Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-03-07

I SCARLET FEvER.-We find in one of our ex-
| changes the following paragraph in reference
to scarlet fever, disease which is now alarm
| ingly prevalent in many sections of the State.
| Parents should be very careful about their
children when this devouring plague seizes
| them, and every good mother should be pre-
| pared for it with the following good remedies
| 1st. When a child is taken with the fever
| give it dose of castor-oil; if the body shows
a flush color, have pot of saffron tea made
and give it to the child to drink. This will
drive the eruption out. I'd. Have warm baths
for their feet, keep it warm, and the room
| under proper temperature. Sd. When the
eruption is out grease the whole body with
bacon fat, and keep the body open. Then
call for doctor if the throat should get sore.
To this contemporary adds sBetter begin
with the doctor first.o Not bad advice-but
then doctors cannot always be summoned in
time, and mothers can do great deal them
selves, if they have good stock of common
sense. To keep the body we'll oiled, how
ever, is treatment which ought not to be
neglected in any case. We have never known
it to fail, where the application made in
time and adhered to.
UNCLE SANS FARM.-Tbe amount of land
the United States Government has for sale is
almost incalculable. All the people of four
teen States and Five Territories derive their
ment, and the records and files evidencing tho
inception of their rights, are preserved in tho
general land Office at Washington. The pub
lie domain now covers q surface, exclusive of
water, l 1,450,000,000 of acres. The Govern
ment has sold but about 120, 900 900 of acres
of land during the last quarter of century,
less than S150,000,00O. 1t will thus be seen
that Uncle Sans farm is still large enough
for practical purposes, and though he should
sell off lands for centuries to come he would
have an abundance LETT, even if he does not
enlarge his borders by the annexon of Cuba,
Mexico, and half of the rest of the world.
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New DoDGE.-We saw letter recently, says
the Wheeling Infefigeacer, directed to one OF
our wholesale grocery houses, the writer of
which warned the proprietors that certain mil
lers West were making -four out of white corn
and wheat mixed, and selling it for the genu-
inc article. The correspondent stated that
barrel of this stuff had been Inspected in Gin
cinnati, recently, and when placed in water it
would sink straight to the bottom. When
baked it is brittle and has no tenacity what
ever. We are not advised as to the extent of
the imposition, but it has been thought pro-
per subject for letter of warning, and is en-
titled to consideration.
SMALL Pox.-A medical gentleman writes
to s New York paper that from all the nfor-
nation he can obtain from medical men now
u
that there is no house where gas is burned, of
the ordinary consumption, in which the dis
ease has yet found lodgment. The gas is a
powerful disinfectant, and hence there is no
contagion within the circle of its influence.
He says that person burning gas may con-
tract the disease abroad and take it home
with him, but it win not be communicated to
any other member of the family.
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1t has been observed by Camden that our
forefathers made their conveyances. even if it
were whole manor, in about twenty lines.
Contracts of all kinds were made in few
words. Tully, Atticus, Plutarch, Lysander,
and Aristotle approved Of this brevity. There
is, says Tertulion, more certainty in fewer
words, if they be the proper ones, that in many
parchment skins or foolscap sheets, filled with
Pathological repetitions of particulars, and in
some of which lawyers will find flaw or doubt.
THE EIGHT K's.-The Hon. Henry Clay was
denominated the eight KS by coterie OF
wags in Washington, during his last session in
Congress. He acquired the title thus A gen.
tleman sitting in the gallery of the Senate
Chamber, during an interesting debate, wished
to point out Mr.. Clay to his friend, a foreign
er, who sat beside him, without disturbing the
house, and wrote upon card for him, ssThe
gentleman to the left of the Speaker, in the
klaret kolored koat with krimson kollar, is
Mr.. Klay, member of Kongress from KY"
A story of good luck is being circulated In
Danbury, CT. A man near Fairfield. named
Stevans, it is said, lately bid off at an auction
sale, for trifing sum, "a package of old papers
belonging to his fathers estate, among which
was found deed for a soldiers land warrant.
Rumor says that the location is where the viii
lage of Batesville, IN Arkansas, is now built,
and he sold his claim to gentleman of that
State for $4,000.
An English correspondent writes that at Cal
cutta, at the Governor Generals ball, a beauty
appeared who was not ssput out'' though appa-
rently fire. In countless diminutive bags
of gauze she had imprisoned fire flies, and
these tackled on to her dress, far outshone the
Of the Oriental ladies. As she walk
ed in the more dimly lighted alleys Of the
garden and grounds, she was indeed most
brilliant belle
A HUNDRED FoLD.-Samuel Higgins, OF
Kinderhook, N. Y, says that he raised ono
hundred and seven Prince Albert potatoes
from one, all but three of marketable size and
weighing forty five pounds. Now, if this can
be done once, we want to know why it can't
be done twice, with the same sort of cultiva.
tion; ard we want to know if such cultivation
would not be more profitable than the present
mode?