Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-11-21
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

HEAT your knife when cutting lard or
butter in winter, especially if your knife
is a slender one.
SWEET spirits of nitre is recommended
as the best remedy for ivy poisoning.
The poisoned parts should be freely
bathed with it.
How To PRESERVE SOAP CREASE
Fill cask half full of good strong lye
and drop all refuse grease therein. Stir
up the mixture once a week.
MAKE friends with life insurance, that
when you are old it may comfort you.
Remember the Washington Life.
THREE good reasons why it is best
to plant small instead of large trees /:
They cost less at the nursery, expense of
packing and transportation is less, and,
losing but few roots, they are more GER
tain to live.
To EXPEL PROUD FLEsH-Proud
flesh may be cured, as know by expert
ence, by simply wrapping the part affect
ed in dry wheat flour, changing it as often
as is necessary. / have seen very bad
cases cured by this simple remedy.-COr.
Rurdl Neao Yorker.
If a housekeeper is ambitious, and
prides herself on shining tinware, let her
use whiting. Wash the tin-ware clean
and wipe dry, and then polish with dry
cloth and dry whiting. That article is
cheap, and gives a new, bright look to
everything it is used on. For the tea
kettle and large coffee-pot nothing is so
effective.
If flowers do not mature well, they
may be made to do so by placing
half an inch of powdered charcoal on the
earth in the pot. Another authority as
serts that a solution or suspension of
white hellebore in water may be used with
great advantage in destroying the insects
that infest so many Towering plants. A
fair friend has tried the experiment with
success, and reports that, if the bugs
sneezed as she did, it was no wonder that
they lost their lives.
| PHILADELPHIA chemists have analyZed
bottle of Portsmouth aqueduct water
drawn through about twenty feet of So
called galvanized iron pipe. 1t was found
to contain zinc in solution and not in sus
pension. They pronounced it unfit fol
domestic use, and warned the public
against the danger of using water drawn
through pipes that are Zinced in the in
terror, or galvanized as it is improperly
termed.
| LIGHTING THE FIRE IN A Stove
Many persons have often noticed the ex
treme difficulty encountered in lighting
the fire in stove, especially in still
damp morning. The stove at first won't
draw; even vigorous "blowing" will moi
suffice; and then when it does start, it i:
with a sort of an explosion or outward
rush of air, which fills the room with
smoke and gas, oftentimes putting the un
pleasant fumes into the face of the
operator. The trouble is caused by tht
difficulty encountered in overcoming the
inertia of the long column of air in the
pipe or chimney, by the small column oi
air that can be forced up through the
interstices of the wood and coal, at the
bottom of which the fire is kindled. Al
this may be remedied by simply putin!
a few shavings or bits of dry paper OF
the top of the wood or coal, and frs
lighting that; il Immediately bursts int,
blaze, because the air has perfectly fire
access to it from all sides, the heated al
forces its way into the chimney, an,
establishes there an upward current
The match can then be applied to tn
kindling under the fsel, which will read
ly light, and, if dry, burst into bris
blaZe-Am Rural Home.