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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Children’s Sleeping Apartments.
The importance of pure air in the
rooms allotted to children is strongly
urged upon .parents, and no language can
be too emphatic, for in ill-ventilated
apartments the little ones languish, be¬
come stitutions pale, feeble and sickly. Their con¬
and are so undermined, poisoned by
stagnant ment is absolutely impure impossible, air, perfect develop¬
and the
diseases Common to childhood find them
ready victims, death occurring, not be¬
cause those diseases are in themselves so
fatal, but because the children attacked
have not the strength to rally and throw
them off. Perfect ventilation and strict
cleanliness go hand in hand. Without
the latter, it is utterly impossible to keep
the air of a room pure .—Boston Journal
of Health.
Utilizing a Pinch of This and That.
I promised you a nice receipt, says
Madge in London Truth , and here it is:
Take a pound of spinach and wash it
thoroughly ing off in three or four waters, pick¬
any faded leves, but not cutting
them. The knife should only be used
at the root. Boil the spinach in a little
water till it becomes quite tender. Press
all the water away from it, and then
chop the leaves very fine. Now chop an
onion very small, fry it in beef dripping
till quite done, and then add it to the
spinach, stirring them together with a
tablespoonful of flour, a little pepper
and a soupcon of sugar. Take either a
small stewpan or a frying pan. Put in
it a tablespoonful of butter, and then
put iu the spinach, stirring well until it
is quite hot. Set it aside in a warm
place, where it cannot burn (which it
will do on the smallest pretext), and set
to work to make a savory omelet. When
completed dish, put in the middle of a hot
surround it with the spinach and
garnish with croutons, This makes a
nice little entree, and an extremely in¬
expensive on.
Sauer Kraut.
When preparing to make sauer kraut
select good, firm heads of cabbage, cut
them in halves, and remove the hard
core; then shave up into fine shreds on a
cutting board made for the purpose, or
the cabbage may be sliced up with a
large board knife, but the regular cutting
is the best implement. The half
barrel or barrels used for the kraut
should be scalded out and made thor¬
oughly clean and sweet. Lay a few cab¬
bage leaves over the bottom of the barrel,
and on these sprinkle a handful of salt.
Throw in a half bushel of the sliced cab¬
bage, and press down with a wooden
pounder as firm as possible without
crushing the shreds of leaves flat. Then
add another large handful of salt, fol¬
lowing with more cabbage, and proceed
in this manner until the barrel is full.
Cover over with a layer of cabbage
leaves, and place on the top a clean
board fitting to the staves of the barrel
moderately close. On this board lay a
atone the weighing barrel fifteen to twenty pounds.
Set of kraut away in a cool
place, and it will be ready for use in from
six to eight weeks. Sauer kraut made
late in the season, and for use in winter,
should be placed where it will not freeze
during cold weather .—Neva York Sun.
Tomatoes.
Tomatoes are a healthful vegetable,
says Mrs. Parker in the Courier Journal ,
be acceptable prepared to in almost such every variety one, and can
a of ways
that they may be placed ou the table
throughout of the season without might the ap¬
pearance sameness, which cause
the ing appetite to tire of them. The follow¬
recipes ate all excellent;
Dried Tomatoes. — Select large,
smooth tomatoes; peel and cut iu thin
slices; set on the ice or in a cold place
for an hour or two: season with pepper,
salt and a little oil. Serve with vine¬
gar.
Broiled Tomatoes. —Peel large toma¬
toes and cut them intv/o; butter the
bars of the grid-iron, and lay the toma¬
toes on; broil over a clear fire until done
and well browned, season with pepper,
salt, bits of butter and sugar; serve very
hot.
Boiled Tomatoes. —Select a
tomatoes as near the same size as
ble, wipe and put them on to cook
salt boiling water, when done they
he soft. Remove from water, place in
warm dish, and send to the table
each person to skin and season to wish.
Curried Tomatoes. —Wash one
of rice. To one quart of stewed
toes add a tablespoonful of
powder. Put a layer of tomatoes in
bottom of a baking dish, then a layer of
rice, and a layer of tomatoes, sprinkle
the top with oread crumbs, put over a
few bits of butter, and bake in a moder¬
ate oven.
Stewed Tomatoes. —Pour boiling
water over the tomatoes and remove
the skin; cut them in small pieces, t-tew
in a porcelain kettle for half an hour,
then add to every quart of tomatoes a
of tablespoonful of butter, a tablespoonful
sugar, with a little salt and pepper,
and a teacup of grated bread crumbs.
Stew fifteen or twenty minutes longer.
Pried Tomatoes. —Cut smooth, solid
tomatoes into slices, dry each slice and
dust with salt and pepper. Beat an egg
until very light, add a teaspoonful of
boiling the water. Dip each slice first in
egg, then in the bread crumbs. Put
lard iu the frying pan, set on the fire,
when very hot drop in the slices of toma¬
toes, fry brown and turn, take up care¬
fully and serve hot.
Stuffed Tomatoes.— -Take a dozen
large seed, tomatoes, cut off the ends, take out
the sprinkle the inside with salt
and pepper. Have ready a pound of cold
lean meat, half a pound of cold chicken,
a slice of cold ham, all minced, to which
addthe tomato juice, and fry brown with
a minced onion in a little butter. Mix M
a tea-cup ot crumbs, two eggs, salt and
peper, fill the tomatoes, glaze over with
beaten egg and bake half an hour.
Baked Tomatoes. —Peel eight large
ripe tomatoes; cut a thick slice off the
top, scrape out the seeds and pulp, which
put in a saucepan with pepper, salt, a
tablespoonful of butter, a teaspoonful of
grated onion, half a teacup of grated
bread crumbs, two tablespoonsful of cold
boiled lean meat, minced fine, let all
heat thoroughly: fill the tomatoes with
the dressing, put on the tops; arrange in
a pudding hour. dish and bake in a hot oven
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Freaks of Birds and Animals.
As an instance of the seemingly un¬
natural actions of animals and birds un¬
der peculiar conditions, I wish to report,
says a writer in the New York Star, an
incident that came under my observation.
While returning home after being nearer
to a water spout, or cyclone, than ever
before or titan I desired, I saw a prairie
chicken in the road, a few rods in front
of me surrounded by a sharp stream run¬
ning wide over ditch the road each just side beyond the him and
by a on of grade.
He ran lrantically about as I approached,
as though looking for some way to escape,
and then, while I was yet five or six rods
distance, well, I plunged loss into the know ditch, what and—
am at a to word
to use, but will venture to say that he
seemed to me to swim to the other side,
some ten or twelve feet, I rubbed my
eyes, but dismounted, and, after a lively
chase, cornered and caught h : m as, for
a last resort, he again took to water.
The body was barely submerged where
he appeared to swim, wide and the and ditch was
ten or twelve feet averaged
fifteen inches in depth. The bird was a
healthy, vigorous cock and seemed to be
perfectly sound, but when I let him go
the next moaning it was evident that one
wing was he injured a little rise much in some above way, the
so that could not
ground, himself although quite dry. competent It reminds to take
care of when
me of another freak that I saw
when a boy, some sixteen or eighteen
years ago, on the Manchester mill pond,
on the outlet of Canandaigua Lake in the
State of New York. While picking
dew-berries on the east shore, the banks
at that point being quite high, I saw
what appeared to be a muskrat swim¬
ming toward me from the other side,
but was astonished as it came nearer to
see that it was a large woodchuck. I
could hardly believe my eyes, but
allowed it to land and chased it five or
six rods up the hill into a hole, where 1
afterward set a trap and the caught a wood¬
chuck ; though whether uncertain. same one oi
not is, of course, In that case
the bath was voluntary.
A Professional Pall Bearer.
A professional pall bearer has been dis¬
covered in Philadelphia. He is an ox
carpenter, who once, when out of a job,
was asked to be a pall bearer accepted, at a funeral and
of an entire stranger. He
was paid liberally. He saw a buisness
in it, bought a decent suit of black, reads
all the obituary notices, and <roes to
funerals. He finds his services most in
demand at the funerals of very old per¬
sons who have out-lived their com¬
panions ; and if the dead person happens
to be an unmarried woman past middle
life, then he is almost certain of a job.
He says that he averages two funerals a
day, and makes a living out of it.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The predominating color of Mars is red,
while that of our planet is green.
Meteorites are said to sometimes at¬
tain a velocity of 180,000 feet pei
second.
The common practice of raising faint
ing persons to a sitting or upright po¬
sition is often sufficient to destroy the
spark of life which remains.
The use of powerful artificial light in
sea-fishing, night, to-attract fish to the surface
at has been put to a practical test
in the North lea, with apparently suc¬
cessful result.
Some experiments have been placed
on record, in which a number of eggs
were hatched out in a magnetic fie.d,
with the result that the chickens were
all more or less def ormed, blind, deaf or
lame.
Important platinum discoveries have
been made in Maricopa County, Arizona.
The ore fields ten per cent, which is i er
haps the largest in the world. The platina
veins in the L ral mountains of Russia
yield only four per cent.
Recently at a Moscow sunset, the rays
of the sun were intercepted by a cloud,
and through some peculiar property in
the atmosphere the entire city was col¬
ored a vivid purple hue. This strange
effect lasted for eight minutes.
Sponges are marine animal i,not fishes,
however. The breeding time is in
spring; the young tqionges swim aboul
for some time, but finally become fixed
to rocks and grow. The sponges we use
are obtained principally in the Mediter¬
ranean Sea and among the Bahama
Islands.
Aluminum is coming into use as i
material for dental plates. It is nearly
as light as rubber, but little more than
one eighth the weight affected of gold, has neither
odor nor taste, is not by the ele¬
ments of food or the secretions of the
mouth, and costs, bulk for bulk, about
one-sixth the present price of silver.
A poison and degree of any conceivable descrip¬
tion of potency which has
been intentionally and accidentally swal¬
lowed may, it is said, be rendered al¬
most instantly harmless, by simply swal
lowing two gills of sweet constitution oil. A should person
with a very strong
take nearly twice the quantity, This
oil will most postively neutralize every
form of vegetable, animal or mineral
poison with which physicians and chem¬
ists a.e acquainted.
der In generating steam, experiments feet of un¬
various boilers show 1000 gas
to be equal in heating power to from 80
to 138 pounds of coal different kinds in of coal.
One pound of equals va’ue 71
feet of natural gas. The latter explodes
violently when mixed with 9 to 14 parts
of air. When burned with pure oxygen,
the flame temperature of the natural gas
is estimated at 7100 degrees centigrade.
When burned with just enough air to
secure perfect combustion, the tempera¬
tures are estimated at 3333 degrees centi¬
grade for natural gas, and 1700 degrees
for Siemens.
People do not generally understand
that the skin shares in the function of
respiration, with death and that if this though is interfered this
is apt to ensue,
is due form not so much to asphyxia caused as to
some the of blood-poisoning; the perspiration be¬ by
constituents of
ing reabsorbed into the blood. A strik¬
ing illustration of the necessity of leav¬
ing the skin open to some extent to the
action of air is afforded by the fact that
a child who was coated with gum and
then cherub covered with coronation gold-leaf, of to Pope represent Leo
a at the
X., died a few hours after the operation.
A similar fate nearly befell Gustave Dore
in the days of his youth, when a passing
caprice made him go to a fancy ball as
“In Monsieur Dore;” but as in his case
the gilding was only partial, he survived,
though he did not escape a sharp ill¬
ness.
A Reckenzaun electric boat has lately
been construed in Newark, N. J., and
a successful trip from that place to
New York recently took place. She is a
trim little launch, 38 feet long, 6 feet
beam, and 3 feet deep. Two long
benches run fore and ait in her, back to
back. Under them are storage batteries.
The motors are aft under the deck.
Overtaxing his brain. Old Mrs. Bently
—“ Did you hear, Josiah, that the young
student who has been boardin’ at the
Hendrickses’ is very sick?” Old Mrs.
Bently— “Yes, I heard so; what’s the
trouble with him?” Old Mrs. Bently—
“Studyin’ too hard I s’pose. The doc¬
tor says he’s got information of the
brain .”—The Bj>oclh
In l.OTe’s Harness.
Most women naturally look forward to mat
rimony as their proper sphere in mind ialile but they
should constantly bear that a fair,
rosy face, bright eyes, and a healthy, well-de
veloped form,are the test passports to a happy
marriage. dragging-down" All those wasting sensations, disorders, weak
nesses, and func¬
tional anunfailing Irregularities peculiar Dr. Pierce’s to the sex, have
Prescription. sp-citic It is the in only medicine Favorite
for wo¬
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on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully carried
out for many years.
The national census, which is to be taken in
1890, will c ost $6,000,000.
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