The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13
usEFuI. KNOWLEDGE.


PAPERINa and painting are best done
IN cold weather, especially the latter,
for the wood absorbs the oil of paint
much more than in warm weather
while IN cold weather the oil hardens
on the outside, making a coat which
viii protect the wood, instead of soak
ing into in.
PoTAfo BREAD.-Take six good-sized
potatoes, boil and mash very fine, Add
three pints boiling water. Stir -four in
till 1t makes a stiff batter. When luke
warm add your yeast, set it in a mod
erateIy warm place. In the morning
knead IN flour and salt as stiff as you
can. Set it in a warm place TO rise,
knead again, adding as little -four as
possible. Let it rise again, and then
put 1t into your pans, making them
half full. When the loaves have risen
to the top of the pans, bake them good
brown.
To CLEAN MARBLE. Marble of any
kind, alabaster, any hard stone or glass
may be repohshed by rubbing it with a
linen cloth dressed with oxide of tin
(sold under the name of ty-powder).
For the purpose a couple of mere folds
of linen should be fastened tight over a
piece of wood, fiat or otherwise, accord
ing to the form of the stone. To repol-
ish mantelpiece, it should first be
perfectly cleansed. This is best done
by making a paste of lime, soda and
water, Wetting well the marble, and ap-
plying paste. Then let it remain for
day or so, keeping it moist during the
interval. When this paste has been re-
moved the polishing may begin. Chips
IN the marble shoul1 be rubbed out
with emory and water. At every stage
Of polishing the linen and putty-poW-
der must be kept constantly wet.
Glass, such as jewellers show counter
cases, which become scratched, NAV be
polished by the same way.
SLEEPLEssNEss. take the early
meal just before retiring is, of course,
Injurious, because it is very likely to
disturb ones rest and produce night
mare. However, a little food at this
time, if one is hungry, is decidedly |
beneficial; it prevents the gnawing of !
an empty stomach, with its attendant |
restlessness and unpleasant dreams, to |
say nothing of probable headache, or of |
and other arrangements, the !
next morning. One should no more lie |
down at night hungry than he should |
lie down after a very full dinner, the |
of either being disturbing
and harmful. A cracker or two, a bit |
of bread and butter or cake, a little
fruit-sOmething to relieve the sense of |
vacuity and so restore the tone of the
SYSTEMS all that is necessary. We
have known persons, habitual sufferers
from restlessness at night, to experience
benefit, even though they were
not hungry, by very light luncheon
before bedtime. In place of tossing
about for two or three hours as form
erly, they would soon grow drowsy, fall
asleep, and not wake more than once or
twice until sunrise. This mode of treat
ing insomnia has recently been recon-
mended by several distinguished physi-
clans, and the prescription has gener-
ally been attended with happy results.
VARIOUS theories have been addueed
to explain the motion of glaciers. Some
that glaciers move under the
influence of gravity, like a solid body
On an inclined plane. Others that the
is ike that of Viscous sub
stances (such as tar or molasses.)
Others still that it is due to pressure of
the ice on itself, which alternately melts
and regeals, portions of the glacier fore
ng it forward. A French physicist, NJ.
Grad, has lately propounded a new
theory. He thinks the movement is
caused by dilation, resulting from con-
collation. OF water in the interior of capil-
airy assures, combined with the pres
sure exerted by the mass of the glaciers
IN itself. This pressure first produces
capillary assures in the upper parts, and
4 certain iquefaction of ice, followed
~ regulation. The infiItration of
water through the assures, by the fu-
ion Of the surface, then increases the
original effect of the pressure by increas-
ne the proportion of water assimiIated
y the glacier under the influence of
egelatiOn. On the one hand, the sim
Die action of pressure explains the
movements of glaciers during the win
er. On the other, the influence of in
from fusion of the surface of
he glacier, accelerates the movements
n spring and summer. In any case.
he movement arises from congeIation |
If the water In the interior of the mass. |
whether this comes from ice liquefed
Inder the sole Influence of pressure or
5 furnished both by this pressure and {
" infltration of the product of surface
usiOn. Other things being equal, a
llacier assimilates IN its interior by
ongelatiOn a quantity of water which
5 greater in proportion to thethickness
# the glacier and the number of capil-
airy fsures. Hence, the movement is
more rapid at the middle than at the
ides