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tion were to be decided in a court of justice, be¬ 
fore a jury, and Mr. Quimby wore living, and 
called to the witness-stand. we will see what he 
could prove. The plaintiff claims that they do 
not exist. His lawyer says: 
“ Mr. Qcimdy, do fertile workers exist? ” 
“ I think they do." 
“ Have you over seen one ? ” 
“ I have not." 
“ What proof, then, have you that they exist?" 
•• I have often seen their eggs.” 
“ Do you say that you know that tho eggs you 
saw could not possibly have been laid by a queen 
bee?” 
“ They might have been; but I don't believe 
they were.” 
•' Have you any positive proof to adduce that 
such bees exist ? ” 
‘•Nothing beyond my opinion, and what others 
say.” 
‘•We don’t want to know what others say. 
You can go, Mr. Quimby. 
The jury would render a verdict of “not 
proven ” without, leaving their seats ; and this is 
a verdict that I claim, while I Bee strong evidence 
that such bees do exist. This is a question in 
the natural history of the liODey-beo that is sel¬ 
dom alluded to; but it is an important one to 
those who are extensive raisers of Italian queens, 
as tho supposed fertile workers make a good deal 
of trouble in getting the bees to produce queens 
while they are present. To tho hoc-keeper who 
never raises queens the subject is of little or uo 
importance. Apiarian. 
Jiomcstir €tonoini). 
TROUT. 
too brown or dry before it is done. Serve the 
Trout hot, with melted butter and a lemon, or 
with egg sauco. Mbs. Rustic. 
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ORIGINAL RECIPES. 
Boiled Custard .—Four eggs, four spoons of 
sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, three pints of now 
milk, and fla vor to suit. Put the custard in a 
pail and sot in a kettle of boiling water. Stir 
constantly till it thickens, when it must be in¬ 
stantly taken from the water, or it will curdle. 
Cream Pie.— I’ut about two-thirds of a quart 
of milk to boil in a water-bath; heat the yelks of 
two eggs; add half a cup of sugar; one even 
spoonful of butter; mix two spoons of corn¬ 
starch in a little milk; then mix all togethor. and 
flavor. Put it in the boiling milk and stir con¬ 
stantly till it is done. when it will bo a pmooth, 
thick cream. Tut it in a rich crust and bake. 
Beat the whites of tho two eggs until thoy are 
stiff; add two spoons of sugar; flavor with 
lemon. When tho pie is done, spread this on, 
and leave it in tho oven till slightly brown. 
Corn Bread .—Put into a kettle two quarts of 
water; when boiling stir in corn-meal till it is 
nearly as thick as for pudding; let it cook about 
ten minutes; then turn out into a pan; when 
cool stir in a cup of yeast, or a good yeast cake 
dissolved in half a cup of warm water. Bet. this 
in a warm place at night. In tho morning mix 
in three-fourths of a cup of molasses, one spoon, 
fill of salt, and wheat flour enough to make soft 
loaves. Put in tins, and, when light, bako in a 
moderate oven. 
Johnny Cake .—One egg, one pint of butter¬ 
milk, one teaspoon of saloratus, one teaspoon of 
salt, one tablespoon of shortening, two table¬ 
spoons of molassos, one cup of flour, and corn, 
meal enough to make as stiff as stirred cako. 
Mrs. S. C. 
cured of his biliousness by going without his 
supper and drinking freely of lemonade. Every 
morning, says the Doctor, this patient arose 
with a wonderful sense of rest and refreshment, 
and a feeling as though his blood bad been lit-' 
erally washed, cleansed, and cooled by tho lem- 
ouado and the fast. His theory is that food can 
he successfully used as a remedy for many dis¬ 
eases. 
This treatment might do for persons who re¬ 
quire acids, but another, apparently as strong 
and healthy, it would kill in a week. Lemons 
and other acid fruits are healthful to some per¬ 
sons and almost rank poison to others. Henoo 
it is more than folly tuadvise their indiscriminate 
use. Let every person determine for himself 
what. kind suits his own stomach beat, for it will 
tell him very soon ; and if he does not heed this 
mentor, he deserves to suffer, as thousands do, 
from over-indulgeuoo in those things which 
tickle the palato while destroying the health. 
The too free use and indulgence in acid fruits 
have done more to make Americans a race of 
dyspeptics than anything else; but our physi¬ 
cians do not seem to Lave looked in that direc¬ 
tion for tho rapid increase of this very prevalent 
and annoying disease, It might seriously in jure 
their trado if they did. 
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Treatment of Burnt. —Iu the treatment of 
burns iu t he Charity Hospital. Now York, when 
of a superficial character, a preparation consist¬ 
ing of two parts of collodion and one of olivo oil 
has been found to bo very efficacious. When 
the burn is of an extensive character, gasoline 
proves of decided benefit. The advantage of 
gasoline is that it is of the right cousistenco and 
does not become rancid. 
Isaac Walton said: “ The Trout, of all fresh- | 
water fish, dies soonest after being caught, and 
should, therefore, be eaten within a few hours. 
The Trout is highly valued, both in this and for¬ 
eign nations, and may justly contend with all 
fresh-water fish for precedency nud daintiness of 
taste.” Here is his mode of dressing Trout in 
16,-)3: “Take your Trout, wash, and dry him 
with a clean napkin; then open him. and having 
taken out his intestines and all the blood, wipe 
him very clean within, but wash him not, and 
give him three scotches with a knife to the hone, 
on one side only., After which take a clean hot- i 
tie and put in as much hard, stain hei r (hut it 
must not be dead), vinegar, and a little white 
wine and water, as will cover the fish you intend 
to boil; then throw into the liquor a good quan¬ 
tity of salt, tho rind of a lemon, a handful of 
sliced horso-radish root, with a handsome Ultlo j 
fagot of rosemary, thyme, and winter savory. 
Then set j our kettle upon a quick fire of wood, 
and let your liquor boil up to tho bight before 
you put in your fish ; and while your fish is boil¬ 
ing, beat up your butter with a ladleful of the 
liquor it is boiling in, and, being boiled enough, 
immediately pour the liquor from the fish, and 
being laid iu a dish, pour your butter upon it, 
and, strewing it plentifully over with shaved 
horse-radish and a little pounded ginger, garnish 
the sides of your dish and the fish itself w ith a 
sliced lemon or two, and serve up." 
Tho following modes of cooking Trout arc 
more modern, and will, no doubt, please the 
present generation better. 
trout with cream. 
Clean the Trout nicely, put them into boiling 
water that has been salted, and simmer them for I 
six or seven minutes; then tako them out and ; 
lay thorn on a sieve to drain. Put iu a stew-puu 
a« much rich, sweet cream as will cover the fish, 
adding the yellow rind of a small lemon, a little 
powdered mace, grated nutmeg, and a sprinkle | 
of cayenne. Cover the stew-pan, and let the 
fish simmer for ten minutes; then remove tho 
fisli to a hot dish, and stir into the cream a tea- j 
spoonful of corn-starch, made smooth in a little 
cold milk; then add the juico of the lemon and 
sufficient salt to suit tho taste. Pour the sauce 
over tho lisli and send to the table hot. 
TO FRY TROUT. 
Wash, and dry them thoroughly in a clean 
napkin. Fry them iu plain lard and butter, or, 
better, beef suet, or beat up an egg on a plate, 
dip tbe Trout in the egg and then in rolled 
cracker-crumbs, which have been rubbed through 
a sieve. Fry thorn a delicate brown. Serve with 
parsley and plain melted butter. 
TO BAKE TROUT. 
Empty the fish and clean the inside with the 
greatest care. Fill it with a stuffing made of 
bread-crumbs, salt pork, sage, thyme, parsley, 
pepper, salt, and an onion, if liked. Chop all 
together fmo, sew up the fish, fasten the tail to 
the mouth, dredge the fish with flour, plac e it in 
a pan, with three or four slices of pork over it, 
and bake in a moderate oven. Baste it several 
times with the drippings. If pork is objection¬ 
able, stick bits of butter over the fiah. A but¬ 
tered paper should always be laid over fish in the 
oven, should the outside appear likely to become 
CLIMATE FOR WEAK LUNGS. 
Will you allow mo to ask a few questions 
through the columns of your valuable paper ? 
A lady of limited means desires to know which 
of the Western .States would be healthiest for a 
person with weak lungs. Tho climate of West¬ 
ern Now York docs not agree with her and she 
desires tu live in a warmer one, but prefers 
one Of the Western States to any of tho South¬ 
ern. Also, what part of California would be the 
most desirable, and what tho cost of going there 
would bo. Any particulars concerning that 
State would be thankfully received by your sub- 
ecribor— k, c. a. 
Iu answering your questions we can only ex¬ 
press an opinion formed from our own personal 
observations and Ihoso of many of cmr acquaint¬ 
ances. Wo would not advise any person with 
weak lungs to go to a very warm climate, bnt 
seek ono that is moderately cool and at the same 
time dry, and in a region a few hundred or 
thousand feet above the sea level. A cool cli¬ 
mate, or at least one where the nights are cool, is 
invigorating to a person with weak lungs, while 
tlm opposite is generally enervating, and often 
positively injurious. By a dry climate we do not 
mean one where every breeze fills tho air with 
elouda of dust, whicli actually clogs up the en¬ 
trance to tho lungs, if not the lung colls. 
Dust baths are not healthful to consumptives 
or persons witli weak lungs, and physicians who 
recommend their patients to visit such regions 
should be compelled to go along with them and 
experience a little of the inconvionces of breath¬ 
ing dirt for awhile. 
Elevated locations are recommended, not only 
because the air is usually purer and freer from 
miasmatic disease, but also bocause it is some¬ 
what rarified aud lighter than at lower levels, 
consequently a person is compelled to breathe 
faster aud take in as largo a quantity of air as 
possible, in order to obtain the requisite amount 
of oxygen. ThiB expands the lungs to the full¬ 
est extent at every breath, giving them oxorciso 
such as they probably never had in a mere donso 
atmosphere. Of course it might not bo safe for 
a person with very weak lungs to undertake to 
ascend or reside on the top of Pike’s Peak in 
Colorado, but bo might start at fivo thousand 
feet above fbe level of the sea with safety. 
From this you will see that we would recom¬ 
mend the climate of Denver, Col., or if that is 
too cool, go a hundred or two hundred miles 
further south, say to Pueblo, or even into New 
j Mexico, but keep pretty well up in the world in 
seeking a dwelling-place. 
There are just as good locations iu California 
up among the foot-hills or mountains, where the 
air is pure, clear, and cool, but never very cold. 
The coat of going to either place can be ascer¬ 
tained at any railroad ticket, office, and, beyond 
the fare, one can spend much or little, as best 
suits his circumstances. 
LEMONADE FOR BILIOUSNESS. 
Dr. Hall relates the caBO of a man who wag 
FREEZING YOUNG GRASSHOPPERS. 
That onr scientists as yet know comparatively 
little of tho Rocky Mountain Grasshoppers is 
evident from what they have written about 
them, and that, more should bo luiowu in order 
to enable the people of the Western States to 
successfully cope with this formidable enemy, is 
equally true. For sometime it has been supposed 
that the young locusts soon after hatching, could 
not withstand much cold, and a hard frost or 
severe freeze was supposed to bo sure death, 
but a correspondent of tho N. Y. "Weekly Tribune 
has been experimenting on the young “ hateful*" 
and finds that himself as well as others have 
been led astray in this matter, and ho now says, I 
find I committed tho not uncommon error of 
writing about things of which I know but little, 
and reporting tho gossip of others without first 
testing its accuracy. Since then I have dug a 
few thousands of their eggs and watched their 
hatching aud progress. They were placed in wet 
dirt iu a tin can not half full. After standing on 
tho mantel iu a warm place for six days, the 
young ones began to appear. For tho first hour 
or two they are whitish, hut soon become dark. 
They arc about one-sixth of an inch long, but 
from tho first hour are able to skip six inches 
high or more. Tina is a degree of activity that 
can ho illustrated by imagining an Infant to 
spring over a building GO feet high. After a few 
hundred wero hatched and had fed a day or two 
on onion and apple, they were put out of doorB 
to be frozen to death by a cold night. Thoy be¬ 
came dead to all appearances, but all came back 
to a very lively condition when warmed before 
the fire next day. 
I then prepared a vessel of pounded ice and 
salt, and put the can of insects into tho mixture, 
freezing it solid. Also placed inside thoir can a 
smaller can of ice aud salt, iu which the ther¬ 
mometer soon went below zero. This apparatus 
was well covered with cloths and stood out of 
doors a half hour, making it probable that every 
insect in tho can and every unhatehod egg had 
borne a temperature of at least 10 . On warm¬ 
ing them again, about half the number wero 
dead, but one or two hundred were alive and as 
brisk as ever; and more remarkable than all 
; else, a goodly number of now ones hatched out 
within two hours after the freezing. Buell 
| being the crbc, we have no longer any doubt 
that the locust race is specially favored by nature 
and endowed with powers of endurance that 
: make it “a bmden" of tenfold gricvouHiiess. 
There is no use in surmising that nature will 
make any mistakes in their case that, will prove 
fatal to their longevity and fecundity. They 
will probably delay hatching till there is herbage 
to feed them. £ have seen none that hatched 
without artificial heat; and it would require a 
much warmer spell of sunny weather than that 
of the last week of January to bring them out; 
although a few then hatched on steep south 
slopes. 
Other experiments of a more detailed nature 
were made. Twenty-five insects placed on the 
bottom of a tin vessel and set on ice at 80° im¬ 
mediately died of cold, but ou warming the tin 
over the fire, every one revived in ono or two 
minutes. The samo ones were sot in a freezing 
mixture of from 10 to zero, and all wore killed 
but one, who lived feebly on being warmed. 
Other lots woro repeatedly subjected to 20 ’ of 
cold, and none failed to revive whon left dry. A 
newly hatched one, and another several days old, 
were drowned iu brine at a temperature of 12’ 
below freezing; the youngoBt only recovered. 
When the e;uv was placed in water at 120° the 
hoppers resting on the tin bottom were happy 
and lively, though just recovered from a freeze, 
but when made 20 hotter they kicked their last 
in great trouble. Borne wero drowned in water 
at, 120 , and a part of them recovered after 
awhile. In examining tho nests or pods of eggs 
in tho ground, only about 10 per cent, of them 
were found destroyed. Some had boon oaten up 
by the scarlet mite which remained in the nest; 
others were discolored and looked unsound from 
some cause unknown. 
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WHITE-PINE WEEVIL. 
I have noticed for two or three years past a 
peculiar disease manifesting itself oti tho finest 
specimens of Stone and Mughiis Pines. Young 
trees seem exempt from it, but the older ones 
are attacked, and seem otherwise perfectly 
healthy and vigorous. Tho disoaso commences 
at the topmost twig of tho Pine, and gradually 
exteuds downward, killing everything in its 
course. Can you, Mr. Editor, or any of your 
correspondents, inform me wbat is tho cause? 
Is it tho work of an iiiRcet, or is it owing to un¬ 
healthy soil or atmosphere, and what may bo tho 
remedy? Can wo determine a reasonable ex¬ 
planation, or must wo relegate it to the limbo of 
micxplioaole natural facts.—S. F., Flushing , 
n. r. 
We would remind our correspondent, and all 
others who may desire information in regard to 
insect depredations or diseases of plants, that 
specimous will better enable us to determine 
causes than the most, careful and elaborate de¬ 
scription, In the absence of one of tbe branches 
of pines referred to, we venture to say that thoy 
were killed by the larvso of wbat is called tho 
VVhite-l’ino Weevil (PisMidis .S train, Pf.ck). 
This pest belongs to the groat (Jurculio family of 
beetles, and is about the size of the common 
plum emeu lie ( (Jantilraeh.tl.u8 nenuphar)} but it 
is more slender, longer, with wing-covers of a 
reddish-brown color, ornamented with white 
markings. 
Tho females deposit their eggs on the terminal 
shoots and twigs of various kinds of coarse-gro w¬ 
ing coniferio, being iu uo way partial to tho White 
Pino (Finns Slrohvs), as both the common and 
scientific name of tho insect would fleem to indi¬ 
cate. The grubs from the eggs boro into tho 
twigs and destroy tho wood, causing them to die 
as described. The beetles usually appear in 
August, and from this time ou to quite late iu 
tho fall. 
The most practical method of destroying them 
is to look ovor tho evergreens during the month 
of July, cutting off and burning every infected 
branch, with its contents. Wo have practiced 
this plan of ridding our grounds of tho White 
Pino Weevil with buccohb, although enough es¬ 
cape destruction, or come from neighbors’ gar¬ 
dens, to remind us occasionally that tiiis post i8 
about. 
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