The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-02-02 00:00:00

HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD,

Sago Pudding.—Boil three tablespoonfuls of sago in
a quart of milk, add a pinch of salt. When cooked set
it to cool, stirring it occasionally. Beat four eggs very
light with three tablespoonfuls of sugar, and stir it
Into the sago and milk; and a small piece of butter
and flavour with nutmeg. Bake forty minutes.
Custard Pudding.—To one quart of milk take six
eggs, one cup ot sugar, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of
salt. Scald the milk and pour over the eggs and sugar
after they are beaten; add a small piece of Uutter and
bake ne-half hour.

Homing Crumpets.—One teacupful of hominy, boiled
in milk; on tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful
of powdered sugar, one-third of a yeast cake dissolved
in tepid water ; salt to taste, and flour enough to
make a muffin batter. Beat the ingredients well
together. Let it rise over night. Bake in muffin rings
In a quick oven.
Spiced Beef.—Make a brine with lb. salt, ioz. salt-
petre, ilb. sugar, thirty cloves, as many allspice and
black peppercorns, six bay-leaves; crack the spice;
put it on to boil for a few minutes in a pint of water.
When cold, pour it over a piece of beef about 101 b.
Tarn it every day for a fortnight. When wanted for
use, put the beef into a deep pan with the brine, a
little water, and about 11b, suet. Bake it till tender ;
let it get cold in the brine.

Stuffing for Veal.—Chop up /lb. beef suet very fine;
put in a basin, with Boz. breadcrumbs, a tablespoonful
of chopped parsley, a little powdered] thyme and mar-
joram, half the rind of a lemon grated, and the juice
of hslf a one. Season with a spoonful of salt, a
quarter one of pepper, and one•quarter of a nutmeg.
Mix the whole with three whole eggs. This will do
also to stuff turkey or baked fish, adding some more
chopped parsley.

Orange Jelly.—For a small dish of jelly take a half.
cupful of gelatine and dissolve it in a half•cupful of
water, letting it stand for an hour; then add the
juice of four oranges and a little lees than a pound of
white sugar; after mixing thoroughly, pour on a pint
of boiling water. The mixture is not to go near the
fire, but is pressed into a mould and set in a cool
place. When ready to serve, dip the mould for an
instant in hot water and then turn out the jelly,

Limon Cake.—Four eggs, beat the yolks with two
cups of powdered sugar until quite smooth; whip the
whites to a froth, and add to the beaten yoiks, then
stir in slowly one cup of sifted flour and the grated
rind cf ono lemon. Line a tin pan with buttered
paper, pour in the olke and bake half•an-hour.

The Italian barque Alio Cuoino has been lost with
three of her crew, while proceeding from Queenstown
to Maryport.
An alarming explos;on has occurred at the Aber-
deen Gas Works. The workmen were engaged in
hoisting the cover of one of the purifying tanks, when
a carter who stood by, unconscious of the danger,
struck a match for the purpose of lighting his pipe.
An explosion ensued, aud seven men were injured.
The expeditio`n to New Guinea, which is heing
promoted by the Royal Geographical Society and the.
British Association, is expected to leave England
about the end of February.
The Jewish, Chronicle says there has lately died at
Carpentras, in France, a Jew a the age rot 0.06 years,
M. Aron Lisbonne, uncle of M. Lisbonne, a former
member of the Chamber of Deputies. Pere Lilbonne,
as he was familiarly called, retained all his faculties
to the very last, and he leayee a brother, who resides
at Lyons, and is in his ninety.ieventh year.
A sad colliery accident has occurred at the works
of the Gatewen Colliery Company, near Wrexham,
which resulted in the death of a collier, named John
Jones, residing at Bersham. It appears that he was
at work down a shaft n‘.3 usual, when, owing to some
unknown cause, a portion of the roof fell in upon him,
crushing him in a fearful manner, death ensuing
almost immediately,

---On Friday in last week Mr. Samuel Elliman. of
siongh, VMS driving. with a friend, and when crosping
Engletield-green" bis. born allied at some crva
which some workpeople had placed around their tire.
Mr. Elliman was thrown out of his trap and pus.
tained injuries resulting in his death almost mule-
diatelv at tercarda

SINGULAR CASE OF IMPOSTURE.
On Monday Mr. T. T. De Lesaux, coroner, held an
inquest at Whitstable on the body of Frances Wood,
alias Fanny Jordan, aged 55. The deceased had for
over twenty years carried out the imposture of pre•
tending to be a confirmed invalid and bedridden, and
that she had been stricken black in the face by a mar-
vellous visitation. She elicited much sympathy and
charitable help in this way. Hsitei.A Jorden, mother
of the deceased, said that the deceaeed had never been
very strong. When she was 14 years of age she was
efflicted with typhoid fever, and when she got better
she went to a situation, but did not stay long,
When she was 15 years of age she had a fright.
A deaf•and•dumb man used to come to the house,
and she was always alarmed at him. On one occasion
she saw him with a large knife in his hand, and she
was so frightened that she was never well afterwards.
She was for eight weeks an out-patient of the Kent -
and Canterbury Hospital, and after that she took to
her bed. She could not eat anything that wee
solid, but lived upon wine, brandy, custards, jellies,
sponve cakes, and oysters. She vomited everything,
and had no natural evacuations. She was apparently
paralyzed, with the exception of one hand, but with
this hand, however, she could write letters. For many
years her face had been almost black, with the excep-
tion of a white streak down the nose. Witness had
never suspected all this time that her daughter had
been practising a wicked deception, but a fortnight ago
she confessed that she had done HO, and had carried on
the imposture for 20 years. Witness happened to say
to deceased, "Fanny, you do net seem happy; have
you anything on your mind." She said she had a load
on her conscience, and she then confessed that she had
never been paralyzed; that she had the use of both
hands; and that the dark hue of her face was.
artificially produced, she having blackened it by ,
means of burnt cerk. Replying to the jury, Mrs.
Jordon said the blackness of her daughter's face diner.
peered all at once, and when she questioned her about
it, deceased attributed it to the shock she sustained:
upon learning that her brother had been committed to
prisen. All these years witness detected no black
marks upon the sheets or pillow of deceased's bed.
Deceased always wore a handkerchief over her face
and head, and witness never saw her pht it on or take •
it off. Deceased always threw the handkerchiefs into
the hand basin herself, and she never noticed any die.
coloration of the water. Deceased would have no
difficulty in getting corks, because she frequently had
Einger beer and other b eitlee. She also had a piece
c sndle elwaya at hand, re., she rubbed her sore side
f with tallow, Witneea admat,d that she had never
washed the deceared. She used to take water to de-
ocearsed for that purpose, but never remained while she
washed, r.,eve,al thedi3at men had seen deceased,
but not of late 3 ears ; she did not seek their aid be-
cause she thought they could do her daughter no
good. She remembered Lady St, Vincent calling to •
see the deceased on one occasion. She understood
that her ladyship expreesed the opinion that
the deceased's faee was painted, but she (wit.
nees) took no steps to satisfy herself whether or not
such was the case, Witness declared emphatically that
the deception practised by her daughter had notbeen •
carried on by her connivance; she had no suspicion of
it until she confessed. Dr. Hayward said he had made
a post-mortem examination of the body, and found tn. "
bercular disease of the lungs, showing that deceased
had suffered from consumption, but not of long stand-
ing. If deceased had received proper treatment, her
life might have been prolonged. The body was ex-
tremely emaciated, and there was not a vestige of fat
to be seen, and the muscular tissue had nearly all dis-
appeared. The intestines and bladder were perfectly
healthy. Alfred Reeves, a member of the Plymouth
Brethren, who had visited the deceased for many
years, deposed to a confession made voluntarily by dee
ctased to him, which was in very similar terms to that
deposed to in Mrs. Jordan's testimony. Deceased said
te him, "Mr. Reeves, I declare to you, before God,
that my mother knew nothing of this." The jury re-.
turned a verdiet that the deceased died from.disease of
the lunge and consumption, and they expressed the -,
opinion that gross deception had been practised, as
well as neglect shown in not providing sufficient '
medical attendance.