The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-03-17
USEFUL RECEIPTS.

USEFUL RECEIPTS
Erysipclas, disease often coming with
out promotion, and ending fatally in three
or four days, is sometime promptly cured
by applying pouItice of raw cranberlies
pounded, and placed on the part over
night.
Insect bites, and even those Of rattle
snake, have passed harmless, by stirring
enough OF common salt in the yolk of u
egg to make it sufficiently thin for q plas.
ter, to be kept on the bitten parts.
Costive bowels have an agreeable rcmc-
dy in the free use of tomatoes at meals
their seed acting the way of the seeds of
white mustard or figs, by stimulating the
coats of the bowels over which they pass
IN their whole state, to increase action. A
remedy Of equal efficiency, in the same di
reciion, is cracked whcat-that is common
white wheat grains, broken into two or
three pieces, and then boiled until it is us
; 3 ut as rice, and eaten man'y q. two meals
OF the day, with but or or moI;,sses.
Common sweet cider, boiled down to one
half, makes Il most excellent syrup for
coughs and colds for chidren-is pleasant
to the taste and will keep throughout the
year i'll il cold cellar.
In recovering from an illness. the system
has II craving for some pleasant acid drink.
This is found in cider which is placed on
the lire as soon rs made, and allowed to
come to boil, then cooled, put in casks,
and kept in II cool cellar. Treated thus, it
remains for many months as good as the
day it was made.
We once saved the life of an infant
which had been inadvertently dr,,ggcd will,
laudanum, and was fast sinking into the
sleep from which was no awakening, by
giving it strong ccifrc, cleared with the
white OF an cgg, - tcaspoontul every five
minutes until it ceased to seem drowsy-
UoFs Journul Of IfcaiM.
Erfern"t Inf"cnccs.-Every one knows
people who are quite different people ac-
ing as they are in town or country. l
know man-am exceedingly clever and
learned man-who in town is sharp, Sc
we're, hastv, Il very little bitter, and just
shade ill.tcmpcrcd, who on going to
the country becomes instantly genial, frank,
playful, kind, jolly; you would not know
him for the same man if his face and
fprm changed only half rs much as lis
intcllcctu,i and moral Eaturc. Many IN,
when they go into the country, just as
they put off frock coats and stiff stocks
and put on loose shooting suit, big thick
shoes, Il loose soft handkerchief round
their nccks-just us they pitch away
the vile hard hat Of city propriuty tia.
plnches, cramps, and cuts the haplvss head,
and replace it by the light yielding wide
awake--do mentally pass through like
process Of relief; their whole spiritual
being is looser, frecr, less tel up. Sucl,
changes as that from town to country
must, should think, be felt by all cdu-
Gated people: and make an appreciablc
difference in the moral condition of all cdu-
Gated people. Few men would feel the
same amid the purple moors round
llaworth and amid the soft English
scenery that you see from Richmond
Hill. Some individuals, inlecl-whose
mind is not merely torpid may carry the
same 0himus with them wherever they
go; but their omimus must be very
bad one. Mr.. Scrooge, before his change
OF nature, was, no doubt, quit. indepen-
dent of external circumstances, and no
doubt. would have thought it proof Of great
weakness had he not been so. Nor was it
being of an amiablc character in whose
mouth Milton has put the words, q No
MATTER where, SO l bc still the same ~
An,l even in his mouth the sentiment was
rather vaporing than true. But dull.
heavy, prosac mi>erly, cantankerous, cvni-
cal, suspicious, bitter old rascal, would
probably he much the same everywhere.-
FfoScrs -uuya=tne, December.