Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-08-04
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

A SPECIFIC FOR HYDRoPHo BIA.--The
British ''Medical Journal" says:
Dr. Grzyvala, of Krivoe Ozero. Podolia,
for whose trustworthiness Prof. Gubler, of
Paris, vouches, declares that after series
of crucial trials, which he describes at
length, he has found that, after having
had opportunities of treating at least one
hundred cases ofmen bitten by rabid dogs
with the Xantl,iaNn spinos,tna, he has never
IN any one of these cases failed to ward off
hydrophobia. He gives some startling ex-
amples:
Dnring the Crimean war family of
twelve persons had been bitten by an hydro
phobic wolf. Six of them entered his wards
IN the hospital of Olschanka, government
of Podolia, district of Balta. They were
treated with infusion of the leaves of the
Xanthiuna, and all recovered. The six
others, who were treated by the actual
cautery and the daily use of Genista tj9c-
toria and other drugs, died with hydroph0-
bia in the course Of twelve to sixty days.
He recounts many other facts not less
striking. For an adult the dose is sixty
.centigrammes of the dry powder repeated
three times day and continued during
six weeks. Children under IL take half
that quantity. The dose for animals is
much larger. A herd of thirty oxen had
been. bitten by a mad wolf Eight had
succumbed with symptoms of hydropho-
bla. The Commissary of Police came to
DR.. Grzyvala for his '''anti-rabic powders
He gave three ounces of the powder, with
bran, daily to each of the animals. None
of them suffered from the disease.
These are examples of which DR.. Cry
vala says he has hundred Others Fgat
erperinaentuna. We have heard too often
of specifics for hydrophobia not to regard
this last claimant with sorrowful suspi-
cion. But the herb is, at least, a harmless
one. Its ordinary properties seem to be
mainly strong sudorifc; and since ami
mails suffering from rabies are only too fire.
quently at hand, and the remedy is one
which grows plentifully in the middle re-
gions of France as well as Podolia, let us
hope that our French colleagues will lose
no time in putting this prophylactic to the
test.
PICKED PEACHEs.-Pick out the larg-
est and fairest of clingstone peaches, rub
all the down off with coarse towel, fill
your steamer, and place over kettle of
boiling water for fifteen minutes. Some
peaches require more time, some less.
Steam them until they can BE- easily pune
tured with fork, but not till they begin
to crack open; take them off, and as you
place them in an earthen jar, stick three or
four cloves in each one. When the jar is
full, pour over them boiling vinegar spiced
with pounded cinnamon tied in a muslin
bag; they need a light weight to prevent
them from rising to the surface. In a
week they are ready for use. These are to
eat with meat for breakfast and dinner.
To have them little nicer, add pint of
sugar to every quart of vinegar while boil
ing, and more spice, if desired, and pour
over the same as before.
A CHEAP ROLLER.-A correspondent of
the american Rural Home" gives the
following directions for making a cheap
roller:
Take log two feet through; saw four
blocks twenty-five inches long; bore them
through the centre with an inch and
half augur; make them round; put through
hem a shaft of round iron one inch and
quarter in diameter. Then make frame
put of fonr by four scantling with two
POSTS eight inches long in the centre for
The shaft to rest in. Then a brace from
zach corner goes down to the bottom of the
POSTS and brace goes through the bolt and
haft, and the blocks roll on the shaft. It
IAN be turned around as easily as two
wheels of wagon. The tongue bolts on
he top of the frame.
CAULFLOwER PICKLE.-Select the
choicest and whitest flowers, pull them in
spread them on earthen dishes,
prinkle salt on them; in three days put
hem in earthen jars, pour scalding salt
water on them; let them stand six or eight
lours, drain them carefully; then put them
n glass cans, cover with vinegar and seal
Up tightly. Elder flowers and buds add
'ery high flavor to pickle and horseradish.
either the leaves or the root will keep
'ickles from holding.
PLUM OR CRAB-APPLE CATsUP.-
This catsup forms one of the best of rel
she's, and should be more generally on
he table. At this season it may pc put
Up to advantage. The recipe is three
pounds of fruit, a pound and three quar-
ers of sugar, a quart of vinegar, table
poonful of cloves, the same of pepper and
innamon, and teaspoonful of salt. Scald
he fruit, rub through the colander, then
nix all together, and boil until it is abou t
ike jam.
To CAN RAsPBERRIEs.--Fill the can
ull of the berries, set them in a boiler of
old water, and bring the water to the
oiling point. AS the berries settle, add
aore till the juice reaches the top of the
an, then seal. In this way the syrup is
with water. Or put the berries
n stewpan with little water, let them
'oil four or five minutes, dip into cans and
cal up.
SPANISH FRITTERs.-To one pint of
milk add two beaten eggs, two tablespoon
uls of sugar, and a little salt. Cut loaf
r other light bread in pretty thick slices,
ooly in tho ouctard ood fru o,, q buttorod