The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-31
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

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while they eat their midday meal.
Teams will perform more labor on. the
same feed in given time by giving
them water every two or three hours.
The water should stand in the sun if
practicable.,z It should notebe cold on
any account. & b* -
MINERS AND MATER1A1IsM. Miners
are fine symbolof materialism. They
live in the earth-earth is beneath their
feet, around and above them; no firma-
ment too high to be- reached with a lad.
der many strange things, but none that
may not be handled world of facts,
wherein they stand self-contained and
gloomily serene. AS we, sitting in
doors, pity the wayfarers exposed to Che
lnclemency without, 80 do these miners
pity and despise us, exposed to the
blue and white glare of the bold heav-
ems, stared out of countenance by sun
and moon, blown by winds and wet with
rain. Who can sympathise with the
sky? Yet sooner or later all must re-
visit the surface, if only to be buried
there.
LIBERIA A FAILURE.-A letter from
Liberia states that the colony does not
realize the expectations of its founders.
1t does not hold it's own, if it is not
actually declining. The chief cause
OF it's failure is the American emencipa-
tion. Since our great war there have
been but few emigrants, and the old
settlers seem to have lost their earlier
ambition and dropped into unthrifty
habits. The line of difference between
the colonists and the natives is growing
less marked every year, and by the
lapse of the former to their native con-
dition. This shows how difficult it is
to civilize people. Race is more than
culture or religion.
GUINEA Fowls FOR THE TABIE.-The
Guinea fowl is the richest and most pal
atable of all our domestic poultry. We
can remember of no game bird among
the Gallinm that surpasses it, and when
our grouse and partridges and prairie
chickens become extinct, ns they will by
and by, the Guinea fowl will prove q
perfect substitute for them, and as it
breeds freely and requires but little
care, it will be practicable to breed it
in all sections. After the bird attains
an age OF two years it needs some other
process of cooking than by roasting,
but with an age of less than two years,
roasted Guinea fowl will discount
anything else in the edible line We can
| raise.
GERMAN EYE WINDOWS. .--Dormer win
dows exist in other places besides Sax
ony, but the eye-windows are, SO fur as
| ] know, Mr.. Julien Hawthorne saws. n
| peculiarly German institution, Tt
shows grotesque kind of humor to in
vent such things. They are single
pares about a foot square, standing
upright in the body of the roof, which
curves over them like sleepy eyelid.
and broadens like a fat cheek below.
| The lIfe-h likeness is often enhanced by
various ingenious additions; and a
couple of such windows, with chimney
between, give the house curiously hn.
man aspect. The effect is not carried
out in the body of the building but. in
fact, all the Vitality of the house is con
centrated in the top part of it. as if it
rose up from below, like oxygen bub-
bles, and collected beneath the roof.
The basement is torpid, the middle
floors are stiff and taciturn, but the at
tics draw the very breath of life.
REMEDY FOR Poison BY IvY,-It
seems to me that read all kinds of
cures for ivy poison except the right
one. have always endeayored to keep
it before the public, but have failed. It
is to dissolve sugar of lead-a bit the
size of hazlenut-in half teaoup of
milk or warm water. Apply az warm as
can be easily borne with q soft. iintv
piece of linen rag. Three or four ap-
plications are sufficient TO effect a cure.
If the poison is on the face, and nearing
the eyes or mouth, this astrinpent wash
may be constantly applied. It is q
marvellous cure, and by Watching closely
one can see the fevered bIisters turn
from white to yellow during the appli-
cation. This remedy for ivy poison
should prevent great deal of suffering.
1t is we'll where O member of family
is easily poisoned to keep sugar of lead
in the house all the time. Let IL be-
labeled and kept where it can be found
the moment it is wanted. Keep it we'll
wrapped up, that it may not lose its
strength.-Cor. Ohio Farmer.
The BEST D1s1NFEcTANTs. There ore
three powerful disinfectants: carboIic
acid, but its smell is objectionable
chlorine and permanganate of potash !:
these last two are quite expensiva'
These disinfectants act by COMBINING
with deleterious substances and ren.
dering them harmless, while anticeptics
prevent and arrest the decomposition Of
animal substances The most common
and available disinfectant and deodor.
Izer is copperas, crude copperas. sold
by druggists at few cents pound. .
under the name Of sulphate of iron
one pound to two gallons of water. to be-
used as often as necessary to render all
odors imperceptible, acting at che same
time as an antiseptic, deodorizer. md
disinfeetant, and if Instantly thrown
over what passes from the body in choi-
era, is one of the cheapest and best
means known for preventing its com.
munication to others. The only par.