Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-09-13
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

ALCOHOL and whiting make a simple
and efficacious compound for cleaning
plate glass windows or mirrors.
In the height of prosperity expect adj
versity, and fortify. yourself against It's
evils by policy on your life IN tie WASH
ington.
HE who, when called upon to speak a
disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has
done, is both holder and milder than he
who nibbles in a low voice, and never
ceases nibbling.s gea r#s-e fez
LET well enough alone. 1t is not a
good plan, after you have driven nail in
a sure place, instead of just clinching and
leaving it, to keep hammering away till
you break the head off or split the board.
The growth of the hair, the durability
Of its color, its fiexibility, elasticity and
gloss, depend solely upon its sanitary con-
dition, and there is nothing under the sun
that SO effectually promotes the health OF
the fibres and of the integuments from
which they spring, as correct hygienlc
habits -Scaence of Health. +
ALL sailed provisions should be watch
ed and see that they are kept under the
brine, for ifsone piece of meat lies up it
will spoil the whole barrel. If the brine
looks bloody, it must be scalded and more
salt added; when cold, pour back.
KEROSENE and powered lime, whiting
or wood ashes,. will scour tin with the
least labor. Kerosene and whiting will
also cleanse silver ware, door-knobs,
hinges, etc. Wet the flannel slightly in
the oil, dip into the whiting, and rub
hard; wash off with hot soap-suds, and
brighten with a chamois skin or news
paper. a So es-
For removing greasy spots from any
fabric, use ammonia nearly pure, then lay
white blotting paper over the spot and
iron lightly. In washing lace, put about
twelve drops in pint of warm suds. To
clean silver, mix two teaspoonfuls of
ammonia in quart of hot suds. Put in
your silverware and wash, using an old
nail brush or toothbrush for the purpose.
THE following is said to be an excellent
remedy for foundered horse: When you
are satisfied that he is foundered, no mat
ter what the cause, give him one pint of
dry salt with a spoon; then keep him in
the stable, without drink, for twenty four
hours, and nine times out of ten a radical
cure will be effected. This remedy, how
ever, is recommended only in the first
stages or within three or four days after
the cause Western RaraI. I'LL.
n To IdPART flavor to the flesh of fowls,
such as constitute the "game flavor" of
the wild state the Boston Journal of
Chemistry recommends cayenne pepper,
ground mustard, or ginger, to be. added to
the common food of fowls. AS to clean
illness of memories, it recommends great
care in summer Carbolic acid dissolved
in water should be sprinkled over the
wood work of the insides, and little
added to the whitewash, which should be
used each season. The nest material
should be often changed, that being spec
tally liable to become foul when the birds
are confined.
THE New York Times spins little story
of cobwebs. 1t says that a Prussian Gen
eral, while Inspecting some military sta
bles, called out: what do see there?
Cobwebs?" "Yes, SIR" the officer in
charge replied; eve keep them there to
catch the flies, and prevent them teasing
the horses" The moral is obvious. If
we suffer our houses to be festooned with
cobwebs, we shall be spared our Egyptian
plague of flies. Nervous persons who
object to going into the spider breeding
business might import and domesticate
flying toad (several species Of which exist
IN South .Amerlca), and SO destroy the
pest in a little more agreeable way.
THE value Of earth as disinfectant
deodorizer is well known; and the treat
ment of liberated sores and gangrenous
wounds with it, is becoming very general.
A new application has lately been de-
scribed by DR.. E. S. Bunker, who states
that he has recently used clay as a dress
ing for the face in two cases of small pOx,
busting it, in fine powder, over the faces
of the patients as. soon as pustules be
come fairly developed. This formed a
clean, dry, wholesome scab, absorbing
the infectious material, and scaled off
during convalescence, leaving an under
lying skin in it's natural and normal state.
The painful itching, which is one of the
worst characteristics of the disease, was
entirely abated. The earth used was
fine pipe clay.