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Mock ApeeJS Fie. - Take 0110 and onehalf Clips of bread orumbs, ponr over theni four cUp of boiling water, add one oup of sugar, one grated nutmeg, one. teaspoonful of tartaño acid, and a small lurnp of butter ; when cool add one egg well beaten. Fruit Cake. - One cup of butter, twc of sugar, half a cup of molasses, Wothirds of a cup of waiin water, three cups of flour, five eggs, one teaspoonful eack of soda, mitmeg, cinnamon, clove, salt; one pound of chopped raisins, two-thirds of a cup of currants, and slices of citrón. To Make Bopes Durable.- To prolong tlie duratjon of ropes and retard tlieir decay, steep them in a solutiou of sulphate of copper, an oimce to a qtiart of water, and then either tar them or immerse them in soapsuds, four ounces of soap per quart of water. In the latter case there is no sniell. Washing Cambkigs. - A table-spoonful of black pepper will prevent gray or buff linen from spotting, if stirred into the first water in which they are washed. It will also prevent the colors running, when washing black or coloree! cámbrica or muslins, and Üie water is not injured by it, but is just as soft as before the pepper was put in. Crackers and Apple Sauce.- Mix the best Graliam flour with cool soft water, rnaking the dough as soft as it can be molded. Boíl out a half inch in thickness and cut into cakes with a cookie cutter ; lay on a baking-pan and bake in a quick oven. Stew the dried apples slowly until tender, in a porcelain kettle, and sweeten with sugar when cooked. Cobn Bread. - Take one pint of sifted corn meal and stir into it one teaspoonful dry saleratus and half teaspoonful salt, then add two well-beaten eggs, one pint sour milk, and three table-spooni'uls sour cream; beat about five minutes, and put it about half an inch deepin the pun to bake; if you have no cream use about a table-spoonful butter or lard; bake thirty-five minutes. Potato Cakes. - Prepare a sufficient quantity of thick masheel potatoes, lightly buttered, and passed fchrough a. colander; add the yelks of four eggs; mingle well, and cook three minutes longer; put the whole in a dish and let cool; when wanted, roll them" down on a floured table, give tliem the size and shape of codñsh balls, dip them in beaten eggs, then in yellow meal flour; frythem in hot lard; see that they are of a clear yellow cover, and serve them on a folded napkin. To Obtain Good Drinking Water. - A serviceable filter may be rcadily made as follows : Take a common earthenwnre fiower-pot, about nine inches in diameter and ten inyhes in depth. The drainage hole is stopped loosely with a piece of clean sponge. A layer of about two mohos of unimal charcoal is first placed in the pot, then a layer of clean sand, upon which a layer of three inches of clean coarse gravel is placed. The pot can be set over an earthen jar, into which an abanclanoe of pure water will filter for all drinking purposes. Hungaby has mourncd for twentyeight yoars the death of lier national poet Petofl, wlio was supposed to have beeu killed July 31, 1849, at the battlu of I'ejeregj'hnza by a Bussian bullet. A Hungarian named Bords, who was made piisoner at that battle and condemned to the mines of Hiberia, recently escapcd, ind repoited that he left Petofi a prisoner there. Couut Andrassy, a former friead pL the poet, baa iustituted inquiriee x güruing him, ftiul will petition tol W8 releoge,