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household matters.
A Good Cleansing' Fluid.
For removing spots from furniture,
carpets and woolen goods generally,
prepare a cleans ng fluid as follows:
Cut fine two ounces of white castile
soap and dissolve it in a p nt of hot
water over the fire, then adu two quarts
more of water, and, when nearly cold,
two ounces of ammonia and one ounce
each of alcohol and glycerine. Put all
in a gallon jug, shake well and it is
ready for use. Keep it wash closely corked
when not in use. To woolen or
cashmere dress goods, place rub a teacupful
in a pail of warm water, the ma¬
terial quickly with the hands, rinse
when clean, and iron while it is damp,
on the wrong side. For cleaning car¬
pets, wet a cloth in the fluid with a
little water and rub the spots until they
disappear .—Prairie Farmer.
Princess Muffins.
We had a guest over night, a physician
and specialist in dietary matters. The
princess made the breakfast muffins,
which the doctor pronounced “the best
thing he ever saw in food.” He would
like the recipe, provided it were neither
very expensive smiled nor and very said elaborate. very,” The and
princess she it then and there: “not “Into cold
gave stirred graham meal make
water 1 to a
medium thick batter, and dropped it
into muffin rings that were ready hot,
then put the pan into an oven that was
at a quick, full heat. In a trifle over
fifteen minutes the muffins came out as
you see them.” The hygeist stared:
“You have omitted the yeast, or baking
powder which?” surely “Both. Not any how in
mine. Y~ou dues ought to know whole
the heat their work.” The
secret is the temperature of the oven; a
peasant can ma te as good muffins as the
princess, if she will attend to this one
point .—Sturdy Oak.
The Use of Oil in Cooking.
It is said by Eleanor Bates, in Daugh¬
ters of America, that a lady once attend¬
ed a concert, at which she fell into a dis¬
cussion with a friend concerning divers
modes of cookery; the theme of the con¬
versation the mu-ic, proved which more enchanting sudden than
came to a
pause just as her unruly tongue, in spite
ffiberselE prodam^d in
light: “We fry ours in b tter!”
Beloved si tors, fry no more in butter,
it is expensive, burns ea-ily and needs
constant watching. Not many of you
turn to lard, that modern American pro¬
duct \vb ch has been, scornfully thrust
front foreign ina:kets. The housewife
who ra ses her own pigs on the banks of
a running's ream and feeds them plenti¬
fully on sweet corn meal and bntteimdk
—she and none other may use l ird with¬
out fear and w thout reproach, but toe
lard of the market is fearfully and won
derfuiiy made. diseased Produced from unclean, and
sometimes an mats, as
proved by recent revelations, more often
adulterated than not, it is an unwho e
sorne arti le of food. Let us forthwith
inaugurate a crusade against for it.
What then shall we use frying?
their Clean beef drippings are delightful in
way, but some of the objections al¬
ways made to animal fats are in place
here. 1 here is an article, however,
against which none of these can be
urged. It is cotton-seed oil.
Y’ou don’t l.ke the taste of oil? Do
you like the delicate flavor of fresh,
sweet chicken fat? The tastes are almost
identical. The cost is less than that
lard. A kettlef.il may be used again and
again. It will rdok without burning
a much higher temperature than either
butter or lard. It being purely vegetable,
can carry no trichina;, no form
scrofula into the human system.
Its “takes up” in cooking less than lard.
merits have long been known to
eign chefs, and are proc a mod aloud
cooking schools, though sometimes
guised under the name of olive oil.
They who have used it the longest,
its warmest friends and firmest
herents.
Household Hints.
Vegetables are best stored in a
by themselves.
Sweet, light, fine-grained
twenty-four hours old makes the
sandwiches.
Never send to the table the same
for three meals in succession,
varied in some way.
A cool cellar aired on a warm day
gather moisture. To avoid this
the windowsin the evenffigs.
Half a teaspoonful of common
salt, dissolved in a little cold water and
drank, will instantly relieve heartburn.
solved One pound and a half of copperas dis¬
in a gallon of water makes an
excellent disinfectant for the kitchen
sink.
Scraps are a regular savings bank for
the good cook. The greatest possible
variety them. of good things can be made out
of
Fruit that has been canned or pre¬
served can be dried by skimming it*out
of the liquid and treating the same as
tomato figs.
After cleaning lamps and wiping them
dry. turn the wick . own below the top
of the burner. This prevents oil on the
outside of the burner.
A good cook throws away nothing.
Every piece of bread,every iuch of meat,
every particle of vegetable can be turned
into something palatable.
Flour should be bought by the barrel,
but Indian meal is so apt to become in¬
fested with weevils that it should not
remain much over a week on hand.
When you boil a cabbage tie a bit of
dry bread in a bag and put it in the ket¬
tle. French cooks say that the unphas
ant odor will be absorbed by the bread.
Mayonnaise dressing, made with the
yolks of two raw eggs, stirred with the
best olive oil added drop by drop,
is the foundation of the best salad dress
ing.
A goo» way to distinguish mushrooms
is to sprinkle salt on the spongy or under
side. If it turns yellow the speci¬
men is poisonous: if black, it is whole¬
some.
Battle Between a Horse and a Dog.
S. Keiter, of Detroit, Mich., recently
imported an English bull-dog warranted
never to open its jaws when once they
hud closed on an enemy. Keiter was
very it frequently pro d of his purchase select and exhibited
to a circle of friends.
Recently the dog was given a corner in
the stable where Mr. Keiter also kept a
fast pacing horse. Keiter one day locked
the two animals in the barn and went
away on an excursion. When he re¬
turned and opened the barn door in the
evening he was horrified to find the horse
on the flour nearly dead, while hanging
to the under jaw. front which the flesh
bruised. Mr. 4%?’ Keiter o\fft y a^fiveX?l"teffily calied
in his friends
and at once set to work relieving the
horse of his terr ble antagonist. The dog
was choked, kicked, pounded, burned
with hot irons, a wedge driven into his
jaws, but ail to no purpose. Finally an
ax chopped was procured and the dog’s head
otf. Then it was difficult to
loosen the gr p.
The horse was got to his feet and an
exam nation made. His skin was torn
from his body in many places, where the
dog had evidently tried to fasten his
teeth, and ho was scarred from head to
foot. The dog had evidently had one
hold on the horse’s breast, for there a
large pie e of flesh was torn out. It had
been a battle royal. Probably the dug,
after breaking his rope, had wandered
into the pacer’s stall, and coming too
near his heels, had been kicked. He re¬
taliated wiih his teeth and the tight
began. There was hardly a whole bone
left in thffe dog’s body .—New York Post.
Snake Catching.
The best method I have found for cap
turing snakes, says a writer in Swiss
Cross, except the l irge black ones, is the
following. When you see one that you
want,endeavor, by all possible means, to
cover him wi h your net.. Then grasp
his neck betw eu the thumb and fore¬
finger of your gloved baud and put him
in one of the tin cans. On returning
home saturate a small sponge with chlo¬
roform, which thrust into the can with
your snake. You can do this in a small
room to prevent the snake’s escape. In
the course of a quarter of an hour the
snake may be tnkrn from the can and ar¬
ranged in a bottle, wh ch is then to be
j filled with alcohol and tightly corked,
■ and your specimen is ready for the
museum.
On one of these hunts a lady who was
searching pened for along botanical just specimens I putting hap¬
to come as wits
a snake into one of the tin cans. She
inquired what I was going to do with it,
and I said: “Pre-erveit;” whereupon she
asked: “Do they make good preserves?’ 1
Goethe kept a pet snake which he took
from the chimney coiner and fondled
every night, which shows that he was
partial to these “noxious reptiles,” and
Dr. McCook says the snake is the most
beautiful animal in creation. I don’t
know but 1 agree with him.
Carious Statistics.
A recent speaker, says the Christian
Advocate, says that the negroes in this
country have multiplied eight times in
a century. As they have 7,000,000 now,
in 1980 they will amount to 192,000,000.
If they maintain they the same relative rate
of increase will. The whites in ten
years, by births and immigration, have
increased 30 per cent. At this rate there
will be 800,000,000 whites and over 200,
000,000 negroes—in nil 1,000,000,000—in
tile United States in 1088. Who believes
either of these statements? By that
method one can prove that the Methodist
Episcopal Church will soon have more
communicants than the world will con¬
tain people. Last year it gained 5 per
cent net. This rate will double its mem¬
bership every fourteen years. Hence, in
1902 it will have 4,000,000; in 1916,
8,000,000; in 1930, 16,000,000; in 1844,
32,000,000; in 1958, 64,000,000; in 1972,
127,000,000; and so, doubling every four¬
teen years, in the year 2084, less than
2,000 years from the present date, there
will be 32,707,000,000 of members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in the
United fctates alone! Toil on, then,
brethren. Do not let the fact that, ac¬
cording to the figures of the speaker
quoted above, there will be only 6,400,
000,000 negroes and 13,200,900 whites —
in all 19,600,000,000—of people in the
United States at that time disturb you!
Who cares for a i3 little statistics! deficit of 3,i68,
0000,000? Great Of course,
other denominations are deluding them¬
selves. They think that they are in¬
creasing, but, whole as wo are going to in¬
clude the population, and sev¬
eral thousand millions more, they
must cease to exist! The only trou¬
ble is, that if some of them continue
to tion grow, table as will at present, the multiplica¬
wipe us out in the same
way.
B/nos Heuteii, the telegraph king sole of
Europe, keeps a secretary whose
business it is to investigate and relieve
cases of distress.
TIic Acon’os of Li'inbaffo.
East River National Bank, I
New YOBK, Mai ell 10,1886. f
It gives me .great pleasure to adu my testi¬
mony in favor of Allcock’s Porous Plas
not turn n bed or get in any position with >ut
ass stance, and with pa ; ns almost u ibear
a de; the folks suggested Allcock’s Porous
Pust* rs. As soon us possible I had one ap¬
plied to the small of my back,and to mv great
surprise lex, erienced 'lmoot instant relief; I
continued wearing it until entirely cured, and
am hap y to say that I have not had the
sligh est symptoms of Lumbago since. They
are a wonderful and valuable Plaster f«»r
Lumbago, and I take much pleasure in recom¬
mending them W. S. Phillips.
Mormons are flocking into Wyoming in gr eat
numbers, and will control the local elections.
. Better than a Hero,
“What a c -ward that Major Smith is,” said
Jones to Robinson, “why, the very sight of
gun-powder wo Id make him ill. How did lie
ever manage to become an ofllcer in the army?”
swered “Don’t say Robinson, anything “he against Smith,” lif an¬
once saved my
“Saved your life! Nonsense, impossible! 5
' hat do you mean?” “I m an that was m
tli 4 first stages of consumption; with I was the losing
strength disease, and when vi ality Smith every advised day take er
rible me to
ijr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. I had
tried all kinds of medic.nos without success,
and my physician had givvn me no hope: and yet I
h re I am, as well as ever a man was,
owe my liie to Smith, and to the wonderful
remedy he recommended.”
There are 138,885 churches, 94,457 ministers,
and 19.790 323 members in the United Slates.
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