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tn the winter. The men and women of one hun¬ 
dred years ago went to their beds In a temperature 
colder than that o£ our barns and woodsheds, and 
they never complained. 
be bo short. J thought It was not very necessary 
to call and pray with Tammas, for he Is sae deaf 
ye ken he cannot hear me.” But, sir, said the 
woman; with a rising dignity of manner, “ the 
Lord’s nae deaf,” And It is to be supposed the 
minister felt the power of her reproach.- Leisure 
Hour. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES 
pijewttatteottisf 
To Prepare Hulled Corn. 
Take about three quarts of wood ashes, put 
into a large kettle and pour over six quarts of 
cold water. Let come to the boiling point 
and boil five minutes, skimming several times. 
Take from the fire and pour in a little cold 
water to help settle it. Put three quarts of 
shelled corn into another kettle and pour over 
the strained lye, Now let boil half an hour, 
then skim out the corn and rinse well with 
several waters, rubbing with the hands until 
the black chits come off. Put back into the 
kettle with clear water and boil until soft. 
Sal t and eat with milk, or butter, pepper and 
salt. 
Mutton Hams. 
Allow one-quarter of a pound of saltpeter 
to half a pound of brown sugar. Put into an 
oven to heat and while hot rub thoroughly into 
the legs of mutton. In the morning rub well 
with common salt. Place something under the 
mutton to raise it from the drippings. Let 
stand three or four dayB, then give another 
thorough rubbing with salt and after a week 
hang up to dry. You may 6moke them if you 
please. When dry, keep in canvas bags. 
Apple and Bread Pudding. 
Put a layer of apple sauce in the bottom of a 
pndding-dieh, then a layer of bread crumbs, 
sprinkle with sugar and little bits of butter. 
Another layer of apples and a second layer of 
bread crumbs are added with sugar and butter 
and a cup of rich milk to wet the top layer of 
crumbs. Bake in a good oven three-quarters 
of an hour. Eat with sweetened cream. 
Flavor with nutmeg. Farmek’b Wife. 
BRIC-A-BRAC 
THE DIVINE AND GAUZY SARAH. 
AVliat is this Sarah slim. 
This sublimation dim, 
That fills the papers ? 
Is it imaginative, 
Some thought creative. 
Or just a minsflin? of the misty vapors 
Perhaps a bit of fog 
From o'er the ocean. 
Borne by tlie winds and tide ? 
Or a mere notion, 
A gaseous fancy, Frenchy, too. 
Or Just-a bit of 'vaporated dew. 
Ktber materialized. 
Varnished and sized. 
A fluid that will volatilize: 
But we sadly mistrust 
’Tis a bit of French dust. 
Blown into American eyes. 
Sour stomach, bad breath, Indigestion and head¬ 
ache easily cured by Ilop Bitters. 
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CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
ONE WEEK FROM MRS. CLAY’S JOUR 
NAL. 
ANNIE L. .JACK, 
busy with housework ; Janet and I, busy with 
ourpreparations for the Sabbath day, and we’ve 
hardly had time to breathe. I do not know 
what I should do without Janet; she is at once 
my "help.” as people call it, and my friend. 
I Dever pay her wages, but leave a little Dote 
in her room every month inclosing the amount 
agreed on, and it pleases me to add always 
some tiny gift, to show that I am grateful to 
her for her honest work and faithful heart. It 
is five years since she came to us fresh from 
bonnie Scotland and I have been thankful 
ever since that Lawrence was inspired to go 
down to the steamer when it landed her in the 
nearest city, and secure her help for me. She 
is so fond of the children, too, especially of 
little Alex, who has been bom since she came 
here, and even Nora, who does not make many 
friends, and was a shy, reserved girl, soon be¬ 
came as fond of Janet as of an elder sister. 
For we ail live togetherin alow-browed cottage 
that belonged to Lawrence Clay when we were 
married, and here I brought my baby sister, 
“Yoo goln’ to the State Fair this year?” Inquired 
one boot black of another, as they met at the 
post-office yesterday.” 
•• Course. You goln’ ?” 
•* Course.” 
There was a silence of half a minute, duriDg 
which they looked each other over. Then the first 
one asked: 
“ Do you sneak In with a family or climb the 
lence?” 
"Isueak. now do you do?” 
" I climb.” 
There was another Interval of silence, and then 
the little one observed : 
“ But there need't be no bard feelln’a between 
us.” 
" oh, no, no,” replied the other; " all we differ 
on is the minor partlcklers. We is just as solid 
as wheat on the main question. You won’t give 
me away to the purleece 7” 
“Naw! And you?” 
'• I never squeals!” 
They shook on It and borrowed a match to light 
a cigar-stub and smoke In partnership.—Detroit 
Free Press. 
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Genera! Bodily Pains, 
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet 
and Ears, and all other Pains 
and Aches. 
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Thanksgiving Pudding. 
Fifteen Boston crackers, one quart of rich 
milk, nine eggs, half a teacupful of butter, 
one-fourth pound suet, one-half cup of mo¬ 
lasses, one pound of raisins, one pound of cur¬ 
rants, a little mace, cinnamon and salt. Scald 
the milk and pour over the pounded crackers 
the night before making. The eggs should be 
beaten separately and the whites added last, 
the currants first washed then dried aDd the 
raisins rolled in flour. Boil in a tin pail or mold 
three or four hours, the longer the better. Eat 
with rich sauce. Mrs. J. B. 
CHANGED SOME. 
A Hungarian entered the studio of a portrait 
painter and said: 
“ I want you to paint a portrait of my late 
father,” 
“ With pleasure, sir. Have you a photograph of 
ihe lamented deceased?” 
•’ No ; but you don’t want any photograph. Just 
paint a wild looking Hungarian, between sixty 
years old and six feet high, with a big white mous¬ 
tache.” 
Four weeks later the family came round to see 
the picture. 
“ Bravo," says the Hungarian, warmly; “ it’s a 
speaking likeness, only the old gent seems to have 
changed a good deal since his death.” 
Curing liana. 
I have used the following for a long time for 
my hams and think it preferable to putting the 
hams into brine, for I think brine has a ten¬ 
dency to make lean meat hard and tasteless. 
For a common-sized ham take one ounce salt¬ 
peter and enough fine salt to rub the ham 
twice. After rubtfiiig the bains thoroughly 
lay them in a cask with a hole tn the bottom, 
or anywhere so that the brine may run off. 
After one week, take up and rub on remainder 
of salt aud saltpeter. After a week or ten 
days longer, take up aud rub over with salt 
alone. After another week they are ready to 
smoke. L. E. 
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A. gentleman had a board put upon a part of 
his land, on which was written, “ I will give this 
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when an applicant came, he asked, “ Are you con¬ 
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his reply invariably was, •• Then what do you want 
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The owner or a pair of bright eyes says the 
prettiest compliment she ever received came from 
a child of tour years. The little fellow, after look- 
log Intently at her eyes, a moment, Inquired 
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Bread from Grown Wheat. 
Scald the flour when making sponge and let 
cool before adding yea&t. Kucad the dough a 
little stiller than for good flour. 
Salve for Frost Bite#. 
Six ounces of mutton tallow, six ounces of 
lard, one ounce of peroxyd of iron—red iron 
rust—oue ounce of Veuice turpentine, one half 
ounce of oil of bergamot, one-half ounce of 
bole Armenian rubbed to a paste with good 
sweet oil. Heat the mutton tallow and iron 
rust in an iron vessel, stirring constantly with 
an iron spoon, until the mass becomes perfectly 
black, then add the other ingredients, stirring 
until well mixed. Apply upon linen daily. 
_ Mrs. D. B. 
Reaming Chestnut#, 
Cut a small piece off from each shell—just 
enough to show the meat— and put a cupful 
into a corn-popper. Shake over a clear fire 
until they become mealy. 
Lemon Bread Pudding. 
One pint of fine bread crumbs, yelks of four 
eggs, oue quart of rich milk, two tablespoon¬ 
fuls of melted butter and oue cup of sugar. 
Flavor with lemou. Cover and bake about 
one-half hour. Bent the four whites to a stiff 
froth, mix with it a teacupful of powdered 
sugar aud the juice of a lemon. Spread over 
the pudding and retain until slightly tinged. 
_ Mary B. 
Hard Soap Made with Washing Soda. 
Pour five gallons of boiling water over six 
pounds of washing soda and three pounds of 
unslaked lime. After it settles and becomes 
clear, pour off, You may then turn over it two 
gallons of clear cold water to be added from 
time to time as the soap is in danger of boiling 
over. To the five gallons of soda and lime- 
water add six pounds of perfectly clean fat 
and boil about two and a half hours, or until 
it begins to harden. Throw iu a handful of 
salt just before taking from tho fire. Pour 
into a tub aud let stand uutil solid. m. 
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or child's dress, fieri/ Subscriber will receive, dvr- 
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has the 
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BEST ORIGINAL STORIES, 
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Its immense circulation and lone established repu 
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will be improved on iu ual, hein* a series of 
•‘Have you given electricity a trial Tor your 
complaint, madam ?” asked the in I ulster, as he 
took tea with the- old lady. “ Electricity!” said 
she. “ Well, yes, I reckon 1 has. 1 was struck by 
lightning last summer aud hove out of the win¬ 
dow, but it didn’t seem to do me no sort of good.” 
It was a talkative Englishman who was brag¬ 
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country” to everything here, and it was a serious- 
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Is one thing In England better than we find here— 
there is a better class of Englishmen there.” it 
took the Englishman halt a day to discover that 
Uie remark didn’t convey a personal compliment. 
The stories, novelets, &o„ in “ Peterson” are admit 
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female, writers contribute to it I u 1881. about ion orig¬ 
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SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCE. 
A young mau with the blush of country life on 
his cheeks sold out his produce on tne market 
yesterday and entered a shoe store and said he 
wanted a pair ot shoes for his wife. 
“ What uumber ?” asked the clerk. 
The young husband scratched Ills head, looked 
very much emoarrassed, and finally said: 
•• Well, Iv’e been married eight months, but this 
shoe business stumps me. I don’t hardly believe 
she weam ’levons, and l don’t think she can git 
luto fives. I guess if we spilt the difference we’ll 
hit her pretty close." 
lie was given a pair ot eights, and after squint¬ 
ing along the soles he observed : 
•• I guess them’ll do. Slie’-e awful proud, and I 
know she’ll squeeze into ’em tor all she’s worth.” 
—Detroit Free Press. 
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4.5u 1 ihj». or an Illustrated Album, quarto. 
A poor old deaf man resided In Fife, and was 
visited by the new minister shortly after his com¬ 
ing to the pulpit. The minister said he would 
often call and see him, but tune went oc, and he 
did not visit him until two years after, when, hap¬ 
pening to go through the atrt et where the deaf 
man was living, be saw Ills wife at the door, and 
therefore couid do no other than Inquire for her 
husband. “ Well, Margaret, how is Tammas ?’’ 
“ None U 10 better o’ you,” was tho curt reply. 
“How! howl Margaret?” Inquired me minister. 
“ Oh, ye promised twa years syne to ca’ and pray 
once a fortnight wl’ him, and hae ne’er darkened 
the door sin’ syne.” “ Well, well, Margaret, don’t 
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