Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1875 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Sausages.— Forty-six pounds of meat, three-fourths of a pound of salt, three ounces of black pepper, half an ounce of sage and a tablespoonful of red pepper. Always fill a coal-oil lamp every day before using. The bowl should never be allowed to get empty and be lighted in I that condition, for toe vacant space is always full of explosive gas .—Cor. Prairie Parmer. Liquid fertilizer. “ suitable for house plants,” or similar purpose, is prepared by steeping partially-decomposed manure from the cow-stables m water-ram preferred. By filling a hogshead placed in an outhouse about one-third full of toe manure, and toe remaining space with water, a preparation of sufficient strength will result. If very dark dilute with pure water. The manner of cooking spinach is as simple as toe cooking of any kind of “greens.” A little water in a kettle seasoned with salt and boiling. Some add a little soda when the water is hard, toe rize of a pea. The fire should be hot and the herb pressed into the pot and kept down by frequent turning and crowding, so that toe whole may be cooked alike. The very instant it becomes tender, which you know by testing, turn into a colander to drain a few seconds; then dish in with a drainer, or in a common vegetable dish with a lagct* inverted in the bottom. Place It in a hot closet, drain off toe water, butter and pepper and eat immediately. It is a dish toe gods might covet. —Detroit Tribune. Canned Fruit.—A correspondent in a recent issue of the New York Tribune says: “l made a discovery a year ago which will benefit every family in the United States if they will follow it, in panning fruit. It is this: Take any old fruitcan, only have it tight, no matter how mnch the tin is off on the inner surface, and place one sheet of note paper (com-mercial-note size), around the inside. It can be done very easily, and will, if done right, stay just where it is placed. Then put the fruit in toe can in toe usual way, and my word for it, when Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Smith comes to take tea next winter they will not stick np their noses when tasting toe fruit taken out of one of toe paper-coated cans, and say the fruit tastes tinny. On the contrary, they will say it is just as perfect as when put up in new cans. I know there are thousands of farmers, like myself, that have their gardens and cellars filled with old cans. If paper-coated they will be just as good as new. The paper need not be pasted in, as some may think, for it will remain in its place without paste. Sweet-Potato Vine. —This is really a very desirable vine for the house. It is a rapid grower and is much more delicate in appearance under house culture than when growing out of doors. If a vine of this kind is desired, select a well-ripened tuber of the Red Nansemond variety, as this kind is said to be the most vigorous grower. If your potato is eight or ten inches long and four or five inches in diameter it will be about the right size. A dark-colored hyacinth glass is a suitable and pretty holder for toe potato, but a common glass fruit-can or small earthen jar will do. Fill the vessel with rainwater and stand the potato in toe mouth of it, allowing only two or three inches of the potato to go down into the water. Set it in a warm, bright place to sprout, filling up the holder with water as fast as it evaporates. Probably a great many sprouts will start at once or in quick succession; break off all but three or four of these, as your vine will by so doing be much longer and more luxuriant. Nothing more will be needed for the perfection of this vine, except to keep the vessel containing it filled with rain-water. — N. Y. Tribune.