The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-01
WORTH KNOWN G.

TO KEEP CHAR OF BED BUGs.-Taks
whites Of four eggs and ten cents worth
! quicksilver; put them into bowl and
sat to perfect froth. Take feather and
Up into the preparation, aud apply to eve.
> part OF yonr bedstead where bugs conceal
5emselves; do this once year, and you
,.ll never see bedbug in your house.
RREUMATIsM-The best recipe known
Honey two pounds. clarified by slow fire
lown to one pound; flour of sulphur, two
unces cream of tartar, one ounce Jamai
ginger, powdered, half an ounce; one
utmeg grated gum guaiacum, powdered
ne drach. Mix all these Ingredients well.
)ose-two tAblespoonsfull twice day in q
umbler Of hot water.
WARTS on cows teats may, SAYS an ex-
change. be easily removed by applying the
ollUwing simple remedy In a quart of soft
water dissolve one-quarter pound of alum !;
and in this solution wash the teats and udder
carefully, morning, noon, and night. Per-
.everance in this course will, in few days,
remove every vestige of the disease, leaving
the parts formerly affected smooth and
healthy.
NEUBAIGIA.-An exchange says gen
tleman Of Troy has discovered that lemon
juice is u sure cure for that very common
complaint, neuralgia. He says that the
juice of one lemon a day, taken in water,
will cure the most obstinate cases. No ST.
gar should be used, as it has a tendency to
counteract the benefits of the lemon juice.
Those who are troubled with neuralgia
should give this simple remedy triaL
ANTIXoNoD.-A substance has been re-
Gently introduced into use in Germany,
called antimOnoid, by means of which iron
and steel Of any kind may be welded to
each other without any regard to the COM
parstive quality of thickness of the two por-
tions. The ingredients Of the antimonoid
are not published but the substance itself,
if the statements given of its availability be
correct, is an important addition to the re-
sources Of workers in i.on.
VEGETABLE STA1Ns.-The best method of
removing stains from linen and cotton fab
rics, produced by spilling wine or vegetable
juices, consists Of moistening the surface
affected previously wetted) with solution
of bypo-sulphate of soda dissolved in hot
water, and then adding on the point Of
knife little pulverized tartaric acid, and
rubbing this we'll in. After the stain has
disappeared the cloth may be washed out in
lukewarm water, and when dry no trace of
the stain will remain.
CoRNs AND BUNIoNs.-To cure corus
take lemon, cut piece OF 1t OF, and nick
it so as to let in the toe with the corn. Tie
this ON at night 30 that it cannot move, and
you will find the next morning that, with
a blunt knife the corn will come away to q
great extent, Two or three applications
will effect thorough cure. Bunions are
more difficult to cure /; but the following
has proved remedy in some cases Make
an ointment Of half an ounce Of spermaceti
and twelve grains of iodine, and apply twice
OF thrice a day.
PRESERVING TIMBER.-To builders. gar
deners, and others who employ homegrown
timber for fencing and other purposes, a
correspondent in the London Gardeners
Chronicle recommends preventive of dry
rotr which he says has been thoroughly
tested by experiment. 1t consists in soak
ing the timber for short time in lime wa
ter. a pit or good sized tank. according to
the extent of the requirement, will answer
the purpose, the lime being added to the
water in the proportion of eighty-eight
grains to the gallon. Timber prepared in
this way is said to stand the weather re-
maTkably we'll.