Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-23
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

STAaNANT water Is injurious to fruit
trees, uitbearing plants and vegetables.
DANDRUFF. .-Dandruff is not result of
disease, but within certain limits most
healthy product. II consists of the old,
worn out materials of the body, like those
which are thrown off from all other parts
of the skin, and coming from the hair
tube is moved toward the surface by the
growth of the hair, and for some time
clings to it, for reason easily seen The
formation of scurf is healthy, and good
brush will clear it away. so says DIR.
Sexton, an eminent London physician.
NUTS and cheese promote digestion as
a general rule; the conditions being that
the nuts should be ripe and the cheese
old, both to be eaten at the close OF din
ner; the digestive agent in both is a
peculiar oil which has the property of
acting chemically on what has been
eaten, and thus preparing it for being
the more easily appropriated to the pur.
pose of nutrition. Many think that the
more solid portions of the nut should not
be swallowed. This is an error; those
particles of solid matter are not digested,
| 1t is true, but they are passed through
the system unchanged, and act as a
mechanical stimulant to the action of
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| seed swallowed whole are known to do,
thus preventing that constipated condi-
tion of the system which is so invariably
productive of numerous bodily discom.
forts and dangerous and even fatal forms
of disease.-RurdJ Neio Yorker.
USEFUL RULEs.-The following simple
rules should be at hand with every mill
man, and in fact every one who has
charge of machinery of any kind: To
find the circumference of circle or of a
pulley-Multiply the diameter by3.1416 ;
or, as is to %, so is the diameter to the
circumference. To compute the diane
ter of circle or of pulley-Divide the
circumference by 3.1416; or multiply the
circumference by .31S3; or, as % Is to z,
so is the circumference to the diameter.
To compute the area of n circle-Multi-
ply the circumference by one-quarter of
the diameter; or multiply the square of
the diameter by 1854; or multiply the
square of the circumference by .0705S or
multiply half the circumference by half
the diameter; or multiply the square of
half the diameter by 3.1416. To compute
the diameter of taothed wheel-Multi-
ply the number of the teeth by the true
pitch and the product by PISA These
results give only the diameter between
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line on the other side, and not the entire
diameter from point to point of teeth or
opposite sides.-Pdcgic Rural Press.
WET BooTs.-A friend writes from
Europe What an amount of discomfort
wet boots entail, to be sure and how wei
we all recall the fretful efforts we have
now and then made to draw on a pair ot
hard baked ones which were put by the
fire over night to dry Damp and adhe
sive within, they are without stiff anC
unyielding as horn. Once on, they are
sort of modern stocks, destructive of al
comfort, and entirely demoralzing to tn,
temper The following simple device
! will rob the cold, wet barnyard of
slushy winter or spring evening of hal
its promise of discomfort for the mex
morning: When the boots are taken off
fill them quite full with dry oats. Thi
grain has great fondness for damp, anC
will rapidly absorb the last vestige of i
from the wet leather. AS it takes up tn,
moisture it sweils and fills the boot with
Il tightly-titting last keeping its form
good, and drying the leather withou
hardening it. In the morning shake ou
the oats and hang them in a bag nea
the fire to dry, ready for the next we
night draw on the boots and go happil,
about the days work.-Am AgricuituIisi