The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-16
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

Lemon for Cough.-Roasb the
| lemon very carefully without burning
| it when it is hot cut and squeeze into
| cup upon three ounces of sugar, fine
! ly powdered. Take q spoonful when
| ever your cough troubles you. Il is
| good and agreeable to tho taste. Rare
ly has it been known to fail of giving
relief.
Against Shooting Horses.-An old
| farmer writes to the Ohio Farmer
| About thirty years ago thought horses
| ought to be shod, and continued the
! practice for several years but by de-
! grees discovered was mistaken. The
| facts began to leak ont, one by one, to
prove that it is not best to shoe horses
| in places That are not free from stone or
gravel. In the first place, horses that
are shod are liable to so many diseases
of the feet and next, If they choose to
use their heels they have destruction
behind them, and if they happen to
! tread on fellows foot it causes some
pain, especially if they are rough shod,
and unless they arc rough shod, shoes
are Of no advantage on slippery ground.
| A horse slips worse with smooth shoes
than he does barefoot. And again, in
| a soft snow horses with shoes ball up
so that they can hardly gel along, while
barefoot horse COOS right along.
Ham Toast.-When ham gets I'M
slightly for the table, take off as much
of it as you require and mince it finely
To one pint of mince put two table
| spoonfuls of cream, or fresh, rich milk
Boil it five minutes prepare well but
/ tered slices of toast, and spread the
mince on them. Strew over this we'll
grated bread crumbs, a little parsley
and some small pieces of butter. Brown
| in quick oven and serve hot.
Slowed Celery. Wash two large
heads Of celery, throw away the leaves
| and green stalks, and cut the heart and
white stalks into pieces about an inch
long. Put this into fast-boiling water,
| and boil them till very tender. Put in
| to n stew-pan gill of cream, O. little
salt, white pepper and pounded mace
mers drain the celery and put it into
! the cream. Boil mp once and serve.
-Camphor Ointment. ounce of
spermaceti, one ounce white wax, one
half ounce camphor gum, two ounces
| lard melt over slow fire. Add the
camphoi gum after the other has dis
| solved.
TO Glaze Shirts. every quart
of made starch add q teaspoonful of
starch and one of white soap, scraped
| fine Boil the starch. after adding hot
water, until you have it as thick as you
| wish.
To Drive Away Rats Without Poi
! son.-We know of three methods
First, the old French plan this is fol-
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make it a special business. They take
a deep tub with water in the bottom
and little elevation in the middle like
an island, on which is only place Just
for one rat to sit. The top is covered,
and has large balanced valve, open
ing downward; on the middle of this
valve piece of fried pork or chee@e is
fixed, and when a rat walks on to get
the cheese, the valve goes down, and
drops the rat into the water, and moves
back into position. A road is made
from a rat-hole to the top of the tub by
means of piece of broad rubber with
cheese, so as to make the walk attract
i've to the rats. In the course of
single night some ten, twenty, or even
more rats go down, and if the island
was not there they would be found
most all alive in the morning quietly
swimming around but the provisions
of thu little island saves the trouble of
killing them, because their egotistic in
stinct of self-presorvation causes them
to fight for the exclusive possession of
the island, on which in tho morning the
strongest rat is found in solitary pos
session all the others being killed and
drowned around him. Second, the New
York plan, invented by one of our
friends. The floor near the rat-hole is
covered with a thin layer of caustic po-
tassa. When the rats walk on this it
makes their feet sore then licking their
feet makes their mouths sore and the
result is they shun this locality, not
alone, but to tell all the rats in the
neighborhood about it, and eventually
the house is entirely abandoned by
them, Notwithstanding the houses
around are teaming with rats. Third. |
the Dutch method; this is said to be |
used successfully in Holland we have, |
however, never tried it. A number of
rats are left together to themselves in
a very large trap or cage, with no foed
whatever; their craving will at last |
cause them to fight, and the weakest is
the victim, and so it goes on till one
strong rat is left. When this one has |
eaten the last remains of any of the 9TH |
ers, it is set loose; the animal has ac-
quired such taste for rat-fesh that he |
is the terror of the ratdom, going around |
seeking what rat he may devour In an |
incredibly short time the premises are |
abandoned by all others, who will not |
come back before the canibal rat has
left or has died.
Contagious and Infectious Diseases. |
DIR. Symes Thompson, a well-known |
English physician, lectured on the |
above topic in London, and from his |
discourse we CLEAN the following It |
is considered a settled fact that diseases |
of a contagious nature are caused and |
spread by influences largely within the |
sphere of human government and con- |
troll. Every form of infectious fever |
has its idiosyncrasy. Enteric fever and |
cholera tend chiefly to disseminate
themselves through water, passing into /
the wells and fountains of daily supply, |
and at times travelling from house to |
house in the milk cans of easy con-
scienced dairymen. Scarlet fever hi
bernates in a drawer, and, after some
months, comes forth with some old and |
cast aside garment, to be thrown with
it around the throat or head of some
new victim. and so start thence upon a
fresh career. Typhus fever crawls
sluggishly from hand to hand and
mouth to mouth and is immensely So
ciable in its spirit, languishing away
when condemned to solitary confinement.
Typhoid fever generates itself where
filth, over crowding and impure habits
OF life prevail; and relasping fever
glldes in the track of privation and
misery. The means now known of CON
trolling these evil ministrants are. IN
the main, careful isolation Of the sick,
the preservation of the water from
which daily supplies are derived in I'M
contaminated purity, the uninterrupted
ventilation alike of hospitals and
DWELLING houses, the immediate removal
from the vicinity of active human life
of all excretions of the sick and the de-
struction of their morbific influence by
mixing them with antiseptic and disin-
fecting agents, (such as carbolic acid,
sulphuric acid, cblorides of lime and
zinc, permanganate of potash, and