American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-04-05
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

LIME FOR POISONING BY PLANTS AND
INsECTs.-A standing antidote tor poison
by oak, ivy, ETC., is to take a handful of
quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand
half an hour, then paint the poisoned
parts with it. Three or four applications
will never fail to cure the most aggra-
waited cases. Poison from bees, hornets,
spider bites, ETC., is instantly arrested by
the application of equal parts of common
salt and bicarbonate of soda, well rubbed
in on the place bitten or stung.-Boston
Journal of Chemistry.
CUT WoRMs.-For fifty-seven years 1
have saved the corn entirely from dam
age from the cut-worm, simply by coat
ing it with tar when planted. The muck
worm can be exterminated by the skunk,
if you will permit him in your fields. The
various cut-woIms and other insects that
trouble garden plants may be kept in safe
limits by letting your hens and chickens
run among the vines. Fifty years exper-
fence has taught me some useful lessons.
Fowls can run among vines with safety;
at the same time the profit from fowls will
be four times as much profit az anything
else on the land.-RoJert Mansfield, an
Massachusetts Ploughn.an.
TAPIoCA CREAM Soak two table
spoonfuls of tapioca in just enough water
to cover it, all night. The next morning
boil one quart of milk with the soaked
sugar to it and little salt. Beat the
yolks of three eggs thoroughly, and when
the milk has boiled for ten minutes, stir
them into it, remove it from the fire, and
stir rapidly for five minutes so that they
will not curdle. Flavor ii with vanilla;
beat tie whites to stiff froth, and put
over the top of the pudding dish into
which you have turned the tapioca; slft
sugar over it and brown for five minutes
in the oven serve cold. This makes a
more delicious desert than pastry to my
taste, and can be prepared the day before
it is needed.
PERFUME FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF-
A delicious perfume for handkerchiefs,
ETC., can be made after the following
recipe: Procure half a pound of orris
root powdered; pour over it one pound
of recti1ed spirits; let them stand in a
bottle tightly corked for one fortnight;
then filter the spirits through blotting
paper, and add half drachm of otto of
lavender, one drachm of otto of bergamot,
half an ounce of nereli. Let it stand for
twentyfour hours, and then filter it
through blotting paper to make it very
clear. 4 paper filter is easily made by
taking piece of blotting paper that will
just lay over pint or quart bowl, and
fold it twice from corner 20 corner. Now
open it and you can pour the liquid in
very easily, using small pitcher to drain
1t into.
A WRITER in the Country Gentleman
says: 'Of the medicinal virtues of the
apple have not the least doubt. Con
stipation of the bowels can he entirely
avoided by a judicious use of them. Eat
ing too many is not the way, however, as
many seem to think TOO much of 3
good thing, you know When many are
eaten, their medicinal virtue is, in
measure, destroyed. They should be
eaten regularly, and in place of other
food. l favor the raw state fol well
person. When to be given to conva-
lesc4nt ! should prick them all over with
a pin, then heat them hot in the oven,
enough to soften, not reduce them to a
pulp. Apples baked in sugar or eaten
with sugar are much more apt to cause
acidity of the stomach"
A CHEAP DIsINFECTANT-O pound
of green copperas, costing seven cents,
dissolved in one quart of water, and
poured down a water closet. will etfeciu-
ally concentrate and destroy the foulest
smells. On board ships and steamboats,
about hotels and other public places,
there is nothing so nice to purify the air.
Simple green copperss, dissolved under
the bed in anything that will hold water,
will render a hospital, or other place for
the sick, free from unpleasant smells
For butchers stalls. fish-markets, slaugh-
ter houses, sinks, and wherever there are
offensive putrid gases, dissolve copperas
and sprinkle it about, and in few days
the smell will pass away. If a cat, rat or
mouse dies about the house, and sends
forth an offensive gas, place some dis
solved copperas in an open vessel near
the place where the nuisance IS, and it
will soon purify the atmosphere.