Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1869 — Bee Cholera. [ARTICLE]

Bee Cholera.

A correspondent writing to the New Albany Commercial from Harrison County Indiana says: “I have, or lmd on fne first of November, twenty stands of bee*-; but the Bee disease, or bee cholera, as it is called, broke but among my-bees, and I have lost more than half my hives. Some four weeks ago 1 noticed in the Commercial your sug : gestion to place paragoric in or near the hives so that the bees could get at it, as an experiment that might prove efficacious in arresting -the- fatal disease. I accordingly procured six ounces of paragoric, which I distributed in a number of small sauce plates around the hives. During the warm weather in January the bees come out and sipped the paragoric, and soon the disease among them disappeared entirely. Several of my neighbors have since tried the remedy, with similar good results. lam satisfied the paragoric is a certain cure for bee cholera. J. F. W.” A whiter writes: “Putting up the hair of children in curling papers, breaks it and checks its growth; often pulls it out by the roots. Curling irons are fatal to the hair of both ctrtrarariM' ns. The heat*saps up the juice out of the fibers as effectually as fireorteostsapstbe-ritabty-of-a green branch, leaving but a diy, withered skeleton. The practice which hair dressers have of frizzing out the hair with a comb, to make the most of it, is one of the most cruel injuries that can be inflicted on the living hair, The comb cuts it in the act of frizzing it. You cau test the truth of this by combing out the hair after it has been so dressed. The hair sometimes comes out by handfuls; and farther, this process tangles up the hair, and a great deal of it is broken and pulled out in tryingto comb it straight again.” - It is said that common shellac dissolved in alcohol makes the strongest cement for wood. It will unite the fractured legs of your chairs and tables as firmly as if they had never been broken.

To Cure Sore Throat.— Beat the whites of two eggs with two spoonfuls of white sugar; grate in a little nutmeg, and half a pint of lukewarm water, Beat up well and take a wine glass of it every three hours. • ■ ■■ ■' —— Mr- James Mathers, a farmer of Warren county, recently sold 105 head of three and four year old cattle, which averaged 1,712 pounds. They were sold at 8 J cents per pound, thus bringing sl4l 24 per head. Which Rots First? —Of three kinds of limber used for telegraph-wire supports, the chestnut poles decayed first, the cedar next, the locusts are still sound. ‘