Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-07-05

awake, tor this drOWSlneSS Is the advance
guard of healthy, restorative sleep. Sleep is
a boon which must not he tampered with
and put off, for if compelled to wait, it is
never so perfect and restful as if taken in
it's own natural time and way. The right
side is the best side to sleep on, except in
special cases of disease, and the position
should be nearly horizontal. Finally the
evening meal should be composed of food
most easily digested and assimilated, 50
that the stomach will have very little hard
work to do. a heavy, rich dinner taken III
the evening is one of the things that mur-
der sleep. Latesuppers with exciting foods
and stimulating drink make really restor-
ative sleep next to impossible. Narcotics
are to be avoided, save as used in cases OF
disease by competent physicians. The prop
er time, according to DR.. Corning, to treat
sleeplessness is in the daytime, and it must
be treated by wise and temperate method
of living rather than by medicines. This is
good common sense. And doubtless vast
deal of debility, the nervous arrangement,
and the insanity of our time, would be pre-
vented by more good restful natural sleep.
Ne,c York Star.
FACTS CONCERNING LIGHTNING Rods
There can be no doubt, says the CthirdtOr.
that we'll constructed lightning rods are a
great protection. Lightning is the edischarge
or spark that passes between two highly
electrified clouds, or from q cloud to some
other object in the vicinity. If, when one
of these electrified clouds approaches an OBJ
iect, the electricity be drawn from it by any
means, the lightning cannot take place
This shonld be the action Of every lightning
rod-to silently draw off the electricity from
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place. Iflightning strikes rod, it is proof
that the rod is poor one. A poor light,
ming rod is constant source Of danger. Ii
may often serve to conduct the lightning
into your buildings rather than away from
them. The principles upon which CONNER
cial lightning rods are constructed are EN-
tirely wrong, and fail to accomplish good fol
the purchaser.
In the first place your building may moi
need protection. Any pointed object pro-
iecting into the air is a conductor OF cleo
tricity to greater or less extent; hence the
great numbers of points presented by trees
tend to draw off the electricity from the
clouds and air. A building among high
trees has ample protection against light
ming. The buildings of cities act as so many
rods to draw off the electricity
Buildings with columns of hot or moist all
escaping from them need especial protec.
ton, because the columns are conductors OF
electricity. Hence the kitchen chimney is
most liable to be struck; also barns filled
with freshly-cut hay or grain.
Iron is preferable to copper for lightning
rods only because it is cheaper. To convey
a certain amount of electricity an iron rod
should possess four times the bulk of a cop
per rod, but the large iron rod would be
cheaper than the smaller copper one. One
important principle in regard to the mo.
ton of electricity of high tension should be
constantly borne in mind-electriclty pass.
es through the mass of the rod and not over
the surface alone.
FODDER CORN.-While it is yet time we
wish to urge upon farmers the importance
of having a supply of good sweet fodder on
hand during the winter, for COWS, horses
and young cattle will appreciate it, and ii
will pay we'll for the expense it has been
to secure it. We prefer to SOW it in earlier
if desired; but if not soWn before June,
though it may be soWn earlier (some farm.
ers even sow as late as july there is not
so much pressing work on hand as there
is earlier in the season and the work can
then be done better and at less expense. 1t
is useless to attempt to raise a good crop OF
fodder corn on poor land, for it must have
rich soil to produce heavily, and when good
land is further enriched with a good top
dressing of we'll decomposed stable man
ure the growth will be heavy and fine. The
land should be well ploWed and narrowed,
and the corn drilled in close rows. Some
planters plow the land and then sow the
corn, first treating the grain to a coating OF
tar and ashes to keep the birds from taking
it. The narrowing covers the corn nicely
As rule, where it can be put in drills it is
surer of making good growth, especially
when sown late in the season. Common
field corn makes good fodder, but we would
recommend using sweet corn in preference,
on account Of its being more nutritious, and
it is also better liked by the stock. When
we'll cured it is more valuable for feeding
purposes than the best hay Obtainable.-
Empire State Agricultauist.
BaE In the treatment of persons apparently
dead from drowning or chlorOforming the
placing of the body is one of the first con-
siderations. Various positions have been
advocated by medical men, such as those OF
resting horizontally on the face, on the side
inverted, sitting up, bent forward and bent
backward. DR.. Eben Watson, of the Glas.
gov Royal Infrmary, has lately objected
to the plan of inversion, as he finds it to be
injurious, and recommends a Supine and
horizontal position. DR.. HenryS. Sylvester,
of London, has made some very Interesting
which appear to teach that in
verting the body has no advantages to offset
it's dangers but he contends from the re-
suit of his experience that the most suitable
position is that of reclining on the back, the
body inclining little from the feet up
ward, the shoulders and head slightly raised
and supported on a firm cushion. This pO-
sition, he says, is favorable for the relief OF
congestion of the heart and head while
both sides Of the chest are free to expand,
and such conditions afford the best chance OF
from apparent death.
FLoORs.-A new papier-mache process
for covering floors is described as follows
The floor is thoroughly cleaned. The holes
and cracks are then filled with paper-putty,
made by soaking newspapers ma paste made
as follows TO one pound of fldhr add three
quarts of water and a tablespoonful of ground
alum, and mix thoroughly. The floor is
coated with this paste, and then thickness
of MANILA or hardware paper is put on.
This is allowed to dry thoroughly. The ma
nilla paper is then covered with paste, and
a layer of wall paper of any style or design
desired is put on. After allowing this to
dry thoroughly, it is covered with two or
half a poundof white glue in two quarts of
hot water. After this is allowed to dry, the
surface is given one coat of ''hard oil-fnish
varnish," (which can be bought already pre-
pared. This is allowed to dry thoroughly,
when the floor is ready for use. The pro-
cess is represented to be durable and cheap !;
and, besides taking the place of mating,
carpet, oilcloths, or like covering, makes the
floor air-tight, and permits Of its being