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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1921, 1 March 1875, Page 4

Wine Stains.—The best thing for immediate removal of port wine stains on linen is sherry. If only required to be removed at the washing well rub salt oa the spot as soon as possible, then put it in boiling milk, and soak for 12 hours, after which wash in rain water, and dry.

Staining Floobs. — The following method of staining floors perfectly will be found successful and very inexpensive : — Dissolve powdered Vandyke brown in a strong solution of soda. Dilute to the colour desired, and apply quickly and smoothly with a brush. I employed a painter for this. When quite dry polish with beeswax and turpentine, using a hard brush.

Jugged Hare.—Skin the hare, and cut it in pieces, but do not wash it; dredge it with flour, and fry it a nice brown in butter, seasoning it with a little pepper, salt, and cayenne. Add about a pint and a half of beef gravy. Put the pieces of hare into a jar, add one small onion stuck with four or five cloves, a lemon peeled and cut, and pour in the gravy. Cover the jar closely to keep in the steam; put it into a deep stew-pan of cold water, and let it boil four hours; but if a young hare three hours will be sufficient. When done, take it out of the jar, and shake it over the fire for a few minutes, adding a tablespoonful of mushroom ketchup, two glasses of port wine, and a piece of butter rolled in flour, with some fried forcemeat balls. Serve with red current jelly.

Yankee Ingenuousness.—A Connecticut man, whose son was ill, appealed thus to his physician : —"Do bring him out of it right away, doctor; do break up the fever at once, even if you charge, as much as if he went through a whole course of fever." ' A little boy, disputing with his sister, exclaimed, " 'Tis true, for ma says so ; and if ma says so, it is so if it ain't so." " Telling an unveracity, " is the latest new and elegant American phrase. A Dubuque man offers his services to pray with the sick at three dollars a day. He is also willing to drive a team, break colts, and run a cidermill. In large white letters upon the fencing of a New York bury ing-ground is inscribed the following notice : — "Use Jones's bottled ale if you want to keep out of here."