The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-02-18
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

An eminent physician, who makes
throat and lung diseases a specially, says
the pressure of the collar on the arteries
OF the neck is very bad for the health,
and asserts that about three-fourths of
all throat diseases would be cured BY
wearing very loose collars and neckties.
VINEGAR prepared as follows never
loses its virtue though kept for years,
and if used for packing will never mold :
Cork it up in glass bottles; set them into
kettle with hay or straw under and
about them to prevent their knocking
together. Fill up the kettle with cold
water, let it come to boil, and then let
the bottles stand In it until it becomes
cold.-He1rth and Home.
PULyERIZED alum possesses the prop
erty of purifying water. A tablespoon
full sprinkled into a hogshead of water
(the water being stirred at the time) will,
after the lapse ola few hours, by precip-
itating to the bottom the impure parti-
cles, SO purify it that it will be found TO
possess all the freshness and clearness of
the finest spring water. A single tea
spoonful will purify pailful containing
four gallons.
A FIRE-LIGHTER is in use of the shape
and size of an egg, with wire fastened
in it TO be dipped in coal oil to kindle
fires. 1t is made as follows: Ordinary
potter's clay is mixed with sulphur or
other inf1ammable substance. nodded
into the desired form and thoroughly
burned. 1t will then be found to be ex-
ceedingly porous and will absorb, by
capillary attraction, a large quantity of
oil.
THE good, oldfashioned straw bed,
which can every three months be changed
for fresh straw and the tick be washed,
is the sweetest and healthiest of beds. If
in the wintry season the porousness of
the straw bed makes it a little uncom-
Portable spread over it comforter or
two wooden blankets, which should be
washed at least once every two weeks
With this arrangement, if you wash all
the bed coverings as often as once in
two weeks, you will have delightful,
healthy bed.
THE best mode of getting rid of bed
bugs is to fumigate them with birthstone.
Houses standing long and empty which
have swarmed with them have by this
means been effectually freed from them
Place in the center of the room a dish
containing about four ounces of brim.
stone; remove from the room such me-
tallic surfaces as might be affected by
the fumes; close every aperture, even to
the key-hole, and light the birthstone
After four or five hours enter the room
and open the window for thorough
airing.-Inter Ocean.
IT is wonderful how the birds love the
companionship of men. Even the Indian
recognizes this liking and puts up his
gourd for the purple martin; the colored
man of the South in like manner sets up
a calibash, while in our villages are seen
martin houses, often evincing taste in
their construction. But the American
swallows formerly kept aloof from men,
and in the far West the martin still, as of
old, builds in hollow trees. Some of our
migratory birds are seen with us in the
| winter. This is explained by the agri
cultural habits of men Wherever agri-
culture hourishes SO will insects, and the
fields of the husbandman are thus at
| tractive to the birds, who come thitheI
| with their sweet voices and good deeds
Now this fact does in time greatly mod
| ify the migration impulse The blue
| bird Is frequent visitor of our gardens
in winter, though not in large numbers
He now finds his food in the Larvae OF
| those insects which are the pests of the
farm; and it is pleasant to watch him
peeping around palings and under lodges
| and rails for his food.-Cinctnladti Com
| Hlercidl