Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-08-28

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And breath FROM thee hath only blown
Tho leaves back to the golden page.
PRAuricAa lIINrs.---To boil potatoc.
successfully: When tho skin broako, pou
OFT the water and let them Gnish cooking il
their own steam.
Good flour 10 not tested by it's color
Wtitc flour may not be tho beet. The tcs
OF flour is by tho amount of water it alb
sotbs.
A little ammonia added to water, JUS
enough to mako it slippery, is ono of Tho
best things to wash up grease aud dirt,
places in the carpet.
10 beat the white of eggs quickly, pu
III pinch Of salt The cooler the eggs The
quicker they will froth Salt cools and
also trcslIcns them.
There is grccnness ia onions and pota-
toes that renders them hard to digest.
For hea!th's sake, put them in warm water
ior an hour before cooking.
French chemist asserts that it tea he
ground like coffee, Immediately before hot
water is poured upon it, it will yield nearly
double the amount Of its cxhilumting dual.
!tes.
For chicken cholera, there is nothing
better than corbolic acid, QUO draohm with
"o gallons of water with. Let tho fowls
hayo frequent access to it as q drink, and
mix it with their food once day.
4 oarclessly KEEP: coffee pot will impart a
otsijava.1 " dst, Isl, tiie tofftv 6r tfiorufgfs
every day, and twice week bell borax
and water in it for fifteen minutes.
Most of tho discases of cattle arc caused
by wrong treatment---too much feed ct ono
time, too little at another, &c. If cattle
and horses were we'll fed and watercd md
used properly, there would bo liLtlo disease.
The disease called gapcs iu chickens is
varously attributed to impurities in tho
soil about tho hen houses; thcir having
access to rotten, dccaycd manure heaps;
drlnkiug nasty, tou! water, end feeding
aMoug any filth.
4 breeder of poultry oays: "Evcry spring
procure quantity of cedar boughs, and
scatter them plentifully in and around tho
hen house. This is all that is necessary, as
ihc odor of the cedar keeps away the ice :"
TIE COMING rApLE OF MONEY,
WEi0urs AND MEASURES. Tho complete
metric system, when adopted in tho United
States, will bo shown in tho table below.
Our money being already in decimal com :
putatlon, tho tablo will bo changed:
MONEY.
10 mills mako cent.
~ cents make dime.
10 dimes make dollar.
10 dollars make an eagle
LENGTH
10 milimctcrs make ccntimcter.
10 centimetcrs mako dccimc,cr.
10 dccimeters mako meter
10 *mctcrs mako dccamctcr
~ dccamotcrs make hcctolnctcr.
10 hcctomctcrs make kilometcY.
~ ki!ometcrs mako y myria.netcr.
WRlGuT.
~ mll!lgrammes make u contigrammc.
III centigrammos make dccigrammo.
10 dccgrammcs make gramme
~ tgrammcs make decagrammo.
10 decngramrcs mako hcctogranmc.
III hcctogrammos make lIilogrammo.
~ kiioSran.nes make myriagrammo.
CAPACITY.
III miiilitcrs make q centi!iter.
10 Ucntilitors mako dccilitor
10 Acciliters make liter.
10 filters make dccalitcr.
10 dccalitors make hoctoliter.
Tho square and cubic measure aro moth.
1oS moro than tho squares md cubes of the
measures of length. (Thus square aud
cubic milimctcr arc tho square and the cube
otwhich ono side is milimcter in Icngth. )
Tho ''arc" and "stcro" arc other names fol
the squaro dccamctor aud tho cubic motor
: A meter is equal to 39,8C3 American
inches.
"a grammo 10 equal to 15,343 grains
troy or avoirdupois.
ia liter is equal to ll3 American pnts
WnMINdToN, N. G., August 18.--A
terrific storm of wiud and rain visited this
section early this morning. At 4 A. NJ
the velocity Of tho wind had reached 6s
miles per hour. A largo number of shade
trees wcro prostratcd in tho city and scvo,
houses and sheds unroofcd. No lives wert
lost. Tho German bark Maric went ashore
on tho middle ground between tho Rip .ant
bar Sho out away her mainmast and tht
toro and miazenmasls went with it. Sht
has Geycn feet Of water in tho hold. Th,
British ship, Kate Bonafcha, won't ashore
above Battery Island, but will como of
without trouble. il is feared that seriou.
damage has bcon done to tho crop.