Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

ExoE1IENT COMMON CAKE.-Two cups
of sugar, one cup of butter four cups of
flour. one cup OF sweet milk, whites OF
six eggs, three or four teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, or one teaspoonful of
soda and two toaspoonfuls Of cream of
tartar. slf Grt 90 arl rtta n'HIni q
TAKE three carrots and CRATE them !;
place In q vessel and cover with lard,
without salt If convenient; boil thor
oughly, strain, and add sufficient beeswax
to make paste. This is q most invalua-
BILE ointment for cuts, burns, scalds, or
wounds of any kind. unYA a a4l
OI1oLoTH is ruined by the application
of lye-soap, as the lye cats the cloth, and
after being washed 1t should be wiped
perfectly dry, or the dampness will soon
rot It. If laid down where the sun will
shine on il much Il will be apt to stick
fast to the floor unless paper Is laid
under it. 7h t
To REVIVE old kid gloves, make q
thick mucilage by boiling a handful of
haxseed; add little dissolved soap I;
then, when the mixture cools, with a
piece of white flannel wipe the gloves,
previously fitted to the hand use only
enough to take off the dirt without wet
ting through the glove.
IT Is worth knowing that If tomatoes
are picked when just ripe and with a
portion of the stems retained, and at
once covered with brine composed of
a teacup of salt dissolved in gallon of
water, they may be kept all the year
round without noticeable loss of their
freshness of taste. So at least says the
Baltimore Market Journal.
A WESTERN farmer says In communi-
cation that he discovered many years ago
that wood could be made to last longer
than iron in the ground. Time and
weather, he says, seem to have no effect
on it. The posts can be prepared for less
than two cents apiece. This Is the rec
ipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir it
in pulverized charcoal to the consistency
of paint. Put coat of this over the
timber, and, he adds, there is not man
who will live to see 1t rot.
WHEN beginning to use glasses, use
them as short time as possible, only in
deficient light or on minute objects, and
then change the strain to distant or larger
objects BY judicious attention to these
two points the sight will be re
tanned many years. And as reading is
one of the luxuries of the age, and one
of it's most delightful pastimes and
amusements, we cannot be too careful OF
the eyesight and should study how We
may best husband its powers.-Rurd
Nelo Yorker.
TOMATOES AS MEDIcINE.-Dr. Bennett
a medical professor of some celebrity
asserts that the tomato, besides being on(
of the most powerful aperients of the
nadtertd nledicd, is wonderfully effectiv,
curative agent for those affections of the
liver and other organs for which calome
is generally employed. 1t might, indeed
entirely supersede calomel, and is also {
thorough remedy for dyspepsia. TIL,
doctor advises its use by everybody a
every full meal, either raw, cooked, O.
in the form of catsup.
A CHEAP DIsINFECTANT.-The follow
ing is highly commended by those wht
have used it; Dissolve bushel of sal
IN barrel of water, and with the sal
water slack barrel of lime, whicl
should be wet enough to form kind o
paste. For the purpose ofa disinfectan
this homemade chloride of lime is neal
ly as good as that purchased at the shop
and drug-stores. Use it freely abou
sinks, cellars, cutters and out-houses
and in this way prevent sickness, suffer
ing and expense.-Rural Neo Yorker.