Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-08-29
Farm, Garden, and Household.

KEEPING FISH FRESH WITH SUGAR.
A method adopted in Portugal for
preserving fish consists in removing the
viscera and sprinklinga sugar over the
interior, keeping the fish in horizontal
position, so that sugar may penetrate
as much as possible. 1t is said that fish
prepared in this way can be kept com
pletely fresh for a long time, the SAVIOR
being as perfect as if recently caught.
Salmon thus treated before sailing and
smoking, possesses much more a.
grecablc taste, tablespoonful of sugar
being sufficient for tiyc-pound fish.
PWhy'S Magazine says to get rid Of
mosquitoes take a few hot Goals on a
shovel or a chatting dish, and burn
upon them some brown sugar in your
bedrooms and parlors and you ehcctu-
ally Danish or destroy every mosquito
for the night,
SUMNER COMPLAINT. Some six years
ago | saw in your columns Il remedy
for summer complaint and kindred
diseases, which, with slight modifca
tons, | have since tried and recon-
mcnded in a great many cases withou.
once having or hearing ola failure.
The ingredients are almost always at
hand, are SO simple that it does not
seem that there can be the least danger
i'll its use in any case. Take equal
quantities good vinegar and boiling
water, and little more common salt
than they will dissolve. Pour the vim
egar ON the salt in teacup and the
boiling water on both. Stir thoroughly.
so that as much salt as may bill dissolve.
Let it settle and then take, according
to the violence Of the attack, ? to ! tea
spoonfuIS; in 20 or 80 minutes | or 2
more; then again in one, two or three
hours, regulating the frequency and size
OF the dose according to the disease.
find that | can thus Shut down the gates
about as suddenly or gradually as de-
sire; but | consider it best, if severe, to
check it gradually, in, say, about three
hours. The first trial gave it was in
the worst attack of diarrhma | ever had.
accompanied with great pain. took
spoonfulS, and in about fifteen min
utes more, when the pain began to
decrease; laid down on lounge, and
in about fifteen minutes took another
dose and went to sleep, slept until noon
about two hours, when took one more
spoonful and cup Of strong tea and
went to my work; at six O'Clock took
another dose and light supper and in
the morning was as well as ever. Cor.
Country Gentleman.
The ADVANTAGE OF GRoANlNG. A
French physician is out in long dsser-
tation on the advantage of groaning and
crying in general and especially during
surgical operations. He contends that
groaning and crying are two grand OPP
eradons by which nature allays anguish
that those patients who give way to their
feelings more speedily recover from &C
cidents and operations than those who
suppose it unworthy a man to bctray
such symptoms of cowardicc as either
to groan or to cry. He tells ola man
who reduced his pulse from one humid
red and twenty-siX to sixty in the course
of a few hours by giving full vent to his
emotions In accordance with theabove,
the crying of children shuld not be too
greatly discouraged What is natural
is nearly always useful, and nothing can
be more natural than the crying ofchil-
dren when anything occurs to give them
either physical or mental pain.
TooTHAcHE,-A correspondent ofthe
English Magasme gives the following
curious remedy; Put pinch of quick
lime as big as a walnut in pint of
water, in bottle. Clean the teeth with
it, every morning, rinsing the mouth
with clear water afterwards. lfthe teeth
are good; it will:Rreserve them and keep
away toothaChe; if the teeth are gone,
it will harden the gums, SO that they
wilEmastieate crusts and all