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About The Knoxville journal. (Knoxville, Ga.) 1888-18?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1889)
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Avoid Fancy Cooking Ybepe is altogether too much fancy cooking “purees” nowadays. “Croquettes” and take the place of the good old fa-hioned cod-fish ba Is and hash, and the stomach of the average American cilazen is being gradually ruined by too many kinds of food, and not enough good the cooking. Some of the instruction in cooking-schools is valuable, and if put into practice would do a world of good. the But such conceptions as enter fearful and wonderful mind of the “caterer” a j some of the fashionable restaurants were better never thought of.— Springfield Union. Washing Feather-Beds. Take advantage of sunny days to wash feather-beds. My way is to shake all the feathers into _ one end of the tich, then sew it across to keep them there. Set b tub of water on the floor and wash the empty end, in warm soap-suds; rinse thoroughly then in two waters, and starch; pnt in some convenient place to dry. When not quite dry iron well, so ss to eook the starch into the cloth. Then I shake the feathers into the other end and proceed as before. II & bed is not too much soiled, it may be cleaned by spreading it on the roof ef a low building in a good shower. It should be turned and shaken while dry¬ ing. in tb When too much soiled to be cleaned s way, the bed may be put in a l»rge clean, basket and set in a tub or kettle of warm suds out-of-doors. Let it •oak till the suds aie nearly cold, then stir well with a stick or paddle and lift eut in the ba-ket to drain. Wash through two the floor good suds, and rinse well. Dry on of au unoccupied room, where It can be well aired .—Prairie Farmer. Undressing the Goose. , The goose is not injured by scalding is [as improved the common both fowl, for the or the turkey), and but the market table. Moreover so far as my observa tio i extends, the senseless habit of dry¬ picking “live and the prejudice in favor of feathers” ha • e died out together. We formerly kept cons derabie flocks of geese, and every fa 1 bought, to fatten miles slaughter, all that were raised for around us, and we always held the scalded feathers for a higher price than those picked from the live geese during the growing there season, and goi it, larger too, be eause was among them a pro portioD of down. We dipped the dead goose into scalding water, moved it and forth till the water had pene¬ to the skin, and then wrapped it in a thick cloth till the scalding wns so that the feathers could be removed, the time varying from e minutes for a gosling to ten for a old goose. It is a good plan, though net always to plunge the picked carcass cold water till the heat of the sur¬ of the body is removed. A more method is to proceed at once to the dres-ing, and cool the car¬ in iheair. The goose is a profitable profitable fowl; indeed, I think, the most under favoring circumstances. But the on goo>e raising iu our ex¬ whi h extends over many years, is that it roots out and kills many the best grasses in our permanent pas¬ and encourages the growth of rauk weeds, such as tbe goldenrod and daisy. I have known geese to totally extermin¬ ate the grass in rich, good plots. drinking i p land g' ese, that have sufficient, water, are generally preferable for mar¬ to those which have unlimited in¬ dulgence in the use of water .—New 7 vtk Tribune. Household Hints. Inveterate tea-drinkers invite early wrinkles. Boiled or roasted onions are a specific for colds on the chest. Keep a iu separate possible. saucepan for boiling potatoes if In pressing flat embroidery, lay the article wrong side up on a damp cloth, Cloves are said to be a better preven¬ tive of moths than tobacco or camphor •r cedar. Apple sauce is much improved by tbe addition of a tablespoonful of butter, and requires less sugar. New irons should be gradually heated at first. After it has become used to the heat it is not likely to crack. If your sewing machine runs hard and your o ler is empty, try as a substitute equal parts of cleau lard and kerosene oiL To clean straw matting, wash with a eloth dipped in clean salt and waer; then wipe dry at once. This prevents it from Clean knives with a soft flannel aud Bath brick. If rusty, use wood ashes, rubbed on with a newly-cut bit of Irish potato. This will remove spots when nothing else will. solving A good half disinfectant is made by dis¬ a dram of nitrate of lead in a pint drams oi boiliug waler. then dissolve two of common salt in eight or ten quarts of water. * If before grinding the morning’s coffee the berries are heated for four or five minutes, or until they take on a darker shade of brown, the flavor of the coffee will be much improved. A room with a low ceiling will seem higher the if the Lambrequins window curta ns hang to boor. may be used to extend the curtains to the ceiling and thus carry out the effect. Some jars in which lard has becu kept and greasy pie plates may be cleansed by putting them in a kettle with ashes or sal soda, cover ng them withc.dd water, and allowing them to boil slowly for two hours. Let them cool in the water. A sponge is excellent for washing windows, and newspapers will polish them without leaving dust and streaks. Lse a soft pine stick to cleanse the ac cummulations of di st from the corners of the sash. Ammonia will give the glass a clearer look than soap. The Enervating Sirocco. Most of the hot winds of the Old World are modified forms of the simoon. The sirocco originates in the Sahara and travels nor hward to the Mediterranean and Southern i urope, but it is not so deadly as its prototype. It brings with it great quantities of the desert sand, and the air becomes so dense at times that tho sun is obscure las if by a ondon fog. While it remain-i on the African ma u land it is character red by a very marked drvness, as theie are no e tensive water surfaces to supply it with moisture. is soon, however, as it is launched over the Mediterranean it i egins to take up copi¬ ous draughts, so that when it reaches Malta, bicily, a"wind and the southern between shores south¬ of Europe as from east a id southwest, it has undergone a change from a hot dry wind to a hot damp wind. The result of this altera¬ tion is that it becomes most enervating to the human constitution. Indeed, while it prevails, from one to several days at a t me, life is scarcely worth liv¬ ing, so de| wc-sing and burdensome is the wind It is thu plumheun Au er of IJo ace. Homan energy is puite dissi¬ pated under its fa'iguiug influence, and with a temperature rang ng between ninety-fi e degrees and one hundred and ten degrees the stree s of the town a eeted by it are deserted. According to the Italians a stupid book is put dowu as “era scritto in tempo del scirocco.” To the Sicilians the oppres¬ sive wind is a perlect plague, for, although naturally indolent, they cannot stand the further loss of energy induced by it. During its prevalence mildew, iron rusts, clothes spoil with meat turns putrid, g apes and greeu leaves wither, wine will not fine, and | aint will not dry. Sicily exper ences the sirocco about a do/en times a year, but it is not so fre¬ quently met with n o her parts of Eu. rope. There is no uistak ng the origin of the wind, as the reddish sand is still present whon it arrives on the northern shores of the Medi erranean and cau-es a m siy armo-phete. In Turkey the s rocco is known as tho Samiel, or Sumyel, a name ident cal in meaning with connection sirnnon. It is supposed to have smne with cattle di-ease in the south of iius sia. On the Spanish Mediterranean coast the wind draws more to the east, and is known locally as tho solano, a damp wind, so etimes accompanied and by rain, cau-ing leverishness, dizziness, re-tlessness, and people are so “doneup” uniier its debilitating in uence that we must “ask no favor during the solano.” According ngiishman to the pauiards msonsible only a this pig and an I are to wretched Ineeze .—Onnhiil Mug nine. yyiicu a Millionaire was a Rura Avis. “ When I was a boy in tli s towu,” a gray board said as he passed ay i .ould in \ all st eet, ew ork, day “1 with was winking along roadway one old my sue wuen he po uted out a bent i.erman going up the ste « of his house. * ook at that man and you’ll sec ho only mill ionaue in the l nited Slates.’ looked w til wonder as. he told u.e’that a mdl ionuiie was worth a mil inn dollars, and 1 saw ohn atob Astor. ILs grandsons cm now toss up a hundred times as much; so can the Vanderbilts, and so cau .av ould. 1 tell you that a more mill io are sn’t woith looking at in this town nowadays. By and by you’ll see a ”—New YorlcHui. Ladies in South American Tbeat Marcus A. Mayer, the well-known the atrioal agent, wl o managed Patti while she was on her last trip to South Amer¬ ica, in a letter to a friend in Now York from Montev do, soys: “The girls here ore theloveliest I ever saw. There is one part of the house where they only allow ladies. That is the ‘Cazuela.’ It is the circle just be¬ low the gallery, or ‘Paraiso,’ and one of the male sex is not allowed there, and ladies are not allowed to wear bonnets in the Cazuela. The front row is re¬ served, and we oliarge $6 for these seats. The back rows are for the admission tickets to the Cazuela, nnd for these we get $1.50. At about five o’clock the young ladies commence congregating at the door, and there t ey stand until 7 o’clock and keep up such a clatter and row that the police often compel us to open the doors and let them in at 6:30. You should see the scramble! They are worse than meu or boys. They take the seats back of the front row, and those who are lucky get a Seat, while the un¬ fortunate damsels are compelled to stand up. This place will hold about 600 women, and it is a beautiful sight to look up at them in all the colors of the rainbow—beautiful brunettes, all bedecked in diamonds. At the c'ose of the performance a platoon of soldiers— tifty men—forms on each side of the floor at the exit to the streets and keeps the orowd back, so that the young lad i's can depart in peace, and as they fathers go they are met by their brothers or or some escort to see them home. Lord Sackville’s official pn-tinn his in ugland is i • n • wav changed s ncc iismissal from VVa-liing’on. Upon ilie ooks of t e forci n i ffi he i impl “Lord Saekville, Minister to Washing . h me on leave.’’ fiis salary goes all the same. he Ashbourne act, which has passed S • House i f L ols an i now awaits Q men Vic toria’s appro-al. s n-p y in the amount ava 1 hie to bo i- nf to rish temt ts for the pure-ase of es ates ■oin £VO <>0 0 !) t co £ 10,0 ' 0.0 0 At last we are treated to a novelty in the way nf almanac-making. Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., the i-iowell chemists, send us their Almanac for 1889, i . the shape of a g md-sizcd oo c, embrac¬ ing editions in English, calculated for various sections of tire United States, the Dominion of Canada, India, S>uth A frica, and Aust alia; also, editions n nine other languages, The volume c ntains also specimen pages of pam¬ phlets issued by the conpauy in eleven la 1 - guages not re.presen edby the almanacs—twen (y-one languages in alt. From the preface we learn that no fewer than fourtesn millions of these almanacs are pri itod yearly, lias placing the work as far ahead of any otli *r of die kind in circulation and value as Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is ahead of all others in merit and popularity. Be sure to secure a copy of this fa /orifce alma¬ nac at your druggist’s. It is a species of “vcilow eovered literature” which no family should be without .—Good Fellowship. The first of a flee of eie< t ■ ea. power b ats was auncliedon the river T am-. I on Ion. Your Friead Committe f'ti'c «!**• You never suspected it, none of his friends dreamed of it, lie did not know it hims lr, but it is exactly what ho did, nevertheless. I)o you remem her liis sal low comp’ exion? Do y» *u recol ect how he used to comp aim of head¬ aches and constipation? “I i-’- geiting 1 quite bilious,” he said to you one da , “but gu ss itM pass off. 1 haven’t done an thu g tor it, because I don’t beievc in ‘dosing.’ ” boon al¬ ter that you heard of his death. It was very sudden, and every one w as greatly surprised. If he had taken Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purga¬ tive Peliets he wou d be alive and weil to-da Don’ follow his example. '1 he “Pellets’ are easy to take, mild in their action, and aiwftj s sure. In one year tli * United S'ates -wn to Bremen 817,703 b arrels of petroleum. We accidently overhca d the following dia¬ logue on the street yesto day: that dis¬ Jones. Smith, why don’t you stop gust! g nawking and spittii \uu know g? I martyr Smith. How can 1? am a to catarrh. as’l the disease in its worst J. Do did. I had form but I am well now. S. What did you do lor it? J. I used Dr. Sag’s Catarrh Remedy. , It cured me and it will cure > u. N. 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