The Osceola times., 1875-12-11
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.


| CAsToR-oIL is an excellent thing to
soften leather.
| IF you are buying carpets for dura-
bility, choose small figures.
LEMON juice and glycerine will
cleanse and soften the hands.
| LUNAR caustic, carefully applied,
so rs not to touch the skin, will destroy
warts.
| If your fat-irons are rough, rub
them with fine salt, and it will make
them smooth.
| CHOW CHOW. One peek sliced
green tomatoes and cucumbers, on
ions, etc not emitting horse-radish !;
one ounce of broken cinnamon; three
quarters of a 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 i'm
mediately off the stove; it will be
better if it boils after the mustard
-four is added. Pack in jars and cover
well.
| BoTTLING 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 wont freeze
till February or March, then put it in
champagne bottles filed, drive the
corks and wire them. 1t should be
done in cellar or 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 gout. 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 slmilar 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 a certain
remedy, though not equally agreeable.
1t may he 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 favorite remedy.
Iodine is dangerous, however, in over
doses, affecting especially the eyes.
| The same effect may Reproduced by eat
ing abundantly of asparagus or celery,
which are well-known seaside plants.
| BUTTERMILK.--An eminent French
chemist, NJ. Rohbing, in a paper re-
Gently presented to the French Acad-
emy 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 stificn th,
different parts of the body, tending IL
render imperfect many Of the vita
processes. He compares human he
ings TO furnaces which are alway,
kindled, and says: Life exists onl,
= in combustion, but the combustion
, which takes places in our chimney
| leaves "A detritus which Is fatal to life
/ To remove this. would administe
Tactic acid with ordinary food. Thi
, acid is known to possess the power o
, removing or destroying incrusta,ion
= that form on the arteries, cartilagcs an,
valves of heart. As butter-mil
, abounds in this acid, and is moreover
1 an agreeable kind of food, It's habitua
: use, il is urged, will free the syster
1 from these causes of death, betwce
; the scventy-ffth and the hundret
r year."