Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
VALUABLE RECEIPTS,

VALUABLE RECEIPTS,
We intend publishing in this column,
from week to week until exhausted receipts
Of great value, prepared for the DEMO
Graf by gentleman who has the fullest
confidence in their eflicacy-ganod in
the majority Of the receipts by actual
trial Some of the receipts, we arc con.
6dent, will be worth to the reader, Ten
times the price Of subscription to the
DEMocRAT.
WASHING FLUID.-0ne gill spirits OF
turpentine,on gallon soft soap, two quarts
soft water, one quarter lb sal soda boil
together Eve minutes, BY the use Of which
nearly the entire labor attending the
washing Of clothes is dispensed with. 1t
it manufactured at an expense not exceed.
ing that of ordinary soft soap. The in.
gradients can be had at any store or drug
shop, it can 10 made in few minutes,
and its use will not injure the finest fabric.
No housekeepcr would grudge 81 for this
receipt alone.
TO CURE WARTs--Pare the hard and
dried skin from their tops, and then touch
them with the smallest drop OF acetic acid
taking care the acid do not run off the wars
upon the neighboring skin for, if it does,
if will cause Inflammation and much pain.
If this practice be continued once or twice
daily, with regularity, pairing the surface
of the wart occasionally when 1t gets hard
and dry, the wart will soon be effectually
cured.
To KEEP A STOVE BRIGHT-M Make a
weak alum water, and mix your British
lustre with it. Put two spoonfuls to a gill
of alum water. Let the stove be cold; brush
with the mixture; then take dry brush
and lustre, and rub the stove until it is
, perfectly dry. Should part before polish.
ihg,become so dry as to look gray ,moisten
it with wet brush, and proceed as before.
BY two applications a year,it may be kept
as bright as a coach body.
To REMOVE INK SPOTS FROM LINENS.
Ink spots can be removed by saturating
them with lemonjuice and rubbing on
salt, and then putting them where the
sun will shine on them hotly for several
hours. As fast as it dries, put on more
lemon.juce and salt. When the lemon
cannot be obtained, citric acid is a good |
substitute. Iron mould may be removed
in the same way.
CoUeH SYRUP-Put quart hoarhound
for quart water and boil it down to
pint; add 2 to sticks liquorice and
tablespoonful of essence lemon. Take
tablespoonful Of the Syrup three times
day, or as often as often as the cough may
be troublesome.
The above receipt has been sold for
Sl0O. Several firms are making much
money by its manufacture.
SMALL ox.-Certain Cure. Take of
powdered foxglove (digitalis) and sulphate
Of zinc, one grain each. Rub together
thoroughly in mortar with five or six
drops of water; this done, add four or
five ounces of water, and sweeten with
loaf sugar, Dose tablespoonful for
an adult, and one or two tea-spoonfuls
for child, every two or three hours, until
symptoms of disease vanish.
FUMIGATIoN FOR Sick RooMs--Take
Of casoarilla, reduced TO coarse powder,
ohamomle. flowers, anseed, each equal
parts, two ounces. Put some hot cinders
in shovel, sprinkle this gradually on it.
and fumigate the chambers of the sick -
1t takes off all smell, and keeps off infec-
ton.
OURE FOR DYsENTERY,-Iako new
churned butter, before it is washed or salt.
cd; clarity over the fire and remove the
milky particles add 4 brandy 10 preserve
it, and loaf sugar to sweeten let the pa
tient (if an adult take two tablespoon
fuls twice day. The above is a sure
cure, and it is sold at great profit.
DAIRY SEcRET-Have ready two pans
in boiling water, put The new milk in one
and cover the other over It. This will
occasion great increase in the thickness
and quality of the cream.
BITES OF Poisonous ANIMALS -Indi-