Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-07
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A NEW way of hanging oil paintings is
70 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 flues.
To CURE FELoN ON THE HAND
Take sassafras bark-the inside bark-dry,
and CRATE it fine, and wet in p teacup with
cold water, for poultice. Apply to the
felon, and wet once in five minutes with |
cold water. This, followed up, will draw
it to head in twenty four hours, without |
any pain and without any injury to the
hand. Use the bark of the Toot.-Rardl |
Ne1o Yorker.
10 REMOVE TEA STAINs.-Mix thor |
oughlY soft soap and salt-say table,
spoonful of salt to a teacup of soap; rub
on the spots, aud spread the cloth on the
grass, where the sun will shine on it. Let
il 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 oc-
casionally while lying on the grass, it will
hasten the bleaching Western Rural
INTERCHANGEABLE is real blessing to
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 Just
below the surface of painful things. A
real, impetuous laugh dissipates many illu-
sions, sweeps the twilight out of our i'm
aginations, and brings honest daylight.
But it must be real. No dry, hacking
laugh. It 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 of other mems laugh
ing 1t is hard not to laugh with men
who are in earnest about it-Erchdnge
GETTING RID OF RoCKs.-We have no.
ticed very often, in going about the coun-
try, great amount of labor expended in
digging out large stones and dragging
them to the surface, where they lie, a
greater nuisance, if possible, than when
they we're 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 hole suf-
fciently large been dug close to the rock
the removal of which was desirable, and
partly undermining it, a simple overbal-
ancing with crowbar or handspike 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 very
short time, and the unsightly appearance
of fence corners occupied by them avoided
-Hdqth and Home.
! WHY Do ANIMALS NEED SALT ?-Prof
James E. johnson, of Scotland, saws that
half the saline matter of the blood Us pei
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 special and indispensable constituent
and so do all the cartilages of the body
Stint the supply of salt, and neither vii
the bile be able property to assist diges
ton, nor the cartilages to be built up agail
as fast as they naturally waste. It is bet
ter to place salt where stock can have fire.
access to it than to give it occasionally il
small quantities. They will help them
selves to what they need, if allowed to d,
so at pleasure, otherwise when they be
come salt hungry, they may take NOR
than is wholesome.
THE st. Louis Journal of Education
says: Every teacher should understan,
how to plant trees and the art of grating
|
things. The play grounds of all ou
school-houses should be filled with shad
trees, both in the city and country. Ever
holiday at school should be celebrated b
the splanting of trees. The highway
should be lined with trees, thus plante
by the youth of the country The ray
ages which the foolish greed of the las
and present generations has made in ou
forests could thus, in time be repaired. 1
million hands in this State could be set 8
this work. 1t would become a habit {
family life to commemorate the events G
home, the birth of child, wedding, @
the anniversary of either, or even deatl
by these living monuments"
EFFECTS of IRRIGATIoN.-A CORE
spondent of the Country Gentleman says
I'VE have little experience in irrigatin,
which we will give for the benefit of OIL
ers. Some seventeen years ago we CO
! lected the water that run in
: : highway some distance; run it into
: small pond, and then, by bitches, over ha
! an acre of meadow. This simple transa,
: ton cost half a days work for two me
and team, and no expense since. We al
sure that we have obtained twice th
quantity of hay for the past sixteen year
or in other words eight tons of hay exit
in that time, worth, on an average, 81
l per ton-SS0 for $3 worth of work irr
, eating. The quality of the grass has ais
1 improved. 1t is, the larger part, now bit
grass, very thick and tall, from two fe,
, six inches to three feet above the cutie
: bar, which proves this grass the most r
l liable for irrigated meadow, as it steadil
and surely runs out all others in our meat
4 ow; but on dry soils it is not succe.
3 with me, and we think it a waste of see
4 to SOW it there"
WEED SEEDs-The seeds of cockl
: chess, and other weeds that are mike
! ! with the screenings from the tanning mil
: should be carefully prevented from gettir
!. . mixed with the manure in the barn-yar
= = We once permitted a neighbor to run
L few bags of grain through our fannir
: mill, and gave him the run of the barn fl
that purpose. When he had finished, an
during our absence, he-doubtless wit
: good intentions scattered the screenin.
all over the barn yard, so that the fow
might get the waste grain. This W;
) probably intended as q sort of recompen
7 ! for the use of the mill. Alasl we new
!; regretted more than on this occasion IL
U doing of a favor that resulted badly Fl
Il ourselves. Our manure pile was thoroug
= ly seeded with cookie and chess, and pro
. ably ten years of labor will be inflicted
: US before those seeds can be eradicate
> from the field on which the manure W
spread. We mention this circumstance
= warning to others, and also as a forcib
u reminder to all that weed seed should
. consumed with fire aud utterly destroye
g Don't feed them to poultry-they wor
eat cookie; and the seeds seem to last fc
a ever; by hook or by crook they will g
I, into the fields somehow. Put them in t
y y stove and you will have seen the last
y them.-HeGTth and Home.
J.