The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-29

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DoN'r GIVE L1QuoR TO CHnDREN.-
One of the first literary men In the
United States said to a writer, after
speaking on the subject of temperance
6There is one thing which, as you visit
different places, wish you to do every
where that is, entreat every mother
never to give a drop of strong drink to
a child. 1 have had to fight, as for my
life, all my days TO keep from dying
drunkard, because was fed with spirits
when a child, and acquired a taste for
it. Ny brother, poor fellow, died a
drunknrd. would not have a child of
mine to take a drop of liquor for
any thing. Warn every mother,
wherever you go, never to give drop
to q child.
FIRE AND WATER. PROOF PAINT
Slack stone lime, by putting into a tub,
covered to keep in the steam when
Stacked, pass the powder through fine
sieve, and TO every six quarts add a
quart of rock salt and a gallon of water;
then boil and skim clear to every five
gallons of the fluid add pulverized
alum, one pound, pulverized copperas,
half-pound, and stir slowly; add pow
dered potash three quarters Of a pound,
then very fine sand of hickory ashes
four pounds; then use any coloring
matter desired, and apply With brush.
1t looks better than any ordinary paint
and is durable as slate; will stop small
leaks in roofs, prevent moss from grow
ing thereon; make it incombustible,
and render brick impeivious to water.
MARRIAGES OF BLOOD RELATIONS
Statistics presented to the French acad-
envy shows that the marriages of blood
relations form about two per cent of
all the marriages in France, and the
deaf and dumb offspring, at birth, of
consanguineous marriages, are, in pro-
portion to the deaf and dumb born in
ordinary Wedlock-at LYONS, full %
per cent; at least 20 per cent. in Paris,
and 30 per cent, in Bordeaux-the pro-
portions of the deaf and dumb, by
birth, increasing with the degree of
bleod relationship. The data obtained
show that, If the danger of having a
deaf and dumb child in ordinary mar
risge, represented by figures, is one,
there will be Is in marriages between
first cousins, 81 in marriages between
uncles and nieces, and 20 in marriages
between nephews and aunts. It appears,
too, that the most healthy parents, if
related in blood, may have deaf and
dumb children while deaf and dumb
parents, if not related, very rarely have
deaf and dumb children.
WHAT IS THoRoUGHBRED?-W we
call the thoroughbred horse was created
in England by the importation of mares
and stations from Arabia and Barbary,
and by the judicious commingling of
the foreign with the native blood.
Through contests on the turf and the
right kind of crossing the horse was
gradually improved or elevated to a
high standard of excellence, and these
improved horses were then recognized
as the ptogenitors of an aristocratic
race. Equine heraldry had been made
a science, and the birth and pedigree
of each horse of high breeding had
been preserved in the "Stud Book. 4"
Usage had decreed that an animal which
can show an uncontaminated pedigree
for five generations shall be c1assed as
a thoroughbred; that is, no drop of
cold or cross blood must appear In the
veins the origin of which can not
be found behind five successive periods
of production. Five removes from a
common parentage refine the blood and
make it aristocratic.- Turf, Field and
Farm.
Run Down HORSES. -Mr. Harris. in
the American Agriculturalist, tells the
following" This summer my horses
got badly run down. We fed them lib
orally, but they did not eat we'll. They
had no appetite, no digestion, and no
strength and spirit They came home at
noon and night tagged out, and their
nights rest did not refresh them. I
sawed a barrel in two and placed the
ends ON the platform of the pump.
These are for watering the horses. Into
one OF them we put a pailfull of corn
meal and mixed it with water. The
horses mt first did not like it and would
only drink a little when very thirsty.
After they had drank what thew would
they were allowed pure water. In a
few days, however, they drank this
corn-meal soup with a relish, and in
less than week there was decided
change for the better in the appearances
of oil the horses. We do not let them
eat the meal, but merely let them drink
the water. have no doubt it is good
for them as plate of good soup is for
tired and hungry man before dinner.
1t seems to stimulate the appetite and
aid digestion"
MILK IN WMTER.-A great many
farmers have plenty of milk in summer,
bub run Oub pl lue NEUcle IN winter. or
rather, their cows run out of it. They
fail TO supply the article when called
for. Now, milk is a good thing, n good
article Of diet, good for infants and
old folks, good to furnish cream and
butter, and any one who pretends to be
farmer ought 10 have plenty of it all
winter. But TO have it there are GER
tain requisites. One of these is warm
shelter; another is plenty of nutritious
food; and another still is regularity in
milking and feeding, and kindness for
caring for so good an animal. Why, a
good COW is one of tho family, almost.
Every body should have n kind word
for her. She should be looked up to
with respect. II good big quantity
of the rich tactical fluid is wanted she
should be regaled twice q day with
some nice slop of bran and corn-meal.
You can no more get much milk from
dry food than you can get blood from a
turnip. We want every body to have
plenty of milk, and we want COWS to
have warm shelter and plenty of food
to furnish it.