Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — A Good Foundation. [ARTICLE]

A Good Foundation.

For making luminous paint the following has Dfion sirt*n: Take oyster shells and clean them with warm water; put them into the fire'for half an hour; at the end of that time take them out and let them cool. When ' quite cool pound them flue, and take away any gray parts, as they are of no use. Put- the po rder ih a cr«eible with alternate layers with flower of sulphur. Puton the lid and cement with sand made into a stiff paste with beer. When dry, put over the lire and bake tor an hour. Wait until quite cold before opening the lid. Tho product ought to be white. You must separate all gray parts, as they are not luminous Make a sitter in tbs following manner: Take n poi« put a piece of very fine mil*'*’ /cry loosely.across it, tie around v.l-h a string, put the powder it to th<- top, and rake about until tire only the ooarse powder remains; open the j ot and you will find a very small powder. Mix into it a thin paint with water, as two thin applications are better tba ono thick one, This will give paint that wiil remain luminous far into the night, provided it is exposed to the* light during the day. . ; REstbay Notice.— Taken up by John 8. Switzer of Berkley Township Jasper county Indiana* a roan heifer of fair size, and supposed to be between two andfthree yeais old. No marks or brands p?r< eii Ip, appraised at twenty dollars by Abner i*'. Friewold and Geoisre Kessl r, fiom the Docket or Jfimos W. MeCk-any J. F. of Bark by na. Chabi.es H. Prior, Clerk Jasper Clreut Court. Dec. 28.1882. Chatham Island, living off the east coast of New Zealand, in* th« South Pacific Ocean, is pecul.iary situated, as one of the few hibitablo points of the globe where the dny of the week changes. It is just on the l.ne of the demarcation betwesn dates. There high twelve on Sunday, or Sunday noon, ceases, and instantly Mondujr meridian begins. Sunday comes into a man’s house on the east side and becomes Monday by the time it passes out of tae western door. A man sits down to his noon day dinner on Sunday, ardlic is Monday noon before he finishes it. Thor Saturday is Sunday and Sunday is Monday, and Monday becomes suddenly runsforred into Tuesday.— S u F ancisco Call.

Tn American households the pre'* rnill:..g cotnplaii ts are weakness of the stonuieh and its consequences, Tndigr si ion, nervousness afid rheutiani, Such sufferers can lay a good foundation for bealtli by using Parkers Ginger Tonic as, it tones up the (•ronim-h and nerves, ana keeps the kiduejs active to carry off the foul matter.—N. O. Picayune. The Scientific Ameri an, * which should be good, authotity on such subje ‘ts, indorses the following method of getting rid of stumps on farm: “In the autumn or early winter bore a hole, one of two indies in diameter, according to the girt 1 of ,h** stump, ami inches d ep, put into it mi" or two ounces of saltpetre, fill ihe hole with water and plug it dose In tin* en-uiitig spring take out the plug and pour in n gill of I,(*i'. s *ne oil and ignite it. The stump v. ill smoulder away to the very extremity of the leaving nothing but acres.’' ■What are you going to. get? A black silk? Yes. Who of? J.V.W. Kirk.

In 1833 tber-’ will be font e lii'sed, two on the sua aril t.vo on th ru-iop. On April 22, a pirti.il on the moon will he visl> * I►* on th” I’arit'.c coast. Tne iirxi c> !.|<so will he tout Of the sun on Ma\ G. hut i f will not be visible in ti'.F <-o'mi ry. The thin] is that of th • m >ufi >•> <)••* >!* r ■ LG. and can l>- a-. u i! ov.r the United States The I i-o i * lit D ol . the sun and oceUts o:i U t ‘her 30. an I will only be paitial on tile i’ueili” coast. ANY SUM FROM *SJO GO io*U>,ooo on first mortgage real estate security on fiw to ten years' time. • ' Frank IV. Babcock. A Kentucky farmer eu.es fowl choler . by boiling ti bushel of smartweed'in ten gallon of water down to three gallons, an I mixing tin d t-j »c ti«Ds with fee<!jimee times a day for three cja) 7 s, thin every 'other day for u week.

♦ -« e wPersons wanting tnnn loans can gni them cheap at thu Citizens’ Bank. •e and see. * t liarcoal should l»s fed to nogs and poultry. Expenniaent has demonstrated that tbe same amount cf feed will produce a far greater amount of ilech ;m 1 at when f» d with pleniy of ihar -oal.

Pure Cream Bread ;wnrianted to be Wtds of milk: Pan Bread; Cream Bread -.Verannu Bread, at. Purcupile’s Restaurant. * Half a teaspoonfull of embolic acid in a gill of milk is recommended by Mr. J. A Dodge, ia the Jourral of Agriculture, as an excellent remedy for hi g cholera, Mr. Enos Hite, 33 Gouit Bt., Indianapolis, says: “Pio7d’s lion Bitter’s cured me of fever and ague.”