ke doen Kitchen Economies, —— PorATo STRIPS. —Pare. cut in long strips, lay in cold water for an hour, dry by spreading them on a towel and pressing another upon them, fry to a light brown in salted lard, shake off the fat in a bot colander, line a deep dish with a napkin and put in the strips. They should not be crowded in frying, but each should be distinct and free from the rest. BrOWN BrEAD. — Brown bread, which may also be served as a pudding, is made by taking one cup of molasses, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in half a cup of boiling water ; stir this in the molasses until it is thoroughly mixed with it ; then add three parts of Graham flour to ome of corn meal in sufficient quantity to make a batter; to this add a tablespoonful of melted lard, If you wish to eat it while hot in place of bread, dry it in the oven for fifteen minutes ; if for pudding, serve fresh from the steamer with a sour sauce. GreEEN CorN Sovur,—Make this soup when there is any good broth or pot- liquor in which poultry, veal or beef has been boiled. After husking half a dozen ears of tender green corn, and removing the silk, cut through the centre of the rows of grains, and then, with the back of the knife, scrape out the inner portion of the grains. Boil the corn for twenty minutes and just enough boiling water to cover and pre- vent burning ; then add to it three pint of broth, and a palatable seasoning of salt and pepper, and keep it hot while a dish of nice toast is made to serve with it, Coon TurNrps.—Turnips should be cut across the fibre in rings of less than half an inch in thickness, for three reasons: First, the turnip need only be peeled very thin, instead of in the usual manner, thickly and waste. fully ; secondly, by so cutting them, the fibres are cut across, so that how- ever old the turnip is, it is never stringy; thirdly, they require only fourteen min- utes to boil in plenty of boiling water and salt, and thus the delicate flavor of the turnips is preserved ; also they can be more easily mashed. The thinner the circles of turnips are cut the quicker they cook, and the less fibre they will have, CURRY OF MvuTTON.—Put half a dozen small onions into a saucepan with a tablespoonful of butter, a tea spoonful of curry powder, a little sea- soning, a tablespoonful of prepared flour and half a pint of cream; stir until smooth. Remove the bones from two pounds of mutton, cut it into small pieces and fry alight brown. Put the meat into a saucepan, pour the sauce over it and boil gently half an hour. Put the meat on a hot dish and arrange a border of boilsd rice neatly around it. GRAHAM DiaMoxDs.—Pour boiling water on Graham flour, stiring rapidly until all the flour is wet. It should be about as thick as can be stirred easily with a wooden spoon. Place the dough, with plenty of flour, upon the mould- ing board and knead it for two or three minutes ; roll out half an inch thick and cut with a knife into small cakes, diamond-shape ; bake half an hour in a very hot oven. Mixcep LoBsTER.—Pick the meat from a fresh lobster; mince it well, and put it into a saucepan with a sea- soning of salt, cevenne, a wineglass of white wine and one of vinegar, Set it over a clear fire and simmer about ten minutes. Melt a tablespoonful of but- ter, with an anchovy and the yolks of two well-beaten eggs; stir it into the Jobster and thicken the whole with bread crumbs ; place it in a dish and garnish with the claws and parsley. Exermisn Pou CAke.—One pound of butter beaten to a cream ; one pound of powdered sugar; ten eggs, the whites and yolks beaten separately, one pound of dried flour, When all are well beaten together, add one pound of English currants and one pound of raising, one cupful of almonds, one cup- ful of candied peel, two wine glasses of brandy. Baketwo hours. SourrrLe or Fruirs.— With fruits of a juicy nature, peaches, plums, apri- cots, bananas, proceed in the following manner : Remove the kernels, and press the fruit throngh & sieve ; add half a pound of powdered sugar and the whites of three eggs ; beat well with a egg beater five or six minutes, and add a little maraschino as flavoring ; then take the whites of six eggs and beat into a stiff froth ; mix well together ; put this on a dish in a well heated oven five or six minutes before serving. Spriukie powdered sugar over before serving. A SvrersTiTiON VERIFIED, ~Yo0U may say what you please, but there is luck in horseshoes, A man nailed one up on the fence not long ago since, and a week afterward his wife, who used to wear out the furniture on him, eloped Science. ~—More than 3,000,000 trees were planted in Great Britain during the season of 1881-82, — Although 80,000 paper car-wheels were in use on 150 differents 10ads last year, but three failures are reported. —M. Victor Saint Paul, a French- man, has offered a prize of $5000 to any person who shall discover an infallible cure for diphtheria. —The greatest heat of the air in the sun probably never exceeds 145° Fah. , nor the greatest cold 65° below zero. About 130° above and 40° below zero are the extremes for the United States, and very unusual, —Mr. Flinders Petrie is about to pub- lish a work on measurements of the great pyramid, in which he will show that the new measurements are irrecon- citable with those on which Professor Piazzi Smyth has built his hypotheses, Mr. Ernest Giles, the explorer, con- templates organizing a grand final ex- pedition to traverse the remaining un- explored portions of the Australian con- tinent. and to endeavor to discover some more trustworthy traces of Leic- hardt, ~The London Sanitary Assurance Association is going to recommend leg- islation which will compel builders of new buildings to obtain a certificate from some authority asto their sanitary condition before such buildings can be inhabited. —The Engineering Review says that the frequent use of the indicator for de- termining the amount of power con- sumed in driving shafting is of great value. cent. of the power of engines is ordinar- ily used for this purpose. ~The President of the French Me- made by the Bureau have proved good. 65 partly and 42 not at all, during the coldest period of winter, in small mechanical lamps, wick. —It has been observed that extends far down scale of creation. frequently. —A been invent wew lightning appliance has ed by M. de Khodinsky. H:¢ directs a jet of coal gas ahd of oxygen of magnesia. The coal-gas and oxygen arrive at the point of combus- tion by two separate pipes inelosed in the same tube, —It is maintained by some scientists that the aroma of fruist increase with the latitude, creases, Many herbs, such as caraway, are richer in essential oils in Norway than in more southern regions. This effect is ascribed to the influence of the prolonged light of the summer months, ~ Although three or four crystals of the genuine precious topaz remarkable for size and clearness have been found near Pike's Peak, Mr. R. T. Cross as- serts that the stone which is cut in Colorado and sold as topaz to tourists is not topaz at all, but simply smoky quartz, or the cairingorm stone of Scot- land. ~ Leaves of turnips and the like are frequently used as green fodder, but their removal has had a bad effect upon the plants. Actual trial with the sugar beet has shown that the denudation process has reduced the quantity of sugar 3.7 per cent. The leaves are also less nourishing than young grass, ~ Alloys are often difficult te make, It has been found that the presence of even 1-30000 of a pound of antimony in a pound of melted lead increases the rapidity with which the lead oxidizes and burns. Lead which contains more than 1-1400 of its weight of copper is unfit for the manufacture of white lead, —To increase the quantity of nitro. gen which is given off as ammonia dur- ing the destructive distillation of shales for the manufacture of oils, Dr. Urqu- hart mixes with the shale before intro- ducing it into the retorts an alkali or alkline earth and thus facilitates the combination of the hydrogen with the nitrogen, «~The composition of elephant’s milk, according to the analysis of Dr. Quesne- ville, in the Monitewr Scientifique, is similar to that of cream, but its consist ency is different, Its odor and taste are very agreeable, and the taste is su. perior to that of most other kinds of milk. It is about equal to cows’ milk in quality. Professor Jager the “soul-smeller,” | DOat as he is familiarly called in Germany, lately delivered a lecture in which be insisted upon the expediency of wearing animal fibres, and only them, next the skin. He would not have cotton or linen even for the lining of clothes Professor Jager can amuse if he does | not instruct, —M. Vignier believes that animals which they sometimes manifest so strik- sense relating to the forces that govern both the direction and the inclination of the needle the seat of which he internal ear. —Celluloid, which is a combination made ivory, ete. cigarette paper and a mixture of nitric and sulpburic acids. One of the most recent uses of celluloid is fer making type and engravers’ blocks for printing from. into very good imitations ebony, coral, amber turquoise, ~The London Graphi cheapest postal service that of Japan, where letters are con- veved all over the Empire for two sen— about seven-tenths of a penny, This is the more wonderful, considering the SAYS in the ous and irregular country which bas less than one hundred miles of railway, while wagons can only pass over a few of the chief roads, and the steamers connect but a small number of } stations.’ —Dr. Julien came to the fol conclusion in regard to the l defining life as the period during which the ance, brownstone, | out of the sun, from five to fi Laminated fine brownstone, from ty-five fifty brownstone, from one COB ife of stones, stone Coarse best used twen- to years, Compact flue to two cent I Nova Scotia stone | from fifty to one hundred years. Ohio the Caen stone, from thirty-five | to forty years; coarse dolomite | forty marble sixty pure marble, from fifty 100 years ; granite, from seventy-five 10 | 200 years, according to variety. | sandstone, i 100 Years ; vears ; fine calcareous eset A MS Clips. ~The man who rides horseback | ways takes a back seat, ~The farmer makes shines behind a dry hay, while the son goods coun- i ler. in Michigan the ot her ar day, a 1 ille " | her charge were killed by the Ix fteness is sometimes fatal. Up purse and yaghof a tree, — When Fogg the language he said he would ask his wife, word, a an ron What washed asked to th © Was regarding Ya aad 1084 po "ov er] bg latest additions English | She always had the last In the far west advertises “to wash, cows,’ for a woman and milk lone or two does Le | want bh for? —Edith-—It’s really difficul { you. Ni marriages seem | the prestige of great antiquity. Adam, 1 Eve, —Country maidens are now holding guessing matches, They sit out garden and guess whether its a potato bug or an army worm that's crawling down their backs, is cows and froned to advise aht 44 x ign to have | you know, wasn't married ti i in the try, in reference to a block pavement “All you have to do, gentleman, is to put your heads together and the thing is done.” — “The funeral was all that could be expectel,’ said an aged lady who looks upon these events with an artistic eye, “The display was grand and the widow wept like a born angel.” - intemperate citizen, of Roches- | ; calls his stomach “‘Hades,” be. cause it is the place of departed spirits, And one in Cincinnati calls his ‘The goes. —An Irish lawyer, having addressed the court as ‘‘gentlemen,” instead of “yer honors,” after he bad concluded a brother of the bar, reminded him of his error. He immediately rose and apologized thus: ‘““May it plaze the court, in the hate of debate I called yer honors gentlemen. I made a mis take, yer honors.” The speaker then sat down. ~*Now, John,” said the father of the city family to the father of the country family, ‘‘we have been spend. ing all summer with you, and as some sort of recompense we are going to have some amateur theatricals aud give you a farewell benefit,” “No, thankee, Charles,” was the reply ; “‘don’t wait to do that. The farewell will be benefit enough for me.” «Irish repartee is proverbial. Last’ week a professional man addressed an artisan, who was waiting in his hall, rather brusquely. ‘‘Hello, you fellow, | do fio Jon Tat me ?* Tye Snows was : 0, your honor ; Nn Wing for a gentleman," Sanitary. How to Preserve and Restore Health. --Sick-headache patients are recoms- {| mened three glasses or lukewarm water, {to be swallowed in rapid succession, ‘and to be followed immediately by a | glass of hot mustard water, The effect | 8 at times very beneficial and quite as- | tonishing to the uninitiated, ~Thousands of persons starve thems selves into thinness, paleness and ner- | vousness by living on white bread and | sweet things and sleeping too little, Oat meal, cracked wheat, graham bread { and beef, with plenty of sleep, would { make them plump and ruddy. --DBeware of pop-corn, A seven | year-old son of Mr, Luntz, of Cleve- land, Ohio, died, recently, of a paralysis of the heart. He had been eating a great deal of pop-corn within the past | three months, and physicians claim that his disease was due to the ter contained therein, Tea mdon Medical Times ap following : ‘Dr. Heath, of has been the last to raise But it has long us that tea is a of | toatl In the lx pears the | New Castle, his voice against tea, | been a fact familiar to most fruitful source { Among the who vast numbers of poor wo- men frequent of our Londen hospitals, we should not far wrong in saying that are suffering from | dyspepsia almost ir i TWO ¢ bw two-thirds dyspepsia, This wwariably arises from want of proper food and the abuse of articles like tes, | stay the craving for food, tut aggravale Auses-—1he wh which the digestion.” Rum and Tobacco. | fenseless, Our craving stomachs call for Bad food, much and longing of stimulus, the cause of of this uneasiz stomach, A wife i who smells her husband's breath will | help him much more by by Litter wor i fries, the good food ths 1 ds. Pies, ¢ akes, puddi heavy bread, strong coffee the mischief with then it calls for f mutt | end good vegetables, | quantiti es, lemon | juice, will prevent much of the craving i for drink and tobacco. tea play the stomach timulus, i light, taken in Ome 8 beef and on, sweet moderate with a discreet use of Consumption, Parker | stock of Massachsetts farmers, { gent lor Hous Loi Theodore CAE intelli- ig-lived and Bi gisters all but Theodore, | capable of contin one died of consumption n, same though his consti imself died of the di . t fortv.niing ase, BL lory-nine, tution had of iron. But he work afty years, and that brought out the He 0 seemed had crowded the of life- A long time into less tha Reel disease, gave a natural expla how the od Jeane life too have been long-l ved nal) fats to the of a family which ought His father's farm hill spongy Always nights house stood on side, which sloped meadow, The wet. The mists were and momings, and thus the pulmonary disease were grad- ually sown. stances they Invariably ripened death, Mr. Parker says: “Three generations of stout and | long-lived men were born and grew up | there ; and if the fourth be now puny, and sink quicker to the grave, it is from no fault of the old house, but from the consumption which such spongy meadows in New England seldom fail toproduce in the course of time. ! Even children, who have removed to | healthier situations, carry with them the fatal poison in their blood, and transmit it to their sons and daugh- | tors, into a large meadow was seeds of How to Take Milk. Milk isa food that should not be taken in copious draughts like beer or other fluids which differ from it chemically, if we consider the use of milk in infancy the physiological ingestion, that is, of food | provided for it. Each small mouthful is secured by effort and slowly presented to the gastric mucous surface for the primal digestive stages. Itis thus reg- ular.y and gradually reduced to curd, and the stomach is not oppressed with a lump of half coagulated milk, The same principal should be regarded in case of the adult. Milk should be slow- ly taken, in mouthfuls, at short inter- | vals, and thus it is rightly dealt with by the gastric juice. If milk be taken after other food it is almost sure to bur- den the stomach and to cause discomfort and prolonged indigestion, andthis for the obvious reason that there is insufficient digestive agency to dispose of it, and the better the quality of the milk the more severe the discomfort will be under these conditions, Milk is insufficiently used in making simple pudding of such | farinaseous foods as rice, tapioca and sao, Distaste for these is engendered very often, I believe, because the milk is stinted in making them, or poor, skimmed milk is used, Abundance of new milk should be employed, and more milk or cream should be added when 4 het are taken. In Scottish : | this matter is well er like soup plate, is used for this course. The — When about to engage in a game of ball or any sport that requires continued’ puddings in England are exactly fitted 10 create disgust for what should be a most excellent and delicious part of a wholesome dinner for both children and adults, — Popular Science Monthly, RRR oe Our Young Folks. One at a Time. A boy watched a large building, as the workmen from day to day carried up bricks and mortar, “My son,” said his father, ‘*you seem taken with the bricklayers. Do you think of learning the trade?" “No sir ; I was thinking what a little thing a brick is, and what great houses other.” “Very true, my son ; never it is all great works, forget it. All your Ro | | { walk all around the world it before another, be made 1 { other, Ocean, “Learn from this ip of one moment upon an- Drops added to drops make the ge little ¢ not discouraged by great They become easy if not to despi labors, Do not fear, therefore, Always that the large building went u y one brick upon another, thodist Pp only 1 Kan sas Unreliable, One afternoon a gentleman was shown Lamars’ library, said the vi “Mr. Lamar, visitor, ‘‘do Bassett 7% f or 0 , , ¥ “1 guess 50,” replied Mr. Lamar, “That is the added, nodding a smile, yO he toward The een, latter was a boy aged about four- He was drawing a map wide table near the window, “A bright boy, mented al the i should judge.’ the visitor, “He in my mill, for and referred me His letter of application shows How applied 0 you. isa good penman. is he “Rapid and correct,” pis. “That's good | “Oh was the re. Honest, answered Mr. “The work is not is he 7" yes, Lamar. iy hard, rapidly promoted, Oh! the boy trustworthy 7" “1 regret to say that he grave reply. “Eh ' don’t want hin That ended the “0 uncle I? one question more, Mr, is not.” cried the visitor. interview, eried Gregory, burstin into tears, He had set wid e i the situation, his heart upon obtaining and was very mild not Mr. Lamar, “Gregory, I ot said in a low are nof trustworthy, and it is a serious failing ; nay, a fault, rather. Three instances occured, within as many weeks, which sorely tried my pa- tience and cost me loss of time and money." Mr. Lamer’s tone changed into one of reproach, and his face was dark with displeasure, “1 gave you some money to deposit in bank.’’ be resumed. *‘You loitered until the bank was closed, and my note went to protest, One evening I told you to close the gate at the barn. You neglected to doso. The colt got out through the night, fell into a quarry and broke its leg. I bad. to shoot the pretty little thing, to put an end to its suffer- ing.” Gregory lifted his band in a humilita- ted way. “Next I gave you a letter to mail. You Joitered to watch a man with a tame bear. “The nine o'clock mail will do,’ you thought. But it didn’t, being a way mail, and not a through mail, On the following day I went fifty miles to keep the appointment I had made. The gentleman was not there to meet me, because he had not received my letter. I lost my time, and I missed all the benefit of what would have been to me a profitable transaction. It is not too late for you to reform ; and une less you do reform your life will prove a failure.” The lesson was not lost upon Greg- ory. He succeeded in getting rid of his heedless ways, and became prompt, pre< cise, trustworthy. —8, 8. TVmes. Advice to Boys--On Taking Exer- cise. Boys who take a great interest and an active part in out-door sports, often bring needless illness upon themselves by over-exertion and want of proper care after violent exercise. Attacks of pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs frequently occur from getting eur} Wyss wud them couling 91 Veo sug. garment, and put it on again when the game is finished ; and instead of sitting aown to “cool off,” it is safer to walk around for a while, It is also danger- ous to drink large quantities of cold water when very warm, as the system receives a shock which may lead to sicke ness, To go in swimuaing after a long walk through the hot sun is also injurious, as the blood is driven to the internal organs from the surface of the body, A Terrible Situation. The Denver (Col) Tribune tells the following story of the Grand Canon: : Charles May and his brother Robert, the spring of 1870, offered to pass 60,- 000 railroad ties down the Arkansas from the mountain source, He says: “Our offer was accepted and we started into the upper entrance of the canvon with a large skiff, provided with six days’ rations and 200 feet of rope, with which, by taking a running turn around some firmly planted object, we could In HIAV~- Lies, this way, at the end of three days ing set adrift many hundreds of of the Royal discovered that an to descend the first waterfall with two in the boat was certain de- struction, and to return was impossible, Aceordingly 1 determined to lower my brother down the fall in the boat a dis- tance of 200 feet, give him the rope and let him take the chance of the canyon (life seemed more certain in that direc- rection), while I would risk my ‘phys- cal ability to climb the cauyor entrance Here we 1 wall, “About 10 o'clock in the morning I brother, lowered safely to the foot of the gave him the rope and saw him ne Then thr and boots, fall, more, owing aside my coat, the socks 1m De of bat and stripping from my feet, 1 commenced my c often reaching the height At length, about 4 o'clock in the ofter- I reached a height upon the smooth canyon wall of about a thousand Here my further noon, Progress was that jutted out from the canyon side a foot or more. To advance was without to return certain death, upward and rim of the Reach- utward 1 grasped the ledge with one hand ether. my the canyon, ing the and the feet slipped the smooth side « of and suspended in the air a of the Arkansas, “At that moment I . to measure the dista looked downward have strength Iy arms A stinging sensation crept hair as my eyes caught the pro- a li beyond My grasp upon the rim of was fast yielding to the weight of my person. Then 1 determined te 1 would of nee of a cedar bush that jected over the ledge, ttle and throw it sideways toward the root, 80 a8 to bring it within my grasp. At the moment of commencing the effort 1 saw my mother’s face as she leaned over the ledge. Presently she reached down ber hand and caught me by the hair. Stramsger, my mother died while yet a young woman, when I and my brother were small boys, but I remem- ber her face, I was successful in making the side leap of my arms, when I drew myself upon the ledge and rested for a time. From here upward my climbing was laborious, but less dangerous, I reached the top of the canyon just as the sun was sinking down behind the snowy range and hastened to our camp at the mouth of the eanyom, where I found my brother all safe, ‘Charley,’ said he, ‘have vou had your head in a flour sack ¥* It was then discovered that my hair was as white as you see it now,” Keep it to Yourself. You have trouble—your feelings are injured, your husband is unkind, your wife frets, your home is not pleasant, your frienas do not treat you fairly, and things in general do not move pleasantly. Well, what of it ? Keep it to yourself, A smoldering fire can be found and ex- tinguished ; but when the coals are scat- tered, who can pick them up? Bury your sorrow, The place for sad and distrusting things is under the ground. A cut finger is never benefitted by pull- ing off the plaster and exposing it to somebody's eye. Tie it up and let it alone, Charity covers a multitude of sina. Things thus covered are often covered without a scar, but once pub- lished and confided to meddling friends, there is no end to the trouble they may cause. Keep it to yourself. Troubles are transient, and when a sorrow is healed and passed, what a comfort it is to say: “No one ever knew it until the trouble was all over,”
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