Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-01-20
FARM AND PIREsIDE.


IHE GOOSE BONE.-The Louisville. XIV
"fost" Dec. l, says: The readings of ths
goose bone indicate motley winter. Their,
will be good deal of snow and few cold
days, but no protracted cold weather. Du-
ring the last of December there will be a
lew days when good fires will be cheerful
and overcoats comfortable. 1t will be an
exceedingly disagreeable month for out
| door work. with snow or pain every day or
TWO. The probabilities are for wet,
gloomy Christmas.
This kind of weather will continue on
through January, with few cold DAYS
sandWlched between rain and snow. About
the middle of January there will be a few
clear, cold days, when the mercury will 90
down below zero. The latter part of the
month will be wet and gloomy. There
will be more genuine winter weather
crowded into the little month of Februa-
ry than in December and January. but
there will not be any intense cold. With
the exception of the few days about the
mercury will go far below zero. The goose
bone has long been an honored weather
prophet. In some of the back counties Of
kentucky the farmers make all their ar
engagements in accordance with the pre-
dictions of the goose bone. In some To-
calltles the goose bone is laid aside, La
belled with the year. and it ia said that
one old farmer in Breathltt county has the
bones extending back for more than forty
years, and in all that time it is asserted
that the bone has never been mistaken in
the weather.
To read correctly the winter of any year,
take the breast-bone of a goose Matched
during the preceding spring. The bona is.
translucent, and it will be found to be COL
ored and spotted. The dark color and
heavy spots indicate cold. If the spots
are of light shade and transparent, wet
weather. rain or snow may be looked for.
The s'Post'' reporter has examined three
bones, one from Southeastern Kentucky,
one from Jefferson county, and one from
Laporte, Ind. They are identical to one
be found the same on the breast bone of
any geese Matched last spring. Cut this
out, lay it aside for reference, and as you
crowd up close to the fire on the 18th of
January, you will be convinced of the
great power of the goose bone.
KEEP a BOTTLE OF LIME WATER.-If
good milk disagrees with child or grown
person, lime water at the rate of three or
four tablespoonful to the pint, mixed with
the milk or taken after it, will usually help
digestion and prevent fatulence. Lime
water is simple antiacid, and is little
tonic. 1t often counteracts pain from acid
fruits, from "wind in the stomach,'' and
from acids produced by eating candies and
and other sweets; also s'stomach-ache''
(indigestlon) from over eating of any kind.
A tablespoonful for child of two years
old, to gill or more for an adult, is an Or
binary dose. while considerable more will
produce no serious injury. A pint of cold
water dissolves less than ten grains of
lime, and warm water still less. Pure
corked, soon detariorates by carbonic acid
in the air, which unites with the lime and
settles as an insoluble carbonate. To have
it always ready and good, and at no cost,
put into tall pint or quart glass bottle, of
any kind, a gill or SO of good lime just
Stacked with water. Then fill the bottle
nearly full of rain or other pure water, and
let it stand quietly, corking well. The
lime will settle, leaving clear lime wa ter
at the top. Pour off gently as wanted,
adding more water as needed. Some car
bonic acid will enter, but the carbonate
will settle, often upon the sides of the bot
tie, and freshly saturated water remain
The lime should be removed and new
supply put in once year or so, unless kept
very tightly corked. -Aqraculturist.
MILK DIET IN HEART DIsEAsE.-The
opinion Of DR.. Pechoiler, ana eminent
French physician, is now cited in favor of
milk diet in the treatment of disease Of the
heart. He states that in active hypetro-
namely, in those diseases where the
consequences of the development of the
muscular fbres prevail over the embarrass-
ment of the circulation caused by the dila-
tion of the cavities, the contraction of the
orifces, or the insuficiency of the valves
and where in consequence, the tension Of
the blood is great in the arteries, and the
radical pulse is full and hard; in such ca
ses, at their beginning, the milk diet, to-
gether with the use of digitalis, and some
times without it, will, if continued long
enough, induce at once an amendment of
the symptoms, and even, at last all absorp-
tion of the superabundant muscular It's
sues, and thus effect cure. IL is found,
that under the influence of this diet, the
impulses Of the heart diminish, together
with the palpitations, also the congested
condition of the face, the brain and the
lungs. The patient experiences an unex-
pected improvement, and, by the adoption
of this plan, life may be prolonged and
rendered more supportable-a great palli-
alton of the symptoms resulting, even
though there be no cure.
SMALL-Pox.-We give remedy that has
been used with eminent success in this
disease:
Fox-glove, gr.; Sulphate of Zinc, gr.;
Sugar, one-half teaspoonful; mix the pow
ders and sugar together with two tea
spoonfuls of water, aud when we'll mixed
add four ounces of water.
The following was remedy also used
to prevent pitting and disfguring tbs face:
Glycerine, 2 o.; Lard, 8 OK; Charcoal,
finely powdered) OF.
The above we're used with signal success
by the physicians practicing in the Con-
Tolerate and Federal (prisonsrs, pest
houses in the years 1862 . in the City of
Richmond.