Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-08-07
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

SOMEBODY says good egg is made up
of ten parts shell, sixty parts white and
thirty parts yolk. The white of an egg
contains eighty-six per cent. water, the
yolk fifty-two per cent. The average
weight of an egg is two ounces.
No PERSON should enter sick room
While in state Of perspiration, because
in cooling Oft the pores absorb freely, nor
should person sit between the sick and
the fire. Do not approach contagious
diseases with an empty stomach.
BOILED EGG PLANT--Cut the eggs di-
rectly in half and boil as you would
squash until perfectly soft and tender;
then scrape from the inside of the skins,
season with salt, butter, ETC., and strew
sifted bread crumbs all over them. Set
the dish into the oven to brown for ten
minutes
If a Western farmer be asked which is
the most productive crop he raises, in
nine out of ten cases he will reply Indian
corn. Why? Because in his mind he as
sociates the corn with his facilities for
marketing it. Hogs and cattle fatten on
it, and walk off to the depot for shipment.
Country Gentleman.
SWINE that are much confined and can
not get to the earth will frequently be
benefited by having q little charcoal or
rotten wood thrown in to them, and a
small quantity Of birthstone mixed in
their food occasionally is an excellent
thing. A large handful Of fresh grass or
clover for each animal once day will be
much better than charcoal or other hard
substances.
VERY good way to bleach cotton
cloth tn coax IL II, lr,t IL f,,. fo,,
days. Another way is to make a good
suds, put from one to two tablespoonful
OF turpentine into it, before putting the
clothes in. Wash asusual, wringing the
clothes from the boil and drying without
rinsing. By using one tablespoonful of
turpentine in the first sudS on washing
days, it will save half the labor of rub
bling, and the clothes will never become
yellow, but will remain a pure white
THE foundation for sound, firm, white
teeth must be laid in early life, by subsist-
ing on food that contains the elements
which the teeth must have or they will be
imperfectly formed, feeble in structure,
and fall early into decay If wheat flour
were never bolted, but eaten with the bran,
as we find it partially in the Graham
bread, then the system would be album
dainty provided with the phosphate of
lime, the essential ingredient for the
formation of the teeth.
AN egg is not fresh when it is two or
three days old. Kept but day in hot
weather, and there is difference; already
incubation has commenced An egg
should be eaten the day it is laid 1t is
much the same with butter Anegg may
be impaired by bad food, by filthy air or
water. The different kinds of food have
an influence Corn, with some other
clean feed, will give good fiavor-will i'm
part that peculiar sweetness which so dis
tinguishes good egg from an ordinary
or poor one. Tainted food in all cases
should be avoided. This is our experience,
independent of what the books say. A
fresh egg, perfect in flavor and quality,
cooked with butter equally good, is a tit
bits a rarity.-EGchange.
THE Scientific american is Of the opinion
that we require variety in our food 1t
says experience has proved that, for some
reason unknown to science, variety is es-
sential to health after reaching the age
when we are free to choose our food.
The perpetual recurrence of the same
edibles, even shough their number be
considerable, becomes in all periods of
life except infancy, not only wearsome,
Dut poSltlVely injurious. salt pork, salt
fish and potatoes, with pies, poor bread
and Japan tea, are the staples of families
during our long winters 1t should be
understood how needful change of diet
is from time to time. Fresh vegetables.
particularly in the country, are readily
obtained and preserved and should be
unsparingly used. The edible roots, as
turnlps, carrots, onions and beets, and
cabbages are as we'll worth preserving as
the omnipresent potato. All these vege-
tables need thorough boiling, and more
than they generally get