The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-25
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

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RIRoRATE of soda dissolved i'll water :
,ed as Il lotion, Will remove prickly t
Fat.
THE ammoniacal solution of oxide of ,
ckeI will dissolve silk; that of copper l
ssolves cotton also.
A GERMAN clergyman being invited
, otiiciate in an English prayer-mceting,
lid: Z" brethren, let us bray"
AN obduratc screw may sometimes be
rawn by applying Il piece Of red-hot
ron to the head for minute or two, and
using the screw-driver.
4 REMEDY for caterpillars, which Is
Ised on large scale in France, consists
II a solution q part in 500) of sulphide
# potassium, sprinkled on the tree by
means of hand syringe.
PICRIC ACID dyes leather good yellow
any mordant; it must he used
n very dilute solution, and not warmer
than 70o Fahrenheit. Aniline blue mod
flies this color to fine green.
DR.. NoEIEKERs says the f;tttening value |
IF whey to pigs Is mainly due to the |
large amount Of milk sugar, albuminous
ana other soluble food con-
stituents, and not to what little cream
NAV be left in it.
SAVE corn-cobs for kindlings, especially
if wood is not going to he plentiful next
winter. To prepare them melt together
sixty parts resin and forty parts tar
Dip in the cots, AMI dry on sheet-mctal
heated to about the temperature of boil
ing water.
APPLE TREE BoRER.-A remedy for
the apple tree borer is washing the trunks
of the trees early in June and again early
in July with a very strong solution of
soft soap. Always examine the trees in
September, and whenever the grub saw
dust is found get stiff wire and thrust
into the hole and kill him. If he can
not be reached i'll this way, CIT him out
with a knife.
WHATS the Use of bending every fac
ulty to -getting-thinking of moth
ing else, toiling for nothing else-when
you can't carry single dollar with you,
and have already more than enough to
supply every reasonable want, though
you should live to be hundred years
old? There is no understanding, or mort
cages, or stock-bonds, or Understanding
coupons whittier you are going. The
current coin of that realm is supposed to
consist of character, nobility of soul, the
thoughts and inclinations that eliminate
in good deeds on earth, and make the
world better for the possessor having
lived in it.
CULTURE OF FIELD BEANs.-The soil
best adapted for beans is a rich, strong
loan, such rs produces good wheat. In
such soil the yield is sometimes as great
As fifty bushels to the acre, although the
average crop is about thirty. Beans do
well to follow wheat. In such cases the
wheat stubble should be plowed up in
the fall, the land narrowed, and good
dressing of manure put on and covered
with a shallow blowing. The land should
be well water furrowcd and left till
spring, when the beans should be drilled
in. Some apply the manure in the
spring, and some drill the beans in every
second furrow after the pillow. After
they are up careful and frequent cult
waiting is all that is required.
A FOREIGN paper thus describes sim
pie little apparatus which will probably
sweep away ere long the match trade.
1t is called the electrical Undertook, and
is small enough to be carried in cigar
case. On opening this boN you see
platinum wire stretched across. Touch
ing a spring the wire reddens sufficiently
y
duce into tiny sconce Il mesh of cotton
stepped in spirits, wine or petroleum,
which, taking fire, does service as a
nurses lamp. The hidden ageHcy which
heats the wire is very small electrical
battery, set in action by the touching of
the spring. The trade price of the cleo
trica1 tinder-box will lie half franc or
ten cents. Its inventor promises that it
will be an economical substitute for the
lucifer match.
PROCESS OF GILDING.-Place in a
plate leaf gold, add little honey, stir
the two substances carefully together
with n glass stopper, the lower end of
which is very fiat. Throw the resulting
paste into a glass of water mixed with Il
little alcohol; wash it and leave it to
settle. Decant the liquid and wash the
deposit apain. Repeat the same opera
ton until the result is fine, pure and
brilliant powder of geld. This powder,
mixed with common salt and powdered
cream Of tartar, and stirred up in water,
serves for gliding. As another method
of gliding, Boutet Mouvel gives the
following: Dissolve in aque regia one
grain of fine gold, previously rolled out
very thin, in Il porcelain capsule heated
on the sand bath and concentrated till it
is the color of OK blood. Add pint of
distilled water, hot, in which have been
dissolved grains of white cyanide of po-
tassium. Stir with a glass rod, and filter
the liquid through unsized paper. To
gid with this liquid, it is heated little
above luke-warmness, and the articles to
be gilt are immersed in it and supported
upon piece of very clean zinc.
In his :" Enigmas of Life" Mr.. Greg,
the well-known English essayist, takes
the ground that bodily pain and disease
are not only compatible with, but may
directly contribute to the loftiest efforts
of the intellect, sometimes positively en-
HANGING its powers-that the effect of
some disorders and of certain sorts of
pain upon the nerves is to produce Il
cerebral excitation, and that the stimu-
us thus communicated to tine material
crgan of thought renders it for the time
capable of unusual effort. Mr.. Greg
asserts that men under the stirring infu-
ence of severe pain are capable of de-
gree of imaginative and ratiocinative
which astonished themselves
and all who have known them only in
ordinary moods of comfort; torpid fac
ulties becoming vigorous and sparkling,
forgotten knowledge being recovered, and
CLEANS of insight being vouch-
safed them. The wonderful cloquencc
Of Robert Hall is believed to have been
greatly owing to the stimulating infu-
ence of a terrible spinal malady. DIR.
Connolly mentions a gentleman whose
mental faculties never reached their full
power except under the irritation of
blister Such instances az these are re-
yarded by Mr.. Greg as fully corrobor-
lting his theory.
The Fabulous Wealth of the AncicntS.
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