The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-02-17
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.


BATH bricks are made from the de
posts OF the river Parrett, at Bridge
water, Somersetshire. Nowhere else is a
similar deposit found, so that Bridge
water supplies the world The anntial
import II INTO the United States Is about
100000 bricks
AN acre contains 43, 800 square feet.
y tract 209 feet square contains 121
square feet over an acre. A lot 200 feet
wide and 2l3.8 feet long, or 100 by
1895 feet, contains exactly an acre. A
pillow, turning a furrow one foot wide,
would 60 nearly 81 miles in blowing an
acre.
THE death-rate of some English towns
Is very high. Thus, while the death
rate for England and Wales generally is
~ per 900, in Bristol it is 26.9; in
Leeds, 28.7; III Manchester, 32.I; ard in
Liverpool, 1873. OF children under five
years Of age, 80 per 1000 die annually
III country districts, while in towns the
ratio is lO3 per 1000.
The coolest winters on record in the
United States within the past hundred
years were those OF 1870, 1886 and 1886,
In 1850 the Delaware river, bay of New
! York ami Long Island sound were so
with horses and sleighs The coolest
year was that of 1916, in which there was
ice every month in the year.
GREEN vegetables must he kept OH
stones, covered with damp cloth. Beet
roots, parsnips, carrots and potatoes are
/ pest kept in dry sand during the winter.
Never wash them until thew are wanted
| for use. Onions should be tied up in
/ punches, and hung up. Take and bury
| parsley in jar during the winter, or dry
It, by hanging it up in a warm room.
/ THE artesian well at the Collier White
Lead Works, st. Louis, No, has at
/ tanned Il depth of over seven hundred
/ feet, nearly all of which has been
/ through limestone. The drift is but
/ slightly above the encrinitial limestone,
and has passed through but little of
/ either sandstone or ebert. The boring
| commenced in the lower Archimedean
! limestone.
A PROCESS for frightening iron is de-
! scribed as follows in a German periodical:
! The articles to be frightened are, vixen
taken from the forge, placed in dilute
sulphuric acid Il to 20), and then washed
with water and dried with saWdust.
They are then dipped for a second or so
in nitrous acid, washed carefully, and
/ rubbed clean. Iron thus treated ac-
quires a bright surface, having a white
/ glance.
CoRN-TEb hens do not lay in winter
! for the simple reason that there isn't anv
! albumcn material in the corn. When
wheat Is fed there is fat enough in it to
supply all that is needed for the velk.
and gluten enough to make the white,
and lime enough to furnish the shell. 1t
/ does not seem difficult to understand
why cOrn-fed hens should not lay, as they
do not, and why wheat-fed hens should
/ lay, as they do.
/ RECENTLY, at Petroleum Center.
/ Pennsylvania, fve-thUusahd-barrei
! tank, in which five thousand two hun
/ dred barrels of oil were placed five
1 years ago, was emptied of its contents,
after lest since 1870. Thirty-seven
! hundred barrels of merchantable
crude was obtained, showing that
| fifteen hundred barrels had been lost by
evaporation, sediment and other causes,
decline Of nearly % per cent.
AN accidental discovery of great i'm
/ pOrtance, if verified, has been made by a
| French veterinary surgeon, who, noting
that the foot-and-mouth disease seemed
invariably to spare cattle affected with
oxen as a preventive measure, with the
| result that mot one of the twenty-five
beasts successfully inOculated has, UP to
this date, shown any sign Of foot-and-
mouth disease, although living among
animals largely infected with it,"
A NUMBER of years ago a young Iowa
! farmer dislOcated his limb, which was
not properly reduced, and left his leg
two short, which was heightened out
with cork sole and heel. A few DAYS
/ ago wagon ran against him, the wheel
/ hub striking him on the defective hip
and knocking him over. When he arose
/ his leg was two inches too long, and he
was obliged to remove his cork extension,
| the wheel having reduced the disloca-
ton. He walked home Immediately.
/ THE stock of seeds for the coming sea
son should be procured as soon as posi-
| BILE. If left until seed time is at hand.
much delay may occur, as seedmen are
! then crowded with orders. A good plan
/ is to send TO some respectable seedman
for a catalogue, and select some well
known standard kinds for the main crops,
both for the garden and the fields If
any new varieties are tried, small guam
tity should be used at first, until it is
known that the soil and locality are ia
vorable. Make Il list of all that is needed
at once.
IN answer to the question, q Why are
farmers so liable to rheumatism?' the
Science of Health says: Because they
wear wet clothing, heat and suddenly
chill the body, over-eat after very hard
work, and because they do not keep the
skin in vigorous, clean and healthy
condition. If farmers would avoid sud
den cooling the body after great exertion.
if they would be careful not to go in wet
clothing and wet feet, and if they would
not Over-eat when in an exhausted con-
ditiOn, and battle daily, using much fric-
ton, they would have less rheumatism"
DIR. ULTZSGANN, teacher at the univer-
sity of Vienna, lately read paper before
the medical society of Lower Austria, on
the Use of Photography in Medical
Studies He mentioned, on the author
ity of DIR. NogeI, that an eruption of
smail-pOX had been made evident bv
photography twenty four hours before
it actually came out. Although no one
could as yet observe any thing on the
skin of the patient, the negative-plate
showed stains on the face which perfectly
Tesembled the vaTiolous exanthem, and
twenty-fouT hours afterward the eruption
became clearly evident.
BUILDERS, owners and tenants of city
houses viii doubtless view with interest
a new system of plastering, which is
claimed to prevent the sudden and disas-
trous downfall of ceilings. so frequently
occasioned by defects in the water-pipes
and consequent leakage or overflow. The
invention consists of replacing the scratch
coat and brown coat used in ordinary
work by the combination of fibro-ligneous
sheets with a cement composed of lime.
sand and plaster. The sheets are of
fabric resembling coarse bagging, which