FACTS AND SCRAPS.

Southland Times, Issue 1782, 19 August 1873, Page 3

FACTS AND SCRAPS.

Four barrels of whisky in the United States Court of Omaha are defended by a fifth An Illinois newspaper styles sensational clergymen " performers on the mortal trapeze." The Creston (Iowa) Journal rocomI mends people who advertise on fences to mix a little spelling in along with their paint. To take down the gridiron from the nail where it is hanging, with the left hand, is a sign that there will be a broil in the kitchen. A new paper in Texus starts out with the announcement that "in religion we are conservative, and we intend to adhere to tho cash system " Vienna is sisid to be the worst drained city of Europe. An exchange advises the iuhnbitiints to send for Tweed, who drained New York so successfully. The following notice was recently found posted on the doors of the Arkansas senate-chamber: — "Job work executed with economy and despatch." Vermont forgets all the hardships of the past winter in jubilation over its maple sugar season, and cheerfully asks, " what's the odds so long as its sappy." An Omaha paper, without intending to be personal, insinuates that if the Omaha postmaster would resign " many persons would feel less anxious about their money letters." A lady wished a seat. A portly, handsome gentleman brought one and seated the lady. " Oh, you're a jewel," said she. "Oh no," he replied. " I'm a jeweller. I have just set the jewel." A Chicago paper says : — " The windy beard of iEolus himself, and all his succedaneous bags of atmosphere, beswept our segment of earth from, long ere dawn of yesterday through a bitter twenty-four hours of extreme winterness and physical and spiritual shiverings." A member of the United States Congress got out this sentence : — " Mr Speaker, the generality of mankind in general, are disposed to exercise oppression on the generality of mankind in general," when he was pulled down to his seat by a friend, with the remark, " You'd better stop ; you are coming out of the same hole you went in at."

In the discussion of wheat culture, at a late agricultural convention in Newport, New Hampshire, Mr Pattee, of Warner, gave a formula for reducing bones, as follows : — Place them in a large kettle, filled with ashes and about one peck of lime to a barrel of bones. Cover with water and boil. In twenty-four hours all the bones, with the exception, perhaps, of the hard shin bones, will become so much softened as to be easily pulverised by band. They will not be in particles of bone, but in a pasty condition, and in excellent form to mix with muck, loam, or ashes. By boiling the shin bones ten or twelve hours longer, they will also become soft. This is an easy and cheap method of reducing bones. If the farmer will set aside a cask for the reception of bones in some convenient place, and throw all that are found on the farm into it, especially if one or two dead horses come into his possession, he will be likely to find a large collection at the end of the year, which would prove a valuable adjunct in the manure heap. Effects of Vegetable Pfefumes on Health.— An Italian professor has made some very agreeable medical researches, resulting in the discovery that vegetable perfumes exercise a positively healthful influence on the atmosphere, converting its oxygen into ozone, and thus increasing its oxydizing influence. The essences found to develope the largest quantity of ozone are those of cherry, laurel, cloves, lavender, mint, juniper, lemons, fennel, and bergamot; those that give it in smaller quantity are anise, nutmeg, and thyme. The flowers of the narcissus, hyacinth, mignonette, heliotrope, and lily of the valley, develope ozone in closed vessels. Flowers destitute of perfume do not develope it, and those which have but slight perfume develope it only in small quantities. Reasoning from these facts the professor recommends the cultivation of flowers in marshy districts, and in all places infested with animal emanations, on account of the powerful oxydizing influence of ozone. The inhabitants" of such regions should, he says, surround their houses with beds of the most odorous flowers.