The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-04-29

WA0usS V1OppoO 1uGO punt OF wafer.
and allowed to stand III night, the water
being then poured of from the sediment
and mixed with = quarter Of : pint Of
the best vinegar, forms the best wash
for scurf in the head. It is to be applied
to the roots of the hair. IL 4 ~ -
A GOOD composition, according to the
Country Gentleman, for rendering
boots proof against snow and vet can
be made OF one part mutton tallow and
TWO parts beeswax. melted together.
OF course it will be more difficult to
make boots thus treated take a GOOD
polish, but after few times thew viii
be as susceptible OF brilliant polish as
ever. -
BEE1 should be of bright red color.
we'll streaked with yellowish tat, and
surrounded with thick outside layer
Of tat. Good mutton is bright red, with
plenty Of hard white fat. Veal and
pork should be Of q bright flesh color,
with an abundance of hard, white, semi
transparent fat. Lamb of the best kind
has delicate, rosy meat, and white, oil
most transparent, fat.
The most determined woman-hater
We ever met is 80 set in his dislike that
he won't go near . gal-vanio batteryl
Shockingl
OATS follow spring wheat, being
somewhat less hardy. It is thought by
some that oats will take no harm from
careless seeding. But this is mistake;
for good crop, deep covering in we'll
prepared soil is needed; shallow-sown
seed does not tiller; while that sown
deep will tiller about as much as wheat
with good covering, the seed may he
sown much earlier, and will be safe
against changes of the weather, while
seed near or on the surface will be de.
stroyed either by frost or by dry weather,
as soon as it sprouts.
Poor Adam had no choice when he
felt matrimonially inclined. He had to
take the first woman he came across.
To MAKE chocolate caramels take two
cups of brown sugar, one cup of mo-
lasses, one tablespoonful (heaping) of
butter. Boil twenty-five minutes; then
stir in half pound of grated chocolate.
wet in one cup of sweet milk, and boil
until it hardens on the spoon, with
which you must stir it frequently.
Flavor it with teaspoonful of vanilla.
The following is recommended as
cure for sleeplessness: "Wet half q
towel, apply it to the back of the neck,
pressing it upward toward the base OF
the brain, and fasten the dry half of the
towel over SO as to prevent the too
rapid exhalation. The effect is prompt
and charming, cooling the brain and
inducing calmer, sweeter sleep than any
narcotic. Warm water may be used,
though most persons prefer cold. To
those who suffer from over-excitement
of the brain, whether the result of brain
work or pressing anxiety, this simple
remedy has proved an especial boon"
A NOVEL scheme-A proposition to
write romance.
A COMPANY OF scapegraces meeting
pious old man named Samson, one of
them exclaimed: "Ah, now we are safe.
Well take Samson along with us, and
then, should we be set upon by thou
sand Phiistines, he'll STAY them ALL"
MY young friend" quietly responded
the old man, TO do that I should have
to borrow your jawbonel"
SOME men cannot call their soles
their own till they settle with the shoe.
maker.
The deepest soundings that ever have
been made were recently taken near
Behring's strait, by All American officer,
The lead struck bottom at the depth of
about eleven miles, and sample of the
composition of the oceans bottom was
brought up.
A GOOD silver-plat1ng fluid is made as
follows: Dissolve one ounce of crys-
tails of nitrate of silver in twelve ounces
of water. Then dissolve in the water
two ounces of cyanide of potassium.
Shake the whole together, and let it
stand until it becomes clear. Have
ready some half-ounce Walls, and fill
them half full of Paris white, or fine
whiting, and then fill up the bottles
with the liquid. and it is ready for USE
THERE are localities where it may
pay to grow small crops cheaply-where
one may skin the land for few years
and leave it, just as in some places cat
tie have been killed for their hides,
leaving their carcasses to decay-but
farmers cannot afford to adopt this
style of farming. The aim with them
should be to grow larger crops by the
expenditure of more labor upon the
land, and upon doing this depends their
future prosperity.
To MEASURE grain on the floor:
Make the pile in the form of pyramid
or cone, and multiply the area of the
base by one third the height. To End
the area of the base, multiply the
square of its diameter by the decimal
1854. Example-A conical pile of
grain is 8 feet in diameter and feet
high, how many bushels does it con-
tain? Solution-The square of is Ga,
and Ga times 1854 times 4-3 EQUALS
83.776, the number of cubic feet.
Therefore, 83.776 times As equals
67.02 bushels.
EXPERIMENTS WITH UM-SMoK1Na.
One Herr Macluy, in the course of
stay at Hong Kong, has made an ex-
pertinent upon his own body which
would appear to be pretty conclusive as
to the effect of opium-smoking. After
fasting eighteen hours he smoked TWEEN
~ -ooVcA pipes, AOAuAu8 III I'LL Luz grains
of the opium used by the Chinese. 1t
is interesting to know that after the
third pipe he ceased to be hungry, and
the fifth Pipe left him unable to walk
about comfortably; the seventh brought
his pulse down from oighty-six to sew
enty; the twelfth caused singing in his
ears, and the thirteenth heavy fit of
laughter. Twenty-Five pipes affected
his hearing, but, within an hour after
the trial, which had only lasted about
100 minutes, he was able to 60 homo
aud 60 to bed, where he slept so soundly
as to wake up fairly fresh and hungry
the next morning. During the whole
experiment he had no dreams or hallu-
cinations of any sort whatever.
A New Kind OF Paper.
The paper trade are good deal in
terested in new kind of paper, made
from palmetto fiber. It can be washed
with soap and water, as one would wash
a piece of linen cloth, then rubbed,