MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 



EARTHEN WARE. 



Much of the earthen ware made in this country is glaz- 

 ed with lead: and it is laid on very savingly, thin and 

 slight: <o that it is not only worn away by vegetables, 

 and every thing acidulous, but is apt to scale off, and be 

 swallowed with meat, greens g.nd drinks. It is a pre- 

 paration of lead, and consequently a strong poison. — 

 Pickles, preserves, &c. should never be kept in earthen 

 Tessels. 



CELLARS. 



If you wish to live out half 3'onr days, be careful to 

 cleanse your cellars, and not to be in the habit of breath- 

 ing the gasses of putrelaction, vegetable or animal. We 

 have every reason for believing that bilious or typhus 

 fevers, of a malignant and fatal kind, have originated 

 from the rotting of potatoes, cabbages, turnips, and eth- 

 er vegetables, in cellars. Beef brine, or pork brine, 

 suffered to stand too long, become very offensive ; and 

 whatever offends the sense of smelling, is injurious to 

 the health. Dead rats or mice, in a wall or ceihng, are 

 detrimental to health, as well as offensive. 



The following has been recommended as an effectual 

 mode of freeing a room frem the offensive smell, occa- 

 sioned by a dead rat, or other animal : Take a small 

 earthen vessel, into which, put a little salt petre, more or 

 less, according to the size of the room ; pour upon this 

 a sufficient quantity of sulphuric acid, (oil of vitriol,) 

 so as completely to saturate it, and shut the room up 

 closely for an hour, in which time it will be found \o be 

 perfectly free from the offensive smell. 



