Morris tribune., 1880-05-06
THE HOUSE AND FARM


DAMAGED corn is exceedingly iniu.
rious as food for horses, because il
brings on Inflammation Of the bowels
and skin diseases.
ASHES saturated with kerosene and
applied to cucumber and squash plants
in the hill will be great help in keep
ing off striped bugs.
SOME people say it is dark-haired
women that marry soonest, but the ell
derly spinsters maintain that it is the
hght-headed ones.
DIDAcTIc parent - Do you know
why I am going to whip your" Imper-
tinent urchin-@I suppose because you
are bigger than I am"
THE average life of paper wheel un-
der trucks of locomotive engines ranges
from 100000 to 1,641, $50 miles, aud
under dining and palace cars from 1884,
600 to 876, 1886 miles.
SAUsAGEs-To every 100 pounds of
chopped meat take two and q half
pounds of salt, one ounce Of sage to
every ten pounds of meat, and one-half
ounce of black pepper; mix well and
fill.
LEMON CAKE.-Two and q half cup
fuls of sugar, one cupful of butter, one
cupful of sweet milk, one teaspoonful
soda sifted in four cupfuls of -four,
three eggs well beaten, the grated rind
and juice of one lemon; two loaves.
SPEAKING of pigeons, If a cook can
draw her birds without mangling or
I,
30 as to combine an inviting appear
ance with an enjoyable flavor, she
proves that she has pursued her art
with taste and discretion.
To BOIL eggs properly place them in
a dish having close cover; pour over
boiling water; cover and set away from
the fire for ten or fifteen minutes. Eggs
cooked in this way are more delicate
and digestible than when allowed to
boil in the old. The heat of the water
cooks them slowly to ieny-hke con-
sistency. leaving the yelk harder than
the white.
PLACE cotton or woolen cloth, or
blotting paper, under the article to be
cleansed; then rub benzine upon the
grease spots, and the grease or dirt will
instantly disappear. The benzine
drives the grease through the article to
be cleaned, and is absorbed by the cloth
or blotting paper under it. After the
spot is removed, continue to rub with
dry cloth until the benzine is evapora-
ted. This is done to avoid stain.
PoTATo BALLS, ,oR CRooUETTEs.-Four
large, mealy potatoes, cold; mash them
in pan with two tablespoonful of fresh
melted butter, pinch Of salt, little
pepper, one tablespoonful of cream,
and the beaten yelk of one egg; rub it
together for about five minutes, or until
very smooth; shape the mixture into
balls about the size of q walnut or small
rolls, dip them into an egg well beaten,
and then into the finest sifted bread
crumbs; fry them into boiling lard.
OATMEAL PUDDNe.-Take one pound
best oatmeal, one quart of new milk
warmed. Stir the oatmeal into the
milk, and let it stand over night. Then
butter a basin, put in the oatmeal
and milk, stir in a spoonful of baking
powder, and afterward tie over the basin
a well-foured cloth, and boil for two
hours. If eaten as pudding proper,
serve it up with custard sauce, current
| Jelly, or treacle. If it is to be eaten in
place of meat-for good meat it is-use
tomato sauce.
Fowls will need the best food If an
abundance of good rich eggs are de-
sired. Wheat stepped in boiling water,
and given hot, and hot baked potatoes
crushed with masher, are as good food
as can be given; water slightly warmed
with small quantity of copperas in it
will be useful. Allspice mixed with
corn-meal mush is an excellent condi-
ment, and by no means costly. Lauda-
mum in ten-drop doses has been found
a remedy for the cholera, or poultry in
testinal fever, which has destroyed SO
many birds.
| ALL animals fatten better in mild
weather or in comfortable winter quar-
ters than when exposed to the inclem-
ent season. A farmer, desirous of test
ing this, commenced with lot of hogs,
averaging 175 pounds each, on the 20th
of September. He fed them two weeks
and then weighed them, and found that
at the price ruling in that market his
| COIA 81 4CA w C0utS p0T
bushel. He weighed and fed them
again two of the coldest weeks in No
vember, and found on again weighing
that, with pork at the same price, his
corn had only brought him 80 cents.
FANS were introduced into France in
the thirteenth century, but, instead of
being articles of use, they were by the
pilgrims consecrated to divine service,
and the Benedictines state that the
priests made use of fan called fabel-
lum to keep the flies from falling into
the chalice. The custom was of long con-
tinuance. In the sixteenth century,
the Italians who came into France with
Catherine de Medici, brought fans into
domestic use. The women wore them
at that time suspended from the neck
by gold chains. Henry III. and his
favorites brought the fan into vogue.
During the reign of Louis XIV, the
fan was an indispensable article of a
lsdy's toilet. They were bought to
England from France, and were used-by
females to hide their faces in church.
In the British Museum there are fan
handles and other articles of Egyptian
manufacture used anciently by women
A Cautious Sentinel.
| At Cambridge, Gen. Washington had
heard that the colored soldiers were