vessel of boiling water. When it becomes dry, 
add two cups of milk and cook until it is all 
absorbed. Stir in a spoonful of bntter and 
take from the fire. When cool mix in two 
well beaten eggs, three tablespoonfuls of corn¬ 
starch or flour, a little salt and nutmeg. Flour 
your hands, make into flat cakes, dip into 
flour and fry in hot fat. Eat hot or cold with 
hard or liquid sauce. Very nice. 
Fuff Puddings. 
One pint of new, rich milk, the whites of 
four eggs beaten to a froth, one coffee-cupful 
of flour, a large teaspoonful of yeast powder, 
a small cup of powdered sugar, a little salt 
aud the grated peel of half a lemon. When 
the whites are beaten stiff, whisk in the sugar 
and add, by degrees, to the milk with Ike flour 
(the yeast powder sifted with it.) Beat hard 
for a few minutes, and bake in buttered cups. 
Try with a small splinter. When done, turn 
out, sift sugar over the top and eat with sweet¬ 
ened cream or lemon sauce. 
Jellied Tongue, 
A large beef’s tongue, boiled and cold, two 
ounces of gelatiue dissolved in one-half pint of 
cold water, one pint of liquor in which the 
tongue was boiled, a tablespoonful sugar, a 
little burnt 6ugar for coloring, juice of a lem¬ 
on, a pint of boiling water. To the liquor) 
sugar, juice, and burnt sugar dissolved in a 
little cold water, add the dissolved gelatine, 
mix well then pour in the hot water and strain- 
The tongue must be skinned and cut into slices 
thin as a wafer. Wet a mold or fancy dish 
large enough to hold all, in cold water and 
when the jelLy begins to thicken put a little in 
the bottom of the dish then a layer of tongue, 
more jelly aud tongue until both are used. 
Cover and set in a cool place. When you wish 
to turn it out, dip the mold for an instant into 
hot water before inverting. Garnish with the 
blanched leaves of celery. ThiB is a very 
handsome dish for an “ extra” occasion. 
Codfish and Cheese. 
Just bring to a boil, a pound of freshened 
codfish, chop fine, and Btir in a cup of 
drawn butter, season with pepper aud a little 
minced parsley or celery leaves and two table- 
spoonfuls of gr8ted cheese. Turn into a bak¬ 
ing-dish, strew fine bread-crumbs on top, and 
brown in the oven. 
Fricassee of Sweetbreads. 
Procuie four nice sweetbreads, wash them 
carefully, removing skin and gristle. Cover 
with boiling water and boil 15 minutes, then 
plunge into ice-cold water, to which you have 
added a little salt, heave them in this 20 min 
Uted, take out aud cut into crosswise slices, 
quarter of an inch thick. Have ready three 
or four tablespoonfuls of butter heated in a 
fryiug pan and fry the slices until nicely 
browned bat not burnt. Into a sauce-pan turn 
two cups of strong broth, seasoned well with 
salt, pepper, a dash of Cayenne, cloves, a little 
chopped, onion boiled in it aud strained out, 
aud thickened with browned flour. Put iu the 
sweetbreads, cover and simmer 15 minutes 
longer. Mart B. 
soon as cold. When you serve it, cut as usual, 
loosen the crust from the edge, of the plate 
with a knife, then with a spoon lay the crust 
on the dessert plate, and add the fruit that 
belongs to it. Any sort of fruit pie made in 
this way, is incomparably better than when 
made with an under crust Try it. 
If you wish to make pie to last for a week or 
ten days, line the ple-IisheB with crust and 
bake. When cold, slip all the crusts from 
the tins, and pile them on the top of each 
other, with an earthen plate at the bottom. 
When you want a pie, fill one of these crusts 
with stewed apple, and grate over the top a 
bit of nutmeg, place in the oven, until heated 
through. You will find it delicious, provided 
of course, both crust and stewed apples are 
good. Theae crusts can he filled with any 
sort of cooked fruit, and if the crusts are kept 
in a nice, cool place, they will keep fresh for 
several days; try this way, too. By this 
method “leavings” of preserves and jellies 
can be toothsomely utilized, as spread in the 
crust, they make of it a large “ tart.” 
So much for pie, and now a word 
Concerning Amusement*. 
A game which interests both old and young, 
which is entirely innocent and at the same 
time very instructive, is called the game of 
“ word6 and sentences.” It is simply a box 
of letters, each letter of the alphabet printed 
separately on a square of paste-board and 
each letter duplicated a number of times. Di¬ 
rections for playing the game come with the 
box. Adults like it as well as do younger 
people—it teaches them spelling, new words, 
Little children 
[BRIC-A-BRAC 
That obelisk should have no fears. 
It passed through all the seres dark. 
No doubt another thousand years 
Will find it safe at Central Park—Puck. 
uash. 
When all the world Is young’, lad, 
And all the trees are green. 
And every goose a swan, lad, 
And every lass a queen. 
Then bey for boot and horse, lad, 
Aud round the world away, 
Young blood must have its course, lad, 
And every dog his day. 
.JOSH BILLINGS WISDOM.. 
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is 
better adapted to that kind of business. 
There Is a great deal of religion in tills world 
that is like a life preserver, only put on at the 
moment of Imminent danger and then half the 
time put on hind aide before. 
Experience la a school where a man learns what 
a big fool he has been. 
Tliero arc two kinds of fools In tbe world—those 
wbo can’t change their opinions and those who 
won’t. 
A good doctor is a gentleman to whom we pay 
three dollars a visit for advising us to eat less and 
exercise more. 
Out In the world men show ua two sides of 
their characters; by the fireside only one. 
The world Is filling up with educated fools— 
mankind read too much and learn too little. 
Every man has tits follies and oftentimes they 
are the most Interesting things he has got. 
Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, 
Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, 
Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and 
Sprains, Burns and Scalds, 
General Bodily Pains, 
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet 
and Ears, and all other Pains 
and Aches. 
No Preparation on earth equals St. Jacobs Oil as 
a safe,sure, simple and cheap External Remedy. 
A trial entails but the comparatively trifling outlay 
of 50 t ents, and every one suffering with pain 
cau have cheap and positive proof of its dauus. 
Directions in Eleven Languages. 
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and quickens the perceptions 
learn to read from it, by arranging the letters 
into w T ords. All in all, it is a capital game, and 
I heartily recommend it tor the social, or family 
circle. It coBts but little, and is to be had, 
I judge, of most stationers and at book¬ 
stores. 
Where children are not turned Into a nursery 
with their playthings, it is well to limit their 
playground in the living-room of the house 
by giving them a certain part for their own. 
The boundary line may be a seam, or line, in 
the floor or carpet, By being firm, they very 
soon learn to keep on their own territory and 
to arrange their playthings and possessions 
in due order in their own special corner at 
night. If a child has a mania for cutting 
paper, the room can be kept free from the lit¬ 
ter, by giving him a Eqnare of oil-cloth, or a 
rug to cut on. 
Train the children to use a tooth brush from 
the earliest possible age, I began to nse a brush 
on my little boy's teeth when he was twenty 
month old, and now at the age of three and a 
half years ho brushes his own teeth. The use of 
the brush hardens the gums and it is altogether 
a mistake to neglect the first teeth. The health 
of the child, as well as of the adult, depends 
In a measure upon haying tho teeth clean and 
sweet, aud it is always a son y sight to see a 
child with decayed teeth. Some parents are 
so particular that they have the first teeth of 
their children plugged before becoming loose, 
for the second teeth. A small, soft tooth-brush 
costs from fifteen to twenty cents, while a den¬ 
tist’s bill ib often three times as many dollars. 
Concerning the Hnnglugor Picture*. 
The majority of people bang pictures too 
high on the wall. Whatever the hight of a 
rcom, the pictures in it should be hung on a 
level with the eye of an adult when standing, an 
adult of average hight. Pictures are hung up¬ 
on tho wall, supposably to be seen with both 
ease aud pleasure; but when they arc perched 
up nearly to the ceiling tiny can be viewed 
neither with the one feeling nor the other. 
When yon have occasion to buy picture cord, 
buy, instead, wire, for hanging picture frames. 
Cord wears out, becomes moth-eaten, aud 
some day down come your pictures with a 
crash. Hang your pictures so as to be nearly, 
if not quite flat against tbe wall. People who 
understand the art of hanging pictures teelZ, no 
longer hang them so that the top leans out 
from the wall. 
Tapestry rugs that have become worn out 
at the edge, may be tastefully renovated by 
binding them with wide woolen braid. 
THE TURKEY, 
Proud bird of tho barnyard, blithesome and free, 
A murderous bludgeon is hoverin* o’er thee— 
A fleet-footed urchin, a h ird-hearted bub, 
Will hit you a rap with more’n a stuffed club. 
Make the most of thy time, for soon thoul’t be caught, 
And thine own precious head to the block’ll be brought. 
Then gobble! and g-obble ! and gobble away, 
Thyself will be gobbled at no distant day. 
A rest to thy soul and peace to thy ashes, 
A dinner thoul’t make and cheap sundry hashes; 
A breakfast, perbapB, and a likftit. supper, too. 
And then be dissolved in a thin carcass stew. 
. Owingto the Failureof thc-Music 
Paganini Violin. Crlrbni‘.«l tiirfinp tone and finish. 
Italian utrinpa, thonv pegs, inlaid pi-nrl toil-piece, line long 
bow with ivory and silwred frog, in violin lu x. Bonk *it'In- 
stmotion, with <558 iiicei r inusir, inclndinp 'ill from l":nn/ore. 
By express for ‘B.liQ. Sutislm tion guaranteed, or money re- 
fundcu A better v mlin cannot la* pnrolm . d clsewin re -or 310. 
&. H. W. BATES a CO., Importers, Boston. Musa. 
Emma Abbott tells a sc. Louis reporter that the 
Btage kiss Is “ a cold, dun, pale phantom, unsatis¬ 
factory, elusive, and empty.” Miss Abbott ought 
to substitute a Hawkeye reporter for that tenor. 
If there is anything the staff of this paper can 
throw soul into It Is a radiant kiss. -Hawkeye. 
STUFFING A BOY. 
•‘Yes, I’m going to skate,” he answered, as his 
teeth rattled together and hts ears stood out like 
sheet-iron medals. “ They tried to 6tuff me with 
a story of a boy who froze to death on the rink at 
the park, but 1 wouldn't lake It,” 
“ Did one freeze to death ?” 
“ Naw! Dome to find out about it he just froze 
hia ears and nose and fingers and toes, and the 
rest of bis body wasn’t touched at all! They can’t 
scare me with any of tlielr tales or horror:”— 
Detroit, Free Press. 
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Apple Pie a la transcendent!. 
Make-an apple pie with two crusts, but with¬ 
out sugar or splee. Bake it, aud when nearly 
done, beat up two eggs, with sugar, spice and 
butter or any other seasoning preferred. When 
the pie is done, take it out of the oven, slip off 
the top cruet on to another plate, stir in the 
egg and seasoning till it is well cooked put on 
the top ci ust exactly as it came off, and Berve. 
Everybody will want two pieces. 
Chief Cook. 
The Boardman Tree Paint 
A little girl being asked what charity was, 
answered : ** It Is giving to the poor all the old 
stuff you do not want yourself.” There was no 
mocking satire In her tones, and she dtd not real¬ 
ize that her words contained any bitter sting of 
truth. She was simply giving the necessary In¬ 
ference from her observations. It was the clothes 
that she had alwayB seen given away-gllta that 
required no sacrifice. 
Destroys aud prevents Apple aud Peach Borers, Bark 
Lice, Mice and Rabbits. Send for Circular aud Price 
List. Now York Depot, 
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Seeds, Agricultural Implements, Fertil¬ 
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250 MARYLAND FARMS 
Paralytic, nervous, tremulous old ladles are 
made perfectly quiet and sprightly by using Hop 
Bitters, dally. 
Mountain Cake. 
One pound of flour, one pound of sugar, one- 
half perund of butler, one teacupful oi sour 
milk, six eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two 
of cream-of-tartar. Bake as jelly cake and 
spread fro 9 tiug between and on top. 
Ginger Cookie*. 
Two cups of molasses, one of sugar, one of 
fried pork drippings, one cup of buttermilk, 
one-half cup of ginger, one tablespoonful of 
saleratus. Careful not to mix too stiff. Cut 
in square cakes. 
Fried Cake*. 
Two cups of buttermilk, two eggs, a lump of 
butter the size of an egg, two cups of sugar, 
oue teaspoouful of saleratus, a pinch of ginger. 
Fry in ho’, lard. 
• Pork Cake. 
() ; pound of salt pork chopped lino. Let 
b.ii! iv» o minutes in a half pint of hot water. 
..udene cup of molasses, two of sugar, three 
t^gs, two teaspoonfuls of soda, one teasi oon- 
iul of ciuuamon, one of cloves, nutmeg, one 
pound of raisins, chopped. Flour to make a 
still batter. 
tfugar Cookie*. 
Oue aud out-half cup of sugar, one half cup 
of butter, two eggs, tea-spoonsful of soda dis¬ 
solved in two tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, 
one teaspoonful of cream-jf-tartar iu the flour. 
Cut into round cakes, M. J. Stewart. 
per day at home. Samples worth #5 free 
Aildres* Stinnoil St Go., Portland. Maine. 
Gold Figured, and Actress Ohromos. Itlo. Agt’j 
Sample Book. 26o. Beavy Bros.. Northiord, Gt. 
All Lithoeraphc d Chi-omo Cards, no 2 alike, 1 Oc 
A*rta- outfit, luc. Globe Card Go.. Northtnrd.Ot. 
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NORTHERN TEXAS 
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CONCERNING PIE; A 
PAPER, 
Offers ireeater attractions iu way of xcood, cheap lands, 
healthy country, mild climate, abundance or timber 
and wi\ioi* than nnv othor **eoUou now <ipon to 
merit. la it the TEXAS AND PACIFIo RAILWAY 
is now being extended westward over one mile per 
dav, aud is now offeritiw- for sale at low prices aud on 
easv terms over 4.000,1100 acres of land. 
For descriptive circulars anil maps giving truthful 
Information, address '» • II. A15 
Laud Commissioner T. & P- By.. Marshall, loxag. 
MARY WAGER-FISHER 
It would undoubtedly be a useless attempt 
to undertake to convert the mass of the Ameri¬ 
can people from pie-eatiug. Pie ib oue of the 
idols to which they are wedded, and the best 
that can be done under the circumstances, 
probably, is to endeavor to bring about a re¬ 
form in the manufacture of the article. Oue of 
the chief obiLClions to pie is that the uudei- 
crusl is apt to be Boggy aud indigestible, either 
from beiug uuderbuked, or from beiug soaked 
with the “filling.” This difficulty can be 
avoided by making the pie with but a top crust 
or with a bottom crust baked before the fruit 
is added. Iu “ our house,” with tbe exception 
of pumpkin, pies are always made iu oue of 
tfie above ways, aud from the way in which 
they disappear among the pit-eaters, it is nat¬ 
ural to suppose that they are well relished. 
To make a good pie of cau tied peaches, put a 
layer of the fruit iu the bottom of a pie dish 
of stoue-ware; put a halt-inch strip of crust 
on the inside rim around the top, and a top 
crust, with two gashes in the middle, crossing 
each other at right angles. It is eaten as 
The Elder—Smubueua GanadenaU. 
Speaking of shrubs, there is nothing of more 
value than the common elder. The flowers 
are an excellent lotion for sunburn and rough¬ 
ness of the skin, and I remember when a child 
tho pleasant taste of the elderberry wine that 
cau be made with the ripened berries in tie 
same manner as the expressed juice of ip y 
other fruit. It is considered a cooling ! x. 
tive, and yet when taken hot, pi'idi - a 
copious perspiration. Asa colli.i r:: i i , o: 
eyes tbe flowers as a wash are • 1 >. t> nefit. 
So while grown for beautv i tali •. o i;o made 
of great use to the house .i lfe. 
An me L. Jack. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES 
Rice Fritter*. 
Soak two-thirds of a cup of rice three hours 
iu enough warm water to cover. Put as it is 
into a farina-kettle (or tin pail), set in an outer 
The address of a Rood honest working man. that 
wouul bo willing to come to Ohio. A man of a family, 
and under 35 years of litre. To such 1 would give 
steady employment. BENTON, St. Marys. O. 
Lazy, drowsy feelings are precursors of sick¬ 
ness, which Hop Bitters will Instantly banish. 
