The Wingham Times, 1885-10-23, Page 2TBE HOUSEHOLD,
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The tiny red ants which are such a mil -
ewe in many pantries may be easily driven
away if kerosene is freely used. Those who
have been troubled by them know that they
always some in lines, doming through some
crevice in the wall or floor, and following
one after the other, in regular order, until
they reaoh the shelf above. If kerosene is
turned the entire length of this line, also
on the pude where they come In, the floor,
eto., they will soon depart. You may need
to repeat this a few times, but it is an .easy
and effectual method of getting rid ot them,
Leave the door and windows open awhile
and the scent of he kerosene will soon be
gone,
If your flatirons trouble you by dropping
blank apeoks from the top or sides when
ironing, take them in span of soapsuds and
give them
aog tin washing, and dry
quickly, Paper bagsro onrusting.
, in which many articles are
sent from the grocery stores, should be sav-
ed for use when blacking a stove, You can
slip the hand into one of these and handle
the brash juat as well, and the band will not
be soiled at all, andwhen through with
them they can be dropped into the stove
being much preferable to the cloth bag or
mitten, which requires frequent washing.
To make lamp -chimneys look beautifully
clean, wash them in warm soap -suds, turn
scalding water over them, wipe dry with a
soft cloth, and rub with a piece of newspa-
per. This will give a nicer polish than can
be obtained in any other way. Windows
treated in the Kane way will be found to
look mnoh nicer than if amply washed and
rinsed.
To take Ink stains out of table cloths,
napkins, etc., put the article to soak imme-
diately in thick sour milk, changing the milk
as often as necefsary.
A few drops of hartshorn put into a little
water will clean a hair brueh nicely. If
very dirty use alittle soap also. After clean-
ing, rinse in clean water, tie a string to the
handle, and hang up to dry.
Choice Recipes.
Pummels PRESERVES.—Takeagood sound,
ripe pumpkin, peel, and out in inch squares.
Let stand over night in a weak solution of
alum water, and in the morning spread on
platters set fn the sun for two hours, or in
a warm oven. Then take three-quarters
of a pound of sugar to a pound of pump-
kin, some raisins, and a lemon or two.
Cook till pumpkinoan easily be pierced with
a straw, then skim out and nook juice till
thick enough to keep, as other presetvee. If
properly made it can't be told from citron,
EGG PIE.—Mabe two very thin cakes of
Indian meal, flour, and soda, just as for
corn bread, and wet it with sour milk, and
bake them in a quick oven, Make a gravy
of one teaspoonful of butter, the same of
flour,' aeup of milk, and salt end pepper,
When it is boiling drop in cold, sliced, bard -
boiled eggs ; leave them in long enough to
heat, but don't let them boil up, or they
will fall to pieces. Butter one of the hot
Indian cakes, lay it in a round pan or dish,
pour on the gravy and eggs, and lay on the
other cake,buttering it on the top and
sprinkling on pepper and salt.
A DELICIOUS. SIDE Drsra.—Cut the rem-
nants of a cold•boiled or roasted chicken in
email pieces. Make a sauce of one pint of
Dream. two ounces of butter, the yelk of one
as egg, beaten, and a tablespoonful of corn-
starch or arrowroot, seasoning with,salt and
white pepper, a little sugar, one teaspoonful
of anchovy sauce, and one bay leaf. Put
the pieces of chicken in this sauce in a stew -
pan and simmer half an hour. Stew some
rice quite soft in milk, seasoning with salt
and pepper. Put the chicken in the centre
of a dish, place the rice around it as a bor-
der, and serve.
SWEET PICKLES.—Eight pounde of fruit,
four pounds of the best brown sugar, one
quart of vinegar, and one cup of mixed whole
spices, stiok cinnamon, cassia buds, allspice,
and cloves—less of the latter than of the for-
mer. Tie the spices in a bag, end boil with
the vinegar endanger. Skim well, thee add
the fruit. Cook ten minutes, or till scalded
and tender. Skim out the fruit and put in-
to stone jars. Boil the sirup five minutes
longer and pour over the fruit. The next
day pour off the sirup and boil down again,
and do this for three mornings. Kcep the
bag of spices in the sirup.
GREEN CORN AND PRAM PUDDING —One
cup of green corn, which isobtained by cut-
ting the kernels with a silver knifeand pres-
sing out the pulp with the knife, being care-
ful that the kernels are not loosened from
the cob, one cup of sliced ripe peaches,
orusbed slightly, two tablespoonfuls of sug-
ar, and ono cup of water. Mix thoroughly,
and put in an earthen pudding dish, placing
thin slices of patch on the top. Bake from
twenty minutes to half an hoar in a moder-
ateoven. Serve cold.
CRANBERRY SAUCE —Pick over and wash
the cranberries, and put in the preserving
kettle, with half apint of water to one quart
of berries ; now put the sugar —granurated
is the beat—on the top of the berries ; set on
the fire and stir about half anhour : stir oft-
en to prevent burning ; they will not need
straining, and will preserve their rich dolor
cooked in this way. Never cook cranberries
before putting In the sugar. Less sugar may
be need if you do not wish them very rieh.
Those people whohave imbibedprejudiees
,against vacoinationwould be edified by ready
ing the history of the Bath Vaccine A+socia-
tion, which is the oldest establishment of
the kind in England, To teat the efficacy
of vaccination, it long ago adopted a peon'-
iar plan, Persons oscesionally applied for
vaccination who were already well marked
--in some cases thrift marked, After op-
eratieg suocoeefully upon any of this latter
claire, thus giving the individual ooneerne3 a
fourth niark, the Association presented him
or her with a bond for one hundred pounds
—$d00—to be redeemed in cash by the As -
sedation whenever the person thus vaeoin-
ttted should take small -port. In other words
the AMoCiation was willing to pay $500 for
any proof that it was possible for any per -
eat thoroughly vaccinated to take email -pox,
This ptoof has never been given. It is stet -
ed that some of these se vaccinated placed
themselves la eentact with smallpox and in
inetaneee went sa far as to attempt to Irma -
Mate themselves with the disease in order to
elides the reward, but that their attempts
to cateit it failed.
11USItOKA!.PALLS.'- rad
" Or watch some noble cataract bound
From giddy height to lowly ground."
ALONE WITH GOD IN NATIIRE'S6,TEMP1E
BY JOHN IMRIE, TORONTO
'Tis sweet to sit in pensive mood,
'Mid Nature's wild grand solitude,
Where warbling bird pour forth their Iays,
In happy, joyous songs of praise,
Or watch some noble cataract bound
Prom giddy height to lowly ground,
Where echoes ring from peak to peak,
And God in Nature seems to speak.
With praise to God the woods resound,
Surrounding hills repeat the sound,
And in my heart an echo tinge,
Which joy and consolation brings,
There doth my soul find sweet relief,
And gather strength for future grief ;
For life's stern duties now prepare,
By supplicating God In prayer.
Oh, God ! to be alone with Thee,
In Nature's Temple—rich and free;
And for a time forget strife
Of man with man ---of Death with:Life.
Oh, happy hour 1 oh, sweet retreat 1
With thee, my Father, thus to meet ;
.And Iearn from Nature to adore
The God of Nature evermore 1
STRANGE BUT TRUE.
In France, as well as in Italy, Mary is
frequently added to a distinotively mascu-
line name as a remembranoe of the',Virgin.
Thus Hugo was Victor Marie, and the late
Pope was Giovanni Maria.
The term " Nihilist " was invented by
Turghenefl in 1862, and was used to desig-
nate a set of freethinkers and students who
destroyed no life but those of many thou-
sands of frogs, experimental physiology at d
medlcine being their favorite study, Tho
revolutionary movement to which the name
of " Nihilism " was afterwarde applied in
1871-72, and for five or six years was quite a
pacific prop,gandist movement, accompani-
ed by no act of violence.
In the camp of a New York regiment was
a pet crow belonging to Henry Duval. This
crow had but one leg. It was fed in the
presence of other crows, that looked with
wonder at its feariosenose, They evidently
supposed his Ices of a leg accounted for the
care he received, f.;r one day, when it was
whistled for to come to Its dinner, a, crow
stepped from crowd of visiting orowa, hop.
ped on one leg to the soldier, ate heartily,
and hopped twenty feet away. Then it let
down its other leg, which had been hidden
under its wing, and flew away,
peasantry w(aring their . national costumes,
and 230 miners from the mines of the neigh-
borhood closed the procession.
The famous village of totem poles at
Wrangel, Alaska, lies along the beach, he
mountains rising high in the rear, with snow
on their tops. About a dozen white people
Iive there. There are about 20 native houses
or huts. The designs of the totem poles are
different. On the top of one perched a rav-
en—they are all of wood, and sometimes the
tree or log from which they are made is hod
lowed out in the back, another tope off with
a fish or a bear, and humour and gravity are
comically intermingled. One of the simpl-
est, and yet most intereating poles, has a
bear on the top Iooking down with a grin,
as much as to say, " Here I am, high and
dry, and well out of your way." Tracks of
the boar are out in the upright pole—a, foot
and a half thick on three aides of it, the toes
all pointing up. An Indian grave, built of
loge laid up " corn •cob house " fashion, ie
surmounted by a life-size wooden figure that
closely resembles an alligator, although itis
a mystery where these Indians got the idea
of an alligator,
Young Women in whit, with pages in
green at their heels, made the dye of the
Austrian Emperor twinkle as the procession
at Pilsen filed past him the other day. But
Pinson le celebrated for its breweries ; con-
sequently the bar of Gambrinua was the
chief attraction of the cavalcade, The 'Beer
King, a giant, when opposite the Emperor
emptied an enormous beevl to Me health
with a mighty "Hook 1" in whioh thous•
ands joined, Casks innumerable, largo and
small came text, with coopers at work on
the carts, The gardeners, surrounded with
palm trete and flowers, rolled past, with
theoddess Flora, attended by children. A
newly' married couple, with hundreds of the
On a farm at Pottstown, Pa , rabbits gir-
dled a lot of young apple trees /tome yeats
ago, In two cages of ohoice fruit the own -
or undertook to save the trees, Tho young
shoots which usually spring np from below
the "girdle " were allowed to grow long
enough to reach the sound bark above the
" girdle," and then inserted under the bark
after the manner of inoculating treee, and
securely tied. They grew and nourished
the main stem of the tree above, and note,
after some years, the trees rest entirely up.
,'on their inserted eupports and aro as vigor -
one as any in the orchard, One of these
trees has five of these lege, whioh 'have
now by growth been almost consolidated.
The other tree has seven, all entirely dis-
tinct an yet, but growing closer. The old
stem below the insertion la dead and decay -
led 111 the one tree and in the other It is en-
1 tirely gone, and they look as if standing bp -
on eteols,
HUE AND THERE.
So many Martini -Henry oartridgee jam-
med during the late Egyptian war that it
has been decided to adopt a better feral of
ammunition.
Baseball is older than we thought, as a
squint at history has made apparent. The
uin cmeperoratching Dom#ileain. itian ocoupied, bis leisure
There is a -great deal of red t+pe i4 the
French army,, It took a French soldier,
who was reported to be dead, five years to
prove tt at he was alive.
The youngest Mayor in the United States,
Mayor Aaron ot Van Buren, Ark., 21 years
of age, recently quarrelled about a women
with a man named Taylor, and shot him to
death.
A book recently published in Paris is
"The Sad Influenoe of the ;Pianoforte Upon
Medical Art," and the aim is to disestablish
the sovereignty of that instrument in the
homes of the land.
The inventor of a proem for refining
sugar by electricity at an expense of 40 cents
a ton has appeared, and asks $12,000,000
for the patent. It is said that the process
is to be tested in England.
Some experiments in London recently
showed that the native English she are un-
able to survive in water heated much, if any,
in excess of 80 deg. Fehr., yet in the low
country of India and Burmah streams are
filled with fish, where the water becomes
from ten to fifteen degrees hotter than this
every noonday.
A son of the Duke of Westminater is not
the only English aristoorat who owns han-
soms that are used by the public daily in
London. Hie horses are of fine stock, and
the cabs contain the latest improvement—
a lamp to read by at night, a place for an
umbrella, a looking glass, and many other
conveniences
Japan is in a fair way to have great
trouble with epidemic diseases. From Jan -
nary to July there were 4 472 cases of small-
pox, with 1,191 deaths, and recent reports
say that at Nagasaki, between Aug. 26 and
Sept. 1, there were 300 cases of Asiatic
cholera. Of typhoid fever 7 984 cases are
reported for the first hell of the year,
An English traveller proposed to make a
walking tour in the neighborhood of Vichy.
Upon inquiry he found that the only food he
could expect to find at the village inns was a
potage made of cabbage, a few slices of
bread, an onion or two, and a piece of lard,
This was the habitual food of the peasants,
and there was nothing else to be had ex-
cept black bread, The intended,' journey
was not taken.
The Revue Scientifique places France in
the front rank of breeders of darner pigeons
for military purposes, Eight French cities
now have extensive dove -cotes, and $20,000
a year is inserted in thebudget for their sup-
port. The Austrian Government alae en-
courages the rearing of homing pigeons, and
pairs are given to soldiers of the reserves,
who compete for prizes offered to the most
successful breeders.
A room full of skeletons has just been ad-
ded to the exhibition space at the South
Kensington Natural History Museum, in
London. The moat striking features are
the skeletons of six elephants—Afriaan,
Indian, and Sumatran. Besides these there
are four elephants' skulls, one of which was
killed by Sir Samuel Baker, and another
belonged to an elephant that was long the
terror of a jungle district near Meerut.
In "agitating" an oil well at Stone Hill,
Henry Sutton was struck by a twenty -foot
polishing rod, which entered just below and
back of the right ear, and, knocking out the
the two first ribs, came out through the cheat.
It then penetrated several inches of the man's
thigh and pinned him to the ground. Pol-
ishing rods are blunt and nearly an inch in
diameter, and this one had fallen from a 74 -
foot derrick. Yet the man is Bitting up and
gaining strength rapidly.
The famous, Victoria Bridge at Montrea'
is to be supplemented, by another bridge
crossing the St, Lawrence from Ltiohine to
CIughnawauga, four miles above the city.
,It will be of iron trusses, the eight spans
measuring 3,000 feet, and will cost, with its
approaches, a million and a quarter of dol-
lars. The owners are the Canadian Pacific
Railway, who expeot to have it finished by
November of 1886. No such bridge as the
Victoria (a tubular one) will ever be built
again.
The Indian Medical Gazette says that
owing to the low price of Indian hemp, ganja
smokers are becoming very numerous and
troublesome in Bombay. Otte of the habit-
ues recently discarded the classic method of
running down peaceable people with a knife,
and took to grabbing up children by the
ankles and dashing their heads upon the
ground. The man was sentenced to only
six months' imprisonment ; Indian magis-
trates are tender toward the men who create
a good market for their best paying drug.
One of the moat useful of last summer's
picnic excursions was that of the Anglican
Bishop of Algoma (whose diocese covers the
upper lake region of Canada), who, with a
Toronto rector as associate. formed the pas-
senger list of the .teamer Evangeline, The
party skirted the northern coast of Lake
Huron and Georgian Bay on a pious quest
for "isolated settlements along those rock-
bound coasts is which scattered members of
the Church of England might be found in
need of the sympathy and publio and private
ministrations of their own communion. It
is said that the clergymen found much to dn,
besides getting excellent fishing.
A Belgian has invented a new species of
coffin for the special benefit of persons un-
fortunate enough to have been buried alive.
The pressure of the earth thrown on the
ooiiin liberates a sort of stiletto, which is so
placed that on being disengaged it pierces
the, heart of the occupant. An idea prevails
in France that the mistake of burying a liv-
ing person is by no means so rare an oeour-
rence as could be desired. Had :the " oor-
oueii perfeetionne" been known in Meyer-
beer's ttmehe need not have asked his friends
on hie deathbed, as he did, to bury hint with
a loaded pistol in eaoh hand.
Whale fibbing in smallsteamers off the
ooset of New England is getting to be a bust•
nese of some importance, four steamers (NM
erly patching monhadee) having been atead-
Ily engaged during the past season, They
cruise off the Maine and Massachusetts
•
shores as far south as Cape Cod. A bonnie
lance, fired from a gun held at the shoulder,
is, the weapon employed in killing the whales,
about fifty of which have born taken this•
year, They will average 60 feet in length
and 25 tons in weight. Each one yields
about 20 barrels of oil, 2 barrels 91 meat, re
tone of dry chum, and two tons of bone, the
value of which amount to about $400, As
the men become expert in the capture the
whales become shy and keep more in deep
water, This will be fatal to the business,
as at present conducted, since a dead whale
usually sinks, and can hardly be recovered
from a depth of more than forty fathoms,
Morbid News -Making.
Journalists, literary men, those who make
it their ccoupation to write or prepare mat-
ter for the newspapers, are, aa a elate, stick-
lers for respectability, and if one's claim in
that behalf be casually impugned his indig-
nation is aroused and be deolares himself
" insulted." Yet who that reads several
newspapers does not know the want of com-
mon decency exhibited in some of them.
Sensation appears to be the controlling mo-
tive in the management of certain dailies ;
and it ie reflected by the large, flaring head-
lines that meet the dye at the top of every
column ; it glows in the startling titles that
impress the reader that he is about to be in-
formed of something much out of the or-
dinary ; and it is salient -n the phrases, the
treatment of the subject, in every line and
word.
In some of these a straining for humor is
tae prominent characteristic, and the editor-
ial and reportorial wit is exerted to convert
everything into fun. If there be a phase of
the grotesque, however small, in any offence
against social order, it is seized and magni-
fied until it becomes the ohief element of the
published item. A hideous crime, even
murder, is treated with facetious garrulity.
In certain dailies the cardinal '' virtue" in
completeness of detail, eapeoially as regards
the vices that abound in society. " Get
everything" is the mandate issued by the
chief to his reportorial staff—and the read-
ers of such papers are " feasted" with long
screeds of diluted fact and high -colored fic-
tion concerning events is private and public
life. Floating bits of scandal, family dif-
foranees, church+roubles, the str cal disk utes,
the divorce courts, furnish the stook that
fills whole pages with disgusting narrative.
There is muoh rivalry shown in fullness of
detail regal ding events that embody horror.
A suicide, a murder, a riot, an epidemic is
blazoned in great capitals, and extra editions
are published to feed the public appetitelfor
such morbid stuff. An English visitor thus
notes bis impressions of the literature most
prominent in our news sheets :
"Take up a New York morning paper
and you will find the platform utterances of
your chief atatesmin dismissed in a few
words, while its leading pages veil be cover-
ed with hcaiings such as ' She Shoots Her-
self,' ' Attacked by a Negro in Her House,'
' The Child Polygamist,' ' Mies Jones
Elopes,' ' She Left Him Forever,' ' He Lov-
ed Her too Well,' -rand so on, ad nauseam,
In London this kind of newspaper work is
entrusted to The Police News and Town
Talk, and other suck papers which respect.
ablo citizens mould never admit into their
houses and no respectable hotel would leave
on its tables."
Meanwhile the public appetite for this
stuff has been stimulated and cultivated by
the newspaper and he mephitic corruption
has been sown the blood of the excitable
masses, to tring forth in time harvests of
vice, crime, dissaee, and death.
Why can not something be done to purify
the prei s end make it the teacher of truth,
duty, manliness, honor, and purity? Why
will net our respectable brothers and sisters
who write for the autumns of this or that
newspaper aim to treat facts as facts,
suppress the unnaces•ary and improper,
leave pui,ishment for wrong -doing to the
legal authorities, turn a deaf ear to the
scandal•monger, and let private affairs re -
ma n private property ? Phillip Brooks said
in Roston not long ago : "If we could sweep
intemperance out of the country we could:
wipe out almost all the poverty in the land,"
He might have added : "Gentlemen of the,
press, if von would frown upon every cor-
rupting influence that now finds easy access
through yourpena to the pages of your news-
papers and periodicals, you would wield
such power in the land over the minions of
impurity and wrongthat intemperance, like
other forms of vice, would be rapidly dim-
inished."—Parenclogical Journal,
,striking It Binh.
" Have you called on the Browns yet?'
she asked as the new minister was about to
take bis leave after making it tall.
"I'm just going," he replied. "It's the,
third bowie front the corner, I believe ?"
" Yes—third house. They are very,
very nice people, and I know you'll like
em.
When the minister rang the bell there•
was some delay is answering it, Meanwhile
the screen doors permitted him to hear
from the interior, Brown, who seemed to
be up stairs, called over the banisters : •
"Say; Helen, where in thuhder is that
old vest 1 spoke of?''
" Who are you talking to ?" demanded a.
voice from below.•
" To you, of oouree 1 If you were any
sort of a wife you'd put things where they: . r
could be found."
" Solomon Brown, don't you oast any
slurs on me. If I don't know more about
housekeeping than all the Browns on earth
I'll commit suicide,"
"You do, eh? What did the pauper
Smiths have to keep house on ?'
" Solomon, you are a vile wretch 1"
"Much obliged, but it's living with you
that's done it 1'
At this junoture the minister was ushered
in, end Mrs. Brom n so is catered the par-
lor, extended both hands, and gayly ex-
olaimoi :
"Ah 1 I'm to glad 1 So'.omon and I
both wanted to to you to much 1 Solomon
- Solly, dear, hurry up sad comp down—
ournowprcaoborishere 1"
And Solomon came down, painted a grin
on his face, and greeted the good man with :.
" Noll 1 well 1 but this is good of
you 1 Wifcy and I w ere just wishing you'd
gall,
A process has been devised by a Russian
inventor ot so impregnattng wood with a.
pertain chemical that matches made from it,
can be used several times over,
kre