The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-11-22

so many glasses of water, he is here in
structed to eat just so many punches of
grapes, and no more. 1t is assumed to
be dangerous to go beyond the doctors
prescription single grape. As strange
as 1t may appear the invalids expert
ence the best of good effects from the
"raisin cure" or at least think that
they do, and go away very well sat
isfed.
Another popular treatment is found
at the mud-baths, of Schwaback and
other places, where the patients are
immersed in soft black mud up to their
chin, and remain in the bath for some
hours. Most of them have floating
tables before them upon which they
keep books, cigars, and refreshments,
according to the tastes of the patients.
After remaining over two or three hours
in the mud-bath one is washed off with
. hose-pipe and put into tepid bath.
The operation is continued the next
morning, and is repeated until the pa
tient is cured or tired.
EGG-PREsERvING PICKLE RECIPE
An agent of the Rural Press reports
the following: Three quarts lime, table
spoonful cream tartar, one cupful salt,
and water enough to fill five-gallon
can, after seventeen dozen eggs have
been carefully placed within the can.
To'the water add the other ingredients,
stir up well and pour it on the eggs,
and keep them in cool place entirely
covered by the pickle. The lady sub
scriber who furnishes the above keeps
her eggs perfectly sweet with the above
treatment, and by special request, after
writing the above recipe, she boiled
me an egg that had been in pickle for
four months,sand I found it perfectly
sweet and free from all shadow Of
faint or any objection Of any kind, and
would trust them fully as soon as the
freshest eggs in any Of our markets.
She usually gets the highest price Of
fresh eggs, and does not sell till they
are about fifty cents dozen.
| THEquestion of establishing the head.
quarters of the State grange on farm,
and having in connection school for
young farmers, is being received with
; favor in the State of Indiana. The
Indiana Farmer on this subject says
"We should consider that the churches
are all getting their schools Of learning;
the lawyers and doctors have theirs,
and the Importance of agricultural
schools in developing the great princi.
pies Of agriculture, and of teaching
the science, which above all else ele.
Yates it and creates love for it, should
not be neglected
THE SEA MousE.-The sea mouse
is one Of the prettiest creatures tha,
lives under water. 1t sparkles like a
diamond and is radiant with all the
colors Of the rainbow, although it lives
in mud at the bottom of the ocean. Il
should not be called mouse, for it is
larger than big rat. It is covered
with scales that move up and down as
it breathes, and glitter like gold shining
through Aeecy down, from which fine
silky bristles wave, that constantly
change from one brilliant tint to another
so that, as Cuvier, the great naturalist
says, the plumage Of the humming
bird is not more beautiful.
THERE is no better time than now.
Buy such trees as you want, aRd then
heel them into the ground (by covering
the roots with soil, and leaving the tops
out in a standing position.) Leave
them in this manner until the ground
is warm in the spring; then, having the
ground properly prepared, plant youl
trees, and they will grow right ahead.
Don't plant too early in the spring.
Wait till the ground is warm. But
have your trees bought and heeled in
the ground now, and if not now, very
early in the spring.-Oin. Gazette.
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