Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1870 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Prefare for sickness in the day of health, and for old age in thy youth. Beauty eventually deserts its possessor, but virlue-and talent accompany him to the grave. ..... No character can be lastingly injured by a fearless discharge of duty. - Calumny or prejudice may obscure it for a time, T>ut in the end it will shine the brighter for the clouds which obscure it. A COBRBSFONDENT of the Wutem Rural sent 1,908 pounds of sunflower seed to anoil .mill and had returned to hi;p pi a pounds of oil and 1,781 pounds of oil cake. The oit he finds a superior lubricator,- and thinks it may be valuable for other purposes. H. Griffen, of Vermont, says in the N. B. Farmer, I have a pumpkin that was raised in the year 1808, that is about as fresh looking as it was the fall it was taken from the vine. I think it Was the largest one I raised. I kept it where it would not freeze in the winter, out of the cellar, and in the milk room in. the summer. It bids fair to winter again. In a letter to an editor of the American Agrindturiit, John Johnston, writes : “if you put a good sounding bell on one of your Cotswold sheep, the dogs will not be so apt to hurt them;, but the best thingjl ever tried is alittle strychnine on a piece of meat—and if the iheat is tainted, they find it better. I have often got rid of dogs in this way. Put it around your yuco- fa the evening, and if the dogs come, you Will find some dead ones in the .SMBgn**"?!* chimneys, such as two near Glasgoyr, which are over 400 feet high, urq very apt to get out of perpendicular, under the influence of high wind, before the mortar has time to harden. They are generally straightened by repeatedly sawing into the bulging side, and on removing the saw the chimney settles the thickness of the cutting. The Scientific ■Anerimn mentiona the ease pf a chimney feet high, in Barmen, Prussia, in which the method tried was to replace whole layers of brick by thinner layers, an <l allow the chimney to subside. Scouring Kntves.—A IsdyurnrespondP’rtPj.UP s Agriculturiet writes' that for five yearp. she has used water-lime for soourtag knives, forks, ttas, and the like. She says: “I have a box with a' partition and. keep the lime in one part and the cloths in the other. I wet a small eloth a little and dip it in tbe lime, and after the articles are well washed and wiped, I. nib them until the (spots are removed. Then I take a larger, dry doth, dip'it in the" dyne, and nib the articles until polished to suit me. Wipe off the ’ dust from the knives and forks with a dry cloth, and they tore ready to' pW aw *y ; ’ • ■ A Word to Pankeys. -Remember that the time must come in every family when it is the children’* right to begin to think and act for themselves, and the parent’s, duty t<) allow them to do it; •when it is wisest gradually to slacken authority, to •ink I eommand”into “ I wish, -to grant large freedom of opinion, and, above all, in the expression, of it, 'Likewise (and this is a most important element , in family union) to givs liosuw—nay, actual sympathy —to wandering affections, friendships, dr lives which, for tbs’ time being, seem to find the home circle too narrow and too dull.—Jfito Jfulock.

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