Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1880 — Mysterious Disappearance. [ARTICLE]

Mysterious Disappearance.

t For some months past, the mysterious disappearance of cats and yellow dogs in Sunbury, Northumberland County, has been the cause of much discussion. Venerable cats that were, so to speak, family heirlooms, would be seen dreamily reclining on Sunbury porches in the afternoon, and, in spite ot every precaution, would have vanished by sunset, as if they were of the famous Kilkenny breed. Local savans wrestled with the problem in vain. The Sunday-school lyceum discussed the matter, and the local papers were filled with columns of communications on the subject—but no light was thrown on the cause. It is all clear now. The County Commissioners’ reports show that over eight hundred dollars had been paid out in a few months for bounties on fox and mink scalps, and returns from several townships show that the per capita amoants paid just about equaled the number of missing pets. Several school districts in remote parts of the county are yet to be heard from. There is much excitement over the discovery.— Philadelphia Press. twenty aeree

K - - j l i,iti Hl |l * niilniitnf for soda. Wfl lodged a wet soil to facilitate evaporation, and roll or otherwise oompress a dry soil to retain it. When hoeing to destroy weeds, be careful to lighten up your own footsteps or you will find the weeds quickly germinate there. The soil being compressed retains the moisture and facilitates germination. King George's Pudding.—One pint of bread-crambe, half pint of flour, teaspoonful of baking powder sifted in flour, a little salt, half a pound of raisins, quarter of a pound of currants, quarter of a pound of chopped suet, coffee cupful of milk, one egg; tied tightly in a bag and boiled three nours; to be eaten with hard sauce. To prefabs stock for soup this recipe will be found useful, as in a family not too numerous enough stock can be made for a “week. Take four pounds of lean beef, cut it into small pieces, slice an onion, saw a hock-bone of beef, remove the marrow, and fry the cut beef and onion in the marrow to a full brown; put fried meat, onion and fresh hock in two gallons of cold water; let it simmer all day; at night strain through sieve, and replace in kettle; throw iu some egg-shell and dear; strain through a cloth into an earthen crock; in the morning skim the stock to remove grease; this stock may be used for vegetables or any kind ot soup; of course it is a rich brown color.— Burlington Hawkeye. Those of you who conclude to be of the score of saving farmers, will keep no idle people about you, nor idle land, nor idle horses; keep everything at work, put half your land in grass, graze with cattle, milk as many cows as your help can easily manage, save and feed well all your calves. Do not keep too many hogs, substitute a few sheep, so that you will get family woolens and summer mutton cheap, raise fall colts from your work-mares; have wintergrass for open weather, and shelter for all animals, feed some roots to young things in the barn, and oat meal and apples to your family the year round; this will keep down the doctor's bill to reasonable proportions; consult old intelligent farmers as often as you can; you don’t know it all.— Exchange. How to Clean Brass and Copper. —The following mixture will be found the best thing for cleaning brass, oopSer, tin, stair-rods, taps, and even winows, and it is quite worth the trouble of making once a year, as the quantities I give will last that time, and the best way is to store it in wide-mouthed pickle jars of glass or stone: One pound whitening, one pound rotten stone, one pound soft soap, one teacupful vinegar, as much water as will make it a thick paste. Let it boil fully ten minutes, and when nearly cold add half a pint of spirits of turpentine. When you use it put very little on a rag, and rub the article you wish to clean well with it until it becomes bright, and then polish with a leather dipped in powdered bathbrick. Unless you use bath-brick it soon tarnishes, but bath-brick preserves the polish.— Cor. N. Y. Times.