South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
ANEW way of hanging oil paintings is
to have large blocks of wood at the back
of the frame to prevent their touching the
wall, so that the air can circulate through
the back and prevent the painting being
injured by dampness or blistered by the
heat from the chimney or fues.
To CURE A FELON ON THE HAND
Take sassafras bark-the inside bark-dry,
and CRATE it fine, and wet in p teacup with
cold water, for a poultice. Apply to the
felOn, and wet once in five minutes with
cold water. This, followed up, will draw
it to a head in twenty-four hours, without
any pain and without any injury to the
hand. Use the bark of the Toot-Rurdl
NeU Yorker.
To REMOVE TEA STAINs.-Mix thor
oughlY soft soap and salt-say a table
spoonful of salt to a teacup of SOAP; rub
on the spots, and spread the cloth on the
grass, where the sun will shine on it. Let
it lay two or three days, then wash. If the
stain is not all out, it will disappear in the
second washing. If the spots are wet &C.
casioDally while lying on the grass, it will
hasten the bleaching Western Rural.
DllhIhf OLNhco."ll 10 d IGul OlcSSl00 10
have one in the family who is sensitive to
the ludicrous. There are enough to reflect
the sad side of life, and its irritable side.
and its sober side. We need one or more
to show the mirth that often trembles lust
below the surface of painful things. A
real, impetuous laugh dissipates many illu-
sions, sweeps the twilight out of our i'm
s~ginations, and brings honest daylight.
But it must be real. No dry, hacking
laugh. 1t should be spontaneous, out
bursting, irresistible, infectious. We have
seen men fall TO laughing who had not
heard the cause of mirth, but only had
caught the contagion ofother mems laugh
ing. 1t is hard not to laugh with men
who are in earnest about it-E1ehdnge.
GETTING RID OF RoCKs.-We have no.
ticed very often, in going about the coun-
try, a great amount of labor expended in
digging out large stones and dragging
them 10 the surface, where they lie, a
greater nuisance, If possible, than when
they were partly buried in the soil. If a
different mode of treatment had been fol-
lowed, they might have been neatly and
permanently disposed of. Instead of bring
ing them to the surface, they should have
been buried out of sight. Had a hole suf-
f~iciently large been dug close t the rock
the removal of which was desirable, and
partly undermining it, a simple overbal-
ancing with a croWbaro or hsndspike would
have tumbled it therein, and it might then
have been covered up and forever gotten
rid of. In this way an acre of ground can
be easily cleared of large stones in a very
short time, and the unsightly appearance
of f~ence-corners occupied by them avoided.
-HI7h and Home.
WHY Do ANIMALS NEED SALT?-Prof.
James L. johnson, of Scotland, says that
half the saline matter of the blood Us per
cent consists of common salt, and as this
is partly dissolved every day through the
skin and kidneys, the necessity of con-
tinued supplies of it to the healthy body
is sufficiently obvious. The bile also con-
tains soda Zone of the ingredients of salt)
as a special and indispensable constituent,
and so do all the ~cartilages of the body.
Stint the supply of salt, and neither will
the bile be able property to assist diges-
ton, nor the cartilages to be built up again
as fast as they naturally waste. 1t is bet
ter to place salt where stock can have free
access to it than to give it occasionally in
small quantities. They will help them
selves to what they need, if allowed to do
so at pleasure, otherwise when they be-
come salt-hungry, they may take more
than is wholesome.
THE St. Louis Journal of Education
saws Livery teacher should understand
how to plant trees and the art of grating,
and should be able to teach children these
things. The play grounds of all our
schOol-houses should be filled with shade
trees, both in the city and country. Every
holiday at school should be celebrated by
the planting of trees. The highways
should be lined with trees, thus planted
by the youth of the country. The raw
ages which the foolish greed of the last
and present generations has made in our
forests could thus, in time be repaired. A
million hands in this State could be set at
this work. 1t would become a habit of
family life to commemorate the events of
home, the birth of a child, a wedding, or
the anniversary of either, or even a death,
by these living monuments"
EFFECTS of IRRIGATIoN.-A CORE
spondent of the Country Gentleman says:
We have a little experience in irrigating,
which we will give for the benefit of 9TH
ers. Some seventeen years ago we col
lected the water that run in a
highway some distance; run it into a
small pond, and then, by bitches, over half
Gil aN4C " h4Cd0Om. 1Alo SLlplC lIducdC-
ton cost half a days work for two men
and team, snd no expense since. We are
sure that we have obtained twice the
quantity of hay for the past sixteen years,
or in other words eight tons of hay extra
in that time, worth, on an average, SO
per ton-$S0 for So worth of work irri-
eating. The quality of the grass has also
improved. 1t is, the larger part, now blue
grass, very thick and tall, from two feet
six inches to three feet above the cutter
bar, which proves this grass the most re-
liable for irrigated meadow, as it steadily
and surely runs out all others in our mead
ow; but on dry soils it is not a success
with me, and we think it q waste of seed
to SOW it there"
WEED SEEDs.-The seeds of cookie,
chess, and other weeds that are mixed
with the screenings from the tanning mill,
should be carefully prevented from getting
mixed with the manure III the barn-yard.
We once permitted a neighbor to run a
few bags of grain through our tanning
mill, and gave him the run of the barn for
that purpose. When he had finished, and
during our absence, he-doubtless with
good NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the screenings
all over the barn-yard, so that the fowls
might get the waste grain. This was
probably intended as a sort of recompense
for the use of the mill. Alasl we never
regretted more than on this occasion the
doing of a favor that resulted badly for
ourselves. Our manure pile was thorough
ly seeded with cookie and chess, and prob
ably ten years of labor will be inflicted on
US before those seeds can be eradicated
from the field on which the manure was
spread. We mention this circumstance as
a warning to others, and also as a forcible
reminder to all that weed seed should be
consumed with fire aud utterly destroyed.
Don't feed them to poultry-they won't
eat cookie; and the seeds seem to last for
ever; by hook or by crook they will get
into the fields somehow. Put them in the
stove and you will have seen the last of
them.-HedTth and Home.