Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-07-06

A HTST TO GARDENERS. AS our houses
and gardens are always, more or less, infested
With vermlu, it is satisfactory to know that
6enzine, an article become sufficiently we'll
known as detergent is no less eficacious es
agent in insecticide. One or two drops are
sufficient to asphyxiate the most redoutable
insect pest, be it beetle, cockchafer, spider,
slug, caterpillar, or creeping things. Even
rats and mice speedily decamp frcm any
place sprinked with few Drops of the potent
benziue. a singular fact connected with
this application of benzine is. that the bodies
OF insects killed by it become 80 rigid, that
.heir wings, legs, &c. will break rather than
bend, if touched. Next day, however, when
the benzine has evaporated, suppleness Is
restored.
LIQUID GLUE.-The following re9pc, the
discovery OF q French chemist, is selling
about the country as o secret, for various
prices, from one to FIVE dollars. 1t is q handy
and valuable composition, as it does not
geatinize nor undergo putreFaction and fer
mentation, and become offensive, and is al
ways ready for use In o wide mouthed
bottle dissolve eight ounces OF best glue in
half pint OF water, by setting it in vessel
Of water and heating it till dissolved Then
add slowly, constantly stirring, two and half
ounces strong aquafortis (ntric scid.) Keep
it well corked and it will be ready for use.
ALUM IN STARCH For starching muslns,
gipghams and cslicoes, dissolve piece OF
alum the slze of a shell bark for every pint
of starch, and add to il. BY so doing, the
colors will keep bright for q long time, which
is very desirable whep dresses must be often
washed, and the cost is bot triae.
How TO CURE CoLIC IN HoRsgs.-John
l.. Gregg, OF Missouri says in the Talley
Fdrmer, Il can cure by the following receipt
any case OF cole 10 borses in twenty minutes
Take three ounces tobacco 10 small bits
one drachm red pepper; one and half gal.
Aons OF boiling water mix and simmer on
itoals ten minutes, or till the properties of
the medicines are extracted. Administer by
injection With one-half pint syringe. Repeat
every minute Till revived. BY this method
bave cured more than fifty cases without
single failule. Tho horse is generally it for
use IN ooe hour. The moduS operdndi Of tho
medicine 10 this Tobacco is powerful re-
laxant-Capscum powerful stimulant. BY
the relaxation produced by the tobacco, free
exit is given to the collection of wind or gas,
and the circulation is equslized; the pepper
prevents too great a relaxation.
TOgATORs FOR CHILDREN There is DO bet.
ter remedy for deraDgsment of the bowels IN
children, while teething, than stewed toma-
toes, fed to them plentifulIy; care being
taken to keep the child's extremites warm.
Cover its neck and arms, especially of all
evening; give it crushed ice to assuage thirst
if possible. rather than give il water avoid
cordials, as they only produce fever. The
tomatoes ought to be ripe and frosh. though
the vegetable preserved in cans has been used
with great success. BGltim0re Sun.
STALE BREAD CAEEs.--Scald all your bread
ia the morning and add to it a sufficient
quantity OF milk, sour milk II you have it. with
little soda or saeratus, Q spoonful o! wheat
-four and one egg. and you viii have deIic,ens
cakes, better Than any know Of Bairaoys
Sun.