Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

To, CLEAN WHITE PAINT.-Use pow
dered French chalk and hot water (French
chalk is the common steatite or soap
stone), without soap. -
FoRETHoUGHT and prudence both say
insure your life. Take their advice, and
insure in the Washington.
INK FROM Floors Ink spots on floors
can be extracted by securing with
sand, wetted in oil of vitriol and wafer.
When the ink is removed, rinse with
strong pearlash water
PROFESSOR RILEY gives it as his con-
victioh that if dozen of our most com
mon birds could be swept from existence,
we should no longer be able to grow the
principal crops, and insects would riot
and multiply beyond the possibility OF re-
straint. ....-.
THE antidote for Paris green poison is
hydrated sesquioxyd of iron. Nearly
every druggist keeps it always on hand.
Keep in a tightly corked bottle. A few
| spoonfuls taken soon after even bad
case of poisoning with Paris green or
| arsenic, is a perfect Western
| Rural.
THE ravages of the wooden moth may
| be hindered in a measure by the use of
any of the following preventiees Cam
phor, and perhaps the most agreeable for
| wearing apparel, mixture of one ounce
| of cloves. one ounce of rhuharb, and one
| ounce of cedar shavings, tied up in a
bag and kept in a box or drawer. Ii the
| substance be dry, scatter it in the folds of
the cloth, carpet, blankets or furs; if
LIQUID, scatter it freely in the boxes, or
on the cloth or wrapper, laid over and
around it Western RuTdt.
THE most practical suggestion yet
made toward economy of coal seems to
be the use of solid bottoms in ordinary
| fire CRATES. 1t is asserted, and indeed
proved, that in any fireplace not excess
lively small, plate of iron placed upon
] the CRATE will halve the consumption of
coal, reduce the smoke, and leave cheer
! full, free-burning 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 no dust, every particle being con-
sumed. Any householder can try this
experiment, and reduce his coal bill, say
thirty per cent, at the cost of shilling.
l-EIchGnge. 1t.-
To Color CoTToN.-Red-Take two
thirds of teacup of muriate of tin Add
sufficient water to cover the goods well.
Bring it to boiling heat. Let the goods
lie in this one hour, stirring often. Take
out the goods and empty the kettle. Put
them in clean water with one pound of
| Nicaragua wood; steep it for an hour at
hand heat. Then put in the goods and
| increase the heat for an hour, not bring
ing it to boil at all. Air the goods and
dip one hour as before. Wash without
soap. This will color three pounds
Orange-For one pound of rags take sugar
of lead one ounce, dissolve in hot water.
Dip and wiring out. Dissolve bichromate
potash in cold water; dip and wiring
out, and you will have q nice yellow
Take one pound of white lime and put in
it two gallons of rain water, letting it
stand over night. Turn it off in an iron
pot and bring it to boil and dip your
rags, and you will have good orange.
For the majority Of farmers, husks are
the most available material for mattres-
es, They may be prepared by children,
or, on rainy day, all hands can assist in
the work. The ruts and refuse should all
be rejected. A well-made husk mattress
on an underbed of straw, or laid on
springs, makes very cheap and comfort
able resting-place. In the coldest weather
it may be necessary to lay on top a thin
hair or cotton mattress, for warmth
Those living on sheep-farm can have q
first class bed by saving the tags and
coarse wool, and making it into mat
tress. Wool never wears out, and fo1
softness, warmth, and elasticity, is prefer.
able even to hair. The only advantage
the latter has over it is in the fact that
moths never modest hair mattresses, but
if the ticking is good they cannot infest
the wool. -Thirty-five pounds of hair ol
wool will make good mattress, though
forty-five pounds is the allowance foI
those of greatest thickness. f .-E