Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-28
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
PUDDINe WITHOUT MILK OR EGas.-
Half pint of water, half pint OF mo-
lasses, two teaspoonfuls of soda, one tea
spoonful of salt, thicken to quite 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 1t pre-
sents itself; do it at the moment, and let it
it is known or acknowledged or not; but
do not fail to do it.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen.
heman 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 COTTON
DREssEs.-Take large double handful of
bran, put it in a saucepan and set it over
the fire, allowing it to boil thoroughly in
quart of water; when thoroughly boiled,
strain the bran and throw the water into
that in which you are about washing your
lawn or chlItz dress. Let the dress soak
for an hour or so in it before washing. In
stead of starch, use weak solution of
glue-water and iron on the wrong side.
If we would establish the habit of
drinking water freely in tine morning,
soon after arising, commencing with small
quantities, increasing gradually as we
learn to relish it, until the chief portion
taken dulipg the day is before breakfast,
it will promote the health to a much
nrlinar,1xr IAao
dictate disease from the system, and become
most decided luxury in time.-Seientiic
American.
LRMoN JUICE IN DIPHTHERIA MIR. Re-
villout, in paper presented last summer
to the French Academy of Medicine, as
serts that lemon juice is one of the most
efflcacious appliances for diphtheria, and he
relates t. at, when dresser in the hospital,
his own wife was saved by this timely ap-
plication. He got three dozen lemons and
gargled her throat with the juice, she
swallowing little at the same time, in Or
der to act on the more deep-seated parts.
The doctor 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 ard
valuable, as it is the largest in extent, and
commands the greatest cash value, and is
applied to mora useful purposes than any
other. 1t may be regarded, too, as the
most wholesome. Every animal, and
every granivorous bird, from the partridge
up, prefers it to all other grains; and as TO
man, if not popularly 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 Sc asons 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, eXhausts the moisture III the soil be-
fore the head fills out, and hence a light
| shTiveled grain; while the upland, not sc
good, has produced less straw, and thus
retained q sufficiency of its moisture to
mature plump and healthy seed"
THE question, Does vaccination lose its
| protective power? is one which is discus
sed anew on the occasion of every fresh
outbreak of epidemic smallpox, such as
that with which London is now afflicted
The best observers are of opinion thai
when vaccination has been properly pr
med, and when the system has beer
Wrought thoroughly under the influence o.
the modified form of the disease induced
by the vaccine matter, a person is no more
| liable to take the small poX than if he haC
formerly had the smallpox ITSELF TIL,
necessity of revaccination is due usually
to the fact that the operation is imperfectly
performed, and the disease imperfectly de
veloped.
FREwooD, GREEN OR DRY-We havt
heard it stated that green wood gives ou
in burning greater heat than dry wood
Now it is only necessary 10 reason fo
a moment to perceive that this statement
or belief must be fallacious. Green o.
unseasoned wood contains twenty-five pc
cent. more water than air dried, or wha
is commonly called dry or seasoned WOOD
Then, in burning one hundred pounds o
| green wO~d, an excess of twenty fiv,
pounds of water must be evaporated. II
evaporate i've pounds of wafer one and
| quarter pounds of wood are required. 8,
that in getting rid of the excess of waite
in green wood, loss of over six ger cent
is incurred. This will consume one corr
out of every sixteen. This is the direc
loss. The indirect loss we estimate mucl
higher. 1t can not well de reduced t
figures, but is sufficiently palpable for al
that. 1t is exhibited in late breakfasts
badly-cooked dinners, "cakes which al
dough-" and bread sodden and indigesti
BILE; also, in disturbed tempers and gene
raj domestic unpleasantness, which no
seldom occur in consequence. If tn
winters supply of wood were now gotteI
up, sawed and split, and piled up unde
cover, certain gain in money or labo
would be made, while a prolific source c
inconvenience and irritation to the female
of the family would be avoided.-Heart
and Home