Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-05-03
Agricultural,
USEFUL KNoWARpGR.

gain fifteen pounds in a year by going
to bed at nine o'clock every night
PATENT STARCH PoIIsH. -Spermaceti
two ounces, and two ounces white wax
melt, and run it to a thin cake. Apiece
the size of a cent gives linen the APP
pearance of having just left the hands
of the most expert inisher, 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, q cup of good yeast, a
little ~lemonpeel if you choose, and
when fermented, bottle it up close. 1t
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 6,5ll
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, 15S miles, and A.
900 miles more are in various stages Of
progress.
AMAN in Chittenden county, Vt, has
made an experiment designed to ascer-
tain how lar soil is protected from cold
by snow. For four consecutive winter
days, there being four inches Of snow
on a level, he found the average TEN.
perature Immediately above the snow
fourteen degrees below zero immedi.
ately beneath, ten degrees above zero
under a drift two feet deep, twenty
seven iegrees 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 NJ the general force.
But the cold, shallow foot-bath, n 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 n~inety-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
Chryselphautiue statue Of Jupiter
Olympus, the most renown d 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 800 feet in breadth,
and supported by 127 marble columns
of Ionic order, 60 feet high Mauso-
leum at Halicarnassus, erected to the
memory Of Mausolus, the King Of Caria,
by his wife Artemesia, B. c. 1853 the
Pharos at Alexandria, a lighthouse
erected by Prolemy Softer at the en-
trance OF the harbor of Alexandra, $50
feet high, and seen at a distance of 100
miles: and lastly, the Colossus at
Rhodes, a brazen image OF Apollo, 105
Grecian feet in height.
S~ETTGNG.-I always find it best to set
hens under shelter or on the ground.
II this last is not practicable, l have a
green sod taken up thin and place an
der the nest. This is very important,
for the earth contains heat enough to
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 or
bruised finely with the poll of an AK,
usually laying it on a smoothly cut
stump Of a tree to pound it,
MILK OF DISEASED CATTLE.-Mr. Hus-
son, in a paper upon the milk of animals
diseased with the cattle plague, an
%nounces, as the result Of one of his re-
searches, that neither the flesh nor the
milk of animals suffering fromthis cattle
plagne-contagious tyPhus-will con
vey the disease, although they may SUI
fer greatly in their nutritive properties.
The milk of diseased cows lie found TO
have a more or less marked reddish
yellow tinge, and aOlisagreeable flavor,
although cats fed upon it seemed to
suffer no inconvenience.
No GIRL should marry until she is fit
70, motherhood, and no girl is fit for
motherhood at sixteen years of age.
Becoming a mother at sixteen or seven
teen with an average girl in this lati.
tude lei offspring OF an inf rior kind,
and it means premature old age in the
mother. l will not say that no girl at
sixte n should marry, but 1 can say that
l have never known a girl to marry at
!, that age where | did not thinkit a great
mistake.
VEGETABLE Ivory. -This substance
+. is the albumen of the seed of a small
] species of South American palm. The
o fruit consists of several cells, in each o.
which there are four seeds they are
enveloped in a tough, fbrous tesla
which on being removed exposes the
= ivory. 1t forms a good substitute fol
animal ivoroy, which it excels in color
q being of delicate transpar mt white. 1t
however, loses its purity after a certain
time. Pretty ornaments can be mad,
out of this vegetable by the turner.
A SPRING CLEANINa.-Simple salt ant
water cleans and preserves mating
Y more e~ffectually than any other method
Tepid tea cleans grained wood. Oil