The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
USEFUL knowledge.
Castor-oil is an excellent thing
soften leather.

Castor-oil is an excellent thing to
soften leather.
A pint of mustard-seed put in a bar
rel of cider viii preserve it sweet for
several months.
Bells on sheep are said to have the
effect not only of keeping off dogs, but
even wild animals.
Cleansing OF all buildings and places
for the storage of crops should be per
formed before they are used.
Toads are capital helpers IN taking
care Of vine patches. Lay boards be-
/ tween the rows to shelter them IN the
daytime, and they VIII make a carnival
of the bugs at night.
In digging 8 tree, always turn the
side Of the spade toward the stem of
the tree, and lift ont the earth carefully,
/ and the small rootlets VIII thus be
loosed and preserved uRinjured.
A young apple orchard can be best
protected from the ravages of the rab.
bits in the winter by rubbing blood on
the bark of the trunk. The rabbits
viii avoid it. It is easily done with q
piece Of fresh raw liver.
al SUITS VI fG6selB uiGQS1lS may
De purified from Iong-retained smells of
| every kind, In the easiest and most per-
feet manner, by rinsing them out well
with charcoal powder, after the grosser
impurities have been secured off with
sand and potash.
The leaves of geraniums are an ex-
cellent application for cuts, when the
skin is rubbed of, and other wounds of
the same kind. One or two leaves must
be bruised and applied on linen to the
part, and the wound viii become
cicatrized in very short time.
To keep cabbage through the winter,
pack In sawdust in the barn and allow
the whole to freeze, the sawdust being
such non-conductor of heat that once
1t becomes frozen through it will not
thaw out until well into April, and cab
bage will come out almost as nice as
when putin.
A horn that has been knocked of a
young calf viii grow again. The part
lost IS merely the extremity of the
horn. All that is necessary to be done
is to apply a plaster of tar to the part
to keep the air from coming In contact
with the sensitive surface until it has
become hardened.
The following is a good recipe which
will give saddles and brides a good
polish, and be entirely free from all
sickness The whites of three eggs
evaporated till the substance left re-
sembles the common gum, dissolved in
pint of gin, and put into a common
vine bottle, and fill up with water
II man is hungry within an hour,
] 81
q dyspeptio beyond question, and &c
shows that the stomach is not able to
! work up what he has eaten, so as to get
nourishnent out of it but to eat again,
and thus to impose more work when it
could do nothing for what had been al
ready eaten, Is an absurdity; and yet
all dyspeptics who eat when they are
hungry do this very thing, and thus ag-
gravate and protract their sufferings.
In popping corn, put the corn after it
Is popped in large tin-pan, take white
sugar and dissolve it in a skillet or stew
pan, after which put in some cream of
tartar and boil till hard enough for
sugar then pour over your corn and
stir well, after which roll into balls to
suit the taste; when done either wrap
IN tlssue-paper or roll IN dry corn to
! prevent them from sticking. About
four tablespoonfuls of sugar and one
teaspoonful of the tartar will make a
dozen ordinary batls, but four or five is
enough to mix at once.
IT Runs LIKE A PRAIRIE FIRE. DIR.
Walkers Vinegar Bitters runs like a
prairie fire. The fame of the Temper
ance Tonic is, however, but poorly ex-
emplified by this figure of speech for
a prairie fire runs only IN one direction,
whereas the reputation CT the Bitters
/ spreads towards all points of the COM
| pass. There is not square mile of in
habited territory in the United States,
! where this meritOrious preparation is
not appreciated. If any theoretical
gentleman thinks he is prepared to show
that there is " nothing in it." we adj
wise him TO go to the Prairie States, in
the Mississippi Valley, to the deltas of
| Southern rivers, to New England, in
! fact, anywhere within the limits of
" Uncle Sans real estate" and ven
| tilate his views. By so doing he can
raise heartier and more general laugh
than has ever yet shaken the sides of
! an intelligent people. Pereons who
| have been cured can't help laughing at
other people, who tell them that the
medicine which saved their lives is a
| failure.