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      esat of varnish (by dissolvia !ome whitl
 wax in refined turpentine.) apped war  b
 male in which iron railings re sbeened
 prevents the rust from entering its pore.

              Cooking Beef Uteek.

   "Mrs. Hutton! IMrs. Hutton I what on ertl
 are you pounding to make such a deafninj
 noise? I want you a minute."
   "Well I am here," (her face all in a rose
 glow, peeps above the fence,) not pounding or
 earth at all, but on my meat board, not to makE
 a noise, but to mangle my beef steak."
   "Umph ! you are faaetlous this dull morn
 ing; but apropos of beef steaks, how do you
 generally cook them ?"
   " Oh ! the old fashioned way, either frying
 or broiling. The latter I prefer, as the steak
 preparod in that way retains more of its natu
 ral flavor; yet it is a rosting process to the
 cook's face and fingers, and w~hen the coals are
 dull, a wrearysome one also."
   "Aye ! now I can lay you under an idebted-
ness to me which the presence of a whole roast-
ed ox couldn't cancel. It is how to broil beef
steak in a frying pan, and have it done in three
minutes. My frying pan being wiped very dry,
I place it upon the stove and let it become hot,
aery hot. In the meantime I mangle the steak;
{if it chance to be a piece of sirloin so much
the better,) pepper and salt it then lay it insthe
dry, hot pan, which I instantly cover as tight
as possible. When the flesh first touches the
ted pan, of course it seethes and adheres to
it, but in a few seconds it becomes loosened and
juicy; every half minute or so I turn the steak,
but am careful to keep it as much under cover
as possible; when nearly done, I lay a small
piece of butter on it, and if I wrant much gravy
I add a tablespoonfull of cold, strong coffee, in
three minutes from the time the steak first goes
into the pan, it is ready for the table."
  "Why. you astonish me! What does it taste
like"
  "The most delicious,delicately broiled steak,
fell of juce, yet retaining the healthiest beefy
favor that any John Bnll could require."
  C: Now, what is the philosophy of it, I won-
der."
  " Pahaw! why need you care to know? Its
practical utility satisfies me, in the saying of
time, labor, and my complexion."
  " I will try the experiment this very noon
do you think the same method would suit mut-
ton chops ?"
  " Admirably-nly they require a longer
time, to prevent them from being rare. I have
sometimes made an excellent gravy for them
by adding a little diluted steae, thiekened
with a pinch wf {our, into which, when off the
Are and pty cool, I stir in the yolk of one
egg, well beaten-Ohio Farmer.



fSI1N FARMER.
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        HEALTH AND DISEASEL


    "Who's breathing poison ? " BIvery ewe who
  confines himself in a close apartment, without
  some adequate opening in Wall, orwindow, or
  doer, for the admission of pure air.
6A pure atmosphere contains about am two-
  thousandth part of a gao which is iitutical
  with the dapsp in wells, and which, if increas-
  ed in amount, at last becomes fatal in its efects.
  Being heavier than common air, it sometimes
  settles down and accumulates in deep pits and
  wells in such quantities as to be fatal to human
  life. Agitation of the atmosphere: has a ten-
  dency, by mixing the poisonous with the health-
  ful gases, to prevent their accumulation upon
  and near the surface of the earth, and this is
  one of the great offices of the winds, which,
  though they sometimes strand a ship or sink a
  fleet, a thousand times compensate the world
  for such losses, by purifying the air fbr mill-
  ions to breathe.
  But it is this same carbonic acid which. is ex-
  haled from the lungs of man and all animals;
  so that wherever there is much breathing,. there
  there must be an accumulation of much poison.
  In every public hall, in every church or school
  room, therefore, when crowded, and not thor-
  oughly ventilated, the air must inevitably be-
  come foul, producing the legitimate effect. of
  the narcotic poison referred to-dullness, sleep-
  iness, stupor.
  If school directors, church trustees and
  church-goers only knew how much of what
  they attribute of dullness and stupidity an the
  part of teachers and children, pastor and con-
gregation, should be charged to their own stu-
pidity in not acquainting themselves wig the
laws of life, and so constructing their public
buildings and private dwellings as to insure a
circulation of pure air, they would first hang
their heads in shame, and then earnestly set
set about the work of proviling for the future.
  The bed-rooms of maost dwellings are ce-
trived without the least feggtd to the lairs of
health. Narrow, pinched up, low and tSigt,
they are o more fit feo a human being toulep
in than the hold of a slave ship. For ourself,



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