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 FACTS WORTH KNOWING. 573

Death to Bugs: Vanish is death to the most persistent bug. It is cheap ten cents' worth will do for one bedstead is easily used, is safe, and improves the looks of the furniture to which it is ap- plied. The application, must, however, be thorough, the slats, sides, and every crack and corner receiving attention.

That salt should be eaten with nuts to aid digestion. That milk which stands too long makes bitter butter.

To Clean Drain Pipes: Drain pipes, and all places that are sour or impure, may be cleaned with lime-water or carbolic acid.

If oil-cloth be occasionally rubbed with a mixture of beeswax and turpentine, it will last longer.

To Remove Mildew from Cloth: Put a teaspoonful of chloride of lime into a quart of water, strain it twice, then dip the mildewed places in this weak solution ; lay in the sun ; if the mildew has not dis- appeared when dry, repeat the operation. Also soaking the article in sour milk and salt ; then lay in the sun ; repeat until all the mildew is out.

To Take Ink out of Linen: Dip the ink spot in pure melted tal- low, then wash out the tallow and the ink will come out with it. This is said to be unfailing. Milk will remove ink from linen or colored muslins, when acids would be ruinous, by soaking the goods until the spot is very faint and then rubbing and rinsing in cold water.

Ink spots on floors can be extracted by scouring with sand wet in oil of vitriol and water. When ink is removed, rinse with strong pearl-ash water.

To Toughen Lamp Chimneys and Glass- ware .-Immerse the arti- cle in a pot filled with cold water, to which some common salt has been added. Boil the water well, then cool slowly. Glass treated in this way will resist any sudden change of temperature.

To Remove Paint from Window-glass: Hub it well with hot sharp vinegar.

To Clean Stove-pipe: A piece of zinc put on the live coals in the stove will clean out the stove-pipe.

Packing Bottles: India-rubber bands slipped over them will pre- vent breakage.

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