South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-09-05

MINED PicxLHs.--Soak small onions
and cucumbers in salt water ten DAYS.
( Zone pint of barrel salt to one-haif bush.
el OF pickles.; cabbage, cauliflower aud
string beans, twenty-four hours i'm the
brine. To four gallons of tho beat vim.
egar put ono pint OF syrup or molasses,
one red pepper, spices and mustard seed
If You like scald al together aud pour
on the pickles while hot rinse the pic
kles aftcrthc brine. They will keep the
year round.
To Boil APrLEs.-About the incest
morsel that ever tickled the palate is a
boiled apple-not boiled like potato
nor steamed like a pudding. but rs fol.
lows Ptace5 &c layer OF fair skinned
Baldvins or any other nice variety. in
the stew-pan, with about quarter OF
an inch of water. PROV ON tsboot half
cup df sugar 70 six gecdsi8ed apples,
aud boil until the apples arc thoroughly
cooked and the syrup nearly thick o.
nough for Jelly. After one trial, no ono
would, under any consideration, have
fair-stined apples peeled. The skins
contain very large share Of the pictous
Ueily making substances, and irnpart u
flavor impossible to obtain otherwise
A wise housekccper, instead OF throwing
away the skins and cores of sound APP
piles, would use them for Jelly. A tum.
blerful of the richest sort can thus DO oh.
tanned from dozen apples. Boil the
skins etc. few minutes & strain. Add n
little sugar 10 the liquid, and boil until
ready TO turn into the tumbler.
AMMONIA iS THE klrCHEN.-Thc pan.
try shelves are getting grimy. or finger.
marks around tue doorlatches and knobs
are looking dark aud unsightly. For
lack OF time, they are left day after day,
Tor 1t is hard work TO scour all tho time,
and 1t wears Off the paint. too. The
husband keeps his bottle of oil, or per-
haps large can holds il. for he never
stints in that. Now. suppose his wife
has her bottle Of spirits OF ammonia to
use She takes her bottle OF water and a
clean cloth, just puts on few drops of
the hud and wipes or all the dirt; II is
worth more than halliday 5 'abor, aud
does not hurt the paint either. She
could put few drops in her dishwater.
and see now easily the dishes could DO
cleaned; few drops on n sponge would
clean oil the windows in the sitting room,
making them shine like CRYSTAL IL
would take the stains off the teaspoons.
too; ard a leaspoonlul in the mop-pail
would do more toward washing up the
kitchen floor than ten pounds OF elbow.
grease applied TO the mop handle. A
housewife has just as much right to
make her work easy and expeditions ~
her hush and. Ii she docs not do il the
fault is her own, in great measure.
We have it on the authority Of Dr..
Book, of Leipsic, that the nervousness
and peevishness Of our times are chiefly
attributable to tea and coffee the df.
gestivc organs of confirmed coffee drink.
ers are IN state of chronic derangc-
ment, which reacts on the brain. produ,
! eng fretful and lnchrymose moods. Ia
dies addicted 20 strong coffee haven
characteristic temper, which might be
described as mania for acting the pcr-
secuted saint. Chocolate, he adds, is
neutral in its psychic effects, and II re-
ally the most harmless Of our fashion,.
| bic drinks
( ANTIDoTE To PoIsoN.-If a person
swallows any poison whatever, or has al.
Z len into commissions from having over.
/ loaded the stomach, an instantaneous
/ remedy, most efficient aud applicable in
q large number Of cases, is u heaping
/ tcdsPoonful Of common salt. aud as much
/ ground mustard, stirred rapidly il ten.
( cupful Of water, warm or cold and sgal-
/ lowed instantly. II is scarcely down be-
fore It begins to come up, briu ging with
II the remaining contents If the stomach;
ard lest there BE- any remnant Of the poi.
/ son, however small, let the white Of an
/ cgg or n tcaspoonful Of strong coffee be
swallowed Us soon Us tie stomach il Gui
ct. because these very common articles
nullfy large number OF y.rulent poi-
sons. Medical Brief.
RAT AND MIcg EzTERarvhror. "A
, German newspaper gives the following
simple method for discriminating ratsand
mice, which, 10 states, hiss been success.
/ fully tired by one Baron Won Backhofen
aud others for some time past "A mix.
ture OF two parts Of well bruised com
mon s1ullls and three parts OF finely
chopped bacon is mado into "A stiff mass
with as much meal az may be rcduired.
and thon baked into small cakes which
( arc put around for the rats % cat
Several correspondence the paper wits
\ 70 confirm tho experience 81 the noble
baron and bis Leighbors in che extirpa.
ton Of rats and mico by this simple rG
medy.
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Goob CEIKST.-A cement that re-.
sists the action OF Gre and water. Take
bali pint Of milk. mix IL with AN equal
| quantity otVihcgar. SO as 10 coaguiato
the milk, separate tie whey and mix
The latter with tho WHITES Of four or Eve
eggs, we'll beaten up. III. mixture "
theso Two being complete. add 70 them
qucK lime which has passed through a
serve make The Whole into a thick paste.
10 the consistency OF putty. when uso1