Washington sentinel., 1856-03-29

i three pounds, and each piece should be entirely
covered with the meal.
To KEEP FRESH MEAT IN SUMMER.-Put the
meat into a stone jar, and cover it with sour
milk. BY changing the milk once or twice, it
| will keep week or more. Before cooking,
wash the milk from the meat, and lay it in a
little soda water a few minutes. 1t will make
it very tender.
For COOKING VEGETABLE OYsTERs.-After
cleaning, cut into slices a quarter of an inch
thick; boil in plenty of water until tender, with
few bits of Goldfish salt and season with
pepper, butter and cream, and you will have
| a soup almost equal to small oysters.
CRAMp.-Those who may be subject in the
night time to that excruciaiing pain called
cramp, may be secure against its attacks by
tying any kind of bandage very tightly round
the leg Immediately above the knee; or it may
be remedied by breathing forcibly and taking
long respirations, thus exciting the action of
the lungs, by which means the whole system
will be animated, and perhaps in less than a
minute the disorder will be abated and the
pain effectually removed.
The above remedies we have heard spoken
OF before, and they are at least worth trial.
ScARLATINA.-A prescription for the sure
cure Of small pox, scaratina and measles, has
been published by a member of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons London. 1t is reported to
have been tested with invariable success in in
Vulnerable instances, and the receipt is as fol-
lows: Take one grain of powered foxglove or
| digitalis valuable in the ratio of its greenness
and the same quantity of sulphate of zinc or
| white vitriol, rub well in a mortar with a few
drops of water; add four ounces of water and
little sugar. fthis mixture a tablespoonful
should be given an adult, and two oteaspoonfuls
to child, every second hour, until SYMPTOMS of
disease vanish. The herb annihilates the
fever, and the zinc acts as toric.
How TO MAKE FIRE IN A COMMON CRATE.
A correspondent of the London Builder thus
describes new method of burning bituminous
Goals in a common CRATE:
Clean out your crate and cover the bottom
with sheet of paper folded to fit; then place
the coal in the CRATE to the level Of the top bar.
The fire i then to lie lighted on the top and
allowed 10 burn downwards.
1t is stated that this plan of burning btu
minous coal saves a great deal OF fuel, and
makes cheerful brilliant fire. The theory of
this saving consists in the gasses arising from
the fresh Goals below having TO pass through
the fire, where they are consumed, and thus
give out heat in combustion, at the same time
preventing smoke.
Snow BREAD.-The Cincinnati Times says
that all persons where snow abounds, are not
perhaps, aware of the value of the heecy flakes
making light, delicious, and wholesome bread.
There is no raising in the world so perfectly
physiological, as good, fresh; sweet snow, 1t
raises bread or cakes as beautifully as the best
of yeast, or the purest acids and akalies, while
it leaves no tant or fermentation like the
the former nor injurious neutral salt like the
latter, nor injurious neutral salt like the latter.
Indeed it raises by supplying atmosphere
wherewith to puff up the dough, while the other
methods only supply carbonic acid gas.
FARMERS, MAKE YoUR OWN CANDLEs-Take
2pounds of alum, for every 10 pounds of tallow,
dissolve in water before the talow is put in, and
then melt the tallow in the alum water with
frequent string, and it clarifies and hardens the
tallow so as to make most beautiful article
for either winter or summer use, almost as good
as sperm.
VINEGAR.-A writer in the Boston CultiUa-
tor proposes the following method by which he
thinks the best vinegar can be procured at
triaing expense:
The juice Of one bushel of sugar beets, worth
twenty-five cents, and which any farmer can
raise with little cost, will make from FIVE to
six gallons of vinegar, equal to the best made
Of elder wine. First, wash and CRATE the beets,
and express the juice in a cheese press, or in
any other way which a little ingenuity can
suggest, put the liquor into barrel; cover
the bung with gauze and set it in the sun, and
in fifteen or twenty days it will be fit for use.
By this method the very best Of vinegar can be
obtained without any great troubles and hope
all who like good vinegar will try it."
To SOFTEN HARD WATER.-Water is fire.
quently hard from holding in solution a quantity
of carbonate Of lime. 1t may be rendered soft
by the addition of a little quick lime. The
rationale of the process is this: Carbonate of
lime is insolube in pure water, but soluble in
water containing carbonic acid. Any water
therefore, that contains carbonite Of lime in
ISOLATION, contains free carbonic acid. When
quick lime is added, this free carbonc acid
unites with it, forming the insoluble carbonate
Of lime, which, together with the carbonate OF
lime originally in the water, falls to the bottom
Of the vessel, and the supernant water is SOFT
The ScALY ApHIs.-The bark-louse in many
of our orchards continues to spread the trunk
and some branches of some trees are com
pletely covered with this scaly aphis, and
growth has ceased. The best known applica-
ton is equal parts of tar and hnseed oil, put
on with brush. The tar paint should be
moderately warm, and put on the trunk and
large branches. We have seen trees in the
summer that had been painted the previous
winter, and some Of the buds and spurs we're
closed by the paint; on the larger limbs and
trunk the paint was peeling off, leaving a
healthy bark, and the trees had again com
menced a vigorous growth
If trees we're planted on suitable soil, and
received proper care and culture, they would
not become lousy trees. Trees are frequently
planted too deep; our subsoil is often clayey
loan in wet weather as sticky as putty. 1t is
easier TO throw furrow toward tree than
plow furrow away, and the plough sometimes
runs two deep, cutting off the roots near the
surface. When tree is few years old, the
bark hardens, and if the soil is raised at the
base, it has no power to throw out new roots.
We often see lousy trees standing in grass, or
al w. he,