The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-20
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
MISSISSIPPI Corn BREAD.-One pint
butter-milk, two eggs, one pint Indian
meal, two tablespoons melted butter,
little salt, one teaspoon soda.
To TAKE OUT IRON RUsT.-OXalic
acid will take out rust or any other
stain out of white goods. Dissolve a
small quantity of boiling water, and
dip the spots in.
BEE OR WASP STINGs.-Wet some cut
tobacco and lay on the sting. In five
minutes it is cured. Always keep cut
tobacco in the house, for such emergen-
cies. It is invaluable and sure.
To REMOVE INK FROM FURNITURE
Wipe the spot with oxalic acid let it
remain few minutes, then rub it with
cloth wet with warm water. Colored
paint, mahogany and carpets will re-
quire washing with hartsholn-water to
restore the original color.
To PRESERVE CHEESE FROM INSECTS
Cover the cheese while whole with a
pastemade of wheat -four, then wrap a
cloth and keep it in a tight box, so that
1t will not get fy-blOwn. Cheese that
has shippers in it, if kept till cold
weather, will become free from them.
To EXTRACT SUBSTANCES FROM THE
NOsTRILs.-When a child has any sub
stance wedged in its nostrils, press the
vacant nOstril so as 10 close it, and ap-
ply your lips close to the child's mouth
and blow very hard. This method will
gen rally force the substance out of the
nOstril.
LIP SALvE.-Dissolve a small lump
of white sugar in a large spoonful of
rose water; common water may be sub
stituted mix it with couple of large
spOOnfuls of sweet oil, piece of sper-
maceti of half of the size of a butter
nut. Simmer the whole eight or ten
minutes.
STAINS FROM BRoADCLoTH.-Take an
ounce of pipe-clay, ground fine, mix it
with twelve drops of alcohol, and the
same quantity of spirits of turpentine
Whenever you wish to remove stains
from broadcloth, moisten small por-
ton of this mixture with alcohol, rub
it off with a wooden cloth, and the spot
will disappear.
BLACKrG FOR HARNESS. four
ounces of mutton sUet with twelve
ounces beeswax add iwelve ounces SUI
gar candy, four ounces soft soap dis
solved in water, and two ounces indigo
finely poV deTed. When melted and
well mixed, add half pint of turpen-
tine. Lay it on the harness with a
sponge, and polish off with brush.
SUPERIOR MODE OF BOILING POTATOES.
Put them in a pot, with Just sufficient
water to cover them, leaving off the
lid of the pot. When the water be-
comes scalding hot, without boiling,
turn it off and replace it with cold wa.
ter, add ng salt. The cold water sends
the heat from the surface to the heart
of the potato, rendering it mealy.
When potatoes are old, they should be
pared previous to boiling them.
HINT FOR DYsPEPTICs.- When victims
of dyspepsia take camphor to allay
headache, they introduce into their
systems a nervous stimulant. the phvs-
biological effect of which is to infiame
the mucous lining of the stomach and
cause liberation there. Large quanti-
ties produce congestion, convulsion,
and death, like immodeIate doses of |
alcohol or opium. Plainly, then, dys-
peptics should be particularly temper
ate with camphor.
To CURE DOGS ADDICTED TO KILLING
SHERP.-Take of beefsteak sixteen
ounces 'strychnia four scruples. Di-
vide the beefsteak, or L" tit bit" into
sixteen pieces; take a sharp penknife |
and make a small incision into each of |
them into the Orifce thus made insert |
One-sixteenth part of the above guam |
tity OG strYchnia (Which will amount to |
five grains), drop few of these medica- |
ted "tit-bits" on the outside of the |
sheep-pen, as near the the tracks of the
"bow-wOw" as possible. A dog with
five grains of strychnia in his stomach
was never known to neddle with NUT
ton, or ever again disturb the SAUNDERS
of any one by virtue of dog melody.
DURABLE INK FOR MARKING LINEN
Dissolve a couple OF drachms of lunar
causic, half an ounce of gum arabic,
in gill of rain water. Wet the arti-
cles in the place where they are to be
marked with strong saleratus water
let them get perfectly dry, then iron
AAAtI1 SlLluO-h. lLS Itdb VI lllS 1TOn
will turn them a dark yellow, as if
scorched. Washing will efface it, but it
shOul1 not be done II after the mark
ing is thoroughly dry place it in the
sun or near the fire. The ink should
be kept in a small vial; the water will
evaporate when it is kept long. In
such a case add more water, and shake
1t up we'll in the bottle when you wish
to use 1t.
FAT MEAT FOR CoNsUMPTIvEs. "A
taste for fat meat is unfortunely not
universal among children, but when it
shows itself it is often universally re-
pressed by parents. This taste is an
other expression of the wants of the
living system which We can not disre-
gard with impunity. Without fats the
organism can not be huilt up in perfec-
tiOn. Fats cOunteract the tendency to
consumption. Observation has estab-
hshed the fact that persons who in
early life show a taste for fat meat sell
dom fall victims to that disease and,
gicC UerSd, tlat consumptives have
generally shown an early repugnance
to such food. There can be no ques-
ton as to the lesson taught by this fact
that when the appetite exists it ought
to be INDUCED, and that it ought, if
possible, to be created, when wanted,
by tonics, and abundant exercise in the
open air.
New THEORY OF CoLOR-Prof Foods
demonstrations of the new theory of
color, in the Popular Science Monthly,
are of great interest. The old theory
of the three primary colors-red, yell
low and blue-as Is well known, has
been overthrow by Young and Helm
holtz. The new theory is based on
physiology. There are in the retina of
the eve three sets of nerves, it is alleged,
which are adapted for the production
of the sensations, which are called red,
green, and violet. When the red nerve
and the green nerve are excited both at
once We get a sensation of yellow; when
the green and violet nerves are excited
simultaneously it gives a feeling of
blue: when all three are irritated to-