American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

HALF the ills we hoard within our
hearts are ills because we hoard them.
DIVIDENDS are applied in the Washing
ton Life to make the policies larger
THE ruin of some men dates from some
idle hour. Occupation is the armor of
the soul.
PLANT your yards full of flowers.
They are not only pleasing to sight and
smell, but act as disinfectants, and are
much pleasanter than carbolic acid, etc.
No MAN can, for any considerable pc
Rod, wear one face to himself and another
to the multitude, without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be true.
STEAM PUDDING.-Two cups of flour,
one cup of milk, one-half cup of butter,
one-half cup of sugar, one half cup mo-
lasses, one cup raisins, one teaspoon soda.
Steam two hours and serve with a sauce.
DIR. GEORGE SPRAGUE, the prominent
breeder of live stock at Des MOines Iowa,
says that for every animal that has been
injured by overlooking 10, 600 have been
injured in their growth and for breeding
purposes by being scantily nourished and
insufficiently housed.
In caring for your fowls, provide them
with a vessel of lime water for an occa-
sional drink. 1t is prepared by pouring
hot water over quicklime, and after the
has become clear, pour it off. 1t will
keep fit for use for a considerable time.
If girls were brought up with the idea
of some life-work before them, and not left
to cultivate the minor arts and graces to
make the conquest OF a husband, they
would be all the better wives and mothers
in the end, because they would be nobler
women.
To PREVENT Grows PULLING Corn
Take, to each peck of corn wet with warm
water, one tablespoonful of gas tar; stir
until it is well blackened; then roll in
plaster to dry. l have tried it for years,
and never knew it to be disturbed by
anything. 1t is also a good way to
prepare corn to SOW near a barn where
fowls are apt to scratch it out. They will
not eat more than one kernel.-W. Il. d.,
IN Rural Neao Yorker.
THE race of mankind would perish did
they cease to aid each other. From the
time that the mother binds the child's
head till the moment that some kind as
sistant wipes the death damp from the
brow of the dying, we cannot exist with
out mutual help. All, therefore, that
need aid have right to ask their fellow
mortals. No one, who holds the power
of granting it, can refuse it without guilt.
A GOOD deal has been written about
need that people shall know how to say
no and to stick to it. But good many
people need to learn how to say yes
promptly at the proper time. 1ndecision
wrecks many a career. While one man
hesitates, another shouts out his decision
and grasps the prize. Fortune is an auc-
tioneer who never waits for a sluggish
bidder.
To CURE RINGwoRMs.-Take the best
II,
of time to accumulate one-fourth or one
half inch of ashes upon the end of the
cigar. Now wet the whole surface of the
sore with the saliva from the MOUTH then
rub the ashes from the end of the cigar
thoroughly into and all over the sore.
Do this three times a day, and inside of a
week all will be smooth and well.-F. h,
in RurH Neso Yorker
THE restoration of the writing on man.
uscripts charred by fire may, it is said, be
accomplished by separating the charred
paper into single leaves, immersing them
in a solution of nitrate of silver forty
grains to the ounce of water. The opera
ton is to be conducted in 4 dark room,
and when the writing is sufficiently legi-
BILE the excess of silver solution should be
washed out with distilled water and dilute
solution of hyposulphite of soda.-1mer-
icdn 1rttSnn.
To KEEP GUM ARABIC FROM MoLDING.
Solutions of gum arabic soon mold and
sour, and finally lose their adhesive prop
erty. 1t is said that sulphate of qHinine
will prevent this, while it imparts no bad
disorder of its own. The addition of a
solution of a few crystals of this salt to
gum arabic will prevent the formation of
mold quite as eflectually as carbclc acid
and by analogy it is safe to suppose that
the same salt could be used in writing ink
mucilage, and possibly glue.
Poll EVIL send you my cure. AS
soon as your horses head is found to be
stationary, and you are satisfied that the
cause is poll evil, wash two or three times
a day with arnica until relieved. Do not
postpone until the sore is opened. l cured
IA valuable work-horse with the above
medicine, and worked him every day. |
could not use the common headstall or
bride on him. | used the Rockwell bit
on him. as that did not interfere with his
sore head.-IF. ID. f., IN RuTM NelC
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