The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-23
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
ASPARAGUS CURE FOR RHEUMATISM.
"A medical correspondent of an EpoIish
journal says that cases of rheumatism
and goGt can be cured by the free use
OF asparagus, the active principle of the
plant having the effect of neutralizing
the lthlc acid In the system, which is
the cause of all infammatory rheumatic
ailments. The remedy is simple, and
worth trying.
DoN'T GIVE LIQUOR TO CH1nDREN.
One OF the first literary men in the
United States said to a writer, after
speaking on the subject of temperance
mere Is one thing which, as you visit
oli1erent places, wish you to do every
|here that is, entreat every mother
never to give drop of strong drink to
q child. have had to fight, as for nv
LIE, all my days to keep from dying a
drunkard, because / was fed with spirits
when child, and acquired taste for
1t. My brother, poor fellow, died a
drunkard. 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 a drop
to a child.
FIRE AND WATER. PROOF PAINT
Slack stone lime, by putting into 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 gallon of water;
then boil and skim clear to every five
gallons of the fluid add pulyerized
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
1our pounds; then use any coloring
matter desired, and apply With brush.
LII 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,
a Id 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 wed1ock-at Lyons, full %
Par cent; at least % 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
bleed relationship. The data obtained
snow that, if the danger of having a
deaf and dumb child in ordinary mar
rage, 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 progenitors of an aristocratic
race. Equine heraldry had been made
science, and the birth and pedigree
of each horse of high breeding had
been preserved In the "Stud Book. y
Usage had decreed that an animal which
can show an uncontaminated pedigree
for five generations shall be classed as
a thoroughbred; that is, no drop oil
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 g
common parentage refine the blood and
make it aristocratic.-Zurf, Field ana
Farm.
Run Down HORSES. Harris, in
the American Agricu1turalist, 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 ne
strength and spirit. They came home a
noon and night tagged out, and theil
nights rest did not refresh them.
sawed barrel in two and placed thu
ends on the platform of The pump
These are for watering the horses. Int
one of them we put pailfull of corn
meal and mixed it with water LII,
only drink little when very thirsty
After they had drank what they would
they were allowed pure water. In
few days, however, they drank thi
c0rn-meal soup with a relish, and i
less than O week there was a decide,
change for the better in the appearance
of all the horses. We do not let ther
eat the meal, but merely let them drinl
the water. I have no doubt it is goo
for them as plate of good soup 10 70
tired and hungry man before dinner
It seems to stimulate the appetite an
aid digestion.
MILK IN WINTER.-A great man
farmers have plenty of milk in summer
but run out of the article in winter: OF
rather, their cows run out of it. The
fail to supply the article when Gale
for. Now, milk is good. thing, goo
article of diet, good for infants an
old folks, good to furnish cream an
butter, and any one who pretends to b
farmer ought to have plenty of it a
winter. But to have it there are Gel
tain requisites. One of these is war;
shelter; another is plenty of nutrition
food; and another still is regularity i
milking and feeding, and kindness fC
caring for so good an animal. Why,
good COW is one of the family, almost
Every body should have a kind wor
for her. She should be looked up
with respect. If a good big quantit
of the rich tactical fluid is wanted sh
should be regaled twice day wit
lme nice slop of bran and corn-mea
You can no more get much milk froI
dry food than you can get blood from
turnip. We want every body to hay
plenty of milk, and we want COWS I
have warm shelter and plenty of foo
to furnish 1T.
Limitations i'm Poultry Keening-