LADIES DEPARTMENT. BOYS DEPARTMENT. 
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Capita' JDqmrtment. 
DIRECTIONS FOR BOILING RICE. 
Take one pint of rice, wash it, and put it in 
soak for two hours. Have ready two quarts of 
boiling water, with a little salt in it, in a stew pan. 
Half an hour before you wish to use it, pour the 
water in which the rice is soaked from it, and with 
a tablespoon, shake the rice into the stew pan 
without stirring it, and let it boil ten minutes ; 
then strain the liquid from the rice. Return the 
rice to the stew pan, and let it steam for 15 or 20 
minutes, when it will be done, and the grains will 
be separate. Add a little butter, and send it to the 
table. 
The above is the proper way to cook rice, which 
is important to know, as we are now prevented 
from using almost all other kinds of vegetables. 
This recipe is furnished by a lady in whose family 
it has been a regular dish on the dinner table, since 
1 832. — Baltimore American. 
TO PREVENT MILK SOURING DURING THUNDER 
STORMS. 
We have heard great complaints from dairy 
women, about their milk getting sour during a 
thunder storm, although perfectly sweet a short 
time previous. The following plans, suggested by 
a correspondent, will prevent this in a great de- 
free. All the pans containing the milk, ought to 
e placed upon non-conductors of electricity, such 
as blocks of baked wood, pieces of glass, or wood 
that has been well painted and varnished. The 
following articles are most easily provided : — Bees- 
wax, feathers, and woolen cloth are also non-con- 
ductors, but inconvenient to be used. All these 
articles will insulate the pans, and prevent the 
electric fluid from entering, which is the cause of 
acidity ; or is, in fact, the principle of acidity it- 
self. If glass basins were substituted for tin pans, 
the plan would be better still, and there would then 
be no necessity for the practice suggested above. 
The glass would preserve the milk much longer 
sweet than pans, and the acid would have no effect 
upon it. We are not aware of any acid that has 
the least impression on glass, except the fluoric 
acid. All iron vessels, or vessels compounded of 
iron, as tin pans, attract the heat very readily, 
and, of course, sour the milk ; and such is the 
affinity of iron for an acid, that we doubt much if 
it is ever washed out entirely. Iron vessels, we 
are confident, are the very worst that could be used 
for the purpose ; they are even inferior to wood. 
Pithy Hints. — Snuff, on the necks and backs of 
calves and young cattle, will do more good than in 
the nose of any maiden lady or dandy bachelor ; 
and brimstone bought for the hogs, will not prove 
that the itch has got into the house. Cards, on 
the cattle, make them look as much better as chil- 
dren with their hair combed. A clean barn is a 
hint to the woman who takes care of the kitchen. 
Good milking stools save much washing in the 
house. A scraper on the door step saves brooms 
and dust. — Exchange. 
House Bugs. — To prevent these troublesome in- 
sects, use bedsteads that have no holes through 
them, which screw together so tighly as to leave 
no cavities ; use board slats instead of cords ; and 
if there is any appearance of bugs, apply corro- 
sive sublimate and cheap rum, whiskey, or alcohol 
to the places where they are likely to lodge them- 
selves. It may be applied with a feather only 
once a-week. If the bugs come out of the wall 
or floor, set the bedstead where it cannot come in 
contact with them, and occasionally apply the 
above-named solution around the bottom of the 
bed posts and on the floor where they stand. 
Working Women. — Women, so amiable in 
themselves, are never so amiable as when they are 
useful ; and for beauty, though men may fail in 
love with girls at play, there is nothing to make 
them stand to their love like seeing them at work. — 
Cobbet. 
Bogs' sBxportment. 
A DOCILE, SAGACIOUS BULL. 
Boys, when you come to be grown men, and 
have stallions, bulls, and rams for breeding, on 
your farms, among other good points, or qualifica- 
tions, don't forget what we think the most import- 
ant, namely, a gentle disposition, or, in other words, 
kind temper. Many a person has been killed by 
ferocious males and even females ; you will see, 
therefore, that, in propagating such animals, you 
endanger your own lives as well as those of 
others. Our rule is, however good an animal may 
be in other respects, if wanting in docile disposition, 
not to breed from it. 
We will now tell you a story of a Durham bull 
which belongs to Prince Albert, the husband of 
Queen Victoria, of England. This bull is kept in 
the little park at Windsor, so called, to distinguish 
it from the great park, at the head of which stands 
Windsor Castle, one of the largest and most magni- 
ficent buildings in Europe, and the principal sum- 
mer residence of the Queen and Prince. This ani- 
mal, possessing a kind temper, had been taught to 
work alone in a cart, like a horse. He made him- 
self very useful in this capacity ; and was of such 
great strength, that he would take a load of more 
than 6,000 pounds, (three tons,) along a level road 
with as much ease, and perhaps more, than any 
one of you could trundle a wheelbarrow load of 
dirt not weighing over 100 pounds. 
Well, one day, after a hard morning's work, they 
turned him out into the park to feed and refresh 
himself on the rich grass that was growing there. 
In the same pasture was another bull, which prov- 
ed to be of a vicious temper ; for no sooner did he 
espy a farm laborer from the adjoining field attempt 
to pass through the pasture, than he commenced 
bellowing and pawing, and then rushed forward 
with all his might, determined to gore him to death. 
The ferocious beast had knocked the man down, 
and was in the act of stooping to toss him on his 
horns, when the kind-tempered Durham bull seeing 
his extreme danger, set off on a full run to his res- 
cue. He came up with such prodigious force as to 
knock the wicked bull prostrate at a single blow 
