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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1998, 31 May 1875, Page 2

Knuckle of Veal Stbwed Brown.— " Take a knuckle of real, cut it in four <* pieces, just fry it to be, brown; then put to it three pints of boiling water,.and let it stew on a very alow fire nearly, three hours; put with it a bunch of sweet herbs, an anchovy, and some vermicelli and salt, with a little cayenne. When it is done, % take it up and pour the sauce over it. The Sobt of Whisky.—lt was in Siskiyoa county, California. He was describing a dinner he attended:—" After that the cloth was took off, and the liquors, was brought in. And what liquors they wqz.tooj The whisky wuz none o'this kind that makes a man feel like lay.'n', I can lick any son of a gun in the house,' and makes him smash things generally. • No, sir I It war the kind that just makes a man Hit his glass up, and say, 'Joe, ' -. old pard, I'm lookin' at yer.' " •.-•-* A Domestic Difficulty.—Alas! what will not married people flout about ? As a policeman passed upon his beat in Detriot, he observed two broken windows. He looked through one of them, and- «aw a man on the floor with a broken andt bound-up head, while furniture in fragments was heaped about him. Inquiring as to the. origin of the ruin, he was answered by a woman with a baby on her lay: ?'*ou see thst man there! Well, he's my husband. Baby's sick. Fe said, ' Give her castor ile/ I said, 'Give her goose greese.' There he lays!" As if there were not causes enough of domestic trouble before, without disputes about the theory and practice ©f medicine ?— New York Tribune. . i ■ A modern philosopher, having in mind the motion of the earth on its axis at seventeen miles a second^ says that, if you lift your hat in the street to bow to a - friend, you go seventeen miles bareheaded without taking cold.