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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Domtstir (£tottoni)L 
OONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
CONCERNING SOUP. 
One of the chief causes of waste in the 
kitchen is the neglect of little scraps of meat 
and bread, which, properly used, would form 
the grouudwork of excellent soup. Every two 
days such scraps of meat and bones should be 
placed in a &tew-pan, well covered with water, 
and left to simmer gently for several hours. 
When sufficiently stewed, the stock should be 
put away until quite cool, when every particle 
of grease should be carefully skimmed off. 
When needed, the stock should be placed on 
the lire, and used as the foundation of any 
soup wished. For vermicelli, the stock should 
be perfectly clear, seasoned to taste, and have 
a small quantity of vermicelli put in it half an 
hour before dinuer. All soups are improved 
by a little thyme and cayenne pepper, and 
veal or ehickeu is much the better for a tiuy 
infusion of grated lemon peel. Scraps of 
bread left at table may be toasted, cut iuto 
cubes, and eaten with clear soups. A favorite 
dish with us, invented in a moment of despair 
during the warm weather, is crab soup. To 
make it, take good strong stock and Bhred in 
it tomatoes and okra, or gumbo, until it is 
quite thick; flavor it strongly with birds-eye 
pepper (this is for one who has acquired a 
taste for Indian curry); let it boil geutly for 
au hour and a half; strain it through a fine 
coland« r, aDd place it on the stove again. Ten 
or fifteen minutes before dinner pul in it the 
flesh of several boiled crabs, shredded up. Let 
it simmer gently uutil served, Eftt With toast. 
Tomato soup is improved by the addition of 
a little okra, or a few peppers, but it needs au 
acquired taste to enjoy much of the latter. 
We cut okra in slices and dry it, to use iu 
the wiuter as a flavoring for soups and stews. 
In makiug beau soup, put just a pinch of 
sugar in it; it takes away the roughness of 
the flavor. Emily L. Taplin. 
Maywood., N. J. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Pickled Onions. 
Select small onions, remove with a knife all 
of the outer skiu so that each will be white 
and clean; drop iuto brine strong enough to 
float an egg aud let remain there 6ix hours. 
Bring strong vinegar to a boil; add bits of 
horse-radish aud cinnamon bark, with a few 
cloves and two or three red peppers, aud pour 
hot over the onions, previously drained from 
the brine. 
Currant Jam. 
Pick free from 6tems aud leaves, wash, 
weigh and crush ; put iuto a porcelain kettle 
and place on the back of the stove where they 
will gradually heat; then let boil twenty min¬ 
utes aud add sugar in the proportion of three- 
fourths pound to a pound of the fruit. Boil 
one-half hour louger, stirring most of the time. 
When done, put iuto small jars or glasses and 
either seal or Becure like jelly with paper. 
Michigan. Mas W. 
Iron Rust. 
Take dry cream-of-tartar *and rub on with 
the finger while the cloth is wet. Hang or 
place where the sun will shine directly upon 
it. Should the rust not come out with the first 
application, repeat. 
Fly Specks. 
When these become set so that they will not 
wash or boil out, at the lime of rinsing, turn 
a few drops of aqua-ammonia directly upon 
the spot aud rub with the hand—they will 
almost entirely disappear. Mas. H. 11. 
Ice Cream. 
One quart of milk, the yelks of four eggs, 
one large spoonful of flour stirred to a smooth 
paste in a little of the milk, and one pound of 
sugar; scald until thick, taking care not to let 
it burn. When cold, add one quart of whipped 
cream and the beaten whites of four eggs; fla¬ 
vor to suit the taste, aud it is ready to be frozen. 
DIBECTION8 FOB FBEEZINQ ICE CBEAM. 
To make ice cream nicely and quickly, a 
suitable apparatus is indispensable. If one 
has no freezer, a tin pall with a closely-fitting 
cover can be made to answer. Set the pail in 
a basket—a large peach basket i6 good ; pack 
equal quantities of coarse salt and finely- 
broken ice around the pail, nearly up to the 
rim; pour the prepared cream iuto the pail, 
taking care not to get any salt into it; cover 
the whole with flannel aud leave for 20 min¬ 
utes, that the creuin may chill. Freeze by 
turning the pail half-way around aud back, 
and every few minutes open the pail and stir 
the cream; for this purpose use a smooth stick. 
Work fast while the pail is open as the air 
that reaches the cream delays the freezing pro¬ 
cess. Have a damp napkin at hand to wipe 
away the salt from the freezer every time that 
it is opened. It may he necessary to renew 
the ice aud salt while shaking, as the freezing 
mixture must be kept close to the sides of the 
pail. When the cream becomes solid, cover 
again with flannel, aud if convenient, let it 
stand for an hour before serving. 
Strawberry Ice Cream. 
One pint of very ripe strawberries rubbed 
through a sieve. Add a pint of whipped cream. 
Make very sweet and freeze. 
Lemon Ice. 
One pint of rich lemonade with a little grated 
rind of a lemon in it. It muel be very sweet as 
it loses much iu freezing. Add the whites of 
three eggs cut to a stiff froth. Freeze like ice 
cream The juices of any fruit, with sugar 
aud water added, may be prepared iu the same 
way. ‘ Mas. M. G. li. 
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Pickled Walnuts ana tternuts. 
Select well-grown nuts, although tender 
enough to stick a pin through them; put them 
into a brine made in proportion to a pint of 
coarse salt to six quarts of water, boiled, 
skimmed and poured hot over the nuts. Leave 
them in this brine for four or five days ; then 
take out, drain, wipe carefully, prick each 
nut two or three times with a large needle 
and throw into a pan of cold water; take 
out after two or three hours, pack iuto jars 
aud pour over hot spiced vinegar. 
Currant Jelly. 
Look over the fruit and see that it i» per¬ 
fectly clean; crush aud set ou (he hack 
of the stove until heated through: strain aud 
for every pint of juice measure a pint of sugar, 
put the fruit-juice on to boil aud the sugar 
on a pan in au open oven to heat. Let the 
juice boil twenty-fiye minutes, skimming as 
needed. Then stir in the sugar, which should 
be very, yery hot and boil five minutes longer. 
If the sugar was thoroughly heated, live min¬ 
utes’ boiling will be sufficient, but it wiLl 
be best to test it before pouring out, by trying 
a little on a spoon, if the juice jellies as the 
spoon is turued from side to side it is done. 
Maky B. 
Gooseberry Jelly. 
Pick the fruit before quite ripe; put iuto a 
dish and place in a kettle of hot water; cover 
closely and boil until the truit i6 tender. 
Strain the same as currant jelly and to each 
pint of juice allow a pound of sugar; boil 
twenty minutes; turn into jelly cups and set 
in the sun for several days or uutil stiff. 
Protect from insects and dew. 
Elderberry Wine. 
Two quarts of juice; two quarts ol water; 
four pounds of white sugar; put iu a jar, 
cover with a thin cloth to protect from flies, 
aud skim every day uutil well fermented. 
Then turn into a cask aud cork tightly. 
Mas. Bbayton. 
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Tomato Pie. 
Mrs. McNair asks for a recipe for the South¬ 
ern green tomato pie. 
Ans. —Stew green tomatoes with very little 
water until tender, aud for each pie allow one 
tablespoonful of butter, three of sugar aud a 
little nutmeg. Bake between two crusts. The 
quantity of butter aud sugar given is for a 
medium-6ized pie. 
Pastry Strips. 
N. E. L., asks if the crisped strips, some¬ 
times served with open tarts or coffee, are 
made of pie-paste. 
Ans. —Yes, the paste is rolled quite thiu aud 
cut iuto narrow bands about a quarter of au 
inch iu width aud three or four inches iu 
length. Bake on paus in a quick oven. 
Alum-Water for Pickles. 
Mrs. M. L. C., asks how to prepare alum- 
water for crispiug pickles. 
Ans.— Allow a teaspoonful of powdered alum 
to each quart of water; bring to a boil, draw 
to the back of the stove aud put iu the pickles 
previously soaked iu brine. Let remain hall a 
day. when the pickles should be taken out and 
thrown into cold water, there to remain until 
cold. Then wipe aud pour over hot, spic c d 
vinegar. 
Spiced Currants. 
Mrs. Whitcovnb, asks for a good recipe for 
spiced currants. 
Ans. —For five pounds of fruit allow two 
quarts of white sagar, one pint of vinegar, a 
tablespoonfnleach of ground elunamon, cloves, 
allspice aud mace. Boil the sugar aud cur¬ 
rants together as for preserves, and when 
quite thick, stir iu the vinegar aud spice, and 
boil fifteen or twenty minutes longer. Groat, 
care must be taken that the mixture does not 
burn at the bottom. 
Sweet Creen Tomato Plokles. 
Miss Maggie Hall, asks how to make a sweet 
pickle out of green tomatoes. 
Ans. — Wash, remove any imperfections, 
weigh out eight pounds, chop fine, add four 
pounds of white or light-brown sugar; boil 
slowly for three hours, then add a quart of 
vinegar aud a dessert spoonful each ol ground 
cinnamon and cloves. Boil fifteen or twenty 
miuutes longer, and when cool, put into bot¬ 
tles or jars. 
fUllJS ()f % Utflt. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday, July T, 1879. 
A general law was passed In the Senate ol the 
lorty-flith Congress authorizing persons desiring 
to sett le on public lands within railroad limits, to 
claim tbelr homesteads out or odd sections In all 
States except Missouri and Arkansas. On the very 
last day ol the extra session, the senate bill, hav¬ 
ing the unanimous approval of the Committee on 
Public lands, passed the Uouse and became a law, 
granting additional lights to settlers on railroad 
lands within these two States; authorizing them 
to claim their homesteads out, ol odd sections, Just 
as they could do In other States. The general law, 
which Is perfected by the new law, gives to every 
person the right to enter ICO acres Instead ol so 
acres, as heretolore. The new bill provides that 
odd sections within the limits of any grant or pub¬ 
lic lands to any railroad company In the States ol 
Missouri and Arkansas, or to these states in aid of 
any railroad where even sections have been grant¬ 
ed, shall be open to settlers under the Homestead 
laws to the extent of too acres. It further provides 
that any person who has, under existing laws, 
taken a homestead or any section within the limits 
of any railroad grant In these two States, who has 
been restricted to eighty acres, may' enter an addi¬ 
tional eighty acres of adjoining land embraced 
within his original entry. If additional land Is 
subject to entry he may, If he wishes, surrender 
his entry to Such States for cancelation, and there¬ 
after enn enter lands under the Homestead laws 
the same as though the surrendered entry had not 
been made. He can do so without payment ol fees 
and commissions. It provides also that the. resi¬ 
dence of such persons, upon cultivation of land 
embraced on his original entry, shall be considered 
residence and cultivation for the same length of 
time upon and of land embraced In his additional 
or new entry, and shall be deducted from live 
years’ residence and cultivation required by law ; 
provided that In no case shall patent Issue upon an 
additional or new homestead entry under this act 
until the person has actually and In conformity 
with the Homestead laws occupied, resided upou, 
and cultivated laud embraced therein at least one 
year. 
Just before its adjournment Congress rather un¬ 
expectedly passed the hill repealing the tax on 
quinine, relieving the country ol one of the worst 
monopolies which disgrace our tariff. The whole¬ 
sale price of quinine varies from $3 to $5 an ounce 
according to the demand, an occurrence like the 
Kusso-Turklsh w-ar bringing about a rise In the 
price. The tax on this vital aud high-priced com¬ 
modity Is 45 per cent ad valorem on quinine proper 
and SO per cent on quinine sulphate, a prohibi¬ 
tory duty which enables two or three Philadel¬ 
phia manufacturers to import the bark and charge 
from a third to a half more for turning It Into quin¬ 
ine than they could without the duty. The entire 
revenue raised by this tax last year was less than 
$oo,ooo, the total Importations of both quinine 
and the sulphate being valued at less than $170,- 
ooo, hut the profits of one Philadelphia firm out 
of the manufacture of this article are put at mil¬ 
lions, which is probably the. reason that, the mem¬ 
bers from Philadelphia attempted to prevent the 
passage of the bill. It is much to he feared, how¬ 
ever, that the gain from the repeal of the tax on 
this necessity in some parts of the country, will 
go, every cent of It, Into the pockets of the drug¬ 
gists. Already they make from sL\ to twelve dol¬ 
lars a pound on retailing the article, and conse¬ 
quently they are not likely to make any decrease 
In the price on account, of the trilling remission of 
duty. 
Edison has Just sent a man to England with 
50 telephones on a new principal and of exceed¬ 
ing delicacy, to adapt them to the humidity of the 
English climate. lie proposes to establish with 
these a telephonic exchange in London. As to the 
electric light, Mr. Edison says: "I have supplied 
six electric lights from one horse-power. These 
cost me Just about one-third as much as three 
similar gas-burners will cost gas manufacturers. 
1 claim that this sol ves the question." He Is still 
perfecting the machinery for generation, go as to 
have It all right when manufactured In quantity. 
James Gorden Bennett’s yacht Jeannette lias ar¬ 
rived at Ban Francisco from Mare Island, Cal, 
and, in a few days will sail for the arctic regions 
on her way to hunt for the north polo. In the 
future most of the breadstuff* exported from this 
country to England will perhaps take the shape 
of Dour. The English millers, it, Is reported, are 
discussing going out of the business, as the 
new American processes undersell them, and 
milling Is no longer profitable with American 
grain. Hog cholera Is making terrible ravages 
among the young pigs of southern Wisconsin, 
Jo Davies county. III., and Dubuque county. Ia. 
The disease spreads from drove to drove, carry¬ 
ing off the pork ers by the hundred. The loss Is 
Incalculable, and has ruined some farmers and 
discouraged many more. 
The clearing-house exchanges at the leading 
cities go on increasing week by week at a rate 
which makes It certain that the volume ol business 
during the current, year will lie at least a fifth, and 
may be a fourth, larger than for last year. The 
returns for the last week reported show an Increase 
of 23 per cent, over the corresponding week last 
year, and the advance Is uniform over the country. 
New Orleans and Providence alone showing a de¬ 
crease. This is one of the most trustworthy Indi¬ 
cations of a revival of business and a speedy re¬ 
turn of “soft times.” The extra session with Its 
futile bickerings came to an end Tuesday. Mon¬ 
day the president sent In Ills veto of the bill mak¬ 
ing appropriations tor the expenses of federal mar¬ 
shals, accompanying it with a special message 
calling attention to the necessity of making some 
provision for the performance of the important 
duties belonging to the officials. The republicans 
are very well satisfied with the methods taken by 
JULY 42 
the president In these two messages to fix the re¬ 
sponsibility of crippling the courts upon the demo¬ 
crats. The republicans further aided in fixing this 
responsibility by throwing adjournment, over until 
Tuesday, so that there might bo no excuse on the 
ground of lack of time. They thus forced a vote 
upon the proposition to make the needed appropria¬ 
tions Tor marshals and their deputies at elections. 
't hus brought to the test, the democrats of both 
houses made a record by voting against such unre¬ 
stricted bills and for the ordinary routine work of 
the courts. This, the republicans hold, presents 
the Issue clearly to the country, and places them In 
the position of refusing to enable the courts to pay 
for the ordinary business transacted by its mar¬ 
shals. These latter will continue to perform their 
duties, but they cannot be paid until a deficiency 
Appropriation bill has been passed. The president 
has decided not to call Congress at present, hut If 
much trouble arises In enforcing the revenue laws 
tn i,Ue South, It may be necessary to assemble Con¬ 
gress before December. 
The Internal revenue receipts for the year end¬ 
ing this week will he some over $ 113 , 000 , 0110 , which 
Is more than $ 3 , 000,000 above the receipts of last 
year, despite the reduction of the tobacco tax. 
The gain Is due to a more thorough enforcement 
of revenue laws in the .south, the breaking up of 
the tobacco ring In New Orleans alone adding 
$10,000 per month to the Internal revenue. The 
leading gas companies of New York have Just 
made a considerable reduction In their price. 
From the uniform charge of $2.50 per 1,000 feet 
they have come down to $i aud $ 1 .90. the lower 
price being made to consumers who use io.ooo or 
more per month. The companies say the reduc¬ 
tion Is made on business principles purely, the de¬ 
cline In cost of materials permitting It. By the 
way, there Is a great lull Just now in the talk 
about Edison’s electric light from which so much 
was expected. The inventor, however. Is still 
“pegging away" at his devices In that connection. 
He lias found more difficulty than bis sanguine 
temperament expected In accomplishing his de¬ 
signs, hut Is still confident of success. 
It Is rumored and denied, that Archbishop Pur¬ 
cell’s mind has become unsettled because of the 
financial embarrassments in which he Is involved. 
There Is about equal authority lor the rumor and 
the denial, considering the age and character of 
t he prelate aud the nature of his troubles, It would 
not be surptslng It the rumor were true. Confi¬ 
dence In his personal Integrity Is so strong, and 
his character so tlrinly rooted, that everywhere sin¬ 
cere regret will be felt If It so prove. This year 
has been remarkable for the extremely violent 
storms aud tornadoes that have visited various 
parts of the country. At Bismarck, Dakota Ter¬ 
ritory, Tuesday evenlug, a storm wrecked the 
steamer Montana, the largest and finest steamer 
on the. Missouri river. It broke every chain in the 
vessel and carried the cabin ashore. Pieces of the 
cabin were blown 500 yards. The damage to the 
steamer Is over $ 3 , 000 . The damage In the city is 
put, at $ 50 , 000 . Iu House aud Senate a total of 3.122 
hill* and 165 Joint resolutions was Introduced diu-- 
ing the extra Besslon. 
A “ bl-metaillc league" has been formed In Chi¬ 
cago for the purpose, of speedily restoring sliver to 
Its position as a money metal, “ with the rights of 
coinage, the same as gold. The public meeting 
which gave it birth was called and attended by 
leading merchants, lawyers, judges, military men, 
and politicians. Not less than three judges made 
speeches, one declared that the panic, which 
ought to have run Its course long ago, “ still holds 
us In Its grip ;’’ another, that “ the. act demonetiz¬ 
ing stiver, In view of the maimer ol Its passage and 
or Its past and prospective evils, was one of the 
most cruel enactments that could be found on the 
statute-books of any civilized country a third, 
that, “ gold and silver wore married In remote pe¬ 
riods of antiquity, and destined tor ever after¬ 
wards to go haad-ln-hund as equals, and what God 
has joined together no man should put asunder.” 
This sentiment was received with laughter, 
though there was no particular reason for Its be¬ 
ing singled out as amusing. A Colonel Daniels 
“ spoke loudly, long, and earnestly In favor of a 
free, unlimited coinage of sliver.” He also pro¬ 
voked laughter and applause by saylug that Sena¬ 
tor Bayard ** knew no more about the subject of 
finance than a calf." He said further that “ the 
silver-men demanded the silver option ; that the 
contract should be fulfilled ; that the dollar paid 
should be of the same size that the people agreed 
to pay. If that didn’t mean that they were In fa¬ 
vor of honest money, lie ** should like to know 
what honest money was." The League appointed 
a Publication committee, and will do what It can 
to Insure the passage ol the Warner Bill next De¬ 
cember. 
To-day 327 new money-order offices go into oper¬ 
ation, covering all the suites and Territories, ex¬ 
cept the Indian Territory. Niue money-order 
offices now In operation are to he discontinued, 
making an Increase for the present, fiscal year of 
3 ls. sergeant Finney, of the signal service, left 
Washington the 1st of June, to Investigate that 
terribly destructive cyclone which occurred In 
Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri the 29th and 30th 
of May. He visited over thirty cities and towns In 
the States named, surveyed the entire ground over 
which the storm passed, and states there was a 
general storm area In northern Kansas, south¬ 
eastern Nebraska, and north western Missouri, and 
that he discovered eleven (Ustlnct tornadoes, two 
ol which prevailed on the 29th, aud nine on the 
30 tli of .May, all originating In that one storm area. 
Ue will make a full report to the signal service 
bureau. 
TheAlanta, Ga., constitution says the south¬ 
ern people hardly appreciate the amount of money 
that has been made Lu the south by the recent 
flurry In cotton speculations. There la scarely a 
village that <1068 not furnish Its man who has made 
from $ 5,000 to $ 100 , 000 . Colonel Sam utce, 01 
Montgomery, probably leads the list with $ 200 , 000 ; 
hut there are several, two at least lu Savannah 
and one In Rome, who are said to have made from 
$ 50,000 to $ 100 , 000 . Albany furnishes a modest 
