The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-27
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

where over abundant"
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
To ASSIST THE GROWTH OF HAIR
Wash the head two or three times a
week in clean soft water with two or
three drops of aqua ammonia added.
REMEDY FOR NANCE IN swINE.-First
wash the hog we'll in soap-suds then to
one pint of lard, while hot, add one
ounce of carbolic acid, stirring it until
it is cool. Rub the hog two or three
times with this, and give yourself no
uneasiness about the mango.
on FOR HARNESS. it is
said, may be rendered impervious to
water by thoroughly impregnating it
with a mixture made in the proportion
of twenty-one gallons of pure whale oil,
and fifteen to seventy pounds of india
rubber shreds. Heat these ingredients
together at temperature of from 1914
degrees to $40 degrees, in order that the
rubber may be completely dissolved.
INK-PLANT.- botanists of Europe
are endeavoring to acclimate a plant
growing in New Granada, which is valu-
able for the manufacture of ink. The
Juice is called g. chanhi," is reddish, but
changes after few hours into a deep
black, and is then ready for use. The
" chanhi has less destructive influence
on the steel pens than common ink.
Experiments made in Spain demonstra-
ted that the ink was not even spoiled by
sea water, which is invariably deleteri-
GUS to ordinary ink.
BOILED INDIAN PUDDNG.-The follow
ing 1 know to be good: One pint In
dian meal one pint thick, sour milk
one cup sour cream one teasponful
soda, and salt, unless boiled in pork
water, which improves it very much for
some; l prefer clear water. Stir into
the batter fruit raspberries are best,
dried or fresh. If sour fruit is used
tritle more soda is necessary. Put into
bag and tie firmly, allowing from two
to three inches for it to swell. Boil one
hour; little over will Lot hurt, but is
not needed. The water should be boil
ing when the pudding is put in, and be
kept boiling. Serve with cream and
sugar.
CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA.-It is stated
that of 1000 cases treated as follows,
not one was lost: Thoroughly swab
the back of the mouth and throat with
black pepper, golden real, nitrate of
potash, and alum, each one drachm
mix and pulverize put into tes-cup
half filled with water, stir well and fill
up with good vinegar. Use every half
hour, one, two and four hours as recov-
cry progresses. The patient may swal-
low little each time. Apply one ounce
of spirits of turpentine, sweet oil and
aqua ammonia mixed, to the whole of
the throat and breast every four hours,
keeping flannel to the parts. Afterward
gradually remove the flannel.
A GOOD APPLE DUMPLNG.-Peel and
core the apples and put them in a two
quart basin. Make a crust of either
sour cream and soda or with baking
powder, the same as for rice biscuits.
Put water enough to cook the apples
and cover over the basin and cook on
top of the stove or bake in the oven if
you prefer. A sauce made of butter,
sugar, water and nutmeg, or lemon, is
excellent, as is also sweet cream, where
the apples are not acid. Twenty-Five
minutes is long enough to cook ordinary
apples. This is sometimes called a
brother Jonathan" Peach cob
blers are made similarly with peaches
instead of apples, and are best with
cream for sauce.
TREATMENT OF TYPHOID FEvER.-If the
body can be sustained till the fever has
gone its course, health will result.
Milk, of all things, seems best adapted
for this purpose for it is digestible, is
relished by fever patients, contains all
the requisite material for the nOurish-
ment of the entire body, the nervous
system especially, which in fever is al
ways greatly affected. Furthermore, in
fever there is great thirst, and patients
ardently long for that which will cool
the parched mouth. Thus, by in
terdicting the use of water in toto
throughout the fever, nourishment can
always be given in the shape of cold new
milk. Cold beef tea is by no means to
be despised; but it is muchless relished
and not unfrequently loathed, when the
fever is intense, while milk is then taken
with much gusto.
TREATMENT OF HAMs.-To preserve
hams through the summer make a num-
Der of cotton bags a little larger than
your hams. After the hams are well
smoked, place them in the bags, and get
the best kind of sweet, well-made hay;
out it with knife, and with your hands
press it well around the hams in the
bags tie the bags with strings, put on
a card of the year, to show their age,
and hang them up in garnet or some
dry room, and they Will last five years,
and will be better for boiling than on
the day you hung them up. This method
costs but little, and the bags will
last forty years. No flies or bugs will
trouble the hams if the hay is we'll
pressed around them the sweating of
the hams will be taken up by the hay,
and it will impart flavor to the hams.
The hams should be treated in this way
before the hot weather sets in.
GAS DULL AS HOE. This is an old
favorite comparison, and it seems cruel
to rob it of its poetry. But free use
of the file or grindstone is as rough on
the comparison as the keen hoe is on the
weeds. Certainly it is poor economy to
save the wear of the hoe, of necessity,
only half killing the weeds and making
heavy toll of otherwise light work. A
file, even an old one cleaned with dilu-
ted acid, will answer every purpose, or
a grindstone, if one has no file. Never
mind if stones or gravel so dull, sharp
hoe carefully used will accomplish more
than the noisy grubbing of dull one.
1t is pleasure to see the hoe daily mar
row up and the corners gradually round
off, for honorable age and constant SER
vice benefits the hoe making tha blade