Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-22
USEFUL RECEIPTS.

Grahamfour: put into one OF milk and
water, with tablespoonful of butter,
of soda, and little salt put
in a pan and bake quickly.
PoTAToEs.-There is a newspaper ar
ticle going the round, that tablespoon
tul of plaster of paris to hill OF potatoes
applied about the end of June, will dou-
BILE the crop. and Better the article. 1t is
a simple thing, and if health in the stocks
can be easily secured, it would be we'll of
our experimentalists to try it.
To PREVENT THE CRACKING OF
WOODEN INsTRUMENTs.-Put them in a
vessel of melted paraffine, and keep the
temperature of boiling water until the
air bubbles cease to escape from the
wood. Then as soon as cooled, sufficient
to handle, rub lbriskly, while yet warm,
with a dry cloth.
FARMERS PE.-Grate good sweet
pumpkin; add to it sufficient milk to thin
it like custard; add four eggs, one tea
cuptul of sugar, or sufficient to sweeten
it to your taste; add little cinnamon
water; mix all well together; make a
crust like for pies, fill your shell, sprin-.
kle them over thickly with pulverized
cinnamon. Bake with moderate heat.
To CLEAN BRASS Door PLATEs.-Cut
the size of the plate out of a large piece
of paste board, place this beneath the
plate, SO thai. the powder will not touch
the paint of doors, clean with crocus and
sweet oil, or rotton stone, wash all out of
the letters. Ei7,a ,es1 segr bas sa
PREPARING COLD MEATS.-Cut in slices,
season well, place in a mold with rings
of hard boiled, eggs between the slices,
pour over all, soup of shin bones well
boiled and nearly cold-this will make it
firm like jeleton. This is an excellent
dish for lunch, when travelling or on
wash days. Cold meats can be made in
to very wholesome dish by mincing the
meats, and placing in crust and baked
into pies, with the addition of small
prevent it being too dry. z-- s-aH
To CLEAN A GUN.-First take the bar
rels off the stock then take enough vim
egar to fill the barrels, and let it stand
until it stops foaming over at the muzzle,
letting some run through the tubes; then
take the cleaning rod and rub the inside
of the barrels; then take water, hot
enough to warm the barrels, and rinse
out until the water is perfectly clear
then, with the cleaning rod, wipe the
gun out perfectly dry, after which put a
little sweet oil on a bit of cloth, and rub
on the barrels, both on the inside and on
the outside, and your gun is clean. The
vinegar removes all stains and smut, and
the water and oil prevent it from rust
ing, or hurting the gun in any way.
A RELISH FOR BREAKFAST OR LUNCH
Take a quarter of pound of cheese
good and fresh; cut it up in thin slices
| and put it in tsspider;'' turning over il
a cuptul of sweet milk ;>add a quarter O.
| a tea-spoonful of dry mustard, dash o.
pepper, little salt and piece of butter
as large as a butternut; stir the mixture
all the time. Have at hand, three Bos
| ton crackers, finely powdered or rolled
/ and sprinkle them in gradually; as sooI
| as they are stirred in turn OUT into {
warm dish and serve. 1t is very deli
| cious.
| To REMOVE CoRNs. - First, remov'
the pressure or friction of the shoe which
occasioned the corn. Second, keep i
moist long enough, and it will drop ou
of itself or can be easily picked out witt
the finger-nail: and if it ever come
again, repeat the process. Lockjaw ha
frequently followed cutting hard corns
at other times convulsiOns and death
This risk ought never to be run as lon.
as bit of cotton saturated with water
or sweet oil, or, better still, glycerine
| which is the essential element of swee
oil, is a safe, certain, and efficient cur
for hard corns, if kept constantly applies
for day or two, and no shoe is worn.-
DR.. Hall. .-a a4 s.-a -..z.s. -r..s .z-
/ WATER DRINKING.-As certain amour
of water is necessary to carry on tn
functions of the animal economy. Durin
season of active Precipitation, the quan
tity is considerable. When shall thi
water be taken into the system? 1t ma
be introduced during the day when tn
thirst requires; but it is a capital praC
tice to introduce quantity on first risin
in the morning, and on going to bed s
night. Thousands of dyspeptics have dc
rived signal relief by water on rising i
the morning, and on going to bed q
night. have sometimes thought o
hearing the testimony of these dyspeI
: tics in regard To the influence of col
water thus taken into the stomach. thai
perhaps, of all baths, this is the best
Duo Leaois. -z =. .-..-s..e -.-
IRON AS A ADEoDoRIzER.-Dr.V Voelcke
! regards spongy iron as a more poten
! deodOrizing material than animal cha1
. coal. Sewage water passed through
, filter of this substance is completely pu
ritied, and this filtered water, afte
having been kept six months from th
air, is perfectly sweet, and free from an
7, fungoid growth. The spongy iron is OF
tanned by calcining finely divided OF
with charcoal. Its power of renderin
! water beautifully transparent, and az
! parently free from all organic matter,
= remarkable.
To DISSOLVE SHELLAc QUICKLY
White shellac may be readily dissolve
: in. the following manner: Put the she
: lac with some naphitha or spirits
= wine into wide-mouthed bottle, an
u fix the bottle in a lathe. By keeping
{ continually but slowly revolving it wi
ldissolve in about six hours. White she
: lac, mixed with brown, makes a liuui
l. glue impervious to moisture, while tt
/ former alone makes a good cement ft
! mending glass and porcelain.
81 OILING NAILs.-Every one knows I'll
difficulty experienced in driving o.
lie nails into hard wood-it may not be
10 generally known that moistening I'll
re point with spittle or, better still, wit
1t oil, will enable one to drive them muc
or more easily. Again, old nails soon b.
is come loose when driven into soft wood
m this is caused by the rust which ac
a also upon the wood, rendering the fib
re brittle or rotten. To prevent this, plat
to the nails for a few minutes in hot greas
o. which will penetrate under the scales
the rust, and if the nail is soon after e;