Where The Cold Waves Come From

Where the Cold waves Come From.

   Meteorological observations have now become so extended that evidence is rapidly accumulating to enable to determine positively the source of the cold aerial waves which sweep across our country during the winter season. The indications are that we give them to the great area of high barometer in Northeastern Siberia, where the pressure sometimes exceeds 31.50 inches, and the temperature falls as low as 76 degrees below zero. The pole of greatest cold is in the neighborhood of Yokutsk, on the Lena, where the average thermometric reading in January is that of 41 degrees bi'low zero, and where the severest cold exceeds by 10 degrees that experienced by explorers in high arctic regions. This is is also the region of the highest barometric pressure known in winter; and from it, doubtless, proceed the waves of intense cold which play so large a part in our winter experiences.

   A Dallas merchant after preparing to make his assignment asked the bookkeeper how much his assests would pay. The book-keeper replied, "fifteen cents on the dollar." "Oh, well," says he, "make it twenty-five; I'll pay the difference out of my own pocket."

   Little Franky's mother was an invalid; and so his auntie looked after his religious instruction, and let no occasion pass to enforce some precept. One day Franky suddenly said : "Oh, dear! I wish I "had wings!" This angelic aspiration was regarded with great joy by the two sisters, and they eagerly asked why he wished he had wings. "Oh," said Franky, "I'd fly up into the air and take Aunt Susan with me, and when I couldn't go any higher I'd let her drop."

   Recently a well-known barrister was concerned in a case where the question involved was to the mental condition of the testatrix. The witness under examination, herself an aged lady, had testify to finding her friend failing, childish, and that when she told her something she looked as though she did not understand. Counsel, cross-examining, tried to got her to describe this look, hut she did not gucceed very well in doing so. At last getting a little impatient, he asked, "Well, how did she look? Did she look at you as I am looking at you now, for instance?" The witness very demurely replied, "Well, yes- kind of vacant-like."

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   An old gentleman died the other day in Vienna, after practising as a surgeon in that city for nearly sixty years, who is believed to have been the last survivor of the celebrated "Black Huntsmen," raised as a Free Corps, by Von Lutzow at the commencement of the great national German movement that resulted in the War of Emancipation. He was little more than a child when he joined the Lutzow Jagers, but bore a distinguished part in all their exploits, and fought in several actions side by side with the poet-hero Korner.

   Mutton Soup. - Take a shoulder of good heavy mutton, weighing about four pounds; remove the skin and fat, then put it in about four quarts of cold water and let it simmer for two hours; boil one yellow turnip, one medium sized carrot, four potatoes, two bulbs of soup celery; the turnip and carrot will require one hour to cook, the potatoes and celery half an hour: when cooked put them in cold water and peel and chop line; remove the meat; then add the vegetables and one cup of boiled rice or barley ; then let the soup simmer ten minutes more; then add one tablespoonful of chopped onion and one of parsley; then let it cook ten minutes more, as cooking onion or parsley too much take from it the desired flavor; cooking the vegetables separately will add much to the flavor of the soup.