Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1874 — Lots of Stuff In the Cellar. [ARTICLE]

Lots of Stuff In the Cellar.

I heard a young wife boasting to her mother one time, and among other things she said: “Oh, we have lots of stuff in our cellar!—turnips, potatoes, apples, squashes, cabbages, onions, parsnips, soap, pork, sausages, tallow, milk, butter, lard, candles, soap-grease, and I don’t know what we haven’t got there!” The mother smiled approvingly, as though she thought, *• Oh, what an excellent provider my son-in-law is! ” It is no trouble to heap things, into a cellar in the fall of the year, but it is- a great trouble to carry out the filth and decay in the spring, and it is very often neglected, and the result is serious if not fatal. An illy-ventilated cellar, stored with promiscuous edibles, is almost as dangerous as a powder magazine. Think of the steamy dungeon whose foul airs permeate the living rooms.above, whose poison is inhaled by every breath that goes into the lungs, and from thence into the red life-current. We only wonder that people live as long and as comfortably and happily as they do. We hope that cellars with “lots of stuft in them” are not common; that men bury in the ground their surplus vegetables, bringing into the cellar only a limited supply at a time. • Soap, tallow, pork, lard and soap-grease should none of them be kept where milk and butter are, for they are wonderful absorbents of foul odors. If barrels must, stand in the cellar, sweep them often and let no cobwebs or mold accumulate- let them be placed on trestles up oft - the ground—sweep the walls thoroughly, move every decaying vegetable, and pour water about it in which has been dissolved copperas Have chloride of lime standing about in plates, secure thorough ventilation—whitewash if you want-to, and there will be no typhoid fever or chills rising up out of your cellars to seize you for its victim.— Ohio Farmer. • —>■■■ One who has thoroughly tested it gives the following as a sure cure for the catarrh: Take one part extract of hamameiis and two of water; pour this into the palm of the hand and snuff up the nose. Go throdgli -this performance three tof four limes each day but gradually reduce the quantity of water until the extract remains unadulterated. Continue the use of this and in a week you will find yourself greatly benefited by it. Do not stop using until a complete cure is effected. An elderly maiden in Lockport, N. Y., purchased one of the Egyptian mummies aj. the Niagara Falls Museum the other day for a parlor ornament. She said it would seem better to have a man around, even if he was advanced in life and withered.