-YORKER. 
APRIL 20 
gtomestir (Enntomji. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
CHINA AND GLASS-WARE. 
Please give mo some idea as to the kinds of 
china and glass-ware now in use; also as to 
price of dinner and tea sets. IyriciBBn. 
In answer to “Inquirer,” a few notes taken 
during an hour's stroll through the various de¬ 
partments of a large emporium of china, glass¬ 
ware, etc., may give her an inkling of what she 
wishes to know. 
Fashion is as changeable in china and glass¬ 
ware as in ladies’ apparel, and that worshiped 
goddess decrees that a fashionable dinnor service 
of to-day is made up of twelve different oolors, 
or rather tints. That is, each plate, cup, etc., is 
deoorated with a differently tinted band, an inoh 
or so in width, of blue, green, gray, lavender, 
and so on. To these sets, made up of many col¬ 
ors, the name of “ Harlequin” iB given. 
Indeed, the demand for deoorated ohiua for 
table use has been so great that manufacturers 
have been obliged to produoe it in inferior wares 
to supply the popular trado. 
In dinner sots we notioed a novelty called the 
“ Orane set." The ware ib known as Cooplen’s 
ivory, frangible, of a greenish yollowish cast, 
deoorated with rather light green cranes and 
straggling, paimately-divided leaves on long 
petioles. In this set 125 pieces ; prioe $90. 
Very pretty dinner sets, first quality of French 
obina, banded In any or every shade, with a gilt 
liue either side of the band, wore shown for $85 ; 
102 pieces in the set. For the baud the lighter 
shades of blue, gray and lavender are those most 
sought for. Tea sets matching this Bet, $10.50 
for 56 pieces. 
It is relief for the eye as it rests upon the 
pretty blue and white English printed ware, sim¬ 
ilar to the china of a hundred years ago. The 
neatest was a pattern of light blue grape leaves 
and fruit for the border, with roses and buds in 
tho center. 175 pieces in these sets ; price from 
$35 to $50. 
There is a revival of an old English ware call¬ 
ed “Old Spode." Of a light cream oolor and 
reoommendable for its lightness, combined with 
durability. A Qreoian pattern of red on a black 
ground was among those we admired. These 
sets were $65; 176 pieces. 
For oommoa usage the best English ware, 
plain white, imitation of ohiua—and a very good 
imitation too—is preferred by many. A diuner 
set, consisting of 12 dinner plates, 12 tea plates, 
12 soup plates, 3 meat dishes, 2 covered dishes, 
2 vegetable dishes, 1 soup tureen, 1 sauoe boat, 
1 pickle dish, 12 coffee cups and saucers, 12 sauce 
plates and 12 batters, oan be purchased as low 
as $15. Tea sets, same quality, 35 pieces, $4.75. 
In shape cups, whether deoorated or plain, are 
low, smail at the bottom, wide at the top known 
as “ egg shape.” In pitchers, the fancy for the 
moment, is the straight, the “ Tankard.” 
Novel butters were shown, each representing 
a variegated pelargonium leaf, with the name on 
the underside, as “ Happy Thought," “ Md. Pol¬ 
lock.” They are of china, deoorated by hand, 
about 3J^ inches in diameter, and $10 a dozen. 
Other pretty butters are offered for $1.25 a doz¬ 
en, imitating grape and other leaves, uot hand 
decorated, true j still pretty. 
Little dishes for scolloped oysters, in imi¬ 
tation of the balf-Bhell of an oyster, of French 
unglazed porcelain, and hand decorated with 
oharming little sea views, 00 cents apiece. 
Beautiful fruit desert plates, each decorated 
with a different fruit. The apples, grapes, and 
peaches looking as tempting as the fruit itself. 
$6.50 a dozen. 
Salt shakers are used to the entire exclusion 
of the individual cellars. They come in out and 
pressed glass, silver plated caps. $1.50 and up¬ 
ward a dozen. 
In glass-ware the “Iridescent” is the newest. 
It is a Bohemian glasB, deiioate, fragil, reflecting 
every color of the rainbow, reminding one of a 
soap-bubble just before it bursts, only more 
dear and brilliant if that be possible. In cat- 
glass goblets the fancy is for uniformity of 
shape in the set—a short stem and a gradual in¬ 
crease upward to about three inch diameter— 
but each glass is differently decorated with 
grasses, ferns, lily-of-the-valley, or all ferns but 
different species; these last are very deiioate. 
Price ranging from $10 to $14 a dozen. Pretty 
pressed glass goblets oan be purchased for $2 a 
dozen. The price for engraving an initial and 
wreath on either cut or pressed is $1.50 for the 
dozen. 
Ovxnoton Brothers, Brooklyn, please accept 
thanks for information. 
ATTICS AND CELLARS. 
It is a good plan for a housekeeper to make a 
weekly visit to every part of her dwelling from 
! “garret to cellar.” The attic is often the 
1 1 repository of artioles of little value, suoh as 
worn-out garments, bedding eto. If such 
articles must be kept they oan be neatly packed 
in drawers or boxes, wrapping woolens of any 
value in linen or thick brown paper to protect 
them from moths. Attios and cellars should be 
so arranged that they can be perfectly ventilated. 
To some persons the thought of visiting the 
cellar is anything bat pleasant, because the 
name is associated with darkness, noxious 
vapors, dampness, small dingy windows, walls 
and floors which are rarely swept, boxes, barrels 
etc. in disorder. We have seen just such cellars, 
but we know of one more cheerful than many 
parlors. It is light and airy, and in the south 
windows plants thrive during the winter months, 
their bright green foliago showing how well 
adapted the cool atmosphere of the cellar com¬ 
bined with freedom from dust is to their needs. 
A weekly visit to their cellar answers during the 
winter, but as spring comes upon us this part 
of our bouse requires closer attention. 
Vegetables must bo examined, and those show¬ 
ing signs of decay, removed. Apples that are 
slightly unsound can be made into jelly, and 
my recipe is as follows : After cutting out the 
imperfect parts, wash the apples and quarter, 
without paring or coring. Place iu a porcolaiuo 
kettle, and to four quarts of out apples add a 
little leas than one quart of cold water. Cook 
slowly until soft but not broken. Turn into a 
jelly bag that has just been wrung out of hot 
water, and hang up to drain. Strain the juice 
again to make tho jelly clear. Buil ten minutes 
skim, then add the sugar, one pound to a pint 
of juice, and boil twenty minutes. If the apples 
are not sonr, tho jelly will seem thip, but in a 
few days will be solid, and of a fine amber color. 
Lyons, Iowa. M. G. It. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
.Pine-apple and Tapioca Pudding. 
Soak a teacnpful of tapioca in a pint of water 
for two or three hours ; then add one quart of 
milk ; two beaten eggs; two-thirds of a cup of 
sugar ; a little salt and a tablespoonfnl of but¬ 
ter ; bake in a buttered dish, stirring occasion¬ 
ally at first. When done it must be qnite stiff, 
toru on to a platter and pour over a punt of 
Canned pine-apple, or uncooked pine-apple, pre¬ 
viously out into little dice, sprinkled with sugar 
and covered tightly for an hour or so before 
using. 
I Preserved Pine-apple. ; 
Make a sirup of three-quarters of a pound of 
BUgar and uot quite one-balf punt of water to 
each pound of fruit ; put over the lire in a puf»- 
celain kettle, and just before it boils stir in the 
beaten white of an egg with a tablespoonful of 
cold water ; as it boils remove the scum until no 
more rises. Have the pine-apple peeled and 
slioed or cut into dice ; add to the sirup and boil 
gently until the sirup has penetrated the fruit 
and the pieces look clear. Put into cans and 
seal. 
Pine-applo Pudding. 
Slioed pine-apple substituted for the oranges 
in Mrs. D. Snkdiker’s recipe for “ Orange Pad¬ 
ding" in the Rural of Jauuary 19, makes a very 
palatable dessert—serve as cold as possible. 
|Utos of fj \)i ®wk. 
TWEED’S DEATH. 
“ The evil that men do liveB after them, 
The good is oft interred with their bones.’’ 
So it Is with Wm. M. Tweed, the ex-Tammany 
Boss, the maker and unmaker of political for¬ 
tunes, the monumental public plunderer of the 
nineteenth century, who on the twelfth Instant 
ended miserably In prison an eventful life of flfty- 
flve years. Ills frequent acta of Individual kind¬ 
ness, his staunch adherence to his friends and 
partisans, his ostentatious liberality with the 
funds of which he was plundering the public 
treasury, will be soon forgotten, even by most of 
those who were benefited by them, but the load 
of taxation his monstrous dishonesty and that of 
his confederates has plied on his feilow-clUzens, 
the evils of their example and the oniclal corrup¬ 
tion they sedulously tostdred, will In their baleful 
effects long outlive the remembrance of the dead 
swindler’s Impulsive benefactions. The sudden 
death of this notorious malefactor has excited 
a passing feeling or sympathy In many boeoms 
that execrated his crimes, but it should be borne 
in mind that every year witnesses, In the penal 
Institutions throughout, the land, still more lone¬ 
ly and miserable ends of hundreds of gray-hatred 
criminals whose offences were venial in compari¬ 
son wlLh those of which this dead politician was 
guilty. It has been urged lu his favor that he 
wasno moie guilty, while more manly, than his 
dishonest, associates who have hitherto escaped 
the full punishment deserved by their crime?, 
but these crimes would have been Impossible 
were it not for ills bold and unscrupulous leader¬ 
ship, and In a confederacy of guilt, It Is the just 
practice of society to treat the ringleader only 
with extreme severity. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Ex-Governor Moses of South Carolina has been 
ari ested in this city on a requisition from Gov. 
Wade Hampton, on a charge of forgery. He In¬ 
sists before the Court here that the forgery was 
committed on invalid documents and was there¬ 
fore not of such a criminal nature as to Jultlfy his 
surrender by the Now York authorities. The 
squabble over the election of a Door-keeper for 
the lower House of Congress has terminated In 
the election of Gen. Field, whose military tltlo 
was won on Confederate battle-fields. His oppo¬ 
nent, Gen. Shields, who was wounded in the Mex¬ 
ican War and again on the Union side during the 
late unpleasantness, has been highly compli¬ 
mented by Democrats and Republicans, and the 
House, by an almost unanimous vote, authorised 
the President to appoint him a Brigadier-General 
on the retired list of the Army of the United 
States, which will give him a permanent pension 
of upwards of * *i,ooo, if it passes the Senate and 
President. Both Shields and Field are, of course, 
stautic.h Democrats. A hill Introduced Into the 
New York Assembly for taxing clergymen and 
oliureh property was badly defeated. The Repub¬ 
lican Senators and Representatives held a joint 
caucus, at which action hostile to the President 
was discountenanced. Tho proposition made in 
the N. Y. Legislature to Inaugurate a system of 
free canals has beeu defeated lor this term, but is 
sure to come up again In the next Legislature. A 
bill la being pressed In the state Legislature, seek¬ 
ing to establish a uniform freight tariff of one 
cent per quart on all milk transported On railroads 
which now charge a higher rate and which reach 
the cities of New York and Brooklyn. Rural leg¬ 
islators should look sharp after this, affecting as 
I t does the Interests of their constituents, nor 
should these he silent on the matter. It has been 
at length decided to officially recognize Diaz aB 
President of the Mexican Republic, lu view of his 
vigorous measures for suppressing b rder raid¬ 
ing by patrolling the frontier with reliable regu¬ 
lar troops Instead of mtlltla, wbo were little bet¬ 
ter than tho robbers they pretended to suppress. 
At last, after many disappointments, Fltz John 
Porter has succeeded in securing an order to have 
his case reopened, as fresh testimony 13 reported 
to have been discovered, going to prove that the 
court-martial that tried and condemned biro was 
ovor liarah, at least. There are strong reports of 
anticipated Indian troubles soon from sitt ing Bui) 
and other liostiles. Secretary Sherman has been 
making a very powerful argument before the 
Finance Committee In favor of the early resump¬ 
tion of specie payments. As the premium on gold 
was on Saturday, the 13th Instant, only >.f per 
cent., the step to that issue Is not a great one. 
Several banks through the country have already 
resumed by paying In gold their notes presented 
at the counter; and unless Congress Interfere?, re¬ 
sumption will soon come In the regular order of 
ouslneas. Clarksville, Toon, has hod & $5tiO,OOG 
fire. A bill has been Introduced In the State Leg¬ 
islature by which a saving or about *300,000 a year 
in the salaries of officials In this city will be ac¬ 
complished. Now petty police Justices get $8,000 a 
year, and higher Judges proportionately, so that 
many of them — second-rate lawyers at that— 
draw higher pay than judges of thB U. 8. Supreme 
Court, while all officials, with scarcely an excep¬ 
tion, are enormously over-paid both for the duties 
of their offices and their own personal, educa¬ 
tional and business standing. 
Across the Alantlc political affairs are still 
In great doubt, although the latest advices 
have a more peaceful tone. England has 
relaxed the urgency of her warlike prepartlons, 
probably mainly because they are already com¬ 
pleted, or nearly so. Bismarck,In whose hands the 
question of peace or war really rests, seems to be 
making more active efforts to bring about a spirit 
of conciliation. Russia heavily burtbened with 
debt, and finding it difficult to borrow money 
even at euormous sacrifices, seems witling to re¬ 
cede somewhat from her arrogant position with 
regard to most of the questions involved In the 
treaty or San stefano. Advices rrom Berlin give 
hope of a meeting of that Congress, provided the 
Powers consent to the retrocession or Bessarabia 
and the extension of Russian territory In Asia as 
far as Erzeroum and a pecuniary indemnity ; 
these modest demands granted, Bismarck will use 
hlB best efforts to induce Russia to allow the Con¬ 
gress full power to modify the other territorial 
changes made by the treaty. 
Having secured all his own Immediate Interests, 
the Czar Ib witling that those of his late allies, 
Bulgaria, Scrvla and Koumanta, shall be parsed 
upon by the tribunal to which he refuses to submit 
questions affecting Sacred Russia. At present, 
Russian tropps are pouring Into Roumanla de¬ 
spite the remonstrances of the government of 
of that State, and In view of their arbltary con¬ 
duct and their treatment of the natives as a 
conquered race, the Roumanian government Ib 
drawlDg up a protest to be sent to the Powers. 
In Constantinople defences are being thrown up 
towards the Russians, and the Government con¬ 
template moving to Scutari, so that in the event 
of a conflict, Turkey might not be forced to take 
sides with either party, through the seizure or 
capture of the present seat of government. The 
Russian troops have seized upon tho passes of 
Carpathian Mountains, so as to bo prepared for 
an attack from Austria, and are pressing on the 
construction of a railroad through Bulgaria and 
Koumanta, so as to draw supplies from home In¬ 
dependently of the Black Sea, which may be 
dominated by tbe British fleet. Italy seems de¬ 
termined to remain rigorously neutral In any 
event. In Ireland the Earl of Leitrim, a harsh 
cruel landlord, has been shot and murdered on 
a part of his estates where 85 of his tent,ants were 
under orders of eviction. His coachman and 
clerk were killed at the same time. At hts funeral, 
some days later, tho populace booted, cursed 
and were It not for police Interference, wou’d 
liavo desecrated the remains. Intense excite¬ 
ment In Ireland, and also in England at this 
agrarian outrage. In the great boat race on 
the Thames, between Oxford and Cambridge 
Universities, the former won an easy victory. 
VARIOUS. 
The Moffett bell-punch register will probably 
soon bo checking off drinks In Pa., N. Y., Ill., 
D. C. and La., as Its Introduction Lu these places 
Is now under favorable discussion. 
Mr. R. A. Arnold estimates, In an article In the 
Nineteenth Century, that were the Church of 
England dlsestaollshed It would retain a surplus 
of $ 600 , 000,000 after all claims had been met. 
Mr. P. Powell, senior member of the firm of P. 
Powell <fc Son, Cincinnati, O., died at his home, 
March 28th. The business of the firm will be con¬ 
tinued under the usual firm name, Mr. Wm. F. 
Powell having sole charge of the business. 
A solicitor at Manchester, England, has been 
sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. He de¬ 
fended a client Iwho'had stolen a portmanteau 
from Mr. Parnell, M. p„ and was convicted of 
taking payment from his client, derived from the 
stolen goods, knowing the money to have been 
thus obtained. 
Tea Is beginning to take a place almost side by 
side wltb coffee In Ceylon, and samples of Ceylon 
grown leaf have been reoelved and favorably re¬ 
ported on in London. Tbe cultivation of the plant 
Is encouraged by tbe offeror prizes at the colonial 
agricultural exhibitions, and experienced planters 
have given a very favorable opinion of the capa¬ 
bilities of the soil and climate of parts of Ceylon 
for the production of a high-class tea. 
Corinth, Maine, Feb. 12, 1878. 
To The Davis Sewing Machine Co., Water- 
town, N. Y.— Gents: We are manufacturers of 
clothing; have been engaged In the business for 
the past fifteen years, manufacturing largely for 
Miner, Beal & Hackett, Isaac Fenno & Co., A. 
Sherman & Co., Smith, Richardson & Bates. Pra- 
ger, Bock <fe Co. and Leland, Rice & Co., all of 
Boston. We hare used the Davis Vertical Feed 
Sewing Machine for the past four years In manu¬ 
facturing our clothing, and we know that It la 
better adapted to our business, and possessed 
superior advantages over any of tho under-feed 
sewing machines. 
Within the last three months we have had occa¬ 
sion to seam our clothing with double thread, and 
we find that the Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Ma¬ 
chine (and no other family sewing maonine) will 
do the work as well and easily as with the single 
thread. Yours, truly, T. Brackett & Son. 
Kelliible help for weak and nervous sufferers. 
Chronic, painful and prostrating diseases cured 
without medicine. Pulvermacher’s Electric Belts 
the grand desideratum. Avoid Imitations. Book 
and Journal, with particulars, mailed tree. Ad¬ 
dress Pulvermachek Galvanic Co., Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 
THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nxw VORX, Saturday, April 13,1878. 
BEANS and PEAs.-Beaus of all kind* begins to 
Improve. For standards, medium* have, advanced 
10c and marrow* uru 20c. better. Trade In not nota¬ 
bly largo, but reduced receipt* have given sellers 
more holding courage. Murrowanre oepealallv strong 
a* an active Cuban cull Is expected. Pea beans and 
white rod kidneys not active but not neglected to 
an extent that makes price* suffer. Canadian field 
peas in hulk and bond at S.'l<J®rt4e.; Block very small; 
export warn* supplied from dally receipts, Green 
pea* continue dull at U2J<r«300 pur 3 bueli. box. 
Southern B. K. Peas 2.80«t.'t.00 per 2 has. bag, 
Receipts of beaus tor the ivcen 2301 bush. Ex¬ 
ports do.; 225tibia; exports peas lfiikOOU bush. 
Wo quote i—Besn*. medium choice, Sl.ti09ai.66 '; oth¬ 
er. *Hir«pl.55; marrows. choice. $1.8601,£5: other 
*1 m v rn • i or i ; r iitl. _ i. » . ... ^2 
Beeswax. - Small lot* have been taken, showing 
27 Witiii'Jc. tho moire for Western and Southern. 
Notwithstanding tbe large exportation compared 
With Inst pear tlie market is firm. 
Exporta past week, 5.7'J*, pounds. 
Broom Cohn.—C orn offerings are not large and 
tbe market la fairly supported. 
Green brush at ii®7>,c.; green burl. 5@6>4c.: me¬ 
dium green, l@6Kc.; red-tipped, 4@6o., *nd com- 
mou red. 3&3 kc. 
Butter.—O ld butter as a rule now depends upon 
chance sale. Some One sound firkins will have a 
place for Southern use until new yellow will stand 
steamer shipments. The stock of old Is not so op¬ 
pressive us was feared It would he. Still agood deal 
remains to loose money on. Both sebars and buyers 
aru shaping their regular trado for new and dally 
receipts pretty nearly fill currant wants. Alter 
naming creamery as fairly strong in prlco*: other 
grades of Statu aro subject to the eat^ tone incident 
to this purt of tbe season wfiea Wnfitnrn dultyudd 
factory develop as fui ufidubJu competitors. 
New.— riiute. halt tubs, choice, 28&?8; good 20®3T. 
Welch first, SfS<a28; second. 2-wiio; poor new, 20;®- 
22e; Western creamery ranges aAX4®il5e.: other 26®. 
W. dairy good to choice 2ta37o.; fair 20<22Ac.; 
fair to good R®23o. 
Old,—B tnte dairies, good to ehntce 20*210.: fair, 
iei&lTc.; from I6&18c ; selected ttrklus 22t»25c : fair to 
good ln«23o ; poor ilia 12c ; selected half lut> 22@2lc ; 
Other, K 20c.; choice Fall Welsh 2102X0. Fair to 
prime 20i<t2rtc.; old Western, 7*. 12a. for early anil 10® 
He. lor late made. 
Cotton has fluctuated sharply us the advices from 
the other side have been favorable or otherwise, 
closing abnul K above the lowest urleea of tlie week. 
Latest price* are for Mar on, Itl.63nei0.ti3c.: April. 10 
a?/lJ0.£l(\: May, lO.IMetlUllao.: June. 11 .< 0@Il.U5o; 
July. ll.110H.Ue.; August. ll.Ol011.ifIc.; September. 
10.a r >w)0.88o.; October, 10.01010.608.: November. 10.50 
® 10.57c.: December. 10.57®0l).68o.; January, 10.01® 
10.05c. 
Quotations for poor ootton are based on American 
standard of olasslflcatlon, and ou cotton In store 
