Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-01-18

following day attended the funeral in
body, after which they returned to their
rooms at Annapolis. the moufner being
obliged to leave behind him his young and
motherless children.
SHELTERINe STocK.-An experiment
made in England shows that one hundred
sheep fed under shelter OIL twenty pounds
of Swedish turnips each per day, at the
end of d few weeks, had gained three
pounds each more than another hundred
which were fed twenty pounds of the
same kind of turnips each but in the
open air, or field. Five sheep We're fed
in the open air in November, the temper
ature being at forty-four degrees. They
consumed ninety pounds of food pei day.
At the end of ten days they weighed two
| pounds less than when at first exposed.
Five other sheep were then placed in a
shed, the temperature being forty-nine
degrees; at first, they consumed eighty
two pounds per day, then seventy pounds,
and at the end of the time they had gained
twenty-three pounds. This is proof suiii-
cient of the advantage of sheltering stock
| in winter
Poor PoTAToBs MADE PALATABLE.-
! Half the people who eat potatoes to-day
will find them cutting like piece of bar
| soap, and not much more agreeable to the
taste. The fault, according tc a lady
writer in the Household, is not in the til
bers, but i'm the cook, She says she never
has any but dry, mealy potatoes on her
| table, and this is her m0tlus opeFdRdt of
preparation: "If old, l pare them and
letthem remain in cold waterseveial hours
When time to cook put them in a kettle
of boiling water salt as brine When
they are boiled sufficiently, turn off the
we far or6 sat hn l-atfln tho tiIa fill tho
steam has all dried out, Prepared in this
way, old potatoes are delicious and whole
some. New potatoes need not be pared,
nor need they remain in cold water.
Wash them thoroughly, and if there be
any rough places cut them. oil. | place
them in boiling salted water, and when
! done always pour the water off and place
them over the fire again"
TIGHT BooTs.-Wearers of tight boots
will, no doubt, find the following interest
ing reading Hard corns are caused by
too much pressure of the shoe, or by its
being so loose as to slide back and forth
on the spot where the corn afterward
shows itself Medical books record sew
eral cases where pairing a hard corn caus-
ed bleeding which no means could arrest,
and death ensued. Nothing harder than
the finger nail ought ever be allowed to
touch the corn, which can always be cured
or kept from causing Inconvenience by
simply bathing the part in warm water
for half an hour for several days in sue
cession often single bathing will accom-
plish the object of softening the parts adj
jacent to the actual corn so that it can be
picked out with the finger nail, and the
shoe can be instantly worn without dis
comfort, which an hour before gave great
pain. 1t may return in week, or 9
month, or a year, but the same treatment
will always prevail. PAIRING causes them
to spread and take deeper root. '1--->
CURE FOR SMALLrPoX-A correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Gazette vouches fol
the efficacy of the following treatment ol
smallpox: ''Take clean common barley
boil it in water the same as you would rice
until it bursts; pour off this water, an(
use it exclusively for your drink, adding
to each days drinking of this water fit
teen grains of saltpetre. Continue to us'
this drink (which should be about milk
warm) until the pocks make their appear
ance ON the skin, which will be in abou
! three days after the fever sets in. Th
effect of using this drink is to cut off tn,
backing fever. Now stop the use of thi
J drink, and take good wine, reduced witt
5 water, and sweetened with loaf sugar
1 Using this as drink stimulates and fills tn
, pocks. The use of wine, water and loa
2 sugar should always be commenced whe
the pocks make their appearance in tn
skin. Use no other medicine and partak
of light diet This mode of treatmen
was prescribed by the celebrated Surgeo
Dixon, of Ireland, and has been used i
many cases with success in this country.