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.;. a .. About the House. OWOW 00 SALT IN‘ THE HOUSEHOLD. Besides being a necessary ingredi- ent in most kinds of cookery, an appetizing addition to the many ar- ticles of raw food and: the prime ne- cessity in catching a bird, the laun- dress puts a trifle of salt in her starch, adds it in larger quantity to the water in which she washes gingâ€" hams and other colored fabrics, rubs it well into the spots where oxalic acid has been applied to remove iron stain to neutralize the acid or smooth the flatirovn by rubbing ‘t upon salt, sprinkled on a bit of paper. The housewife adds a pinch of salt to the water in her bouquet holder that the flowers may retain their freshness; scours the tea or coffee stains from the cups with it; a portion put in whitewash to make it adhere more closely to the surface where applied; obtains a good result by throwing a handful into the dull coal fire or if the wood fire gets beyond her ventral and the chimney catches fire, a quantity thrown into the stove serves as a damper to the flames; if the brick .gives way in her cooking range a paste of equal p-irts of salt and wood ashes mixed with cold water and given a little. time to harden wcll supplies the loss; for cleaning every article of brass or copper salt with vinegar or a slice of lemon is called into use, and is followed by brick, polishing with a soft-dry towel. 0000900 In the nurse‘s department. the "home i doctor” applies the strong solution of salt and vinegar to the sprain; the; heated salt bags, or salt mingled with biops, for the relief of severe pain; for a strong poultice beats together salt and the yolk of an egg; for in- flamed eyelids or slight spots of skin poisoning. uses the weak solution of salt water; applies dry salt as a den- trifrice, cleansing the gums; as adry, shampoo, rubbing salt into the hair to be combed out in the morning, leavâ€" ing a clean scalp; administers salt tor hemorrhage of the lungs or stom- ach; or a spoonful in a glass of cold water for nausea; for slight burns and fresh cuts, binds on the affected parts moistened salt; for neuralgia of feet or limbs, bathes those parts with the strong solution of salt in water as hot as is bearable. The testimony of the “good book" is that “ salt is good,” and she who holds the threefold position of house- wife, nurse and laundress, as do many wives, must surely have often proved this true, and rcalizt‘d the terseness rnd strength of utterance. ALMOND CAKE. Four nggs, two cups of sugar, one Grip of butter, two cups of flour, one cup of cornstarch, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one pint of milk, two ounces of bitter almonds. Cream but- ter and sugar together, then put in the four yolks of the eggs, then the milk, sift in the flour, cornstarch and baking powder. Blanch the. almonds and grate them fine. Put these and the Whites o[ the four eggs beaten to a froth in last. Beat all for 10 minutes. This will make two loaves. Bake for 40 minutes in a smothered oven. __. CLEAN LAMP CHIMNEYS. One of the. most disagreeable tasks of the housekeeper is made easy by the use of a little salt. If your chim- ney is very sooty take some soft pa- per and clean it, but use no water, 'When as clean as yoiu can make it with paper, take a dry flannel cloth, put some salt in your chimney and rub briskly. Treat the outside the same way and you will be surprised at the brilliant polish obtained. Any piece of glass can be treated this way suc- cessfully, and even a flat-iron can be made free of rust if rubbed over a paper on which salt has been sprink~ led. KITCHENT UTENSILS, Boil in the coffee pot, occasionally, soap water and baking or washing soda. It should be thoroughly cleans- ed after this treatment also. If Skillets are very greasy a little s~al soda or concentrated lye in the water will neutralize the grease and make them easier to clean. Bottles and cruets clean nicely with sand and soap suds; tacks or shot may be used if one hasn't sand. Iron or granite dishes may be treat- cd with a soda bath to remove the smell of fish, onions or cabbage. Don‘t allow knives or forks with wooden or bone handles to remain in hot water. Don‘t heat new iron ves- sels too quickly, as it may crack them. Steel or silver may tarnish in wool- has 1 with no explosive results} tissue paper. Don‘t use a brass kettle for cooking until thoroughly cleansed with salt and vinegar. Scrape the dough from the rolling pin and wipe with a dry cloth, rather than wash it.‘ Boil raw potato skins in new iron- ware vessels before cooking in them, to prevent discoloration, and a bad taste of the food. A good scouring soap of any kind is a great help in kccping all kinds of ikitcheuware bright and cleanly. Old tins are better for baking cakes ‘than new ones. ‘ Grease, may be removed from woolâ€" ‘cn goods by sponging them with cold, strong coffee. Keep a small paint brush convenâ€" ient for dusting the. crevices in fur- niture, and all spots not attainable with the dust cloth can be reached. Few things are more soothing for burns or scalds than the white of an egg poured over the injured place. It is more cooling than sweet oil and cotton. A spoonful of ,from linen. Strain the solution after it has stood long enough to dissolve thoroughly, and dip the cloth into it. When pics with upper crusts are ready to put into the oven to bake, take a little sweet milk and with a bit of clean cloth wet the upper crusts 1and rims. shiny surface and not flake. Off. Coffee, and tea pots become much discolored inside in a short time. To prevent this every fortnight put inâ€" baking sodaâ€"fill them two thirds full of water and let boil two hours. \Vash ‘thus be always clean and sweet. â€"â€".â€" THE SCENT OF THE ONION. By Any Other Name It Would Be as Far From 5“ col. It is interesting to make inquiry into the cause of this unfortunate quality of the onion. It is sim- ply due to the. presence in some qua nâ€" tity of anolhcr mineral matter in the bulbâ€"sulphur. It is this sulphur that gives the onion its germâ€"kill- ing property and makes the bulb so very useful a medicinal agent at all limes, but especially in the spring, which used to beâ€"and 51 ill is in many placesâ€"tube season for taking brimâ€" slone and treacle in old-fashioned houses before sulphur tablets came into vogue. Now, sulphur, when united to hy- drogen, one of the gases of water, forms sulphuretted hydrogen and then becomes a foulâ€"smelling, well nigh a fetid, compound. The onion, being so juicy, has a very large per- centage of water in its tissues, and this combining with the sulphur, forms the strongly scented and of- fensive substance called sulphuret of allyle, which is found in all the. alli- ums. This sulphuret of allyle. min: gles more especially with the volaâ€" tile or aromatic oil of the onion; it is identical with the. malodorant princiâ€" ple found in asafoeti-da, which is alâ€" most the symbol of all smells that are nasty.‘ The horseradish, so much liked with roast beef for its keen and biting property, and the ordinary mustard of our tables both owe their strongly slivmulative properties to this same sulphuret of allyle, which gives them heat and acridity, but not an offensive smell, owing to the dif- ferent arrangements of the atoms in their volatile oils. This brings us to the most curious fact in nature, that most strangely yet most cerluinly constructs all vegetable volzllileuils inexactly the samc wayâ€"composes them all. wheâ€" thcr they are the, aromatic essences of cloves, oranges. lemons, cinnamon, rose, thyme, verbena, turpentine or onion, of exactly the same propor- tions, which are 813-4 of carbon to 113-4 of hydrogen, and obtains all the vast seeming diversities that our nostrils detect in their scent simply by a different arrangement of the atoms in each vegetable oil. Oxygen alters some of the hydro-carbons; sulphur others. _..__._._ SOME AUTHORS. The Most Cheerful Authorâ€"Samuel Smiles. The Noisiest Authorâ€"Howells. The Tallest Authorâ€"Longfellow. The Most Flowery Authorâ€" Haw- thorne. The Holiest Authorâ€"Pope. The Most Amusing Authorâ€"Thomas Tickell. The Happiest Authorâ€"Gay. The Most Fiery Authorâ€"Burns. The Most Taikativeâ€"Authorâ€"Chat- terton. The Most Distressed Authorâ€"Alien- side. If it i 7 7 . . . l on cloths, but. not in chamors skin or chloride of lime in: , . . V .. ~ :1 quart of water wrll remove mildew , Neios time. i Nero, They will thus present at ‘period a new legend ' 1y before the destruction of their city. to them a tespoonful of sodaâ€"common - and rinse well before using; they will: interment TREASURE. SAID TO BE HIDDEN IN A CARTHA- AGlNIAN TER’PLE. .â€" A Most lixtrnorillmu‘y film-k ('onllm'lyv Forty Years Ago :1 Nn'lvcof “arm-co Alll'nc'lcll Allclllloll by “N‘Olllhlfl Muldcnly “'cnlllly. To Tunis belongs the honor of being the headquarters of the must ex- traordinary stock company in the world, the object of which is to un- earth the treasures of a mythical or semi-mythical Carthaginiau deity, which, according to tradition, have for ages been buried beneath tho. waters at a little distance from Tunis. This Punic deity was Eshâ€" monn, who was known to the. Romans under the name. of Saturn. His trea- sure, it is said, consists of gold coin. gold bars, jenelled vessels and ex- quisite statues, and it is valued at not less than 400,000,000f. There are many popular legends about it, and the people of Syria are convinced that they are based on truth. l’cople talked about this wonderful far back as Emperor Suetonius, in his life of and Tacitus, in the sixteenth book of his annals, say that: Nero sent a fleet to Carthage in the hope. of re- covering this treasure, about which he had heard surprising stories from a Carthaginian knight named Ceselâ€" lius Cassius. The fleet, however, searched in vain ,and as a result Ce- sellius committed suicide. At a later arose, accord- ing to which the Carthaginians, short- trc-asure as costliest treasures and buried them in a subterranean nccropolis beside. those of the god. This necropolis is said to be under the hill known as Sidiâ€"bu-Hassan and to be connected with Carthage by means of a tunnel. It is afact that when the harbor of Tunis was being con- structed the engineers found tracest of a tunnel, which led toward this hill. Forty years ago a native of Moroc- co attracted wide attention in Tunis owing to the fact that from a condi- tion of extreme poverty he suddenly attained a position of great wealth. Daily he squandered large sums of money and there seemed no limit to his riches. He explained that he had suddenly discovered heaps of gold in the bowels of the earth, and he at- tributed his good fortune to an anci- ent manuscript, which, he claimed, had pointed out to him asecret way leading to the chamber in which have been stored for centuries the treaâ€" sures of the Carthaginians and of their god E;hmoun. A friend, he said had helped him in the Search for gold. Soon afterward he and this friend left Tunis, and fifteen years later the former returned and made an at- tempt to secure a fresh supply of gold. Finding that he could not suc- ceed without help, he_ entered into partnership with a man named Em- brarek, as well as with several others, and the result was that he managed to get as far as the door of thesubâ€" Lerranean temple in which the treaâ€" sures were concealed. At this point, however, a quarrel arose as to which should be the first to enter the sacred precints, and finally ufurious fight ensued, which ended in the death of the native of Morocco and one of his companions, The others, terrified at the tragedy, left the place hastily and, having bound each other to secrecy, fled from the city. All this sounds rather mythical and nebulous, but now we come to solid facts. Two years ago Embarek, who had fled to Morocco, returned to Tunis and looked for those who had carried off their accompanied him on the previous ox- pedition, his intention bejng to en- deavor once more to obtain access to the subterranean temple. He found two of his former companions, and one night he and they went to look for the entrance. to the tunnel which leads toward the temple. As various changes had been made in that part of the city within the last few years, ' they were unable to find it, and after much consultation they decided to ap- I ply for advice to Senor Medina, an, archaeologist who has acquired a wide reputation through his works on the ruins of ancient (Tartlgige. l He was amazed when he heard their story, and he advised them to take into their confidence Baron Anselme de Kinsaye, amember of the French Academy and an enthusiastic archa- eologist, who was then in Tunis. Em- barek told the Baron the marvellous story of the subterranean temple and of the countless treasures hidden in its chambers, and his tale was ap- parently so Circumstantial and so true that the Baron decided to join in the search for gold. The first step was to obtain the necessary concession from the government. succeeded in doing through the offi- and this he cials, Messrs. Millet and Uanckler. The gUVr-l'lllllx'nl thereby him and his assiyciaies permission to make at their own expense the neces- granted sary excavations in the. place desig- nated, and in return for this privilege the Baron and his colleagues agreed hand oVi-r to the government one-half of all the treasures they might find. ln order to avoid any possible misun- dcrstanding apâ€" pointed to dccide as to the value of acommittce was any such recovered treasures. ’l'he excavations were then begun but did not prove as successful as was suspected. Although Embarek and his companions pointed out the very which, they said, they had gained access to the tunnel a few years ago, no trace of the tunnel has yet bcen found. On the other hand, various earthen vessels, Carthaginiun lamps and relics of skeletons have been unearthed and a few small gal- leries have been discovered. For this reason Baron de Kinsaye expressed his determination to continue the work, and. as the necessary funds beâ€" came. lacking recently, he decided to form a stock company, the shares of which are. to be sold at 100f, each. Every one. connected with the work seems convinced that most valuable treasures will be found sooner or later and so hopeful is Embarek that. he has refused to sell, even at a high figure, his claim to a portion of the treasures. As the pioneer in this enterpriSe, he is naturally entitled to a goodly portion of whatever wealth may be recovered. spot at -â€"â€"â€".¢._~ MERRY MOMENTS. Hon xâ€"“Does sea ms ’1" a dressmaker .lrnxâ€""It seems so.” 89W Lillie thtie Wis learning to read. and p'll‘T of her lesson ran thus; "The cat has a rat.” “Ah l" :.h.« ex- claimed, "the ruin. who wrote this book didn't know much. Cats don't havc rate; they have kittens." “Man spends twenty years of hisl life in sleep." "You. are mistaken. He spends at least five of the twenty years in. butlling with his women, re- latives who want to make him get up." “My dear sir," said the old gentle- man in his. open-hearted way, "I shall welcome you use son-iu-la w." “Alas!” returns-d the young man dejectedly, "my last hope is gone. .[f I had your'v opposition. I might hope to win her, . but without it there is no chance." “There’s one thing I must admit”; said the Emperor of China gloomily, as he looked over his scrapbook. “\Vhat that i" “For a man. who has been reported killed as often a~ I have, this is a very poor collectio' of e'puitnphs.” Train up the child of t‘o-dny, in ll: way it should goâ€"and away it goes. Hewittâ€""Why are you letting. ycu: beard grow?" Jewit.tâ€"“\\'ell. i don't mind telling you. My wife has bought rue some willow pattern neckâ€" ties.” There wasa fool who rocked the boat. And now hi» . wilds must weep, For he’s‘at present rocking in The cradle of the deep. “That man you sent up to clean the house is awfully stylish. Harry." “Does he wear a. silk hat?" "No, but he beats the carpet with a golf- stick." “l've got a bright idea, George," Exclaimed the maiden fair To the young arm by her side, As the sunbeams kissed her hair. "No doubt,” slid he; "and I'm sure, If you would consent to go \Vith we and face the minister. I'd have a brightâ€"eyed dear, also." \Vhen a man gets in the swim he shouldn't splash too much of his joy on the people on the bank. Ignorance. isn't bliss when a man has to make hlli mark in the world be- cause of his iuibility to write his mime. \Vifeâ€""Is Dir. >t ..i‘yâ€"leller :2" Griggson. a good Hu<b.rn:lâ€""l’iue! He has been. nrtrried eight years, and his wife believes. everything he says." Little drops of water Poured into ithe mi Lk M‘Ike the, milkn1:1n's daughler Dress herself in silk. )I‘ihcrâ€"“I- am nfrai'l Mr. Criss- crcsm' is not serious in his intentons." I).itLghLe1’â€""He is awfully bashful. you know; but he is offering himself piecemesl. List night he warned me to lilkte his arm" â€"_.__ READ THIS ALOUD. It's probably a little farther from Schwartikopjiesfontein to Krugers- lorpfstrom than. it is from 'l‘haifchc- ingphu or Lingkhniicheng to Shahok- hiro, or from Las Gunsimas to Soup- ningthai, via Guam. Abayog, Dagami. Dulng and Tacloban. D0 STIFF HATS CAUSE BALDNESS‘lI TIH‘ \"chu llxlcndln: Around the onlslllc ol'lhc llcaul \rc t nlnprcucil by Thom. Are. you predisposed to baldness? If so, don‘t wear a stiff hat. A doctor, {1 wigmakcr and a barber have said that the stiff hats commonly worn are re- Spunsiblc for the increasing blight of baldness. The hair, they say, depends for its nutrition on the blood supply that flows in the fine veins running over the scalp. Some of the veins that supply the hair follicles With {00d come through the. skull, but those veins ex- tending around the. outside of the skull are most important. Analog- ously, it is pointed out th!at if a rose tree were to be bound tightly around the trunk a great deal of nutrition would be cut. off from the bark. If, in addition to this, you were to cover the tree with a great bag and tie the mouth‘ tightly around the trunk. the tree would die. The result of wearing the stiff hat, is similar to this. Every time you pull your hat from your head and it comes loose with a jerk you are overcoming the pounds of pressure it is exerting on the skull. The doctor says it is not at all im- probable tliat the increase of baldness is due in a great measure to the stiff hat. Particularly is that the. case where men wear stiff hats indoors. Any covering whiich confines the. head will work havoc with the hair, but the difference in rigidity between this sweatband of the stiff hat and that of 'll‘ht‘. soft hat would make the latter gpreferablc 'for many reasons. The old cavaliers wore great soft hats, and their hair was always long and luxuriant. Women wear their hats high on the crowns of their heads, and they are seldom bald. Primitive man did not wear a hat, His hair was long‘ and thick. Nature gave it to him as a protection from the elements. It shed snow and rain and it kept his head warm, yet it gave ventilation to the scalp. It. is in evidence to-day. Those Epeo-ples remaining nearest the primi- ‘tive condition give up their hair the slowest. The wigmakers of the world ‘draw/ their supply of hair from the {peasants of Europe. The Eskimo shows how nature still looks to the needs of the primitive man. 0n the iother hand, the negroes of the tropics ineed less protection than the natives of cold climates; therefore they have ‘less hair. To preserve his hair man needs to go back to nature. He needs to use 1111s hair more than he. does. He should igo without a hat, and particularly ‘without’ a stiff one. The idea is to give any part. of the ‘1‘ ~ “- "'ork in do if you want to pre- serve it. Nature weakens in the long run all organs not in healthy use. Wo- men use their hair as it was intended to be used more than do men. That is the reason why they are seldom bald. Man should follow the woman in their respect. example of At any rateI i. .. .411 no. cover his head with a” {constricting band that prevents ven- tilation and compresses the veins of the scalp so that the. blood cannot supply the. hair roots with nutrition. Particularly, he should not wear his stiff’ hat in the house. The whole question centers upon the necessity of giving the scalp :1 chance to main- tain itself. --â€".â€"â€"~â€" 2,500 FEED A SECOND. Guns have always been rifled with groove into which the lead might ex- pand under the pressure of the pow- der and thus work its way out of the barrel. Now an inventor has pro- duced a weaan on an entirely new principle. The gun is r-iflcvl with a ridge which sinks into the soft. jlcket of the or- dinary militiry bullet, .: impressing it so closely as to require 9,000 pounds of energy to force it out of the barrel. This arrangement given a rotary motion. of 5,000 revolutions a second to the bullet, a speed of nearly 2,500 feet :1 second through the air. and. the rapid revolution sends the l):ill( true to the mink without the least' waver or deflcctimn. The penetratâ€" ing power is also phenomenal. The new gun is :iln- fitted with all arrangement by which the recvil is overcome, and the gun '15 pmctically self-controllable. By this device the gun discharges at the. rate of 750 rounds a minute. Experts consider the taking up of Lh" the uncut remirkablc feat in. the recont history of gun invention. The in- ventor. Dr. )IcCle'nn, will 11y one of his guns. across the [)lllll of his hand anal will fire it with hardly a quiver being seen in the weapon. Anuiher gun, would jump off nhe floor‘ or dis.- ch-irge its slut, into tho ceiling. It i«-. cl timed that the same principle can be applied to overcoming the recoils of the heavy guns on war vessels. recoil as.