The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06
Worm KNOWING.

SPscta q frames, furnished WlthtinE
wire Eauza instead Of glass, carefully fit
ted to the eve, and fastened to the head
by 3 gum-bznd, will furnish sufficient
protectionwhile the wearer is rhrezhing
cutting stone, etc, and at the same time
give the organ plenty Ofair.
The best mules are bgedin Kentucky,
and 1t Is not uncommon to find teams
there sixteen hands high, and weighing
/ ], 400 pounds each. Although OCCASION
ally there are LANCER mules, even as high
as eighteen hands, such are rare and un-
desirable. The use Of mules is rapidly
Increasing in this country, there being
over l,I5O,000 in use in 1870, against
5T0,222 in 1850. When properly and
kindly treated, the mule is not the Vi
cious animal he is generally supposed to
be, and it is a mistake to be preiudiced
against him on that account.
From a peek of pumpkin seed
dropped and covered in the gaps of a
COm-feld, dairy of nine COWS has been
kept up to summer milking and the
quality of the butter is super-excellent,
and six heifer calves raised from the
above are as fat as moles. The COWS are
fatter, too, than a majority of the cattle
slaughtered. These COWS have been max
ing about six pounds Of butter per week,
besides supplying new milk and cream
for a gentleman's house with sixteen in
mates. The pumpkins are chopped up
in the managers with a spade, morning,
noon and night, about half bushel each
time when cut into pieces. They eat
while being MIXED ymOrning and night,
md they come to the yard and go into
he stable for half an hour at noon.
3eets, carrots and some other roots and
mall ears of corn will follow, 50 as to
,eeP up the milk during winter.-Cor.
Country Gentleman.
A great many directions have been
for mending india-rubber boots
nd shoes, most of which are worthless.
he following can be relied on: Procure I
small tin-box of prepared rubber in a F
condition, which can be pur- d
lased for fesy cents at almost any store s
here india-rubber goods are kept for II
lie. The boot must be washed clean u
nd dried. Then the surface around the Il
mt is to be rOughened a little with the Il
)int of a knife, after which the semi a
luid rubber is spread on with a spoon 81
thickly as it can be without flowing II
way. Then a neat patch is prepared and p
yered with one or two coats of rubber. CT
hen the prepared rubber is almost dry te
e patch is applied and held on firmly n
r a few Misunderstanding american. 1
. The i'll effects of soda on linen have 81
7en rise to a new method of washing, II
lich has been extensively adopted in 10
smany and introduced into Belgium, et
e operation consists in dissOlving two III
unds of soap in about three gallons of W.
ter as hot a. the hand can bear, and n
ding to this one tablespoonful of tur- ne
Itine and three of liquid ammonia; 81
; mixture must then be we'll stirred. an
the linen stepped in it for two or tr'
zee hours, taking care to cover up the IN
vel containing them as nearly hermet- IN
lily as possible. The clothes are after 90
I'd washed out and rinsed in the usual Sol
y. The soap and water may be re- II
tied and used a second time, but in gu
t case half tablespoonful of turpen- an
G and a tablespoonful of ammonia MT
st be added. The process is said to NIL
se a great economy Of time, labor and OIL
!. The linen scarcely suffers at all, Al
there is little necessity for rubbing, neI
its cleanliness and color are perfect. an
; ammonia and turpentine, although Col
ir defensive action is great, have no cry
lriOus effect upon the linen and while
former evapOrates Immediately, the
II Of the latter is said to disappear en- no
ly during the dyeing Of the clothes. 'n'
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