Democrat And Sentinel

Domestic Recipes--Infallible.

1. To prevent horses and cattle from jumping. Keep good fences around fields of good pasture.

2. How to sleep soundly at night. Do a hard day's work at some honest manual labor, go to bed early, and always with a consciousness of having done right during the day. Warranted.

3. To cure dyspepsia. Take a new axe, put white hickory handle in it, bore a half-inch hole in the top of the handle, fill the hole with gum camphor, and seal it up. Then take the axe and cut cordwood at fifty cents a cord, (boarding yourself) until the heat of the handle dissolves and absorbs the camphor. N. B. It will do just as well these times to take a maul and split rails, at the same price per hundred, provided the maul be a heavy hickory one. Tin mauls will not effect a cure.

4. To prevent dogs from killing sheep. If the dogs are good for anything, give them plenty of bread and meat to eat at home--if good for nothing, give them less meat with one grain of strychnine in it.

5. To prevent wives from scolding--Provide them with plenty of good wood and water--plenty in the pantry and kitchen--always wear a cheerful countenance, and speak pleasantly yourself.