The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-11-03
VALUABLE RECIPES.


tool, says the Boston Journal al
Chemistry, will cut glass with facility
when kept freely wet with camphur
dissolved in turpentine. The ragged
edge % glass may also be thus smooth
with flat file
CoRNED BEEF.-In cooking corned
beef At this season of the year so de-
licious, it should be put into boiling
water when pct on to cook, aud when
it j. done it should remain ia the pot
until cold. This is the whole secret of
having c Irned beef juicy and lila
vored, instead of the contrary.
ANOTHER POWERFUL DEODORIzER
-SpoDgy iron q we'll known species
OF iron Is a more powerful deodOrizer
than charcoal. Water filtered through
this will keep fresh long time, in
some cases for months. The impure
and cOrrupting substances in the water
are removed by this filter.
To RESTORE CoIoRs.-When color
on a fabric has been accidentally or
otherwise destroyed by acid, ammonia
is applied TO meutraliZe the same, after
which an application 81 chIoroform
will in almost all cases restore
the original color. Tne application Of
ammonia Is common, but that OF chic
reform is but little known. Chlor-
rofUGm will also remove paint from n
garment or elsewhere.
To CLEAN SILK MERINoES.-Grate
tFFo or three large potatoes, add to
them a pint of cold water, let them
stand short time, pcur off the liquid
clear, or strain il through a serve,
VIXEN it will be fit for use. Lay the
silk on a flat surface and apply the
liquid with clean sponge till the dirt
il well separated; dip each piece in a
UaIl of clear water, ard hang up To
dry without wriDgiDg. Iron, while
damp on the wrong side.
PUMPKINS FOR INTLAMATORY
RHEUMATISM.-At a recent meeting
Of the New York Farmers Club a
correspondent wrote Of the virtues OF
the pumpkin, giving the following in
stance OF its value for iniiamatory
rheumatism y woman'5 arm was
Swelled TO al enormous sizs and pain
fully jDliamed. y pOultice was made
Of siewed pumpkins, which was re-
Bewed every fifteen minutes, and in a
short time produced a perfect cure.
Tie fever drawn out by the pOultice
made them extremely offensive.
knew "a man cured of severe ilianIa-
ton of the bowels by the same kind
Of application.
SIMPLE CURE FOR BURNs.-A var
ny of toll IN, l.sn
hand badly burned, and in his agony
thrust it into a pot Of varnish at his
side. TO his astOnisment tie pain
at once ceased, and the wound rapidly
healed. This cure being reported
around, persons in the neighDorhOOd
who had got burned came to the VAL
nisher and were cured in like man.
ner.
The news spread far and wide, and
finally reached the medical faculty,
and the varnisher was sent for to try
bis skill in the hospital. He respond
ed TO the call and succeeded in curing
all on whom he operated. The phi
IOsophy of the cure is, the varnish
keeps the burn from the air, and gives
nature chance to supply a new skin
under its protection. ga - BH
ACHEAP Ice HOUSE. Throw down
a dozen or two OF old rails or poles on
a piece Of ground sufficiently inclined
to carry of water, fill the crevices with
old boards, slabs or bark, get from the
sawmill few loads of slabs, take
four, say twelve feet long, notch the
corners like Lighthouse, set them on
TIE platform, and yop have crib
say ten feet square by the width Of the
slab deep; fill this crib with sawdust
and pack it down hard. Cut your ice
30 that it will pack close, and two by
four feet; lay it on the sawdust, put
on another crib Of slabs and fill up
and, pack bard with sawdust, all
around, and so go on until you get mp
six or eight feet; then put foot and
half of sawdust on top; over this put
A shed roof of slabs-oue end of the
slabs nearly to the ice, raising the
other three feet. If ice is all that il
wanted, it will keep in this manner
as well as in vanished house. -
To TEST THE VALVE OF POTATOES.
1t is generally understood that the
value Of potatoes depends upon their
specific gravity, and that the heavier
the potato the greater the amount Of
heterogeneous matter it contains. This
has suggested the idea of a convenient
test by which the excellence Of differ
ent varieties can be readily determin-
ed, and which consists in the use Of
saline solutions of different degrees OF
strength. #, assuming the variety OF
a standard, we makea solution of such
strength that the potato will float at
about the middle of the mass, neither
falling TO The bottom nor rising to the
surface, and apply the same test 70
other potatoes, We may conclude that
If one fail to the bottom il is better, or
if il rise to the top it is poorer than
the standard.