The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02
UsEEFI1L KNOWLEDGE

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A coRREspoSpENr of the Pon,ologist
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 q 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 IartIally decayed
fruit is fully as productive of disease
as the former; but fresh, ripe fruits
are always healthful and nourlshlng,
and are among the natural fooS OF
man.
To REMOVE old putty from broken
windows, dip small brush IN nc,
tric or muriatic acid (objainable at
any druggist's,) and with it snolnt
or paint over the dry putty that ad-
here's to the broken glass and frames
of your windows after an hours IN
terval the putty viii become 50 soft
as to be removed easily.
Ir IS said that sweet or sour milk
will sweet en- 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 ~ ore
mum erous than most people are
aware OF. At the Paris Exposition
of 1870 there were, from forty-hye
different couutries, no less than
769 different kinds Of wood ex-
hibited, 395 coming from Europe
252 from Africa, S5S from Asia, 966
from Oceanica, 1,29S from America
II 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 n supply
of air under 1t Throw u dry board
upon a fl pavement, and kind e il
rs it lies If you can Prevent
draughts and, though there will be
fires, no houses Will be consumed.
The standard busheI of the United
States contains 2l50.4 cubic inches
The 'pmpeIial bushel, is about 6S
cubic inches. Any box or measure,
the contents of which are equal to
2I504 cubic inches will hold bushel
of grain Ia measuring fruit, vege-
tables. coal or other substances, one
fifth must be ided. In other
words, a peck measure five times
even Iull makes one bushel. The
usual practice is to heap the
measure.
IL TEACHING a young horse to drive
wei, do not hurry To see how fast he
can trot Keep each pace clear and
distinct from the other; that is, in
walking, make him walk and do not
allow him to trot. While troiting,
be equally careful that he keeps
steady at his pace, and do not allow
him to slacken into a walk the
reins. while driving, should be kept
snug, and when pushed TO the top OF
his speed, keep ham well in hand,
that he may learn to bear upon the
bit, 50 that when going ut a high
rate of speed, he can be held at bis
pace but do not allow him to pul
too ard, for it is not only unpleas-
ant but makes il difficult to manage
him.
As nuBnnR plates and rings are
nowadays used almost exclusively
for making connections betwS5a
steam and other pipes and appara-
tus, much annoyance is often ex-
perieDcei by the impossibility or
mperfection of an air-tight connec-
ton. This is obviated entirely by
employing q CEN ment which fastens
alike wei TO the rubber and the
metal or wood Such cement is
prepared by solution of shellac in
ammonia. This is best made by
soaking pulverized gum sbellac in
ten times its weight of strong am
monia, when a Shiny mass Is oh ain
I'd, which in three or four weeks
will become liquid without the use
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 Artisdn.