American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-26
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

| 1T IS now pretty well settled that good
sweet AFFAIR free from foul OdOrs-caI
be used mechanically with advantage in
the cheese art. A current of pure, COO
air forced through warm milk as it comes
| from the cow, improves its condition fol
keeping sound and in good order.
LITTLE do we know what is TRANSPORTING
in the great insect world down among the
weeds and grasses of the fields. There is
wOOing and winning, births and deaths
Royal feasts are spread upon leaf and
| flower; guests come and go. some being
gay and hilarious, while others are quiet
and unobtrusive; but all do the bidding
OF their great Creator.
| To CONVERT French currency, stated in
| francs, into U. S. currency, divide the
number of francs by 5. To convert Eng
fish currency, stated in pounds, multiply
| the number of pounds by 5. The above
methods, although not exact, will be
found approximately correct. Thus TO-
OOO, 900 of francs equals about $4,000 900,
and e., OOO, 600 equals about lO,O0O, 900.
THE mixing iron scraps, filings, or
drilling chips from machine shops, in the
soil about the roots of pear trees, is be-
coming general with some of our best
fruit growers. The health and product
iveness of the trees are greatly promoted
thereby. Pieces of iron hoops old scythes,
and other useless bits CT iron have long
been used by the most successful growers.
Pastry 1t is an art known and re-
vered from the most distant antiquity.
Pastry is to cooking what metaphOrical
figures are to OratOry-life and ornament.
A speech without metaphor, dinner
without pastry, are equally insipid. But,
in like manner, as few people are eloquent,
so few can make perfect pastry. Good
pastry-coOks are as rare as good orators.
As it is difficult in all history to name
more than five or six great speakers, so,
in the history of the kitchen, it is difficult
to find more than six or seven great art
lists. There was Demosthenes, there was
Rouget, there was Cicero, and there was
La Forge. Pericles spoke well, and the
GendrOns baked WELL"
DIR. HANNAFoRD, says, the more usual
method OF preparing Oat meal, is to soak
it in cold water over night, and then pour
into boiling water, cooking thoroughly
but gradually. Some cook rapidly for
about half an hour after the soaked mass
is poured into the hot water, and then
cook very slowly as long as convenient.
Ii eaten by the sick, it is well to have it
thin, like cruel, served with plain sauce
of milk and sugar, while for ordinary food
more latitude will be taken. 1t makes a
very simple yet nourishing meal at tea
time, or when desirable to be careful of
the diet, for weak stomachs, etc.
WATER may be preserved pure and
wholesome in rain water cisterns by let
ting the supply-pipe connect at the bot
tom of the cistern. The fresh water be
ing heavier than that already in the els
tern, will force the stale water to the top
so that it can be used before it becomes
offensive. 1t is well known. however,
that cistern-water becomes impure from
the organic matter it contains, and if this
can be got rid of by destroying its vitali-
ty and precipitating it to the bottom, it
will leave the water pure. 1t is claimed
that there is nothing better to effect this
than permanganate of potassa, used in the
proportion of about an ounce to fifty gal
Ions of water. This causes the inorganic
matter to sink to the bottom an innox-
iOus sediment. But the permanganate
must be continued as long as the water
has purplish appearance, indicating that
the offensive matter has not all been preci-
pitated. Though this is not poisonous
drug, and we believe in no way hurtful,
still no more should be used than neces-
sary. Every druggist has it for sale.
Care must be taken to have the cistern
thoroughly cleaned out at least twice a
year as well as the troughs upon the
buildings supplying the water.