American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-07-13
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

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AN excellent prevention against sun
stroke is folded wet cloth laid on top
the head, inside the hat.
If you were to die to-day, would you
leave your family Independent of charity :?
Insure in the Washington Life Insurance
Company, of New York.
THE Journal des Do5ats says it has Just
been discovered that solution of sui
phatc of iron sprinkled upon fruits and
plants has a wonderful effect Beans
gained sixty per cent. in size and in quail
ity, and pear trees were wonderfully ben
Gifted by the new fertilizers
CREAM MUFFINs.-One quart of rich
milk, or if you can get it, half cream and
half milk; one quart of flour heaping;
six eggs; one tablespoonful of butter;
one of lard, softened together. Beat
whites and yolks, separately, very light;
then add flour and shortening, and a
scant teaspConful of salt, and stir in the
flour the last thing, lightly as possible,
and have the batter free from Jumps
Half fill your well-buttered muffin rings,
and bake Immediately in a hot oven, or
your mullins will Tot be good. Send to
table the moment they are done. Christian
Union.
FINE GRINDING-We are asked wheth-
err our correspondents miller is correct
when he advises him to have his corn
ground very coarse, because, eff he grInds
it fine, it kills the strength of the meal"
He is entirely wrong-except for his own
interest. He can grind four times as
much coarse meal in a day as he can of
fine, and so can make more money The
finer the grinding, the more digestible the
meal-the more of its nutriment will the
animal appropriate. The strength of
the meal lies, not in its granular texture,
but in its chemical composition, and this is
is more apt to heat than that which is
coarser, but this only implies more care
in keeping. -American Agriculturast.
A COLD cement for mending earthen-
ware, says recent English work, reckon
ed great secret among workmen, is
made by grating pound of old cheese,
with bread crater, into quart of milk,
in which it must be left for period of
fourteen hours. 1t should be stirred quite
often. A pound of unslaked lime, finely
pulverized in a mortar, is then added, and
the whole is thoroughly mixed by beat
ing This done, the whites of twenty five
eggs are incorporated with the rest, and
the whole is ready for use. There is an
other cement for the same purpose which
is used hot. 1t is made of resin, bees
wax, brickdust and chalk, boiled togeth-
er. The substances to be cemented must
be heated, and when the surfaces are
coated with cement, they must be rubbed
hard upon each other, as in making a
glue joint with wood.
HYDRATE of choral has most singular
effect upon the mind, producing a degree
of recklessness as to consequences which
is liable to lead sufferers to take such
quantities as to endanger their lives. For
this reason physicians who administer it
for the alienation of pain are careful not
to leave it within the reach of the patient
during their absence. A lawyer in New
York City, few days since, to whom
this deadly drug had been administered,
found 1t within his reach in the absence
of his physician, decided that he needed
more of it, took it, and in a few moments
was corpse. Many such cases occur,
not only with this drug, but with chloro-
form, and neither should be left within
the reach of those suffering severe pain,
since they may attempt to administer it
to themselves, which is so frequently at
tended with fatal results.
AN article in French magazine on the
duration of different woods states that
pieces of various kinds, two and five
eighths inches square, were buried about
an inch below the surface of the ground
and they decayed in the following order !:
The lime, American birch, elder, and the
trembling leaved poplar, in three years :;
the common willow, horse-chestnut, and
plane, in four years the maple, red beech,
and common birch, in five years; the elm,
ash, hornbeam, and Lombardy poplar, in
six years the robnia oak, Scotch fir,
Weymouth pine, and silver fir, were only
decayed to the depth of half an inch in
seven years !; the larch, common juniper,
red cedar, and arbor vitae, at the end of
the last mentioned5period, remained unin-
jured. In experiments with the woods
cut into thin boards, decay proceeded in
the following order, commencing with
the most perishable, and so on to the most
enduring: The plane, horse chestnut,
poplar, American birch, red beech, horn
beam, alder, ash, maple, silver fir, Scotch
fir, elm, Weymouth pine, larch, robinia,
or locust oak.
A PORTABLE Ice HOUsE.-Take an
iron-bound butt or puncheon and knock
out the head, then cut hole the size of a
bOttle-cork in the center of the bottom
Put a wooden tub twelve inches smaller
into it, SO that it will not touch the edge
of the butt, within six inches all around
it. Fill up the space with pounded char
coal put two pieces of wood under the
center tub when it is placed in the butt,
and fit cover with a handle tightly to it,
Arrange hooks around the tub on which
to hang fish or meat, etc. Fill bag two
feet square with pounded charcoal to lay
over the cover of the inner tub, and fit a
cover to the outside one. Bury it four
fifths of its height in the cellar, which
must be dry wet ground will not keep it
fresh. Fill the inner tub oncthrd full of
ice, which will not need to be renewed
oftener than once month. A hole SINH
lar to the one bored in the outer tub should
be made in the inner to carry off the
moisture. Keep the whole closely COW
cred, and you will have a miniature ice
house which will preserve fish, flesh and
fowl for a long time.-Erchange.