Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1882 — Page 3

FOB THE LADIES.

Sicilienne ie much used for spring dresses. ** - Braiding and fringe increases in popularity. t Terra Cotta gloves are among the novelties. - In some quarters dolly vardens are revived. The new bustle resembles a large pin cushion. Patridge feathers are used to cover parasols. “Patience” pokes are worn by young ladies. White muslin dresses are embroidered all over. English customes of cloth have swallow-tail coats. g Nacille is the name of the hew color like twine. Bed- parasols are now sometimes made of velvet. ■ Veronese green is an artistic shade for spring dresses. Alpaca or bectine dresses are imported from London. Smooth English cloths are more stylish than cheviots. Braiding on jacketsfbids fair to become very common. j . Watering-place dresses for day and evening are snort. Jersey gloves of black silk will be worn with spring suits. Copied cravat bows have superceded those of white mull Dark colons are preferred to .whit# for children’s dresses. Ostrich feathers droop over the front edge of barge straw hats. The flat’ round Langtry hat has been from London. ; Soldier &lue is the popular shade for cloth jackets and suits. Noon and three P. M. are the fashionable hours for day weddings. Worth uses striped and' Changable silks in his richest drpssesl f The .ssthethes do not permit the, use of starch or artificial flowers. Persian cloth mantles trimmed with chenille fringe are vqjry fashionable. Sheila cloth is fife skt<9«£ihigh novelty tor portieres and heavy curtains. Puffs of rushes are more stylish than plaitings for edging dreSs-skirtS. American Easter cards this season excel those brought from England. Chenile- spotted, silvered and shaded tulles appear among ball dress fabrics. i - . • > ' ■> ■' •'

Condolence cards and birth announcement cards are novelties In stationery. Embroidery appears on children’s suits, whether of silk, wool or wash goods. Flannel* dresses for seaside and mountains are of soldier bine, or mus-tard-color. Pineapple cloth fabrics are imported by Oriental merchants for ladies’ dresses. Amber-colored celluloid eye glasses for ladies use are among the latest novelties for ladies. Cadet-blue flannel, trimmed with many rows of braid’will be a favorite mountain dress this summer. A silver fly with wings of Rhyne crystal and ruby eyes, on a golden leaf, is a It te design in hairpins. Niola de Brahmine, a kind of nun’s cloth, is very popular combined with foulard silk, delicately embroidered. Grenadine lace for trimming with many rows of braid, will be a favorite mountain dress this summer. Miss Anna Whitney is soon to uncover the model of.hercolossal statue of Parriet Martineau, which is to be put in bronze. Old-style checked ginghams in dainty shades of pink and blue, but vastly improved in the weaving, have returned to popularity. A dozen of the old “masters” live again in new spring round hats and Sirden party chapeaux, Sir Peter ely and Vandyke taking the lead. Shirred poke bonnets with silverbeaded tulle and blush rose?,are worn byaound, rosy-faced young ladies. Boots laced up the front are coming into fashion for the promenade. They are in kid or morocco’ faced and finished with patent leather. Long silver pins, with round or Sear shaped silver heads or heads of Ihine crystal,are used to fasten down the plaits an d cascades of lace jabots. The balayeuse of black or white lace -will again adorn summer customes. Those. howe\ er, made of bright-col-ored silk or satin are utterly out of fashion. Large dots, or circles, of circumference greater than a trade dollar, appear in dark or light colors on Contrasting grounds, In some of the finest light cheviots. Cream-white cotton grenadine is made up over satine and trimmed with flowers cut ottt of cretonne for summer dress. A bonnet, fan and parasol are made to. match these. Miss Harriet Staunton, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Staunton, has returned after a two years’ absence id Europe, and Is engag<4 in literary work at her home in Tenaffy, N. J. Irish batiste in soft pale shades of color, as sky blue’ lilac, shHmp pink oream, ivory, fawn and corn-color.

MOUSE AND HOME.

Housekeepers should &memt>er; That if we wish to prolong our lives, we should put onerday between washing and ironing. • That people who chew plenty of good beef and eschew pork are sensible. That.tough beefsteak may be made eatable by mincing it pretty fine with sylth a chopping knife, and cooking quickly in a pot with a close cover, to prevent the steam from escaping. ' That salt pork will be as nice, nearly as fresh, if soaked in sweet milk and parts. Thht clabbered milk is better than for freshening salt fish. That half a cup of vinegar in the water will make fowl cook nearly as quick as a young one, and does not injure the flavor in the least. That liver should be thrown into boiling water after being sliced thin, and then fried in lard or dripping. . That pie crttst will not be soggy if it is brushed over, with the white of an Cgg before the fruit is put in. Zinc can be brightened by rubbing it with kerosene oil, but it is muon better to have it painted, as this wi’l save much labor, After you have swept your carpets quite clean, you may brighten them with a flannel cloth wrung out from beef’s gall and water. That a piece of Cork is better than eloth-for applying brick to knives. —- That ripe cucumbers make a good sweet pickle. ‘ /' That applet which take, a long whilero bake should have a little water in the pan. Stove blackeqed when entirely cold will keep the clean look a very great dteal longer than when they are polished When the stove is warm. White paint may be cleaned as well aS windows, by using whiting and water, while grained woodwork should be wiped-gfitp a flannel doth wrung ou t /red cold- tea. ... Wash pantry shelves with hot alum and wafer to ml tjheito of qnts, waterbugs anfl Other troublesome insects. A stWtig deififent Is made by dissolving caustic lime with boiling water. When dry mix with the white of an egg to a thick paste,' It sets instantly-

A palatable drink for a fever patient is made by peeling and slicing some good tart apples, scattering white sugar over them and pouring boiling water over them. When cool, pour off the, water and drink. To keep knives In good condition mb bright and wrap in thick brown paper. Never let knife-handles lie in watCr, and do hot let their blades stay in very hot water, as the heat expands the iron and makes the handles crack. . ,• ;l ~ V f In buying fish, one test applies to all, whether large or small. If fresh, the eyes are full and clear, the fins are at iff and the skin and scales bright. If the eyes are dim and sunken It is not fit for use, and no protestations from the fisherman should induce one to buy it.. Baking Pies—To prevent the juice of pies soaking into the under crust, beat the white of an egg and brush the crust with it. To give a rich brown to the upper crust brush that with it also. At house-cleaning time it is well to have an eye to and close up all cracks and crevices, whether in the floor or between that and the base-board, where insects may harbor, as well as larger ones in closets through which mice may enter. For cracks, common hard soap, which is usually soft enough for the purpose, may be used to fill them. It is usually soft enough to be pressed with the fingers into crevices, and no insect will venture to make its way through it. For larger holes, through which mice may come, plaster of paris mixed with water to the thickness of batter and quickly applied, will soon set and stop the opening. Thin sheet-tin, from old fruit cans, may be tacked over the larger holes. In the spring cleaning we must consider the question of moths. The common clothes moth was formerly the only one that troubled housekeepers, but of late years the “buffalo” or “oarpet moth” has in many localities come to plague them. To keep woolens and furs from moths, two things are to be observed- First, to see that none are in the articles when they are put away, and second, to put them where the parent moth cannot enter. Tin cases, soldered tight, whisky barrels headed so that not even a liquid can get in or out, have been used to keep out moths. A piece of strong brown paper, without a hole through which even a large pin can enter, is just as good. Put the articles In a close box, and cover every joint with paper, or resort to whatever will be a complete covering. A wrapper of common cotton cloth, so put around and secured, is often used. Wherever a knitting needle will pass the parent moth dan enter; carefully exclude the insect and the articles will be safe. As to the buffalo or carpet moth, this fortunately exists in but a few localities. No better remedy than we gave a year or two ago has been offered. Wet a folded sheet or other cloth, lay it over the place near the edge of the carpet, and use several hot flat irons, moving them about from time to time no as to send the steam down throuirh the carpet and into all the cracks of the floor, and it will kill the moths. Where this has been properly tried it has been effective.

FUN.

Free of charge—an empty gun. Epitaph far an actor—played out. Cool and collected—a paid ice bill. A writ of attachment—a love-letter. A china hen on a porcelain nest egg. Smiles is the longest word in the language. Between the beginning and the end of it there is just a mile. There are no less than 19 “Bald Mountains” in the United States. When a mountain begins to shed its hair there’s no cure for it. It is said that a Scotch clergyman was once reproached for yawniug visibly ip the middle of his own sermon, and replied that he could not help it because it was so dull. A youth with a turn for figures had five eggs to boil, and being told to give them three minutes each, boiled them for a quarter of an hour altogether. “You have played the deuoe with my heart,” said a gentleman to his lady partner during a game of whist. “Well,” replied the lady with an arch smile, “it was ' simply because you played the knave.” John Miller bought a planing mill at Dunkirk, O, a month ago. He loet a finger the first week, two fingers the second, and a whole hand the third. It is believed thSt by beiUg careful John will last out the season. An eminent historian traces base ball back to the time when Rebecca went down to the well with a pitcher, and caught Isaac. ‘‘l notice that my brother was sold at auction in New York the other day for $2,000. We come high, but they must have us.”—[St. Julien. Men must take*papers if they have * business that prevents them from spending their time at the corner stores where the news of the day is ditcussed., Council for prisoner. “Did you see prisoner at the bar knock down the deceased?” Pat. “No, yir honour: hd was alive when I see him knocked down.” fcoys, stick to the farm. It is better to hoe corn in the hot sun, and get a whipping for not doing it well, than to sjt in a morocco bound chair and confess to the .directors.

*r% The Hackensack Republican m&n has had some experience in this cruel world, and comes to the conclusion tbjkt, “The man who was not bred to wprk will eventually be compelled to work for bread.” Sharpers are traveling through the west;vaccinating people with beeswax. Persons who think there is nothing injurious about this sort of vaccination are mistaken. It makes women buzz like bees in their sleep. A Kentucky boy, with Buffalobillan proclivities, wanted to be photographed with a revolver in his hand. While “sitting” for the picture the revolver and the boy went off together, the latter with a bullet hole through his hand. A paper published in Rome says that King Humbert rises at 9 o’clock every morning and takes a short walk. In Chicago a rich man like Humbert would have the cocktail brought to him, and not go around waking saloon keepers at that hour. Henry James, Jr., the English novelist, says that Poe’s verses are “very valueless,” Mr. James is evidently prejudiced. For holding up a window or lengthening a table leg there is nothing superior to a strongly bound volume of Poe’s works. * “Mamma, how can God hear me pray when He’s so far away?” Before the lady could reply a younger one said: “He’s dot the telephones runnin’ to every place.” “Seats for shop girls,” certainly. A great many of our nice young "men understand the art of so adjusting their knees that an excellent seat for shop girls is the result. A confirmed flirt said to a gentleman: “Next Wednesday afternoon I shall be at borne and alone.” It was a great temptation, but the hero quickly saved himself by answering: “Ah indeed. Why, so shall I!” A North Carolina justice of the peace recently married a couple as he sat enthroned in state on the back of a mule, aua the animal for once realized that there was bigger trouble going on than he could produce, and kept his heels still. J —y G—ld—Your poem on “The Shorn Lamb” received. Please call at this office and bring your tin box. Not for publication, but to create confidence. “Before voting on the anti-Chinese bill members of congress should remember where our fire crackers come from. Please call attention to this.” —[Many Small Boys. “Pa,” asked Fogg’s hopeful, the other evening, “what kind of a comb do you use to curry chickens with?” “Coxcombs,” responded Fogg, promptly. Fogg says he believes in always answering a child when you can. , A nurse was telling about a man who had become so terribly worn out by dissipation thal he could not keep any food on his stomach, when one of her listeners asked, “What does he live on, then?” “On his relations, ma’am,” answered the nurse.

MISCELLANEOUS. Atlanta is just introducing pennies. Ninety-six railways traverse Ohio. The foreign freight trade is almost dead. There are only 20,000 negroes in Canada. England has paid $600,000 for “Patience.” Saratoga will have one new hotel this season. There are 33,000 blind people in Great Britain. Lawn tennis stripes come in the aesthetic colors. , Some crocheted passamenterle brings S3O a yard. The county uses over 300,000,000 postal cards a year. Mr. Darwin had intended to visit America next fall The railroads of Missouri last year earned $26,000,000. Samson gave his enemies a great deal of chin music. Maine ice is selling at nine dollars a ton in England. There are 58,000 more men than Women in Canada. Fire destroyed $7,000,000 worth of property last month* The new Spanish hat is all black and is called Dolores. An lowa hired girl got kissed, and a fury awarded her SB,OOO. Ammonia is the best antidote for the poison of a bee sting. A Chinese boy baby at Sacramento has been named Arthur. Every child educated in Wisconsin costs the State $9 a year. 1 - « Gen. Hurlbut’s life is said to have been insured for SIOO,OOO. —- Kansas will elect four congressmen at-large next November. • * There are eighty cotten and woolen miles in North Corolina. The arrears of rest in Ireland are estimated *t $30,000,000. There are fifty physioans in the House of Representatives. Georgia has been visited by thirtythree tornadoes sinoe 1804. t • u Gambling licenses net the city of New Orleans $30,000 a year. Mad dogs peem to be common throughout North Alabama, A Kentucko dog has been trained to build fires in an open grate. A Georgia man has papered his house with confederate bonds. Eleven Canadian orioketers will traverse this country In June. Ninety-one Illinois cities are incorporated under the general law, Lltramontanism finds its most powerful bulwark in Belgium. The first of the season’s shipments of Oregon salmon are arriving, The Lib&r&ls of Italy are the. persons who take active jpart In politics. At the clubs of Nice SIOO,OOO may exchange hands of an evening. Burglars say Washington is the finest field in the United States. Boston people think that Chicago is big, wide, long and not cosey. King Kalakaua, es the Sandwich Islands, has a new $200,000 palace. Mr. Stephen Flske has resigned the editor-ship of the New York Star. The Faithists, a new sect In New York, eat nothing but vegetables. A fountain pen for'lift cents is a late* triumph by an ingenrous inventor. Silk culture is already and occupation in fourteen states in the union. Railway travel up the mountain will be a Catskill novelty this year. New Yorkers growl at paying $1 a week for twenty pounds of ice daily. It cost over $1,300 to get a Jury in the Malley case, at New Haven, Con. Chicago is receiving foreign immigrants at the rate of 2,500 per week. The Egyptian press wants foreigners expelled from the public service. One hundred thousand immigrants are expected at Castle Green in May. Total contribution of New York city to Michigan fire sufferers $147,940.16. New York City now pays a detective force of thirty-four men $40,800 a year. Over 7,000 pictures have already been sent into the Paris saloon this year. A craze for puttinglaceon anything in thehabliamentline exists.—[Phil. Star.] Pullman cars will run through to. the city of Mexico in eight days, by 1884. There are no less than nineteen “Bald mountains” in the United States. No lecture agent has yet secured the widow of Jesse James for the platform. Anna Dickinson will leave New Vork next month to play Hamlet in England. An East Lynne actres% stopped dying to rebuke a Scranton churl who guffawed. It Is estimated that there are about 150 varieties of timber in Murry county, Georgia.

FRUIT TALK AND NOTES.

Peach Facts and Follies—Eraporatio —Paper Bags for Grapes. The curl of the peach leaf is not oaused by an insect, as was long supposed, but by climatic changes, or changes of weather. The Willow Twig is considered one of the most profitable of the apples grown in northern Illinois, better than the Ben Davis. Plumb and cherry trees must be grafted very .early, before the-buds -swell, in order to succeed. Pears and apples oap be delayed longer. The use of ppper bags to protect grape blasters from tot, birds and insects Is growing In favor. But to protect against rot they must be put in Just as soon as the blossoms are gone. They not only protect, but they improve the quality. The feeding roots of a fruit tree are mostly at the ends'of the main roots, and in many oases at a greater distance from the trunk than are the highest branches. ,The moral In manuring is to soatter the manure broadoast, and at least ail far from the tree as the branches reach In a lateral direction. Strong dry wood ashes dashed on the trunk of a fruit tree #i.en wet will aid to dean it of ropgh, bark, and the insects whloh hide under It. Tho next rain will make a sort or lye of it and wash It down, and the trunk can then be eaaily scraped and cleaned. It also kills!nseot eggs,and the ashes on reaohing the earth act as a fertilizer. J Instead of building a mound of earth about jfrAbh trees to keep the borer opt, make an excavation each fall and spring, and dig him out. A collar of felt tied about the butt the ground, oovered below with earth' and waxed or tarred at the top, Would be better than a hfeap of dirt, but neither are half aa good as the thorough u*? of the knife twice a year. tfhe man who relies pr. boiling wafer with which to kill the peach borer shows hto Ignorance of the borer's habi itß. That pestiferous insect is looated buder the bark, and the globing of the e^ r 1 ? nce to b !*t abode by gummy exudations* insures hlifi agalnit all the hot Waster the operator may ehose to apply. • Hot water would cook him if it could reach him, bpt Hsdpn’t, The knife is the only remedy. j A. M. Purdy, widely known as, a fruit grower, near Rochester, N. *., Is so well satisfied with the evaporation of black raapberrlcs for market that he he* set out 60 acres for that special purpose. Of the Gregg variety it takes 8% quarts of greeh fruit to make a pound when evaporated. A bushel of apples makes six pounds of dried fruit. But the business of evaporation threatens to be Injured by crowding a great deal of worthless or Inferior fruit on 4 the market—stuff that cannot be sold as green fruit at any price- > i . The process of fruit evaporation, which now brings so popular a product tomarket.has had to struggle with many difficulties. Charles Alden was tna inventor, some 20 years ago. Speculators bounced upon the machinery, and made the ap; aratus at first cost $3,000. Now it costs about one-sixth much. The process is still a good deal complicated, and in its infancy,but it has been of immense advantage to' the fruit and vegetable interest already, with millions in it for the future. The evaporated article is improved in some respects over its natural condition, some sorts having an increase of glucose.

INDIANA POLITICS.

Probability of the Present Congressional Deleghtlon Being Renominated. A prominent Indiana politician, who has just returned from a visit to his native state, says that nearly all the present Republican delegation would be nominated, in his opinion. Mr. Orth would have some opposition before the convention from “Joe” Gray, of Noblesville. who came within half a vote of being nominated before. There was some opposition also within the Repjnblican ranks to Mr. Heilman, but his district was close, and if it should look doubtful the rest would step aside and be glad to let Heilman make the fight. He thought Mr. Heilman was not anxious to run again. He considered it safe to say that Steele, Pierce, DeMotte and Calkins would be renominated, as Peelle had been already. It was understood that Mr. Calkins has consented to take the nomination again, although he was anxious to take advantage of a very promising business ofler as attorney for a wealthy railroad corporation. He had carried the district three times, twice when it was considered a forlorn hope; and if he should not run next fall and the Democrats should carry it, his friends might think that the loss of the district was owing to his unwillingness to make the canvass. It was therefore, understood that Mr. Calkings would take the nomination one more, and there was not a doubt that it would be offered unanimously. As to the Democrats, there was no opposition to the nomination of Cobb and Stockslager, and the latter at least oould hardly be renominated. As to the eltoiion, he considered the loss of two or three Republican districts extremely probable. It was the off year, and under the circumstanoes the Steele, Hellnaan and Peelle districts were very doubtful. According to the present, outlook, this gentleman thought that the Republicans should see to it that they carried the districts that belonged to them in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina.—Washington Dispatch.