The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-18
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.


to select COW with a yellow skin.
One whose skin is pale or eolorless is
not, he says, half so likely to produce
good butter. -d ii +
GRAHAM BEEAD.-TwO cups ofsweet
milk, two cups of sour milk or butter
milk, One-ha'f a cup of mOlasses, one
teaspoonful of soda, with unbolted
wheat meal TO make a stiff batter.
Mr.. Dalton, of England, by careful
experiment. has shown that where
there is a mellow soil three feet under
any crop, it can defy the weather and
come to maturity without drop OF
rain after the first of June.
Corn STARCH CAKE.-The whites of
twelve eggs, three cups of sugar, one
cup of butter, three cups of flour, one
cup of corn starch, one cup of milk,
two teaspoons of cream tartar, one
teaspoon of soda, add essence to suit
taste. i- -.tl tst
The most easily digestcd articles
of food as yet known are sweet ap-
Piles baked, cold raw cabbage sliced in
vinegar, and boiled i'm rice; the most
indigestible are suet, boiled cabbage
and porh the former require an hour
the latter five. ..y..,.iI-.i
You can. increase the comfort and
cleanliness of garment greatly by
exposing it for hours to strong heat,
short Of scorching. You can evapo-
rate odOrs in This way-that of the
polecat skunk) effcctually. This is
but another way of washing. ~
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says that frictiOn-always
rubbing down-will certainly keep
wind gals from increasing, if well
applied for half an hour at a time,
twice day, will remove new one,
and materially check one of long
standing. b" H.. ST. ID. s..-a!-i
A lady writes to the London Stan
ddrd, saving that scarlet fever and
kindred diseases may be treated sue
cessfully by means of the Turkish
bath. One of her children, aged four,
being attacked by scarlet fever, was
wheeled i'm a perambulator to Turkish
bath, and was much better when she
returned home. For four successive
mornings she underwent the same
process, and the process of the disease
was rapid and satisfactory.
A correspondent of the Western
Rural tells how a, German woman
cooks food for "four great fat hogs
She has barrel sunk in the ground.
In this is placed some meal, and on
this is poured a washbOiler of boiled
potatoes and carrots, which are then
rapidly mashed, with a "great pound
er.' More meal is then thrown i'm and
the barrel is tightly covered. The
whole mess is cooked by the heat of
the potatoes and carrots. These are
cooked twice day. .G s.e-
Many dangerous fever has been
caused by the foul air from dark,
damp and unventilated cellars. Con-
fined air, without the purifying infiu-
ence of sunlight soon becomes impure
and unwholesome. Most of cellars
serve as a reservoir for this impure
air, which, in addition, is loaded with
Gecomposing organic matters and foul
gases, given off from the masses of
decaying vegetables with which they
are stored. Cellars should be kept as
clean, pure, and we'll ventilated as any
portion of the house.
COOP RULEs.-Stop grumbling, get
up two hours earlier in the morning,
and begin to do something out of your
regular profession. Mind your own
business, and with all your might, let
other peoples alone. Live within !
your means. Sell your horses. Give |
away or sell your dog. Smoke your
cigars throughan air stove. Eat with !
mOder ,tiOn, and go to bed early. |
Talk less of your own peculiar gifts
and virtues, and more of IL Ose of your
friends and neighbors. BE cheerful.
Fulfill your promises. Pay. your
debts. BE yourself all you would see
in others. Be good man and stop
grumbling.
SURE CURE FOR THE BITE OF RAT
old lady sends the
following remedy to the Chicago TIL
bunc, having herselfscen it tried with
success: Take equal quantities of
onion, tobacco, and salt; make peul-
tice, and apply to the wound at the
same time tie cord tightly around
the limb which is bitten, above the
wound. If very severe case, the
poultice should be renewed every ten
0, fifteen minutes till the poison is
all extracted. The same remedy has
been known to cure the bite of mad
dog