Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1879 — Use of Ammonia. [ARTICLE]

Use of Ammonia.

Put a teaspoonful of ammonia in a quart of warm soapsuds, dip a doth into it and go over your soiled pantaloons and see how rapidly the dirt will disappear; no scrubbing will be necessary. To a pint of hot so&psuds add a teaspoonful of the spirits, dip in your fork or spoon or whatever you wish to clean, rub with a soft brush and then finish with a chamois skin. For washing mirrors and windows it has no equal. It will remove grease spots from every fabric without injuring the garment. Put on the ammonia nearly clear, lay on a blotting paper and set a hot iron on it for a moment. Also a few drops in water will cleanse and whiten laces and muslins, beautifully. A few drops in a bowl of water, if the skin be oily, will remove all uncleanliness and disagreeable odors. Added to a hot bath it nearly absorbs all obnoxious smells, and nothing is better to remove dandruff from the hair. For cleaning nail and hair brushes it is equally good. For heartburn and dys-. pepsia the aromatic spirits of ammonia is especially prepared; ten drops in a wineglass of water will give relief. For house plants five or six drops to every pint of water, once a week, will make them flourish. It is also good to dean paint with. So be sure and keep a bottle of it.in the house and have a glass stopper, as it eats away cork.

A whoop-bang sort of a boy with feet as broad and flat as a pie pan, trotted through the Central market till he reached a stall kept by a single woman about 80 years old. Halting there heyeld out: Say! say! Your little bov has been run over and killed ud bv the city hall!” “Oh! oh!Heavens—oh! dive under the counter.came upon the other side, and started to follow the boy. After going ten teet she halted looked very foolish, and all of a sudden remarked: “What a goose I am! why I an’t even married !’ r —Pewee Method dist. «