Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-23
Facts Worth Remembering.
To CAUSE nails to drive easily and
prevent rusting, dip in melted grease.

prevent rusting, dip in melted grease.
IF very much heated do not wash
your face in cold water use tepid water
Instead, and in little while the red
ness of the skin will disappear.
THE best thing to brighten tin, is
whiting and kerosene. Wet bit of
flannel in the kerosene, then dip it into
the powder, and rub with will, and
your tia will shine like mirror
WATER-DRNKING between meals
should be according to thirst. 1t is a
mistake to load a weak stomach with
water on the theory that it is tonic.
As habit it is well to take tumbler
or part of one, of pure soft water, after
dressing in the morning.
THE prevalent custom on the part of
most women of wearing the hair twisted
into mass on the top of the head, and
the more modern and still more PERM
cious custom of loading the head with
false hair, or substances resembling it,
is a frightful source of headache, and
indirectly cause of dyspepsia.
IT is impossible for any child whose
mother has diminished her breathing
capacity by lacing, to have sound and
vigorous organization. If girls persist
in running their vital organs as they
grow up to womanhood, and if women
will continue this destructive habit,
the race must inevitably deteriorate.
THE practice of ringing and tolling
bells by swinging the clapper or tongue
violently against the side of the bell,
while the latter is stationary, is a very
frequent cause of fracture. The bell
Itself should always be in motion when
struck by the object that is intended to
set it vibrating.
No FRENCH or English woman of Gull
tivation nowadays wears her. garters
below her knees. The principal vein of
the leg sinks there beneath the mus
cles; and varicose veins, cold feet and
even palpitation of the heart may be
brought on by tight garter in the
wrong place. When it is fastened above
the knee all this pain and deformity
may be avoided.
IT is thu opinion of many medical
iuVu tbdo VIC DA'Suo iiSuo VI bAic pun dc
reflected from the sidewalk is an auxil-
iary cause of sunstroke. The eye is ac-
customed to receive rays of bright light
only from above, and when they come
from below, asfrom water, snow, or any
intensely illuminated surface, they fal
upon part of the retina unaccustomed
to receive them. The result is an un-
usual action of the nerves of the eye
and the consequent congestion of that
region of the brain.
A FRENCH medical journal reports the
cure of the most refractory corns by TIE
morning and evening applications, with
a brush, of drop of solution of the
perchloride of iron. 1t states that after
fortnight's continued application,
without pain, patient who had suffered
martyrdom for nearly forty years from
the most painful corn on the inner side
of each little toe, was entirely relieved
pressure was no longer painful, and the
cure seemed to be radical. Other ant
similar cases are reported as equal,
successful under the treatment.
FROM six TO ten drops of the concen
trated solution of chloride of soda in
wineglassful of pure spring water, takel
Immediately arter the additions of tn,
morning are completed, will sweeteI
the breath by disinfecting the stomach
which, far from being injured, will b,
benefited by the medicine. If necessa
~, this may be repeated in the middle
of the day. In some cases the odo
from carious teeth is combined with tina
of the stomach. If the mouth is vel
rinsed with teaspoonful of the solu
ton of the chloride in tumbler O
water, the bad odor of the teeth will b,
removed.