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_ ,- "new . iv ,. 066®Gaoaoee®u§eeogeae Edit THE #09 *3 9 Recipes for the Kitchen. @ Hygiene and Other Notes g for the Housekeeper. 6 e5 060909990003 _ d: o®efie§e$o§ege§ege®e§a TESTED RECIPES. Custde Piaâ€"“men eggs are high a custard may be made more econ- omically by substituting a little .COrnstarch for part of the egg. Al- low two eggs, three tabledpoons of sugar, a speck of salt,_ a few grat- ings of nutmeg and three cups of milk, with a level tablespoon of cornstarch rubbed smooth with a. lit- tle of the milk. the milk, stir in the dissolved cornâ€" starch, and cook five minutes; then make as usual when all eggs are used. The starch must be cooked before the pie is put together. Baked Potato Saladâ€"Butter a baking dish and put in a layer of raw potatoes sliced thin. Sprinkle with chopped onion and seas‘on with salt and pepper and dredge on a very little fiour. Cut a level table- spoon of butter into bits aiid scatter over. Make another layer in the same way and when the dish is full pour on a cup of milk and cover the top with bread crumle amid bits of butter, Bake slowly until the potato is soft, which takes more time than would seem to be needed. The exact time depends on the shape and size of the dish and the thick- ness of the slices. As the salad can be kept hot, it is well to start it cooking early, because if underdone it is not eatable. Stripped Potatoesâ€"Pare potatoes Enid cut in strips not much larger than a match. Drop into boiling water and cook until tender, which will take but a few minutes. Take them up with a skimmer in order not to break them. Drain and pour over a cu,p'of. white sauce, to which has been added a teaspoon of finely chopped parsely. Sllllillllel‘ two minutes. Baked Cabbageâ€"Trim a small cabâ€" ‘ bage and cut in quarters; parboil mud drain. B‘utter a plate that cam be set in the oven and cover with a tablespoon of finely chopped raw bacon. Arrange the cabbage on the plate, after having cut out the coar- ser part of the stalk. Pour over a cup of white sauce and sprinkle with crumbs that havebeen dried and sifted. Pour two tablespoons of melted butter over and set the whole in the dven to brown the crumbs. Serve in the same dish. .Wh'ole Spiced Plumsâ€"For each seven pounds of pljums allow two cups of sugar and two cups of vilne- gar. Add one teaspoon each of cloives and alls‘pice, two'of cinnamon and one‘half oun'Ce of ginger root tied in a muslin bag. Coolk all to- gether and pour boiling h-ot over the plums in a stone jar. Every other day drain oil the syrup, boil it up again and pour over the plums until the proéess has been repeated 'five times. Then put both plums and syrup in a kettle, bring 'to the boiling point, and cook slowly five minutes; then seal in glass jars. This is the best way to keep the plums Wh'ole. Cheese Sar~.’dwiches.â€"To serve with salad there is nothing better than a cheese so n-d wi oh . M ix one-quarter cup of mild grated cheese and one- qru'ar'ter cup of ROquefort dheese and rub 'to a paste. Stir in one-half level teaspoon of paprika and four talblespoons of cream. Beat smooth and the mixture will spread evenly between thin slices of white or gra- ham bread. Cream Pullsâ€"Almost every one likes the delicate little cakes known as puffs or eclairs, but almost every one imagines that they are too fdifi~ cult for an amateur cook to atâ€" tempt. Directions given forthein in the recipe books usually are for a great number, and sound like pro- fessional work, But the following makes a couple of dozen of small puffs, which may be baked in gem pans and then filled with whipped cream, custard or whatever is desirâ€" ed. Boil together for one moment one cup of water, one-half cup of butter and one cup of flour. Set away to cool, and then stir in, one at a time, three eggs not beaten. Drop into the greased pans and ‘ bake. Surely there is no -easier cake to make than this, and none surer, to “turn out well." After baking, which must be done in a steady oven, let them cool, out a slot in the side, and insert the filling as fancied. 1» ‘ I‘m! 7. TO POULTICE A FINGER, It would seem that any person might poultice a finger if only sure what kind of a poultice to use. Observation shows that very few housekeepers know "just how”, to put an a poultice so it will stay in place. A piece of coarse cheese- cloth, a package of absorbent cot-_ ton and a roll of inch-wide sur- geons’ bandage should always be at hand. No matter what the dressing for the finger is to be, the. method of keeping it in place is always the same, unless the injury is serious and the hand is not to be used. If a powder is to be used on the finger, sprinkle it on, cover with a small piece of cheeseâ€"cloth, and over 'this put a piece of the cotton, putâ€" ting it on so it will cover the top of the finger, and from there fold It closely about. the injured spot. Heat one cup of' back there, carry to the hand, then turning to the starting point. Now carry the bandage to the top of the finger, and from there begin winding it smoothly about the finger until the palm is reached. _ Do riot hesitate to use the beardâ€" age liberally. Leave several inches of the bandage, and cut it. through the centre with the scissors. This will give two ends to tie arounld the finger, A poultice thus adjustâ€" ed will not slip amoun'd uncomforta- bl or come off. easily. ' f it is to be a wet poultice, put on the cheese-cloth, then a piece of the cotton dipped in the solution to be used, with a dry piece of c'otâ€" ton over it. Such a poultice, if a liberal Supply of cotton is used, will hold the moisture for a long time. If any material such as crackers or flaxseed is to be used, first put an the cheeseâ€"cloth, to keep this from adhering to the wound, then ’the poultice, and cover with dry cotton. The cotton will Ward off many a litâ€" tle knock which would make the flesh smart. If the woun‘d should throb, the bandage should be loosenâ€" ed. Bandages Inlay be made from old linen hamdkerchicfs. NOTES FROM THE COOK ROOM. Anyone who has a Waffle iron will find it handy to bake a layer cake in. With plenty of nice filling for the holes it is simply delicious. To keep bread sponge warm under aldiverse circumstances, set the dish containing the sponge inside another that is partly full of hot water and cover all withathick cloth or large pan. Another way is to heat a soapâ€" stone and use that. “Then frying eggs in too little fat to allow of dripping it over the yolks to whiten them, add a few drops of boiling water, cover quickâ€" ly, and let the steam thus formed cook them on top. The cover should be removed as soon as they turn white, or they will harden quickly. In cooking brealkfast foods, always have the water you stir the material into or that which you pour over it boiling. If it is cold or only nearly boiling the mush has a clammy taste. TABLE FLOWERS . _ housewife recognizes the necessity for having some sort of flowers or growing plants upon the table, and, however humlble the attempt, something of this kind Would always be successful, the bare appearance of a table without any decorations detracting from the sucâ€" cess of even the most perfectly serv- ed repast. The simplest way to manage this is to have four small ferns at the corners of the table and one large one in the middle, and if one chooses a hardy kind, sees that the plants are properly planted and Well watered, they will last for years, especially if planted in those pierced blue and white Japanese flowerâ€"pots, which can be bought so Nearly every cheaply and ar ideal things in which. denly to grow plan the piercing allow- ing the water to eSca'pe and keeping the roots well drained. _. __+_ CURIOUS THINGS. Odds and Ends From a Great Many Sources. ‘ The full dress liveries of the Britâ€" ish royal footmen cost $550 apiece. The first equestrian statue erected in London was of Charles I., in Whitehall, 1678. The Seven Stars inn, at Manchesâ€" ter, England, boasts of having been licensed for 550 years. ' A wine cask has just been built in California to hold 97,000 gallons. Its iron hoops weigh !510,000 pounds. The first steamer on the Thames was the Marjory, in 1814. The Richmond followed her a year later. -British troops in India have lately celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of being permitted to wear iiiustaches. In nearly forty instances languages have been first reduced to writing by the British and Foreign Bible soâ€" ciety. ' A waterspout spins with enormous speed. Its Velocity at the sea level has been estimated at six miles a minute. Russia has only taken her revenge by conquering Manchuria. The Chiâ€" nese have twice sacked Moscow, once in 1237 and again in 1293. The largest spider in the world has been found in Sunntra. Its body is nine inches in circumference and its legs spread seventeen inches. Norway’s coast lineâ€"1,700 miles in a straight lineâ€"becomes 12,000 miles if followed round the fjouds. In these fjords are over 150,000 is- lands. Ittakes three years to paint the Forth Bridge, Scbtland‘, and as soon as the work is done it is immediate- ly begun again. As many as thirty- five men are usually at work. +_____ A BLIND MARVEL. A remarkable ‘ figure has passed away in Victoria. in. the person of Mr. Patrick McCarthy, ,a pioneer of the Carterton district in that State. Though blind from the age of three, he became a fearless rider, and his horsemanship was a marvel to all who saw it. He was a skilful farmâ€" er. - â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"‘+â€"-â€"--»â€"-.â€"-- ”I have to help Johnzny with his mental arithmetic every evening," said the young woman, “and it is a. nuisance." - “Do youâ€"erâ€"know that celebrated problem about one plus THE LADIES _LATEST FAD. VERY LATEST THING IN PETS IS BULLDOGS. -_t_. Beautifiul Specimens Seen in Lon- don Tied on to Very Charm- ing Society Girls. The aristocratic young lady is never so happy as when she is exâ€" ploiting some new fad. The pet fad is now raging all the way from Bayswater to Belgravia; and the very latest thing in pets is bulldogs â€"the fiercer the better. The followâ€" ing advertisement shows how his new sensation is catching on, says the London Leader. ' "Maid Wantedâ€"Must be smart, good figure, ladylike, and experiencâ€" ed. One with knowledge of care and treatment of Bulldogs preferred. Good salary. Apply ” This kind of sport carries one back to the Georgian days when wealthy dames bought black dogs and monâ€" keys and trained them to take caraâ€" mels from the hand and to do ab- surd tricks in the boudoir de luxe ! But the bulldog bids fair to outdo this entertainment altogether. The other day a fashionable writer de- scribed her sensations uhen she was introduced for the first time to a pet bulldog. “Virginia Fanshaw,” she wrote, "Come to see me the other day, tied on to a most feroâ€" cious looking bulldog. Of course, the Persian cats, alarmed, flew about the room with wide, fiuffedâ€"out tails; but peace was soon restored, and the bullxdog turned out to be the mildcst- mannered creature. " ’ PERMLEATING S O OBE’I‘Y. A cor-respondent supplies some re- mankable details of the new bulldog craze among the aristocratic fair, It flourishes, not only among the “doggy” ladies who show at the Crystal Palace and who spend much of their spare time in analyzing conâ€" stituent parts of a Spratt biscuit, but among the quiet ladies who canâ€" not tell the difference between a Schi’pperke and a Chow Chow. The fad began in the Bradleyâ€"Martin set, and is spreading like smallpox, or a locust cloud, toward the wild conâ€" fines of Brixton. The result is bad for the poodle, whose nose is getting put out of joint; but excellent for the bulldog, who never did have such a time as he is having just now. BULLDO G VO CABULARY. In the Bond street tea shops, on the lawn at Ranelagh, and along the quiet back waters of the Thames, the small talk is now very canine indeed. Strange words like “brindle,” “falâ€" low,” "screwed," “roached,” and so on, sound stranger still from fair lips; but they all mean bulldog. Several beautiful specimens of the breed may be seen in the park on most mornings, when there is any sun to speak of, “tied on” to some very charm-ing girls, who have sudâ€" discovered that a‘ chic comâ€" bination of beauty and the beast makes beauty all the more ravishing. The bulldog loves peace and veal cutlets more than anything in this earth; but when he is twitted and teased and sneered at (by low curs who fancy themselves a bit) until he can positively stand it no longer, be dashes away from the silken chains that binds him to his mistress, and there is an Homeric battleâ€"war and our cutlets. The vugabond dogs of the park stand by to see fair play; and My Lady Ermytrude lowers her parasol as a shield, closes her eyes and hopes and prays for dear Bully’s victory. This sort of thing should not be encouraged in his majesty’s parks; but it is very inspiring while it lasts. A DANGEROUS BUSINESS. Some ladies go to all sorts of ex- tremes for the sake of their pets. They patronize the experts in the Dials and down Whitechapel way, with the excuse that they are going slumming. “Dold Chubby,” is a great friend of one little select coterâ€" ie of bulldog worshippers, at whose head is Lady Ermytrude. She does not mind calling upon him in his noisome little den, and I have it that this is the sort of thing that happens : “I want a brindle and fallowâ€"risâ€" ing three,” says she. “Haven’t got one, m’lydy,” ro plies Chubby. "I’ve got a fine white and pound-tan, and two rippin’ lawns. But a brindle and fallow. is scarce just now.” _ “There’s a beautiful one which goes by my window every afternoon at 3â€"with a girl who shows off a red parasol. I’d give fifty pounds for a dog like that. Call round toâ€" morrow, er. Chubbinsâ€"and I'll show it to you !” Next day, Mr. Chubbins appears. and a stately footm-an, coughing dis- creetly behind his white hand, shOWs Mr. Clmbbins up. He and Lady Ermytrude stand by the window and watch. Presently the red parasol appears, and behind it the cherished brindle and fallow. "I’d know that dawg anywhere,” says Mr. Chubbins, making a mental «note of its points. And _he slips away, refusing a cup of ten most politely. Two days later, a bulldog, identi- cal in , all points with the coveted beast, is the property of Lady Eh‘myâ€" trude; and the red parasol (who had unaccountably lost. her bulldog) is brokenâ€"hearted, until (after a decent interval) Mr. Chubbin’s soft heart is too much for him, and he restores Take one end of the band-age and one equals one ‘2” asked the young it. again to its original owner. Proâ€" place it where the finger meets the palm of the hand; carry it up over the top of the finger and down the mien. “I said mental arithmetic, not sentimental,” said the woman, with great dignity. fit on the transaction, £63 105., and young four silver apostle teaspoons I j A venerable professor of a noted a... ... 1. wm-‘asnw .. - .... . medical college was addressing the graduating class. "Gentlemen," he said, “you are going out into "the world of action. You will follow in some degree the example of those who have preceded you. Among other things you may marry. Let me entreat you to be kind to your wives. Be patient with them. Do not fret unider petty domestic trials, When one of you asks your wife to go driving, do not worry if she is not ready at the ap- pointed time. Have a. treatise on your specialty always with you. Read it while you wait. and I assure you, gentlemen,” and the professor’s kindly smile seemed to show a trace of irony, "you will be astonished at the vast amount of information you will acquire in this way.” -â€"â€"+ UOlWIUTS A_S_ INVENTDRS SOIlIE INGENIOUS PRISONERS MAKE FORTUNES. New Sewing Machineâ€" $20,000 For a Cycle Crank; Seventy-five thousand dollars was the sum of money for which Charles Filer recently sold the English paâ€" tent rights of a. new sewing-machine he invented while undergoing a term of imprisonment for burglary. The machine was patented in some thirty countries when he obtained his tidkâ€" etâ€"of-leave. Filer is only twentyâ€" one, and at this early age he finlds himself a comparatively rich man, with good prospects of being much richer, for, whereas the $75 000 he obtained for the English rights of his patent may well be the highest Filer’ s smn he will obtain, it is not ulnâ€" reasonable to suppose that his rights for countries will produce at least another $75,000. And this fortune he owes, as he himself adâ€" mits, to the fact that during his inâ€" carceration he was employed in the prison tailoring shop, where, his mind seeking methods for facilitatâ€" ing his work, the idea of his invenâ€" tion first occurred to him, says Lon- don Titâ€"Bits. the prisons of the United States prisoners have, on the whole, very much greater opportunities of inmn‘oving their minds and developâ€" ing any skill or ingenuity they may possess than have convicts in Briâ€" tish prisons}; and a consequence of this is that quite a surprising numâ€" ber of paying inventions are launchâ€" ed on the world’s markets by Amer- ican law-breakers. A PATENT CYCLE CRANK was sold a few years back, by an agent acting for a convict named Hlannnond, to a firm of cycle manu- facturers, and the purchase price is said to have exceeded $20,000. The invention was not, however, a comâ€" mercial success, and although pat- ented in England never found its way on to the market. .With the profits from his invention, I-l‘am. mend, a ruined cycle agent, who had made his way to prison by adopting domestic service and robâ€" bery as a profession, established him self in business; and it is said that he has prospered exceedingly, and made due compensation to those perâ€" sons he robbed. A convict named Jones, while servâ€" ing a sentence in the famous Elmira Reformatory, invented and eventual- ly patented a number of clever mechâ€" anical toys, all of which he disposed of, one of them bringing him up- wards of $8,000 in royalties. A great firm of Pittsburg engineers were once offered a. complicated machine, by the use of which, it was contended, mohair bootâ€"laces could he turned out at a saving of 25 per cent. of labor and 30 per cent. of time.‘ This Was the invention of a convict named .Wan'dston, of the New York Tombs, who might have reapâ€" ed a fortune from his invention. But like very many inventors Wan’dston believed his machine was worth a great deal more than anybody would pay for it, and hoping to ultimately get his own price for it he held out against many handsome offers until he died. It is supposed that be deâ€" stroyed his specification on his death bod. . A PATENT LETTER-FILE, vory generally used in the United States, was the invention of another tombs 'dweller, an absconding bank cashier, who unwisely parted with his patent for a few dollars, when hemight have reaped a comfortable fortune by selling it on the royalty plan. - Even British prisons, with the few facilities they offer to convicts for the exercise of inventiveness, produce their patentees. Hlandy men in gaol whose conduct is good are someâ€" times allowed to perform oi:ch jobs about the prison and the governor’s house, and in this way they occaâ€" sionally realize the need of certain things they contrive to invent in the quiet of their cells, Many such in- ventions are of no practical use or value, and most of the few which coul’d be turned to profit are never patented and are thus lost to their inventors. A few years, ago, however, a con- vict at Parkhurst, while mending some cooking utensils, invented an imprOVed fish-kettle, which was sold for a substantial sum of money after his release. John Williams, the notorious coiner, was the inventor of a clever hook and eye, which was bought cheaply by a. patent agent, improved on, and finally sold to a manufacturer, who turns out thou- sands of the improved article. The murderer Wainwright is said to have invented a vbe executed; and, of course, ., ... » ... _ -. » ~ . Wm...»â€" during the time he was waiting to everyâ€" body knows of the case of Thurtell, who invented the gallows on which he himself suffered the extreme penâ€" alty of the law. .Woxmwocvd Scrubs Prison, too, was DESIGNED BY 'A CONVICT. Many, if not most, of the ingenious burglars’ tools which the police seim from time to time were invented b5," a convicted burglar, who, without patenting his devices, manufactured them on obtaining his liberty. But the cleverest invention of this deâ€" scription was the work of a French convict. It consisted of a rope 30 yards long, having at one end a. hook which would secure it to tlu gutter of a roof or a win’dow-le'dgu. Strung on the rope was a triangular bar 4. in. long, by holding which and] regulating the run of the rope with a free hand, a man could descenid safely the whole length of the rope without fear of slipping or hurting his hands. And a string attach< merit enabled him on reaching the ground to release the hook from. the gutter or windowâ€"ledge in an in- stant. The whole thing could be carried in a coat-pocket. Five 01 six French burglars have been found in possession of this "fireâ€"escape" as they call it. â€"+ THE KING’S COUNTRY VISI His Majesty Likes to Call Upon His Personal Friends. His Majesty never fails, when pay- ing private visits in the provinces. to look in upon any personal friend who may live in the neighborhood. In this connection one may recall the graciousâ€"almost surpriseâ€"«visit he paid to Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone at Hawarden when staying for Chester races with the late Duke of Westminâ€" ster at Eaton Hall. Greatly honorâ€" ed by the call, the "G.O.M.” and his wife always treasured with singular pride the fact that the Prince put the event on permanent record by consenting to be photographed with the great statesman and his family. This reminds one that a photograph of the house-party rarely fails to be secured when the King is a visitor. The ordeal, if we may call it so, is uSually fixed just prior to the guest’s. departing for the day’s shooting or fishing when the morning toilets of the ladies have been prepared, and when everybody is naturally in the highest spirits, anticipating a good bag. It is never necessary on these occasions, even if the photographer dare, to ask the King to “look plea- sant,” His Majesty is an 'old hand' at facing the‘ camera, and does so with tender solicitude for the photoâ€" grapher’s subsequent success. Those who imagine that on their visits to country houses the King and Queen are escorted wherever they go by a band of servants and other retainers are laboring under a fallacy, When their Majesties were staying a few years ago at West Dean, the splen- did Sussex home of Mr. and Mrs. Willie James, the Queen might often have been seen, piloted only by the gardener, making a tour of the grounds and greenhouses. It was a sign of Her. Majesty’s simple gra- ciousness that she bade the latter keep on his hat during the pilgrim- age; it was also a proof of the Queen’s impartiality that she should assert that the flowers grown at West Dean were better than those at Sandringham. Queen Alexandra’s passion for geranium-s was demon4 strated during one of these rambles. I-l'er hostess, doubtless in order not to prolong the outing and fatigue Her Majesty, had instructed the gar: fener to skip the conservatory con~ twining geraniums; but the august guest was quick to notice the omis- sion, and asked goodâ€"nature'dl'y why she was not allowed to see'one lot“ her favorite blooms. Of course, the door was instantly unlocked for the Queen to enter. Choice flowers, by the way, from the gardens of West Dean constitute a striking embellish- ment of the railway carriage in which their Majesties travelled back from Singleton to Londonâ€"Carroll's Magazine. __.____.g.___.___. IRON IN THE SUDAN. Considerable interest has been awakened by the announcement of the discovery of irn ore in the Bongo country. which lies along the southâ€" western boundary of the llahrâ€"el» Ghazal basin in the Sudan. The re- gion is described as about equal to Belgium in area, but it is vi ‘tually n wi2dcrness, the population averaging 0an about a dozen to the square- mdle._ Specimens of the ore have shown, upon analysis, 43 per cent. of pure iron. The Illongoland natives Manufacture arms and tools from this iron, smelting the ore in clay 'furnaces, and beating out the metal with store or iron hammers on anvil: of gneis-s or granite. Iron exists at several other places in the Sudan. â€"-â€"â€"-â€"-â€" +â€"â€"â€"â€"--â€"â€"â€"- , DEA‘D BACTERIA. One result of bacteriological re- search is the distinction betwoen inâ€" fective and intoxicative diseases. In the former the general multiplication of miicroâ€"organisms in the body of ‘ the latter poisoning is the cause of the malady. Thus, Dr. Allan Mac. fayden says, the dead bodies of typhoid bacilli, although destitute of all infective properties, are yet toxic. when introduced into animals in \‘ll‘-- tue of the intracellular poisons that they contain, ‘Accordingly. ‘in the. case of many diseases formerly re- garded as purely infective, it has now become apparent that, in ad- dition to the infective, the poisonousr properties of the invading bacterial brushâ€"making machine cells have ‘9 be taken in“? “moufit- A