Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1873 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Pop Corn Pudding.—One quart milk, one quart pop corn, one cup sugar, four eggs. Wash for Head.— White soap dissolved in spirits of wine. Cleanse afterwards with clean, blood-warm water. Frosting.—A niee frosting may be made of one egg, stirring in white sugar till stiff and adding four drops of lemon juice. Cocoa-nut Cake;—Two eggs; beat the whites to a stiff froth; one and a half cup of sugar; half a cup of butter: half a cup of sweet milk; one tea-spoonfnl of cream-of-tfirtar; hair irTeaspoonWT of soda; two and a quarter cups of flour; half a cup of cocoa-nut; flavor with lemon. Ginger Cakes.—Three tablespoons of boiling water poured on. two teaspoons soda,; two cups molasses, one of sugarone large cup lard: salt; one teaspoon cream of-tqrtar; ginger. Mix molasses and sugar; melt shortening. Pour in flour and then add soda. Soda Cakes.—One teacup white sugar, one of sweet milk, one egg, one cup frail* two and a half cups flour, two teaspoons butter, one teaspoon soda, two of cream-of-tartar. Eat hot with brandy or wine sauce as pudding, or cut up cold for tea as a cake. Bake or steam it forty minutes. \ Cement for Wood Vessels.—A mixture of lime clay and oxide of iron, separately calcined and reduced to flue poW-

der, then intimately mixed, kept hi a close ▼3SseT, and mixed with the requisite quantity of water when used. This will render a vessel watertight ifjthe ingredients are good. Liquid Nourishment for Sick Stomachs.—The Dublin Medical Journal com--mends the fallowing: An egg, well beaten up, to which add one pint of good milk, and one pint Of cold Water, and salt to make it palatable; let it then be boiled, and when cold any quantity of it may be taken. If it turns into curds and whey, it is useless. Taut Crust.—Take six even cups of flour, one cup of cold lard and one cup of butter, chopped with a chopping "knife until very fine, then mixed with just enough ice water to roll oiit well, which do until you can’t see any pieces of -shortening. Fold up small l and roll out, then fold small and roll again, the last time roll from the end and cut out. Bake in a very hot oven. -The oven is the secret of nice tarts. There is another thingthat spoils them—using you hands; you must not put your hands into them, but use a knife. Clover and the grasses are the great needed element in our rotation of crops; they are fertilizing and the chief source of profit. No part of the country shows improvement of the soil so much a where grazing is made, not a sole thing, but a large element in farming, and the prosperity of the farmer keeps pace with it. Single branches prosecuted may be made to do well for a time, but they are included in rotation, so that all or many may be carried, and are carried, by the wise, energetic and comprehensive farmer. Mental Labor—There is a kind of man who thinks nothing is labor but that which is accomplished by bodily strength. To satisfy such a one that you are industrious, you must blast rocks, or dig the earth. lam convinced that corporeal toil is by far most favorable to happiness, because, however tiresome, its intervals are delicious. The most violent labor possible is.that which requires an exertion of the mind at stated intervals. For example, the necessity of writing an essay by a given time; the necessity of it—dreadful thought! These heavy penalties entailed upon us by the nature Of Civilized society, cause much suffering in the mass. I have known an actress compelled to go through a smiling ami light-hearted character, when her thoughts were actually engaged by domestic scenes of wo and death! That is what I call labor.— Beecher. Gunnery is not taught, it appears, in Dartmouth College. Several students“of that venerable institution being out shooting lately, found a coon in a tree. They shot at one animal twenty-four times without hitting him, while he sneered at their clumsiness from his perch. At last, coming down, having lost all patience at being killed so clumsily, he went for those literary young men. Long the battle raged. The stock of a $250 gun was shivered. Coonie died at last, for the odds against him were fearful. He was one of the heaviest characters of his class, and weighed 30 pounds and 6 ounces over. The attention ot our readers Is called to the attractive advertisement of J. N. Hanis & Co. r advertising their great and valuable lung remedy, “ Allen’s Lung Balsam.” This Balsam has been before the public for ten years. Notwithstanding this long period, it has never lost one whit of its popularity, or shown the least sign of becoming unpopular, but, on the contrary, the call for it has been constantly increasing, and at no previous time has the demand been so great, or the quantity made beeu so large, as at this day. We earnestly recommend its trial by any one who may be afflicted with a cough or gold, and we warrant it to cure if directions are followed. It is sold by all our city druggists. Heart Disease.—Many persons suffer with heart disease without knowing it—suddenly they drop off, and their friends are astonished, on a post mortem examination, to learn that they died of heart disease. The heart, like the brain, is the seat of life—lts diseases are of several characters. The most common are valvular disease, fatty degeneration, and functional derangement. If the liver becomes deranged, and digestion is impaired, the heart, through sympathy and juxtaposition, becomes abnormal. The following symptoms indicate approaching disease: palpitation, giddiness, faintness, nervous prostration, deranged digestion, vertigo, cold extremities, etc., etc., for which the old school will administer iron, opium, antimony, mercury, and many other minoral poisons. Heart disease is a blood disease—purify the blood; remove obstructions to a limpid circulation by taking that Vegetable Alterative, Vinegar Bitters, arid you will be a sound person in two or three months. 20