South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-07-21

Farmer and House Keeper.
q To cleanse woodwork, save the tea
leaves for few days. then steep them
in tin pail or pan for half an hour.
strain through solve and use the tee
TO wash all vanished paint. IL requires
very little ''clbow polish, ~ the tea acts
as strong detergent, cleansing tho
paint from all impurities, and making
the varnish equal toxpsw. It cleans
window sashes and oiCcloahs; indeed.
any vanished surface Is improved nv
its application. Il washes window
panes and mirrors much better than va.
Ter and Is excellent for cleaning black
walnut picture aud looking glass frames.
1t will not do to wash unvarnished
paint with it. Whiting in uneaualed
for cleaning white paint. Take small
quantity on damp flannel. rub lightly
over the surface. and you will be sur
prised at its effects.
GIVE THEM Cold WArER.--It 10 very
doubtful if there is Q single possible dis
ease in which the patient should not
have cold water at G5itum. o, how
little babes often suffer for cold water
A nursing baby is given, no matter how
thirsty. nothing but milk. The little
lips are dry and cracked. and the little
tongue is 30 parchcd that it can scarcely
nurse. and yet it has nothing but milk
to assuagc its craving thirst. Try il
yourself, mother, when you have fever.
and we are sure that ever after, when
your darling is dying with thirst, the
teaspoon and tumbler OF cold water will
be in constant use. Deny IL milk and
give it plenty Of cold water, and il has
n chance of speedy recovery.
A VALUABLE RECIPE. AT tho request
Of a correspondent tho New York Jour
formula of the socalied "Sun cholera
mixture" which many years ago proved
SO efficacious. The following is the pre-.
scription: Tinct. opii. tinct cspsici.-
tinct. rhei CO., tinct. menth pip, tinct.
campho. Mix equal parts each. In
plain English. it consists of equal partsof
tincture Of opium, red pepper. rhubsrb.
peppermint and camphor, and the Jour
nal says IL is the best remedy extant for
summer complaint, diarrhea, cramps in
the bowels and similar ailments, and af.
fords almost instant relief. The dose is
from three to ten drops for q child. &C.
cording to age. and ten to thirty drops
for an adult according TO the severity
of the attack. -Bahimore Sun.
Hoo CHoLEA.-Thc Patrons Hefper
is furnished the following recipe by n
friend 81 have remedy for hog chol-
era which has been often tried, and
never failed. II is raw beef. was
brought to think OF it by hearing that ~
physician had cured dysentery by Civ.
ing tho patient raw beef to eat. Z rc.
fectcd that the hog like man. was car
nivorous but that In domestication he
had nothing but vegetable food. had
several hogs sick with the cholera at
the time, all Off their feet, and some
dying / welt to butcher and got
some fresh beef, cut it up and fed it to
them. They ate It like hungry wolves
and recovered. Afterward / gave the
remedy to several neighbors, and al.
ways with good results; aud in Cass
county, H., where then resided, IL has
become the established remedy, ono
large breeder even being accustomed to
slaughter beef and throw the carcass
into his feed lot when his hogs were at
tackled"
WHAT TIE BIRDS ACCOMPLISH. The
swallow, swift and nighthawk are the
guardians Of the atmosphere. They
check tho increase OF insects that other.
wise would overload il. woodpeckcrs.y
crcepers and chickadoes are the guar
dams OF the trunks Of trees. warbiers
& 6ycatchers protect the foliage. Black.
birds, thrushes. crows and larks protect
the surface Of the soil. Snipe & wood
cock the soil under the surface. Each
tribe has its respective duties 70 perform
in the economy Of nature and il il an
undoubted fact that, IL the birds were
all swept off from the earth, man could
not live upon IL, vegetation would with.
er and die, insects would become so nu.
merous that no living thing could with.
stand their attacks. The Wholesale de.
struction occasioncd by the grasshop.
pers, which have lately devastated tho
West. is undoubtedly caused by the
thinning out Of the birds, such as grouse,
prairie hens, etc, which feed upon them.
The great and inestimable service done
TO the farmer, gardener and florist by
the birds is only becoming known by
sad experience. Spare the birds and
save your fruit the little corn and fruit
taken by them is more than compensa-
ted by the vast quantities Of noxious in.
sects destroyed. The long prosecuted
crow has been found, by actual expert.
ment. TO do far more good by the vast
quantity Of grubs and insects he devours
than the little harm ho does in a few
grains Of corn he pulls up. lie is one
Of the farmers best friends.
R.Rriuham Young smoke a few