Richland beacon., 1873-09-27
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

spoon. Put it into kettle and boil two
hours, stirring frequently. Spice tC
suit the taste. When cool put it into 9
jar. and cover with branded paper, and
seal, and it will keep two years.
TOMATO CArsUP.-Wash the tomatoes
and press them through fine sieve to
six quarts of Juice and pulp; add the
same quantity Of best vinegar then
set it over the fire to boil. When it be-
gins to thicken add of pimento, cloves
and pepper each half an ounce, emma
mon a quarter of an ounce, and two nut
megs finely grated. Boil to the consls-
tency of thin musL, then add four table
spoOnfuls of salt, and take 1t ont OF the
vessel. When cold, bottle and cork
tight. Boil in brass or bell-metal ket-
tie, or tin-lined vessel. This can't be
beat.
REMEDY FOR CRoUp.-This remedy is
simply alum. Take knife or crater
and shave or CRATE of, in small parti-
cles. about teaspOOnful of alum, mix
it with about twice the quantity OF SUI
gar or honey to make it palatable, and
administer as quickly as possible. The
doses should be separated at intervals
of fifteen minutes, until the phlegm is
emf and cast off. This will give almost
immediate relief. The patient should
also bathe his feet in hot water and ap-
ply cloths wet in cold water to the
throat and chest, changing as often as
they get warm.
A TEAsPooNFUL of liquied ammonia
in one gallon warm water will often re-
store the color of carpets, even if pro-
duced by acid or alkali. If ceiling
has been whitewashed with carpet down,
and few drops are visible, this will
remove it. Or, after the carpet is we'll
beaten and brushed, scour with ox-gall.
which will not extract grease but fresh
en- the color-1 pint of gall in gallons
warm water will do'a large carpet. Ia
BILE floor-cloths may be thus washed.
The suds left from a wash, where am
monia is used, even if almost cold,
cleanses these new hoor-clOths well.
DURABILITY OF DIFFERENT WOODS
Experiments have been lately made by
driving sticks made of different woods,
each two feet long, and one end one
half inch square, into the ground, only
onc-half inch projecting outward. II
was found that in five years all those
made of oak, elm, ash, fir, soft mahog,
any and nearly every variety of pine
were totally rotten. Larche, hard pine
and lakewood were decayed on the out,
side only, while acacia, with the excep-
ton of being also slightly attacked on
the exterior, was sound. Hard mahog-
any and cedar of Lebanon were in toll
erably good condition but only Vir-
ginia cedar was found as good as when
put in the ground. This is of some
importance to builders, showing what
woods should be avoided and what 9th
ers used by preference in underground
work.
TYPHOID FEvER.-This infections dis
ease, when once established in family,
generally takes nearly all the members,
hence many believe it to be contagious.
1t is not contagious, however, but, like
cholera and other kindred diseases, is
infections. The seepings from an old
sewer, leaking from privy vaults, water
from:wood-lined springs, stencil arising
from decaying vegetation, are all favor
able conditions to the acquiring and
spread OF this disease. An instance is
on record where a whole neighbOrhood
pissed through siege of this disease
cngendering by using milk from cows
that habitnally drank from water stand
ing over decaying timber. The best
preventative is to keep the premises
clean. Drink pure water, and when I'M
pleasant smells arise trace them out,
remove the cause, and apply disinfec-
tants. The person should be washed
thoroughly at least once week.
DRINKING WATER.-Drinking wine is
a habit, SO is is drinking spirits, ale, CT
der, coffee and water. The last is
thought a necessity, but to drink much
is habit. Some people drink little,
not because their constitutions require
less than others, it is their habit. These
people never perspire so much as those
who drink more. The more that is
drank the more water passes away, or
the system would suffer. As it is, the
strain affects it. The skin, the kidneys,
bowels, lungs, all drawn upon. The
result is, as may naturally be expected,
exhaustion. For this reason the man
during the summer and the hottest
weather, less able to endure fatigue.
The water is no benefit to him, that is,
the excess. 1t must pass away, and
this, requires IN effort of the system,
which..is the sweating process. Had he
not the excess of water he would not
have perspired so; it would not have
been there for the system to expel. 1t
is a habit to drink 80 much false
thirst is created We should drink
what is needed.s+ The habit of drinking
more will soon be overcome, and the
person will feel much stronger and
more capable"of bearing fatigue. In
winter little fluid is needed beyond
what our food furnishes in summer,
some more, but not much.
FILTERS AND Cool WATER.-In view
of the fact that the water We drink is
not unlikely to be crowded with danger
Gus germs, it seems to be the part of
wisdom to adopt the simple precaution
suggested in our heading. A portable
filter may be made of common stone
ware or earthen jar, The bottom is
filed with, stones as large as a goose
egg, or is covered with a perforated
slate slab, leaving space to hold sup
ply of filtered water. A faucet is fit
ted into a hole bored through the side
of the jar, as near the bottom as may
be. On the slab of stone is placed lay
er of coarse gravel, clearly washed; over
that layer of clear. washed sand then
layer of powdered charcoal, also we'll
washed still another layer of sand, and
then one of coarse gravel both washed