The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-19
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


To MOVE rust from steel, rub well
with sweet oil; in forty-eight hours use
unslacked lime, powdered very fine; rub
till the rust disappears.
A FRENCH newspaper states that if a
little chloride of lime be spread on the
soil, rats, mice and insects will at once
desert it. Plants may be easily pro-
tected by it from insect plaques by
simply brushing over the stems with a
solution.
A LUMP of fresh quicklime, the size of
a walnut, dropped into pint of water,
and allowed to stand all night, the water
being then poured off from the sediment
and mixed with quarter of pint of
the best vinegar, forms the best wash
for ssurf in the head. 1t is to be applied
to the roots of the hair.
MEASURING CRANKY the United
States standard, 2, $50 cubic inches make
bushel. Now, as cubic foot contains
1,T2S cubic inches, bushel is to cubic
foot as 2, 150 to 1,728 or, for practical
purposes, as to 8. Therefore, to con-
vert cubic feet TO bushels, it is necessary
only to multiply by 40. Example
How much grain will bin hold which
is 10 feet long. feet wide and 4 feet
deep? Soiution-10x 4 x4-160 feet.
16Ox 4-5-12S, the number of bushels.
THE following is recommended as
cure for sleeplessness "Wet half
towel, apply it to the back of the neck,
pressing it upward toward the base Of
fack 70 <ha n l., Of ha
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 boom"
The method adopted in Germany
for preventing the slipping and falling
of horses on the public road is as
unique as it is simple. The smith,
when finishing the shoe, punches hole
in two ends; as soon as the shoe is
made he taps in q screw thread and
screws into the shoe, when on the
horses foot, sharp-pointed stud an
inch in length. With the shoes thus
fitted the horse can travel securely over
the worst possible road. When the
horse comes to tho stable the pointed
stud isunscrewed and button screwed
in: no damage can then happen to the
horse, and the screw holes are thus pre-
vented from filling up.
In order to preserve the hands soft
and white, they should always oe washed
in warm water, with fine soap, and
carefully dried with acknowledgements
towel, being well rubbed every time to
insure q brisk circulation than which
nothing can be more effectual in pro-
noting transparent and soft surface.
If engaged III any accidental pursuit
which may burt the color of the hands,
a little lemon juice will restore their
whiteness for the time; and lemon
soap is proper to wash them with.
Almond paste is of essential service in
preserving the delicacy of the hands.
The following is a serviceable pomade
for rubbing the hands on retiring to
rest: Take two ounces of sweet al
monds; beat with three drachms of
white wax and three drachms of sperma-
ceti; put up carefully in rose-water.
To SOME persons coughing is harm
less, but to others it is fraught with
many dangers. 1t is, therefore, i'm
portant to teach those liable to be in
iured by severe or prolonged efforts at
coughing how they may accomplish
their purpose easily, safely and quickly.
DR.. J. M. Fothergill says: at must be
insisted upon that the chest be well filed
with air before the cough is let loose
that is, the reflex act must be inhibited
by the action of the will, until the chest
be well filed with air before the cough
is let loose. Such full inspiration is eff
fective, not only in removing the source
of irritation, but it usually causes other
masses of mucus to slide from their seat,
and thus to set up further cough for
their removal. But, if the full inspira-
ton plan be followed, these masses are
readily and quickly expelled" OF
course these directions are of use only
in such coughs as are for the purpose
of removing some offending matter from
the air passages.