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How TO Keep Meat, from Spoiling. — At this season 
-of the year, when persons are putting up their meat, it 
frequently happens that a sudden change in the weather, 
or other causes, gives a tendency to the meat to become 
tainted. This may be completely remedied by taking a 
quart of water and pouring into it two or three table 
spoonfuls of Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid, which may be 
had at any Drugstore, and then thoroughly washing the 
parts affected with it. If the meat is badly tainted, a 
larger quantity of water should be used. 
To housekeepers, this information will be very valuable 
for more purposes than to prevent the spoiling of meat. 
It will apply to removing the rancidity from butter and 
lard with the same result. 
We have frequently tried this simple plan ourselves and 
known others to try it, and we have never known it to fail. 
It entirely removes all bad odor and makes the meat as 
sweet and solid as it ever was . — Atlanta Intelligencer. 
Important to Housekeeper. — A lady correspondent 
desire to impart to the public what she believes to be valu- 
able information. She writes that having read the papers 
of the death of a man in Boston from inflammation caused 
by the toe nail growing in, she desires to let the public 
know of a remedy which she used in her own family with 
■complete success. A daughter suffered for years — con- 
sulted several physicians, and had finally arrived at the 
point where the doctors said the toe must be cut off, or 
the nail torn off, to save life, when this simple but sure 
remedy was applied, and in a very few days the cure was 
complete. The remedy was simply blue vitriol, a small 
quantity mixed with an equal quantity of burnt allum, 
pulverized and sifted through muslin. If the toe is ul- 
cerated, first wash it with Castile soap suds, and then ap- 
ply the powder two or three times a day. 
She also wishes to have the ladies know her remedy 
for getting rid of cockroaches. It is simply to take a dish 
with live coals in it, covering the coals with tobacco leaves 
and placing it in the closet, cupboard or buttery, and they 
are no longer to be seen. — Exchange. 
Economical Use of Nutmegs. — If a person begins to 
grate a nutmeg at the stalk end, it will prove hollow 
throughout; whereas the same nutmeg, grated at the 
other end, v/ould have proved sound and solid to the last. 
This circumstance may be thus accounted for: The centre 
of a nutmeg consists of a number of fibres issuing from 
the stalk and its continuation through the centre of the 
fruit, the other ends of which fibres, though closely sur- 
rounded and pressed by the fruit, do not adhere to it. 
When the stalk is grated away, those fibres, having lost 
their hold, gradually drop out in succession, and the hol- 
low continues through the wdiole nut. By beginning at 
the contrary end, the fibres above mentioned are grated 
off at their core end,’ with the surrounding fruit, and do 
not drop out and cause a hole. — Arthur's Home Maga- 
zine. 
Ipecacuanha and Delirium Tremens — The jail physi- 
cians at Chicago, has had 100 cases of delirium tremens 
the past year, of which only four proved fatal. Of his 
manner of treatment, the doctor says : 
“Ipecacuanha, which I have tried in thirty-six cases, I 
found most remarkably successful, quieting the nervous 
system, exciting the appetite, acting on secretions, and 
uniformly producing sleep. When a case is not of too 
long standing, I give it as an emetic the first dose, and 
afterwards I give from 15 to 18 grains every other hour. 
Connected with this remedy, 1 use shower baths, and let 
4he patient frequently drink strong beef tea, without any 
alcoholic stimulants.” 
Sandwiches for Evening Parties. — Chop fine sorm 
cold dressed ham, say about a quarter of a pound ; putia 
a basin with a tablespoonful of chopped pickles, and a 
teaspoonful of mustard, a little pepper or cayenne; pig 
about six ounces of butter in a basin, and with a spooa 
stir quickly till it forms a kind of cream ; and add the haM 
and seasoning, mix all well, have the sandwich bread eig 
in thin slices ; have already cut, thinly intermixed with 
fat, either cold rost, beef, veal, lamb, mutton, poultry, 
pheasant, grouse, fowl, partridge, &c., either of which lay 
evenly and not too thick, on your bread; season with a 
little salt and pepper ; cover over with another piece of 
bread; when your sandwich is ready, cut them in any 
shape you like, but rather small and tastily, and servo. 
You may keep them in a cold place, if not wanted, as 
they will keep good under cover for twelve hours, 
Graham Bread — One quart of milk ; scald one-half of 
it and pour on one quart of good Graham flour; then add 
the rest of the milk warm ; and flour enough to stir 
as thick as possible with a spoon, adding half a cup of 
good molasses while stirring it — then bake slowly for one 
hour. 
Another. — Two tea-cups of sweet milk, two of sour 
milk, half a cup of molasses, one teaspoonful of soda, 
Graham flour enough to make a thick batter — bake slow- 
ly one hour. 
This makes the better bread of the two recipes, in the 
opi nion of the generality of people. 
Graham flour to be good should be made of the best 
white winter wheat, and great care should be taken by 
the miller that it be not ground too fine. It spoils it to be 
ground fine ; the bread does not rise well. Every house- 
keeper should have this bread. 
Blaze-Proof Dresses, — The London Medical Times 
says : 
“The melancholy accdent by which the Ladies Laura 
and Charlotte Bridfiman and Miss Plunkett have been such 
fearful sufferers teaches a lesson which must not be neg- 
lected. The light fabrics manufactured for ladies’ dresses 
must be made blaze-proof. Nothing can be more simple. 
The most delicate white cambric handkerchief or fleecy 
gauze, or the finest lace, may, by a simple soaking in a 
weak solution of chloride of zinc, be so protected from 
blaze that if held in the flame of a candle they may be re- 
duced to tinder without blazing. Dresses so prepared 
might be burnt by accident without the other garments 
worn by the lady being injured.” 
Croup. — At a recent meeting of the Paris Academy of 
Sciences, the disease of croup — so common among chil- 
dren — formed the subject of very important remarks- 
Dr. Judin stated that it was a parasitic affection, and of 
all simple remedies capable of removing these parasitical 
growths the perciilorideofiron is by far the best. It pene- 
trates through the fungus, modifies the hemorrhagic state 
which alwas exists in the affected parts, and in their 
neighborhood, and, lastly, obliges the patient to ex- 
pectorate, by which means the false membrane is expelled, 
and an immediate cure effected, 
Preservation of Meat,— A Belfast (Ireland) paper 
states that meat first dried in a current of air and then 
hung up in a close chamber and exposed for twenty or 
thirty minutes to the fumes of burning sulphur, will 
keep as long as required. The meat, before packing, mu^ 
be further dried and then covered by some impervious 
substance. Sheep killed in Algiers during the month of 
August, and passed through this process were taken to 
Pans, and sold a month later. We have seen hams which 
after packing, were smoked a short lime over burning 
sulphur, that tasted and kept well — C»untry Gent-kman- 
