The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.


PAINS about the lungs and heart, off
and on for weeks and months, generally
indicate the absence of seriously critical
| diseases.
AS men have lived in perfect health
without alcohol, the use of alcohol can
| not add to that health, because a man
cannot be better than we'll.
MANY persons bring on lifelong dys-
pepsia by the mere habit of drinking
several glasses of cold water at their
meals. An equal amount of hot drink
would be greatly more advantageous,
but half a pint of any fluid at single
meal is abundant for all healthful pur-
poses.
LET parents who would avoid an old
age of agony in come elton with harsh
ness, injustice, and even cruelty to their
children, remember never to punish or
even threaten a child under the inhu-
ence of passionate state of the mind,
because the morrow may bring death,
and no compensation can ever be made.
WHENEVER seeds are gathered, they
should be labeled and dated. If prop
erly gathered and preserved, beans will
retain their vitality for two years; beats,
seven; cabbage, four; carrot, two;
sweet corn, two cucumber, ten onion,
one; parsnip, one; peas, two; radish,
three squash, ten; tomato, seven
turnip, four.
MANY persons precipitate themselves
into the grave by attempting to bravado
an ailment-to be up and about in def
ance of it. If anything at all is the
matter with a man which is really dis
quieting, he should at least have as
much sense as a pig, and go and lie
down. Pigs are not such fools as to
move about in pain.
To Grow WATER LILIEs.-It is said |
that water lilies may be raised about |
ones house by the following method :
Sink in the ground the half of an old |
cask, and cover the bottom with peat |
and soft mud, and then fill with water. |
Dig the lily roots carly Ill spring, and
place them IN the earth at the bottom
of the tub. A gentleman who has tried
the experiment has number of lilies
in bloom.
If child wakes up in the morning
and calls for drink of water the first
thing, such child is perfectly certain to
be sick before noon. The course 10 be
|
warm drinks, promote perspiration, eat
ing nothing whatever until the after
noon, when he may amuse himself by
nibbling at some cold, dry bread, and
the next day he will be about again.
Otherwise, a breakfast will be eaten, !
ever comes on, vomiting, and several {
lays illness.
AVOID MARBLE. TOP TABLES
- - e |
ables are to be avoided. It says I
leat and vitality of the body, robbipg 3
t of it's life. We have heard of one in
,alid whom the doctor could not cure, I
until the day he noticed she used a
marble stand, and suspected it had I
to do with her i'll health. So 1
Le forbade her to use 1t. Soon she was I
7eu. We know healthy people who feel 4
he twinges of pain in the shoulders by 9
itting near one. They are handsome, '
ut unhealthy for all that" y y
MEAT BISCUITS. biscuit, So =
allied, which is made in Texas and .
luch used in the American navy, is T
lade of boiled beef, free from grease, :,
ne liquor oil which is evaporated to {,
ne consistency of sirup, and then n
|
roportions as to form solid paste. T
his paste is then spread out by roll -
lg- pin, pierced with holes, cut into the =, ~
1ape of sea biscuit, and then baked +
nd properly dried. The process of =,
oiling and maceration is carried so far z,
lat the liquid or broth contains the en- Y
re nutriments. Two pounds of this al
rup contains the nutriment of about -,
even pounds of meat. r.
ALL the tin plates used in America O,
e made in England, and the importa- -
On of them is largely controlled by pl
ngle firm in New York, which has
nassed colossal fortune in the trade.
o TO this time, the cost of making
itable iron shc cts for timing has been
great tnat cur manufacturers could ~,
It compete with the tin plate makers wi
road. A firm in Pittsburg has lately he
,rfected process by which, notwith- m
anding the differences in the price of
Dor, it can compete with English MAX ve
s both in price a ID quality. 1t is with mr.
al pleasure that we note this addition io,
American manufactures, as it will be hr
e means of distributing among our nr
,rkmen a very large sum that now kT
es abroad. y,