cause you want so many things worse ; but 
you cannot help looking at It, and after 
awhile it seems as if your present life is 
much like it, and clings to the world by 
almost as slender a thread. It, too, 13 help¬ 
less and useless, except to catch dust, and 
it t rembles and seems as nervous as you are 
when the door is opened or closed suddenly. 
Now, this is bad enough for any one, but 
when—as is often the case—the patient is a 
mother with little children and a house to 
care for, and is dependent on hired help, it is 
rather a heavy burden for a weak back. 
husband may h$ the best of men, and do 
all he can for her. but that is not n great 
deal—for if not in good circumstances he 
generally has business that must go on, for 
sickness makes extra expense. But I am 
afraid there are many sickly wives who are 
not blessed with good husbands. Heaven 
help and comfort them, and send such nurses 
as I know Hope Evermore must be. 
Ernestine. 
SETH GREEN’S METHOD OF TBANSPOR 
TATION. 
The Rochester Democrat of Jan. 29 de 
scribes with some minuteness Mr. Green’! 
improved method of transporting fish ova 
from point to point. The percentage of 
loss, It will be seen, has been much reduced 
thereby. We quote: 
1 8 ^ mou trout eggs are taken from 
the fish off Cape Vincent late in the fall of 
the year. Mr. Green’s men are stationed at 
different points along the coast where fisher¬ 
ies are worked and the spawn they secure is 
collected and sent to the hutching-ho use at 
Caledonia Now, up to lost season, the eggs 
after artificial impregnation, were put in 
large cans filled with water. The spawn re¬ 
quired the constant care of oue man at each 
point until the cans were „_ 
vcgecaoie soup with the liquor much arter 
the manner of potato hash, or Irish stew, 
and all who partook of this hash were forth¬ 
with seized with grievous pain in the bowels, 
and when the doctor arrived he had no diffi¬ 
culty in diagnosing the disease, forhia own 
pig had been convulsed by the same means, 
was bine in the face, and could not stand on 
its legs. The tubers should be boiled in 
twice their bulk of water, whether designed 
as food for man or beast, and the liquor 
when drained should be cast forth, and when 
thus treated the tubers are as good os cauli¬ 
flower for the table, and they make eood 1 
>v^rtiU 6 xtURAL housewives to under- 
stand that I dou’t like their silence at all— 
that the Domestic Department of the Rural 
New-Yorker in not filled up, as aforetime, 
with their contributions, fresh from their 
kitchens and firesides I What is the mat¬ 
ter ? What we get through this department 
is good and very much of it raluabio and in¬ 
teresting. But what U the use of historical 
writing ? Miss WaOer’s recent contribution 
was well enough, perhaps but of what real 
value to American housewives? It isn’t 
worthy of her and reads as if she was “ writ 
my neighbor Mrs. Humdrum would 
we expect is 
will do her 
out,” eg 1—- ‘' 
say. What wo want and what 
that every Rural housewife 
duty, as some ancient warrior (I’m not gifted 
in historical quotations, because I have not 
the books before me) said to his men. Now, 
to pro re that I’m in dead earnest in this 
matter, allow me to set an example by giving 
tw,> or three recipes, to which I propose to 
add from time to time, if my Rural sisters 
will only do likewise. 
Onions,—Onions are most wholesome and 
healthful They are lovely • There is no use 
o talking, they do make people keen and 
smart. Now, one way to cook them—add it 
is only one way—is to take some good, s weet 
pork and cut it in small pieces and set It 
frying. Then slice up the onions—after they 
are pared—and throw them in among the 
frying pork. Cook slowly. Let them cook 
until brown, and it is an appetizing farmers’ 
dish—entirely wholesome and healthful. 
resting and Slicing Onions .—There seem 
to be few people who know It, but it is nev¬ 
ertheless true, that if you hold between your 
teet h a pair of scissors, a steel knife, or al¬ 
most any other iron or steel substance, you 
will not weep during the process. 1 like to 
cry sometimes—being a woman—and it does 
me good ; but I don’t like to shed tears be¬ 
cause of onions, fori think them “perfectly 
liatralw ft * ** 
SELECTED RECIPES, 
I inegar Candy .—One cup white sugar, 
one-half cup vinegar; boil till it crisps in 
cold water. This makes an excellent candy 
and something beneficial also, as it is good 
for colds, If the vinegar be very strong, 
take a little less of it and some water ; but 
for us the strength of the vinegar never 
hurts. When done pour out on buttered 
plates, and either mark off in squares an 
inch or two wide as it cools, or else, when 
cool enough to handle, draw it until it is nice 
anrl white ; then cut it into sticks. 
Dripping Cake .—Mix well together two 
pounds of flour, a pint of warm milk and a 
tablespoonful of yeast; let it rise about half 
an horn-, then add half a pound of brown 
sugar, a quarter of a pound of currants und 
a quarter of a pound of good, fresh beef I 
QUINSY S:)RE THROAT. 
A writer in the Now England Farmer 
says:—Let me add that, for quinsy sore 
throat, goose oil will scatter, remove and 
bleak the tumidity or gathering in the 
throat, when all the skill and attention of 
the doctor have been strained to their 
utmost, if applied as follows : mix up pan¬ 
cake batter as you would for dinner, with 
white flour, and then add a good allowance 
of goose oil, well stirred in, and fry the pan¬ 
cake in goose oil, instead of hog’s lard, and 
lay on the outside of the throat, (as you 
would a cloth) while hot; have two pans on 
the stove at fli’st, soon as you get a second 
fried put it on the top of first, and go on, for 
' O-*■* veu UCCI 
dripping ; beat the whole well for nearly a 
quarter of an hour and bake in a moderately 
hot oven. 
Cider Cake —One cup of butter, three cups 
ot' sugar, three eggs, one cup of cider, five 
cups of flour, one-half cup of milk, one-half 
teaspoonful of soda ; nutmeg, cinnamon and 
cloves according to taste ; a cup of chopped 
raisins improves. 
Cider Jelly.— One-half box of gelatine 
soaked ten minutes in one 2 ill of cold 
" V': „ « 13 we “ Known, attain to 
maturity and produce completely formed 
eggs. However, as the result of a careful 
seriM of experiments, he ascertained under 
artificial impregnation, these eggs never de¬ 
velop beyond the period of the formation of 
the eye specks, after which they speedily 
pensh. The hybrids upon which the experh 
ments were prosecuted were obtained from 
the female trout (Trutla LacusMs) and the 
male ambling (Salmo SolveUnm ), and from 
he female saibling and the male trout (Trut- 
ta farm). He thinks that the infertility of 
the eggs from these hybrids may be consid¬ 
ered as an established fact. In the same 
article reference is made to what is called 
the Silver trout or Salmo Schieffer Mullen 
the opinion expressed that this is a ster¬ 
ile form, but that it is impossible to say from 
what species it is derived or whether it is 
constant. 
HYGIENIC NOTES, 
NURSING THE SICK, 
L'he best time to eat fruit is half an hour 
before breakfast. 
If feeling cold before going to bed, exer¬ 
cise; do not roast over a fire. 
It is said the fumes of sugar snuffed up 
the nose will cure ordinary cases of neuralgia. 
Put a small quantity of sugar on a hot shovel 
and try it. 
Always keep the feet warm, and thus 
avoid colds. To this end never sit in damp 
slices or wear foot-coverings fitting and 
pressing closely. 
A full bath should not be taken less than 
*hree hours after a meal. Never drink cold 
water before bathing. Do not take a cold 
bath when tired. 
Remedy for Sore ’Throat Simple, cheap, 
and sure,” is the verdict of one who has 
tried the following remedy for a sore throat 
The necessary drugs are an ounce of cam¬ 
phorated oil and 5 cents’ worth of chlorate 
of potash. Whenever any soreness anneai a 
j-uq meai cooic will prefer wild animals to 
stalled, because their meat 13 more digesti- 
ible ; he will seldom prepare for table salted 
moat, because it lacks porosity ; he will 
laugh at fried steak and call It vulgar, be¬ 
cause all of the juice and much of the flavor 
will have exuded ; he will forbid veal for 
the same reason that he would throwaway 
unripe fruit, aud discourage the use of lamb 
for analogous reasons. If wild hogs could be 
ootained he would occasionally grace the 
table with pork; but because swine have 
been so long domesticated they have become 
scrofulous, and therefore unfit for food ; he 
will never have Irish or Yankee stews, be¬ 
cause cosmopolitan living among vegetables 
cooked together produces discord in the 
stomach. If he served a refined family he 
would prepare food artistically, and select it 
with reference to iU odors and flavors, be¬ 
cause a pleased eye and agreeable nasal sen¬ 
sations are appetizers; if his master were a 
student he would give him an allowance of 
tm perhaps once a day and oysters ad infin- 
ii’trn, because oysters anrl fiah 
Dear Hope Evermore :_l 
that sounds too familiar fr 
stranger, but you have been v 
ever since I read your article, 
8 ick ” (in Rural NKir-Ynmn 
I doubt if there 
good Rural who 
do ; but I have good rzzzz.. 1. 
my health has improved of late, [ , 
long time one of those chronic invalids 
require such good nursing, 
cannot have a good and 
it is better to have 1 
willing, even if not 
are never afraid to ask’to do 
cause they always i- 1 
and fry to have everything just right. But 
if they come quite far from it they will do 
more good, in most cases, than those who 
know everything and more, too (or think 
>.hey do), and do it with a jerk and a bang— 
generally a frown on their face. Such care 
in nervous cases-aud what, chronic invalid 
ia not more or loss nervous ? - will make one 
feel as if they must get well, die, or have a 
change of some kind soon. 
"V ou never can make some people under¬ 
stand how the slamming of a door makes 
you ioel, aud how you almost tremble when 
one who is in the habit of doing it starts to¬ 
wards a door. They can’t see why you 
don’t go to sleep nights instead of thinking 
of everything under the heavens, nor why it 
disturbs you if threeor fourof them goaway 
to spend the evening and come home one at 
a time at any and all times in the ni-kt- 
espscially as they come in so quietlv 
Qu/et/y/ Weil, perhaps they do, but it don’t 
seem so to you. They little think how you 
feel as you lie there watching that cobweb 
on the wall, wishing some one would brush 
it down ; you won’t mention it though be- 
(in Rural New-Yorker of March 6). 
are many readers of the 
appreciate it more than I 
1 reason, for, although 
i, l was for a 
- 1 who 
I think if one 
experienced nurse, 
one who ia pleasant and 
■ very skillful—one you 
- 1 anything, be¬ 
seem anxious to please, 
_.. 1.1 
CAKING JERUSALEM ARTICHOKES. 
F^r LKIXG ° f the cookia S°f these tubers, an 
English writer says there is one point in the 
that mnT* i U3e ° f , the Jei ' usalertl Artichoke 
tha must always be kept in view, and adds : 
he poisonous character of the liquor in 
a Hoe LaVe beetl boiled requires 
me to be drawn hard and fast to show 
• 1 at may be eaten and \shat we are to 
