HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
A Home-Made Screen.
A screen easily made at home at a
trifling cost is of jointless, soft green
matting tacked to a slender pine wood
frame. The frame is then covered with
heres strips of Lincrusta-Walton, which ad¬
stained readily to the wood, and are
a fine cherry-wood-color with a
mixture of yellow ochre, crimson lake,
Vandyke brown and a little black. When
quite polish. dry give a coat of beeswax and
The matting is an agreeable sur
face to paint upon, and should be orna
merited with a bold, free design of
poppies or some similar flower. The
natural color of the matting readily
blends with any color. The fine, joint¬
less Japanese matting also makes charm¬
ing nailed door panels. It may be glued or
with small brass nails to the door
and af* rward pain ted. —American Cul¬
tivator.
When to Use the Finsers.
There are a number of edibles that the
most fashionable and well-bred people
now cat at the dinner table with their
fingers. Ulives, They are:
to which a fork should never
be applied.
served Asparagus, whether hot or cold, when
whole, as it should De.
the Lettuce, dressing which should be dipped in
or in a little salt.
Celery, which may properly be placed
on the tablecloth beside the plate.
Strawberries, when served with the
stem on, as they usually are in the most
elegant houses.
Bread, toast and all tarts and small
cakes.
Fruit of all kinds, except melons and
preserves, which are eaten with a spoon.
Cheese, which is almost invariably
eaten with the fingers by the most partic¬
ular people.
Even the leg or other small piece of a
bird is taken in the fingers at fashionable
dinners, and at most of the luncheons
ladies pick small pieces of chicken with¬
out using a fork. — Chicago Herald.
Cage Birds.
home. Cage birds are found in almost every
pleasant They are more associated with
the labors of women outside of
their regular routine duties thau even the
keeping of poultry. The breeding of
canaries is not so often indulged in as it
should be. Vinton's Gazette offered pre¬
miums for the best essays on the subject,
and from one of them we extract the fol¬
lation lowing, which will be interesting in re¬
to the feeding:
The staple food of canaries should he
plain white canary seed, with which the
drawer should be filled, and not with
mixed seed, for iu order to obtain the
'sort they like the best the birds will very
soon scatter the contents of the seed ves¬
sel, and in five minutes waste as much
food as ought to serve them a day. Where
a number of birds are concerned the food
question is a matter of serious considera¬
tion. A very good mixture of seeds is
made as follows: Lettuce, oat grits and
small linseed each one part, small hemp
seed half part; mix, and keep in a tin for
use. A tablespoonful of this mixture
may be given to every three orfour birds
twice or thrice a week—during the breed¬
ing season into it may be given every day;
put a separate vessel, or throw it on
the bottom of the cage.
Egg food is prepared as follows: Boll
a fresh egg ten minutes; when cold re¬
move the shell, and either chop up the
egg (yolk and white) or press it through
a colander, or similar article; mix with
three tablespoonfuls of powdeied biscuit
or stale bread crumbs. This food should
be made fresh at least once a day. Dur¬
ing the hottest weather it is better to
make it twice a day, for nothing tends
more to disarrange "birds than sour food.
Green food, may consist of any of the
following: delion Groundsel, chickweed, dan¬
leaves. leaves, lettuce, inner cabbage
Whatever the sort of green meat
selected it must always be fresh, young,
and free from frost. During the early
breeding season it is necessary to be
very careful in this matter, and a good
plan to follow is to always soak your
green stuff in warm water for five or ten
minutes, and allow it to stand until
quite dry before giving it to your stock.
As the season advances this precaution
will not be necessary. Moulting food
for color is simply egg food mixed with
certain coloring matter, such as cayenne,
common pepper, tumeric. The propor- !
tion is usualiy one part of coloring to 1
two parts of ogg food.— Farm, Field
and Stockman,
liecipes.
Potato Croquettes.— Take six boiled
potatoes, pass them through a sieve, add
four tablespoonfuls of minced corned
beef, a little grated nutmeg, salt and
pepper to taste; add two tablespoonfuls
of melted butter and the yolks of three
or four eggs; form them into balls, roll
them in cracker crumbs and fry in hot
lard -
Eoo Chowder. —Take six potatoes of
medium size, three eggs, four crackers,
one and quart of milk, a slice of salt pork
one onion; prepare pork the
same as for fish chowder, add potatoes
sliced, milk and onion, and salt and pep
per to taste; when the potatoes
nearly cooked, add the eggs well beaten
and the crackers.
Onion Fricassee. —Peel two dozen
small white onions and sprinkle with
salt, let them stand half an hour, then
roll upon a cloth to dry; dredge lightly
with flour; put iu a stew pan in wh ; ch
has been melted two ounces of butter,
and place over the fire for five minutes;
drain the fat from them, add a pinch of
rich milk, a little pepper, salt and a
dessert spoonful of butter; simmer
fifteen minutes and seive in the sauce.
rice _ Apples, With Rice.— Wash a pint of
drain thoroughly; scald it with hot water,
and cool; add to the rice a quart
of rich milk, a quarter of a pound of
sugar, and a saitspoonful of salt; sim¬
mer it gently one hour. When done beat
with a wooden spoon. Wet an oval
mold with water, press the rice in it,
and keep on ice until wanted. Peel,
quarter and core five fine apples; put
them in a stew pan with three half pints
of water, three cloves, two slices of
lemon and half a pound of sugar (dis¬
solve the sugar in the water); simmer
until the apples are tender, but will not
break when removed from the pan.
When done strain carefully and boil
down the syrup until quite thick. Now
turn out the rice on a glass dish, add
the apples as a border, and pour the
syrup overall.
Old Ships.
The Resolute scoured the Arctic seas
in search of Sir John Franklin. She
was frozen fast in the middle of a wide
waste of ice and abandoned by her crew.
The ice setting outward from the frigid
zone, bore her southward, and after a re¬
markable drift she was picked up by an
American whaler. The United States Gov¬
ernment refitted and returned the derelict
to Great Britain. She lay uncared for at
her moorings in the Medway for several
years, and was ultimately taken in dock
and pulled to pieces. A suite of furni¬
ture was fa-hioned from her oaken
timbers and presorted to the President
of the Republic. Small pieces of her
were smuggled out of the dockyard, and
many a wooden article is held dear at
Chatham as a relic of the brave old dis¬
covery-ship.
The duel between the Shannon and
the Chesapeake (.June 1, 1813) forms an
interesting page in the history of the
struggle Great Britain between from the United States and
1812 to 1815. The
Americans had crowded the Chesapeake
with inexperienced landsmen, and had
made ready, it is said, a feast on shore
the crew on their return flushed with
The unexpected happened as
as usual; the American frigate became
the prize of the ship of the mother
The Shannon also was broken
up at Chatham, and parts of her hull were
at a premium.
Sir Francis Drake's tiny ship, the
Golden Hind, at a still more remote
period chair came made to a similar end at Deptford.
A out of her timbers is
by the university authorities at
Oxford. %
The Betsy Cains brought over William
Orange to this country in 1688, and
cast away in 1827—139 years later.
This historical ship, that helped to change
dynasty, was over 150 years old when
ceased her combat with the winds and
The Brothers, a wooden brig,
at Maryport the in 1780, is even now
waters of the North Sea.
We noticed a good model of her in South
Museum. She is one of those
craft that sailors say are built by
mile and cut oil as they are wanted.
Robert, a wooden barkentine built
at Victory, Barnstaple just ten years after II. M. S.
is in active service. The True
love of London, an American-built bark
of 1764. would appear to be the oldest
trader in this country, or indeed in the
whole world. The Goodwill, built at
Sunderland in 1785, the Eliza, built at
Whitehaven iu 1792, and the Cognac
Packet, built at Bursledon in tlie same
year, complete the list of British ships
remaining to us from last century. The
Norwegians possess three actively vessels that
have been employed for 100
years— Chambers' Journal,
Trustful People.
Manchuria seemi to be a good place
f° r hankers. The English consul at
which Newchawang those explains the process by
who take care of other peo
pie’s money get rich. Wealthy' inliabi
tailt9 are at ra id to let their wealth bo
known, as it . would be calmly confiscated
h y government, which does not
think its citizens should have too much
money. Enormous sums are therefore
deposited with bankers, and no receipts
are taken from them. No interest is
asked, and at the death of the depositor
the heirs very frequently do not know of
the thousands and thousands of taels
which had been deposited and which
consequently could go to the bank. A banker
even refuse, should he get into
difficulty, to restore what he had taken
on trust, as a merchant would not, of
course, make a scandal which should
convict him of keeping his money out
of the hands of his imperial and other
rulers.
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