The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-02
Miscellaneous Selections.

CHLORIDE OF LIME.-The season for
free use of disinfecting agents is rapid
ly drawing near. The cholera is report
ed as having already made its dread adj
vent to our shores. After complete
renovation Of cellars, vaults &c. about
our premises, the next thing in order is
the free and continued use ofa disintec-
tant Perhaps none cheaper or better
can be found than chloride of lime. 1t
appears to be possessed of other virtues
also as the following froma London
England paper attests
Some years ago [ read in French
scientific periodical, that chloride Of
lime would rid the house of all vermin.
l treasured up the information until an
opportunity offered for testing its val
ue. l took an old country house, intes.
ted with rats, mice and flies. l stuffed
every knot-hole and mouse hole with
the chloride. l threw it on the
stone floor Of the dairy and cellars. l
kept saucers of it under the chests of
drawers, or some other convenient piece
of furniture i'll every nursery, bed or
dressing room. An ornamental glass
held a quantity at the foot cfeach stair
case. Cow sheds, stables and pig styles,
all had their dose, and the result was
glorious. | thoroughly routed my enc
mics and if the rats, more impudent
than all the rest, did make renewed at
tacks upon the dairy, in about ten
months the chloride again routed them,
and left me master Of my own prem
iSeS.
Last season was great one for waSps.
They could not face the chloride, though
in the dining room in which we had
none-as it smell, to me most refresh
ing and wholesome, is not approved by
all persons-we had a perpetual war
fare. All, all this comfort for eight
pence ! Only let house wives beware
that they place not the chloride in their
china pantries, or in too close proximity
to bright steel wares, or the result will
be that their gilded china will be re
duced to plain, and their bright steel
tenders to rusty iron, in short time.
We advise trial of the chloride of
lime for the vermin that intest the grape
vine, those pests, the rose bugs also
the square bugs, and the cucumber bugs,
and, indeed for all bug family, so well
known to gardners and farmers.
SPEECH OF NAPOLEON.-NapOleOn
made significant speech at Auxerra,
France, on the 10th instant, in which he
said he detested the treaty of 1915.
The Paris Bourse accepted it as Il sig
nal for war. Severe panics set in, and
Rentes fell two per cent. The follow
ing is the speech in full:
q see with pleasure that the memo
ry Of the first empire has not been etfl-
ced from your minds. Believe me, for
my own part have inherited the feelings
entertained by the chief of my family
for this energetic and patriotic popula-
ton, who sustained the Emperor i'll
good as in evil fortune.
{" have debt of gratitude to dis
charge towards Yonne. This depart
ment was the first to give me its suffra-
ges in 1913, because it knew, with the
majority of the French people, that its
interests were my interests, and that
I detested equally ecith them those t'eu-
ties Of 1915 rhich it Is nor souyht t0
ntah;e tie sole busis Of orr .tnreig,e poi
leg. | thank you for the sentiments you
have expressed towards me.
''Among you | breathe freely, for it is
among the working population, both i'll
town and country, that [ find the real
genius ofFrance.