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
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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,”