FARM, WARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Ditmrnilr Rrrfix*.
PICKLE. —Six quarts v inflow, one
ponnd salt, quarter pound pi 11 per, one
ounce of IIUKV, half pound ahalot*, one
tables poonfnl cayenne, tw6 ounoee mus
tard seed, boil for twenty minutes, and
poor t into a jar, put your vegetables
(any kind) in quite fresh ; this can be
done dly by day, so as to pet a good
vari, ty, keep then close oownd. In
eight weeks or so. Kittle your pickles,
straining sufficient of the vinegar into
each bottle. This pickle will be as clear
and bright as is consistent with whole
somenesa.
A GOOD BROTH. - -Take four pounds
of mutton—part of the leg is liest ; add
one gallon of water, oue toaeupful of
pearl barley, two carrots, sliced, two tur
nips, sliced, two onions, cut small, three
carrots, grated, the white part of a large
cabbs re, chopped very small, ami a small
quantity of parsley. Heaaon with pep|>er
and salt, hrt tins boil very gently for
three hours and a half; and at the* din
ner table it will most likely, by all who
are fond of soups, I* pronounced excel
lent.
To KKRF GKKEN VK.NTTANI,KS.— Gnwu
vegetables must bo kept on damp stones
cover ed over with a damp doth. Beet
root, parsnips, carrots, and jmtafiie* are
liest kept iu dry sand during the winter. !
Never wash thatu till they srv wanted
for use. Onion* should be tied up in
bunches and hung up. Take and bury
par*], v in a jar during the w inter, or dry
it, by hanging it up ia a warm room.
POTATO CVKBT.— I. Mash cold JH>U j
toes with miuoed onion, salt, pepper, i
and curry- jxiwder to taste ; form into
small Kills with egg and bread crumbs, 1
fry crisp, serve with rich gravy flavored 1
with 2. Fry some sliced |
raw potatoes and onions slightly in hut-,
ter with a little curry powder, tiien sun- j
mer till done in a very little stock, add
some cream, butter aiid lemon juice be
fori l serving.
Fx EUJENT Som\ - THV a jiouml of
salt beet or pork, and cat into very small
pieces into the iron saucepan. Pour six
quarts of water over it, and let it boil on
a very slow fire three-quarters of an hour.
When this is done then put in some oar
rots, turnips, potatoes well cleaned, and
a calihage, all out into allocs. Let this
boil slowly another hour, and then thick
en it with a pint of oatmeal, stirring it
after the oatmeal is put in, to keep it
smooth and nice. Season it with pep}er
and salt, and there is a uoble dinner for
a large family. If any soup remains
when all have .lone dinner, keep it in a
dose earthenware dish or j*u till the
next day, when it can be warmed np '
again.
To MAKE LIME WATER.—To Hb a
jxmud of uaslaked lima add three ouar
ters of a pint of water. l*nt the lrruc
into an earthen jxt, and jx>ur a httle of
the water ujxm it; and as the lime slakes
|x>ur the water on by httle and little, and
stir up widi a stick. The water must be
added very slowly, otherwise the lime
will fly about in all directions, and mav j
break the vessel. In three or four davs'
time, whet; tbe slaked lime has sunk to
the bottom, jionr the clear duid off, anil
Eut ia stopped bottles, awav from the
ght
A NICE BISCUIT. —Having broken six
egg-, into a basin, whisk them well for '
five minutes; put in half a pouad of
jxjwdeml sugar, and whisk again for tec
minutes. Add some carraway amis (if
liked), and half a pound of dry dour,
mixing all thoroughly with a wooden
SJKVU. Droplhe mixture,i>n pajxw.each
K-wg the siM* of alsjot a crown jiieoe,
and high in the middle. Sift sugar over
them, and Kike them—if in a brick oven
it will be better. Remove them from
the j>apcr while they are hot.
SHORT BREAD.— Rub one jxiund of
butter and twelve ounces of finely jxiw- •
dered sugar into two pounds of flour with
the hand; make it into a stiff paste with
four eggs, rolllmt to double the thick
ness of a penny piece, cut it into round '
or square cakes, pinch the edges, stick
slices of can,jjeel and some carraway
comfits ou the top, and bake them in
iron j.lates in a warm oven.
To PREVENT MOODINESS IN INK.—Oue
and a half dozen cloves (more or less,
according to the size of the Kittle)"
bruife-d with gum amine are to K> put
into the I sat tie.
To CLEAN BOOTS AND SHOES OF EX- i
AMELKD LEATHER. —W ater is sufficient
to remove any dirt which impairs the
gloss on enanielpd leather. It mav af
terward lw mbbed with a dry flannel.
I .HrUtral Ncic.
A REMHOT TOR FRESH WOUNDS.— !
Take green tea and pulverize it fine, and
bind on the wound or cut, allowing it to
remain until healed. If the wound be
comes dry an* painful, wet it with cold
tea.
BEHOVING WARTS.—Dr. Gutiorlt rec
ommends rubbing warts, night and
morning, with a moisoned piece of mu
riate of ammonia. They soften and ,
dwindle away leaving no such white '
mark as follows their disperaion with
lunar canstic.
BURNS. —Charcoal lias been discovered
to be a core for barns. By laying a
piece of cold charcoal upon a burn the
jmin subside* immediately. By leaving '
the charcoal on "one liotir file wound is
healed, as has been demonstrated on sev
eral occasions,
DEiui;HTEtiE,GacEL.—Let Indian corn
K- browned as w* roast coffee, ground
fine in a mill, and made into mush gruel'
or thin cakes, b&ked a light brown.
Tins will be tetanyed liy the most enfee
bled stomach. Parched corn and meal
boiled in skim milk is a sure cure for
summer diarrhea in children.
To CURE A FELON. —Felons usually
follow a bruise or other injury to the
hand, which does not cause bleeding.
As soon as ;iun begins to lie felt in the
bruised part hike a small quantity of '
salt, apply it io the bruise, and pour on
enough spirit# f turjientine to make it
moist This will usually drive the felon
away gwu. If the felon has
progressed so far as to become inevit- : 1
able, wrap it in sassafras root, pounded !
fine and moistened with water. This !
will draw the felon to a head, but with- j .
oat pain, or so httle jmin that it will not
be seriously felt. A third remedy is to 1
make a salve by
- f
pcaranoe. 7* **' 1
A p—rhsit says he has l>een ex- !
perimeutingsrith Bei%sbire swine, bav '
ing kept thihi with Suffolk*, Yorkshires,
nud and he is thorough
ly ho can make more and s
better pork£|nd hams with tliem than "
v. ith any <3* otheis on the same '
food. 11
Hon. Hari j#l>wi", of Herkimer couu- '
ty, N. Y., m* rffforty four tons of licet*
per acre, at * cost of leas than five ami a .
half cents pgr burbel, or a little over h
£1.70 jer torn agaiust a market valuo of /
817 per torn--At tin's price the cash pro
duct per he $7lB. Deduct- '
ing from thiyqbe cost of the acre (878) .
it leaves the net profit. ,
A farmer MI Bock creek, Cowleycoun- t
ty, Kan.. boif|sjt 900 sheep one year ugo f
at 82 per he a!. Last Fuumier he sold
th.e wool fr-imThcm for 82,000, and has
500 l imbs besides. Sheup need hut little
care in this clqnate, coat nothing to feed,
and are a great 'profit. j
The cat-tail of our swamps lit highly 6
e.-teemed in some countries as an article t
of food. In southern Russia the young 7
shoots are tied up like asparagus and j,
sold in the ijwrkrt. When boiLd anil c
seasourd irifii salt and Rpice tlit#e are t
prononnc('us. j;
An impression prevails in some quar- n
ters that by riipping a hen in a pail of s
water and ißfrn chasing her around the t
poultry-yatMJJlfth stick, she will be in- i
fluoed, on ■pbccies t >
01 R HARBOR DKFEIIBF.H.
Tke Trprrf thai la la Rata the I'allrS
p Malfa from Ike Kiprair at a Na**.
undergone such marked changes as iu
- its relation to the attack and defense of
1 harKuw. Formerly the tactiiw of an
• attacking fl.wt were to enter the channels
loading to the jvunla of defenw. and, by
1 a jwrsistent and vigorous cMunonade or
1 u vigilant blockade, to nxluco the de
• feuatve works. There was nothing to
1 le fearxl from the ilefendera' aide but a
r j powerful artillery reajxuiae or a stealtln
- appromdt at night of mcendiaiy
ships, improvised to destroy the ttn,-„
, ing squadiMii. Ihxlliot allot werveoiue
i times Ami st shipping when the#,-! 1011
f was fought at elose range. When it was
discovered that by leaaon of onrtmr. ini
1 nrovenietita in artillery forts were no
1 longer able to resist the fire of shipping,
I or prevent the entrance of a fcofctuc fleet
into fortified harlxuu, ohstructioiiH to
tlie channels of apju-oMh vefi e a.lopt unreliable
against licuvy iron (dated, gliarp po>wtxl
war sliijia, arrneit with Icsig nuige rifle
guns, and a new system of harK>r and
channel defense haa gradually nuue iuto
use. The torj.asta iqjainst the Pr< ndi
tleot in 1871k but more jiartieuhuly and
completely gphng the war of ttie r*-bel-
UMS in this eoaiitrv, promises to revv>lu-
Uonue narsi tactics in the attack and
defense of hi(h>crx. A marine t<>rjxxlo
ia a jxwttMs mine, loade.l with the
most powerfctl exphmvee, ami submerge,!
during tin of war in such j nations of
thy nhels of spproach to liartxirs as
I Are tor tlie enemy's war
xhijis. They arv dividtxl into two class, s,
one of which smlitMM all tarpeiloea
fin d by electricity from tlie shore or
from Kxit stations; the other, the tor
jx does which iwnv with themselves tlie
means of ignitiou by friction, and ex
jihxle by contact witli the attacking
sliqwi during their progress tlmmgh the
torpedo defended channel.
Tlie former class are rxiaitively relia
ble si> long as the insulted conducting
wirv> .IT mble which connects tliem with
the eWtric battery remains intact, and
can be fired at any moment desired by
the operator. The latter class must K
actuaiiv touched by the object to be de
stroyeu, and ty reason of their ueceseari ,
ly dein-ate arrangement of friction fuses
are very liable to derangement or |>re
mature exjdoaiou during handling or by
doaUug wrecks. The effect of torpedo
t'xjd.Mious under, or even at a considera
ble distance from the hull of a ship, are
terrific; they cv>mjiletely shatter and
ilisabie the vessel, when they do not
annihilate her. During the late war of
the rebellion several of the heaviest gun
K>ats were literally blown to atoms by
the explosion of torpedoes twucath them,
and so complete and instantaneous was
, their destruction that scarcely any of
j their crews survived to tell tlie "tale,
while even the surrounding ships were
made aware of the loss only the sud
den disappearance of their constats in a 1
wild whirl of smoke and water. While
the recent torpedo exjwriments at New
port have lxtu
as regards their management and results,
and reAs-t the iughast credit 0(1 the
olliai-rs who condocb-d tliem, we do not
consider that such public exhibitions
are expedient or beneficial to that
• branch of the service. We would much
prefer that foreign nations tliat may be
come future enemies should learn otir
system of harbor defense at the expense
of their navies. This may seem to be
an ungenerous sentiment, but really it
in a wry safe one to be gnidod by in
j this particular instance.—A I". Twin.
Women In I'olith-s.
A corresjxmdent who has been careful
ly examining the stat> of affairs in Wyo
-1 miug Territory, wliere female snffrngi"
prevails, says : Nor liave there been
those family disturbances which some
anticijiuted. At least ninety nine times
' out of a hundred man and wife are of
the same jxilitics. It is in this, as in
many other things ; a low, brutal man
coerce# his wife by violence; a high
toned ami honorable man who disdains
to usurp authority over his wife, does,
iu fact, govern her tenfold more effectu
ally by the constraint of affection. Every
one must have observed that tlie hnor
able and generous man really governs his
wife (viragoes always excepted) far more
than the domestic tyrant ; for the for
mer's is au emjiire over the soul and
I mind as well as the body. A great fool
as well as a great brute must that man
be who cannot restrain a wife far more
' effectually than by using force. The
abuse,l wife utay swindle her husband in
the buliot, una hundred other ways,
but the woman whose husband refun
the claim of power votes with him al
most universally. The exceptions are
said to balance uUmt equally lietween
, jxirties, and exist without trouble. Mrs.
'A. B. Poet is an active Republican, her
husband a Democrat ; Mrs. .Arnold is a
' Democrat, her husband a Republican,
while the late Justice Esther Morris is a
moderate Democrat. Judge Fisher
thinks the system has reunited in a He
( publican gain , others think just the op- .
I poaite. The Legislature which passed
this law—the first that sat—was unani
mously Democratic; but a Democratic
' Legislature subsequently repealed it, and ;
the governor's veto of' the repeal was
barely saved by the vote of the Repub
licans in the council. Ho, honors are
easy between the two parti.-a. Another
fact is evident: there is a strong tend
ency among the mass of ladies to quiet
ly drop the thing, and say no more
about it, and it requires all the energy
of the few female politician* to bring 1
them up to tlie voting point. Soldiers
eanuot vote, but their wives and the
laundresses attached to the regiments
can, after remaining long enough. The
law prescribes that persons "enrolled in
the military service" cannot acquire a
residence by any length of time in the ,
territory in such servioe; but the ladies
attached to the camp, not being "en
rolled in military service," come within
the law, and vote at the nearest precinct.
Thus it hapi>*B tint a militaiy post in
Wyoming is represented entirely by its
petticoats. In conclnaioii, I tlii.i'k it
safe to say that the system has equally
disappointed friends and foes—neither ' ,
the good nor the evil predicted having
resulted. And, from tb" evidence ol>- !
tained, lam forced to the same conelu- j
sion with au old friend, who has been |
therefor years: "Woman suffrage in,
Wyoming has resulted in making every- ,
thing just as it was before, only a good ' ,
deal more so."
Large and Small Farms.
Twelve of the States have farms that ,
average less than 125 acres in extent, ,
which in some Htates even runs up near- : 1
ly to an average of 500 acres. Those j
twelve Htab-a give the following as the (
average size of their farms; Maine, 98 '
acres ; New Hampshire, 12'2 acres ; Mas \
sachnsetts, 103 m-res ; Rhode Island, 9t
acies ; Connecticut, 93 acres; New York,
108 acres ; New Jersey, 98 acres ; Penn
sylvania, 103 acre* ; Indiana, It 2 acres;
tjhio, 111 acres ; Michigan, 101 acres ; !
Wisconsin, 114 acres.
While the total value of the farms in 1
the United States is put down at 89,202, • j I
803,301, the ralne in the above small- '
farm States foots uji 3i,407,587,178, or j
nearly three-fifths of the total—ami this, >
too, while th<- area of these States is less 1 1
tlian #ue-tenth of Ue area of the whole i 1
country. No more conclusive exhibit of [
the practical superiority of the small- j '
farm system cm id be given than this. |
V. hat Hit - BMB Bo ie.
Home of the statistics given by the t
English .Scientific Association, are iD- ! j
Btructive. The length of deep-sea cables ,
that have been made and laid is now ;
70,000 miles. The world's telegraphic ; j
lines extend over more than 400,000 i t
miles, and there are 160,000 miles of ,
railroads. Estimating the modern en- s
gineering works of this kind at tiieir t
money value, Sir John llawkshaw con- f
sidere that within the space of a genera j
tiou and a half a sum not less than f
£3,340,000,000 have been expended on
what may undoubtedly le designated as
useful works. ' t
•
THE MONTREAL PANE.
XVkv Ike n*ii af llallwnl ('•*•! kr llarlnl
I la Ike t'alkallr OMMMPT,
| The Montr.-id municipal authorities
i have lxx>n wverely critioiwd, Kith at
! | home and abroad, for their ap|sin conoedod,
* aaya the Now York TVwci, that they an<
j[ in a very difficult poaitiou so far as tlie
enforcement of the order of the Privy
ixuuicil is concerned. To merely bury
' Guitxird'a KHUW in the Roman Catholic
' cemetery is not task K*yond the re
' s<>iirtvs of the authorities'. Two or three
D'gimouts of voluutis-rs could os.\trt the
coffin to the cemetery, put it under
ground, ami then gamsoit the ixuneterv
uiitil the gradual decrease of the Freucli
|Mii>ulation 111 Panada, and the cilunug
t infliieiuNi of time, should render any at
temjit to diaiuter tlie Kmes quite uu
j proKiblo. But this would by no UII'AIIM
t moot the demand of the law. It has
I Iweu ordi led not only that UittKird sliall
tie but nil in the Roman Catholic cenie
( tery, but that he shill ts buried with
the usual ltoiiuui Catholic service. Here
j lies the difficulty which troubhw the
MontDul authorities. They may Ual
, mi unwilling priest to the grave, tint
they cannot make him read the service.
Of oourwe, las refusal would ts< a defi
ance of the law, ami would reuder him
habit- to arrest. Other jiriosts might
tlieu K< dittggtd to the oejurUiry, but
tliey would >nly uuitnte tlie silence of
tiio fli-st The rvararHX in
tins course of action would lx that in
all the K.unan Catholic priests in C>uua,K
) would bo in jail, and QuiK>rd would K
uo nearer a duviit en,l than he 11 to day.
There is really no way in which the
Privy Council's dtotte ean be carried out
t( the priests remain defiant, ex,vj't by
a sort of strategy to which no honorable
men would baud themselves. It would
not mend matters to mijxirt an old I
Catholic jiriest from Germany, sr a
Greek jiriest froru Russia. Of course, !
clergymen of either of these vurietiea
could bury Uuibonl iu a workmanlike
way, but so, for that matter, could an
Anglican clergyman. None of these,
however, would meet the requirements
of the law, for the pimple reas,iu that it
| ia a Roman Catholic burial to which
Guilxird lias Ken declareil to lx< en
title,!. It is true that Guitxird'a Kmc* |
might be secretly rtxluiwl to ashes; a
priest might tie induced by fai-n- rejire
mmtation t*> read the burial' service over
the jar containing them, and tlie ashes
might NulMcqueully, under military pro
tection, be tticreiughly jilowcl into the
entire cemetttant oemcterv, and they
wui piui'sh those who doggedly refuse to
comply with the law. It is beyond their j
jHiwer, however, to give a Roman Catho
lic burial to Guibord if the jirieat* refuse ,
their assistance, and so fax the latter
have shown 110 sign of yielding. Even
if a priest should consent to t>e present
t at au attempted funeral, he would jiro
bably instead of blessing the Kme*, in
aoeordanoe with the order of the civil
authorities, would curse them. It is
easy to ask why the authorities do not
compel the burial of Guibord, and thus
vindicate the law. That is jirecisely
what they cannot do without the consent
of the Roman Catholic bishop and his
stiK>rdiuatew.
I Novel Swindle.
Two custom Kmtmakeni of Worees
ter, Mass., have n swirdled iu a new
way, and are now meditating upon the
general wickedness of mankind. One
day u man of gentlemanly address enter
ed a is*>t-maker's establishment on Fos
ter street and ordered a jaiir of the K-st
calf boots, to be delivered without fail
the next Saturday evening. He selected
the last* for the 1 loots, gave directions
regarding tlie manufacture, and agreed
to pay sl2 for the articles. Sat 111 dav
IKXU the man again tulle,! on his Kx>t
niakt-r to see how the work was going
OIL One Knit was already finish,-,!, and
tins he to-.k away on the plet that he
wished to take it to his tailor's to have
the KAtoms of a new pair *>f jmntaloons
projwrly fitted over the boots. He was
to retnm in the early evening for the
other boot. The bootmaker waited until
eleven o'clock iu the •veiling, but his
customer di,l not apjiear. 'Monday
morning the Kutmaker sought an expla
nation of the (n, from a brother crafts
man. .
The brother heard him state his case
through and then immediately asked:
'• Which K*t did he take I" " The one I
for the right foot," was the answer.
" Well," said bootmaker No. 2, "eome
down tt> my shop ou Front streot and 1
will show you a numKw one c#lf Kwit
for the right foot which has lost its irt
ner in jweciaoly tiu> same way which
roar K*>t for the left foot lost "it* jvirC
ner." l"hen the two iKiotmakcr* formixl
a mutual consolation so,*iety. Ikiot
maker No. relatsHl how his customer
had ordered the Kiots to K done Hatur
i day night, ha,l given special directions
regarding the stvle of the lnamifiu-ture,
and had called Kiturday noon and taken
away the left boot iti order that the
tailor might fit a new jmir of pantaloons
over the boot. There was a striking
similarity in all Uie rireumstoncce of the
swindle as related by each bootmaker,
and a less than average intellect conld
' rowdily discern that n new and very
clever kind of swindle had been jierjie
trated. Th<> artful gentleman, who has
thns secured a new j>air of boots, gave to
each bootmaker the name of Daniel
Foley of Mechanic street. It is ne>dle*s
to say that tho above Daniel is a mythi
cal jiersonnge.
A Set of Scales.
There is a vast deal of swindling prac
ticed by produce dealers and stock buy
ers, ami farmers are cheated of a fair
profit on their sales because they trust 1
to others to tell them how mnch thev
take to market. No class of men are *0 1
trusting. latst fall a neighK
one-tenth, as the law provides. My I '
grain was very clean. I stated the ease )
to the miller, that he had taken unlaw- I
ful toll, ami since that time I get all I '
am entitled to. It is no little satisfse- (
tion to know that yon rile getting what '
yon are entitled to. The product* of *
yonr farm coat too mnch money and , '
hard laKir to lie guessed off and to lie '
taken from von by fraudulent weights.
A set of scale* will save their cost in a 1
short timp. 1
Scene at a Funeral,
Two brother*, Jesse and David Hunt, 1
were horn and grew to manhood in
Cumberland, Maryland, who resembled I 1
each other no oloaely that when separ- |
aU ,1 their m >-t intfmate friends could 1
hardly decide K'tween them. They
moved to tho West, David si riling in 1
Indianapolis, where ho married and 1
reared a family. Jesso fixed his rei- 1 1
deuce in Miwmri, whore ho also mar- '
ried and now resides. A few weeks 1
since I)n\i life. Ladies screamed f
and swooned, and no less than seyen of i
tliem for this reason had to K< carried j
from the room, and it was a considerable j *
time before the services conld lie con- I ®
eluded. I
In Russia locusts are salted and ! c
smoked like herring. 1 a
THK KEGFLAK DKTMCTIYK.
i j
What ll Onra la Harlrlv and Haw Hi
Pava ibr Debt —Monte Inirrrattaa larl.
* ! dowlo.
t ■
[ A t\>iivH|K>inlt'iit of tl' W'urltt, writing
f of tho ilotiH'tivii system, give* tho fol
lowing iitU>ronliiig iiioiilmta :
, It w vorv hunl to untku tliu Ji'tcotivi
, 1 uiul"tiUui>\ tluit ho owns anything t<
• ! uooioty. Hi* moral nonao is uovor oul
1 1 tivutml. Ho quits' iwi ofti ii provonUi
. crmniinl from reforming uu ho j