ftos of t|i t'lffli. 
Monday, Feb. 4,1879. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The fleeces of the Angora goats In Mariposa coun¬ 
ty, Cal., sell from 70 to 90 cents a pound. The ex¬ 
cess of exports over Imports for the six months 
ending December at, isvs, was $u«,ftSS,ou6, as 
against, f 102,159.169 for the six monthsending De¬ 
cember 31,1377, and for the year ending December 
ai, lare, 542,571, a.s against $140,086,112 for the 
year ending December 31, 1877. The yellows In the 
poach is root difficulty, says Meehan in Hardener's 
Monthly. Hitting Hull’s people are nearly starved 
and are anxious to make almost any terms for 
peace, but the chief himself says he trill never 
again cross the line. The Henate has passed the 
House Refunding Bill without dissent and the 
Consular and Diplomatic Bill, and the Naval Ap¬ 
propriation Bill. On Thursday It passed the Im¬ 
portant Bill modifying the existing la w of patents; 
and twice during the week It refused by party 
votes to take up Mr. lidmunds's uncomfortable 
resolutions concerning the enforcement of the 
Amendments. The House has good-naturedly ex¬ 
tinguished tbe bill of Mr. \\ right, the Pensyl- 
vanla Communist, providing for a Government 
loan of $5oo to every person wishing to avail him¬ 
self of the Homestead Act; and has debated the 
bill Introduced by Mr. Goode, of Virginia, devot¬ 
ing the proceeds of the sale of public lands to the 
common schools of the several States hr propor¬ 
tion to their illiterate population. On Tuesday 
the House passed permptorlly, by 155 to 75, the 
bill from the committee on Labor and Education 
restricting Chinese immigration to Uftoen on any 
one vessel. 
Many eggs are now sent to London from Conti¬ 
nental countries in cheap colflns, Instead of boxes 
or barrels. The cofllns sell lor more than cost, 
and the shippers make money on the packages as 
well as the goods. Here’s a hiut for some of our 
fanners in other things as well as eggs. The Bill 
repealing the charter of the Louisiana. Lottery 
Company passed the Louisiana Senate Wednesday 
with an amendment that the law shall take effect 
after March 31. A bill to punish tramps has been 
Introduced Into tbe lower branch or the Legislature 
of this state. It provides that any person going 
about from place to place, beggiug beyond the 
limits of the town where he la an actual resident, 
shall be deemed a tramp, and be punished by Im¬ 
prisonment in the Htate prison for not more than 
fifteen mouths. Any tramp who shall enter a 
dwelling-house, or kindle a Are on the highway, or 
on the land of another without consent, or he found 
carrying dangerous weapons, or threaten injury 
to any person or estate, shall be Imprisoned In the 
State prison for not more than two years. Any 
tramp who wlltully and maliciously Injures a per¬ 
son or estate, If the act Is not now punished by 
Imprisonment in State prison, shall be Imprisoned 
In state prison for not more than five years. Any 
act of beggaiy or vagrancy by a person not a resi¬ 
dent of this State shall be evidence that the person 
committing the same Is a tramp. The act Is not 
to apply to females or minors under 17 years of 
age, or to blind persons. 
Wade Hampton is going to Florida to recruit. 
United States District Judge Blodgett Is undergo¬ 
ing investigation at Chicago by a congressional 
committee lor his alleged corruptions. A United 
Judge too! Secretary shemian says he has been 
erroneously credited with estimating the cost of 
the new pension bill at $150,000,000. From the best 
Information he can gel It. will cost anywhere from 
$36,000,000 to $ 100 , 000 , 000 . A suit for the recovery 
of the Arlington estate by the family of Gen. Lee, 
has been In progress lor some time at Alexandria, 
Va. It was confiscated during the war and used 
as a cemetery, chiefly for the remains of colored 
troops, of whom 40,000 were there interred. Tlio 
Lee family say that it did not belong to the General, 
but to his wile, aud was therefore Illegally oontls- 
cated. The case was concluded Thursday after¬ 
noon. The Jury was only out a few minutes and 
returned a verdict lor the plaintiff tor the whole 
property In tee. Ejectments will now he against 
Kaufman, who Is in possession of the cemetery, 
and Strong, who has the rest ul the properly ex¬ 
cept the portion occupied by Marla Syphax, which 
Is not In controversy. The defendants entered a 
motion for a new trial; bills of exceptions will be 
made as soon as possible and be signed by the 
court at Richmond. 
The Michigan lumbermen have been figuring up 
the work that they have done In years past, and It 
scares them, almost, to find how much territory 
they ha,ve cut over, since 1853, 9,ouo million feet 
have been cut In the Saginaw valley alone, aud 
logging Is going' on there at the rate of soo million 
feet yearly, la 1666 , only 600,000 lbs. of wool 
reached Galveston, Texas; ten years afterwards, 
It received 2 , 000,000 lbs., and tills year Its receipts 
have already reached upwards of 2,500,000 lbs. 
Over $36,0110,000 of coin obligations, including $1,- 
400,00 United States notes, have been paid during 
the current mouth, yet the coin In the Treasury 
has steadily Increased. A field between Norwalk 
and Los Angeles, Cal,, produced last season a crop 
of barley, a crop or corn and then a crop of pota¬ 
toes. The Ncz Forces I udlans are willing to cede 
tlielr lands, amounting to about 4,800 square 
miles, to the Government for six townships 
in the Indian Territory and $250,ooo In money. 
The Interior Department agrees to these terms 
and Congress Is to be asked to make the necessary 
appropriation. 
There is mourning In Warren County. New Jer¬ 
sey. Many a house Is In trouble, and will be for 
months to como. Ex-olllclals aud some of the 
present ones have been In the habit of stealing 
systematically. They raised checks and forged 
and chdu’L seem to think It. wrong to help them¬ 
selves from the public crib. Now they have been 
brought up with a round turn. For some time their 
trials have been going on, and this Is the result: 1 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Ex-Clerk Mat.tl8on, fom’ years In State Prison; ex- 
Director Strader, two years; ex-County Collector 
Cammlns, two years; ex-County Collector Teel, 
two years; ex-Freeholder Bulgiu, eighteen months; 
Freeholder Cox, eighteen months; Freeholder 
King, one year; ex-Attorney Givlns, eighteen 
months; Councilman McDermott, one year—all at 
hard labor; Contractor Sliker, six months In the 
county Jail and $500 fine. There are other indict¬ 
ments. The happy result of this prosecution of 
dishonest officials seems to have had an encourag¬ 
ing effect upon other communities similarly bur¬ 
dened, and already In three other counties within 
a radius of fifty miles of this city, various corrupt 
ofiicials have been Indicted and stand a good 
chance of getting their deserts. 
Now that specie payment has begun and that 
there Is a good deal of talk about the small amount 
of money apparently m circulation, It may lie of 
Interest to compare the amount per head of circu¬ 
lation now and at different, dates in the near past. 
From the following tables It wdll be soen that the 
periods of public prosperity and business briskness 
by no means necessarily correspond with periods In 
which the volume of money hi circulation was the 
largest. This table givas the amount of paper and 
specie In circulation at Intervals of five years before 
i860. As the banking reports before the war were 
Insufficient, It Is probable that, these figures do not 
Include all the bank Issues In circulation, but If we 
add, say, $ 20 , 000 , 000 , or about 10 per cent., to the 
amount or paper here given, the allowance will be 
ample to make up this deficiency: 
Per 
Year. 
Bank Paper. 
Specie•. 
Total. 
Capita. 
1835.... 
$59,645,994 
$180,678,280 
$12 07 
1840.... 
. 113,664,443 
34,6/4,829 
148,239,272 
8 68 
1845.... 
. 89.608.711 
44,241.242 
133,849,95* 
6 66 
i860.... 
. 131,366,526 
45.379.345 
176,745,871 
7 60 
1855.... 
63,944,546 
240.890.703 
ft 93 
i860.... 
.. 207,102,477 
83,594,637 
290,697,014 
9 30 
Several hundred millions compound-interest and 
short-term notes which the advocates of inflation 
reckon as currency are excluded from the table. 
Since i860 the currency per head has nearly doubled 
and tbe volume has Increased ian per cent, taking 
$310,000,000 as the volume for that year, in the 
previous thirty years population. Increased 145 per 
cent, and nine states were added to the Union; 
Imports and exports Increased respectively 411 
and 442 per cent, and the currency Increased 178 
per cent. In the eighteen years since i860 popula¬ 
tion has Increased 60 per cent. Imports and ex¬ 
ports have Increased respectively 28 and 45 per 
cent, and the currency has increased 130 per cent. 
The contrast may be more clearly shown thus; 
THIRTY YEARS, 1830-1860. 
Increase in Franc To Per cent. 
Population... 12,866,(100 31,443,000 146 
Total imports.$70.8/7.000 $362,166,000 411 
Total expoj'tH. 73,850,000 400,122,000 442 
Cotton mauufaoturea. 26 ,o(hi,uO 0 116,yuO,000 346 
Currency.. 104,ooo,ooo 290,700,000 17 b 
EIGHTEEN YEABS, 1860-1878. 
Increase in Prom To Per cent 
Population. 81,443,000 47,000,000 60 
Total import*..$362,166 ,000 $466,872 ,000 28 
Total export*. 4W.122.000 743,043,OOO 85 
Cotton manufactures. U6.oou.uoo 200 . 000 ,ooo 70 
Currency . 310,000,000 7 l 3 .uoo.ooo iso 
It will, of course, be understood that estimates 
are used here In some cases, lor example, for popu¬ 
lation and value of cotton manufactures In 1878, 
and tor population at quinquennial periods. 
Here Is the amount of money In circulation since 
the outbreak of the war. For the sake of getting 
it, In conveniently here the table has been divided 
Into two sections, but in studying It, the reader 
should consider the second merely an extension of 
the first: 
National 
Pear. Bank notes. Legal Tenders. Coin. 
1865.$146,138,000 $432,688,000 $18,072,000 
1870 . 299,76/,UUU 366,UUU,UU0 18,460,000 
1873. 347,267,000 306.UUO,UU0 19,868.000 
1875. 354.408,000 376,771,000 8,050,000 
18/8. 319,652,000 346,743,0(31 30,688,000 
Per 
Year. Fractional. Total. Capita. 
1865.$25,006,000 $621,904,000 $17 70 
18/0 . 39,876,000 714,105,000 18 62 
1873 . 44,799,000 767,934,000 19 20 
18/5 . 42,129,000 780,378,000 18 40 
18/8. 16,150,000 713,233,000 16 00 
FOREIGN. 
McMahon has resigned the Presidency of the 
French Republic, Mons. Grevy has been elected 
for seven years to succeed him, Gambettahas been 
chosen as President of the Chamber of Deputies 
Instead of Grevy, aud all this has taken place with 
as little public disturbance or danger as If the 
changes had occurred among our own order-loving 
people, instead of among our turbulent and excita¬ 
ble Gallic Blends. The French Republic may now 
at last be considered definitely established. 
The Russians have waked up to the discovery 
that the plague Is among the trophies they brought 
home from their campaign against the Turks, and 
there Is much alarm in all western Europe. The 
disease first made Its appearance in the southern 
province of Astrakhan, on the Caspian sea, and 
lias rapidly advanced up the valley of the Volga to 
Ntshnll-Novgorod, in the heart of the empire, and 
but a illUe east of Moscow it comes upon a peo- 
ple weakened by war and famine, with the number 
of physicians reduced one-third by the conflict with 
Turkey and the typhoid fever that followed It, and 
with very Inadequate sanitary regulations. It was 
neglected at first, too, till It has acquired such ma¬ 
lignity as to carry orr 90 per cent ot those it attacks. 
The governments of Russia, Germany and Austro- 
11 ungary have but recently taken strong measures 
against it. Should It further Increase, however, 
Germany, will establish a military cordon of so.uoo 
men on her frontier. The international sanitary 
commission have sent doctors to study the disease 
and adopted a pretty strict quarantine. The plague 
has not appeared in Europe before since 1814, but 
the terrible desolation It has caused In passed cen¬ 
turies—it victims numbering 25 , 000 , 000 -naturally 
excites alarm and justifies every precaution. 
Though it is one of the great historic scourges of 
mankind, the proper treatment of It Is hardly so 
well understood as that of yellow fever, and as 
a rule it kills whomever It hits when it has become 
epidemic. 
IHimrsiir (fainomii. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
HOUSE-WORK. 
This is one of the most comprehensive com¬ 
pound words in the English language. It 
expresses tbe elements of home life in a multi¬ 
tude of phases. Every department of house¬ 
wifery is included in its definition. A person 
versed in house-work is qualified to make home 
comfortable, enjoyable and happy. House¬ 
work is not merely kitchen drudgery ; it com¬ 
bines the elegancies and comforts of home as 
well as its labors. Ab wealth increases, as 
refinement progresses, so the duties of house¬ 
work multiply, and the advancement of educa¬ 
tion makes an increase ol care and labor in 
this department, likewise. In the last fifty 
years the change of programme in house-work 
has been more marked than in almost any 
other department of labor. Half a century 
ago one room was used for sitting-room, 
dining-room, kitchen and, not unfrequently, 
sleeping-room. The parlor or square room, 
was never opened, unless upon state occasions. 
All the preparations for the family cooking 
were made upon the long kitchen table. The 
pantry was a little seven-by-niuc closet, as far 
from the fire aB possible, and was used as a 
store-room for everything. One set of plates 
was sufficient for all the varieties of food 
set out for a family meal. Plain, coarse, 
but wholesome fare was sufficient for diet. 
Strong home-spun cloth was the clothing of 
the whole household. A garment once made, 
did duty for a year at least. 
Now, look at the contrast! Sitting-room, 
dining-room and kitchen are always to be kept 
in order, and are inconstant use. The pantry 
is the manufactory where all the comestibles 
are fabricated. Dish washing is one of the 
hardest jobs of the whole day. Certainly no 
less than three courses of plates would answer 
for a family dinner, and frequently more are 
required. Sweeping and dusting are daily 
occupations, aud then the cooking! Such 
varieties of dishes, pies, cakes and what-not! 
It requires a busy head and nimble hands to 
do the work for a family of moderate size at 
the present time, not speaking of the making 
aud mending, the darning and patching that 
are a branch of housewifery. A thorough, 
practical knowledge of house-work requires 
more brains than are needed to become a law¬ 
yer or a physician. To run the complicated 
machinery so as to have no jars or friction, is 
a science in itself, and is certainly a very im¬ 
portant department of education, in which 
3 ’oung women ought to be well versed- It calls 
into exercise all the faculties of the mind and 
body. One needs the wisdom of Solomon and 
the patience of Job to practice all the details 
of every-day life. 
And yet we have all around us those who, 
day after day, go through the routine, and 
look, aud arc happy and contented with their 
stations. Doubtless, they havu hard days and 
aching heads and backs, but they understand 
their business aud equalize their daily labor. 
They do not undertake to crowd the work of 
three days into one day. They know them¬ 
selves, and understand how much they can 
endure, and do not overtask themselves. This 
is a great, secret in house-work—to uudertake 
no more than one cau easily accomplish. 
House-work is one of the most, requisite 
branches of a girl’s education, and public 
attention is being roused up to the facts of 
its utility. The time has arrived when house¬ 
work is appreciated. Farmer’s Wife. 
-- 
HOUSEHOLD NOTES. 
Some time ago a gentleman taking dinner 
with us. said: “ What piece of the beef is this ? 
what do you pay for such meat ?” My hus¬ 
band said, “This is an inferior piece of meat, 
cheap, aud one that few will buy; but the 
manner of cooking it makes it so tender.” 
After washing the meat, we put it in a large 
covered pot with some drippings, fat or lard, 
aud butter; and place the pot over a hot fire 
aud let it remain a few minutes until it is well 
browned to close the juice cells. Then we 6alt 
the meat, pour into the pot about a quart of 
water, set it on the back part of the range and 
let it steam until done, which, as we use very 
large pieces of meat, will take from two to 
three hours. If the water boils away, add 
more hot water. 
Many people, excellent househeepers in every 
other way, say they cannot can tomatoes so as 
to have them keep. I boil them until the scum 
stops rising, and add nothing except a little 
flour aud water, when preparing them for the 
table. When opened, they are so natural in 
taste as to be as good as fresh ones. I put them 
in glass jars and treat them the same a6 any 
canned fruit. 
We tried a new way of keeping green corn 
this year, and it is a success. Cut the corn from 
the cobs without cooking. Have an earthen 
pot ready; first put in a thin layer of corn, 
then a layer of 6alt, and so on alternately un¬ 
til the pot is full. Then cover with a plate 
pressed down so that the brine will cover it 
and exclude all air. Before the corn is used 
it will require to be freshened by soaking it 
over night in water. A teaspoonful of sugar, 
added in cooking, improves it. Beans (string) 
can be kept in the same way. Though I’ve 
never heard of it, I see no reason why peas, 
shelled, couldn’t be kept too. The corn and 
beans must be packed as 60 on as cut, or they 
will spoil. 
Servant girls are the torments of house¬ 
keeping. When we secure one that knows how 
to work, she is either dishonest, untruthful, 
or so “touohy” there is no living with her. 
What can we do ahottt it ? Mrs. E. E. O. 
-»♦» 
CURE FOR FROST-BITES. 
This i6 an excellent cure for frost-bitten feet, 
fingers or cars: Let a small quantity of lard 
boil until thoroughly done ; then immediately, 
while hoiling, pour it upon a cake or piece of 
ice. Let it remain until it is cold as the ice it¬ 
self, after which take it up. It will be more 
like wax than lard. Apply this to the afflicted 
part in liberal quantities, and bind it on with a 
cloth. This is a remedy for freshly frosted 
members, or for frost-bites of former years. 
When the feet are sore from old frost-bites, it 
is a good plan to soak them well in tepid wa¬ 
ter in which is dissolved a little alum, after 
which apply the lard, prepared as stated. 
h. v. A. 
CURE FOR A COLD. 
My mother wishes me to tell the Rural 
boys and girls how to cure a cold without 
drinking hot drinks that cause one to sweat 
and then so easily take more cold. Put a tea¬ 
spoonful of ginger into a pint of cold water, 
enough sugar to make it good, and drink as 
nearly all of it as is possible before going to 
bed. My brother’s remedy, thirty years ago, 
when a hoy, was to drink, as nearly as possible, 
a quart of just cold water on retiring. 
A Wisconsin Woman. 
-» ♦ » 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Cream Cabbage. 
Wft6h, cut flue, boil until tender, and 
drain the water from it. Brown two table¬ 
spoonfuls of butter in a saucepan ; put in the 
cabbage and pour over it a teacupful of good 
cream; season, and let simmer for half an 
hour. 
To Cook Salsify. 
Wash the roots, and as the outer skin is 
scraped off throw' the roots into cold water. 
They require nearly an hour’s boiling in 
plenty of water; throw in with them a little 
salt, a small piece of butter, and the juice of 
half a lemon. Serve with rich gravy or melted 
butter. 
To Stew Carrots. 
Half boil, then scrape and slice them, into a 
stew-pan. Add to them half a teacupful of 
any weak broth, pepper and salt to taste, half 
a teaeupful of cream, and a salt-spoonful of 
sugar; simmer until tender, but not broken; 
before serving, thicken with a bit of butter 
rubbed smooth iu flour If liked, chopped 
parsley may be added ten minutes before 
dishing. 
Vension Steaks. 
Cut them from the neck, and season with 
pepper and salt. When the grid-iron has been 
well heated over a bed of bright coals, grease 
the oars aud lay the steaks upon it. Broil 
them well, turning them once, and taking care 
to save as much of the juice as possible. Serve 
them with some currant jelly laid on each 
slice. Mrs. S. L. 
Oat-Meal Bread. 
Will some of our friends please give Mrs. L. 
S. N., directions for making oat-meal bread? 
Fish Fritters. 
Take the remains of any fish, which has 
been served the preceding day; remove all of 
the bones, and mince flue; add equal quanti¬ 
ties of bread crumbs and mashed potatoes; 
stir in two beaten eggs; season with pepper 
and salt; add enougn cream to make the mass 
of the proper consistency to mold into little 
balls, and fry them in boiling lard. 
Egg Sauce. 
Boil three eggs hard; cut them into small 
squares and mix them in good butter sauce; 
make very hot and squeeze in some lemon 
juice before serving. 
Turnip Soup. 
This soup should be made, all but adding the 
turnips, the day before it is required. 
Stew a knuckle of veal with au onion and a 
bunch of sweet herbs iu 6ix quarts of water; 
cover closely and stew gently five or six hours ; 
put in a cool place; the next day remove the 
grease, fat and sediment; cut five or six tur¬ 
nips into thin slices and stew slowly in the 
soup until tender; then add half a pint of 
cream; thicken with a little flour and butter, 
and season to taste. 
