Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1869 — USEFUL RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

Curb for Cancer.— An exchange states that a Portland man has cured one of the most dangerous cases of cancer by drinking red clover tea and applying a red clover compress, and thinks it will prove an infallible remedy in all cases. To Make Pencil Marks Indelible. —A great many valuable letters and other writings are in pencil. The following simple process will make lead pencil writing or drawing as idelible as if done with ink: Lay the writing in a shallow dish and poor skimmed milk upon it. Any spots not wet at flrsrmay have the milk placed npon them lightly with a feather, take it up and let the milk drain off, wipe off with a feather the drops which collect on tHe lower edge. Dry it carefully, and it will be found to be perfectly indelible. It cannot be removed even with India rubber.— JSstehange. Time to Graft Trees.— ln reply to a correspondent, the editor of the Gardener’s Monthly says: “ For ‘grafting generally,’ any time is good when growth is going on and there is not too much sap in the cion ; the amount in the stock makes less difference. If there is muhh in the cion, it is liable to rot before the anion takes place. If cions are taken from trees, and kept from drying, sprouting or other injuries, grafting may go on from early spring till midsummer. Those who praise one week more than anether, are those whose * Unlucky ’ time has rather been due to other circumitincea.” Beet Root.— Beet root, when pickled, will keep as long as aHy other kind of pickle. Wash it perfectly clean, but do not cut away any of tha fibres; boil in a large quantity of boiling water, with a little salt, for half an hour; if the skin will come off easily, it is done enough. Lay it on a cloth, and with a coarse one rub off the skin. Cut it into slices, put it into a jar, and pour over it a hot pickle of white vinegar, a little ginger, and horseradish siloed. Cover close. When first taken from the ground, beet root may be kept for winter use by. placing in layers of dry sand; the mould must not he removed from about the root. To Pickle Onions. —In the month of September choose the small, white onions, take off the brown skin, have ready a very nice tin stew pan of boiling water; throw in as many onions as wiTT cover the top. As soon as they look clear on the outside, take them up as quick as possible with a slice, and lay them on a clean cloth; cover them close with another, and scald some more, and so on. Let them lie to be cold, then put them in a jar, or glass, or wide-mouthed bottles, and pour over them the best white wine vinegar, just hot not boiling. When cold, cover them. Should the outer skin shrivel, peel it off. They must look clear. Fumigating Out-Door Plants —Some one having inquired, through the Country Gentleman, how to do this, a correspondent replies: “ Tell ‘ B,’ who asks for information how to fumigate out door plants with tobacco, to invert over the plants a suitable sized, one-headed cask, tub or keg, and put a few live coals in a dish under the cask, and place a little tobacco on the fire, and the fumigation wid soon be completed ; or a funnel made from paper may be inverted over the plants, ana smoke blown from a fumigator, under ft. A cheap and available fumigator may be made from a common tin spice-box, with a suitablelengthed hollow stem fastened to each end of the box; the cover may be made movable. Fill with tobacco, and place live coals behind, and blow through, directing the smoke by the stem, where desired. Hoop-skirt springs may be used in making paper funnels, to better keep the paper in forts an shape.”) Cube . fob Bhaxb Bites.— About twenty years ago the Smithsonian Institute embarked in a series of experiments testing the practicability of neutralizing the poise* of shakes, founded purely on chemical basis, which developed great results. The fact Was illustrated that the poiaon of the most venomous rattlesnake I can be neutralized in an incredibly short

time. After the most extraordinary results from all tee experiment# topreaed, there was promulgated from tee fcetltute at the time above mentioned, the following simple but certain cure for snake bitee, and for the sting of alt kinds of tnasote: Thirty grains or iodine potassum, thirty grains of iodine, one ounce of water; applied externally to the wound by eaturatlug lint or baiting— the same to be kept moist with the antidote until the cure Is effected, which will be In one hoar, and sometimes instantly. The limb bitten should be corded tight to prevent circulation. The liquid should be kept in a viol with a glass stopper. SuooßSTiaM to Bathers —The followlqg suggestions to bathers have recently been issued by the Royal Humane Society of London, and are worthy of consideration : “ Avoid bathing within two hoars after a meal “ Avoid bathing when exhausted from any cause. “ Avoid bathing when the body is cooling after perspiration; but bathe when the body is warm, provided no time is lost In gettiog into the water. ” Avoid remaining too long In the water; leave the water immediately there is the slightest feeling of chilliness. “ Avoid bathing altogether in the open air if, after having been a short time in the water, there is a sense of chilliness with numbness of ths hands and feet. “ Tbe vigorous and strong may bathe early in the morning on an empty stomach. “ The young and those that are weak had better bathe three hours after a meal; the best time for such is from two to three hours after breakfast. “ Those who are subject to attacks of giddiness and faintness, and those who suffer from diseases of the heart, should not bathe without first consulting their .medical adviser.”