The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-07-30
Useful Recipes. Etc.

that Portland man has cured one Of the
most dangerous cases of cancer by drinking
red clover tea and applying a red clover COM
press, and thinks it will prove an infallible
remedy in all cases.
To MAKE PENCIL MARKS IHpEL1BLE.-A
great many valuable letters and other wr-
tings are in pencil. The following simple
process will make lead pencil writing or
drawing as indelible as if done with ink: Lay
the writing in shallow dish and pour
skinned milk upon it. Any spots not wet
at first may have milk placed upon them
lightly with feather, take it up and let the
milk drain off, wipe off the drops with fea-
ther which collect on the lower edge. Dry
it carefully, and it will be found to be per-
fectly indelibe. 1t cannot be removed even
with India rubber. : Exchange.
TINE TO GRAFT TREEs.-In reply to cor
respondent, the editor of the GARDENEB's
MONTHLY says: For grating generally, any
time is good when the growth is going on,
and there is not too much sap in the con;
the amount in the stock makes less difference.
If there is much in the cion it is liable to
rot before the union takes place. If cions
are taken from healthy trees, and kept from
drying, sprouting or other injuries, grating
may 60 on from early Spring to midsummer.
Those who praise one week more than anoth-
er, are those whose unlucky time has rather
been due to other circumstances.
BEET RooT.-Beet root, when picked,
will keep a. long as any other kind ofpickle.
Wash it perfectly clean, but do not cut away
any of the fibers; boil in large quantity of
boiling water, with little salt, for half an
hour; if the skin will come off easily, it is
done enough. Lay it on cloth, and with a
coarse one rub off the skin. Cut it into
slices, put it into ajar, and pour over it a
hot pickle of white vinegar, little ginger,
aud horseradsh sliced. Cover close. When
first taken from the ground, beet-root may be
kept for winter use by laying in layers of dry
sand; the mould must not be removed from
about the root.
To PICKLE ONIONS. In the month of Sep
tember choose the small, white onions. take
off the brown skin, have ready very nice
tin stew pan of boiling water; throw in as
many onions as will cover the top. AS soon
as they look clear on the outside, take them
up as quick as possible with slice, and lay
them on a clean cloth; cover them close with
another and scald some more, and SO on.
Let them lie to be cold, then put them in a
jar or glass, or wide-mouthed bottles, and
pour over them the best white wine vinegar,
just hot, not boiling. When cold cover
them. Should the outer skin shrivel, peel
it off, they must look clear
FuMIGArIYa OUT-DooR PLANTS. Some one
having inquired through the COUNTRY GEN.
rLEMAN, how to do this, correspondent re-
plies: Tell 'R, who writes for information
how to fumigate outdoor plants with tobac-
co, to invert, over the plants, a suitable
sized, one-headed cask, tub or keg, and put
O few live Goals on dish under the cask, and
place little tobacco on the FIRE, and the fu-
migation will soon be completed; or a fun
mel made from paper may be inverted over
the plants, and smoke blown from fumiga-
tor, under it. A cheap and available fumi-
gator may be made from tin spice-box, with
a suitable lengthed hollow stem fastened to
each end of the box; the cover may be made
movable. Fill with tobacco, and place live
Goals behind, and blow through, directing
the smoke by the stem, where desired. Hoop
skirt springs may be used in making paper
tunnels, to better keep the paper In shape
and FORM"
CUREFoR SNAKE BITES. About twenty years
ago the Smithsonian Institute embarked ID a
series of experiments testing the practicable
ity of neutralizing the poison of snakes,
founded purely on chemical basis, which de-
veloped great results. The fact was illus
trated that the poison of the most venom
GUS rattlesnake can be neutralIzed in an in
credibly short time. After the most extra
ordinary results from all the experiments
witnessed, there was promulgated from the
Institute, at the time above mentioned, the
following simple but certain cure for snake
bites, and for the sting of all kinds of in
sects: Thirty grains of iodine pottassum,
thirty grains of iodine, one ounce of water;
applied externally to the wound by satura'
ting lint or batting-the same to be kept
moist with the antidote until cure is effect
ed, which will be in one hour, and sometimes
instantly. The limb bitten should be corded
tight to prevent circulation. The liquiC
should be kept in phial with glass stop
per.
Here's TO internal improvements" al