American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-28
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

SILVER soap.-A good article may be
made as follows: Hard soap. s or; tur-
pentine, II o.; water. or. Boil until
perfectly dissolved, and add or. liquor
of ammonia.
A New YORK housekeeper has discov-
cred that the wiStaria creeping plant will
keep out house-flies. The pestiferOus in
sects will not enter a window where one
of these creepers is growing.
To PREVENT FELONs HEADING.-Take
black pepper in the kernel and pulverize
well; then soak the pepper with spirit of
turpentine, and apply to the felOn as a
poultice. If this remedy is used when
the felon first makes its appearance, it is
Il certain cure in a few applications.
WHEN poultry or other meat is fresh
and good, it has Il firm. hard feel, and is
elastic tainted meat feels soft, and re-
turns to its shape slowly when indented,
like dough when pressed with the finger.
Fresh meat, well killed, does not mOisten
the finger; tainted meat does and has Il
Shiny feel.
VEGETABLE SOUP.-An excellent soup
can be made by putting cup full of lima
beans. a cup full of sliced potatoes, five
sliced carrots, into one pint of milk, pep
per and salt to taste. Simmer it for one
hour and a half. Before serving, blend a
teaspoonful of flour i'm half a cup of milk,
bring the soup to a boil, and slowly stir
in the thickened milk, until the soup be-
comes smooth.
To KEEP meat.-Meat is much better
for family use when at least one week old
in cold weather. The English method
for keeping meat for some time has great
merit. Experts say, hang up a quarter
of meat with the cut end up, being the
reverse of the usual way, by the leg, and
the juice will remain in the meat, and not
run to the cut and dry up by evaporation.
1t is worth trial, and when made will be
continued.
To impart flavor to the flesh of fowls,
such as constitutes 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. CarbOnic 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 spe-
cially liable to become foul when the birds
are confined.
In the fall, as soon as the ground begins
to freeze enough to make the slightest
crust in the morning, select dry and
sunshiny day, and as near noon as posi-
BILE. pack your celery in boxes, placing
then a layer of celery, placing the plants
just far enough apart to not lay against
each other; and thus, alternating earth
and celery, until the boxes are filled, hav-
ing the first and last layers of earth.
Place the boxes where the celery will not
freeze, (but not in heated ROOM, and
your celery will keep splendidly and al
ways ready for use.
A CORRESPONDENT desires us to give
him one of the best remedies that we
know OF for wounds. We know of none
superior to the following one, which ap-
peared not long since in the Country Gem
tiendn. Take Il pan or shovel with burn
ing Goals, and sprinkle upon them common
brown sugar, and hold the wounded part
in the smoke. In a few minutes the pain
will be allayed, and recovery proceed rap
idly. In my own case. a rusty nail had
made a bad wound in the bottom of my
foot. The pain and nervous irritation
was severe. This was all removed by
holding it in the smoke for fifteen min
utes, and l was able to resume my read
ing in comfort. We have often recon-
mended it to others, with like results.
Lately, one of my men had finger-nail
torn out by pair of ice-tOngs. 1t became
very painful, as was to have been expect
ed. Held in sugar smoke for some
twenty minutes, the pain ceased, and it
promises speedy recovery. AS good
substitute for this, we will merely add
that tablespoonful of the tincture of ar
MICA, add to pint of cold water, will an
swer an excellent purpOse.-Cor. Scientific
american.