Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29
RECIPES, ETC.

Ill an artery IS cut, compress ABOVE
the wound; if a vein is cut, compress be-
low.
1t is stated that an excellent way to
purify rancid lard, is to try it over
in kettle with about one pound Of raw,
sliced potatoes to every five or six pounds
OF lard. The potatoes seem in some way
to absorb whatever gives the lard an i'm
pure taste, and leave il clean and sweet.
Stamping for embroidery and braid
ing is most commonly done by means of
a perforated pattern which is to be laid
on the material you wish to stamp and a
blue or white powder rubbed over The
paper pattern is then carefully lifted and
warm iron passed over the impression
on the other side OF the cloth.
Medicinal Teas-A tea made of
peach leaves is sure cure for kidney
difficulty. A plaster made of fresh slaked
lime and fresh tar Is sure cure for a can
Ger, which, with all its roots, will come out.
A tea made OF chestnut leaves and drank in
the place of water will cure the most OBJ
stinate case of dropsy in few days. a
tea made of ripe or dried whortleberries
ana drank in the place of water, is a sure
and speedy cure for scrofulous Difficult
ties, however bad Western Ruray.
To Make Pure Wine ofAppes-Take
pure cider, make from sound, ripe apples,
as it runs from the press; put sixty
pounds of common brown sugar into tif-
teen gallons of water and let it dissolve;
then put the mixture in a clean barrel and
fill 1t up TO within two gallons of being
full, with clean cider; put the barrel in a
cool place, leaving the bung out for forty
eight hours; then put in the bung, with a
small vent until fermentation wholly
ceases and bung up tight. In one year
the wine will be fit for use. This wine
requires no racking; the longer it stands
upon the lees the better
Speedy Growth of Radishes-The
Naturalization Society of Palermo
teaches that radishes may be obtained at
any season, and very quickly, in the fol-
lowing manner: The seed is to be first
soaked for twenty-tour hours, and then
placed in bags and exposed to the sun.
They Will begin to germiuate in about
twenty four hours, and are then to be set
i'll box filled with well mauured earth,
and moistened from time to time with
lukewarm water. In five or six days the
radlshes will attain the size OF q small
onion. To grow radishes in the winter
the box is to be placed in warm cellar,
covered with a top, and the earth moisten-
ed from day to day with lukewarm water.
Cleansing Clothes. -Dissolve two
pounds of soap in three gallons of water
as hot as the hand can bear. To this add
one tablespoonful of turpentine and three
OF aqua ammonia, the mixture to be well
stirred. Soak the linen clothes in this
two or three hours, taking care to keep
the boiler tightly closed. Then wash and
rinse in the usual way. Add for the sec
ond use of the preparation, half as much
turpentine and ammonia rs at first. Both
of these possess strong defensive qualities
without any injurious effect. The smell
of both will disappear by the time the
clothes are dry. The use of this mixture
makes rubbing on the board unnecessary
and will not remove the color from
calicoes. -Neso Yorh Tribune.
Cheap and Good Boiled Pastry. An
excellent substitute for the common sort
of boiled pastry for dumplings and rolls
is made thus: Take three pints of sifted
flour, teaspoontul of salt and pinch
of soda; pour upon these boiling hot
water, stirring all the time, until it be
comes dough just stiff, enough TO roll,
and to roll Thin. Some sweetened stewed
fruit having been previously prepased,
proceed just as you do with other pastry,
1t is important that the whole process be
eXpedtiously managed A pot of water
should be already boiling, into which to
put the roll Allow only half IN hour
for the boiling. Besides economy, the
end to be subservcd by this recipe is to
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children who could not digest rich food.
-Hupef's Basar.
The human hand has often been taken
to illustrate Divine wisdom, and very we'll
But have you ever examined your horses
hoot? 1t is hardly less curious in its
way. It's parts are somewhat less com
plicated, yet their design is simple and
obvious. The hoof is not, as ii appears
TO the careless eye, mere lump of insen-
sible bone, fastened to the leg by joint.
It is made up Of series Of thin layers or
leaves of horn, about five hundred in
number, and nicely tied to each other,
and forming filling to the foot Itself.
Then there are as many more layers, be
longing to what is called the coffin
bone and fitted into this These are
elastic. Take Quire OF paper and in
sert the leaves one by one into those of
another quire, and you will get some idea
of the arrangement of the several layers.
Now, the weight of horse rests on as
many elastic springs as there are layers
in his four feet--about 1900; and all this
is Conrived, not only for the conveyance
of his own body, but for whatever bur
dcns may be laid on him.