Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

To WHTTEN 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 seton in the
leg, and thus keeping up perpetual issue.
All vestiges of the usually fatal affiiction
have vanished.
REMEDY FOR FRESH WoUNDs.-Bind
up the cut or wound with fine or pulver-
lied earth, and renew the earth in the
course of a few hours. The remedy is
simple and within the reach of every one
Earth is a complete deodorizer, and acts
like charm on fresh wounds.
THE venerable Peter Cooper said, in a
recent address: at did not take long for
me to learn that drunkenness was the
parent of the larger portion of the poverty,
vice ana crime which afflict 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"
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 fermenting
manure, and will keep everything sweet
An atmosphere poisoned by the pungent
odors which arise from unclean stables
cannot be wholesome and must be provo
q i I-a- 80
is common consequence of foul stables,
but if the owner will cleanse them, plas.
ter will remove all the smell.-Hearth
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 shrinks 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 leai
has fallen, will then be nearly dry, as the
leaves will rot 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.
ARTIFICIAL WANTs.-Bulwer says thai
poverty is only an idea, in nine cases ou
of ten. Some men with ten Thousand
| dollars year suffer more for want o
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 beinl
dunned for unpaid debts to kill sensi
tive man. A man who earns a dollar
day, and does not run in debt, is by ia
the happier of the two. Very few peopl
who have never been rich will believ
this; but it is true. There are thousand
and thousands with princely incom
| who never know a moments peace, be
cause they live above their means. Their
is really more happiness in the worl
among working people than with thos
who are called rich.
SETTING MILK IN LARGE PANS
In February, 1864, in company with th
landlord of the Hotel Dolen, city of An
sterdam, Holland, / visited the dair,
four miles from the city, which supple
the hotel with cream, butter, cream chees
whey, etc. The pans were great crock
three feet high, twenty inches in dian
ter, perfectly round, straight down frol
top to bottom, which was fiat; grey ston
ware, a half-inch hole in the side eve
with the bottom, stopped with a cor
wound with fine linen thread, never use
but once, through which hole was draw
the skim-milk, to be made into "yeoukle
cheese, leaving the cream to be emptie
direct into the churn. This was the san
system pursued at my grandfather's fort
years ago, when l was boy, and I'll
teams went away to Philadelphia loade
down from the diary and poultry yard
Cor. Country Gentleman.