The Kinsley Republican from Kinsley, Kansas • 3

TI1K WANDERING JKW. HOUSEHOLD. Wealth of New York Duko of Argyll In Frasiet's Magazine, It is impossible not to bo struck by the great wealth and luxury displayed both in its public and in its private buildings. It has been a commonplace to speak of tho growth of luxury in the Old World, and of tho increasing separation between the rich and poor. It is often said that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

I have always doubted the fact. The increase of wealth in recent years in England and in Europe generally has been mainly, 1 believe, an increase in the number of moderate incomes and an increaso in the wages of labor. But if the common saying is at all true anywhere, I shouid say that tho appearances of it are most conspicuous in such a city ns New York. Costly and ostentatious houses are far mere common than in London. Shops for tho sale of luxuries are on an enormous scale.

I doubt if there exists anywhere in London, or in any capital of the Old World, such an establishment as Tiffany's, in New York, for tbe sae of jewelry and other articles of great cost. It is an establishment, tuo, it must be added, not more for its enormous extent than for the admirable taste of its designs. Other "stores" on a Bimila'r scahfor the sale of women's attire, indicate the scale on which luxurious expenditure prevails nmong the richer classes of America. And it must be so. The growing wealth of America is founded on tho secure possession of every element which can yield boundless returns, not only to industry, but, above all, to capital shrewdly used.

In the Old World those who gain great profits are accustomed to look to the future, and not to think only of tho present. They seek investments which will bo a permanent record of their success, and be a lasting influence in the society to which they belong. They buy an estate, they build cottages, they drain and reclaim land. In the New World this incentive to sav-ingdoes not exist. Fortunes are expended as rapidly as they are made.

A few individuals of great public spit it found or endow public institutions, or become munificent supporters of scientific research. But such persons are and always must be, a very small minority. Tho tendency of things is to lavish expenditure and to luxurious living. I am not now arguing as to which of the two systems is the better. One great moralist of the last century has said in a celebrated passage that "whatever makes tho past, tho distant, or the future predominate over over tho present advances us to tho dignity of thinking beings." But many political philosophers do not accept this doctrine, and are jealous of tho wealth or of the distinctions which may bo gained by individuals in one generation surviving in another.

Whether this jealousy bo good or bad, it is certain that laws or customs which nro inspired by it tend to quicker dissipation rather than to the more equal distribution of wealth. New York has all the appearance of being one of the most luxurious cities in the world, while the discontent of tho workingclasses is often propitiated, if I may believe the general consensus of my American friends, by tolerating heavy taxation which these classes impose, but to which they do not contribute, and by an expenditure of funds so raised in a manner which is generally extravagant and very corrupt. hammers marred the varnish, but made no impression upon the iron, and the inventor's father, in spite of the beef-tea which was fed to him through the keyhole, became so weak and disheartened that he promised to consent to anything if only he could be let out. On the 20th of the present th the attempt to break open the s-ie with sledge-hammers was discontinued, and since that time young Mr. McGonigle has been engaged in systematically trying every word in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, in the hope of finally hitting on the forgotten combination.

It is estimated that it will take six months to try every word in the Dictionary, and even then, owing to Mr. McGonigle's habit of spelling words by the light of nature instead of the Dictionary, he may not find a word that will open the safe. It however, becoming doubtful whether it will be really worth while, ao far as the prisoner is concerned, to find the combination. Since the 20th inst. not a sound has been heard from the old gentleman, and he has tailed to take any beef tea.

It is, therefore, feared that something is wrong, and that if the safe were now opened it would merely entail the cost of a coffin. Meanwhile, there can be no doubt that young McGonigle has invented a burglar-proof safe, though it does not seem to give him any real comfort. His father is known to have most of his money, in the shape of Illinois Central bonds, in his pocket-book, and as the pocket-book is in his pocset, the money i3 quite unattainable. Point de Alencon Lure. Erom the New York Times.

As civilized women are all more or less athctically insane on the subject of lace, it may be interesting to them to learn something about Point de Alencon comparatively unknown in this country, The name is often given here to Point de Venice, inferior and therefore much cheaper than the Alencon, which is the richest and most prized of all laces. It has very distinctive characteristics. After the patera has been designed, each portion may be wrought by a separate person. The various figures are then connected by a groundwork of threads, so passed from one figure to another as to represent an extremely regular and delicate web Small spots or forms, ingeniously worked in where the threads intersect, and called modes, not only strengthen the fabric, but vastly increase the wealth of effect. But two kinds of stitches are used, and differ mainly in the greater or less closeness ot the threads.

A series of these is first laid down, all in one direction, so as to cover the pattern, and then a certain number of threads are taken up and overspread by loops of the cross stitches. The designs are raised upon a ground of the finest net; their outlines being shaped of white horse-hair, over which the closest and most delicate of all lace stitches are worked. Some of the most fashionable modists abroad are bringing tbe Alencon into vogue, trimming with it the corsage of dinnet gowns. Most of the designs now used are copied from old patterns, many of those worn at the luxurious Court of Louis XV. Only 12 women in all Brussels know how to make thin lace, and no one piece is ever made by a single pair of hands.

One woman executes the ground, anotherthe outlines, a third the filling-in of the figures, and so on. There are special workers for special stitches used, and some pieces go through seven or eight different hands before finishing. The patterns mostly chosen are small leaves or sprigs dotted over the ground, the lace being completed with an elaborate border. The lace costs from $30 to $80 a yard, according to pattern. A flounce of Alencon requires two or three years in making.

A suit of it will bring $8,000, to $10,000. This is often ordered for a corbeille, and on the day of the wedding, a specimen, generally about a half a yard, is displayed over blue satin, couple3 being seldom willing to wait for their nuptials until the whole can be completed, as this usually requires about two or three years. A suit is handed down from mother to daughter, and serves as an heirloom. Several of the most expensive of these Alencon suits have been purchased in Paris this wiuter by New York women, famous the world over for their ex-travagance. The Fashionable Kafir.

From the Queen. The Kafir women wear a piece ot blue by the corners round the neck, so as to hang like a cloak over the shoulders and down the back, but their principal garment is made of hide folded around the loins and reaching the knee for ordinary wear, a second petticoat considerably longer being always kept in reserve for dancing. Young wives assume an additional garment, consisting of the skin of an antelope, with a strip of hair peeled off down the centre, ornamented with a triple row of buttons and brass knobs in rows of four, sewed as a finish to the lower end. It is tied over the breast and under the arms, and hangs down straight in front. A belt encircles the waist, and thay all wear bracelets, anklets, and armlets.

In earlv times, when they had nothing better worth wearing, they used to cut circlets out of ostrich eggs.of which they wore a number together like bangles. They now deck themselves with finger rings of copper or brass, and other ornaments of glaas or metal beads, Their hair appears as little esteemed by them for its decorative character as it is by ourselves, for the married women shave their heads, leaving only one ernull tuft at the crown, which they dye red. This practice of cutting off the hair on marriage i3 also in vogue among the Polish who wear in iU stead wigs as unde-ceptive any pinned on a wax doll's head. The friend escorted us over the store-house in question pointed out the white unciyed fag end of the thin blue muslin before named of about an inch in depth on every piece. This unfinished termination.be o'w-erved, was an essential characteristic of the material, which its purchase by the ever-suricious natives was entirely dependant.

Were the muslin died to the extreme edge of the piece the trader would conclude that some portion had been cut off, and that he had been defrauded of tbe full quantity originally manufactured. So each piece is opened and the white end looked for before any bartering i3 made. A KUllGLAR-PROOF SAFE. The Terrible Fate that UctoU thB Father of SuccenKful Iuveutor. Krom the New York limes The making of fire proof and burglar-proof salts lias been brought, of late years, to great This clearly illustrated by the specimen sufes winch the manufactures exhibit in various parts of the city, labeled "This safe passed through the great fire in Twenty-third street" or elsewhere as the case may bo.

From these it is apparent that a fire-proof safe always loses iU door, and becomes covered with rust when subjected to the action of fire; bnt enough of it is always left to enable the manufacturer to distinguish it from a cooking-stove or other iron object. In foint of burglars, the patent safe equal-y succcessful. When a bank is robbed the burglars rarely undertake to unlock the sate, Dut they Bend for the cashier, or other person in charge of the key, and request him to unlock it for them. The forethought with which all the money and securities are collected together in the sale, thus sparing the burglars the trouble ot searching tor them in a dozen different places is warmly appreciated, and even when the unavoidable absence of the cashier necessitates the labor of either picking the lock or blowing it to pieces with gun powder, the fair minded burglar still feels grateful to its inventor. There is an ingenius young man in the westenpartof Ohio, who recently conceived the grand and novel idea of inventing a safe which not even the most ingenius burglar could open without a knowledge of the combination upon which it should be locked, and which no amount of fire should be able to injure.

The young man was regarded as a drer.mer by practical men, and they mocked at him and his contemplated sate, as the Antediluvian Positivists mocked at Noah and his prophecies of an approaching Etorm centre from Manitoba, followed by much rain, together with an extensive area of drowned persons in the region of Mesopotamia. They said that no man had ever yet invented a safe that could not be opened by skillful burglars and that it was universally admitted that the front door of a safe must always be consumed in any fire to which it might be exposed. Mr, McGonigle which was the young inventor's name-was not disturbed by any sneers or arguments, but calmly proceeded to devise his new safe. He was animated by a most powerful motive, for old Mr. McGonigle, who regarded his son with great contempt, had openly said that when he should have succeeded in inventing an absolutely fire and burglar proof safe, he would give him $10,000, and not until then.

This old Mr. McGonigle said, believing that the young man was the flower of the idiots of this country, and could not invent even as simple a matter a3 a fresh Southern outrage, or a new excuse for Mr. Courtney to avoid rowing a race. Young Mr McGonigle worked steadily for some months, and finally one evening informed his father that the new sal's was completed, and wa3 precisely what he had promised that it should be, and that, if he pleased, he would like that $10,000. The old gentleman laughed him to scorn, and utterly refused to believe the safe.

The young man, however, persevered in his assertion that no fire could injure and no burglar open his safe, and appealed to his father, as an honorable man, to examine the safe before he refused to keep his promise in regard to it. One of the neighbors Mr. Brown, the livery stable keeper, who was present, and on whom much of the blame of the affair has since been justly laid took the young man's part, and told old Mr. McGonigle that he was justly bound to give the inventor what he termed "a show" by looking at ihe safe and pointing out its weak parts. Finally the incredulous old man yielded, and, accompanied by Mr.

Brown and two or three citizens who had dropped in on their way home from the store, went to the young man's workshop and inspected the safe. eIt certainly did seem a rather Blight and flimsy affair, but the inventor insisted that he had constructed it upon an entirely new plan, and that it was so strong that neither false keys, chisels, nor gunpowder could have any effect upon it. Mr, McGonigle, reviled the safe and heaped all 6orts of degrading epithets upon it, winding up with the declaration that it was so weak that he could burst open the door with his own unassisted strength. In this spirit, he insisted upon entering the safe, and having the door locked upon him, promising to knock the door open in five minutes by the watch. This resolution was greatly applauded by Mr.

Brown, who at length induced the inventor to consent to the proposed tet. The old gentleman entered the safe; his son locked the door, and after several vigorous kicks, old Mr. McGonigle acknowledged that he could not break out. lie, therefore, ordered the door to be opened, when, to his great astonishment and dismay, the young inventor exclaimed, in tones of anguish, that he had orgotten the combination. Tbe lock was closed upon a combination of certain letters, but what these letters were young Mr.

McGonigle no longer remembered, and no humaa being could imagine. The prisoner was in no immediate danger, forhe could breathe through the key-hole, but greatly desired to get out, and as he asserted, to break everv bone in his son's body. The local locksmith was summoned, but the lock resisted his most skillful A telegram was sent to the Chief of Police of Chicage requesting the loan ot one of his best burglars. Accordingly, in about five hours a prominent detective officer arrived, l.ut alter prolonged efforts failed to open the safe. He said that were nitro-glycer-ine to be introduced into the interior of the safe through the key-hole, it might be possible to blow it but the obsti-nateold gentleman objected loudly to Cah plan.

Sledge-hammers and chisels were next brought into for two successive days the din was tremendous, and old Mr. McGonigle felt a3 if he were a boiler undergoing a prolonged process of riveting. Still tbe ew safe was triumphant. The sledge Drink for the sick. Two tablespoonfui.

of arrowroot in a quart pitcher, with a little water; three tablespoonfuls of white sugar, the juice of one lemon and part of the rind; stir quickly whilo pouring boiling water until the pitcher is full. Drink cold. Laced Chocolate. Break into pieces two ounces of cascao paste; put it into a saucepan with a small tumbler of water; place upon the fire and stir constantly; when it has become very smooth, add ono and a half pints of good sound claret, and continue to boil and stir for three or four minutes, sweeten to your taste and serve hot. Plain Fruit Cake.

One cup of sweet milk, ono cup of brown sugar, half a cup of molasses, half a cup of butter, three cups of flour, half a pound of raisins, one cup of currants, one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonlul of cloves, one table-spoonful ot cinnamon, one nutmeg, two eggs well beaten, two tablespoonfuls of baking powder. Baked Cabbage. Boil a firm white cab-bago for fifteen minutes; then change the water for more that is boiling, and boil until tender; drain and set aside till cold; then chop fine, add salt and pepper, ono tablespoonfut of butter, two eggs well beaten, three tablespoonfuls of rich milk or cream; mix well, and bake in a buttered pudding dish in a moderate oven till brown. Serve hot. Cheese Fondue.

Moisten a quarter of a pound ot flour with half a pint of milk, tho same of cream and a quarter of a pound of butter; stir over tho tire until it forais a paste; remove, und add eight yolks of eggs, a quarter of a pound of parmesan clieeso and season to taste; beat up tho whites stiff, pour into souille lining and bake between thirty and forty minutes: servo with some parmesan sprinkled on tho top. A Table Ornament, Sew coarse flannel around a goblet with tho stem broken oil', put this shapely dome upon a saucer ol water, wet tuo flannel and sprinkle over as much flaxseed as will adhere to it. Tho flannel will absorb tho water from the saucer which should bo replenished often. In about two weeks the flannel will bo concealed iu a beautiful verduro which will vie with any tablo ornament. Liver and Parsley Sauce'for Poultry.

The liver of a fowl, ono tablespoonlul of minced parsley, half a pint of melted butter. Wash and score tho liver, boil it for a few minutes, nnd mince it yery fine; blanch or scald a saiall bunch of parsley, of which there should be sullicient, whu chopped, to fill a tablespoon; add this, with the minced liver, to ha'f a pint, of smoothly-made butter; let it just boil, then serve. Walnut Candy. The meats of hickory-nuts, English walnuts, or black walnuts may bo used, nccording to preference in that regard. After removing front the shell in as large pieces as practicable, they nro to bo placed on tho bottom of tins, previously greased, to tho depth of about half an inch.

Next boil two pounds of brown sugar, a half a pint of water and ono gill of good molasses until a portion of the mass hardens when cool. Pour tho hot candy on tho meats and allow it to remain until hard. Chocolate Caramels. Boil one quart of good New Orleans mob-uses until it hardens when tested by cooling a little of it in water ns before described. Just before removal from tho fire add four ounces of chocolate finely and uniformly grated.

Pour a thin lavcrinto tin trays slightly greased, and when the surface of tho candy has become hardened a little mark with a knife into squares. They lfisiy be flavored, but tho natural flavor of the chocokte and molasses is generally preferred without addition. Pea Soup. Time, three hours. Two quarts of split peas, one pound of salt pork, one pound fresh, lean beef, six quarts of cold water, pepper and salt.

Pick over the psas, wash and soak them over night in cold water; the pork clean; cut it nnd ho beef in peices; drain the peas and put them, with the cut-up meats, into a pot with tho water; cover the pot, heat gradually, and boil gently; remove the scum as it rises; stir frequently from tho bottom to prevent Bcorching; about tho second hour, or when the peas have become soft, take out the meat, and, with a wooden masher, mash tho peas; then put the meats back into tho soup and complete the boiling; when cooked, season highly and dish; have ready some slices of fried bread cut into square peices; scatter them on the surface of tho soup and serve; do this quickly, as pea-soup cools and thickens rapidly. Pea-soup is apt to burn, and great care must be taken to prevent it by not exposing it to too great heat and by stirring it frequently. How to Cook Young and Old Birds. Poultry is everywhere regarded as a luxury and a delicacy. No cook can get up the enthusiasm in preparing Dnh or auad-rupepal flesh for the table that she has in cooking a bird, though it be only a goose.

As fruits, fed on air and sunshine, rank higerm our estimation than vegetables that cling to and are imbedded in the soil, wingedll esh is niorehighly e-iteeined than that which ploddingly goes on all fours. In the hand of a skillful cook almost any kind of poultry is made delicious; by a bungler tbe choicest birds may be spoiled. Old poultry may be made tender and savory by the following method: Soak it in cold water, with a handful or two of ashes thown, in for twenty-four hourg; pick off the feathers and let it hang for twenty-four hours longer. Then let it boil for a quarter of an hour in veal broth or water; take it out, lard and bake it; when nearly done baste with hot butter. By this method the flavor of a young chicken may be imparted to an old fowl.

Poultry of all kinds rcquries thorough cooking, as when undone it is tasteless. A turkeyweighing eight pounds should be baked three hours and basted every ten or fifteen minutes.with its own dripping and with melted butter. If proper care is taken in dressing poultry it will not need washing. A wet cloth may be used to wipe it clean if necessary, but soaking it in water takes out the flavor. Young poultry may be known by having smoot-legs and supple feet; If the legs are rough and tbe feet are stiff tha poultry iz old and st-1" An Old Man Who Had Searched Twenty-Five Yearn for llit Last Love.

From the IXuver Tribune, The author of the littla book known as the "The Ute War," relates a very interesting story, which is given as an incident brought to light during the march of Merntt's command from the fortifications of Milk river to the White river agency Signs of the work of tho savages met the command at every turn after they had left the scene of the siege. Tlioy left behind them the dead bodies of comrades in arms to find the corpses cf tho unfortunate men who had attempted to serve the government in a different capacity. The road was literally strewn with the nude and decayed remains of white men, whom chance had thrown in the way of tho savages. The soldiers had marched but a few miles when the advance guard came upon a boJy, the remains of a white man, when, as the story was told to a correspondent of the Tribune, who was on the ground, a conversation, of which the following is a report, occurred: "What haye we here?" asked one soldier ot a comrad. "It looks like the body of a man; and it is." "Its a white man, too." "To be sure it is, and terribly mangled and mutilated.

The red devils have got in their work on some unfortunate fellow." Investigation revealed tbe fact that the body was that of Isaac Goldstein, an Israelite, who was called "The Jew," and whose proper namo was known to but very few. Fortunately, there was one soldier in the command to whom tho old man had confided the Bccrets of his heart, and among others his great secret, the history of his own life, which, though containing material for a volume, may be related here in a few words, and without marring this narrative, indeed as properly a part of it. Old Isaac was between fifty and sixty years old, but he looked to be seventy. He was ever sad and uncommunicative, seeming to bear about him a burden which, while it weighed nim down, he did not care to 6hare with others. But becoming friendly with this soldier, a private in Gen.

Merritt's ranks, he gradually confided the story of his romantic career to him. In his early manhood Isaac Goldstein had loved a fair daughter of Israel as he loved not his own life. They lived in an pastern city, and a few months promised to see them united as man and wile. This young lady had a brother who had gone to California among the first who were attracted to the gold coast. At first he prospered, and was cheerful and hopeful in his letters.

At last he lost his health, and was low spirited and despondent. His sister, whose name was Rebecca, determined to at once go to her brother to comfort, and, if possible, to cure him. She had an opportunity to, and did join the unfortunate party in its overland trip which perished at Mountain Meadow at the hands of the Mormons and the Indians combined. Isaac waited a long, long time for tidings of his love. At last the news of the niasssacre came.

He at once started west to investigate the matter, and has remained here since. He was never convinced that his Rebecca had been killed, but Lelieved her to have been made a captive by the Indians. He determined to seek her opt, and for many, very many, long years he had been searching in vain for her, going from tribe to tribe, and gaining the confidence of the Indians that he might the more succssfully prosecute the search. That the Utes, now of Colorado, took part in the Mountain Meadow affair, is established almost beyond dispute. And thus, according to the story related by the soldier over the remains ol the long gray beared old man as they lay upon the hard sandstones of the bottom of Milk River conon, came "the Jew" to be trading with Douglass' Indians, The few auditors who gathered around the surviving friend of the old Jew lis-ened with interest and attention to the narrative.

It was received with a sigh by all and derision by none. A few minutes more and the remains of "the Wandering Jew" were hidden away in a trench dug for the purpose, and covered with earth, and the following legend appears on the simple stone grave-mark: Isaac Golpstein, Killed bv Indians, Sept. 29, 1879. The IlcHHon of Bird. from the London Spectator.

May I tell you a few facts to prove that birds can be, like their human friends, both reasonable and unreasonable 1, Several years ago a pair of my canaries built; while the hen was setting the weather became intensely hot. She drooped and I began to fear that she would not be strong enough to hatch the eggs. I watched the birds closely.and soon found that the cock was a devoted nurse. He bathed jn the fresh cold water I supplied every morning, then went to the edge of the nest, and the hen buried her head in his breast and was Without hands, and without a sponge, what more could he have done? 2. The following spring the same bird was hanging in a window with three other canaries, each in a scperatc cage.

I was sitting in tho room, and heard my little favorite give a peculiar cry. I looked up and saw all the birds crouching in their perches.paralyzed with fright. On going to tne window to ascertain the caue of their terror, 1 saw a large balloon passing over the end of the street. The birds did not move till it was out of sight, when they all gave a chirp of relief. Tho balloon was only within sight of the bird who gave the alarm, and I have no doubt he mistook it for a pird of prey.

I have a green and yeilow canary hanging side by side. They are treated exactly alike and are warm friends. One has often refused to partake of seme delicacy till the other was supplied with it. One day I had five blossoms of dandelion; I gave three to the green bird, two to the yellow one. The latter flew about his cage, singing in in a shrill voice, and showed unmistakable signs of anger.

Guessing the cause, I took away one of the three flowers, when both birds settled down quietly to enjoy their feast. A I'henoiiieiioii, From the Salt Lalco Trihuno. Friday evening Mr. Fred. Walker concluded to have a breakfast of fish, accordingly, bought fourteen specimens of that finny tribe popularly known as "cat-fish." During the night the members of the family were alarmed by noises in the kitchen.

It was plain that some commotion was oc-curing in that impoitant department ot the house, and an investigation as to causes was determined upon. Tho catfish which be had bought stiff and cold ns ice-iclcs were flopping around the floor at a lively rate, evidently doing their best to gain their natural element. The explanation of this strange occurrence is to be found in the fact that the fish were simply frozen. After placing them near the stove and giving them a chance to thaw out, they resusitatcd and became the liveliest dead fish on record. What adds to tho strangeness of tho phenomenon is tho distance the fish have traveled and the time they have been suffering from the cold weather.

They were caught in the Sacramento river, and have been out of water for ut least four days. During these days they have been frozen stiff, and one would judge the fish had as many lives as the animal after which they are named. The fish were placed in water and yesterday taken to the Jordan river and thrown in the sacred waters. It is to be hoped that should anyone catch any ot tho horned fellows, he will throw them back, such being the request of Mr. Walker.

Kdlxon's Triumph. From the Saturday Jlcview. What a happy man Mr. Edison must be! Three times within the short space of eiglheen months he has had the glory ot finally and triumphantly solving a problem of world-wide interest. It is true that each time the problem has been the same, and that it comes up again after each solution, fresh, smiling, and unsolved, ready to receive its next deathblow.

But this peculiarity of his triumphs, though interesting from a practical point of view, is doubtless of too trifling a character to damp the joy of victory in Mr. Edison's own mind, since it appears in no degree to interfere with the plaudits with which his followers hail each fresh achievementor us we should rather say. bulletin from Menlo Park. And thus not only is Mr. Edison to be congratulated on the happy past, but his friends may look forward to a long and equally happy future, crowned at inter-valsby similar dazzling and final triumphs; for if he continues to observe the same strict economy of practical results which has hitherto characterized his efforts in electric lighting, there is no reason why he should not for the next 20 years completely solve the problem of the electric light twicf a rear without in any way interfering with its interest or novelty..