BOUILLON CUBES

or Capsules, consist of meat and vegetable extracts and seasoning—the latter including a large percentage of salt. They are entirely negligible from a directly nutritive standpoint but they are useful as a flavoring medium for gravies, sauces, ete., and as a ready means of quickly preparing an appetizing hot (and therefore stimulating) beverage. BOUQUET of HERBS, a small bundle, or ‘‘faggot,’’ of various pot-herbs, etc, as parsley, thyme, celery, and bay-leaf, for flavoring soups and stews. BOWFIN (Amia calva), a small, voracious, dark-colored freshwater fish found in the Great Lakes region, the Mi i ippi valley, and the eastern states from New: York to Florida. It is loeally known as grindle, dog-fish, mud-fish, lake lawver, marsh fish, blackfish, choupique, cypre trout, and willow pike. It prefers the weedy marshes, seeking the boggy places at night and going back to deeper waters by day. In some parts it is best known by those who fish at night with lantern and spear. As it chooses the shallow places for nesting, one may often wade out in the marshes and eatch the fish by hand. The soft, pasty flesh of the fresh bowfin is not generally liked, but salted and smoked it is a real delicacy.