Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-17
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE,

To Written PIANO KEYS The ivory
keys to piano which have become yellow
may be made white again by washing them
with sponge with diluted sulphurous
acid, or solution of hyposulphate of soda,
and expose to the sun.
A CORRESPONDENT In the interest Of
humanity informs the New York Tribune
that an aggravated case of cancer in the
face was cured by inserting a seton in the
leg, and thus keeping up a perpetual issue.
All vestiges of the usually fatal afllictiOn
have vanished.
THE venerable Peter Cooper said, in q
recent address: at did not take long for
me TO learn that drunkenness was the
parent of the larger portion of the poverty,
vice and crime which afllict the American
people; and hence, until advancing age
seemed to demand moderate stimulants, l
carefully avoided alcoholic liquors as the
greatest curse of the young, and the most
deadly foe TO domestic happiness and the
| public welfare"
PLASTER. observation-disclosures and hog
! pens, as will rs stables and manure piles,
should be kept sprinkled daily with plas-
ter. A few handfuls will absorb the am
monia which escapes from the fermenting
manure and will keep everything sweet.
An atmosphere poisoned by the pungent
odors which arise from uncean stables
cannot be wholesome and must be provo
ca i've of disease. Inflammation of the eyes
is common consequence of foul stables,
but If the owner will cleanse them, plas-
ter will remove all the smell.-Uea7h
and Home.
SEASONING WooD.-A writer in an
English journal informs us that small
pieces of non resinous wood can be sea-
soned perfectly by boiling four or five
hours-the process taking the sap out Of
the wood, which shriDks nearly one
tenth in the operation. The same writer
states that trees felled in full leaf in June
or July, and allowed to lie until every leaf
has fallen, will then be ne ary dry, as the
leaves will not drop Of themselves until
they have have drawn up and exhausted
all the sap Of the tree. The time required
is from month to six weeks.
ENCOURAGEMENT OF HENS CRoP.-
Early in the spring, a valuable Brahma
hen in our flock had eaten so largely Of
snreds Of cOrn-fodder as to completely
engorge the crop, which was hard and
very much swollen We took fine pair
of scissors, and removing few of the
feathers, cut open the skin Of the breast
anu thpDStu tuc crop. HIS WAS tUcu
opened with the scissors for an inch in
length, and the mass Of fodder removed.
A stitch was put through the lips of the
wound and tied, other stitches were passed
through the skin and secured, and the hen
was released. The operation was perfect
ly successful.-Learth and Home.
ARTIFICIAL WANTs.-Bulwer says that
poverty is only an idea, in nine cases out
rsE ton Nav, thnrr ND
dollars year suffer more for want Of
means than others with three hundred.
The reason is, the richer man has artiA-
cial wants His income Is ten thousand
dollars, and he suffers enough from being
dunned for unpaid debts 10 kill sensi-
tive man. A man who earns a dollar q
day, and does not run in debt, is by far
the happier Of the two. Very few people
who have never been rich will believe
this; but it is true. There are thousands
and thousands with a princely income
who never know moments peace, be-
cause they live above their means. There
is really more happiness in the world
among working people than with those
who are called rich.
SETTING MILK IN LARGE PANS
In February, 1864, in company with the
landlord Of the Hotel Dolen, city of Am
sterdam, Holland, visited the dairy,
four miles from the city, which supplied
the hotel with cream, butter, cream cheese,
whey, etc. The pans were great crooks,
three feet high, twenty inches In diane
ter, perfectly round, straight down from
top to bottom, which was flat; grey stone
ware, half.inch hole in the side even
with the bottom, stopped with cork
wound with fine linen thread, never used
but once, through which hole was drawn
the skim milk, to be made into "yeoukle"
cheese, leaving the cream TO be emptied
direct into the churn. This was the Same
system pursued at my grand fathers forty
years ago, when was boy, and the
teams went away 70 Philsdelphia loaded
down from the diary and poultry gard
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