manure. Now, according to this writer, 
every one can examine the fetid odor pro¬ 
duced by heaps of flesh left to putrefy for 
months 'in. the open air, and in the heat of 
the sun, to which must bo added the gases 
given out from mountains of skeletons not 
properly cleansed from the soft parts, and 
the emanations arising from a soil saturated 
from year to year with blood and animal 
liquids ; but on interrogating the numerous 
workmen who belong t (i the establishment, 
their answer la that they are never ill. and 
that the effluvia which they inhale, tor from 
being an injury, contributes to keep them in 
good health. ‘Their appearance, in fact, is 
that of perfect health, though working and 
sleeping in a place which strangers cannot 
approach on account of the stench.— N. Y. 
Tribune, 
There is something singular about this 
matter. The facts above stated are well au¬ 
thenticated but it is equally wcllkuown that 
the miasma from decaying vegetable matter 
often unnoticeable by the sense of smell are 
It may seem 
BABY’S SECOND SUMMER. 
It is no chimera of fancy that bids the 
young mother dread her baby’s second sum¬ 
mer, for rarely is it that any child passes 
this period, so trying to infancy, without 
haviug quite a struggle for life. 
Now it is upon the. principle that prevention 
is better than cure t hat we would speak a 
few words to those who may have the 
charge of such little ones, and yet not feel 
themselves so skilled in nursing as to be un¬ 
willing t,o benefit by consulting with others 
upon the subject. 
$ He ♦ ♦ * 
All through the summer months a child in 
its second year should be watched by its 
mother and nurse with unusual assiduty, 
and the first symptoms of disease met and 
checked as promptly as may he. Fresh, pure 
air and careful dieting are obviously the first 
desiderata in a well appointed nurse'y. if 
possible mother and child should have the 
PREPARING CUCUMBERS FOR THE 
TABLE. 
vanilla and cinnamon. When cool put be¬ 
tween the cukes.— Mrs, Go Goodhue, 
Vcrshirc, VI. 
To Settle Coffee Without Eggs.—Pat the 
ground coffee (two tablespoonsful or more, 
according to the size of the family,) to soak 
over night, in about a teacupful of water. 
In the morning add more water and put it 
over to boil, boiling fifteen or twenty 
minutes ; then fill in what water is neces¬ 
sary and put the coffee-pot on the stove 
hearth ; in fifteen minutes or so the coffee 
will pour off as clear as amber-colored claret. 
If any be left after the meal is over, it can 
be. heated again with better result than if it 
had been settled with eggs in the beginning. 
A Nice White Soup.— Break up a shin of 
veal; let it soak iu cold water about two 
hours ; then put it to boil in four quarts of 
water, with an onion, a little mace, pepper, 
and salt. Let it simmer about five hours, 
strain it through a sieve, and set away to 
cool unt il the next day ; then take off all the 
fat, wiping it with a, cloth ; put it to boil; 
when quite hot, if not well seasoned, add 
whatever maybe required, mix two spoon¬ 
fuls of ground rice with wRtcr ; stir it until 
very deleterious to health, 
strange that the most intolerable stench is 
not always unhealthful, and we have heard 
it, argued that some kinds, as from a skunk, 
are really beneficial to health and have more 
tbau once warded off infectious diseases 
which have prevailed iu a neighborhood. 
The sense of smell is not therefore an in¬ 
fallible indication of what is safe and health¬ 
ful nor is there any certain test. A swamp, 
one, two or three miles distaut may produce 
fevers and epidemic diphtheria, while far 
more offensive putrescence may prove com¬ 
paratively innocuous. We have one theory 
to suggest, and it is yet only a theory. Per¬ 
haps the ammonia evolved in the decay of 
highly-organized substances, especially of 
animal, may destroy the germs of disease 
which arc possibly minute parasitic plants 
floating in the air or attaehod to decaying 
bodies. Iu the slower decay of the primitive 
vegetation growing in dump places, such as 
ferns and the Illy, little ammonia, is evolved 
and the resultant atmosphere is moat favor¬ 
able to the spread of disease. Wo have heard 
spirits of ammonia recommended as a disin¬ 
fectant. The pungent odor of carbolic acid 
will make a 
We had as lieve eat so many slices of raw 
pumpkin, and believe they would be about 
as healthful. 
The proper method of preparing cucuin 
bers is as followsPick the encumbers in 
the cool of the morning aud as soon before 
using as possible. (It is important that cu¬ 
cumbers should be fresh.) Then remove the 
outer rind and cut in the thinnest possible 
slices. Sprinkle a little salt over these ; then 
cover and leave for ft, 10, or even IS minutes. 
Our practice is to pnt the slices on a plate 
and cover with another. The. salt extracts 
the juices from the cucumber more per¬ 
fectly as the slices are thinner. Al ter stand¬ 
ing a few minutes shake thoroughly aud 
drain off the water, which will take away 
all the BUperflous salt. Then cover with 
strong cider-vinegar and pepper to suit taste. 
This gives a dish t hat an epicure might envy 
and which will not injure the most delicate 
stomach. The substitution of vinegar and 
pepper for the watery juices of the cucum¬ 
ber makes the vegetable peculiarly grateful 
to the palate in extremely hot weather, mid 
the acid stimulates the biliary secretions, 
keeping the stomach in healthful tone. Pre¬ 
pared thus, cucumbers may always bo eaten 
with gusto and decided benefit, during even 
the sickliest seasons of the year, all of which 
we can vouch for from many years’ expe¬ 
rience. 
Fricassee of Folds Bro usn.-—Broil as for 
pot-pie, then try slowly in butter until 
brown ; toast bread and lay it on the platter 
under the chicken. Pour a little of the broth 
in the spider with the browned butter ; 
thicken with flour, season to suit, and pour 
it over the chicken ; or if you want it very 
nice, add the butter for the gravy to the 
butter in which the chicken was browned ; 
dredge with flour, add salt aud pepper ; 
brown well ; aud lastly add the chicken 
broth. 
How to Preserve Smoked Meats .—Take 
ground black pepper, the fluer the better ; 
wash all the mold or soil off from the hams 
or beef, and while they are damp rub thorn 
thoroughly with the pepper. Two pounds 
of pepper will keep thirty pounds of meat 
free from flies or insects of all kinds. It can 
remain, after being thus treated, in the 
smoke-house or wood-house, and not a fly 
will approach it. It also improves the flavor 
of the meat. 
Chowder or Piccalilli .—To half a bushel 
of nicely chopped tomatoes, which must be 
squeezed dry, add two dozen onions chopped 
floe, one dozen green peppers chopped, out 
damp atmosphere healthful. 
So also will suddenly heating and drying it 
by a brisk lire in a room mainly, we presume, 
by destroying the parasitic germs which 
propagate disease. 
gallons of water,or add until there Is the samo 
buoyancy felt as in the touch of sea-water. 
The writer has seen an ill child who had 
seemed to be at death’s door during the 
night, so revived by this salt bath and early 
morning walk, as to be hardly recognizable 
for the same little exhausted sufferer. 
Do not tease a child with much dressing, 
but keep it as easy and comfortable as possi¬ 
ble in loosely fitting garments that, subject it 
t,o little or no fatigue in their adjustment. 
Beware, though of altogether dispensing with 
flannel even in hottest weather, seeing how 
variable is the American climate, and if a 
! change is required, let it be made with all due 
caution. Gauze flatiuel shirts protect the 
breast and other vital parts without incom- 
modiug any child, save one with a most ex¬ 
ceptionally sensitive skin. Death lias been 
seen to ensue from no graver cause than the 
ORIGINAL RECIPES 
Cider and Vinegar.—A correspondent in¬ 
forms us that he will have a large amount of 
apples this year, much of it natural fruit, 
and he wishes us to advise him what to do 
with them. !»’ he has apples of any kiud 
this year h«' is extremely lucky. Of course 
good varieties will bring the best prices, but 
there will be a demand tor everything in the 
shape of apples this year for making cider. 
Our correspondent is referred to the im¬ 
proved Press and Grater figured and de¬ 
scribed in Ren At Nkw-Youkeu of July 3d, 
aud for sale by the Boomer aud Boschert 
Press Co., No. ‘ifl Beckman street, New York 
City. There is vastly more profit in making 
up a small crop of apples in cider at a high 
price thau in making a large crop at low 
prices, as was done last year. Hence save, 
your apples. They will bo valuable. 
THE ARMY-WORM IN OHIO 
vegetables disappear before, the crawling 
host. This pest is the true army-worm and 
is the larva of a night-flying moth, Leucauta 
unipunvtata, Uawohih. The moth is of a 
pale drab-color, inclining to russet, with a 
small white spot, near the center of the fore¬ 
wings hence the speciflo name unipunctata, 
oi one spotted. 
The larva or caterpillar varies in size and 
color, but its general characteristics are 
sufficiently uniform to enable any one who 
has once seen it t.o recognize the pest over 
afterward. They measure from one to two 
inches in length, although the average of 
would not much exceed 
Natures provision of mother’s milk is of 
course the best food aud medicine for infancy, 
but, from some cause, this supply, is often 
failing nowadays, or pronounced by physi¬ 
cians not to agree with the child. In that 
case such substitutes must be sought as the 
constitution of the infant may require, as in¬ 
dicated by the state of the. bowels. Often 
the mere change from brown to whit j sugar, 
from raw to boiled or scalded milk, may 
have a decidedly alterative, effect, if the con¬ 
stitution has not been already Injured by the 
use of narcotics. In those alarming and 
sudden attacks of cholera infantum, which 
frighten even experienced nurses if no doctor 
is at hand, the proper thing to do is to apply 
a mustard plaster (not too strong) to ihe 
stomach, aud to give mint-julep, a little at a 
time, prepared with ice pounded up as fine 
j as can be, no water, a dessert spoonful of 
SELECTED RECIPES, 
The Onion as Food .—It is stated that the 
onion forms one of the common and univer¬ 
sal supports of life in Spain aud Portugal. 
Authority shows, according to analysis, the 
dried onion contains from 25 to flu per cent, 
of gluten, and ranks iu this respect with the 
nutritious pea and the grains. “It is not 
merely as a relish that the wayfaring 
Spaniard eats his onion with his humble 
crust of br-ead as he sits by the refreshing 
spring ; but it is because experience has long 
proved that-, like the cheese of the English 
full-grown specimens 
an inch and a quarter. 
They are about as thi*k as a goose quill 
and of a grayish color, ornamented with two 
lateral stripes, the upper one with a yellow¬ 
ish central line, the lower with a reddish 
one. They have sixteen legs, six true or 
pectoral and eight pro-legs and two anal, at 
the above. Have plenty of room in. the 
kettle with the beef, and be sure the water 
is boiliug ; put in the pudding and let it boil 
two hours without letting it stop. Eat with 
sweetened cream or any other pudding sauce. 
An Excellent. Pudding— Oue-lialf pound 
suet, shred fine ; one-half pound grated bread 
crumbs? one-quarter pound loaf sugar, the 
yelks of four eggs and whites of two well 
beaten; two lablespoousful of orange marma¬ 
lade or sliced citron, if preferred. To be put 
into a butter-mold and boiled for two hours. 
To be served witli wine poured over it, or 
sauce. 
Preparing Small Fish.—Any kind of small 
fish may be prepared in the following man¬ 
ner : After being well washed and wiped it 
is put in a pan with a little butter, and 
sprinkled over with pepper, salt., and crumbs 
of bread scraped from a crusty loaf, with an 
onion chopped small, and fried in the oven 
twenty minutes to half an hour. 
Tapioca Jelly.—Wash a teacupful of tap- 
i oca —soak it for three hours in cold water- 
turn off the water and pour over it one quart 
of boiliug water. Add a grated peel of one 
sweeten to taste, and boil for one 
the extremity of the body. 
There is scarcely any part of the country 
which is entirely exempt from these insects, 
although their visits are sometimes long 
delayed. When they do appear it is usually 
in vast numbers, sweeping meadows, wheat 
and cornfields clean unless arrested in their 
march, which is generally in solid columns 
and many deep. The usual method to pre¬ 
vent ttie progress of these worms is to plow 
a double furrow around the field towards 
which they happen to be marching. The 
perpendicular side of the furrow should be 
next to the field to be protected, for the 
worms iu attempting to climb up, fallback 
into the furrow. The worms us t hey uceome 
numerous in the furrow may bo destroyed 
by spreading straw over them and setting it 
on fire. Crude petroleum will answer equally 
us well and is not very expensive. When 
the worms p iss over grass lands or pastures 
they may be crushed by going oyer the field 
" Birds!Especially crows and blackbirds, will 
feed upon these caterpillars, and domestic 
fowls lake many a good meal out of the 
ranks, but the plow and roller are the two 
principal implements with which to fight 
the devastating horde. 
laborer, it helps to sustain his strength also, 
and adds, beyond what its bulk would sug¬ 
gest, to the amount of nourishment which 
his simple meal supplies." 
Mixed Pickles.— Those, who possess a veget¬ 
able garden do well toward the close of the 
season to keep au omnium gatherum pickle 
jar containing strong vinegar, in which to 
throw small tomatoes, liny ears of corn, 
cauliflower sprigs, radish pods, small onions, 
strawberry tomatoes, nasturtiums, and small 
cucumbers. When the jar is full, pour off 
the vinegar, spice it with pepper corns or 
green peppers, cloves, allspice, salt, and gin¬ 
ger. Add tumeric or mustard-seed to yel¬ 
low it. Boil it from ten to fifteen minutes, 
and turn it over the piokes.— Daisy Eye- 
bright in Country Gentleman. 
A Nice Cream Pie.—Ones cup white sugar, 
two-thirds of a cup of cream, two eggs, two 
cups flour, one teaspoouful cream of tartar, 
half teaspoonful soda. This will make seven 
thin cakes, between which spread the cream. 
lemon 
hour. 
