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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1788, 13 November 1879, Page 4

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ODDS AND ENDS. Castor oil will soften leather. Thoroughly wetting the hair once or twice a week with a weak solution of salt water will prevent it falling out, A pint of mnstard seed put in a barrel of cider will preserve it sweet for several months. To whiten ivory—boil in lime water. Tepid water is produced by combining twothirds cold and one-third boiling, A mixture of oil and ink is good to clean kid boots with; the first softens and the latter blackens them. Carelessness in changing the underclothing at night accounts for the coarse complexion of many girls. , . , No person in health should drink more than from two to three pints of any liquid daily. . . A solution of cyanide of potassium is the best poison to kill insects of any kind. Paint should be varnished, because it is then more easily cleaned. To make macaroni tender, put it in cold water and bring it to a boil. It will then be much more tender than if put into hot water or stewed in milk. A bit of glue dissolved in skim milk and water will restore old crape, To clean zinc—rub on fresh lard with a cloth and wipe dry. Fresh fish should be fried in the grease obtained by frying sweet salt pork. Dry friction daily with a towel stimulates the skin and circulation; The powder of a ripe puff ball will stop the bleeding of an amputated limb. Outlets and steaks should be fried as well as broiled, but they must be put in hot butter or lard. The grease is hot enough when it throws off a bluish smoke. After a stove has once been thoroughly blacked, it can be kept looking well for a long time by rubbing it with a newspaper every morning. A fresh tomato leaf is a sovereign cure for a bee sting. Hay water is good for washing material of eern tint. Eats, mice, and insects will avoid a place that has been sprinkled with chloride of lime. Take mild aperients for all pimply irritations. To remove grease from wall paper, lay several folds of blotting paper on the spot, and hold a hot iron near it until the grease is absorbed. Equal parts of very clean, sharp sand, plaster of paris and larthage makes a good aquarium cement. Mix well and make into a stiff putty with boiled linseed oil. Old boot tops, cut into pieces the right size and lined, make good iron holders. The leather keeps all heat away from the hand; Corsets with the whalebones removed make good cleaning cloths. Onions and potatoes should be put in warm water an hour before cooking. Rat holes may be stopped effectually by filling with broken glass and plaster of paris. Two ounces of permanganate of potasse thrown into a cistern will render the foulest water sweet and pure. Onions placed in a room where there is a nonlogiouo diooaoo ia o gooct <liatnrcctant;, A disinfectant powder can be made of two parts of dry chloride of lime with one of burnt alum, To be set in shallow dishes, with or without water. A subscriber to a newspaper died recently, leaving four year's subscription unpaid. The editor appeared at the grave and deposited in the coffin a palmleaf fan, a linen coat, and a thermometer, A mud turtle can neither fly, sing, gallop, laugh, cry, or go blackberrying, and yet if they are let alone they get along just as well as the young man who tries to be funny at a lawn party. When filling a cavity, dentists sometimes place a dam in a patient’s mouth. When a tooth is being extracted, the dentist is relieved of that duty. The patient supplies all that are required,—“ Boston Transcript.”