Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — AROUND THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE HOUSE.

A neat contrivance is a goblet-cover to keep the contents of a glass of medicine, for instance, from dust. It is made of a circular piece of cardboaad, covered on the upper side with a crochetted mat in white zephyr, with a loop in the centre by which to raise it. At last a satisfactory arrangement to kindle fires has been invented. It is clean, cheap and safe—three very important things. We are indebted to Yankee land for this clever contrivance, which is simply a case containing several bricks and is filled with kerosene. The bricks are made of some peculiarly porous clay that retains the oil for a long time, and which will ignite even hard coal without the aid of either wood or ]>aper. The bricks, of course, may be used over and over again.