The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-06
Questions and Answers.
From Eoahs Times aud Messenger.
nnw ro GET R1p or FnEAs.

HOW To GET RID OF FLEAS'
A.-"Your correspondent 'Montgom-
ery,' desires to know how to rid kit
ten of heas. Perhaps my experience
with black and tan will benefit him.
The dog had many fleas, consequently
SO had we. put him in the bath tub
and washed him we'll with CASTLE soap
and water. The fleas liked 1t, throve
and multiplied. 1 tried dry snuff, but
they were up TO that: it made one or
two of them sneeze, but that's all. l
tried gin and snuff, and they invited
their friends and relations, and held
high carnival. Ihate to give up, SO
got a big bottle of cockroach powder.
| II forget whose make, but they are all
about alike.) Iput the dog on the bill
lard table, (Which was covered with a
white sheet,) began hammering at his
head, rubbing the powder into the hair,
then his ears, throat, chest, arms, un-
der the arms, back legs, tail, &C., until
every inch of him but his eyes, nose
and mouth was covered. And the heas
sickened and fell off of him on the
white sheet, until not one remained. L
saved two or three of them to see If
they were really dead, but in the course
OF two or three hours they showed
signs of returning animation, so car
ried them out that they might die with
their brothers. had put sheet, pow
der, fleas and all into tub, and poured
boiling water over them, and they died
and had one winding sheet. RcqWtescGt
in pace"
a QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE.
Q.-Suppose young lady, whose &C.
qnaintance make, invites me to call
at her residence to spend an evening
with her. do so, and, taking leave
from her, she does not, or rather omits
to, invite me to call again. Can l, in
such case, call again, or would II be
proper for me to call again, without
giving offence, or running the risk OF
Being taken for an intruder?
At would not be proper to call
again on the lady unless re.inVited. 1t
would be polite, however, to bring the
fact to her knowledge, through some
friend, that you absented yourself be-
cause uninvited.
HOW TO MAKE A BAROMETER.
Q.-"Inlorm me how to make the
solution used in a test tube for bar
ometer? believe when it is going to
rain it has a milky appearance, and at
other times looks like water"
Ave believe the solution is simply
that of camphor in alcohol. a very
curious and simple barometer is made
out of long, narrow cologne bottle, by
dissOlVing III it two and half drachms
of camphor in eleven drachms OF alco-
hol. After the camphor has been dl5-
solved auu 10 inc SOluIlOu the lO4lO"-
ing: Take nine drachtns of water dis
solve in it thirty grains of saltPetre and
the same OF sal ammonia, Shake all
these well together in II bottle, cork and
bottle we'll and wax the top, but pune.
ture with a fine, red-h needle small
hole in the cork. Hang the bottle up
and you will soon learn by its changes
to predict the changes in the weather.
THE TURKISH BATH.
Q.-"How do the Russian baths and
Turkish baths Ian institution in your
city, differ from our American baths?
Are they more beneficial TO health?
What is the nlOduS operGndi 2"
A.-They differ materially from our
baths, are far more violent and exhaust
ing, and are supposed, if you can en-
dure them, to produce reaction won
derfully conducive 10 health. The
baths in question may be said, briefly,
to consist in first heating you in a warm
room, until you can be scrubbed in
your own perspiration and feel like
dying of sheer exhaustion. Then they
suddenly give you a cold bath. Then
they dry you and leave you to repose,
in order to recover strength enough to
walk again. This done, you are sent
home, perfectly delighted, lawfully {"
frightened, and ready to tell every body
how well you feel, but vowing, inter-
nally, never to :" do SO again."