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Show ODDS AND ENDS. French Mustard Slice an onion into a bowl and cover with good vinegar; vin-egar; let sLind a couple of days,' then pour off the vinegar and add to It a teaspoonful each of cayenne pepper and salt, a tablespoonful of sugar and enough dry mustary to make It rather thick. Set over boiling water or use a double boiler and stir until it reaches the boiling point, then remove from the fire and allow it to cool. Put Into small self-sealing Jars. Flour Pastry flour Is In color a sort of pale, yellowish white, fine and starchy, retaining the impress of the fingers when squeezed in the hand. It Is made from soft or spring wheat and is ground betwen stones, while tne Dread Hour is macie oi imru wnwi, cut by a system of knives, which gives it a hard, flinty gluten. Bread flour keeps well and may be bought in large quantities, but' tho pastry flour will not keep so well and comes in small cartons. For cakes, pastry and cream puffs, etc, the pastry flour is best The bread flour gives the best results for bread making. Nowhere in the world are the outward out-ward visible evidences of wealth more Impressive than In Now York. The estimated value of tho real estate in Gotham is about two and a quarter times greater than all the money in circulation In the United States. Tho personal property listed for taxation in New York is valued at a sum equal to about one-tenth of all the money In circulation In this country. Baltimore Sun. The most valuable work in existence Is said to be a copy of tbe Koran, now treasured in the Mohammedan city of Ispnan-Ruza, Persia. The covers, cov-ers, nine and a half by four Inches, aro of solid gold, ono-elght of an Inch thick, while precious stfies set in symbolic designs figure in the center 'and at each of the corners. Tho book is written upon parchment, and this part of tho work alone is valued at ten thousand pounds. London Globe. An English institution for the blind has acquired a number of multi-cycles for the outdoor exercise of Its inmates. in-mates. Each machine 6eats thirteen, and with twenty-six feet working the pedals they run very easily and smoothly. The loader Is, of course, an attendant, and can see. Tho pairs of wheels are mounted upon Independent axles, so that the long machine can be easily turned about or driven along winding paths. Popular Mechanics. |