Our Old Friend, The Apple

Tlie germine apple-eater comforts ïiniself witB an apple, in their season, is otliers with a pipe or cigar. When ie has nothing else to do, or is bored, ie eats an apple. While Le is waiting !or the train he eats an apple, sometimes everal of them. When he takes a walk ie arms himsclf with apples. His trav;ling bag is f uil of apples. He offers an ipplo to his compauion and takes one ïimself. They are his ehiéf solace when jn the road. He sows their seed all dong the route. He tosses the core Erom the car window and from the top jf the stage-coach. He would. in time, make the land one vast orehard. He lispenses with the knife, He prefers fchat his teeth shall have the iirst taste. Then he knoivs the best flavor is inimeiiately beneath the skin, and that in a pared apple this is lost. If you will stevr the apple, he says, instead of baking it, by all meaiis k-ave the skin on. It improves the color and vastly height[ns tho flavor of the disli.- American Uur al Home. Mi. and Mus. Pincus have been arrested in New York for exhibiting their baby, 22 mouths oid, fifteen incheslong, and weighing but a pound. The baby, which is of the femalií persuasión, is p(-rfeftlv formed and seems to be in excellent iiealth. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, however, hold that its health is being injured by tobáceo smoke and bad ventilatie n. Feench engineers are diseussing the practicabillty of a ruihvay across the Desert of sálüiva, and tliiuk one can be built and maintiiined uotwiihstimding tile hint üiiil absenoe of wttei'. The distauce frtan Algiers to Tmilni.;i,"-oss the (Jggört is 1,500 inili.