Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1869 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

—To prevent lamp chimneys from breaking by sudden contact with the heat, the best way js to cut or scratch the base of glass with a glazier’s diamond, j Another method is to put the ■ glasses in water and boil them. —The Jonesboro (Illinois) ! Gazette says: The prospects in ! this, the largest, peach growing j county in the State, were never! better. — — —By putting borax info the cold water in which flannels are to be washed, shrinkage may be effectually prevented. —More than 12,000 elephants are slaughtered anuual-]