The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

CHOW Grow. One peek sliced
green tomatoes and cucumbers. on
ions, etc, not emitting horse-radish !;
quarters of pound of mustard seed,
one pound of ground mustard. After
slicing the above, put them in stone
Jar with salt between each layer, and
let it stand twenty-four hours then
drain off the water, put it in porce-
lain-lined kettle, cover with vinegar
and boil fifteen minutes. Wet the
ground mustard with cold vinegar and
stir it in the last thing; then take In
mediately off the stove; it will be
better if it boils after the mustard
-four is added. Pack in jars and cover
well.
BoTrLING CIDER.-A writer in the
New England Farmer gives this adj
vice to bottle cider that will keep sweet
and fine for years: Leach and filter
the cider through pure sand, after it
has worked and fermented and before
it has soured. Put no alcohol or Other,
substance with it. Be sure that the
vessels you put it in are perfectly clean
and sweet. After it is leached or FL
tered put it in barrels or casks filed,
leaving no room for air; bung them
tight, and keep it where it won't freeze
till February or March, then put it in
champagne bottles filed, drive the
corks and wire them. 1t should be
done in cellar OF room that is COM
Portable to work in. The best cider is
late made, or when it is as cold as can
| be and not freeze.
MEDICAL VALUE OF ASPARAGUS AND
CELERY.-A medical correspondent
says that the advantages of asparagus
are not appreciated by those who suffer
with rheumatism and govt. Slight
cases of rheumatism are cured in a
few days by feeding on this delicious
| esculent and more chronic cases are
much relieved, especially if the patient
avoids all acids, whether in food or in
beverage. The Jerusalum artichoke
| also has similar effect in relieving
rheumatism. The heads may be eaten
in the usual way; but tea made from
the leaves of the stalk, and drank
three or four times day, is certain
| remedy, though not equally agreeable.
1t may be well to remark that most
plants which grow naturally near the
| sea coast contain more or less iodine,
| and in all rheumatic complaints iodine
| has long since been a favoritc remedy.
Iodine is dangerous, however, in over.
doses, affecting especially the eyes.
The same effect may be produced by eat
ing ahundantly of asparagus or celery,
which are well-known seaside plants.
BUTTERMILK.-An eminent French
chemist, NJ. Rofbing, in paper re-
Gently presented to the French Acad-
envy announcing his belief that the
| period of human existence may be
greatly prolonged, and enters into an
argument to show that his belief is
based upon sound reasoning. His
argument is that the mineral matter
which constitutes an ingredient in most
of our food, after the combustion, is in
our system to incrust and stiffen the
different parts of the body, tending tc
render imperfect many of the vita
processes. He compares human be
ings to furnaces which are always
kindled, and says: "Life exists only
in combustion, but the combustion
which takes places in our chimneys
| leaves detritus which Is fatal to life.
To remove this. l would administer
Tactic acid with ordinary food. This
acid is known TO possess the power Of
removing or destroying incrustation:
that form on the arteries, cartilages and
valves of heart. As ,butter-miiR
abounds in this acid, and is moreover
an agreeable kind of food, its habitua,
use, it is urged, will free the system
from these causes of death, betweer
the seventy-fifth and the hundretl
year"