The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-30
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
NEVER eat just before You expect to
engage in any severe mental or physical
exercise.
How the boys may be saved the
trouble of "going for the cows" is
told by the American Stock Journal
&c Every time they are driven up at
night or in the morning, give them all
good lick of meal or bran, and for it
the COWS will always be on hand at the
milking hour.
CHAPpED HANDs.-The easiest and
simplest remedy is found in every ones
kitchen closet, and is nothing more
than common starch. Reduce it to an
impalpable powder and put it in mus
lin bag keep it in the table-drawer.
Whenever you take your hands out of
the dish-water or soap-suds wipe them
dry with soft towel, and while yet
damp shake the starch-bag all over
them and rub it in. The effect is most
agreeable.
MENDINa WITH P1AsTER.-H you
have crack in the wall, in the corner of
the room, or anywhere else, do not send
for tho plasterer, but get five or ten
cents worth of dry plaster of Paris
wet with cold water then take your
finger and rub it into the crevice till it
is smooth. Bad nail-holes in the wall
can be done in the same way. Should
the top of your lamp become loose,
take it off and wash it with soap; wash
the glass also, then put the plaster
around the glass put the brass top on
again, let it stand until hardened, and
it is ready for use again. A lamp should
never be filed quite full, as the kerosene
softens the plaster.-Rural Home.
THE FUTURE OF THE IRON Trade
At the recent meeting of the pig-iron
manufacturers, in Philadelphia, it was
stated that in 1856, when the annual
production of the world was about seven
million tons, it was predicted that in
1875 it would reach fourteen million,
and this limit was passed last year, for
it was fifteen million tons. At the close
of the present century it is believed
that an annual production of twenty-five
million tons per annum will be required
to supply the wants of man. England,
in 1853, furnished ene-half the annual
supply, and she has been able to main
tain this ratio till the present time.
But her resources will be taxed to the
utmost to keep up with the increasing
demand at it's inevitable rate of pro-
gress, when it shall exceed twenty mill
lion tons per annum.
FEED Fowls A LITTLE AND OFTEN.
It is very careless method of feeding
fowls which we see SO often adopted,
where the grain is thrown down in great
heaps on the ground or floor. It is not
only wssteful, but injurious to the
fowls, because they get overfed, and it
is in an important respect contrary to
their habits. For their nature is to
scratch. Watch the old hen with q
brood when she is just let out of the
coop. She hardly stirs from the spot,
but as soon as she has realized her
freedom down go her claws into the
soil, and afterward whenever you see her
she is at it. Always feed no more than
can be eaten at once, and take care that
they may have the luxury of scratching
for it. If feed is buried in fresh earth,
then they get with their mouthful OF
grain something of use to their peculiar
digestive organs. Grain, however,
should not be allowed to come in con-
tant with the flthy-tainted soil too
eften found in the poultry-yard.-Zhe
Poultry World.
EATING BEFORE SLEEPINa.-It is a
common mistake to suppose that eating
before sleeping is injurious. Not at all
unfrequently does it happen that people
are sleepless for want of food, and
little taken either when they go to bed,
or when they awake sleepless, will gen.
orally be found far more efficacious, and,
of course, infinitely less injurious than
any drug in the chemists pharmacopia.
These are the physical remedies for
sleeplessness which have the best recon-
mendation. As for the moral ones, there is
certainly great deal moro to be said.
Perhaps the most stringent of all rules
are:" Avoid anxiety r and "Don't goto
bed owing anybody grudgel" Chew
ing the bitter cud of quarrel is a
thousand fold more injuries for repose
than swallowing teapotful of the very
greenest of green tea.