The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13
AgrlcuIturaI and Domestic.

week before breakfast.
 NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATIsN.- = Two tablespoonfuls each of beefs, l laudanum, spirits of turpentine, hem lock oil, sassafras oil and amber oil, half pint alcohol; mix all together. Apply three or four times day. SAssArRAs MEAD.-Four pounds brown sugar, one quart molasses, one fourth pound tartaric acid, three quarts boiling water; stir well to- gether; let stand over night; strain thro' cloth, then add one and half ounces essence of sassafras; bottle 1t. To RECOVER LOST VoIcE.-Beat the white of'one egg, add to it the juice of one lemon, and swceten with white sugar to taste. Dose, one tea spoonful from time to time. It has been known effectually to cure the ailment.
 MANGoEs.-Take green muskmel- ons and squash peppers before they become red; take out the seeds and put them in salt and water over night; then fill them with onions chopped fine, horse-raddish scraped fine, mustard seed and cloves; sew them up, and put them into vinegar.
 A dimes worth of pulverized bo- rax, dissolved thoroughly in a pint of water. Cleanse the head, espe- cially the partings, once week, afterward rinsing with cold water. Will keep the head very clean, and impart glossy look to the hair, es- pecially if each application is follow ed by vigorous brushing.
 CoRN-MEAL BIscuIT.-Make good corn meal mush, just as if you were going to eat it with milk. When it is lukewarm take quart of it, work in four enough to make into biscuits, put in bakepan and set in a warm place over night; bake in very hot oven, and you have the best and sweetest biscuits you ever ate. Eat while hot for breakfast.
 The Journal of Chemistry, says that hot alum water is the best in sect destroyer known. Put the alum water on the fire and let It boil till all the alum is dissolved, then apply it hot with a brush to all cracks, closets, bedsteads and other places where any insects are found. Ants, bedbugs, cock-roaches, and creeping things are killed by it; while it has no danger of poisoning the family, or injuring the property.
 CoRNs AND WARTs.--For more than a year preceding last August l was sorely afflicted with large corn on my foot and also wart on my hand. 1 hit upon plan for both. It was a simple application of nick ory ashes and strong cider vinegar sufficient to moisten. 1 kept it on 30 hours. The application was then renewed far 30 hours more, when found all pain had ceased, being en- tirely destroyed.-Country Gedtle- man.
 STUFFED ToMAToEs.--Cut thin slice from the upper part of smooth, ripe tomato; do not peel; take out all of the inside and chop it first; fry very little chopped onion in some butter, and when it is turning yellow add the chopped tomato and few fine bread-crumbs; stir well season with salt, pepper, and little chopped parsley-both this and the onions can be omitted if not liked. Simmer q minute and i'll the tomato with the mixture. Place it in pan fit each top on its own tomato and bake for an hour or until a light brown.
 BRANDED PEAcuEs.-To every pound ofpeeled peaches add pound of sugar ard gill of white brandy; make a syrup of the sugar, add only enough water to dissolve 1t, let it come to boil, then put the fruit in and let it boil 5 minutes; remove the fruit carefully, then let the syrup boil 15 or 20 minutes longer until 1t thickens; add the brandy and take the kettle at once from the fire; pour the hot syrup over the fruit, and seal at once. If, after the peaches have been removed, a reddish liquor oozes from them, drain this off be- fore adding the clear syrup. Put up in glass jars that have been rolled in hot water. The peaches should not be overtime, White cling stones