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Green Grape Pieâ€"Stem and cut green grapes in halves. The grapes will be seedless. Fill a nice crust with the fruit, sprinkle over 1 cup sugar and a bit of cinnamon. Cover with a top crust and bake in a hot oven. When done you will have a. savery pic that will well take the place of apple. Fruit Dumplingsâ€"Sift 1 table- spoon ?mam tartar and onehali tea.- spoon soda (or one heaping tea- qpoon baking powder) with 1 pint flour. Rub into tn‘his one tableâ€" spoon lard. Mix with sweet milk, adding a little Salt, and cut into small squares. In each square put some fresh or canned fruit, pinch the corn'ers together, and place with pinched corners down in a baking an. Hove ready :1 syrup made by oiling together 1 cup sugar, 1 pt. water, 1 tablespoon butter; pour this in thepun around the dump~ lings and bake. Green Pea Soupâ€"Cook three cup- uls of peas in salted water until rlectly tender, and rub through a [soup-strainer, leaving only the Skins behind; to the pulp obtained add one cupful of stock, one teaspoonful each salt and sugar, one half saltâ€"spoon- ful of pepper and one tonspoonful of flour made perfectly smooth in one Half cupful of milk; cook five minu- tes, add one cuplul of cream brought just to a scald, and serve. One spoonful of whipped cream to (‘aL‘h serving is a. fitting finish to this most delicious soup. A plainer pea- soup may be made by substituting milk for the stock and cream. in which case the thickening should be made of one tenspoonful of flour and two of butter rubbed together to a smooth paste. Apple Ice Cream.â€"Succcss in ice cream depends considerably on the method of freezing. Do not use too much salt or the ice cream will be hard, but coarse in texture and icy in consistency. Three pints of salt is enough for a large pailful of cracked icehor a gallon freezer: Pack cracked ice in layers with salt, packing it in firmly but makâ€" ing it moist with cold water. Ice cream should remain packed for at least tWo hours after it is frozen. It is better if packed for four or even six hours after it has been thoroughly frozen. Keep it Well covered with cracked ice under thick layers of newspapers so that the air cannot reach it while it is restâ€" ing. A grated apple is a palatable alddition to a. plain cream, flavoring it somewhat like coccanut. Make a custard of a cup of granulated sugar, the yolks of four eggs and two cups of milk. Stir the milk over the fire until it is very hot, but not until it boils, then add the cream and take on‘ the stove and let it cool. Just before putting the cream in the frpezer add a cup of tart grated apple and freeze the cream immediately. The grated apple should not be allowed 'to stand in the custard, but the cream should be frozen at once. Only a finely flavored, tart apple should be used for this purpose. Apricot Sou-file.â€"Beat the Whites 0f 4‘ eggs to a stifi froth with 2 tablespoons granulated sugar- Axd'd 2 cups stewed apricots Without juice, and Duke in a moderate oven half an hour. Serve ilnmcdiaioly with a soft custard made of the 4 yolks of the eggs. Waeemeug W‘hcn boots cl'cak rub the sides of the soles with sweat oil before re- turning them to your bootmaker. Wher; stewing fiuit add the sugar i0“ long-015mm“? runner Of our after the fruit is cooked; and stir Chill” it in gently with the handle of the Always aim a little higher than spoon. the mal'kwif the mark is a dimple in Remove old paint by wetting itIhcr chin. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS TESTED RECIPES wit-h naphtha. If one application is not enough repeat till the paint is dissolved. Fly Catchers may be made as fol- lows: Boil linseed oil with a little resin until it forms a viscid, stringy paste when cold. Spread on a thick string by means of a brush. Stewed Cucumbers: Pare ripe cu- cumbers and cut them into quarters. Scrape off the seeds and cut the quarters into two or three pieces. Pour over enough good brown gravy to cover, and let them simmer gent- ly for Lalf an hour. Then arrange the pieces of cucumber on nicely browned squares of toast and pour the sauce over. The sauce should be seasoned to taste. The mulberry is a fruit sufficiently delicious to make it much better known than it is, and when canned, preserved, or made into jelly adds very pleasingly to the variety of fruits stored for winter. The fol- lowing recipes are delightful ways of using this neglected fruit. 'I‘Q remove stains from flannel is always rather difficult. Yolks of eggs and glycbrine, in equal parts, applied to the stained parts and al- lowed to soak for half an hour be- {ore the garment is washed, is the only reliable remedy I can advise. Cucumber Chowchow : Pare enough firm, ripe cucumbers to make 3 qts. when chopped. Do not remove the seeds. Add 1; qts. chopped white onions, measured after they are chopped. Sprinkle 1} pt. salt. with the chopped vegetables. and put to drain in a coarse muslin bag for 24 hours: The next day turn the drained vegetables into a large l‘owl and add 2 oz. white mustard seed, 1 red pepper and 2 green peppers chop- ped fine, and 1 tablespoon ground black pepper. Mix all the ingredâ€" ients together, cover them with cdld vinegar, add a few nastur'tiuzm seeds and bits of horse-radish and put away in a stone jar. Canned Mulberries: Allow 1â€"3 1b. sugar to each pound of mulberries and place in layers in a preserving kettle. Let stand for two hours, then bring very slowly to a boil; cook two minutes, skim, and can immediately. I’I'CServedJ Mullderrics : Cook 2 lbs. mulberries‘ in a very little water until soft. Then press through a fine sieve to extract all of the juice. To 1 qL juice add 5 lbs. granulated sugar; place over the fire, and' boil and skim. Add 4 lbs. mulberries. Then stand aside over night to cool. In the morning the syrup should be jellied, if not, boil it again very gently for another 15 minutes, be- ing careful not to break the berries and when cold seall Fatherâ€""Well, my son you are gazetted and are now prepared to join your regiment and fight for the glory of our country. Do‘you think you have the necessary qualifica- tions?” Young Officerâ€"“Well, I should think so. I am the champâ€" ion longâ€"distance runner of our club‘" In giving milk to children always use either glass or china. vessels, not metallic cups of any sort. The gi‘eatcst cleanliness must be observed in their management, rinsing all us- ed glasses, etc., first in cold and then in warm water. filling the Jelly Glassesrâ€"M’hen the fruit juice is ready, take the kettle to the Sink, skim thoroughly and strain into the glasses. Let them cool uncovered that the steam may not collect in drops of water on top of the jelly. The top moisture is what causes jelly to mold. .When cold, cover with melted paraffin and put on the tin covers and label; Mulberry Jolly: Cook the mulberâ€" ries until soft in a very little water, then strain through a very fine sieve. Add an equal quantity of rhubarb juice, and allow 1 lb. sugar to each pint of the mixed juices. Proâ€" ceed as for other jellies. CUCUMBER HELISH‘ES MULBERRY WAYS The awful disaster which recently occurred at Woolwich Arsenal .brings to mind other catastrophes of a sim- ilar character which have wrung the heart of the nation. These have, un- fortunately, becn many; but. as lydâ€" dito is a comparatively new discovâ€" ery, it. has not been responsible for many of these terrible accidents. LYDDITE, SOâ€"CALLED. Lyd'dite is so called because it, was first tested at Lydd, a little place in Kent, Where many'of our soldiers are trained every year to become marks- men. Woolwich Arsenal, as might be ex- pected by reason of the highly dangâ€" erous work executed there, has been the scene of many disasters similar to the lamentable occurrence on June 18th. One of the most curious was an explosion which took place in the rocket factory in 1883. On this ocâ€" casion the town was literally bom- barded by the exploding projectiles, fortunately, With little damage, and the loss of but two lives. But the alarm cans-1d among the inhabitants of the town was very great, as can Well be imagined. Several explosions have 'taken place there in addition to these ho- locausts, and many Valuable lives have been lost. Dynamite has been the cause of many terrible explo- sions. In fact, We owe the invention itself to one of these catastrophes. Prior to 1868 Mr. Alfred Nobel was, comparatively speaking, in a small Way of business as a manufacturer of nitro-glyeerine; but in this year his factory was blown to pieces by an explosion of this highly suscep- tible concoction. This awful incident, which would have been sufficient to have convinced most men that they had better seek fields and pastures new, only incited Mr. Nobel to further experiment. and he discovered that by mixing nitroâ€" glycerine with powdered charcoal it became to a great extent safe to handle, although none of its treâ€" mendous explosive power was lost. Woolwich Arsenal Has Been the Scene of Mapy Explosions and Fires. Lyddite is really the British name for melinite, and is an explosive of truly awful power,-which was in- vented by M. ’I‘urpin, a French chemâ€" ist. He sold the invention to his country in 1886; but in 1891 it was alleged that he and a captain in the French Army had been supplying in- formation respecting his invention to foreign countries, and the pair were sentenced to imprisonment, exile, and fines. In 18-88 the patent was bought by In 18-88 the patent was bought by Messrs. Armstrong, of Elswick, and sold by them to the British Govern- ment. A DANGEROUS BUSINESS GREAT RISKS THAT DYNA- MITE WORKERS RUN. Several terrible fires have devasta- ted the historic Arsenal, which was originally built on what was a huge rabbitâ€"warren. At the beginning of the nineteenth century it Was prac- tically razed to the ground, and $1,000,000 Worth of damage was done. Again, in 1873, the Royal Military Academy, which formed part of the buildings was destroyed, and the loss to the nation was $500,000. The result of this discovery was dynamite, out of which, together with a smokeless gunpowder which he also invented, Alfred Nobel made a fortune of $10,000,000. 11 greater part of which he left, on his death, for the institution of What are now the famous Nobel priles. These are five in number, and are awarded anâ€" nualfly, and each is of the value of about $40,000. Last year one of these substantial awards was won by an Englishmanâ€"Major Rossâ€"for his discovery of the fact that ma- larial fever is caused and spread by mosquitoes, and for instituting ef- fectual means for dealing with these poisonous pests. Dynamite has been largely utilized by desperate individuals, who, tak- ing advantage of its peculiar powers, have endeavored by its means to make the World ring with their griev- ances. But perhaps the meanest and most terrible use to which it has ever been put was by a man named Thomas. This individual consigned a cask of this terrible ma- terial to be conveyed by the Northâ€" German Lloyd steamer “Mosel” to a foreign port. With it he sent a clockwork machine, which would, in eight days, give the cask a powerful blow, explode the dynamite, and wreck the ship. But from some cause the dynamite exploded in the dock, rnd eighty persons Were killed and about two hundred injured. After this awful result of his fiend- ish plan Thomas committed suicide, confessing before he did so that his object had been to obtain the paltry sum for which other goods of his on the same ship were insured. ' Subsequent to thisâ€"in 1884â€"1111 ex- plosion took place at another of Nobel’s factories, and ten lives were lost. The highly explosive and exceeding. 1y powerful material known as gun- cotton, from the fact that it is made of purified cotton steeped in a. mix- ture of nitric and sulphuric acids, has been responsible for many ca- lamaties. When it Was first introâ€" duced to England, a trial of its cap- abilities was made at the manufac- tory of Messrs. Prentice, at Stow- markot. The result was a. terrible SMOKELESS GUNPOWDER CRIMINAL GUN COTTON are But the damage wrought by the explosion was indeed terrible. Its cflects extended over a square mile; houses in the vicinity were blown down, and windows innumerable were shattered, Among others, the house of the famous artist Mr. â€"-â€"â€" now Sirâ€"Almu-Tadema was com- pletely wrecked, a great number of his priceless ai‘t treasures being de- stroyed. The pity of the whole naâ€" tion was aroused, and considerably ovor"$30,000 was subscribed by the public towards repairing the damage sustained by the sufferers. of modern times took place some years ago on the London Regent’s Canal. On the barge "Tilbui-y,” then lying near the North Bridge Gate, Regent’s Park, was stored no less than five tons of gunpowder. It was to have been used for blasting purposes, but at five o'clock one morning the whole cargo exploded. The shock was felt thirty miles away, and it seems almost incredible that only the lives of the men on board the barge at the time were sacrificed. sustained by the sufferers. The cause of the disaster was re.â€" ther curious. It was found that the explosion had been brought about .by the ignition of vapor from benzoline by a fire or light in the cabin of the "Tilbury." The Grand Junction Canal Com- pany was declared guilty of great negligence, and. held responsible for the damage. It cost them nearly $390,000 to settle the thousandâ€"odd claims which were made against them. Handel Always Ordered Enough for Three People. The majority of the great musical Vomposers had appetites on an equality with their talents. It is told of Handel that when he dined alone at a restaurant he always took the precaution to order the meal for three. Once on asking, “Is de tinner x‘etty ?” nt a restaurant, or a tavern, as it was then called, where he was little known, he got the reply, "As soon as the comâ€" pany comes," and astonished the waiter by seating himself, with the remark, "Den prim-g up de tinner. I’m de company." The appetite of Haydn was yet more voracious. He delighted in dining alone, and always finished the meal ordered for five persons. A former Duke of Norfolk also found a dinner of five "portions" Within the scope of his appetite. Lumillus reserved all his sumptuous feasts for when he Was quite alone, and it was on one of these occasions that he upbraided his cook for serving him a dinner that only cost about £100. and gave him a list of the dishes he should prepare "when Lu- cullus dined With Lucullus." Brilla't-Savarin immortalizes the Cure the Brequier, and tells us that gt a single sitting this reverend genâ€" tleman would eat as much food as would serve a, Workfng man for ten days. Brillart-Savarin once saw him demolish in threequarters of an hour “a quart of soup, 3. plate of bouilli, a, large leg of mutton, a superb ham, a copious salad, 9. pound or two of cheese, aprodi- gious quantity of bread, 21 bottle of wine, another of Water, and a cup of coil'oe." A modern epicure, the Vicomte de Vieil Caste}, on a. wager that he could consume 500 francs Worth of food and Wine within two hours. won the money in one hou'r and forty minutes, in which time he swallowed twenty-four dozen oysters, a beefâ€"Steak, a pheasant stuffed with truffles, a salmi of ortolans, a. dish of asparagus, another of young peas, a pineapple, a dish of straw- berries, and five bottles or wine, ending with cofl‘ee and liqueurs. The ingenuity of the mild Hindoo' is an amazing thing; it must also be somewhat of a nuisance to its posâ€" sessor. We have not met for a long time any case in which misdirected cunning has gone so far astray as in the matter of the property of Mussamat Gujar Bibi, says the Pall Mall Gazette. This lady's neâ€" phew, Madame Gopal Khattri, forg- ed her will in his own favor; proceed- ings were instituted against him byy Mussamat Ram Dei, his uncle’s wi-i dow. Before the case had proceed-‘ ed far, however, Mussamat Ram Del died, and the case was taken up by her brother, Beni Pei'shad, who also. died before the case was concluded.E The case has now been brought to APPETITES OF FAMOUS MEN But He Wanted to Go T00 and Got Left. an end and' the forger has been conâ€" demned to five years’ imprisonment for seeking to obtain property that would have come to him naturally had he Waited, since his aunt has no more connections to dispute Madame Gopnl’s claim. There’s an ironical justice about this conclusion of the matter which will give the prisoner plenty to think of while he i: doing time. FATE WORKED FOR HIM TREASURES DESTROYED Fast IT READS LIKE A MIRACLE Reuben Three Come ONLY DODD’S KIDNEY PILLS ARE DOING SIMILAR THINGS DAILY. Bristol P. 0., Quebec, August 3.â€" (Special)..â€"~Reuben Draper, well- known here, tells a story of his cum 0! a bad case of gravel that would be considered miraculous if similar cures by Dodd‘s Kidney Pills were not being reported almost daily. ‘ Eaucaussines is a small village in Belgium which possesses a good sup- ply of girls, who realized lately that a. great many of them were destined to be old maids unless they took the matter in hand themselves. After many meetings, from which all mar- 1‘ied folk were rigorously excluded, the girls determined to give a great dinner to which unwedded youths from far and near should be invited, says the London Express. A table was placed in the centre of the village street, and the hostesses, “dressed to kill,” awaited the arri- val of the guests. At 3 o’clock the girls, with their parents and the bachelor guests, as- sembled in front of the town hall, whence numerous addresses were givâ€" en on the subject of matrimony. Then the event of the day took place. The lovei‘less girls took their places at tables first. each leaving an empty seat at her side. and wait- ing anxiously for the youth who should‘elect to sit beside her. .1 They Wanted Husbands and Most of Them Were Successful. This very original wary of securing a husband has just come off, the preparations and decorations of the village having kept all agog for a. week. “'D " ‘ ' ' ‘ ’ ’ v should‘elect to sit beside her. There was an awful pause ere the first man screwed up courage to leave the rest, who stood huddled together as if for protection from the danger that awaited them, but at last a. brawny fellow of about 40, from some distance, whose hearth was comfortless without a wife. made a choice and took his seat. and then another and another, and soon all the places were taken. Dinner lasted till 7 o'clock in true Flemish fashion, ending with songs and speeches. By this time acquaint- ance Was made, hearts were warmed, and declarations made, and the girls who had succeeded in securing sweetâ€" hearts made their appearance in the village square arm-in-arm with their captured swains. ... . .:A._ VT‘L» wally“. . Very few were left lamenting. The dinner was followed by a ball in the open air, and many Wedding days are already fixed. “About three years ago," says Mr. Draper, “I was taken ill with what I thought was gravel. I was sufl‘or- Eng gxeat pain, and the doctor I rent for gave me but little relief. Another doctor I tried failed to cure me. and I was getting weaker all tho Mme. Notices off? tlle colning festh'al and its reasons were published all over the country and even in Holland. Hostess, who has made unusual preparations, says, towards the end of dinner: “I tell John that if he will bring people home unexpectedly to dinner, they must take just what. We have." Guest (Wishing to put her at her easo)â€"â€"“Oh, that‘s all right, Mrs. BluiTer; I'm an old trav- elerâ€"used to roughing it now and than, you know.” "Then a men advised me to try podd's Kidney Pills as they had lured his mother, and I did so. In ust one week after I starth using born, I passed a stone as large as p, small bean, and in four days after I passed another about the size of a grain of barley. That is two years pgo. and I have not had any trouble Vince." Dodd's Kidney Pills curo all nil‘ name of the bladder and urinary or. }. 21% §‘\ ) u,u -513”: I“ A'. 4|- Good Things to [at on the Laws} Potted Ham, Bee! and Tongue. OxTou c (whom. Veal Loaf. stiied Hm. Brl: cl Beet. Sliced Smoked Beef. All Natural Flavor Foods. Pa!amb1e wholesome. Your grocer should have (I thix ‘nd five 2c Maxim! for Libb"l bin Atlas 1:]. Knudme boakleLâ€""lflow to Man 125 to Eat”â€"&cc. WILY BELGIAN MAIDS . Draper’s Gravel Cured Years Agoâ€"It Has Never Back. McNeil! 5. Libby. Chicago.