American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-17
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
THE rates of the Washington Life ar
the same as other good cOtnRanieS.

THE rates of the Washington Life are
the same as other good companies.
Soar suds will eventually destroy the
polish on marble fire-places, tables, etc,
if used in washing them. The potash in
| the soap decomposes the carbonate of
lime and causes the destruction.
An agricultural writer says: Ammonia
once absorbed by straw or earth, will
never escape the stable, unless fermenta-
ton takes place. The smoke of the horse
stable is the smoke of your burning for
tune, though you whistle over it.
A RAIN guage may be made by getting a
tin or iron vessel made with square sides,
strong enough so that it will not spring.
Set this level to a nicely, where 1t will be
exposed to the rain. The inches and
fractions may be measured by inserting a
proper rule, or better, tube may be sol
dered to the rain guage, having a vertcle
glass arm on which is registered the inch
es and fractions of an inch, where they
may be easily read.
HALF the people do not seem to realize
that the chest of a horse needs covering
quite as much as his back. They think it
only necessary when they stop in the
street to throw an old ragged blanket or
piece of carpet over his loins, and leave
the rest of his body exposed 1t would
DC IL poor ONeTcOdt lOT man tnaL only
covered his back, and yet a horse has a
1t is due to the horse, and Is for the best
interest of the owner, to provide good
blanket, covering chest, shoulders and
back.
THUNDER AND MATCHING EGGs.-A
correspondent of the Poultry Chronicle
gives his experience for many years, as
follows: When l make the nest above
the ground, that is, in a box or basket, l
almost always find my chickens dead in
the shell, if a thunder storm occurs dur
ing the last week of Matching but when
l have placed the nest on the ground,
with only an inch or so of soft straw for
the eggs to lie on, l have invariably had
my birds hatch out we'll am entirely
at a loss to account for it, for we find that
great unnatural noises, as the firing of
cannon, do not hurt the chicks in the
shell, but the slamming of a door will kill
the young canary before it is Matched"
TRANSFERRING BEEs-Here is my plan
for transferring. Blow smoke in the en-
trance, invert the hive, place thin cloth
over it to prevent the bees coming out,
and rap on the hive for two or three min
utes. The bees will fill themselves and
gather at one corner of the cloth. Now
take off one side of the hive and remove
one card of brood, and fit in frame and
hang it in the new hive. Take the blanket
with the bees that have gathered and
cover the new hive then turn the old
hive down so the entrance of the two
hives come together, rap on the old hive,
and the bees will travel on the double
quick. l transferred twenty-four stocks
this summer, without the loss of queen.
Cor. Bee Keepers Journal
OUR beautiful aniline colors have got
to be discarded. According to investiga-
tions recently made by eminent chemists
in Germany, not only is aniline itself a
poison, but all coloring matters contain
ing unchanged aniline are capable of poi
sonous effects. In the preparation of the
colors the strongest oxidizing agents are
used, and of these many are violent poi
sons, as arsenic acid, chlorides of zinc
and tin, anthony, and lead compounds.
If any of these substances remain in the
manufactured coloring matter, of course
the article is dangerous not of itself, for
this is innOcuous, but from the metal
poisons it contains and from the acids
combined with them, as hydrochloric,
acetic, arsenious and picrine acids.
Moreover, many coloring substances are
manufactured from the residues of ami
line factories, on account of their con-
siderably cheaper cost, which residues
contain the largest amounts of poisonous
matters Y. Sun.