The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-07-08

'fN '+AAAhAAS > NhS
tackle the newspapers they know bet
ter. Whip the coats, shawls, etc,
Observation-Disclosures about the
seams !; then fold them snugIy in Il
large printed sheet, and paste the pa
per tight-gum-arabic muciIage is best.
Then fasten it all tightly in Il linen or
cotton sheet. This, we are assured by
those who have had years of experience
with all kinds Of ~preventives, is the
most efactuaI protection of wooden
clothing from the ravagps of moths.
DRESSED BANANAs.-Ihcv can be sim
ply peeled and sliced, and dressed with
sugar dissolved in water to the taste,
letting them stand a few hours to impart
their flavor to the dressing. 1t is an
Improvement to add little lemon Juice,
using about half a lemon to one dozen
bananas. Bat a far better dressing con-
sists of the Juice of oranges swcetencd
ard poured oyer oyer Il the e,M sliced bananas.
using, ald stir before dishinF. but not
enough to break the slices, This is a
happy combination of havors. As the
seasOn advances and oranges become
scarce, substitute the Juice of pinc-ap-
pie. These are somewhat expensive
dishes, but they nre delicate and deli
cious.
UNTHTNKARLE MECmANIcS.-Bymaan
of n tiny diamond point at the end of
a machine, composed of exQuisitcly
graduating systems of lessening wheels,
n Mr.. William Webb, of London, is
able to write upon glass the whole of
the Lords prayer within the space of
a two hundred and ninety-fOUrth of m
inch in length and ~One four hundred
and fortieth part of an inch in breadth
the measurement of the dot of m
"i"i in print. He could write the
whole 3, 5G6, $50 letters Of the Old and
New Testament eight times over in the
space of one square inch of glass and
when this wonderful m"icrOscopicaI
writing is enlarged by photography,
every letter and point are perfect, and
can be read. Amazing rs this is, how
ever, a wealthy banker of London,
named Peters, invented a machine in
1856 that could write three times rs
finely as Mr.. Wcbb's.
THE MANNER OF SHoE1NG HORsEs.-
Although this subject has engaged the
attention of mankind from the earliest
ages, IN consequence OF its Importance, 1t
is wonderful how little we have vet real
lied in the way of securing a covering
for the horses hoof which shall answer
the ? lrposes required. Many scores of
different shoes have been designed by
persons ready to vOuch for their excel
lence, but they have generally been
false in theory. Of the many methods
OF horse-shoeing, that known as the
Goodenough system alone seems to be
founded upon correct principles. The
frog must be preserved, or eventually
the foot will be ruined. The light of
reason Is beginning, in this respect, to
slowly dawn upon the rising generation
of blacksmiths. Let us hope, for the
horses sake, that that instrument of
torture, the old bar shoe, may soon be
brought to mind only with memories of
the inquisition.
PLANETARY FLIRTATIoNs.-The fash
Unable events in celestial society for the
ensuing months of the present year will
be us follows At sunset on the 9th
of June the silvery planet Mercury.
seldom distinguishable on account of
its close proximity to the sun, will be
'AASHeAL u IL liz WBEkF Az live |
minutes of nine o'clock on the morn
ing of July Sch Mars and the sun will
be in conjunction. On the 18Th of An
gust, three minutes past seven in the
evening, Jupiter and Venus will ap.
proaeh within one degree of each other
presenting n rare and beautiful spec
tacle. An annular eclipse of the sun,
visible in Asia, and partly in Africa and
northern Europe, will occur on the 10th
OF October. The magnificent Venus will
be Mt her nearest to our earth on the
night of November 10th. One month
thence, on the 10th of December, Will
occur the great centennial transit Of the
beautiful planets across the disk Of The
sun, by elaborate observation of which
the astronomers Of the world hope to
establish the exact distance of our world
from the sun. On the mornings of the
14th and 10Th of the same month.
too, Mars and Venus will come within
three minutes of each other, so MS to
seem in actual contact.
LITERARY CuRIosrrq There is n
real literary curiosity in New York. lust
now, the autograph of Charles Dickens,
as contained in the manuscript of "Our
Mutual Friend" 1t is n fat volume.
with the hundreds of sheets packed ,
with the masters cramped hand and in :
some places almost illegible copy. =
neatly bound up and prefaced by lie ;
pages where Dickens has :
Sketched out his plans. He evidently =
the curious plan of question "
ing aud answering himself on Paper, as :
1t the head of one of these skeletons !;
we find "Bella-three chapters? Yes" =
down he writes down the name 1,
II another character, and queries wheth- :
r he shall dispose of it in a certain n
nanner-then subioins a curt " No" as i
( disappearing his own original plan. u
his manuscript is the ~propertv Of y
w. Childs, of Philadelphia. :"
rho purchased it from n CRITIC in y,
Ito whom it was given by Diok- =,
ns) for 81, 240 in gold. 1t is said that W
he critic sold it to spite Dickens, or his n
/ don't know which, because :.
( some disagreement which they had M
absequent to the gift. Some of the w
ages of this manuscript must have az
terrible upon the eyes of the !"
for they are scortd through -
ID through with lahorious corrections. 20
N. o. Picayune doesn't know We
by it is that young men always CON We
it necessary to grin when they are
to the other sex. Nobody can tn
lirk and grin at every word he utters oe
thout losing every one Of those pecu- lnt
rites which originally distinguished -
from the chimpanzee. IN
tht
A very prosaic and matter-of-fact pre-
rgyman recently remarked that il Id
Il the bones of the victims of intem- yes
could be gathered and made in pla
a pyramid, no plain could be large quI
,ugh for its base to rest upon, and vel
planets would have to be swept pla
lie to make room for its apex" mil