The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-12
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HOUSEHOLD AND FARM.
Useful Items.


brush when quite warm, will drive
away nearly all kinds of vermin.
RELIEF FOR NEURALGIA If Suf-
ferer will use oil Of peppermint
not essence--for neuralgia, he will
have speedy relief; apply with a
camePs hair brush, or the tip of your
finger. r
To DRIVE OFF RHEUMATISM. If
"Sufferer" will take two or three
Russian baths per week, using cold
water freely, and diet himself; that
is, eat or drink nothing that disagrees
with his constitution, rheumatism
will be stranger TO him.
CooKIEs.-Three eggs, three cups
of sugar, one cup butter or lard, one
cup sour cream (buttermilk will dol,
one teaspoonful salaratus, season to
taste. Save n little sugar to put on
the top. This will make quite a
quantity, but they will keep long
time-indeed, they improve with
age.
REMEDY FOR DEAFNEss.-Dro
three or four drops of glycerine in the
ear before retiring at night; in the
morning syringe the ear with warm
water, and continue this practice
faithfully for some time. The deaf
ness and singing often results from q
collection of wax on the tympanum
or drum of the ear, and the glycerine
has the effect to loosen 1t, while the
water removes il. | have known
this experiment to be successfully
tried on persons eighty years old,
when the hearing would naturally be
very imperfect.
To Polish SILvER.--Have a dish
of very hot water ut hand, soft lin
en- rag for washing; also very soft
cloth of good size, for drying; a cake
of silver soap; rub soap ON your
wash-cloth, and rub separately each
piece of silver, using a fine quality
of silver or tooth brush, especially
on the ornamental work, about the
handles, and wherever necessary; dry
at once and polish vigorously with a
channels skin; this should be done
once week, or better still, twice,
and there will be no use for powder,
which, in time, will Unavoidable turn
the silver dark.
BLACK TEA TO Color HAIR.-A
lady thus tells how TO color hair
without risk or injury: Get some
black tea and steep it as you would
for table use; pour of the tea into'a
bottle and cork. When combing
your hair use it for wetting instead
of water. ! think you will find be-
fore using ii two weeks your hair
will be darker and more like its orig
inal color than it would have been
by using any of the other dyes so
much in use. j use it myself and
know it is good.
Boston CREAM CAKEs.-AIix a
cup of corn starch with little milk,
and beat four eggs with cup of SUI
gar; stir all together and add gradu-
ally quart of boiling milk. Put
the mixture into double saucepan;
stir constantly, and heat until it
thickens and is almost boiling. Fla
vor with lemon or vanilla, and set
aside to cool. This is for the cream.
For the cakes, put half a pound of
butter into pint of water, and
while boiling rapidly stir in three
quarters Of a pound of sifted flour.
Take off, and when partly cooled
mix in ten beaten eggs, and finally
half teaspoon of saleratus dissolved
in the least possible quantity of boil
ing water. Drop the mixture on
buttered tins in spoonsful, at some
distance apart, and bake in quick
oven. II is absolutely necessary that
the flour be stirred into the boiling
water; if the water is purcd over the
flour the cakes will be very fat and
heavy compound, when they should
be a puffy shell, with perfectly hol-
low center. Cut them on the side
while still warm; ill each one with
custard, which should be cool, and
sift powdered sugar over the tops.
Dissolve common salt in water,
sprinkle the salt over your manure
heap, and the volatile parts of the
ammonia will become fixed salts,
from their having united with the
muriatic acid of the common salt,
and the soda thus liberated from the
salt. will quickly absorb carbonic
acid, forming carbonate of soda; thus
you will retain with your manure
the ammonia that would otherwise
fly away, and you have new and
important agent introduced, viz: the
carbonate of soda, which is power
full solvent of all vegetable FIBRE
Chaatauqua Farmer.
CHoKING.-A veteran farmer told
me, few days ago, of IA method of
relieving choking COW, which was
new TO me, but which he assured me
was unfailing. 1t is worthy of trial
at any rate. A round stick, two or
three inches in diameter and six or
eight inches long, is put into the
cows mouth, like a bit into horses
mouth. A string is then fastened to
each end of the stick, and tied to the
horns or up over the head. This
forces her to keep her mouth open
and allows the gas which forms in
the stomach and is the cause of the
severe pain and rapid swelling which
accompanies choking in cow, to es-
cape. The effort also of trying to
free her mouth of its unusual incum-
brance is the best help toward free
ing the passage of the throat. If the
trouble is not removed in this way,
the COW may be kept alive until help
is obtained for trying other meas
ures for her relief In such cases time
is of great Importance. lie assured
me he had seen his plan tried in many
cases, and in none had il failed of a
complete cure in less than half an