Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-06
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

PRIVATE sincerity is public welfare.
DEEDS are fruits; words are but leaves.
BEAUTY without grace is hook with
out bait.
Two things. says Kant, are sublime
conscience and the stars.
In conversation, a wise man may be at
loss how to begin, but a fool never
knows how to stop.
The excesses of our youth are drafts
upon our old age, payable with interest,
about thirty years after date.
THE dividends of the Washington Life
are made and paid in cash or insurance,
annually from date of policy.
BE thou what thou singly art, and per-
senate only thyself. Swim smoothly in
the stream of thy nature and live but one
man.
WEALTH is a relative thing; since he
that has little and wants less, is richer
than he that has much and wants more.
OWNERS of pearl jewelry should be
careful to keep them from exposure to
greasy surfaces, as contact of this kind
destroys their luster.
READING makes full man, talking a
ready man. The happy medium is reach
ed when man reads enough to give value
to what he has to say.
THE Journal des De6dts says it has lust
been discovered that solution of sui
phate of iron sprinkled upon fruits and
plants has a wonderful effect Beans
gained sixty per cent. in size and in quail
ty, and pear-trees were wonderfully bene-
flied by the new fertilizer.
AN Australian newspaper says that the
practice has been very successfully
adopted in gardens, of sowing rows of
common larkspur, the leaves of which at
tract grass-hoppers at once, and when
eaten is certain death to them-and that
thousands of grasshoppers have been thus
seen lying dead-all of which may or may
net be true.
To DECoY A PIG, instead of driving
him, some ingenious chap recommends
tying the end of strong cord to an ear
of corn, drop it in front of the pig, five
or six inches from mis- nose, and commence
walking away with it slowly in the way
you wish the pig to go. If he gets dis
heartened at the prospect of getting hold
of it, allow him a slight nibble, and then
proceed.-RurGI Neao Yorker
To POLISH -Slightly..oil the work
with linseed oil, and then rub off; then
make paste of whiting and paraffine oil,
covered with yellow ochre, or something
darker, if necessary, for the color of
wood. After the wood is well filled in
with this paste, it must be well rubbed off
clean, and let stand two or three hours be-
fore the polish is applied. Hearth and
Home.
ENDEAvoR to take your work quietly.
Anxiety and over-action are always the
cause ofsickness and drestlessness. Wemust
use our judgment to control our excitement
or our bodily strength will break down.
We must remember that our battle is to
be won by strength not our own. 1t is
battle that does not depend upon the
swift nor the strong.
REMEDY FOR NASAL CATARRH.-Make
weak brine, and snuff it up the nostrils,
and let it run down in the throat; also
wet the head with the same. If persisted
in a sufficient length of time, it will eff,
fectually cure nasal catarrh. 1t is said by
physician that the various mix ytures sold
as ''Catarrh Remedies" in many cases,
are only salt disguised so as not to be
known. Wetting the head with salt and
water will stop the hair falling QUIT. e.
| o., in Rural NeW Yorker.
CoCoANUTs are Just in season; here
they are only rarity, but in tropical
countries they are production of great
Importance. This nut yields delicious
| food, nutritious drink, rich oil, and
| fibres which are manufactured into
thread, ropes and all kinds of cordage.
The oil is made by boiling the pulp. Vast
| quantities of this oil are burned in lamps
throughout the whole Indian Archipelago.
A tumbler half filled with water has oil
poured up to the brim. Two lighted
sticks are the wicks, which burn brilliant.
ly. Every native glories in display of
| lamDs in the house and about the grounds
at the approach of night. When first
taken out of the boiling pot the oil has a
rich flavor, but soon becomes rancid. So
cOpious is the supply, however, that it
can always be had fresh and sweetfor the
table. Like the olive-oil of Syria, it is
used as butter, lard or oil, according to
circumstances in cookery. From it soap
is made, lamps supplied, leather dressed,
and cosmetics fabricated.
THE uses of willow wood are thus
stated by the Cabinet Maker: In England
there is no wood in greater demand than
sound willow it is light, smooth, soft,
tough, will take good polish, and does
not easily burn. 1t will bear more
pounding and hard knocks, without splin-
! ter or injury, than any known wood, and
hence it is used for cricket bats, and
whenever it can be obtained, for the
| floats of paddle steamers, "stroudsn OF
water wheels, brake-blocks for luggage
and coal trucks, the sides and bottoms of
carts and barrows, where wear and tear
are greatest. To the wood-turner it is
invaluable, and were it grown as timber,
and obtainable, it would be used fol
many purposes to which foreign timber is
now applied, and that, too, with consid
erable advantage both to producer and