The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-04
HOME AND EARN.

The sales of fine blO0ded cattle exceed In
number any previous year by large differ
ence. This is good omen tor the country.
The disposition to improve ones personal
appearance in dress, style and manners is
often rehuked as reprehensible pride IL is
a great mistake. There NAV be vanity and
contempt in some young and foolish people,
hut they should not be cOnfounded with a
worthy aspiration to gentility-
Whisky is good for something. If aperson
is bitten by rattlesnake, temperance prin-
ciples should be instantly suspended, and
the whisky poured down freely. 1t will
save life. But then. people should not hunt
thesnake and get bitten for the sake OF the
remedy.
Young men and women should remember
that those who fail to acquire general infor-
nation on the subjects of history and geog-
raphy before they are twenty years old, are
not likely ever to know much in those direc-
tons. The time TO lay the foundations of
general reading is while you are in the
a" teens."
Mrs. Laura Lyman says: There is no one
who may not be made the object of sneers
and SCOTS, Just as there is no one who at
some time may not be bitten by gnat or
mosquito. Wounds afflicted by these annoy
ing insects are never dangerous, and If to-
tally disregarded are soon forgotten. Our
immunity from their stings lies in escaping
from the disagreeable localities which breed
and foster them.
Learning and labor ought to so together.
When the time comes that a thorough edu-
ton is not considered prohibition against
manual labor, then the last objection to
learning will be removed. Every man Is
ma 10 nv a
physical labor during some portion OF his
life. There is no denying that.
There is one more prescription for potato
bugs: Agentleman residingin BrecSsville,O.,
reports very successful treatment of potato
bugs, with a decoction OF mandrake root
tea. The roots are boiled in water, and the
decoction sprinkIed on the potato vines, the
same as directed for the solution of Paris
green. If possible, we want TO get clear OF
this Paris green, for il is dangerous to
handle and have about. Try the above and
try white bellebore.
Some sensible body writes for Moore's
Rural: am decidedly of the opinion that
the good old fashioned straw bed, which can
every three months be changed for fresh
straw, and the tick be washed. is the sw eet-
est and healthiest of beds. If in the wintry
season, the porousness of.the straw bed
makes it little uncomfortable, spread over
it comforter or two wooden blankets, which
should be washed as often as every two
weeks With this arrangement, if you wash
all the bed coverings as often as once in two
or three weeks. You will have delightful
healthy bed.
WILD FLOWERS TAMED.-The Rural New
Every garden of any pretense to beauty
should have its little hooks and corners fol
small, wild and exotic plants. These spots
should not be models of neatness in the way
OF handsomely laid walks or clean, well-cul.
tivated beds, but a rough, wild character
may be aimed atinstead. Old stumps, ston,
piled here and there, over which ivies
money-wort, myrtle, and our American
creeper may be encouraged to ramble in al
| their native freedom. Much might be added
| to the above. Some children not far away
from this set out in little beds one the shad,
side of the house last spring, blue violet
| and variety of wild things, and it is aston
ishing how they have thriven. They hav
become the prettiest ornament about tn
house.
HOG CHOLERA PoKED AGAIN.-Now is tn
time to look out for the health of the hogs
Captain aid Mrs. Sam. Steele, of Cove Hill
Grange, in Franklin county, KY, furnisl
the Frankfort Woman the following, whicl
they believe to be an infallible cure for no
cholera, as 1t has been successfully tried OF
Captain Steele's farm and on that af Henri
OffGt, Esq, in Shelby county, from WHOM
Mrs. Steele obtained it: Take an
quantity of poke root from hal
bushel to a barrel or more, according 4
the size of tae drove; boil it until /
can be mashed to the consistency of paste
then nix with it enough corn to make tn
hogs eat it freely, and it is ready for use
Thus prepared, feed the mixture to all you
hogs, both the sick and the well; it will cur
the cholera. At all events, such is the ex
perience of the parties named; and as pck
root 10 readily found Oh every farm. it
we'll worth the experiment by every farme
whose hogs may be afflicted with that terri
bic disease. Ashes and salt, and lime an
salt, are also said to be good for the sam
disease.
SALT IN SICKSEss.-Dr. Scudder says:
am satisfied that l have seen patients di
from deprivation of common salt during
prOtracted illness. 1t is a common impres
sion that the food for the sick should not b
seasoned, and whatever slop may be give
it is almost innocent of this essential of lif,
In the milk diet that / recommend in sick
ness, common salt is used freely, the mill
being boiled aud given hot. And if tn
patient can not take the usual quantity i
his food, L have it given in hi
drink. This matter is SO important that
can not be repeated too often. or dwell upol
too long. The most marked example of tbi
want of common salt have ever noticed Ia
been in surgical disease, especially in ope
wounds. Without supply of saltthe tongu
would become- broad, pallid, puffy wit
tenacious, pasty coat, the secretions aires
ed. the circulation feeble, the effusion at tn
I point of Injury serious. with an unpleasant
watery pus, which at last becomes a mer
sanies or ichor. A few days of a fres allow
ance of salt would change all this, and I'll
patient get along we'll"
AS to bees, they will do well for those VIII
like them. The Madison Courier tells OF
very successful apiarian in Jefferson county
Mr.. H. G. White of this city has seventee
hives of bees and appears to un derstand tn