Miscellaneous

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 63, 27 November 1886, Page 5 (Supplement)

Miscellaneous

How to preserve posts. — "I discovered many years ago," says a writer in an American paper, "that wood could be made to last longer than iron, in the ground, if prepared according to the foN lowing recipe : Take boiled linseed oil and stir it in pulverised coal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat of this over the timber, and there is not a man that will live to see it rot " These warn day* have thrown the WeNin»toß flea into an ecsfacy of aimation, combined with the most enor* mous appetite. This is particularly severe on ihe ladies, who have to do their suopping in the afternoon. A man generally kn^ws just where to put his finger on a fleu, as indeed the woman usunlly does hut- she dare not. It is not c>n<ider*d polite for a lady to scratch in public. The manufacture of wine fr>m oranges it is sti ed, 'S developing into a very extensive business in Florida, where a magnificent American wine is being made | in large quantities from the juice of the sweet oranges, surpassing in purity any of the Europe<> n wines. It is said to be ihe best tonic, medical or otherwise, that can be taken in the human system. It is nourishing, of agreeable flavor, and, what is more a perfectly pure- native wine. So part of the fruit but the pulp of perfectly ripe- oranges in used in the iiinnuf.-iciure of the wine, and. none of tiit wine bolt led from the casks until it is at least three years old. In faste it is uiMrvi-lou-.lv palaiiible. and c>ntuns but 8" (51 pi-r rent, of absolute uleuhol, and slightly ov-'r 5 per een'. of siiiinr. Here are wrat figures and rules very h-mdy to know :itiii in have at hand, in i tint Lit lid or I'll p*j vr : A rol is 16| feet. 'or 5| ynn's; .-i mile is 5.2*0 feel; a i qua f- i ot ■ i> 144»q i-m* in -lies ; n >qua c y :nl con n- 9 qua re fee ; an acre c mans 43.515 > quire feet ; "'an acre cmtains 4.tf4t> -(jmre yards; an acre con 1 "tin- Itf ► r.>d- ; a Miuare mile is 640 ; jir.v- ; .in Mere is H r"d> wiile liy 20 l<>ng; an acre is nhmit 2ns* feet quare; n .•»• li>i „..; loiiains 1.728 solid lucliea ; a i pint 'of water) weighs 1 pound ; a solid I loot of water weighs 62| pounds ; a gal* lon ('if water) holds 231 inches; a gallon of milk weighs 8 pounds and 10 ounces ; a pint (of water) h«lds 2S| solid inches (28 875); a barrel (3U gallon-) holds 4} solid feet (4 211); a solid foot contains nearly 7£ solid pints (248); a bushel (struck) contains 2,150 solid inches; a bushel (heaping) contains If struck bushel.'* ; h struck bushel contains about lx solid feet. "It is not generally known," said Mr Hill. «f the National Humane Society, '• that the greatest trotting horse in the world came near being ruined by cruel treatment. When Georee S< ne, ot Cincinutti, found that a Kentucky mare which he had purchased was a very speedy aniuiul, he hired a man to train her. This innn was cruel to the mare, and lie made but little liead«way in dereluming her «peed. She became obstinate and ug'y. and not only refused to work in <he rig ii sulky, hut was 'icious iv her stable, l.ukily this blundering pruel tniiner, was discharged, and William Btitr euiployed in his stead Like the true horseman l>e is, Bair U utterly unable te treat a horse cruel Iv. He at once reversed the tactics of his predecessor, and bemin to treat the mare with kiudness. She quickly responded with better behaviour, and in a tihort time becameaffeelionnteand obedient. Whereas, her former master was afraid to go into her stall unless she was securely tied. Biiir taught her to pick apples out of his coat pocket. An soon as the man and beast had established these pleasant relations, good results began to appear. The mare's apeed developed rapidly, and sue vras soon able to make the famous record of 2min JO|sec, A year or so more of cruel treatment and Maud S. would have been ruined . — Chicago Herald. M. Colladon, in a paper to the Aeade* mie den Science, suggests that the electricity «o vividly illustrated by thunderstorms is generated principally by friction ot air and water vapour. During a thunderstorm the rain-drops formed in the storm-cloud descended vertically to the earth, causing a partial vacuum, which is replaced by air drawn in laterally and from upper layers. The friction caused by this movement is the principal cause of the generation of electricity. — Liectriciaa.