The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23

of potatoes is introduced AS each batch is
withdrawn, it must be shaken and spread out
on the hoorlng to dry in some well-aired place.
When all the stock has been thus treated, and is
thoroughly dry, it should be stored away In
some dark room, of course free from damp The
potatoes will be found to have lost all tendency
to termination, and will remain sound and well
favored till the next years comes IN 1t is SAID
to be in this manner that Partisan hotel and res
taurant keepers preserve their supplies so well
for summer use
The cause of fungus growing on gold fish, says
Seth Green, is that the slime or scales of the
fish have become rubbed off, either by handling
some other means. If you wish to move your
fish from one vessel to another, you should use a
net made Of some kind of thin, soft material
mosquito netting or an old veil will answer.
They should never be taken into the hands.
You may not have handled them, but some one
else may have done so, either before or after
you have purchased them. The only cure
know of for the white fungus is to make a
strong brine of common salt and put the fish
into 1t for a minute or two, then Immediately
put them back into fresh water Do this three
times day. If you commence doing this when
you first discover the fungus growing on them,
you Will sometimes cure them. When you have
healthy fish, keep them well by changing the
water every time they come to top and keep
opening their mouths and seem to be breathing
more air than water When you change the
water, do so by taking about one half out at a
time and replacing it with fresh-a full change
is very apt to prove injurious. Give them plenty
of food, such as angle worms or any kind of in
sects, or fresh meat cut into small pieces; fish
wafer is also good. They should have change
OF food every week or so.
Philadelphia Press: The custom of burning
pastelles and fragrant herbs has a great deal to
recommend it, especially in the foggy days of
late summer, which rather trying times for
health to those who begin to realize they have
constitutions to take care of. A small burner or
chatting dish should be in every house and light
ed damp days and evenings to dry the air, and
supply the purifying agents of aromatic odors
which disnfect the atmosphere impaired by
rural notions of drainage. A piece of gum cam
phor burnt in a closed room diffuses light
cedar fragrance grateful to lungs and nervous
folk, and drives off mosquitoes. The smoke of
tansy, pine needles and bay berry or sweet fern
is not only pleasant but disinfecting, and so with
cloves, allspice and cassia, which may be coarse
ly powdered and burned with aromatic twigs.
Nothing is pleasanter and better for invalids
with throat or lung trouble than the odor of the
stong white sage from the Rocky mountain
plains. Travellers should bring home bur s of
this fragrant, powerfully medicinal herb. nose
virtues entitle it to be called the plant of wis
dom. 1t is sovereign for the hair and as q lotion
for weak spines. and its healing scent adds
browning virtue to the air of the plains. 1t
would rot be b. speculation to send bales of
it East, to burn IL esthmatic patients rooms, or
to in lotions for weak frames. Time will
come when people will 60 to the white sage
plains to recruit as they now do to the ocean.