The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-11-15
THINGS TO RE MI slRER.

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Ribbons of any kind should be
washed in cold suds and not rinsed.
II the tiat-irons are rough, rub them
well with salt, and it will make them
smooth.
II you are buying carpet for dura-
bility, you must choose small figures.
| A bit of soap rubbed OH the hinges
Of doors will prevent them from creak-
ing.
Scotch snuff, if put in the holes
where crickets run out, will 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,
always 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 trrpentine and
sweet oil.
AS cure for corlls the Medical Press
and CIycNlor says Castor oil should
be applied to the corns after pairing
closely each night before going to bed.
1t softens tile corns, which become
az the other flesh. 1t will cure every
time.
Salt and wood ashes are necessary
lat least usefuD for growing pigs when
on fresh, green feed. Fresh water
should be easy Of access to them aud
abundant. Ifpigs are filthy in their
habits it Is usually because they are
educated by their owners.
A CRATER by profession says the
most successful method he has found
to keep, scions in a fresh, healthy state
Is to layer them down in good clean
sawdust slightly damp. He says they
do far better than placing the ends in
the earth or layering in the sand.
You can soften water by adding car
Donate of soda washing soda) as long
as a whitish precipitate Is formed. |
Let it settle, and draw off the clear
water above. Sometimes simple boil |
ing will render the water. after set
tling, fit for washing.
The surest and simplest way to
gather flower seeds is to cut the stalks
when the seed is mature, and put them
seed end downward into paper bags, Of
course keeping each species separate.
AS the blossoms ripen the stalks are
cut every few days and added to the
collection. AS the seeds dry and fall
from the stalks they are collected in
the bott )ms Of the bags. The mouths
of the bags should be tied with a string,
by which they should be hung up in a
dry. cool place.
The following is cheap and simple
process for coating canvas for wagon
tops, tents, awnings. ETC.; it renders it
impermeable TO moisture, without
making it stiff and liable TO break
Soft soap is to be dissolved In hot
water, and solution of sulphate of
iron added. The sulphuric acid COM
bines with the potash Of the soap, and
the oxide of iron is nlecipitated with
the fatty acid as insoluble iron soap.
This Is washed and dried, and mixed
with linseed oil. The addition Of dis
solved india-rubbcr to oil improves
the paint.
A few days since j. W. Kenne, of
N. Y. took his mare from
the barn. leaving a two-months colt
behind. On his return, some two.
hours after, he found the colt on the
roof Of the barn. Being unable to fol-
low the mare, 1t Ind gone up flight
Of stairs--fllteen steps-then over the
hay-mow, and out of a window in the
Fable end ofthe barn, on to q half
toOf. From this elevation 1t worked
It's way to tile roof of the main barn,
which Is very steep, then It returned
o the half roof whence on the return I
if the mother it jumped tothe ground
distance Of fourteen feet, q feat
which II accomplished without being