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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-01-09
Useful Hints and RECIPES.

CEMENT FOR WooD VESSELS. "A mix
ture of lime clay and oxide of iron,
separately calcined to fine powder.
then intimately mixed, kept in a close
vessel, and mixed with the requisite
quantity of water when used. This
will make the vessel water-tight if the
ingredients are good.
Cold CREAM. This recipe will be
found very nice for making a pleasant
salve for chapped hands and lips.
Shave very fine one tablespoonful OF
best spermacetti take two tablespoon.
fuls of pure olive oil, and one table
spoonful of white wax, also cut into
fine shavings. Put all mixed together
into small cup placed into larger
vessel OF hot water. Let the water
boil around it, and stir gently all the
time until the mixture is of the con,
sistency of richest cream. Just as you
remove the salve from the fire add two
drops of genuine altar of roses, and
put away for use in small china
gallipot, closely covered with a bit OF
kid.
To CLEAN KID GLOVES. Place q fine
towel, folded, on the table, on which
lay your glove; take a piece of flannel,
and with the forefnger dip it lightly
into the milk, then rub it about twice
on piece of common brown soap:
proceed to rub the glove, commeneine
with the thumb, and as the flannel fin
ger lip becomes dirty change it till nc
dirt comes off the glove. After clean
ing the front and back of the finger,
open the finger and again lay it down
fiat, this time to clean the sides, other.
wise you would find streak of dirt
wnen the glove is dry. After the fin.
gers, clean the palm and back, taking
care no particle escapes, otherwise q
streak will appear. When the glose is
dry pull it out. and white clean glove
will be the result. Too much soap
stiffens the glove; too much milk is
equally Objectionable.
RECIPE FOR CURING MFArs.-The
Germantown Telegraph gives the fol-
lowings To one gallon of water take
II lbs of salt, ! ID of sugar, J OF of salt
petre, OF of potash; in this ratio the
pickle can be increased to any quantity
desired. Let these be boiled together
until all the dirt from the sugar rises
to the top and is skinned of. Then
throw it into tub to cool, and when
cold, pour it over your beef or pork,
to remain the usual time-say four or
FIVE weeks. The meat must be well
covered with pickle, and should not be
put down for at least two days after
killing, during which time slightly
sprinkle with powdered saltpetre,which
removes all the surfaced blood, ETC.,
leaving the meat fresh and clean. Some
omit boiling the pickle, and find it to
answer well, though the operation OF
boiling purlfies the pickle by throwing
off the dirt always to be found in salt
and sugar. II this recipe is properly
tried, it will never he abandoned.
There is none that surpasses it, if so
good.
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Household Rccine..

INVALID PUDDING Soak one even
tablespoonful of tapioca in nearly a
cupful Of milk for an hour, or till
thoroughly softened; add little salt,
sugar TO taste, and the yolk OF an egg,
and bake fifteen minutes.
EUoHRED APPLES Take ten apples
of bright fresh color-Spitzenbergs are
nice wash them and put them, with
out pairing, into saucepan with cup
of water, and cover closely. When
nearly cooked add full cup of white
sugar and havoring OF cinnamon or
vanilla, and let them simmer ten min
utes. Then lift the apples up tenderly
into glass dish, and pour the syrup,
when it has partially cooled, over
them. A spoonful of rich cream add.
ed to each apple when served out will
be found a great improvement.
COFFEE ron FESTIVALS. This bev-
erage may he made on q large scale as
follows Parch and grind the coffee
and put IL into flannel bags, each hold.
ing about half pound sew them up
tightly all round. When the festival
time comes, heat in clean wash
boiler as much water aa will be n.
quired for the first making Of coffee I;
when IL boils throw in one or two If
the bags and let them boil ten or hi-
teen minutes, more or less, according
to the strength desired. Then take
them out. Add boiling water when
necessary and throw in another bag Of
coffee, allowing il 10 remain ten or ft.
teen minutes more only, as before. In
this way the beverage will be kept arc
matte as well as strong, and the bitter.
ness OF long-boiled coffee is prevented.
To MAKE Rye BREAD. Set your
sponge as for wheat bread, at night; in
the morning add little salt wet up
with sweet milk do NOT mix il with
the hands, but instead STR with an iron
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-01-09
A htrnnge Country.

The tract of country known as the
Slate Range Valley is probably one OF
the most curious that Southern Cali
fornia can boast of. 1t is there the
immense deposits of borax were dis
covered something like year ago, and
at the time the whole lower or central
portion Of the basin was covered with
a white deposit, breaking away in some
places In large soda reefs, in others
resembling the waves of the ocean, and
in still others stretching out for miles
in one unbroken level, from which the
sun reflected its rays with a glare al.
most unendurable. But one OF the
most singular features in connection
with this section was the absence Of
rain or moisture the days were sunny
and hot, the nights without dew, snd
generally warm. For more thar five
years, it is said, by those who chim to
know, there had been no rain there, I'M
til some three months since thsspellwss
broken. Suddenly, and wish scarcely
any warning, rain commeJced to fall,
and for thirty hours it came down
steadily but increasingly, unaccompa-
MED by wind, but yet a thorough
drenching rain. ForCwo or three days
it remained pleasant when suddenly a
water spout was sen winding its way
through the vally. II came in zig
gag course across the upper end of the
lake, striking he range of hills on the
east side aDl coursing rapidly along
them. The canyons and gorges were
soon filed with water, which poured
from then in fearful volume and spread
itself ou5 upon the bottom. In short
time il was over, and denizens of the
locality now look for another dry sea.
son Olive years, The borax company
now IN operation there are said to be
doing well, and another set OF works
on a small scale viii probably go in
within a short time. Thirty five hun
bred pounds of the refined article we're
recently shipped to San Francisco, and
ten tons of crude material.-LoS An
gegeS Express.
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Tie Snow Birds.

Tbs lonesome graveyard lieth,
4 deep with silent waves
OF night.long snow, all white and beloved
Over the hidden graves
The snow birds come in 4he morning,
Flocking and futtering 40 low,
And light on the graveyard brambles.
And twittey there in the snow.
The singer, old and weary,
Looks out nom his narrow room
Alb, me but my thoughts are snow birds
Haunting graveyard gloom.
Where all the past is buried
AND dead these many years.
Under the drifted whiteness
or frozen wales Of tears.
Poor birds that know not Summer,
nor sun, nor bowers fair.
Only the graveyard brambles,
and graves and Winter air!r
W. d. Ho,ceHs.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
HowIto Keep Hams.


Every season more or less hams are
destroyed by insects, or rendered too
unpalatable to be eaten by decent peo-
pie. BY following this method the in.
sect can be entirely kept at a distance,
and 1t is simple, and within the reach
OF almost every farmer in the country.
Alter the meat has been we'll cured by
pickle and smoke, take some clean
ashes, free from bits of coal, lnoisten
them with little water so that they
will form paste, or else lust wet the
hams a little, and run on the dry ashes.
Rubbed in thoroughly, they serve as a
capital insect protector, and the hams
can be hung up in the smoke house or
wood chamber without any danger of
molestation.
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sweeny Kennedy.

An Indianian says he has cured a
valuable horse in this way Take an
old stocking make little bag out of
some part of il four or five inches long;
fill it with salt sew the end up take
a bucket with some water in it dip in
the bag with salt now double up your
shirt sleeve, and rub the sunken part
for fifteen or twenty minutes. Rub
freely, occasionally pulling the skin so
as to loosen it after rubbing. Grease
1t; fresh butter is best, although other
grease will do. Rub it in also. BY so
doing several mornings successfully,
no doubt the mare will get well. It
will take two or three months for the
sunken part to grow out even with the
other parts. II the hair rubs of, it
will grow again.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-01-09

To THE SUFFERING. An old retired
physician, who is candid enough to tell
the truth about progress, has declared
that the recent discovery by DR.. VALE.
Err, of California, of his herb remedy,
VINEGAR BITTERs, is one Of the most
important in medicine. He has tested
them thoroughly, in his own family,
among his friends, aud upon himself;
and he is driven TO the conclusion that
they possess rare and uuexcelled cura
tive properties. He says OF them
"They contain no dangerous drug.
They never reduce the patient never
render one liable to take cold-never
interfere with the everyday business
of hfo-never make their continuous
use a condition of cure, and are adapt
ed to even the most delicate organiza-
ton. They act as kindly OH the tender
infant, the delicate female, or infirm
old age, as on the vigorous and athlet.
ic system exercising healthful effects
upon every blood vessel-on the brain,
nerves ard lymphatics-on the Blood,
Bile, Gastric Juice, etc, enriching inn
poverished fluids, aud imparting yiger
to mind and bodv.-C0m.n
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A Few Hints OF General manaaemeu,
OfSheep.

Va
One of the most common evils i'm the
care of sheep, except among the more
practical loclz.masters, is the rough
manner in which the sheep are permit.
ted to be haddled by the help. Where
only few are kept, aud the children
are allowed to have an interest in them.
a little care will obviate this. Another
vicious practice is attempting TO drive
sheep with cur dog which is nui-
sance which should never be tolerated.
Have only the gentliest of collies or
none; an unframed dog among sheep
AS only a grade better than a wolf.
Cultivate the temper and affection of
sheep to that degree that they will
allow you to approach them and catch
them at any time. You will hnd that
1t pays always to have your flock under
this subsection. If your sheep hy
from you at your approach, and Jump
over any obstacle that may be in their
way in their frantic efforts TO escape
make up your mind that you are not
calculated for keeping sheen and sell
the flock at the hrtt opportunity.
For extra early lambs, If you have a
tholouBhiy warm piucc Tor lambing, the
ewes should be put TO the ram about
the first of October. They will then
drop their lambs about February first
since the average period Of gestatien 81
the eve is about l52 days. Lambs for
killing young should not be dropped
later than the first o March, which is
about the time for all Of them to come
except few for extra early lambs. The
better class of hotels is always eager 10
obtain these very early lambs at fancy
prices, If they be really prime.
Thus few of the ewes having been
tipped early IN September, let the bal
ance be served during the latter daye
of September and the first days OF DC.
tober. When breeding for mutton Il
r better to provide proper place for
lambing, aud have even the lambs in.
tended for ripe mutton come as early
as March, since they stand the winter
much better than later ones. Fronfthe
time the rafting season ia over, the
ewes being with young, they should be
we'll cared for and provided with a
warm barn If the basement Of bank
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Securing Apples for the on Year.

tBHAts Att the ON th1s
One of the most successful agricul-
turists in Che country is Robert Pell,
who has 1,200acre farm in Ulster Co.,
New York, all in the highest state of
cultivation. One feature is an orchard
. OF 200 acres, planted exclusively with
the Newtown pippin, and the product
OF this orchard is famous in Europe as
well as at home. To obtain his pres
emit perfection in fruit culture, Mr.. Pell
studied the art of pomology and learn
ed how to assist nature in her efforts
to support mankind. Commonly speak
ing, the apple tree bears every alter
nate year. Mr. Peli determined upon
having an annual harvest, and to give
his orchard a handsome start he sacri-
iced the crop OF a bearing year. All
the apples were picked while green.
He discovered that the germ of next
years fruit was in existence at the
time of the apple harvest, but the tree
would be so exhausted that
this germ would fail OF
development, and a year of rest would
follow before another crop could be
produced. Having stopped his trees
from fruiting in the manner have
mentioned, he was sure of crop on
what was generally the ofl-year, and he
determined to follow this up by a
treatment which should abolish the off.
year system. He learned that trees re-
quire variety of food, the chief of
which is found in potash, lime and so.
da, and his orchard has been thus fed
with all the success that has been antic-
ipated. The potash is found in wood
ashes, lime is obtained from oyster
shells at low cost, (stone lime being
undesirable,) while soda is supplied
by common salt. In orchards thus fed
and judiciously pruned cannot fail of
success, and although this season is
generally short of apples, MIR. PelTs
crop is of usual abundance.
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CHAPPED HANDS, lace, rough skin,
pimples, ring-worm, salt-rheum aud other Gu.
taneoas; affections, cured, and the skin made
soft and smooth, by using the JuNrrER Pan
SOAP, made by CAswELL HAzARp-& Co., New
York ne certain to get the Juslpe- 7ay; SOAP,
made py Us, as there are many limitations
~ Com,
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THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF Al
OLD NIiVGE

MRS. WISsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP is TIE PRE
sohiPrIoS OF one OF the best Female PHYSICIANS and
NURSES IN ehe United States. and has been used foi
thirtyyears with never falling safety and success b,
millions OF mothers and chill aren from the feeble in
FAINT OF one week old to the adult II correots acld
OF the stomach, relieves wind collie regulates the
bowels, and gives rest health aud comfort 10 mother
and child. We beevs Il TO DO the Best ana sures,
Remedy In the World in all cases of DYSENFERY
and DIARRHTA IN oHILDEN, whether II
arises from Teethiug from any other cause. hull
directions for using viii accompany each bottle
None Genuine unless the fac.si lie Of CURTIS 4
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TaERE is, probably, no way in which

THERE is, probably, no way in which
we can benefit our reader. moro than w rec
ommcndiug tD them Tor -Cuelal use JohHsoHS
1nodBrie LmjmeHL / is adopted 20 almost
al tho purposes ~ Family Medicine; and AZ
q specific ior coughs. colds wu0Oping cough,
soreness 10 the chest. fame stomach, rhouma-
tsm, splitting OF blood and aIl iuu dilicnltios,
y has no equal that even So saw q heard ~
rlm prcpueiy Of giytng. condition wed.eiue
20 horses cattle and Ateep waB discussed ami
admitted by MANY Oh 90. Agricultural Sccic.
ties throughout the state ltEt Fell, aud We bt.
liCvc That ~ ever case hlt ono t1ev decided
10 favor n Sherjd1u's CIrary Condition Poir.
ders. Good Judgment. Com.
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COnsumptioIi.

the scourge OF the human family, may
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Dr.. r, V. PIERCE:
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THE HOUSEHOLD PANACEA.
AND
FAMILY IMMINENT

Is the best remedy in the world tor the iollowin
complaints viz Cramps in the Limbs and Stomach
Pain In the Stomach, Bowels Side, Rheumatism II
all rs FORMS Bilious Colo, Neuralgia Cholera Dyg
EMERY. Gold, Flesh Wounds, Burns Sore Throat
spinal Complaints, Sprans and Bruises, Chils and
Fever. For Internal aud External use
Its operation is not only TO relieve the patient but
entirely removes the cause Of the complaint Itper.
etrates and ppcSades the whole system, restoring
healthy action 20 all It's arts, and quiokeuing the
blood.
THE HOUSEHOLD PAsACEA rs PURELY VEGETABLE
and sil Healing.
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Cleanse the initiated BLOOD when

ever you find its impurities bursting through
the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores
foul your feelings viii tell you when. Keep
The blood pure, and the health Of the system
will follow. g
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Ghildren's department.
SWALLOWING FIFTEEN COWS.

"Swalowed fifteen cows~ said BERTHE, in
astonishment, looking up from her play. Her
ears had caught the words in conversation
that was going on in the room.
EYES," answered her brother; che drank
them all up"
"Drank fifteen cows I don't believe it, ~
answered the little maiden, firmly.
"He sold them, and bought whisky and
beer with the money!" exclaimed her Aunt
Katy.
"0h, oh, that was it. I see now. Well,
it is funny"
"No, not funny, dear, but sad" said Aunt
Katy. "The MIN had wife and two little
children, and he sold the milk from fifteen
COWS and bought them food and clothing.
But now having swallowed the COWS, as we
were saying, his wife and children 60 hungry
and cold, and he, a poor miserable drunkard,
is in the almshouse. Isn't it dreadful to think
Off"
The children looked very sober.
you'll never catch me drinking up fifteen
COWS, nor one, either,' said George, very
positively.
Il don't know as to that" replied Aunt
Kate. "The man we we're talking about was
once little boy like you, with healthy
taste for food and clear, cold water. AS to
ever swallowing a COW, much more fifteen
COWS, such thing never entered his head.
But you see what he came to at last How
was it? He began by taking glass of ale
or beer, or little wine at parties now and
then. This corrupted his pure taste, and
gave him an unnatural thirst, which only
strong drink could satisfy. After ale and
beer came whisky, rum and brandy; and
the more his thirst increased, until he became
a poor, miserable drunkard. So you see,
George, that no man can tell what he may
come to- Maybe, instead of swallowing fif-
teen COWS, you will get down, one of these
days after you become man, forty or fifty
cows, and house into the bargain"
"Now, aunty, this is too bad" exclaimed
George "You know will not"
$50 hundreds and thousands of little boys
might once have said who, now that they are
grown to be men, are drunkards. There is
only one way ofsafety."
"What is that, aunty ?" asked the boy, look
ing up with serious eyes.
"It is the way of total abstinence, as we
call 1.-THE only way of safety for boys and
men. If you will never drink drop Of
Intoxicating liquor, you will never be a
drunkard. If you depart from this rule, no
man can say to how low depth of wretched-
ness and degradation you may fall. The
worst drunkard in the land was once pure
and innocent boy"
"Ill never swallow even calfp' exclaimed
George, starting up, and speaking with great
earnestneess.
"Never drink drop of The unclean thing"
said Aunt Kate, "and all will be we'll with
you. But indulge ever so little in drinking
as you grow to manhood, and none can tell
into what great deep of hopeless ruin you
may fall"