The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
IRON

shingles have been recently patent
ed, and are said to be less expensive
than slate. They are made about
six inches by thirteen inches in size,
and fasten with hcadless nails.
WM. YOUNG, of Bedford county,
Tennessee, has invented a plan by
which as good sugar as the market
affords can be made out of sorghum
and at u mere tritie of cost.
A MOVEMENT is on foot TO utilize
the hides of buffaloes killed on the
plaiLs by converting them INTO
leather Several bales of hides
have been sent to England, where
they have been successfully tanned,
and the leather, after being split,
used for carriage tops or for patent
leather. The profit is said to be
small, however.
A COTTON harvest machine has
been invented, which, it Is claimed,
will perform the work of fifty
hands day, collecting and gather
ing into the bags the cotton from
twelve acres with the assistance of
two men, one boy, and a pair of
mules. The cotton plant passes be-
tween two sections, and the foliage
is left undisturbed tor the second
and third pickings.
If YOU have smoky chimney,
sec that the chimney-top reaches
higher than any other part of the
building; that the inside through
out the whole length is plastercd
very smoothly with gOod mortar
that the throat of the chimney is
not less than four inches broad and
n foot long, opening into a chamber
at least twice as large, and that no
flue contains less than sixty square
inches
WORTH PRESERVING.
In case of poison, make your pa
tient vomit by giving a tumbler of
warm water with a teaspoonful of
mustard in it, and then send for the
doctor. If it be necessary to acl
without the doctor, and the poison
is arsenic, give large quantities of
mi'k and raw eggs, or flour and wa
ter If the poison is an acid, give
give magnesia and water, or chalk
and water, and plenty of warm wa
ter besides If it is an alkali, like
potash, give vinegar and water,
lemon-iuice, or some other safe acid.
Always remember an cmetic first.
If it be laudanum, strong coffee is
a good thing to give until the doc.
tor comes. Keep the patient awake
-Bistoury.
VENTILATION.
Whatever renders the blood inn
pure tends to originate and foster
consumption and whatever makes
the air impure makes the blood i'm
pure. tor it is the air we breathe
which purifies the blood. This is
no theory, but fact as we'll known
as is the effect of sunshine 1t is
precisely the Same rs III the instance
of the use of water for purifying
purposes if the water which we
use to wash our clothing be foul
and dirty, 1t is impossible to wash
the clothing clean, and Just so, if
the air we breathe be impure, it is
impossible for it to abstract the inn
purlties from the blood. Air and
water are similar in several rela-
tions; thus it is the nature of still
water to become impure, and exact
ly the same in the fact with still air.
Running water also purifies itself
so with air in motion-drafts of air
arc selfpuriiers therefore it is that
the sir of close room must newt
bly, become impure, and thus close,
unvcntilated apartments are breed
ing consumption constantly. That
ali rooms should have a current Of
air passing through them, is sim
pie sanitary necessity which could
not be too strongly insisted upon.
HOW TO GET RID OF sURPERFLUoUs
FLESH.
Not long ago a gentleman OF |
who had hardly ever
been sick in his life, thought he was
too fleshy and began to Bantamize.
lie succeeded famously. and boast
ed to his friends that he had got /
rid of ton pounds in few weeks.
little later he was attacked with
a painful and dangerous malady, |
from which he has been suffering
more than a year. If a man can
sleep soundly, has good appetite,
with no unpleasant reminders after
meals, the bodily habits being regu-
ar every day, he had better leave
himself alone, whether he is big as
. hogshead or thin and dry as a