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BEEF CLUBS. 
A new plan by which families in the coun¬ 
try may be regularly supplied with good 
fresh beef is described as follows by the Ru¬ 
ral Sun To organize a club it requires six¬ 
teen members, each member furnishing a 
beef from eighteen months to two years old. 
We begin to feed our little beef in the fall or 
early winter, to be butchered the next sum¬ 
mer, so as to give time to thoroughly fatten. 
We cast lota at the close of every beef season 
to regulate the time of killing the next sea¬ 
son. This is done by putting sixteen tickets 
in the hat with numbers running from one 
to sixteen. Thn time of killing is regulated 
or fixed by the number you draw. In order 
to stimulate and compel each member to 
furnish good beef, we require a certain per 
cent, of tallow to the meat, and affix a pen¬ 
alty for failures and a reward for largest per 
cent, of tallow. By this means we never 
fail to secure the very best article of beef. 
Twelve and a-half is the minimum per cent., 
with us (this is, however, conventional,) to 
be regulated by the club. With us the party 
furnishing the beef is fined five dollars if his 
beef fails to make twelve and a-haJf per cent, 
of tallow to the meat. Asa reward we give 
ten dollars to the member making the largest 
percent, of tallow ; and it is interesting to 
see the interest taken by the members to 
excel and carry oil the premium, to say 
nothing of the line beef we get. After the 
club is organized, a suitable momber in the 
center of the neighborhood is selected to do 
the butchering and divide the beef Into six¬ 
teen parts, giving to each member the same 
quantity and quality of beef, and for his 
service each member pays the butcher one 
dollar. All the beeves are butchered in the 
same, place, and we have a pole forked up 
with sixteen iron hooks, fastened in the pole, 
upon which each member's beef is hung. Wo 
kill every Saturday morning, commencing 
the first Saturday in May, suspending killing 
at times as it suits us, and renewing when 
we desire. In a club of sixteen each mem¬ 
ber will get about twenty-five pounds of 
fresh beef every Saturdy morning, as much 
as any family in the country needs per 
week. Wo require the butcher to keep a" 
correct account of the weight of every beef 
killed, and after the last beef is killed, we 
run an average, or rather divide the whole 
mount by sixteen, so as to get an average, 
and those falling under the average make it 
up, and those going over the average weight 
get pay for the excess furnished ; so you see 
it is a fair and equitable institution, and 
comes nearer meeting the wants and con¬ 
veniences of a neighborhood than any ar¬ 
rangement 1 have ever seen tried, and the 
beauty about it is, it costs nothing scarcely 
bub a little trouble feeding a calf a few 
months with a little bran and meal and you 
get in return for this little labor finer beef 
than I have ever Been in any of the beef 
markets of the country. 
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A NEW CARPET PE8T. 
The Rochester Chronicle says :—“ Consid¬ 
erable outcry is being made in neighboring 
villages concerning the ravages of a new pest 
that has lately arisen, namely, the carpet 
bug. These bugs are desoribed as being 
about twice the size of the common bed bug, 
and covered with hair. Their color is a mud- 
dy black. The first time these bugs were 
heard from in this section was at Dansville 
last year, where they did considerable dam¬ 
age. This year they have Increased and ex¬ 
tended their territory, for it seems that they 
have become a source of extreme annoyance 
in Brockport. A lady who resides in that 
village, informed a reporter of this paper, 
yesterday, that there is not a single house 
that has escaped their depredations. In her 
house, she said, every room is infested with 
them, and they bad eaten large holes in 
every carpet in the house. Their favorite 
mode of procedure is to follow tho seam of 
the boards and eat their way clear through. 
In some instances the carpet lia3 been eaten 
through so e-lean that it looks as if it had 
been cut wi gIi a sharp kni fe. 1 n other rooms 
they had eaten large patches out of it, gen¬ 
erally picking out the center of a breadth. 
The lady referred to says she has tried every¬ 
thing to get rid of them, but without avail. 
Tobacco seems to make them livelier than 
ever, and as for bug poison, they regard it 
as a luxury, and grow fat on it. We have 
not as yet heard of their making their ap¬ 
pearance in this city, although being so close 
to us, it would be reasonable to expect a 
visit from them at any time. In the mean¬ 
while, perhaps some of our scientific men 
will have a remedy prepared for them. 
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WASHING. 
Muslin dresses, even of the most delicate 
colors, can be cleaned in ten minutes or a 
quarter of an hour without losing their color. 
Malt half a pound of soap in a gallon of 
water, empty it into a. washing-tub ; place, 
near two other large tubs of clean water, 
and stir into one a quart of bran. Put I ho 
muslin in the soap, turn it over and knead it 
a few minutes; squeeze it out well, bub do 
not wring it, lest, it get tom ; rinse it about 
quickly in tlio bran for a COUple of minutes. 
Riuse again well for a couple of minutes iu 
clean water. Squeeze out dry and hang it 
between two lines. A clear, dry day should 
be chosen to wash muslin dresses. Hal? a 
dozen may be done this way in half an hour. 
The last rinse may be prepared in the same 
way as the rinses for woolen fabrics. A col¬ 
ored pattern on a white ground must not be 
blued. The bran may here be dispensed 
with. When the dress is dry make tho 
starch ; for a colored muslin white starch, 
and unboiled, bub made with boiling water, 
is best for muslin dresses. Stir the starch, 
with the end of a wax candle.; dip tho dress ; 
hang it again to dry. When dry rinse it 
quickly and thoroughly ia clear water; 
hang it to dry again ; sprinkle and roll it up ; 
afterward iron it. with very hot. irons. Hot 
irons keep the starch stiff. This rinsing after 
starching is called clear starching ; none of 
the stiffness, but much of the unsightliness 
of the starch is removed in this way. The 
advantage of thus cleansing dresses instead • 
of washing them is, first, if colored, tho pro¬ 
cess is so i-apid that there in not time for the 
colors to run ; secondly, the fabric is not 
rubbed, and therefore not strained and worn 
out; thirdly, the process saves nearly all 
labor, and is so quickly done that any lady 
may manage it for herself in the absence of 
a laundry-maid or a lady’s maid.— House¬ 
hold Guide. 
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SELECTED RECIPES. 
To clear a Room of Mosquitos .—Take of 
gum camphor a piece about one third the 
size of an egg, and evaporate it by placing it 
in a tin vessel and holding it over a lamp or 
•candle—talcing care that it does not ignite. 
The smoke will soon fill the room and expel 
the mosquitos. One night not long since, I 
was terribly annoyed by them, when 1 
thought of and tried the above, after which I 
neither saw nor heard them that, li ght, and 
next morning there was not one to be found 
in the room. 
To Color Blue on Cotton. —For ten pounds 
of cloth dissolve ten ounces copperas in water 
enough to cover the cloth ; put the' loth in 
and soak it. Heat dear water boding hot 
and put in six ounces pro lab- of potash; 
put in the cloth and let it remain half an 
hour ; then air and add four ounces more ; 
put in the cloth again, air, and add one half 
ounce oil of vitriol, then dip again ; use soft 
water in a brass kettle. Not to be washed, 
only rinsed in cold water. 
Apple Flap.— Prepare tart apple ready for 
stewing ; sprinkle with sugar. Then lay 
over it a puff paste of 1 pint milk, 1 or 2 eggs, 
1 heaping teaspoonful creiun tartar, soda , 
flour enough to make stiff paste so as to drop 
from the spoon, enough water to stew the 
apples soft. Keep the pot covered tightly to 
prevent the content* being heavy. Shake it, 
not stir, to keep it from burning. 
Cracker Dessert. —Choose whole soda 
cracker--, and lay each upon a separate small 
plate. Pour upon it enough boiling water to 
soak it well, and leave none upon the plate ; 
cover with a dressing of sweetened cream, 
with a spoonful of Jelly in tho center if you 
choose, or dip upon it a portion of nice fruit, 
canned, stewed, or fresh as is convenient. 
Flannel Rolls. —One cup of sweet milk, 
whites of two eggs, rwc-thirds of a cup of 
butter, flour to make a thick batter, one-half 
of a cup of yeast, two tablespoonfuls of 
sugar. Raise overnight; add the butter and 
eggs in the morning; work in some flour, 
making a limber dough ; form into rolls, and 
after the second rising bake. 
Indian Baked Pudding. —Seven table- 
spoonfuls of corn meal mixed smooth with 
molasses and stirred into one quart of scald¬ 
ing milk ; three table-spoons of wheat flour 
mixed with cold milk an 1 adds d to ii. Bake 
slowly three hours. Much depend? upon the 
baking. If it seems to bake too fast, cover 
over with a dish. 
Cream Cookies.—One egg, one large cup of 
sugar ; one cup of cream ; one-half cup of 
i sour milk ; half a teaspoonful of soda ; flour 
■ enough to roll. 
Rigtmtic Jnfonratioir. 
PHYSICAL LIFE. 
It is popularly supposed that we change 
our constitutions once iu seven years ; but 
practically every decade makes a turning 
point in life. It is not t.oo much to say that, 
barring accidents, a man can. at certain dates 
decide what manner of death and from what 
class of disease he shall die. The formation 
of the constitution in early life—say from tho 
age of five to fifteen—devolves on the nurse, 
tho mother, and the t raining in the nursery 
and school-room. In the nursery, at any 
i ate, over-feeding is a cardinal vice ; but the 
over-fed children who eat flesh moat three 
times a day become so gross and unwieldy 
as to be a burden to all concerned ; while 
tight stays, tight boots and high heels develop 
every evil under the sun, from bunions down¬ 
ward. At this point two years of gymnas¬ 
tics, or a couple of years spent on board of 
one of our training ships, does wonders for 
our boys, who got the use of their arms and 
legs to ail amazing degree. The athletic work 
performed by schoolboys and university men 
is perhaps at its best in these days, though 
most happy is the man who is never over 
trained, because he is perpetually in condi¬ 
tion. From 1JS to 25 a man lias to prepare for 
that legitimate enjoyment of life which 
should by rights be his. He has in all prob¬ 
ability chosen his profession, memory is at 
its best, ambition at its highest, rind his 
temptation to burn the candle at both ends— 
to bo a brilliant boon companion, a man 
whose good tales are re mom bored, anrl whoso 
witty sayings are everywhere quoted—is al¬ 
most irresistible ; facility does not come with 
age and the best stories grow stale. Of the 
number of prematurely exhausted intellects 
and shortened lives broken down in this way 
there is no need to tell. Every man ’3 mem¬ 
ory will furnish him with a list of names 
more or less well known. 
From 25 to .‘15 is tho true time for all the 
enjoyment of a man’s best powers, when 
physical vigor is at its highest, aud human 
passion is at its full strength. During the 
last half of this decode a man should be as¬ 
siduous to construct a system of philosophy 
by which to rule bis life, and to contract a 
chain of habits intelligently, so that they 
should not sit too tightly upon him, and yet 
cautiously, so that he should neither be their 
slave nor too easily cast them aside, The 
exact proportion of physical and intellectual 
strength should be gauged, and tho constitu¬ 
tional weakness or, in other words, the dis¬ 
ease toward which a tendency exists, should 
be ascertained. Preserve, if possible, the 
absolute necessity for exercise, and have your 
place of business two or three miles away, 
over which let nothing tempt you to an om¬ 
nibus or carriage save rain. Tho day on 
which a medical man gives up riding to see 
his country patients, or the use of hie own 
legs to see his patients in town, and takes to 
a close brougham, fixes the date when seden¬ 
tary diseases are set up—indigestion, liver, 
kidney disease, and so on ; while if, to utilize 
his leisure, he reads as he drives, his eyesight 
becomes seriously affected. From 35 to 45 a 
man should arrange with his food and square 
hypochondria. He cannot, it is true, change 
his diathesis, but he can manage it. The 
habitual character of food, no less than its 
quantity and quality, begins to tell whether 
it charges the system with fat, muscle, sinew, 
fiber or watery particles.— Pall. Mall Gazette. 
HYGIENIC NOTES. 
Lemon Sirup .—Press your hand on each 
lemon and roll it back and forth briskly on 
the table to make it squeeze more easily ; 
then press the juice into a bowl or tumbler— 
never into a I iu ; strain out all the seeds, os 
they give a bad taste. Remove all the pulp 
from the peels, and boil in water—a pint for 
a dozen pulps—to extract the acid. A few 
minute?’ boiling is enough ; then strain the 
water with the juice of the lemons; put a 
pound of white sugar to a pint of the juice, 
boil ten minutes, bottle it, and your lemon 
sirup is ready. Put a tablespoonful of this 
sirup in a glass of water and you will have a 
cooling, healthful drink. When people need 
an acid, it - they would let vinegar alone and 
use lemons, they would feel just as well sat¬ 
isfied and receive no injury. — Herald of 
Health. 
Sacclinrated Calomel contains Corrosive I 
Sail hunt i\—Dr. Polk of Philadelphia, in the 1 
Medical Times, calls attention to the fact I 
that corrosive sublimate is developed when 
calomel is rubbed up with sugar. He admin¬ 
istered 10 grains one month after ins prepara¬ 
tion, with such poisonous effects as led him 
to test the compound, with the result as 
stated. He quotes from Alpius, who says : 
“ When calomel is mixid in powder with 
white sugar or calcined magnesia or bi-car¬ 
bonate of soda, corrosive sublimate is formed 
iu 24 hours. Rather large quantities are 
formed in powders composed of calomel, 
white sugar and bl-carbontvta of soda,” We 
believe if is the general opinion among prac¬ 
titioners that the increased activity of tho 
saeoharatod calomel which, by the way, is 
an old remedy, depends on the increase of 
surface caused by its diffusion. But the 
development of the poison puts a serious face 
on the matter. 
A Simple Disinfectant. —One pound of 
grean copperas, costing seven cents, dissolved 
in one quart of water and poured down a 
water-closet, will effectually concentrate and 
destroy the foulest smells. On board ships 
and steamboats, about hotels and other pub¬ 
lic places, there is nothing so nice to purify 
the air. Simple green copperas, dissolved in 
anything under the bed, will render a hos¬ 
pital or Other places for the sick, free from 
unpleasant smells. In fish markets, slaugh¬ 
ter houses, sinks, and wherever there aro 
offensive gases, dissolve copperas and sprin¬ 
kle it about, and in a few days the smell will 
all pass away. If a cat, rat or mouse dies 
about the house and sends off offensive gas 
place some dissolved copperas in an open 
vessel near the place whore the nuisance Is, 
and it will purify tho uir. Then keep clean. 
Ruts and Cheese promote digestion as a 
general rule ; the conditions being that tho 
nuts should bo ripe and the cheese old, both 
to be eaten at tho close of dinner ; the digest¬ 
ive agent in both is a peculiar oil which has 
the property of acting chemically on what 
has been eaten, and thus preparing it for 
being the more easily appropriated to tho 
purpose of nutrition. Many think that tho 
more solid portions of the nut should not bo 
swallowed. This is an error ; those particles 
of solid matter are not digested, it is true, but 
they are. passed through the system unchang¬ 
ed, and act us a mechanical stimulant to the 
action of the internal organs, as white mus¬ 
tard seed h wallowed whole arc known to do, 
thus preventing that constipated condition 
of the system which is so invariably product¬ 
ive of numerous bodily discomforts aud dan¬ 
gerous and even fatal forms of disease. 
Phosphorus as u Cure for Cataract.— Dr. 
Combos gives a case of a girl, aged 24, of 
nervous, lymphatic temperament, suffering 
rout oapsulo-Icnticular cataract, hardly able 
to discern light from darkness, suffered fre¬ 
quent headaches. Two or three drops of 
phosphnrized oil were dropped into the eyo 
daily, and frictions of the same used over 
the forehead. After four months of this 
treatment was used peraeveringiy, the eyo 
improved, colors could be distinguished, and 
the opacity of the lens so far diminished that 
it could not be discerned at a distance cf two 
or th ree paees. 
Breathing in Rarijled AW.—M. Raul Bert 
describes in VImtitut a scries of experi¬ 
ments made on himself In a receptacle in 
which the diminution of pressure of air was 
carried to 25 cent!metres—equivalent to an 
altitude of nearly a. mile and three-quarters. 
He found ho could avoid all the ill effects of 
this diminished pressure by breathing a mix¬ 
ture of 60 percent, oxygen with atmospheric 
air. This discovery has already been made 
trial of by aeronauts, who will, by (ti means, 
be able to attain bights hitherto impossible. 
To Prevent Felons. —The following direc¬ 
tions, carefully obsei-ved, will prevent those 
cuticular and osseous abominations known 
as felons :—As soon as the disease is felt, put 
directly over the spot a fly blister, about the 
size of your thumb nail, and let it remain for 
six hours, at the expiration of which time, 
directly under the surface of t 1 e blister maj 
be seen the fet n, which can Instantly be 
taken out with the point of a needle or 
lancet. 
. Ether and Chloroform .—Wo axe able to 
sry that in tho present state of science the 
medical man is responsible for every case of 
death occasioned by the application of ether, 
because a careful watching of the respiration 
is capable of preventing death, while the 
lethal effect. 'of chloroform depends in part tn 
individual predisposition, which the phy¬ 
sician is imabje to recognize.— Schijf. 
Ncuralfpa Remedy. —Prepare, horse-radish 
by grating ajid mixing in vinegar, the same 
as for table, purposes, and apply to the ten.- 
ple where the face or head is affected, or the 
wrist when the pain is in the arm or shoulder. 
Remedy for Croup .—Half a teaspoonfu 
of pulverized alum in a little molasses. It is 
a simple remedy, one almost always at hand, 
and one dose seldom fails to give reli f. If it 
should, repeat it after one hour. 
