Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-09-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

ALCOHOL and whiting make a simple
and efficacious compound for cleaning
plate glass windows or mirrors.
In the height of prosperity expect ad-
versity, and fortify yourself against its
evils by policy on your life in the Wash
ington.
HE who, when called upon to speak
disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has
done, is both bolder and milder than he
who nibbles in low voice, and never
ceases nibbling.
LET well enough alone. 1t is not a
good plan, after you have driven nail in
a sure place, instead of Just clinching and
leaving it, to keep hammering away till
you break the head off or split the board.
The growth of the hair, the durability
of its color, its flexibility, elasticity and
gloss, depend solely upon its sanitary con-
dition, and there is nothing under the sun
that so etlectually promotes the health of
the fibres and of the integuments from
which they spring, as correct hygienic
hablts.-Scsence Of Health.
ALL salted provisions should be watch
ed and see that they are kept under the
brine, for if one piece of meat lies up it
will spoil the whole barrel. If the brine
looks bloody, it must be scalded and more
salt added; when cold, pour back.
KEROSENE and powered lime, whiting
or wood ashes, will scour tin with the
least labor. Kerosene and whiting will
also cleanse silver ware, door-knobs,
hinges, etc. Wet the flannel slightly in
the oil, dip into the whiting, and rub
hard; wash off with hot soap-suds, and
brighten with a chamois skin or news
paper.
For removing greasy spots from any
fabric, use ammonia nearly pure, then lay
white blotting paper over the spot and
iron lightly. In washing lace, put about
twelve drops in pint of warm suds. To
clean silver, mix two teaspoonfuls of
ammonia in quart of hot suds. Put in
your silverware and wash, using an old
nail brush or toothbrush for the purpose.
THE following is said to be an excellent
remedy for foundered horse: When you
are satisfied that he is foundered, no mat
ter what the cause, give him one pint of
dry salt with spoon); then keep him in
the stable, without drink, for twenty -four
hours, and nine times out of ten a radical
cure will be effected This remedy, how
ever, is recommended only in the first
stages or within three or four days afteI
the cause Western Rural.
To IMPART flavor to the flesh of fowls
such as constitute the "game flavor" OF
the wild state, the Boston Journal o.
Chemistry recommends cayenne pepper
ground mustard, or ginger, to be added tC
the common food of fowls. As to clean
illness of henneries, it recommends great
care in summer. Carbolic acid dissolved
in water should be sprinkled over the
wood work of the insides, and little
added to the whitewash, which should bt
used each season. The nest materia
should be often changed, that being spec
tally liable to become foul when the bird.
are confined.
THE New York Times spins little story
of cobwebs. 1t says that Prussian Gen
eral, while inspecting some military sta
/ bles, called out: "What do / see there
| Cobwebs?" Eyes, sir" the officer il
charge replied; "we keep them there tt
catch the flies, and prevent them teasing
the horses" The moral is obvious. /
we suffer our houses to be festooned will
cobwebs, we shall be spared our Egyptian
plague of flies. Nervous persons whC
object to going into the spider-breedins
| business might import and domesticate
flying gtoad Several species of which exis
in South America), and so destroy tn
pest in little more agreeable way.
THE value of earth as a disinfectan
deodoriZer is well known; and the treat
ment of ulceratei sores and gangrenou
wounds with it, is becoming very general
A new application has lately been de
scribed by DR.. E. S. Bunker, who state
that he has recently used clay as a dress
ing for the face in two cases of small ll-poS
dusting it, in fine powder, over the face
of the patients as soon as pustules bt
come fairly developed. This formed
clean, dry, wholesome scab, absorbin
the infectious material, and scaled O
during convalescence, leaving an unde
lying skin in its natural and normal stat,
The painful itching, which is one of tn
worst characteristics of the disease, ws
entirely abated. The earth used wa
fine pipe clay