Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-11-03
Number 5.
U $ EFUL RECEIPTS.

| CT peppermint, half an ounce; mix them together: then, add the spirit to asyrup made by boiling lump sugar, two pounds in one gallon of water; good for fatulence, and to prevent the gripping. of aperient medicines.
 How TO MAKE LARD CANDLES. every eight pounds of Lard add one ounce of nitred acid; and the way of making is as follows: Having care- fully weighed your lard, place it over 8 slow fire or at least melt it; then add the acid, and mould the same as tall low, and you have a clear beautiful candle. In order to make them re- semhle sperm candles, you have only < to add small portion of white bees wax. They are manufacturing large quantities in Wisconsin.
 TooTH ACHE REMEDy.-As anything that will relieve pain, with which all are more or less afflicted, should be 1 made known, we take pleasure in publishing the following remedy forl tooth-a ache, furnished by friend, dis covered by accident; Chloroform andi Tanin in the following proportions viz: Chloroform half ounce, TaninA 3U grains, mixed. Saturate a small piece of raw cotton with the mixture \ and place in the cavity of the tooth and instantaneous relief will be af1 forded.
 To MAKE HoMoNY BREAD-The ho-l mony having been properly soaked drain off the water, and add of freshl water seven and a half pints for eacilJI pound and a half of homony, asl weighed before soaking. Let this simmer for four hours-if boiledsrap-l II | idly 1t will become hard and never swell-the homony will then be ftF for stirabout or bread. For bread mi it gradually with the flour, making the dough in the ordinary way, and | adding yeast in rather more than thd usual proportion. This bread will keep moist and good for a longer timS than if made entirely of wheate
 flour. ~ e5;t- AI
 POISONING BY STRycHNINE.--The poll sonof strychnine is said to be comA pletely neutralized by nicotine, (ths odorous active principle of tobaccoy The most convenient mode of obtainH ing the nicotine is to infuse cigar iH a half pint of water, of which onH table spoonful may be given evelN five minutes. A favorable chan9d will be noticed before half of tue ia fusion is taken, in the relaxation cf the muscles, in the spasms, and in ths length of time which clapses betweeH the spasms. This quantity of tobact co, given to a healthy person, would produce serious effects, but in case of poisoning by strychnine its effect are said to be entirely antagonized.
 TIE ToNGuE-A white fur on the tongue attends simple fever and in-. famation. Yellowness of the tongub attends a Arrangement of the livef, and is common to bilious and typhds levers. A tongue vividly red on ths1 tip and edge, or down the centEar
 over the whole surface, attol
 famation of the mpan
 ing browl
 prus state
 toms nn D4tollded
 taking in all the propensities0 I liqueities of mental and moral 6l
 dition. The tongue is a most exprSbr sive as we'll as unruly member ScientVc Aaerican R
 ANrInoTE TO STRYcHNINE.-Dr Besp- : ley, wishing to kill mangy cur, slkd I having read in Magendie's repHrt on Stryehnia," that the sixteenth oh a grain will kill the largest dog, det9rl mined to make sure of this very lit1le animal by giving it about half grain. But either Magendie's statement was incorrect or the drug was adulteratMd, for, at the end of ten minutes, the ddg, though suferingly frightfully, was not dead. Dr. Bewley resolved to hut him out of his misery at once, and accordingly mixed half drachmslof prussic acid with little milk, and put it under the dogs snout. 2 He lsp- ped the milk with avidity, and in lesa than minute vomited, got upon Ais legs, ran away, and recovered.-Ln- erary Gazette.
 Cure for Chronic Laryngitis. @
 MEssRs. EDrroRs:-It is due to m xny sufferers, especially among my brs- ther ministers, to state, that having suffered with a chronic affection of the throat for more than twenty years, and having tried in vain many pallia-
 tives and remedies, Inow believe Iay- self cured by the continued use of pine. -.-..-us.-....--.-s---
 The prescription is simply gthis.-- , Keep about your person a piece of
 rich pine, and whenever you feel the need of relief shave off as much Fine , shavings as it is convenient to hold in the mouth, and breathing through s them inhale their emanations. .sd $'h g @ Paroxysms of coughing that oiten t defied every other method of relief,
 have uniformly yielded to this in less !, than five minutes, and now enjoy Il entire, freedom from a malady, which T fer more than twenty years thre aten- : ed to put~an end to my labors and 5 my life,--L. R. Morrison ie the Cfsis- ! tian Obseruer. ,h
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 TnE ONLY MAN THAT GAN DEFEAT BACK REptBLIcANisM.-Fo two years it has been asserted by the Douglas democrats that the $ t'Little Giant" was the only man that could defeat black republicanism. A large number of the purest and best democfsts of the nation have favored the aspirations of ' Douglas, because they sincerely and honestly believed that he was omnipotent q the North His disciples have assursd tAe : public that the abolition phalanx would bo