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THE HOUSEKEEPER.

COFFEE CUSTARD.-Boil one pint of milk with five spoonfuls of sugar. Add a cup of very strong hot coffee, then three beaten eggs, and a spoonful of corn-starch or maizena rubbed in cold milk. Stir constantly until it is smooth. Pour into cups or glasses, and ornament with the beaten white of an egg just before serving.

TO FRY MUTTON CHOPS. - Put two small slices of pork into the spider with them. When they are cooked, lay them inte a hot dish, pour a cupful of stock or hot water into the spider, and as it boils, stir in half a spoonful of browned flour wet in cold water. Boil up again, and pour over the steaks.

YEAST CAKE.-Flour, two pounds and a half; sugar, half a pound; butter, ten ounces; currants, four pounds; set sponge with half of the flour and three tablespoonfuls of yeast in a pint of milk. Work the butter and the sugar in the other half of the flour with half a pint of milk, add the other ingredients, and mix altogether. Bake it in a hoop or tin three hours.

HARD MOLASSES GINGERBREAD.-Melt one cup of butter in two of molasses, pour it hot upon a quart of flour; dissolve one teaspoonful of saleratus in a little hot water and add it. Put in flour enough to roll it out neatly. Make it very thin, cut it in rounds, and bake it quick. These cakes are very crisp, and keep so in a tin chest.

CRULLERS.-To two pounds of flour, put three quarters of a pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, nine eggs, mace and rosewater, unless the butter has been kept in rose leaves.

ANOTHER.-To six teacups of flour, put two of sugar, half a one of butter, half a one of cream, eight eggs, one nutmeg; or, if more convenient, nine eggs, no cream, and a full cup of butter.

STEAMED CUSTARD.-Make a boiled custard with three eggs to a quart of milk, and a tablespoonful of corn-starch or

maizena wet with cold milk, a pinch of salt, and half a cup of white sugar. Flavor with rose or lemon. Fill the custard-cups, and set them into a dripping-pan; fill the pan with boiling water, and set it into the stove-oven. Bake slowly, until they do not seem liquid when moved.

TO BROIL HAM.-Cut the slices very thin, for which you must have a sharp knife; pare off the rind; lay them on the gridiron over hot coals. Do not leave them a moment, as they must be almost immediately turned, and will need attention to keep the edges from burning. Two minutes will broil them.

CHICKEN SALAD.-Boil or roast a nice fowl. When cold, cut off all the meat and chop it a little, but not very small; cut up a large bunch of celery and mix with the chicken. Boil four eggs hard, mash and mix them with sweet oil, pepper, salt, mustard, and a gill of vinegar. Beat this mixture very thoroughly together, and just before dinner pour it over the chicken.

OYSTER OMELET.-Chop fine twelve large oysters. Beat well six eggs, and add a spoonful of flour, rubbed smooth in milk, salt, pepper, and a bit of butter melted. Fry in one omelet, and serve hot.

COFFEE MILK.-Put a dessert' spoonful of ground coffee into a pint of milk; boil it a quarter of an hour with a shaving or two of isinglass; then let it stand ten minutes and pour it off.

MILK.-Milk for butter-making should be handled gently and put at rest as soon as possible. A reduction of temperature is desirable as soon as the milk is drawn. This should be effected with the least possible amount of stirring. The more it is stirred the less will be the yield of cream. When set, it should be protected from even the least jar. Churning in a milk-room, or any work that jars the building, will retard the rising of the cream. Milk, to get the best yield of cream, requires absolute and undisturbed rest.

FACTS AND FANCIES.

Charles (who has taken out a patent, and is reading the Official Gazette of the United States patent office)." Here, Mary, is something I have thought of myself-this change in the turbine water wheel. You see in the old way-"

Mary (alarmed).-"Perhaps I wouldn't understand if you did explain it."

"No, you couldn't understand that, but this you can. You see the combination of two flanges, with pawls and ratchet wheels, turning with a reciprocating motion-"

Mary leaves the room with her hands on her head, and now Charles wonders where the Official Gazettes go the moment they come into the house.

An absent-minded smoker named Yancy, undertook to whisper something of importance in the ear of old Mr. Reynolds, lately, but in his absent-mindedness neglected to remove his cigar, the fire end of which was driven right into the old gentleman's Mr. Reynolds jumped straight up in the air about six feet, and on coming down split Yancy's nose by a well-directed blow. Yancy picked himself up, and started for home, declaring in a rage that he'd be hanged before he'd tell old Reynolds what he was going to.

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A Louisville girl came blushing into the parlor the other night, and told her father, when he noticed her bloom, that she had been enjoying unseen happiness. The old gentleman thought she had been praying, and was glad, as he is a pious man; but instead, the wicked lass had been kissed by her lover in the unlighted hall.

Mr. O'Clarence's hens got into the next yard, and scratched up the garden, and the woman of the house came in to see Mrs. O'Clarence about it, and a war of words ensued. When Mr. O'Clarence came home Mrs. O'Clarence was terribly excited, and gave him a hysterical account of the affair, winding it up with a shower of tears, and this triumphant declaration, "Well, I don't care! I had my new alpaca on, any way; the mean thing!"

It is related of the late Bishop of Winchester, as an illustration of his ready wit, that some years ago, when visiting at the country-seat of a well-known nobleman, the bishop allowed himself to be persuaded to join a shooting party. On his return, his noble host mentioned that his gamekeeper was a Dissenter, and although he did not wish to interfere in the religious opinions of his employes, still, as all the rest of his servants went to church, he should like this man to go. Would the bishop speak to him? If he used his wellknown persuasive power, doubtless he might overcome the scruples of the keeper as to entering a church. The bishop expressed himself delighted with the request, and proceeded at once to the keeper's cottage. Entering with his usual frank and kindly greeting, which few could resist, he soon established himself in the good graces of his humble host, and gradually led the conversation At to spiritual matters. length, when he thought he had sufficiently gained the confidence of the man, his lordship said, "By the by, how is it that I don't see you at church? You know it is our duty to look after these things. Surely you don't see anything in the Bible against going to church ?" No, my lord; neither do I see anything in the Bible to warrant a preacher of the Gospel in going out shooting; the apostles never did.” "No," replied the ready-witted bishop; "true, they had no game in Palestine in those daysthey went out fishing instead."

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A man out in Laporte, Indiana, has no regard whatever for the feelings or pleasures of his daughter. He has posted up a notice on the gate to this effect: "Any man found around these premises after nine o'clock P.M. will be considered a burglar, and will be shot on the spot." The young men all give that house a wide berth. For, much as they admire the daughter, they're not so anxious to steal her heart away that they care to be made targets of by the father.

A companion game to parlor croquetCricket on the hearth.

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36 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass.

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The contemplated royal marriage by which the reigning houses of England and Russia are to be more nearly connected than in the past, has been duly announced to the world, and the press has made its comments with its usual freedom upon this anticipated union in the highest of high life. So far no cloud appears to have arisen upon the sky of the sailor Prince Alfred and his fair Russian fiancee, the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna. The preparations and negotiations for the formal betrothal of these scions of royalty are somewhat more extensive and stately than those which pertain to a similar state of affairs among private individuals, and per

haps our readers may be interested to read the announcement in its original form as

published in the London Gazette, and

which ran as follows:

"At the Court of Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 17th July, 1873, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to give her consent to a contract of matrimony between his Royal Highness Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Kent and Ulster, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, only daughter of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia; which

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