The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-10-24
THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING.

4 Alum or vinegar Is good 10 set color.
red green or yellow.
-S.ll-sOda will bleach one spoonful /.
sufficient for a kettle OF clothes.
save your suds for the garden and
plants. or To harden yards when sandy.
a hot shovel held over vanished fur
niture will take out spots.
\ biz of glue dissolved in shim-milk and
water will restore old rusty Grape.
-Ribbons Of any kind should be washed
in cold suds and not rlnsed.
If the flat-irOns are rough. rub them
well with salt, and il will make them
smooth.
If you are buying a carpet tor dura-
bility. YOU must choose small figures.
"A bin Of soap rubbed on the hinges of
door, will prevent them from cracking.
scotch snufi. if put in the holes where
crickets run ont. viii destroy them.
Green should be the prevailing color
for bed hangings and window drapery.
-Enameled preserving kettles are the
incest for general use. and are kept clean
easily.
In covering jams and marmalades. al
ways use writing paper over which the
beaten white OF an egg has been brushed.
-Scaly legs on fowls are mainly caused
by damp runs and yards. and can be cured
by one or more applications of an equal
mixture of turpentine and sweet OIL
AS a cure for corns the Medicqi Press
amt Circular says; Castor oil should be
applied To the corns after pairing closely
each night before going 10 bed. Ii softcns
the corns. which become as the other flesh.
1t will cure every time.
Salt and wood ashes are Necessary lat
least useful for growing pigs when on
fresh. green feed. Fresh water should be
easy of access To them and abundant. II
pigs are filthy in their habits ii is usually
because they are educated by their own
crs.
A CRATER by profession says the most
successful method he has found 10 keep
scions In fresh, healthy state i, 10 layer
them down In good clean >awdust. slightly
damp. lie says they do far better than
placing the ends in the earth or laycring
in the sand.
You can soften water by adding car
Donate of soda (washing Soda ~ long a.
a whitish prccipitate i, formed. Let il
settle. and draw of the clear water above.
Sometimes simple boiling will render the
water. after settling. fit for washing.
The surest and simplest way 10 gather
flower seed. j. to cut the stalks when the
seed i, mature. and put them seed end
downward into paper bags. OF course keep
ing each species separate. A. the bios
SONS ripen the stalks are cut every few
days and added 10 the collection. A. the
seeds dry and fall from the stalks they are
IN the bottoms of the bags. The
mouths of the bags should bc tied with
string, by which they should be hung up
IN dry. cool place.
The following is a cheap and simple
process for coating canvas for wagon tops.
tents. awnings. etc. it renders il imper-
ncable q moisture. without making il
stiff and liable to break: SOFT soap j. 10
be dissolved in hot water. and a solution of
.ulphate of iron added The sulphuric
icil combines with the potash of the soap.
lnd the oxide of iron i precipitated with |
he fatty acid ~ insoluble iron soap. This |
: washed and dried. and mixed with lin |
iced oil. The addition Of dissolved india /
'ubbcr to oil improves the paint.