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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09

the stock comes to boil add cup of rice
and season to taste. Let it cook over a
slow fire till the rice is soft
An economical way of making q chick
en- Said is as follows: Boil chicken
or chickens in as little water as possible
until very tender, pick the meat from the
bones, rejecting skin, and chop or cut in
to small pieces not mince. Season with
pepper and salt. Boil until hard a half
dozen eggs aud cut into slices. Put into
the bottom of the mold some slices of
eggs, cover with chicken, then arrange
some slices of eggs around the sides of
the mold, pressing in the chicken against
the pieces to keep in place. In this way
fill up the dish. Boil down the broth so
that there will be about cupful for each
chicken; season, and TO each cupful add a
teaspoonful of gelatine, which you have
first soaked in very little cold water
hot and set aside for day or night
Turn into platter, and garnish with
celery leaves or parsley.
Excellent plain cookies can be made
after the following recipe: Rub together
two cups of white sugar and one cup of
butter, add nutmeg or whatever flavoring
preferred, also three fourths cup of sweet
milk and two cups of flour with which
has been mixed and sifted two teaspoon
fuls of cream of tartar. Mix, then add
one-fourth teacupful of sweetmilk in
which is dissolved one teaspooDful of sal
eratus, beat well, pour all into the center
of the pan of sifted flour, mix to roll out,
RS soft as possible; roll somewhat thin,
and bake i'll quick oven.
A pickle which will keep few weeks.
and which is very appetizing, and will
help to save the other more expensive
pickles. is made of red cabage Choose
firm heads, cut them into quarters, and
after removing the stalk cut the cabbage
across into very thin slices; spread it up
on large platters, next day drain through
colander. Then put the cabbage into
a jar, and pour vinegar heated to the
boiling point over it, some whole black
pepper, and, If you choose, little cay
enne pepper or curry powder or ginger
may be put into the vinegar and be heat
ed with it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

To make a delicious peach meringue.
put quart of milk, reserving haf tea
cugful, in a saucepan, and when 1t bolls
add the reserve milk, in WEIGH two table
spoonfuls of corn starch are dissolved,
stirring constantly. When it thickens re-
move from the fire and add one table
spoonful of butter, and let the mixture
cool. When cool, beat in the yolks of
three eggs until the custard is light, and
add halt cupful of grandulated sugar,
Cover the bottom of a buttered earthen-
ware baking pan with three layers of ripe
peaches, peeled, stoned, and qnsrtered,
sprirkling two tablespoonsful of sugar
over them. Pour the custard gently over
the fruit and bake IN quick oven for
twenty minutes. When done, cover the
top with the whithes of the eggs beaten
to a stiff froth, sprinkling little sugar
over the whites. Brown delicately in the
oven and serve when cold with sweet
cream.
If apples are decaying faster than you
can use them. apple jan may be made,
which will keep for several weeks. To
every pound of fruit, weighed after 1t Is
pared ard sliced, allow three quarters or
half pound of sugar. and the juice and
grated riud of half lemon. Put the APP
plies into jar, and set this into pan of
boiling water. Let the apples stew until
quite tender, then put them into a porce-
lain kettle with the sugar and lemon
Juice. Stir until soft, and let 1t simmer
Tor at least half an hour.
This recipe for little dumplings for
stew Requires sour cream and sour milk
or buttermilk Half pint of buttermilk
or sour milk, half pint of sour cream,
one teas spoonful OF soda in the milk, two
well heated eggs, little salt, and flour
enough. with which is sifted one tea
spoO.lui of cream of tartar. to make a
stiff batter. Drop the batter by the
spoonful into boiling water, boil for
twenty minutes until the outside Is done
and put IN the dish with the stew.
The following Is an Italian way Of cook
ing rice, and Is much liked: Take q
rnedlum-sized, plump fovl; cot in small
pieces; braize for twenty minutes in q
saucepan chop very fine small onion, Z
stick OF celery, and a iagot of parsley
add to the chicken, and braze for hfteer
minutes over slow fire. Then add on,
ont Of tomato sauce and quart OF
soup stock and two heads Of Glove. Mher
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09

spring, lime applied and the seed for the
pasture grasses sown. No stable manure
should be used, as it may contain seeds
not desired, but an artificial fertilizer
Astounding in potash may be used with
advantage.
The ground should be we'll narrowed
and rendered fine and the seed, carefully
selected for varieties, sown thickly and
brushed in. The mistake usually made
with new pastures is that of turning
stock uison the. grass too soon. A new
pasture should mot be used until a good
stand of grass has been secured and a
sod formed And as the stock carry
away the fertilizing element of the soil
daily, something must be applied annu-
ally to compensate therefor, or the grass
will sooner or later succumb to starvation.
Two parts of muriate of potash, and one
part of superphosphate is an excellent
fertilizer for grass, and it should be APP
piled early in the spring, first running
the harrow over the field on thin spots
amp reseeding. 1t is the constant tread
ing down of the grass that Injuries it
during dry season, and hence the stock
should be kept out of the field when
ever the pasture is not abundant.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
liz WANr.u 4, IN ,cH.



Georgia School.
Philadelphia T mes
The public school system of Georgia is
an mpoverished institution. 1t contracts
with Its teachers for term of sixty-iivt
days at cents per day per capita and
settles with them at about 65 cents ON
the dollar. The teacher must accept this
or persuade the kind hearted patron to
pay the remainder. Anyone enjoying
the ludicrous can spend a healthiul halt
hour ao certain of these examinations,
especially when the commissioner, as III
this case possesses n natural vein of hu-
NOR.
The applicant was a man of about 40,
with a cheap cast of feature and a body
half as broad as long, He SAID he didn't
claim TO know all wasn't grad uate, etc.
but he did know enough TO teach them
heather down az Shake Rag, cause he'd
teached thar four years, and they didn't
know nothin' ylt The official said he'd
ask few primary questions, and began
with:
what is a letter"
"a thing crooked sometimes and some
times 'tant"
"What is a syllabley'
Hits u word split in two"
How many parts of speechy"
Three
"Name Them
Coarse. fine aad superfne"
''What is a verbf"
Hits suthin' tacksls onto suthin', or
shows t.at suthin' tackles onto hit"
what is readingy'
Hits talkin' from a book"
Glow do you teach reading?'
Sometimes by coaxin' and sometimes
by a board"
''What is geographyY'
'Han't no classes in that"
But you might have. How wond you
teach ity"
by askin' 'em questions"
"What are the fundamental rules OF
arlthmecticyn
"Funda WHAT
Fundamental law"
Don't know him
II had no reference TO an individual
| meant the principal rules of arithme
tic"
You mean the way how"
Yes
Cant jis remember"
This, OF course, is an exceptional sub
iect of ignorance, bur the public school
teachers in the Georgia backwoods are
not proyerbal for their much learning.
There are some good schools, however,
and this county has two or three higher
grade. The high school here is presided
over by clever young lavyer-a Geor
gian aud gentleman Of cultivated taste.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
CHIT CHAT.

OF lightweight girls landed at Castle
Garden recently, ffty-two were red hair
ed. As they all went west, scientists will
no doubt soon see and diagnose red sun
sets again.
MA" said Polly Caution, 1.-The Liberty
statue is that of woman, isn't itE'
Yes, dear" won't she bs awful lonely
out on that island without man to look
afterfh
Miss Highsociety Would be pleased
to have you bring Mr.. Van Kupper. OF
York, 70 call! First tell me about his
family" Mr. Montrose oh, they were
all we'll when he left.
Scrap of conversation between two
ladies, overheard on suburban train a
few mornings since: $50 George is at
Harvard nowy" "0h, yes; this is his sec
oHd year, you know; he has just entered
the sycamore class"
Mrs. Jones / am told that your hus-
band is worth great deal of money in
the old country! Mrs McNamara-S Sure
an he is, maam. The governn ent over
thare will pay $4,000 for Mac any day
they can lay hands on on him.
He From the wapt exprethion of your
fathe, NTH Navy, | know that thith au'
tumual thunthet awoutheth dtepth then
lmet.t in your mind SheY e-s; | wae
thinking What a jolly good lot of coIors
they d be, if | could get them for my new
crazy quilt.
The bible speaks of parents who when
their chldren ask for bread they give
them stone. Young Benedict, whose
wife does hen own cooking, expresses the
opinion that there isn't much difference
IN two varieties of food. If any hing, he
says, the stone was probably more easy
TO mastcate.
Mrs. Nulgargrand Who is this james
Russell Lowell the papers are making
such fuss overg Mrs. Bongtong On
he's New England literary man, Il,
wrote The Biglow Papers, and
What! ThemS Why. | made Gwendo
len stop readin' them only this morning
because they are so vulgar He don't
even know how to SPELL
mo, George" she said, Il can not mar
ry you. | shall always esteem you rs Il
friend, but | can not be your WIFE
George hesitated. Clara" he said, brok-
emily, will you grant me one favor before
| go away forever" Yes, George
she replied kindly what is it?" Please
put your refusal down ON paper. I'll feel
safer"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
Best Soil Adapted TO Sheep-Raising.
Breed RS q sZett,-

The soil areas adapted to sheep in the
United States, under modern systems of
cultivation, is. without doubt, greater
according to area than in any other cuun-
try on the globe, for the last ten years
has shown that the great plains region
and the Rocky Mountain valley regions
as well as the great Basin and those por-
tons of California, Oregon and Washing
ton Territory once thought almost worth
less for grazing, are quite well adapted
thereto.
From a climatic point of view again,
all that region adapted to the cultivation
of the grape ia found to be conginial to
sheep. So far as the United States is
concerned, as to the very best zone, it
will be, as to the northern limits, line
extending from Boston, on the Atlantic,
to the Pacific, through Northern Caifor-
MA, and south from the Carolinas west
to the Mississippi, and thence southwest
aud west to Southern California, inolud-
my all the elevated portion of Texas, but
extending both north and south according
to circumstances; so that, in a modified
sense, much of the territory lying south
Of the mouth of the St. Lawrence, due
"e0l u lHe itoShy MUM btlhoi anu VueuSS
NOrthwesterly to the Pacific may be
made available to the keeping of sheep
for their wool. The wild sheep of the
Rocky Mountains (Ovis Montana), in fact
Is founded from the Mackenzie River to
Northern Mexico. The latitude of Yer
gina west may be regarded as the cent
raj line in the United States where, in the
keeping of sheer, fine woods may be rear
ed at the least expense in feeding and
shelter, for statistics show that the most
excellent of the fine WOols are produced
where the annual temperature is about
5o' Fahrenheit. So mean annual tenn
perature of 45e may be regarded as the
northern limit of temperature of profita-
pie sheep breeding.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
Grass Crops and Pasture.
Rural Record.

Grass intended for hay and grass grown
for pasturiug stock should be different in
quality. 1t is no doubt true that hay IS
best when il consists of "A variety of
grasses but as long as clover and timothy
are more easily grown and cut than mix
ed grasses, but few changes are probable
IN that respect. But the pasture should
be made a special matter, as the advan-
tages of good, permanent pasture can
not be overestmated, and the pasture, to
furnish the greatest amount of nntitioh
should consist of a variety of all the
grasses that are adapted to the soil. The
majority of pastures are those on which
the natural grasses spring upi but there
Is nothing TO preeent the seeding down of
preferred kinds that may give better ad-
yantages.
There is always an objection 70 plow-
ing an old sod chat has done service for
years, and the desire to retain old pas
lures often prevents the acquiring of
something better. But time tells Oh pas
lures, and they soon fail to provide plentl-
tul heritage, their occupancy by stock be-
my only waste of time and labor. Very
often some particular variety OF grass
which may be lacking in nutrition com
pared with other kinds, assumes the right
TO crowd out the others, aud finally over
runs the entire field, while weeds gradual
" spring up and seed themselves until
more danger than benefit Is done TO the
m k frem COWS depending upon the pas
ture.
With hay crops the land is benefited
because there is usually rotation.
Clover which delights in potash sell,
yet returns nitrogen, prepares the land
for cereal crops. While the grain which
usually requires cultivation, cleans out
the weeds aud better fits the lend Tor
grass again. No dosbt the same process
would be Of advantage FOR all old pasture.
If the sod be turned under in TIE fall aud
the field planted to corn III the sPrlng'
provided the land be not too well the
cultivation Of the corn will flll out the
weeds. After the corn j. off, the weeds
and grass should be allowed 70 start WELL
and the land plowed before the seeds are
formed. Then rye should be sown, which
10 turn, should tie turned uudsr ia the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
The Canker Worm.
cultivator and Country Gentleman.

Cultivator and Country Gentleman
On passing through several farming
districts during the past season, we saw
repeated examples of the entire neglect
of orchards where the canker worm had
taken possession, and completely strip
ped the trees of their foliage. This strip
ping repeated frequently would destroy
the trees, as they cannot live after CON
tinued loss of leaves. There was former
IL some excuse for a want of success in
destroying these insects, when all the
proposed remedies were imperfect at
best But now that Paris green has been
proved so perfect remedy, that the
trees are quickly and easily cleared of
them. Among the many reports of sue
cess we copy the following from the last
annual report of the OHIO Experiment
Station:
The spraying of the trees with kero-
sene and soap was not effective. After
waiting thirty hours we did not see much
diminution in the worms. The trees
we're literally alive with them, there being
scarcely leaf free. | then hastily spray.
ed them with Paris green.Olo my great
surprise and delight III twenty four hours
there was but few worms to be seen, and
in thirty-slx hours not one was found.
The neighbors say it was the most magi-
cal thing they ever saw, who had seen the
orchard previously denuded by the
worms"
The spraying was done by an ordinary
double acting spray pump, which had a
hose twelve feet long, with cyclone noz-
zle and fastened to stout pole SO as be
elevated and allow the spray to fall on
every part Of the trees. The liquid was
put in barrel and mounted on wagon.
One man drove and worked the pump;
another handled the nozzle. The wagon
was driven between rows of trees, one
half of each row being sprayed at each
passage. The GOO trees were completely
Cleared.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
Convict Fish

dispatch from Syracuse New York
says; Among the passengers who arrived
here by the Central Railroad this morning
was DIR. John g. johnson, of Brooklyn,
who was on his way to Auburn TO make a
through examination as to the physical
condition of James ID. Fish, the i'm prison
ed banker, who WIS sentenced in New
York to ten years Imprisonment for the
Encouragement of the affairs of the Mar
Inc Bank. 1t has been reported in this
city and in Auburn within a few weeks
that a strong effort was being quietly
made TO secure pardon for Mr.. Fish. He
has beenvisited lately by several of his old
friends VINO had not forgotten him in his
adversely. His daughter, who took up her
residence in Auburn soon after Mr.. FISH
was brought to prison, has taken every op
portunity to be near him, and it is said that
it has been through her that his sad con
dition has become known. Miss Fish has
shown the greatest anxiety for her faith
ers welfare From her conversation with
friends, it has been learned that she aud
Mr.. Fish well knew that his days we're GER
tainly numbered if he remained.in confiue
ment, Mr.. Johnson was former family
phyician of Dr. Fish On his arrival in
Fish, and learned from her in advance
that the ex-banker was all broken down
and very much disheartened His mind
was almost made up that he was to end
his days within prison walls. DIR. johnson
called at the prison soon after 8 O'Clock.
and, with Hoxsie, the prison physician,
made an examination of the convict ex-
banker. Mr. Fish was very much affected
when he greeted his old physician. aud
almost burst into tears. When told the
nature of the doctors errand, he said that
he feared that it was TO late, The exam
nation was through one, and the aged
man made no secret of his weakened and,
in a measure, helpless condition A com
plete record was kept OF the examination,
which occupied the greater part of an
hour. When Mr.. Fish was first confined
in prison he was able TO attend TO the
clerical duties assigned to him in an ad-
mirable manner, and proved a valuable
assistant in keeping the records, but e
Gently he has reached such Il sad strait
that he is almost powerless even to help
himself in many ways. DR.. johnson said
he came at the request of the District At
torney of New York to report on Fish's
condition for the benefit of President
Cleveland, who has before him petition
for the prisoners pardon. He will report
that Fish is breaking down mentally and
physically, and that humanity demands
his pardon. DIR. Johnson said that a rupture
in Fish's right side, chafed sore by his
truss, and varicocele, made standing diff
cult for Fish, while enlargement of the
prostate gland prevented his sleeping.
DR. Johnson SAID Fish's condition was the
same as that of w. IL. Vanderbilt just be
fore his death. Fish is almost blind
through the granular condition of his eye
lids. DR.. johnson says that he can now
hardly write a full report, of which this is
the substance, and which will be presented
to the President by DIR. Johnson at an
early date, with a recommendation for "a
pardon.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09

Men can seldom be accused of being
over-neat but the ovsr-neat woman is TO
be found everywhere.
She makes her husband exchange is
boots for his slippers on the doorstep.
No matter how low the thermometer or
barometr, the poor fellow must doff his
boots on the porch.
Is he wetY
He must stay on the stoop until he is
done dripping. Consun ptiony What is
that compared with soiled carpet!
The sEall boy, what life As leads with
such a mother.
Followed about with a dust pan and
brush and scolding voice the hyper
neat woman is always cross all OF child
hoods days, he early runs to club room
or a beer saloon where he can soc a little
rubbish and find the luxury Of dirt.
The .ver-neat woman dislikes t. enter
tain com pany. Genesis are so dirty, you
know
The parlor is kept dark and unused
from year TO year. The carpets would
fade and dust would gather. We once
knew a wonan who refused TO open her
parlor door for the wedding of her
daughter.
The streets are too dusty" she said
It is nothing TO her that she makes
other people uncomfortable.
She will have her way, whatever the
consequences; and sometimes they are
bitter enough.
We have seen the lives of good men inn
FILTERED; we have seen boys driven to
ruin, and girls imbued with such hatred
OF cleanliness that thsy become very Stat
terms by over-neat wives and mothers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
RETRIBUTI0N.
SoSERyLLE JOURNAL.

The mikmald sat on the mi King stool.
Sing hey for the farmers merry life
With happy Grams htr mind was z n
or the time when she'd be farmers wife
The b. indle COW stood quiet and still
Sing hey for the PLACID brinjle COW
With fuamy wilderness the pail did fin
Net ali like the milk You buy, truw
The farmers boy on the other side
Sing h-y for the oavful ( rmer's boy,
With sn ox-goad tucked the brindle's hide
Unseen by the milkmaid, kBdibut coy
The brindle lit out with her nigh hind leg,
Sin hey for the brindle'- active kick
One old hen laughed til she laid an esg
But the mil maid made that small boy sick
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
Young I4,dir. n liz BIllroom.

A Young lady should be taught TO enter
room well; she should come in with her
head erect, aud pleasant smile, and have
something pleasant to say TO her hostess.
When a gentleman is introduced TO her
she -hould bow slightly, and If he asks
her for a dance she should give him her
card 10 iuscribe his initials on.
She should not, properly speaking,
dauce more than three dances with the
same person though Il Cinderella dance
ia far more informal in this respect than
a regular bail.
She should not throw over one partner
for another one whom she prefers.
If she dislikes 10 dance with the man
who first invited her, she has nothing to
do but sit,out the dance on pretense of
feeling fatigue, or having a tight shoe,
or any OF those various excuses which
will easily occur TO the mind o. any lady
reader.
On the other hand she should on no
account permit any one 10 make an ex-
hibi'ion of her, and if she finds that a
man dances badly, she shopld at once
stop, merry conversing with him until
the expiration OF the dance.
tits not a. agreeable thing to do, yet
girl must do IT in self defense.
In crowded ballroom IL Is not always
easy 10 detect whether il is the lady or
the gentleman who is dancing sadl con
sequently, girl may get the reputation
OF being a clumsy dancer when she does
not deserve IT, and so lose partners.
A war against faro dealers is being
waged by San Jose, Cal, authorities.
One hundred arrests OF this kind were
made during the past two weeks.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
4 story of the Revolutionary Times,
New York Graphic

"reminiscences set loose by the death
of Charles Francis Adams recall to n
reader the amusing story told in connec
ton with the Adams family. John Quincy
Adams and John Hancock, 1.-THE skinner"
married two sisters, the daughter of a
noted Methodist divine in Connecticut
John Quincy was favorite with the old
people, and Mary's choice was approved by
them. SO, wsep the bands were pub
lished, the parent said: "Mary, if you
will furnish inc the text will preach you
a wedding sermon" She was equal TO
the task, and gave the text: MARY hath
chosen the good part, which shall not be
taken from her. Needless TO say that
Justice was done to the occasion and the
text. Not so with Margaret, who in the
meanwhile was receiving the attentions
of her John in very inexpensive way, as
far as her parents were concerned
for it is said that she never crossed his
legs under their festive board. So when
the bans we're published she said to her
father; Father, you preached wedding
sermon for Mary; can not you preach one
for meY" He ut first demurred, bat at
last consented and called for the text,
when Margaret, who was equal to the oc-
casion, said "And John came, neither
eating nor drinking, and yet ye say he
hath devil" The family thermometer
probably marked the temperature in frig-
id figures.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-09
Prophetic
From It'd Bit.

Stage-struck Lady (anxiously.) Isn't
the expression little sadY
Lithographic Artist. Yos vos going to
daig dot Migndo on-der road, amt itl
Stags-struck Lady. Yes.
photographic Artist. Veil, dot por-
draid will pc yust like you in apoud
d'ree weeks.