The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-03-27 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

USEFUL HINTS.  01100800 OF SKATE.—Skate varies in quality more than most fish. The beet is broad and thick, prickly on the back, with the brown side brown and healthy. looking, and the under side of a delicate creamy whiteness. Large fish are firmer and altogether more profitable than small fish, having more flesh in proportion to the quantity of gristle. The upper skin should be removed, and it should be stripped off from the middle outwards. If skate has a strange smell, unlike the ordinary smell of fish, it should be discarded as dangerous. "Skate," save Dr. Kitchener, " is a very good fish when it is in good season, but no fish no bad when it is otherwise." Those persons who like it firm and dry should have it crimped, but those who like it tender should have it plain, and ate not earlier than dm second day : and, if cold weather. three or four days old it is better; it cannot be kept too long if perfectly sweet. Skate, if young. sets very fine crimped and fried. —Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery. LEMON Fire—lnside of one lemon, chopped with one half-cup of raisins, two tablespoonfuls of flour, one cup of sugar, one cup of water. Bake with two crust&  A butcher, named John 31( Calle, was murdered near Granard, County Longford. lie had been attacked with a coulter, his head broken, and was stabbed in several places. Two men hawk been arrested.  lierbert Jefiffies, labourer, has been sentenced In .in months' imprisonment, with hard Labour, by th, Lincoln magistrates, for cruelly beating and ill. treating his little daughter, aged. eight years. The Bench regretted that they were not able to sentence him to the cat.  At the meeting of the Court of Common Council of the City of London, the Recorder reported thut the election of verderers of Epping Forest have fallen upon Sir Thomas flow°ll Buxton, Bart., Mr. Edwal North Buxton, Mr. Andrew Johnston, and Sir Antonio Brady.  According to the latest statistics, it would appear that last year, from the single port of Buenos Ayres, the expehts of the Argentine Republic, included 188,000 sacks of wheat, 133,000 sacks of flour, and 327,000 sacks of maize—a result much in excess of the most sanguine expectations. The Counton Schwyz has d..cided that railway making comes within the operation of the Federal Factory Law, and the local authorities have forbidden the continuance of work on the St. Gothard line by the Axenstrasse on Sundays and Church Festivals without their special permission.  A declaration expreseing the thanks of the Social Democratic Clubs and kindred associations in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, 31anch,nter, Glasgow, and other places, has been sent to AL Clemenetau's organ La 'ratter, in Paris. for its vigourous opposition to the extradition of Hartmann.  It is stated that the Rev. F. Treskail, will be the new President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland during the ensuing year, in se,cession to the Rev. George Gould, of Ndrwieh ; and that the Rev. J. P. Chown, of Bloomsbury Chapel, is to be invited to 1111 the office of vice-president. William Squires has been charged, at Bow street Police Court, London, on his own confession, with ; having murdered a woman in George Street, St. Giles's, in the year 1863. Mr. Superintendent Thompson said that he investigated the ease in that you, and from what he knew o! the facts there was little reason to suppose the prisoner was guilty. A remand, however was granted, as asked tor by the police.