.. ,. . ,- ,.. ,. : :" .', } F'J': .. !! . I..t: . . u--'" . '- .. . I I' - "- Home Economies.. Knowledge in a Nutshell.A I,. is to say that he, never had 'another A Man's, Age. it be to remind us that grandfathers :, attack. ? had<< facing on their sleeves, and that cubit is two feet. I The editor wrote that "he was a Few men die of,age. Almost all die of glycerine the little fluttons which still at :mixture of two parts appear ,j. A pace is three feet. member of an old family of musicians," of disappointment, passion, mental or ammonia and a little rose the end were of real use when the of _.AH. put whitens and softens the hands., ,A fathom is six feet 'I' andwhen it appeared in tl e'paPer 'it bodily toil, fir accident. ,The passions sleeves! were tight at the wrist. An- water A palm is three inches.A i read "a member of an old family of kill men sometimes very suddenly.The . :. .Washing pine floor in solution of one other inevitable feature of the coat is- common expression, choked \\it'l 'league is three miles. nuisances. One assertion was just as of copperas dissolved in one gal- the collar. In old times this collar was pond A is other but the editor passion, has little exaggeration, for span 10J inches. true as the ; nearly oak of service it turned of strong lye gives an color. some ; was large an - loo There even though not:suddenly fatal, stron; 2730 are languages. swore. well in inclement weather in PLAIN SOUPS.-Beef Soup.- up ; .GooD- passions shorten life. Strong-bodied men A : a good shin of beef and crack great cubit is eleven feet. The Washington Capital remarks: order to admit of it buttoning properly procure often die weak live men longer young or four times; put on to boil Two persons die every second. "Some of our slow subscribers, who around the neck a nick was necessary. it three than the for the their strong, strong use aIDe o'clock ; boil hard till eleven,' Bran, twenty pounds per,bushel. may not'find our paper in their mail, But though we hardly ever think of ,t strength and the weak have none to use. take out the meat and be sure to ,Sound moves 743 miles per hour. can understand that its absence is due turning up an ordinary coat collar and ,jjien The latter take care of themselves the 'all the bones out ; then put four A square mile contains trio acres. to their unremitting kindness." find it of little use if we do, we still get former do As it i Is not. with the four carrots, half a small head A barrel of ice weighs 600 pounds.A Josh Billings has found one tiling that body, 1 preserve both it and the nick as sun i- turnips so it is with the mind and The (cabbage, cut all up fine in the chop barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds.A money cannot buy, and that w the wag temper. vals. The stove-pipe hat, too, is only the- strong are apt to break, or, like the candle barrel of flour weighs 100 pounds. of a dog's tail. It is an honest expression - ping bowl ; put in a large onion, if the the carcass on which our ancestors were to turn thewt'akto burn out. the family like onions, and put the chopped An acre contains.. square yards. of opinion on the part of the wont to display ribbons and knots and . inferior animals which live in general Oats , vegetables in the soup pot. At half- thirty-tLree pounds per bushfL other gauds. In itself it is both ugly A dog.A regular and temperate lives, mostly live hand part eleven, if dinner is to be served at (horse measureis) 4: inches.A drunken man at Fort Worth, and uncomfortablw. Then we wear their prescribed term of years. The twelve, put three or four potatoes sliced rule ball moves 1000 miles per hour Texas, entered the circus and pattedthe ahsurb neckties that do not tie, and horse lives the twenty-five years; ox I thin and some milk dumplings Mow rivers flow five miles per hour big lion on the head. The arm he pins that do not pin. A firkin of butter fifteen or twenty ; the lion twenty; the ito the soup ; just before taking up weighs 56 pounds.A I has left will do to turn a hand-organ. - dog ten or twelve; the rabbit eight ; the storm ..eaaon'with salt and pepper, and put in blows thirty-six miles per I "What iso rare as a day in June ?" guinea-pig, or seven years. These hour.A . Field Mica in France. If Well and then in April ij day now a .-parsley or summer savory. , numbers all bear a similar proportion to rapid river flows miles beef in tomato seven per decidedly under-done and some of the joa make soup season, , the time the animal takes to its full size. hour. Darwin's familiar that the March paradox, days dozen. are raw. pat in half Do But of all the animals is the man one , fertilization of certain flowers depend (. (teen Soup.-Wash two good, fat Buckwheat fifty-two pounds per Next we shall have a coat tail flirta- may - bushel. \ that seldom comes up to the average. the number of cats in their tion code. the tails covered upon to boil tome Having fowls, and put on according lIe ought to live a hundred according - and age of the fowls and the time Electricity moves 22 ,X(t miles per with mud will mean, "I don't like her years neighborhood, has an illustration, jays- hour.A to this physiological law, for The Pall Mall Gazette in France father." now , to dine if at twelve put some are ; , JOB hurricane moves eighty miles five times twenty are one hundred, where it may even be carried a step fur- nicely washed rice, about a tablespoon- per The girl with the empty pocketbookis I but instead of that he scarcely reaches hour. ther. observer who knows the- Any the that looks into fal, into the pot at ten, make some one jewelry The first lucifer match was made in windows most. on an average, four times his grow French rural districts well must be the chicke take out town butter, ing pe.iod the cat six: times and " 1 29. --- ; ; struck by the immense number mouse '9 pot them whole on a dish, pour the Coarse salt A Cool Tramp and a Cool the rabbit even eight times: thj stun-lard holes which may be seen in some places. well seasoned them eighty-five pounds per .iiawn butter, ,over Maiden.A . of measurement. The reason is bushel.A The surface of the ground at times has hard boiled cut crosswise a4 four eggs obvious-man Is not only the most red laid over them; send to the table tub of water weighs eighty-four well-known printer's family met quite the appearance of a network of irregular and most intemperate, but little burrows where it would be impossible - with erieuce , hot. Season the with pounds. a singular ext on Monday. ping soup pepper laborious and bard worked of all ani and salt only. Veal or mutton The average human life is thirtyoneyears. The daughter answered a knock at the for one of the field-bees requiredf mals. He is the most irritable of all the fertilization of Mr. Darwin'tllwers * excellent in this d'*>r. An old tramp asked for a bite. makes,an soup way. animals and there is to believe Doodle Soup-Cut fine all the flesh Timothy seed, forty-five pounds per She didn't like his looks and told him so reason to find a secure spot for its nest. though we cannot tell what animals In the Department of the Seine alone it bushel. and he left. Shortly after his disappearance - torn, the bones of two fowls and to secretly feel, that more than any other has just been calculated by a special getherwith the frame put the meat to The first steam-boat plied the Hudson a neighbor's daughter came in I animal, man cherishes wrath to keep commission that field mice have . these in 1807. ai.d. told the printer's daughter that the WI;about an hour before dinner take i i it and himself warm consumes .at the bones, or frame ; half an hou- I The first horse railroad was built in latt r's clothes (an entire washing) had cost the farmers no lisa than thirteen with the fire of his own secret reflec million francs. The climate seems to- tefore put in some noodles made as 1820-27. just been stolen by the man she bad tions. be especially favorable to these crea- turned from the door that he had Four well beaten mixed ; follows: eggs .. well with-Sour and a pinch of salt, stiff Scraps. taken them all down and done them up tures, and the population being sparse, in a bundle before asking for the bit A Magnificent Brigade.The the number of cats is few, and the mice to roll thin make two enough very ; What Saved Him. and lugged them off at his leisure. The increase and multiply beyond belief. ,hairs before you are ready to use them; A young wife had just settled in her Metropolitan Fire Brigade, of two young ladies started pursuit. At Arsenic has been tried in the open ; but ant them into the thinnest possible new home. All seemed fair and promis- London, controls 124 fire-escape stations - the and rabbits killed first the Southport depot they learned that hares get ; strips; ; season the soup with salt and ing, for she did not know her husbandwas four floating stations, three large the bundle and the man went down the and now the plan adopted is to construct pepper. a drunkard. But one night became land steam fire engines, thirtyeightsmall e .. railroad. They followed and soon overtook heaps or small stacks of straw, to which .. home at a late hour, and laud tire very steam engines seventy- The Indian Rupee. him. "We want those clothes the mice resort in myriads. These heapsare much the worse for liquor. When he eight six-inch manual fire engines you stole from us!" said the printer's placed partly below the level of the staggered into the Chouse his wife who under six-inch manualfire ,)(r. Edward Thomas, whose abors daughter. "H'm Well, I don't know thirty-seven ground, and securely packed and covered - was much shocked, told him he 144 and very engines, fire-escapes long ..a numismatist have thrown so much ;. that you can have 'em," aid he, coolly in, being that stored with poisoned was hick and must lie down at once ladders three steam fire ; scaling floating light upon the ar&ueology of the East, turning over the bundle. "There's a beetroots, turnips and carrots. This and in a moment or two he was comfort- four engines two steam tugs barges , has reprinted a paper upon the coinages shirt or wrapiwr missing," said she, plan is said to be succeeding well, and able on the sofa in a drunken sleep. hose carts fourteen fJl the East India Company at Bombay. after looking them over ; now, what fifty-two vans, without harm to the hares and rabbits. His face was a reddish purple, and thirteen for street stations twotrollies The practical interest of the essay is have you done with it ?" Got it on I"! wagons .., . altogether he was pitiable-looking ob two trucks forty-nine - the proof it gives of the continuous decease said the tramp, opening his vest to lad4er , that has taken place in the value ject.The prove it. """ell, off with it, then I"said telegraph lines, seventeen telephonelines Long Finger-Nails. doctor sent for in haste was , eleven fire-alarm circuits with rf the rupee during the last two centuries. I the plucky maidl'n.U , and mustard applied to the patient'sfeet seventy-seven call points ; .770 firemen, According to the writ of an article It seems that the Bombay.Mint Here?" The maiden paused in a pre- and hand When the doctor came on "Extraordinary Finger-nails in including chief otlicer, second officer, , Charles II. in was first authorized by dicament. A gentleman friend was and felt his pulse and examined him, superintendents, and all ranks. The the World of Wonders, it is the customof 167C, "to coin rupees, bice and near, and she hailed him, telling him and found that he was only drunk, he number of fire alarms during 1SS2 ia the Chinese, Siamese and Annameacr tadgrooks," which should be curMat about the trouble. The gentleman said : London was 2:111: but of these :254 were to allow the nails on all their fingers,. not only in the island but alsoi friend took the tramp into the bushescar "lIe will be all right in the morn false alarms, and 101 were mere "chim- except the forefinger, to grow to a great- the dependenciee of the company the engine works and got the shirt ing.IInut huwlred and length and the former they k the East Indies. This Island of -- --.. ney alarms. One sixty- among the wife insisted that he was very AGama Estate.The four fires resulted in serious damage, sometimes attain the incredible length "Bombay came to the English King by sick, and that severe remedies must be and 1702 in slight damage. The num- of from sixteen to eighteen incfee:*. virtue of his marriage contract withCatharine private estate oC the Duke of used. ber of persons seriously endangered Among the Siamese so distinctive u the sister of Alfonso VI, of which will the Saxe-Coburg, pass to "You must shave his head and apply by fire during 1SS2 was 175 ; of these mark of nobility are long nails esteemed Portugal signed in the early part of affords of the Duke of blisters," she urged, "or I will send for Edinburgh, some 139 were saved and thirty-six were lost, that the bells and beaux wear sil1'ercases M82;and it was by him made over to.. best shooting in Europe, for the sportin some one who will. twenty-two of whom were taken out either to protect their nails or tile company in March, 1002, together the Duke's Thuringian forests is' The husband's head was accordingly alive, but died afterward, and fourteenwere else to make people believe they are with its revenue of X'2833: per annum, nowhere surpassed in Germany. Every shaved close, and blisters were ap suffocated or burned to death. there, whereas in reality they are not. and with the King's garrison of two species of game bred is to be found plied. As regards the little finger the writer During the year there were 121 injuriesto , Mmpanies of foot who volunteered but the wild boar the ' there The patient lay all night in a drunken ; are great firemen, of which many wire serious tells us that "ambassadors and visitors, Wo the service and thus in which company's feature and the Thiergarteu sleep, and notwithstanding the blisters and three were fatal.Absurdities of distinction from Asiatic States t6- formed its first military establishment these animals are preserved is as large eating into his flesh, it was not until European, are often observed to permitthe Bombay. When the company beganto near morning that he began to beat about as an ordinary deer-park,and is enclosed I' -- -e-- excessive growth of the nail of the coin money they seem to have underrated by a strong and high stockade, the of Men's Dress disturbed by pain. I little finger, and this is also a common the value; of the local rupee, whole being left entirely wild. Thereare About daylight he woke up to the most occurrnece with many of the people oC: for the first of their dens the brushwood Trousers are not economical, inas- specimen rupees numerous among " of blistered uncomfortable consciousness India and other parts of Asia. tearing this denomination contains only which. the boars have themselves much as they set baggy at the knee long agonies. ..... 178. grains of silver, whereas a later "What does this mean ?" he said, constructed, and there are feeding- before they are worn out, and they are eke, dated 1678, container aver 1S3: putting his hands to his bandagedhead. places, to which the keepers go twice a always getting! dirty at the ankles. : It Took.A . gains and one of the same lost-men day to scatter food. The animals are They are not specially adapted for coldor boned wet. On a wet day it is the part Bowery dealer in clothing got hold year as much as 198. The Indian "Lie still mustn't stir," said his summoned by the blowing of a horn, tepees were estimated by writers in thet'&Wer wife ;have you been sick." but they are so regular in their habits from the knee downward that catchts of a chap the other day who had aknowing "you part of the seventeenth century "I; not sick." that they are usually to be found in the the rain and necessitates the changing look in his eyes, and who am M from 2s. to as high as 2s. 9d. and the "0 are have the brain neighborhood of the pens at the appointed of the whole garment. Indeed, it is strongly objected to paying $7 fora coat aTerage.value, seems not to have beenaach fever., yes We you have ;worked you with you all time.* There are about a dozen the way in which they ignore the knee- which he had tried on. "Vhell, I doan less than 2s. 6<1. The decline in wild-boar preserves in various parts of joint which renders trowels so practically say dot it is worth seven dollar," repliedthe alue night. It is at this joint de: er.u'Then why do ask it ?'* of the coin is, of course, due tonrious "I should think you had,"groaned the he Duchy. objectionable. you - causes not affecting India alone; victim. "What's the matter with Reading Sound. that they not only spoil their own shape "Vhell, my eyes haf got so poor dot ('tMr.Thomas warns the theorists who poor feet.'"- but inflict a sense of tightness over the anypody can pass badt money on me Wk of restoring silver to its old value my blistered." Reading sounds by sight has been whole body by means of braces. now. If I sold dot goat for seven "They are buttons placed on the back dollar I should expect to git one dollar India that the circumstances are now "Well, I am better now; take off highly successful, and has long ago been Why are altogether altered, since, instead of the the blister -do," he pleaded pite- introduced with the best results into of a coat ? Mr. Gotch remarks that in gounterfeit money and two dollars in wmparatively all-round trade of the old this country. The idea has occurred to the tailor says they are there to "mark silver dot via plugged cop."I guess t ompany in goods and metals, we haveto ously.He was in a most uncomfortable a foreign teacher of the dumb to photograph the waist." But why should the waist i I'll take it," said the stranger, after a face "the leech-like heavy charges of state-his head covered with sores, and the movements of the lips when be marketS a matter of fact, the I pause, and he scraped the bottom,of his te present home Government, which his hands and feet still worse. articulating the different sounds whichgo only reason for the existence of these pockets and hunted his wallet over for draws indiscriminately for its own "Dear," he said, groaning, "If I to make up ordinary sjieecb. It will two buttons is they are a survival of bills. "Dot is right, young man, and I wants bills in rupees upon its hapless should ever get sick in this way again, easily be imagined that the model the time when they were of use, whenmtn know you wouldn't sheat an ole man dependency in season and out of season, don't be alarmed and send for a doctor, chosen for the pictures must be some buttoned back the long flaps of mit sore e"es." The coat was bundled kjuf whether the balance of trade or metallic and above all, don't blister me again." one whose lips will give expressive their coats in order to walk more freely, \ and the stranger, disappeared In a ]t[ e hange is for or against them." "0, iLdeed I will I All that saved action. But once potographed, the pictures or found them useful in sustaining the ively manner. The dealer turned to ji The were the blisters. And if you can be multiplied by the thousand, sword belt. We have no flai>s now ; we the cash on the counter, carefully examined \1- young man was trying to play you swords now ; thtn why keep each piece, and there was a 1 ** have another such spell shall be more and can be used as alphabets for our afflicted wear no e*. He sat with the dung lady on but tns? Another rudimentary heavenly smile on his countenance as frightened than ever; fur the tendency, fellows all the world over. I t Is the two > a front step>a. He studied for a long I am sure, is to apoplexy, aud from the said that the pictured are so well adaptedto article may be found at the end of the he chuckled out : "Only 'JO cents of u e, trying to think of something that next attack you are likely to die, unless their purpose, that anyone can see ata hleeve. There is always a cuff, marked badt money, und some of dot blenty ould illustrate his sobriety. :Finally I there are the severest measures used." glance what sound is indicated by generally by a double row of stitches, good enough to put in der shildren's Booked up, and solemnly said: "The I He made no further defense. Suffice each lip-movement portrayed. which perform no useful service unjess savings bank I" ) ' moon's full as a goose ; ain't it ? . . . /C. -