The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-11
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

| PAINS about the lungs and heart, of
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 tine 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 pint of any fluid at a 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 IL child under the intu-
ence of a 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
quoting, 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. 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 i'll spring, and
place them in the earth at the bottom
of the tub. A gentleman who has tried
the experiment has a number of lilies
in bloom.
IF child wakes up in the morning
and calls for a drink of water the first
thing, such child is perfectly certain to
be sick before noon. The course to be
pursued is to keep him in bed. and, by
warm drinks, promote perspiration, eat
ing nothing whatever until the after
nibbling at some cold, dry bread, and
the next day he will be about again.
Otherwise, q breakfast will be eaten,
fever comes on, vomiting. and several
days illness.
AVOID MARBLE TOP TABLES.
ing to the Herald of Health marble-top
tables are to bs avoided. 1t says :
"They are cold, and rapidly absorb the
heat and vitality of the body, robbing
it of its life. We have heard of one in
valid whom the doctor could not cure,
until the day he noticed she used a
marble stand, and suspected it had
something to do with her i'll health. So
he forbade her to use 1t. Soon she was
well. We know healthy people who feel
the twinges of pain in the shoulders by
sitting near one. They are handsome,
but unhealthy for all that"
MEAT BISCUITS biscuit, So
called, which is made in Texas and |
much used in the American navy, is
made of boiled beef, free from grease, |
the liquor of which is evaporated to
the consistency of strip, and then |
mixed with wheat and flour in such
as to form a solid paste.
This paste is then spread out by a roll
ing pin, pierced with holes, cut into the
shape of sea biscuit, and then baked
and properly dried. The process of
boiling and maceration is carried SO far
that the liquid or broth contains the en-
tire nutriments. Two pounds of. this
strip contains the nutriment of about
eleven pounds of meat.
ALL the tin plates used in America
are made in England, and the importa-
lion of them is largely controlled by
single firm in New York, which has
amassed colossal fortune in the trade.
Up 20 this time, the cost of making
suitable iron sh' cts for tinningha been
20 great that cur manufacturers could
aot compete with the tin plate makers
abroad. A firm in Pittsburg has lately
perfected a process by which, notwith-
standing the differences in the price of
abor, it can compete with English max
RS both in price aid quality. 1t is with
cal pleasure that we note this addition
o American manufactures, as it will be
he means of distributing among our
very large sum that now
,oes abroad.