GAME (POTTED). — Remove all skin and bones, and pound the meat in a mortar ; flavour with mixed spice, cayenne, black pepper, salt, and a few grains of sugar. Rub the whole through a wire sieve with an equal quantity of butter✪ Potted Game ; mix well together, press into pots, and cover with clarified butter. GAME (STEWED). — Divide the partridge, pheasant, &c., into nice-sized pieces, and put it into a stew-pan with slices of veal and ham, a couple of onions, carrots, and a little celery ; add a small quantity of water, and stir it over the fire for a few minutes ; then add some good broth✪ Stewed Game, and stew the whole gently for half an hour. GAME, To Preserve.— Game may be kept sweet for a considerable time by placing inside it muslin bags filled with powdered charcoal, renew- ing the bags from day to day. GARGLES FOR INFLAMED THROAT.— Take one dram of sulphuric ether and add to it half an ounce of syrup of marsh-mallows and a teacupful of barley water. Gargle the throat frequently with the mixture until the inflammation dies away. Or, mix together two drams of purified nitre, seven drams of acetate of honey, and eight ounces of barley-water. Use frequently. GARLIC FLOWERS.— Several species of this plant are grown as border flowers, but their offensive odour makes them unfit for the flower garden. The kind known as "Allium Moley,” however, are very effective in large bouquets, which are only intended to be looked at and not handled They delight in a warm, dry, light soil, and increase rapidly by bulbs' which should be separated every second or third year. ’ GARLIC ROOTS, To Grow. — Part the cloves of the root in spring, and plant them in rows six to nine inches asunder, and two deep and' housed^’" perfection in July or AuSust, when they may be taken up 1 1 74 GAS GLOBES (SMOKY), To Clean. — Soak them well in hot soda and water, then put them into a pan of lukewarm water to which has been added a teaspoonful of ammonia ; scrub them with a hard brush till the stains disappear ; rinse in clear water and let them drain dry. By this means they will look equal to new. GAS METER, How to Read. — It will be noticed by looking at the index of the meter that it has three dials, that to the left hand repre- senting the hundreds, the centre the tens, and the right-hand one the units. As will readily be seen by the figures upon the dials, the hands indicating the hundreds and the units revolve from right to left, while the centre one rotates from left to right. In reading off the dial set down the figures next behind the pointers, commencing at the left hand, and add on two cyphers, at the end. By deducting from this product the total number of feet of gas previously registered on the card, the precise amount of gas used will be shown. Thus, for instance, supposing the hand of the hundreds points between i and 2, set down a figure 1 ; the centre hand to be between 6 and 7, add a 6 after the figure 1 already set down ; and the hand of the units to be between 7 and 8, put down the 7 and add the two cyphers. The figures will be 16,700 Deduct total amount registered last quarter (say) 12,200 Total number of feet consumed 4,500 4,500 feet at (say) 3s. 4d. per thousand = 15s.

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GAME (POTTED). — Remove all skin and bones, and pound the meat in a mortar ; flavour with mixed spice, cayenne, black pepper, salt, and a few grains of sugar. Rub the whole through a wire sieve with an equal quantity of butter ; mix well together, press into pots, and cover with clarified butter. GAME (STEWED). — Divide the partridge, pheasant, &c., into nice-sized pieces, and put it into a stew-pan with slices of veal and ham, a couple of onions, carrots, and a little celery ; add a small quantity of water, and stir it over the fire for a few minutes ; then add some good broth, and stew the whole gently for half an hour. GAME, To Preserve.— Game may be kept sweet for a considerable time by placing inside it muslin bags filled with powdered charcoal, renewing the bags from day to day. GARGLES FOR INFLAMED THROAT.— Take one dram of sulphuric ether and add to it half an ounce of syrup of marsh-mallows and a teacupful of barley water. Gargle the throat frequently with the mixture until the inflammation dies away. Or, mix together two drams of purified nitre, seven drams of acetate of honey, and eight ounces of barley-water. Use frequently. GARLIC FLOWERS.— Several species of this plant are grown as border flowers, but their offensive odour makes them unfit for the flower garden. The kind known as "Allium Moley,” however, are very effective in large bouquets, which are only intended to be looked at and not handled They delight in a warm, dry, light soil, and increase rapidly by bulbs' which should be separated every second or third year. ’ GARLIC ROOTS, To Grow. — Part the cloves of the root in spring, and plant them in rows six to nine inches asunder, and two deep and housed to perfection in July or August, when they may be taken up 1 1 GAS GLOBES (SMOKY), To Clean. — Soak them well in hot soda and water, then put them into a pan of lukewarm water to which has been added a teaspoonful of ammonia ; scrub them with a hard brush till the stains disappear ; rinse in clear water and let them drain dry. By this means they will look equal to new. GAS METER, How to Read. — It will be noticed by looking at the index of the meter that it has three dials, that to the left hand representing the hundreds, the centre the tens, and the right-hand one the units. As will readily be seen by the figures upon the dials, the hands indicating the hundreds and the units revolve from right to left, while the centre one rotates from left to right. In reading off the dial set down the figures next behind the pointers, commencing at the left hand, and add on two cyphers, at the end. By deducting from this product the total number of feet of gas previously registered on the card, the precise amount of gas used will be shown. Thus, for instance, supposing the hand of the hundreds points between i and 2, set down a figure 1 ; the centre hand to be between 6 and 7, add a 6 after the figure 1 already set down ; and the hand of the units to be between 7 and 8, put down the 7 and add the two cyphers. The figures will be 16,700 Deduct total amount registered last quarter (say) 12,200 Total number of feet consumed 4,500 4,500 feet at (say) 3s. 4d. per thousand = 15s.

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