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upon them some limc-white, made by mixing quicklime with water till of the consistence of thick molasses. Let the lime

water fill up all the interstices, and cover over the eggs; the eggs when taken out are to be washed in cold water. 5 Dip them during one or two minutes in boiling water. The white of the egg then forms a kind of membrane, which envelops the interior, and defends it from the air.

A few ounces of any well roasted meat mixed with the tongue | more than two years. 4. Fiil any vessel with eggs, and pour will give it firmness. The breast of turkeys, fowls, partridges or pheasants may be used for the purpose with good effect. PRESERVATION OF STONE.-The following recipe prevents frost from acting on newly used Bath and Caen stone, and would be of service to the architect, builder and operative. Take fresh burnt lime, and mix it to the consistence of whitewash; to one gallon of this add one pint of common salt, and a quarter of a pound of alum. This is to be used similar to whitewash, and is to be put on as soon as the lime is run, while it is yet warm, and is then to be dragged off in the spring. This answers well on blocks of stone fresh dug, which usually feel the effects of the weather first when they are equally exposed.

Excellent Bread.-Mix seven pounds of best flour with three pounds of pared boiled potatoes. Steam off the water and leave them a few minutes on the fire, mash them fine, and mix them whilst quite warm in the flour with a spoonful or more of salt. Put a quart of water, milk warm, with three large spoonfuls of yeast, gradually to the potatoes and flour. Work it well into a smooth dough, and let it remain four hours before it is baked. CURRY POWDER.-1. Coriander seed, cighteen ounces; black pepper, two ounces; cayenne pepper, one ounce; turmeric and cumin seed, of each three ounces; fenugree seed, four ounces. 2. Coriander seed, sixteen ounces; black pepper, three ounces; turmeric, eight ounces; ginger, six ounces; cumin seed and long pepper, each four ounces; cinnamon and the smaller cardamon seed, one ounce. 3. Turmeric root and coriander seed, of each four ounces; allspice, cayenne pepper, and capsicum pods of each one pound; smaller cardamon seed, four ounces; mace, cloves and cinnamon, of each one ounce.

HOW TO PRESERVE MICK.-When milk "turns," this effect is caused by the development of an acid in the liquor. This chemical change may be effectually prevented by adding to the milk a small quantity of bicarbonate of soda. The addition is by no means injurious to health; on the contrary, bicarbonate of soda aids digestion. One of the great dairies of Paris employs no other method but this for preserving the milk it keeps on sale.

A STRING OF BEADS.

A MATRIMONIAL SENSATION IN PARIS.-M. Zero, a married mas, received one morning the following note:

"If your heart is free, and you have as much sentiment as you ing close to your house. You will say to the servant," Fortune;" have wit, enter a carriage which at 9 p.m. to-morrow will be wait. he will reply 'Mystery.' If you do not come, it will be because here exis s a woman happy enough to possess your affection. I shall envy her, but hate neither her nor yourself. Nothing is stronger than constant love even if nothing is so delicious as a fleeting fancy.

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M. Zero read the letter, smiled and did what do you think M. Zero did? What would you have done? Got into the carriage, perhaps, and been lost to respectable society for ever. M. Zero did get in'o a carriage, but he drove direct to the head of the police. When at "9 p.m." the carriage stopped close to the door, it was immediately challenged. "Fortune?""Mystery," was the reply. Then a gentleman got into the carriage, where the veiled lady was seated, and told the coachman to drive to the rearest "poste,"-in plain English, police station, and there the Belle Gabrielle passed the night. But the oddest thing was that the Belle Gabrielle seemed rather to like it than otherwise. The key to this engima is that Madame Zero was jealous. M. Z. detected her handwriting, though disguised, had her taken up for an attempt to disturb conjugal happiness, and so delighted his wife, and revenged himself, at the same time.

Ore would naturally imagine that a dog given to perpetual barking

DOVER'S POWDER.-1. Take one drachm each of ipecacuanha and of hard opium powder, one ounce of sulphate of potass in powder. Mix and powder it very finely. This contains onetenth of opium. Dose, five to ten grains. 2. Take four parts each of sulphate of potass and nitrate of potass, powder these and throw them into a hot crucible to melt; turn the mass into an iron mortar, and when almost cold, add one part each of opium, ipecacuanha and liquorice. Pound all together and sift. Dose forty to seventy grains. This powder is one of the most-and in this respect like the boy in the fable who.cried "Wolf"certain sudorifics, and as such, was recommended by Dr. Dover as an effectual remedy in rheumatism. Modern practice confirms its reputation, not only in rhumatism, but also in dropsy, and several other diseases, where it is often difficult, by other means to procure copious perspiration. The dose is from two to five grains, repeated according as the patient's stomach and strength can bear it. It is proper to avoid much drinking immediately after it, otherwise it is very apt to be rejected by vomiting, before any other effects are produced. Perspiration should be kept up by dilutents.

SQUIBS OR SERPENTS.-These are generally made about five or six inches long, and about half an inch in diameter. They are sometimes made straight, and sometimes with a choke in the middle of them. The name which they bear probably arose from the hisssing noise which they make when fired, or from the zigzag or vibrating direction in which they move when properly constructed. The cases must be made of some strong paper, and rolled in a form about a quarter of an inch in diameter, or somewhat more, and having choked or tied up one end close, with strong twine. To fill the case, first put in a thimbleful of gunpowder, then fill the rest of the case with the following composition: Mealed powder, one pound; saltpetre, one ounce and three-quarters; charcoal, one ounce. Paste a piece of touch-paper over the mouth, and dip the closed end in melted sealing-wax.

TO PRESERVE EGGS.-1. Hang them by hooks in strong cabbage or lemon nets, and if the net be large, and many eggs are contained in it, hook it every day on a different mesh, so that the eggs may be turned and exposed on every side to the action of the air. 2. Keep the eggs buried up in common salt. 3. Put into a tub or vessel one bushel of quicklime; three pounds of salt; half pound of cream of tartar; mix all together with water until of that consistence that an egg will float with its top just above the liquid. Eggs floating in this way will keep

would be of comparatively little value as a watch. he Arabs, however, think otherwise. They say truly, that if a dog barks all night, he cannot possibly fall asleep, and that the change in his bark on the approach of an intruder is quite sufficient to arouse the soundest sleeper. His usual bark is a warning to the enemy that the senti nels within the camp are awake, and to his master it is a perpetual report that "all's well."

A father was winding his watch, when he said, playfully to his little girl," Let me wind your nose up."

"No," said the child, I don't want my nose wound up, for I don't want it to run all day."

An old lady who had been frightened by the running away of a horse, was afterwards asked how she felt when the animal was plunging. "Oh, said she, "I trusted in Providence till the breechin' broke, and then I had to look out for myself."

derstand our minister to day, he said so many hard words; I wish "Mother," said a little girl, seven years old, "I could not under he would preach so little girls could understand him. Won't he mother?"

"Yes, I think so, if we ask him."

Soon after her father saw her going to the minister's.
"Where are you going, Emma." said he.

"I am going over to Mr.- -'s to ask him to preach small."

A TAILOR'S BAGACITY.-C. Bannister employed his tai'or to make him a pair of small clothes, and sent him an old pair as a pattern. When the new ones came home, Charles comp ained that there was no fob. "I didn't think you wanted one." says the man," since I found the duplicate of your watch in your old pocket."

A STRIKING OBSERVATION.-A young prince having requested his tutor to instruct him in religion, and teach him to say his prayers, was answered "That he was yet too young."

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"That cannot be," said the little boy, "for I have been in the shorter than myself." burial ground and measured the graves, and found many of them

Conley," who was that man you were talking with so long at the LOVE'S REASON.-" Bridge'," said a lady to her servant, Bridget gate last night?"

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Sure, no ore but me eldest brother, ma'am," replied Bridget, with a flushed cheek. "Your brother? I didn't know you had a brother. What is his name?"

Barney Octoolan, ma'am."

"Indeed! how comes it that his name is not the same as yours?" Troth, ma'am," replied Bridget," he has been married once."

A schoolboy having goodnaturedly helped another in a difficult ciphering lesson, was angrily questioned by the dominie-" Why did you work out his lesson ?"

"To 'lessen' his work," replied the youngster.

ONLY ENOUGH FOR ONE-Sheridan was once staying at the house of an elderly maiden lady in the country, who wanted more of his company than he was willing to give. Proposing one day to take a stroll with him, he excused himself on account of the badness of the weather. Shortly afterwards she met him sneaking out alone. "So, “Just a little, ma'am-enough for one, but not enough for two." About the hardest case ever heard of was a murderer named Stone, executed many years since in Exeter. Just before the rope was placed round his neck, he requested the sheriff to give him a mug of a'e. The request being promptly attended to, he took the cap and commenced blowing the froth from the ale." "What are you doing that for?" nervously asked the sheriff.

Mr. Sheridan," said she, it has cleared up."

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A STEEL TRAP.-A gentleman who had long been subject to the nocturnal visitation of thieves in his orchards, wishing to preserve his property without endangering any one's life, procured from a hospital the leg of a subject, which he placed one evening in a steel trap in his garden, and next morning sent the crier round the town to announce that "the owner of the leg left in Mr. Johnson's ground last night, might receive it upon application." He was never robbed again.

his ingenuity, once carried some butter to a merchant in a country HONESTY. A boy, whose honesty is more to be commended than village to exchange for goods. The butter having a very beautiful appearance, and the merchant being desirous of procuring such for his own use, invited the boy to bring him all the butter his mother had to spare. "I think," said the boy," she can't spare any more, for she said she would not have spared this, only a rat fell into the cream, and she did not like to use it herself."

Because," returned the perfect wretch, "I don't think froth is pretty young girl came in to engage a hair-dresser for the evening. healthy."

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An old Quaker lady was standing in a hair-dresser's shop when a She gave her order hurriedly, saying that she wanted half a-dozen "rolls" and a butterfly on the top, a "Grecian" or "waterfall" at the back, with p'enty of "puffs" and "curls," and ended with an injunction to send any quantity of "rats," "mice," and "cata. "Poor child!" said the dear old lady, compassionately, looking after her as she left, "what a pi'y she has lost her mind !” THE NEW BONNET.-The new half-handkerchief style of bonnet is thus described in a contemporary:

racts."

CHALKY.-A wine merchant once left a suspected a sistant in his cellar, and said to him, "Now, lest you should drink the wine while I am away, I will chalk your mouth so that I may know it." He then rubbed his nail across the man's lips, and pretended to leave Again : the mark of chalk on them. The man drank of the wine, and to be even with his master, chalked his mouth, and thus discovered himself.

Curran's ruling passion was his joke. In his last illness, his physician observing in the morning that he seemed to cough with more difficulty, he answered, "That is rather surprising, as I have been practic ng all night."

SUITING THE ACTION TO THE WORD.-A person bored by a equint ing man, who persisted in questions about his broken leg, replied, "It is quite crooked-as you see."

"Jane, what letter in the alphabet do you like best?" "Well, I don't like to say, Mr. Snooks." "Pooh, nonsense. Tell me right out, Jane; which do you like the best?"

"Well, (blushing and dropping her eyes,) I like U the best."

LEBAL REMEDY FOR LOVE.-No sensible young woman whose sweet heart has proved false, will ever die of a broken heart. Having taken the precaution to secure a promise of marriage, she will always recover in a court of law.

A pretty girl and a wild horse are liable to do much mischief; for the one runs away with a fellow's body, and the other runs away with his heart.

A vixen wife, who for the horse whip's smart,
Ran to her father, begg'd he'd take her part;
"What is your fault ?" said he; "come state the case."
"I threw some coffee in my husband's face,

For which he beat me !" "Beat you, did he ! 'slife!
He beat my daughter-zounds! I'll beat his wife !"

BREAKING. It is not a very easy thing to break a young horse, but it is the easiest thing in the world for a young horse to break an old wagen.

RESIGNATION. "Ned has run away with your wife," said one friend to another.

"Poor fellow!" replied the forlorn husband.

Gratitude was fancifully said to be the memory of the heart; but, als for poor human nature! hearts are more than suspected to bave wondrous short memories.

Every man, no matter how lowly he may appear to himself. might still endeavor to produce something for the benefit or use of society; remembering, that an insect furnishes by its labor materia s wherewith to form the regal robes of kings.

"Sam," said one little urchin to another, "Sam, does your schoolmaster ever give you any rewards of merit ?"

"I'apose he does," was the rejoinder; "he gives me a lickin' regularly every day, and says I merit two."

A sort of cup to catch the hair,

. Leaving the head to " go it bare,"
A striking example of nothing to wear,
Is this bonnet abomination.

It makes a woman look brazen and bold,
Assists her in catching nothing but cold;
It is bad on the young, absurd on the old,
And deforms what it ought to deck.

A lady sat gazing at a star. Her lover, who had suffered in pocket from an exacting disposition, cried, "Alice, do not look so wistfully upon that bright, particular star;' I cannot buy it for you."

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A young man who has recently taken a wife says he did not find it half so hard to get married as he did to get the furniture, and when it came to getting the bread and butter he had to fall back on the old folks.

"A LITTLE TIGER."-The wife of a great army contractor, who spent last summer abroad, and who brought back with her many of the forms, if not the ideas, of London fashionable society, is very particular in training the members of her household to their observ ance. The other day she desired a new footman (a green Hibernian) to send some one down town with a message.

"Your boy's come back, ma'am," announced the footman, after the lapse of an hour or two."

should say our tiger."
"You should not say your boy, James," said his mistress; "you

A couple of days afterwards, she had occasion to send James him self to inquire after a lady friend, who was expecting a certain interesting event.

"Well, what answer did you get?" she asked.

"Oh, it's all right, ma'am. The doctor says it's a fine little tiger."

DESCENDING GRATITUDE. -Somewhere in the country, a rich old gentleman was saved from death by ap plexy by the energy and promptitude of a poor working man.

"I'll give Tom Jones ten guineas when I see him," remarked the resuscitated gentleman to a friend.

One week later the friend inquired if he had seen Tom Jones?
"No," was the reply; " but he'll lose Lothing by that, I have five
guineas here for him."

A week later the same question was asked.
"No, but I am going to give him a pig."

Another week passed and the same question was answered—
No, Jones hasn't got the pig, we have killed and salted it, and I
mean to send him a leg."

If you would have an idea of the ocean in storm just imagine four thousand hills and four thousand mountains, all drunk, chasing one another over newly ploughed ground, with lots of caverns in it, for them to step into now and then.

If there were a Miss Robinson Crusoe on a desolate island, with no one to please but her own reflection in the water, she would yet every day make and wear the newest fashions.

A novelist tells of two lovers, who agreed to wave their hands One might suppose there would be waves enough between them without their trying to make any more with their hands.

An Irish girl told her forbidden lover she was longing to possess towards each other, at a certain hour, across the Atlantic ocean. his portrait, and intended to obtain it. "But how if your friends see it ?"

"Ah, but I'll tell the artist not to make it like you, so they won't know it."

Why is wit like a Chinese lady's foot? Because brevity is the sole

af it!

No woman should paint, except she who has lost the power of blushing.

A distinguished actress was lately introduced to a barrister, who was not at all backward in sounding his own praise.

"He is a very smart man," an acquaintance remarked soon afterwards.

"I know it," she replied; "he told me so himself."

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A bachelor has left a boardinghouse, in w ich were a number of old mida on account of the "miserab e fair set before him at the tat e.

There is a man in Cincinnati in Ossersion of a powerful memory. He is employed by the Humane Society tore nem ber the poor."

The man who is courting Misa Demeanor thins very seriously of b eaking off the engagement.

"Pa, te'l us about the angry ocean what makes the ocean angry?"

Oh, it has been crossed so often."

The fellow who took cffence, has not yet returned it.

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FIG. 1.-Dress à deux jupes; the first skirt is of white silk, and has two flounces of rich white lace, one deep, the other narrow, and each headed by a ruching of amber silk. Above the second flounce, the skirt is quite covered by bouillons of white tulle, placed lengthwise. The second skirt is of amber silk, open in front à tunique, and edged at the bottom by a broad quilling of the same silk, headed by a narrow ruching; up the fronts, this quilling forms three large quarter circles on each side, the bottom ends of which lay over the skirt, and are finished by bouquets of roses with buds and leaves. The body is of amber silk, and has a white drapery surmounted by a narrow quilling, and edged

MADAME MULCHINOCK, 535 BROADWAY. PAGE 379.

FOR DECEMBER, 1865.

at the bottom by a white lace, headed by a narrow amber ruching. On the chest is a bouquet of roses; head-dress of white lace and flowers like those on the skirt.

Fig. 2 Dress à deux jupes, the first skirt is of white silk, and is trimmed near the bottom by a flounce of black lac; above this the openings left in the upper skirt, are filled in by bouillous of white tulle, with a bouquet of roses near the top of each. The second skirt is of pearl-gray silk; it is cut at the bottom to form large pointed openings, edged all round by a row of plaitings à vielle of the same silk, all bordered by narrow black lace, and covered by black spotted tulle. The body has a bertha, formed of these plaitings à vielle, covered by black tulle, and edged by narrow lace; there is a bouquet on the chest, and one on each shoulder. Head-dress of black lace, marabout feathers, and roses. Fig. 3.-Dress of sky-blue satin. The bottom of the skirt is covered by bouillons of white tarletane, placed lengthwise, and separated by very narrow black lace. Above this is a flounce of broad white-lace, having a heading formed into large scallops; this heading consists of a very narrow blue ruching at the top, then a narrow white lace, and then a fril of black lace; at the top of each scallop is a bouquet ot convolvulus flowers, and narrow garlands of the same are placed over the heading and the deep white lace flounce,

which, we may observe, is formed into a large hollow plait beneath each bouquet. The body is of the Swiss form, cut in scallops at the top, and edged at the top by a blue ruching and narrow black and white lace. Underneath is a drapery of white tarletane, having a bouquet of convolvulus flowers in front. The sleeves are puffs of white tarletane, surmounted by scalloped jockeys of blue satin, edged to match the body. Flowers in the hair to inatch those on the dress.

Fig. 4.-Dress of pale sea-green silk. The body is of the usual form, and has a bertha of black lace insertion, edged on each side by a pink ribbon and a narrow black lace. On the chest is a bow of black insertion, edged like the bertha, there are long ends falling over the skirt, and in the centre of bow is a group of small roses.

Fig. 5.-Dress of pearl-gray moire antique,

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the skirt trimmed by bows of white lace, with short floating ends; in the centre of each bow is a small group of flowers. Sortie de bal of ponceau velvet, edged at the bottom by a fringe of white floss silk, below which is a row of bullion fringe to match the color of the cloak. The trimming on the velvet is a narrow figured silk ribbon.

Fig. 6.-Dress and short paletot of black velvet. The skirt is trimmed with three rows of chinchilla fur, and the jacket is edged with the same. Coat sleeves, with epaulets and cuffs of fur. Black velvet bonnet, with a crown of gray velvet.

Fig. 7.-Dress of rich cerise satin, the skirt cut with rather long train; at the bottom is a row of white guipure lace, carried entirely round; at some distance above this is a second row of lace, which terminates on each side at the front breadth, and from thence is carried to the waist, forming tablière; down the centre of front and round the bottom, in the space between the rows of guipure, are stars or rosaces of guipure, with cerise buttons in the centre. The body is cut square back and front, the guipure of the tablière continued on the body to form a stomacher; a band of the same crosses the front, lace star in the centre; puffed sleeves of tulle or thin tarletane, a row of guipure crossing the shoulders and back of the dress. In the hair a diadem of pearls and emeralds; an ornament at the back to correspond.

Fig. 10.-Young lady's dress of white, puffed to the waist; the puffs gradually decreasing as they ascend. Low corsage, with a puffed bertha. Corslet of rose-colored silk, with flowing ends falling over the skirt. The corslet and ends are trimmed with narrow blonde laid on the silk. A crown of white drooping flowers is the sole ornament upon the head.

Fig. 11.-Plain high dress of green Irish poplin; the waist round, with belt fastened by a large steel or silver buckle. Paletot of thick drab cloth, slightly defining the figure; it is single-breasted and has two rows of four large steel buttons ; the collar and lapels are covered with black velvet; the sleeves are shaped at the elbow, are of a moderate width, and have a cuff formed by bands of velvet, and ornamented by two steel buttons; the pockets are trimmed to correspond with the cuffs. Helmet hat of black velvet, bound with cerise velvet; in the front a rosette of white lace with cerise feather in the centre ; from the rosette a band of cerise velvet edged with broad white lace, falls over the crown of the hat, and is fastened at the back by streamers of the cerise velvet.

Fig. 12. High dress of rich violet empress cloth, the skirt cut with short train. Paletot of black velvet defining the figure; the bottom is trimmed by a broad black lace, surmounted by a narrower lace laid on flat, and on which are two rows of jet trimming. At the back the skirt is cut much

Fig. 8.-Dress of blue brocade silk, trimmed around the bot-longer than the other part, and is slightly pointed; it is tom of the skirt with one deep and two narrow bias bands of plain blue silk, with a heading of silver pendent buttons on each band. The corsage is cut square back and front, and is trimmed around with a band of plain blue silk edged with silver friage. Wide plain blue silk belt and sash fastened at the back, and the ends trimmed with silver fringe. The hair is banded with silver.

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finished by the same trimming that heads the lace flounce on the other part of the skirt. On the body this same trimming forms a point at the back, is rounded on the fronts, in the senorita style; it also forms an epaulet and cuff to the sleeve. The front and curtain of the bonnet is of black velvet, the full crown of light-green silk. The broad strings of green silk are fastened at the top of curtain by a small ross; a large rose and buds ornament the top; blonde cap with rose and buds.

Fig. 13.-Dress of gray reps; the skirt is trimmed entirely round by two rows of black velvet, edged with narrow lace; a

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