RC Jg— Economies of the Kitchen. RHUBARB TO SERVE WITH BLANC- MANGE or Rice.—Wash the rhubarb, wipe it dry, cut it in pieces about two inches long. put it into a pie-dish with the rind of a lemon cut very thin, a piece of bruised ginger, and loaf sugar | in the proportion of | Ih loaf sugar to 1 HB rhubarb ; bake till tender, take out | the ginger, serve cold. BROILED MACKEREL, — Open the fish down the back, cut it thus in half, wash and wipe it quite dry; rub the bars of a gridiron with a greased oaper, lay on the mackerel, grill until brown on then turn to the other. A moderate-sized fish will take ubout ten minutes to cook. Parsley and one side, butter. or fennel sauce, may be served with the mackerel, "TAPIO DESSERT.—An easily prepared dessert is made of tapioca; it hardly dainty a dish a pudding, of ‘tapioca for an hour in cold water, A FOR SEEMS call so appropriate to Soak a cupful then boil. adding warm water enough expand ; tender sweeten it and take from the fire; add t in small bits for flavor- to allow it to when an orange cu ing. Serve with cream. Ox-Cneex Pie.—Take the meat cut from the head previously to making the soup, shape it in neat pieces; mix a saucer of flour seasoned with salt and pepper, dip each piece of meat into the mixture and fill a pie-dish with it ; pour in a little water ; cover with suet crust made in the proportion of half pound of suet. finely chopped, to one pound of flour; bake for two hours, JELLY. — Lemon jelly, to top of sago or custard pud- LEMON spread on ding. is made by grating the rind of two lemons and squeezing out the juice; add spoonful of butter, and then add three eggs beaten very little il 1 this in another of a heaping cup of sugar, a table- Stir these together, light : set the basin or which have water ; stir it you ing constantly thickens. for use. CANDIED HOREHOUND, hound in water until the juice i Take vour sugar and boil uj then add the horehound tracted. to a feather; juice to the.sirup : boil up till again the same height ; sides of the stir with a spoon against When it out In a sugar-pan, pour Che degins to thick paper case dusted with fine sugar and grow cut in squares. The horehound may be dried. and then put in the sugar, finely powdered and sifted. Rice GrippLE CAxkEs.—Two cup- fuls cold boiled rice, one pint flour, one teaspoonful! sugar, one-half teaspoonful salt. one and a half teaspoonfuls baking powder, little than Sift to i 14 gether flour, sugar, sai toyal more one egg, 1¢ i 11. one-half pint of mil Fee ¥ 1 fram 1 ¥ free from rom ium add with rice beaten egg and milk; th hatte SIMOOoLh Datel cakes bake nicely ed. make Drown, Serve \ SPONGE nice to basket, then stir ping cup of sugar and a third of teaspoonful of baking-pow ler should be the and one cup flour. One thoroughly mixed witl flour, Flavor with lemon and drop from dessert speon on buttered paper spread on tin plates. The and the cakes will bake in a few minutes, | They require watching, as they are very likely to brown too much, oven should be hot, [pANIsH SAHorT-CAKE.—Take three eggs. half a cup of butter, one cup of | SULAr, two-thirds of a cup of sweet | milk. a little cinnamon, two cups of { flour and one teaspoonful of baking | powder ; stir the flour in, do mot knead it: the eggs, butter and sugar | should be beaten together till very light, Bake in a shallow tin; when it is done spread a thin frosting over the top; make this of the white of one egg, a little pulverized sugar and a teaspoons ful of cinnamon ; set in the oven to brown. Veal Crops wiTHh TOAMTO BAUCE Trim and flatten the chops, dip in raw egg, then in cracker dust, and fry rather slowly in lard or dripping ; open a can of tomatoes, drain off the liquor, put in a saucepan with a sliced onion, stew for ten minutes, strain out the onion, return the juice to the fire, thicken with a great spoonful of butter worked up in a teaspoonful of corn- starch, pepper and salt, boil up sharply, and, when you have laid the chops upon a dish, pour the sauce over them. MAZENA BLANC-MANGE.—Mix four tablespoonfuls of maizena to a paste | with eold milk, boil in the remainder of a quart of milk the thin rind of a lemon and 4 oz. loaf sugar; let this stand be- | side the fire till the flavor of the peel is | well extracted, then strain and mix | with maizena ; boil ten minutes stirring well all the time, pour into a mold wet i with cold water, stand till thoroughly cold, turn out’ by moving with the fingers just ound edge and shake out; it may be ' stewed rhubarb or raspberry jam. PUppING,—For a delicate and very nicé dessert make a pudding thus: Dissolve half an ounce of gelatine in half a pint of cold milk; let it come to a boil gradually. When hot but not boiling add the yelk of three well beaten eggs ; stir constantly ; sweeten to your taste ; or, if you wish a definite direc- tion, put mn a quarter of a pound of sugar, This is the right amount for most people. When this is cold stir in it a pint of whipped cream ; flavor with femon or vanilla, and, the last thing, stir in the whites of the three have them beaten quite stiff, Serve this cool, with eake or with fruit, eges | gy Making Bread. that are oftener the cause of than the of the course we bread It is a trite expression bread-makers PH Mr bread flour, Of made in poor poorness allude to A lady who has a reputation as a bread-maker par excel- families, lence, furnishes us the following, which we publish for the benefit of millers and those of their customers who complain of poor flour : Une cake of yeast will raise flour enough for medium-sized loaves of bread, two-cent compressed four Crumble the yeast into a bowl, being very care- ful not to handle it too much; sprinkle on it two teaspoonfuls of sugar, and pour over it a pint of lukewarm water, In the course of ten minutes the yeust will have risen to the top. until it is all in the Then stir it Make a hole centre of the flour, and pour in Stir it with the heaped up, dissolved. the yeast, the flour until batter. Sprinkle salt where It 18 a around edges the flour is taking care to keep the salt the slightly bitter taste, a way from sponge, as it is apt to 2 4s 3 # the give It a et The pan in a warm place. The most im- portant thing draughts, A an open is to keep it free from draught of cold air from door or has spoiled many a batch of bre: he kitchen warm and F., it is raised away from even, say the bread will be nicer if 1 + the fire; kept otherwise, it should be Warm. In an hour the sponge will be light and slightly warm moderately feathery. bread Knead the with water. Never use entirely cold water, but always have it warmer in winter kneading is f the dough free than in summer. Good good bread, is kept in the right temperature, from draughts will have raised again in from two and a half to three hours. f31 5 1 “4 UE can be moulded into loaves hould be +t all the air out of it, and put After again well kneaded, standing » OVE. * oven sufficie ie loaves when they have Then them cool the finish baking slowly. For the Young. Black and White Pray ers. A little black girl, ei years old, was setting the table, when a boy in the room said to her : ght " “Mollie, do you pray ?”’ The sudden- ness of the question confused her a little but she answered : “Yes, every night.” “Do you think God hears you ?”’ the boy asked. And she answered promptly : “I know He does.” “But do you think," said he, trying to puzzle her, “‘that He hears your pray- ers as readily as those of white chil- dren 77’ For full three minutes the child kept on with her work; then she slowly said : “Master George, I pray into God's ear, and not His eyes. ‘My voice is just like any other little girl's, and, if I say what I ought to say, God does not stop to look at my skin.” . Welcome, “Papa will soon be here,” said mamma to her two-year-old boy, “What can Gregory do to welcome him ?*’ And the mother glanced at the child's playthings, which lay scattered in wild confusion on the carpet, “Make the room neat,’’ replied the brigh tlittle one, understanding the look, and at once beginning to gather his toys into a basket, “What more can we do to welcome papa 7’ asked mamma, when nothing was wanting to the neatness of the room. * Be happy when he comes I? cried the dear little fellow, jumping up and down with eagerness ; as he watched at the window for his father’s coming. It is not a little curious that when a young man is bent on seeing the world, he labors under the hallucination that Sanitary. SULPHUR AS A DISINFECTANT.—M, d’Abadie recently read a paper before the Paris Academy of Med icine on ** Marsh Fevers,” in the course of which he made a strong plea for the proprietors of this rather neglected disinfectant. He cited many illustrations in favor of his argument ; among others that in the dangerous regions of African river mouths immunity from such fever is often secured by sulphur fumigations on the naked body, Also that the Sicilian workers in low ground sulphur mines suffer much less than the rest of the surrounding population from intermit- tent fevers, MM. Fouque has shown that Zephyria (on the voleanie island of Milo or Melos, the westerly of the Cyclades), which had a population of 10,000 when it was the centre of sulphur- most mining operations, became nearly de- populated by marsh fever when the sulphur-mining was moved farther east, and the mountain from reaching the town. A emanations prevented by a simple way to use this article is to drop hot EATING stove, BEFORE SLEEPING,—Man is the only animal that sleep quietly on an empty stomach, says the New York Jowrnal of The brute creation resents all efforts to Commerce, coax them to such a violation of the £1 : laws of nature. The lion roars in ¢ i forest until he has found his prey, and, when he has devoured it, he sleeps over J7 until he needs another meal. The horse will paw all night in the stable, and the pigs squeal in the pen, or sleep until they are fed. Th refusing all rest nimals Tr OWn pro- fore drop- Man Or some ! sleep, no matter how healthy can make a | wholesome food complete] The sleep which comes {« » ¢mpty, Is There is bot wy 11 lood that swells t during our busy hours must dimi $3 3 thal leaving a greatly inated with such vehemence, well To digest this blood is needed at the stomach nearer the fountains of life. It isa fact, established bevond the possibility of con tradiction, that sleep aids this digestion, and that the process of digestion, is con- ducive of refreshing sleep. It needs n- argument to convince us of this mutual relation. The drowsiness which always follows the well ordered meal is itself a testimony of nature to this inter-de enden ce, When Armies Fought Hand to Hand. S— In the days of hand-to-hand fighting, when missile weapons were employed b a comparatively small portion of the compatants, the vanquished were gener- ally almost annihilated and the victors suffered enormously, At Cannae 40,000 Romans out of 80,000 were killed, At Hartings the Normans, though the vie- tors, lost 10,000 out of 60,000, and at Crecy 30,000 Frenchmen out of 100,000, were it is asserted, killed, without reckoning the wounded. When the flint-lock reigned the average of the proportion of the killed and wounded in ten battles, beginning with Zorndorf in 17568 and ending with Waterloo, was from one-fourth to one-fifth of the troops present on both sides, The heaviest loss was at Zorndorf, where 32,916 men out of 82.000 were killed or wounded. It was also very heavy at Eylau, being 55,000 casualties out of 160,000 men, In the campaign in Italy in 1859 rifles were used on both sides, and we find that the proportion of casualties to combat. ants was at Magenta and Solferino one- eleventh, In the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 when both sides where armed with breech-loading rifles, the average proportion of killed and wounded at Worth, Spicheren Mars-le-Tour, Grave- lotte and Sedan was one-ninth, the heaviest loss being at Marsle-Tour, where it was one-sixth, and the smallest at Sedan, where it was ore-twelfth, Educational, Work Required at Different Colleges. At Smith the two lower classes have from thirteen to sixteen hours recitations to do most work, sixteen hours in Wellesley insist on the first two years, The average, to be exact, is fourteen and one-third hours weekly, seventeen hours, all students fifteen minutes each, weekly, Vassar prescribes for of forty periods’ of elocution and English, additional. The limits for ambition and weariness for recitation, In are allowed preparation of and Wellesley idered about Vassan all classes are cons equally hard workers. Among ether Cornell leads colleges, the way with an average of hours required, in the largest, the seniors in the least number, while the Sixteen hours is hours, are hardest which, cu creases to seventeen for up University of Pennsylvi least as a {freshmen and hardest as the number drops to sixteen in the third year, and finally rises t Inthe Arts od by dint of “lab.” y Seventeen again, nirse Lhe scientists average, work and electives DUN ed Of hours, most in junior and senior Amhers Rar Annhel averages sixteen hours, nfiu the infinen { nurses take three how alf courses take 3 big ores Lhe death, described 1 shell Stopping for a moment at the gate of a dwelling, 1 noticed a young mother 1 #4 chubby child in Above the head swung a couple of stable-lanterns, their leaning over it witl her arms, woman's light falling full upon her face, The child was erewing with delight at the strange pagent, host ma'am,” as it watched the armed on. “1 beg said Jim Manners, one of my men, as he dropped the butt of his musket on the peered wistfully into the faces of the mother and her child. “] beg pardon, but may I kiss that baby of yours ? I've got one just like pass your pardon, ground, and him at home ; at least he was when 1 last saw him, two years ago.” The mother, a sympathetic tear roll. ing down her blooming cheek, silently held out the child, Jim pressed his unshaven face to its innocent, smiling lips for a moment, and then walked on, saying “(God bless you, ma'am, for that !"’ Poor Jim Manners! He never saw his boy again in life. A bullet laid him low the next day, as we made our first charge, a A A Tea Drunkard. —-— The term ““tea-drunkard” is known throughout Russia, and implies, not the abuse of robur or any spirit distilled from the herb, but that the cup which cheers intoxicates alse, if zealously adtfered to, Strong tea is well known to be a power ful though fleeting excitant of the nerv- ous system ; and if the reader likes to make the experiment lot him drink a dozen or fiteen cups of tea inthe Russian style, that is, without cream or sugar, but flavored with a drop of lemon juice, in the space of a couple of hours, and he may arrive at the conclusion that there is something rational about such an epithet as tea-drunkard after ll, Demorest. The following clips from Demorest are Interesting, as are all matters found in the columns of this valuable maga- The False Prophet, A fierce taken possession of some of excitement the Egypt. They led by a person named Mahdi, formerly a boat-builder in He religious has wild southern Dongola, fled all the him. Egyptian armies The sent false prophet theories by taking elf four hundred 3 instead of the impostor thought 38 41 3 & seer 341 Vos vo sufi 8 Bald to ha 14 already os Bartholdi's Statue. hat Americans ¢ niov here an by the rest of the world. M. de Lesseps the Great. If the construc lives tor of the Suez fifteen years longer he will in history as the great canal He is at present studying the plans for a canal across the Isthmus of Malas the modern world, engaged in Ca, a work which, if carried out, will abridge by four days the vovage of vessels ply ing between Europe and the East via the Some time since he was revising a scheme for cutting through the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece ; then again he has been actually employed to begin the engineering works which look to the flooding of a large portion of the desert of Sahara with the waters of the Mediterranean, the object being to create a great inland sea in Northern Africa, and thus rescue vast stretches of territory from sterility. Atthe same time M. de Lesseps is hard at work on the Isthmus of Panama to join the waters of the Pacific with those of the Gulf of Mexico. A wonderful man is this great French engineer. Ostrich Farming. A tract of six hundred and forty acres of land has been secured at Anaheim, Cal., for the purpose of breeding os- triches, These ungainly birds are valuable for the feathers they produce, and it is supposed that this new in- dustry will be a very proitable one. Some twenly ostriches have been brought from Southern Africa, and have so far taken kindly to “the glori- ous climate of California.’ The fe. males have commenced laying eggs. These last are formidable in size, for they measure four inches and a half in lateral diameter, and seven inches in longitudinal diameter. They weigh three and a half pounds, A new egg is laid every alternate day, till ninety eggs are collected. It is believed that in time these birds will be quite common New Mexico, and western Ostrich hunting is said to be capital sport, but the great value of the animal exists in its feathers, which furnish plumes for female headgear, Arizona, Texas, lot The Engineer at a Concert. “1 was loafing around the streets last night.” said Jim Nelson, one of the locomotive engineers running “and as 1 had noth- in a way that made me feel all over in spots. As soon as he sat down han- on the stool I knew by the way he himself that he understood the HEY were gauges wr oa 4 a Walel enougii., . $ (od wanieq i nore al, My hair stood up like a cat's tail, because I knew the was up. iS Was a daze crash as they struck, and 0 atoms, people mashed and mangied and bleeding ng, and 2 10 TIDY Senses, i stanastill, with af 4 y i of the mact , and bow- If 1 live ely UDGred years old. I'll never for- ide that Frenchman Fave me i ial he people before him, is Naples. Naples has half a million inhabitants, such as they are. proper place to visit, on account of Mt. Vesuvius and Naples is quite the the view of the bay. You will be gladder to get out of it, though, than any place you were ever in in your life, not even excepting the station house. 1 do not see how an American can live in comfort in any Italian city, owing to the notions of cleanliness and decency that are pecu- liar to the country. But Naples is the worst. Squalid children make the streets hideous from daylight to mid- night. The houses seemed to be turned inside out, back foremost, and all do- mestic and toilet operations to be per- formed upon the streets, The lower classes are no more than half civilized. They repudiate and re- ject utterly commonly accepted notions of delicacy. They are as primitive in many of their ways as if they had lived in the time of Moses, One of our party Saw a woman spinning with a distaff precisely as women did in the days of Homer. The lower stories of the houses often have no windows towards the street. A door furnishes the light and air. Inside of one such room a whole family are supposed to find their dwel- ling place. In brief, they live like rats in a hole. When it is necessary to cook, they set up a sort of little furnace, right out in the street, and broil or bake, as the case may be, before the gave of all the world. 1 judge the women comb their hair only on high saints’ days, They cannot perform the operation for themselves, either, apparent} ¥. Neigh- bors’ wives club together, as it were, and comb one another's hair, sitting in the front doors for a friendly mean- while, — Ex, Sosy
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