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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. A Fair Trial Of Hood’s Sarsaparilla will convince any reasonable person that it does possess great medicinal merit. We do not claim that every bottle will accomplish a miracle, but we do know that nearly every bottle, taken according to directions, does produce positive benefit. Its peculiar curative power is shown by many remarkable cures. “I was run down from close application to work, but was told I had malaria and was dosed with qui¬ nine, etc., which was useless. I decided to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla and am now feeling strong and cheerful. I feel satisfied it will beueiit any who give it a fair trial.”—W. B. Beamish, 2G1 Spring Street, New York City. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $ 1 ; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Hass. IOO Doses One Dollar German hBrmmommh Asthma Cure never/aiktogi vo m media: e relief m the worst cai-;es,inBU?os com fori able sloop; effects ctsrcs whore a 1 other* fail A pie? ttUnVI Lire at hoir.e ami make more money working fbr up than nt anything else In the world. Either mx Cost! vout dt ruKH FOR OLD PEOPLE! In old people the nervous system is weakened, and that must be strengthened. One of the most prominent medical writers of the day, in speaking of the prevalence of rheumatic troubles among the aged, says: “ The various pains, rheu¬ matic or other, which old people often complain of, and which materially disturb their comfort, result from disordered nerves.” There it is in a nutshell— the medicine for old people must be a nerve tonic. Old people are beset with rhoea, constipation, indigestion, flatulency, drowsiness, diar¬ rheumatism, neuralgia. 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