Year: 1877



 CARD RECEIvERs.-The styles are so numerous, and the materials so various, that it is only a matter of taste as to the construction. I had a pretty Christmas gift of one, in the form of deep pre- serve dish, but made of wood, sawed in the form of oak leaves and highly polished. It is quite an ornament, and will be as lasting as time. l saw very fancy one, which was easily made-a glass dish of pretty form, and lined with gilt paper. Then they have them made of perforated cardboard, cut in octagon form, and worked with bright worsteds. I have seen them made of window glass, cut in five-sided pieces, lined with gilt figures, and then painted dark blue or white; bind the edges with narrow ribbon, pasted on, and fasten at the corners with thread and a bow of ribbon. There are styles of bav- ing them hang against wall, under or by the side of the mirror, that are very nice. They are made of silver card board, cut in fancy form, and with pretty designs worked upon the pieces.

 DIsINFEcT1NG LIQUID.-Dissolve two ounces of acetate of lead (sugar of lead) in common glass bottle, such as used for wine, and add to it two fluid ounces of strong nitric acid. Shake the mix Jure. and it will be ready for use. A very small quantity of it is sufficient to remove all bad odors in any utensils or ter-closets. If a room is not sweet, dip cloths into the liquid, first adding ten teaspoonfuls of water to each tea spoonful of it. Suspend these cloths in various parts of the room, and it's odor will soon be removed, the deleterious and offensive gases being neutralized by chemical actios-. This much better method of cleansing apartments than Immigration, as that is usually but the substitution of one odor for another. But ill using this disinfectant, or any other, one must always remember that tfesh otr drawn directly through an apartment, and plenty of it too, is far more effective method than any other that can be desired.

 BACHELORS CURTAINS. - A curtain that will be appreciated for it's sim plicity, by other than "bachelors,o is thus made: A

 A very pretty and inexpensive cur tain for bedroom windows may be made as follows: Get twelve or fourteen yards of fine, even unbleached muslin cut it the length from top of window to floor, put on border of turkey red about five inches wide, have narrow gilt cornice, or else take, a smooth board about eight inches wide, cover it with a plaited ruff1e of the muslin, with a narrow border of the red. Three and a half yards of turkey-red will make the border for the two windows; cost altogether about $3.50 .s..., ....- ......

 SCENT BAG.-This will prevent moths injuring clothes: One ounce of cloves, caraway seeds, nutmeg, mace, zcinna- mon, and orris root as much as will equal the other ingredients when put together. Grind the whole we'll to powder, and put it into little silk bags.

 IODINE AND Bo1Ls.-As soon as boil becomes hard and inflamed paint it with iodine. The poison will not be scattered, !, but absorbed by it. Another authority says: 'sDo nothing for boils but barhe them in tepid water" sIT #

 Hor SLAw.--One head of cabbage, half 8 pound of pork, and try it out and take out the scraps. Chop up the cab bage and put in the fat with water and pepper, if liked, mustard. When nearly done, add one cup of vinegar.

 BREAD PANCAKEs.-Cut bread dough which is ready for baking into strips or fancy disigns, and drop into hot lard. When they are fine brown, drain them we'll, and send to the breakfast table very hot. To be eaten with sirup.

 THEY tell of a prominent grocer who carried to a funeral an umbrella on which was conspicuously painted the