Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-27
RECIPES, ETC.

-Carbolic acid soap-suds will destroy
worms in flowers.
Soldering Liquid. This is made by
taking hydrochloric acid quarter Of a
pint, granulated tin one and half
ounces Dissolve, and add some common
solder and hydrochlorate of ammonia.
Common salt saturated with lauda-
anum is said to be an infallible cure for
burns; allaying all pain almost instantly
and causing the sore to heal with mar
velous celebrity
Why, when good soup or broth is re-
quired, should the meat be put into cold
water? Because, as the heat is developed
very gradually, there occurs an inter-
mixture between the juices of the flesh
| and the external matter. The soluble and
savory parts of the meat escape and en-
rich the soup.
-Aniline red is used to impart to
sausages fresh and healthy appearance
1t can easily be detected by the tie of
alcohol or ether, either of which sub
stances dissolves aniline but not blood.
The use of aniline is severely reprehen-
sible, not only from the fact that it is
known to have caused the illness of en-
with it, but also because from it's mode
of preparation it frequently contains ar
senic, and must, therefore, act as poi
son.-Erchange.
In addition to the fact that ice is
lighter than water, there is another curl
Gus thing about it which many persons
do not perhaps know-namely, its purity.
A lump of ice melted will become dis
titled water. Water, in freezing, turns
out of it all that is not water-salt air,
coloring matter and all impurities
Frozen sea-water makes fresh-water ice.
If you freeze basin of indigo-water, it
will make ice as clear and as white as
pure rain-water When the cold is very
sudden these foreign matters have no
time to escape either by rising or sink
ing, and are thus entangled with the ice,
but do not make any part of it.-Populdr
Science Monthly.
TO get tight ring off finger,
thread a needle fiat in the eye with strong
thread, pass the head of the needle with
care under the ring, and pull the thread
through a few inches toward the hand !;
wrap the long end of the thread tightly
around the finger, regularly all down to
the nail, to reduce its size. Then lay
hold of the short end of the thread and
unwind it. The thread pressing against
the ring will gradually remove it from
the finger. This neverfailing method
will remove the tightest ring without
difficulty, however much swollen the
finger may be.-Rural Neao Yorker.
Defeat for Herculean Butter-The
victim of the average boarding house
n u ~ l,a, 4
of the most heartrending strength can be
made as sweet as a rose by the simplest
and cheapest kind of chemical treat
ment The addition of fifty-five drops of
the liquor of chloride of lime to a quart
of water makes purifying bath for five
pounds of the butter in question. The
butter, however, must remain in the mix
| ture two hours, and then be washed
twice in clear water, once in milk, and
have a little salt added. -Neso York
G7uphtc.
How They Get Horse Up When
horse falls down fourteen men put
their hands In their pockets and ask each
other why they don't do something Fiji
teen other men advise the driver until he
is half mad, and two small boys stand by
with their hands clasped and an expires.
sion of determination written on every
lineament. Then several men ask why
somebody don't hold his head, until one
old gentleman volunteers to hold it. He
steps forward calmly, bends over the
PROSTATE animal, and puts one hand
gently on his ear. The horse, getting
tired, raises his head suddenly, the
crowd laugh, and the old gentleman seems
to take no further interest in the pro-
ceedngs. Then the horse, having had
all the fun he can have, rises like tidal
wave, and the crowd disperses Forest
and Stream.