Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-04
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

FRENCH and English physicians al
most universally prescribe free use of
lemon Juice to effect a cure for the rheu-
matism
A. F.WuLMARTH,V ice-President of the
Home. of New York, is policy-holder,
stockkoider and director Of the Washing
ton Life.
LAMP ehimneys are most apt to crack
after being washed. They are less apt to
break if moistened with the breath and
polished with a white cloth or paper, and
afterward with chamois-skin, which gives
them clear brilliancy.
Too MUCH care sometimes Furnishes it
self, like the old lady, landing from the
steamer in shower of rain, who covered
her new bonnet so completely with her
gown, that she missed her footing on the
plank and fell into the river.
How TO Stop A PIN-HoLE IN LEAD
PIPE.-Take a ten-penny nail, place the
square end upon the hole, and hit it two
OF three slight blows with hammer, and
the orifce is closed as tight as though you
had employed plumber to do it at a cost
of dollar or more. Vi sgast -.at
AN acorn suspended by a piece of
thread within half an inch of the surface
of water in a hyacinth glass, will, in a
few months, burst and throw root down
into the water, and shoot upW ards its
straight and tapering stem, with beautiful
little green leaves. A young oak, grow
ing in this way on the mantel-shelf of a
room, is a very elegant and interesting
object.
THE evil of overbearing is particularly
apparent in dwarf pears and grapes. AS
a general thing there is rarely grape
vine but would be benefited by having
half its punches cut away, and some of
the fruit bearing dwarf pears might have
from one-third to One-half Grapes may
be cut away as soon as they can be seen /;
but pears should be left until somewhat
grown, as they often fall after they are
pretty well advanced. 1t not only helps
the size of the fruit left, but is gain to
the future health of the tree. .
AIR YOUR BEDs.-Some advocates for
excessive neatness have the beds made up
Immediately after they are vacated. It is
not healthy. They need to air for a
couple of hours Open the windows as
wide as possible, and set open the door
also. Unless there is a thorough draught,
there is no true ventilation of sleeping
room The only exceptions to this rule
are during high winds, when the door
cannot safely remain open, and in very
wet and foggy weather.
In a recent number of The Lancet, DR.
Alexander Watson recorded several cases
of smallpox and scarlet fever in which
the external application of carbolic acid
met with marked success. In the case of
one patient with small pox whom he saw
at the period when the papul@ appeared,
he ordered an enema, and then had the
patient-a girl of eleven years-spOnged
all over with carbolic acid soap-suds. On
the next day severe attack of continent
smallpox was threatened, but the child
was sponged as she had previously been,
and then her whole body was painted
with the carbolic acid glycerine of the
British PharmacOp9ia. Five grains of
Dover's powder were then given to allay
irritability, and the little girl slept quietly
for several hours, when she was sponged
again. No vesicles formed, and the pa
tient was convalescent in a few days.
Carbolic acid was, in the meantime, plen-
tifully used about the room.
For RE-SHARPENING .FILEs-The fol
lowing is given by an exchange as useful
and effective. Wash the files in solu-
ton of warm water and potash
until thoroughly cleansed, after
which wash the files in warm
water; then put one pint of warm water
in wooden dish, in which place as many
files as the water will cover; add to this
two ounces of borax and two of blue Wit
riol, finely pulverized together. Stir up
the files well and add two ounces of sui
phuric acid by weight; to this add one
quarter ounce of vinegar. The files will
turn red When they again resume their
natural color, take them out and wash
them in cold water, after which they
must be thoroughly oiled with sweet oil,
and wrapped singly in brown wrapping
paper which will absorb the oil from the
files.