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Year: 1876

Jumables.-Take six eggs; a cup and a
half OF sugar; one Of butter; beat to a
froth; add flour enough to roll flavor to
taste; cut out with large tumbler, and
cut out the middle with the top of a small
canister, to leave perfect ring. They should
be rolled in powdered sugar, and baked in a
quick oven.


Coohlcs.-Two cups of sugar, one half
cup of butter. one cup of sweet milk. one
teaspoontul OF baking powder, flour enough
to roll, carraway seeds if liked. Mix the
baking powder thoroughly through the
flour


Ho,o to Cook Green Peas.-Wash and plt
them into enough boiling water to nearly
cover them, add one teaspoontul of sugar.
a lump of baking soda the size of large
pea, to every quart of peas, when tender,
add good lump of butter, salt to taste.
Send to the table with the water in which,
they are boiled. Omit the sugar when
cooking the Champion of England variety.
| would suggest to my city COUSINS who
are unable to procure peas fresh picked from
the vines, to try this recipe and doubt not
they will pronounce it delicious.


CA7unt eJelly.--Fill porcelain ket-
tie with currants we'll picked over, but not
stemmed, setlt over the fire until the cur
rants are thoroughly heated, when cool
strain through a jelly bag and measure the
juice, return to the fire, and boil briskly tor,
t\yantu Dninntac
sugar to each pint of juice, stir until thor
oughly dissolved, pour into glasses or bowls,
and seal when cold. My practice in max
ing jelly, is to use the Gu rrants soon as ripe
not delay one day if allowed to get fully
mature or as commonly termed "dead ripe
there is more dittiallty in making good
jellys


Beef fCahes.-Chop pieces of roast beef veyv
fine, mix in grated bread crumbs in propro-
ton of one-third crumbs to two-thirds beef;
season with pepper, salt, chopped onions
and parsley moisten with little of the
drippings or catsup; q little cold ham or
tongue will improve them make in fiat
cakes, and spread Il coat of mashed pota-
toes on the bottom of each. Lay piece Of
butter on every cake and set in hot oven
to brown. Other cold meats may be pre-
pared in the same way.


Fresh Meat Griddles.- Chop bits of anv
cold roast meat, season with pepper and salt.
make gfiddle batter, put spoonful of the
chopped meat and on this another spoonful
OF the batter When cooked on one side
turn-When done, send to the table hot.
They are very nice for breakfast or lunch.


Hoao to Cook Codfsh.-Put the fish to SOAK
in cold water over night. In the morning re-
move il into fresh warm water, and set hy
the fire half an hour previous to its being
dished up, change into fresh water, and SIM
mer over the fire nearly to boiling heat, but 10
higher. This management does not draw
out, but reyives and enlivens the nutritious
substance in them and leaves the fish ten
der ard delicious.
Year: 1876

The tramp as tramp is horrible nuisance,
but the tramp. as train -wrecker is devil
incarnate The dastardly attempt to wreck an
express train near Rochester amply Jus'ihes
the stern measures which the New York Central
Railroad has taken TO protect It's line. Other
railroad corporations ought to be quite as wary
Year: 1876

Nobody ever repented Of eating too
little" was the sage remark of an old
gentleman on the verge of ninety, next
to whom the writer had the pleasure Of
sitting at dinner the other night. The
host was pressing him to take more, and
urging him in the usual phrase, I" Why,
you have scarcely eaten anything .
Now it is to be assumed that the old
gentleman's words indicated one of the
by-ways to good health, along which he
had travelled through his long life, and
to which he owed his present remarkably
hearty condition; so it was suggested to
him interrogatively, that he had always
been small eater. Yes," he answered,
ever since | was two or three and
twenty up to that time, | was a weakly
fellow enough, and / used to make the
great mistake of trying to eat and drink
as much as | could, in the hope of be-
coming strong; All my friends and the
doctor backed me up in my error; but
fortunately, found it out in time, and


knocked off'-as our modern slang has
it-more than half my usual amount of
food and stimulants. / gave up the idea
of making myself strong and merely
strove to make myself well, and so !
was contented with eating just as much
as | could digest, and no more. Of
course it took little time and expert
ence to discover the precise limits.


could not adopt the golden rule of
always leaving off with an appetite, be-
cause | never began with one, but by
persistently erring on the right side |
got hold of one of the great secrets of
life the secret of knowing when one
has had enough, and after year or two
| became so much better that used to
find myself keenly ready to eat at meal
time, and by degrees actually acquired
an appetite Then, once found, / never
destroyed it but always determinately
rose with feeling that / should like to
eat more. Naturally the temptation for
a while grew greater as my digestion
grew stronger but I was firm / did
not behave ungratefully to my stomach,
and Immediately presume upon its in
creased powers by overlooking it. / did
not live to eat, but only ate to live and
behold me | have no need to be very
particular as to what | eat, even at my
time of life have only to be careful
not to eat too much" Here, indeed, is
the secret of great deal that is amiss
with many of us. We are in the habit
of eating too much, more than our d.
gestive powers can tackle, and whatever
is not assimilated is more or less poison
Gus. The system becomes overcharged,
and gives any latent tendency to disease
within US every facility for developing
itself. The question is, not SO much
what to eat as what quantity to eat and
nothing but a sharp lookout kept by
ourselves upon ourselves can give us the
answer = 1instey's Magazine.
Year: 1876

| FRENCH MODE OF SELECTING HoRsEs
The purchasers of horses for the
French army always endeavor to obtain
first look at the animal when he is
tranquil and in the stable; noting if the
animal supports itself equally well on
all its legs, and, if one seems to yield,
specially examining it attention is then
directed to the largeness of the pupil of
the eye, which ought to be more dilated
when in the stable, than when exposed
to full light. After the animal has been
led out of the stable, the eye ought to be
again examined to observe if the pupil
has contracted; if not, the sight is fee
BILE; Others, to test the power of vision,
feign to strike the forehead with the
hand. If the hollow over the eyes be
profound and the temple gray, old age
is to be concluded wounds about the
temple suggest. attacks of staggers, and,
when the end of the nose presents cir
cular scars, it may be concluded the
horse has been twitched with a cord to
insure his guietness while being shod or
having had to submit to some painful
operation.
Year: 1876

can give no advice or precept about
the matter you write of except this one
remark The grand secret (worth all
the others together, and without which
all the Others are worth nothing and less)
for inculcating and teaching virtues and
graces is that man honestly and with
more and more silent sincerity have them
himself lodged there in the silent deeps
of his being. They will not fail to shine
through, and be not only visible, but un-
deniable, in whatever he is led to say or
to do; and every hour of the day he will,
consciously and unconsciously, find good
means of teaching them. This is the
grand, indispensable requisite. This
present, the rest is very certain to follow.
The rest is the mere matter of detail, de-
pending on speciality of circumstances,
which mans own common sense, if he
is in earnest toward his aim, will better
and better instruct him in. The bust
ness, am sorrowfully aware, is often
enough undertaken without this indis
pensable prerequisite-na in general
there is dim notion abroad that man
can teach such things by merely wishing
to do it and without having them him.
self; but the fatal result inevitably is,
he teaches, can teach nothing but hypoc-
risy and unblessed apery and mendacity.
1t is kind of salvation to his poor pu.
pills if they, in dim way, see through
him and refuse to imbibethe slow poison
of such teaching. | fancy you to be an
ingenious young man, aiming manfully
to do your best in the vocation which
has fallen to you, and | hang up far
ahead, q hope) this ugly but true warn
ing upon a certain path which all NOR
tails of us ought to avoid and abhor
much more than we do at present.-Let-
ter Written IN 1853
Year: 1876

The Young Lawyer.


The tie which bound certain De
troit youth to lawyers office was sew
cred recently, and his parents were hap
py. They wanted the boy to make a
great lawyer, but he was getting along
too fast. He pursued his studies with
an ardor which cast a judicial shadow
DER the household and created consider
able neighborhood talk. He got trusted
for candy and repudiated the bill on the
ground that he was minor. He bought
dog and went into bankruptcy. He
borrowed pair of skates and defed the
owner to get out writ Of replevip, He
borrowed fifty cents and then made the
lender his assignee.


But the worst of it was in the family


He had legal name for almost every.
thing, and his desire was to prove to his
parents that he was just absorbing dead
loads of law. If he wanted potato at
dinner table, he would remark


Father, file my claim against that
baked potato, and III prove the indebt-
edness this afternoon.


IF he wanted bread, he said Moth.
er get me out writ of attachment for a
piece of bread"


1t was expected of him that he would
build the morning fires, but no sooner
had he gained an insight into law than
he said to his father:


I'm going to move for change OF
venue unless some other arrangement is
made"


He moved for stay of proceedings
when asked to 60 to the grocery, and il
chided for being out nights, he replied


File your declaration and give me a
chance for jury trial


When he was in good humor he would
sit and regale his mother with stories
about how Old Chancery was going up
town one night and met Old Equity and
asked him how Decree was getting along.
Old Pleadings and Exceptions came
along just then and there was a big
fight, and the young lawyer would slap
his legs and add


If Indictment had only been there
he'd have whaled the whole crowd /"


The other day the long suffering father
severed the tie. He was trying to bear
up, hoping for reform, but as he sat
down to the tea-table his son frightened
up and remarked:


The defendant will now take the
stand and be sworn. Now, sir, did you
or did you not come out of a Griswold
street saloon at II O'Clock this morning
wiping your mouth on the back of youl
hand? Tell the jury all about it, sir
1t was little too much, and the boy
doesn't study law any more He plays
with .wood-pile in the back yard. De
troit Free Press.
Year: 1876

Cook your poultry food in part, and
feed it at least once day in cold wealth.
er Gin the morning is the better time)
while it is hot. Mix with this soft feed
which should be composed of meal and
vegetables, a little salt and occasionally
small quantity of powered charcoal
and pepper This renders it warming,
cleansing, and palatable to the birds.


The value of potatoes, turnips, ETC.,
thus cooked with bran and corn-meal, lis
not generally appreciated. 1t keeps the
fowls in good heart, and is altogether
economical as well. The scraps from
the table can be used up with this feed.
and all the dry bits of the family may thus
be utilized. If you keep but few fowls
one-half their cost of feeding may thus
be saved. If you have large numbers
to provide for, the expense of food il
greatly lessened in the long run by thi.
process, and your birds will be quite bet
ter for this treatment, instead of limit.
ing them to dry grain and cold vic.
tuals continually. Fresh Vegetables
are valuable for their nutritive material
and for the assistance they afford in di.
gestion.-P Poultry World.
Year: 1876

REVOLUTIONARY FURNITURE.--To
the eye of one whose liking for our Rev.
olutionary furniture is not new thing
the charm of it consists, apart from its
usefulness, which is evident to everybody
in the color given to it by age, and in
the simplicity with which all its orna.
ment is obtained. Its mouldings are
always good and quiet; just what is
needed, and no more, to round an angle
with elegance, and to catch the light
agreeably, and whenever any craving is
attempted, or paneling, there is a GER
tain moderation in it that is very re-
freshing in these foul times. Yet they
are not too tame either, but their spirit
is the spirit of high-bred people, and
not of folks who like to be conspicuous.
Even the architectural details in bu-
reaus and clothes-presses that these old
people was so fond of, little too fond,
perhaps,-were often very delicately
and adroitly managed, and we find our
selves easily forgiving them, seeing how
well in keeping they are with the effect
of any piece as whole Clarence Cook
IN Scribner for April
Year: 1876

Take care of the pennies" Look
well to your spending. No matter what
comes in, if more goes out you will al
ways be poor. The art is not in making
money, but in keeping it. Little expen-
ses, like mice in barn, when they are
many, make great waste. Hair by hair
heads get bald; straw by straw the
thatch goes off the cottage, and drop by
drop the rain comes into the chamber.
A barrel is soon empty, if the tap leaks
but a drop minute. When you mean
to save, begin with your mouth many
thieves pass down the red lane The
ale jug is great waste. In all other
things keep within compass. Never
stretch your legs further than your blank
cts will reach, or you will soon be cold.
In clothes choose suitable and lasting
stuff and not tawdry fneries. To be
warm is the main thing, never mind the
looks. A fool may make money, but it
needs wise man to spend it. Remem-
Der, it is easier to build two chimneys
than to keep one going. If you give all
to back and board, there is nothing left
for the savings bank. Fare hard and
work hard when you are young, and you
will have chance to rest when you are
old,
Year: 1876

ELIZA" said clergyman to one of
his parishioners, whom he saw with her
hair in curling papers, " if God had de
signed your hair to curl He would have
curled it for you" He did, sir, when /
was a child" was the reply; but He
thinks now am old enough to do it for
myself"
Year: 1876

Among the many touching incidents
which transpife in the great cities, we
do not remember ever to have heard of
one which contains more to stir the
heart with throbs of sympathy and deep
pity for the poor, poor mother than the
following from a late number of the
New York Sun:


On the 25th ult. Captain Clinchy
found half-starved infant in the hall
way at Isl Ludlow street. A few days
since Superintendent Walling received
the subjOined note:


Dear Sir:-Will you please answer
this note and excuse the liberty take
Now, will you please let me know where
my little child is? If it is adopted out,
that is all want to know; and if not, !
would like to know. God has opened a
way for me so l can pay my baby's
board, and if she is adopted l am satis-
fed. Won't you please let me know in
Sundays Sun and relieve the heart of a
young mother who repents quick and
rash act? Please be so kind and do it,
This is the second time i have asked
you. You won't refuse, will you? II
was left in the hall of Isl Ludlow street.
If it is in the fOundling, it is all want
But if on the Island l can work for ii
now. But when l left it there I was
nothing. had to walk the streets with
it on an empty stomach, and nowhere
to go. What could 1 do? For God:
sake answer me through the Sun.


THE MOTHER.


'TThe child is safe" said the Superin,
tendent. "It is on the Island, and the
poor mother, think, can get it back
from Mr.. Kellock.n


Not many women can read the las
few sentences without being tear
blinded. Poor, starving mother! Wha
volume of agony unspeakable is dis
closed in the desperate sentence, "Bu
when l left it there l had nothing.
had to walk the streets with it on al
empty stomach, and nowhere to go
! What could l do ?n Yes, God of tht
starving poor, what could she do but try
to preserve the life of her famishinl
babe by leaving it where relief was SURF
to come, though it wrung her hear
with anguish to part with it? Their
are more thrilling tragedies enacted il
real life than are often found in writer
romance.
Year: 1876

A SAD STORY.-Some weeks ago, dur
ing that heavy storm, word was brought
in to our county authorities that a
woman was lying out in the open air,
with child that had just been born.
Accordingly, Mr.. Rynerson at once dis
patched hack to bring her in, and she
was taken to the st. Charles Hotel She
gave her name as Mrs. Gertrude Ward.
From what we can CLEAN of her history,
it appears that she came from New York
with her husband, and at Chicago,
either Intentionally or otherwise, she
got separated from him and was several
miles on her journey toward California
before she missed him. At San Fran
cisco she got on board a steamer coming
south, with the intention, as she after
ward stated, of jumping overheard. She
got off here and wandered out in the
country, where she was overtaken by
the storm, and gave birth to the child.
She appeared very respondent during
her sojourn at the hotel and finally
ended her misery by taking a dose of
poison. The story bears upon the face
of it a cruel case of desertion by the man
who swore to protect and cherish her.
Surely there is Nemesis that will over
take villain who will betray a woman,
and desert her in the hour of need. Her
troubles have now ceased. ReqJliescdt
in pace.-Sdnta Barbara Press.
Year: 1876

COSTLY ELEPHANTs.-Tu has if
teen immense ships of war, which cost
nearly 100000 apiece. They lie idle
in the Bosphorus all summer, their only
use being to fire salutes every Sunday
when the Sultan goes to mosque. They
never go to sea, and if they did would
founder in the first gale, for they are
very uuwieldly, and the Turks are mis-
erable sailors. The only voyages they
make are when in the spring they are
taken out of the Golden Horn and an
chored in the Bosphorus, distance of
about two miles; and when in the fall
they are taken back to their winter
quarters in the Golden Horn.
Year: 1876

Many a man who would roll up his
eyes in terror at the idea Of stealing a
nickel will swoop down on silk um-
brella worth SO and march of with his
lips moving peacefully, as if in prayer.
Year: 1876

THE RIGHT KIND OF PRIDE.-Fool-
ish spending is the father of poverty.
Don't be ashamed of work. Work for
the wages you can get, but work for
half price, rather than be idle. Be your
own master, and do not let fashion or
society swallow up your individuality
hat, coat, and boots. Compel your
selfish body to spare something for
profits saved. Be stfngy to your neces-
stiles. See that you are proud. Let
your pride be of the right kind. Be too
proud to be lazy; too proud to wear a
coat you cannot afford to buy; too proud
to be in company you cannot keep up
with in expense; too proud to lie, or
steal, or cheat; too proud to be stingy.
Year: 1876

I Iwould respectfully inform those of
my friends, both here and at distance,
who have ary expectation of getting
thirsty, that I have just received a most
complete assortment of Pure Liquors
ever imported to Lake Charles, which
I am desirous of selling at wholesale
and retail at prices to justify both seller
and buyer. My wines and brandies are
unsurpassed, and my whiskies "the
Simon pure" Before leaving town be
sure and call around and take a parting
farewell. Lager beer, Scotch ale and
porter constantly on hand. ap4n4y
Year: 1876

To do this 1t Is necessary that you should inhale
FRESH and PURE AIR In the rooms you daily and
nightly occupy.


This can only be done successfully and without
danger Of contracting coughs colds and their prob
ably attendant evils, by purchasing and using the
Year: 1876

ORA Poughkeepsie exchange sug-
gested that some enIerprising capitalist
construct row OF houses In that city
FOR young married couples only"
This would encourage the young men
there who are afraid to get married
owing 10 the expense OF living. and the
investment would be profitable one
and would meet a pressing public want.
Yes, but what "a bedlain OF n place ii
would be within ilic ncxttw elve months
after the houses were all let.
Year: 1876

from the Charleston News and Courler


One OF our correspondents, and many
good people besides, are needlessly puz-
zling themselves over the anxiety Of the
South Carolina negroes to take part in
the pomp and pageant OF the Centennial
Exposition. To those who are most
familiar with the character Of the colored
people, especially as developed "since
Emancipation come out" the cause Of
their desire to be present at the national
glorification Is not very far to seek.
1t matters no whit to them that
the success OF the First Rebellion i'm
this country was an indirect cause Of
their continuance In slavery for the
Aast forty years. All they know, or care
to know, Is that camp meeting or corn
shucking OF some description and on q
magnificent scale is advertised to come
off in Philadelphia on the next Fourth
OF july, and they ardently long to be
there. They know that it Is "a Yankee"
concern, and they shrewdly suspect that
corn whisky will abound-and what
would they more? The instinct which
tells them that many OF the Southern
people have no interest In the affair as
usual only goes to intensity theirs i'm
respect to every feature Of the proceed
ings, and, indeed, 1t may, perhaps, be
safely asserted that the supposed indif-
ference of the whites Is the handspring
that sets Africa's eager desires In motion.
The celebration, not the commemora-
ton, Is Cuffee's object, even as he let's
off the noisy cracker or toots the dis
NAL horn on Christmas Day, for the
sound thereof, and in total ignorance of
what it should call to mind.


The truth Of this searching analy
can easily be tested. Let the 18th Of
June next he set aside by the carpet
baggers " in South Carolina as u day of
Thanksgiving to signalize the event of
the ascension Of Ghengis Kahn To
the throne Of Peru, or let the Sd OF
May be appointed to celebrate the
murder Of the innocent5, or the ex-
pulsion Of Adam and Eve (white)
from the Connecticut Legislature,
and let the facts or such celebra-
ton be duly heralded In the Beaufort
Stnadard, Washington Republican, and
the new red-hot Radical paper soon to
be issued in Columbia, and we will
guarantee that the colored firemen and
Masons, and the Rising Stars OF Glory
and Sisters OF the Yellow Rose OF Caper-
naum and the members OF all other
organizations in Charleston and Colum-
bia, will turn out en- masse in full uni
form, and parade the streets Of the two
cities to the sound OF fife and drum from
early morn till dewy eve.
Year: 1876

Cora PEARL DYING.-News comes from
abroad that Cora Pearl, perhaps the


most notorious Of all Parislan leaders
of the demimonde, is dying OF con-
sumption. She is only about forty
years of age at the present time; has
held her sway longer than any woman
of her class, and unlike the great ma
iority of them, is very wealthy, having
been been careful al Of her ilI-gotten gains. In
her youth she was rather fine looking
than absolutely beautiful, with a milk
white complexion, red hair and magni-
ficent form, She was English by birth,
Of humble parentage, and her heart q