Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-06-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Grained wood should be washe
with cold tea.
Good stock is best. Always "brecd
from the best"
Cut hot bread or cake with a hot
knife. and it will not he clammy.
Money expended for painting out.
houses. wagons. implements, etc, pays
good dividends.
Ceilings thai have been smoked 5y
= kerosene lamp should be washed oil
with soda water.
Buff window shades keep their
color best, and while admitting more
light than green, keep out the red OF
hot rays.
"A heaping teaspoOnful Of sulphur,
added once q week to the feed of 2
cow will keep it free from vcrmin.
The same quantity is recommended for
every ten fowls for similar purpose.
Paint the inside walls of corn
house with coal tar and It will drive
wecvils from the corn. 1t costs few
dollars a barrel, and barrel will last
several years in hen houses and corn
houses. -1tti fli5 H i4Lg
"A farmer in Iowa estimates thu: the
profit of raising one two-year old short
horn steer for market is equal TO that on
eighteen scrub steers which have to be
kept three years or more before they
are salable. a
"A very nice dessert is made with q
cupful of tapioca, a cupful ofsugar, and
the juice of four or five lemons. The
addition of a little salt improves the
flavor. 1t is good plan to soak the
tapioca all night. SO that there will be
no hard Jumps in the pudding.
Cracker Grucl.-Four tablespoon
fuls of powdered cracker, scant; one
half pint of boiling water, one-half pint
of milk, One-half teaspoonfnl Of salt.
Pour boiling water on the crackers and
boil about two minutes. Add the milk
when boiling hot, then add the salt.
Raspberry Shrub.-Place red rasp-
berries in a stone Jar and cover with
good, although not too strong. cider
vinegar, and let stand overnight. In
the morning strain, and to each pint OF
this juice allow a pint of sugar. Boil
ten minutes, then bottle and seal at
once.
When plants are to be transplant
ed, they should be well wet down sey-
eral hours before moving, so as to al
low the water to soak well around the
roots, and if this must be done while
the sun is shining brightly, it will be
best to shade the plants for time, till
the water has soaked in.
One bushel of sugar-beets, mixed
with nine bushels Of apples, makes
cider richer and of superior flavor to
that made from apples alone. Sugar
beet juice can be converted into vine
gar in the same manner cider now is; it
makes stronger vinegar than cider
does, of equally good but different
flavor. An acre of beets will yield five
thousand gallons of vinegar.
strawberry Meringue. a
good pie crust, roll ont quite thin, cut
out round as large as pie plate and
bake on n fiat tin. When light-brown,
take out, lay Strawberries rolled in
sugar over it, and cover with meringue
made of the whites of four eggs and
four tablespoonful of powdered sugar. I
Return TO the oven and bake until the /
top is Drowned. Eat cold.
Much trouble can often be saved |
by marking tools with their owners
name, which can be easily done in the
following manner: Coat over the tools
with thin layer of wax or hard tallow
by first warming the steel and rubbing
on the wax warm until it flows. and let
it cool. When hard. mark Your name
through the wax with gravcr and APP
ply aqua forts (nitric aciO: after a few
wash Off the acid thoroughly
with water, warm the metal enough to
melt the wax and wipe ii off with q soft
RAG. The letters will be found etched
into the steel.
--Giyceriue is substance produced
from animal fat in the process OF soap
making. 1t consists OF carbon, HYDRO
rem and oxygen, and is not poisonous.
Its soft, agreeable qualities tit it emil
nently for use in cosmetics and per-
tumery; it is used in many diseases,
md is an excellent ingredient in toilet
soaps. hair tonics, etc. A glycerine
ointment of much repute for chapped
hands is made as follows: one half
ounce of spermaceti is melted together
With drachm of white wax and two
iuid ounces of oil of almonds, by s.
Moderate heat. The mixture is then
poured into 4 wedgewood mortar. then
! find ounce OF glycerine is added to
t, when it is rubbed till the ingredients
ire thoroughly mixed and cold. Nitro 6
,lycerine, a powerful explosive is ,
ormed by treating glycerinc with con-
entrated sulphuric and nitric acids.