Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-06
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE
From their own keen enjoyment OF
good things, some people learn, almost
with exaggeration, how hard it must be
to lack them.
| DYsPEPTIC COOKEs.-One cup OF mo-
lasses, one-half cup of butter, one egg,
one tablespoonful each of vinegar, water,
ginger, and soda, and salt to taste.
THE blossom cannot tell what becomes
| Of its odor, and no man.can tell what be-
| comes of his influence and example, that
roll away from him and 60 beyond his
ken on their mission.
WAFFLEs-One quart of -four, one pint
of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda,
| four eggs, piece of butter the size of a
large egg, and little salt Bake in waf-
| file irons. Sour cream and less butter i'm
prove them.
Hoe CAKE.-An old fashioned hoe cake
is made with equal parts Of milk and
water, little salt, meal stirred in to make
thick batter, and baked on griddle. 1t
is best made with sour milk, soda,
and little shortening.
CAREFULNEss and enterprise are sound
virtues. Money is good thing. and DO
sition is better. But there is something
beyond all these. To rest satisfied with
them, is only to resemble gardener who
IS content to see his fruits rotting in their
dusty beds, instead of gathering them for
his masters table.
BEEswAx the comb by boiling
it in water. When cool it will form a
cake on the surface, which may be taken
Oft and remelted. The impurities will
settle to the bottom, and may be scraped
off. If the first melting is not sufficient.
remelt until clear. This makes the vel.
low wax of commerce.
BUTTERMILK MUFFINs.-One Quart of
sour buttermilk, one teacupful of sour
cream, two eggs, one tablespoonful of
soda, little salt, flour enough to make as
thick as pound cake. Bake in muffin
| rings placed upon tins in the oven, from
twenty to thirty minutes, according to
the temperature of the stove
THE following definitions of terms
used to designate the velocity of the wind
will be found valuable for reference:
Light air, Of mile; light breeze, 5 miles /;
gentle breeze, 10 miles, moderate breeze,
10 miles; fresh breeze, 20 miles; strong
breeze, 20 miles; moderate gale, 80 miles
fresh gale, 45 miles; strong gale, SO miles,
heavy gale, 70 miles; storm, 80 miles
hurricane, 100 miles and upward per
hour.
THE CHoLERA.-What the people need
is line upon line and precept upon pre-
cept in relation to the simple truths, that.
II the bowels are kept free and regular by
plain, simple food, and all commanding
in eating and drinking avoided the pores
OF the skin kept open by frequent bathing
with tepld water, and seasonable attention
given 10 rest and sleep, the danger of dy-
ing of cholera or Of bilious diarrhea is
| reduced to as infinitesimal a degree as
the danger of being killed on railroad
journey from Philadelphia to New York
The more light admitted to rooms the
better for those who occupy them Light
| Is as necessary to sound health as it is to
vegetable life. Exclude it from plants,
ana the consequences are disastrous.
They cannot be perfe cted without its vivi-
tying influence. 1t is a fearful mistake
to curtain and blind windows so closely
for fear of injuring the furniture by ex-
posture to the suns rays; rooms positively
gather elements in darkness which en-
gender disease. Let in the light often,
and fresh air, too, or suffer the penalty of
aches and pains, and long doctors bills,
| which might have been avoided.
A CURIOUS discovery has recently been
| made public in France in regard to the
culture OF vegetables and fruit trees. By
watering with solution of sulphate of
iron the most wonderful fecundity has
been attained. Pear trees and beans
which have been submitted to this treat
ment have nearly doubled in the size OF
their productions, and noticeable i'm
provement has been remarked in their
flavor. DR.. Becourt reports that, while at
the head OF an establishment at Eughein
or the sulphurous springs, he had the gar.
dens and plantations connected with il
watered during several weeks Of the early
spring with sulphurous water, and that
not only the plantations prospered to a re-
markable extent, but flowers acquired a
peculiar brilliancy of coloring and healthy
aspect which attracted universal attention
ONE of my lady readers who 'has the
care OF the milk of fifteen cows" writes tc
say mat the streaked appearance of butter
is caused by Swimming the milk when in
different conditions; that is, if some OF
the milk is skinned when it is thick, and
at other times when scarcely sour, or al
any stage between these two points, thai
the resulting butter will be streaked
This may be one of the causes, but it is
not the only one. Careful examina tior
shows these streaks to be composed o.
casein, but not in the form in which it ex
lists in buttermilk; hence i an inclined t.
think that the cause ia to be found in
some popularity in the churning, which
separates the casein, or cheese, from the
butter, so that they afterward become me
chanically mixed, and cannot be sepa
rated.-Jo1rnaS Of the Farm.