The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-04
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE

DERBY SHORT CAKE.-Rub half a
pound of butter into one pound of flour,
and mix one egg, a quarter of pound
of sifted sugar, and as much milk as
Will make paste. Roll this out thin,
and cut the cakes with any fancy
shapes. or the top of a winegIass.
Place on tin plates, strew over with
sugar, or cover the top of each with
icing and bake for ten minutes.
AN INDELIABLE RED INK.-Dr. Els
ner states that an indelible red ink can
be prepared as follows Equal parts
by weight of copperas and cinnabar,
both in fine powder and sifted, are rub
bed up with linseed oil with muller
and finally squeezed through cloth
The thick paste can be employed for
writing or stamping wooden and cotton
goods, and the color remains fast after
the goods have been bIeached. The
reds usually employed are not fast
colors, and do not resist the action of
bleaching agents.
BREAD.-It is stated that twenty
seven pounds of good bread have been
made of fourteen pounds of flour, and
half a pound of rice, as follows Tie
up the rice in thick linen bag, allow
ing it ample room to swell. Boil it
three or four hours, until it becomes a
smooth paste. Mix this, while warm,
with the flour, adding the usual guam
titB of yeast and salt allow the dough
to rise near the fire, divide in into
Ioaves, and bake it. It is said that the
flour thus treated will yield fifty per
cent. more bread than by the ordinary
method.
To CLEAN SILvER.-Dr. Elsner. says
that hot water poured off potato par
ings or boiled potatoes is admirably
adapted to clean silver. The objects
can be easily rubbed by the fingers
with the settings of potato meal, and
they become as bright as they usually
do ween rubbed with tripoli. The pro.
cess is particularly advantageous for en-.
graved and raised objects, the powder
is liable to collect in the cavities. Ger
man silver and plated ware can be-
cleaned in the same way. Potato water
which has become sour by long stand
ing can be substituted for acids to clea1
copper vessels.
New TANNING MATERIAn.-A either
of Vermont has made a discovery il
tanning leather, which he claims vii
revolutionize the business. The ma
teriaI he uses is dye from forest leaves
} He has been experimenting with leaves
for the past two months, and the resul
is said to be entirely satisfactory. On,
ton of leaves will tan as much leathe
as five cords of hemlock bark, and vii
: do the work in one-haIf the time. b.
mixing the leaves and bark in equa
, proportions, one-fourth of the time i
> saved. The leather tanned by this pro
cess is smooth and more flexible, anC
, yet retains the strength of the raw
hide in a greater degree than that tan
ned by bark.
: RAT Poor CRBs.-The following i
given as an effectual plan for excludin,
rats from cribs Make your sills square
say ten inches; saw into and block on
from these so that the ioists viii b
: even, or face with the top the foo
then rests on these sills so that there /
no place to stand to cut his way through
: the floor. And as a further preventive
} have your posts upon which the hous
q 70 rasf three feet lon0 siul=then
into the ground six inches above ground
l at the top of the post tack around
strip of tin, six or eight inches wide
) the tin being hard and smooth, tn
mischievous little 1ascals can not climl
over it, and are completely banked
r The posts may be round or square, ant
, old tin may be used, but new is prefer
able.