Household. On the Selection of Provisions. In order to facilitate the choice of the best provisions the following signs of good quality should be attended to: As a general rule, the best meat is that which is moderately fat Lean meat will be found to be tough and Yasteless. Very fat meat may be good but is not economical, and the butcher ought to be required to cut off the su- perfluous suet before weighing it. Beef.—The flesh should feel tender, have a fine grain and clear red color, The fat should be moderate in quantity, and lie in streaks through theglean. Its light yel- heifer color should be white or very the best : good, if well fed : cow and low, Ox beef is very bull decid- edly inferior. Hutton,—The flesh. like that of beef, should be of a good red color, perhaps a It should be fine-grained fat, which Wether ram shade darker. and well mixed with ought to be white and firm. mutton s superior to either or ewe, and may be distinguished by having a prom- inent lump of fat on the inside of lew at the broadest part. The flesh the ram has a very dark color, and texture ; pale, and the fat vellow ai Veal. 18 Of d COAarse hat of Its color should be a tinge of pink. It ought t fut and feel firm to the touch. should have a fine del be le bone should i and well covered sald proper age is about two or three months, When killed too voung it is soft the and dark colored. be al +3 13 ¢¥} St veal, though ie fore quarter is a4 sure sign of stalene iy also be det ag ~ I't eg the best, ~iY months t-i11 3 ! killing. when the veigh more than M easly po Ott into it elo drawn ont, it} ancl the knife is 1 § fresh and If eit} good, ave the slightest tinge of eri fat it will soon become mnet for use, Butter and Cheese should be in by tasting them. It is difficult to discover egg be fresh. The | l between the eve and a lighted Eggs. - i Mr] ¥ close to the light, when, if equally transparent throughout, it be prounounced good © but the any cloudy spots apparent jected as stale, POULTRY. Birds of all Kinds are best whe The thin bone projecting over will ther feel soft and «tiff and hard the bird | try should be firm and Heshy, Fowls are best when short and plump, and the legs smooth and the blunt. The black-legged most juicy, with broad breast thick rump, short and kind In eapons the comb should be short and pale—in cocks, short and bright red. If fresh, the vent 1 close and darks when stale, it tainted and the eves sunk, puis are the will be will be Turkeys. ~The same remarks apply to these as to fowls, and bill are soft. Some persons prefer the tom turkey to the hen. I will here remark that to my notion, the flesh of the hen i8 whiter, tenderer and sweeter eating than that of the tom, For my tise I prefer a hen turkey of ten or twelve pounds, though for a ‘show piece’ vour five-and«t wenty-pounder is a gran. der spectacle to the eve: and as to When young the toes would never see that size had anyihing to do with it. The flesh of the wild turkey is much darker and more per fumed than that of the domestic turkey. Geese, ~The flesh should be of a fine light pink tint, the liver pale, the fat white and soft, an the breast full and plump. In a young goose the feet and bill are yellow ; in and old one reddish, It ought to have very few or nohairson the body. Ducks. — Young ducks are distinguish- ed in the same manner as young geese ; The the belly should be firm and thick. drake isthe best eating. Pigeons. The breast should be full and plump and the feet clastic. When not fresh they are flabby and the vent discorded. GAME, Wild Fowl, when have soft quills, and should be plump and hard in the vent. Old birds are distinguished by rigid and long, sharp spurs; young, bills. tough leg sinews, they require longer keeping than young ones. Small field birds should always be used fresh, The flesh of good venison the fat clear and bright, lying thickly on the back. the cleft of the hoof is smooth and close. Venison, isdark. fine grained and firm, and When voung, the body is the and Rabbits are fresh when rigid, Young ones have claws smooth. sharp and close the ears tender and easily torn, FisH. A stale fish furnishes such nnmistake- l of its condition, both tl smell and sight, tl abe evidence at the merest who should purchase it would nsable, When per fed tly fresh, t inex body is stiff and elastic ; the gill ult to open | ir sides : the eves bright and » glistening and firmly attached When stale this, fensive 3 the Is Lin re- DESIAeS, a + best fish of smell, have small lies ou and broad shon : ) should dried, and press them wrap them ach package an ra dry « loset, herbs may alse be rublwd % #1 IL £1 wien Herbs ex- COoIm- the hands and retam flavor for twoor three years, but if merely kept ’ 3 i. 3 3 in O0Se HIelies, as 1s the usu method, th 4 ey soon le their fragrance “4 -—.w Postal Cards. When postal cards were first issued, about six years ago, their novelty pro- voked som fanlt were made fun of by." finding, and as “stingy.” ““shab- ete, ut they were cheap, and the people used them and they “ansafe,”’ the eritics soon followed the example of the remarks) two people; now (as an exchange postal card has only the man who receives duns on it, and the of writing paper, The little postal causes a decrease of from twelve to fifteen million dollars every year in the business of the writ. Ing paper trade of this country. Postal eards are made at Holyoke and forty men are continnally employed in their manufacture, The ecard wand is furnished in paekages of three thousand each, and every sheet is made into forty postals. Three presses are kept going night and day, A machine slits the sheets into strips of ten ecards each and these in turn are cut into single cards, dumped in piles of twenty-five each, when they are packed by girls, in paste. board boxes, containing five hundred cards. A government officer is con stantly on hand to see that no pilfering of cards is done, The Holyoke manu. factory turns out about one million cards a day. the enemies manufacturer Scientific Economy. The Marine Register complains that New York harbor is being seriously in- jured by ashes and refuse dumped into its waters almost daily. Twenty years ago it required five | tons of coal to make a ton of iron rails, Now a ton of steel rails may be pro- duced from the with half that amount of coal. ore Mount Etna, Professo Basaltic lava, which has been examined by Henr O. Silvestri, contains small cavities filled with a waxy, vellowish parafline, melt- ing at in ether alcohol, 55° and soluble ol Belt manufacturers may find it of in- terest to know that the experiments of Mr. Jenatzy, of Brussels, disclose that under uniform loads caoutchouc takes increasing elongations, until it becomes quite twice as long as ‘it was originally, and that until rupture ensues, then the elongations decrease The weight neces- sary to quadruple the length three times that under which the become doubled, s Alfred 13, Wallace, are vided into three Monkeys, say usually di monkeys and baboons ; but th » the American ally mu different from all of the Old World than any oi Lhe are monkeys, Ie from each other, ’ therefore, divide the whole monkes tribe into two families, one bh a habitat in the Old World in the New World, and the Nava Some vears ago the offic ican railroad ) 3 it EXperts betol a famous 5 EX1N0SY ¥ DY exXposiire Lo nakedflame or between dynamite, The Ouasterveschisches Licpuey Fabrikan states that Messrs, Bocket & Machand now prepare both alcohol and papx from wood . HH kilos, of wood shavi th Wii of are treated in wooden vals kilos. of water and s00 kilos, chlorie acid for ten to twelve steam being passed in the whole time, constant the $0 a8 to Keep the mass on a Whe acid liquid boil, this operation is over i% ran pit, nentralized with chalk, suvl fermented in a temperature of 24.25 4, The ligneous residue in the vats is washed and deied and worked A technical journal gives a simple receipt for preserving silver and plated articles from turning black, as they in- variably will if not kept constantly in The same plan could with advan tage be applied, we should think, to any metal subject to change or the action of the atmosphere. collodion-—that is, not photographic collodion--is diluted with twice its bulk of spirits of wine, and applied to the surface of the metal with a soft brush, The apirit soon evaporates, leaving an imperceptible and trans parent skin, which ean when required be removed with hot water, use, Plain La Tribuna, of Madrid, has a long account of the granting by the medieal facxiliy of that city of a degree of medi- cine on Senorita Martina Casellsy Bellaspi. She is the first Spanish woman who has ever studied medicine and taken her degree. The paper speaks in warm terms of her as a lady who, in spite of much opposition and national is following in Senorita Cassell’s footsteps, Finding the Valencian School of Medicine had closed its doors against her, she is now studying in Madrid, where she has met Another Spanish lady with a more friendly reception, Herr Lieber- mann, employs electricity in determin- ing the melting points of metals alloys fusible at low temperatures, A German scientist, and He pro- vid ed with a bell a rod of the metal or alloy 10 internoses in an electrical eirenit be experimented with, and plunges this rod into a bath of some suitable substance, the temperature of which is given by a thermometer. The the bell will ring but as soon as the bath attains the tem- girenit being closed perature necessary to fuse the metal the circuit is broken and the and the reading of the at that instant will melting of the met NOISE CARER, thermometer saken give ih point lor alloy in question, Elephants are very and appear frequent anything derogatory dignity than actual known work on nats “The Menageri { Outcome of a Spelling School. : 4 a} TALIS On dl always put ‘in in Vermont. | 3 10 Lis hwother “3 i't much of teat half dozen tie “Catarrh”’ WiLsl until towered alof ott ‘em thie photog laid ede 33 raph and when onls ft “Constantinonie 3 two like a bolt of Hghtning, word * {ne ren- the when parasite,’ other the cried out: and and head one hundred YAnd I've forty word over a times, and I guess I know ! seen ‘em every day of my life for and I body,” added the down for any- other, “It para- * replied the teacher, “1 dispute “8a do 1.7 “That's the way Web. it." “Who's Webster?” Yes, trot him out. *’ Then the friends of either rose up. In the shindy the teacher came in for two black eyes, a cracked rib, kicks in the shin and bites on the ears, and the minute he could get clear and over the fence he headed for Detroit, and rgached home in want of so many repairs that it took two months to make him presentable. He had a few dollars due him, and he left a change of clothes up there, but he doesn't want to hear from the directors, They may think he has resigned, and any parasite desiring the situation can have the vacancy without paying bonus, don’t sit 1% site,’ itt ster gives Es ———— The Steubenville Herald says that a wig is used to cover a bald head and not to show that a man is wigorous, Pretty near, not quite, A man wears one to show that his wife has been very prejudice, has won high honors, wigorous, Not Much of a Show. The other morning. while the urbane manager of Woodward's smoking a four-bit cigar and meditative. ly listening to the muffled walls of a tom- {rardens was eat that had just been swallowed alive by the big ig anaconda, a tall, thin, secien- tific looking with a blue glasses, entered the Ian, goatee and gates and re- marked nan insinuating “Of fraternity 7°’ OY manney course youn pass the scientific course we donot,” said the show nai. “What, not the neers in the the he infinite savans, not Pio- march of t of the the Professor, w great mind into the hitherland brew ith vod 777 returned great surprise, not deceive You. RArcast) cally replied the proprietor of the only salamander: *' we pa withing but the y : quills on the fretful porcupines—I mean the press, You can’t ut HIHIeES VOU Colne ao . iviic time Not id think ing actually fon } 3 moh il I'm sory good IHan ; SOITY 11 doubt you mean well, tary skamgatibus ? Two Kinds of Ladies. As a lady walked down State street upon a bleal vOung hurriedly N overn- ber day her attention was attracted to a deformed boy coming toward her carry. He : clad, twisted his limbs most strangely as he walked, and looked before him with a vacant stare. Just the eripple reached the brisk pedestrian he ing several bundles, was thinly before which broke and emptied a string of sausages on the sidewalk, Two viehly- dressed ladies (¥) near by held back their silken skirts and whispered quite audibly, “How horrid I"? while several passed by amused by the boy's look of blank dismay, gave vent to their feel- ings in a balf-suppressed daugh, and then went on without taking further interest, All this increased the bov's embarrass. ment. He stoopefl to pick up the sae sages only io Jet fall another paste when, in despair, he stood and looked at his lost spoils, In an jostant the bright-faced stranger stepped to the boy's side, andsaid in a tone of thorough kindness: “Let me hold these other bundles while yon pick up what you have lost.*' In damb astonishment the cripple handed all he held to the «young Samaritan, and devoted himself to se- curing his cherished sausages. When these were again strongly tied in the coarse, torn paper, her skillful hands replaced the parcels on his scrawney arms, as she bestowed on him a smile of ¥ encourazement, and said : “1 hope you havn't far to go!” The poor fellow seemed scarcely to hear the girl's pleas- words ; ant but, looking at her with the same vacant stare, asked : lady 7° *'I hope he surprised response. “1 was kis “Why,” with curiosit BO try to be, asked 1) istener. V quite arouse ‘Cause ve seen such as called 1 selves ladies, but they never spoke Kin and pleasant like ‘cepting to grand un there's two kinds: them I guess thinks they's ladies and isn't, and 1 as what tries to be and is! College Jokes. { allthe funny savings and witti« uttered in college lecture rooms dius be collected, there a vear could material enough to of books, Unfortuna many of the best by the ' il be make the readable IOKes are underst 3 1 ¥ class alone, and their setting lose of the be appreciated by the Sone incidents, COOPERS selon ol pe The Old Novel Heroine. i é Deauty amiable, humble OUTS gr. jst HE -10 HOM: R1IHAIY sub all her defici % in artificial cu she the memoirs knew theircoxt+ hb 11 Ny of bo Was a pories us letter-writes readers of 1&4rs fas baustible ahd in all embarrassing sit tions where she might have been caliad upon to show some decision of characte she most conveniently swooned seldom ate or drank, and when shi il "Was 1 ¥ 3 5 only a little fruit and water. See was greatly addicted to poetry, her ideas were continually mranging them selves “in the following lines:™ aithough steeped in all the mise misfortune that imagination ceuld ine vent, she was very ready fo apostrophise ‘Sweet Solitude,” conld ol anything el with a “ she colnmence the someinnes sang their verses, accompes nying themselves upon their harp or flute : and how they contrived to retain these instruments amid all the hair. breadth the aldnetions. the sudden flights which it was their des. tiny to undergo, was not the least re. markable circumstance of their lives, London Graphic, big Heroines of more romantic school ‘Seapes, i The first society for the exclusive pur pose of circulating the Bible was organ ized in 1805, under the name of the British and Foreign Bible Society, A ni As Reptemiox oF Postage to two cents, to take effect, we believe, July 1st, was ordered by the late Congress, We suppose the inconsistency of the sere vice remains. A letter will be carried from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, for hwo cents, and delivered bs carrier free a mile from the post office in the latter place ; but if you or I drop a letter in the Philadelphia post office for the F. & M. Bank on the opposite side of Chestnut street, the charge is still two cents—which is too high, or which is too low, which ¥ :
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