DOMESTIC HINTS.

Auckland Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 50, 26 November 1857, Page 4

DOMESTIC HINTS.

Eat slowly and you will not over-eat. Keeping the feet warm will prevent headaches. Late at breakfast—hurried fordinner —cross at tea. Between husband and wife little attentions beget much love. Always lay your table neatly, whether you have company or not. Put your balls or reels of cotton into little bags, leaving the ends out. Whatever you may choose to give away, always be sure to keep your temper. Dirty windows speak to the passer-by of the negligence of the inmates. In cold weather a leg of mutton improves by being hung three, four, or five weeks. When meat is hanging, change its position frequently, to equally distribute the juices. ' • There is much more injury done by admitting visitors to invalids than is generally supposed.

New Zealand Flax.—From experiments which have been made recently, it has been clearly established that the New Zealand Flax, when properly prepared, is equal in strength to the best qualities of Russian or Italian hemp, and would successfully compete in the manufacture of cordage with that material. At some trials made in one of her Majesty’s dockyards, by order of the Board of Admiralty, it was found that cordage made from the New Zealand Flax bore a much greater strain than some of a similar size made from the hemp usually employed. In this ease, as in the finer descriptions of manufacture, the great difficulty to be overcome is the removal, ata moderate cost, of the large quantity of resinous matter, which serves to increase the bulk, while it adds nothing to the strength of the rope.— lllustrated London News, June 6. The Englishman did as be was bid, and his superior weight in descending had the effect of pulling up the Cossack, who was in the opposite bucket.

“ fhank you, my good friend, a thousand time,” be exclaimed, when he had safely reached the surface, “ wait there, please, until I come back and pay you the two roubles,” and he went away grinning hugely in h’is sleeve.

O" An eccentric gentleman of'fortune, named Saunders, has taken .a fancy to build a house in the neighbourhood of London with stone from the fortifications of Sebastopol. He has gone out in a little vessel of his own for the purpose of obtaining it.