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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Old Books Slade New,
Why should the housewife sit scowling
ever those old books, as the covers, at
least, can be made to look “e’en as good
as new” by applying with a brush a coat
of chromo varnish, which is made by dis¬
solving one ounce of gum mastic in three
quarters of a pint of turpentine. For
books whose covers are too dilapidated
to renew take two pieces of black ribbon
and cover the backs, first placing on a
layer sides of wadding. Fasten the back and
embroidery together with some fancy stitch in
WHv of a contrasting color.
Line the inside of the covers with tinted
silk, and on the centre of. the outside
front, paint or transfer some neat design.
A gold or silver cord neatly sewed
around the edge is a great improvement.
I almost transformed a volume nearly 200
years old with a few bits of ribbon and
transfer picture .—Detroit Free Press.
Seasonable Salads.
The best vegetables from which to
tnake salads at this season of the year are
asparagus, lettuce, turnips, dandelion,
spinach, kale, chicory, watercress and
potatoes, all of which should be crisped
and freshened in cool water, carefully
shaken dry and shredded with the fingers
instead of being cut or chopped with a
knife.
salads Many housekeepers have an idea that
are troublesome and expensive,
and,are therefore deterred from preparing
them. This is a mistake, for nothing is
simpler this if a few details are attended to.
In country a Mavonaise dressing
is frequently served with vegetables
when used as salads, but foreigners pre¬
fer a simple French dressing of pepper,
salt, better oil and vinegar, and it is decidedly
for dinner where meat or rich food
is partaken of. The French, who are
accomplished salads, in the art of making good
of onion, use garlic as a flavoring instead
but very sparingly.
other Tarragona spring vinegar gives lettuce and
salads a delicious flavor.
Nasturtium blossoms also have a piquant
flavor, besides making a beautiful gar¬
nish for vegetable salads. Either of the
following etable dressings may be used for veg¬
salads:
French Salad Dressing—Mix thor¬
mustard oughly three tablespoons of olive oil, a
and spoonful five of salt, a pinch of
pepper, or six drops of lemon
juice, add two tabiespoonfuls of vinegar,
beat a minute and pour over the salad.
Mayonnaise Dressing—Put the raw
yolks of two eggs in a cold bowl, beat
well, add a teaspoonful salt, a pinch of
cayenne pepper and half a teaspoonful
of mustard; work well together and add
drop Stir rapidly by drop a half-pint of olive oil.
and steadily while adding
the oil, and care must he taken not to
reverse the motion, or the dressing may
curdle. Then add a few drops of lemon
juice to the mixture, and thin to the
proper kept in consistency with vinegar. If
a cool place this dressing will
keep a week.— Courier-Journal.
Recipes.
Fried Egg Plant. After peeliu g
the egg plant cut in slices one-haif inch
thick, pepper and salt them, and lay
one slice upon the other, leaving them
to stand ten or twelve hours. Drain off
the liquor, dip in flour and fry brown.
Cream Pie. Take one pint of milk,
tablespoonfuls one heaping tablespoonful of flour, three
of sugar, one tablespoon¬
ful of buttpr, two eggs and flavor to
taste. Bake with one crust, the same as
a custard pic. Beat the whites of the
eggs to a siff froth, spread over the pie
after it is baked, and brown in the
oven.
Potatoes Stewed au Gratin'. Cut
boiled potatoes, w'hile still warm, in
neat small-sized pieces; cover them with
hot milk, aqd add salt, white pepper,
and a little butter for seasoning. Sim¬
mer in the milk ten minutes, theu fill au
gratin tins with the stewed potatoes, add
a top layer of grated crumbs, and bake
a delicate brown. Some like a little
grated cheese mixed with the bread
crumbs. They are served at dinner as
well as breakfast cooked in this man¬
ner.
Strawberry Charlotte. Make a
custard of the yolks of six eggs, one
quart of sweet miik, sugar, and flavor to
suit the taste. Boil and set aside to cool.
Will a glass dish with alternate layers of
berries and sponge cake dipped in cream;
sweeten the layers’of berries as they are
put in the dish. When the custard is
wool, pouf over the whole. Beat the
white of the eggs with with a tablespoon
tuI of sugar—to a still froth—and heap
.high delicious. over the top of the custard. This
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Sweetbreads with Tomato Sauce.
—-Select two good-sized veal sweet¬
breads. Parboil them and threw them
into cold water. Let them remain ten
minutes, then remove the skin and all
tough then membrane. Dip In beaten
in cracked flour seasoned with
pepper and salt. Put in a frying pan a
is tablespoonful of sweet butter.' When it
hot aud brewn, but not burned, place
the sweetbreads in the pan. Let them
brown quickly on both sides. Put in
the pan a few spoonfuls of bouillon,
of cover closely, and let steam on the back
range until tender. Boil half a can
of tomatoes fifteen minutes. Add a cup¬
ful of water, and thicken with butter
and flour mixed. Strain through a
fine strainer, season to taste, and, when
sweetbreads are ready to serve, pour the
sauce over them.
Tomato Soup. — Always use cold
water in making all soups; skim well,
especially is during the first hour. There
ming, a great and necessity help for thorough skim¬
to the scum rise, pour in
a little cold water now and theu, and as
the soup reaches the boiling point, skim
it off. Use salt at first sparingly, and
season with salt and pepper; allow one
quart of soup to three or four persons.
For tomato soup allow one gallon of
stock made from nice fresh beef to three
quarts of fresh tomatoes; remove the
skin and cut out the hard center, put
through a fine sieve, and add to the
stock: make a paste of butter and flour,
and, when the stock begins to boil, stir
in half a teacup of the paste, taking care
not to have it lumpy; boil twenty min¬
utes, seasoning with salt and pepper to
taste. Two quarts of the canned toma¬
toes will answer.
The Marching of Armies.
The best examples of forced marches
in modern times are, perhaps, those per¬
formed by Havelock and Lord Clyde in
the Indian mutiny of 1856.
history Perhaps the finest examples in all
of strategic marches are found in
Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy in 1706
and the campaign on the Danube in
1805.
the During Second the Civil War the march of
of Army Corps, October 14,
1862, seventy-six miles in fifty-six
hours, fighting two engagements, cross¬
ing two rivers and guarding baggage, is
exceptional.
the During the same war Hooker’s corps,
Eleventh and Twelfth consolidated,
22,000 strong, was removed from
its Virginia to Bridgeport, and Tenn., with all
The baggage advance supplies, in seven days.
of Washington on New
York in 1782, and his deception oi the
British thereby, while he really marched
on Cornwallis at Yorktown, must also
ever stand out as a strategic march of the
highest order.
Another instance of successful water
transportation fifth Army is the move of the Twenty
Corps from City Point in
Texas. in May, 1865. The corps con¬
sisted of 25,000 men, 2000 horses wuth
guns, wagons, ammunition, ambulances,
etc !—Detroit Free Prat.
Spurcat.
The author of “The Land Beyond the
Forest” says: Every orthodox Roumanian
household possesses three different classes
of cooking and eating utensil: unclean,
clean for the meat days, and the cleanest
of all for fast days. The cleansing of a
vessel which has, through some accident,
become spurcat, is only conceded in the
case of very large and expensive articles,
such as barrels and tubs; copious ablu¬
tions of holy water, besides thorough
scouring, scraping in and rubbing, being
resorted to such cases. All other
utensils which do not come under this
denomination must simply be thrown
away, the domestic or at best employed for feeding
animals. The Roumanian
who does not strictly observe .all these
regulations is himself spurcat.
Altered Silver Certificates.
The officers in charge at the United
States Sub-Treasury in this city have had
their attention called to §1 silver certifi¬
cates which have been altered to repre¬
sent tens. They say that the alteration
is so skillfully made that even expert
cashiers might be deceived.
Not long ago ones altered to five w r ere
put in circulation. The changes are ef¬
fected by the use of acids to bleach the
ink from portions of the certificates and
then printing the new numerals and let¬
ters with a hand stamp .—New York Tele¬
gram.
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It is estimated that there are 12,000,
000 Protestants and 7,000,000 Roman
Catholics in the United States.
How lo J)o It.
A new plan of irrigation has just been
of inaugurated on the Pawnee river south
Larned, Kansas. A large wheel is
placed in the edge of the water, which
resembles somewhat a double windmill.
The wheel is so constructed and con¬
nected that it is kept constantly turning
by the current. To the rim of the wheel
is attached eight large troughs, each
holding eight gallons of. water. As the
■wheel turns these troughs dip up water,
carry it to the highest point of the wheel
and there empty it into the irrigation
ditch. Through ditches and laterals it
is then carried to the adjacent land. By
this means the river, by its own force, is
constantly the turning a stream of water on
surrounding country.
How to Reduce Your Expenses.
Yon can do it easily, and you will not have
to deprive yourself of a single comfort: on the
contrary, How you will enjoy life more than ever.
cut down can j ou accomplish doctor’s this result? Easilv;
your bills. When you lose
your pated, appetite, and b come bilious and consti¬
and therefore low-spirited, don’t rush
off to the family physician for a prescription,
or, on the other hand, wait until vou are sick
abed before doing anything at all; but just go
tc the druggist’s and for twenty-five cents get
a Pellets. supply of Take Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative
them a3 directed, and our word
for it, your unpleasant symptoms will disap¬
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tor’s to pay, and everybody interested (ex¬
cept the doctor), will feel happy.
The great New York faster. Dr. Tanner, is
tlie owner of a great ranche in New Mexico.
Many People Refuse to Tuke C'od
Liver Oil on account of it’s unpleasant taste.
This difficulty has been overcome in Scott’s
Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophos
phites. It being as palatable as milk,’and the
most valuable remedy known for the treat¬
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The woman suffrage law of Washington
territory is declared unconstitutional.
She Couldn’t Understand It.
“What in the. world has happened to you
since tli • last time I saw you?” asked one lady
of another when they me’ on the street the
other day; “I can’t understand it. Then you
member were pale, haggard and lew-spirited, and I re¬
you said that you hardiv eared
whether you lived or died. To-day you look
ever so much younger, and it is very evident
from your beaming face tint your low spirits
have t'ken flight.” “Yes, indeed, ” was the
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ment until was I a began martyr to iunctional derange¬
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am as as ever was in my life. No
woman who suffers as I did, ou.-ht .to let an
hour pass before procuring this wonderful
remedy.”
Delmonico’s restaurant has bills against cus¬
tomers of over 8500,000. They never sue.
a Prize of SI 00,000
jbt it by agood superior thing skill, to get, and by the unexpected man who wPs turn
or an
of Fortune’s w!i el. is to be congratulated. But
he who escapes from lite clutches of that
dreaded monster. Consumption, and wins back
health an happiness, is far more fortunate.The
chances c f winning S10U 000 are small, but
every consump live may he absolutely sure of
recovery, if he takes Dr! Pierce’s Golden Medi¬
cal Discovery in time. For ail scrofulous dis¬
eases (consumption is one of them), it is an un¬
failing remedy. Ali druggists.
His- sweetheart’s skul! serves for a paper
weight m a ( hicago doctor’s office.
If afflicted with ‘ore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eye'water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle.
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Headache, * Neuralgia,
Indigestion, Sleeplessness, Nervous Prostration,
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Biliousness
la more general at this season than any other.
The bitter taste, offensive breath, coated tODgue,
sick headache, drowsiness, dizziness and loss of ap¬
petite make the victim miserable and disagreeable
to others. Hood’s Sarsaparilla combines the b.sfc
anti- 1 ilious remedies of the vegetable kingdom, In
such proportion as to derive their best medicinal
effects with the least disturbance to the whole sys¬
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actions upon the alimentary canal, the liver, tfc©
kidneys, the stomach, the bowels and the circula¬
tion of the blood that it brings about a healthy
action of the entire human organism, restores the
appetite and overcomes that tired feeling.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5 Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mas 3
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tOO Doses One Dollar
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