Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-02
FIELD AND FAMILY.

FIELD AND FAMILY.
To stop pleading at the nose, plug the
nOstrils with the scrapings from fur hat.
or with lint dipped in strong solution
of alum, or tannin, or Mousel's persalt of
iron, one part, to ten parts of water.
To DYE THE HAIR.-To one dram of lu-
mar caustic add enough aqua ammonia to
dissolve the caustic then add two ounces
of distilled water. This dies black. By
lighter or brown shade will be produced.
Apply with tooth brush, and be careful
not to touch the skin.
To MEND CHINA.-Take very thick
solution of gum arabic in water, and stir
into it plaster of Paris until the mixture
| is of a proper consistency. Apply it with
brush to the fractured edges Of the
china and stick them together. In three
DAYS the articles cannot be broken in the
same place. The whiteness Of the cement
renders it doubly valuable.
BLACK INK.-A good and durable black
ink NAV be made by the following direc-
tions: To two pints of water add three
ounces of dark-colored, rough-skinned
Aleppo gals, in gross powder, and Of
rasped logwoOd, green vitrOl, and gum
arabic each one ounce. Put in conven-
lent vessel, and shake well four or five
times day for ten or twelve days.
A REMEDY FOR TOOTHACHE.-AlcohOl
of thirty-three degrees, one ounce; cam
phor, four grains; opium in powder,
twenty grains; oil of cloves, eighty
drops. The effectiveness of this lotion
will be seen at glance, and no other au-
| thority for its use will be wanted than
that of the learned and excellent physician
who gave its name.
| Observation-Disclosures two ounces !;
valerian, rhubarb, pink root, white agaric,
of each one and half ounces; boil in
sufficient water to yield three quarts of
decoction. and add to 1t thirty drops of
the oil of tansy, and forty-five drops of
the oil of cloves dissolved in quart OF
rectified spirits. Dose, one tablespoonful
at night.
DIR. Do LEWIS gives the following cure
for dyspepsia "Have right good talk.
with a funny anecdOte or two, and half a
dozen hearty laughs with each meal. This
eating alone at restaurant, and shovel
ing in the provender in solemn silence will
give dyspepsia to an ostrich, and create
a feeling of dependency in the stomach
Of quartz MILL"
CURE FOR HEADACHE.-Put a handful
of salt into a quart of water, add one
ounce of spirits of hartshorn. and half an
ounce of camphorated spirits of wine.
Put them quickly into a bottle, and cork
tight to prevent the escape of the spirits.
Soak piece of cloth with the mixture and
apply il to the head; wet the cloth afresh
as soon as it gets heated.
INK FOR MARKING PACKAGES. An ex-
cellent and very cheap ink is made by mix
ing a quarter of an ounce Of BIZ ;hloride OF
potassa and four ounces of extract of log
wood in stone jar or demUohn, with two
gallons of hot water. Shake well and let
it stand for two weeks, shaking OCCASION
ally, another recipe is to take lampblack
and mix thoroughly with sufficient tur-
pentine to make it thin enough to flow
from the brush.
SLEEPING after dinner is bad practice,
and ten minutes before dinner Is worth
more than an hour after. 1t rests and re-
freshes, and prepares the system for Wig
orous digestion. If sleep be taken after
dinner, it should be in the sitting posture
as the horizontal position is unfavorable
to healthful digestion. Let those who
need rest and sleep during the day take II
before dinner instead of after, and they
will soon find that they will feel better
and that the digestion will be improved
thereby.
PICKED ONIoNs.-ChoOse the white
small onions, take of the brown skin
have ready a very nice tin stew-pan o.
boiling water, throw in as many onions az
will cover the top. AS soon as they looE
clear on the outside take them up as quick
; ly as possible with slice, and lay them OF
} a clean cloth, cover them close with an
other, and scald some more, and so on
Let them lie to be cold; then put them IL
lar, or glass, or wide-mouthed bottles
! and pour over them the best vinegar, JUS
. hot, not boiling; when cold, cover them
Should the outer skin shrivel, peel 1t Of
they must look clear.
How TO BURN OYSTER SHELLs.-They
may be burned by putting them in cOnica
heaps, with coal or wood for fuel, spread
ing over the heaps damp leaves, or straw
or sods, and covering closely with a few
inches of earth. The heap should be firet
and burned slowly, air being given az
. needed by the means of vent-holes at tn,
bottom to sustain slow combustion. i
the heap falls in at any place as 1t burns
: down, more shells should be added unit
: the hole is filled up. Three days are SUI
ficient to burn heap of 800 to LOU bush
els. They should be spread and plowet
, or narrowed in while in caustic state.
: ExPELLING FLIES FROM ROoMs.--lt is
: stated that If two and-a half pounds OF
, powdered laurel leaves are macerated Of
/ boiled in two gallons of water, until theiI
, poisonous quality is extracted, and witt
the solution whitewash is made, by add
ling as much quicklime as can be Stacked