Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-08-16
I[OItSEWOLD REEEIPYS.


stings sweet oil, pounded mallows, or
onions, OF powdered chalk made into n
paste with water, are also efficatious.
CREAM SAUCE. Boil half pint of
cream thicken it with a tcaspoohful of
flour, and put in a large lump of butter;
sweeten to your taste and when cold,
add wine, or brandy, if you desire.
WHIPPED CREAM-In skimming the
cream for whipping, be sure to take up
none of the milk. Whip always the one
way, and do not add your sugar or flavor
ing till your cream is half whipped.
MoLAssEs CANDY. Two cups molasses,
one cup sugar, one tablespoonful vino.
gar, butter size of a hickory nut. Boil
briskly twenty minutes, stirring ali the
time When cool pull until white.
HARDENING WooD FOR PuLrEYs.-
After wooden pulley is turned and
rubbed smooth, boil it .for about eight
minutes in olive oil then allow it to
dry, after which it will ultimately be-
come almost as hard as copper.
SPONGE CAKE.-Three eggs, one and
a half cups sugar, beaten together five
minutes, half cup of water, one tea
spoonful of cream tartar. one-half tea
spoonful soda, and two cups of flour.
Flavor with extract of lemon.
FILTER FOR Cts1ERN WATER.
forate the bottom OF wooden box with
number of small holes place inside a
piece of flannel, cover with coarsely
powdered charcoal, over this coarse river
sand, and on this small pieces of sand
stone
PICKLE FOR HAMS. For one hundred
pounds of ham take six gallons of water,
nine pounds salt, one quart of molasses,
three ounces of saltpeter, and one ounce
saleratus. When ready to smoke they
can be soaked and then freshened to
taste, if too salt.
DRYING UMBRELLAS Most people dry
their umbrellas handle upward. This
concentrates the moisture at tine tip
where it is close, rusts the wires which
secure the strctchers,. and rots the cloth.
After the umbrella is drained it is better
to invcrt it, and dry it in that position.
SALLY LUNN.-Beat separately the
whites and yolks of five eggs, put one
teaspoonful of sugar, one cup Of milk,
one cup of butter, one teaspoonful of
soda in the milk, and one teaspoonful of
salt, with the eggs then one gill of
yeast and a cup and half of flour. Put
it in creased pan to rise, and bake it
in the pan for tea.
To CLEAN PA1NT.-Save the tea leaves
for a few days, then steep them in tin
pail or pan for half an hour, strain
through sieve, and use the tea to wash
all vanished paint. Whiting is I'M
equalcd for cleaning white paint. Take
a small quantity on damp flannel, rub
lightly over the surface, and you will be
surprised at its effect.
The Constitutional Convention of New
Jersey, following the example of the
Pennsylvania Convention, has adjourned
until the 7th of October. The principal
amendments thus far submitted are the
following: To make Il member OF the
Legislature ineligible who accepts free
railroad ticket that members shall re-
ceive but $500 per annum; that no
Judge of court shall ride free or hold
railroad stock !; that capital punishment
shall be abolished and Imprisonment fol
life substituted, the pardoning power
being disallowed that the Court OF
Chancery shall be abolished that nc
man shall hold an Office who shall have
influenced caucus by money or other
wise that any man who has been de
faulter to the State or General Govern
ment shall be deprived of the right o
voting; and that man shall be entitled
to vote after sixty days residence IN
county The influence of the presen
farmers anti-railroad movement il
clearly traceable in many Of these radi
cal changes which have been proposed
The new Chicago Court-House an'
City Hall, which is to be erected on th'
old site-namely, the square BOUNDED
/ by Washington, LaSalle, Randolph an(
Clark streets-will cost 81, 800, 900, an(
will be one of the finest and most i'm
posing structures in the country.
will be in the shape of parallelogram
with Il dome 90 feet in diameter ant
27O feet high, surmounted by lanterl
and statue of Justice, the extrem
height being 800 feet. The pavilions o.
each corner are so feet high, and will b
surmounted by iron domes 40 feet i,
height. Belvederes flank the two prin
cipal porticoes, with domes 1870 fee
above the ground.
A WISE man of the East, that is, il
Springfield, Mass, says that if you wisl
to determine whether your watch keep
correct time or not you should selec
any given star from the corner of win
dow sash, or through any small hole
and notice the precise instant at whic
the star disappears behind the chimney
OF other stationary object within shoi