Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-02
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

APPLYING verbena water to the skin is
| a protection against mosquitoes.
| Do NOT throw bottles, broken glass or
nails into the street. Many horses are
wounded and spoiled by this thoughtless-
ness.
THE farmer who is in the habit of let
| ting down the corner of his fences here
| and there for passing from one field to an
other, will never have definite road laid
out, and never have his fences in good
order.
FURNITURE OL.-MiX half pint OF
olive oil with one pound of soft soap.
| Boil them well, and apply the mixture to
your oiled furniture with a piece OF dry
cotton wool. Polish with a soft, dry fan
| mel
| To KEEP up the fertility Of our pastures,
| it is evident that we must do our best to
| check the growth of such vegetation as
| is rejected by stock But it is not enough
| to destroy the useless and injurious plants
we must encourage the growth of the
| valuable ones.
| ONE hundred merino sheep, with plenty
| of good bedding, viii, during the ordinary
| feeding time in winter, produce about
| forty two-horse wagon loads of manure,
WHICH Is ldT liOIC NGiudDIC Us Il
than that of either horses or COWS.
"WEAR YOUR learning said Chester
| field, like your watch, in a private peck
| ct, and do not pull it out and strike it
| merely to show that you have one. fyou
are asked what O'Clock it is, tell it, but do
| not proclaim it hourly, and unasked, like
| the Waterman"
THE Chicago Medical Times is RESPONSE
| bic for the following method of swallow
| a pill without knowing it:-Put the pills
| under the tongue behind the teeth, and
| let the patient Immediately take large
| swallow of water, and he will neither feel
| the pill nor taste it. In fact, he cannot
| tell where it has gone, and | have seen
| them look on the floor to see if they had
| not dropped it.
"OF all drcary places" says a promi-
| nent writer, deliver me from the farm
houses which many people call home.
Bars for front gate, chickens wallowing
before the door, pig-pens elbowing the
house IN the rear, scraggy trees, never
| cared for, or no trees at all, no cheering
shrubs no neatness, no trimness. And
yet a lawn and trees, and a neat walk and
| a pleasant fence don't cost great deal"
PERHAPS no greater injury has ever
been done in horticulture than the recon-
mendation, by inexperienced writers, Of
| chip manure as a dressing. It's danger
arises mainly from its ready disposition
to spread fungi, which inevitably arise in
soils naturally little moist and tenacious.
When once formed, such fungi spread
with astonishing rapidity, totally prevent
ing growth and finally killing the plants
--H0rtaculturist.
IT Is said by good medical authority
that bleeding at the nose can be stopped
by vigorous motion Of the Jaws, as if in
the act of masticatiOn. In the case of a
child, a wad of paper should be placed in
its mouth and the child instructed to
chew it hard. 1t is the motion of the Jaws
that stops the flow of blood. This remedy
is so very simple that many will feel in
clined to laugh at it, but it has never been
known to fail in single instance, even in
severe cases.
The brain of horse seems to entertain
but one thought at a time; for this reason
continued whipping is out of the ques-
ton, and only confirms his stubborn re
solve. But if you can by any means
change the direction of his mind, give
him new subject to think of, and nine
times out OF ten you will have no further
trouble in starting him. AS simple
trick, little pepper, aloes, or the like,
thrown back on his tongue, will often
succeed, by turning his attention to the
taste of his mouth
THERE is no Single item in connection
with the farmers business that attracts
more Of his attention-that more excites
his ire, or gives him greater satisfaction
than good or bad roads, and yet there is
no subject in which he is more persistent
ly perverse and careless Who ever heard
| of two farmers agreeing upon the proper
time to repair roads, or the best means of
| doing it? Road mending with us is, in
most instances, merely a spasmodic out
| break of mlsdirected labor, applied with
out definite object, and regardless of all
recognized laws of mechanics or nature.