one-half ounces; oil of sweet almonds, four teaspoonfuls; gum camphor, three-quarter ounce, made fine. Set on the stove until dissolved, constantly stirring. Use only just sufficient heat to melt them together. While warm, pour into moulds, if desired to sell; then paper and put up in tinfoil. If for your own use, put up in a tight box. Apply to the chaps or cracks two or three times daily, especially at bed-time. It is also good for salt-rheum and piles.

Burns, Salve to Cure Without Pain; also Sore or Cracked Nipples. - Take equal parts of turpentine, sweet oil, and beeswax; melt the oil and wax together, and when a little cool add the turpentine and stir until cold, which keeps them evenly mixed. Apply by spreading upon thin cloth (linen is best), and only apply a thin cloth over the one on which the salve is spread, unless the burn is very extensive, and more covering is needed to keep the patient warm.

Felon, if Recent, to Cure in Six Hours. - Take Venice turpentine, one ounce; and put into it half a teaspoonful of water, and stir them with a rough stick until the mass looks like candied honey; then spread a good coat on a cloth and wrap around the finger. If the case is only recent, it will remove the pain in six hours; but if of long standing, it will require a longer time.

Frost Bites and Itching Feet, a Liniment to Cure. - Take alcohol, one quart; Thompson's No. 6, one quart; and camphor gum, one ounce; this cures frost bites, itching feet, etc. Use it freely and often; it makes a good liniment also for common

purposes.

Cure for Corns. If a cripple will take a lemon, cut off a piece, then nick it so as to let in the toe with the corn, the pulp next the corn, tie this on at night so that it cannot move, he will find next morning that, with a blunt knife, the corn will come away to a great extent. Two or three applications of this will make "a poor cripple happy for life."

Syrup for Consumptives. Take a peck of tamarack bark; spikenard root, onehalf pound; dandelion root, one-quarter pound; hops, two ounces. Boil these sufficiently to get the strength, in two or three gallons of water; strain and boil down to one gallon. When blood warm, add three pounds of honey and three pints of best brandy; bottle and keep in a cool place.

Dose. - Drink freely of it three times a day before meals, at least a gill or more, according to the strength and age of the patient.

Ointment for Old Sores. — Take red precipitate, one-half ounce; sugar of lead, one-half ounce; burnt alum, one ounce; white vitriol, one-quarter ounce, or a little less; all to be very finely pulverized; have mutton tallow made warm, one-half pound; stir all in, and stir until cool.

Dr. Peabody's Cure for Jaundice, in its Worst Forms. Take red iodide of mercury, seven grains; iodide of potassium, nine grains; aqua dis. (distilled water), one ounce. Mix. Commence by giving six drops three or four times a day, increasing one drop a day, until twelve or fifteen are taken at a dose. Give in a little water, immediately after meals. If it gives a griping sensation in the bowels, and fullness in the head when you get up to twelve or fifteen drops, go back to six drops, and up again as before.

Pinusine Corn Killer. - Tincture of pine needles, four hundred parts; liquid ammonia caustic, four hundred parts; tincture of iodine, two hundred parts. This fluid may also be employed for frost bites.

Mexican Oil. - Petroleum, two ounces, fluid; aqua ammonia, one ounce, fluid; brandy, one drachm, fluid. Mix. This is also known as Mexican Mustang Liniment.

Lyon's Kathairon. — Alcohol, ninety-five per cent, twelve fluid ounces; oil ricinis, four fluid ounces; tincture cantharis, one-half fluid ounce; acid, tannic, thirty grains; oils, citronnella, bergamot, and cloves, one-half fluid drachm each; oils lavender, flo., and rosemary, one fluid drachm. M. Sec. art. Filter.

Diphtheria.

For treatment of this terrible disease, the following recipes are said to be excellent :No. 1.-Take of sulphuric acid, four drops; water, three-quarter tumblerful. Mix, and stir well, and give at one dose to an adult; children in proportion to age. Repeat as occasion requires. It is said to coagulate the diptheritic membrane, and cause its ready removal by coughing; and is considered by some almost as a specific. No. 2. Take one teaspoonful of sulphur and two ounces of water, and stir with the finger, instead of a spoon, until it is well mixed; then use it as a gargle; also have the patient take a teaspoonful of the sulphur in two ounces of water, and repeat the dose four or five times during the day, and repeat the gargle every hour until improvement takes place. If the patient is so badly off that he cannot use the gargle, put a teaspoonful of the sulphur on a live coal, and let the patient stand over it and inhale the smoke made by its burning; or, in some bad cases, where the throat is nearly closed, it might be well to blow a little of the sulphur through a quill into the throat. It is said that Dr. Field of England has treated many cases in this way, and all recovered.

Earache. Take equal parts of tincture of opium and glycerine. Mix, and from a warm teaspoon drop two or three drops into the ear, and stop the ear tight with cotton, and repeat every hour or two. If matter should form in the ear, make a suds with Castile soap and warm water, about one hundred degrees F., or a little more than milk warm, and have some person inject it into the ear, while you hold that side of the head the lowest. If it does not heal in due time, inject a little carbolic acid and water, in the proportion of one drachm of the acid to one pint of warm water, each time after using the suds.

DIVISION V.

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

CHAPTER I.

COMMERCIAL FORMS AND USEFUL TABLES.

Law Points for Farmers. If a note is lost or stolen, it does not release the maker. He must pay it, if the consideration for which it was given and the account can be proven.

Notes bear interest only when so stated.

Principals are responsible for the acts of their agents.

Each individual in partnership is responsible for the whole amount of debt of the firm, except in cases of special partnership.

Ignorance of the law excuses no one.

The law compels no one to do impossibilities.

An agreement without consideration is void; a note made on Sunday is void; contracts made on Sunday cannot be enforced.

A note made by a minor is void; contracts made with a minor are void; a contract made with a lunatic is void.

A note obtained by fraud, or from a person in a state of intoxication, cannot be collected.

It is fraud to conceal a fraud.

Signatures made with a pencil are good in law.

A receipt of money is not always conclusive.

"Value received" is usually written in a note, and should be, but it is not necessary. If not written, it is presumed by the law, or may be supplied by proof.

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The maker of an "accommodation" bill or note - one for which he has received no consideration, having lent his name or credit for the accommodation of the holder - is bound to all other parties precisely as if there was a good consideration.

No consideration is sufficient in law, if it be illegal in its nature.

If the drawer of a check or draft has changed his residence, the holder must use all reasonable diligence to find him.

If one holding a check, as payee or otherwise, transfers it to another, he has a right to insist that the check be presented that day, or the next day following.