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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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eye-holes in it. All of the players, except 
one, called Buff, should go into one of the 
rooms divided off by the cloth door, while 
Buff stands on the other side and identifies 
the players, as first one and then another 
looks through the eye holes. The identifica¬ 
tion of a person by his eyes alone is not so 
easy as might be thought. When Buff guesses 
right, the person named takes his place and 
in turn tries to identify the others. 
TO BOTTLE AS EGO, 
Soak a fresh egg for several days in strong 
vinegar. The acid of the vinegar will eat the 
lime of the shell, so that while the egg looks 
the same, it will be soft and capable of com¬ 
pression. Select a bottle with the neck a 
third smaller thau the egg. With a little care 
you will have no trouble in pressing the lat¬ 
ter into the bottle. Fill the bottle half-full of 
lime water, and in a few days you will have 
a hard-shelled egg in a bottle with a neck a 
third smaller than the egg. Of course you 
pour off the lime-water as soon as the shell 
hardens. How the egg got into the bottle 
will be a conundrum that few can answer. 
_ _ M. A. H. 
HOUSEHOLD HINTS. 
E. L. TAPLIN. 
We have nearly finished our labors in pre¬ 
serving and jelly-making for the season; but 
I recently received a recipe for delicious sweet¬ 
meats, which I intend to try at once. It is 
new to me, though it may be familiar to the 
Rural housekeepers. 
TOMATO PRESERVE. 
Peel and slice ripe, red tomatoes. To each 
pound of fruit, add one pound of sugar and one 
lemon, sliced, as for lemonade. Put all to¬ 
gether in your preserving kettle, and boil 
slowly for three or four hours, stirring and 
skimming until it is like a thick Birup. Bottle 
like any other preserve. It is a beautiful 
crimson, indescribably rich and delicious. 
We have learned, from our Herman neigh¬ 
bors, the following recipe, which, we find, 
tells how to make a very nice and economical 
tea cake. 
GERMAN APPLE CAKE. 
Take two pounds of flour, rub in it one-half 
pound of sugar, make a hole iu the middle, 
and put in it sufficient yeast to raise it. Mix 
with the yeast ono-half pint of luko-wnrm 
milk Mix yeast and milk into a thin batter 
in the middle of the flour, and leave it to rise 
overnight. W hen risen, melt one-half pound 
of shortening iu one-fourth pint of milk— 
butter and lurd mixed are best—taking care it 
is only luke-warm Mix with the batter and 
the remainder of the flour, until it is a soft, 
even dough. Spread it about two inches 
thick on a pan, and set it to rise again. When 
risen, spread butter over the top, then a slight 
layerof sugar and a sprinkling of cinnamon. 
On this put a layer of sliced apples, then one 
of butter, sugar aud spice, as before. Bake 
in a moderate oven. 
DRESSING FOB POULTRY. 
Do the Rural readers ever prepare their 
Thanksgiving turkey with celery? We boil 
two or three heads of celery until soft, mash, 
and add this purtfe to an equal amount of 
grated bread and crumbs. Mix in it a piece 
of butter the size of a walnut; season to 
taste. We find this dressing a great improve 
ment on the old sago aud onions, for ducks. 
For sauce with it, mix three tablespoonfuls of 
the mashed celery with half a pint of drawn 
butter. 
CLAM CHOWDER. 
Take the liquor from 50 clams, put it on the 
stove to heat. Cut into dice one-fourth of a 
pound of salt pork, brown it in the frying- 
pan, and add it to the clam liquor. Peel aud 
cut into dine three quarts of ripe tomatoes, 
and half the quautity of potatoes. Cutup 
50 clams, and w hen these ingredients boil, add 
half a dozen large crackers, rolled fine. Sea¬ 
son with pepper aud salt—but little of the 
latter is required—aud Jet it boil slowly for 
two or three hours, stirring frequently. 
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HAP HAZARD AND BY GUESS. 
’Tis thus many people seem to carry on their 
domestic arrangements. The more I see of 
such ways, the more I wonder why it is so, 
when a systematic manner of doing house¬ 
work in its every branch, is so much easier. 
There are some who always seem to be at 
work, yet nothing is really finished up; they 
and their homes are always untidy. It is 
really embarrassing to call upon such people, 
for they eitbei appear before you as if they 
had just left the wash-tub, or else you have to 
wait for them to make a change In their dress 
and you feel as if you would rather 
have stayed away: at least that is the way 
I feel. Of course, there are times when the 
most systematic house-keeper, if she does all 
her own work and has a large family, may fail 
to finish her hard work before the afternoon 
is well advanced; but, as a general thing, sh* 
may so arrange her work that she may devote 
her afternoons to sewing, and do that looking 
neat enough to meet any one. 
Then in cooking, “by guess” is their mot.to. 
I met a lady a few days ago, who told me she 
had made a large quantity of Chili Sauce: but 
it had uot turned out very good. I asked her 
if she had followed her recipe, which L knew 
to be an excellent oue. “Oh no,” she replied, 
“1 made it by guess.” 1 did not pity her, for 
if it were worth makiug at all, it was worth 
following the recipe. 
Others have said to me, “ I cannot can 
tomatoes. I put them up but they soon spoil 
and I have to throw them away.” Careless¬ 
ness alone can account for the failure, for 
ours always keep, I will not say a year, but 
until they are eaten up. A recent Rural 
contained recipes for cinnamon roll and 
buns. I will give our wav of using any pie 
crust we may have left. Wo roll it out thin, 
spread it with butter and sugar, sprinkle cin¬ 
namon over it. roll it up, cut it in slices and 
bake. We call them “Roily polies.” 
Apple cake too, is good. Make a very plain 
stirred cake with less sugar iu than usual,aud 
rather st iffer. Put a layerof it in the drip¬ 
ping-pan, cover it with sliced tart apples, 
sprinkle sugar and a little cinnamon over 
these and bake. aunt em. 
SLEEP. 
Si, REP is a medicine that prevents disease 
and prolongs lifp. We can uot agree with 
Napoleon, who thought four hours’ sleep out 
of the 24 enough for a man, aud five for a 
woman. Dr. Richardson, an English physi¬ 
cian, hays that for healthy people In the prime 
of life, seven hours' sleep during the longest 
days of the year, and nine hours during the 
shortest, are not too much. Children and 
feeble men and women need 10 aud II hours; 
while youug children require Vi. The 
Doctor thinks it is not idleness to indulge iu 
sleep until one (s thoroughly rested, but au 
actual suviug—a storiug up of invigorated 
existence for the future. 
In our case, when “out of sorts,” nothing 
will so soon restore us to our usual health as 
sleep, aud nothing will sooner make us ner¬ 
vous and fretful thau the want of it. 
INQUIRIES ABOUT BREEDING 
CANARIES. 
Will M. L. C. tell the readers of the 
Rural more about her treatment of canaries? 
I am sure it would interest many. On what 
are the young birds fed? Ought related birds 
to be mated? How old should the birds be 
before they can be used for breeding? How 
and where eau they bo marketed? Are the 
yellow and imported birds raised as easily as 
the dark and spotted ones? How are insects 
kept off them. mrs. m. c. b. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
TO KEEP TOMATOES WHOLE. 
Fill a stone jar with tomatoes (not over¬ 
ripe,) add a few whole cloves, and a little 
sugar; cover them well with cold vinegar and 
water, half and half; place a piece of flannel 
over the jar well down in the vinegar; then 
tie over with paper. In this way tomatoes 
may be kept for a year. If mildew should col 
lect on the flannel, it will not hurt them in the 
least. _ m. c. b. 
BAKED ONIONH. 
Peel large onions and boil slowly one hour 
in salted water. Drain, put into abalcing-pau, 
sprinkle with pepper and salt, and put,a small 
piece of buiter iu the center of each onk n. 
Cover lightly with bread crumbs. Bake slowly 
one hour. Serve with cream-sauce made as 
follows:—One cupful of milk, a large table- 
spoonful of butter—if you have cream, use it 
and omit the butter—a teaspoonful of corn¬ 
starch, salt and pepper. Put the butter iuto a 
small frying pan, and when hot, not brown, 
add the flour; stir until smoothand gradually 
add the milk. Boil up, season, and pour over 
the onions. 
COCOANUT ICE-CREAM. 
A quart of sweet cream aud a pint of new 
milk. IX cupful of white sugar, a cupful of 
prepared eoeoanut, the grated rind and juice 
of a lemon aod three beaten eggs. Put the 
milk on to heat, then add the peel and beaten 
eggs, and stir until the mixture thickens Take 
from the fire, add the eoeoanut, and put away 
to get cool. When cold, add the cream, su¬ 
gar, lemon juice, and freeze. MRS C. 
Professor ftorsford’s Baking Powder. 
Strictly reliable, pure, and quality always 
maintained. Every package guaranteed. -A<lv. 
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liorsford’s Acid Phosphate 
Fur Alcoholism. 
Dr. C. S. Ellis, Wabash, Ind., says: “I 
prescribed it for a man who had U3ed intox¬ 
icants to excess for fifteen years, but during 
the last two years has entirely abstained. He 
thinks the Acid Phosphate is of much benefit 
to him.— Adx. 
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NEW DEPARTURE. 
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elevates all my grain to the third 
story: drives n U’Inch French 
burr mill, a power corn shellor, 
besides puinpluK all wat^r for 
my stoek. I a« nrlndlng corn 
to-day, the grinder muklnir 1,000 
revolution- per minute, when u 
man came In, and aMer looking 
at the meal, asked If It wits bolt 
ed, as 11 was ground ho tine. ‘It, 
Is the nicest thing I ever saw.’ 
Youth very truly, 
jAfltKS BOSn.AKbBtt." 
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Address, 
HERCULES WIND l 
ENGINE CO., 
Worcester, Altiss. 
The principles of a Turbine 
Water Wheel developed In 
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The only Wind-Mill perfect 
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use. Wo are permitted to 
make the folio win gex true is 
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farm* r: 
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• different wind mills, I tit- 
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bought a 10-foot, wheel,plac¬ 
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my barn where 11 works 
like a criarm, with no fears 
or It being wreeked so long 
as the barn stands. It runs 
in a very light breeze, It 
TRIPLE GEARED 
FEED MILL 
Unsnoeaiisl. Warranted to grind fngter.do better work, 
nnd to be more :-eevieei,lde th in any feed mil, mode, 
The Inner grinding nun mak. s three revolution* while 
the outer burr and team make one. whteh greatly m- 
creasen Us grinding euptirlty over old -lyle ungear cl 
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Manufacturers of 1 
Mill Stones and Flouring 
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first French Ruhr 
Corn & Feed Mills |I™J! 
In the country. Semi r.,r j)j 
Stnte you saw tld- 
Removed to Uilcii, Xcw York,where there has been 
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UTICA. NEW YORK. 
llentloD the Rural New Yorker. 
