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household matters. SELECTING TRIPE. Great care should be taken in se lecting tripe. It must be perfectly sweet and well cleaned. The honey comb tripe is 'generally considered the best ; however, as that is a matter of taste, select that which you like best. The farmers in Herkimer County prepare and cook tripe delic iously. It is done after the follow ing recipe : After the tripe has been thoroughly cleaned, cut it in four inch squares, lay them carefully in a . stone crock, sprinkle with enough salt to season -well, then cover with vine gar which haSibeem reduced to one half its strength witu, water, or if the vinegar is very strong reduce it two thirds ; place a heavy earthen plate over the tripe to keen it down in the liquor, then cover the crock and stand it in a very cold place. Let it remain in this pickle two. days, then it is ready for cooking. Take the pieces out, dry them in a coarse linen cloth, dip them in fine bread crumbs or cracker dust, and fry in ho$ beef suet. This will be found a most appetizing breakfast dish. New York Telegram. TO CLEAN CAE PET3. V It is often the case that accents happen when one is far away from a cleaner's, or when, jerchahce, the car pet may not be worth the expense of the professional's service, but would be extremely useful if put in- good order. A simple and effectual means of cleaning is to rip the breadths apart, if the carpet is large ; take ona breadth at a time over a common kitchen table or wide board and scour with prepared soapslids, if necessary or naphtha. If that subetance is to be used, scrub tjie carpsfc thoroughly with an ordinary scrnb brush. ; If the washing is done with soapsuds, it is well to rin.e the carpet thoroughly, which, uKy be done by throwing on pailfqjs of water and scrubbing it out with the brash to rid the fabric of the pet shows symptoms of fading, or if tlie colors threaten to run, it is quite worth while to go over it again and again with the brush and with soft cloths and remove the water a3 rapid ly as possible, meanwhile having the board or table tipped at an angle so as to allow all surplus water to drain away as quickly a3 it can. This is rather slow work and hard work J but if well done, the result - will be a car: pet entirely cleaned, perfectly whole some and quite good enough for an upper room or for the rugs and pieces that are required in oveir house. New York Advertiser. DBY-CLEANIXa CLOTHES. It is commonly supposed that ar ticles sent to the cleaners are cleansed by some mysterious process known as "dry-cleaning." For the most part, however, these garments are put in la tub and washed very much like the week's washing. "Where soap and water can be used, the soap, is the va riety known as palm oil. A bit of the goods is always experimented with be forehand, and if this is not satisfactory they are dipped in a vat of benzine or naphtha. If not too soiled or too complex in make they are laid on a Blab arid scrubbed with either palm oil suds or benzine. Many garments supposed to have been restored to thir natural colors are really dyed over. Fast colors in wool and silk are washed in soap bark. The secret of the use of this material is to have it strong. Two tablespooufuls are used to two quarts of water,; which is tbfenVbqiled down to one-half, strained andEidded to a pailful of warm water. Single grease spots are covered with prepared chalk, laid between two flan nels and . pressed witn a warm iron. Lace is washed in borax, 6onp and water, stiffened withborax, pinned be tween flannels and pressed. Flannels are washed in borax, ivory soap suds and tepid water, and while drying are pulled the way of the warp and weft m my time?. me irouDie wuu maae-np garments consists,, not in tho washing, but in tie ironing, and for this cleaning &id dyeing establishments have irons of all sizes and shapes. New York Ad vertiser. -- EE CITES. Boiled Icing Boil one cup of gran ulated sugar with four tablespoonfuls of water until it drops from spoon in threads. Have ready the beaten white of one egg, and pour the syrup slowly into it, beating all the time. Flavor, and spread on cake while warm. German Potato Salad Boil six good-sized potatoes, peel and slice while hot, and pour oyer the follow ing: Cut one-half pound lean bacon into small dice and fry brown. Sea son potatoes with" salt, pepper, and finely sliced onions. Mix thoroughly with the bacon fat and dice, and then add one-half cup of white vinegar. Garnish with sliced hard-boiled eggs. Gems Allow three cups of flour, shaken down in the cup, to one cup of cold water and one cup of sweet milk. Add. the water and milk grad ually, so as to smooth out the lumps. Then beat steadily just five minutes. Have ready hot and buttered gem pans. The pan3 should be heated very hot on top of the stove, theniill them even full. Bake a nice brown in twenty fivo minutes. They can be made of graham flour. Egg Sauce Pat two eggs over the fire to boil hard. Put in a saucepan over the fire a tablespoonful each of butter and flour, and stir them until they are smoothly blended, then grad ually stir in a pint of boiling water, season with alt and pepper. Let the sauce boil and place where it will keep hot ; when the egg3 are hard, shell them, cut into small dice, and put them into the sauce. Cabbage Salad Cut a solid, tender head of cabbage very fine, and place it in a deep dish. Put in a saucepan over a rather hot fire one cupful of thick sour cream. Stir in while heat ing the yolk of three well-beaten eggp. Add half a teaspooful each of made mustard and sugar, and butter the size of an egg, with a dash of red pepper and salt. Whiie cooking stir in half a cupful of strong vinegar. This makes a smooth, thick dressing, with a delicate creamy taste. Pour over the cabbage while hot and mix thor oughly , Terrible Struggle Willi a Lioj. The British Central Africa Gazette gives particulars of the death of Dr. M'Kay, surgeon on board her Majes ty's ship Pioneer, who was killed by a lion on October 20. It appears that the doctor was left by the Pioneer for a few days' shooting at a village near the southwest corner of Nya3a. Two days later he started with three boys to shoot elephants. After walking for some hours they came to a pool of water, and, seeing a lion and lioness a few yards distant, Dr. M'Kay fired twice at the lion. He woundedit, and both animals made off for the jungle. Two of Dr. M'Jvay's native attendants ran away, but the doctor and his Zan zibari boy Musa went in search of the wounded lion. They espied the beast crouching down fifteen yards away, and M'Kay fired at the lion's head. At that instant the lion sprang up$n the doctor with a terrific roar, and a deadly struggle took place. Dr. M'Kay lost hold of his rifle in en deavoring to keep the lion off his throat. The beast seized his left arm in its jaws and clawed his right. The doctor kicked at the lion, which threw him' down and began to tear his flesh. He then called to Musa, "Musa, my arm is broken :my leg h broken"; bring the rifle." . Musa took it, and M'Kay, unable to hold it up, made Musa sit down, and, resting the rifle on his shoulder, shot the lion dead. A rough stretcher was made and Dr. M'Kay was cairied into camp. He suffered much, and died on the 26th at 4 p. m.- On the isame day. a little later, the Pioneer returned, to find him dead. He was taken to the Uni versities' Mission Station at Likoma, and buried in the Cemetery there. Instead of one Italy, as Europe ha, have two, the Gulf Coast and tha Coast of Southern California. SIX WEEKS IN THE WATER. A Hospital Patient's Prolonged Bath and theSnccesa Which Attended It. George Hennessy, who had been im mersed in water for six weeks, was 1 ta ken out Tuesday evening, says the St Louis Republic: He declared that he felt like a fish that had just been land ed and said he was much more comfort able under water than he was out of it. He is a patient at the city hospital and was suffering from a particularly vim lent abscess which had formed on his back. When he was taken to the hos pital it became necessary to wash the abscess so often that Dr. Marks de cided that the best way to treat him was to nut him in a bathtub and have a stream of water flow over the sore all the time. At first Hennessy wanted to get out of the tub, but in a few days he became as comfortable as couid be expected and did not object. A large portion of his body was under water nearly all the time, and the afflicted part has been constantly under water for six; weeks. The temperature of tho water was regulated so that it was the same heat as tfuit of his blood, and at last IIenne.ss3' actually enjoyed his ex perience. Last night he said that lie coul4 not go to sleep without hearing the rippling of vater asj usual. Dr. Heine Marks says the experiment has been an eminently successful one, for the man has almost recovered and is able to walk about. When pe was taken to the hospital he could hardly stand. Dr. Marks at that time asked him if he was accustomed to bathing regularly, and Hennessy truthfully replied that he was not. . ' "I think I'll give you a bath," said Dr. Marks, and he gave him one which lasted six weeksf The object in keeping Hennessy ia the water all the timewas to have the sore kept clean all of the time and to keep'down the fever, which destroyed the tissues. The case is a novel one and will doubtless inaugurate a new method of treating abcesses, although the French surgeons attheBicetrehave adopted a cure somewhat similar to tills one. "It. feels queer to haye the water flow ing over you all of the time," said Hen nessy last evening. "Some of the time I imagined I was drowning, and some times I thought I was a diver. I got so used to hearing the rippling of water, though, that I cannot go to sleep with out hearing it now. There is no music so sweet as the constant sound of fall ing water. I have heard it so long that it has . become just as indispensable to me as a bed when I wanted to go" to sleep. I wanted to stay there longer, but Dr. Marks told me that if I did fins might grow on me, and then I would have to be put in a glass case, so I thought I would not object to coming out." . Prison. A suggestion for improvement in prison construction provides for cell built of iron or steel pipes which inter communicate,, so that water maybe kept under pressure in them. If , any 'attempt be made to break into or out of such a cell, the smallest puncture in a pipe will cause a leak and give in stant notice through the reduction of pressures which actuate a system of electric alarms. Sympathy. Scene In front of MrsR.'s house. Mrs. R. (paying the cabman) Yon look all right to-day. Cabman Ah, mum! my looks don't pity me. I suffer from a tarpaulin liver. Mrs. R. (correcting) A torpedo liver, you mean. (Cabman accepts the cor rection and an extra shilling.) Punch. DISCOURAGING TRAIN ROBBERS. A IrOuisiana Convict Invents a Bullet " Proof Tender Turret. Frank Ryan, a convict In the Louis iana State prison at Baton Rouge, has patented an invention for the preven tion of train robbers, "jvhich, he says, is bound to revolutionize the expivss business. He points to the fact that in the years of 1S91 and 1S92 there wero twTenty-two trains robbed on the dif ferent roads throughout tho United States, and that in nineteen of these thev robbers boarded the engines and A KOBBER-FROOF LOCOMOTIVE. compelled the engineer and fireman to go w-ith .them to the express car. Ho adds: "It has always been conceded that anything to prevent these robber ies wrould come from the brain of a convict." !. The "Messenger Revol viug Picket-' is the name of this convict's patent, and it is an ingenious system to protect the : engineers and firemen. It consists of a bullet-proof house on the bacic of the I tender, in which an armed guard takes i his place when the train pulls out from I the depot. This house is made either of ; boiler plate or steel, nnd it does not cx jceed 500 pounds in weight' It can be j detached from the tender at any time. The little house is about four feet in I height, sp as, to allow; a man to sit dowu ;'.in a comfortable position and yet not iso high as to strike bridges or the tops of tunnels. In the front there is a door that is fastened on the inside witl'i a bolt after the guard enters. There are portholes in the door and sides, which the guard can open at will, thus giving him a good view of the engine and of the country at large. ) j The picket house revolves like the tur ret of a man-of-war, and under, each corner there is a roller. To fasten the picket house on the tender there is a socket and fourrlngs and on the inside there are four chains with snaphoous w'hich catch in the rings. The whole is held in place by a pivot in the center. When the train is j made up the ex press guard mounts the engine, exam ines the picket house afnd places his rifles, revolvers, etcM inside. When the train pulls out he enters and fastens the door and sitting doyn, lights a cigar and. begins tokeep his eye out for train robbers. " . ; When the train nears a water tank or station he covers the engineer, and it would take a man with more than or dinary nerve to attempt to board an en gine, with a rifle barrel or a shot gun looking him in the face. In the event of the train being cut in two the engi neer could tell in a moment by the Jumping of the reverse lever and by the motion. The guard could hand to tlie engineer and fireman each a rifle, and by backing up to thejdetaehed portion of the express train they could protect the express train. j , Convict Ryan says of this patent claim for my invention that it affords complete protection for the engineer and fireman, with no danger to the guard unless it be that the engine is thrown from the track. With a deter mined man on the Inside of the picket, It would be an uttr j Impossibility fqr an armed body ot men to stop, dyna mite and rob the express car." I Highest of all ia Leavening Power.- Latest U. S. Gov't Report MM Li W cx
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