Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

The New York law exempting strikes •from the list of misdemeanors turns out to have application only to strikes for wages, and not to a strike designed to injure trade and prevent citizens from exercising any lawful - calling, In other words, it does not. authorize labor , organizations to become their own judges as to violations of law, and to employ a statute Of protection for purposes of oppression. Ills still necessary, therefore, hi New York as elsewhere, for strikers to bear in mind the important fact that when they undertake to prevent other ' men from taking the p'aces which 'behave relinquished they become conspirators and can l>e punished accordingly, no matter what grounds they may have for striking. Ma O’Brien’s sentence of three pionlhs’ imprisonment does not interfere with his liberty to any great extent yet. He took an appeal, and in the meantime was admitted to bail. Hi improved the opportunity of driving to Limerick Junction and delivered a characteristically defiant speech, in which he declared that “the branches of the National League will decline to consider themselves suppressed until every decent man, aye, and many decent women, in the community are placed in jail. The suppression of the Irisli National league is simply an impossibility.” He propounded to Mr. Jlalfour the problem: “If it take flbhnkett with an army of police and to suppress one branch of the League, and if he and his army are so easily baffled, thwarted and hoodwinked as they have been to-day, how many of Plunkett’s armies will be required to suppress the 1,800 branches of the League when all decline to be suppressed?” Mr. Balfour has not figured it out ? et ' _______________ . Nattkal gas has been discovered at Herndon, Guthrie County, lowa, which is the only place in that State where it is known to exist in considerable quantities. The place is situated in a fertile prairie country, some miles northwest of Des Moines, at a crossing of the C. M. and St. P., and the Wabash narrow gauge lines. The remarkable thing about the discovery is that the gas pours forth in powerful currents, without visible diminuti nin volume, from wells only 120 to 165 feet in depth. One well, however, was sunk to a depth of 380 feet, and in the drilling gas was struck at four different points—first' in soft, white sandstone, at 120 feet, in slate 150 feet, in hard sandstone 165 feet, and in black slate at the depth of 180 feet. At the lower point reached crude petroleum is reported to have been pumped out in small quantities. The gas producing stratum appears to be only about sixty feet in depth, immediately underlying an impervious deposit of clue clav, about eighty feet deep. The gas is said to be very pure.

Butter and lard should be kept in earthen and stone ware and kept in a cool place. Charcoal ground to powder will be found to be a very good thing for polishing knives. A bonnet and trimming may be worn a much longer time if the dust be brushed off well after walking. Claret stains should, while wet, have dry salt spread upon them, and aftert wards dipped into boiling water. No oil penetrates wood as well as crudepetroleumjfioneiFsocbeap, and none so effective as a preservative. New tins should be set over the fire with boiling water over them for several hours before food is put mfco them,. Spots may be taken from gilding by immersing the article in a solution of alnm in pure soft water. Dry with sawdust. -HA little sbrax added to the ’water in which scarlet napkins and red-bordered towels are washed will prevent them from fading. A piece of ainc placed on live coals in a hot stove will effectively clean out a stove pipe, the vapors produced carrying out soot by chemical decomposition. To test jelly drop , a little into cold water or on a cold plate, stirring h for a few seconds. If it coagulates it is done. The best jelly requires only five minutes’ boiling. In ironing, have a piece of sandpaper, each as carpenters use, lying on the table handy; it removes the stickiness of starch from the iron perfectly with one rub or two across it. Potash water is the quickest cure for wasp or bee s.ings. A small quantity should be kept in a glass-stopped bottle. Open tfie bee sting with a needle and put on one drop of potash water. Tea stains are very difficult to get out if neglected. They should be soaked in either milk or warm water as soon as possible and then soaped aud washed out. The next washing will efface them, wholly. Salt is preservative in its nature. If too much of it is used in corking food it wars against the juices of the stomach and thus retards -digestion, and wilt, in time, derange the digestive organs. It ~~ J>beat to me it fit small quantities.