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The National tribune., 1883-03-08
TRIBUNE WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY,

tatoes and two onions, put into kettle with one
quart of water; while boiling add salt and pepper
slice Of butter when this comes to the boil add one
pint of ,broken crackers; do not let the crackers
boil. Serve Immediately. ANNIE Nc.
AMBROSE, PENN
of milk, elk large potatoes, onion one stalk of
celery, one tablespoonful of butter. Put the milk
to t5o!l with the onion and celery: Pare potatoes
and boil thirty minutes. Turn off the water and
mash fine and light. Add boiling milk and the
butter and pepper and salt to taste. Rub through
strainer and serve Immediately A cupful of
whipped cream added when in the tureen is a
great Improvement. This soup must not be al
lowed to stand, not even if kept hot. Served as
soon as ready, it is excellent.
French Paste for Soups-A preparation for flavor
ing and coloring soups and sauces comes in small
tin boxes and is sold at twenty five cents per box
In each box there are twelve little squares which
look very much like chocolate carames. One of
these will give two quarts of soup the most deli
cious flavor and rich color. The paste should not
be cooked with the soup, but put into the tureen,
and the soup poured over it; and as the soup Is
served, stir with the ladle. If you let the paste
boil with the clear soup the flavor will not be as
fine and the soup not clear. 1t may be used with
any dark and clear soup, oven when already sea-
soned MARGARETTE
DEs MONIES, Iowa.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
In order that you may have as much kernel and
as little shell possible, resume my letter with no
other preface than IL reminder to the young house,
keeper that we planning to secure n well fur
nished kitchen. In addition, then, to what we al
ready have given the housekeeper will need two
stamped tin muffin pans, one tea pot, one coffee
biggn, one chocolate pot, colander, one squash
srainer, gravy strainer, straincr that will
fit on to of the castiron pots, frying basket
one melon mould, two brown-brea tins, one round
pudding mould, two vegetable cutters, one cake
box, spice box, and dredger for flour, one for
powdered sugar. one smaller dredger for salt, one
still smaller for pepper one boniug knife, one
French cook 5 knife one butchers knife one large
fork two case knives and forks, two vegetable
knives, large mixing spoons, two tablespoons tea
spoons, one larding needle, one trussng needle,
one set of steel skewers, one wire dish cloth, one
whip churn, one biscuit cutter one hand basin,
tagging iron three double broilers-one each for
toast fish and meat, one long handled dipper, one
large CRATER, apple corer, one flour scoop, one
sugar scoop, one lemon squeezer, chopping tray
and knife, small wooden bowl to use in chopping
and now, lest our young matron be dismayed by
the length of our list, we bring it to an end for to-
day. A FRIEND TO Young HoUsEKEEPERs
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
CONSUMPTION Cured.

An old physician, retired from practice, hav-
ing had placed in his hands by an East India
missionary the formula of simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and permanent cure for
Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and
all throat and lung affections, also positive
and radical cure for nervous debility and all
nervous complaints, after having tested it's
wonderful curative powers in thousands Of
cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to
his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and desire to relieve human suffering, will
send free of charge, to all who desire it, this
recipe, in German, French, or English, with
full directions for preparing and using. Sens
by mail by addressing, with stamp, naming this
paper, w. A. NoyEs. lac Pswsr's Block, Rochester,
Ny
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
Electricity for the Tricycle..
[ From Me Pal MaN Gazette.l

Electricity has long been threatening to dis
place gas as an illuminent. 1t is now entering
the field against the horse as means of trac-
tiOn. Two eminent electricians claim to be
able to bottle up twelve horsepower in q
storage battery weighing three hundred weight,
and they promise to produce III few months a
perfectly practical electric tricycle. capable
of running fifteen or twenty miles without
recharging the accumulators, and able to as
cend all such hills as are now possible for the
foot tricycle., and even sleeper. AS the new
motor will never go lame, or shy, or break its
knees, or eat its head off when not employed,
it is likely to prove a dangerous rival to the
horse. The quadruped, however, which has
survived steam need not fear extinction by
electricity.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
A Dog With n Handle.

A Cincinnati milliner, who has just returned
from Paris, was asked what was the strangest
fashionable novelty that she had seen. "a dog
with natural handle" she replied. The
Partisan ladies are wild on dogs for pets. The
brute is led by string, and grabbed up at each
crossing to be carried over the pavement.
When shabby dogs were in vogue the habit
was to pick them up by the hair and they were
trained not to yelp. Pugs as smooth as new
born pigs are now the favOrites, and of course
they have no hair to be lifted by. But clever
surgeon cut the end from little dogs tail,
made an incision in the middle of his back,
stuck in the tail tip, let it heal fast and there
was as handy handle as could be wished fOrn
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS,
Our Agricultural Editors Weekly Chat With His
Readers

Our Agricultural Editors Weekly Chat With HIS
Readers.
docs IL injure trees to slit or cut through the
bark? have seen trees thus cut and it seemed to
benefit them, although some cultivators consider it
to he an injury y"-Jom v, New York.
Ans.: We have not much experience in slit
ting the bark of trees. We have frequently
run a knife down tho stems Of cherry trees
when their tough outer bark seemed TO require
it, and have thought that it assisted the swell
ing bark. We do rot consider that any harm
follows the operation, and in cases like the
above, have thought that it was beneficial
Early CaJbages. In answer to an inquiry
about early kinds Of cabbage, we would state
that for general family use the genuine jersey
Wakefield variety is superior to any other
But care must be taken to procure the seed
from perfectly reliable source.
81 am about planting some apple pear and other
kinds of fruit trees. friend who pretends TO some
experience in trees tells to beware of the ordi-
nary nursery trees, as they mostly grated on
stocks which have been raised from seeds taken
from grated trees and are therefore tender and
that should get some seeds from wild trees and
raise my own stocks also, that nuTseryme cut the
tap roots Of trees which makes them shoTt-liyed
and tender. would like To know what truth there
may be in these assertions. e.
Ans.: Nobody has ever gathered statistics
about the hardness or longevity Of grated trees
over seeding trees; for all that is known the
one is just as long-liyed as the other. Cutting
Off the tap roots from trees will tend to make
them harder, because the growths mature
better.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
AuctiOning of The Baby.
by II. E. b.

What am offered for Baby?
Dainty, dmpled, and sweet
From the curls above his forehead
To the beautiful rosy feet,
From the tips of the wee pink fingers
TO the light of the clear brown eye
What am / offered for Baby?
Who'll buy? who'll buy? who'll buyS
What aI,l offered for Baby?
"A shopful of sweets?' All, mol
That's too much beneath his value
Who is sweetest of all below,
The naughty, beautiful darlingi
One kiss from his rosy mouth
Is better than all the dainties
OF East, or West, or Southi
What am offered for Baby?
"a pile of gold?" All dear,
Your gold is too hard and heavy
To purchase my brightness here.
Would the treasures of all the mountains
Far i'll the wonderful lands,
Be worth the olinging and clasping,
OF these dear little peach bloom handsf
So what am I offered for Baby?
"A rope of diamonds?n Nay,
If your brilliants were larger and brighter
Than stars in the Milky Way
Would they ever be half so precious
As the light of those lustrous eyes,
Still full of the heavenly glory
They brought from beyond the skiesf
Then WHAT am offered for Baby?
"A heart full of love and a kiss;".
Well, If anything ever could tempt me,
'Twould be such an offer as thisl
But how can know If your loving
Is tender, and true, and divine
Enough to repay what I'm giving
In selling this sweetheart of miner
So We will not sell the Baby?
Va. ,,S.II aY11 md 80.
Were they ever 50 rare and precious
Would never be half enoughl
For what would we care, my dearie.
What glory the world put on
II our beautiful darling were going;
II our beautiful darling were goneI
Wide A,0ake.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08

be compelled to exchange our happier lot for that
of one whom we are ready to scorn. Teach the
maiden that no lady smiles at another's dis
comfiture, that no lady snubs the poor, the
aged, the poorly dressed, or any less fortunate
than herself Teach her ont of her richness,
whether of nature or of purse, to give way to
others; thus shall she become to all q refresh
ment and benediction."
Aunt Helen ceased reading, and raising the
lid of the casket, she looked puzzled as she
again found in it only Tabbies paper.
~ may as well confess, Helen" said Mrs.
Atherton, laughing, "that we have formed a
conspiracy against you. We noticed that when
we had budget, you read us nothing from
yourself, and as we wished to hear your papers,
we decided to put nothing in your casket."
"Then l must don my thinking-cap, in
order to devise some means of bringing about
a compromise" rejoined Aunt Helen.
aunt Hclcn" said Teddie, if all girls
were as you would like them to be, wouldn't
they be very prim?"
BY no means" replied Aunt Helen, smiling.
"On the contrary, l think they would be much
because they would be more natural and health
full. To me, there is no sight more refreshing
than bright faced, happy hearted girl. 1t is
q Joy simply to behold one who is always ready
to play, to laugh, to dance, to sing, and who al
ways has a CHEEKY word ready. | ask from
girls only common sense, truthfulness, honest
dealing, worthy aims, unselfishness and the
delicacy of true womanhood Surely, these
things would not make girl too serious. while
they would make levity and unrefincment im-
possible to her" And making q friendly ac-
acknowledgement to Tabbie for her loyalty, she
read:
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
The Longest Bridge in the World.

China possesses the longest bridge in the
world. 1t is at Lagang, over an arm of the
China Sea, and is five miles long, built entirely
of stone, is seventy feet high, with roadway
seventy feet wide, and has 800 arches. The
parapet IS balustrade, and each of the pillars,
which are seventy-five feet apart, support q
pedestal on which is placed lion twenty-five
feet long, made of one block of marble.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
Is Best of Au,v

Dr. R. v. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y: Dear SIR
My family has used your Favorite Prescrip-
tion" and it has done all that is claimed for
it. 1t is the best of all preparations for female
complaint. recommend it to all my custom
ers.
G.s. WATERMAN, Druggist Baltimore, Md.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
OIL FROM PINE WOOD.
NOTES AND EXTRACTS.
A Digest Of Information Collected From Various
Sources.

Charles Downing, not long ago, gave the fol-
lowing list of apples to be planted in an orchard
of 1000 trees. This was in answer to an inquiry
in the New York Tribune. The following is the
list: 300 Baldwins; 100 each of Rhode Island
Greening, Golden Russet of New York, Rox-
bury Russet; fifty each of Red Russet, Peck's
Pleasant, Northern Spy, Jonathan, Hubburston
NOnesuch. Porter, Gravenstein. Red Astrachan."
In making lists of kinds OF fruit, it would be
desirable to indicate the district or locality for
which the list is specially suited. The above,
we presume, is intended for the eastern and
northern States.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
INoCULATING DOGS.

M. Pasteur has succeeded so well with his
experiment of inOculating dogs with hydropho-
bia virus, that he argues that all dogs should
pass through the ordeal of inOculation in order
that they might be powerless to drive men
mad. None of the dogs which NJ Pasteur has
inoculated, and which have been cured of the
disease thus communicated, have had a second
attack
The National tribune., 1883-03-08

There is japanese Gospel society in San
Francisco with nearly fifty members.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
THE PROPER PRICE OF MILK.

Let us assume that no COW is fit for the bust
ness which does not give 1900 quarts of milk
annually. If this amount Of milk per COW is
sold whole from the farm, its manurial elements
will cosist of 2S.63 lbs. of nitrogen worth $6Ol ;
10.7 lbs. of phOsphoric acid, worth S1.07, and
7.03 lbs of potash, worth IL cents-in all worth
$50. When all other considerations of waste
and losses are taken into account, it is reason
able to conclude that the sale of all the milk of
2,200quart 2, cow removes from the farm on
which she is kept what will cost at least $40 a
year TO make good again. But ii this sum is
spent in meal and feed, and the manure of the
cow returned to the soil, a full return is not
made. Hence, to make it pay to sell milk we
must have an average price of four cents per
quart for the year, or a gross receipt (including
a calf of S85 to 500 or more per year from
every cow.-MajOr ALr0rd.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
sUPERPHosPATE IN RAISING CANE.

Among the interesting results of experiments
with northern cane, discussed by Prof Weber
at the meeting Of the Amber Cane Association
at Minneapolis, there was one which especially
impressed itself upon our mind on account of
its direct bearing upon the agricultural welfare
of our country. BY the application of super
phosphate TO plot of Amber cane, not only was
the time required for maturing the cane short
ened by sixteen days, but the amount of cane
sugar was increased over one per cent. The
young plants grew vigorously and rapidly in
the start, and kept ahead of the weeds. 1t is
evident that the increase i'll sugar will amply
repay the expense of fertilizing, to say nothing
of the advantage of longer working season
and in the cultivation Of the crop.-C0llaanS
Rural World
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
"Golden Medical DiscorerY

for all scrofulous and virulent plood poisons, is
specific. By druggists
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
OUR LETTER BOX.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBuNE:


Allow me to say with reference to the recipe for
brot0n bread, which appeared in The TRIBUNE of
February sth don't put a teaspoorfui OF oats iEto
the bread-don't put one kernel in. sent the
recipe, and am IL New Englander, but this is the
first time that ever heard of using oats. l will
whisper to you that L suspect the compositor's
mind was on tCd oatsr instead of bread, and
hence he substituted oats for salt
should like to add few hints to young house
keepers: Recently l saw young cook put vege-
tables on to cook III cold water. Now, unless it Is
desirable to extract flavor and substance from n
soup-bone, hot water into which has been thrown
pinch of salt should always be used. know but
one instance i'll which cold water be advantage
ously used for vegetables, and that is when boil
ing new, very mealy potatoes. The outside Of such
potatoes often falls of and is jelly before the in
side or middle Is dcne, but this difficulty is OBJ
waited In great measure, and the potato is cooked
evenly II put to boil in cold water. The same rule
may apply in boiling eggs If the eggs are put to
cook in cold water and allowed to remain until
the water reaches the boiling point, the whites and
yolks will be evenly cooked. NATION.
CARSON CITY, NEv.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
] see some very good recipes in your paper, and
In response to the appeal Of" "A Country Girl /
send my recipe for potato soup.
Fosafo s0rp.-Pare and slice six good-slzed po-
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
A LITTLE COMPENSATION.

luofo Is ouc III pduSiHS GJ
FOlkestone; for, checks being still used with
suspicious reluctance, it is necessary to identify
ones baggage, receive receipt for it when
stored, and return early the next morning to
reclaim it and repeat the annoying process of
weighing The pleasures of the quiet night in
sight of the harbOr compensate for these, how
ever, and one retains, long after, a pleasant
memory of the bright ceal fire, plentiful hot
water and pretty outlook from ones room in
the first half hour in the Pavilion Hotel. A
last muttOn-chOp, before leaving the land of
mutton chops, is the orthodox supper, and,
while waiting for it in cosy reading room,
low ceiled, CHEEKY and quiet, the traveller can
not fail to feel the restfulness of the low, sweet
English voices of his fellow occupants. The
good of this quiet time at Folkestone is very
evident on the morrow, when, if the day be
mild, the refreshed traveller finds the channel
very beautiful from the moment when the sun
first breaks through the mist and turns the
Folkestone cliffs to gold, until the absurdly in
efficient method of reaching the dock gives
twenty minutes of enforced leisure for watch
ing the French fishing smackS putting out to
sea from Boulogne harbor. However calm the
channel may be, there is never-failing woe
among the victims of an uncomfortable boat
and a chop sea, who, having left London before
sunrise, begin the sail tired sleepy and pre-
pared for the worst.
At Boulogne there is the welcome shout,
twenty minutes for luncheon" which means
half an hour, for the train starts late. French
railroad luncheon is an institution worthy of
immediate and complete imitation in America.
1t occupies full half hour and is capitally
served in courses. 1t is cheap, attractive and
wholesome. The minimum number of courses
is two-good soup and delicious chicken; moro
frequently there is, in addition to this roast
meat, vegetable, desert and coffee. The tran
guilty with which train full of French trav-
elers flies into the luncheon-room and sits down
to comfortable and even dainty meal con-
trasts pleasantly with the American idea of
French excitability. The half hour allotted to
the passengers lunch is not long enough
time for unpaOking channel boat with French
The National tribune., 1883-03-08

We remember seeing the statement that,
when the lands were broken up during the for
nation OF the Pacific Railroad, rain showers be-
c2'nc more frequent along the line OF road than
before operations commenced. 1t is now re-
ga:ded as a iact that, since railways were cx-
tended IN the west- -the country has been Wis
itcd with mere frequent rains. Ii is also as
serted that the building cf such vast network
Of railways as has been constructed in the past
quarter Of = century has had the effect of pro-
noting the I:tll Of rain. Since the general in
Production Of railways in Europe, there has
been 10 drouth such as previously, at short in
tervas, caused widespread distress. In Eng
lard il IS romsrked that although the climate
has always been humid there has been a grow
lH2 excess Of rainfall during the period of rail
Wy building. untl now she gets far more than
Is beneficial t0 the crops.
EVAPORATION FRoM DEAD BRANCHES ON
TRIES.
The GGrlCae''S Noatlig our best horticuI-
tlrai authority, stated some years ago that the
sv&FeTac:0i fro'a q moist piece of dead wood
sI.ls exactly like that from 4 living leaf When
6. dead branch is large enough TO keen contin-
Ja.y moist in the interior. it will in dry air
constantly lose water by evaporation from its
EIr;ace. The water SO lost is taken from the
zee aad n:us5 have been supplied directly or
sadircciiy by the living portions. A living
branch is well protected against loss of water
es7sgSSh evaporation, by the eriasrmis which
Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-06

 Myrtle Peek and Madam Marantette was anl interesting feature of the afternoon. Mad am Marantette was ahead several lengths the first mile, Myrtle Peek the second and the third. but lost time on the change. Madam Marantette won the fourth by long distance and also the Afth-and- race.- Time, 1o:51 3-4. :
 NOTES ON THE TRACK. 9A,
 In the second heat of the 2:19 class one of the tires on the sulky behind Clemmie sG. came of and interfered conside derably with that horses progress. Ea Gz E~sE-- k-S -f-i
 It is said that Mir. Budd Doblek the famous jockey, will drive one of the horses m the races today. kA EE n
 yesterday were Hon. F. Spicer Cleveland, General William B. Franklin, J.Nunson Beach and MT. l.. D. Packard, secretary or the National Trotting Breeders association. The association hold their colt stakes at Charter Oak Park next October.
 MT. Richard K. Fox, well known ID sport | ing circles, is an attendant at the races. yz
 The special train took twelve ca1aoeds of people from New Haven yesterdays The re- turn was made at 8 o'clock .#H8
 1 There are great attractions In store TOT | those who go to the races to-day. Inere l will be grand exhibition of double teams | by the famous Swiveler and Edward owned by Frank Worth, ofkNew York, end Wm. Rockafeller's Cleora and Independence. Jay | Eye See will try to beat her own record ot 2:14 for purse of $2,OOo. The 2:25 class contains several fine horses. There are hf- | teen entries. The pacing team, Richbal and | Buffalo Girl, whose exhibition yesterday drew forth so much applause, will try for | record s %s
Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-06
Summer sttuattons.

You are in car or on. shipboard. You want to get right along on your trip without interruption or danger from changes of tenn perature, water, food. You are at the sea- shore. You want to enjoy yourself without the drawback of summer complaints from over eating, imprudent bathing and the n.y. riad of little excesses which are almost in- separable from. seaside life. You are on the mountains and don't want check on your spirits by rheumatic or crampy conditions
 You are in the field and don't want to stop work on account of water colic or dysentery. You are. at home and don't want yourself or any of your family to suffer in stomach or bowel from summer complications. Certain ly not. That is the reason you always have a bottle of Perry Davis Pain Killer within reach. You know just how to use it and what it will do and it. would be forgetfulness or folly on your part to be caught without a specific which has always befriended you.