Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-11-23

cold, strip OH the SKINS, placc tl0ni III
a glass dish, and sprinkle with white v
sugar and serve them with cream. a
They make fine-looking dish for the
tea-table, and more luscious and in +
expensive one than the same fruit c
made into sweetmeats. Those who =
once taste the fruit thus prepared
will probably desire to place away
few bushels in the fall to use q the {
above manner {
SWEET GREEN TOMATO PICKLES.
Peel and slice two gallons Of green
tomatoes, add five tablespoonful of
ground mustard, three gills of mustard
seed, two tablespoonful OF ground
cinnamon, one tablespoonful of cloves,
one pound of brown sugar, three
quarts of vinegar. Boil all together
until quite done. If you choose, you
may use one spoonful ground and a
portion of cinnamon bark. Celery
tops improve the flavor. These are
excellent.
Gum shellac dissolved in alcohol is
very excellent for joining broken yes
sells; it makes them nearly as durable
as if they were cemented by heat.
have been using for years a mortar
which was broken in this manner
1t was broken in pieces and could not
then be replaced. | applied the gum
and bound the parts firmly together
until the cement was perfectly dry
then put it in use and have continued
to use it ever sincc.-Scientifc Amer-
icda.
A correspondent of an Eastern pa
per says: THE following receipt for
making soap has been sold in this
place, (Saco. Me- at a high rate and
heavy bonds given not to make it
known. 1t saves half the labor in
washing and viii not injure the
| cloths"
Rcceipt-To one gallon of boiling
water add one pound washing soda,
and six ounces of unsIackod lime, stir
} we'll together and let it stand two or
E three hours, when drain off perfectly
t clear, aud bottle for use. This is as
; good as that which costs 80 cents a
I pint and only costs 30 cents Il gallon.
It Almost every farmer household is
Q fond Of soup for supper. ! will write
t a lew "home-spun lines on making a
G cheap palatable soup from the pOta-
O to. take good sound potatoes, peel
5 aud cut them in pieces small enough
+ to be eaten with a spoon. After hay.
i, inc them we'll rinsed, | boil them il
4 water enough to leave them in a state
e Of soup, adding salt to my taste
)t When they are cooked, take abOu
=. TWO tablespoonful of flour, will
n. about half as much lard, and fry it il
5 a pan, stirring it with a spoon unit
Is changed to a brown, not black, color
Dt | then stir it in with the potatoes
IT. after which they are ready for TIN
lie table.
- COUGHING HoRsEs.--It is wei
q known that feediay horses on Glove
m hay often makes them cough, but tn
ne why and wherefore may not be S
" generally known. From ohScrvatio
ne | have become satisfied that the mar
a ner of feeding hay to horses is tn
IT. cause The usual custom is to le
n : them draw it through a rack, thu
g. stripping off the fine dust which az
a heres to the stalk, which being draw
ms into the lungs in respiration, produce
20 the cough, The cure consists in +,
moving the cause-that is, the rack
and allowing the animal to take the
food in their natural way. | hav
- removed all Of mine, and now fee
= my horses on the barn floor, having
g. breaStwork sufficiently high for the
49, to eat over. In this way thew ca
:. be fed on hay without raising an
=. dust, they get none under their fee
-. and the labor of cleaning out manager
~ is saved. Whatever is left is easil
80, pushed out with a rake into the var
- for the cattle. The dust on the ha
~ will do the horses no harm if take
~ into the stomach. Siuce making IL
49, Improvement above mentioned in N
INT feeding apparatus, | am not trouble
,~o with coughing horses. There is L
~ patent on my invention. Ny bret
.am rem can use it freely.-Counny &c
- temdn.
a. 1t is dangerous to use guano in tt
DC soil of Kansas. A veracious writ,
lt' says:
M "a few hours after planting cucur
Der seeds with guano the dirt begs
to fly, and the vines came up like
ch' streak, and although he started off
on the top Of his speed, the vines owe
0Se took and covered him; and on takil
us out his knife to cut the thing, he foul
the a large cucumber gone to seed in /
me pocket"
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ON Is DRUNKENNESS JUST CAUSE F,
lad DIVORCE Upon this subject, nc
tbs being agitated in our legislature, '
in are compelled to disagree, most deci
itv eddy, with our good friends Dorr al
ade White. We yield to no individual
our regard for the sacredness of t
marriage obligation, but our voice al
!, vote shall never be wanting, so he
MI; us God, to aid any woman who V,
leo unfairly seeks freedom from bla
loi- bering, besotted, drunken brute.
eat According to our ideas of Heaven
a ' Joys the sacred enjoyments of tr
ue' home are the nearest foretaste the