National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-01-03

comes 10 us from Paris, has been rca
before the Society of Arts. The met,
employed is tinfoil in sheets about 81,
teen feet long, and from thirty to fort
inches wide. The sheets are painte
md dried ut a high temperature, an
are then decorated with many difleren
patterns, such as foliage, flowers
Reometrical figures, imitation Of wood
or landscapes. When decorated, tn
sheets are vanished, and again dried
and are then ready for sale.
A new mode of washing linen In
been introduced and adopted in Ger
many. The operation consists in dis
solving two pounds of soap in abou
three gallons Of water as hot as the hant
can bear, and adding TO this one table
spoonful of turpentine and three Of
liquid ammonia; the mixture must ther
be well stirred and the linen stepped in
it for two or three hours. taking care tc
cover up the vessel which contains them
Ms nearly Theoretically as possible. The
clothes are afterward washed out and
rinsed in the usual way. The soap and
water may be rehcated and used the
second time, but in thnt case half Ia
ble-spoonfnl of turpentine and table
spoonful OF ammonia must be added.
The process is said to cause great
economy in time, labor, and fuel.
A writer in the Country Gentleman
says: "Steers ! handle and yoke up
the first winter before they are year
old, and during the following summer,
to accustom them 10 the yoke, and to
walk side by side evenly together. The
second winter put them to light sled,
and put small rope around the nigh
ones head, not to guide them by, but
to secure them from running away from
me by some sudden fright or some
other cause. then, with light, short
whip, proceed to teach them to draw,
to go forward, to stop, to haw and gee
use few words with them, and few
motions of the whip, not trying to teach
them too many things at once. When
they are little older, teach them to
back by choosing piece Of descending
ground for that purpose, with the empty
sled or cart for IA load. ] never try to
plough without driver till steers are
four years old.
An Iowa farmer recommends the fol-
lowing device for measuring land Take
two Stats about six feet long, sharpen
one end Of each, lay them upon floor
like pair of open compasses, so that
the points shall be exactly five feet six
inches apart; now nail the other two
ends together and piece across the
middle, SO that it will look like the let
ter A, and the measure is finished. To
measure Land place one point at the
starting place and the other also on the
ground in straight line for destination;
stand alongside the machine, with one
hand on top of it; take one step for
ward, tip up the point that is behind,
swing it around from yoW on the other
poiut, and set it in line also. A person
In thus manner can measure correctly rs
fast as he can walk---three spaces make |
rod---walk straight without stopping.
count the spaces, divide these by three,
and you have the rods.
Californians lead in the matter OF
dairy cuteness 50 far as heard from. A
commission firm in San Francisco slate
~ found that some of their customers
were exasperated about something, and
soon sundry Suspicious and groaey
looking boulders and bricks were
brought in and deposited on their coun-
tiers by persons who stated that they
found them in frkins of butter they had
bought of the firm, and these persons
not nnnaturally INDUCED in remarks
that they could not be deemed compli-
mentary to the butter dealers. An in
vestigation ives at once made, when it
was discovered that n consignment con-
sisting of twenty-eight frkins of what
purported to be choice product of the
dairy was largely doctored" in this
substantial manner. Some of the firkins
contained from ten to fourteen pounds
OF rock and brick. Measures were at
once taken to trace the ingenious villany
to its proper source"
A correspondent Of the Prairie
Farmer, who has had large experience
with swine, says the following are re-
table,
Preventive. lone peck wood ashes.
four pounds salt, one pound each of ;;
black antimony, copperas, and sulphur,
quarter OF a pound saltpetre. Pound,
mix thoroughly and moisten enough to ,
prevent waste; put in n trough in dry !
place where the hogs can at all times :,
eat as much as they please of it. l have =
strictly followed directions and have had =
no cholera. y
Remedy.- 1T is: Sulphur, two pounds; !
copperas, two pounds; madden, two =
pounds; black anthony, half pound; :
saltpetre, half pound; arsenic, two y
ounces. The quantity is sufficient for y
100 hogs, and is mixed with slop enough
for few doses all round---a pint to ;,
each hog. Each time tried this had -
about fifty head, and not one died that .
was able to walk to the trough and had =
enough life left to drink. ~ .
A correspondent Of the Vermont Far
.ncr thus describes an improved poke or 81
lumping-stick: First put piece across a
the horns. Then have piece of hard "
wood board, one-half or three-fourths 90
nch thick, and about three feet long. I
Have hole inserted in the bar across Il
'he horns in such way that when this al
hard wood strip is inserted in it, running r,
out over the back, as the animal natn- d
atty carries its head, the rear end will il
De just free of the back. Drive three fc
n four single nails, ground sharp into -
his end, letting them come through al
hree-fourths of an inch, 80 that as soon I'll
rs the animal makes an effort 10 raise
MS head to jump the fence, the nails n,
VIII soundly prick his back, and he will ST
Ne apt to frisk his tail and start for sc
ome feed that is easier to be obtained. III
FOR cheapness and durability this ar
angement is unequaled. 1t weighs less IN
han three pounds; it is not in the way i,
n travelling around, and when the ami 4,
nal lies down it is on one side, as it is on
atural for the animal to throw it's head "a
pposite to the side it lies on. When M
hey are feeding it is upright in the air bt