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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 251, 27 February 1875, Page 2

Decisive. A little boy, disputing with his sister, exclaimed, “ ’Tis true, for ma says so; and if ma says so, it is so if it ain’t so.” Whiting is unequalled for cleaning white paint. Take a small quantity on a damp flanneLssflftib lightly over the surface, and the effect will be found sur-' prising. A valuable Recipe. —The journal of Chemistry publishes a recipe for the destruction of insects which, if it be onehalf as efficacious as it is stated to be, will prove invaluable. Hot alum-water is a recent suggestion as an insecticide. It will destroy red and black ants, cockroaches, spiders, chintz bugs, and all the crawling pests which infest q* houses. Take two pounds of alum and dissolve it in three or four quarts of boiling water; let it stand on the fire till the alum dissappears; apply it with a brush, while nearly boiling hot, to every joint and crevice in your closets, bedsteads, pantryshelves, and the like. Brush the crevices in the floor of the skirting or mop boards, if you suspect that they harbour veririn. If in whitewashing a ceiling plenty of alum is added to the lime, it will also serve to keep insects at a distance. Cockroaches will flee the paint which has been washed in cool alum water.