The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-10-15
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Alum dissolved in water will kill
bed-bugs if applied where ii Is most
needed.
In troublesome bleeding from the
nose, SMILING up powdered alum will
generally control it. 1t will also al
most always stop excessive hemorrhage
from a cavity cause BY the extraction
of tooth, by being placed in it.
If tableclolhs, napkins and hand
kerch e's are folded an inch or two
be ond the middle they will last much
longer; it is on the edges OF folds
where they first wear, and iolding them
not on middle line, each ironing, they
get new crease.
Cinnamon Cake Two pounds
brown sugar, two pounds flour, one
teaspoonlul baking powder. one pound
of butter, three tablespoonful OF CHINA
mon. three eggs (beAten lightly; mix
all well Us usual for cake; roll very thin,
Tut and bake.
Apple Preserve. Take some pleas
ant sour apples, pare them, take the
core out at the bottom, and leave the
stem in; make strip of white sugar
and water to half cover the apples;
bake or Loil them till they are Just done
through. Serve them up whole, with
loaf sugar and cream.
bones NAV be reduced by means of
wood ashes in the following manner:
One hundred pounds of bones broken
up as small rs possible are packed in u
cask with one hundred pounds of fresh
wood ashes mixed with twenty-five
pounds OF dry water slaked lime and
twelve pounds of sal soda; twenty GAL
Ions OF water are poured over the mass.
In twenty or thirty da;s the bones will
be soft enough 10 be mixed evenly with
some good soil in dry mass.
MIR. Curtiss, in his pamphlet on
wheat culture, favors early cutting en-
cept for seed. He mentions several
important advantages, and several
minor ones, to be secured by cutting
wheat when it is pass NO from the mi k
to the dough state viz: 1t largely pre-
vents injury by rdst, as rust ceases to
affect the grain as soon as cut. ltgives
more and heavier grain. 1t gives more
and better -four to the bushel, as all the
time the grain stands, after the dough
state, it MAKES bran at the expense of
starch and -four. 1t causes less waste
by Smelling and scattering, while haT-
vesting and handling. And, last, the
straw is tougher and softer to handle.
Maryland Biscuit Rub one tea
spoonful each OF butter and lard into
one quart of sifted flour. with one tea
spoonful of SALT gradually add milk
enough to make q stiff dough, mixing
it with the hand. When this .ough Is
mixed lay it on q Toured bread Eoard
and beat it with the rolling-pin, turn
ING it continually, until it blisterS and
cracks loudly. 1t will require to be
beaten about half an hour. When the
blisters are abundant tear off pieces of
the dough as large rs an egg, and mold
them in the form of biscuit, prick the
tops with fork, and bake the biscuit
in rather quick oven.
-Damascene Rolls. Boiled pastry
should be prepared with as much care
as that meant for baking, the proper
tions of butter lard and flour the same.
Stew the cherries or whatever fruit YOU
desire, with little sugar; roll out the
pastry into thin sheet--the thinner
the better; spread over a thick LAYER of
the fruit, and then, commencing at one
side, roll carefully until all the fruit is
inclOsed within the paste; pinch to-
gether at the ends, and tie up in
strong cotton cloth, then drop into q
pot of boiling water. The morello
cherry is the best for this purpose or
some other fruit possessing acidity. To
be served with sweet sauce.
AS regards the distinction, nutri-
lively considered, between the whole
grain of wheat and the white Hour of
the interior parts, there is no room for
doubt or dispute, says the JoaraaI of
CHEMISTRY. 1t is the whole grain which
constitutes perfect food; the white -four
is incapable of ahording complete and
healthful support under all conditions
OF human existence. The white loaf is
very beautiful and fashionable, but it
does not contain the phosphates OF
magnesia, lime and soda which are
found IN the brown loaf. These salts
are stored for some wise reason, doubt
less, in the bran or outer covering of
the grain, and they are certainly lost tC
large extent in the bOitino process