The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-11-19
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

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FRANCE has 1913, 900 manufacturing
establishments, employing nearly tive
million workmen, and turning out annu
ally, according to the French census
products to the amount of ten thousanC
millions of francs, of about 80, 600, 900,
900.
ONE of the most painful surgicn
operations is removing nails which have
grown into the flesh. There is no ne
cessity whatever for this pain. The
new m5thod is to keep the patient ter
or fifteen days in a fed or on a sofa.
with a bread or meal poultice applied
to the toe. This poultice is changed
several times daily, and the toe is
bathed twice a day in water as warm as
may be borne. In ten or fifteen lays
the nail becomes so soft it may be cut
with scissors and removed by hand
without the least pain.
To CURE LoCK-JAw.-B. of Tennes-
sec, in Rural Sun (Which says that the
writer is a stock-grower of great expe-
~rience) says: To cure lock-jaw, or teta-
nus, from a wound, You should open
the wound well with a sharp knife, and
inject the wound six or eight times a
day with a strong, warm decOction Of
tobacco. | have known this to cure
several badly wounded animals in Sum-
ner county suffering from lOck-iaw, and
every person who owns n hOrse.or other
stock ought to buy q good book Oh Far
riery, and he will save money by it.
The bridge to be constructed over the
Firth of Forth will be by far the larg-
est in the world. According to the
London Builder its height will be 100
feet, and the number of spans nearly
100. The smaller spans will be $50
wide, which is beyond the average wi til
OF the largest spans in ordinary bridges;
but the browning marvel of the whole
structure is the great span in the CEN
tea, which is to be 1900 feet, or nearly
ono-third of a mile in width, an extent
unparalleled in any existing structure
of the kind. The entire cost of the
bridge will be ut least ten millions of
dollars.
A WESTERN correspondent asks why
eastern farmers have so entirely given
mp the cultivation of sorghum for mo-
lasses. Simply because its production
did not pay expenses. During the war,
when molasses and sugar were at high
prices, many northern farmers thought
1T profitable to produce as much rs was
needed for the use of their own fami-
lies. Manufacturers claim that they
cannot afford to make it up for less
than twenty-five cents per gallon, and
when the cost of production is added to
this, the article can not compete with a
similar commodity made from southern
cane.
CARBoITo and the coal tnr disinfec-
tants are the most efficient and perma-
nent antiseptics, but are generally too
offensive for indoor use. A gill of car
bonic acid in q pail of water is one of
the best disinfectants for sewers, drains.
oatch-basins, water-closets, urinals,
privies, etc. It should be used in the
manner as copperas. Oarbolic acid
Is often mixed with lime, forming car
of lime, to be used for the same
purposes. A mixture of ten parts of !
Iuicklime and one part of the cheap re-
use oils from the distillation of coal .
is one of the most efficient prepa- =
for deodorizing foul places in =
he open air. }
O1I-CLoTH MADE FROM CARpEr.- i"
The following recipe is communicated =
20 the Cultivator and Country Gentle .
nan by "Daisy Eyebright :" Nail the 6
I'D Brussels carpet loosely to the floor, =
n a large attic o. wood-house chamber :,
lot in use. Then paint it over with a =
hick coat of iinseed-oil and burnt UNI .
'er. Let it dry in thoroughly ; add a
'oat of good varnish. Let that dry for !.
week or two, and it can. be scrubbed =
nd washed with milk and water like +
ny oil-Cloth. Paint it on the wronod :
and nail it down closely, for it !
teed not be taken up in many years. :
As the varnish and paint wear off. re- "
them, and thus it will last four =
as long as common oil-eloth.
~
In regard to the power required for a
iferent sized circular saws, one CORE 4
pendent of the Scientific American ex- =
resses the opinion that ga saw lust y
lrge enough to cut through a board :
i'll roquiru Tess power than a larger =
wv, the number of teeth, speed and =
liokness being equal in each" This =,
leory is opposed by another CORE g,
who says: al an running :
lree saws, u 40 inches with 4s teeth.
ne 81 inches with ~ teeth, and one 81 n
lches with So teeth, all 8 gauge in thiok- =,
ess, and | find the 64-inch will cut =
lrough a IL or Ia inches cut with less ,
over than either of the others. I diff ~
r with him concerning the saw with .
teeth cutting the easiest, as my n,
saw with - teeth takes more :.
over than either of the others and /
in the same hook in the teeth, and !.
10 them all exactly alike. My engine bo
small and timber large, SO that / have ~
-ery facility for finding out which outs =,
ith least power"
SYDNEY SMHTH said n thing which be
good for youth TO have quoted in its CT
half, and IS a reply to the maxim tn
ey like not, namely, "Spare the rod bli
d spoil the child" To hardship, say rel
me people-to whom it is easiest to CO..
hard-children should be early in sol
SO that in after-life they may be rer
tier able to bear it, though if it lea