The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-24
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

THE best fattening material for chick
Ems is said to be Indian meal and milk.
DECORATE of soda dissolved in water
used as a lotion, will remove prickIy
neat.
THE ammOniacal solution of oxide of
nickel will dissolve silk that of copper
dissolves cotton also.
A GERMAN clergyman being invited
to otficiate in an English prayer-meeting,
said: brethren, let us bray"
AN obdurate screw may sometimes be
drawn by applying piece of red-hot
iron to the head for minute or two, and
Immediately using the screw-driver.
A REMEDY for caterpillars, which is
used on a large scale in France, consists
in solution Il part in 500 of sui phlde
of potassium, sprinkled on the tree by
means of hand syringe.
PICRIC ACID dyes leather good yellow |
without any mOrdant; it must be used |
in very dilute solution, and not warmer |
than 700 Fahrenheit. Aniline blue mod |
ifes this color to a fine green.
DIR. VOELEKERsays the fattening value
of whey to pigs is mainly due to the
large amount of milk sugar, albuminous
compounds, and other soluble food con-
stituents, and not to what little cream
may be left in it,
SAVE cOrn-cobs for kindlings, especially
if wood is not going to be plentiful next
winter. To prepare them melt together
sixty parts resin and forty parts tar.
Dip in the col 8, and dry on sheet-metal
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 carly
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 a stiff wire and thrust
into the hole and kill him. If he can
not be reached in this way, cat him out
with a knife.
WHATS the use Of bending every fac
| ulty to mOney-getting- thinking of moth
| ing else, toiling for nothing elsc-when
/ you can't carry Il single dollar with YOU,
and have already more than enough to
| supply every reasonable want, though
you should live to be a 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 rich, strong
loan, such as produces good wheat. In
such a 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 eases the
wheat stubble should be plowed up in
the fall, the land narrowed, and a good
dressing of manure put on and covered
with Il shallow blowing. The land should
be well water furrowed 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 plow After
they are up careful and frequent cult
waiting is all that is required.
\ FOREIGN paper thus describes a 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 box you see a
! platinum wire stretched across. Touch
| ing spring the wire reddens sufficiently
to light cigar. At will YOU can intro
| duCe into tiny sCOnCe a mesh of cotton
stepped in spirits, wine or petroleum,
| which, taking fire, does service as
! nurses lamp. The hidden agency which
heats the wire is a very small electrical
/ battery, set in action by the touching of
| the spring. The trade price of the cleo
| trical tinder-boX will he half frame, or
| ten cents. Its inventor promises that it
| will be an economical substitute for the
lucifer match.
/ PROCESS OF GHDING.-Place in a
| plate leaf gold, add a little honey. stir
| the two substances carefully together
| with glass stopper, the lower end of
which Is very flat. Throw the resulting
/ paste into glass of water mixed with a
| 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 a 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, BOutct MOuvel gives the
following: Dissolve in aque regia one
grain of fine gold, previously rolled out
/ very thin, in a 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 glass rod, and filter
the liquid through unsizcd paper. To
| gid with this liquid, it is heated little
above luke-warmncss, and the articles to
be gilt are immersed in it and supported
upon piece of very clean zinc.
IL his " Enigmas of Life" Mr.. Greg,
the well-kuown English essayist, takes
the ground that bodily pain and disease
are not only compatible with, but may
directly contribute to the lofticst 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 a
cerebral eXcitation, and that the stimu-
lus thus communicated to the material
organ of thought renders it for the time
capable of unusual effort. Mr. Greg
asserts that men under the stirring inhu-
encc of severe pain are capable of de-
gree of imaginative and ratiOcinative
bIilliancy 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 |
marvellous CLEANS of insight being vouch-
safcd them. The wonderful eloquence !
of Robert Hall is believed to have been |
greatly owing to the stimulating inAu-
ence of a terrible spinal malady. Dr. |
Connolly mentions a gentleman whose |
mental faculties never reached their full |
power except under the irritation of a .
blister. Such instances as these are re-
garded by Mr.. Greg as fully corrobor-
ating his theory.
The Fabulous Wealth of the AncientS.
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