Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-05-10
PRACTICAL RECEIPTS.

CoSvuLsIvE FIrs-A table spoonful Of COM
mon salt dissolved in water, and drank two or
three times day will prove effectual. BY this
simple remedy some have been cured that
were attacked as often as twice week,
NERVOUS HEAD AcHE-Take q sponge and
wash the body thoroughly with cold water,
which must be followed by good srubbing
with coarse towel or cloth. Besides effectin
this special good, such an occasional practice
contributes in the highest degree to the general
tone and vigor of the system.
Cure FOR CoRNs.--Cons may be cured by
binding on them when you are going to bed, q
piece of sponge dipped in weak solution of
pearlash.
To PREsERyE PoIIsHED Irons FROM RUsr-
Copal vaFnish intimately mixed with as much
olive oil as will give it degree 70 greasness
adding thereto nearly rs much spirit OF Turpen-
tine as of varnish.
To GEr On OUT OF BoARp.-Mix fuller's
earth and soap lees together, and rub it into the
boards. Lett dry and then scour it off with
some strong soap and sand
BLAcKNa FOR Doors AND SHoEs- Take of
ivory black and molasses each six ounces, white
wine vinegar two pnts This is the best kind
of backing, as there ia no oil vitriol in it, to
crack or rot the leather.
To MAKE LIQuiD JArAs BLAoKise. Take
three ounces of ivory black, . or of coarse su-
gar, OF. of sulphuric acid, one table spoonful
of sweet oil and lemon acid, and one pint of
vinegar to qualify the backing; then add the
the sulpbvric aud muriatic acids, and mix them
all well together.
SHINING BACK INK,-Beat up well in a NOR
tar the following ingredients in dry state, viz:
8 OF. of best blue gall nuts, or of copperas,
2 OF. of clear gumarabic; when properly pow
dered, put to the above three pints of clean rain
water; let the whole be shaken in a stone bot
tie three or four times day for several days.
TO TAKE IRoW NOUNS oUroF LIxrN.- Hold
the iron mould ON the cover of tankard of
boiling water, and rub on the spot little lime,
lemon or sorrel juice and salt, dry in tho sun,
and wash it inley.
To TAKE OUT SPors OF INK.--As soon as the
accident happens, wet the place with the juice
of lemon, or with vinegar, and the best hard
white soap
CURE FOR Burns AND 5cALps,- Take SCOT
from chimney whero wood is burned, rub il
fine, and mix one part SCOT to three parts of
hogs lcrd, spread this on sjnnen or muslin. If
in very extensive buns or scalds, the cloth
should be torn into stripes before putting over
tho scald. Es5the remeday be freely and fully
applied, so as perfectly to cover slie Wound. No
other application isreqnigeA until tho patient
IS well except to apply ifesh applications of
thesoot andlasd, de- lnsteamboat explosions
this remedy can III nearly ell cases be at once
applied, and II dslses nany valuable lives will
be saved, and aynst amount Of suffering alle-
waited. W
CueE ron Conc -Ar, eminent Physician
says: When this disease arises from Gatulence,
teaspoonful Of spirits of trrpentine, taken
with a table spoonful of castor will immediate.
" relieve the sufferer.
tifsse ----44zss--
IMPROVEMENT IN ErIQuETTEy Several gen
slemen of the Massachusetts Legislature dining
recently at a Boston Hotel, one Of them asked
Mr.. NJ, the gentleman who sat opdosite, Gan
you reach them pertaters, sirl"
M. extenaedlef arm toward tho dish, salts
fled himself that he could roach the peytateys.