South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-03-26

sugar, one and half cupa OF sweet
milk. TO dissolve it; boil TIL done and
favor With vanilla stir until hard splen.
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GERMAN SAUCE ron PUN on OruBn
SWEET Boiled PupDIros.- Boil very
gently together half pint Of new milk,
or milk and cream mixed q very thin
strip or two offresh lemon tlnd biz at
cinnamon half an inch OF vanilla bead,
and an ounce and half or two ounces
OF sugar; until tho milk is strongly la
vored, then strain and pour it, by GLOW
degrees, TO the well.bea,cn yolks OF
three eggs. smoothly mixed with about
half teaspoon OF -four, grain or two
Of salt, and tablespoon OF cold milk,
and stir these very quickly round as the
milk 10 added. Put tho sauco again
into the stew.pan, and whisk or stir it
rapidly until 1t thickens and looks
creamy. II must not be placed upon tho
fire, but should be held over it when
this is done.
SuLrnURIc acid rubbed on the edges
Of bureau drawers will prevent their
swelling in damp weather.
The whito' OF an egg. into which q
piece OF alum about the size Of n walnut
has bech stewed until IL forms Jelly.
Is capital remedy for sprains. 1t
should he laid over the sprsin upon a
piece of lint and be changed as often as
it becomes dry.
A lump Of fresh quicklime tho size OF
walnut dropped into pint or water
and allowed TO stand all night, the wa.
ter being then poured off from the sedi.
mont, and mixed with q quarter OF a
pint OF the best vinegar. forms the best
wash for scurf in the head. II is to bc
applied TO the roots OF tho hair.
To curl plumes put some coals OF fire
on shovel, sprinkle brown sugar on
the Goals and hold the plumes in the
smoke. One application will be sufIl-
cient to make them as nice as new.
Another way: Take little salt and
sprinkle il upon the hot stove and hold
the plumes over the smoke O few min.
utes.
FIRE-PRooFiSe CoTToN FABnrcs.-
In q paper on some conditions Of In
convention in Michigan, Or. Kedzie, o:
the State Board Of Health. said that cot
ton clothing could be prevented from
taking fire by the use OF borax in starch
ing-a teaspoonful to each pint Of starch
after tho water has been added. The
borax can have no injurious effect upon
the cloth or upon the wearer, and Ia SO
cheap that all can afford to use it.
DIR. Kedzie showed by experiments
that musins and tarletans, the most in
aammable goods, when treated with DO.
rax starch. could not be made TO burn
with blaze. If oil cotton dresses antu
undertaking, and especially the cloth.
ing of children, were treated in this way.
a great number Of lives and much suf-
fering would be saved every year.
DIR Kedzie said he expected that ono
Of these days some shrwed fellow
would use this receipt, mix starch and
borax, and sell IL as asbestos starch"
800 or 600 per cent profit, and get rich
out Of it. The people could just "a well
do their own mixing and save the profit.
A REMEDY FOR NEURALoIA.-Tho
Paris correspondent OF the Boston Cou-
rier, referring TO his recovery from
dangerous illness, says: II mention this
illness that may tell you how easily I
was cured. was bent double. / could
not breathe. My physician ordered me to
take fatiron and heat it as bot as
could bear. put double fold Of flannel
on the painful part, and move the iron
to and fro on the flannel. i was cured
as If by enchantment. My doctor told
me that some time since professor ia
one of our colleges, after suffering some
days with neuralgia in the head, which
he himself had tried to cure, sent for
the former. Who prescribed a hot hatiron.
The next time the doctor saw the pro-
fessor the latter exclaimed, 81 had no
sooner applied the heated iron TO my
head than instantly all pain had van-
isheo.
To REMOVE INK STAINs.-Take Of
muriate Of tin, 2 parts water. 4 parts.
To be applied with soft brush, after
which the paper must be passed through
cold water.
CEMENT FOR REPAmINo GLAss.-D Dis.
solve fine glue in strong acetic acid 10
form a thin paste.
FoR diseased fowls procure one pound
Of wood charcoal, pulyerize IL coarsely.
and mix with 1t half pound of common
table salt. To half pint Of this mix
ture, add one quart OF corn meal and
bran. half and BALI Nix we'll and feed
70 about six or seven fowls.
TIE Poultry Bulletin recommends
keeping a lump OF alum In the drinking
water supplied 70 fowls, as preventive
Of laxatiyeness.
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