American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-03-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A CORRESPONDENT of the R,tym Neu
| Torker, says sassafras is splendid thing
| for hcavey horse. O..
BEAN SoUP-Wash the beans and boil
them with salt pork When soft, take
them out, and pass through the colander
Then put them back in the same water
they were boiled in, with four hard boiled
eggs cut ; Quarters, and a lemon sliced,
and w pepper if you like it. Boil
again, and serve. This soup is very nice.
= Western RuroL
BLEEDING AT THE LUNGs-Say to
those asking fer remedies for bleeding at
the lungs and lung complaints, to try a
thick flannel pad about the throat and
lungs. Tell them to wear double, thick
llannels and to protect the feet, throat,
and whole person, so that it cannot re-
ceive chill under any exposure.-Cor.
RurM Nosc Iorhor.
HAM BALLs-Save all the small pieces
of boiled ham, such as are usually thought
too poor or small for use chop fine add
as many eggs rs there are persons to eat ;
sprinkle Il little flour beat together with
the chopped ham, and make into balls
Fry in hot butter or well clarified drip
pings to "A golden brown.
To REMOVE TAN-In answer 10 The
question, ''What will remove tan and
make the face smooth, and keep the skin
in a youthful state?' The Ru5rr. Nssc YORKER
says: The most thorough cleanliness
Frequent and thorough bathing, using
soap, according to circumstances. Keep
ing the pores of the skin open and active
is the best preservative of beauty we know
Of except a good digestion; indeed it
helps to insure that
DARKNESS AND SMALL-PoX-The London
Lancet says: eff patient, in the begin
ming of the attack, be put in a room from
which absolutely all light is excluded save
that of candle, the effect is to arrest the
disease in the popular or vascular stage ;
the skin between the vcsiclcs is never in
famed or swollen; the large scabs of mat
ter never form over the face; there is no
intense pain, and only tritling itching, and
the smell is either very slight or altogether
wanting.
How THE CHINESE Cook RICE.-A stew
pan with n close fitting cover is chosen.
Over the top of the pan is placed a piece
of white muslin, large enough to allow it
to hang down in the pan, without touch
ing the bottom. Into the sack so formed,
place the rice; pour over it two cupfuls
of water, and put on the top of the stew
pan, SO as to hold up the muslin bag in
side, and fit it tight all around. Place
the pan on slow fire, and the steam gen
Grated from the water will cook the rice
Each grain, it is stated, will come out of
the boiler as dry and distinct as if Just
taken from the boiler. If the water bols
away before the rice is done, more may
be added. The cooking must be slow
and moderate.
Mr.. F. b. MILES informs the Journal
of the Franklin Institute that Spanish en-
gineers successfully use ordinary brick
dust, made from hard-burned, finely pull
lime and sand, as a substitute for ny
drualic cement. The proportions used
in general practice are one of brickdust,
one of lime and two of stone, mixed dry
and tempered with water in the usual
way. MIR. Miles has tested the cement
during six years experience, and found it
superior to the best Rosendale. DR.. Vail,
in note to the above communication,
quotes the opinion of Mr. Trautwine,
that the addition of even as little as one
tenth as much brickdust as sand to our
ordinary mortars, would prevent the dis
integration so generally visible in the
mOrtars used in masonry
DIR. HALL advances theory that food
can be used as curative remedy equally
well with medicine He relates a case
where man was cured of biliousness by
going without his supper, and the free use
of lemonade. This patient rose, he says,
alter ne Degln the use OF TINS drink, re-
freshed, and with a feeling as though his
blood had literally been cleansed. He
further says that he cures cases of spit
ting blood by using salt; epilepsy and vel
low fever by watermelons; kidney ailec-
lions by celery; poison, olive or sweet
oil; erysipelas, pounded cranberries APP
piled to the part affected; hydrophobia,
onions If this theory is correct, drugs !
would soon become drugs" in the mar
>et. and people would soon learn that the |
way to keep well was to eat certain kinds |
Of food. The world would thus become |
and happier.