The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.


The following simple remedy. to
be applied to the wound inflicted by q
rabid dog, is said to have been used
with great success in Leipsic, and to
some extent in this country: "Wash
the bite thoroughly with warm vinegar,
and then pour on it few drops of mu-
rate acid"
"A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says a good application OF
two or three bushels of blacksmith
cinders spread around fruit trees, par
ticularly pears, not only keeps down
the grass, but affords some principle
which gives health and vigor to the
growth of the trees.
Cold starch shouid not be made too
stiff, or undissolved portions will ad-
here TO the garments. If of the right
consistency, the article will look as If
wrung ont of water. Roll tightly, and
let it lie for two houls. It will then
iron as easily as if boiled starch had
been used, and take much less.
Dusty carpets may be cleaned by
setting pail of cold water out by the
door, wet the broom in it, knock 1t to
get off the drops, sweep a yard or so,
and sweep again, being careful to shake
all the drops off the broom and not
sweep far at time. Change the water
once or twice during the process.
Moistered corn-meal sprinkled over the
carpet and swept off is used with good
effect by some housekeepers.
1t would be a great convenience if
farmers generally would have theil
names printed upon the gates in
front of their residences. Strangers
often have much difficulty in finding
the residence of persons of whom they
are in search, which would be obviated
by this course. Besides, a nice gate,
with the name of the occupants, adds
greatly TO the appearance of a place,
and looks as though the inmates were
not isolated from the outside world.
No better advice can be given a
famer or fruit-Prower, a dairyman or a
stock breeder, than to make an effort
to establish a reputation for producing
some special product in perfection-to
get his name known in the market as
sending thither the best product of its
class, always of uniform quality and
superior excellence-to make his brand
an index, we'll known to all buyers, of
the article or animal furnished. This
is the effort of all ambitious manufac-
turtles, and it paws well in the beginning
and largely in the end.
The sun should never be allowed to
shine on butter or a package containing
butter. More butter is injured from
the farm house to the village store and
in transportation by the careless, un-
thinking or willful parties than from
all other causes combined. The farmer
has an easy and effectual remedy, an
old umbrella for a shade, green grass or
wet fannels, or any other substitute
whereby a rapid evaporation can be Cf-
fected for the cooling arrangement, and
You can carry your butter for miles to
market in good condition.
1t may not have occurred to any
one-at all events it is not rotfced in
any of our treatises on practical phar-
macy-that the easiest way to take out
a stopper which has become fixed in
the neck of a bottle is to reverse the
motion given to it when putting it in
that is, to knock the stopper from right
to left. In most instances when a stop
per is fixed without the intervention of
an adhesive substance it is by turning
it as one would dive a screw. The di
rectiOn is almost invariably from left
to right, and thus a thread is formed
which is easier to follow backward than
to break. The trouble with which the
removal of shoppers is usually attended
must form my apology for introducing
a suggestion of so little apparent i'm
portance.