The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-10-29
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CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

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CHLORIDE of lime is good to absorb
putrid efauvia and to stop putrefaction.
Use as lime is used.
WI notice that diamond-cutting has
recently been introduced in Birming-
ham, England, where there is every
prospect Of the art reaching a flourish
ing state. Recent advices also inform
us that a huge diamond has been dis
covered and brought from the cape.
It weighs 2882 carats in the rough, and
when cut will be half as large agar as
the world-renowned Koh-I-Noor.
ACTION OF WATER ON LEAD PIPES ST,
Robert Christfson, who has devoted
much attention to the influence. of water
upon lead in passing through pipes,
etc, has ascertained that the purest
waters are those which aet-most pew
erfuIly upon lead, corroding it, and
forming a carbonate of a peculiar and
uniform composition, and that all salts
impede this action, manyprevent it alto
gether, some Of them doing so when i'll
extremely minute proportions.
A CHOLERA SPECIFIC. "A correspond
ent of the Oultivator and Country Gen
tlcman writes that one heaping toa-
spoonful OF. flour Of sulphur and IL
hcaping teaspoonful of powdered char
coal, mixed with whisky to the consis-
tcncy of cream, and taken after each dis
charge, is considered by him almost q
specific for cholera. He states that the
above is a very large dose, and that it
will sometimes check the discharge so
suddenly as to bring on a feverish state;
in such cases oil OF pills will remove
the ba3 effects. He says that he has
used this as a remedy in all obstinate
kinds of bowel complaints with great
success. The recipe was obtained from
a gentleman who used it while on the
Ohio and Mississippi river boats
New AND REMARKABLE CANNoE.-The
German journals announce that the re-
cent trials Of new guns on iEon-plated
targets, which took place at Tegel, near
Berlin, fully satisfied all expeditions.
The shot from the 11-inch ring cast
steel gun penetrated an iron plate IL
inches thick, that from the 1O-inch gun
of the same pattern an iron plate of II
inches, and there was force to spare
in both cases. At Krupp's works, ut
Essen, trials have been made with the.
newly-constructed 3O3 centimeters (12-
inch ring cast-stee1 gun, and the re-
suit iustifes the belief that this gun
will pierce IA and perhaps IS inches of
armor. Thus the strongest iron-cIad
now existing, Her British Maiesty's ship
Devastation, which is provided with an
armor Of Il inches, will no longer be
invulnerable if opposed to such guns.
PoTAToEs PRosCRBED. Several Ger
writer's upon races predict that ma
tons, far from improving, will deterior-
both in physical and mental char
acteristics, if potatoes become a princi-
pal article of diet. The celebrated Carl
Voight says that "The n~ourishing po-
tato does not restore the wasted tissues,
but makes our p%roletariats physically
and mentally weak" The Holland ply
sioIogist, Mulder, gives the same iudg-
ment when he declares hat the exces-
siye use of potatoes among the poorer
classes, and coffee and tea by the higher
ranks, is the cause of the Incidence of
nations. Leidenfrost maintains that the
revolutions OF the last three centuries ;
have been caused by the changed nopr-
ishment the lowest workmen, in former
ate more flesh than now, when
5he cheap potato forms his principal !
substance$but gives him no muscular or
nervous strength.
A CHRISTIAN nation, Jealous of. it's |"
avs, but careless of its people-conser-
Of its institutions, but contempt
1tous of the weak and poor whom those
Institutions .oppress-are baptized inf
lels. Christ never, died for laws nor
or governments, but for men ; and they
Who crush men to build up nations may
God to meet them with the blast
his lightnings and, the terror Of his
Themasses against the classes,
he world o~ver--Iaam willing to go to
Judgment upon that.-H w. Beecher, !
THERE are people who tell you our
zee is preoccupied, that men no longer
cad anything, or care for anything.
Napoleon wal occupied, I think, at Bere-
ina: he, however, had his Os8idga with
With him. When did Thought Ioosethe
of being able to leap into the
addIe behind Action? When did man
prget to rush like. Tyr@us to the COM
a sword in one hand, the Tyre in
he other? Since the world still has a
it has, a seul.-AIfred de Att8set. =
Com BREAD RUsK.-Take six cup
of .corn-meal, four cupfuIs of wheat
two cupfuls Of molasses, two tea
poonfuls of soda, and a litblesalt mix
his we'll together, knead it into dough,
hen make two cakes of it, and put into
he tin or iron pans, to bake one hour.
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