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Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14
spAnlst. DISHES.


4sw 70 Use Ots In Cooking WSfhoat Ets
DissgreesbIe Enects.
Though, as a rule, Spauiards Of the
better class are not early risers, they be-
gin the day with the desayuno, as they
call the meal. This usually consists of .
large cup Of milk and coffee, or small
cup Of thick chocolate, with kind Of
cake called ensaimada. The chocolate
Is made with milk, never with water, ex-
cept in the poorest families. Between
snd p. IN. old fashioned Spanish folks
have flies- dinner The table is very
simply hid with clean cloth and sew
eral plates of sweets and fruits: howers
seldom appear: saItcellar. pepperbox and
mustardpot never A spoon, fork and
knife lumped together, tumbler for
water and u small wineglass are ret ct
each place.
Of mixing wine and water; he eays It Is
spelling two good things A goodly,
sized loaf Of bread tanks each plate.
The soup tureen is first handed round,
and, although its contents are q tribe
greasy, nothing can be more nourishing.
It is compounded Of a1l the good things
that go to make up the classical cocido
or puchero. The substantial portion
with which the soup IL made is placed
In three separate dishes and served up
Immediately afterward. On one dish
figure large, thick slices of boiled beef
and pieces Of fowl with slices Of bacon;
ON another appear the garbanzos, or
chick peas, and on the third are the veg
etables with slices of chorizo, or sausage.
The cocido is usually eaten as it Is,
though in some houses tomato sauce Is
added. The puchero, or cocido, takes
its name from the pewter pot in which
| it is slowly boiled. In every well regu-
lated home throughout Spain the cocido
d made once day, and right good
thing it is, a. at any hour you may
chance to need cup Of broth you can
be supplied with it. The next dish il
the frito. Frito means fry, and the dish
usually consists OF fried brains, fried
sweetbread. croquettes Of fowl, etc.
| In no country are things fried better
than in Spain, because good olive oil i
used to fry them in, and oil makes those
delicacies more crispy. That Spanish
oil may be turned to good account fol
anything in cooking viii no doubt cause
unbounded surprise. There is no deny.
ing the fact, however. Food i'll prepared
with oil is no doubt trying case in &C
far as the palate and nostrils are con.
cerned, but good Spanish cook knows
well how to disguise the taste of the oil
in many ways
The simplest and perhaps the best ad
vice is to let the oil come to boiling
point and to throw in piece of bread
which is taken out as soon as it become.
brown and thrown away. This takes of
any bad taste the oil may have. Tht
pan is then carried to an open window
and the steam blown away, a process,
which as effectually clears it of any un
savory smell. Boston Transcript.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14
MANY Small Amounts.

1t is worth noting, as an exemplifica-
tion of the value of small things, that 1t
is not customary to pay fractions OF a
penny on dividends on government
stocks. and that some few years since
these accumulated fractions amounted
to el43,OOO! This nice little nest egg
was handed over to the chancellor OF the
sxcheouer. Journal.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

A liquid waterproof composition has
been placed on the market for coating
articles such as leather, strapping, ma
chinery, polished steel, brass and copper.
which, it is claimed, will resist damp,
heat, cold and acids. The composition
is colorless, and does not rub or peel off,
being only removable by the application
of paraffin or turpentine.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

In some of the West End restaurants
in London as much as twenty eight
shillings a week is paid by waiter for
the right to look after the wants OF
wealthy diners. Tips there vary at any
thing between Cd. and 2s. 3D., and first
class man may reckon to clear a solid
ca a week
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14
Youue Heads and Old.

Daughter-You should have turned
down the upper corners of your visiting
cards, ma, when you called on the bride.
That means congratulation. But you
turned down the lower corners. That
means coincidence.
Matron with dignityl-You'd better
wait till you are married before You crit
icise your ma. New York Weekly.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

All animals, from ants up to whales
and elephants, play together in youth.
and some are fond of taking such diver
sion at intervals through life. One
might search the world over and not find
more playful creatures than puppies and
kittens, but there are other dumb ami
mails which not only frisk about, but
actually descend to practical jokes
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

Small articles made of malleable iron
are now finished and polished bright by
being placed in revolving drums with
curriers' shavings, from which they
emerge with all of the rough edges
smoothed and the surface highly pol
ished.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

Robert Buchanan, the poet, novelist
and reviewer, was poor Scotch village
boy a score of years ago, without fame
or fortune or prospects of either. The
success he has had in literature has been
won by hard work and merit, but today
he is one Of the foremost men in London
literary life.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14
No Hurry.

Old Gentleman-My boy, don't you go
to school?
Boy-Yessir.
.s1t's long after 9, and here You are
playing"
That's all right. We had a rather
late breakfast, and mamma was 'fraid
I'd be late, so sire wrote me an excuse.
and I've got it N my pocket. Good
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

Winkle-I understand that the lady
next TO you is a fine musician.
Binkle-Eh?
Winkle-They say she composes'
Biukle-Great Caesar, no! She dls-
composes everybody in the tiat'-Good
News.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

First Congressman-What do you
think of Senator Saphead's bill!
Second Congressman opposed 1t at
first, but lately have found so mucn
popular opposition to it that | am In.
clined to think it must be good thing "
.liood News
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

Mrs. Brown (at Mrs Smiths tea)-oh
dear that dreadful Miss Smith is sing
ing again. wonder what started ner.
Tom Brown (aged seven)-l dropped =
rsrrv down her back when she wasn't
looking. Tit-Bits.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

81 always get reduced rates on the
railroads for my Indians remarked the
travelling Snowman.
"How do you manage that"
81 get them scalper's tickets. Puck.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

Kilter or kelter was an ..Angiicism-
long before it was an 'sAmericauiam-
Skinner. in 1871, has ..Kelter; be = not
yet in keller, nondum est paratus.~ lt
Is also given in . reprint of Rays coIlec-
ton of 1851. The 4 before points to 3
Scandinavian origin CT. Dan. kilte, to
truss. tuck up, whence e. kilt. Rietx
gives Swed- dial, kiJter band, band
for holding up tucked mp clothes: hltra-
sig, to grid up, tuck up. and fasten- The
metaphor is obvious enough
This word keller, as it should be
spelled, is given in Johnson's Dictionary.
and derived from the Danish keller. to
grid A quotation is given from Bar
rows works, where the word is used
Bailey in his chronological Dictionary
derives it from the Latin cultura. Hall
wen c'Dictionary of Archaic and Pro
vincial Words') gives it as used in the
east Of England both as a substantive
and as verb. It is q word of everyday
use in Surrey and Sussex, in the sense Of
order or condition. The Rev. w. D.
Parish, in his Dictionary of the Sussex
Dialect notices it in the phrase, This
farm seems in very good skelter
have often heard it used in the Same
way, and anything that is out of condi-
ton is described as being ''out o. keller !"
On reference to the publications of the
English Dialect society it viii be seen
that the word is of very genera, use
throughout England. In the neighbor-
hood of Whitby it occurs as verb and
substantive, and in the mid and east
Yorkshire glossaries also; it is used also
in west Cornwall. Hampshire and the Isle
of Wight In west Somerset, in Sheffield
and in Hudders6eld the word means
money. These references will be sufi-
cient to show that the expression is not
sn Americanism, but that the word has
found. and still finds, place in vernacu-
lar English and Queries
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

''There is poetry about the flute that
other instruments lack. The divine
afiatus has descended upon it."
well, it takes . very earthly affiatus
to make it work."-Harpsr's Bazaar.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14
Had Reason to BE Circumspect.

Auntie-Johnny, you never hear your
papa use such language.
Johnny-No; and | take mighty good
care that he doesu't hear me'-harpers
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14

New York's annual pie bill is $5,46o,-
600, or more than is paid for public
schools, the fire and police departments.
or sent to the heathen. New York pro-
duces about one-thrtieth of the pie crop
Of the United States.
Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-03-14
He Wa. Tired OF Cold Mutton

wife-Thomas, l believe there are
burglars down stairs.
Husband (growhnglyl-I hope there
are. P'r'aps they'll eat that confounded
cold mutton!-Loudon Tit-Bits.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-08-04
A Feat in Carving.

In all branches of sport beating the
previous record is a performance of al.
most everyday occurrence, and no
matter how excellent the achievement
it is not likely to remain long unchal
lenged and unconquered. The estab
lishment of new kind of record, al
though not strictly within the realms
of actual sport, cannot therefore fail to
interest that large class of spectators
who are ever ready to discover some.
thing new on which to stake their spare
cash.
wealthy young Cuban recently
made bet with the carver of one OF
the leading night restaurants on the
Boulevard-the wager being for 5000
that the latter would not cut and
make 2000 complete sandwiches in
twenty four hours.
The carver won the bet easily, ac-
complishing the feat in nineteen hours
and forty minutes, demolishing twenty
two hams in the operation. This huge
mass of sandwiches was divided among
the principal hospitals of Paris and the
environs, among whose inmates the un-
expected advent of such tasty morsels
created unfeigned delight. London
Telegraph.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-08-04
TO DANISH DUST.

A weary and perhaps ultra fastidious
housekeeper, who was asked what her
idea of heaven was, promptly re-
sponded: "a place where there is no
dust, says the Baltimore Herald. As
long, however, as we do remain on
this earth dust is more aggressive
and ever-present enemy than either
moths or rust. AT least every fortnight
walls and cornices, the tops of windows
and doors should have their entire
services gone over with clean broom
encased in bag of cotton flannel.
Pinning It cloth about the broom is an
unsatisfactory makeshift, besides which
the fuzzy nap of the cloth catches and
retains the dust better than old muslin,
and does not force it to fly about the
room only to settle somewhere else, as
is the case when the work is done with
n feather duster.
Don't let your love of the beautiful
tempt you to the use of colored
flannel, because you want to see when
it is dirty and send it to the wash.
Three of these bags will not be too
many, as broom covered with one
is the best means for removing the
dust each morning from polished or
stained doors.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-08-04
Snakes as Articles of Diet.

Italians, as is we'll known, are partial
to harmless snakes, and have no OBJ
lection to eat them cooked. A frittura,
composed of the common wood SER
pent's flesh, is even regarded as a dainty
by the lower orders in Rome, Florence
and Naples, and is often served up to
them in their dingy restaurants.
Parisians of the inferior classes are
also great eaters of fried snakes, but
unwittingly so, for the reptiles are
palmed off on them as eels. Thus the
apparently appetizing dishes known as
matelotte danguille and augrille In
tartar are often in low eaten houses
nothing but harmless snakes, caught
in the wilder part of the Vincennes
wood and brought up to special
market near the Place de Ia Republique.
1t is probable, however, that even ii
the members of the poorer classes here
who occasionally indulge in fried OF
stewed cells were apprised OF the fraud
practiced at their expense thsy would
evince no loathing nor even lack of
appetite, seeing that they are ready to
devour not only horse flesh, but meat
of mule, donkey and dog any day i'll
the week. London Telegraph.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-08-04
RECIPES.

Hominy Croquettes-Mi two cups
of cold boiled harmony with one table
spoonful of hot milk, the beaten yolk
of two eggs, one teaspoonful of sugar !;
mix well, that there may be no humps
of hominy left, and stand away to
cool. Mix into round croquettes, roll
in egg and bread crumbs and fry it in
smoking hot fat.
Caulihower with Cheese-Shorten
the stems of cold-boiled cauliAower
and place it on fiat dish and set it in
the oven. When little warmed pour
over it about one ounce of hot clari.
fed butter mixed with some grated
parmesan or other cheese, and put it
again into the oven and let it brown
Serve Immediately.
Summer Pudding Take pound OF
stale cake, cut in slices and lay in the
bottom of pudding dish. Cover with
half cup each of stoned raisins
chopped citron, candied cherries
chopped figs and blanched almonds !;
put another layer of sliced cake on
top; pour pint of milk over with six
beaten eggs and pint of sugar
Steam one hour and serve with currant
jelly sauce.
Vegetable Soup-Take two potatoes,
two onions, two turnips, one carrot
and little parsley chopped fine. Cut
the potatoes in quarters, slice the
onions, cut the turnips in quarters and
slice the carrots. Put all in stewpan
with three pints of water and salt to
the taste. Boil it down to one quart
About fifteen minutes before it is done
add the parsley. Strain it and serve
with light bread or toast.
Boiled Beef-Lard, cover with water,
simmer two and one-half hours
Strain, cool and skim one quart of pot
liquor, adding two each of carrots,
turnips, small onions, parboiled beats,
two cupfuls of cut string beans. Boil
three-quarters of an hour, add two par
boiled potatoes and serve in piles
about the meat, seasoning to taste and
adding a little butter. Make strained
sauce of vegetable pot liquor, thick
ened with braided -four.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-08-04
THE BEST BEANS.

G. E. Hum, of Geneva, N. Y, writ
ing in Garden and Forest, says:
Few vegetables have been hybrid
lied or selected with greater care than
the bean, and varieties suitable for
several purposes have been developed,
until little improvement now seems
possible Among snapbeans, the new
yellow-podded wax varieties, which
are almost cylindrical in shape, solid
yet tender, and of the finest fibre and
flavor, are quite superior to,the old
time fiat, green-podded and stringy
varieties Among the best.f varieties
Mammoth Wax, Golden Wax, and Per-
lection. OF shell beans, the best are
Dwarf. Horticultural Golden. Cluster,
which is very productive and'bears fiat
beans about two-thirds as large as
Henderson's Bush Sieva, meaty and
well favored; Hemisphere, bean al
most round, but solid and of extra
quality, half of it being light brownin
color, splashed with red. This color
ket variety, but in the process of cook
ing the color to great extent disap-
pears, SO that it is one oftthe very best
for the kitchen garden. On the sta
tion grounds, as the main experiment
crop for the past four years, pure
white bean has been grown which has
proved of extra quality and produc-
tiveness. 1t is very hardy and isproof
thus far against the amthracnose, so
l. r.
has been called the HIATT bean, after its
originator, but [ am not aware that it
has been offered for sale,under any
name, although it should be more
generally known.
"The search and selection necessary
for true Dwarf Lima bean has been
successful, and it would now seem
hardly necessary to grow thepole Lima
bean. The latter come to maturity n
trife earlier than the bush type when
both are planted together,tit is true,
but the dwarf varieties maybe started
earlier, either in common beds or in
inverted sods, or in pots in the kitchen
or greenhouse. When planted out
they can be protected from early or
late frosts with ease so that the season
of bearing can be heightened out by
the same method. Cheap cloth pro-
lection or wide boards can be used
against frost. Two distinct types of
these beans are now offered by seeds
men, Burpees Bush Lima, with large
fiat pods, well filed with beans, and
resembling the old garden Lima, and
Dreer's or Kumerly's Dwarf Lima,
with shorter pods and beans resembling
in shape Dreer's Improved Lima.
Either of these can be grown in the
kitchen garden, and for market they
will certainly crowd out the climbing
varieties, since many more can be
planted on the same area and no ex-
pense is necessary for poles.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-08-04
TREATING SILVER AND PLATE.

Since so much sterling silver and
plate enters into some part of the table
cutlery it is necessary that one should
also keep in mind the best methods of
treating it, says the Ladies' Home
Journal. A perfectly safe substance
for cleaning this metal will always be
found in French whiting. For all
ordinary purposes such whiting, wet
with water, is all that is necessary !;
but if the silver is very much dis
colored it should be wet with alcohol.
This will give brilliant polish. 1t is
important that the materials used to
clean silver should be perfectly free
from any gritty substance. The whit
ing should be sifted through hair
sieve or piece of muslin to insure
against anything that might scratch
the plate. Silver, as well as steel,
must be washed perfectly clean before
being rubbed with the polishing
material A soft silver brush will be
required for brushing the chased and
repousse work which is found ON nearly
all the silver handled knives.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-08-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

For chapped or scratched teats ap-
ply cream or fresh butter.
Give the colt some nice, bright oats,
where it can get at them handy.
The colt should have good yard,
lot or pasture to feed and exercise in.
1t is not necessarily true that "skim
milk calves make pot-bellied ear
suckers.
If you raise sheep for wool, breed
merinos; if for mutton, breed the
heavy type.
Market only the best of your pro-
duce and put it up in the most attrac-
tive manner.
Pet the colt, so it will learn to know
that you do not mean to hurt it. Do
not scare nor tease it.
Do not skim-milk your calves too
soon. Let them have some new milk
for at least two weeks.
A COW abused will not do her best.
To make you money each COW should
be allowed to do her best.
A nervous COW will ''give down"
milk better if in a quiet place securely
fastened and MIXED very gently.
Early shearing is very desirable. 1t
relieves the sheep of ticks and enables
the owner to take precautions against
scab
Halter break the colt while young,
so that it will stand quietly tied. If
you have been kind to it, it will soon
learn to lead.
1t requires grain to make pork or
| beef, but mutton of the finest quality
can be made of nibbles here and there
of such stuffs as would otherwise be a
waste.
Pack your fruit honestly ify you want
to succeed. When you think you have
secured n good customer don't palm
off an inferior article on him. If you
do you are sure to lose him.
In buying or exchanging sheep give
thorough examination for scabs,
ticks, lice and foot rot before turning
them into the flock, or you may be
getting more than you knew of.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-08-04
WHICH is THE BEST COM2

Every once in while some dairy
man remarks that he does not need
test TO tell him which are the best
dairy COWS; he can tell by looking at
them He Just sells the fat ones and
keeps the thin ones Quite often this
is the standard by which COWS are
judged: the thinner they are when Civ
ing milk the better dairy cows they are
considered. There is, Of course, some
reason in this. We know that COW
that uses her food to put flesh on her
back, instead of putting milk and fat
into the pail, is not the most profit
able COW for the dairy. But to jump
to the conclusion that because COW
is poor in flesh she must of necessity
be n good dairy COW is drawing CON
clusion that is not justified by facts
There are some beef cows that will
eat n good ration every day and keep
in just fairly good condition, while
there are others in the same herd that
on the same feed keep their ribs
and backs nicely covered with flesh.
The latter are good feeders and the
former poor feeders. The latter have
the natual ability to make better use
of their feed than the former they
have feeding quality.
1t is Just the same with dairy cows,
some are good feeders and some are
poor feeders. Some keep thin in flesh
because they are using the greater
part of their food to make milk and
fat while others stay in poor flesh sim
ply because they have not the natural
feeding quality to assimilate and digest
their food 1t is folly to Judge of the
dairy qualities of COW by the amount
of flesh she carries. There is but one
accurate way to determine the value
of e COW for the dairy, and that is to
ascertain the number of pounds of
butter fat she yields in year from a
given amount of feed.
The COW that yields the greatest
amount OF butter fat per year for the
least cost per pound is the most valu-
able COW for the dairyman, and it
does not matter whether she keeps fat
enough for the butcher or so thin that
her ribs can be counted. 1t does not
matter whether she weighs five hun
dred pounds or ton; whether she
has the beef form or the so-called dairy
form whether she is black or white,
spotted or fawn colored, red or brin-
died Performance is the only reliable
standard. Rocky Mountain Husband
man.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-08-04
Tore Down Homes to Buy Food.

A Methodist missionary at Pekin
writes to the Missionary Society's head.
quarters in this city that the famine
In North China reduced the people in
some sections to such straits that in
many cases they tore down their
houses to sell the lumber for food.
81 have never witnessed such abject
misery" he says cas- [ have seen in
the Pel-Yin district the past winter.
The people have largely subsisted on
the 'shin-psi-tzu' or darnel or tares.
After partaking of it one has feeling
of safety, but it does not nourish or
satisfy hunger.
81 have near me rs | write a piece
of bread such as is found in their
homes, made of tares grass.
''The almost annual suffering
throughout this district is caused by
the Hung-Ho, or Muddy River, the
bed of which, on account Of constant
sitting and dikings, has been raised
some fifteen or twenty feet above the
surrounding country. A break i'll its
banks causes widespread suffering"
By means of funds sent him, this
missionary was able to give some relief
to 110 families. New York World.