Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-11-28
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

SOFT soap rubbed on an ink spot, and
laid in the sun, will remove the stain.
LEMON juice and salt used the same
way will remove iron rust. OF course
this applies only to white goods.
THE Washington Life Insurance Com
pany is one of the strongest. safest, most
successful and best managed corporations
in New York.
To REMOVE old putty from broken win
dows, dip small brush in nitric or muri
attic acid (obtainable at any druggist's),
and with it anoint or paint over the dry
putty that adheres to the broken glass
and frames of your windows; after an
hours interval the putty will become so
soft as to be removed easily.
KNIvEs.-Clean with soft flannel and
Bath brick. If rusty, use wood ashes,
rubbed on with newly cut bit of Irish
potato. This will remove spots when
nothing else will. Keep your best set
wrapped in soft white paper; then in
linen, in a drawer out of damp and dust.
Never dip the ivory handles of knives in
hot water.
A CALIFORNIA paper highly recon-
mends charcoal for fattening turkeys, and
recommends that it should be pulverized
and mixed with mashed potatoes and corn
meal, as well as fed to them in small
Jumps. 1t mentions that in two lots of
turkeys of four each, treated alike, and
one lot given this mixture and the other
not, there was an average gain in the
weight of the first of one pound and
half each. While we condemn the prac-
tice of mixing the pulveriged charcoal
with the other food of turkeys, compell-
ing them to eat whether they want to or
not, we have no doubt of the excellent
effects of supplying turkeys with char
coal broken into small bits. We have
had evidence of what we say, and for a
number of years have recommended
charcoal for this purpose.
SOME manufacturers in Germany
who had been supplied from Paris with
veneers colored throughout their mass,
were necessitated by the late war to pro
duce them themselves. Experiments in
this direction gave in the beginning colors
fixed only on the outside, while the inside
was untouched, until the veneers were
soaked for twenty-four hours in a solu
ton of caustic soda, containing ten pei
cent. of soda, and boiled therein for hall
an hour; after washing them with suf
fcient water to remove the alkali, they
were readily dyed throughout their mass
This treatment with soda affects a gen
eral disintegration of the wood, whereby
it becomes in the moist state elastic anC
leather-like, and ready to absorb the color
1t is then, after dyeing of the color de
sired, dried between sheets of paper, anC
subjected to pressure, to retain its shape
FUMIGATIoN OF PLANTs.-Dr. J. G
Niven, of the Hull Botanic Garden, rec
ommends tobacco fumigation Gn tn
London Garden) for cleaning flies iron
certain house plants infested by them
His plan is to lay the plant on its side il
wash tub, throw over it a damp towel
or, better, ia bit of glazed calico lining,
and then, through an opening at the bot
. tom, have your husband" insert the en-
! of pipe, and through it let him bloy
tobacco smoke until the plant gets goo
. fumigation. The flies will be found a
the bottom of the tub when the operatio
/, is finished. The plants should be pei
. fectly dry when the operation is PEI
: formed, but if a towel is used it should b
freshly washed and hung cut before vi
,, ing, and be without holes. The pipe steI
: should reach to the bottom of the tut
o AS to the husband, if the owner of th
plants hasn't got one, a substitute will al
swer-the point being to effect the fun
= cation thoroughly.