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278 Corn Cure
Take 1/4 cup of strong Vinegar
Crumble finely into it some
bread. Let stand 1/2 and hour, or
until it into a good poultice
Then apply on retiring at night
In the morning the soreness will
be gone and the corn can be picked out
If it is a very obstinante one, it may
take 2 or 3 applications to cure
Nov 11 1882
Brick Laying
An average days work for a
bricklayer is 1500 brick on outside
and inside walls; on fencing and
angles and finishing around wood
or stone work, not more than 1/2 can
be laid Nov 11 1882
Storm Glass
Dissolve 1 ounce each of Nitre
and Sal Ammoniac in 5 ounces of
water and let it cool. Dissolve
3 ounces of Siprits of Wine, 2/3
ounces of good camphor. Filter the
solutions and gradually pour the
solution, with constant stirring
until a Slight permenant precipitate
is formed. Pour this liquid into
the tube and draw out the latter
so that only a pin hole remains open
June 4 1881
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Studies at Oxford College in England
50 years ago
A Scholar for a first
Class Examination had, as a portion only,
the following to learn
"Aristotiles Ethics & [and] Rhetoric"
"Butlers Analogy & [and] Sermons"
"Herodotus"
"Thucydides"
"2 Books of Xenophans Hellenics"
"First Decade of Livy"
"Sophocles"
"Aschylus"
"Four plays of Euripides"
"Four plays of Aristophanes"
Virgil
"Horace"
"Terence"
"Juvenal" and
"The Annals of Tacitus"
Library Number From "Oxford Memories" Vol 1
7653 By James Pycroft " B.A. 1886
Cement for Porcelain
3 parts Rosin, 1 part Caustic Soda
5 parts Water. Boil together, and
Mix with 1/2 its weight of Plaster Paris
Diptheria Remidy
The juice of a pineapple cuts
the mambrane from the throat
of a diptheria patient, when
nothing Else will.
Scientific American
1896
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To remove a cinder or any foreign sub-
stance from the eye, hold the lid of the
affected eye and blow the opposite side
of the nose. This will prove successful
nine cases out of ten unless the particle
has become imbedded in the eye.
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