The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-04
EMPORIA NEWS,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1872.
THE HOUSE.

Lamp chimneys are most apt to
crack after being washed. They
are less apt to break if moistened
with the breath and polished with
white Cloth or paper, and after
ward with a chamois skin, which
gives them a clear bIilliancy.
Ifa housekeeper is ambitious,
and prides herself on shining tin
ware, let her use whiting. Wash
the tinware clean and wipe dry,
and then polish with dry cloth
and dry whiting. That article is
cheap and gives a new, bright
look to everything it is used on.
For the tea-kettle and large cof-
fee pot nothing is SO effective.
CREAM PIEs.-Four eggs, one
cup of flour, one cup of sugar,
beat together, thined with a little
milk; bring one quart of milk al
most to boil; add the above, stir
few minutes, let it boil, add lit
tie salt, cool and add extract of
lemon. Make nice crust, and
bake the upper and under
crust separate, and when baked
place the cream pieces between.
BREAKFAST BREADsTUFFs.-Has
any one ever tried "corn-muffins?'
Make them with buttermilk, corn
meal, a little flour, a little butter
or lard, salt and soda, and bake
them in muffin irons. They are
beautifully crisp and light, They
need to be quite thick-almost
like "Johnny-cake." They have
a chance to bake thoroughly
through in the shallow irons, and
we are very fond of them.
An exchange gives the following
us a sure way to drive bed bugs
from old beds: Take green toma-
to vines, put them in a basin or
tray, pound them to pieces as fine
as possible, then stain the bed
stead which they inhabit with the
juice, fill the creyices with pieces
of vines, and lay leaves under the
ends of the Stats. If this is prac-
ticed twice a year not a bug will
remain in the bedstead.
LEMON CUsrARD PIE.-Yokes of
| three eggs, two cups of sugar, four
powdered crackers, beat together;
add one and one-half cups of milk,
just before turning into plates add
juice of three lemons. Line
plates as for custard- pies. This
will make two pies. When baked
cover with the whites of three
eggs beaten to q froth and two
tablespoonful of sugar.
Chow CHow.-Take quarter of
a peck of green tomatoes, the
same quantity each of picking
beans and white onions; one doz-
en- each Of cucumbers and green
peppers, one head of cabbage.
Season to the taste with mustard,
celery seed and salt. Pour over
these the best cider vinegar, suf-
ficieat to cover. Boil slowly for
two hours, continually stirring,
and add while hot two tablespoons
of the finest salad oil.
To CANDY FRUlT.-After peaches,
plumbs, citrons or ounces have
been preserved, take the fruit
from the syrup, drain it in a sieve /;
to pound of loaf sugar put half
a teacup of water; when it is dis
solved. set it over a moderate fire !;
when boiling hot put in the fruit
stir it continually until the sugar
is candied about it; then take it
upon a sieve, and dry it in a warm
oven or before the fire; repeat this
two or three times if you wish.
NJ. Theirs has at last suggested
to the Permanence Committee, the
propriety of stopping the military
executions at Satory. All the rest
of the world was convinced many
months ago that enough of the
Communists had been shot to an
swer all the rational and irration-
al requirements of the case.
The Niagara hoteLkeepers
know how to prolong the season
in spite of the weather bureau and
all that, and they now announce
a forthcoming cricket-match, in
which three ''liYe' baronets from
England are to figure. OF course
mammas and their daughters
could not think of leaving Niaga-
IA just yet, if the weather is cool
ing down.
Miss Avery, the telegraph oper-
ator at Stonington, Conn, on the
day of the terrible disaster to the
Metis, remained in the office for
II consecutive hours, and sent
during that time, 1000 words to
the press, besides 4S3 paid mess
ages of various lengths, a very
large proportion of which she had
to receive from Watch Hill, and
repeat to other points.
England is having a hard time
of it, we are sorry to say. Butch
ers' meat is so high, that the wo-
men of the working classes are on
a strike. There is panic about
coal, and the journeymen bakers
are about to strike for higher
wages. Bread, meat, and coal are
quite an essential element of life.
But now the Prime Minister him
self, who is a connoisseur in the
matter of potatoes, predicts a fail
ure of the crop, the tubers being
diseased.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who
went to Boston to take part in the
Peace Congress held in London
recently, suggested that men
should establish ga central repre-
sentation of the conscience and
will of the nations" to be presid-
ed over by women. If this were
done, she had no doubt the Mil
lennium would shortly arrive.
This idea was supported by Pro-
| fessor Seeley and Sir John Bow
ring, the latter of whom cited the
progress of the idea of arbitration
as satisfactory proof that war
might ultimately be rendered i'm
possible through the operation of
the Women's Peace Congress.
Some idea of the rapidity with
which Chicago is rebuilding may
be formed from the fact that since
the first of last December there
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