South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-09-01
Farmer and House. Keeper.

TWO spoonfuis OF srgar, ono cup OF
flour, lump OF butter largo as ON
egg, half grated nutmeg; you may
add 1t you like. half pound OF rias-
ins. Mix well and bake quick.
Milk Lemonade Take tho Juice
of six fine lemons. and the peel of
three. pared very thin, two wine.
glasses of syrup, half n pint OF Ma
delra or sherry, and one qnart ofboil-
ing water. Put all into covered
vessel, and let it stand for twelve
hours then having boiled pint OF
new milk. pour it upon tho mixture.
after which run it through jelly bag
until quito clear. A very refresh.
ing drink.
10 make paste that will keep
dissolve an ounce of alum in nn
ounce of warm water: when cold stir
In wheat flour until ofthc consisten.
cy of cream, then add rs much pow.
defed resin as you can take up on u
ten cent piece and two or three cloves;
boil until it thickens. stirring con.
stantly bottle. 1t will keep a year.
When dry soften with water.
Silk lace may be cleansed 10y wash
ing and rinsing it in bcnzine. When
clean, hang it in tho open air till all
odor has left it. Press between folds
OF white paper Delicate silk ribbons
may be clcansed in the same way. An
benzine is very inhammable, care must
be used TO ler no flame approach it.
Do not Dust, but Wipe. The dust.
err, that peaceful emblem of domestic
labor, may, under certain circum.
stances. become dangerous weapon
to handle. We are in earnest. An
eminent scientist declares it to be u
fact. Do you know what you are do,
ing when you brush away dust. You
disseminate in the air, and conse-
quently Introduce into your own in.
terror. into your tissues and respiratory
organs, all sorts of eggs, spores, cpl
demic germs and murderous vibroncs
which dust contains. Ono move.
ment with n feather duster may be c.
noueh to poison both you and your
neighbors-to innocuate you all with
typhus, varioloid or cholera--strango
~ it may appear. Instead of q fea-
TIER dus:er take damp cloth; wipe %
way the dust instead of stirring it up.
In short, wipe never dust.
a Cincinnati physician says that
dlarrh@a and summer complaint can
be cured by exposing water in blue
bottle to the sun for half hour or
upward, and then giving one or two
teaspoonfuls each hour until symp-
toms change. Water thus affected
by the sun he declares to be great
nervine and refrigerant as well as an
astringent.
Keeping Rnst from Tools Tho
simple preparation employed by Pro.
lessor Olmstoad, OF Yale College, for
the preservation of scientific appara~
tus, and which he long ago publish
ed for the general good, declining to
have it patented, is made by the slow
melting together OF six or eight parts
OF lard to one of resin, stirring till cool.
This remains semi fluid, always ready
for use, the resin preventing rancidity
and supplying an air tight film. Rub
bed on bright surface ever SO thinly,
IT protects and preserves the polish
eifectually, and it car be wiped off
nearly clean. if ever desired, as from
a knife-blade; or 1t may be thiLned
with coal.oil or benzine. Ifoxidatiou
las begun, no matter in how slight q
degree, it will go on under coating;
it is Therefore essential that the steel
surface be both bright and dry when
painted over.
a New Cure.-There is ut pres-
ent going the rounds of the press
suggestion that, though simple, seems
to have the endorsement of many az
having been effective as q cure for
various ailments. The remedial q.
gent is drinking hot water by tho
tunblerful, in the morning after rising.
IL is claimed that THE will relieve
dyspepsia troubles, that it tones the
stomach and relieves the system OF
impurities. The local editor OF tho
New York Dispatch says he has tried
the hot water cure for sick headache.
for upwards Of three months. aud he
has not bad an attack OF tile disease
since, although before its use lac was
afflicted with the sick headache al.
most weekly. lie is now firm be-
lever ia the hot water cure.
The Texas Cattle Plague. -Aucor.
ding to the reports given ont from
the agricultural bureau ut Washing
ton, the Texas cattle fever is quite
widely spreading this year and seems
to be more destructive than IL has
been heretofore The siDgularity OF
this fever is that, willie the cattle do
not themselves show any evidence Of
disease as ;hey are driven north, tho
lative local cattle passing over the
roads by which tbe Texas cattle arc
driven become infected aud death
follows very rapidly. Equally strange