American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-11-14
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Small holes in white walls can he
easily repaired without sending for the
mason. Equal parts of plaster of Paris
and white sand-suCh as is used in most
families for securing purposes-miXed
with water to Il paste, applied Immediate
w and smoothed with "A knife or flat
piece of wood, will make the broken
place as good as new" The mixture
hardeDs very quickly, So it is best to
prepare but II small quantity at time.
Medical Properties of Eggs.-The
white of an egg has proved of late the
most efilcacious remedy for burns. Seven
or eight successive applications of this
substance sooihes the pain and effectual-
" excludes the burn from the air. This
simple remedy seems preferable to colo
dion, or even cotton. Extraordinary
stories are told of the healing properties
of a new oil which is easily made from the
yolks of hens eggs The eggs are first
boiled hard, the yolks are then removed,
crushed and placed over Il fire, where
they are carefully stirred until the whole
substance is just on the point of catch
ing fire, when the oil separates and may
he poured Off II is in general use among
the Colonists of Southern Russia as Il
means of curing cuts, bruises and scratch
es.-Bost0a Journai If CHEMISTRY
How Seeds Negetate.-When a seed
is placed in the earth and subject to the
action of warmth, moisture and air 1t
first absorbs moisture, swells uD some
times to several times its former size and
sends up a shoot to the surface, and at
the same time throws down rootlet into
the soil below. Unless this root is suffi-
GENTLY developed to bring up food from
the soil the plant derives its whole nutri
ment from the seed. This is also the
a. leaves a formed n
abled to absorb carbonic acid from the
atmosphere and obtain the requisite sup
ply of carbon from the same. Hence, if
seeds are planted too deep, much of the
substance that would promote the devel-
opmcnt of leaves and stem above ground
is used up in forming Il long stem be-
meath the surface.-N. Y. Herald.
"A Safe Tether-Pin.-The 1griculturist
for October illustrates Il simple device
which one is at liberty to make and use
without fear of infringing upon any pat
ent. \ strong iron rod, say fve-eighths
or half an inch in diameter, is sharpened
at one end and bent into corkscrew-like
spiral. The unsharpened end is bent into
Il ring large enough to receive Il good
sized rope. 1t is easy to screw such an
iron into anything worthy of being called
"A soil, using stick if necessary, after
the manner of an auger handle. Such a
tether-pln as this Will DEFY the EFFORTS OF
the strongest animal to pull ii up, and
with the ring at the level of the ground
il is impossible for the rope to be twisted
around the pin. This device is likewise
serviceable in a hundred other ways
about a country house, or, indeed when
ever the surface of the earth is not COW
cred by Il natural or artificial pavement
of stones. 1t will hold guy-ropes for
shears, or the lower block of hosting
tackle, or tent ropes, or, indeed, any rope
which is to be firmly held at the surface
of the ground, and the great beauty of it
is that it does not get battered to pieces
by being hammered down every time it is
set in new place.