The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-10
nsEFuL KNOWLEDGE.

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
DAmPSEss will cause honey TO become
thin and wstery.
LIVE fish tpickerel or trout viii keep
a cistern free from worms and bugs.
SILVER ware may be kept bright and
clean by coating the articles (warmed)
with a solution Of collection diluted
with alcohol
WATER containing about seven grains
of salt in each pint, is, when used con-
tinuously, poison 70 the weaker forms
of vegetation.
To make green gold, melt together
nineteen grains pure gold and five
grains pure silver. The metal thus
prepared has beautiful green shade.
SANDARAo varnish is the best material
for mending plaster models. Saturate
the broken surfaces thoroughly. press
them we'll together, and allow them to
dry.
FIVE parts of sifted whiting mixed
with a solution of one part glue, togeth-
er with a little Venice turpentine to OBJ
viate tie brittleness, makes a good
plastic material which may be kneaded
into figures or any desired shape. It
should be kept warm while being work
ed. 1t becomes as hard as stone when
dry.
In some parts of the country, there
have been large numbers of the orchard
or tent caterpillars which have left their
rings of eggs on the young twlgs. If
these are now cut off with clipping
pole, it will prevent in every instance
large nest of caterpillars, and be much
more easily done than after the latter
have grown.
UNLESS the mouth Is frequently and
carefully cleansed, it becomes infested
with vegetable and animal parasites.
These cause decay of the teeth. Soap
is the best material for preventing the
development of the fungi and for neu-
tralizing the acid. Precipitated chalk
mixed with the soap assists the cleans
ing action.
THE German washerwomen use a
mixture of 2 ozs. tuipentine and OF.
spirits of ammonia well mixed together.
This is put into a bucket of warm
water, in which ID. soap has been dis
solved. The clothes are immersed for
| twenty-four hours and then washed.
The cleansing is said to be greatly
! uuickened, and two or three rinslngs IN
AMONG some uneducated people there
| is a superstition that the ticking noise
made by little insect popularity called
| the death-watch forebOdes a death
| in the house. This little creature is a
| beetle of the timber-boring species.
| The tick is only call one to another,
and if not answered it is repeated. 1t
is produced by the beetle lifting itself
upon its hind legs and beating its head
against the place where it is standing.
! In old houses these insects may be
heard rappipg all day long.
In using Paris green TO eXtermlnate
the potato bugs. the poison should be
mixed with the cheapest grade of -four,
one pound of green to ten of flour. a
good way of applying it to the plants is
to take an old two-quart tin fruit can,
melt off the top, and put in wooden
head in which insert a broom handle.
Bore a hole IN the head, also, to poul
the powder in, and then punch the bot
tom full of holes about the size of No.
shot. Walk alongside the rows when
the vines are vet with dew or rain, and
make one shoot at each hill.
To REMOVE RING FROM THE FINGER
In case a lingering becomes toe
tight to pass over the joint of the finger
the finger should first be held in cold
water to reduce any swelling or inham
nation. Then wrap a rag soaked IL
hot water around the ring to expand
the metal, and lastly soap the finger
A needle threaded with strong silk car
then be passed between the ring snC
finger, and a person holding the two
ends and pulling the elk, while sliding
it ar und the periphery of the ring
| will readily remove the latter
THE alloy popularity known as oroide
from which large number of cheaI
watches, chains, and triukets are nov
manufactured, is made of pure copper
100 parts, tin II parts, magnesia II
parts, sal RmmOniac part, quicklime
part, tartar of commerce 8 parts. Tht
copper is first melted, then the magne
STA, sal ammoniac, lime, and tartar IL
powder are added little by little anC
briskly stirred for half an hour. Thu
tin is lastly mixed in in grains until all i
fused. The crucible is covered, and tn,
fusion maintained for 35 minutes, whel
the dross is SKINNED off and the allO,
is ready for use.
CATERPILnARs. The tent caterpillar
eggs of which encircle the small twig
in rings of 400 to 500 each, is mos
easily destroyed before it matches, o
early in spring. Cut them off and burr
them. In an extensive plantation, VI
caused an active man to pass through
early In spring and clear them out. a
destroyed about 5000 nests in two days
thus preventing the Matching of over
million of eggs-more than all tn
birds IN the township would have don
after hatchin In some parts of tn
country they are abundant this year
and the sooner they are looked after tn
better.
DoN'T WASTE THE TnIBER.-An 10
dustrial writer has furnished som
interesting figures in regard to tn
rapidity with which American forest
are squandered. This exhibit show
that in ten years no less than Il, 900 OO
acres are cut and burned over t.
reduce the land to cultivation. Twenty
five cities take annually from 5000. /,
0,O00 acres each for fuel, while in tn
aggregate 5000, 900 acres per year ar
used up for fuel, timOer and waste
The railroads are already consuming
100000 acres per year for ties. Few o
the eastern and middle states have an
forests left to speak of ; most of tn
western states, east of the Rocky noun
tains, are barren of timber, and as
consequence we must soon look to tn
Pacific slope for supply. To make III
for this immense drain the planting O
forest progressed a. the rate of no