The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-17

interest that they will become every n
oody's columns, by containing snort and t
pithy items of interest to everyone OF Q
The HERALD's readers. Therefore, the
editor INVITES correspondents to send I
items Of practical receipts, hints, or sug-
gestions, that may have occurred in the
experience Of our numerous and varied
classes OF readers, ard he will endeavor
to put them in such shape as to give the
public the benefit of the information.l
1t is said that repeated ses OF a
few drops OF Glove oil, in which CAM
phor has been dissolved, form an
excellent cure for incip:ent bowel
complaints.
Now is good time to purify the
blood by living on fruits end vege-
tables. The peach-cure, the pear
cure, and the grape cure, are all
efficacious. Any one who will re
solutely live on brown bread and
ripe fruit will get pure blood, which
| will build up and purify the @hole
body.
Everyone can obtain the benefits
of bathing. All that is necessary is
ran of water, a sponge and
coarse towel. A good bath can then
be had in your bedroom. 1t will
promote health by keeping your
| skin healthy and its myriad pores
active and its myriad nerve loops
full of tingling life.
Salt water bathing is good, par.
ticularIy just now. II stimulates
the skin more than fresh, but is not
rs cleansing. DON'T stay in too
long. IF you swim, ten minutes is
ample; If not, five minutes will sui.
fee, unless you have a warm fam
mel bathing dress, in which case you
may remain ten minutes.
Fer a disinfectant to sprinkle
daily about the chicken house Will
there is any contagious disease
among the fowl there ia nothing
better 6, cheaper than a mixture
made by dissolving three pounds o.
copp ras in FIVE gallons OF water
and then adding half pint of crud
csrbolie acid-using enough of thu
fluid to dampen all the premise
likely to be affected.
A successful celery culturiss-
o Mrs. Crider-says the whole secre
Il of success consists in keeping tn
celery bed or trench constantly wet
or rather saturated, with water.
: should never be allowed to becom
= dry. The plants should be tIaine
" or tied up to stakes, and leaves keI
clean and free from mud. No shad
is necessary, let it have the fu
sun. Wood ashes and little so'
b. are a good fertilizer.
ST This is clipped from the Prari
Farmer: Then came talk abol
sheep We. hogs In the orchard. TIL
former are preferred. They do n
root up the ground they clear OF
u great variety of weeds; they "sy
y tematically" go over the orchal
and pick up the apples that tr'
early, thus destroying large mn
bers of worms. Hogs will take Il
best apples and leave the worn
ones. SHEEP will keep down t
root sprouts from CHEEKY trees
Morelio stocks. But there is di.
erence in skeep. The Merinos W
not do at all. They browse
much; the lower branches Of TIRE
are never safe with them. Any
the long woods are preferable. T
q good Cotswolds to the acre will ke
an orchard in good shape"
Chloride of lead is the most po
reful. safe, and economical decd
izer and disinfectant known.
use on q small ecale for ordin;
purposes, take half dral
of nitric of lead and 4
it with one pint of
water; Dissolve two drach
of common table salt
two gallons of water, and mix
solutions; this forms a solution
. chloride of lead. A cloth wet "
this and hung up in room or WI
ever there is fetid atmosph
will sweeten it instantly, and
solution poured into water clio
sink or drain, will have the 81
effect. In a moment or two af
wards not a trace of often
smell can be discovered.
will destroy ali the elimination
the breath and body, and rem
ooS all tendency Of typhus poison.
UCS has been used by numbers of
sons for years past. and its
cacy should be everyw
known, so that it may
~ used in every dwelling house.
as nitrate Of lead is in the form of
crystals, and can be obtained at
= drug store, at q cheel rate
pound would make several hun
gallons of the solution OF chloriC
lead.
The effects of poisoning from
an ing in contact with poisonous sh
Al and from insec, stings and bites
frequently annoying and sonnet
dangerous. Here are some ANTI
and remedies:
ms Sour milk will remove all pa
stinging by bees, in few
utes, il applied quickly.
0Ng The yo.k Of an egg well n
lINA with fine SAL, and applied TO
affected part. is al excellent {
dote for the bite of tarantula
black spider. "a,
Severe cases of poison from Ivy
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