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

while they eat their midday meal.
Teams will perform more labor on the
same feed in q given time by giving
them water every two or three hours.
The water should stand in the sun if
practicable. It should not be cold on
any account.
MINERS AND MATERIALIsN1.- Miners
are fine symbol of materialism. They
live In the earth-earth is bencath their
feet, around and above them no firma-
ment too high to be reached with lad
der many strange things, but none that
may not be haualed world of facts,
wherein they stand self-contained and
gloomily serene. AS we, sitting in
doors, pity the wayfarers exposed to The
1nclemency without, SO do these miners
pity and despise US, exposed to the
blue and white glare of the bold heav-
eng, stared ont 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 it's founders.
1t does not hold its own, if it is not
actually declining. The chief cause
OF it's failure is the American emancipa-
ton. 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 TABLE.
Guinea fowl is the richest and most pal
atable of all our domestic poultry. We
can remember of no game bird among
the GallinD that surpasses it, and when
our grouse and partridges and prairie
chickens become extinct, rs they will by
and by, the Guinea fowl will provo a
perfect substitute for them, and as il
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 olse in the edible limo We can
raise.
GERMAN EYE-WINDows.- --Dormer win
dows exist in other places besides Sax
ony, but the eye-windows are, SO far as
] know, MIR. Julien Hawthorne saws, n
peculiarly German institution. It
shows grotesque kind of humor to in
vent such things. They are single
peres about foot square, standing
upright in the body of the roof, whioI
curves over them like sleepy eyclid.
and broadens like fat cheek below.
The llfe-Hkeness is often enhanced by
various ingenious additions; and q
couple of such windows, with chimney
between, give the house curiously hu.
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 tacitrlrn, but the at
tics draw the very breath of life.
REMEDY FOR Poison By Ivy. If
seems to me that I read all kinds of
cures for ivy poison except the right
one. have always endeayored to keen
it befoBe the public, but have failed. It
is to dissolve sugar Of lead-a bit the
size OF hazlenut-in half a teacup of
milk or warm water. Apply as warm as
can be easily borne with a soft, linty
piece of linen rag. Three or four ap-
pllcatlons are sufficient to effect cure.
II the poison is on the face, and nearing
the eyes or mouth, this astringent wash
may be constantly applied. 1t is o.
marvellous cure, and by watching closely
one can see the fevercd blisters 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 member of q family
is easily poisoned to keep sugar of lead
IN the house all the time. Let it 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. Ohio Farmer.
TIE BEST D1s1NFEcrANTs.- There ore
three powerful disinfectants: carboIic
acid, but it's smell is objectionable.
chlorine and permangnnate of potash !:
these last two are quite expensive.
Ihese disinfectants act by combining
with deleferious substances and rem.
derlng them harmless, while anticeptics
prevent and arrest the decomposition of
animal substances The most common
and available disinfectant and deodor.
,zer is copperas, crude copperas, sold
by druggists at few cents a 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 nm antiseptio, deodorizer. mud
disinfectant, 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.
munioation to others. The only per.
foot Iioirfookopl