Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1870 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Never be ashamed k> do a kind action to any one under any cirettnistandes. No person ever got stung by. hornets who kept away from where they were. It is so with bud habits. Thu Kim-ilionul Gazette says that celery, used daily as a salad, will cure nervousness. It is also good, says the same authority, for palpitation of the heart. A co it respondent of the Country Gentleman advises, in the case of a broken horn on a cow, that it be left alone and thought nothing of, and says it will get well by this treatment. The eggs of the currant worm and borer are generally deposited in and around the old stalks and dead branches ofthe currant bush. These should be all cut away and burned early in the season. Would you be exempt from uneasiness, do nothing you know or suspect to be wrong ; and ii you want to enjoy the purest pleasure, do everything in your power that you are convinced is right. A hood man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for if; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it. Tarts.—Lemon lmtter is excellent for tarts. It is made as followst One pound ot pulverized white sugar, whites of six eggs ami yolks of two, three lemons, including grated rind and juice. Cook twenty minutes over a slow lire, stirring all the while. Tea Biscuit. —Six potatoes boiled and ‘grated in half a milk-pan of flour. One tablespoon of salt, three tumblers of milk, two ounces of butter, warmed in the milk, one cup of yeast. Beat the whites ot three eggs to a froth, and put in before kneading. Mix not quite as stiff as breaddough, and put to rise. Iron rust is removed by salt mixed with lemon juice.' Mildew, by dipping in sour buttermilk and layitfg in the sun. Ink stains may be sometimes taken out by smearing with hot tallow, left on when Ihs stained article goes to the wash. Freezing will take out old fruit stains, and scalding with boiling water will remove those that have never been through the wash. —The liuritl Register gives the following method of breaking the habit of kicking in milch cows: “ Have a good short whip, and at the first kick give one sujart blow; commence milking again and strike once, hard, immediately after each kick. The theory is that by this process tho cow soon learns to connect the effect with the cause, and to avoid-tho former by quitting the latter.” Old ribbons will look quite renewed if washed in cool 6ud3 made of fine soap and ironed when damp. the ribbon with a cleuu cloth and pass the’ iron over that. If you wish to stiffen the ribbon, dip it, while drying, into gumarabic water. White silk gloves wash well, and should be dried on the hands. Never dampen bonnet ribbon and iron it wet—it makes it stiff as horn.— Rural Register. A. material which can be pressed into the form of combs, buttons, knife handles, Ac., may be made from leather scraps by cutting them into small pieces and keeping them for several days in chloride of sulphur; in this way they become hard and brittle. After being washed they are dried, ground to powder and mixed with glue, or a solution of gum arabic, or any other adhesive substance, when the mixture is ready lor the moulds. — Exchange. M. Ziurek calls attention, iff Dingier'* Polytechnic Journal , to the fact that water, kept in small reservoirs made of zinc, or collected from roofs covered with zinc, is invariably contaminated with that metal, and that the use of such water for domestic purposes is highly injurious to health. The author recommends that where zinc vessels are used for the purpose indicated, they should be painted over with asphalt varnish or any iron pigment. Saltish Hat.—A correspond cut *of Hearth and Home says : “ Never salt your hay at, all. How would you like to btf -forced to eat so much salt -with your food, or starve? This is what you ask your cows to do when you Salt their hay. Sly experience is: All animals du best when they have free access to salt. Keep a box iu some dry place in yard or shed, where stock can take what salt tfiey need as regularly as they take their water. Keep the box supplied with salt,, and cattle will never eat- more than is good for them.” Stuffed Eflos.—Halve ten hard-boiled eggs lengthwise; take .out the yolks, pound them in a inortar ; add to them some broad crumbs snuke i in-milk, and a quarter of a pound of fresh butter; pound al l together; add a Tittle Chopped onion aud parsley, some bruised pepper, and grated,nufmeg; mix it with the yolks of

two raw eggs* ifll tlie halved whites witfi gome of this forcemeat _; luy the remainder at the bottAm of a -(Halt, aii f arrange the stuffed eggs upon it; put into an oven, and when nicely browned, serve. A 1 ohRKSroNDRNT of the Country Gentleman says: “J have invented a-process to rechrcu thevlraft of mowing machines one third. It is done thus: Take oil'the seat and leave it at the-barfi, ami walk behind your mowing machine. It requires. a little more care to watch forstumps, <fcc., hut it pays well in the better" condition of one’s horses. The traction of a low-wheeled heavy machine, obstructed by wet grass and keeping up the motion of the knives, is vastly increased by putting on to it an additional weight of 1.70 to 200 pounds. I air. sorry to say the idea cannot be applied to. reapers, where the treadle is needed to be kept in constant use.” Preserving Hyacinth Bulks.— Those of our readers who huVe l>etin_ growing hyacinths in pots in Lite house", will find that by followingthe subjoined directions, they can use their bulbs for forcing again next autumn. Bulbs grown in glasses over water, lioWever, may be thrown away, as they are past renovation : “As soon as the flower* wither, take the bulb out of the earth in which it has blnomtd, wash it and the rodts clean, and lay It on the lid of a hamper, or on clean straw, in an airy; shaded, but dry place. Turn the bulb frequently, and when tho roots and leaves. Ac., have dried up, trim them off, remove loose scales and ripe offsets, and when the bulb is perfectly dry, lay it bv in a drawer, closet or basket until the fol lowing autumn. By this method the exhaustion of the bulb, after flowering, is saved.”— Hearth and Home. A writer In an exchange papef advocates planting an occasional hill in every corn field late, or taking pains to replant the missing hills, and gives the following reason for it: If the weather becomes dry during the filling time, the silk and tassel both become dry and dead. In this condition, if it should become seasonable, the silk revives and renews its growth, but the tassel docs hot recover. Then, for want of pollen, the new silk is unable to fill the office for which it was designed. The pollen irom the replanted corn is then ready to supply the silk, and the filling, is completed, lie says nearly all the abortive ears, so common in all corn crops, is caused by want of pollen, and that lie has known ears to double their size in this second filling.