The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-11-07
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

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examination of the roof of West
minister Abbey, which was built of that
material nearly five hundred years ago,
and is still perfectly sound.
FRANCE has $4,000 manufacturing
establishments, employing nearly two
million workmen, and turning out annu-
ally, according to the French census,
products to the amount of ten thousand
millions of francs, of about 81, 600, OOO,
900.
ONE of the most painful surgical
operations is removing nails which have
grown into the flesh. There is no ne
cessity whatever for this pain. The
new method is to keep the patient ten
or fifteen days in bed or on a sofa,
with bread or meal peultice applied
to the toe. This poultice is changed
several times daily, and the toe is
bathed twice a day in water as warm as
the nail becomes so soft it may be cut
with scissors and removed by hand
without. the least pain.
To CURE LooK-JAw.-B. of Tennes-
see, in Rural Sun (Which says that the
writer is stock-grower of great expe-
rience) says: To cure lock-jaw, or teta-
nus, from a wound, you should open
the wound we'll with a sharp knife, and
inject the wound six or eight times a
day with strong, warm decoction of
tobacco. I have known this to cure
several badly wounded animals in Sum
ner county suffering from lock-jaw, and
every person who owns a horse or other
stock ought to buy good book on Far
riery, and he will save money by it.
THE bridge to be constructed over the
Firth of Forth will be by lar the larg-
est in the world. According to the
London Builder its height will be $50
feet, and the number of spans nearly
100. The smaller spans will be $50
wide, which is beyond the average wi tn
of the largest spans in ordinary bridges;
but the browning marvel of the whole
structure is the great span in the CEN
tea, which is to be 1900 feet, or nearly
One-third of u mile in width, an extent
unparalleled in any existing structure
of the kind. The entire cost of the
bridge will be at least ten millions of
dollars.
A WESTERN correspondent asks why
eastern farmers have so entirely given
up the cultivation of sorghum for mo-
lasses. Simply because its production
did not pay expenses. During the war,
when molasses and sugar were at high
prices, many northern farmers thought
it profitable to produce as much as was
needed for the use of their own fami-
lies. Manufacturers claim that they
cannot afford to make it up for less
than twenty-five cents per gallon, and
when the cost of production is added to
this, the article can not compete with a
similar commodity made from southern
cane
OARBoLIo and the coal tar disinfec-
tants are the most efficient and perma-
nent antiseptics, but are generally too
offensive for indoor use. A gill of car
bOnic acid in a pail of water is one of
the best disinfectants for sewers, drains,
Oatch-basins, water-closets, urinals,
privies, etc. It should be used in the
same manner as copperas. Carbolic acid
is often mixed with lime, forming car
bolate of lime, to be used for the same
purposes. A mixture of ten parts of
quicklime and one part of the cheap re-
fuse oils from the distillation of coal
tar, is one of the most efficient prepa-
rations for deodorizing foul places in
the open air.
Om-CLorH MADE FROM CARPET
The following recipe is communicated
to the Cultivator and Country Gentle
man by "Daisy Eyebright - Nail the
old Brussels carpet loosely to the floor,
in large attic or wOod-house chamber
not in use. Then paint it over with 6
thick coat of inseed-oiI and burnt um,
Der. Let it dry in thoroughly; add 6
coat of good varnish. Let that dry fol
a week or two, and it can be scrubbed
and washed with milk and water like
any oil-cIOth. Paint it on the wrong
side, and nail it down closely, for il
need not be taken up in many years
AS the varnish and paint wear of, re
new them, and thus it Will last fom
times as long as common Oil-cloth.
In regard to the power required fol
different sized circular saws, one CORE
spondent of the Scientific American ex
presses the opinion that "a saw JUS
large enough to cut through n boarC
will require less power than a larger
saw, the number of teeth, speed ant
thickness being equal in each" Thi
theory is opposed by another CORE
spOndent, who says g am running
three saws, one 40 inches with 48 teeth
one 50 inches with 40 teeth, and one 6.
inches with 56 teeth, all 8 gauge in thick
ness, and I find the 64-inch will Gu
through n u or IA inches cut with les
power than either of the others. I diff
fer with him concerning the saw witt
few teeth cutting the easiest, as m,
52-inch saw with AZ teeth takes NOR
power than either of the others and
run the same hook in the teeth, anC
file them all exactly alike. My engin
is small and timber large, so that I hav
every facility for finding ont which cut
with least power"
SYDNEY SMITH said one thing whicI
is good for youth to have quoted in it
behalf. and as a reply to the maxim
they like not, namely, "Spare the TO-
and spoil the child" To hardship, sa
some people-to whom it is easiest t