The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-11
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.


sugar, six eggs, one large lemon, one
teaspoonful of soda.
SOUR SAUCE.-Melt one and a half
cups of butter, and stir in a tablespoon
full of flour. Add one cup of boiling
water, and nearly a cup of sugar, and
two spoonfuls of good vinegar. Spice
to taste.
A SOLUTION of five parts of borax in
one hundred of water is represented to
prevent the putrefactive process in
meats for considerable time Flesh
dipped in the mixture and then dried
resists the usual processes of decom-
position.
How TO SAVE Coal IN GRATEs.-The
most practical suggestion yet make to-
ward economy of coal seems to be the
use of solid bottoms in ordinary fire
CRATES. It is asserted, and indeed
proved, that in any fireplace not ex-
cessively small a plate of iron placed
upon the CRATE will save the consump-
ticn of coal, reduce the smoke, and
leave a cheerful, free-burning fire.
Quite sufficient air enters through the
bars, no poking is necessary, and the
fire never goes out till the Goals are
consumed. There is no ash and no
dust, every particle of fuel being con-
sumed. Any householder can try this
experiment, and reduce his coal bills
say thirty per cent. at the cost of a
shilling.
ELECTRIC CAUTERY IN SURGERY. -
Surely the world is moving. One of
the last and perhaps greatest improve
ments in surgery is new method of
cutting away formidable tumors in some
of the cavities by electricity. Where
it is almost impossible to secure bleed
ing vessels on account of reaching
them, for example in detaching a flung
Gus growth far off in the nasal cavities,
throat, etc., a wire is passed around the
base, the battery set in motion, and
presto, the tumor is separated without
loss of blood, the vessels being scared
as it were with hot iron. Better still,
under the IuIling effects of chloroform
or ether, the patient experiences neither
pain nor loss of strength from hemorr-
| hage.
| G To CLEAN SILvER-Dr. Elsner says
that hot water poured off potato par
| ings or boiled potatoes is admirably
adapted to clean silver. The objects
can be easily rubbed by the fingers
with the settings of potato meal, and
! they become as bright as they usually
do ween rubbed with tripoli. The pro-
cess is particularly advantageous for en-
graved and raised objects, the powder
| Is liable to collect in the cavities. Ger
man silver and plated ware can be
cleaned in the same way. Potato water
which has become sour by long stand
ing can be substituted for acids to clean
copper vessels.
Fatal FLY-BITEs.- very fire.
| quently occur from slight punctures
made by flies in warm climates. Occa-
sionally such cases occur in temperate
| zones, but the cause of such a meIan-
choly result from a slight wound in the
skin does not seem sufficient to produce
excessive swelling, pain discoloratior
and other extraordinary appearances
which are quickly exhibited. It is,
therefore, possible that the insect
which makes the tiny wound has its
proboscis charged with an active poison
from some source where it has recently
been foraging, which, introduced into
a bleeding wound and rapidly carried
by the absOrbents into the system, is
followed by death. Observation OIL
these forms of ophthalmia so common
in Egypt, ending in blindness of one i
not both eyes, leads to the opinion thai
the dreadful malady is propagated by
flies, carrying, on their feet and feeding
: tubes, purulent matter from diseased
organs whence they are kept away witt
difficulty, to sound ones, where they
are attracted by moisture on the margin
of the lids.
New USE FOR SAwDUsT. The LondoI
Field says of sawdust 81 litter the
horses on it to a depth of nine inches
raking off the damp and soiled surfac,
every morning, and spreading evenly ;
little fresh, removing the whole four o.
five times a year. Its advantages APP
pear to be many, of which will state
few which give it, in my estimation, it,
greatest superiority over straw. It i
much cleaner, and more easily arranged
and, of course, much cheaper at frs
cost, making in the end an excellent
| Tg io1 r
the feet, affording them a cool, porous
stufing, a substitute for the soil o.
earth we always find in the hoOfs of {
horse at grass, and presents the nearest
resemblance to the horses natural foot
ing-the earth. We never had a dis
9ased foot since the introduction Of
sawdust in the stable, now some years
since. Horses bedded on sawdust are
freer from dust and stains than when IL
ordinary litter, simply because is a bet
ter absorbent, perhaps, and testify theil
approval of it by frequently lying down
for hours in the day. It has also the
recommendation of being uneatable-
an advantage which all in charge Of
horses with the habit of eating theil
litter will admit. "
Or all the men in our town the bes
dressed ones wear the Elmwood OF Warwicl
Collars. Try them yourself.
Died Suddenly OF Heart Disease.
| How common is the announcement. T+tCu
| sands are suddenly swept into eternity by th
fatal malady. This disease generally has it
origin in impure blood filed with irritating
| ugieOu0Tg materials which. circulating through
| the heart irritate its delicate tissues. ThOugl
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