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Household. |VsJ*4imsJ*AsJl] Useful Recipes. Almost any wide-awake woman, after a lull* experience in cooking, will find two things true, Fint, that there are certain Uwi which not even an angel would dare disregard if he hoped t> make perfect dishes. For example, ehe observes that cuttard will always curdle if i 1 . it allowed to boil; that the yeait bread will lose iu "heart'' and sweetness if it ii allowid to rite too long; that It ii the wire spoon- whip, nd not the Dover egg beater, that convent the white of egg into the tender, large celled froth to eeeential In the beet cake, and so OD. And eecondly, she will ditcover in henelf a quite unsuspected talent for making fresh combinationi of material! and producing new and tooth- eome dishes. A lair degree of common eenee and a little imagination, will suggest uch combinaiioni. Here are two recipee for simple but delicate desseru, given me by a friend, with all the pride ol an original inventor. Lemon Foam. Two cupfuli hot water, one imall cupful sugar, two large table- poonfuli cornetarch, juice of ooe lemon, the white* of two eggs. Pat two cupfult hot water and one cupful granulated sugar into an enamel ware saucepan or a por.-e Iain-lined kettle. When it boili add two rounded-up tablespoonfuls of cornitaroh, wet up in a little cold wale., stirring fait M it boilt. After it ha* cooked tour or five minutes squeeze in the juieofa lemon, stir again thoroughly ; take it from the stove and set it to cool in a pan of water. Now whip to a stiff froth the whites of two eggs three when eggs are cheap ii a large earthen dish with the wire spoon whip. By this time the cooked cornatar oh, which has been stirred occasionally, is cool enough to be poured slowly over the white of egg, * brisk whipping going on mean- time. In about one minute the whole mass will be light and foamy, and the pudding is done, ready to be sst away until dinrer time. A custard, made of one pint of milk, two spoonfuls of sugar and the beat- en yolks of the the "lemon foam table, though it is not essential. Wafers or sponge cake will be liked with it. It takes only fifteen minutes to make this delicate and inexpensive dessert, sufficient in quantity for a family of five pe Apricot Tapioca Pudding. Two cupfuls cold water, five tablupoonfuls pearl tapioca, two cupfuls apricot marmalade ; sugar to taste. The evaporated apricots, for sale by all grocers, make a rich tart marmalade which combines well with the tapioca. The frnit i* washed and soaked over night in plenty of cold water. In the morning it is heated slowly in the enamel ware sauoepan, closely covered, and is cooked slowly about an hour. Sugar is addsd to taste, and after ten minutes more of simmering, the fruit is poured out carefully to avoid breaking the half-apricots, since most of the fruit is to be used as "supper-sauce." Two cupfuls are saved ont for the pudding, and beaten to a smooth marmalade. Five lablespoonfuls of pearl tapioca have been soaking over night in two cups of cold water, and in the morning this is cooked in the enamel ware rice boiler until it is trans- lucentprobably about twenty miuutei. Now stir in the marmalade, adding a little more sugar if desired. Let it cook ten minutes longer, and then pour it into a mould that has just been wet with cold water. Ur, if the pudding is to be eaten hot, put a little less water to the tapioca at night, so that it may be rather thicker after it is cooked, a delicious sauce necessary. eggs may be poured over i when it is eerved at the Sugar and cream make though none is really Air ncrnxo poftest a reputation for meekness she will forget all about submission and will either flare up in regulation shrew fashion or more sullenly, planning all sorts of schen.es for getting even. Snubbing a wife or nagging at a husband tends to destroy whatever individuality one or the other possesses or else incites them to rebellion. Even a child when corrected in public re- sents the action by behaving ten times worse than it would ever have thought of doing if the censure had been administered pri- vately, and as we older ones are only larger children, the same instinctn govern us, the tame passions dominate us. Useful Hints. Always stir a cake one way. Rinse out glass vessels with powdered charcoal. One ounce of alum in the lait water in which olotbes are rinsed, will render them almost uninflammable, A cake can have a trotting by using the white of an egg and a cupful of powdered sugar ; the yolk will make a rich _ custard. If yon have not the e, with enough milk a easily will do duty for frosting. tin, ooe cupful of sugar added to make it run Hair-Brushes. For cleaning hair-brushes, simply shake the brushes up and down in a miiture of on* teaspnonful of ammonia to one pint of hot water ; when thsy are cleaned, rinse them in cold water and stand them in the wind or in a hot place to dry. Shine the Fenders. Every housekeeper should know that one pint of asphaltnm, well mii*d with a gill of turpentine and applied with a paint brush to grates, fronts, fenders and other similar iron substances, will give it the shiny appearance that it wore when new. This amount of the mixture will paint five grates and stove. belongings, also the kitchen Rusty Range Furniture. New stoves or range furniture are tome- times so much rusted as to make the use of It very inconvenient. Put into a rusty kettle a* much hay as It will hold, fill It with water and boll many hours, at night *et it a*id* and the next day boil it again. If it is not entirely fit for use repeat th* pro It will certainly be effectual. A New Broom. If a new broom be Immersed in boiling water until it Is quit* cold, and then thoroughly dried In th* air, it will be fa r more pleasant to use and will last much onger. r'r*<|uent moistening of the broom s conducive to its usefulness and also save* he carpet. Chestnut Pie. (irate or chop one pint of fresh chest- nuts, add one pint of milk, thiee eggs, one HOW THE QUEEN TRAVELS. TB Elaborate rrep*>railas That are Made *>y Ike Kilr..m.l When Her NajMlv Makes J*rev. The importance of the Queen's life to the nation renders it necessary that every precaution should be taken to avert any possibility ot a collision when she is travel- ling on the railway. Th* question has been most thoroughly gone into by her trusted private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsooby, with the assistance of the responsible man- agers of the various lines ov.-r which hsr PRACTICAL FARMING. An Improved Shingling Stage. The old-fash ionsd stage for shingling a roof, in which bracket*, nailed to the thinglet already laid, supported a number of lengtht of boards, it unsatisfactory because taking too much time and troubl SEC! KE 8TAOK COR -IIISc.I.I Mi. to build, but particulary because it leavee nail holes in the shingles which are very apt to occasion leaks. A simple plan is suggested in the sketch. A piece of two by three stuff has the butts of shingles nailed to its under surface as shown. The points of the shingles are then nailed securely upon the 'last course of shingle* laid, the next coune being laid right over theee staging ahinglee, which a} the end of the job are simply backed out of place, the nails that held their tipe splitting the tips and remaining under the course of shinnies laid down over them. No nail holes are thus made in the roof. Each piece of two by three stuff should have a number of these shingles attached, and the points of the latter should be firmly nailed when this kind of ttage it put down. The Farm Where a Profit is Hade- From the figure* of dairymen all over the country, taye H.S Matteson in Coun- try Gentleman, we find that the cost of keeping a cow for a year, at liberal price* Majesty travels in the ourse of her jour- for pasturage, hay and grain, is from $32 ueys, and an elaborate system has been | to $.-(.-,. Xow, taking this to be a fair volved which practically pncludes any . tjmate tn . <JOW ^ mmkw on , y .^ far better. Nfcw we produce th* finest salt in the wnrld for dairy purposes. The danger in using foreign salts is in the matter of their being exposed to odon in the ship transporting them. Don't forget that salt is purely a flavor- ing matter, that increased quantities used will not preserve butter if air is accessible to it. Salt may be employed, at an auxil- iary agent, in certain ways for this purpose, such as making a brine to submerge butter in, or in pasting ths tops of butter in tabs. Both of these prevent the air from reaching the butter, but the same butter salted one- quarter ounce to the pound and put in an air-tight package, with an enameled surface, will keep much longer. Don't imagine that butter absorb* salt You may mix a pound of butter with a pound ot salt and by washing the product, in fresh water, remove every particle of salt. It is a good butter- maker that can pro- duce butter with only ten per cent, of mois- ture. the avorage is 15 per cent. In sailing one-half ounce to the pound this percentage of moisture will dissolve this quantity ot salt into a brine. Any exoess of this quant- ity of salt, say oue ounce to the pound, reenltt in part being dissolved but leaving sufficient to make the butter gritty from the undissolved portion. The World is Getting There. In one of Roger Bacon's eesayt, published in 1618, some of the possibilities of steam are vaguely foreshadowed, and aerial navi. gation it declared to be a thing of the future. We quote from a translation fur- nished ut ; "Instruments may be made for I navigating without any men pulling the ! oan, with a eingle man governing, and going quicker than if they were full ot pull- ing men. Wagons also can be mad* so that i without any horse thsy should be moved i with such a velocity that it is impossible to measun it. . . . It Is possible also to devise instruments for flying, such that a man being in the centre is revolving some- thing by which artificial wing* are made to beat the air in the fashion of ths bird*. . It is also possibility of an accident, provided the onlers issued to the subordinates on ths j pounds of buttsr per year, to say nothing railway are properly carried out and no of any other value aside from the butter, on the bottom of the sea. possible to ments which will permit devise mstru- p^nons to walk uji of sugar and a make two pie*. little salt. This will Snubbing. Couplss who are anxious to separate can begin this way with the certain assurance that a grand domestic upheaval will be the result. The sweetest tempered woman In the world will soon grow very tired of being called down every time th* attempts to sxpress a sentiment of her own before people. It make* hor feel small ; It like- wise stirs up all the antagonism that lies dormant in her nature.and though she nay iron error is committed. The system it now ttereotyped ; but for a.1 that, whenever the Queen signifies her intention of utiug the railway Sir Henry Poosonby puts himself in communication with the managers ri the lines concerned several days beforehand, and TIIK run ATE WIRE at the palace is kept in active smployment up to the very moment when her Majesty has started from ths palace. Thit event is notified by win to ths station, and from ths mom*nt of her Majeety'e arrival then the responsibility for h*r safety rests with the manager and hit assistants. That th* companies are fully conscious of the responsibility placed on them may be gathered from their scheme of precau- tion.. All traffic is stopped on the line, and the point* are locked in front of th* royal train for a certain period befors it actual ar- rival at any one spot, and thu period is regu- lated by telegraphic ad vie** from variouttta- tiont announcing the approach of th* train. The result it that ths line is entirely free, all traffic being stopped at certain stations ahtad and run into tidinge until the royal train has actually passed. Moreover, a pilot engine runt in front of tht royal train to clear the way ;to that if by any extra- ordinary accident any traffic should havs esca) ed on to the line, or any obstacle should have been placed there by malicious design, the pilot engine will act as a scout, either to stop and turn back th* vagrant engineer to bring the royal procession bs- hind to an immediate standstill by timely ignals. AS ADDITIONAL I'RBTAITION for th* security of the line itself is found in the guard of pointsmen acd signalmen who an posted within signalling distance of cue another, and whose duty it IS to notify from hand to hand on the one tide that the line it free within their control, and on the other that the royal train it approaching. Supposing, therefore, that tome runaway train escaped the embargo laid at its junctions, and ths pilot engine wss rendered helpless by running off the line, the safety ol the Queen would etill be secured by the rule that no tignalman is allowed to allow the royal train to pass his box unless it hat been signalled from the box immediately ahead of him that the line is clear. Some fifty copies of a complete way book, containing fall pe-ticular* with regard to the limti of starting, passing, or arriving at stations, the number of carriagea, and the list of the passenger*, together with a haded diagram of th* gradient*, are printed and distributed among the royal othcisli of t no suite and tin- railway otli.-ials in charge of the train . A ipecial edition ol this, of a leu comprehentive character, it printed in purple on tatin, adorned with the royal armt and afa emlmssed border of gold, (01 the use of ths Queen and the rojal family ; to that, at any time.members of the party, by comparing a watch with the way-book, csn ascertain exactly where thsy an, and what frill lie the next nation with every detail of importance. Then i* further a minute plan of the train with measurement*, showing the exact number and dimensions of the carriage! and the namtt of their occupants, so that every* body oan know exactly where every one site ought to be. will make a fair percentage of profit on her ca*h valus, which ws will average at $25, coating say $35 to keep her a year ; and receiving $50 for her butter alone will give a profit of $15 on a capital of ?-.">. Of course ws hare not taken into ac- count any labor to produce this butter, but that can offset the labor necessary to cut hay or harvest crops of any k ind . But we mast, if ws are to compare the profit of 25-cent butter with that of buying fer- tilizen and growing hay, consider ths vslus of the manure from the cows, and of the skim-milk, which will add largsly to the credit of the dairy. To make 200 pounds of butter, a cow i as thsy reckon th* nilk at creameries) must give at least 5, 000 pounds of milk, and to taks 40 per cent. >ut from tins would Itave 3,UOO pounds of ikim-milk, which is worth, st a low es- imale, 10 cents per 100 pound*. This addtd to th* profit on butter, juld make $18, which I* not a bad show- tor an investment o! ng f The man who can tell just what it cost* produce a pound of butter i* not born et. and we can only get an approximate roiit. But the day i* patt when a dairy- man I* *atitfied with the cow that can make only 2OO pounds of butter, and to-day there are in New York state whole townships here the average of the whole number of oowa in town hasgone far above tha* figure, and tho limit is not naohod yet. A few weeks since Mr. Matteson tayt he drove through a section when the whole lusine** of th* farms was th* production of lay, and of all th* desolate, woe-bsgone coking farms h has seen in years tbsy wen those fences all down, no signs of ife or activity to b*> seen, and nothing in th* way of business except now and then a hay press st work. Location, natural ad- vanlagee, ability , etc. , must govern largely he profit of the two methods of farming. Hut to take the country at large, the ireatest prosperity it found when the lair let are at least the housss and barns and general appearance of the dairy farms are always far superior to that of tho** when other branches tuch as hay and grain-raiting are principally followed. EVERY LASH COST $500. w > miiiind Served a BesMk i KrpHtilli- f*r 1 1. u.l. i a Krll.a. John Jamet Mago, a quiet, middle-aged man, hat had a career a* romantic at that of Moule Critto. Majo is now a Guatem- alan millionaire, who livee nine month* of th* year in Pans. Twenty yean ago, he was a poor English collector of insects in Guatemala, and also acted as th* British vice consul at San Jos*. On* day Com- mandante Oonzale* ordered Mago to appear before him, Mago ssnt word that he would come in a short time. This incensed the commandante, and he tent a file of toldien aftea Mago, and, when the insect collector appeared, ordered fifty lashee to be laid upon his bars back. This was don* very thoroughly and when it was finished Goo xalee shouted: "(live him fifty mon for luck." When Mago recovered, whioh wat only alter careful nnning, at hisback was badly cut up, he mads a formal complaint to the British govermenl. The result was that Guatemala was ordered to punish Goniales, and pay Mago $500 for every lash he had received. In default of this Knglish cruisers would shell San Jos* and other ooast cities. Guatemala readily pun- ished Gonxales, but tried bard to evads paying $50,000 to Mago. Ths British, however, wen inexorable, and th* poor collector was made a comparatively rich man In one day. A* he had mon coin than any on* in th* country at that time Preeidnnt Barrioe went into partnership with him. Mago became one of the largest coffee planters, and also secured the con- tract forbnilding dockt in the port. No, one can land or leave one of theee dock* without paying toll to Mago, while he alto levietatax on all freight. He also own valuable mines and tracts of timber. His fortune is estimated at $5,000,000, all doe to 100 lashss on the back. Tit-Bits. The Last Resort. itather amusing is this yarn told by Edward Terry, the London comedian. Hi* wile recently engaged a aerrant from a sub- urban workhouse on the recommendation of a friend, bnt the girl turned oat very badly. Mrs. Terry told her that if she di<* not behave she would have to go back to the wurk house. "No, I shan't." said th* girl. "I'll get another situation." "Bat yon can't unite* I give yoo a char- acter. " "Oh, very well," replied the domestic contemptuously, "if th* wont comes to the worst I can go on th* stage." A Hard Question. Philoeopher "What is it that yon wo- men want?" Mrs. Strungmind "All we want it jus- tice." Philoeopher "Only justice 1 Then why do you always patronize the photographer* who nave the best retouchers '" The True Horseman. Hostler "T hear them society du.let talk, yeh might think they knowed some- thing about hones.'' Stable Boy "They own plenty." Hostler "Yes, an' they got cheated oat o their eyes on every one of 'em," Salt for the Dairy. Salt i* one of the most important mat- ten of the dairy yet it largely treated with indifference after selecting what is con- sidered the best. Salt it susceptible to odort and should be at much protected from contamination as the cream : many a lot of lino butter has been greatly reduced in value from bad or tainted salt. It should be kept in a dry place and whore the air is perfectly pure and sweet. It should he kept in air tight packages. Dairy man should order it direct from th* salt works, who should in turn use every care in eeleoting oars in whloh it it to be shipped and that it does not o jie in con- tact with othsr cargo emitting odors. There art brands of salt on the market that am as unsuitable for the dairy, in matter of flavor, ae kerosene oil would be for flavoring a pudding. There are brands of foreign salt almost as good as those produced in this oo'mtry and for years Got iThere Anyhow. "Everybody made the editor I of a pair of slippers," "Yes; but he got even. "How?" "Started a shoe More below cost." present an' is tsllin' out Rather Liked It. Bouttown ''This women's emancipation movement isn't such a bnd thing, after all I've been keeping company with Miss Strongioul lately, and 1 rather like it." I'pi in "In what way, particularly?" I'.'iuttown "Well, for one thing, she insists on paying her own expense*. Society Shocked. Mrs. Highstyls (at a fashionable party) "Oh, oh, oh ! That horridly vulgar Mies I'syohe is here." Mrs. Finestyle "I do not know her." Mrs. Highsiyle "You need not want to. The coarse creature shamelessly say* that th* it going to marry for love." One More Triumph. Citizen "What has your last Arctic ex- pedition accomplished ?" Arctic Explorer "What has been ac- complished ? \\ by, tir, we have fully and mcontrovertibly demonstrated that babies can be born at the North Pole a* well a* at th* Equator." Not for Publication. "And about th* salary," said the actor. "Well,'' said the manager, after a moment's thought, "suppose we call it $250 a week." "All right." "Of course, yon understand that $250 is merely what we call it. Yon ill get $35. ' United They Stand. Mrs. Jones "How does your husband get along with your mother T" Mrs. Smith Wnenever there is the slightest sign of trouble I get them to talk about the baby." Abundant Proof. She "I wonder whether Chinamen ever use intoxicants to excess ?" He "The war hasdemonstrated that they don't. You don't hear of their doing any- thing but taking water." Still In the Swim. Neighbor "How did your daughter 1 * marriage with that Count turn out?'' Mrs. Brickrow " Her last letter from Europe elates that he has spent all her ncney, and she is taking in washing : bat then, I presume, she washes only for the nobility." Difficult. "One of the hardest thing* I know of," said the young author, "is to get exactly the right word in the right place." "Ye*/ replied hit impecunious friend, "take th* signature to a checE for instance." The Dublin Brogue. France* Power Cobbe, in her " life," givee amusing illustrations of the Dublin brogue in which Irish Protestant clergymen, educated at Trinity College, used to preach fifty yean ago. One, concluding a sermon on the " Fear of Death," exclaimed : " Me brethren, the doying Chrietian lepp* into the irru.m of Death, and makes hi* hollow jaws ring with eternal hallelujahs '" There was a chapter in the Acts which Mist Cobbe dreaded to hear read by a cer- tain clergyman, en difficult was it to help laughing when told of " I'ertheans and Madee, and the dwellers in Meeopotemis and the part of Libya about Cyraine, streengen of Konm, Jews, Froeelytee 'rates and Anbians." Not so Serious. It is relate. 1 that two persons, one of them a wheelman and the other an oppon- ent of bicycling, were discussing th* chances of injury through riding a wheel. " Injury ? Pooh ! " said th* wheelman. I've been riding three yean, and I've had only on* accident, and that wasn't serious.'' What did you break in that?" (>nly a leg. " Only a leg ' I should think that was enough I " " Oh, bat it was my teacher's leg 1 What He Would Be. Teacher "Ther* is adistinction between a tinner and a criminal. If you toH a story yon would be a tinner. But tuppoee you ttole a big box of candy, than what would you be ?" Bey "sick." Domestic Mathematics. Teacher "If oce servant girl oonld clean a room in two houn, how long would it take two servant airlt to do it ?" Little Oirl " Four houn." "Wrong. It would take only one hour." "Oh ! I didn't know you was talkm' about servant girls that was strangers to each other." A Superior Woman. Little Johnny "Mamm* says Mrs. Highmmd is a very superior woman. What does that mean?" Little Ethel "I don't know 'xactly, hut Mrs. Highmmd has travelled a good deal, and maybe ehe can real a rwlroad time- table all by herself." Mica in stoves, when smoked is readily cleaned by taking it out and washing with diluted vinegar. If th* Mack dot* not com* off at once let it soak a little