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ADDRESS ALL [ORDERSTO GAZETTE
AN ABSENT-'MINDED G FFICIAL.
Eis Death Solved the Mystery of Lost
Important ,Docnments.
The discovery of the bundles of pos-
tal orders and bank checks tucked
away in the pigeonholes of Mr.,Spof-
ford’s desk and on the shelves of the
old Congressional Library reminds me
of a similar disclosure after the death
of Robert VVfTaylor, who was for
many years Comptroller of the Treas-
ury. He and Mr. Spofford had many
characteristics in common. They
were both very absent—minded men
and habitually careless about their be-
longings. Mr. Taylor's desk was a eu-
riosity. The clerks used to open the
door of his office a crack so as to let
their friends have a peep at it. It was
covered with a pile of papers about
eighteen inches thick, the accumula—
tion of several years of oliicial life,
which grew hie-her every month as new
documents were added to the accumu-
lation. It was one of Mr. ‘2.ylor's pe-
culiarities that he would never allow
his desk to be dusted, and he would
discharge a clerk or messenger who
disturbed a single paper upon it.» He
claimed to know every document in
the collection and insisted that he was
able to find it in case it was wanted.
He preferred to spread things out upon
his desk in that way rather than file
them away in pigeonholes. Every af-
ternoon when the old gentleman left
the office, the janitor would cover his
precious pile with a big calico spread
to protect it from the dust.
After Mr. Taylor died, his deputy,
who undertook to examine and file
away the documents and manuscripts
that had accumulated upon the desk
during the twenty-five or thirty years
he was in office, made some important
discoveries. Important papers that had
mysteriously disappeared, and- for
which the Department had been
searched over and over again, were
brought to light, and, among
other things, a United States bond
for several thousand dollars, that
had been held up as irregular
several years before and referred
to the Comptroller for an opin-
ion as to its genuineness. The bond-
mysteriously disappeared and was for-
gotten until the owner had written to
the Department seventeen or eighteen
times demanding its return. Then,
as the officials could find no trace of it,
he brought suit in the Court of Claims
to recdver its value from the Govern-
ment, holding the Secretary of the
Treasury as responsible for its pres—
ervation. When the missing bond was
found among Mr. Taylor’s literary re-
mains the Attorney General was noti-
fied and arranged a settlement with the
owner, under which the Government
paid his attorney’s fees and the costs
of the suit.—VV. E. Curtis, in Chicago
Record.
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HOW IS ENGLAND TO BE FED.
A Great Nation “’hicll ls
Hand to Mouth.
A writer in the Nineteenth Century
says: I found a. general confidence in
England that theories of some kind,
or luck, or a kind of Providence, or
something, would bring them through
all right; but I found no one able to
satisfy me as to how England could be
fed under war conditions. No one
seemed to appreciate that in the great
wars with Napoleon the United King—
dom was able to feed itself, and that
even as late as the Crimean war in
1854-5 the home production was, after
deducting seed, 16,427,742 quarters and
the imports only 2,983,000 quarters.
The present Condition of Great Britain
is without a parallel either in its own
history or the history of any great na—
tion. '
England is living from hand to
month more than people have any idea
of. I found from the best authority I
could get in Liverpool that in August,
when I was there, the supply of wheat
in the hands of importers was for be-
tween three and four weeks only, in-
quiry in a number of bakers’ shops
disclosing the fact that the average
supply in them was for about four or
five days. in the large bakeries less
than a week. in the mills three or four
weeks. Two months’ stoppage of
foreign corn would reduce the rations
for the people about one-fourth of
what is required, and half of it would
have to be secured by the command of
many divergent and lengthened sea
routes.
Living from
WHEELED VEHICLESIN MADEIRA.
Only SIX on lhe \Vhole Island— {miners
on blast. of the Conveyances.
Our consul at Madeira reports that
ten years ago there was not a single
wheel on the island of Madeira, While
now six vehicles boast of wheels. Then,
how do the people travel? On sleds
drawn by oxen, the roads and streets
being over two hundred years old and _
worn smooth as ice. Where the coun-
try is hilly travel is on horses and in
hammocks. “Our sleds,” writes the
Consul, “or cars, as they are called, are
carriages o-n runners, instead of wheels.
Some of the private cars are beautifully
upholstered. The bodies are made of
hard wood, carved and finely finished.
The bollocks are large, well groomed,
and can be safely used up or down hill
at almost any angle. .Every driver
carries a rag or coarse towel well sat-
urated with grease. This from time to
time he puts downxin front for the
runners to pass over. In summer dur-
ing the dry season, the grease and fric—
tion make the pavements almost as
smooth as glass, and this compels the
buying of Madeira—made boots. The
soles of these boots are spongy and
cling to the pavement.” It issaid that
reads outside of Funchal are so crook—
ed and the hills are so steep that there =
never has been and probably'never will
be ary demand for bicycles, or, in fact,
for any wheeled vehicle.
. TEE EvEni-no GAZETTE
' BEGIN ’ ,
° THE YEAR
INSTRUCTIONS lN TAXIDERMY.
Preparing Wings and Feathers and the
Skins of‘Birds.
Now that feathers~ and wings are
used to such an extent for the decor-
ation of hats and bonnets, and as these
articles are quite expensive, it would
be a great boon to many women to
prepare their own wings, which can be
easily done. ith the exercise of a. little
skill. The outfit necessary for
handling of wings, tails and parts of
the skins of birds isvery simple. A
rather sharp ordinary pocket-knife, a
little arsenic, as sold by druggists;
some cotton batting; a piece of silk
or muslin and a strong needle and
thread. When using arsenic care
must be' taken that there are no cuts
or hangnails on the hand, and that
it is out of reach of the children.
Quite a number of our common birds
have exquisite coloring in their plum-
age. The blue tint can be found in
the indigo finch, the blue jay, the
blue bird, and the blue-winged
teal. Then there are birds with
the green - and purple coloring,
which are- quite rare, however,
the black bird being the most common.
Then we have the white wings of the
domestic poultry and pigeons, a num-
ber of the latter having a blue garb
which is often used. The goldfineh,
the yellow warbler and meadow lark
furnish us with yellow. The plumage
of water fowl stand the weather much
better than those of the land.
To prepare the wings and tail of a
pigeon for further use it is necessary
to chop off the wings close to the body,
and cut off the tail, taking with it the
candle—vertebrae. After spreading out
a wing it will be seen that a few
small feathers are directly over the
muscle. These should be plucked out
above the muscle, and then with a.
\sharp knife the skin should be cut
from the end of the muscles to where
the wing was chopped off. Cut out
as much flesh as possible, taking care
not to injure the other side of the
wing. Then put the arsenic into ev-
ery corner under the skin until the ex-
posed surface is completely covered.
Put a piece of batting into the exca-
vation made and cover this neatly with
a. bit of silk and sew the patch to the
skin. To dry these wings all that is
necessary is a large book between
which they should be placed, under a
heavy weight, for two or three weeks.
The breasts of ducks, gulls and many
water fowls are beautiful. A sharp
knife is necessary for this work. Be-
gin at the neck just above the portion
you desire to save, and carefully cut
lhe skin. Do not cut any deeper than
just through the skin, and keep the
feathcrs ported by use of the left hand.
Cut straight along the bird’s side until
near the lower end of the breast bone.
Be careful not to go beyond the breast
bone. Now slit across the. neck and
repeat the operation on the other side
of the bird, and the skin is then ready
to peel OK. The skin should be
slightly pushed, but not pulled as that
is apt to stretch it. After the skin is
free slit across from the inner side and
the worst of the work is over.
Trim off any ragged pieces you do
not want on the fleshy side of the
breast and apply a quantity of arsenic,
rubbing it in until the skin becomes
dry. As there is a quantity of oil in
all water fowls it is a good plan to ap-
ply a piece of blotting paper to the
fl881W side over the arsenic, then the
batting and lastly sew on the covering
of silk neatly and to the proper size.
It is well to dry the breast in its
natural shape, therefore the book
would not do. A piece of heavy paste-
board, covered with waddlng would
serve the purpose and on this the
breast should be placed feather side
up. Cover this with a clean piece of
linen and fasten securely with a few
pins. After a week or so the breast
will be ready for use and will last an
indefinable time.
llool‘blacks HI London.
The force of American demand is be-
ling once more exemplified in London
' by the placing at all important railroad
istations of chairs in connection with
the bootblack brigade. This work is
,undertaken by the Central Shoeblack
Society. There is already such accom-
imodation provided at Viaduct Station.
It appears that American gentlemen
,visiting London express surprise that
ithey are expected to stand while they
have their boots blacked, as they are
accustomed to sit during the operation
‘ at home. ,
| The society has sixty boys who are
lodged, taught and partially boarded
on the premises of the institution. and
there is an ingenious allotment of their
earnings into three parts after an al-
lowance for food required out of doors,
one-third being their own, another
third the society’s, and the remaining
third going to their bank account, on
'which they can draw for special pur-
poses.
Thanks for the Foundation.
An old itinerant colored preacher
while conducting services at a pro-
tracted meeting was interrupted by a.
imessenger, who rushed in and ex.-
claimed excitedly:
“Parson, de lightnin’ struck yo'
house en burned it ter de groun'!"
The congregation expected to see the
person collapse under this information,
, but he did not.
“Burned de house down, did it?”
“Yes, suh!”
“Well, did it hurt de land what do
house wuz on?”
“No, suh!”
“Thank de Lord fer dat!" exclaimed
the person. “Thank de Lord de land’s
lef! En now .we’ll sing on page 227,
‘How Firm a. Foundation.’ Thank
some brother fer de tune!"—Atlanta
Constitution.
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