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FARM AND PRESIDE.

--Mincemeat-Take eight pounds 81
beef, two and one-haf pounds of suet
three pounds of currents, two and one
half pounds of citron, four pounds o.
sugar, one peck of apples, four lemons
one ounce OF nutmeg, one-half ounce Of
cloves, one ounce of cinnamon, one ounce
OF mace, a little salt and one quart Of
cider. Mix well.
-Hominy fritters 60 well on colo
morning with coffee. Take two teacup
fuls of cold boiled hominy, one cup Of
sweet milk, four tablespoonful of -four
a little salt, and one egg; beat vigorous.
ly and drop with a spoon into hot lard
fry until brown. Rice fritters can be
made in exactly the same way by substi
tuting boiled rice for hominy.
The largest horse known was recent.
ly purchased in Ohio by parties living in
New York. 1t is of Norman breed, Of
iron-gray color, and weighs 2, 045 pounds,
being heavier by several hundred pounds
than Barnum's big horse. The animal
is but three years old, and instead of be-
ing clumsy and ill-proportioned, as would
naturally be supposed, is of perfect form
e@ho oS Numerically Uullt.
Napkin rings to dress the table, and
especially to please the children of the
household, are made of soft unbleached
Irvine. Make chain the required size,
then crochet round and round until the
ring is wide enough, finish with small
scallop, then starch them off very stiff,
slip them over a bottle to dry and smooth
out all the wrinkles. When dry run a
different-colored ribbon in each ring, and
tie in tiny bow.
Some young housekeepers, and all
servants, need to be cautioned once in
awhile in regard to their manner of
using spoons in cooking. The best solid
silver ones (Which almost invariably
suggest the wedding-day are certainly
unsuitable to scrape kettles and sauce
pans with. The plated ones are no bet
ter fitted for the purpose, and who but a
chemist can tell how certain acids viii
act on the metal, and subsequently on
the family? Aliberal supply of cooking
spoons, which can be bought at any first
class hardware store, should be provided.
Two or three of the old-fashioned light
spoons, made of wood, are useful also
for some kinds of stirring and beating.
-Stewed Celery-Prepare one head
OF celery. two ounces of butter, one ounce
OF flour, three gills of milk, one-half tea
spoonful OF pepper, one teaspoonful OF
salt. Wash the celery thoroughly, cut
it into inch-lengths, when it should be
put into saucepan, covered with boil.
ing water, and cooked until tender, the
length OF time for which depends en-
tirely upon the age and quality of the
celery. When tender the water must be
poured off, the milk and flour mixed to-
gether in bowl, which season with the
pepper and salt, and pouring it over the
celery, return the saucepan to the fire,
stirring all until the milk boils, when the
butter must be added and the stew served
hot.
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Trichina Talk.

"The worms as found in pork, with
very rare exceptions, are in torpid con-
dition, coiled up and imprisoned in a
tough sack or capsule, which they never
leave until the pork is eaten by some
animal, the gastric juice of which dis
solves the sacks and sets the worms free,
to increase in size, pair and breed. Each
female produces brood estimated at
from 1000 to 10000. The young ones
cling to the Will of the hosts intestines,
producing diarrhea, which is the first
symptom of trichinosis. After breeding
for some weeks the old trichina die and
are elected from the system. The young
ones bore through the walls of the intes-
tines and make their way along the fibres
of those muscles which are able to move
by will. The worms absorb the juices
as they pass along. Continuing the
migration for about a week they reach
the proper age or condition to 60 to rest.
They then bore through the sarcolema
or coating of fibre of the muscle, and
coil up within it, This produces rheu-
matoid pains, inflammation and swelling
of the muscles occurs about two weeks
after eating the infected meat, and is the
most critical stage for the subject. If
the brood is not sufficiently numerous to
cause death to the patient, cyst forms
around each worm, Inflammation goes
down and they cease to trouble their host,
who may from time to time take other
broods until he becomes infested with
millions of trichina and yet live in good
health.
Enormous numbers of trichin8 have
been found in human subjects who have
died from accidents and other causes,
and have not been suspected of harbor-
ing trichin@. In German who died in
the London hospital from wounds, Drs.
Thudichum and Cobbold found about
100, 100000 of trichina, or at least the
number counted in small portions of the
flesh warranted that number in the whole
body. These had, no doubt, got in the
subject few thousand at time. There
were perhaps years between taking the
first and later lots, the subject being ad-
dicted to eating raw and UNDERGONE
meats. Fortunately, thorough cooking
meat will destroy all trichine it may
contain. A very large number of expert
ments has been conducted in England
and Germany by feeding trichinous flesh
to various animals and birds, and these
give us complete history of trichina.-
From an HatervieW aOith a Detroit Micro
scOpiSt,
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Drinking in Cold Weather.

When a sudden cold snap follows ,
warm spell. animals of all kind are an
to drink much less than they need, un
less water is where they can get it with
out exposure to the cold. Perhaps the,
need less at such times; but often they
suffer from thirst before going out II
the cold to drink. Thrifty condition a
such times is promoted by careful wat
erlng more than by high feeding. Thi.
Is especially true of poultry and milcf
cows. Meal or cut feed is better fo,
cows at other times, but when thew arr
In danger of getting two little water
aiter they have been put up for the
night, gave a pail of thin slop, SO thin
that it will be drunk rather than eaten.
For fowls | give light feed of corn
Just after daylight every morning. a
feed OF bran and mill feed, mixed with
warm water, at noon, and at NIGHT as
much corn as they will eat greedfly. to
protect them from the cold. Of course.
water is kept in the hen house constant.
ly but it cannot be always warm and
sometimes the surface will have a thin
MIN OF ice over it. BY feeding warm,
soft food once day, insure their tax
ing some moisture with their food.
when the weather turns warmer 1 give
the corn only at night, the bran and
mill feed mixed with warm water in the
morning, and few wheat SCREENING,
at noon. 1t is not worth while to throw
away wheat screenings in the coolest
weather, when the most the fowls eat
goes to support animal heat. Corn will
do this better than anything else for
old fowls, and at this season there is little
danger that corn will make the hens run
too much to fat and too little to egg pro-
eucton'-Cor, Country Gentleman.
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flor ponng Beaders.
THE LAST YEARS DOLL

I'm only last years dolly!
thought l was lovely and fair
But alas, for the checks that iUers rosy,
Alas, for the once flowing hairi
I'm sure that my back is broken,
For it hurts me when riseI
oh, I'd cry for very sorrow,
But I've lost out both my eyes!
In comes my pretty mistress,
With my rival in her arms
fine young miss, most surely,
Arrayed in her borrowed charmsi
My dresses. and my slippers, too,
But sadder, oh, sadder than all,
She's won the dear love l have lost
For Pm only a last years doll!
Oh, pity me, hearts that are tender,
I'm lonely and battered and bruised
I'm tucked out of sight in the closet
Forgotten, despised and abused!
I'm only last years dolly,
Alone with my troubled heart;
Sweet mistress, still love thee,
Inconstant though thou art!
Airs. II. N. Turner. in Youths Companion.
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"A young man has been committed
70 the Maine State Insane Hospital who,
havlEg recently sold a tract of land at a
profit OF o., 600, was SO much disturbed
mentally that he went about among his
business acquaintance selling counties
and States, "a, a
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-03-23

When Representative William III.
FELTON, went to Augusta, Ca, the other
Gay to deliver his promised speech, Mrs.
FELTON, was asked why she braved the
stormy weather and came also, and she
replied: have had charge of the Doc
tor for twenty-eight years, and do not
propose to let him venture off by himself
now"
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This has been the awfulest lonce,. )
that ever was in the world y ~ - as y
Harrington Miller, IN HarDer,, T
People ioaasI
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DIR. James McCosh, the PresIdep's
Princeton College, is an excellent Osss
ball player.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-03-23

and placid-molasses for example. Keep
something in your hand to steady your
neryes-a corn cob is good thing. Never
pay the entire sum in advance, and al
ways remember that the plainest looking
people make the most successful pic
lures.
John Gyumber, who achieved great
ness about year ago by means of his ex-
traerdinary capacity for sleeping, and
thereby became such natural curiosity
that it was moment of regret to all ex-
cept himself and attendants when he
finally woke after nap of seventeen
weeks, is now earning an honest living
as wide-awake employee in the Allen
town rolling mill. He has regained his
health, is as straight and strong as tele-
graph pole, earns good wages, and is
cordially liked by his fellows. His men,
ory is still somewhat defective, but is
gradually improving.
"A curious case is reported from Rut-
land County, Vermont. Horace Hotch-
kiss died recently at the age of seventy
years. When about twenty-seven wears
Old he had severe attack of brain fever.
from the effects of which he became in
sane, in which condition he remained
until within about fifteen hours of his
death. He then suddenly became sane,
after forty years of arrangement, and
asked his wife to sing. She was un. BILE
to sing, but repeated hymn with which
she was familiar, and to her surprise he
repeated it after her as coherently and
lntelligently. and with as much feeling
as If his mind had never wandered. He
one or two other hymns, and
then became unconscious and ramained
80 until he died. "a
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-26
The Rerrars, Onera.

DR.. Swift had been observing once to
Mr.. Gay what an odd, pretty sort of
thing Newgate pastoral might make.
Gay was inclined to try at such thing
for seme time, but afterwards thought it
would be better to write a comedy on
the same plan. This was what gave rise
to the Beggars' Opera" He began on
it. and when first he mentioned it to
Swift, the Doctor did not quite like the
project As he carried it on he showed
what he wrote to both of us and we
now and then gave correction or a
word or two of advice, but 1T was
wholly of his own writing. When 1t
was done, neither of us thought it would
succeed. We showed it to Congreve.
who, after reading it over, said: "It
would either take greatly, or be damned
confoundly." We were all, at the first
sight of it, in great uncertainty of the
event, till we were much encouraged by
overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat
in the next box to us, say, 1t will do
it must dol / see it in the eyes OF
them 70 This was good while before
the first act was over, and SO gave us
ease soon; for the Duke had more par
ticular knack than any one living IN dis
covering the taste of the public. he
was quite right in this. as usual the
good nature of the audience appeared
stronger and stronger every act, and
ended in clamor of applause.-Pope.
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Conducting Hotels in Europe.

Hotels in Europe are conducted on
the theory that the guest Is a private
parsonage to be entertained in private
manner. He is not required to register
his name-he goes only by the number
of his room, and most frequently no one
but the waiter-not even the landlord,
will have anything to say or do with
him. Meals may be sent to the guests
bedroom, or he may take them in the
dining room; in many hotels, also, In the
"coffee room," the smoking room, "
the commercial room, and even In the
parlor. Some hotels, but not all, have
a table dh5te.
In many hotels in Great Britain,
rather good ones, too, as far as furnish
ings go, nothing but cold cuts are to be
had-except at breakfast or at the late
dinner, cold ham. roast beef, corn beef
or chicken, bread and beer, form the
ordinary lunch. Some hotels in London
furnish no vegetables. At such the bill
of fare is coffee, tea, ham and eggs, NUT
ton chops, roast beef, soles or salmon
and bread. Even with this indifferent
bill of fare they are often crowded and
at times decline to receive guests unless
rooms have previously been bespoken.
Most usually-invariably so III the
lOUelS OF Lu6 ulIO(ile CitSS- NOLhSA arc
the housekeepers; assign guests to
rooms, keep the accounts and manage
the internal arrangements. Payment is
exacted only for what the guest has
ordered. He will be charged for the
room, but is under no obligation to take
meals in the house. A cup of coffee and
biscuit will be as cheerfully furnished
as the most elaborate meal.
The waiter is the principal executive
officer. He invariably wears suit of
black broadcloth, claw-hammer coat,
white necktie, broad expanse of shirt
bosom and sometimes white vest.
What is your number, please?" he will
say ON first coming in contact with you,
and will quietly book against that num-
Der the price of dishes ordered for the
meal as we'll as the lodging. Previous
to departing you will ask him to render
you an account, or at any rate he is the
official who will present the bill to you,
receive the payment and make the
change. -Edin64rg Cor. Detroit Free
Press
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What Allied Dean Swift.

When 1.-the Vandal desecration of
monuments" in 1886, exposed Swift's
skull to the phrenologists, the great
Dublin aurlst might possibly have found
IN the bones Of the ear traces of the.
cause OF his giddiness- When Mr..
Whiteway examined the brain he might
have found the cause of Swift's right
sided hemiplegia and his aphasia. 1t is
enough now that we can diagnose his
lifelong disease as labyrinthine vertigo,
and hisinsanity as dementia with aphasia;
the dementia arising from general decay
of the brain from age ahd disease, the
paralysis and aphasia from disease of
one particular part of the brain.
With all the tortures of the lifelong
disease from which he suffered and its
obvious effect upon his temper in his
later years, 1t is wonderful that Swift did
retain his reason until, In the seventy
fourth year of his age. he was In all
probability struck down by a new disease
in the form of a localized left side
apoplexy or cerebral softening, which
determined the symptoms of his insan-
ity.
That Swift's works contain no indica-
ton of insanity appears to be certain.
AS well say that Shakespeare was mad
because he wrote a good deal which we
think nasty. In the fashion of the day,
Swift was too prone to make what may
called excrementitious jokes and gibes.
But that perfect gentleman, Antonio,
voided his rheum upon Shylock's beard ;
and the same kind of thing runs through
our literature, no one objecting, until we
rather recently become less natural and
more nice. Some of our smaller humor-
lists and men of letters have criticised
this great king of humor as if he were
both bad and mad, not perceiving that if
he were really insane he must be
pitied and not cursed. But it is the
weakestof arguments to say. with Festus,
for want of argument, " Much learning
doth make thee mad. There is always
weakness in madness, but there is little
sign of this in Swift's works. There is
always some inconsequentness orincohe-
rency in madness, but there is none of
this in Swift. Down to the last letter TO
Mrs. Whiteway he Is most wretched, but
he is still collected and wholly himself.
Popular Science Monthly.
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A Licentious Jndge.

In Boston, Police Judge J. Wilder
Nav discharged young man from ar
rest in the act of indecently assaulting a
woman on the Common, at / o'clock in
the morning, giving as a reason that a
woman had no business to be out of
doors at that hour. The woman's screams
brought the police to the ground, and
the Indecent assault was both proved and
admitted. and the man had nothing to
offer in extenuation. The woman was
crossing the Common, which was as well
LIGHTED as any of the streets, and is a
abort cut from railway station. Women
should erect a monument to that Judge.
There are many necessities to compel
moor and respectable women to go on
foot in the night, when the horse cars
are stopped. This infamous decision is
that any man may ravish any woman
whom he finds out of doors in the night.
Even If she had not been respectable,
the decision that any bawdy rufian may
assanlt her would be Infamous all the
same What right had the man to be
ont at that hour? His assault proved
that he was street walker If the
women do not make it warm for this
licensing and licentious Judge, they lack
the persistence which they are accredited
with.
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HUMoRs OF THE DAY.
IN LIQUOR o and I.


The saddest consequences of a great
mans death are the verses that are writ
ten to his memory Picdyn1e.
An ADyERrIsEMENT in Western pa
per says, Lost, two COWS; one Of them
IS bull" So is the advertisement.
oil City Derrick.
"I'LL make you dance, cried an
irate mother, pursuing an erring son,
slipper in hand. 'Then," remarked
Krauf, "we shall have bawl."
Two drinks a day, remarks an ex-
change. viii supply a family with flour.
This, of course, refers to the saloon
keepers family. Herald.
KATE FIELD wants the men to wear
knee breeches. Following her advice
would lesson the price of pantaloons,
but it would make hosiery very high.
An EXCHANGE describes a ballet
dancers dress. The description, though
short, is about three inches longer than
the dress. -NorriSto1on Herald. We
want things of that kind no longer
Grip.
"DoN'T talk too much; try and be
good listener" said father to his little
boy but when he caught the lad with
his ear to the keyhole one day, when his
sisters beau came to see her, he thought
the boy didn't fully catch on to his
meaning.
"WHERE do people go who deceive
their fellow men?" inquired Sunday
school teacher. . Sometimes to Can
ada, but mostly they go to Europe"
was the reply of a youngster whose I'M
Gle has recently been trusted officer in
a local bank.-E,rchQRge
| PAT was sauntering along the street.
when he came upon wOrkmen cutting
down decayed telegraph pole. Sur
veying the operation with look of min-
| gled surprise and regret, he muttered,
q" "Begorra, it's too bad if it kapes on
| this way, there'll be no forrist trees lift
in the counthry."
/ "LEND me an X !" said Jim to Joe;
I" can't, Jim, for this reason:
have no cash, besides, you know,
This amt the Lent ten season"
It is the sparrows autter
In the gutter,
And the house-rnaid. very utter.
Scrubs the shutter.-PueE.
A BEAR, wishing to rob a beehive.
laid himself down in front of it and over
turned it with his paw. Now" said
he, &c will lie perfectly still and let the
bees sting me until they are exhausted
and powerless; their honey may then be
obtained without opposition" And it
was so obtained, but by fresh bear, the
other being dead.
CLASSICAL "But, SIR" objected the
lady, there is that Chinese Laundry in
the next block. If it was not for that /
should have no objection" "Why,
madam" demonstrated the house agent,
Z" this locality is considered particu-
larly desirable one. No Objectionable
neighbors, no" "You are mistaken,
sir with offended dignity, "I saw it
myself. 1t had Chi Psi over the
door"
A CROCODILE outdone: A crocodile
stole baby once In the days when ami
mails could talk, and was about to make
dinner of it. The poor mother begged
piteously for her child. "Tell me one
TRUTH" said the crocodile, "and you
shall have your baby again" The grief
stricken mother thought for n moment
and then said, between her sobs 81
shall buy a new bonnet next spring. "
''Take the baby" said the alligator,
clubbing himself as he spoke, 81 am not
fly enough for you. - Chicago Tribune.
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Ancient Chinese Burial.

The Celestial Empire gives In recent
number an account of Chinese burial in
former times. A man of means pur-
chased his coffin when he reached the age
OF forty. He ..hen had it painted three
times every year with aspecies of varnish,
mixed with pulverized porcelain--a COM
position which resembled silicate paint
or enamel. The process by which the
varnish was made has been lost to the
Chinese. Each coating of this paint
was made of some thickness, and when
dried had metallic frmness resembling
enamel. Frequent coats of this, if the
owner lived long, caused the coffin to as
sumo the appearance of a sarcophagus,
with foot or more in thickness of this
hard, stone-like shell. After death the
veins and the cavities of the stomach
were filed with quicksilver for the pur-
pose Of preserving the body. A piece
Of jade was then placed in each nostril
and ear and In one hand, while piece OF
bsr-silver was placed in the other. The
body thus prepared was put on q layer
Of mercury within the coffin the latter
was sealed and the whole committed to
its last resting place. When some OF
these sarcophagi were opened after the
lapse Of centuries the bodies were found
in wonderful state Of preservation, but
they crunbled 70 dust on exposure TO
the air.
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Useful and Beautiful.

If YOU want a golden rule that will fit
everybody, this is 1t: Have nothing
in your house that you do not know to
be useful or believe to be beautiful.
And if we apply that rule strictly we
shall in the first place show the builders
and such like servants of the public
what we really want; we shall create a
demand for real art, as the phrase goes;
and in the second place, we shall surely
have more money to pay for decent
houses.
Perhaps it viii not try your patience
too much if lay before you my idea of
the fittings necessary to the sitting-room
of healthy persona room, l mean,
which he would not have to cook in
much or sleep in generally, or In which
he would not have to do any very litter
making manual work.
First a book case, with a great many
books In it; next table that will keep
steady when you write or work at 1t;
then several chairs that you can move
and bench that you can sit or lie upon;
next a cupboard, with drawers; next
unless either the cupboard or book case
be very beautiful with paintings or carv-
ing. YOU will want pictures or engravings,
such as you can afford, only not stop
gaps but real works of art, on the wall
or else the wall itself must be ornamented
with some beautiful and restful pattern;
we shall also want vase or two to put
flowers in, which latter you must have
sometimes, especially if you live in a
town. Then there viii be the fireplace,
of course. which in our climate is bound
to be the chief object in the room.
This is all we shall want, especially il
the floor be good; if it be not, as by the
way. it is pretty certain not to be, !
admit that small carpet which can be
bundled out of the room in two minutes
will be useful. and we must also take
care that it is beautiful, or it may annoy
us terribly.