The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-11-15
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

a CORRESPONDENT of the PoDaOlogiSt
has found that potash placed IN rat
holes and mole runs will clear the
premises of these pasts in a shoit
time.
Raw beef chopped up fine with
onions is a new "feed, which Ger
mans consider a cure or preventive
of dyspepsia, as well as of lung
diseases.
GREEN fruit has always been con-
sidered as tending to produce the
cholerine diseases, but we believe
that over ripe or partially decayed
fruit is fully as productive of disease
as the former but fresh, ripe fruits
are always healthful and nourishing,
and are among the natural food of
man.
To REMOVE old putty from broken
windows, dip a small brush In mic
trio or muriatic acid (obtainable at
any druggist's,l and with it anoint
or paint over the dry putty that adj
heres to the broken glass and frames
of your windows after an hours in
terval the putty will become SO soft
as to be removed easily.
IT IS said that sweet or sour milk
will sweeten frowzy butter much bet
ter than salt or saltpetre there is
nothing that absorbs whatever is
offensive to the smell or taste, so
quick as milk, cream or butter, and
no agent can be employed that will
so quickly or surely extract the
flavor of the wood from new dairy
utensils.
The varieties of wood produced in
different parts of the world are more
numerous than most people are
aware of. At the Paris Exposition
of 1870 there were, from forty-fve
different countries, no less than
3,769 different kinds of wood ex-
hibited, 395 coming from Europe,
252 from Africa, $50 from Asia, 966
from Oceanica, 1928 from America.
IF YOU will have wooden floors and
stairs, lay a flooring of the thickest
sheet from over. the joists, and your
wood upon that, and sheathe your
stairs with the same material. A
floor will not burn without a supply
of air under it. Throw a dry board
upon a fl 1t pavement, and kindle it
as it lies if you can. Prevent
draughts and, though there viii be
| fires, no houses will be consumed.
The standard bushel of the United
States contains 215O.4 cubic inches.
The "Imperial bushel,' is about 68
cubic inches. Any box or measure,
the contents of which are equal to
21504 cubic inches will hold bushel
of grain. In measuring fruit, yege-
tables, coal or other substances, one
fifth must be added. In other
words, a peck measure five times
even iull makes one bushel. The
usual practice is to cheap the
measure
In TEACHING a young horse to drive
well, do not hurry to see how fast he
can trot. Keep each pace clear and
distinct from the other; that is, IL
walking, make him walk and do moi
allow him to trot. While trotting
be equally careful that he keeps
steady at his pace, and do not allow
him to sIacken into a walk the
reins, while driving, should be KEEP
snug, and when pushed to the top o
his speed, keep him well in hand
that he may learn to bear upon the
bit, so that when going at higl
rate of speed, he can be held at hi
pace, but do not allow him to pu'
too bard, for it is not only unpleas
ant but makes it difficult to manage
him.
AS RUBBER plates and rings ar,
nowadays used almost exclusivel,,
| for making connections between
steam and other pipes and appara
tus, much annoyance is often ex
perienced by the impossibility o
imperfection Of an air-tight connec
ton. This is obviated entirely b,
employing a Gem ent which fasten
, alike well to the rubber and tn
metal or wood. Such cement /
, prepared by a solution of shellae il
ammonia. This is best made b
soaking pulverized gum shellac il
ten times its weight of strong am
: monia, when O Shiny mass is OBJ ain
| ed, which in three or four week
will become liquid without the us
J of hot water. This softens the rub
Der, and becomes, after volatiliza
ton of the ammonia, hard and i'm
permeable to the gases and fluids
american artisan.