Year: 1876

Domestic Recipes.

 OoRN FRIrTERs. dozen ears of corn, grated, add two eggs and 8 teaspoon full of salt. If the corn is old, add little milk.) Fry in hot butter and lard, half of each. GRAHAM GRmDLE OAKRs.-One pint of milk, half cup of sour cream, half teaspoonful of soda, the same of salt, stir in graham four not as stiff as for fine flour cakes (no eggs), have the grid dle quite hot; or with yeast the same as with buckwheat.

 h sROLLs.-Pour boiling water, into gra- ham flour. stir with 8 spoon, then stir in dry flour and knead. Work into rolls an inch and half or two inches in di- ameter, and bake in quick oven, but not so hot as for gems. With experience the rolls may be made much larger. Ex- cellent for dyspeptics, and good either hot or cold.

 PoTATo YEAsT.-Peel twenty potatoes, pour over boiling water enough to cover them, add one handful of salt, then cook. When done, do not pour the wa ter of, but beat with fork until quite fine. Then take four yeast cakes, dis solve in one pint of warm water, add one teacup of white sugar, and let stand for about an hour; then add to the above. When well mixed, put in another hand ful of salt. It will be ready the next day to put in the yeast jug. One small teacup of this yeast, with a tablespoon ful of sugar in it, is enough for five loaves of bread.

 Medical Hints.

 FISH BONE IN THE THRoAT.-n you get fish bone in your throat, and it continues to stick there, swallow an egg raw. 1t will be almost certain to carry the bone along with it.

 CURE FOR FE1oN.-Take equal parts of gum camphor, gum opium, castillo soap, brown sugar. Wet to paste with spirits of turpentine. Let a druggist preparepit, and apply thick plaster of it. ..r-

 TooTHAoRE.-One ounce alcohol; two drams cayenne pepper once ounce kerosene oil; let it stand twenty-four hours after mixing. It cures, it is said, the worst toothache ever known.

 THE EFFEor OF ALCOHOL ON THE BRAN.-Long before the era of tenn perance ordinances and organizations, Hyrti, by far the greatest anatomist of the age. used to say that he could dis tinguish, in the darkest room, by one stroke of the scalpel, the brain of the inebriate from that of the man who lived soberly. Now and then he would con- gratulate his class upon the possession of drunkard's brain, admirably fitted, from its hardness and more complete preservation, for the purpose of demon ert,~ .A IL A. preserve human brain for any length of time, he effects that object by keep ing the organ in 8 vessel of alcohol. From soft, pulpy substance, it then becomes comparatively hard; and SO, too, before death, the use of alcohol causes che induration of the delicate and gossamer-ike tissues. ...

 Apple Seeda for Planting. ---...

 Colman's Rural World, in answering the question how to manage apple seeds, says: Take three or four times the uuan- tity of sand that you have of apple seed, and mix the seed and sand we'll together, and put in shallow boxes, and expose to the winter weather to freeze and thaw. They should not be too wet nor too dry. They should be stirred occasionally, and kept out of the reach of fowls, as they will eat the seed. As the warm weather approaches the seed will begin to germi nate, and at the proper time for planting the ground should be deeply plowed and finely pulverized to receive the seed. Rich soil is, needed, and, if free from weeds, so much the better. Most per. sons drop the seed with the sand, in rows two feet, or two and half feet, ol three feet apart, so as to admit of horse cultivation. The plant must have clean culture and thorough hand-weeding and proper thinning, so as to be ready fol grafting at the end of one season 8 growth A naturally well drained soil should be chosen.

 How tO Manage Grass Flats.

 During the first and second season the grass plat, by the kind of care it re ceiyes. may be made an eyesore or { spot of beauty. Frequent cutting and winter protection are absolutely neces sary. The lawn mowers, now within the reach of every one, make grass cut ting on the lawn anything but hard work. During the first growing season one should go over the young grass witt the mower at least once in every ter days. Later in the summer, in spoti where the grass is coming in sparsely, forkful of yard manure should be scat tered. Cut at intervals of ten days; i IS policy to leave the cut grass on thu surface as mulch. Later in the fall before cold weather sets in, the gras plat may be covered over with horse O yard manure, the coating to be left ol until the following spring, when tn coarser part may be removed by tn rake. This will leave the ground in ex cellent condition for the next year growth. W s aa

 ksH A LEniment. zG

 R. S. Steele writes to the Americal farmers club: Some time ago I was good deal worried with a couple o horses which had sore backs. I trie, various remedies without success, an was beginning to despair when the fol lowing receipt came to my notice "The inner bark of white oak bar boiled down in an iron kettle (never us brass one) until it is as black as ink while boiling drop in a piece o: alum about the size of hens egg" Thi Iiniment is to be applied with sponge and is good any sore or bruise; fact, t,sit is safe thing to Keep in one barn ready to use when occasion rt quires. As found this so useful, venture to send it for the benefit of otl CTS who may not be in the possession ( anything as good. think it is also a excellent plan in warm weather to clea the collars often with castile soap.

 Washing FlanneIs and Linens.

 To whiten flannel. made yellow age, dissolve one and one-half pound of white soap in fifty pounds soft wate and also two-t thirds of an ounce of spiri of ammonia. Immerse the flannel, st we'll around for short time, and was in pure water. When black or ma, blue linens are washed, soap should n be used. Take instead two potato