Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

FRENCH and English physicians al
most universally prescribe free use of
lemon juice to effect cure for the rhes-
matism.
A. F.WLLMARTH,V ,Vice-President of the
Home, of New York, is a policy holder,
stockholder and director of the Washing
ton Life.
LAMP chimHeys are most apt to crack
after being washed. They are less apt to
break if moistened with the breath and
polished with a white cloth or paper, and
afterward with a chamois-skin, which gives
them clear brilliancy.
Too MUCH care sometimes Furnishes it
self, like the old lady, landing from the
steamer in a shower of rain, who covered
her new bonnet so completely with her
gown, that she missed her footing on the
| plank and fell into the river.
How TO Stop A PIN-HoLE IN LEAD
PIPE.-Take a ten-penny Lail, place the
square end upon the hole, and hit it two
or three slight blows with hammer, and
the orifice is closed as tight as though you
had employed plumber to do it at a cost
of dollar or more.
AN acorn suspended by a piece of
thread within half an inch of the surface
of water in a hyacinth glass, will, in u
few months, burst and throw root down
into the water, and shoot upW Yards its
straight and tapering stem, with beautiful
little green leaves. A young oak, grow
ing in this way on the mantel-shelf of a
room, is a very elegant and interesting
object.
THE evil of overbearing is particularly
apparent in dwarf pears and grapes. AS
a general thing there is rarely grape
vine but would be benefited by having
half its punches cut away, and some OF
the fruit t-bearing dwarf pears might have
from one-third to one-half. Grapes may
be cut away as soon as they can be seen
but pears should be left until somewhat
grown, as they often fall after they are
pretty well advanced. 1t not only helps
the size of the fruit left, but is gain to
the future health of the tree
AIR YOUR BEDs.-Some advocates fol
excessive neatness have the beds made up
Immediately after they are vacated. 1t is
not healthy. Tney need to air for a
couple of hours. Open the windows as
wide as possible, and set open the door
also. Unless there is thorough draught
there is no true ventilation of sleeping
room. The only exceptions to this rule
are during high winds, when the dooI
cannot safely remain open, and in very
wet and foggy weather.
IN recent number of The Lancet, DR..
Alexander Watson recorded several cases
of smallpox and scarlet fever in which
the external application of carbolic acid
one patient with small-po whom he saw
at the period when the papula appeared
he ordered an enema, and then had the
patient-a girl of eleven years-sponge6
all over with carbolic acid soap-suds. Or
the next day severe attack of confluen
smallpox was threatened, but the chile
was sponged as she had previously been
and then her whole body was painted
with the carbolic acid giycerine of tht
British Pharmacop9ia. Five grains o
Dover's powder were then given to allaN
irritability, and the little girl slept quietly
for several hours, when she was sponge(
again. No vesicles formed, and the pa
tient was convalescent in a few days
Carbolic acid was, in the meantime, plen
tifully used about the room.
For RE-SHARPENINe FILEs.-The fol
lowing is given by an exchange as usefu
and effective. Wash the files in a solu
tion of warm water and potasl
until thoroughly cleansed, afte
which wash the files in warn
in a wooden dish, in which place as man,
files as the water will cover; add to thi
two ounces of borax and two of blue Wit
riol, finely pulverized together. Stir u
the files well and add two ounces of sui
phuric acid by weight; to this add -on
quarter ounce of vinegar. The files Wi
turn red. When they again resume thei
natural color, take them out and was
them in cold water, after which the
must be thoroughly oiled with sweet oil
and wrapped singly in brown wrappin
paper which will absorb the oil from tn
files.