The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-25
Agricultural.
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

MANY of our thin young IaIies would
gain fifteen pounds in a year by going
to bed at nine o'clock every night.
PATENT STARCH -Spermaceti
two ounces, and two ounces white wax
melt, and run it to a thin cake. A piece
the size of cent gives linen the ap-
pearance of having just left the hands
of the most expert fnisher, and pre-
vents the iron from sticking.
WHITE SPRUCE BEER.-Three pounds
of loaf sugar, five gallons of water,
with enough of essence Of spruce to
give it a flavor, a cup of good yeast,
little lemonpeeI if you choose, and
when fermented, bottle it up close. It
is a delightful beverage in warm
weather.
DURING the year 1871 there were con-
structed IN this country 1851 miles of
railway. During the last year 6,511
miles were built, making the result of
1872 in this respect inferior to the
showing of its predecessor. The entire
length of railway in the United States,
completed and in operation at the close
of the year, was 70, 158 miles, and A.
600 miles more are in various stages of
progress.
A MAN in Chittenden county, Vt, has
made an experiment designed to ascer-
tain how tar soil is protected from cold
by snow. For four consecutive winter
days, there being four inches of snow
on n level, he found the average TEN
| perature Immediately above the snow
fourteen degrees below zero immedi-
ateIy beneath, ten degrees above zero ;
under a drift two feet deep, twenty
seven degrees above.
GENERALLY speaking, cold feet, like
| other local maladies, comes of low gen
eral vitality, and the real cure is to be
sought in lifting W. the general force.
But the cold, shallow foot-bath, a daily
change of wooden hose and the use of
shoe-soles as broad as your feet, will,
generally speaking, keep your feet
warm. Loose shoes permit the blood
to flow freely. A tight glove, you
know, makes the hand cold.
The seven wonders of the world are
among the traditions of childhood, and
yet ninety-nine persons out of one hun
bred can not name them. They are the
Pyramids the temple, the walls and
the hanging gardens of Babylon the
Chryselphantine statue of Jupiter
Olympus, the most renowned work OF
Phidias the temple of Diana at Ephe-
sus, which was two hundred and twenty
years in building, and which was 425
feet in length and 900 feet in breadth,
and supported by 127 marble columns
of Ionic order, go feet high; Mauso-
Ieum at Halicarnassus, erected to the
memory of MausOlus, the King of Cara,
by his wife Artemesia, B. G. 353; the
Pharos at Alexandria, a lighthouse
erected by Prolemy Softer at the en-.
trance of the harbor of Alexandra, 45C
feet high, and seen at a distance of 1OC
miles: and lastly, the Colossus al
Rhodes, brazen image Of Apollo, los
Grecian feet in height.
SETTNG.-I always find it best to SET
hens under shelter or on the ground.
If this last is not practicable. I have 6
green sod taken up thin and place an.
der the nest. This is very important
for the earth contains heat enough tC
keep the eggs in good condition while
the hens is off IN quest of food
something which boards or mere litter
under the nest would not be sure to do
make my nest of straw pounded OF
bruised finely with the poll of an ak
usually laying it on smoothly cut
stump of tree to pound it.
MILK OF DISEASED CATTLE.-Mr. Hus
son, in a paper upon the milk of animal.
diseased with the cattle plague, an
nounces, as the Jesuit OF one of his re
searches, that neither the flesh nor tn,
milk of animals suffering from this cattle
plague-cOntagiOus tyPhus-wil con
vey the disease, although they may suf
fer greatly in their nutritive properties
The milk of diseased COWS he found t,
have a more or less marked reddisI
yellow tinge, and disagreeabIe flavor
= although cats fed upon it seemed t,
= suffer no inconvenience.
No GIRL should marry until she is fl
foJ motherhood, and no girl is fit TO
motherhood at sixteen years of age
Becoming a mother at sixteen or seven
teen with an average girl in this lati
. tude means offspring of an inf, rior kind
: and it means premature old age IN til
mother. I will not say that no girl a
: sixte; should marry, but can say tina
. [ have never known a girl to marry a
>, that age where I did not think it grea
mistake.
/ VEGETABLE IvoRY-This substanc
+ is the albumen of the seed of a sma
7 species of South American palm. I'll
o. fruit consists of several cells, in each c
which there are four seeds they al
enveIoped in a tough, fbrous tests
! which on being removed exposes tn
Y ivory It forms a good substitute fc
d animal ivoroy, which it excels IN color
% being of delicate transparent white. +
! however, loses its purity after a certai
! time. Pretty ornaments can be mad
/ out of this vegetable by the turner.
A SPRING CLEANING Simple salt an
# water cleans and preserves mattin
Y more effectually than any other method
p Tepid tea cleans grained wood. Oh
% cloth should be frightened, after wasl
o ing with soap and water, with skin
milk. Salt and water washing preserve
n bedsteads from being infested by We