Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-08-17
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

10 WH1TEN PIANO KEys.-The ivory
Keys 10 piano which have become yellow
may be made white again by washing them
acid, or solution of hyposulphate of soda,
and expose to the SUN.
A CORRESPONDENT In the interest of
humanity informs the Now York Tribune
that an aggravated case of cancer in the
face was cured by inserting seton in the
leg, and thus keeping up perpetual issue.
All vcstiges of the usually fatal atlliction
have vanished.
REMEDY FOR FRESH WOUNDs.-Bind
up the cut or wound with fine or pulvcr-
lied earth, and renew the earth in the
course of few hours. The remedy is
simple and within the reach of every one.
Earth is complete deudcrizor, and acts
like charm ON fresh wounds.
TIE venerable Peter Cooper said, in a
recent address: ut did not take long for
me to learn that drunkenness was the
parent of the larger portion OF the poverty,
vice and crime which aff1ict the American
people; and hence, until advancing age
seemed to demand moderate stimulants,
carefully avoided alcoholic liquors as the
greatest curse of the young, and the most
deadly foe to domestic happiness and the
public welfare
R.-Chicken-houses and hog
pens, as will as stables and manure. piles,
should be kept sprinkled daily with plas-
ter. A few handfuls will absorb the am
monia which escapes from the termenting
manure, and will keep everything sweet
An atmosphere poisoned by the pungent
n1nro rJhIOh mir frOrv1 ,1Of1non Otn n m
cannot be wholesome and must be provo
ca i've of disease. Inflammation of the eye
is q common consequence of foul stables,
but if the owner will cleanse them, plas-
ter will remove all the smell-Hee,ath
and Home.
| SEASONING WooD.-A writer in an
Engli,.tc 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 shrinks nearly one
tenth in the operation. The same writer
states that trees felled in full leaf in June
or July, aud allowed to lie until every leaf
has fallen, will then be n, arIy dry, as the
leaves will not drop of themselves until
| all the sap OF the tree The time required
is from month to six weeks.
ENFORCEMENT OF A HENS CKoP-
Early in the spring, 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
aud exposed the crop. This was then
opened with the scissors for an inch III
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 uccessful.-Henrth and Home.
ARTIFICIAL WANTs.-Bulwer says that
poverty la only al idea, in nine cases out
of ten. Some men with ten thousand
dollars year suffer more for want OF
means than others with three hundred.
The reason is, the richer man has artif-
cial wants His income is ten thousand
dollars, and he suffers enough from being
dunned for unpaid debts to kill a sensi-
tive man. A man who ,arns a dollar q
day, and does not run in debt is by fA1
the happier of the two. Very few people
who have never been rich will believe
1 1AAAo OAU ~ 10 UkuC ASAO 6AC tASNDnANS
and thousands with priucely income
who never know moments peace, b.
cause they live above thvir means There
is really more happiness in the worlC
among working people than with thost
who are called rich.
SETTING MILK IN LARGE PANS
In February, 1854, in company with tn.
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 diau G
TER, perfectly round, straight down from
top to bottom, " hich was fiat; grey ston
ware, half-inch hole in the side eve1
with the bottom, stopped with coIl
wound with fin" linen thread, never u.s..
but once, through which hole was draw
the skim milk, to be made into "yeoukle
cheese, leaving the cream to be emptiet
direct into the churn. This was the sam
system pursued at my grandfather's fort.
years ago, when I was boy, and tn
teams went away to Philadelphia loade,
down from the diary and poultry yard
Cor. Country Gentleman.