The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-09

DOMESTIC MATTERS.


| 1t is said that drops prepared as follows
will cure the worst case of toothache ever
known: One ounce OF alcohol two drains
Cayenne pepper, one ounce Kerosene oil let
II stand twenty-four hours after mixing.
Scald flannel before making, as 1t shrinks
in the first washing. This shrinking is
usually caused by using too much soap and
washing them in too cold water. Never
use soda for fiannels.
| when white marble is stained, apply
benzole to the stain and then carefully rub
1t on with a very clean soft piece of rag.
| Repeat until the stain disappears. Soap and
soda both iDjure white marble.
| A lady in the Christian Monitor saws that
when ii is necessary to break a bottle, the
quickest way Is to soak string in turpen-
| tine and tie it around the neck OF the bottle,
then set fire to the string, snd 1t will break
in good shape.
To extract ink from cotton, silk and
wooden goods, saturste the spots with spirits
of turpentine, and let 1t remain several
hours; then rubit between the hands. 1t
| will crumble away without injuring either
the color or texture of the article.
To remove grease, iron rust, and stains
| from cloth, the best method is to saturste the
spot with benzine, which Is solvent for both
grease and printers ink, and then cover the
| spot thickly with powdered French chalk,
which will absorbit.
| A method has been discovered for making
more than the usual quantity of tea from
tpy given quantity of the leaf. The whole
secret consists in stesming the leaf before
sleeping. BY this process fourteen pints OF
good quality may be brewed from one
ounce of tea.
For making good molasses cake the fol-
lowing is recon- mended: Half pint of mo-
lssses, teaspoonful of soda, cup of sweet
milk, IA tsblespoopfuls of flour, 3 eggs, tea
cupful of melted butter, teaspoonful each
of cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg,
| tablespoonful of ginger, lemon. Dissolve
the soda in the molasses; beat the eggs; put
the eggs, milk and molasses with soda) to-
gether; add the melted butter, spices, flour,
and lemon; bake in small scallop pans.
| When perfectly dry autumn leaves can be
worked up in a great many pretty devices.
Wresths may be made that can only be told
rom paintings by the torch, by pssting
| them neatly upon white card board with
| common mucilage or gum arabic. These
pictures can be framed in rustic work, and
| should always be covered with glass to pro-
T! tect them from injury. Mats can be made
| in the same way, and wreaths to hang upon
| the wall or to encircle a picture frame, as
| well as bouquets for the mantel or bracket.
To make strong white paste, dissolve two
| and one half ounces of gum arabic in two
quarts of water and stir it into one pound of
wheat -four until the whole becomes of a
pasty consistency. It is then to be heated,
| and one and one-halt ounces each of sugar
| of lead and alum dissolved In a little water
added thereto, and the composition well
u
| it must be removed from the fire. Add while
hot six drops of carbolic acid. This is very
tenacious and durable paste, and may be
used on almost any substance.
Somebody thinks that the following will
make extra bircuits, and the receipt is
worth trying: 1pilt of milk, l cup of yeast,
| u pound of butter and lard mixed, egg,
teaspoonful of salt, teaspoonful of sugar: ;
| -four sufficient to make a rather stiff batter
In the evening seald the milk. When 1t is
cold, add the yeast, and stir. Put in the
| -four, and set away to rise. In the morning
add butter and lard. Mix them thoroughly
| in the sponge, then add egg, salt and sugar.
Let this rise until it is very light. Mold the
biscuit without much flour. and fiat them
down in the pan.
| A correspondent Of the Practical Farmer
has not found a machine capable of properly
distributing the lighter and more chaffy
grass seeds, such 80 blue grass. He, there
fore, still clings to hand sowing, and he does
| c IS follows: The course which now pur-
| sue is thoroughly to mix one part ofthe seed
| with one part of coarse, sharp sand, or fine
| gravel, the sharper the better, aud moisten
| the mass, carefully manipulating it until the
seeds and chaff are well separated and caused
to adhere to the rough particles of sand. The
J weighty sand thus becomes an effective vehi-
| Gle with which 10 distribute the bouyant
seed, which by moisture is made to adhere
to the sand.
| CLEANSE THE MANeER.-The managers OF
horses, cows and oxen, when supplied with
cut fodder and meal, frequently become Of
fensively sour in consequence of the
decomposition OF the wet meal that adheres
apt 70 be the case, especially when animals
do not lick the corners entirely clean. If a
lowed to remain in the manger
only portion of warm day, it
| will become sour, and the Of
so that an animal will often refuse to cat his
| accustomed allowance, unless compelled by
keen hunger. The true way to manage man
| gers Is to scrape the corners clean at least
twice per day, removing every particle OF re-
| jected food. Then if the mauger docs not
smell as butter bowl, let the corners be
washed out with hot water, wiped clean, and
a handful of csustic, Stacked lime be
sprinkled in the manger. If managers are
kept clean they will seldom become often
sively sour Ii an animal leaves q portion
of his feed, new mess should never be
given on the rejected feed.-New York Her
aid.
| SEED CORN The Des Moines Register thus
speaks of an important subject to the
| farmer. Most farmers save at the suitahle
tiue their seed corn. But is it safe this
winter7 Farmers should look to this ques-
ton, and should also know why and what
care it needs. The analysis of corn shows
| that it contains, when dry enough to grind,
about fifteen per cent. of water. This is its
salient point. So large per cent of water
renders it liable to the destruction OF its
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