Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-16
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

AHoT shovel held over vanished furni-
ture will take out spots.
If fat-irons are rough, rub them with
salt, and it will make them smooth.
ITwas saying Of DR.. Arnold that no
student could continue long In healthy
religious state unless his heart was kept
tender BY mingling with children, or by
frequent intercourse with the poor and
suffering.
How MANY troubles might mankind be
spared if they would only stop to hear
each others explanation! How many
ailments both of body and SOUL if expla-
nations only came more frequently and
freely!-Iupper.
RAILROAD PUDDING.-One cup of salt
pork, chopped fine, one cup of molasses,
one cup OF chopped raisins, one and one
half cups of milk, three cups of flour, and
one teaspoonful of soda Heat the pork
and molasses together, then add the other
| ingredients. Steam two or three hours.
CLEAR up any weeds or rubbish which
have collected around the orchard and
fences during the fall, and see that the
| fences are repaired so as TO prevent any
stray animals from entering and injuring
the trees. A little time employed in this
dollars of damages.
EVERY farmer should produce his own
mutton rather than pay such exorbitant
price as is demanded for beef Procure
two or three sheep, put them in clean
| and comfortable place, feed them what
| corn or oats they will eat clean daily. On
this they will soon fatten, if kept quiet
and supplied with plenty Of water
FRENCH MUsTARD.-Slice an onion in a
bowl; cover with good vinegar leave two
or three days; pour off the vinegar into a
basin; put into it one teasoonful of pep
per, one of salt, one tablespoonful of
brown sugar, and mustard enough to
| thicken smooth the mustard for vinegar
| as you would flour for gravy: mix it all
| together; set on the stove and stir lntil it
bolls, when remove and use it cold.
| IT is good and safe rule to soourn in
every place as if you meant to spend your
| life there, never emitting an opportunity
| OF doing kindness, or speaking true
word, or making a friend Seeds thus
sown by the way-side often bring forth an
abundant harvest. You might so spend
your summer among the people that they
| and their descendants should be better
and happier through time and eternity,
| for your works and your example,
| Rusktn.
AN excellent liquid glue can be made
by dissolving glue in nitric ether. This
| ether only takes up certain quantity Of
| glue, so that there is no danger of the
| solution being too concentrated The
glue obtained in this way can be made to
| nave the consistency of molasses, and its
| tenacity is said to be twice that dissolved
IN hot water. A few pieces of india-rub-
| Der OF the size of bullet put into the
| glue and well shaken will dissolve in a
few days, and add to the adhesiveness of
the preparation, as we'll as protect it from
| the action of moisture
KEEPING SWEET PoTAToEs.-The Fruit
Recorder says: Sweet potatoes are best
kept in very dry sand, and in a room
where the temperatured does not go below 40
| degrees. We usually take sand from
bridges and roads in a dry spell and carry
1t to the rooms where we keep the pota
toes. The potatoes we dig and let lie in
the sun day or SO, turning them over
once or twice. We then carefully put
them in boxes or barrels and take them
to the storeroom, where we put the sand
IN, knocking on the barrels until sand
| settles all through them. In damp
weather keep fire in the room, and as
winter sets in keep a slow fire going, lust
sufficient to not let mercury fall below so
| or 60 degrees. Dahlias can be kept in
the same way, also any kind Of dubious
! roots.