Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1882 — LITTLE OF EVERYTHING. [ARTICLE]

LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

Dr. Osborn has found that a pledget of cotton or liut saturated with compound tincture of benzion, and packed well into the cavity of attaching tooth wilLgive relief. Sick headache can often be greatly relieved, and sometimes entirely cured by the application of a mustard plaster at the base 6f the neck. The plaster should not be kept on more than a quarter of an hour. < W A coat of gum copal varnish applied to the soles of boots and shoes, and repeated as it dries until the pores are filled and the surface shines like polished mahogany, will make the sole waterproof, and make it last thrie times longea. , Running to seed in plants can be avoided by drawing a knife through one halt of the stem to which the head is attached. The sap, or, as they say in Germany, the milk, will flow, and rob the head of the power to open; yet enough sap will remain to keep it fresh and growing for another week or so. Coverlets filled with eork waste are said to be not only cheaper and healthier—since exhalations from the body do not adhere to it—than those filled with feathers, but also for the same weight to be warmer than those of the finest down. A thickness of only ope and a half inch is sufficient to keep the heat in. It is necessary to be careful to sew up the cork filling in sections, so that it does not settle to the’Hewcr parts. Steel Springs.—Coiled springs of steel wire are tempered by heating them in a piece of gas-pipe, in which they are packed with bouo-dust or animal charcoal, precisely as though they were to be heated for case-hard-ening. W ben sufficiently heated—that is, to a deep red—remove the spring, or plunge the spring and its receptacle together into a bath of animal oil. The spring is to be tempered by putting it in a shallow pan with tallow or animal oil, over the forge fire, and agitating the pan and its contents until the oil takes fire. Take the springs out, and, when the oil is burned oil, cool them in water.

To possess at once keen insight and Imperative sympathies, is to. be liable to extreme' mental suffering. The ability to discern things in their actual relations, to pierce the rind of the conventional and draw near the heart of Nature, may be enjoyed merely as,a scientific pastime; but when the “strong necessity of loving” is united to such clear perceptions, the mind and the heart are exposed to severe and incessant conflict; and to reconcile them is the grand problem of life. In Whitley county, Ky., a young man sent for a minister to meat him in a certain place for the purpose of performing a marriage ceremony. The good man lost his way, and, after considerable delay, the lovers concluded to search for him. All the parties met in the highway, and, without dismounting, the young people were married on the spot. Mr. E. A. Cowper, president of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, in his address before the members of the society at a meeting at Barrow, in Furness, while acknowledging the success of the efforts to promote technical education in England, lamented the lack of enterprise on the part of capitalists and manufacturers in the introduction of new arts and new industrial processes, thus permitting less favored countries to make rapid advances over Great Britain, and even to compete successfully with her in her own markets. We may expect to find selling.in this country great quantities of the Furth (Bavaria) toys, lead soldiers, clastic balls, etc., painted in brilliant but poisonous colors, as the sale of these toys is now firmly prohibited in France and very lately in Germany. The stock* on hand in Furth and other places on the continent of Europe must be worked off somehow, and the American market will bo looked to with energy. But it will be well for parents to be on their guard, and to carefully examine the playthings they purchase fortheir children.

Pennsylvania has.expended thus far nearly $4,500 in suppressing pleuropneumonia, of which sum $2,365 were paid for killing 150 animals infected with the disease. Over 6,000 examinations were made, and the special agent is said to have traveled nearly 11,000 miles iu the performance of his calling. Maryland has been considered the principal source of infection, but as the State has now in operation a law for the suppression of the disease similar to that in force in Pennsylvania, it is believed that its spread iu that State will be effectually prevented. Says the Parisian: It would be well for Americans who think of coming to Paris to be married to remember that it is one of the most difficult things imaginable to be wedded in France. Nu foreigner can be married in this country until he or she has lived here at least three months, and sometimes eight or ten months are necessary. Besides, both parties to the ceremony must produce their birth certificates, and how many Americans are prepared to do that off-hand? The best possible advice to Americans is: “If you must marry, don’t come to France to have the k*»ot tied.” The birthplace and homestead of the renowned Hutchinson family, in Milford, N. H., which for n.lny years has been in a dilapidated condition, is being put iu thorough repair. The house, which is a large, square, old-

fashibhed one, standing oh an eminence about two miles from Milford village, is to remain intact, with the exception of some alterations Ind improvements inside, and a coat of paint both outside and in. The ptiee has been occuEied tor many years by Matthew ray. who married Rhoda, of the Hutchinson family. The place now belongs to Mrs. Abby Hutchinson Patton, who, with her husband, Ludlow Patton, formerly of New York, are beautifying the birthplace and home of her childhood. Two Americans, Messrs. Prescott, profess to have discovered that underground currents of electricity, flowing in all directions, form tuo true “earths” of lightning discharges. They assert that all houses, trees, etc., struck by lightning are underflowOd by these currents, and that no houses, etc., standing on spots where there are no currents are ever struck. In protecting a bouse from lightning-stroke, therefore, their method is to test the ground underneath, aud, if there are no earth-currents below, to take no further trouble, but, it these currents are present, to earth the rod which they erect in shat part of the ground below where they arc strongest. i A Remedy for Forgeries.—The forgeries by erasing smad sums in checks and inserting larger ones are so serious that many remedies are proposed. Sir Henry Bessemer gives the most practical —namely, to rake any pale vegetable ooiur—say, blue—wniclt should be as sensitive to acid reaction as litmus, and wHli this color print over the whole surface of the check or other paper a fine engine-turned pattern, thus giving to its surface somewhat the effect of a pale tint extending all over the paper, if any attempt should be made uy means of chemicals to take out any portion ol the writing on such prepared paper, all the surrounding parts touciied by the abid solution win al once lose tue whole of the blue printed pattern, which is more sensitive and much more easily discharged than the common writingink. S*r Henry says the paper could bo produced very cuoaply.