Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

INSURE your life in the Washington In
surance Company of New York; to the
amount of the mortgage on your house.
IT is in vain that man has the means
of happiness without, if he has not the
capacity of happiness within himself.
CARBoLIc acid is said to be a sovereign
remedy for mosquitoes and flies. A few
drops evaporated in room, or poured
upon the clothes, will keep the winged
pests at comfortable distance.
If the blossoms of Towering plants are
cut off as soon as they fade, it will greatly
extend the season of their blooming.
The plant exhausts itself more in matur-
ing the seed than in all of the previous
growth
BRILLIANT red carpets, as well as green
ones, are often found to contain arsenic.
Lead, in various forms, is also used in the
glazing of some cuffs and collars made of
paper. When the hands and neck per-
spire, or any abrasion of the skin occurs,
the lead is absorbed, and poisoning re-
suits.
GoOD TEMPER-No trait of character
is more valuable than good temper. Home
can never be made happy without it. 1t
is like flowers springing up in our path
way, reviving and cheering us. Kind
words and looks are the outward signs;
patience and forbearance the sentinels
within.
A YOUNG man " no allows himself to
use one vulgar or profane word has not
only shown that there is foul spot upon
his mind, but by the appearance of that
word he extends that spot and inf1ames it
| till, by indulgence, it will pollute and
ruin the soul. Be careful of your words
and your thoughts.
HEAvEs IN HoRsEs.-A correspondent
of the Rural Home gives the following
remedy for heaves in horses: Give once
daily a teaspoonful of aquafortis, pre-
pared as follows: Mix it with teaspoon
full of sour or skinned milk, and mix
this with bran, and the bran with the
grain fed. The catarrhal affection of the
throat makes rapid amendment under
this treatment, and the correspondent
says he has known a number of cases
cured by it.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western Rurdl
gives the following as sure cure fol
ringworm, etc. Get of your druggist one
three times a day till cured. Three oI
four applications often effect cure
never knew it to fail yet. 1t is used fol
the cure of erysipelas, also. 1t will cure
moles, warts, and many other skin dis
eases. If boil should commence or
your nose, cheek or lip, apply iodine
freely. 1t is not painful, but cOlors the
skin a dark walnut brown. The stain
however, soon comes off.
A QUICK PUDDING. a quart o.
milk to the boiling point in Farina ket
tie, or a pail set into boiling water; add ;
small teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoon
fuls of rice, or wheat flour, wet smootl
with cold milk. Stir this in as soon a
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perfectly smooth, and let it remain in tn,
outside vessel of boiling water half al
hour. Be sure and keep the water in re
ceiver or saucepan boiling around the in
ner one hard all the time. Eat with but
ter and sugar, or thick cream and sugar
This is very healthful-especially in tn
summer-and invaluable for invalids, o
children suffering with summer complaint
When used as a remedy or preventive
it should boil longer-say one hour
Christian Union.
STIR THE SURFACE.-It does not follow
that although we have plenty of rain tn
soil will remain moist. Evaporation j
very active beneath our hot summer suns
Heavy showers tend to compact the sol
and render it impervious to water, whic
remains on the surface until evaporateC
Little benefit, then, accrues, unless tn
hard crust, baked by the sun, is brokel
up and the soil mellowed by cultivation
1t is then rendered porous and absorbent
and is less inclined to give up its moistur
at the demand of the scorching heat, ,whil
at night, cooling more rapidly than tn
air, it recondenses and retakes in abur
dance the moisture it has been forced t
give up during the day. Thus the GRO
never suffers during a succeedin
: drought, for the soil is always in a cond
I a. Sec, als tLo
phere when denied a supply from tn
clouds