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CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
SITTINGS FROM THE KITCHEN TIRE. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
Thb fire burns low : chips take the place of 
hard wood, and the siftings are like the writer's 
household experiences—light and of little value. 
It is not how near to, but how far from the fire 
we can manage to do our needed duties that is 
now in question ; for with the thermometer at 
80°, cooking becomos a burden, and desire for 
carbonaceous food is sure to cease. Then we 
find fresh fruit a relief from puddings, and the 
children Blip upon rice and milk, with good ap¬ 
petites. Wo must study more the foods suited 
for the season and adapt ourselves to it. The 
oil or blubber so necessary to the Russian or 
Esquimaux, is out of place in our hot, dry air ; 
ho is the pork and other strong foodB we use in 
winter with impunity. The farmer who neglects 
to supply his family with a variety of the. fruits, 
in their season, is wanting in needful prudence, 
as by such a precaution many a doctor's bill 
might be saved, aud the general health of the 
family materially increased. 
I said something like this as we came in from 
the garden yesterday with just time enough to 
cook our potatoes and asparagus for dinner be¬ 
fore that hour arrived, aud with keen appetites, 
good boiled ham, and a dessert of stewed rhu¬ 
barb aud cream with the last of our winter 
apples, we felt that more elaborate cooking was 
not needed, iu the heat of the day. Ho we study 
when the breakfast is preparing to have some 
dish on hand for the dinner: it may be corn¬ 
starch, or tapioca, to be eaten cold for dessert, 
or perhaps a pie, if fruit is not in season. When 
that time comes, expect not ob, “ Autocrats of 
the dinner-table,” that anything more delicate 
than strawberries or raspberries or blackberries 
or rosy and white currants, will he set before 
you, as a substitute for pie; for with such it is 
our will that you be served, with a sprinkling of 
sugar and a richness of cream, the oook books 
never knew. Are there to be no more siftings? 
Ah! sign of golden summer days, — the fire is out. 
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CONVENIENCES. 
I wish that every household in this goodly 
land could have all the modern conveniences 
that the proverbial “ Biddy" so persistently de¬ 
mands in every new place. 
Indeed, we can hardly blame Biddy for want¬ 
ing them as we regretfully look back to the time 
we reveled in their possesion and found them 
very handy, Bat aside from sinks and tubs, 
are there not many conveniences to bo had, 
with little or no expense but that of fore¬ 
thought ? 
I have seen a neighbor preparing a meal and 
during the time going back and forth a score 
of times to a distant closet for pots, pans, Bpoons, 
salt, pepper, and everything else that was need¬ 
ed, and all the time complaiuing of being so 
tired that she could hardly stand. A small 
cloBet near her cook stove, to hold the needed 
articles with a few dishes to serve up the meals, 
would have spared her many steps each day. 
And think of those saved in a week, a month a 
year! Max Day. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Raspberry Short-Oake. 
Take a coffee-cup of sonr cream ; a teaspoon¬ 
ful of soda ; flour aud salt. Sift the flour and 
add a little salt; then stir the soda into the 
cream and before it stops foaming turn it into 
the flour; mix stiff enough to roll out—careful 
not to get it too stiff—into three or four circles 
the size of a small pie-tin; butter each and 
place one on top of the other ; bake until well 
done in a quick oven ; pull the layers apart and 
spread each one plentifully with ripe fruit 
previously sweetened with pulverized sugar; 
place layer upon layer and serve at once with 
sweetened cream. 
Old Potatoes. 
Peel and boil in salted water and take up as 
soon as done that they may remain whole; have 
ready some rolled crackers and a beaten egg; 
dip the potatoes into the egg and then into the 
crackers and fry in boiling lard. 
Mrs. Kate Brady. 
Raspberry Shrub. 
Place red raspberries in an earthen dish; 
cover with good cider vinegar—not too strong 
aud let stand twelve hours ; strain and to each 
pint of j nice add one pound of sugar ; boil ten 
minutes and bottle hot. 
Raspberry Vinegar. 
The following makes a delicious summer 
driuk by stirring two or three tablespoonfuls of 
it into a tumbler of iced water. Fill a stone jar 
with ripe berries and cover with pure, strong 
cider vinegar; let stand five days and then strain 
through a sieve, pressing out all the juice. 
Allow one and a-half pounds of white sugar to 
each pint of this juice and boil until the sugar is 
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dissolved, removing any scum which may arise. 
Take from the fire, bottle and seal. 
Iced Tea. 
Let me give our way of preparing this cooling 
drink for lunch or tea on hot summer days. 
The tea should be made in the morning aud of 
half green and half black; make stronger and 
sweeter than usual; pour into a jug and place 
in the ice-house or chest. Serve in goblets with 
small pieces of broken ice. 
Lemon Tea. 
Add a few Blices of lemon and a little of the 
juice to tea made as above. 
Livingston Co., N. Y. Grace Benington. 
Black Currant Jelly. 
To every five quarts of currants allow one and 
a half teaonpful of water, and to every pint of 
juice, when strained, one pound of sugar. 
Remove the currants from the stalks, and put 
into an earthen dish, with the proportion of 
water given; cover the dish over tightly, and 
place in the oven fur one hour and a half ; then 
squeeze out the juice through a coarse, cloth bag. 
and to every pint of juice add oue pound of su¬ 
gar. Boil from one-half to three-quarters of an 
hour—skimming well; pour into jelly-glasBes 
and tie down. 
Black Currant Jam. 
Gather the currants when thoroughly ripe, and 
pick from the stalks; bruise slightly, and to 
each pound of fruit allow three-quarters of a 
pound of sugar; put sugar and fruit, into a 
porcelain kettle, and boil nearly oue hour over a 
slow tire, stirring constantly. Country Girl. 
Onion Toast. 
Boil some small onione, changing the water 
twice, and salting it the last time. When done, 
take the onions up with a skimmer. Thicken 
the water, which should be boiled away to about 
a pint, with a very little corn-starch ; add butter, 
pepper and salt to taste. Have toasted some 
thin slices of bread, lay them in a dish, pat the 
onions on the slices, and pour the gravy over. 
Dropped Eggs. 
Have a saucepan of boiling water, and drop 
fresh eggs carefully into the water; let them 
stand where they will be hot, but not boil until 
the whites set. Toast some thin slices of broad 
nicely, lay them in a dish , and pour over a gill of 
rich, hot cream salted to taste; take up the eggs 
with a skimmer, and put an egg on each Blioo of 
toast; sprinkle a little salt aud pepper over, and 
garnish with parsley if you please. z. nt. 
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QUERIES ANSWERED. 
Sr— 
Will you define the terms Souffles, Vol-au-venl 
and Baha ? I have seen these terms in cookery 
but didjnot know their meaning. c. o. 
Ans.—(1) Souffle means something puffed up, 
and is generally applied to a light kind of a pud¬ 
ding made with any kind of farinaceous Bnb- 
Btance. (‘2) Vol-au-\pn/ is a figurative expres¬ 
sion applied to puff-paste of the lightest kind. 
(3) Baba is a kind of light plum cake. 
Wanted. —A cement for sealing corks in bot¬ 
tles? e. L. L. 
Ans, —Melt together one-fourth pound each 
of sealing wax and re sin wilh two ounces of 
bees-wax. When it froths, stir with a tallow 
candle. 
How can oil marks, caused by people resting 
their heads against my parlor walls, be taken 
out ? Jane B. 
Ans.—T ry pipe-clay mixed with water to the 
consistency of cream, laying it on the spot 
and letting it remain over night. Next day re¬ 
move with a penknife. 
fUtos of % Mrfli. 
Monday, June 3d, isis. 
At home the Potter committee of Investigation 
Into alleged republican electoral frauds in Florida 
and Louisiana is still the chief topic ol tnterest, 
and will probably so continue for some weeks at 
least. Most of the recognized leaders of the 
democratic party seem not to have been con¬ 
sulted about the move, and some of them, such 
as Pendleton, and Alexander H, Stephens, are 
strongly opposed to it. In making it, many say 
Mr. Potter was merely Mr. Tilden’s mouthpiece, 
or phonograph, repeating the lesson learnt at 
Gram .rcy Park. The Boards of Trade of several 
of the large commercial centers have protested 
against any action looking to the removal of 
Hayes rrom the Presidency as ruinous to busi¬ 
ness, and the same sentiment seems to be wide¬ 
spread through pretty nearly all classes In the 
country. Mr. Potter has written a long letter 
belittling but not denying the possibility of such 
a movement, in it he Is discontented with the 
action of the Electoral Commission, saying, 
pretty truthfully, that the democrats held the 
winning cards but that the, republicans bluffed 
them, and he maintains that the elite! object of 
the present Inquiry Is to ascertain facts, so that 
If frauds be "stahllalied, a repetition of such 
frauds may be prevented, and If not, to clear up 
the belief throughout the country that there 
were such frauds, To him Mr. Stephens has re¬ 
plied in a forcible letter protesting against the 
determination to make the Inquiry one-sided and 
against the opposition to Mr. Hale’s amendment 
making It to cover all electoral frauds, and 
Anally denouncing the whole movement as likely 
to disturb the peace, quiet, and harmony of the 
country, and to end either In a contemptible 
farce or a horrible tragedy. Postmaster-General 
Key, the democratic representative of the South 
In the Cabinet, has also taken to letter-writing. 
He assumes It as proved that if the democrats 
have a majority In both Houses of the next Con¬ 
gress, they Intend 1« oust .Mr. Hayes and Inaugu¬ 
rate Mr. Tllden; that they rely on the “solid 
South " to do this; that such action would be un¬ 
warrantable as the question was irrevocably 
settled by the last Congress; that any attempt 
of the kind would be cert-al n to lead to another 
deplorable civil war, not between North and 
South, but, between neighbor and neighbor 
throughout the land, ne urges that as the 
Senate must certainly be democratic. It Jb essen¬ 
tial tor the purpose of preventing such a calamity 
that the people should vote In the fan elections 
for no man who docs not distinctly pledge him¬ 
self to oppose any such movement. Newspapers, 
here and there throughout the country, are ring¬ 
ing the same tocsin of alarm and propheysing 
terrible things; but it Is very unlikely that the 
generation that lias suffered the disasters, deaths 
aud despair of the last Internecine war, will ever 
tolerate any scheme at all likely to lead to a repe¬ 
tition of so bitter an experience. 
Meanwhile, on Saturday June 1st, the commit¬ 
tee began proceedings by the examination of 
James E. Anaerson, supervisor of registration 
in the parish of East Feliciana, La., during the 
last Presidential election. This is the scamp 
whom Gen. Sheridan declared he wouldn’t believe 
under oath, whose preferred testimony neither 
party would accept In the investigation held 
shortly arter the election, and who ever since 
has been trying to blackmail the Administration 
or to make lucrative terms with any party 
willing to pay him his price for his evidence. 
He asserts that 9ome time alter the votes of the 
parish were handed in at New Orleans, he com¬ 
mitted perjury by swearing that a fair election 
there had been rendered Impossible by demo¬ 
cratic bulldozing, and that he was Impelled to 
this crime by the promptings and promises of 
Secretary Sherman and other “visiting states¬ 
men,” and he produced a number of copies of 
alleged letters to confirm the truth or his present 
statement* Ills evidence has produced some 
effect certainly, but there are always two sides 
to a question and only a self-confessed perjurer 
has hitherto been neard. At present the “ visit¬ 
ing statesmen ” are the objective point of attack, 
and Secretary Sherman just now seems slightly 
wounded, it Is just possible that both Hayes aud 
Tllden may both be smirched during the Inquiry, 
and while there are not a few republicans, like 
Coukltng and Blaine, who would bear with forti¬ 
tude the sight of the former bespattered, there 
are thousands of good democrats, eveu outside of 
Tammany Hall, who would shed no tears at the 
spectacle presented by the latter bedaubed with 
Florida or Louisiana mud. 
By a vote of forty-one to eighteen the Senate 
has passed the House bill, prohibiting the further 
withdrawal or greenbacks and directing their re¬ 
issue by the Treasury. This is a compromise 
between the advocates of contraction and In Ha¬ 
tton, and will doubtless receive the President’s 
sanction. It has the advantage ol affording a 
larger volume of currency for transacting the 
enormous business of the country, and therefore 
tends towards making times a trifle easier; and 
the dlsadvantrge ©r establishing a precedent for 
Congress to constantly meddle with the amount 
of the currency and therefore with its value, and 
consequently with the value of all existing con¬ 
tracts. Already It Is found so difficult to put Into 
circulation tfie $ 3 , 000,000 of silver coined every 
month in accordance with recent, legislation, 
that by the 1st of May $iT,ooo,ooo of it had accu¬ 
mulated in the Treasury vaults—another proof, 
added to hundreds here and elsewhere, that In 
financial matters, legislative measures from 
which high hopes are entertained, are very likely 
to be attended wiLh disappointment. TheSyndl- 
dleate has taken the $ 50 , 000,000 or 4j<r per cent, 
bonds, for which It had agreed to pay in gold, and 
the Secretary of the Treasury says he will be 
ready to resume specie payments by next Janu¬ 
ary, should Congress, meanwhile, refrain from 
repealing the law to that effect. The House has 
cut down the army from 25,000 to 20,000 men, but 
the measure may yet bo defeated In the Senate. 
The present force has to defend 12,207 miles ol 
frontier; to guard agalnt 270,000 occasionally 
hostile Indians; to prevent Mexican depredations; 
to protect $204,601,681 worth of government prop¬ 
erty, without Including the public buildings In 
Washington, besides aiding the revenue officials 
to break up Illicit distilleries, and serving as a 
safeguard against riot and destruction, in case of 
such disorders as paraly zed traffic last summer. 
The Indian Bureau has been t ransferred from the 
Interior to the War Deportment by the same bill 
that has cut down the forces at the disposal of the 
latter. This 1 b a sad blow to the swindling con¬ 
tractors and agents who have grown rich by 
speculations and cheating, and have been the 
principal source of our troubles wltb the aborig¬ 
ines. 
It has lately been widely published that, dur¬ 
ing the war, Gen. Grant’s march towards Rich¬ 
mond by way of the wilderness instead of by the 
James lflver peninsula, was due to President 
Lincoln, who insisted that the army should be 
kept between Washington and the Confederates, 
although Grant was said to have stated that 
this line of advance would cost luo.ooo men more 
than that adopted formerly by McClellan, and 
which he wished to follow. In a recent inter¬ 
view’ with a newspaper correspondent, Grant em¬ 
phatically contradicts this statement, and says 
no such advice was ejer given by Lincoln, and 
irany blundws wer< made In that campaign, 
the responsibility - ests solely and absolutely 
upon himself. Bj the way, the General Is 
looming up as a candidate for the next presi¬ 
dents election; and there Is little doubt but that, 
In their present straits, he is head and shoulders 
or rather from the knees up, a bigger favorite 
with tbe republican party than any other man 
—hut then such men have bitter enemies, and 
’tlsn’t the strongest man that always secures the 
nomination. John Scott Harrison, son of Presi¬ 
dent Harrison, ex-member of Congress from Ohio 
and father of Gen. narrlson, last Republican can¬ 
didate for Governor of Indiana, died suddenly on 
May25; and was burled on Hie 29th, at North 
Bend, Indiana. As there had been several cases 
of body-snatching lately, special precautions were 
taken against ghouls; but It wasfounu on the 30th 
that the corpse was taken tor the purpose of dis¬ 
section to the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. 
There It was discovered by one of Ills sons; the 
Janitor of the college has been arrested and In¬ 
tense excitement aroused. Science can surely 
And enougli subjects In hospitals and elsewhere, 
without having recourse to such infamous out¬ 
rages to secure material for the scalpel. The 
aged poet and journalist, William Cullen Bryant, 
had a severe fall In this city on the 29 th ult. 
and Is still suffering from concussion of the brain. 
There are, however, good hopes of his recovery, 
but at 82 It does not take much to snap the thin 
thread of life. 
The Iowa Democratic state Convention met at 
Cedar Rapids on the 29th ult., and nominated a 
State ticket, headed by T. O. Walker lor Secre¬ 
tary of State, there being no election for governor 
this year. Their platform advocates the custo¬ 
mary doctrines, and says, apropos of the present 
Congressional Inquiry, that a thorough Investiga¬ 
tion into election frauds should he made; frauds 
should be exposed, truth vindicated, and crimi¬ 
nals punished In accordance with the law, when 
found. The Russians have bought another fast, 
steamer In Philadelphia, and despite the pacific 
news from Europe, the Muscovite seamen In 
our waters and on shore are still briskly on the 
move, while all their doings are closely watched 
and reported by British spies. For the past week 
a cause celebrr has been on trial across the Hud¬ 
son In New Jersey. The Rev. Mr. Vosburgh bas 
been accused by hls brother-in-law of an attempt 
to poison the latter’s sister—the pastor’s wife. The 
trial has caused intense excitement; the clergy¬ 
man, being supported by bis congregation, and 
declared Innocent by hls supposed victim who Is 
now In good health. Last Saturday evening the 
Jury brought in a verdict of 44 not guilty.” Ou 
Sunday morning, a second-rate paper of this city, 
contained five long columns on the Tllton-Beecher 
scandal. In It a Mr. Mix, a newspaper reporter 
who says he was a confidant, of Tilton and Moul¬ 
ton, bitterly charges both these worthies with a 
a foul conspiracy to destroy the great Plymouth 
preacher. The effusion bristles with vituperation, 
Inaendo, bald statements and personal animosity, 
but Is a trifle weak In the matter of proofs. ’Tls 
doubtful if public interest can again be aroused 
In this nauseous scandal, even by an action tor 
libel against Mix, or the paper that admits hls 
diatribe. Great trouble 1 b expected In Montreal 
on the 12 th of July next. A number of Irish so¬ 
cieties have been invited from the United States 
to a ple-nlc there on the Ut,h. The great Orange¬ 
men’s procession Is to take place on the following 
clay, nnd crowds of Orangemen are expected from 
all parts of Ontario. The Government has been 
requested to take precautions to preserve the 
peace, and all visitors will be rigorously searched 
for arms. Bitting Bull Is once more reported to 
be getting ready to go on the war path In the 
United states as soon as the grass Is thick; the 
troops along the frontier are prepared to give mm 
a warm reception. Escobedo has succeeeed in 
invading Mexico on behalf of Lerdo. He is said to 
have captured a few petty towns, levied some 
contributions, of course, and won some minor 
triumphs. The whole country from the Missis¬ 
sippi East, has been visited during the week by 
severe wind and rain storms, here and there 
assuming the form of destructive hurricanes 
or tornadoes; many lives have been lost, much 
property destroyed by land aud water, and an¬ 
other unusual feature added to this year’s weather 
record. 
It was only on the llth of last month that the 
fanatic socialist, Uoedel, attempted to assassinate 
the Emperor of Germany while driving along the 
Avenue, unterden Linden, In Berlin, and at two 
o’clock yesterday afternoon a similar attempt 
was made In the same place by another of the 
same stripe, named Nobellng. As the Imperial 
carriage was passing No. 18, two shots were fired 
from an upper window. Thirty shot and slugs 
have been extracted from the Emperor’s body 
mainly from the face, chest and arms, and 
further mischief might have been done, had not 
a chasseur, after the first shot, thrown him¬ 
self over the Emperor m the carriage. The 
wounded man is doing pretty well, though one 
shot. In tbe wrist, is considered dangerous at hls 
great age. The would-be assassin barricaded 
himself in the room, resisted capture and finally 
tried to kill himself. It was with great difficulty 
that the quickly-assembled mob were prevented, 
In their fierce Indignation, from tearing the 
wretch to pieces. Nobellng is a doctor of phllology i 
a native of Dresden, and for years a resident lii 
Berlin where he has edited a socialistic paper. 
IIe has long contemplated the crime, and It Is 
supposed others are also implicated. The Crown 
i’rlnce and hls wife — Queen Victoria’s eldest 
daughter—who were In London, have hastened 
home. Despite the oue thousand million dollars 
Germany wrung from France hall a dozen years 
ago, distress among the lower orders is to-day 
much greater In Germany than in France. Suc¬ 
cess begot extravagance aud speculat ion wilder 
than here at the close of our war; then came col¬ 
lapse, pinching and Inoouveulouoc for a few of 
the aristocracy of birth or commerce and grinding 
poverty aud starvation for thousands of the la¬ 
boring classes. Militarism grew more exacting, 
and accumulated hardships have driven the lower 
orders In crowds across the Atlantic, while those 
who remained behind, in their misery, have lent a 
