Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

THE Directors of the Washington Life |
are some of our best and most reliable |
men in the city.-THoMAs CARLTON, |
Methodist Book Concern, New York.
A NEW tin tea-kettle takes a longer
time to boil than an old one, because the
bright surface reflects or throws off the
heat of the fire; but the old one, having
dark surface, absorbs the heat.
IT has been proved by experiment that
the more rapidly an animal is fattened the
less quantity of food is necessary to SITS
tain its mere vitality. Thus an animal
can be more cheaply fattened by consum-
ing ten bushels of corn in two months
than if four months were occupied in the
process. Liberal and abundant feeding
is the most economical, and saving of
time in producing the same result is
gain in the profit.
BROOM CORN. - Unquestionably the
best way to dispose of broom corn seed
is to feed it to the fowls. The next best
mode is to give it to the sheep; they are
fond of it, and fatten upon it nearly as
fast as upon Indian corn. Ground with
corn, rye, oats, or barley, it is profusely
fed to cattle, and when mixed with wheat
bran, it is good for milch cows. The
Shakers frequently feed it to horses, and
at the season of the year when this grain
is abundant, they use it exclusively
| Christian Union.
FRENCH JELLY.-One quart of calf's
foot or clear gelatine or stock; some ripe
| fruit, or any preserved or brandy cherries.
Have ready one quart of very clear jelly;
select ripe and nice-looking fruit, and
pick off the stalks. Commence by put
ting some jelly at the bottom of the mold,
and let it remain about two hours to hard
en-; then arrange some fruit according to
taste round the edge of the mold; if cur
rants, lay them as they come from the
tree, on their stalks, and pour in more
jelly, to make the fruit adhere, and let
the layer also harden.
GooD WoRDs.-Do not be above your
business, no matter what that calling may
be, but strive to be the best in that line.
He who turns up his nose at his work
uuarrels with his bread and butter. He is
poor smith who quarrels with his own
sparks; there is no shame about any hon,
est calling; don't be afraid of soiling your
hands; there is plenty of soap to be had.
All trades are good to traders. Above
all things avoid laziness. There is plenty
to do in this world for every pair OF
hands, and we must so work that the
world will be richer because of our having
lived in it.
SHOW me a person who complains oi
mental WEAKNESS, and will find in him 6
torpid liver, obstructed kidneys, dys
peptic stomach, constipated bowels, or ar
inactive skin. If the brain-worker doe:
not sleep enough, nor exercise enough
nor eat enough, or if he eats too much, o.
takes improper food, his digestive organs
run down, and the clock-work of thu
brain, having no way to reconstruct th'
machinery through which it receives i'm
pressions and transmits volitions and i'm
pulses, is obliged to cease work. TIL
moral is, in brief, keep the body in health
and the brain will take care of itself, worl
! il all you can.-Dr. Trail.
To CURE HAMs-My recipe is as fol
lows: Make pickle-to eight gallons o
water put twelve pounds of salt, three
!, fourths pound of saltpeter, one pint o
! molasses, one pound of sugar. Let
+ hams packed, and when the pickle is coo
, pour it over them. The meat must b
! weighted down and be well covered wit
!. pickle. Let it remain five weeks, the
! take them out and smoke them nicely
When they are we'll smoked, make goo
strong sack of stout domestic, the exac
: shape of the ham, and sew them in wei
: / havL tried this way for over fifteen year:
: and 1 always have sweet meat.-COr. Wes
9 eTn Rural
s SPRAINs AND BRUIsEs-These injurie
0 are sometimes very painful, and their cor
!. sequences very serious. The dense lig
/ ments and synovial membranes of tn
a joints swell, and sometimes infame, as th
I result of local injuries, and the pain
e often extreme. But simple water is a
/ the treatment necessary in any case.
n should, however, be of a temperatur
+ adapted to the circumstances, the indies
s tion being to unload the congested vesse
h of the injured part as much as possibl,
r If the part is hot and painful, apply col
water or cold wet cloths, frequently r
# newed, until the heat becomes normal.
# there is pain or tenderness without il
h creased heat, apply lamentations until II
q pain is relieved. All the after dosing r
4 qulred in either case is q wet cloth CO
+; cred with dry one, and worn until a
r. tenderness is gone. This simple trea
If ment will do all that any medication can d
e and is better than all the liniments ar
- lotions, plasters and poultices, that we
" ever invented.-Science Of Health.