The New York receipt book

— Take H boxes Cox’s gelatine, 1 pint cold water, juice 3 lemons, grated rind of 2; let stand an hour, then add 2 lbs. loaf sugar, 3 pints boiling water; boil 5 minutes ; just before straining in flannel bag stir in 1 pint sherry wine, 6 tablespoons best brandy. Have used this receipt for 15 years and never failed. How to Cook Cranberries. — Put 1 quart or more of cranberries to cook, with cold water to cover. Let them boil slowly for 1 hour, then strain through a sieve or fine cloth pour back in the stew pan or pot, and to every cup of juice put 1 cup of sugar white or brown. Let boil for another hour; then, before taking them up, add corn-starch to thicken to taste for a nice jelly; 1% tea¬ spoonfuls to every quart will be enough, Chow-Chow. — 1 peck green tomatoes, H peck ripe tomatoes, 6 onions, 3 heads of cabbage, 1 dozen green peppers, •? red peppers; chop to suit; sprinkle with yz spoonful salt. Put in course cotton bag; drain 24 hours. Put in a ket¬ tle with 3 lbs. brown sugar; y2 teacupful grated horse-radish; 1 spoonful each ground black pepper, ground mustard, white mustard, mace, and celery seed. Cover all with vinegar. Boil till clear. If yellow color is desired, add 40 ounces curry powder to each gallon vinegar, Use porcelain-lined kettle, if possible; brass or copper must not be used. To Make Jellies of Crapes, Currants, &c. — Put the fruit in a stone jar placed in a boiler of hot water. When sufficiently softened strain through a jelly-bag; place the juice in a kettle; and allow 1 lb. sugar to pint of juice. While heating the juice, place the sugar in the oven; allow the juice to boil 20 minutes, then add the heated sugar. Let all come to a boil and remove from the fire; having your glasses scalded, pour in brimming full and allow them to stand in the sun for at least a day or till the jelly is thoroughly set; cover with tissue paper saturated with brandy, and over all paste thick white or brown paper. Baby’s Warning. When baby has pains at dead of night. Mother in a fright, father in a plight; When worms do bite, baby must cry, If fever sets in, baby may die. If croupy pains kill Leonora, In that house there is no Castoria, For mothers learn without delay, Castoria cures by night and day, WHAT Wei De Meyer Has Discovered. 1, That Catarrh is not a mere local inflammation, affecting the nasal organs, but a poisonous and destructive infection, following the mucous membrane of the entire system. 2, That Catarrh soon becomes constitutional, beyond the reach of merely local remedies, and is the principal cause of most diseases of the respiratory, digestive and genito-urinary organs. 3, That the germinal matter or sporules creating Catarrhal Affec¬ tions, and which follow the mucous membrane throughout the system, can be reached and destroyed only by contact with antidotal elements, that are at once local and constitutional. 4, That the antidote mast possess a positive affinity for the purulent mucous and the capacity of being absorbed by it. 5, Pouches, Smoking, Inhalations, and insoluble Snuffs, cannot possibly reach the seat of the disease or exterminate the seeds of Catarrhal Poison. Acting upon these theories and determining their correctness in numerous tests and in widely differing symptoms, Dr. Wei De Meyer formu lated an antidote for Catarrhal diseases which by inoculating the mucous