Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1893 — Not Muen our Something. [ARTICLE]

Not Muen our Something.

Black silk well sponged with hot coffee and ironed on the wrong side while damp, will look very fresh. Never sleep opposite a window which will throw a. flood of strong light on the eyes when you wake in the morning. The question of fostering and encouraging the fast-walking horses, so as to gradually produce a breed of that class, is being agiated. Soapsuds should be added to the manure heap. Never waste such. Later in the season suds may be applied to asparagus and celery with advantage. To fasten a steel blade which has come out of the handle, fill the cavity with rosin, then warm the part to be adjusted and insert slowly, pressing it in firmly. Hold till It gets cold. Oranges a,re now preserved in silos, the fruit being wrapped in tissue and buried in sand, care being taken that the wrapper.-, do not touch, and only three layers deep being hud in each trench. Coffee pounded in a mortar and roasted on an iron plate, sugar burned on hot coals, and vinegar boiled with myrrh and sprinkled on the floor and furniture of a sick room, are excellent deodorizers. To cleanse fill them half full of hot water and put in the water a tablespoonful of powdered borax and let it boil. If this docs not remove all the stains scour well with a cloth rubbed with soap and borax. There is nothing better for a cut than powdered rosin. Pound it until fine, and put it into an empty, clean - peppqr-box with perforated top. then you can easily sTft~iTohThe imtj -put soft cloth around the injured member; ■ and wet it with cold waler once in a while. It will prevent influmation and soreness.

■‘Cun the mosquito bo exterminated?” is a question which some jwoplc seem to think ilitllcult to answer. Yet any man who has experimented vainly with one nioaquito from bed-time to tho breakfast hour can give the proper reply with his eyes shut.