The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-28
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

perfectly square like the edge OF
chisel or plane-bit, being careful never
to leave any ragged edges, and let them
grow long. When thus trimmed and
kept so, the edges grow square and
and can not infiame and tester.
This complaint is frequently so severe
that sufferers have had their toe-nails
taken out by the roots while under the
influence of chloroform.
a Few HINTS ON WASHING.
woman should have a bottle of ammo
MIA, plenty of borax and good wiring
er: soap the clothes we'll and put on to
boil in cold water, with two tablespoon
fuls of liquid ammonia to each boiler of
clothes boil hard one hour (dO this on
Saturday morning); ring them out of the
suds and spread on the grass. On Mon
day morning make a suds, putting IN
two tablespoonfuls of pulverized borax;
scald the clothes, wiring out and rinse.
Any one who may try the above will be
grateful to find their clothes much nicer
than they would have been if they had
rubbed them for hours.
It is well, first, that all young men
remember that nothing Will do them SO
much injury as quick and easy success,
and nothing will do them so much good
as a struggle which teaches them exact
~ what there is in them, educates them
gradually to its use, instructs them In
personal economy, drills them into a
patient and persistent habit of work,
and keeps them at the foot of the lad
der until they become strong enough
to hold every step they are enabled to
gain. The first years of every mans
business or professional life are years of
education.
RELATIVE COsT OF BUTTER AND BEEF.
Did it ever occur to any of your
readers that it takes more feed to make
a pound of beef than a pound of but
ter A good COW in milk we'll cared for,
will make 200 TBS. of butter in a season,
worth from $50 to $40; but a dry COW,
with the same feed, will not gain as
much in weight in the same time, nor
viii she be worth as much as the butter
from the dairy COW, and the mich COW
is left. An acquaintance of mine is
fattening an OK, and in sixty days he had
fed him 900 TBS. of meal, at a cost OF
SIS, with only 100 Ibis. gain in weight.
| Cor. Country Gentleman.
CUTTING FLOWERS. cut flowers
during intense sunshine, nor keep them
exposed to the sun or wind. Do not
collect them in large bundles, or tie
them together, as this hastens their de,
| cay. Do not pull them, but cut them
clearly off the plant with sharp knife,
not with scissors. When taken indoors,
place them in the shade, and
reduce them to the required length
| of stalk with a sharp knife, by which
! the tubes, through which they draw UE
| the water, is permitted to ascend free
| ly; whereas, if the stems are bruised
or lacerated, the pores are closed up,
| Use pure water to set them in, or pure
white sand in a state of saturatIOn,
sticking the ends of the stalks into it.
but not in a crowded manner. If IL
water alone it ought to be changed
daily, and a thin slice should be cut of
the ends of the stalks at every change
of water.
REMEDY FOR BROKEN KNEES. - Tc
avoid the ugly marks of broken knees
| it is recommended that when the horse
falls the wound should be washed by
throwing a bucket of water upon it, anC
never irritating it by any friction dry
| the wound then with a very soft cloth
and place over it a layer of dry cotton
a finger length in thickness, covering
with a band of flannel, and the latter
with the usual leather knee-cap, no
too tightly strapped. Let the horse
repose three or four days withou
touching the bandage; at the expiration
of this period take off the bandage ver7
delicately and without touching thu
crust or the sore, and walk the hOrst
for a little, but very slow, then re
place the bandage as before. In thir
teen days the crust will fall, the wOun,
Will not only have a new skin, but vii
be recovered with hair, and no chang
in color will be preceptible.
KEEP THE RECIPES. Every house
keeper should have her own recipe
book-a book of her own creation, G
general growth and proved excellence
and we propose to show our lady reader
how to make one. In the first plac
buy a blank book and write your nam
and date on the first leaf. Divide tn
book into as many different department
as you wish, heading each page wit
the department to which it belongs, a
follows: Recipes for cleaning recipe
for soups recipes for cooking meats
recipes for cake, and so o
through family COOKING. Then come
cooking for the sick, care for the sick
and all the various things that are
part of woman's duty, and for which
unfortunately, there is no school bu
experience. Number your pages
they are not numbered in the beginning
and make an index, leaving blan
spaces in the index to correspond wit
blank pages between departments whic
you do not expect to fill immediately
Write down under these different head
every recipe which you have actual
tried, or the result of which you hav
seen in the houses of your friends, an
enter the page in the index.
CoIoRED CONFECTIONERY may nc
! be uninteresting to some of our reader
to see what kind of pOisons are adm II
stored IN the form of colored candy t
the young Hungarians at home. Pre-
fessOr BaIlo of Pesth, who has bee
Analysing them, reports that, in thrice
specimens of red candy which he testeC
he found that eleven were cOlored wit
cochineal and two with fuchsin, {
twelve blues, two were ultramarine. Oh
indigo carmine, two aniline blue, an
6 eight Prussian blue. OF eighty-thre
5 yellows, thirty-one were chrome yellow
forty-nine were Dutch pink, and thre
a salt of binitrO- naphthal. OF eightee
} greens four were Paris green. eipI
, chrome green, two ultra-marine gree
and two sap green. The sO-caIled iro
yellows were chrome yellows and the s,
called substitute for caTmine was q
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