The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-07
THE DAILY CLARION

CrRE FOR SMALL IOX.-Some one
furnishes the following recipe for the cure
of small pox:
The mode of treatment is as follows:
When the preceding feyeris at its height
and Just before the eruption appears, the
chest is rubbed with croton oil and tar
taric ointment. This causes the whole
of the eruption to appear on that part of
the body, 10 the relief of the rest. 1t
also secures full and complete eruption,
and thus prevents the disease from at
lacking internal organs. This IS said to
be the established mode Of treatment in
the English army in China, by general
orders, and it is regarded as a perfect
cure.
BEHIND THE TtMEs.-The Round
Table asserts that Partisan looseness Of
life Is creeping over New Workers rapidly.
A CURIOUS HANGING BAsEET.-Pro.
cure a turnip Of large size, and scrape
out the under side, leaving a pretty thick
wall around; fiji the cavity with earth,
and plant in it some climbing vine-cy-
press vine, or morning glory. Suspend
the turujp with cords, and in a little time
the vines viii Irvine around the strings,
and the turnlp sprouting from below, will
put forth leaves and stems that Will turn
upward, and carl gracefully around the
base.
\ curious process for giving iron an
exceedingly high degree OF hardness has
been discovered in France by NJ. Gaudin.
This chemist, some time since, recorded
the fact that by heating iron, toierably
free from carbon, with small quantity
OF boron, uroduc. SO hard that ii can
not be forged may be obtained by aiding
TO ordinary cast iron, while in fusion,
phosphate Of iron AID peroxide Of man
gauese. The iron produced in this way
cannot be forged, but casts easily, and Is
therefore thoroughly app iicable to the
construction Of such machines as require
iu their material extreme hardness rather
than tenacity. The metal SO produced
is, moreover, singularly sonorous, and its
invention suggests is employment IN
bell fouudries. lie also states that he
has discovered a species OF alloy called
tungsten iron, crystals Of which are so
hard, that they viii cut glass as readily
as the diamond,
ONE SECRET OF LONG LlFE.--In Ger
many learned man, DIR. Julius Fisch-
weller recently died at the age Of one
hundred and nine years. In his viii he
left the following statement: That his
great age Is entirely 70 be ascribed tohis
constant habit ofsleeping with his head
towards the North, and the rest Of his
body Ia a direction coinciding as closely
as possible with that Of the meridian
that is, with his heels to the South
From passisting In this habit the learn
ed doctor considered that the iron con-
tanned in our system, finding itself in the
direction Cd the magnetic currents which
are constantly flowing over the surface of
tho globe towards the North pole, be-
comes maguetized, and thus increases the
energy OF the vital principle" This may
appear fancitul to some people, and may
not be strictly true to the extent the doe
tor puts it, bat there is a great deal in the
subject Of human magnetism and pUlari-
~ worthy Of the attention of scientific
men.
Oar private opinion and belief is that
there are authentic documents now in
the library OF Yale College-or thew will
be there when needed-to prove that
Bunker Hin Monument marks the Ste
of Babylon the Mighty, that Carthage
woe. 49,, more nor less than Portland Is
tium Nahant, ana Dusruu, -se,0,,
ems that Homer was Professor OF Bellies /
Lettres at Harvard, and Palinurus a
member Of the Cambridge Yacht Club;
that Priscian taught a grammar school at
Montpelier, and Archimedes was phi
vate tutor of chemistry in Concord that
St. Peter was a Cape Cod fisherman, and
St Matthew a collector Of internal reve-
nue. at Stonington; that Phidias owned
a brown stone quarry in Maine, and Soc
rates founded the Atlantic Monthly
that the Academia was the walk under
the yew trees at New Haven, and the
Colossus Of Rhodes statue which stri-
ded from Nantucket to Martha's Vine
yard; that Plymouth Rock is all that is
left OF the Tower OF Babel, and the Con-
necticut river ran through Paradise; that
Stoniua on is the site OF Tyre, and Mer-
umac fast coiors the dyes that made that
city famous; that the old Temple Of Di- .
ana ut Lphesus was not burned, hit is
now laneuii Hail and that Herodotus
anu " ehta4L 4 amps were the same
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