The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-05-01
Agricultural.
UsEFUL KNoWLEpqE.


to bed at nine O'Clock every night.
PAEEST STARCH -Spermaceti /
two ounces, and two ounces white wax
melt, and run it to q thin cake. A piece
the size Of a 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 3 flavor, a cup Of good yeast,
little lemonpeel If you choose. and
when fermeRted, bottle it up close. 1t
is q delightful beverage in warm
weather.
DURING the year 1871 there were con
structed in this country 1881 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 asoer-
tain how far soil is protected from cold
by snow. For four consecutive winter
days, there being four inches of snow
on q level, he found the average tenn
perature Immediately above the snow
fourteen degrees below zero +; immedi-
ately beneath, ten degrees above zero !;
under a drift two feet deep, twenty
seven 1egrees 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, daily
change of wooden hose and the use of
shoe-soles as broad as your feet, viii,
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
vet 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-
SIS, which was two hundred and twenty
years in building, and which was 425
feet In length and 300 feet in breadth,
and supported by 127 marble columns
of Ionic order, so feet high Mauso-
leum at Halicarnassus, erected to the
memory of Mausolus, the King of Caria,
by his wife Artemesia, B. c. 353 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, 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, have a
green sod taken up thin and place in
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 20 do.
i I 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.
: MIX OF DISEASED CATrLE.-NIr. Hus-
) son, in 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 from this cattle
l plague-contagious tyBhus-wilI con-
vey the disease, although they may sui
fer greatly In their nutritive properties.
2 The milk of diseased cows he found to
D have a more or less marked reddish
S yellow tinge, and disagreeable flavor,
: although cats fed upon it seemed tc
= suffer no inconvenience.
e No GIRL should marry until she Is fl
: for motherhood, and no girl is fit fol
+ motherhood at sixteen years of age
]. Becoming a mother at sixteen or seven
> teen with an average girl In this Iati
T tude means offspring of an inf rior kind
It and it means premature old age in tbs
4 mother. I viii not say that no girl a
q sixte. should marry, but can say tina
K I have never known girl to marry a
is that age where I did not think it a grea
y mistake.
!; VEGETABLE IvoRY.-This substanc
/ is the albumen of the seed of a SINAI
species of South American palm. Tn
q fruit consists of several cells, in each o
g which there are four seeds they ar
D. enveloped in a tough, fbrous tesla
= which on being removed exposes tn
D. ivory. It forms a good substitute 70
y animal ivoroy, which it excels IL color
Id being of a delicate transparent white. II
Sc however, loses its purity after a certai
l. time. Pretty ornaments can be mad
L out of this vegetable by the turner.
u SPRING CLEANING. Simple salt an
a water cleans and preserves mattin
Oh more effectually than any other method
" Tepid tea cleans grained wood. Oh
Fl cloth should be frightened, after wasl
Re ing with soap and water, with skin
70 milk. Salt and water washing preserve
= bedsteads from being infested by We
n min, also mattresses. KEROSENE oil
re the best furniture oil it cleanses, add
ne a fine polish, and preserves from Ii
d ravages of insects. To get rid of mott
ne and reaches from closets and burea
III drawers, sprinkle powdered borax ove
and around the shelves, and cover wit
II; clean paper.
CoLoSEL SIR HENRY JAMES in recel
lecture on the pyramids OF Egypt, ST
ny ted that in the Kings Chamber, insiC
81 the pyramid, some Of the stones wei
'e- thirty feet long. These stones, wei9l