The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-15
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

TO KEEP HAWs.-NIr. Brooks, Of Ti0ga county, Nuw
York, gives umuthud Of keeping hams, which has never
failed with him lie has tried them In salt, in grain, IN
pounded charcou n dry ashes, aud sewcd up In clUl
and whtrwlshcdi but they would either mold or suffer
Injury from flies, or some other way. lie thon mudl
sacks for them of yard square Of good shuUtnE putting
them up before infected hy flies one nus8rk Sweet hay
is cut mp, about one inch long and put i'm the sacu
around the hams, keeping them from the bag They are
then tied up, ana hung up In the smOl,ohOuse or som'
cool dry place; the hay and the bag viii keep away tho
Hins and allow the escape Of moisture, that they will
not mold, lt we'll cured and thoroughly smoked, ono
may depend ON having good bans o. long us they last
Germantown Telegraph.
FRIED PorAroEs-IIow ow cooks know how to fry 20,
atocs There nothing easy to get and yet pllato
Bile fnr breakfast, with thick tender beef steak or
muttou-chop frying from the grl-ron. Tofryraw pota
properly they should be pared cut onghwise int
slices au eighth Of inch i'm thickness, dropped into
pln over the FIRE containing hot bccf dripngs uruc,
frequently, nicely Drowned all over but burned
The addition OF % little salt and pepper while m th
pam aud little flour drcdgcd over then is an improve
ment
CuoIcr or Foars.-TunEEys-f young, the legs vii
he black and smooth the cycs lively and the feet pabe
If old, the eyes will be sunk and the feet dry.
PAErErpGEs.--If young, will have black bill and yell
low legs II old the bin will be white and the Icg' blue
Old fowls tame and Wild may be told by their hard
Win Nyn TAME DrcKs.==Ir young they will he linn.
berfootcd; it. fat hard and thick the lower par Of r
body wild duck has red feet, and smaller than tame
GEEsr-If young. the bin will be yellow, and the feet
HENs-If their comb and legs rough, they old
If smooth and timber, they are young.
BRANDY ANrInorING CHLoRoFoRM.-A case isrccorded
n the London Medical Times, of recovery after apparent
death from chlnruurm, I'm which artificial respiration was
kept up Tor half hour before any voluntary rcspraO
rs action perceived. During the latter portion OF
this time the pulse could not be felt at the wrist but prc
vuuslv there had not been the slightest sign of e M
other of restoration used except an enema Of
brandy.
How To NEUTEALIzE PoIsON.-A correspondent OF The
New York Evening Post says:
GA poison Of any conceivable description and degree
Of potency, which has been Intentionally accidentally
swallowed may DO rendered almost instantly harmless by
simply swallowing two gills Of sweet OIL An individual
with very strong constitution should take nearly twice
the quantity. This oil will most positively ncutTaizu eve
cry form Of vegetable, animal mineral poison with
which physicians and chemists are acquainted"
CURE FOR bOCEJAw.-"We have noticed lately says
the Lancaster Gazette accounts Of number Of deaths
by this disease which induces to rcpuhsh positive
preventive and remedy fort the disease ~ is the simple
application Of becrs gall 10 he J0ull"