The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-11-13
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FRANCE has 1913, 900 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, 000,-
600.
ONE of the most painful surgical
operations is removing nails which have
grown into the flesh. There is no ne
eessity whatever for this pain. The
new method is to keep the patient ten
or fifteen days in q bed or on a sofa,
with a bread or meal peultice applied
to the toe. This poultice is changed
several times daily, and the toe is
bathed twice day in water as warm as
may be borne. In ten or fifteen days
the nail becomes SO soft it may be cut
with scissors and removed by hand
without the least pain.
THE bridge to be constructed over the
Firth of Forth will be by far 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 a 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,
whom 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
caunot 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.
OARBoLIc and the coal tar disinfec-
nent antiseptics, but are generally too
offensive for in ioor 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,
priYies, etc. It should be used in the
same manner as eopperas. Carbolic acid
is often mixed with lime, forming car
bolate of lime, to be used for the same
purposes. A mixture of ten paris 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.
OlL-CLoTH 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 a
thick coat If linseed-oil AMI burnt UNI
Der. Let it dry in thoroughly add a
coat of good varnish. Let that dry for
a week or two, and it can be scrubbed
and washed with milk and water like
any oil-cloth. Paint it on the wrong
side, and nail it down closely, for II
need not be taken up in many yeurs.
AS the varnish and paint wear off, re-
new them, and thus it will last four
times as long as common oil-cloth.
In regard to the power required for
different sized circular saws, one CORE
spondent of the Scientific American ex-
presses the opinion that " A saw Just
large enough to cut through a board
will require less power than a larger
saw, the number of teeth, speed and
thickness being equal in each. " This
theory is opposed by another CORE
spondent, who says: st am running
three saws, one 48 inches with 48 teeth,
one 80 inches with 40 teeth, and one "a
inches with So teeth, all 8 gauge in thick
ness, and find the 64-inoh will cut
through u or IA inches cut with less
power than either of the others. I diff
fer with him concerning the saw with
few teeth cutting the easiest, as my
52-inch saw with 40 teeth takes more
power than either of the others; and I
run the same hook in the teeth, and
file them all exactly alike. Ny engine
is small and timber large, so that I have
every facility for finding out which cuts
with least power"