South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-08-04
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

THERE is no luck like pluck, and fortune
most favors those who are Indifferent to
fortune.
REMOVING WARTS FROM THE HANDS
The Rural Neo Yorker says: A mixture
of two parts of nitric acid to one of mu-
ratio acid is a good remedy for warts. 1t
should be applied to the warts with a small
brush from a broom, and care must be
taken not to get acid on the flesh, as it
will make a sore. Salerstus will coun-
teract the action of the acid.
GLUE KETTLEs.-Afew holes, boredin a
glue kettle, in a horizontal line near the
rim, will allow steam from the boiler to
enter the kettle, and so prevent the glue
from solidifying on the side. The holes
need not be bored all round the kettle, asst
is handy to be able to pour glue out of one
side without wasting it.
DRIVING NAILs.-A Subscriber " asks
if we know of a better plan of driving
nails in hard wood than by greasing the
points. Undoubtedly. If the point of a
nail is dipped in grease, the face of the
hammer will very soon become greasy and
will need very careful cleansing or work
will be impossible. A better plan is to wet
the point of the nail on the end of the
tongue; this will make it drive easily, and
will lot interfere with the hammer
Hearth and Home.
TIE fifty per cent. of silica in the straw
and grain, respectively, show why it is
that oats flourish l~uxuriantly on meadow
land that has been broken up from grass.
1t also indicates that potash, for the re-
duction of the silicates, is absolutely es-
seEtial as a constituent of the soil. Wood
ashes, therefore, are very serviceable in
the growth of the crop, as well as in the
production of the finer grasses.
LITTLE THINGs.-Life is made up of lit
tie things. He who travels over a CONT
nent must go step by step. He who
writes a book must do it sentence by SEN
tence. He who learns a science must mas
ter it fact by fact, and principle after prin-
ciple. What is the happiness of our life
made up of? Little courtesies, little kind
nesses, pleasant words, genial smiles, a
friendly letter, good wishes, and good
deeds. One in q million-once in a life
time-may do a heroic action; but the
little things that make up our life come
every day and every hour. If we make
the little events of life beautiful and good,
then is the whole life full of beauty and
goodness.
DAMP PROOF MUCILAeE FOR LABELS
The ATchiUes Of Pharmacy gives the fol-
lowing recipe: Macerate five parts of
good glue in eighteen to twenty parts of
water for a day, and to the liquid add nine
parts of rock candy and three parts of
gum arabic. The mixture can be brushed
upon paper while lukewarm; it keeps
well, does not stick together, and, when
moistened, adheres firmly to bottles.
For the labels of soda or seltzer water
bottles, it is well to prepare q paste of
good rye flour and glue, to which linseed
oil varnish and turpentine have been
added, In the proportion of half an ounce
each to the pound. Labels prepared in
the latter way do not fall off in damp Gel
lars.
DEsICcATED PoTAToEs.-Several differ
ent method of preserving potatoes by dry
ing have been devised within a few years
past. In some the raw potatoes AVE been
cut in thin slices, dried by hotair and then
ground into -four. In others the vegeta-
bles have been first cooked and afterwards
dried. The latest plan is to steam or boil
the potatoes after removing the skins, then
MASKING and forcing them through q YES
sci having a perforated bottom like a
colander. This brings the substance into
the form of long, sticky strings, which are
dried, and which may be used in place of
rice in soup. etc. Or, they may be ground
fine and when moistened with boiling
water will resemble mashed potatoes
cooked in the ordinary way.-Rural Meu
Yorker.
To FAsTEN RUBBER TO WOOD AND
METAL.-As rubber plates and rings are
almost exclusively used for making con-
nections between steam and other pipes
and apparatus, much difficulty is expert.
enced in making al air-tight connection.
This is obviated entirely by employing a
cement which fastens alike well to the
rubber and to the metal or wood. Such
cement is prepared by a solution of shellac
and ammonia Soak pulverized gum shell.
lac in ten times its weight of strong am
monia, when q Shiny mass is obtained,
which In three 10 four weeks will become
liquid without the use of hot water. This
softens the rubber, and becomes, after
volatilization of ammonia, hard and i'm
permeable to gases and fluids.-Boston
Journal Of Chemistry.
DAMP WALLs.-Anything that will pro-
mote health and well-beiDg among the
operatives of our over crowded manufac-
tories and workshops, is worthy d note,
and the remedy for an evil as common as
is dangerous, seems specially to deserve
attention. Damp walls to work rooms are
among the most fruitful causes of disease
among laborers of both sexes, and we
deem it not out of place to give the man
ner of a device, simple and easily adopted
to prevent the effects thus resulting from
bad building. The mode of protection
adopted, is to boil together powdered sui
phur and water for half an hour, in the
proportion of n pound of sulphur to
two quarts of water. The mixture thus
formed should be applied with a brush,
like ordinary paint, upon the walls affected,
and the result will be, as a rule, to entirely
prevent the unhealthy and unpleasant ooz-
ing forth of moisture. While buildings
should never be so constructed as to admit
of dampness, yet it is most important that
being unable to prevent existing evils, we
should have the means of remedy, and the
bit Of advice just given, we hope,
may be adopted in some of the many in
stances where it is likely to work a bene-
6t-AHericIn Builder.