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THE METER
! for all measures of length, distance, h. depth. heighth, &c., and was in- . ! to be, and Is very nearly, one ten- "th of the distance on the earth's . from the equator to the pole. It is : *** , Inch 's, or 3 fret. 3 inches and . hits., and is to be substituted for the ya: )
THE ARE
1- 1 . . rfare w', ne site is ton Meters, and :. Hal to pat e juare Meters or about 4 Pure rude.
THE LITER
1. the unit for measuring solids and capa-"! (,, and is equal to the contents of a cube f already been adopted, must greatly over- wane edge is one touch of a meter. It is ! balance the comparatively Flight objection about equal to 1 qhart, and is a standard in | alluded.a. cubic, dry and liquid measures. D
FETA cubic Meter (or Kiloliter) is called a stre, and is also usedas a standard in cer- tain cubic measures.
THE GRAM
Is the Unit of weight, and is the weight of a cube of pure water, each edge of the cube andarts Involve philosophical and scien- | being one one-hundredth of a Meter. It is 1 . . principles of a somewhat ab-truse : shout equal to 15 grains. It is intended as the Standard in all weights. and with its riMative department of the govern- | divisions and multiples, to supersede the use of what are now called Avoirdupois. Apothecaries and Troy Weights.
Each of the foregoing Standards ls divi- ded decimally, and larger units are also formed by multiples of 10. 100, &c. The successive subordinate parts are designa- ted by the prefixes Deci, Centi and Mill! ; the successive multiples by Deka, Hecto, Kilo and Myria; each having its own nu- merical signification, as will be more clear- ly seen in the tables hereinafter given.
The terins need may. at first sight, have a formidable appearance, seem difficult to pronounce, and to retain in memory, and to be, therefore, objectionable ; but with a lit- tle attention and nsc, the apprehended dif- ficulty will be found more apparent than real, as has been abundantly proved by ex- perience. The importance, also, of con- formity in the use of commercial terms. on the part of the United States, with the practice of the many nations in which the system, with its present nomenclature, has
54 DECIMAL SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
TABLES.
OLD.
MONEY.
XEW.
4 farthing make 1 penny.
10 mills make 1 cent.
12 pence 1 shilling.
10 cente " 1 dime.
20 shillinga " 1 pound.
10 dimes " 1 dollar.
LONG AND CLOTH MEASURE .-- NEW.
10 millimeters make 1 centimeter.
10 centimeters ..
1 decimeter. 10 decimeters ..
1 METER.
10 meters 1 dekameter.
10 dekameters ..
1 hectometer.
10 hectometers 1 kilometer.
10 kilometers ..
1 myriameter.
SQUARE MEASURE .- NEW.
100 square millimeters make 1 aqnare centimeter.
100 square centimeters ..
1 aquare decinieter.
100 square decimeters
1 square meter or CENTARE.
100 centares
1 ARE.
100 sred
1 hectare.
The denominations less than the Are, Including the Meter, are used in specifying the contents of surfacee of emall extent ; the terms Centare, Are and Hectare, in expres- eing quantities of land surveyed or measured.
The above table may, however, be continued beyond the Meter, thus :
100 square meters make 1 square dekameter.
100 square dekameters
1 square hectometer.
100 square hectometers 1 square kilometer.
100 square kilometers
1 equare myriameter.
CUBIC MEASURE .- NEW. For Solids.
1000 cubic millimeters make 1 cubic centimeter.
1000 cubic centimeters
1 cubic decimeter or liter.
1000 cubic decimeters
1 cubic meter or stere.
1000 cubic meters
1 cubic dekameter.
1000 cubic dekametere ..
1 cubic hectometer.
1000 cubic hectometers
1 cubie kilometer.
1000 cubic kilometers
1 cubic myriameter.
For Dry and Liquid Measures.
10 milliliters
make 1 centiliter. 10 centiliters ..
1 deciliter. 10 declliters 44
1 LITER.
10 liters
1 dehaliter.
10 dekaliters
1 hectoliter.
10 hectoliters ..
1 kiloliter.
10 kiloliters
1 myrialiter.
[BR/A LITER, the standard of Measures of Capacity, usually in a cylindrical form, is equivalent to a cubic Decimeter, or the one-thousandth part of a cubic Meter, the contents of which are about one quart.]
The Kiloliter, or STENE, is a cubic Meter, and is need as a unit in measuring firewood and lumber.
10 decisteres make 1 store .
10 steres ..
1 dekastere.
ALL WEIGIITS,-NEW.
10 milligrams
make 1 .. centigram. 10 centigrams
10)
..
1
..
1 dekagram.
10 dekagrams
..
1 kilogram.
10) kilograms
1 myriagram.
10 myriagrams
1 quintal.
10 quintals
1 millier or tonneau.
1 decigram.
10
1 hectogram.
10 hectograms
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DECIMAL SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
PRONUNCIATION OF TERMS.
TERMS.
ENOLISH.
TERMS.
ENGLISH.
Meter.
Hee-ter.
Store,
Stare.
Millimeter.
Mill-e-mee-ter.
Are,
Arc.
Centimeter,
Sent-c-mee-ter.
Centare.
Sent-are.
Decineter.
Des-e-mec-ter.
Hectare,
Hect-are.
Dekameter.
Dek-a-mee-ter.
Gram,
Gram,
Hectometer,
Her-to-mee-ter.
Milligram,
Mill-e-gram.
Kilometer.
Kill-o-mee-ter.
Myriameter,
Mir-e-a-mee-ter.
J .tor.
Li-ter.
Dekagram,
Dek-a-granı.
frutuiter.
Sent-e-fi-ter.
Kilogram.
Kill-o-gram.
Dekal ter.
Dek-a-li-ter.
Quintal,
Quin-tal.
Millier,
Mill-i-er.
Touncan,
Tun-no.
Acts and Resolutions of Congress. PUBLIC - No. 183.
AN ACT to authorize the use of the metric system of weights and measures.
Bei! enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Statesof Ameri- esi . Congress are midler. That from and af- ter the passage of this act. it shall be law- ful throughout the United States of Ameri- ca to employ the weight- and measures of the metric system ; and no contract or deal- | Ing. or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection, be- I system.
cause the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or mes-ures of the metric system.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That i the table + lu the schedule hereto annexed. shall be recognized In the construction of contracte, and in all legal proceedings, at establishing. in terms of the weight- and mes-ures now in use in the United Midt .n. the equivalente of the weight and muens- ures expressed therein in terms of the me- tric system : and paid tables may be law ful- Jy deed tor computing. deternuning and ex- pressing. in customary weights and incas- ures. the weights and measures of the metric
MEASURES OF LENGTH.
METRIC DENOMINATIONS AND VALUES.
EQUIVALENTS IN DENOMINATIONS IN USE.
K.' metre .. ...
10,000 metres,
1,(x) metres, .
Hortonirtre,
100 metres,
Jukunetre,
10 inetree,
Moire.
1 metre,
Drenmetre.
1-10th of a metre,
Centimetre,
1-100th of a metre,
0.3957 inch.
0.0334 iuch.
MEASURES OF SURFACE.
METRIC DENOMINATIONA AND VALUES.
EQUIVALENTS IN DENOMINATION. IN USE.
Hectare
10.00) square metres,
Are, jo square metres,
Ceutare. 1 square metre,
2.471 acres.
119.6 square yarda.
1.550 square Inches.
6.2137 miles. 0,62137 mile, or 2.290 feet and 10 inches. 32feet and one iuch.
3.3.7 inches.
30.37 inches.
3.937 Inches.
Millimetre.
1-100th of a metre,
C'entigrain,
Sent-e-gram.
Decigrain,
Des.c.gran.
Mill-e-li-ter.
Hectogram,
Hec-to-gram.
De -- e-li.ter.
Myria_ram,
Mir-e-a-gram.
Irc-to-li-ter.
hille! ...
Kill-o-li-ter.
Myr.suter,
Mir-e-a-li-ter.
MEASURES OF CAPACITY.
METRIC DENOMINATIONS AND VALUES.
EQUIVALENTS IN DENOMINATIONS IN USE.
Names.
No. of litera.
Cubic Measuro.
Dry Measure.
Liquid or Wino Measure.
Kitolitre or stere, ..
1000 100
1 of a cubic metre.
? hus, and . 35 pecks,
Dekalitre, ..
10
10 cubic decimetres. ..
9.02 quarts.
2.1117 gallons.
Litre. .
1
1 cubic decimetre,
0.50 quart ..
1.0567 quart.
Decilitre,.
0.1
.1 of a cubic decimetro, ..
6.1022 cubic inches,
0.815 gill.
Centilitre,
0.01
10 cubic centimetres,
0 6102 cubic inch ..
0.33% Auidi ounce.
Millilitre,
0.001
1 cubic centimetro, .
0.061 cubic luch .. ..
.
0.27 Anid drachm.
DECIMAL SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
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.
.
1 cubic metre.
1.318 cable caril.
261 17 gallons. 26. 117 gallons.
Hectolitre
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INTEREST TABLE.
At Seven per Cent. In Dollars and Cents, from $1 to 810,000.
AX'NT.
1 day.
7 days.
15 days.
1 mo.
3 mos.
6 mos.
12 mos.
& C.
$ C.
& C.
& C.
¿ C.
¿ C.
& C.
1
00
2
01
03 %
07
14
3
05 4
101
21
4
01
014
03
03,Y
10%
21
01
02
0
124
215
(*)
01
024
143
14
01%
03
115
35
1 03
2
٠١
054
12
15
53
40%
514
1 17
1 344
2 92
5 x3
11 6625
35 00
5%
4 14
$ 75
17 50
11 67
23 334
97
14 38
87 50
10000
1 94
13 01
20 17
58 33
175 00
1330 (
1
1 cuhle centimnel?".
13.432 grains.
1-10
.1 of s cubic centimetre.
0.5422 grain.
1-10)
10 cubic millimetres
0.1543 grain.
1-1(4)
1 cuble millimetre
0.0151 grain.
Names.
No. of grame.
Weight of what quantity of water at maximum deneity.
Avoirdupois weight.
Millier or tonneas ..
1 cubic metre.
2204.6 pounds.
1 hectolitre,
220.46 pounds.
10 litres,
22.046 pounds.
Kilogram, or kilo,
1 litre
2.201%; ponnds.
1 h. c.w.ram.
100
1 decilitre.
3.5274 ounce4.
10
10 cuble centimetres
0.3527 onncc.
14
5
6
10
17%
35
DI
1 75
3
7
1 75
3 50
700
11
1 75
5 95
10 50
1 $6
2 91. 3
$ 73
17 :)
1 ...
17 50
140 00)
33
2 724
2111 00)
52%
1 40
13%
274
1351
03,
17%
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INTEREST TABLE.
WEIGHTS.
METRIO DENOMINATIONS AND VALCES.
¡EQUIVALENTS IN DE- NOMINATIONS IN UAE.
5 419
();
014
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Discount and Premium.
When a person buys an article for $1.00- 20 per cent off, (or discount.) and sells it again for ¿1,00, he makes a profit of 2; per cent. on his investment. Thus : He pays 80 cents and sells for $1.00 -- a gain of 20 cents, or 25 per cent of &) cents. And for any transaction where the sale or purchase of gold, silver, or currency is concerned, the following rules will apply In all cases.
RULE 1st .- To find premium when dis- count is given : Multiply 100 by rate of discount and divide by 100, lees rate of dis- count.
RULE 2d .- To find discount when pre- mium is given. Multiply the rate of interest by 100, and divide by 100, plus the rate of premium.
Suppose A has $140 in currency, which he wishes to exchange for gold, when gold is 27 per cent. premium, how much gold should he receive? In this case the pre- mium is given, consequently we must find the discount on A's currency and subtract it from the ¿140, as per rule 2d, showing the disconnt to be a trifle more than 21 per cent. and that he should receive $110.00 in gold.
5 pr ct. Die. allows +5% pr ct. Pre. or profit 10 ** ..
+11
15 .6
.6 11736
66
25 66
25 .. 66 33%
66 *43 .6
40 **
66 6935
50 4 66 100
A dagger (+) denotes the profits to be a fraction more than specified. A (*) denotes profits to be a fraction less than specified.
Table of Weights of Grain, Seeds, &c.
ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF NEW YORK.
Barley weighs
48 1b. per bushel.
Beans
.62
Buckwheat" 48
Clover Sted
Corn weighs
.54
Flax Seed* ..
55
66
Oats
Peas
..
Rve
Timothy Seed
66
*Flax Seed by cust'm weighs 56 1b. per bush.
Facta on Advertlaing.
The advertisements In an ordinary num- her of the London Timesexcerd :300. The annual advertising bills of m. . Loluden firm are said to amount to $3-1.0 0; and three others are mentioned who rach annually expend for the purpo-e $0.00. The ex- pense for advertising the right editions of the " Encyclopedia Britannia " is said to have been $15,000.
In large cities nothing is more common than to see large business establishments, which seem to have an immense advantage over all competitors, by the wealth, expe- rience, and prestige they have acquired, drop gradually out of public view, and be succeeded by firms of a smaller capital, more energy, and more determined to have the fact that they sell such and such com- modities known from one end of the land to the other. In other words, the establish- ments advertise ; the old die of dignity .- The former are ravenous to pass out of ob- ecurity into publicity ; the latter believe that their publicity is so obvious that it caunot be obscured. The first understand that they must thruet themselves upon public attention, or be disregarded; the ercopd, having once obtained public atten- tion, suppose they have arrested it perma- nently, while, In fact, nothing is more char- seteristic of the world than the ease with which it forgets.
Stephen Girard, than whom no shrewder business man ever lived, used to say: I have always considered advertising liber- ally and long to be the great medium of success In business, and the prelude to wealth. And I have made it an invariable rule too, to advertise in the dullest times as well as the busiest ; long experience having taught me that money thus spent is well laid out; as by keeping my business continually before the public it has secured me many sales that I would otherwise have lost.
Capacity of Cisterns or Wells.
Tabular view of the number of gallons contained in the clear, between the brick work for esch ten inches of depth :
Diameter
Gallons.
2 feet equals
19
30
3
44
41
3%
..
73
..
97
5
...
148
6
176
6%
207
7
240
275
8
313
8%
353
9
396
94
461
10
..
480)
11
592
12
705
13
8:27
14
15
64
1101
20
1958
3059
60
4
4
60
122
5X
..
Potatoes
·
Wheat
959
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Brilliant Whitewash.
Many have heard of the brilliant stucco whitewash on the east end of the Presi- dent's house at Washington. The follow- ing is a recipe for it ; it is gleaned from the National Intelligencer, with some addi- tional improvements learned by experi- mente : Take half a bushel of nice un- elacked linie, slack it with boiling water, cover it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or #trainer, and add to it a peck of ralt, previously well dissolved in warm wa- ter : three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin pa-te. and stirred in boiling hot ; half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been pre- vionly dissolved by soaking it well, and then harvin ; it over a slow fire. in a small kiltle within a large one filled with water. Add five galions of hot water to the mixture, stir it will. and let it stand a few days cov- ered from the dirt.
It should be put on right hot ; for this purpose It can be kept in a kettle on a portable furnace. It is said that about a pint of this mixture will cover a square vard upon the outside of a house if proper- ly applied. Brushes more or less small inay be used according to the neatness of the job required. It answers as well as oil paint for wood, brick or stone, and is cheaper. It retains its brilliancy for many years. There is nothing of the kind that will compare with it, either for inside or outside walls.
Coloring matter may be put in and made of any shade you like. Spanish brown stirred in will make red pink, more or less deep according to the quantity. A delicate tinge of this is very pretty, for inside walls. Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish brown, makes a reddish stone color. Yellow-ochre stirred in makes yel- low wash, but chrome goes further, and makes a color generally esteemed prettier. In all these cases the darkness of the shades of course is determined by the quantity of coloring used. It is difficult to make rule -. becan-e tastes are different. It would be best to try experiments on a shingle and let it dry. We have been told that green must not be mixed with lime. The lime de- Provs the color, and the color has an effect on the whitewash, which makes it crack and prel. When walls have been badly smoked. and you wish to have them a clean white. It is well to squeeze indigo plenti- fully through a bag into the water yon use, before it is stirred in the whole mixture. If a larger quantity than five gallons be wanted, the same proportion should be ob- arrved.
How to get a Horse out of a Fire.
The great difficulty of getting horses from a stable where surrounding buildings are In a state of cundagation, Is well known .- The plan of covering their eyes with a blan- ket will not always succeed.
A gentleman whose horses have been in great peril from euch s cause, having tried
in vain to save them, hit npon the expedi- ent of having them harnessed as though go- ing to their usual work; when, to his aston- ishment, they were led from the stable without difficulty.
The Chemical Barometer.
Take a long narrow bottle, such as an old- fashioned Eau-de-Cologne bottle, and put into it two and a half drachms of camphor, and eleven drachms of spirits of wine : when the camphor is dissolved, which it will readily do by slight agitation, add the following mixture: Take water, nine drachms; nitrate of potash (saltpetre) thirty-eight graine; and muriate of an- monia (sal ammoniac) thirty-eight grains. Dissolve these salts in the water prior to mixing with the camphorated spirit ; then shake the whole well together. Cork the bottle well. and wax the top. but after- wards make a very small aperture in the cork with a red-hot needle. The bottle may then be hung up, or placed in any stationa- ry position. By observing the different appearances which the materials assume, as the weather changes, it becomes an ex- cellent prognosticator of a coming storm or of a sunny eky.
Leech Barometer.
Take an eight ounce phial, and put in it three gills of water, and place in it a healthy leech, changing the water in summer once a week, and in winter once in a fortnight. and it will most accurately prognosticste the weather. If the weather is to be fine. the leech lies motionless at the bottom of the glass and coiled together in a spiral form ; if rain may be expected, it will creep up to the top of its lodgings and remain there till the weather is settled ; if we are to have wind, it will move through it- habi- tation with amazing swiftness, and seldom goes to rest till it begins to blow hard ; if a remarkable storm of thunder and rain is to succeed, it will lodge for some days before almost continually out of the water, and discover great uneasiness in vlolent throes and convulsive-like motiona : in frost a+ in clear summer-like weather it lies constantly at the bottom: and in enow ay in ratuy weather it pitches its dwelling in the very mouth of the phial. The top should be cor- ered over with a piece of musliu.
To MEASURE GRAIN IN A BIN .- Find the number of cubic teet, from which deduct one-fifth. The remainder is the number of bushels-allowing, however, one bushel extra to every 224. Thus in a remainder of 224 there would be 25 bushels. In a re- mainder of 418 there would be 430 bushels, &c.
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VALUABLE RECIPES.
VALUABLE RECIPES.
[The following recipes are vouched for by several who have tried them and proven their virtues. Many of them have been sold eingly for more than the price of this book .- PUB.]
HORSES.
RINO BONE AND SPAVIN .- 2 oz. each of ; or twice a day. This is a remedy of great valde.
Spanish flies and Venice turpentine: 1 oz. each of aqua ammonia and euphorbinm : "The core will be materially hastened by taking a table-spoon of sulphur in a half oz. red precipitate ; L' oz. corrosive rubli. mate : 1% lbs. lard. When thoroughly pul- | pint of milk, daily, until the cure is affected. verized and mixed, heat carefully Fo sm Lot to burn, and pour off free from sediment.
For ring-bone, rob In thoroughly, after removing hair, once in 4- hours. For spar- In, ouce in 24 hours. Cleanse and press out the matter on each application.
POLL-EVIL .- Gum arable Loz ; common potash 4 oz : extract of belladonna & dr. Put the gum in just enough water to dis. japply It very lightly with a swah, and re- solve it. Pulverize the potash and mix with the dissolved gum, and then put in the extract of belladonna. and it will be ready for ONe. L'ac with a syringe after having cleansed with suap suds, and repeat ouce in two days till a cure is affected.
Scorns .- Powdered tormentil root, gir- en in milk, from 3 to 5 times daily till cured.
GREASE. HTEEL AND SCRATCHES. - Sweet oil 6 oz.a .; borax 2 uze ; sugar of lead 2 OzA Wash off with dish water, and. after It je dry, apply the mixture twice a day.
CHOLIC IN HORAR4 .- To Y pt. of warm water add 1 oz. laudanum aud fozs. spirito of turpentine, and repeat the dore In about % of an hour, adding; y uz powdered alors, if not relieved.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PILES-PERFECTLY CURED .- Take flour of sulphur 1 oz., rosin 3 ozs .. pulverize and mix well together. (Color with carmine or cochineal, if you like.) Dose-What will lie on a tive ceut piece, night and morning, ww-bing the part- freely in cold water once
SURE CURE FOR CORNS, WARTS AND CHEL.BLAIN8 .- Take of nitric and muriatic ari-lø, bine vitriol aud salts of tartar, 1 oz. rach. Add the blue vitriol, pulverized. to either of the acide; add the salts of tartar in the same way ; when done foaming, add the other acid, and in a few days it will be ready for use. For chilblaine and corns trat in a day or two until cured. For warts, once a week, until they disappear.
HOOY. AIL IN SHEEP .- Mix 2 023. each of butter of antimony and muriatic acid with 1 oz. cf pulverized whlte vitriol, and apply once or twice a week to the bottom of the foot.
COMMON RHETVATISM .- Kerosene oil 2 uzs .; heats-foot oil ] oz .; oil of organum & 0z. Shake when used, and rub and heat in twice daily.
VERY FINE SOAP, QUICKLY AND CHEAP- LY MADE .- Fourteen ponuds of bar soap In a half a boiler of hot water ; cut up fine ; add three pounds of pal-soda made tine; che ance of pulverized rosin ; stir it often till all !s dissolved : just as you take it off the dre. put in two table-spoonfuls of spirits of turpentine and one of ammoma ; pour it
Bors .- Three doses. lat. J qta milk aud , in a barrel, and till up with coldl soft water ; 1 of molarses. ed. 15 minutes after & que. warm sage tea. ad. After the espiention of 30 minutes, sufficient lard to poretc .- Never fails.
letit riand three or four days before using. It l4 an excellent soap for washing clothes, extracting the dirt readily, and not fading colored articles.
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VALUABLE RECIPES.
WATER PROOF FOR LEATHER .- Take lin- seed oil 1 pint, yellow wax and white tur- pentine each 2 ozs. Burgundy pitch 1 oz., Welt and color with lampblack.
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TO KEEP CIDER SWEET .- Put into each barrel, immediately after making, X 1b. gronnd mustard. 2 oz. walt and 2 oz. pulver- ized chalk. Stir them in a little cider, pour them into the barrel, and shake up well.
AGTE CURE. - Procure 11g table-spoons of fresh mandrake root juice, (by pounding) and mix with the esine quantity of moias- ree, and take in three equal doses, 2 hours a part. the whole to be taken 1 hour before the chill comes on. Take a swallow of Fotue good bitters before meals, for a couple of week. after the chills are broken, and the cure will be permanent.
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CURE. FOR SALT RHEUM OR SCURVY .- Take of the pokewerd, any time in sum- mer ; pound it ; press out the juice ; strain it Into a pew ter dish; set it In the eun till it becomes a salve-then put it into an earth- en mu _: add to it fresh water and bees' wax ruihelent to make an ointment of com- Inou consistency : wimmer the whole over a fire till thoroughly mixed. When cold. rub the part affected. The patient will al- most Immediately experience its good ef- fe.14, and the most obstinate cases will be cured in three or four months. Tested .- The juice of the ripe berries may be pre- på red in the same way.
SUPERIOR PAINT-FOR BRICK HOUSES .- To lime whitewash, add for a fastener. eul- phate of zinc. and shade with any color you choose, as yellow ochre, Venetian red, etc. It outlaste oil paint.
FELONS .- Stir 1 oz. of Venice turpentine with & tea-epoouful of water, till it looks like candied honey, and apply by spreading upon cloth and wrapping around the finger. If not too long delayed will cure in 6 hours. A poke root poultice is also said to be a Bare remedy.
WATER. PROOF BLACKING AND HARNESS POLISHI .- Take two and a half ounces gumi shellac and half a pint of Alcohol, and set in a warm place until dissolved ; then add two and a half ounces Venice turpentine to neutralize the alcohol ; add a tablespoon- fuloflimpblack. Apply with a fine sponge. It will give a good polish over oil or grease.
MosQUITOs .-- To get rid of these tormen- tors, take a few bot coals on a shovel, or a chating dish, and burn upon them some brown sugar in your bed-roomos and parlors, and you effectually banish or destroy every mosquito for the night.
CHEAP OUTSIDE PAINT .- Take two parts (In bulk) of water lime ground fine, one part (in bulk) of white lead ground in oil. Mix them thoroughly, by adding beet boiled lin- seed oil. enough to prepare it to pass through a paint mill, after which temper with oil till it can be applied with a common paint brush. Make any color to suit. It will last three times as long as lead paint, aud cost not one-fourth as much. IT Is SUPERIOR.
CURE FOR A COCOI .- A strong decoction of the leaves of the pine. sweetened with loaf sugar. Take a wine-glser wart on 20- ing to bed, and half an hour before rating. three times a day. The above the Fold a - a cough syrup, and is doing wonderful cures, and it is sold at a great profit to the manu- facturers.
How to Judge a Horse.
A correspondent, contrary to old maxims. undertakes to judge the character of a horse by outward appearances, and offers the fol- lowing suggestions, the result of his close observation and long experience :
If the color be light sorrell, or chestnut, his feet. legs and face white, these are mark- of kindness. If he is broad and full between the eyes, he may be depended on as a hor-e of good sense, and capable of be- lug trained to anything.
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