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ly-the next morning was on my journey.
| have since recommended and given the
same in perhaps fifty cases, with the same
good effect; not in one instance has it fail
cd to effect perfect cure.
Cor Albany Culirator.
CURE FOR FOOT EvlL.-Take halfa pound
Verdigris, wrap it in a wet rag and place it
on fire for fifteen or twenty minutes, then
pulvcrize and mix it with honey. making
Thin paste of it. Wash the frog Of the foot
clean and apply The horse should then
be put on a dry floor.
SUPERIOR SPONGE CAKE.-Take the
weight of ten eggs in powdered loaf sugar,
beat it to froth with the yolks of twelve
eggs, put in the grated rnd of a fresh lemon,
leaving out the white part-add half the
Juice. Beat the whites of the twelve eggs
to stiff froth, and mix them with the sugar
and butter. Stir the whole without any ccs-
sation for fifteen minutes, then stir in gradu-
ally the weight of six eggs in siftcd flour.
AS soon as the flour is we'll in, turn it into
pans lined with buttcrcd paper-bal1c it i'm
mcdiatcly in quick, but not filriously hot
oven. If it baxcs too fast, cover it with
thick paper.
VAnNIs11 FOR Doors AND SuoEs-Take
pint Of linsecd oil, with half pound Of
mutton suet, six or eight ounces of bees
wax, and small piece Of resin. Boil all
these in pipkn, and let the liquid cool
till it is milk warm. Then with hair
brush lay it on new boots or shoes. If old
boots are vanished, the mixture is to be
laid on when the leather is perfectly dry.
The soles Of boots for wet weather should
always be kept saturated thoroughly with
talIow, mixed with a little resin, or with the
abov' composition. In either case, the lea
ther must be dry before it will absorb the
oily matter. You can have your choice, to
fill the pores OF the leather with water or
grease. When one has possession, the
other "can't come in"
WlTuouT dissent it is admmitted that
the United States Of America, 1--WE speak
Of her merchanls) never were in so prospe-
rous Il condition, never had in such degree
the control Of their own produce. and their
own credit never was so entirely in their
own keeping as at present They have
been industrious. self denying, and content
with fair profits, leaving speculations ofthis
country-in short, they have avoided the
mania for the establishment Of Joint-Stock
Banks. and all bubble schemes, and like a
celebrated bank firm iii this city, have ac-
quired fortunes by attending to their own
business.-London Paper.
KILLING RATs--Mr. Alex. Leeds, Michi-
igan, ays:-" can give your correspon-
dent G. E. j., Bingham, one remedy for kill
ling rats, that know from experience to be
effective. Mix some unslacked lime
with corn meal, and place where the rats
may accidentally find it. They will soon
become uery thirsty, and upon drinking wa
ter the lime slacks and swels the rat like
all natur." In the Bahama Isles sponge
is fried and placed in their way they
eat, drink, swell, burst and die If they
die in their nests or any concealed place,
vast quantities of Cologne will be required
Lime and meal should be, Of the first, one
part, and meal two parts, we'll mixed togeth-
er.
STRENGTH OF THE HUMAN FRAME-One
of the most remarkable an inexplcable
experiments relative to the strength of the
human frame is that in which heavy man
may be raised with the greatest facility
when he is lifted up the instant that his own
lungs and those Of the persons who raise
him are inflated with air. The heaviest
person in the party lies down upon two
chairs, his legs being supported by one and
his back by the other. Four persons, one
! at each leg and at each shoulder, then try
10 raise him, and find his weigh, to be very
great: from the difficulty they experienced
in supporting him. When he is replaced
in the chair, each of tho four persons nkes
hold of his body as before, and the person
to br lifted give two signals by clapping
his hands. AT the first signal, he himself
and his four bearers begins to draw long
full breath, and when the inhalation is
completed, or the lungs filled, the second
signal is given for raising the person from
the char. To his own surprise and that
of his bearers, he rises with the greatest ia
cility. as if he were no hea vcr than feather.
Sometimes, when one Of the bearers per.
forms his part Ill by making the inhaling
ont of time tho mart of tho kod,, ,,,h ;ob h.