THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Domestic (gronomjr. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
HOUSEHOLD COMFORTS. 
L. E. K. T. 
I do not know of any more serviceable 
home-made rugs than braided ones. With 
the colors well arranged, they may be made 
to look quite pretty. The strips should be 
cut coarser thau for carpet rags, doubled 
evenly, and care taken to have the braid lie 
flat. It is best to sew the braids together as 
you make them. Make each color just go 
around, oue, two, throe or more times, as you 
choose, but do not let it lap past or fall short 
of meeting, for that gives it a “botched'’ ap¬ 
pearance. It takes some time to make one, 
but when done, you have a good, serviceable 
article. 
A pretty work basket may be made of odds 
and ends, which can be found iu almost any 
household. Take a heavy paste-board box 
and sew some good stout cloth around it to 
keep it firm and in its place. Then take a 
piece of worsted, silk, velvet, or any other 
material you may have that will go around 
the box and cover it. This cover may be put 
on straight or plaited or shirred. I would sug¬ 
gest that dark brown drilling would make a 
good serviceable one, and look very nice too. 
The lining, which, by the way, should bo in first, 
may be of any pretty color or stuff, that will 
go well with the outside. For a handle, use a 
piece of paste board oue iuch wide, supported 
by r au old hoop, sewed to each side and in the 
middle, these covered with some of the ma¬ 
terial used for the outside, aud sewed to each 
side of the box. Pockets should be put iu 
each end, and it is very convenient to have a 
little box for buttons made stationary. There 
should be a loop for sei ssors aud a pin-cushion 
and needle-book, and all the other little con¬ 
veniences which will suggest themselves. 
Dark-eolored drilling is very serviceable for 
covering lounges for common use. 
PLANTS, PICKLES, CARE OF CHIL¬ 
DREN, ETC. 
Dear Rural Sisters :—Here at my home in 
the city of Rochester, this 22d day of October, 
the Quinces are smiling from over the way, 
clothed in yellow and looking so tempting iu 
the sunshine ; aud our Snow-flake potatoes 
are still to be garnered. We have dug a few 
for dinner the last few weeks, aud how mealy 
they looked and delicious they did taste! 
The Morning-glories are peeping in at me 
from the sitting-room window, and look as if 
saying: “We will have a good time while we 
can ; for we feel Jack Frost is not far distant.” 
The Geraniums I potted in September, were 
plunged into holes made in the ground just 
deep enough for each pot, taking care to put 
them in a shady p lace — being very careful 
to water them well until they had a vigorous, 
healthy appearance. They rewarded me for 
my care, and now everybody, on coming into 
my sitting-room, exclaims, the very first thing: 
“ Oh! how beautiful your plants look— 
how did you mauage it ?” 
The bottled fruit is keeping well in the cellar. 
I have twenty bottles of peaches and ten of 
plums, aud a few of strawberries and other 
fruits. The pickles are all made. Beside the 
usual 6 pices, I added some brown sugar which 
will make the vinegar stronger, and will pre¬ 
vent scum from rising to the top of the vinegar. 
I find that the only way to be a good house¬ 
keeper is to do as the man said when he met 
his friend, who went into raptures over the 
way he had tied his cravat: “Why you see, my 
dear fellow, I give, the whole of my miudtoit.” 
Don’t imagine, mothers, that close attention 
to the details of domestic life is a drudgery un¬ 
worthy of you ; for the character of the next 
generation of citizens depends on how you 
feed, clothe aud care for the youug under your 
charge. Will you seud out your children with 
good, sound, healthy bodies, and well discip¬ 
lined minds; or by foolish neglect as to what 
they eat and drink, will you send into the 
world a puny,enfeebled set of men and women? 
See that your children do not get into bed 
with the clothes they have worn during the 
day. Strip them to the skin, and put good 
long, clean night dresses on them. Don’t let 
them go unhappy to bed aud to sleep 5 for 
children are sensitive, and a happy mind is of 
vital importance to the growth and proper de¬ 
velopment of the j oung. M. H. s. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
To Scour Zinc. 
Housekeepers will find that zincs may be 
scoured with great economy of time and 
strength by using either glycerine or creosote 
mixed with a little dilated sulphuric acid. 
To Make Boot* Wuter-proof. 
Melt together four ounces of beef tallow, 
one ounce of resin, one ounce of beeswax. 
When cold add a quantity of neat’s-foot oil 
equal to the mass. Warm the boots or shoes 
before a fire, and apply with a rag to the soles 
as well as uppers. Two applications will 
make them thoroughly water-proof. 
To Restore Morocco. 
Varnish with the white of an egg. Apply 
with a sponge. 
Wax for Furniture. 
Put one ounce each of white and yellow wax 
in a clean dish over a slow fire, When melted, 
take from the fire aud add four ounces of spir¬ 
its of turpentine. Stir until cold. 
Varnish for Drawings. 
Dissolve one ounce of good isinglass in a 
pint of water over a slow fire. Strain through 
muslin. Try first on a piece of paper. The 
mixture should be moderately warm. If the 
size glistens, it is too thick aud should be 
thinned with water. If it soaks into the paper 
it requires more isinglass—it should merely 
dull the surface. Give the drawing two or 
three coats, letting it dry between each. Ap¬ 
ply with a flat, camel’s-hair brush, and be 
careful, particularly iu the first coat, to bear 
very lightly on the brush. Finish by giving 
three coats with the best mastick varnish. 
Glue. 
The hotter the glue when applied, the strong¬ 
er the parts glued together. As glue loses 
much of its strength by reheating, that newly 
made is preferable where great strength is re¬ 
quired. It is a very good plan to add salt to 
the water iu the outer vessel, for then the wa¬ 
ter will not boil until heated above the ordinary 
boiling point, and as a consequence, the heat 
is retained instead of passing off by evapora¬ 
tion, and when the water boils, the glue will 
be thoroughly melted. A little glycerine add¬ 
ed to glue will prevent its cracking, and a 
small quantity of muriatic acid added to dis¬ 
solve glue will keep it in that condition for 
sometime—it will neither dry up nor ferment. 
Liquid Glue No. 1. 
Of the best white glue 16 ounces, dry, white 
lead four ounces, rain water one quart, alcohol 
four onuces. Put all but the alcohol into any 
kind of a vessel that may be placed within 
another vessel centainiog hot water. Stir 
until the lead and glue are dissolved then add 
the alcohol and continue the heat for a few 
minutes longer. Pour mto bottles while hot. 
Liquid Glue No. 2. 
Or, fill a glass jar with bits of broken glue 
and cover with acetic acid. Set in warm wa¬ 
ter—gradually raising the temperature until 
the water is hot—until the glue is all incite^ 
Very Strong Glue. 
Dissolve by application of moderate heat, 
one ounce of best isinglass in a pint of soft 
water. Straiu through a piece of cloth aud 
add an ouuce of glue, previously soaked for a 
few hours iu a small quantity of water, and a 
gill of vinegar. After the isinglass aud glue 
are brought to a solution, boil up once and 
strain off the impurities. 
Good Mucilage. 
Of gum-arabic three ounces, distilled vine¬ 
gar three ouuces, white sugar one ounce. A 
small quantity of sulphate of quinine added to 
the solution is a complete protection against 
mold. Instead of the vinegar one part acetic 
acid, aud five parts water may be substituted. 
Paste for Hanging Paper. 
Four pounds of good, wheat, flour, 6 ifted, 
with enough cold water to make a stiff batter 
free from lumps. Thin it with cold water to 
the consistency of pan-cake batter and add 
two ounces of finely powdered alum. Have 
ready pleuty of boiling water. Take from off 
the fire and pour gradually over the batter, 
Btirriug eoustautly. When it begins to swell 
and lose tbe white color of the flour it is cook¬ 
ed enough. This makes about three-fourths 
of a pailful of solid paste. Let it become cold 
before using. A pint or so of water over the 
top will prevent its skinning. Thin with cold 
water so that it will spread easily and quickly 
under the brush. Where great adhesiveness is 
required, such as in papering over a varnished 
surface, etc., add one ounce of powdered resin 
to each gallon of paste. Set the pan contain¬ 
ing the paste over a slow fire, stirring con¬ 
stantly until the resin has melted. Reduce 
the paste with thin gum-arabic water. 
Paste fur Gleaning Brass. 
Rotton-stone four ouuces, oxalic acid one 
ounce, sweet oil one aud a half ounce, turpen¬ 
tine to make a paste. Apply with woolen and 
rub with leather. A solution of oxalic acid rub¬ 
bed over tarnished brass, will make the metal 
very bright, but it must be washed off at once 
and the article polished with whiten ing in 
powder and soft leather. 
|Uto3 of tljc ®eeh. 
Monday, November 22 , 1879. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
G. F. Sbward, Minister to China has resigned. 
Some grave charges were, some time ago, made 
against him on the ground that he hal used his 
official position to leather his own nest warmly ana 
a trifle unjustly. Hla resignation has been followed 
by that or his cousin F. W. Seward, assistant Secre¬ 
tary of State, In Washlngton-the latter, It Is said, 
having taken place on account of 111-health In the 
family. Col. J. Hay, formerly Secretary of Presi¬ 
dent Lincoln, and Later author of “ Little Beeches” 
and various other popular poems, has been ap¬ 
pointed to All the vacant place. 
It Is said the Rothschilds will furnish one- 
third of the capital for the tnter-oceanlo ship canal 
down on the Isthmus, on condition that Gen. Grant 
becomes president of the company. Grant, how. 
ever, says before moving In the matter he must feel 
sure that ample subscriptions will be forthcoming 
He has had, during the past week, a magnificent 
ovation at Chicago, and all along the route from 
Galena, thither and hack again. Wherever ho 
goes. the people seem wild with enthusiasm for 
the silent “ man on horseback.” There la a good 
deal of newspaper talk lately about the south mak¬ 
ing him its candidate for President next year, as 
the best way to secure peace and restore public 
confidence by closing up that “ bloody chasm.” 
Talk, talk, and little more. A statue to the brave, 
skillful, patriotic soldier and true gentleman, Gen! 
G. H. Thomas, was unveiled during the week at 
Washington, in presence or the President, a large 
number of distinguished soldiers and civilians and 
a vast concourse of admirers of the dead hero. 
The United States Supremo Court has Just de¬ 
cided that there Is no Constitutional authority by 
which the Government Can grant to any Individual 
the exclusive right, to any special trade-mark. 
Well, there ought to be a valid authority for such 
a concession, so that a man or company might 
reap the legitimate reward of a long period of 
honest dealings, and to prevent the dishonest from 
foisting upon the public Inferior goods 30 ld under 
the trade-mark of honorable Arms. For the first 
time In the history of the Government, the Secre¬ 
tary of the Navy has a surplus, and turns Into the 
Treasury $l,5ou,ooo out of the *13,000,000 appropri¬ 
ated for his Department. In the election in this 
State, Cornell, for Governor, has 40 172 plurality ; 
Hosklus, Lieutenant-Governor. 1,130; ca_rr, Secre¬ 
tary of State, 4 , 411 ; Wadsworth, Controller, 7,659 ; 
Ward, Attorney-General, 7,909; Wendell, Treas¬ 
urer, 4,651; Seymour, Engineer and Surveyor, 
9,969. All these are Republicans except Seymour. 
Kelly's vote Is 77,471. It must be borne In mind 
that Cornell’s majority is due to Kelly’s bolt from 
Robinson. Tammany Hull voted for the rest of 
the Democratic ticket; but although Cornell rims 
considerably behind his ticket in the number of 
votes actually east, Kelly’s help gives him a larger 
plurality than the majority or the remainder of his 
ticket. Seymour was popular, owing a good deal 
to his own character and not a little t,o Ms father’s 
name; whereas Soule, his opponent, was unpopu¬ 
lar, as a canal trickster, and was bitterly opposed 
by the “ Scratches.” By the way, these arc about 
to maintain their organization, to Increase their 
weight In future elections. 
The government commissioners are having 
trouble out In Colorado in pursuing the rte ln- 
lnvestlgatlon. The Indians either lie Incor¬ 
rigibly or won’t testify at all; It begins to seem 
Improbable that the White River agency murder¬ 
ers will be given up. Ouray, the head Ute chief, 
who has hitherto done everything In hla power to 
facilitate matters has suddenly grown morose and 
uncommunicative, and It now looks as If the war 
must go on. Gen Sherman says he believes the 
Utes are talking against time In order to postpone 
a decisive result until It will be too late in winter 
for military operations. He thinks the Indians 
really mean trouble aud that the army must 
eventually be called on. Nothing can probably 
be done this year, hut In the spring he says “We 
will make quick work of them.” 
Nothing could better mark hard times in San 
Francisco than the recent order from there for 
pennies received at the Philadelphia mint. Time 
was 20 years ago when a quarter was the least any 
self-re=pectlng’Frlscantouched;then usage per¬ 
mitted the bit or dime, the hated nickel was ad¬ 
mitted after a struggle, and now Californians 
count their cents In their small change like the 
rest of us. Three families and other persons num¬ 
bering 18 In aU have just arrived In New York 
from Liberia and been sent back to the Carollnas. 
Of 370 negroes who went out to Liberia by the ship 
Azor, only 60 are now alive In Monrovia, the rest 
having died or come back to this country. Yet 
the effort to Induce colonization is still kept up. 
Twenty-tour Chinamen were killed and a number 
of others were fatally hurt by tbree explosions In 
tunnel No. 3 on the narrow-gauge railroad oetween 
San Jose and Santa Cruz, Cal., this week. The 
new Washburn, A, flouring-mill, now building at 
Minneapolis, Minn., will be the biggest thing of 
the kind in the country, having a milling capacity 
of 2500 or 3,000 barrels of flour dally and a storage 
for 100 ,ouu bushels of wheat. Corn is cheaper in 
lovva this tall than In any other place on the globe, 
selling at 18 aud 20 cents at the depots, and 10 and 
15 cents at places distant from the railroads. It Is 
reported to be very ripe, souud and sweet, and 
there will he 150 , 000,000 to 200 , 000,000 bushels, not 
one-stxih or which can be shipped out of the state. 
The commissioner of Internal revenue reports that 
the government has lost * 11 , 000,000 revenue by the 
reduction of the tax on tobacco and the consumers 
have gained nothing. 
FOREIGN. 
The death ratio in England among infante of the 
“comfortable class” where light, air, heat and 
food are all provided for the. tender life, was re¬ 
cently put by Dr. Drysdale, an English aut hority, 
at 80 per 1 , 000 . Itlssomewhatsmallerin the high¬ 
est classes, where all the resources of great estate 
are used to keep alive the young heir or possible 
heiress. Taking all classes, however, In places 
like Liverpool or Manchester, the rate rises to 240 
or 300 per 1 , 000 . King Alfonso’s marriage la defin¬ 
itely fixed for the 27th, The Archduchess Marie 
Christine stopped off at Paris last Wednesday on 
her way Bpalnward to call on ex-Queen Isabella. 
The Spanish papers are announcing In a cold¬ 
blooded way that the ceremonial at the marriage 
will be “ precisely similar” to that at the first nup- 
dais of the young king. As the New England 
woman said, when the parson handed her a mar¬ 
riage certificate unlnclosed and folded simply: 
“ I alius has had ’em In an envelop.” Meanwhile, 
the world s large-hearted charity Is coming gener¬ 
ously to the relief of the wretched survivors of the 
southeastern Spanish provinces which have lafely 
suffered from luundatlon, especially Murcia. 
Crops, houses, vineyards. Inhabitants, nay, the 
very soil down to the bed-rock have been swept 
away by the on-rushing waters. More generously 
than all others has France come to the relief of 
the afflicted, and the Spanish government has spe¬ 
cially returned thanks for the god-sent French 
charity which knows no national frontiers. 
There seems a growing probability In Europe 
tlia Russia and Great Britain will soon settle 
their differences by thecruclal arbltrlmentof arms. 
Russia boasts—whether she thinks so or not— 
that she can whip England In India; while the 
latter believes that having had full command of 
the vast, resources of that empire for half a cen¬ 
tury nearly, she can bid defiance to a hostile 
world In tbat quarter; nay, that she can summon 
the innumerable legions of her Eastern subjects 
to adjust the balance of European power In favor 
of her Western children. This she did when, 
during the Turko-Russian war, there was a pro¬ 
bability that she would become embroiled In the 
trouble. The possibility—probability—of the out¬ 
break of such a war, however, has revived the 
operations of Russian merchants and citizens. In 
contributing from their private resources towards 
the building of a fleet of privateers to prey on En¬ 
glish commerce. Thecommltteewhich hascliargo 
of this enterprise had raised $2.500 ,000 at the close 
of the Turlco-liusslan war, and subscriptions since 
then amount to $900,000. As a hand-book for the 
officers iu command of the five vessels purchased 
by this committee, a condensed account of the 
cruises of the Sumpter and Alabama has been 
published In Russian. An abstract of this pub¬ 
lication given in an English paper furnishes very 
Interesting reading to ship-owners under the 
British flag, although tne danger is rather hy¬ 
pothetical. Insurrection has broken out afresh In 
Cuba. The prospects of a splendid sugar crop 
and of high prices for It have encouraged all 
classes to anticipate the speedy recovery of their 
losses, but the threatening state of political af¬ 
fairs In the Interior has caused a general feeling 
of gloom at Havana. There Is a rebellion going 
on at Haytl and the capital ts undergoing siege. 
There Is a local revolution In Chihuahua, Mexico, 
against the State government, and the prouncla- 
dos have occupied the capital, capturing the gov¬ 
ernor and all the State officials. 
The excitement In the British Isles at the Irish 
anti-rent movement Is intense. On Wednesday 
last ihe Government arrested a couple of the most 
violent of the agitators, named Michael Davitt, 
an ex-Fenian prisoner, and a bitter advocate of 
the total abolition of landlordism, and James Daly, 
Editor of the Connaught Telegraph, and a consis¬ 
tent Home Ruler and anti-rent agitator. The 
whole country at once burst Into a flame of excite¬ 
ment Public meetings, to protest against, the 
“ outrage” are being held In all the chler centers of 
commotion. Parnell, the leader of the movement, 
and member of Parliament, has deferred his In¬ 
tended visit to this country for the purpose of arous¬ 
ing our Irish fellow-citizens, and with the other 
leaders, is delivering speeches daily. Tenants 
willing to pay full rent are threatened wlih all 
sorts of horrors by the anti-renters, and in one 
case, a poor fellow who had paid In full was taken 
out at ulght and flogged almost to death besides 
losing a part of his ear. The tenantr y through¬ 
out the country are secretly banded together, and 
though the leaders counsel moderation, there is 
danger of an outbreak at any time Meanwhile, 
the landlords seem ready to combine to exact their 
rights. The police force is everywhere prepared 
lor emergencies. Troops are being hurried from 
England to the most violently disaffected districts; 
other troops are held In Instant readiness to move. 
In the most convenient barracks In England ; the 
officers In command In Ireland have been in 
structed not to mince matters In case of an out¬ 
break, but to suppress it at once at all hazards. In 
short, there's trouble ahead, and it may come at 
any moment. 
BUTTER-MAKING IN JULY 
AND AUGUST. 
Butter-making can be carried on In hot weather 
as successfully as In June by using the Gilt-Edge 
But ter Maker. It reduces time of churning one- 
half. Increases production 6 to 10 per cent. Store¬ 
keepers pay 3 to 5 cents a pound extra for butter 
made with It. Sold by d 1 uggists, grocers and gen¬ 
eral storekeepers, send stamp for " Hints to But¬ 
ter-Makers.” Address Butter Improvement Co., 
Buffalo, N. Y, 
Ouaquaga Dairy. Susquehanna ) 
Valley, N. Y., May 28th, 1S79./ 
Butter Improvement Co., Buffalo, N. Y.: 
Gmiiemen — please accept a sample of butter 
made from “ hay fed” cows and with the use of 
your Gilt-Edge Butter Maker, without Its use the 
butter made was almost as white as lard, while 
with its use (us you will observe from tho samples 
sent you) tho butter Is of a very beautiful, even 
golden color leavlDg nothing to be desired in that 
direction. Several of my neighbor daily farmers 
have tiled your powder and are loud In its praise. 
It passes In mark as "creamery' butter” and Is 
worth from 3 to 6 cents per pound more than dairy 
butter. H. C. BRYANT. 
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For Catarrhal and Throat Disorders “ Brown’s 
Bronchial Ti'oches ” are renowned and marvel¬ 
lously effective, giving Immediate relief In most 
cases. 
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Walklug made very easy with Lyon's Heel Stif¬ 
feners ; they keep your boots and shoes straight 
as new. 
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A good excuse lor sickness of yourself and fami¬ 
ly Is that you don’t,use Hop Bitters. 
