The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-17
VALUABLE RECIPES.

To CUT GLASS. ANY hard steel
tool, says the Boston Journal of
Chemistry, will cut glass with facility
when kept freely wet with camphOr
dissolved in turpentine. The ragged
edge of glass may also be thus smooth
ed with fiat file.
CoRNED BEEF.-In cooking corned
beef at this season of the year so de-
heious, it should be put into boiling
water when put on to cook, and when
it is done il should remain in the pot
until cold. This is the whole secret of
having corned beef juicy and full-f1a-
vored, instead of the contrary.
ANOTHER POWERFUL DEoDORIzER.
-Spongy iron Ia well known species
of from is a more powerful deodoriZer
than charcoal. Water filtered through
this will keep fresh a long time, in
some cases for months. The impure
and cOrrupting substances in the water
are removed by this filter.
To RESTORE COLORS. color
on a fabric has been accidentally or
otherwise destroyed by acid, ammonia
is applied to neutraliZe the same, after
which an application of chloPofOrm
will in almost all cases restore
the original color. Toe application of
ammonia is common, but that of chic
reform is but little known. Chlor-
| rofOTm viii also remove paint from
| garment or elsewhere.
TO CLEAN SILK MERINoEs.-Grate
two or three large potatoes, add to
| them 3 pint of cold water, let them
| stand a short time, pour off the liquid
! clear, or strain il through a seive,
when 1t will be fit for use. Lay the
silk on a flat surface and apply the
liquid with clean sponge till the dirt
is well separated; dip each piece in a
pail of clear water, and hang up to
dry without WTiDging. Iron, while
| damp on the wrong side.
PUMPKINS FOR EXPLANATORY
| RHEUMATISM.-At q recent meeting
of the New York Farmers Club a
correspondent wrote of the virtues Of
| the pumpkin, giving the following in
| stance of it's value for inf1amatOry
| rheumatism A Woman's arm was
! swelled to an enormous size and pain
fully infiamed. A poultice was made
of stewed pumpkins, which was re-
newed every fifteen minutes, and in a
short time produced a perfect cure.
The fever drawn out by the poultice
made them extremely offensive.
knew man cured of severe i1fiama-
ton of the bowels by the same kind
VI S@P PA4ONlAO1'
SIMPLE CURE FOR BURNs.-A var
nisber of metals, in Paris, got his
hand badly burned, and in his agony
thrust it into q pot Of varnish at his
side. To his astonisment the pain
at once ceased, and the wound rapidly
healed. This cure being reported
around, persons in the neighbOrhoOC
who had got burned came to the val.
nisher and were cured in like man
ner.
The news spread far and wide, anC
finally reached the medical faculty
and the varnisher was sent for to try
his skill in the hospital. He respond
ed to the call and succeeded in curing
all on whom he operated. The phi
lOsophy of the cure is, the varnist
keeps the burn from the air, and gives
nature a chance to supply new Skin
under its protection.
A CHEAP E-HoUsE.-Throw down
q dozen or two of old rails or poles OF
a piece of ground sufficiently inclined
to carry of water, fill the crevices will
old boards, slabs or bark, get from the
sawmill a few loads of slabs, take
four, say twelve feet long, notch the
corners like Lighthouse, set them Oh
tie platform, and you have q Grill
say ten feet square by the width of the
slab deep; fiji this crib with sawdus
aud pack it down hard. Cut your ice
so that it will pack close, and two by
four feet; lay it on the sawdust, pur
on another crib of slabs and fill W
and, pack hard with sawdust, al
around, and so go on until you get nj
six or eight feet; then put foot and {
half of sawdust on top; over this pu
a shed roof of slabs-One end Of the
slabs nearly to the ice, raising the
other three feet If ice is all that i.
wanted, it will keep in this manner
as well as in a vanished house.