Year: 1872

it thoroughly with grass seed. Tn
moisture will close the cone partially
and in a day or two the tiny grass spire


will appear in all the interstices, and il
a week you will have perfect cone o
beautiful verdure. Keep secure from
the frost, and give it plenty of water
and you will have q ching of beauty
all winter.


+ VARNIsH AND PETROLEUM FOR Burns
Paris Is much interested in remed,
discovered by workman, who to re
lieve the pain from severe burn, thrus
his hand into pot Of varnish which
happened to be at his side. The relie
was SO sudden, and the healing of ths
wound so rapid, the news spread, will
the result of bringing to him every one
in the neighborhood who had burn
Many wonderful cures are said to have
been performed at the time of the great
explosion at Metz, last Sept, and the
discoverer has been summoned to Paris,
to make some public experiments.
| In similar manner it has been cis.
covered in this country that petroleum
makes an excellent pain-relieving ap-
plication for burns and scalds. and il
now is extensively applied for this pur-
pose. Experience has shown that crude
oil is better than the distilled article,
that among the crude oils the heaviest
are to be preferred. and that the crude
| filtered oil, which has not been heated
(such as has been used for lubricating
purposes) is best.


How TO PRODUCE Coon MILKERs.-
1t is certainly to be regretted that more
care is not taken to improve the milk
ers should be kept to breed from; their
milk not taken so long or in such guam
titles that they abhort their calves,
neither should their progeny be killed
at such an early age that it is thrown
on the dunghill, in order that all the
milk of the dam may go to the market
or the cheese factory. 1t is quite as
necessary to raise the calves of good
mixers in order to have another race
of good mixers, as it is to raise the colts
of fine trotters in order to have fast
horses. Extra dairy stock would bring
fancy prices in the market, if their
milking qualities could be vouched for.


NERVOUS OR SICK HEADACHE. A cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
says: "Nervouse or sick headache can
generally be cured, if taken in time, by
the use of bromide of potass. When
he attack is felt to be coming on, take
twenty grains of the bromide dissolved
in water; go to bed and sleep two or
three hours and you are cured. Some
times it may be necessary to repeat the
dose, which may be done il two or three
hours. The bromide is perfectly harm
less, unless taken in very large doses.
There will be no danger in taking twen-
ty grains every two hours, until you
have taken three doses. Bnt most cases,
if taken in hand early. will need only
one or at most two doses.'


WASHING FLANNEL.-A writer in the
Rural Ne,o Yorker asks: Do all house
keepers know that flannel should never
be rubbed on board, but as loosely as
possible in the hands The harder it is
rubbed the more the dirt works in in
stead of out. Flannel should be W sh-
ed and rinsed in warm water and dried
where the wind will not strike it much.
Any one following the above direction
need have no trouble about flannel
shrinking.


ALI know how to can peaches and 9TH
er fruits, but few are familiar with can
ming eggs. Place the eggs in the jar
with the large end down; place the jar
in boiling water, where let it remain un-
Ill the inner atmosphere of the jar is at
about blood heat, then seal, and remove
into cold water.