The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-11
When the room clerk tells you he
has good quarters for you, and then To-
Gates you on the fifth story back, you
are justified in calling him false rum
Or
Worth Knowing.


A poultice Of fresh tea leaves moist
ened with water, will cure a stye on the
eyelid.
For earache dissolve assaftida in wa
ter; warm few drops and drop in the
ear, then cork the ear with wool.
The true physiological way Of treat
ing burns and scalds is to at once ex-
clude the air, with cotton batting, flour,
scraped potato. or anything that is
handiest.
Use fresh water. Water which has
stood in an open dish over night should
not be used for cooking or drinking, as
it will have absorbed many foul gases.
Mix little carbonate of soda with
the water in which flowers are im-
mersed, and it will preserve them for
fortnight. Common saltpeter is also q
very good preventative.
Take a new flower pot, wash it clean.
wrap it in wet cloth, and set over
butter. will keep it as hard as il on ice.
Milk if put into an earthen can, or
even tin one, will keep sweet for
long time, if well wrapped in wet
cloth.
Common soda is excellent for scour-
ing tin, as IL will not scratch the tin
and will make it look like new. APP
ply with piece of moiStened newspa-
per and polish with dry piece. Wood
ashes are a good substitute.
To cure bunions use pulverized salt
peter and sweet oil Obtain at drug
gists five or six cents worth of salt
peter; put it into a bottle with sufficient
olive oil to dissolve it, shake up we'll,
and rub the inhamed joints night and
morning, and more frequently if pain
full.
Flies may be eil,ectually disposed of
without the use of poison. Take half a
teaspoonful OF black pepper in powder,
one teaspoonful of cream. Mix them
we'll together, and place them in q
room on plate where flies are trouble
some, and they will soon disappear.
Red ants may be banished from a
pantry or storeroom by strewing the
shelves with small quantity of cloves,
either whole or ground. We use the
former, as not being SO likely to get in
to food placed upon the shelves. The
| cloves should be renewed occasionally,
as after time they lose their strength
and efficiency.
The following drink for relieving
sickness of the stomach is said to be
very palatable and agreeable: Beat up
one egg very well. say for twenty min
utes, then add fresh milk one pint, wa
ter one pint, sugar to make it palatable;
boil, and get it cool; drink when cold.
If it becomes curds and whey it is use
less.
| According to La France Medica&
borax has been employed with advan-
tage in cases of hoarseness and pho
MIA occurring suddenly from the actor
of cold. The remedy is recommended
to singers and orators whose voices sud
denly become lost, but which by these
means can be recovered Instantly.
little piece of borax the size OF pea is
to be slowly dissolved in the mouth ten
minutes before singing or speaking.
The remedy provokes an abundant Sc
cretion of saliva, which moistens the
IlOllUH anu tnrOub. l. HIS local dcllOn
pf the borax should be aided BY an
equal dose of nitrate of potassium, TAX
en- in warm solution before going to bed
A thorough qualified medical man has
recently, in the course of his practice.
come upon what he believes and uses as
specific remedy for smallpox. The
remedy is the bi-tartrate of potash, the
common cream of tartar of the drug
store; two ounces dissolved in boiling
water, with the juice of lemon and
sugar added. Let the patient drink as
much as he likes, but not less than a
wineglassful every hour, In some OF
his cases this medicine has exhibited the
most remarkable curative effects. 1t vii
purge, but as it is perfectly harmless this
will not matter, and il does not appear
to be the cause of cure, the remedy act
ing specifically on the virus, the pus
tules collapsiug, leaving no pits, and
perfect cure following in short time
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