ld soft flannel, will make black walnut look new.

_To Prevent Cracking of Bottles and Fruit Jars:_--If a bottle or
fruit-jar that has been more than once used is placed on a towel
thoroughly soaked in hot water, there is little danger of its being
cracked by the introduction of a hot liquid.

_To Prevent Lamp-wicks from Smoking:_--Soak them in vinegar and then
dry them thoroughly.

Rub the nickel stove-trimmings and the plated handles and hinges of
doors with kerosene and whiting, and polish with a dry cloth.

_Death to Bugs:_--Varnish is death to the most persistent bug. It is
cheap--ten cents' worth will do for one bedstead--is easily used, is
safe, and improves the looks of the furniture to which it is applied.
The application, must, however, be thorough, the slats, sides, and
every crack and corner receiving attention.

That salt should be eaten with nuts to aid digestion.

That milk which stands too long makes bitter butter.

_To Clean Drain Pipes:_--Drain pipes, and all places that are sour or
impure, may be cleaned with lime-water or carbolic acid.

If oil-cloth be occasionally rubbed with a mixture of beeswax and
turpentine, it will last longer.

_To Remove Mildew from Cloth:_--Put a teaspoonful of chloride of lime
into a quart of water, strain it twice, then dip the mildewed places
in this weak solution; lay in the sun; if the mildew has not
disappeared when dry, repeat the operation. Also soaking the article
in sour milk and salt; then lay in the sun; repeat until all the
mildew is out.

_To Take Ink out of Linen:_--Dip the ink spot in pure melted tallow,
then wash out the tallow and the ink will come out with it. This is
said to be unfailing. Milk will remove ink from linen or colored
muslins, when acids would be ruinous, by soaking the goods until the
spot is very faint and then rubbing and rinsing in cold water.

Ink spots on floors can be extracted by scouring with sand wet in oil
of vitriol and water. When ink is removed, rinse with strong pearl-ash
water.

_To Toughen Lamp Chimneys and Glass-ware:_--Immerse the article in a
pot filled with cold water, to which some common salt has been added.
Boil the water well, then cool slowly. Glass treated in this way will
resist any sudden change of temperature.

_To Remove Paint from Window-glass:_--Rub it well with hot sharp
vinegar.

_To Clean Stove-pipe:_--A piece of zinc put on the live coals in the
stove will clean out the stove-pipe.

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