The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-05-01
Agricultural.
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

TALENT OIAhIh OLlSh,- ulhCtl
two ounces, and two ounces white wax
melt, and run it to q thin cake. A piect
the size Of a cent gives linen the ap
pearance OF having just left the hands
Of the most expert finisher, 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 &c
give it a flavor, a cup OF good yeast, q
little ~lemonpeel il you choose, and
when fermented, bottle it up close. II
is a delightful beverage in warm
weather.
DURrSG the year 1871 there were con
~strncted in this country 1861 miles OF
railway. During the last year G,5ll
miles we're 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, 1873 miles, and A.
900 miles more are in various stages OF
progress.
A MAN 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 u level, he found the average TEN
perature Immediately above the 20
fourteen degrees below zero immedi.
ately beneath, ten degrees above zero f.;
under 4 drift two feet deep, twenty
seven lcgrees 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 up the general force.
But the cold, shallow foot bath, a 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.
THg seven wonders of the world are
among the traditions Of childhood, aud
yet nlnety-nine persons out Of one hun
dred 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 renown d work OF
Phidias the temple of Diana at Ephe.
sus, which was two hundred and twenty
years i'll building, and which was 1875
feet in length and 800 feet in breadth,
and supported by 1877 marble columns
Of Ionic order, go feet high Mauso-
leum at lIalicarnassus, erected TO the
memory of Mausolus, the King of Caria,
by his wife Artemesia, b. G. 1853 the
Pharos at Alexandria, II lighthouse
erected by Prolemy' Softer at the en-
trance of the lmrbor of Alexandra, $50
feet high, and seen at It distance Of 100
miles; and lastly, the. Colossus at
Rhodes, a brazen image Of Apollo, l05
Grecian feet in height.
SETTING always find it best to set
hens under shelter or on the ground.
II this last is not practicable, | have a
green sod taken up thin and placed UNI
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
OF a tree to pound it.
MILK OF DISEASED CATTLE. Mr.. Hns-
son, in II paper upon the milk of animals
diseased with the cattle plague, an
n%ounces, as the result OF one of his re-
searches, that neither the flesh nor the
milk of animals suffering fromthis cattle
plague-contagious typhus-will con
yey the disease, although they may sui
fer greatly in their nutritive properties.
The milk OF diseased cows he found to
have q more or less marked reddish
yellow tlnge, and II disagreeable flavor,
although cats fed upon it seemed to
suffer no inconvenience.
No CIR should marry until she is fit
70. motherhood, and no girl is fit, for
motherhood at sixteen years of age.
Becoming u mother at sixteen or seven
teen with an average girl in this lati-
tude means Offspring Of an inf rior kind.
and 1t means premature old age in the
mother. | will not say that no girl at
sixte,q should marry, but | can say that
| have never known u girl to marry at
that age where | did not think it agreat
mistake.
VEGETABLE Ivory. This substance
is the albumen Of the seed Of q small
OF South American palm. The
fruit consists of several cells, in each Of
which there are four seeds they are
'nyeloped in a tough, fibrous tesla,
which on being removed exposes the
worry. 1t forms a good substitute for
lnimal iyoroy, which it excels in color,
'eing of a delicate transpar mt white. 1t,
however, loses its purity after a certain
me. Pretty ornaments can be made
of this yauetahle nv tha turnar