Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-07-27
MISCELLANY.


One ounce of salycilic acid is suffi
cient to preserve barrel Of cider-that
is, to keep it from fermenting and be-
coming sour.
Never omit regular bathing; for
unless the skin is in an active condition,
the cold will close the pores and favor
congestion and other diseases.
Exchanges from Kansas, partic-
ularly from the Arkansas valley, men,
ton the scarcity OF farm laborers. The
sorgum crop in Ellis county is reported
twice as large as last year.
Virginia has made remarkable pro-
gress is small fruit culture within a few
years. Her shipments of strawberries
to New York city have reached TO-
600 bushels in a single day, not to
mention consignments to minor
points.
An Illinois lady sends to Vick's Mag
azne new remedy for the cabbage
worm: Sprinkle the plants with flow
ers Of sulphur as soon as the white but
textiles make their appearance, and re-
peat after rain. The remedy mas prov
ed good"
H. w. Johnson, of Mass, writes in
reference to the alleged efficacy of coal
tar against the potato beetle, that after
giving 1t "a trial of quite whiie," he
came to the conclusion that it was
utterly useless" for the purpose;
indeed the bugs seem rather to like it,
and l never found one dead from its
effects"
-Cnptipua for ,,ntbor loIf u, ,,+,,u,,
the power now exercised by corpora
tons to tax the public, and we VIII
have IN this country a monied aristo-
crazy such as the world has nevers cen,
and with it all the attendant phenomena
Of venal legislation and corruption in
high places such as has beer the down
fall of all the republics in history.
"A New Jersey farmer says: have
found the following a sure preventive
of the attacks of squash bugs, cucumber
beetles, &c, on my garden vines. Sat
urate a piece of cloth or old rags with
coal-oil and tie to a short stick, or draw
them through a split made in the top
of the stick to fasten them, and insert
the stick in hills or near the vines, and
the bugs will soon disappear. After
n shower, and usually once every few
days, the rags will need to be saturated
anew"
The price of alligators has "gone
up" The demand for alligator skins
for belts, sacheis, pocketbooks, as well
as for boots, shoes, ETC., has so increased
that alligator farms" are coming into
prominence in Florida and elsewhere
along the gulf. A Florida firm delivered
5000 alligators to a st. Louis tanner
this Spring. Meanwhile, an alligator
farm has been established in Louis
lana.
Food is an agent of tremendous
power. Feed mankind with the same
science that birds, kline and horses are
fed-to wit, on their natural foOd-and
then we may look for the healthy
results obtained with these animals.
and milk. Holsters know how 10 feed
their horses, and ladies their canaries.
They all seek to give the normal, natural
food of the animal under their care.
Now ifman would treat his own race
as he does his animals, we think human
nervous systems would not show such
signs of weakness.
Uncle Sam makes good thing by
trading off light weight standard silver
dollars of 4121 grain for the trade dol
lars weighing 400 grain. The bill pro-
viding for this exchange calls in the
S., 100000 trade dollars, and puts into
circulation an even number of standard
dollars, and u grains will go to the
credit of the government upon each dol
lar exchanged, making the total profit
Sl63, 696 AS the standard dollars is just
as good in the marts of trade, no one is
a loser by the transformations Co.
Press.
"A COW reared on farm where she
is to remain is more valuable to her
owner than strange COW. She is ac-
quainted with the herd with which she
must associate. She is familiar with
the lands from which she obtains her
food, and can travel over it with greater
ease than a strange COW. In conse-
quence of these things she will yield
more milk and be more profitable.
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