The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-07-30
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

RICE is now coming into use for brew
ing purposes. The beer produced from
it is said to be superior in color and
flavor.
AT Middleiown, Delaware, an immense
peach refrigerator is to be built, ca
pable of holding 100000 baskets Of
fruit, which the protector guarantees to
keep by peculiar freezing process for
six months.
In one of the French depar tments
there is ''society for the protection OF
birds useful to the farmer" All nests
found are reported to the society and
protected by it. In the past year the
society protec ted 214 nests, from which
| came 904 birds.
THERE are two million bee-hiYes in
| the United States. Every hive yields,
on an average, a little over twenty
pounds of honey. The average price at
| which honey is sold is 25 cents a pound.
So that, after paying their own board,
| our bees present us with revenue OF
| over S.. S00,00
IT is stated now that the secret force
| which the Keely motor operates by is
nothing more nor less than carbonic
acid. The water is enormously charged
| with it, and then it is liberated, by
| strength as the operator may desire.
50 that, after all, the basis of the whole
business is nothing but tremendously
strong soda-water.
AN old lady in New York particularly
desired that certain cushion on which
she sat in church should be buried with
her, and as there was difficulty about
getting it into her coffin it was luckily
proposed to cut it, when several thou
sand dollars in greenbacks came to
light. The old lady was clearly re-
solved that, if she did bring nothing in
to the world, she would at all events,
as far as possible, take something out
of it.
GUNS and rifles may easily be cleaned
from lead by the following: If muzzle-
loader, stop up the nipple or communi-
cation hole with a little wax, or if a
breech-lOader insert a cork in the breech
rather tightly; next pour some quick
silver into the barrel, and put another
cork in the muzzle, then proceed to roll
it up and down the barrel. shaking it
about for a few minutes. The mercury
and lead will form and amalgam, and
, leave the barrel as clean and free from
lead as the first day it came out of the
shop. The same quicksilver can be
used repeatedly by straining it through
, wash-leather for the lead will be left
! behind in the leather, and the quick
silver will be again fit for use.
| THE French utilize chicken feathers
( in the following way, which is pro-
nOunced a decided Improvement on the
J old method: The plume portion of the
feathers are cut from the stem by means
J of ordinary hand scissors. These are
| placed in quantities in a course bag,
which, when full, is closed and sub
/ jected to a thorough kneadiDg with the
? hands. At the end of five minutes the
} feathers disaggregated are felted to-
! gether, forming a down almost homo
geneOus and of great lightness. It is
said to be lighter than natural elder
down, because the latter contains the
ribs of the feathers, which gives extra
/ weight. About one and six-tenths troy
ounces can be obtained from one pullet,
and it sells in Paris for about two dol
lars pound.
A FARMER boy in Ohio, observing a
small flock of quail in Lis fathers corn
: field, resolved to watch their motions.
? They pursued very regular course IN
their fOraging, commencing on one side
of the field, taking about five rows, and
following them uniformly to the Oppo-
site end, returning in the same manner
over the next five rows. They contin-
ued IN this course until they had ex-
= plored the greater portion of the field.
The lad, suspicious that they were pull
ing up the corn, fred into the flock,
killing but one of them, and he pro-
ceeded to examine the ground. In the
whole space over which iey had tray
eled, he found but one stalk of corn dis
turbed. This was nearly scratched out
l of the ground, but the ground still adj
hered to it. In the craw of tbs quail he
found one cut-woin, twenty. one striped
vine-bugs, and one hundred chinch-
: bugs, but not single grain of corn.