Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-19
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

REMEDY FOR CHILBLAINs.-A writer in
Vienna medical magazine says that a
concentrated solution Of chloride Of iron
is an unfailing remedy for chilbiains.
COLD MADE SoAP.-Have lye strong
enough to bear up an egg. Then stir in
any soap grease until the I've Is pretty
well filled, and in week or ten days the
soap will be fit for use. In the meantime
stir occasionally.
To CURE FELoN.-As soon as it
makes its appearance apply poultlce, OF
equal parts of saltpeter and birthstone,
mixed with sufficient lard to make
paste, and renew as soon as it gets dry.
A few applications will effect cure.
A WORD OF CAUTIoN.-No person
should enter sick room while In the
state of perspiration, because in cooling
off the pores absorb freely, nor should
person sit between the sick and the hre.
| DO not approach contagious diseases with
an empty stomach.
ROWLAND MACAssAR Om.-This noted
English dressing for the hair is said 10
have the following composition Oil OF
almonds (reddened by alkanet root, one
pint; oil of rosemary, one drachm; OIL OF
origanum (white), one drachm; oil OF nut
meg. otto Of rose, of each fifteen drops !;
neroli, six drops essence OF musk, three
or four drops.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific
| American commends onions as speclnc
against epidemics- as an esculent, put
sliced and kept in sick-room, where tney
will absorb any atmospheric poison. They
should be replaced by fresh ones every
hour, 1t is noticed that in the room OF a
smallpox patient they will blister and de-
compose very rapidly, but will prevent
the spread of the disease. Their applica-
ton has also proved effective in the case OF
snake bites.
AN INK THAT WILL NOT FREEZE.-Take
about one handful of maple bark-the in
side bark. Scrape or shave off the outside
bark. Put it i'm three pints of water and
boil till the strength is all out of the bark
then strain all the bark out of the ooze.
Next put in the ooze half a tablespoonful
of copperas, and boil five or ten minutes
till the copperas is all dissolved. Keep
stirring. This will make near one gill
of good ink that will not be injured by
freezing.
To MAKE OLD BLACK SILK LOOK LIKE
NEw.-Unpick the garment and wash the
pieces in hot soapsuds; rinse by dipping
up and down in hot water, then dip in Sc.
cOnd water prepared as follows: Boil two
ounces of logwood chips in five quarts o.
water add quarter of an ounce of cop
peras strain through an old bit of calico
and dip your silk into this dye. Let the
silk be pinned on to line by the corners
and hang until it is nearly dry. Thel
take it down and iron it between two
pieces of old black silk. 1t will look lik'
new.
MELON WINE.-How true it is that i
takes everybody to know everything
Pumpkins and variety of delicious wa
termelons grow spontaneously in Arabia
Perhaps they develop more richly there
than in Persia, where they are extremely
!. good. In the great plenty, immensely
beyond the demands OF consumers wher'
they most abound, the prudent lockers
. ahead cut a hole through the rind, while
on the vine, down into the pulp. 1t Il
then closed tightly with wax. Under ;
genial sun the cone soon begins 10 mel
away till it all disappears, leaving tht
shell nearly full of delicious fluid which
I, is called melon wine. Like the drink o
! the gods, it is not to be compared witt
, any other beverage on earth, say the con
! sumers. A hint here for an experiment
the coming season.
ROASTED CoFFEE.-ROasted coffee il
one of the most powerful means, no
Q only of rendering animal and vegetable
effluvia innocuous, but of actually de
stroying them. A room in which mea
? in an advanced degree of decomposition
: had been kept for some time, was in
, stantly deprived of all smell by an opel
= coffee rooster being carried through /
2 containing pound of coffee newly
) roasted. In another room the effiuvi
D occasioned by the cleaning out of cess
pool, so that sulphureted hydrogen ant
!, ammonia could be clearly detected, wa
( completely removed within half minut
= on the employment of three ounces o
e fresh coffee. The best mode of using
: as disinfectant is TO dry the raw bean
n pound it in a mortar, and then roast tn
/ powder on moderately heated iron plate
Y until it assumes dark brown hue, whel
s it Is ready for use. 1t must, however, b
e remembered that the coffee, to be effect
0 ual, should be perfectly pure. Adulter
: ated rubbish will only make matter
: worse.