South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-29
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE
PUDDING WITHOUT MILK OR EeGs.-
Half a pint of water, half a pint of mo-
lasses, two ~teaspoonfuls of soda, one tea
| spoonful of salt, thicken to quite a thick
batter, stir in either berries or ~raisins, and
boil three hours.
Do DAILY and hourly your duty; do it
patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it pre-
sents itself; do it at the moment, and let it
be its own reward. Never mind whether
it is known or acknowledged or not; but
do not fail to do it.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
Hem1n who has tried keeping three COWS
exclusively on green sowed corn since
about June 1, last, finds the milk steadily
diminishing. His experience with sowed
corn fed in connection with grass has been
very favorable.
To SET THE COLOR OF CoTroN
DREssEs.-Take a large double handful of
bran, put it in a saucepan and set it over
the fire, allowing it to boil thoroughly in
a quart of water; when thoroughly boiled,
strain the bran and throw the water into
that in which you are about washing your
lawn or chIntz dress. Let the dress soak
for an hour or so in it before washing. In
stead of starch, use a weak solution of
glue-water and iron on the wrong side.
IF we would establish the habit of
drinking water freely in the morning,
Don after arising, commencing with small
quantities, increasing gradually as we
learn to relish it, until the chief portion
taken during the day is before breakfast,
it will promote the health to a much
greater extent than it ordinarily does, era
dictate disease from the system, and become
a most decided luxury in time.-Scientifc
american.
LEMON JUICE IN DRHTHERIA-Mr. Re-
villout, in a paper presented last summer
to the French Academy of Medicine, as
serts that lemon juice is one of the most
efficacious appliances for diphtheris, and he
relates tat, Whena dresser in the hospital,
his own wife was saved by this timely ap-
plication. He got three dom lemons and
gargled her throat with the Juice, she
swallowing a little at the same time, in or
der to act on the more deep-sested parts.
The doator has noted numerous cases of
complete success obtained by this method
of treatment.
THE Germantown Telegraph SAYS that
of all the crops raised in the United
States, Indian corn, or maize, which is a
better name, is the most important and
valuable, as it is the largest in extent, and
commands the greatest cash value, and is
applied to more useful purposes than any
other. 1t may be regarded, too, as the
most wholesome. Every animal, and
every g~ranivorous bird, from the partridge
up, prefers it to all other grains; and as to
man, if not popularity upon an equality
with wheat, as an article of diet, it is next
to it. In pOrk-making it is indispensable.
THE Santa Clara (Cal) Farmers Club
says: "In dry SEASONS the poorer soils
yield better grain in proportion than soil
which is richer. 1t seems, from the re-
ports that have reached Us, that the farm
ers generally have been astonished at the
unusual quantity of grain from Unpromis-
ing fields. The reason assigned is that the
rapid growth of the straw, in the better
land, eXhsusts the moisture in the soil be-
fore the head fills cut, and hence a light,
shriveled grain; while the upland, not so
good, has produced less straw, and thus
retained a sufficiency of its moisture to
mature plump and healthy seed"
THE question, Does vaccination lose its
protective power? is n which is discus
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outbreak of epidemic smallpox, such as
that with which London is now afflicted.
The best observers ara of opinion that
when vaccination has been properly per-
formed, and when the system has been
brought thoroughly under the influence of
the modified form of the disease induced
by the vaccine matter, a person. is no more
liable to take the small-p ox than if he had
formerly hsd the smallpox itself. The
necessity of re7accination is due usually
to the fact that the operation is imperfectly
performed, and the disease imperfectly de-
veloped.
FREwooD, GREEN OR DRY.-We have
heard it stated that green wood gives out
in burning q greater heat than dry wood.
Now It is only necessary to reason for
a moment to perceive that this statement
or belief must be fallacious. Green or
unseasoned wood contains twenty-five per
cent. more water than air dried, OF what
is commonly called dry or seasoned wood.
Then, in burning one hundred pounds of
green wosd, an excess of twenty-five
pounds of water must be eYapOrated. To
evaporate five pounds of wafer one and a
quarter pounds of wood are required. So
that in getting rid of the excess of water
in green wood, a loss of over six per cent.
is incurred. This will consume one cord
out of every sixteen. This is the direct
loss. The indirect loss we estimate much
higher. 1t can not well dc reduced to
figures, but is sufficiently palpable for all
that. 1t is exhibited in late breakfasts,
badly-cooked dinners, "cakes which are
dough-" and bread sodden and indigesti-
bic; also, in disturbed tempers and gene
raj domestic unpleasantness, which not
seldom occur in consequence. If the
winters supply of wood were now gotten
up, sawed and split, and piled up under
cover, a certain gain in money or labor
would be made, while a prolific source of
inconvenience and irritation to the females
of the family would be avoided.-HearM
and HOne.