Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

—Soft-soap should be kept in a dry place" in a cellar, and should not he used for three months alter it is made. —A string of amber beads abont a child’s throat will prevent croup, because it generates electricity; and for the same reason pieces of sealing wax carried near the person prevent the milder forms of rheumatism.-— Cleveland Commercial Advertiser. —ln washing windows a uarrow-blailed wooden knife, sharply pointed, will take out the dust that hardens in the corners of the sash. Dry whiting will polish the glass, which should first be washed with weak black tea mixed with a little alcohol Save the tea-leaves for the purpose.— Science of Health. —Keep a bottle of spirits of ammonia always on the toilet, but not where your friends can mistake it for perfume. A little in the water you use for bathing will remove all odor of perspiration and leave the skin soft and clean. It will cleanse your bruslfis beautifully and remove all. oil and dust in &e hair. For the hair hse carefully, rinsing well, and rubbing and brushing till dry.— Exchange. —An excellent liquid glue can be made by dissolving glue in nitric ether. This ether only takes up a certain quantity of glue, so that there is no danger of the solution being too concentrated. The glue obtained in this way can be made to have the consistency of molasses, anti its tenacity is twice that dissolved in hot water. A few pieces of india-rubber of the size of a bullet, put into the glue and well shaken, will dissolve in a few days, and add to the adhesiveness of the preparation, as well as protect it from the action of the moisture. — Druggist's Circular. —On the instant of a scald or burn plunge the part under cold water. This relieves the pain in a second and allows all hands to become composed. If the part cannot be kept under water, cover it with dry flour, an inch deep or more. In many instances nothing more will be needed after the flour; simply let it remain until it falls.off, when a new skin will be found under. In severer eases, while the part injured is under water, . simmer a leek or two in an earthen vessel with half their hulk of hog’s lard, until the leeks are soft, then strain through a muslin rag. This makes a greenish ointment, which, when cool, spread thickly on a linen cloth and apply to the injured part. If there are blisters let out the water. When the part becomes feverish and uncomfortable, renew the ointment, and a rapid, painless cure will be the result, if the patient in the meanwhile lives exclusively on fruits, coarse bread and other light, loosening fruit.— Dr. Hall.