MISCELLANEOUS.
You can drive nails into hard wood without bending them, if you dip them first in lard.
Kerosene oil will remove rust in iron.
Pumpkin seeds are very attractive to mice, and traps baited with them will soon destroy them.
The fumes of a brimstone will remove berry stains from a book, paper or engraving.
Use whiting moistened with kerosene to scour your tins.
To make chicken gravy richer, add the yolk of an egg.
Soak garden seeds in hot water a few seconds before planting.
The juice of two lemons in half a tumbler of luke warm water.
Shave 2 ounces of white wax and 40 grains of spermaceti into 7 ounces of oil of almonds. Melt together over gentle fire. When quite dissolved, add 5 ounces of best rose water, and beat till cold with egg beater.
Dr. H—— recommends for the treatment of bleeding at the nose, the plunging of the face and hands of the patient in water, as hot as can be borne. He says that the most rebellious cases have never resisted this mode of treatment.
Cold drinks, as a rule, increase the feverish condition of the mouth and stomach, and so create thirst. Experience shows it to be a fact that hot drinks relieve thirst; and cool off the body when it is in an abnormally heated condition, better than ice cold drinks.
Glycerine and lemon juice, equal parts of each.
Take equal parts of lime water and raw linseed oil, shake well together, saturate an old linen cloth and apply to the burn. Be sure and keep the cloth well saturated.
Apply essence of peppermint to a burn or a scald; it seems to drive out the heat and causes a cool sensation immediately.
Take a pail of water warm enough to bear the hand in, add 1 tablespoonful of ammonia, quarter of a cake of good laundry soap, stirring until the soap is dissolved. Let the clothes soak for half an hour, rinse in two waters the same temperature as they were washed in, add a little blueing in last rinsing, shake well before hanging on the line.
L. K.
To wash window glass, wring out of warm water a chamois skin. It will wash off the dirt, and can again be rinsed and wrung, and used to dry the glass. It is a much quicker way then to use cloths.
Placing a silver spoon in glasses or jars, prevents them from breaking when hot jelly, or fruit is put into them.
Mrs. H. C. Garrett.
1 teaspoonful of quinine, 1 tablespoonful of salt, 1 pint of whisky.
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