The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-04-19
MISCELLANEOUS

| To Owners of CaRaries.
Tile latest sensation in the trichins
Ene, next 10 the Ghigucn horror, is the
fact of parasites infesting tlre cages Of iour
home-birds and rendering the life Of the little
warblers ruffled onesthat is, if the following
statement, which we find in one of our ex-
changes, be a fact: 7'i-i i''s-'' >
! Many person has seen a pet canary, OF
rather bird, in a state of perturbation, pluck
| ing at himself continually and his feathers
standing all wrong. In vain Is food changed,
and in vain is saucer of clean water always
| kept in his cage. The csuse of his wretch
edness has not been found out. lfthe owner
| of pet in such difficulties will take down
the cage and look up to the roofthereOf there
will most likely be Eeen mass OF stuff like
red rust. That rcd rust is nothing more or
less than myriads of parasites infesting the
bird, and for which watar is no remedy. By
procuring a lighted candle and holding il
under every particle of the top Of the cage
till all chance of anything being, left alive is
gone the remedy is complete. The. pet viii
soon brighten up after his ''hOus9. warming" !"
Planting shade Trees. ,,,.
The hint contained in tie following
item may be valuable or not; certainly thtre
car be 10 harm in -trying it on" 6 .-L
If people planting orchards or shade trees
would give strict orders 10 mark the north
side OF trees with red chalk before they are
taken up aud when set out to have the free
put in the ground with its north side TO the
north in its natural position, large propdr-,
tion would live. Ignoring this law OF mature
= ~
dying. If the north side is exposed TO the
south, the heat of the sun is too great for that
side Of the tree to bear, and-tberefore it dries
upand decays. .4is..,z- uniafa-F
Cure for the Bite OF a Mad Dog.
1t is long while yet before the .''Dog
Days" come around. but as this recipe is
vouehed for by respectable authority ii viii
beiwell enough to cut ii out and paste it up.
where you can't find it again:
A writer in the National Inteltigencer,ssys;
"Spiriis of hsrtshorn is certain remedy for
the bite of a mad dog, The wound should
be bathed constantly with il, and three or
four doses diluted, taken inwardly during
the day. The hartshOrn 6ecoDposes chem
ically the virus insinuated into the wound,
sud Immediately alters and destroys its de-
leteriousness
We have heard Of extravagant young
men using. bank-bills for cigar-lighters, but
never of slower of the weed SO far gone as
to masticate the precious currency merely to
show of. Here, however, is an. accidental
case: -.r7. 4.s 1rt. 5r asI
The other day, at Toledo. Ohio, a cattle
dealer received pay for steer which lac had
sold to butcher, and rolling the greenbacks
into small wad, put them into his tobacco
box Shortly after, he extracted, as lie
thought, portion of fthe tobacco, but with all
ofhis mastication, could express none of the
sayory juice, and finally took his guild out of
his mouth to look at itwhen he found he had
been chewing his greenbaeks. He stood
aehast for a laOment and then burst out, "Cuss
the lucki a srhole steer al e'ie char!
The Price Of OIL Paintings.
.-At a recent sale of pictures at the Art
Union Rooms in. New York, the following
oil paintings were disposed Of: .....,ss.
Trout Brook, J. Hope, $3.50; Fruit Piece,
J. H. DOlph, $55; Water Lilies in Bowl,
John La Fargo, $50; Quail and Young, W.
HoIbsrtou, $25; Too Sleepy to Read, G.
Burling, $50; Foggy MorHing-Greenwood
Lake, j. i. CroPsey, $l2J; Driving Home
The Cows, q. Van Ingen, SO; Jealousy. Y.
Nehlig, $40; Quail ard Cherries W. Hol-
berton. S3G; Sunrise in the Adirondaeks, J.
Hope, $500; Ostskil Mountains, j. II.
Dofpb 500; A Bit of Cayuga Lake, ]. NJ.
Hart, sac; Forest Scene, A. Wusi, $50; Deer
and Game, W. Holberton, $50; Black Noun
tains-Lske George, j. B. Bristol, S3l0;
Icebergs on the Atlantic (sunrise), A. Must,
$I65.