Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1874 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

To get a person out of a hysteric fit put the feet and legs in warm waiter. Tnic kernels of peach pits are said to cure heartburn. Eat two or three a day till relieved. Catarrh is sometimes cured by smoking dried mullen leaves. Use a clean clay pipe and let the smoke ppae through the nostrils. Moon-xtb, or periodic ophthalmia, in horses cannot be prevented, according to the Spirit of the Times. The disease will run its course in spite of treatment. Sleep may frequently be procured, when hurtful opiates have failed, bytaking a quarter of a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda dissolved in a third of a tumbler of water. Metals may be made to adhere to glass by a cement composed of powdered litharge, two parts, dry white lead, one part, boiled linseed oil, three parts, mixed with one part of copal varnish to a thick paste. Sweet Sauce.— Sweeten one pint of richest cream with three ounces of white sugar, and flavor with one gill of brandy and a littW nutmeg or powdered cinnamon. This sauce is especially suited to accompany apple dumplings. Spots on Varnish.— Take a soft cloth and wet in alcohol; rub the spot briskly, and it will disappear entirely; then rub on a little boiled linseed oil and it will be restored to its original color and polish.— Farmer's Wife, in Country Gentleman. A discovery of interest to wood engravers is the fact that plates of polished slate may be used as substitutes for boxwood for engraving. These plates will furnish over 100,000 impressions without loss of detail, do not warp and arc not. affected by oil or water. Salt is used to benefit clover, to stiffen the straw in wheat and oats, and as a fertilizer for asparagus. It may be used on clover and wheat or oats at the rate of three to six bushels per acre, and for asparagus a peck to the square rod may be used with benefit.— American Agriculturist. The following is well recommended ae ink for shoemakers: Take one quart alcohol; tincture of iron seven ounces; pulverized nut-galls two ounces; extract of log-wood three ounces; ink powder one paper. Mix all together and shake two or three times daily for a "week or ten days. For a cough, hop sirup is said to be very efficacious. To one ounce of hops and one pint of water, add one tablespoonful of flaxseed. Put all in a saucepan, and toil it till reduced one-half. or a quarter of a pound of brown sugar, and boil until it becomes a thick sirup. "When cold take a teaspoonful at a time. Ingrowing Toe Nail— I To Cure,— Put a small piece of tallow in a spoon, heat it until it becomes very hot and pour on the granulations. Theeffect, is magical. Pain and tenderness relieved at once, and in a few days granulations all gone, the diseased parts dry and destitute of all feeling, the edge of the nail exposed so as to admit of being pared away without any inconvenience. : Home-made Candles. —Many of our readers in the country will find that candles can be made economically by mixing a little melted beeswax with the tallow to give durability to the candle and to prevent its “ running.” The light from the tallow candle can be improved in clearness and brilliancy by using small wicks which have been dipped in spirits of turpentine and thoroughly dried. Frosted Feet. —Twenty-five years ago I was terribly afflicted with chilblains, and had heen for fifteen years, being laid up some winters for weeks, and after trying many remedies stumbled on the following: Soak the feet in hot water for at least half an hour, occasionally adding hot water to keep up the heat all that can be endured. Afer wiping the feet hold them by a hot stove just as hot as can be endured another half hour, occasionally bathing them with some healing liniment. Repeat this for three or four nights. I have never suffered an hour since this trial was made.— P. B. S., in Country Gentleman. • 1