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The Legend of Thomas Didymus, the Jewish Skeptic. 
By James Freeman Clarice. Boston • Lee & Shepard. 
The above-named book is a brief commen¬ 
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picting the belief, opinions and prejudices of 
the Jews. Our Lord is represented not in an 
idoul form, but personal, as he appeared to the 
people of his own day. Thomas relates much 
of what transpired when he accompanied the 
Saviour hi his -work of doing good, and, as it 
is written iu an easy, fluent style, the reader 
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Journal of a Farmer’s Daughter. By Elaine Good- 
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This is a charming little work from the pen 
of one of the "Sky Farm Poets,” and is the 
first prose work they have written. It is a 
journal of fa rm life, and in the first paragraph 
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very pleasing style. It is a book which will 
be perused with delight. 
Revised Oddfellowship Illustrated. By Professor 
Blaucliard of Wheaton College. Chicago: Ezra, A. 
Cook, Publisher. 
This is a book of 381 pages, devoted to an 
exposition of the secrets of Oddfellowship 
which the author says " is a false religion and 
therefore utterly at variance with the religion 
of the Bible.” It is on the same plan as "Free¬ 
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Dyspepsia : How to Avoid it. By Jos. F. Edwards, M. 
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The author in this little work of 87 pages 
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know more about than they do in order to 
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"Food,” "Digestion.” "How to cook Food” 
and " How and what we ought to oat. ” ft will 
repay a careful perusal. 
First Lessons in Greek. By Win. S. Scarborough, 
A. M. New York : A. S. Barnes & CO., publishers. 
Price SI 25. 
This little work for beginners in the study 
of the Greek language is on the plan of Jones' 
First Lessons in Latin. A cursory glance 
loads us to think it well adapted to its purpose. 
The Georgians. A Novel. Published by Jas. R. Os¬ 
good & Co., Boston. Price 81.00. 
This is the third of the Round Robiu series, 
and a book in which is strikingly depicted 
some of the original types of Southern life and 
character. It is full of interest. 
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This is a notable addition to temperance lit¬ 
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novel style, in it the author touches some of 
the vital elements of the temperance reform. 
Friends : A Duct. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Bos¬ 
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Anything from the pen of the well-known 
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roeeption with the reading public. 
Rockland Cemetery. Illustrated. By William Wales. 
New York: Randolph At Co. 
A very nicely gotton-up book, descriptive of 
this beautiful cemetery in Rockland, N. Y. It 
oontains 20 illustrations. 
Hand-Book of Useful Tables. Finch & Apgar, pub¬ 
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This is a handy reference book for the farm¬ 
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Diary of a Minister’s Wife. By Alme- 
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The Scholar in a Republic. Wendell 
P hilli ps. An address at the Centenuial Anni¬ 
versary of the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard 
College, June 30,1881. 
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BRIC-A-BRAC. 
THE banging mania. 
O seo the young girl, 
In beauty rare. 
Sans kink, sans curl— 
Banging her hair. 
And hear the young man 
At the piano there, 
Hard as he can— 
Banging his air! 
A young mother stands 
Oppressed with care. 
With slipper In hands. 
Banging her heir. 
A Bostonian Mistake.— At a late Boston 
party the host said to a guest: “ I beg you to 
entertain Mr. Blank a little; he looks utterly 
forlorn and bored to death. I will introduce 
him and you must interest him. By the way, 
his strong point is butter, on which he has * 
written a hook. ” The lady guest graciously 
undertook the task of entertaining the man, 
inwardly wondering that he should be so much 
interested in butter (of which she knew very 
little), when Ms face indicated a mind given 
to much profound thinking. However, with 
butter in view, she began on the weather, 
gradually got to the country, then onto a 
farm, from that to cows, and at last to butter. 
The man looked more bored than ever, the 
magic wo rd producing not the slightest effect, 
and he somewhat abruptly left her, and soon 
withdi’ew from the house. " I did my best,” 
she explained to the hostess; " I went through 
agonies to prove that I was deeply interested 
in butter, but it was all iu vain.” “ Butter!” 
exclaimed the hostess, “ What possessed you 
to talk to that man of all men on butter ? 
I told you he had just written a book on 
Biuldha, and I knew how deeply you, too, 
were interested in the same subject.” And 
they said in chorus, "Gracious!”—Boston 
Transcript. 
the rhyme of the reporter. 
With fingers blackened with Ink, 
With cye-Iids heavy and red. 
The local editor sat in his chair, 
Wi lting for dally bread. 
The small boy was by his side, 
The foreman grumbled aud swore, 
And the office boy like an “ Oliver Twist,” 
Constantly cried for ” more.” 
He had hold of a broken leg 
That had never been broken at all : 
He had killed off the nearest friend he had 
And tore up the house lu a squall, 
Aud now he was at an end, he hadn't an item left; 
And he bowed bis head to the small boy's scorn, 
Like a fellow of hope bereft. 
They found him a corpse that night 
In streets so drear and sloppy. 
With the foreman whispering Into his ear 
And the small boy waiting for copy.—Gate City. 
Recipe to Subdue a Husband. —Mr. and 
Mrs. Topnoody were getting ready to go out 
to call on a friend the other evening, and Mi’s. 
T. desiring to look well was arranging herself 
in a great variety of colors. Topnoody no¬ 
ticed it, and began to comment. Said he, 
" Mi’s. Topnoody, I think a woman of your 
age ought to wear more subdued colors.” "Oh, 
do you i” was the response, "What would 
you suggest as becoming to your angel wife 1” 
" I think a black dress is simple, tasteful and 
always becoming.” "Indeed?” “ Yes, in¬ 
deed.” " Well, then, Topnoody, suppose you 
die and leave me a widow, so that 1 can wear 
the color you think most becoming to mo. Of 
course you can't see me iu it, but it would be 
such a pleasure and comfort to me to know 
that I was pleasing my poor, dear, dead 
husband.” Then Mrs. Topnoody smiled in 
such a very satisfied way that Topnoody con¬ 
cluded his suggestions were possibly too pre¬ 
vious, and he busied himself in tying his 
necktie while Mi’s. T. distributed the rainbow 
tints as she pleased.—Steubenville Herald. 
THE BOSTON OIRL. 
I told her of a maid whose mind 
Was filled with tender thoughts and fauclos, 
A lovely being of the kind 
They write about in old romances. 
” Kuowest thou,” said I, “ this maiden, 
Whose beauty doth my thoughts beguile ?” 
She answered with a dreamy air— 
” Well, I should smile 1” 
” Her cheeks possess the rose’s hue. 
No form is daintier or completer, 
No hair so brown uo eyes so blue, 
No mouth ts tenderer or sweeter. 
The favored youth who gains the hand 
Of this fair girl, will ne'er regret it. 
With modest grace she added : “ And 
Don’t you forget It.” 
“ O thou dear mistress of my heart! 
My augel! let me kneel before thee 
And say how heavenly sweet thou art, 
And how devoutly 1 adore thee.” 
She turned away her lovely head, 
And with a languid look that fired 
My soul, in murmured accents said,— 
" You make me tired.” 
—David S. Foster, lu Scribner’s for June. 
Even the philosophers often have the laugh 
turned on them. A little boy said in the pres¬ 
ence of Herbert Spencer: “ What an awful 
lot of crows !” The philosopher corrected the 
youth by saying: “ I have yet to learn, little 
master that there is anything to inspire awe 
in such a bird as the crow.” For once the 
author of first principles met lus match. The 
boy replied: “ But 1 didn’t say there was. I 
didn’t say, what a lot of awful crows ! but 
what an awful lot of crows !” Sound for 
the boy. 
A merchant possessed a Arc yacht 
Had money, a house and a lacht; 
Iu business he trusted, 
And therefore he busted 
And now It Is all “gone to naeht.” 
A Lost Opportunity. —A Clevelander who 
had put in two weeks at the Flats, came down 
on the boat on his way home. Among his 
traps he had something in a box which 
claimed considerable attention, and a man 
finally approached him and said: " I see you 
caught one.” "Yes.” "Going to take him 
home?” “Yes.” “Was it the largest one 
you saw up there?” "Oh. no; this is only 
a young one.” “ Going to tame lfim I pre¬ 
sume ?” "Well, I guess so.” Did he bite 
you jf” " Bite me ? Why, they never bite. 
You know what sort of a bird this is, don’t 
you ?” "Of course I do. That’s a St. Clair 
Flats mosquito, isn’t it It was a splendid 
opportunity, and the temptation was great; 
but the Buckeye was a truthful man, and he 
sighed as he replied: "N-no, sir. That is a 
St. Clair Flats mud-hen. T didn’t see a ’skeeter 
over half as large as this.”—Det. Free Press. 
cauliflower, 
Oh cauliflower! thy blossom sweet 
Makes most, delicious food to eat, 
And when I see thee float In cream 
I’m awful glad you are not a dream. 
It must bo enough to provoke a saint, 
To dream of thee and awaking, faint. 
With strong desire to swallow thee down 
Discover that you are not—In—town. 
“ Haughtv-culture-ism.”— Lady : " Wish 
to leave, Parkins i But you only came yes¬ 
terday!” Parkins: "Yes marm. Hin engag¬ 
ing I thought you was sparrergrass gentry: 
but when I ’ears from the cook last night that 
you eat portaters and cahbige, carrots and 
sich-like second-hand vegetables, I ses there 
ain’t nothing hesthetic in it, and I resigns my 
staff of horfiee, so to speak.” 
fun and fancy. 
A plate of hash and a brindle cat 
A sailing on the sea : 
For your sister’s beau a pink cravat, 
To climb a hickory tree. 
almost cold. Flavor and spread between the 
layers. 
ICE-CREAM CAKE NO. 2, 
Make good sponge-cake, boko half an inch 
thick in jelly pans and let get cold. Whip a 
pint of thick, sweet cream, until it looks like 
ice cream, sweeten and flavor with vanilla. 
Blanch and chop a pound of almonds, stir into 
the cream and spread very thick between the 
cakes. 
CREAM ROSE CAKE. 
Cream three cups of powdered sugar with a 
cup of butter, add a small cup of sweet cream, 
beat five minutes, flavor with vanilla, add by 
degrees the whites of 10 eggs beaten stiff, and 
four and three-quarter cups of sifted flour with 
two teaspoon fuls of baking powder sifted with 
it. Color pink with cochineal and bake in 
four jelly-cake tins. The cochineal can be had 
of any druggist, who will prepare it for you 
when told for what it is wanted. He will give 
it to you either in liquid form when a very 
few drops will answer, or as a powder and you 
can add to a pinch of it a few drops of water. 
Strain and stir in drop by drop until you have 
the right color. For the 
CREAM. 
Pare and grate one cocoanut, whip stiff the 
whites of four eggs, stir iu a cup and half of 
powdered sugar and flavor with rose-water. 
Put the cake together with this cream and 
stir a little more sugar into that you spread 
over the top. 
Puddings. 
PLAIN STEAMED PUDDING. 
For thee a stick of taffy siveot, 
(Onions are strong in the onion bed !) 
A blue eyed pug for me to greet, 
(Still, uh, still are the entombed dead.) 
An oyster stew or two for you, 
(Oh clams are fifty cents a peck !) 
For me a schooner of Mountain Dew, 
(Two glasses for a ten-ccnt check !) 
For you a stroll upon the saud, 
(Red is the nose of he who drinks !) 
For me three pairs in a poker hand, 
(Bologna sausage is sold In links !) 
—The Wlld(e) poet of the Norristown Herald. 
By nature the smaller strawberries are so 
modest and shrinking that they crawl down 
to the bottom of the boxes, leaving their large 
brethren on top, greatly to the chagrin of the 
venders of the fruit, who are so self-conscious 
as to entertain the foolish idea that buyers 
will suspect them of having placed the big 
berries on the top for the mercenary purpose 
of tempting them to invest. 
Domestic Cconomij 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Rolls, Rusk, Etc. 
HOME-MADE ROLLS. 
Put two quarts of sifted flour into a deep 
dish, rub a half tablespoonful each of butter 
and lard into the flour, make a well in the 
center and pour in a pint of cold, boiled milk, 
stir iu euough flour to make a thin batter, then 
mix in a hull' cup of good, home-made yeast, a 
half cup of sugar and a little salt. Let become 
light, knead down, let rise again, then mold, 
roll a fourth inch thick, cut into rounds with 
a cake cutter, put a little melted butter on 
one-half and lap nearly over on the other. 
Place on the pan nearly an inch apart. 
RUSK. 
Two cups of dough, ono tea cup of sugar, 
half a cup of butter, two well-beaten eggs, 
flour enough to make a stiff dough. Set to 
rise and when light make into high and rather 
narrow biscuit. When again light sift sugar 
and cinnamon over the top and bake. 
GRAHAM GEMS. 
Beat up an egg, x>ut with it a quart of butter¬ 
milk, make a stiff batter with Graham flour, 
add a litt le salt and a heaping teaspoonful of 
soda. Have the gem-pan hot and greased, 
put the batter in and bake in a quick oven half 
an hour. 
RAISED WAFFLES. 
A quart of sifted flour, a pint of new, luke¬ 
warm milk, two thoroughly beaten eggs, a 
tablespoonful of melted butter, a teaspoonful of 
salt, aud a half teacupful of home-made yeast. 
Let get very light and bake in a hot, greased 
waffle-iron. 
Cakes. 
ice-cream: cake no. 1. 
Two cups of sugar, one of butter, whites of 
eight eggs, a fourth cup of sweet milk, three 
aud a fourth cups of sifted flour, two teaspoon- 
fuls of baking powder, flavor and bake in jelly 
tins. Boil two cups of powdered sugar in a 
half teacup of water stirring constantly 
When thick and clear, pour boiling hot over 
the whipped whites of two eggs. Beat until 
Two cupfuls of sour milk with some cream 
in it, three cupfuls of sifted flour, one-half 
cupful of finely chopped suet, a little salt and 
a large teaspoon! >1 of soda dissolved in a little 
hot water. Stir the milk into the flour, beat 
until free from lumps, add the suet and salt 
and at the last moment beat in the soda. Steam 
two hours. Eat at once with a hard sauce— 
sugar and butter beaten together aud flav¬ 
ored. 
APPLE BAKED PUDDING. 
Pare and core six tart cook ing apples and 
place in a buttered baking dish. Pour over 
the following batter: n pint of milk, two beat¬ 
en eggs, a little salt, two teaspooufuls of bak¬ 
ing powder sifted with flour enough to make 
a batter thicker than for pancakes. 
DELMONICO PUDDING. 
A quart of new milk, three even tablespoon¬ 
fuls of corn-starch dissolved in a little cold 
milk, the yelks of four eggs, six tablespoon¬ 
fuls of sugar Heat the milk, add the sugar, 
then the starch, and last the beaten yelks. 
Flavor, pour into a pudding dish and bake in 
a slow oven (the top must not brown) 30 miu- 
utes. Have the whites beaten stiff, sweeten, 
flavor and spread over the pudding. Return 
to the oven and let it just brown. 
Preserves. 
PLUM PRESERVES. 
Allow equal weights of sugar and plums. 
Add only enough water to the sugar to make 
a thick sirup, boil and skim. Wash the 
plums, prick in several places and place in a 
stone jar. Pour over the sirup and cover with 
a dish that will keep the fruit under the sirup. 
The next day drain off the siru p, heat, skim 
and again pour over the fruit. Repeat this 
for four days. Then place plums and sirup in 
the preserving kettle and boil very gently 
half an hour. Excellent! 
QUINCE PRESERVES. 
Take equal weights of quinces pared and 
quartered aud sugar. Boil the fruit until 
tender in water just to cover. Carefully take 
out the pieces, add the sugar to the water, 
boil, skim, replace fruit aud boil very slowly 
imtil clear. Place in jars and pour the sirup 
over. _ 
Miscellaneous. 
fly poison. 
Boil one-fourth ounce of small quassia 
chips in a pint of water for 10 minutes, strain 
and sweeten. 
ivy poisoning. 
Bathe the affected parts freely with sweet 
spirits of nitre. 
STAINS OF ANALINE DYES. 
Wash the hands in a solution of common 
sodium sulphite. 
MILDEW 
is best removed by dipping the goods into a 
very weak solution of chloride of lime—a 
heaping teaspoonful to a quart of water. If 
the stains do not at once disappear, place in 
the sun for a few minutes, after which rinse 
thoroughly. 
MIXTURE FOR SANDWICHES. 
Chop fine cold boiled ham, tongue and 
chicken, mix with one pint of the mixture 
half a cup of melted butter, a tablespoonful 
of salad oil, one of mustard if liked, the yelk 
of an egg and a dash of pepper. 
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