Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1883 — Bill Nye Contributes a Few Household Recipes. [ARTICLE]

Bill Nye Contributes a Few Household Recipes.

To remove oils, varnishes, resin, tar, oyster soup, currant jelly and other from the bill of fare, use benzine soap and chloroform cautiously with whitewash brush and garden hose. Then hang on the wood-pile to remove the pungent effluvia of the benzine. To clean ceilings that have been smeared by kerosene lamps or the fragrance from fried salt pork, remove the ceiling, wash thoroughly with borax, turpentine and rain water, then hang on the clothes-line to dry. After, pulverize and spread over the pie-plant bed for spring wear. To soften water for household purposes, put in an ounce of quicklime in a certain quantity of water. If it is not sufficient, use less water end more quicklime. Should the immediate lime continue to remain deliberate, lay the water down on a stone and pormd it with a base ball club. • To wash black silk stockings, prepare a tub of lather, composed of tepid rain water and white soap, with a little ammonia. Then stand in the tub till dinner is ready. Roll in a cloth to dry. Do not wring, but press the water out. This will necessitates the removal of the stockings. Woolen goods may be nicely washed if you put half an ox-gall into two gallons of tepid water. It might be well to put th£ goods in the water also. If the mixture is not strong enough, put in another ox-gall. Should this fail to do the work, put in the entire ox, reserving the tail for soup. The ox-gall is comparatively useless for soup, and should not be preserved as an article of diet. The descendants of a single pair of rabbits in four years are 1,274,840.