Hints (as listed in a 1909 County Directory)
Fit yourself to your place and your place will soon fit you and give you pleasure and prosperity.
Liquid ammonia relieves the effects of the sting of bees; but a much more effectual antidote is ammoniated tincture of quinin.
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
Never refuse to own a book containing valuable information; it is money well invested. -Abraham Lincoln.
The man who studies a singe subject till he loses sight of everything else is always in danger of parting with his judgment. When he does that, when he is entirely rapt in a single idea, he almost inevitably develops what unspecialized people call crankiness.
To removed fish bones and other obstruction impacted in the throat, there is perhaps no simpler and more efficient relief than to swallow a pint of milk, and in half an hour an emetic of sulfate of zinc. Both pass the obstruction easily in a fluid form, but in being thrown up from the stomach it is a coagulated mass that drives everything before it with great force.
We seldom prize to its full value what is in our present possession. It is when we are deprived of it that we discover its excellence.
We talk of trifles. Yes, there is such a thing as a trifle, But many an incident or act we call a trifle is of more importance than we suspect.
Talk of chiseling form the cold marble of statue of life - this is the work of art few can attain. But there is a quary out of which any of us can form a living statute far transcending the artist's art, be that ever so wonderful. Life is that quarry, and that quarry is our own inheritance; out of it we may chisel and complete and polish so beautiful a character that the very angels shall envy.
To destroy ants, drop some quicklime in the mouth of their nest, and wash it with boiling water. Creosote is also good. Camphor in a cupboard will prevent them coming.
Submitted by: Gina Reasoner