South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-30
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 a 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-preserv1ng process,
said to be very successful, is described in
the MoHieur Seisntifque. 1t consists in the
immersion of the meat in a solution of per-
fectly pure carbolic acid in water. Not
only raw meat, but eggs, fish and yegeta-
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 a powerful heating material, pro-
ducinga violent reaction, and leaving the
membrane in a loaded or congested condi-
ton"
Dull TOOLS are an determination to an
active man, besides being a prolific means
of wasting time, which, is money. The
knives of the mower should be kept well
ground, and while the horses are resting,
the driver who has been riding comforta.
bly, round the field, should be occupied in
giving a 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 it
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.-Hedrth 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 1900
plants as the proper number for an acre,
and thinks a man and 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 a 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.
-PNCHING IN TOMATO VINES. - The
RurGl NeU Yorker commends this prac-
tice on the ground that, if planted in rich
soil, the plants will usually continue grow
ing vigorously, expanding their strength,
in the early part of the season, in produc-
ing stems and leaves-little fruit appear
ing until late, so late that much of the crop
ordinarily does not ripen, in the North.
By pinching in the vines, the efforts of the
plant are turned to fruit production. 1t
thinks the tops should be pinched off
when the plants are a foot high, and the
the laterals when a foot or a little more in
length.
In reply to a query as to the best method
of killing out hazel brush without plow-
ing, and the best time to chop sprouts
from stumps, "Rural," in the Chicago
Tribune, says: GAS a general thing, trees
cut in August will die. 1t should be done
when in full growing vigor, and before the
wood is matured. Sprouts cut from stumps
in July, and again in August, are pretty
sure to be finished. Hazel brush cut in
spring and fed down by sheep through the
summer, will be out of the way; other
wise they may need two or three cut
tings."
To drive potato bugs from his fields, q
Russian gentleman living near Chicago
takes fine pulverized, air-slacked lime,
commences at one end of the field and
scatters it over the vines for the distance of
about ten rods. In the course of the day,
if the lime is applied in the morning, the
bugs nearly all betake themselves further
down the row where no lime was scatter
ed. The next day he scatters lime on the
vines for a like distance, and thus con-
tinues day by day, till the bugs are driven
on to a small area, when they are destroy
ed by Paris green or by other means.
A WRITER in AppletOn's Journal collates
the proverbs, superstitions and curious
facts about cats. This extract may save
some mothers worry: A common super
stition charges cats with sucking the
breath of infants, thereby causing their
death by strangulation. This is a false ac-
cusation, as pussy's mouth is so formed an
atOmically that she would not be able to
do so sanguinary a deed did she wish it.
Instances are on record where cats have
crawled into a cradle or bed, and laid down
on an infants face, not probably with any
criminal intent-thOugh children have
been found dead under such circumstances
but purely for the sake of the warmth
of the infants body and clothing.