Tomato Preserves

TaTte-the round yellow variety as soon as ripe, scald and peel ; then to sevun pjunds of tomatoes add seven pounds of white sugar, and lot them stand ovor night. T.tke the tomatoea out of the sugar and boíl the synip, removing the Bcum. ■ Put in the toratttoei and boíl gently fifteen or twenty minutes ; remo vo the f nut agaiu, and boíl until the Byrup thickcns. On cooling put the fruit into the j-irs and pour the yrup over it, aud add a few slices of lemon to eaoh jar, oud yon will havo soinething to pleaso the taste of themost fastidious. TlO'w to Test Water.- An English technical periodioal poiuis out l. way of tcstiiig whelher water is good and fit for general use, It says : Good water should be freo froin color, an] ant. otlor a lid tasto, and shuuld nnicl.-lT -_ - - -- - , -- -- ... - .1 ' ■ ' . L I 1 affonl a lather wnh i smull portion oi eoap. It' hult' a pint of the water be placed in a perftotly clean, coloriese glass-stoppered bottle, a fciv grüins of the best white luiiipsugHradded, md the bottle freely xposed to the diiylipht in the wïndow of a warm room, the liquid should not beoome tnrbid, even after cxposre tor a week or ten days. If tbc water becomes turbid, it is open to the gravo Ruspici(,ii of sewnge contamination ; bnt if it remain dc:'.r it is ahnest certüinly safe. 1 Ph i ad plpli ia ia ln-.ildiiir .( water reservoir tl)a covers 1 üi uoths of ground, wilt contain 7.00,01)0,000 galloïis, and will cost $4,000,000. When finisbed it will bu tlie irost reservoir in the woild