Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-11-21
USEFUL AND sUGGEsTIvE.

OUNCE PUDDING.-Stew and strain
eight ounces. Add halfpound of sugar,
six eggs, a pint of milk or cream. Season
or not, as may be preferred. Baked in a
dish lined and ornamented with pastry.
GIVE your plants the morning sunshine.
IL Is far better than the afternoon; and if
the windows open both to the east and
southwest so much the better for the
plants at both windows. Yet, if no other
location can be procured, the afternoon
sun is better than none at all.
MUcILAaE.-To make tragacanth mucil-
age, take of powdered tragacanth one
dram, glycerine six drains, water enough
to make in all ten ounces; rub the traga-
canth in q mortar with the glycerine, and
then add the water. This will produce q
mucilage of excellent quality.
CHEAP VTNEGAR.-Take o quantity of
common Irish potatoes, wash them until
they are thoroughly clean, place them in
large vessel and boil them until done.
Drain off carefully the water that they
were cooked in, straining 1t, If necessary,
in order to remove every particle of the
potato. Then put this potato water in a
Jug or keg, which set near the stove, OF in
some place where it will be kept warm,
and add one pound of sugar to about two
and one-half gallons of the water, some
hop yeast, or small portion of whisky.
Let Il stand three or four weeks, and you
will have excellent vinegar, at q cost of
six or seven cents per galion.-Jou1ndL Of
Chemistry.
WASHING LIGHT CoLoRED CAIICoEs.-
Take tablespoonful of alum, and dis.
solve it in enough lukewarm water to
rinse print dress. Dip the soiled dress
into it, taking care to wet thoroughly
every part of il, and then wiring 1t out.
Have warm soap suds all ready (but only
pleasantly warm to the hand-hot water
| always fades calicoes), and wash out the
dress quickly then rinse in cold water.
| Have the starch ready-but not too hot,
only warm-rinse the dress in it, wiring
i out, and hang it to dry, but not in the
sun. Always place your line where the
wind will strike it rather than the sun
When dry enough to iron, bring it in and
| iron directly. Prints should never be
| sprinkled, but if allowed to become rough
| dry, they should be ironed under damn
| cloth. 1t is better to wash them some
day by themselves, when washing and
ironing can be done at once.
REMEDY FOR Doc BITE.-In the case
of the bite of a dog where the teeth pen
| ctIutc Ine uCSn, WutlntT lHB uOg was
known to be mad or not, use the same
precautions. Wash the wound with warm
water, extract all the virus possible by
sucking the wound with the lips and
then cauterize it deeply with the caustic
most readily obtained The time in which
the effects of the bite of mad dog would
be seen, varies from two to three days to
as many years; but if no effects are fell
| after two or three months 90 q ppnpral
thing, the patient may consider himself
safe. Bites made through clothing are
| seldom productive of much harm, as ever
if the dog is mad the clothing absorbs tn,
virus before the teeth reach the flesh
Most of all the fatal cases are where the
person was bitten on some naked spot.
one is situated where he can take Turk
ish bath soon after being bitten, do so by
all means. The perspiration will help t.
carry off the poison that may lurk il
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