to be held in 1897, are said to be the purchas- era. Tennis evidently sprang from Racket, and Racket appears, according to Mr. F. Philpott, to have been merely a transition from the ruder and less scientific mode of propulsion adopted by our forefathers in their ball-play. who always play “ Hand Tennis ” with the naked hand. By degrees the glove came into use. and the glove was sometimes lined. The glove was afterward exchanged for asort of retir‘ulala manus, the naked hand being bound with thongs or cords made of what is popularly, but im- properly, termed catgut, as likely to in- crease the pOWer and velocity of the ball ; this, in turn, gave way to artificial palms of the hands, or rackets. Tennis lay dor- mant in England for many years, and until Croquet died anatural death, not long ago ; and Lawn Tennis sprang from the ashes of croquet balls, stakes, and mallets. Tricky Indians Make ['86 Ma Rabbi! Skln. “ These stories of Indian troubles in the William Armstrong, of Norwalk, Ohio. died recently at the age of 98 years and four months, left, six daughters and one son,and grandchildren. grean grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren no the fifth gen- eranion. A company of Philadelphia capitalists is negotiating for the purchase of a. volcano of Popocatepebl. The company proposes to construct, a railway up the mountain to mine the aulpur in the crater, and ship in to the United States for sale. A peculiar incident happened recently in connection with the rifle practice of a New York regiment at the New Jersey State camp at Sea Girt. \Vhile one of the officers was firing at a. target 300 yards away three blackbirde flew across the range and at the crack of the rifle one of the birds fell, Up» on examination it was found that the bullet had gone through the body of the bird, and, without deviation, had buried itself in the centre of the target. southwest remind me of an experience that I had down in New Mexico,” said Henry Davidson of Albuquerque. “ I was new to the region then, and although I had heard all sorts of strange tales about. the trickiness of the Indian, I did not know that he was as shrewd as I afterward found him Do be. John Boyd Thatcher, of Albany, N. Y.. has presented that city with the original bill signed by Queen Anne and Earl Godol- phin to compensate Albany’s first mayor, Peter Se‘mylerJor taking four Indian chiefs to England in 1710. A promoter in California proposes to build an electric railway through the mountains. sixty-two miles to the Yosemite Valley, and by utilizing the water power furnish electric light and motors for al that region. About 4,000 tourists visit the Yosemite every year, paying $33 ea ch for the stage ride. The antiquaries affirm that there is no reference to ball-playing of any kind in the Sacred Scriptures, and that there is no al- lusion to it among the Assyrian inscriptions. Isaiah, howeverI says that the Lord will surely violently turn and toss the wicked like a ball into a large country. The game of Hand~ball, from which Ten- nis is derived, is known to have been popu~ lar in England and France in remote times. The French King Louis X. is said to have died of a severe cold caught while playing ball at Vincennee, in the fourteenth cen- tury, and an old plan of \Vindsor Castle, made in the fifteenth century, exhibits what ig termed a “ Tenuys Courte.’: It Is [he oldest Ball-Gann- of Which Ills lot-3' Ilan a Ilrcord. “ I rode home on the animal. As Igot intomy quarters I noticed that the horse appened to be uneasy, as if suffering from injury. As I live, 1 found that a patch of skin several inches square had come 03 his back. I looked into it and discovered that the horse was raw there and that he had been patched up with rab- bit or some other skin for the time being. Those Indians stood by each other too,for I could never locate the scoundicl who had swindled me. I have since concluded that they were allwroug and that had I bought the outfit I would have found the oddest assortment ofpatched horses that it was ever the fortune of a white man to look upon.” “ I wanted a pony for some reason and I communicated my desire to a friend of a crowd of the greasy citizens of the out- skirt. The next day I was besieged with offers. I looked all over the lot and pick- ed three or four to make my final selection from. Afterseveral hours I settled on an ani- mal thatI thought to be in the pink of con- dition and form. I took him for a good round sum and_ a trade thrown into the bargain. Beauty Feeds on Lilies Now. A new vegetable is offered and the roots or tubers of the calls lily are being adapted in this country. In Japan and in Egypt, where the bulb of the favorite household lily grows to great. size, it has long been an article of food. It. is cooked much like a potato, either boiled, fried, baked or roast- ed. A certain toughness is best overcome by first boiling and afterward finishing in some other way. In is eaten with cream dressing, or with butter, and is regarded as more delicate than potatoes. Beauty has long been able to feed inself on rose petals, and now the stately white lilies themselves are food for her dainty waan. Aaharp advertiser, who ofiered fora small sum to supply women winh cheap subsLiLutes {or hatv pins, has been arrested in Boston for misusing the mails. He sent two rubber bands to each inquirer mm the advice: “Sew one end no the ban and aspen the other behind one of your ears.“ THE ANTIQUITY 0F TENNIS. A PATCHED PONY. Desex’ved Arrest. Adding a. Small Plant Room. The addition of a. bay window for the accommodation of plants means the tearing away of a considerable portion of one side of a. room, and frequently makes the room thereafter inconvenient for the arranging of furniture. The illustration, Fig.1, shows how a plant window may be added With To clean kettles easily, pour a little boil- ing water into them and put acover on; the steam will soften the dirt so than it; may be easily removed. Pounded glass mixed with corn meal and placed within the reach of rats, it. is said, will banish them from the premises; or sprinkle cayenne pepper where they go. Pumpkin seeds are very attractive to mice. and traps baited with them will soon destroy this little pest. very little change in bhe original room. An "W "W "V" V "w" ordinary window is cut. down to the floor, A F‘VoRABLE “my making a door of it, while outside of this is “Were can be no manner 0f doubt. The built a recumgular addizion that. will make lloPiDiO'J? entertainfd by bankers 0“ “Ch 8 Spot: on varmshed furniture can easily be removed by rubbing them with essence of peppermint or spirits of camphor, and afterwards with furniture polish or oil. Postage stamps will stick, and not turn up at. the corners if the face is wet after applying them. F14 a. charming litvtle room for plants. 01' course the width and depth of the addition can be made to suit one'a fancy. 'l'he glimpse which one has from the sitting-room into such a plant room is exceedingly pleasing, as shown in Fig. 2. particularly if the door. way is hung with a pretty portiere. Such a. room should have double windows, then, if the portiere is drawn back at night, the heat from the sitting-room would keep the plants from freezing even on a cold night. Household Hints. A solution of oxalic acid will remove ink stains from books without injuring the print. “Sticky” varnish may be dried by apply- ing a coat of benzine, and after two or three days apply a coat of good varnish and let. dry thoroughly before using the furniture. To remove grease from broths for the sick, after pouring in a. dish, pass clean white wrapping paper quickly over the top of broth, using several pieces, until grease is all removed Remove stains from teacups with a little baking soda, rubbed on with the fingers. Some say a little table salt is just as good. To make shoes Waterproof and make Lhemlasts long time, dissolve beeswax and a little sweet oil to thin in. Before the shoes are worn, warm the soles and pour the melted Wax on them with a. teaspoon, then hold it. close to the fire all it soaks into the leather ; then add more until the leather ceases to absorb it. One ounce flour of sulphur to one quart of water. Shake weli at intervals for a. few hours, and when settled saturate the head with she clear liquid every morning. This is said to cure vexatious dandruff, a disease ot the scalp. To check vomiting, give a teaspoonnt of whole black mustard med. A tablespoom in! may be needed in severe cases. To clean light kids, put. the gloves on the hand and rub thoroughly with white corn meal, using a piece of cotton flannel for the purpose. The best way to wash lace curtains is, to shake the dust well out of the lace, put in tepid water, in which a little borox has been dissolved, and wash at once carefully with the hands in several waters, or until perfectly clean ;rinse in water Well blued,also blue the starch quite deeply and squeeze, but do not wring. Pin some sheets down to the carpet in a. vacant room, then pin down the curtains stretched the size they were before being wet. In a few hours they will be dry and ready to put up. The whole process of washing and pinning down should occupy as lime time as possible, as lace will shrink more than any other cotton goods when long wen, Above all it should not be allowed to “ soak”irom the mistaken idea that it washes more easily, nor should it be ironed. Another way is' to fasten them into a pair of frames, which every housekeeper should have, made very like the old- iashioned quilting-frames. thickly studded along the inside with the smallest size of gslvanized tenter hooks, in which to fasten the lace, and having holes and wooden pins with which to vary the length and breadth to suit the different sizes of curtains. The curtain should always be measured before being wet, and stretched on the frames to that size to prevent shrinking. Five or six curtains of the same size may be put in, one above the other, and all dried a; once. The (tunes may rest on {our chairs. ABGUT THE HOUSE. INTERIOR VIEW’ OF PLANT R00.“ Lace Curtains. A good way to bleach muslin is to take one pound of chloride of lime for whiny yards of goods, and dissolve in two quarts rain water: let. cloth soak over night in warm rain water or long enough to be thoroughly wet, ; wring out cloth and put in another tub of soft water, in which has been added chloride oflime, Let it remain for about, twenty minutes, lifting up the clo.h and airing often and rinse in clear rain water. This will not injure the cloth in the least, Midis much less Lroublesome than bleaching on the grass. Only be careful and rinse very thoroughly. An Eminent Banker‘s opinion on Base Ines: ProsperIsâ€"Beller Times are Close at "and. _ Keen observers in the United Stateshsve begun to predict the return of better times. In many cases, no doubt, the wish is father to the thought, but where restoration of confidence is chiefly what is Wanted the thought is often precursor of the fact. If Canada has suffered less than other nations from the world-wide loss of confidence it has not escaped the business depression that has clouded the financial horizon. Our momentary institutions have, it is true, successfully weathered the shock that has shattered hundreds of banks in the United States, but the volume of our trade has under its influence contracted, and progress has practically been suspended. That the tide has now taken niatter have a tendancy to be conservative because they are in a specially good posi- tion to knowall the unfavorable symptoms. When, therefore, they speak hopefully they keep well within the mark. Hopeful is, in the main, the view taken by Mr. B. E. \Valker, general manager of the Bank of Commerce. 'l‘hat gehtlemun, whose emi- nent position in the financial world has been recognszed by his election to the presidency of the Bankers’ Association, is always re- garded as a safe authority on such matters. He observes signs of agradual improvement rather than a suddx-n return to generous prosperity. As Mr. Walker points out, one of the causes oi the depression is gra- dually supplyingthe remedy for it. Atatime when the idea gets abroad that there is a. dulness in business, the situation is aggra- vated by the general desire it inspires for economy. EVen people who have money, feeling the sympathetic influence of the prevalent opinion, draw in their horns and cease to buy as liberally as usual. Such a period of general retrenchment we have of late, in common with other countries, been I experiencing ; that purse-strings will be loosened, and trade flow once more freely in its various channels, is the [natural se- quence of this state of affairs. Economy has placed the people in a better position to discharge their indebtedness, and has thereby taken the first step that is necessary to the full RESTORATION OF CONFIDENCE. We are warned, however, not to expect that the volume of trade will at once ex- pand to normal proportions. Nature‘s most beneficent laws act slowly, and the same may be said of the laws of business. In a. country like Canada the prosperity of the farmer is the foundation of all prosperity. W hen we see, therefore, that the agricultur- ist is improving his condition we may be sure that the improvement will not stop‘ with him. If on the whole his crops this year are up to the average it cannot be de- nied that prices are somewhatdiscouraging. But here the useful effect of the late lesson in economy will be felt. With no larger return that be secured last year the farmer will, in the opinion ofa man of such wide experience as Mr. \Vslker,be better able to live and meet his obligations than he was twelve months ago. His prospects are. however, growing brighter every day. From the West comes word that the yield is more than was expected, while. rain in Ontario has ended the drought that threat- ened the cheese industry. W heat,no longer profitable to export, will through the fail- ure of the United States corn crop yield a good return when fed to pigs. Throughout the country farms are being improved, new fences and new barns are telling the ‘story of new hope, the lumbering business is brisk, and gradually the feeling of busy prosperity is taking possession of the people. l Their is indeed something more than the ‘ wish behind the thought that better times ‘are close at hand. whether they come by ; degrees or at a. bound. Famous Dr. Weir Mitchell says that as much domestic unhappiness is caused by nervousness among women as by dram- drinking among men. He holds that every girl ought to be examined as to her nervous temperament when about to go to schools and at frequent intervals afterward ; that leisure, exercise, and wholesome meal ought to be compulsorin diminished, or discontinued altogether the moment the well-known signs of overstrain appear. If girls are maintained in normal nervous condition until they are seventeen, they may study almost as hard as they please afterward without imperiling the woman’s life. But let there be no mistake about it. Overwork and unnatural worry from eight, or nine to seventeen means ruin and wretchedness from seventeen till early death. pundit in a former birth, and is visiting her own land after a. sojourn in the West, where she was incarnated to know the nature of the materialistic civilization of those regions; she upholds the caste system as a necessary part of the law of Karma, those in the lowest, caste being there as a. result of their former works. It is no wonder that she gets crowded audiences to listen to her. She is a forcible speaker; she knows how to adapt herself to her audiences; and hence they do not hesitate :.0 call her Saraewaoi, the Hindu goddesu oi learning. Mrs. Besant Among the Hindus. Mrs. Besanb seems to have taken to Hinduxam and all its dogmas most heart- ily. She believes in the Hmdu gods; she tells Hindu audiences that she was a. Hindu Look Out For Nervous Girls. A BETTER OUTLOOK. The Earl of Albemarle, who died lately, was one of the earliest volunteers and among the first to take up cycling. He married a. Canadian git). A Winter palace has just. been added to the attractions of the .) ardind’acclimatacion in Paris. The main building contains a large concert hallthat, will a.ccommoda.te 4,500 persons. Marslml Bazaine’s son has lately returned from Mexico. where he tried in vain to obtain the restitution of his mother’s property, confiscated by the Mexican Gov- ernn‘ent. poverty. An international journal for African languages has just. been started in Germany, aided by a. liberal subvenbion from the GOVex-nment. The Secretary of the Colonial Society 13 edibor,and six parts are to appear each year. M. Camille Jansen, formally Governor of the Congo Free State. has just. gone to Chili as one of the arbitrators to settle the difl'erencea between that country and Great, Britain in the matter of the indemnitiea arising out of the late civil war. At the German army manoeuvres this year a. new quick-firing gun is to be tried in the cavalry operations. The gun is a. sort of mitrnilleuse and so light that one horse can draw it, while number draws the amm unition.“ the experiment is successful, every cavalry regimen} ‘will be supplied. Clwydfardd. the archdruid and bard of \Vales,was recently stricken with paralysis. He is 94 years old. Dampness has made the Corinthian cap- itals of the church of the Madeleine in Paris crumble, and recently pieces of stone have fallen, endangering the passer: by. The capital: are to be removed and. new ones put, in their place. Elsleben, the birthplace of Martin Luther, is sinking into the moor upon which“; Is built. Measures have been taken in recent years to drain the bog, without avail, and the inhabitants are ser- iously thinking of Vabandoningfihe town. In the India Office Library is the largest collection of primed Sauscrit books in the world, larger than the one in the British Museum, and comprising many early anr! rare editions. These are now being cata- logued by the former librarian, Dr. Rest, who has already published the catalogue of the Sanscrit manuscripts in the office. Tawhiao. the second Maori King, died recently of influenza. in New Zealand. He was elected in 1860, and for fifteen years fought the New Zealand Government, his Maoris proving the best fighters that the Englxsh have had to meet in this generation. The lasb'ontbreak was-between 1879 :and 1881. Two years ago he gave up all his pretensions and accepted a pension of £225 from the Government. 05 over five million children in elemen- tary schools in England only 890,000 pay 201' their schooling, and of these half a million pay no more than a. penny a. week, according no a recent official statement 0f the “voluntary schools” in which the whole or part of the tuition is paid by the parents, 5,000 receive from 10-00 ‘20 shillings a head for Llie children in attendance, 4,000 be- tween 5 and 10 shillings, and 5,000 under 5 shillings. A Sultan Abdul Aziz, me new young Sultan of Morocco, does nothing without. consult- ing his mother, who is a woman of not. and talenL. After the discovery of the recent conspiracy at. Fez she persuaded him to spare the lives of culprits of lower rank and to pardon his brother, who was in- volved. The European powers hue been requested to send no representatives to Fez for the present, in order to avoid complica- tions. ' ‘ Mrs. Henry Wood, Edna Lyall, and Rider Haggard are the three most popular writers among those who take books out, of the London free libraries, but. the invontes are not the same in any two districts. At. the Hammersmith Library, where the male readers outnumber mhe female, chough the books oftenest. taken out, are “ Jane Eyre.” “ Middleman-ch,” and “ nhe Caans," the authors at the top of the hats are Marie Corelli, Rider Haggard, and “ Rita,” close‘ 1y followed by Robert. Buchanan and He.“ Caiue. M. Smmboulofl‘, the ex~Premier of Bul- garia, has been speaking out. his wind lately. He describes the Czar as “ a type of the Russian moujik. honest. oruhodox. narrow-minded, and as obstinate as an ox ;” while Prince Ferdinand " is simply gambling sway the little popularity he still enjoys in Bulgaria. He is undoubtedly a. clever man, but. wastes his cleverness on petty matters. He is nervous and exci- table. He reads everything written about. him and bears a newspaper into pieces if it, contains disparaging remarks." Of 12,907 vessels now registeredi n Lloyd’s list. only 304 have a speed of 15 knots or over, and but. 18 a speed of 20 knots or more. Of the latter, 10 are pad- d e-wheel steamers used on the Channel or Itish Sea, the other: are screw scesmers, of which two ply between Newhaven and Dieppe, the other six being the Paris, New York, Campania, Lucania, Teutonic, and Majestic. There are hub 45 steamers with a. higher speed than 19 kuota of which '25 belong to Great Britain. 7 to Belgiumfi to Germany, 3 each to Holland and France”, and ‘2 no the American line. The list does not; include war vessels and river and lake steamers. Germany leads'the list of of beer-produc- ing countries, according to the trade report for 1893, just published, with 1,202,132,074 gallons, an increase of over 34.000.000 gal- lons over 189?. ; 33}; gallons 3. head was the average fol" the empire, the product rang- ing from 6‘3 gallons in Bavaria to 12 in Elsass-Lothringen. Great Britain was a good second with 1,164,752,932 gallons of malt liquor, over 30 gallonsa. head. Ameri- can (including South America), came next with 1,084,433,460 gallons. 16 gallons per head. Then come Austria with 335,256,- 168 gallons, Belgium with 209,856,174, France with 196,630,500 gallons, Russia with 98,638,892 gallons ; Denmark brewed 45 million gallons, Holland 33 million, Sweden :28 and a third million, Switzer- land '26 and a. sixth million gallons. The other countries for which statistics are given all produced less than ‘20 million gal- lons apiece. The total output at malt liquors in Europe and America. was 4,500 million gallons, in making which 7,270.00 tonsof malt and 82,000 tons of hops_wera RIB . Britisn and Foreign. The familyVia now in abject,