Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-10-05
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

An English medical journal says that
wearing green kids frequently causes
eruptions on the hands which are almost
incurable.
The ivory keys to piano which have
become yellow may be made white again
by washing them with a sponge with di.
luted sulphurous acid, or a solution of
soda, and expose to the sun.
Sun FLowERs.-A writer in the Prairie
FIrmer thinks 1T more profitable to raise
the mammoth sun flower than the common
kinds, but they are all good. The seed is
valuable for many purposes, especially for
feeding hens. The stalks are very useful
for kindling fires"
REMEDY FOR EAR ACHE.-Generally
heat is the best remedy. Apply warm
pouitice or warm oil to the ear. Rub the
back of the ear with warm laudanum. In
case of fetid discharge, carefully syringe
the ear with warm milk and water. In all
cases keep the ear thoroughly cleansed.
Relief is often given by rubbing the back
of the ear with little hartshorn and wa
ter.
WE are generally losers in the end, if
we stop to refute all the backbitings and
gossippiDg we may hear by the way.
They are annoying, it is true, but not dam
postulate and scold. Our characters are
formed and sustained by ourselves, by our
own actions and purposes, and not by
others. Always bear this in mind, that
calumniators may usually be trusted to
time and the slow, but steady, justice OF
public opinion"
DRILLING WHEAT.-In drilling in fall
wheat some advantage may be gained by
the direction in which the drills are run.
The prevailing winds in winter are from
northerly direction. If the drills are ar
ranged to run similarly, when the ground
is frozen and the viii ds are violent much
earth is blown from about the roots, and
they become sometimes dangerously ex-
posed If the drills run in an easterly di
rection the winds will blow across them,
and all loose earth, dust and floating mat
ters, and, most important of all, the snow,
will be 6rifted against the rows OF wheat
plants on the side where they need protec-
ton. The roots will thus gain covering
which is useful not only during the cold
weather, but also during the growing sea-
son.-RedTth and Home.
How TO SEE UNDER WATER.-Says q
writer in the Scientific American: "The
Indians of North America do this by cut
ting hole through the ice, and then COW
vi 1dESluS a bAoAhSt, IL sum - iAAss1A
ner as to darken or exclude the direct rays
of the sun, when they are enabled to see
into the water, and discover fish at any
reasonable depth. Let any one who is
anxi ious to prove this, place himself under
the blanket, and he will be astonished
when he beholds with what brilliancy
everything in the fluid world is lighted
up. Cnce had occasion to examine the
bottom of mill l-pond, for which l con-
structed float out of inch plank, sufficient
| to buoy me up; through the center of this
| float cut a hole, and placed blanket
over it, when I was enabled to clearly dis
cover objects on the bottom, and several
lost tools were discovered and picked up.
1 am satisfied that, where water is suffici-
emily clear, this latter plan could be sue
cessfully used for lost bodies and articles. VI
LOOK most to your spending. No mat
| ter what comes in, if more goes out you
will always be poor. The art is not in
making money, but in keeping it; little
expenses, like mice in a barn, when they
are many, make great waste. Hair by
hair, heads get bald; straw by straw, the
thatch goes off the cottage; and drop by
drop, the rain comes in the chamber. A
barrel is soon empty, if the tap leaks but 6
drop mirule. When you mean to save
| USSlu Will YOUR IuOuIns IuSIO dIG Hldu y
thieves down the red lane. The ale jug i:
a great waste. In all other things keeI
within compass. Never stretch your leg
farther than the blankets will reach, o.
you will soon be cold. In clothes, choose
suitable and lasting stuff, and not tawdry
fineries. To be warm is the main thing
never mind the looks. A fool may max,
money, but it needs wise man to spenC
it. Remember it is easier to build tw'
chimneys than to keep one going. If yol
give all to back and board there is moth
ing left for the saving bank. Fare harC
and work hard while you are young, ant
you will have chance to rest when yol
are old.
THE HEAT OF THE BLooD.-How man,
of us know the real temperature of Gu
own bodies? All the thermometers ar
marked wrongly; they generally mari
"blood-heat" at ninety eight degree
Fahrenheit Now, the real temperatur
of the blood, in healthy person, varie
surprisingly little from one hundred de
grees. But the temperature of the axills
or arm-pit, which is the part of the bod
whose heat is most frequently. and cor
veniently measured, averages ninety eigh
and six-tenths degrees. This is the usus
healthy temperature of the body; ittl
variation from. this temperature occur
whatever be the heat or cold of the SUI
rounding air. 1t is well known that "
retain an inward warmth while expose
to the cold. But the same vital power a
so keeps us cool when exposed to d.
gree Of heat far higher than that of tn
, blood-as in the case of the experimel
/ tiers who entered an oven heated aboy
the boiling point of water. And tn
( power to retain an even temperature
one Of the strongest proofs of sound col
stitution in the individual. Any range
: the axillary temperature below ninet,
seven degrees or above ninety nine and
half, is always very suspicious. Hear
: and Home.