Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-17
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

THE Washington Life Insurance Com
pany is increasing more than two thous-
and dollars per day, above all losses and
expenses.
WHEN at work in the garden or other
place where purslane grows, pull up the
weed and give it to the hogs; they will
eat it with relish, and do as well upon
it as clover or tender corn stalks. A Suf-
folk pig may be summered and kept fat
upon the purslane which ordinarily grows
in village garden, and with the aid of
table slops.
AT meeting of the British Associa-
tion at Dublin, Mr.. Charles Blanconi, of
Caspel, read paper relative TO his exten-
sive car establishment, after which
gentleman stated that at Pickford's, the
great English Carrier, they could not
work a horse more than ten miles day,
and wished to hear MIR. Blanconi's
opinion on the subject. MIR. B. stated he
found by experience he could better
work horse eight miles day for six
days in the week than six miles day for
seven days. By not working on Sunday,
he effected a saving of twelve per cent.
MIR. Blanconi's opinion on this point is OF
the highest importance, for he has over
900 horses, working sixty-seven con-
veyances, which daily travel 4,2A
miles. 1t is also the result of forty
three years experience.-ScieRtfc Amer
tcdn.
AN English journal impresses on the
minds of all sportsmen, old and young,
the necessity of caution in the use OF
fire arms. Every year witnesses some
dreadful accident-many fatal, others at
tended with the loss of eyesight or a
limb. A large portion of them might be
averted with tolerable care. The follow
ing "golden rules" are suggested: 1.
Never load or leave a loaded gun in the
house. 2. Never carry gun in position
that if it went of accidentally it would
iniure anyone. 3. Never carry gun
cooked when scrambling through a hedge
or leaping a ditch. 4 Never leave gun
| loosely againt a tree or wall, as if it falls,
or is suddenly moved away, it is liable to
go of. .. Never in sport point toward
another a loaded or unloaded piece oi
firearms. By strictly adhering TO the
above rules many serious accidents would
be avoided.
RIVED shingles of clear pine are the
best, not only because of the durability o.
the stuff in and of itself, but because the
smooth cut of the drawing knife leave!
/ the least possible rcughness upon the sur
face for decay to take hold of. Next tC
these come rived spruce and hemlock
which, being far from as durable, may b'
placed near the peak of the roof, while
the pine shingles are placed lower down
where the greater quantity of water pass
ing over requires greater resistance Il
wear. Sawed shingles have q rougl
surface, which holds water anC
causes rot; but if these were planed by
machinery and treated with some anti
septic substance, their durability nigh
be doubled. Shingles made from steam
ed oak blocks, cut by power machine
have an excellent shape at first, and las
well, the albumen of the wood bein!
coagulated by the steam, but soon cur
up when exposed to the sun on a roof
and are both unsightly and leaky. TIL,
durability of even poor shingles can b.
much increased by covering with white
wash tinted gray by the addition of ashes
Exchange.