Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1880 — Musn’t Do It Again. [ARTICLE]

Musn’t Do It Again.

Am accident occurred in Thomaston some years ago in connection with the Naugatuck Bailroad Company, that has probably never appeared in print. Aman by the name of Darrow owned a number of cows, and one day they escaped the confines of their pasture and strayed on to the car-track. The engine of a passing train ran over and killed two of the animals. Next day Mr. Darrow went to Mr. Waterbury, then Superintendent of the road, and, after explaining the matter of his loss to him, asked him what he would do about it. Said Mr. Waterbury: “Was any damage done to theroad, as you saw?” “Why, no, not as I know of,” said Darrow. “Was the engine or any of the cars injured in any way? “ No, of course not,” said Darrow. “Well, then,” said Waterbury, “ if no damage was done to the company, I won’t do anything about it; but you must be careful nest to allow such a thing to occur again.”— -Waterbury (Conn.) American. Patbick and Biddy were engaged And time set to be married; But Biddy flirted, Pat got mad, And so the plan miscarried. Then Biddy soothed her wounded heart. „ And was to Michael wed; , Miohael fell down between two can And home was carried dead. _____ —Otsego Tribune. Thbt were sitting silently by the parlor fire, intently watching the hands of the clock as they slowly crawled around to the biggest striking-place. Suddenly she said : “Mr. Lourdand, can you toll me why you are like a century plant?” Mr. L. nervously adjusted his eye-giium, wiggled about in his chair and stammered: “Be—be—becaw—cause I sh—sh—shall I—l—live for—for—for—forever F’ ‘’No, you duitoc; it’s because it takes you so tong to leave.”

potting soil to placed for a day cr two fa the W yard every particle of it> BWLVS*' SsV® your cabbages from grabs by winding a little atrip of paper loosely uwtd the stem from roots to leaves when set oat. We set a lam number of cabbages last year, and not one that we wound the paper around did we lose by grabs. To destroy cabbage worms sprinkle them with hot water.”Cocoanut Pre—One small cup of prepared cocoanut soaked in a pint of sweet* milk, two powdered crackers, yelks of two eggs, four tablespoonfula of sugar and a small lump of batter; mix all thoroughly and bake without upper crest; beat the whites of two eggs well, and when the pie to done, spread them evenly over the top; sprinkle over a little sugar, and set back in the oven until it is of a light brown. Fowls will need the beet food if eggs are deaired. Wheat steeped in boiling water and given hot, and hot baked potatoes crashed with a masher, are as good food as can be given; water slightly warmed with a small quanity of sulphate of iron (copperas) in it, will be useful Allspice mixed with cornmeal mush is an excellent condiment, and by no means costly. Laudanum in ten-drop dooes has been found a remedy for chollera. or poultry intestinal fever, which has destroyed so many flocks.— Poultry World. Cream Pastry.—To a quart bowl of the cream add one and a half small teaspoonfuls of saleratus or cooking soda, dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of boiling water and allowed to boil up for a minute or two. Beat it into the cream, and as soon as it foams stir in one quart of flour that has just been sifted. Add enough sifted flour to roll out very soft Be very careful not to mix up stiff, but put in only enough flour to keep it from sticking to the fingers and rollingpin. If richer pastry is desired, bits of butter or lard can be rolled into the paste. Angbl Cakb.— The following has been well tested and always proves delicious*. Take one large coffeecupful of the best flour and add to it a teaspoonful of cream tartar; sift it through a fine sieve four times. Beat to a stiff froth the whites of eleven eggs. Add to them slowly, as if you were making frosting, one and a half coffee cupfuls of powdered sugar and one teaspoonful of extract of vanilla. Then stir in the flour, sifting it in through the fingers slowly. .Bake in a deep, unbuttered tin, and do not remove from it until quite cool, and frost it. Half-moon scolloped tins, four or five inches in depth, are used by the fancy bakers for this kind of cake.— Detroit Post and Tribune. Am old gentleman who has been planting groves upon the prairie for more than thirty years was pointing out the excellencies of his belts of trees, and remarked that he had just learned how to plant and care for them. He gave the following advice for growing valuable hard-wood timber: Plant in rows, alternate with soft maple; space between rows of hard wood trees, ten feet; between hard and soft wood, five feet; trees four feet apart in the rows; trim the soft wood just enough to keep from choking the hard word, which will then grow tall and straight. Where he hsoft maple or willow AWne foj/wqpH the former has made sixtpgmds per? acre in twelve years andLtne latter one hundred cords.— KepHuk Gate City. \