The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-03-31
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

NEVER be ashamed to do kind action
to any one under any circumstances.
NO PERSON ever got stung by hornets
who kept away from where they were.
1t is so with bad habits
The Educational Gazette saws that eel
cry, used daily as salad, will cure ner-
vousness. 1t is also good, says the same
authority, for palpitation of the heart.
a CORRESPONDENT of the COUNTRY Gen
1eoadn advises, in the case of broken
horn on a COW, that it be left alone and
thought nothing of, and says it will get
well by this treatment.
The eggs of the currant worm and
borer are generally @eposited in end
around the old stalks and dead branches
of the currant bush. These should be all
cut away and burned early III the season.
WOULD you be exempt from uneasi-
ness do nothing you know or suspect to
be wrong and If you want to enjoy the
purest pleasure, do everything in your
power that you are convinced is right.
4 GOOD MAN and wise man NAV at
times be angry with the world, at times
grieved for it; but be sure no man was
ever discontinued with the world who did
his duty in it.
TARTs.-LemOn butter is excellent for
tarts. 1t is made as follows One pound
OF pulverizcd white sugar, whites of six
eggs and yolks of two, three lemons, in
Guiding grated rind and juice. Cook
twenty minutes over slow fire, stirring
all the while.
TEA BIsCUT.-Six potatoes boiled and
grated in half milk-pan of -four One
tablespoon of salt, three tumblers of milk,
two ounces of butter, warmed in the milk,
one cIln of Rpaf ba w Il itoo If +broo
eggs to froth, and put in before knead-
ing. Mix not quite as stiff as bread
dough, and put to rise e..s.1.-
IRON rust is removed by salt mixed with
lemon juice. Mildew, by dipping in sour
buttermilk and laying in the sun. Ink
stains may be sometimes taken out by
smearing with hot tallow, left on when
the stained article goes to the wash
Freezing will take out old fruit stains,
and scalding with boiling water will re-
move those that have never been through
the wash.
THE Rural Register gives the following
method of breaking the habit of kicking
in mich COWS: "Have a good short
whip, and at the first kick give one smart
blow; commence milking again and strike
once, hard, Immediately after each kick.
The theory is that by this process the
COW soon learns to connect the effect with
the cause, and to avoid the former by quit
ting the latter"
OLD ribbons will look quite renewed if
washed in cool suds made of fine SOAP
and ironed when damp Cover the rib
bon with a clean cloth and pass the iron
over that. If you wish to stitfen the
ribbon, dip it, while drying, into gum
arabic water. White silk gloves wash
well, and should be dried on the hands.
Never dampen bonnet ribbon and iron it
wet-it makes it stiff as horn.-RuyaJ
Register.
A MATERIAL which can be pressed into
the form of combs, buttons knife handles.
&c, may be made from leather scraps by
cutting them into small pieces and keen
ing them for several days in chloride of
sulphur in this way they become hard
and brittle. After being washed thew are
dried, ground to powder and mixed with
glue, or a solution of gum arabic. or any
other adhesive substance, when the mix
ture is ready. for the moulds.-Ecchnaoe.
NJ. ZIUREK calls attention, in DiaoZer's
POtytScltaac Journal, to the fact that water.
Kept in small reservoirs made of zinc. or
collected from roofs covered with zinc. is
invariably contaminated with that metal.
and that the use OF such water for domes-
tic purposes is highly injurious to health.
The author recommends that where zinc
vessels are used for the purpose indicated,
they should be painted over with asphalt
varnish or any iron pigment
Sailing HAY.-A correspondent of
Hearth and Home says: Never salt your
hay at all. How would you like to be
forced 10 eat so much salt with your food,
or starve? This is what you ask your
cows to do when you salt their hay. NV
experience is: All animals do best when.
they have free access to salt. Keep a box
in some dry place in yard or shed, where
stock can take what salt they need as reg
ularly as they take their water Keep the
box supplied with salt, and cattle win
never eat more than is good for them"
STUFFED EGGS.-Halve ten hard boiled
eggs lengthwise take out the yolks.
pound them in a mortar; add to them
some bread crumbs soaked in milk. and a
quarter of a pound of fresh butter ponnd
ali together; add little chopped onion
and parsley, some bruised pepper. and
grated nutmeg; mix it with the yoiks of
two raw eggs; fill the halved whites with
some of this forcemeat lay the remainder
at the bettonl of a dish, and arrange The
stuffed eggs upon it; put into an oven.
and when nicely Drowned, serve.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen.
UeHlelr1 saws: +" have invented q ,rr.<,os.