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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. A Common-Sense Remefly, In the matter of curatives what you want is something that will do its work while you cont inue to do yours—a remedy that will give y-.uno i co venience nor interfere with y ur bu-iness. Such a remedy is Allcock's Por¬ ous Plasters. These plasters are purely vegetable and abso utely harmless. They re¬ quire no change of diet, and are not affected by wet or cold. Their action does not interfere with labor or busin ss; you can toil and yet be cured while hard at work. They are so pure that the youngest, the oldest, the m :st delicate person of either sei can use them with great benefit. Beware of imitations, and do not be deceived by misrepresentation. 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