The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-09

VALUABLE RECIPES.
3 1-sfa~s f--sss4 ~ ~ al
LEMONS will keep well in occasionally |
changed water.
CHLoRoFoRM is said to remove paint |
when other standard solvents fail.
3 LEMONADE can be cheaply manufacture
ed at home from citric acid and water |
favored with essence oflemmon.
To get rid of ants, sprinkle sugar over
q dry sponge, and when the cells are fill |
ed with the ants, scald them.
An agricultural paper recommends the
shearing of geese as better for geese,
pickers and feathers.
FREEZING will take out old fruit stains, |
and scalding with boiling water will re-
move those that have never been through
the wash.
IRON rust is removed by salt mixed
with lemon juice. Mildew, by dipping
in sour buttermilk and laying in the sun.
To prevent boiling meat burning or
adhereing to the bottom of the kettle, fit
false bottom of tin on the inside.
A MOTHER says she wartled of scarlet
fever from her children by small piece
of gum camphor in bag. suspended to
the child's neck.
SOME one says, too. th-t the same sub
stance, evaporated in a tin vessel over a
lamp, will expcl mosquitoes from a
room.
IT is said that If lamp wicks are soaked
in strong vinegar for twenty-four hours,
and then thoroughly dried, they will
burn longer and brighter.
ONE who says he has tried it, states
that cistern can be purified by letting
the filling pipe from the roof go down
within a foot of the bottom. The old
water rises and runs off at the waste pipe.
CASTOR OIL may be deprived of its ter
rors thus: Heat the bottle, warm the
cup with boiling water, and add a few
drops Of peppermint for the comfort OF
the patient swallowing.
NIX up half pailfal of lime and wa
ter; take halt pint of flour, and make
| starch of it.; pour it into the white
| wash and stir well. You will have
whitewash that will not rub of, so an
exchange tells us.
A HOUSEWIFE says linen can ge glazed
| by putting teaspoonful of salt and one
of ffnely-scrapped white soap into pint
| of starch. Boil the starch (after adding
| ness.
To make cheap filter, lay piece OF
| flannel on the perforated bottom OF a
box or cask, on this some coarsely pow
dered charcoal, then coarse river sand,
and cover the whole with sandstone bro
ken in small pieces.
WET the broom in boiling srds once a
week; 1t will be toughened and softened
by the operation. A dusty carpet may
be cleaned by wetting the broom, knock
ing off the drops, sweeping little, and
then repeating the operation.
The following u recommended to clean
wheel grease from cloth: Lay the cloth
on clean sheet folded to eight thick
nesses. Rub with soft cloth dipped in
lard, moving the cloth to new place fire.
quently. Clean out the lard in the same
way with nice soap and alcohol.
DIR. HALL recommends to him who
would grow fat, to work little, sleep a
great part of the time, allow nothing to
worry him, keep always in joyous,
laughing mood, and live chiefly on al
| Eliminates, such as boiled cracked wheat,
aud rye, and Oatmeal, and milk, and SUI
gar.
| THE following is said to be fatal to flies
and will not kill the babies that chance
to get hold of it: Boil quarter Of an
ounce of small quassia chips in pint of
water, stain and add gill of mOlasses,
or mix together one part of black pep
| per, two Of brown sugar, and four of
cream.
PEACH MANGOES.--Steep peaches in
brine two days, then take out the stones
| and fill the peaches with mustard seed,
scraped horse radish, ginger, little red
pepper and mace, with chopped peach,
mix all well, moisten with vinegar and
stuff the peach and tie it with thread !;
boil a quart of vinegar with spice suited
| to the taste; when boiled ten minutes,
pour hot over the mangOes, add little
salad oil, cork tight, and set away for use
THE following mode is recommended
for the cooking of rice: Pick over the
rice carefully; rinse it well i'm cold wa
ter till it Is perfectly cleansed; drain OF
the water. then put it in pot of boiling
| water, with little salt. Allow rs much
| as a quart of water to / tcacup of rice, rs
it absorbs the water very much while
| boiling. Boil seventeen minutes, then
turn the water off very close; set the pot
over a few Goals, and let it steam fifteen
minutes with the lid of the pot off.
To PREVENT DECAY OF WOOD.-An
English journal gives the following: ~
process has been discovered for the pre-
I'yentiOn of the decay of wood. As the
result of five years experience, a paint
| is recommended, which ut the same time
possess the advantages of being impervi-
Gus to water. 1t is composed oil fifty parts
OF tar, five hundred parts of fine, white
sand, four parts of linseed oil, one part of
the red oxide ofcopper in its native state,
and finally, one part of sulphuric acid.
In order to manufacture the paint from
this multiplicity of materials, the tar,
chalk, sand, and oil. are first heated In an
iron kettle; then the oxide and acid are
then added with great deal of caution.
The mass is very carefully mixed, and
applied while hot. When thoroughly
dry, this paint is as hard as stone.
a NEW WAY TO DRY PEAcHEs.--Dr.
Jos. Treat, of Vineland, n. j., gave last
season the following, and, as he says,
new directions for pairing peaches for
drying:
| Never pare peaches to dry. Let them
get mellow enough to be in good eating
condition, put them In boiling water for
moment or two, and the skins will como
off like charm. Let them be in the wa
ter long enough, but no longer. The
gain is at least six-fold--saving of time
In removing the skin, great saving of the
peach, the best part saved, less time to
Stone the peaches, less time to dry them.
and better when dried. A whole bushel
can be done in boiler at once, and
then the water turned of. This very
morning we had over two bushels skim
ned, stoned (llalved), and on the boards,
long before quarter of them could even
have been peeled"