Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-11
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
AN excellent prevention against sun.
stroke is folded wet cloth laid on top
the head, inside the hat
If you were to die to-day, would YOU
leave your family independent of charity?
Insure in the Washington Life Insurance
Company, of New York
EXPERIMENTS prove that one horse can
draw, on good road, in good condition,
more than three horses can draw on
road in poor condition.
THE Journal des De5ats says it has Just
been discovered that a solution of sui
phate of iron sprinkled upon fruits and
plants has a wonderful effect. Beans
gained sixty per cent. in size and in quail
ity, and pear trees were wonderfully ben
Gifted by the new fertilizers.
CREAM MUFFINs.-One quart of rich
milk, or if you can get it, half cream and
half milk; one quart of flour. heaping;
six eggs; one tablespoonful of butter;
one of lard, softened together. Beat
whites and yolks, separately, very light;
then add flour and shortening, and a
scant teaspConful of salt, and stir in the
flour the last thing, lightly as possible,
and have the batter free from Jumps.
Half fill your well-buttered muffin-rings,
and bake Immediately in hot oven, or
your mullins will Iot be good. Send to
tablethe moment theya done. .-Chrtstidn
| Union.
FINE GRINDING.-We are asked wheth-
er our correspondents miller is correct
when he advises him to have his corn
ground very coarse, because, eff he grlnds
it fine, it kills the strength of the meal"
He is entirely wrong-except for his own
|
much coarse meal in day as he can of
fine, and so can make more money. The
finer the grinding, the more digestible the
meal-the more of its nutriment will the
animal appropriate. The strength of
the meal lies, not in its granular texture,
but in its chemical composition, and this is
not affected by grinding. Very fine meal
is more apt to heat than that which is
coarser, but this only implies more care
in keeping.-Amertedn AgIfcultur1st.
A COLD cement for mending earthen-
ware, says recent English work, reckon
ed great secret among workmen, is
with q bread crater, into quart of milk,
in which it must be left for period of
fourteen hours. 1t should be stirred quite
often. A pound of unslaked lime, finely
pulveriZed in a mortar, is then added, and
the whole is thoroughly mixed by beat
ing. This done, the whites of twenty-five
eggs are Incorporated with the rest, and
the whole is ready for use. There is an
other cement for the same purpose which
is used hot. 1t is made of resin, bees
wax, brickdust and chalk, boiled togeth-
er. The substances to be cemented must
be heated, and when the surfaces are
coated with cement, they must be rubbed
hard upon each other, as in making a
glue joint with wood.
HYDRATE of chloral has most singular
effect upon the mind, producing degree
of recklessness as to consequences which
is liable to lead sufferers to take such
quantities as to endanger their lives. For
this reason physicians who administer ii
!; for the alienation of pain are careful not
to leave it within the reach of the patient
during their absence. A lawyer in New
} York City, few days since, to whom
!, this deadly drug had been administered,
found 1t within his reach in the absence
of his physician, decided that he needed
, more of it, took it, and in few moments
was a corpse Many such cases occur,
J not only with this drug, but with chlOro
, form, and neither should be left within
the reach of those suffering severe pain
since they may attempt to administer il
to themselves, which is so frequently at
tended with fatal results.
AN article in a French magazine on the
duration of different woods states that
pieces of various kinds, two and five
eighths inches square, were buried about
an inch below the surface of the ground,
and they decayed in the following order
The lime, American birch, elder, and the
trembling-leaved poplar, in three years
the common willow, horse-chestnut, and
plane, in four years the maple, red beech
and common birch, in five years; the elm
ash, hornbeam, and Lombardy poplar, in
six years the robinia, oak, Scotch fir,
Weymouth pine, and silver fir, were only
decayed to the depth of half an inch in
seven years the larch, common juniper
red cedar, and arbor vitae, at the end OF
the last mentionedfperiod, remained unin
jured. In experiments with the woods
cut into thin boards, decay proceeded in
the following order, commencing with
the most perishable, and so on to the most
enduring: The plane, horse-chestnut
poplar, American birch, red beech, horn
beam, alder, ash, maple, silver fir, Scotch
fir, elm, Weymouth pine, larch, robinia
or locust oak.
A PORTABLE Ice HoUsE.-Take ar
iron-bound butt or puncheon and KNOCK
out the head, then cut hole the size of 6
bottle-cork in the center of the bottom
Put a wooden tub twelve inches smaller
into it, so that it will not touch the edg,
of the butt, within six inches all around
it. Fill up the space with pounded char
coal put two pieces of wood under thu
center tub when it is placed in the butt
; and fit cover with handle tightly to it
Arrange hooks around the tub on which
to hang fish or meat, etc. Fill bag TIVE
feet square with pounded charcoal to lay
over the cover of the inner tub, and fit
cover to the outside one. Bury it -four
fifths of its height in the cellar, whicl
must be dry wet ground will not keep
; fresh. Fill the inner tub one-third full o
I. . ice, which will not need to be renewe,
oftener than once a month. A hole simi
lar to the one bored in the outer tub shoul'
be made in the inner to carry off tn
! moisture. Keep the whole closely GOV
!, , cred, and you will have a miniature ice
! house which will preserve fish, flesh an,
fowl for long time.-ErctGnge.
a ALWAYS Get the Best.