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Show CURES FOR VARIOUS AILMENT8. Home Remedies In Use Among Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Dutch. "In Ilticks county, among tho Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Dutch, there nio," said a doctor, "Innumerable homo cures. Some of thorn nro pretty good, too. Ouo Is, for toothache, a lump of alum hold In tho mouth for two or three days. This Is warranted not only to stop a toothache, but to keep It from over coming back. In the fall and winter thoy wrap their chests In brown paper up thero In Ducks county, coun-ty, saying that this prevents colds. Every housowlfo keeps on tho kitchen dresser, nnd every husband on his dressing table, n small box of cobwebs. Thore Is nothing better than cobwebs for a cut, especially for .a razor cut acquired In shaving It stops tho bleeding Instantor. They soak Ivy leaves In hot water In Ducks county, and nfter the water gets cold they squeczo In lemon Juice. This palatable pala-table drink Is given to consumptives, whom It Is said to euro. Stewed onions eaten and Bnuft sniffed they And good influenza specifics. For Insomnia thoy make hop pillows, and for bruises they keo'p on hand dried puffballs, tho powdery lnsldes of which they sprinkle on tho hurt," |