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USEFUL KNOWLEDGE,
Salt In the Sea.
A French chemist, M. Nadie. has
been nwkinR a thorough examination of
the salt water of different oceans, espe
cially in reference to the amount of
chloride of sodium (common salt) in
them. He obtained the following re-
gnlts: The Mediterranean sea contains
of salt 2.710 per cent.; the Atlantic
ocean, 2,789 per. oent.; the English
channel, 2,595 per cent; the Pacific
ocean, 2,588 per oent; the li«ke Ormiah,
in Persia, 1.905 per oent. The specific
gravity of the water was found to range
from 1,029 to 1,030 per oent.
To Preserve Wooden Tree lu&bels.
Thoroughly soak the pieces of wood
in a strong solution of copperas, then
lay them, after they are dry, in lime
water. This _ causes the formation of
gnlphate of lime, a very insoluble salt
(gypsum), in the wood. The rapid de-
atrnction of labels by the weather is
thus prevented. Nets, twine and other
gnbstanoes used in tying np or covering
trees and .plants, when treated in the
same manner, are similarly preserved.
At a recent meeting of the Horticultur
al society, in Berlin, wooden labels thus
treated were shown which had been con
stantly exposed to the weather daring
two years without being affected thereby.
Detecting Fuchelne In Wine.
The extent to which fnohsine has late
ly been used in coloring wines, candies,
ete., renders it a matter of some im
portance to detect the existence of this
poison-principle. According to a recent
French writer, the simplest method of
doing this is to place a portion of the
suspected liquid in a test-tube, and to it
add first 150 grains snhaoeate of lead,
and then 200 grains of amylic alcohol.
If, after agitation of the mixtnre, the
amylie alcohol, on separating, appears
colorless, it shows that fuchsine has not
been used ; if, on the contrary, it ex
hibits a red tint, it indicates that the
poisonous substance has been added.
Sore Throat Night Collars.
Says an exchange : “ An eminent
pbyoioian, who devotes his whole atten
tion to diseases of the throat and lnngs,
told us the other day, that about tliree-
fonrths of all throat diseases would get
well by wearing very loose collars, and
no necktie at all. He said that often
singers would come to him for throat
disease and loss of voice, and he would
tear open their cravats and enre them
with no other treatment whatever.
‘ The pressure of the collar on the ar
teries of the neck is very bad for the
health,’ said he. Ho also added : ‘ If
you have a disease of the throat let na
ture do the curin'?, and the physician
jnst as little as possible.’ ”
Singular,
If a pail of water be placed within six
inohes of either side of the stem of a
pumpkin or vegetable marrow, it will,
in the conrse of the night, approach it,
and will be fonnd in the morning with
one of the leaves on the water. If a
prop be placed within six inches of a
convolvulus, or scarlet runner, it will
find it, although the prop may be shift
ed daily. If after it. has twined some
distance np the prop, it be unwound
and twined in the opposite direction, it
will unwind and return to its original
position, or die in the attempt; yet not
withstanding, if two of the plants grow
near each other, and have no stake
around which they can entwine, one of
them will alter the direction of the spi
ral, and they will twine aronnd each
other.
Haw to Fix the Cluclc.
When the olook stops, do not take it
to the repair shop till yon have tried as
follows : Take off the pointers and the
face; take off the pendnlnm and its
wire. Bemove the ratchet from the
“tick” wheel, and the clock will run
down with great velooity; let it go;
the increasing speed wears away the
gum and dust from the pinions—the
clook cleans itself. If you have any
apferm oil, pnt the least bit on the ax
les. Put the machine together, and
nine times in ten it will run jnst as well
u if it had been taken to the shop. In
faot, this is the way most shopmen
olean clocks. If, instead of a pendu
lum, the olook has a watch escapement,
this latter can be taken out in an in
stant, without taking the works apart,
and the resnlt is the same. It takes
abont twenty minutes to olean a brass
olook, and saves a dollar.
To Hake Hard Soap.
The following is a reoipe for making
hard soap whieh is excellent and eco
nomical : Nearly every family accumu
lates through the winter drippings from
beef and mntton. These can be util
ized for the grease by boiling in water,
allowing it to oool, then removing from
the water and boiling it till all the
water is expelled. Of conrse the whiter
the grease the nioer the soap. Take
six pounds of sal soda, six pounds
grease, three and a half pounds new
stone lime, four gallons soft water, half
pound borax. Pat sods, lime and water
into an iron boiler; Boil till all is dis
solved. When well settled pour off the
dear lye, wash oat the kettle and put
in the lye, grease the borax; boil till it
oomes to soap, pour into a cup to oool,
and when sufficiently hard cat into bars
and pnt on boards to dry. This is very
nice for washing white flannel and
calico.
: Nitrons Oxide GaaTi* Chloroform.
A very extraordinary case of death by
the use of nitrons oxide gas, now so
largely employed by dentists instead of
chloroform on aoconnt of its alleged su
perior safety, is related in the London
Times as having occurred in the prac
tice of the well-known Hr. Mason. It
appears that the patient, a Miss _Wynd-
harn, accompanied by her medical at
tendant, went to haye her teeth exam
ined. Dr. M. advised her to have a
large upper tooth drawn, and at her
urgent request administered nitrons ox
ide gas. After a few respirations it was
noticed that the poise was becoming
lather weak, and the inhalation stopped.
The patient had not become insensible,
however, and endeavors were made to
extract tiie tooth, but the pain was so
great that, again at the lady’s desire,
the gas was given a second time. The
operation appeared to-be perfectly suo-
oossfnl and the tooth had been drawn,
When suddenly the* patient’s features
became livid, and it was at once appa
rent that something was wrong. Assis
tance was immediately obtained and ev
ery thing done to restore conecionsref-a,
but death ensued in a few minutes.
The evidence at the inquest showed that
np to the day of her death she enjoyed
excellent health, and that neither before
nor after death were any symptoms of
organic disease observable.
short-horns.
A Uriel History ot this Superior Breed
of Cm: tie,
From various historical sources, such
as Berry, Youatt, Martin and Allen, we
gather the following facts concerning
the origin, progres- and present condi
tion of Short-hom cattle:
Those cattle, at the present time, pos
sess in an eminent degree qualities
which cause them to become objects of
great interest and admiration,' on ac
count of their splendid framesj beauti
fully varied colors, and their remarka
ble aptitude to take on flesh on those
particular parts which are so attractive
to the butcher.
A period of more than one hundred
years has now elapsed since the Short
horns, on the banks of the river Tees,
in England, and called the Teeswater
breed, had assumed a very fine and at
tractive color, whioh resembled the
Short-horns of the present day, being
occasionally red, red and white, and
roan, though the last not as prevalent
as now. They also possessed a fine
mellow skin and flesh, good hair, and
light offal, particularly wide carcasses,
and forequarters of extraordinary depth
and cavity. When slaughtered their
net weight was extraordinary, and many
instances are reoordeu of the wonderful
weight of their inside fat.
About this time Sir William St. Quin
ton, of Scamptoir, imported bulls and
cows from Holland, which were crossed
with the stick of the country. Mr.
Mdbank, of Birmingham, bred and
slaughtered an ox which, at five years
old, the four quarters weighed 2,114
pounds, and a cow bred from his own
stock, at twelve years old, when slaugh
tered, 1,540 pounds. From Mr. Mil-
bank’s time the Teeswater oattle contin-
ned to sustain their excellence and
celebrity in various bands, until Mr.
Charles Colling adopted them. In the
hands of Mr. Colling these cattle became
greatly improved, and it is believed
that his success resulted from a well-
considered plan. He fonnd the Tees
water large cattle of loose make and
disproportion ; and was sensible of the
difficulty of breeding, with anything
like certainty, large, good animals; and
through the progress of his practice, lie
showed a resolution to reduce the size
of the breed, and at the same time,
and by that means, to improvo the form.
This he is supposed to have effected
through the medium of a bull called
Hnbback, an animal which, it appears
probable, possessed on one side the im
ported blood. The possessor of his
dam was a person in indigent circum
stances, and grazed his cow in the high
ways. When afterward she was re
moved to good land, near Darlington,
she became so fat that she did not again
breed; and her son Hnbback having
the same feeding propensity in a high
degree was useful as a bull during a
very short period. The quality of his
flesh, hide and hair are supposed to
have been seldom equaled; and as he
was smaller than the Teeswater cattle
he was eminently calonlnted to forward
Mr. Colling’s views. There are no su
perior Short-horns whieh do not claim
descent nearly or remotely to Hnbback.
After the use of this bull Mr. Charles
Colling proceeded with success to pro.
duce superior animals; and thennmber
of bulls whioh he disposed of at high
prices was truly encouraging.
The prevalence of these cattle aroused
the attention of breeders to their mer
its, and raised Charles. Colling, as their
breeder, to a condition.of great distinc
tion, and, in the .demand created for
his stook, soon gave him a large for
tune. Under this stimulus other breed
ers were soon awakened to a state of ac
tivity and soon brought up their herds
to a quality perhapB equal to that of
the Oollings. It might be of int.rest
to some persons, but not to the masses,
to follow this subject to a much greater
length, by discussing the future progress
of the English Short-horns, down to a
late day. Suffice it to say that the
Short-horns now stand in the front rank
of all the breeds in Great Britain, and
in some portions of the continent adja
cent, and in the Australian and Canadi
an colonies, where the soil and climate
are adapted to their support.
According to the history, after the
termination of the revolutionary war a
few cattle, supposed to be pure Short
horns, were brought into Virginia by a
Mr. Miller. In the year 1796 an Eng
lishman named Heaton brought two or
three Short-horn cattle from the north
of England to New York. Hi 1815-16
a Mr. Cox, an old Englishman, importer
a bull and two heifers into Benssalaer
oounty, New York. In 1818 Mr. Corne
lius Cooledge, of Boston, Massachusetts,
imported a boll and a heifer into that
city from the herd of Mr. Mason, of
Chilton, in the country of Durham,
England. Frequent importations have
since been made, np to 1852-3-4, when
several spirited companies in Ohio and
Kentucky made importations of the best
cattle to be fonnd in the English herds.
The American Herd Book of eight vol
umes describes more than 7,400 bulls
and over 12,000 cows. These oattle are
now to be fonnd, (either as thorough-
breds or grades, through the northern
and middle states, all over the west,
have been driven over the plains into
California, into Oregon, in the valley of
the Williamette and the Columbia;, and
are destined to go into every place
where cattle are successfully bred and
good herbage abounds.—Z V. Mopes,
in the Ohio Farmer.
The “bell punch,” invented to keep
car conductors honest, has be- n beaten.
Two krndb of spurious bells have been
made and sold to'imitate the “true
ring.” One of these is carried in the
palm of the left hand, and the other np
the sleeve. Several conductors have
been fonnd using these aiticles, one of
whom confessed that he kept two bank
accounts! The companies will have to
try again—ingrained or confirmed dis
honesty is hard to beat. When, more
over, men with two or three aliases are
fonnd as condnctors on the New York
Third-avenue road, it is a pretty good
sign that there is something wrong.
Eggs vs. Meat.
Would it not be wise to substitute
more eggs for meat in onr daily diet?
Abont one-third of the weight of an
egg is solid nutriment. This is more
than can be said of meat. There are no
bones and tough pieces that have to be
laid aside. A good egg is made np of
ten parts shell, sixty parta white and
thirty parts yelk. The white of an egg
contains eighty-six per cent, water; the
yelk fifty-two per cent. The average
weight of an egg is about two ounces.
Practically an egg is animal food, and
yet there is none of the disagreeable,
work of the butcher necessary to obtain
it. The vegetarians of England nse
eggs freely, and many of these men are
eighty and ninety years old, and have
been remark bly free from illness. Eggs
are best when cooked four minutes.
This takes away the animal taste that is
offensive to some, bnt does not harden
the white or yelk as to make them hard
to digest. An egg if cooked very hard
is difficult of digestion, except by those
with stont stomachs ; such eggs should
be eaten with bread and masticated
very finely. An egg spread, on toast is
food fit for a king, if kings deserve any
better food than anybody else, which is
doubtful. Fried eggs are less whole
some than boiled ones. An egg drop
ped into hot water is not only a clean
and * handsome, bnt delicious morsel.
Most people spoil the taste of their eggs
by adding pepper and salt. A tit le
sweet butter is the best dressing. Eggs
contain phosphorus, whioh is supposed to
be useful to’those who use their brains
much. '
The Latest Triumph op Temperance.
We congratulate the temperance world
on the success everywhere attending the
use of Vinegar Bitters. Certainly no.
preparation containing alcohol has ac
complished snoh cares of malarious
fever, biliousness, dyspepsia, rheuma
tism, lung complaints, constipation, and
general debility, as we hear of from all
quarters, as the results of this famons
vegetable specific. No true philan hro-
pist will regret to see spirituous liquors
expelled from medical nse, if they can
be safely dispensed with; and that they
are not necessary in any case of sickness,
whatever its character, appears at last
to have been demonstrated. If public
opinion is capable of making any im
pression upon the minds of the faculty,
they will ere long introduce the most
popular of modern medicines into the
hospitals, and prescribe it in their prac
tice. The millions have given the ar
ticle a fair trial; it has more than an
swered their expectations, and no theo
retical opposition can shake their faith
in it. '
There are more kid gloves sold in
New York than in any other city in the
world, gloves to the value of $10,500,-
000 being annually bought by dealers
in that city.
A Wanting Advertisement.
.Limestone Sfbinos, S. C.
Dr. B. Y. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.:
Dear Sir—I am a walking advertisement for
your Golden Medical Discovery, Purgative
Pellets and Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Bemedy, they
having cured me of catarrh of nine years’stand
ing, which was so bad that it disfigured my
nose, and, while caring it, your medicines also
cured me of asthma in its worst and most ag-
ivatedform. Before using your medicines
ad become reduced in flesh from one han
dled and fifty-five to one hundred and fifteen
pounds, and I- now weigh one hundred and
sixty-two pounds, and am in better health than
1 have enjoyed for twenty years.
Tours truly, J. L. Lcmsden.
The above is bnt a fair sample of hundreds
of letters which are received by Dr. Pierce,
and in the face of such evidence who can
longer doubt that the Doctor’s medicines cure
the worst cases of chronic catarrh?
GBAN6E-W0RK.
Annul Session or the Alabama State
Orange.
The first annual session of the Ala
bama state grange met at Montgomery
last week. Fifty counties of the sixty-
five were represented by one hundred
delegates. Each county with twelve
oranges or less sept one delegate, and
those with more sent two. The state
officers we: e present. The address of
Mr. Chambers was very elaborate and
able. He advised prompt action on the
'constitutional amendments submitted
by the national grange; opposed the
plan of representation based on numer
ical strength, and advised the rejection
of the amendment providing therefor;
recommended that a committee memo
rialize congress on the subject of cotton
tax; the apointment of an agent in
Washington to represent the interests of
planters; recommended a memorial to
the state legislature for a geological
survey of the state with a view of an
official promulgation of its advantages
in minerals, that immigration may be
thereby indneed, and promising the co
operation of the state grange in the
work; reviewed what is known as the
dead-fall system ; that is, small whisky
shops established near large plantations,
where the freedmen trade stolen pro
duce for ram, to the rain of themselves
and the nlantera, and recommended
that the legislature be memorialized
to pnt an end to said traffio; recom
mended a change in the register of the
deputies by substituting a county dep
uty or general overseer of granges in
each* county, who shall represent the
county in the state grange and not as
delegate to its annual session; acknowl
edged the obligation of the grange to
the national body for the relief furnished
sufferers last spring, and addressed
suitable acknowledgment therefor.
He also recommended the establish
ment of a grange organ at some cen
tral point, to serve as a mode of com
munication between the officers of the
order; and proposed the holding of a
grand state fair next fall under grange
auspices, and sngested the propriety of
attempting some reformation of abases
in the matter of commercial f ertilizers,
snch as the erection of a home manu
factory under the supervision of resi
dent chemists, supplied with cheaper
and better articles. In conclusion, he
reviewed the agency and co-operative
system, and advised as the best means
of getting the aid of middle men in the
provision business, that more attention
be paid to the raising of supplies at
home. Much of disappointment aris
ing from the system as practically ope
rated, he traced to imperfect organiza
tion and the necessary friction in a mat
ter so complicated and so new. When
southern farmers shall make their
farms self-sustaining, there will be less
complaint of middle men.
The Great Favorite wltll the Ladle.-.
Wm. Forsvth. Bynum 4 fen. druggists, cf
live Oak. Florida, write, Sept. 16.1874, as fol
lows : “Dr. B.T. Pierce,Buffalo, S.Y.—Tout
Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pel
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faction, as numbers' of onr customers and
.friends testify with pleasure. Your Favorite
the ladies, and numbers caoeay with joy that
it has saved them from eking out a miserable
life or meeting with premature death, and re
stored them to health and happiness.”
Tbotuands of women bless the day on which
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription was first
made known to them. A single bottle often
gives delicate and suffering women more re
fief than months of treatment from their
family physician.. In all those derangements
causing back-ache, dragging down sensations,
nervous and general debility, it is a sovore’—
remedy. Its soothing and healing proper
render it of the utmost value to ladies suffer
ing from internal fever, congestion, inflamma
tion or ulceration, and its strengthening ef
fects tend to correct displacements of internal
parts, the result of weakness of natural sup
ports. It is sold by all druggists.
Dr. Pierce’s pamphlet on Diseases peculiar
to Women will be sent to any address on re
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Seed House of David Landreth St Son.
It is pleasant to note the flourishing fall
trade doiug by this long established firm, in
the midst of dull times. In the prevalent
stagnation, enterprise has the field almost
without competitors. ‘So determined are the
Landreths to secure, as usual, a large share of
the approaching year’s business, that they have
now nine of the fart steam presses of IfcCaSa
A (Stately, diligently at work, printing their
“ Rural Register ” for 1875. This has never
before occurred in the history of their house.
The "•Rural Register” is furnished without
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