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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-19
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tcrs in Financial Circles.

NEW YORK, Nov. lS.-Following are
clearing house totals for the week ended
November II, 1892, compared with the
same week in 1891, for seventy-one
cities, as telegraphed to Bradstreets:
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-19

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St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
HOW TO BOIL MEATS.

In boiling meats, never put them in
cold water, but put them into that which
is boiling briskly. This will coagulate
the albumen on the inside, close the
pores and prevent the water from soak
ing out the juices. If sailed meats need
freshening, let it be previously done with
cold water and frequent changing of it.
Tough and cheap pieces can be made
very tender and palatable as follows: Put
into the pot with little more water
than will be finally needed. Set into the
top of this pot pan containing cold
water. Have this pan fit the pot closely.
If the water in this pan gets boiling hot,
dip it out and add cold water from time
to time. Boil the meat until it gets ten
der. The steam and flavor of the meat
will be condensed on the bottom Ct the
pan containing the water, and drop back
in the pot and be retained. When the
meat is we'll done, remove the pan aud let
it simmer down slowly until it is thick
enough to jelly when cold. Now remove
the meat, take out the bones, place in d
crock, pour over it the boiled liquor and
lay over it large plate and place q
weight on it. When cold, it is excellent
cut down for tea. Tough, fresh meat
or corned beef used in this way is SUI
perior to meat boiled in an open vesse1
from which the flavor has escaped
New Orleans Times Democrat.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
CLEANING LACE CURTAINS.

People who send out their lace curtains
to be cleaned are often surprised when
told that it will take month or six
weeks, but the fact is that the consclen-
tious dealer no longer permits the hap
hazard laundryman to clean these goods
but entrusts them to specialists. We
know of one dry goods house that
cleaned during the year of 1891 $1,000
pairs of curtains, through the medium,
however, of a lace curtain cleansing
establishment. Cleaning and mendlng
of lace curtains has been for centuries
back study, but it was never attempted
In this country until Of late years. About
ten years ago firm started the business,
but this work was confined almost .ex
clusively to limited field in his own
city; NOV he cleans for the trade ali over
the country within a radius of two
thousand miles of his shop, and the
goods are turned out as new and as fresh
as the day they left the loom. The
Upholsterer.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
CULTIvATING POTATOES.

Two of the most important items in
the growing of a good crop of potatoes,
writes N. j. Shepherd, of Missouri, is to
have the soil fine and mellow when the
seed is planted, and to keep it in this
condition during growth.
To secure the best results with all root
crops, it is an important item to work
the soil deep and thorough, and usually
the more fully this is done the better will
be the growth and yield of the crop.
In nearly all cases, the more fully the
soil is prepared before the seed is planted,
the easier the work will be of keeping in
a proper condition afterward. The har-
row can nearly always be used to good
advantage in few days after planting
the seed, and then once again as the
plants show we'll above ground; this will
aid materially in killing the weeds and
keeping the soil fine andmellow.
In using the cultivator the first time,
care should be taken to work reason
ably deep and as close to the plants as
possible, and at each subsequent cult
walton work little shallower and little
farther from the plants. A five.shovel
cultivator, using one horse, is one of the
very best implements for cultivating po-
tatoes; another is a two-horse spring
cultivator, working sufficiently to keep
the soil loose and mellow.
After the plants make good growth,
care must be taken not to disturb the
roots, and especially so after the tubers
begin to form. 1t is often best to give
thorough cultivation when the plants
| are In bloom, taking pains to thoroughly
stir the surface, and following with g
hoe, to kill out the weeds between the
plants in a row. Keep the soil level;
| there is no advantage in killing up, and
in dry season it is a disadvantage, al
the soil will dry out much more thor
oughly than if left level, and this often
seriously affects the growth and yield of
| the crops.
Potatoes require considerable moisture
to make the best growth and yield, and
by keeping the surface level and in gooc
filth, you aid materially to retain ,nois-
ture IN the soil. Another advantage il
keeping the soil level is that the cultiva
ton can be repeated as often as may be
considered necessary for the best growth
and thrift of the crop, and when the sol
is weedy this is often quite ar itenl.-
| Farm, Field and Stockman.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
Tricks of Brokers.

The Government cotton crop report is
made known at ~ o'clock on the 10th
day Of each month, unless the 10th falls
on Sunday, and then it is published on
the 18th. The report of the grain crop
is made public at 4 o'clock on the same
day. Before the special wire was put
into the Agricultural Department Build
lug the report was carried to the tele-
graph offices BY messengers, some of
them mounted and some of them on foot,
and it was telesraphed to many brokers
IN NewYork and Chicago by their special
represeS tatives in Washington. Many
were the devices adopted to gain few
minutes time. The telegraph Offices are
about mile from the department, and
there was lively race to see who would
get to them first. Once month this
exhibition occurred. Messengers ran,
rode or drove like mad across the Mall,
across Pennsylvania avenue and up Fiji
| teenth street. The brokers' offices and
the offices of the press associations were
in the neighborhood of the telegraph Of
fees, and all the messengers got an even
start. At one time firm of brokers IN
New York received the reports regularly
several minutes ahead Of everyone else.
For long time no one could learn just
how it was done The brokers' mes
seDger was watched, but he ran with the
other messengers, and seemed to reach
his employers Office about the time they
arrived at the telegraph offices. After
several weeks of investi CATION the mys-
terry was solved. The firm had special
: wire between Washington and New York.
It had been extended secretly from the
Office in Washington to a small building
not far from the Agricultural Depart
ment. Two messengers went to the de-
partment for the crop bulletin. One OF
them returned to the brokers' office; the
other lodged out of the running crowd,
slipped into the improvised telegraph
Office and handed the bulletin to an op-
orator who was waiting there. While
the regular messenger was running at
break neck speed across Pennsylvania
avenue for purposes of deception, the
bulletin was going over the wire to the
New York Office of the broker. The
discovery of the trick led to the estab
lishment of telegraph Office in the de-
partment.
Another, and much more simple
trick, was that adopted by another
broker, who had the last paragraph Of
the bulletin telegraphed to him first.
The first part of the bulletin was pre-
limlnary review OF the crop conditions
The meat was in the last paragraph. b.
telegraphing the last paragraph first, the
broker gained the time necessary to trans
nit the rest of the bulletin. When the
statistician learned of this device he re-
versed the order of his bulletin He put
his conclusions in the first paragraph
and gave his reasons for them afterward
In this form the bulletin has been issue
ever since st. Louis Star Sayings.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
TO DRY FLOWERS.

To dry flowers place them in a large,
shallow pan or box, and slit over them
gently the finest, dryest sand, giving
them bed of this sand at first, of course.
By sitting it over very gradually and
carefully, the sand atoms will slowly
form about the flower, which, because Of
the gradual drifting about and piling up
the atoms, keeps its shape, even to the
most delicate curving. After the flow
ers are all we'll covered from sight, keep
the box or pau exposed to a gentle heat
for some days, after which it is left TO
cool slowly, and the flowers, ferns
grasses, etc, thus treated are found to
have kept their natural forms, and with
very little perceptible difference in color.
This is an old German method, and one
that is most successful. detroit Free
prose
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Poultry will not thrive on damp
ground.
Fuchsias require warmth, moisture and
little shade.
Kerosene is a good cure for scaly legs.
Soak them well.
Selling hay may increase the income
but not the profit.
Decaying organic matter in the soil
adds to its warmth.
The only scrub stock a man can afford
to keep is scrub broom.
Ten dollars worth of eggs will start a
flock of pure bred poultry.
There is no economy in having manure
piles around the barn; haul direct from
the stables to the fields.
It is bad policy to save time and
trouble by feeding fowls at one time
enough to do them week.
Popular varieties of beans for winter
are such as the White Kidney, White
Marrow and White Wonder.
1t is an important item in the making
of good road to secure a good grade,
and then secure good width.
Sending stale eggs to market is good
way to get reputation that will stick
to you after you are tired of it.
When one of your birds have bowel
disease, change the food a day or two,
and change grit; one-half the troubles
are from lack of sharp, hard grit,
Potatoes should only be dug when the
| ground is so dry that it will not stick to
| the tubers. Those to be marketed and
the smaller ones should be picSe sep
| arately, the latter being good fool for
hogs.
Have the tools aud implements been
overhauled; painted; the neeted repairs
made; the harness oiled, and sundry
other rainy day jobs done on these days
when the weather and the soil are IN
propitiousl
But few crops equal alfalfa for cuttln2
for green food for stock. Mechanic
who have but an acre of ground will lind
that half an acre we'll set with alfalfa
will afford more feed than can De de-
rived fro any other source.
The most effective tool for diggln!
notatoas is FIVE or ix-tlned fork
Where the hills can be seen it is possible
to throw out nearly all the potatoes at
single thrust by running the fork around
the outside OF the hill aud under IT,
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
RoNNETs ARE RETURNING.

According to Partisan fashion-wrlters
the era of bonnets is coming round once
more; and to anyone who takes account
of these things statistically there is rather
good reason to believe quite independent
of French veracity, that this Is a fact;
for when one stops to consider, it is as
tonishing with what regularity the old
styles get themselves taken up. This
matter of bonnets, however, is always
one of fine distinctions which it requires
no little knowledge of things a la mode
to follow; for instance, there are sea-
sons when nothing short of tifty-year-old
dignity aspires to this sort of headgear,
on such years bonnets are apt to be con-
sentative, close-6tting and rather SOM
bre. Again it seems to be tacitly un-
derstood that the authority to wear one
is among the privileges acquired by
solemn service before the altar rail-then
it is that they blossom and grow beauti-
full. But the real heyday of the bonnet's
popularity is when it makes no distinc-
ton between the wrinkles of seventy
and the poisoning maiden to whose
small features, aud round, girlish face it
is so deliciously becoming. This ap-
pears to be what we expect this season.
And in view of such prospect it may
be interesting to state that rumors from
that sacred place where the models are
evolved give q preference to pointed
crowns, trimmed with light-co!ored rib
bons, either shot or watered, and brlms
of JET, horsehair or black straw. Crowns,
in fact, are miracle of ingenuity, being
made of feathers, crepon il folds, bead
ing, or a series of tiaras through which
the soft hair shows prettily. Altogether
there promises to be variety galore,
enough, indeed, to throw the question
of a woman's loneliness on her own
taste rather than the milliner's. -Boston
Transcript.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
CURIOUS FACTS.

At Potsdam, Germany. there is we'll
that only lacks ten feet Of being mile
deep.
There are said to be 165, 900 families
in London, England, living IN single
rooms.
Asia signifies Gin the middle from
the fact that ancient geographers place II
between Europe and Africa.
The figures of fire losses for 1891, COM
piled by insurance men, reach the enor-
nous total of $40, 900, 900.
Fruit that drops on your ground from
the branches of your neighbours trees
overhanging your land is yours.
The juice of the pineapple contains
both a protied digesting substance and
is also furnished with a milk curdllng
ferment.
Dime museum men are in hot pursuit
of a farmer in Douglas County, Georgia,
who has pig with seven legs, all in
working order.
It IS estimated that the market gar
deners who cater to Boston, Mass, lose
5000 worth of horses year by poor
care and injudiclous feeding.
In Philadelphia, Penn, the other day
funeral team did service at wedding,
and the sleepy driver permitted the
horses to carry the bridal couple into a
cemetery.
The population of New Zealand, in
Guiding the 625, sos white inhabitants on
December 81. 1890, and the 1 |, 523 Ma
oris found in their homes in March, 1891
ran up to 667,O3l.
Marion Sweene.E, of Washington
County, Kentucky, reports lamb which
weighed fourteen pounds at birth. Es-
quire Brady reports eighty lambs dropped
by his sixty ewes aud ali were saved.
It is common belief at the present
time among the lower classes in South
Germany that if children play soldiers
very often in the street there is war
coming, and if they "funeral' an eplde-
mic will come over the land and many
deaths will result.
The Chinese claim to be the original
discoveries of the process of ugar-mak
/ ing, and it is said sugar was used IL
China 5000 years ago. 1t was certainly
manufactured 200 years before the
Christian era began. Refined sugar was
not made in Europe till 1863.
A maple tree was recently cut 10 Cas-.
Teton, Vt, and in portion of the trunk,
fifteen by seventeen inches i'll size, was
found imbedded scythe that the grain
of the tree showed must have been left
in the tree fifty years ago. The scythe
bore the name of A V. Blanchard,
maker, and that brand of scythe was II
use over sixty-tive years ago.
A pure white mink is the picture OF
innocence. Every movement enbodle:
a thought of gentleness. Notwithstand
ing all this a Pittsburg paper records the
bloodthirstiness of Il pure white mink II
East Bradford, Chester County, Penn
Fifty chickens and 100 ducks is the
death record of that innocent looking
animal before, in turn, it fell before the
muzzle of trusty rifle.
Mark Remission, of Phillips, Me-, ha:
bull moose which he has raised from
calf, which is so tame that he turns i
out every warm day to browse in tbs
neighboring fields. He catches the big
bull as easily as he would pet lamb, ano
is breaking him to harness. He hltched
the moose to wagon last summer and
was carried ten miles at railroad speed
before he could stop the animal.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16

a correspondent of foreign exchange
says that the only reliable means of rid
ding the hen roost and pigeon loft of
vermin is preparation of sulphur and
carbon. In France it had been thor
oughly tested, and we are assured that it
works like charm. 1t kills the insects
which prey upon fowls ana pigeons with
out injurng the birds. A bottleful of
the solution will last several days, and
the cost of it is small.
Put two ounces of the sulphuret of
carbon in bottle open at the mouth
and hang it by string in the hen house.
At the end of eight days the bottle
should be reflled. The remedy Is
said to be infallible. If as good as
claimed to be it should be known to
known to every farmers wife and poultry
raiser throughout the land. Detroit
Free Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
August.
Flower

For two years I suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by a
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said my stomach was
worn out, and that l would have to
cease eating solid food. On the rec
ommendatlon of a friend I procured
a bottle Of August Flower. 1tseem-
ed to do me good at once. l gained
strength and flesh rapidly. l feel
now like a new man, and consider
that August Flower has cured me. y
Jas. E. Dederick, Saugerties, N.Y.9
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
FASHION NOTES.

Laced boots are again in favor.
Velvet and sable is one of the very
latest combinations in outdoor wraps.
Wide gold band bracelets, such as
were fashionable years ago, are revived.
Heavy Scotch shawls folded in High
land fashion are worn by London women
as wraps.
No young woman should go out even
ings to parties without the 'fad bag
on her arm.
Green is the color this season. The
new Chartreuse, which is only halt a
tone deeper than the old-time Nile, is
the prime favorite.
The blouse Is one of the especial fea-
lures of this seasons modes. They come
in all shades and can BE- made simply or
very elaborate, as the wearer chooses.
Nothing so pretty in cottons has been
shown for years as the white dotted
Swiss printed with bouquets of colored
flowers. The cotton Bedfords are IN
most successful coloring. The pink and
blue in alternating cords is delightfully."-
pleasing to look at, and will be charm
ingly becoming to blondes and brunettes
alike.
The sleeves of very thin dresses are
made quite full, SO ne of them with deep
cuffs fitting rather closely to the arms,
but the favorite sleeve is very full and
gathered into band about two inches
wide. This is trimmed with velvet, lace
or ruchings of the material, or it may be
that the entire dress is talshed with
chiffon or India silk ruftles.
The changeable surahs are among the
newest silks. More accurately they are
double faced surahs. Tney are figured
in designs that show an attempt at novel
ty. One has tall wicker peach baskets
OVERLOOKING with flowers; another look:
as though it was appliquea in the most
delicate point lace. An odd design in
brown silk is broken link, through
which is hung spiral spring.
There is very little change in the shape
of skirts, and the ordinary close.6ttins
basque still remains. Full topped sleeves,
fitting comfortably below the elbows re
still the favorites. For samner dresses,
very full sleeves with fitted cuffs will b.
preferred for thinner fabrics. Ths reg
ular lego mutton sleeve with mod.tlea
tions will prevail for costumes OF al
kegts.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
RECIPES.

Cream Pie-Beat two eggs we'll, add
four spoonfuls of white sugar and one
pint of sweet cream; season with nut
met or vanilla. Line deep pie plate
and fill. Bake in quick oven. Care
should be taken not to bake too long.
Old Virginia Waf1es-Mix quart of
milk and six tablespoonful of flour with
two tablespoonfuls of sifted cornmeai
add tablespoonful of salt and a table
spoonful of melted butter. Lastly add
three eggs, beaten very hight. Bake i'm
me6iately in well-greased waffle irons.
Chicken Croquettes - One boiled
chicken, two ounces of melted butter,
two ounces of flour, one cup of the water
in which the fowl has been boiled, one
half cup of cream, pepper and salt, two
eggs and nutmeg to season. Boil the
butter, -four, cream and water together
for two minutes; mix with the minced
fowl, cool, then mold, roll in egg, then
in breadcrumbs and fry.
Baked Potatoes-Select potatoes of
uniform size, cut off each end and bake
without burning. When done, take the
inside out carefully with spoon, season
highly with butter, salt and pepper.
| Add hot cream and beat until smooth,
moist and light. Fill the skins with
this, stand on end in a buttered tin,
moisten the top with white of egg, and
stand on the oven crate until nicely
| Drowned.
Cocoanut Cake--One cupful of coffee
sugar, half a cupful of sweet cream, two
easpoonfuls of baking powder, one cup,
full of flour, three eggs, a dust of salt,
half pound of cocoanut slft the hak'
ing powder into the -four, mix the sugar
and cream together, beat the yolks sepa.
rately, and add them to the mixture, pour
little milk over the cocoanut to molsten,
and add the whites, well beaten, to the
cocoauut; stir in gradually, sft in the
flour, stirring we'll; if too thin, add E
little more flour; if too stiff, more cream.
Excellent Plum Preserves-Put tho
plums IN preserving kettle With water
| enough to cover them, adding table.
| spoonful of soda to each pint of water,
to take away the puckery taste they
! would otherwise have. Cook them unit
they begin t, crack open, then pour Of
this water and rinse them we'll in cole
water. Stone them, and then to every
pound of fruit use one pound of suga:
Make syrup of one-half the sugar il
which to stew the plum5 until they arr
very tender; then remove them to tn
back of the stove, add the rest Of tn
sugar and let them simmer for half al
hour.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-07-16
CHANGES IN SKIRT FASHIONS.

Skirts seem to grow tighter, longer and
palmer this season, writes a New York
correspondent. The princess robe is
gainin, favor every day, and | really
think for woman of graceful carriage
and an ordinarily good figure these long,
skin tight garments are perfection. | saw
a lovely gown Of this style at Nine. Buck
masters the other day. 1t is to travel
out to Ceylon with lot OF other frocks
intended for the wife of a Government
official in Colombo. The material is soft
crepe yelling, very light and fine, black,
shot all over with narrow zigzag lines OF
deep yellow. The gown is made all IN
one aud fastens from the lett shoulder to
the right side aud then hangs straight
down the right side, the edge of this
oblique fastening being heavily edged
with jet and tiny fuzz of feathers. The
left side of the bodice is completely COW
cred by mass of letting.
A high collar of jet fits closely about
the throat, and the sleeves, which are of
the black and yellow stuff, are draped to
the elbow and have long tight lifting
cuff of beaded black silk. The very long
scant train and petticoat has broad cord
like trimming of jet around the bottom,
this weighty "ballast" having the effect
of keeping the skirt in the most perfectly
hanging folds. With this costume Nine.
Buckmaster has provided a dainty little
morsel of black lace bonnet, edged with
jet and with just few lacey bows and a
bunch of yellow ospreys high at the back.
Long ties of fine black lace are to be held
loosely under the chin with cluster of
yellow flowers, and fine gauze veil with
tiny black spauglings makes the outfit
the perfection of good taste for studio
Sunday or smart concert.-Chlcagc
Herald.