Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 5, Ed. 1, Monday, December 15, 1884 Page: 3 of 10
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
A dingy oilcloth may bo brightened
by washing it with clear water with a
little borax dissolved in it; wipe it with
a llannel cloth that you have dipped
into milk and then wring it as dry as
possible.
An English cook of note observes
that if you use a young fowl for mak-
ing chicken broth it will have a
stronger and more distinctive llavor if
the chicken is roasted for twenty min-
utes before cutting it up to boil.
Pies made of apple butter are highly
recommended. For one pie take naif
a cup a good large half cup of the
butter one egg half a cup of sujjpir
one-third of a teaspoonful of allspice
and sweet milk to make the requisite
quantity for one pie. Bake with a
lower crust only.
Oyster fritters are made thus: To
one cup of sweet milk allow two eggs
with Hour enough to make a thick bat-
ter; salt and pepper to suit the taste
must be added; chop the oysters and
about this you must consult your own
taste for some good cooks cut them
only in halves while others chop them
tine. Have hot lard or beef drippiugs
in a small but deep kettle drop the
batter into this from a large .spoon
and fry until a delicate brown.
Tender turnips cooked thus make a
good entree: Put into a pan six
ounces of butter and a tablespoonful
of Hour; simmer these over a quick
lire until they become slightly brown.
Add a gill of boiling water then six
ounces of raw ham cut into small
dice a little salt and peper one onion
a little parscly and four or live small
turnips cut into small bits. Cover the
sauce pan and let this cook until the
turnips are done. Carrots are also
cooked in this way and the seasoning
is sometimes removed and the vegeta-
bles served without it.
A very plain pudding but one
which is nice if eaten with a good
sauce is made of three parts of bread
crumbs rolled quite line one part tart
apples chopped about as for mince
pies and one part raisins and English
currants either chopped or whole as
your taste may dictate a teaspoonful
of salt and water to moisten sulli-
ciently are all the ingredients required.
Mix well together and steam for two
hours; serve hot with a rich sauce
taking the precaution to make the
sauce sweeter than is usual as the
pudding is not sweetened at all.
A most appetizing salad is made by
shaving cabbage about as line as it is
possible to shave it; sprinkle white
mustard seed over it using enough so
that there will be a distinct mustard
flavor. An ounce of seed to one small
head of cabbage will do; one or two
yellow peppers should be cut into very
small slices and added; pour cold
vinegar over all add a little salt and
sugar and then let stand for a day or
two so that the cabbage and pepper
are really pioklod. This may be
packed in jars or be put into cans and
kept all winter.
Very pretty match pockets to hold
bttrntinatches are now made to hang
on the gas fixtures and are highly or-
namental. One intended for the par-
lor is made in this way: For the bot-
tom a small basket painted drab and
Varnished is used; the basket is not
round but almost Hat and is about live
or six inches long; to this is sewed a
strip of pink satin about nine inches
deep. This is gathered nt the top and
drawn up like a work bag; very nar-
row ribbon is used by which this is
hung on the wall or upon the hanging
lamp. They are pretty also if made
of much plainer material.
The old-fashioned way of stewing
pumpkin is done awny with forever.
A woman of an investigating turn of
mind tried baking the pumpkin. She
cut it into several pieces and set it
into the oven. When soft she took it
out scraped all the pumpkin from the
shell rubbed "it through a colander
and there it was line and light abso-
lutely free fiom lumps. Dried pump-
kin used to form an important part of
the winter's stores and those of us
who are so fortunate as to remember
the pies of our grandmothers know
that no other mode of preparing
pumpkins for pies in winter is so ex-
cellent. It is very little trouble after
the pumpkin is baked anil sifted to
spread it on plates and dry it. It
must bo kept in closely covered jars
or it will become worm v.
A delicate and delicious batter for
fruit fritters is made of the yolk qf two
eggs a teaspoonful of claritied butter
two-thirds of a pint of sweet milk with
Hour to make a stiiV batter a pinch of
salt to be added just before putting in
the whites of two eggs beaten to a still
froth; into this batter dip halves of
peaches or whole apricots or plums;
fry in hot lard until a delicate brown
color is attained drain well place in a
hot dish scatter powdered sugar over
and pour boiled custard around them.
This is an agreeable dish. This batter
with the addition of half a teaspoonful
of baking powder may be used as a
pudding batter also; put the fruit in
the bottom of an earthen dish and
pour the batter over it. Bake for half
an hour in a moderate oven.
How to Foretell Weather.
A communication to The Southern
Planter deals- with the subject of
weather prognostics. Few intelligent
persons can have any sympathy with
the so-called prophets who oracularly
announce phenomena giving dates
occasionally making lucky hits but
as often firing their random shots al
together wide of the mark. That there
is lrowever something in weather
philosophy intelligent persons will be
qnite ready to concede and they will
be in accord with the views of the
writer when he recommends the habit
of observation of natural phenomena
which has long been practiced its
results being handed down to us in the
homely weather proverbs with which
all are familliar. There is good
ground for belief that observations of
this kind will prove useful the more
so as modern science enables us to
give the reasons unknown to our fore-
fathers for many phenomena and
thereby to determine the value of in-
dications by the association of causes
with effects instead of following
blindly the perhaps erroneous observa-
tions of others. An apt illustration of
this is furnished in the article under
notice. Persons really intelligent and
not uninformed have maintained that
the direction of the milky way charges
and indicates the course of the wind
when as every child of to-day knows
this hi m of white crossing the sk1- is
resolvable by the telescope into myra-
mids of stars whose position is of
course independent of terrestrial cur-
rents. How this deeply-rooted idea
originated is a mystery since it could
not have come from observation.
Careful and intelligent study in the
Held of weather phenomena would un-
doubtedly establish many facts while
it would dispel a great many errors
and false inferences; the knowledge
gained would be besides of practical
interest ami benefit to the observer
and to the community provided the
observations were recorded. On this
ground the writer's views well deserve
commendation. He says:
"If one could read the signs each
day foretells the next; to-day is the
progenitor of to-morro.v. When the
atmosphere is telescopic and distant
objects stand out unusually clear and
distinct a storm is near. We are on
the crest of the wave and the depres-
sions follow quick. It sometimes
happens that clouds are not so indica-
tive of a storm as their total abscence.
Ln this state of the atmosphere the
stars arc unusually numerous and
bright at night is also a bad omen.
It appears that the transparency of
air is prodigiously increased when a
certain quantity of water is uniformly
dilVused through it. Mountaineers
predict a change of weather when
the air being calm the Alps covered
with perpetual snow seem on a sud-
den to bo nearer the observer and
their outlines arc marked with great
distinctness an the a.ure sky. This
same condition of the atmosphere
renders distant sounds more audible.
"There is one redness of the east in
the morning that means storm; another
that indicates wind. The first is broad
deep and angry; the clouds look like
an immense bed of burning coals.
The second is softer and more vapory.
At the point where the sun is going to
rise and in a few minutes in advance
of his coining there rises sraight up-
ward a rosy column like a shaft of
dyed vapor blending with and yet
partly separated from the clouds and
the base of which presently comes to
glow like the sun himself.
that follows is pretty sure to be
windy.
"It is uncertain to what extent birds
and animals can foretell the weather.
Vheu swallows are seen hawking very
high it is a very good indication
because the insects upon which they
feed venture up there only in the most
auspicious weather.
"People livo in the country all their
lives without making one accurate ob-
servation about nature. The good
observer of nature holds his eye long
and firmly to the point and" finally
gets the facts not only because he luis
patience but because his eye is sharp
and his inference swift. There are
many assertions the result of hasty
and incomplete observation such as
for instance that the way the milky
way points at night indicates the di-
rection of the wind the next day; also
that every new moon indicates either
a dry or a wet month There arc
many other stories about the moon
too numerous to mention. Again
when a farmer kills his hogs in the
fall if the pork be very hard and solid
he predicts a severe winter if soft and
loose the opposite overlooking the
fact that the kind of food and the
temperature of the fall make the pork
hard or soft. Numerous other in-
stances could be cited to prove that
the would be-shrcwd farmer does not
interpret nature in the right way and
that his conclusions being hasty and
incomplete are wrong; and until he
studies nature understandingly using
a little common sense so long will he
be more or less under the ban of su-
perstition and ignorance.'1 The South.
PASSING EVENTS.
Iteligjon in Italy.
The Italian government like most
other civilized governments of our
time are at odds with their church
with respect to the management of
their schools. They can not find a
midway between the tuition of the Je-
suits Scolopians and Ignorantins and
that of downright Freethinkers and
atheists. The church which has all
her way in the seminaries ami Sunday
schools would equally claim full con-
trol over all lay schoolsand academics.
The plea is that in Italy the people are
all Catholics and can never be any-
thing but that. But. unfortunately
many are anything but that. Away
from the present class the number of
true earnest believers is inconceivably
limited; and wherever intelligence is
found the antagonism of the nation to
papacy is invincible. There are not
many "thinkers in Italy consequently
not many skeptics or positivists. But
religion is nowhere a matter of more
supreme indifference than inthatcoun-
try. That churches arc crowded or
that new ones are built is no proof to
the contrary. All evidence goes to
prove that paganism had no greater
honor paid to it in ancient (Jreece and
Home than when the cry of clear sight-
ed people was "Acs' JJicux s'en vont.J
We may be told that the same may
never be the ease of Christianity or
even of Catholic Christianity. And
doubtless the most conscientious Ital-
ians go their whole length with Man-
zoni in his defense of the Morale
Callolica. They had no fault to find
with the dogma in its original simplic-
ity and purity. But the papacy is not
satisfied with that and most assured
by it seems rather hard to anathema-
tize as j'theism tiu' disbelief in papal
infallibility in the sacredness of the
priestly vows of celibacy in the expe-
diency of the use of dead languages in
the liturgy in the wandcrin s of the
house of Lorctto and the bubbling of
St. Janiia riu's blood in the apparition
of the virgin of Lourdes and La
Salette; in all the new-fangled tenets
proclaimed by the Vatican and in the
endless modern miracles added to
those with which to use Cardinal New-
man's expression "the church is hung
all round." between believing too
much and believing nothing no mid-
way is allowed. The papacy on one
side and false liberalism on the other
equally insist on the lout on rien en-
forcement of their views; and the re-
sult of their irrational interminable
squabbles is that the interest of the
rising generation in the school is sacri-
ficed. A. G'allcnga in The National lie-view.
Washington territory voted in favor
of taxation of church property.
In Florida tho Cleveland men poured
oil on the lakes and set iiro to it.
A white deer was recently brought
to Portland Ore. from Lewis river.
Tho "Turkish" towels for tho Amer-
ican market aro made in Philadelphia.
Frogs' legs have taken the placo of
oysters as a fashionable dish for lunch.
Keady-mado wooden houses aro now
exported from this country to Buenos
Ayres.
Georgia will occupy four thousand
feet of room at the New Orleans ex-
position. Twenty-live ladies of Columbia
county Washington territory are do-
ing jury duty.
Brigham Young drives a stage be-
tween Goldendalo and Grant Wash-
ington territory.
Wild turkeys arc said to be unprece-
dentedly numerous in the mountains
of West Virginia.
An Indian at Fresno Flats Cal. was
lined $700 recently by a justice for
kiiling another Indian.
It is said that Columbia county
Florida has phosphate rocks similar
to those in South Carolina.
Florida oranges aro better than
ever this year and tho Mediterranean
fruit promises to be unusually attract-
ive. An old lady of 80 springs living in
Lewis county Washington territory
cast her maiden vote at the last elec-
tion. Miss Emma Larson and her sister
rode from Wisconsin to San Francisco
i i i j i
on norseoacK wiinom ueing once mo-
lested. The headquarters of the Salvation
army in America are to be moved to
Cleveland. First the great fire and
now this!
Mexico has decided to excel at tho
New Orleans exposition. Poor as she
is she has contributed $200000 for the
purpose.
It is proposed that ladies utilize tho
fashionable smelling-bottles not in
use for smelling as pickle jars or cel-
ery glasses.
Bills are before the Alabama and
Georgia legislatures prohibiting tho
importation manufacture or sale ol
liquor in those states.
An English doctor who has traveled
in this country says Americans could
live to be 100 years old if they would
take care of themselves.
A writer in an English scientific
journal fancies that he has discovered
that North America was at one time
colonized by the llomans.
A torpedo which had been placed
on ji horse-car track in At anta Ga.
the other d:y exploded and toro a
hole in the bottom of a car.
Here is a chance for the Canadian
inventor. The Australian colony of
Victoria offers a reward of $1230 for a
reaping-machine adapted to tho uses
of the colony.
The Conkling homestead at Huting--ton
Long island one of the first build-
ings erected on that island and which
wsis over two hundred years old was
recently burned to the ground. It was.
valued at about $2000.
There are now seven mills in Pittsyl-
vania county Virginia engaged in tho
manufacture of sassafras oil. it takes
seventy-five pounds of roots to make a
gallon'of oil which sells for $1.0.0 per
gallon. It is used for flavoring soaps.
A novel auction will soon take place
at San Francisco Cal. Some time ago
a lady near that city gave birth to trip-
lets and now she proposes to give the
privilege of naming the three children-
to the person who cast the highest
number of votes at $5 a vote.
The largest plantation in Alabama
in cotton is that of Messrs. Roberts &
Sailers at Union Springs 000 acres
The Ameiican pest is the professional Amer-
ican politician. Ho Is almost as tfroat a pub-
lic criminal as the publisher of a sensational
The day political newspaper The VurretiL
containing 25 miles of ditches employ-
ing or supporting a population of 800
persons and producing (J00 bales of
cotton besides 95000 bushels of corn.
Maiden Mass. collected $75 for a
jollification the other day and then
voted to spend the money for a Thanks-
giving dinner for the soldiers in the
home at Chelsea and raise another
25 for a dinner for the poor of Maiden.
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