The Osceola times., 1878-06-22
Useful and Suggestive.

STOVES set away for the summer
should be well rubbed with kerosene,
and unless in very dry place it will be
best 10 wrap Dme carpet or thick paper
around them.
A MIXTURE of red lead, Indian meal
and mossses will be eagerly esten by
cockroaches and will soon exterminate
them. Paris green, phosphorus or
arsenic are sometimes used, but are very
dangerous. Borax, TO which cockroaches
have great sntipathy, will drive them
away.
EVERY lady should subject her toilet
powder to this test Place a teaspoonful
OF the suspected powder in glass and
add the juice of a lemon. If eferves-
cence takes place it is an infsllible proof
that the powder is dangerous, and its
use should be avoided, as it will ulti-
mately injure the skin and destroy the
beauty OF the complexion.
SAssAFRAs BEER.-Pour two quarts
of boiling water upon two large spoon.
iuls of cream tartar, and add ten drops
Of oil of sassafras, ten drops of oil OF
spruce, ten drops OF wintergreen, then
add eight quarts of cold water and a
pint OF good yeast and sweeten to tsste
let it stand twenty,four hours, and then
bottle it. This makes delicious sum,
mer beverage.
CURE FOR CRoUP.-A medical journal
says Group can be cured in one minute,
and the remedy is simply alum and
sugar. They way to accomplish the deed
is TO take knife or crater, and shave of
in small particles about teaspoonful OF
alum, then mix it with twice its guam
tity of sugar, to make it palatsble, and
administer as quickly as possible. Almost
instantaneous relief will follow.
DR.. Foote's Health Monthly says
the following, served with canned straw
berries for sauce, is dish too good for
any but very good people: One teacup
full of rice, one heaping teacup full of
cocoanut and the milk from the center
of the nut, one quart of water, one pint
of milk, and salt to taste. Boil three or
feur hours In q double boiler. If it
boils away too much add more water.
OVER WATERING kills more plants
than dryness. Pots in the house, especi-
ally the handsome glazed ones, should
be provided with abundant drainage
broken pots, cinder., oyster shells, any.
thing to make an open layer at the bot
tom; then a layer Of moss to keep the
earth from washing down, and then a
soil made 80 open by sand that it will
always allow the water 10 pass through.
With these precautions there is no
danger, but where the surface of the soil
Is muddy an hour after watering, there
is something wrong, and plants will not
thrive American Agriculturist.
To CURE DOGS OF WORRYING SHEEP.
Wrap a narrow strip of sheepskin, that
has much wool on it, round the dogs
lower Jaw, the wool outward, and fasten
il so that he cannot get rid of it. Put
this on him for a few times daily, and
there is chance that he will become as
thoroughly disgusted as ever you could
wish with every animal of the race
whose coat furnishes such odious mouth.
fuls but, prevention being better than
cure, pay great attention to your dogs
msrsls during the lambing season. Doss
not led away by evil companionship
rarely commence their depredstions upon
sober, full-grown sheep. In ninety nine
cases out of 100 they have previously
yielded to the great temptation of run
ming down some frisking lamb, whose
animated gambols seemed to court pur-
! suit.-[Land and Water.