The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-31
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HO USE.

WHEN person is overheated and ex-
hausted, both the hands and feet should
be bathed in cold water, and something
warm should be taken at once-hot
lemonade, ginger water, or something of
this kind
LEAN fresh meat will remove the pain
of a wasp sting almost instantly, and has
been recommended for the cure of rattle
snake-bites. 1t is said to have marked
benefit in cases of erysipelas.
In smallpox the pits can be entirely
prevented by covering the pustules as
fast as they break with a coating of col
lodion-a liquid cuticle sold by all
druggists.
AMMONIA is good remedy for tooth
ache. Apply small bit of cotton satu-
rated in a strong solution of ammonia to
the defective tooth, and after momen-
tary nervous pain, the aching will have
ceased.
Two teaspoonfuls of finely powdered
charcoal drank in a half-tumbler of
water will often give relief to the sick
headache, when caused, as in most cases
stomach.
GRAHAM gems: To one pint of sour
milk take one egg, one spoonful of sugar,
well beaten, and one teaspoonful of soda,
and good fresh Graham flour enough to
make stiff batter. To be baked in iron
gempans, with quick, hot fire. They
will be delicious, light, puffy, and tender.
The leaves OF geranium are an excel
lent application for cuts, when the skin
is rubbed off, and other wounds of the
same kind. One or two leaves must be
bruised and applied on linen to the part,
and the wound will become cicatrized in
very short time.
HERMITs: Two eggs, one and one
half cups of sugar, two-thirds cup Of
butter or lard, one cup currants, one
teaspoonful each of cloves, nutmeg, and
cinnamon, one teaspoonful of soda. Roll
out like cookies; roll the currants in
-four; sprinkle sugar on top before bak
ing.
ONE of the most important things to
be considered in dress is the careful
covering of the chest and back. Expos
ing the lungs by inadequate shielding of
these portions of the body from cold is
too generally practiced, especially by
ladies' To cover the chest alone most
carefully is not enough; there should be
a thick covering between the shoulders.
LEMON pies-rich: Pare carefully
the yellow rind from two lemons; then
remove the thick white substance which
grows next the rind, it being very in
digestible and useless article; then
squeeze the juice into bowl and remove
the seeds; chop the rind and the re-
mainder of the lemons very fine and add
to the juice. Add also two well-beaten
eggs and two slightly-heaping cups of
sugar, mix well; line a plate with rich
crust, with several layers of crust around
the edge, which may be made to adhere
to each other by the use of little water.
Bake without cover.
FARMERS and others who may have
occasion to remove powders from their
fields may break them up into fragments
as follows: Drill deep hole in the
rock at the proper point, and then fit
into the lower portion of the hole
cylindrical ingot of lead of correspond
ing diameter. Then drive mandrel,
or rod, down upon the lead by repeated
blows of a hammer. The lead will be
expanded literally; and being inelastic
the pressure will accumulate, and after
a while rupture the rock. This method
has none of the danger attendant upon
the use of gunpowder.
If gardeners and others will give
trial to the following plan they will find
it less than one-fourth the expense of
glass frames and much more useful:
Take white cotton cloth of a close tex
ture, stretch it, and nail it on frames of
any size you wish; mix two ounces of
lime water, four ounces of linseed oil,
one ounce of white of eggs separately,
two ounces of yolk of eggs; mix the
lime and oil with very gentle heat,
beat the eggs separately and mix with
the former. Spread the mixture with
paint brush on the cloth, allowing each
coat to dry before applying another,
until they become waterproof.
THE man who puts on a frequent
little sprinkling of salt, bone dust, super
phosphate, or any fertilizer that will
add an additional rich green to the turf,
is always recompensed by securing the
most conspicuous grass plat in the neigh
borhood. The best lawn we ever saw,
says an agricultural writer, was occa-
sionally treated to sprinkling of diluted
blood from slaughter-house, just pre-
vious to shower When the soil is
soft, run the roller over it helps the APP
pearance greatly. The application of
little ground gypsum will freshen up
the grass But above all, never neglect
to run the moving machine over fire.
quently. Once week is none too often
during a wet season.