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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15

The usual number of inquiries have
again come regarding the best mode of
preserving eggs for winter use. There
are a number of methods for keeping
eggs, for each of which advocates claim
superior merits. These all, however, de-
pend upon the fact that the she'll is
porous, and If these pores can be closed
SO as to prevent the access of air the con
tents viii remain good for a long time
There are two leading methods One
consists in coating over the eggs with
some material that will partially close
the pores and then pack them in bran,
charcoal or similar substance. The other
is to cover the eggs with lime pickle
AS regards the first method, eggs the
surfaces of which are smeared over with
oil or varnish and then packed in a cool
place, will serve well enough for home
use, but the surface of the shells will
present On unnatural appearance that
will affect their sale. A recipe very
generally recommended for coating eggs
is as follows; Dissolve four ounces of
beeswax in eight ounces of warm olive
oil: in this put the tip of the finger and
anoint the egg all around Gum shellac
dissolved in alcohol and applied to the
eggs with brush is another plan.
The method of preserving eggs most
largely practiced by leading dealers is
lining the eggs The first thing is to
make a pickle, use stone lime, fine salt
and water in the following proportions !:
One bushel of lime, eight quarts Of salt,
twenty-five ten-quart pals Of water.
The lime must be of fine quality, free
from sand and dirt. Have the sat clean
and the water pure and sweet.
Stake the lime with portion of the
water; then add the balance of the
water and salt. Stir we'll at intervals
and cold. Draw the clear pickle into
a caslx When the cask is filed to the
depth of eighteen inches, put in fresh
eggs as soon as taken from the nest,
and when these lie about one foot deep
spread around over them some pickle
that is little milky in appearance,
made so by stirFing.up some of the very
tight lime particles that settle last, and
continue doing this as each lot of eggs
is added. The object of this is to have
the light lime particles drawn into the
pores of the shells, as they will be by a
kind Of inductiye process, and thereby
completely seal the eggs Care should
be taken not to get too much of the lime
in that is, not enough to settle and
stick to the shell of the eggs
When the eggs are within about four
inches OF the top of the cask cover them
with factory cloth and spread on two
or three inches of the lime that settles
in making the pickle; and it is of the
utmost importance that the pickle be
kept continually up over this lime. When
the time comes to market the eggs take
it out OF the picks and clean and dry
them ready for packing. The eggs,
however, preserved, must be kept cool
in summer, but not too cold in winter,
say at q temperature of from forty-fiv
to sixty degrees all the year round. -
Mem Yog.k World
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

NEmmmrang rrmne Trees and PiansA.
Growth 81 ell kinds want something
70 build up structure from, and unless
tho food be ID sufficient quantity ana
Of q kind suited to the particular
growth, there viii not be that fullness
Of growth that Is possible under more
favorable circumstances. The fruit trees
require manure, but it must be suited
both to the kind and the age Of the
trees. In any case, hot, violent manures
are very injurious, especially TO young
and tender trees, producing an undue
and unhealthy growth. Old apple or
pear trees do not suffer as much as
young ones, and perhaps not at all
when the manure is spread broadcast.
We do not believe in forcing the trees
in the orchard, where health and lon
gevity is desired. whether the forcing
done by the application Of hot, unfer-
inented manures or of manuTes in large
quantities. Manures which arc slow
in their actions, such as glue factory
waste, bone, ETC., we have found more
beneficial, in the long run, than any
other kind.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15
mousehold HIn,,

Doughnuts fry best in deep lard
Cut warm bread or cake with VA.
knife.
In making soups put the meat in cd.
water.
All vegetables should be put in bOili,,
water.
Bake custards IN cups set in nan !,
cold water.
A tablespoon of cOrn.stArch ia eaes
to one egg.
If there are fruit or rust stains on IAN.
linen and other white cloths. LET ,hs~
soak in a weak solution Of oxaic acid
old aud dry putty may be rcmovedA,
washing lightly with a brush dpped <
nitric or nruriatic acid. Within a cOonls
of hours after such an application ~
putty becomes sufficiently soft TO /.
readily handled.
Old feather beds are improved BY pu,
ting them upon q clean grass plot durno
a heavy shower, permitting them TO h
thoroughly wet through and then drisi
and beaten with light rods, II freshen
the feathers.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15
A Hnndrad Years Ago.

A hundred and fifty years ago the fare
of the poorer classes was pretty well
settled in peoples minds:
g Bacon, beans, salt beef and cabbage.
formed the ideal of plenty with all con-
cerned-farmer and laborer, mistress of
the family and pastoral poet Invention,
ingenuity. taste, were eli exercised in an
other field-the high table--and that
with more aim and intention than now.
In our day, if the cooking is good, the
main object is attained but formerly the
eye and fancy had their claims. There
was q poetry, such as it was, in the old
dishes, which our present system dis
courages. They had to look tempting TO
provoke inquiry, interest and expecta-
ton. At modern dinner-table the eye
looks on flowers; but it may be suspected
that the dishes from which our portion
is cut behind. our backs wants the graces,
the arts Of adornment and setting of,
that were once deemed essential. The
side board furnishes no theatre for the
picturesque il this department of art, no
Tiumphs for the eye; nor, again, for
those innocent frauds-deareT, we sus-
peet, like all enlgmas, to the inventor
than to those practiced upon, but yet
not unregFetted for the artists sake, Is .
lawful diversion incident to his calling
wherein the subject matter underwent ;
transformation, and the taste and sight
Of the eater were ct odds till the puzzle
was found out As where sspig was
dressed to look like lamb. Lamb TO
eat like pig, and pike to eat like stur-
geon: where mincemcak, pressed into q
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15
WHY Cheese Disagreed with Hin

Why Cheese Disagreed With Him.
There never has been, as far as we
know, moro remarkable instance OF
tangible and yet fugitive wealth than
Of the fortune that evaded the grasp Of
the relative of q friend of the writer.
He was many years ago at school at Har-
row, and returning along the road by the
bathing place-t0 Harrovians "ducker
politely went to the assistance of stout
farmer on horseback in difficulties with
3 gate lock He opened the gate and
held it back for the rider to pass.
s'Thank you. my boy. T" said the farm
cr. one Of the wealthy Middiesex graz
fers who own large tracts of the Harrow
and Primer rich meadow lands. What
may your name BET"
"My names Green, y returned the boy,
with an ill-timed burst of the imagiRa-
ton.
.'And what is your fathers"
ooh, my fathers q cheesemonger,
said the smart scholar, chuckling inter
nally at his ready wit; ''and he lives in
London in Theobald's Road, rather a
small shop, with two steps down out Of
the street.
.srm very much obliged to you" re-
piled the farmer, by no means, as it
afterward appeared, man of straw.
You're capital young chap; l shant
forget you."
stDon'tw was the scholars final thrust.
ssRememuer Green and a cheesemonger
IN TheobaId's road. . And up the hill
he went, almost as much pleased with
himself as if be had been asked TO play
against Eton at Lords.
What his feelings may have been,
when, ten years later, young gentleman
Of the name of Green was advertised for,
whose father kept cheesemonger's shop
in the Theobald road. and who, in re.
turn for politely opening gate at Harrow
in the year 1s3--, was left large legacy
BY the wealthy farmer, recently deceased
what his feelings were then none of
his relatives cared 10 inquire too closely;
but il was observed by all that from that
hour the unhappy young man never lost
Al opportunity OF insisting on the in
calculable blessings of the most rigid
adherence to truth; of the disasters in.
variably incident TO even momentarY
deviation from which virtue he himself
was a most marked and melancholy ex-
ample. For neither was his name Green
or anything approaching it, nor had his
father, quiet country gentleman, ever
. even in the remotest fashion been inter
ested in cheese: indeed, as his son has
been heard patheticalIy to remark, in the
smallest amounts 1t invariably disagreed
with him. CoTnhiH Magdzinc.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15
Oneer Head Dresses.

There are many graceful head -dIesss \,
but of them all none is 50 fantastlcah,9
beautiful as that in vogue among ~
Darnley Islanders. who live on an lsl .D.
in Torres Straits, between New bulnss
and Australia, and are not only w
looking. but are more than suspee'eu :"
being cannibals.
On Darnley Island, il appears, tnsl ',i
q kind of very large and most beaun't;
butterfly allied Papilio poseidon. =
marked in brown. black, and brlgh11e.
colors, and measures seven inches az
the wings. This gorgeous creature .s,.
captured by the Islanders bent on deo ssi.
ton; q tough but delicate vegs''DJl
fibre, In lieu of a thread
cotton, is tied about its large body -
the end of the fibre secured IN the MAJ ~ !.
hair. A half-dozen butterflies WIN
tethered in this way to the man, anu
they soon become reconciled to caPs'ig'
their graceful duttcrings about ING =
handsome head Of the man prodaee =
effect diff cult TO describe and haiu5 "
be imagined. So. Nict0Jas.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15
Eskimo NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Eskimo dogs are used in various WAYS
in hunting. When the weather is so
foggy that hunter can not see very far,
and there is consequently but little pros
pect of his killing anything unless he
almost etumbles upon it. one of them
will take his bow and arrows, or his gun,
e he be fortunate enough to own one,
and giving the best. trained hunting-dog
in charge of one of his sons, they start
out understanding The hoy puts q
harness on the dog, Ties the trace around
his own waist, or holds it in his hands,
and follows his father out into the fog.
OF course, the older Eskimo has some
idea of where the reindeer will be graz
ing or resting, and he soon finds out
which way the wind ia blowing over the
place where he suspects the reindeer to
be. Then, with his boy and the dog,
he goes around in such way that the
game will not be disturbed, to some place
where the wind blowing over the rein
deer will come toward the hunters As
soon as this place is reached, the dog
smells the reindeer, and commences
shifting the air as il anxious to go to-
ward them. The boy allows the
dog to advance slowly, still
holding on to the harness so
that it shall not run away. As soon rs
the dog scents the deer, it goes directly
toward them, and when it IS quite near,
It grows excited, and commences to
jump and to jerk the harness-trace by
which the boy is holding it; being a
well-trained hunting dog, however, it
never barks SO as to brighten the deer BY
the sound.
The hunter knows from these excited
actions Of the dog that the reindeer must
be close at hand, although he cannot see
them for the fog. So he tells his SON TO
bold the dog and remain in that spot
while he takes his bow or gun and
crawls cautiously forward in the proper
direction. Before he has gone far, prob
ably not more than twenty or twenty-five
yards away the huge forms of two or
three reindeer loom up through the fog.
Il he is a good hunter he will at least
bring one down. and perhaps two or
three of them, aud so have something for
supper. When there is snow on the
ground, the boy will generally take two
or three dogs along, and after q reindeer
is killed, will use them to drag It into
the snow house. As the little Eskimo
loves excitement, this is good sport, and
IN this way he soon learns to hunt quite
3SsM1N ENmEs3mn
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15

81 rump steak an inch thick, fry Il
butter on both sides, add enough !.
afock lust 10 cover the steak. nen..
ana salt to taste, and sweet herbss !
Nkea carrot sliced, about half a.
sasall onions more according to thu i.
az fkn stew. Put in saucepan ar 8.
tIe and lee simmer gently an hour 49,
half or two hours. Put some butter 49,
flour in saucepan on the fire, mix !.
0ether and add sofQe Of the liouo, !;
Which the steak has been stewing; IA
. little tomato catsup. Lay the ste,s
on dish, the carrots and onions arOuss
it, and pour the sauce over.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15
The Seven DAYS Fight.

From General Longstreets confirm.
ton to the Century war series We ouo,s
the following: "The Federals withdrv
after the battle, and the next dsy
moved on around by the route whicla
was proposed we should take the dW
before. followed the enemy to Hsr.
rison's Landing, and Jackson went down
by another route in advance of Lee. A
soon as we reached the front OF the Fed
eraI position we put out our skirmish
limos, and | ordered an advance, intend
ing to make another attack, but revoked
it on Jackson urging me to wait until
the arrival of General Lee. Very soon
General Lee came, and after carefuly
considering the position of the enemy
and of their gun boats on the james, de.
Cided it would be better TO forego any
further operations. Our skirmish lines
were withdrawn, we ordered our troops
back to their old lines around Richmond
and month later McClellans army was
Withdrawn to the North.
tThe Seven Days Fighting, although
a decided Confederate victory was sue.
cesslon of mishaps. If jackson had AZ.
rived on the 26th-the day of his own
selection the Federals would have been
driven back from Mechanicsvlle without
battle. His delay there, caused BY
distractions placed in his road by The
enemy, was the first mishap. lie Was
too late in entering the fight at Ganess
Mill, and the destruction Of Grapevine
bridge kept him from reaching Frayscrs
Farm until the day after that battle II
he had been there, we might have dc.
stToyed or captured McClelIan's army
Huger was in position for the battle Of
Frayser's Farm, aud after his battles bad
misied me into opening the fight he sub
sided Holmes and Magruder, who were
on the New Market road to attack tie
Federals as they posed that way, failed
to do so.
i'General McClellan's retreat vas sue.
cessfully managed; therefore, We must
give it credit for being we'll managed.
He had 10000 men, and 10
sisted to the authorities at Wash
ington that Lee had 200, 600 In fact
Lee had only 90, 600. General McCleIlani
plan to take Richmond by siege was
wise enough. and it would have been
success if the Confederates had con
sented to such a programme. 10 splss
of McClellan's excellent plans, Genera
Lee, with a force inferior in numbeTs,
completely routed him, and While sui
fering less than Mcclellan, captured over
ten thousand of his men. General Les
plans in the Seven Days fight were e.
cellent, but were poorly executed. zen,
eral Mcclellan was very accompllsnea
soldier and a very able engineer, o9
hardly equal to the position OF iea'
marshal as military chieftain. lie Of
ganized the army of the Potomac clever
III, but did not handle it skillfully NneD
in actual battle. Still, doubt i hh
retreat could have been better handisu,
though the rear of his army should haW
been more positively either in his o ".
hands or in the hands OF Sumner. he'nE
zelman crossed the White Oak s"sIP
prematurely and left the rear OF hoelsf
lan's army exposed, which would nsI
been fatal had jackson come up ~.
taken part in Magruder's ALTAR Oh w
20th near Savage's Station.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15

Farmers who attempt to keep few
hives of bees seldom have very good
luck unless some member of the family
makes the care Of the honey gatherers a
speciality. If it is the duty of no one
person about the place to look after the
bees, they are pretty certain TO be ne
elected, and the result is invariably
either total less or dwindling away
of the bees until there is not enough left
to be worth the least attention. One
mistake which we have frequently no
ticed, where bees are kept by persons
who do not study the habits and needs
of these insects, is in placing the hives
where they will be exposed to the direct
rays of the sun during the very hottest
weather in summer. Perhaps the hives
are placed in row on stands covered
with boards to keep off the rain, but al
most invariably these stands face the
south, and there is no protection against
the hot rays of the sun. The stand and
cover are all well enough, but the hives
should be shaded during the hottest
weather in summer, as the bees cannot
work when the heat is excessive. NesO
York Sun.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15
1 wonderful Fish.

A wonderful fish is becoming numer-
Gus in Goose lake. Il is called By some
the greenback fish, for il certainly is an
infationist II has the power to ill it.
self with air until it becomes very much
like ball. Of evenings about shutdown
they may Be seen playing on the surface
of the water. They will swell up BY
taking IN the sir, and the wind will blow
them over the lake. They reflect eli the
cclors Of the rainbow, and when sporting
ever the lake are grand sight. A hunter
several weeks ago saw q crane swallow
ono az these tsh when In it, normal con.
dition, but before the crane had got more
than fifty feet up above the lake the fish
had taken il enough air 50 explode the
crane. which, Il the sound 81 q report
hike that of gun, flew all t0 atoms. and
the anh came lightly down ID the water.
uu worse oa for the short ride III the dir.
The hah i : great curiosity, never having
been found. believe. III other wnkers.
Af1ael1eo H1aniao
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15


EGG SANDWICH. Remove the shells
and cut four hard boiled eggs in slices
butter q few slices Of bread, put the
eggs on them neatly; salt and pepper,
and serve.
BREAD PUDDTEG.-Soak q pint of
grated bread crumbs in one and a half
pints ofmilk Beat up the yolks of two
eggs with q tablespoonful of sugar, a
little salt and the grated rind of one
lemon. mix into the bread and place in
an oven to bake. Whisk the whites Of
IN egg with tablespoonful Of powdered
sugar and the juice OF half lemon, and
when light add to the punding, return
to the oven again and bake to q light
brown.
CURRAxT, RASPBERRY Oh BLACK
BERRY JAM Pick over and mash the
fruit: allow one pound Of sugar to
pound Of fruit Put the fruit and one
quarter Of the sugar into q granite or
porcelain kettle; when boiling add an
other quarter 0f sugar; boil again. add
more sugar, and. when all is used, let IL
boil till 1t hardens on the spoon in the
air. Apples. pears. peaches and ounces
should be pared. cut small. and treated
in the same way. Cooking il only 3
little sugar st 8 time prevents the
frail. from becoming hard
BEEFaTEAx 6zEwED. Take . piece
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15
Big STRAWBERRIES.

An officer Of the United States aiin -.
stationed at Fort Vancouver, NasnSs
ton Territory, states that ne rece si'.ss
box Of strawberries raised at La ConI;s
the smallest Of which was FIVE meme.
circumference while the largest ~
men measured nine inches. INV ~. ~
was ripe to The centre, and hsa
fine flavor cf Wild berries.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-15

According 70 nscenk census, there ere
II a&1 dogs In BEpoklyn
Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-21
F. LD x R.

| The oldest shrub in existence-The elder, 1 of course.-Indianapolis Herald. 1 Neither bustles nor corsets are worn in Japan and when Japanese maiden sits down in @ skating rink she gets her money s worth every time.-Burlington Free Press There is satisfaction in the fact that al- though may never have justice during life, he is bound to get his rites when he goes to his own funeral.-Bcston Tran script.
 Cooking clubs are the fashionable thing just now, and q Danville man wishes the policemen would cook theirs before they hit him again with them. It would soften them -Danville Breeze.
 "Is ducky darling scka What wlll we do for ducl1y?'' was heard issuing from sleep ing ear berth "Try some quack medicine!' came the unsolicited response from five pairs Ef f,o1ey poKery gwrites an anxious subscriber to 8 western editor 'EHow do know?n replied the jour nalist 'EIf I could do that, do you suppose I'd be fool enough to edit a newspaper. .'- Puck.
 They were talking of politician who, as one of the young gentlemen affirmed, never opened his mouth without putting his foot into it. The Chicago girl looked at her pc destals in an abstracted manner, and heard to remark, "How ridiculous!''-Boston Transcript.
 Ponsorby-Education don't tell me. America is far behind Europe. Why, sir, look at France, for instance.
 Bagley-Well what of France?
 Ponsonby-Well, sir, even the littls chill dren there can speak French. Philadelphia Call.
 "What are these small round objects made of!' asked judge, holding up poker chip to the proprietor of room which had been raided. ''If your honor please" exclaimed the counsel for the defence, ''they are com posed of antimony y."-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
 'Why, Lucy, see how your dolls heads cracked" ''It fell from the bathroom win dow. I'm afraid information of the brain will set in" 'Goodness me! Why don't you have her skull japanneds" ''Fie, Bess! You mean trepanned." ''Oh, well, the words are anonymous, you know. w."-Philadelphia Call.
 A family of Browns moved to Brooklyn in the spring and occupied one of TOW of cot tages which had pretty green yards in front separated from each other by low white picket fences. The morning after the arri- val of the new corners, the youngest little Brown girl, aged or Y, discev- same age in the next yard. After looking at each other a moment, they slowly drew toward the fence. When near enough to be heard, the older resident timid ly said, "What's your name" " My name is Fanny. Tell me your name." ''My name is Katy. Where were you borns" 'I was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey" replied Fan ny. That's a nice place." said Katy. Then Fanny asked, ''Where were you born Katys" ''I was born in October "Oh, that's nice place, too" replied Fanny.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
 The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la,
 Have nothing to do with the case; The roses you see on her cheeks, tra la,
 Are paints that she put on her face
 Merchant Traveller.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-21
@etlical.
AS Strange as Fiction
 AND As TruG as Gospel.
EAST SToUGHToN, Mass, Nov. 9, 'SJ

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