HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
Salt of lemons will remove stains from the ivory handles of knives. A small piece of paper or linen moistened with turpentine is a preventative against moths. Chloride of lime scattered about where rats and mice frequent will cause them to desert the spot. Kerosene will soften boots and shoes whioh have been hardened by water, and render them pliable as new. A teaspoonful of pulverised alum mixed with stove-polish will give your stove a fine lustre, whioh will.be quite permanent. Cttke i'ob Bats.—Baron von Baekhofen has discovered a cheap and simple method of , exterminating rats. It consists of a mixture ' of two parts of well-bruised common squills and three parts of finely chopped bacon made ! into a stiff mass, with as much meal as may I ] bo required, and then baked into small cakes; I these are put down for the rats to eat, and I are said to effect their complete extirpation.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2115, 3 December 1880, Page 4
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