The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-24
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.


gnawed by rats, anoint it with castor
oil.
HONEY to be kept from souring should
be placed in a dry room. A room in
chamber is best.
To detect sulphuric acid in vine gar,
put in n little starch then add a minute
portion of iodine. If sulpburic acid be
present, the starch will take a blue
tint.
DIAMOND cement, for glass or china,
is nothing more than isinglass boiled in
water to the consistence of cream, With
small portion of rectified spirit added
1t must be warmed when used.
IRON may be cemented in wood by
dropping in the recess prepared in the
latter a small quantity of strong solu-
ton of sal ammoniac. This causes the
iron to rust, rendering it very difficult
to extract.
To cure summer complaint, take
about two tablespoonful of grated
comfrey root and the white of one egg,
beaten we'll together, then have ready
pint of boiling milk. into which stir the
comfrey and egg. 1t will thicken like
pap, and is not unpleasant to take.
M. LILLE strongly recommends the use
of bread mixed with sea-water in cases
of disease arising from poverty of blood,
for convalescents recovering from acute
diseases, and for healthy persons of
delicate constitution. The water must
be genuine sea-water, not the sea salt OF
commerce in water.
A WONDERING cement of great tenac-
ity, useful to fastening plates of glass
so as to exclude air, is formed by add
ing freshly slaked lime 10 double its
weight of India rubber, and heating 20
| about 400 degrees Fahrenheit, when the
rubber will be converted into a glutin-
GUS mass.
If marble is soiled by grease, pipe
clay mixed to a paste with water, spread
over the stain and allowed to dry and
remain for several days after it is dry
may be of use, but it is a very difficult
matter to remove grease or any other
substance that has entered the pores of
material of such close texture as
marble.
AN excellent liquid glue is made by
dissolving hard glue in nitric ether.
The ether will take up only a certain
amount of the glue, SO that the solution
cannot be made too thick. If a few
bits of pure India rubber. cut into
scraps the size of buckshot, be added,
the mixture will, when dry, resist damp
ness to a considerable degree.
To make California beer, take a good,
sound Irish potato, say the size of a
large hens egg, and CRATE it fine. Then
take quart of rain water, and sweeten
with molasses, put the grated potato in
the water and set away. In a few days
the seed will begin to grow and make
good beer. A very small quantity of
the seed will make a large jug of beer.
DID ii ever occur to any of our read
ers that it takes more feed to make a
pound of beef than pound of butter :?
A good COW in milk, well cared for, will
make two hundred pounds Of butter in
season. worth from sixty to seventy
dollars, but dry COW, with same feed,
will not gain as much weight in the
| same time, nor will she be worth as
much as butter from the dairy cow-and
the milk is left. An acquaintance of
mine is fattening an OK, aud in sixty
days he had fed him 900 pounds of meal
at cost of SIS, with only 100 pounds
| gain in weight.
| A GREAT many accidents are happen
ing every day from the use of kerosene.
I will tell you a method by which they
can be to great extent prevented, and
hope you will publish it for the benefit
of poor people who are obliged to buy
cheap oils. If the body of the lamp is
filed with cotton, such as jewellers use
to wrap their articles in, after it is
stuffed lightly it will receive one half
the quantity of oil which it would if the
cotton were not put in. If any acci-
dent happens. the oil can not spill OF
| flow about, but is, as it were, sopped
upon the cotton, which burns like a
fagot, but all in one place.
| sTP AMAZE casa nf ia no.
ported from Stettin. A gentleman had
bought a hat in shop there, and after
having worn it one or two days was
troubled with unbearable headache. At
the same time little ulcers formed upon
his forehead, his eyes ware infamed,
and the whole of the upper part of his
head was much swollen. It was evident
that these symptoms were caused by
the hat, and upon examination by a
chemist it was found that the brown
leather in the inside Of the hat was col
ored with a poisonous aniline dye. 1t
appears that Inflammation is unavoida-
BILE when this dye is in contact with any
part of the skin.
CRACKED WHEAT.zFor- a .ni,s' OF
lJqreA'eea' gram, nave two quarts of water
fire; stir in the wheat slowly; boil fast
and constantly for the first half hour of
cooking, or until it begins to thicken
and "pop up" then lift it from
the quick fire, and place the pot
where. the wheat will cook slowly
for all honr longer. Keep it COW
cred closely, stir it now and then,
and be careful not to let it burn at the
bottom. Wheat cooked thus is much
better and richer than when left to soak
and simmer for hours, as many think
necessary. White wheat cooks the east
est. When ready to dish ont, have
your mold moistened with cold water,
cover lightly, and set in a cool place.
Eat warm or cold with milk or sugar.
EVERY housekeeper may not know of
what they are capable in the line of
keeping their tinware in order. For the
benefit of such I will say that it is
easier to solder such things than to pay
a travelling tinker two prices for mend
ing them. Take sharp knife and
scrape the tin around the leak until it is
bright, so that the solder will stick.
Then sprinkle on little powder resin
Cthey have liquid fiux to sell, but resin
will do just as welD lay your solder on
the hole. with your soldering iron melt
it on. Do not have the iron too hot, or
the solder will adhere to that. After
two or three trials you can do a job that
you will be proud of. If you do not
own soldering iron, procure one by all
means; but, when hard pressed, I have
used the knob on the end of the fire
shovel, or a smooth piece of iron, or
held candle under the spot to be
mended. Any thing is better than stop
ping leaking pans with beeswax or rags.
Try it, young housekeepers. and see
how independent you will feel. Your
pans should be dry when You take them
in hand.
WATERMELON CAKE.-Take one and a
half cupfuls of white sugar, the whites
of four fresh eggs, half n cupful of sour
milk, half cupful of butter, two cup
fuls of flour. Cream the butter and
sugar we'll together then add the milk,
with not quite half teaspoonful of
soda; Immediately aftetward stir in
little flour, then a little egg, and SO on
until ali the ingredients are added.