The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.


EVERY stone for grinding tools should
be provided with a rest, and apprentices
should be taught how to use it.
A LITTLE camphene dropped between
the neck and stopper of glass bottle
will render the latter easily removed if |
jammed fast.
ENGLAND and the United States, &C
cording to the latest statistics, are the |
largest sngar-consuming countries in |
the world. In 1874 England consumed |
$50, 900 tons, or about $50 lbs. per |
head of population. The United States |
in the same period used no. 900 tons, |
or A lbs. per individual.
LAMENEss in hogs is caused some !
times by the large pores in the back |
part of the legs getting cloggea. They |
are a little above the knuckles in the |
back part of the lege. Wash the legs |
in soap and luke-warm water. using a
stiff brush and rubbing hard till the
pores open, and when the pores are
washed open the lameness will leave.
This has been tried in numerous in
stances with great success.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT PRoCEss.-In
place of using a special stone for
each color, necessitating as many sep
arate impressions as there are colors,
the entire subject is drawn upon
single stone, and proof is taken on
thin sheet of copper. This sheet is
then cut out carefully according to the
desired contour of the colors, and
solid block of color, previously pre-
prepared. The whole is combined
into one form, and is printed on an
ordinary Autograph press, all the
colors at once, the moisture of the
sheet being sufficient to take off and
hold the colors as the sheet goes
through the press.
A SIMPLE PLAN OF VENTILATION
The following simple method for venti-
lating ordinary sleeping and dwelling
rooms is recommended by Mr.. Hinton,
in his " Physiology of Practical Use:"
"a piece Of wood, three inches high,
and exactly as long as the breadth of
the window, is to be prepared. Let the
sash be now raised, the slip of wood
placed on the sill, and the sash drawn
| we'll fitted, there will be no draft in con-
sequence of the sash at it's lower part
but the top of the lower sash will over
lay the bottom of the upper one, and
between the two bars perpendicular
currents of air. not felt as draft, will
enter and leave the ROOM"
SIZE OF BARRELS. president of an
agricultural society calls attention to
the fact that there are in a standard le-
gal barrel only 100 quarts, while the or
binary flour barrel, most in use among
farmers in the sale of potatoes and ap-
Piles, contains nearly one-eighth more.
Farmers sell their produce in flour bar
rels, and merchants transfer the same to
standard barrels, making q profit on
quantity, as well as on the price. In
the sale of 800 barrels of potatoes from
farm. the proprietor loses 100 barrels.
worth $3.50 for which he might as we'll
be paid. The middle-man. not the con-
sumner, profits by this. Farmers, see
to it that you employ the one hundred
quart barrels hereafter. -Pacitsc Ru-
81 Press
FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY
The number of bones in the frame work
of the human body is 260, 108 of which
are in the feet and hands, there being
in each ~. The quantity of blood in
adults is on an average 80 pounds,
which passes through the heart once
in four minutes. Only one-tenth Of
the human body is solid matter. A
dead body weighing 100 pounds was
!; dried in an oven, by way of experiment.,
till all moisture was expelled, when it's
weight was found to be but 10 pounds.
Egyptian mummles are bodies thor
oughly dried, snd usually weigh about
z pounds. The lungs of an adult
ordinarily inhale 40 Cubic inches of air
at every inspiration, and if we breathe
20 times in minute the quantity OF
air consumed in that period will be
800 cubic inches, or 4S. 600 inches an
hour, and l, 152. 900 inches in day,
which is equal to Sc hogsheads.
Projecting YOUNG TREES FROM RAB-
BTTs.-Of all the plants for the protec-
ton OF young orchards from rabbits,
} find nothing that so well agrees with
my own experience and judgment as
the following Mix soft soap and the
thick paste, and apply once or twice
other, which is by all means the best,
, is to take a piece of common building
paper, about eighteen inches in height
and ten or twelve wide, and bend it
loosely around the tree, and tack it
with single tack near the center, and
the work is done in the most effective
manner. Common building felt will
also do. Before putting the paper
around the tree, it should be examined
for borers. The paper will probably
retain its position for two or three
years. It will also afford good pro-
lection to trees that have been set out
during the fall.-Cor. Rural World.
A New TER-IRR1rANT.-A new
kind of mustard plaster has been in
vented which promises to be superior
to the old-fashioned sort It is known
as the Omphalic mustard plaster, and
the mustard is laid on sheets of a thin
fabric in spots of about the size of a
dime, 30 that any desired number can
be applied. It is only necessary to dip
desired. 1t is claimed that the DISPOSE
ton of the mustard in spots is the best
way of applying this counter-irritant,
as its effects are a copy of the results
OF natural efforts which generally sp-
pear as spots or pnstules-a rather fam
cful idea. The other claim is better
that the skin is irritated only in patch
es, and that the process of irritation
can be continued longer without I'M
pleasant results in consequence of
patches of undisturbed skin being left
to execute the healing process. This
method OF making plaster has also been
applied in the Omphalic fly blister
A FRESH WATER SPRING IN THE SEA.
Lieut.. r. d. Hitchcock, q. s. N,
assistant coast survey, commanding the
coast-surveying steamer endeavor, I'M
der date of March Is, reports to the
superintendent of the coast survey as
follows, relative to what is apparently a
fresh water spring in the sea !: "We
have found just above Matanzas Inlet,
about two and half miles from shore,
in 20 degrees, 46 minutes, seconds
north, longitude>81 degrees, IL min
utes, 15 seconds west, what is appa-
rent!y fresh water spring. The water
at the surface is violently disturbed
for space OF thirty feet in diameter.
The first day we crossed this place the
water was coming up with such violence
as to throw the ship from her course,
| and the aonond 49,,