Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

If there is any indication of the heat
ing of grain in bins or piles, it should be
turned at once.
PREMIUMS, policies and dividends are
paid in cash in the Washington Life
Insurance Company, of New York.
ACCORDING to Our Home Journal, the
best liniment for cuts, gals, SPAWN,
poll-evil, fistula, or any other of the ex-
ternal diseases that animals are liable to,
is made by dissolving one ounce of finely
pulverized corrosive sublimate and one
ounce of gum camphor in one pint of
spirits of turpentine, put in a strong
bottle. Apply Win a swaD.
To KEEP WORMS FROM DRIED FRUIT.
Place your fruit in a steamer over pot
of boiling water, covered tightly. When
thoroughly heated, tie them Immediately
in clean linen or cotton bag, and hang
them up. This method is preferable 10
heating in an oven, as that is apt to
render them hard, even if you are so for
tunate as not to burn them.
AN exchange gives the following as a
sure way to drive bed bugs from old
beds: Take green tomato vines, put
them in basin or tray, pound them to
pieces as fine as possible, then stain the
bedstead which they inhabit with the
Juice, fill the crevices with pieces of
vines, and lay leaves under the ends of
the Stats. If this is practiced twice a
year, not q bug will remain in the bed
stead.
ECONOMY IN CoAL.-The most practi-
cal suggestion yet made towards enonomy
of coal seems to be the use of solid
bottoms in ordinary fire-grates. 1t is as
serted, and indeed proved, that in any
fireplace not excessively small, q plate
of iron placed upon the crate will halve
the consumption of coal, reduce the
smoke, and leave q cheerful, free burn.
ing fire. Quite sufficient air enters
through the bars, no poking is necessary,
and the fire never goes out till the Goals
are consumed. There is no ash and nc
dust, every particle being consumed.
Any householder can try this expert
ment, and reduce his coal bills say 30 pei
cent, at the cost of q shilling.
How TO FAsTEN RUBBER TO WooI
AND METAL.-As rubber plates and ring:
are nowadays used almost exclusively fol
making connections between steam and
other pipes and apparatus. much annoy
ance is often experienced by the i'm
possibility or imperfection of an air-tight
connection. This is obviated entirely by
employing a cement which fastens alike
well to the rubber and to the metal ol
| WOOu. OUCH CeulcHI ~ pEc)dIcu Dy d 81
luton of shellac in ammonia. This j:
best made by soaking pulverized gun
shellac in ten times its weight of strong
ammonia, when a Shiny mass is obtained
which in three to four weeks will become
liquid without the use of hot water
This softeRs the rubber, and becomes
after volatiliZation of the ammonia, hard
and impermeable to gases and fluids
american drtisdn.
How TO SELECT FLoUR.-1. Look al
its color: if it is white, with slightly
yellowish or straw-colored tint, 1t is q
good sign. If it is very white, with &
blush cast or with. black specks in it
the flour is not good. 9. Examine its ad
hesiveness-wet and knead little of il
between the fingers if it works dry an6
elastic, it is coed; if it works soft anC
sticky, it is poor. Flour made from
spring wheat is likely to be sticky. 8
Throw little lump of dry flour agains
a dry, smooth, perpendicular surface: i
it adheres in a lump, the flour has life il
it; if it falls like powder, it is bad.
Squeeze some of the flour in your hand
if it retains the shape given by the pres
sure, that, too, is a good sign. Flour tina
will stand all these tests, it is safe to buy
These modes were given by old floul
dealers, and we make no apology fo
printing them, as they pertain to a mat
ter that concerns everybody, namely, tn
quality of that which is the "staff o
e."-B0ston Journal of Chemistry.