The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-21
HONE TOPICS.
Keep Ahead -various Cures and Rene
 dies-Housshoid Recipes

One WDO lnUCTltb pfOptTty, Alu EOtS o5 year by year spending little more than his income, will become poor if he lives long enough Living beyond their means has brought multitudes of persons to ruin in our generation. It is the cause of nine-tenths of all the defalcations that have disgraced the age. Bankers and business men in general do not help themselves to other peoples money until their own funds begin to fall oh, and their expenditures exceed their receipts. A man who is in debt walks in the midst of perils. It cannot but impair mans self-respect to know that he is living at the expense of others.
 It is also very desirable that we should eep somewhat ahead in our work. This may not be possible in all cases; as, for instance, when mans work is assigned to certain fixed hours like that of the operatives in a mill. But there are cer- tain classes of people who choose their time for the work they are called to do, and amongst them are some who invari- ably put off the task assigned them as long as possible, and then come to its performance, hurried, perplexed, anxious, confused--in such state of mind as cer- tainly units them for doing their best h. your success is tolerably certain.
 VARIOUS CURES AND REMEDIES.
 To CURE HEAD CoLD-When getting into bed, take pinch of fine salt and snuff it well up in both nostrils it will sting for the moment), and as the water starts, keep snuffing till it goes down the back passage to the throat. If taken when the cold is first coming on, it will be surely broken up before morning.
 FoR RHEuMATIsM OR NEURALeIA.-Put an ounce of saltpetre into bottle, and put in more or less alcohol, as you have it. Shake we'll. till all the saltpetre that will, has been dissolved in that. Then bathe freely with it. If the patient is very feeble, it is well to take something warm. before bathing in anything. Fill mp your bottle again, when you have used the spirit, and keep it as you do your camphor bottle. have never known this remedy to fail.
 TIE idea has recently been advanced that Bright's disease is attributable to immoderate use of ice water and cold drinks, the fact being cited that the peo pie of this country use 90 per cent more ice in their drinks than the people of any other country-the inhabitants of Green land not excepted-and that we have 75 per cent. more of Bright's disease The wine-drinking countries of Europe are said to be comparatively free from the malady, while in America the pro- gress of the disease, it is asserted, has kept pace with the increased consump- ton of ice.
 IN the Parkes Museum of Hygiene, in London, there are two appliances for charging the air of room with anti septic vapor, which are worthy of note One of these, as described, consists of a miniature "round towel" " circulating on two rollers, the lower of which rests in trough filled with a solution of carbolic acid, or any other soluable dis-infectant The other apparatus consists of metal box filled with Norwegian tar, the lid of the box being provided with metal lamina which are immersed in the tar when the apparatus is to be used, the cover is raised and the tar-covered lamin@ are exposed to the air-the odor being at once perceptible throughout the apartment, aRd highly beneficial as disinfectant, or inhaled by a tube con- nected with the apparatus.
 TIE almost proverbial healthfulness and freshness of butchers is attributed, in an article in Les Mondes, to the fact, that they absorb, by assimilation through the respiratory passage, the nutrative and vitalizing principles of the meat vol utilized in the air, for it is generally observed fact that butchers have small appetites and do not eat much meat. Assuming this to be the true expiana- tion, it is argued that young people suf- fering from deficient or impure blood, or especially children of a weak or lynn phatic constitution, might be SUI jected with advantage to hygientic treatment based upon it. A French physician of eminence commends the idea, and offers a plan for a kind of gaseous baths for patients, the air to be charged with vap- ors of the appropriate vitalizing princi- pies, and thus, he thinks, arrest the pro. gress of tuberculation.
 A DISTINGUISHED London physician, writing to The London Tunes about scarlet fever, says: The method of oiling patients during the period of des- quamation after scarlet fever, has been largely used for many years; it is far more constantly employed on the continent than in England. It possesses certain definite advantages, and whenever scar latina patients are of necessity treated in private houses, it should be adopted, ex- cept where contra-indicated by the con dition of the patient, because it dimin- ishes the risk of infection to others. Ii does so, however, by preventing the ready distribution of the particles of skin through the atmosphere but neither oil nor glycerine is germicide or disin- fectant, and the scales of epidermis are just as infectious after as before their ap- plication."
 HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
 SWEET BIsCUITs.-Rub four ounces of butter into eight ounces of flour, add six ounces of ground loaf sugar, the yolks of two eggs, the white of one, and a tablespoonful of brandy; roll the paste thin, and cut it with wineglass or cutter; egg over the top of each with the remaining white, and sift on sugar; bake in moderate oven.
 RICE PUDDING WITHOUT EGGs.-Put into well buttered dish quarter-pound best Carolina rice simply washed. pour on it three pints of cold milk, sweeten and flavor to taste; put little butter and nutmeg on the top to brown; bake two hours and a-half in slow oven, on which much of the success ofthe pudding depends.
 AMBER PUDDING - Four eggs, their weight in sugar, butter and flour, peal of one lemon, and grated rinds of two. Beat the butter with your hand to a cream, then add the flour, sugar and beaten eggs by degrees, then the peal