Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1869 — Farm and Houschold. [ARTICLE]

Farm and Houschold.

USEFUL RECIPES, ETC. RAsruknßV SnonTCAXE—Made the same way as the strawberry cake, only cooking the berries a Utile while, with the sugar, before spreading them on the cake. This is nice and mpfe healthful than pie. Raspberry vinegar.—One pint of vinegar to two quarts of berries, washed. Let stand two or three days, then strain, and add a pint of white sugar to each pint of juice. Boil ten minutes after it begins to JMUe when cold.

Ip wood screws are warmed and dipped in melted tallow, it will prevent their rusting, and they can always be unscrewed witli ease. A large quantity of screws can be greased in a few minutes, and the operation is one which will ultimately result in a great saving of time and labor. Strawberry on Kaki-heriit Ick -Mash a pint of fruit with two large spoonfuls of flue sugar; add a quart of cream, strain through a sieve, and l'rqor.u. If yyn have no cream, bojl a spoonful of arrow root or corn starch in a quart of milk and stir in a beaten egg, then add the fr uit, strain and freeze ' Erins hor Burns.—The white of an egg has proved of late the most efficacious remedy tor burns, tjeven or eight successive applications of this substance soothe pain and effectually exclude the burned parts from the air. This simple remedy seems far preferable to collodion or uven cotton.— Qermantown Telegraph. Caßi*h6b anh 'MosquiTOEs.— Camphor is the most powerful agent to drive away mosquitoes. A camphor bag hung up in an open casement will prove an effectual barrier to tlu-ir entrance. Camphorated spirits applied as a perfume to the face and hands will act as an effectual preventive ; but when bitten by them, aromatic vinegar is the best antidote. Rick Flour Cement.—Tnis cement, much used in China and Japan, is made by mixing fine, rice flour with cold water, and simmering over a slow tire until a thick paste is formed. This is said 1o be superior to any other paste either for pantor or workshop purposes. When made nf the musistence oT plasfeFcTaV.lnddeTß. busts, has reliefs, Ac., may be formed of it, and the articles, when dry, ate susceptible of high polish, aud very durahlo.

Currant Jelly.—Pick over the fruit, but leave it on the stems. Put it iDto the preserving keltic, mash it, and when hot strain through a coarse linen cloth till the juice is all out. Use a pound of sugar to a pint of juice, Sift the sugar and heat it as hot as possible without burning or melting. Boil the juice five minutes, and while boiling, add the. hot sugar, stir jt well, boil five minutes longer, then take it off. Be careful to observe the time, and you will h ive nice j- lly, ol a rich beautiful color. — Exchange. Mrs. William B. Hazleton, of Mali npac Falls, in the Michigan Farmer- , says:.l take the sweet or over-gu-etijEprh before it gets old, cut it from the cob, fill my cans full, pressed down, I then take a boiler, lay some sticks in the bottom for my cans to lay on, I then lay the covers of the cans on loose, fill the boiler with wa ter so that it will cover half way up the ! sides of the cans, put the cover on the boiler, boil for three hours briskly, take out and press the covers on tight. Will keep well aud have all the flavor of green corn.

Jht. Carriekk, of St. Jean du Card, in reply to the offer of the Marquis d’Orches, o: a premium o 1 twenty thousand.,francs, for a practical method of determining death, furnished the following, which he says he has practiced for forty years : Place the hand with the flngei s closelypressed one against the other, close to a lighted lamp or candle; if alive, the tissues will be observed to be of a transparent, or a ro&y hue, and the capillary circulation of life in full play; if, on the contrary, the hand oi a dead person be -placed in the same relation to light., none of the phenomena are observed—we see but a hand as of marble, without circulation, without life,— Jour, de Med. el de Chirurg. Tiie Grindstone. —The periphery of every griudstoue on which edge-tools arc ground should run as true as the dressed surface of a millstone, as it is impracticable to grind a tool correctly on a stone that revolves with an uneven motion. If the periphery of a stone varies half an inch in each revolution, the most expeditious way to put it in order is to loosen the wedges with which it is keyed to the journal, and rehang it. Then secure the bearings of the journal, so that they cannot be easily lifted out of. the boxes, and turn the periphery off true and smooth. Let a firm rest be fixed close to the periphery before attempting to turn off theprominent portions. The rest must be solid with the surface close to the stone, so that when the turning instrument comes in contact with the stone, it will remove a thin chip without springing away from the stone. Stone-turners always employ, for a turning-tool the end of a bar of very soft iron , drawn out to a point, and turned up at the end for gouging. A piece of soft iron is far more effective than steel.— Hearth and Home.