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Palms will do well in a strong light without sunshine. They are often greatly injured by being kept con- Btantly in darkened halls and in apart- ments that preclude the treatment es- sential to their health. A daily spong- lng of their foliage with tepid water may be given by careful hands with- out damage to surroundings, and if they are carried. to another apartment Grape Jellyâ€"\Vild grapes, gathered just as they begin to turn. are the best for jelly. Cultivated grapes, if fully ripe, are quite likely to disap- point one if used for jelly; the color is dark and unattractive and the com- pound is often a syrup rather than a jelly, but they make delicious marma- lade. Wash the grapes and free them from the stems. Put them in the kettle and mash until all( broken. Heat slowly and cook until the juice ls well drawn out. Then place a square of cheese cloth over a colander and set the colander over a bowl. Turn in the grapes and let it drip without any pressure. Measure the juice and allow an equal measure of sugar. If wild grapes are used. allow a. little more than an equal portion of sugar. Boil the juice 15 minutes. Skim and strain aguin, then add the sugar and boil until the surface looks wrinkled and the liquid jellies on the edge. Skim well and turn into glass- es. Pickled Cauliflower â€" Two cauli- flowers, out up; one pint of small onions, three medium-sized red pep- pers. Dissolve half a pint of salt in water enough to cover the vegetables and let them stand over night. In the morning drain them. Heat two quarts of vinegar with four table- spoonfuls of mustard seed until it boils. Add the vegetables and boil for about 15 minutes. or until the cauli- flower is tender enough to be pierced easily with a fork. SEASONABLE RECIPES. Green Tomato Preserve â€" To one pound of fruit use three-quarters of a pound of granulated sugar. Allow one sliced lemon to two pounds of truit, first tasting of the white of the lemon tobe sure that it is not hit- ter. If bitter. use the yellow rind grated or shaved thin and the juice. Put the sugar on with just water enough to melt it, add the tomato and lemon and cook gently until the tomato is tender and transparent. Cut the to- matoes around in halves and then quarter the halves. This shape is pre- ferred to slices. This will keep with- out seallng, but it is better to put it in small jars, as it is so rich that only a little is wanted at a time. Canned Pearsâ€"Remove the peel and leave the stems on firm. ripe pears. Make a. thin syrup in the proportion of about half a. pound of sugar to a pint of water. or with even less sugar 11‘. the syrup is too sweet. Boil the pears in the syrup until soft enough to pierce easily with a broom straw. While boiling hot, carefully place the pears in the jars, stems downward, so arranged that there will be little or no space between the pears. Fill to ovelrflowing with the hot syrup and sea . Many a woman will take infinite pains in making a cake who probably could not tell of the vegetables in com- mon use which should be put on to cook in hot water and which in cold. which should be salted at first and whichp later. and why; how each should be dressed for serving. and the difference in dressing them when young and old. Among housekeepers there are more good pie-makers than bread--makers; twenty who make pretty desserts to one who is expert in cooking meats. and fifty who make tine cake to one who understands good soupâ€"making. Do not, because you have kept house. ten, twenty or thirty years, feel your housewifely dignity would be compromised by beginning all over again in certain things, for that is being progressive. A narrow- minded woman would not do it. be sure of that. The really useful know- ledge you already possess will count for its full value; your expertness in the non-essentials is very desirableâ€" es 3. supplement to more important knowled 6. Of course you can cook a potato. fiht how? When you have really exhausted "the fine art" of cooking potatoes you have finished one fundamental branch of a splendid education. There are others of equal Importance, and each alike necessary, it one would be an intelligent house- 1reeper. 060.000...OOOQOOOOOOOOOOO: 0 .3. About the House. M; 30000000000000.0000.»on. INTELLIGENT COOKING. Good living is not high living in the ordinary sense. The very acme of good living is the best presentation of good material in simple form; and in that sense it is the best and highest of liv- ing. The introduction of cookery as a. branch of our public school training will start the coming generations of housekeepers in the right direction; but the crying need of the present, next to a. knowledge of materials, is for housekeepers to better understand the importance of the high art of simple cookery. A PALM‘ The Prlnre of “’nlos Numbers Illa Bulls By Im- Hundreds. The Prince has a horror of evening dress, which he considers hideous. He prefers the style to a uniform, howev- er, and uses twelve suits of these a year, at a fixed price of $80 a suit. Let me add that the Prince never wears any pair of trousers more than four times, and then, as the discarded clothes of royalty are not allowed to be appropriated by the valets, but are all preserved, there is a stock of thouâ€" sands of them at Marlborough house. This need sur rise no one. For when King George I . died his clothes were sold by public auction, which lasted over three weeks, there being no less than 500 fur-lined coats alone. All the Prince's clothes. old and new, are kept at Marlborough house in what are known as the "brushing room,” sever- al men being employed to look aftâ€" er them. All his hats, especially the old ones, are for some reason or other kept at Sandrinrgham. He abominates the high silk hat; his favorite headgear being that which is known in this country as the “derby,” and in Eng- land as the "bowler." The high hats which he wears are by preference a. bell in shape and with a rather wide roll- ing brim. "dittoes." For these he never under any circumstances pays more than $40; A few years ago Sir Francis Knollys, his private secretary. finding that his Lailors were overcharging him, fixed upon eight guineas as the uniform price for each suit. They are order- ed in halfâ€"dozens at a. time. There is likewise a. regular and fixed price of $12 for his trousers, which under no pretext, whatsoever, save in the case of uniforms, is exceeded. The Prince of \Vales is by no means the dumpy little man that most of his pictures seem to indicate. It is not every man turned 50, with a forty-five inch chest, who can boast of at waist of no more than forty inches. If he occasionally appears stouter it is be- cause he likes his clothes to be loose and easy. This is especially the case with those particular suits known as Do not repot plants oftener than once in two years. or longer if not root bound. Remove the portion of the old soil from the top without disturbing the roots. and replace with a fresh. rich soil. Do this once or twice a year. and give some good fertilizer once a month. An occasional soaking with weak soot tea, when the soil is dry. will intensify the color and gloss of the foliage. Bone meal well worked in- to the soil is a most excellent fertiliz- er; the best time to add the latter is when repotting. for an hour of morning sunshine, and thoroughly showered once or twice a week, they will remain in a healthy condition, with judicious watering as demanded. Remember always that while limited and early morning sun- shine brightens and invigorates the palm, strong sunshine destroys the rich, green color. Palms are easily pot- ted, when received by express, and from a painsâ€"taking floristâ€"coming with the soil and roots intact, just as removed from the pot, these enveloped in excelsior and bound with twine. Provide a pot ,of larger size and as deep as possibleâ€"twice as deep as wide is none too much. The roots of nearly all palms run downward instead of spreading; it you have ever grown one from seed, especially a date, you have an idea ,of their delving propensities. They must have good drainage, as they will not remain healthy in soggy soil; place three or four inches of char- coal or broken pottery in the bottom of the pot and over this a layer of Sphagnum. florist‘s moss, or some fibâ€" rous material to prevent the soil washâ€" ing into the drainage; over this agen- ero’us layer of soil; place the palm on it and fill around with soil, water thor- oughly and keep in a light, cool place but out of the sun, for a week or more. The soil should contain a large pro- portion of fibreâ€"well rotted sod with the addition of some good garden loam and a little sharp sand makes a good mixture. A lighter soil is not advis- able because of its drying out too rap- idly. When palms are once establish- ed do not water them until the surface of the soil looks dry and shrinks slight~ ly from the pot. Then give sufficienl tepid water to thoroughly saturate the soil and to run through into the sauâ€" cer, but do not allow any of the sur- plus water to remain. Surface water- ing, or asrlight and frequent drib- bling is ruinous to all plants, and es- pecially so to the mass of palm. Show- er them at least once aweek,â€"â€"better every other day, if you want them to shine as if varnished;. the bent-neck plant sprinklers are excellent, as it is necessary that every part be reachâ€" Ed; get the largest sprinkler for best results. If not convenient to shower them so often, sponge the stems and both upper and under side of foliage three times a week with tepid water; daily sponging is better, using asoft fine sponge as least liable of all things to catch and tear the foliage. Treated in‘ this way they will be free from red spider. which appears in dry, heated atmospheresâ€"in fact, no pest will trou- ble them if the work is thorough. An, occasional scale may appear; rub off the“ first one as soon as discovered and there will be no trouble. No plant is more free from pests than the palm. and with only half care. If small, white worms appear in the soil, give a thorough soaking with lime water, if one application does not answer. give 8. second. Add a piece of fresh lime as large as an orange to three gallons of water;. when dissolved and clear, pour off the clear water for use. The lime water is rfeotly harmless. A saturated solution. which means all the lime the water will dissolve, will not harm the plants. Lime that has been air-slacked is worthless. A ROYAL WARDROBE. frequent drib- plants, and es- of palm. Show- a weekâ€"better A VVID‘ESPREAD REBELLION broke out in Dar-Fur, and Kordofan under Mohammed Ahmed, calling himâ€" self the Madhi, a word meaning "the guided by God." The modern Mahi is not necessarily a. descendant of Ali, or a resuscitated Iman, but he puts himself forward as a prophet whose mission is to free Islam from external enemies and reâ€"establish the pure, priâ€" mitive faith. Mohammed Ahmed claimed to be the Mahdi when about 40 years old. Gradually, at his call, the eastern Soudan stirred itself against Egyptian misrule; and so it came to pass that in 1883 he seized El' Obeyd, the chief city of the Ko‘rdofan, and made it his capital. An army was sent against him by the Egyptian gov- ernment, under an English officer, Hicks Pasha, in November. and was annihilated near El' Obeyd. The Mahdi's influence extended to the Red Sea shores. An Egyptian force under Count Moncrieff was routed with severe loss in the same month near Sua- kin; and Baker Pasha was twice dis- astrously defeated at Teb and 'l‘amani- eh, early in 1884; but these reverses were afterwards wiped out by the hard won successes of a British expedition under Sir G. Graham. Meanwhile, in January, 1884, Gen. Charles George Gordon had gone at the request of Mr. Gladstone’s Govern- ment, as English representative to Khartoum, to secure the withdrawal of the Egyptian garrisons from the Soudan, Egypt having, on the advice of England, agreed to give up all her possessions in the Soudan, save the Red Sea littoral. Gordon though supported by only one other English officer, gal- lantly maintained his position in Khar- toum against the Madhi's followers,and even ventured successfully on the ag- gressive. He found, however, that he had attempted AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK. he could not leave the garrisons to fall into the hands of the Madhi, and he required reinforcement of British troops before he could drive the lat- ter from the neighborhood of Khar- toum. Timi :ity and indeti ion ma:ked the whole of the policy ofihe English Government, both toward the Soudan and the Red Sea littoral. In October, 1884, when it was too late, an [English expedition, under Lord Wolseley, was The revolt of Arabi Pasha in 1881, and its consequences, loosened the hold of Egypt on the Soudan, which by Baker‘s annexations in 1874 and follow- ing years had gradually extended to the shores of the Victoria. Nyanza. HISTORY OF THE SUUDAN. son, after which their wide, grassy Steppes give sustenance to numerous herds of camels, cattle, sheep and 80MB. Besides the products mention- ed, ivory, ostrich feathers. caout-chouc. salt, cloth, gums iron, gold, honey. wax and hides, are important articles of internal traffic and foreign trade. The area. of this portion of the Souden has been estimated at 2500000 square miles, and the total population at about 15,000,000. The Egyptians established themselves at Khartoum in 1819, and, during the next fifty years, gradually extended their power over the provin- ces lying west and south of thecity, and were more especially active dur- ing the third quarter of this century‘ In 1874 Dar-Fur was conquered with the help of Zebehr Pasha, a noted slave hunter. {He did not receive the reward he considered himself entitled to, and Provoked insurrections in that district, and in Bahr-el-Ghezal province (1877- 79) which were successively crushed by Gordon and Gessi. and Upper Nile. This part of the Soudan is also frequently styled the Egyptian Soudan. Until 1882 it form- ed one ill-organized province, with its capital at Khartoum. [But in that Yea-1‘ it was subdivided into four sec- tionsâ€"(1) West Soudan, including Dar- Fur, Kordofan, Bahr-el-Ghazal (the province on a. western tributary of of the \Vhite Nlle south of Kordofan,) and Dongola; (2) Central Soudan, com- prising Khartoum, Sennaar, Berber, Fashode. south-east of Kordofan. and the equatorial province, stretching along the Upper Nile to the great lakes; (3) East Soudan, along the Red Sea, including Taka, Suakin and Mas- sowah; Harar, east of Abyssinia, and north of the Somali country, abutting on the Gulf of Aden. All thisregion is VVATERED BY THE NILE and its tlihutaries, possessing highly fertile soil, capable of yielding im- mense quantities of cotton, durra. in- digo, sugar, rice. maize, tobacco, fruits; while Kordofan and Dar-Fur are bare and waterless, except in the rainy sea.â€" A LAND WASTED WITH WAR AND ALWAYS UNSETTLED. Where Egypt at one Time Held Supremacy and Where Brltaln Avenged Gordon's Death-Land of the Arab and Negro. The Soudan embraces the vast region of Africa. 'that stetches from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. and the Abyssinian highlands, and from the Sahara. and Egypt proper in the north tothe Gult 6f Guinea,the central equa- torial regions, and the Albert and Vic- toria. Nyanza in the south. This is- the home of the true negro race, though there are other pure and mixed ele- ments in the population, derived prin- Cipally from Hamitic and Semitic (Arab) stocks. The Soudan is divided into three parts, the Eastern Soudan being that portion of the area east; of \Vadai, mainly the basin of the Middle despatched to touch of it 01 oic Gordon he days before (.1 no matter what the result might be. In his journal Gordon writes: “The more one thinks of it the more impos- sible does it seem for her Majesty's Government to get out of this country without extricating the garrisons and establishing some government at Khar- toum." But the Government he wish- ed was not one under the authority of Great Britain. {He thought the coun- try should be given to the Turks, or to Zebehr Pasha, to govern, but not Egypt, as in a couple of years there would be another Mahdi. It has been stated that the conquest of the Soudan means also the reten- tion, of Egypt, and that France islook- ing with eager eyes in the same direct tion. \Vhen Egyptian finances were in a muddle some years ago a dual Eng- lish and French control was establish- ed, and the finances were placed en- tirely under European management It will also be recalled that in 1882. during the Arabi revolt. British and French warships were despatched to Alexandria to overawe the rebels. Arabi persisted in the rebellion despite the order sent him to desist, and the French sailed away in dismay. The French took no share in the bombard- ment, in the military expedition, or in direct (no-operation with England in the rte-arrangement of Egyptian af- fairs, and it is a question what steps they will take now to establish their claim, Never Drawn Hls Club Except on Extru- Ol'Illllfll'y l‘ruvocntlon. Foreigners are always impressed by the power of the London policeman as he lifts a magisteriul hand and directs the congested traffic. They do not know that there are times when this demiâ€"god faces a. raging mob, and risks his life rather than use force in the discharge of his duty. The arrest of a. disorderly woman is no unusual event, but it gave great umbrage to the public spirit of Drummond street on Friday night. The constable who had the woman in charge was attacked by the Somers Town gang, and, though reinforced by four comrades, would surely have had the worst of the encounter if one of the policemen had not drawn his trun- cheon. Nobody was hurt by this wea- pon, which caused the crowd to hold off; but in the meantime the champions of Bomers Town had been letting fly with bottles. and it was their Spanish gunnery, not their lack of spirit, which did no damage to the police. The Som- ers Town gang are hoppy, no doubt, if they can my open anybody's head with broken glass, though, for choice, they would rather hit the official tarâ€" The story illustrates the self-control of the London policeman; but we wish the truncheon had been used earlier in the struggle. Forbearance is wast- ed on the heroes from Somers Town. They would have ’been none the worse for a. broken head or two and Drum- mond street would be less eager in ifs sympathy with disorderly ladies if they knew that a constable, “lien facing great odds, would use his truncheon without hesitation. power distill Dr. S( The extent of country governed by the Khalifa is practically the same as that originally occupied by the Egyp- tians. .But places that were ‘once pros- ,:rous have been laid waste and the industrious Nile dwellers have been despoiled by normal tribes. Hope has gone from the people, and they are waiting for the hand that will restore them to their own. Gordon and Khartoum will ever be associated, and it was because of the world-wide attention which he drew upon himself when he undertook the miSsion and the circumstances attend- ing his death that gave apeculiar inâ€" terest to the ruined city. A great man, already famous, had undertaken what was soon found to be an impoe- sible task; but Gordon's heroism and devotion to what he regarded as the right are revealed in his celebrated "Journals." While Gordon's primary object was to evacuate, Khartoum by withdrawing the Egyptian garrisons, he was expected afterwards to estab- lish a. local form of government in the interests of Great Britain. It is shown by his journals that Gordon was opposed to the permanent retention of the Soudan by Great Britain; he thought that it should be left with decency, and the people given a man to lead them,a.round whom they could rally. When neither the evacuation nor the local government seemed likely of accomplishment, the British Govern- ment wished to be rid of all responsi- bility of the Soudan in the matter of garrisons. In fact, the instructions conveyed to Lord Wolseley were to the effect that the primary object of the expedition was to bring away General Gordon and Colonel Stewart from Khartoum. To this Gordon objected. He would not leave THE GARRISONS TO THEIR FATE THE MILD LONDON “ PEELER.” A WASTED CONU1TRY. ROUND IHE WHOLE WORN). WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. Old and New World Events 0! Interest Chron- lcled Brieflyâ€"Interesting Happenings 0! Recent Date. SHE HOLDS THE CHAMPIONSHII You don‘t mean to tell me that I my's wife circulates more gossip t he does? It seems impossible. Not at all. She can talk :1. t1 faster than be can. vetted into sealskins for the American market ' London is to have. soon it: first roof garden. Charles \Vyndham will be the innovator, in his new theatre near Lel- oester Square. Av Protestant monastery is to be er- ected by the Duke of Newcastle, who is a strong High Churchman. at East Markham, in Nottinghamshire. 0n the day the Czar unveiled the memorial to Alexander II. in Moscow the first train of the Siberian Railroad reached Irkutsk and Lake Baikal. Kaiser Wilhelm has struck another blow at the French. A recent army order commands the suppression of the terms Premier Lieutenant and Second Lieutenant. and the substitute of Ober and Unter Lieutenant instead. The ti- tle remains, therefore, half German and half French. and First Lieutenants will be easily confused with Lieuten- ant~Colonels, Oberst Lieutenant. An imâ€" perial attempt at Germanizing the French title Lieutenant would have been interesting. Cargoes of New Zealand and Austral- ian butter recently shipped to London have been reshipped to their starting points, as the home price for butter is now much higher than the Eng- lish prices obtainable. Rome expects an unpleasant sensa- tion on the publication of the memoirs of Mgr. Pila Carrooci, a sharp-tongued abbe of the old school who died recent- ly. He knew all the scandals of sixty years, and, it is feared, wrote them down. Red Scotch granite from Peterhead is to be employed for the national mon- ument which the Transvaal is to er- ect to Pretoria to commemorate the re- pulse of Jameson’s raid. and an Aber- deen firm has been found ready to pro- vide the granite and execute the Work. The Beer's sense of humor seems stronger than the Scotchman's. A torpedo boat destroyer, the Hail- ung, built by the Schichaus in Ger- many for the Chinese Government. made, according to the London Times, 33.6 knots on its trial trip. with its armament and equipment and sixty- seven tons of coal on board. No details of the performance are given, though this is by far the highest speed ever attained by anything afloat. save the Turbinia, being equivalent to 38 2-3 miles an hour. Having started the report that Queen Victoria intends to confer the Order of the Garter on Queen \Vihelmin1 of the Netherlands, some over-proper English newspapers are worried as to where the young Dutch Queen will wear her garter. Queen Victoria wears hers on her arm. The Order has rarely. if ever, been egnferred @ g we'lnan in modern times. Queen Victoria has ab- stained from giving it to any of her daughters or to any other Queen reg- nant. Germany is bound to lose no chance in the grub for territory. The deep- sea expedition recently sent into Arc- tic waters surveyed part of Bear Is- land south of Spitzbergen, and there- upon took possession of it in the: name of the German Empire .The island was discovered by Barents. a Dutchman, 300 years ago, and has been used for many years by the Norwegians as afishing station. ' Australian rabbitskins are being con-