South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-12-16
Farmer and House Keeper.


Light Tea Cake.--One cup sugar.
two eggs. half cup melted butter, ono
and one-fourth cups of milk. -four to
make q stiff batter, two teaspoons CO.
da; bake twenty minutes in hot
oven.
Cream Pie. One cup of sugar, one
egg, piece of butter size Of un egg,
one teaspoon soda, Dissolved i'm cup
OF sweet milk: add to this VIXEN mix
ed together two teaspoons cream tar
tar, rubbed in three cups OF flour, and
bake in three jelly cake tins.
A Relish for Breakfast. one
fourth pound fresh cheese cut in thiusli.
COS. put it in frying pan, turning o.
yer 1t large cup Of sweet milk, and
one-fourth tablespoonful or dry mus
tard. a pinch of salt and pepper and
q piece OF butter tho size Of butter
nut; stir the mixture all the time
Roll three Boston crackers very fine.
sprinkle in gradually, then turn at
once Into warm dish to be sent to
the table Immediately.
Infallible Cure for Diptheria.--
Tho Staluntyn Spectator (of Sonth
Australia) publishes the details Of tho
'Greathead cure for Diptheria Tho
disease is declared by Mr.. Greathead
to be OF hydrated growth---ana it is
said that the germs OF it floating abont
in certain atmospheres are inhaled by
human beings. For grown person
four drops Sulphuric acid, elixir Vi
triol) diluted in three quarters of n
glass of water is the dose, and -
smaller dose for children. The pm
pers are teeming with accounts of suf-
terers who have recovered in few
hours by adopting tho Greathoad
treatment.
An exchange gives the following
simple application for the toothache,
on the principle, if no cure, no ehargs
for advice: If any of your readers
suffer from toothache or neuralgia al.
fections arising from teeth in any
stage of decay, they may experiences
relief, instantaneous and permanent.
by saturating n small DIT OF clean cot
ton or wool with strong solution of
ammonia. and apply it Immediately
to the affected tooth. The pleasant
contrast instantaneously produce
sometimes causes fit of laughter. al
though moment before extrem.
suffering and anguish prevailed. |
have used the remedy for over year,
and have obtained sufficient proof to
warrant publication.
A correspondent of the Ohio Far.
nner does not believe in keeping hen
manure too long before using it. A.
soon as he has his poultry houses
cleaned, he takes the manure and
spreads il over his wheat field, or n
poor spot in his meadow, and you can
take his word that man with ono
eye can sec where he puts it. To put
hen manure in box or barrel and
keep it one year before it is pnt to
crop, he thinks is wrong way.
Ounce trees will bear good deal
of salt about them, and some growers
think it an absolute necessity to
success.
To make cisterns and tanks waters
tight, paint thickIy on the inside with
n mixture OF eight parts of meltesl
glue and four OF linseed oil, boiled
with litharge In forty.eight hours it
will be go hard that the tank con be
filed with water.
DR.. Foote'S Health Monthly advis.
es people to try newspaper over tho
chest, beneath the coat. IA q chest pro.
tector in extremely cold weather.
Add a little glycerine to the grease
applied to harness, and it will be kept
IN soft and pliable state, in spite OF
the ammoniacal exhalations of tho
stable, which tend to make it brittle.
The best remedy in ordinary hic-
coughs is about twenty-five grains Of
common table salt, placed in tho
mouth and swallowed with a sip of
water
No good housewife will use soap 10
wash dishes with, whom a cheaper and
better article is found in a small lump
Of borax.
Popcorn Picture Frames.-Iave
a little frame made Of thin wood. m
Their broad surface, tic outer edge
waned OF scalloped, or strong paste.
board Will answer then, with white
glue, fasten q border Of cherry stones
on the outer and inner eiges. In
each scallop (eight is a good number)
put an apricot stone or a hazel not.
and make little designs with plum
stones; lastly, fll in the spaces with
rel popcorn from fhe ear. Varnisi,
the nuts and stones before adding tho
corn.
Furniture Polish. An excellent
furniture polish is made with one pint