Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A WET sponge and green leaves are
worn in the hat by Bostonians to avert
sunstroke.
THOSE owning trout ponds should keep
ducks away from them. One able bodied |
duck, it is said, will kill and eat ten trout a |
day, and an ordinary flock will clean out a |
pond in year or two.
POVERTY and riches are mere imagina- |
tive distinctions. The man who can eat
his bread and be happy is certainly richer
than he who can't eat it unless it is spread
with butter.
ANOTHER new meat-preserving process,
said to be very successful, is described in
the Monieur ScientifQue. 1t consists in the
immersion of the meat in solution of per-
fectly pure carbolic acid in water. Not
only raw meat, but eggs, fish and vegeta-
bles can be preserved by the same method.
WHETHER to eat ice cream or not, that
is the question. The following is an opin-
ion that is floating around the country:
Ice cream has a very injurious influence
upon the functions of the stomach. AS
| soon as it becomes melted and digested it
becomes powerful heating material, pro-
| ducing a violent reaction, and leaving the
membrane in loaded or congested condi-
tion."
| DULL TOOLS are an abomination to an
active man, besides being prolific means
of wasting time, which is money The
knives of the mower should be kept we'll
ground, and while the horses are resting,
the driver who has been riding comforta
bly, round the field, should be occupied in
giving keen edge to them by means of a
emery stone or common milestone.
When a knife is changed it should be
ground and prepared Immediately, that 1t
may be ready for use the moment it is
needed. A "stitch in time saves nine,
should be chalked upon the door of every
barn, and learned by heart.-Hedrh and
Home.
THE american Rural Home thinks it is
less labor to transplant beets from seed
beds into well prepared ground, and after:
wards cultivate them, than to weed and
thin them in the field. 1t gives 12,OJC
plants as the proper number for an acre
and thinks a man and a boy can transplant
them in two days, the boy dropping the
plants and the man setting them in holes
made with a dipple-better We think, by
the use of mason's trowel, with which
the earth can be pressed, the plant insert
ed, the trowel drawn out, allowing the
earth to fall back of itself.
f PNCHING IN TOMATO VINES. - Tht
Rural NeaD Yorker commends this prac
tice on the ground that, if planted in rict
S soil, the plants will usually continue grow
: ing vigorously, expending their strength
e in the early part of the season, in produc
f ing stems and leaves-little fruit appear
ing until late, so late that much of the crol
< ordinarily does not ripen, in the North
j By pinching in the vines, the efforts of tn
e plant are turned to fruit production.
d thinks the tops should be pinched OF
: when the plants are a foot high, and tn
t the laterals when foot or little more i
:. length.
g In reply to query as to the best metho
S of killing out hazel brush without ploH
ing, and the best time to chop sprout
It from stumps, Rural" in the Chicag
u Tribune, says: AS general thing, tree
cut in August will die. 1t should be don
| when in full growing vigor, and before tn
d wood is matured Sprouts cut from stump
in July, and again in August, are prett
y sure to be finished. Hazel brush cut i
if spring and fed down by sheep through tn
summer, will be out of the way; othel
5, wise they may need two or three Gu
= tings."
To drive potato bugs from his fields,
d Russian gentleman living near Chicag
d takes fine pulveriZed, air-slacked linn
e commences at one end of the field an
scatters it over the vines for the distance
;" about ten rods. In the course of the da,
re if the lime is applied in the morning, til
D bugs nearly all betake themselves furthC
al down the row where no lime was scatte
N ed. The next day he scatters lime on til
t. vines for like distance, and thus col
N tinues day by day, till the bugs are drive
If on to small area, when they are destro,
a ed by Paris green or by other means.
A WRITER in Appleton's Journal collatt
7 the proverbs, superstitions and curioU
l. facts about cats. This extract may say
q some mothers worry: A common supe
;, stition charges cats with sucking til
II breath of infants, thereby causing the
-e death by strangulation. This is false a
T. cusation, as pussys mouth is so formed al
atomically that she would not be able I
do so sanguinary deed did she wish
d. Instances are on record where cats ha,
crawled into cradle or bed, and laid dow
Il on an infants face, not probably with an
. criminal intent-thOugh children hay
Is been found dead under such circumstance
le but purely for the sake of the warmt
q of the infants body and clothing.