The Hawaiian gazette., 1875-12-08
Useful Recipes for the shop, the
Household and the Farm.

A permanent handsome reddish color may be
given to cherry or pear tree wood by coat OF q
strong solution of permunganate OF potash left on
| a longer or shorter time, according TO the shade
required
| CLloroform which has undergone decomposi-
ton by exposure can be easily purified by shaking
it up with few fragments of caustc soda.
Fruit is kept in Russia by being packed in ere
ostized lime The lime is slaked in water in which
little creosot has been dissolved, and is allowed
to fall TO powder. The latter is spread over the
bottom OF a deal box to about one inch in thick
ness. A sheet of paper is laid above aud then
the fruit. Over the fruit is another sheet of pa
per, then more lime, and so on until the box Is
| iu when little finely powdered charcoal is
packed in the corners and the lid tightly closed.
Fruit thus inclosed will, it is said, renain good
for year 'tS
Pounded alum will purify water. One teaspoon
full of alum TO four gallons Of water will cause a
precipitation of the impurities.
To estimate the quantity Of shelled corn on the
cobs in any gwen space level them and measure
the length, breadth and depth; then multiply
these dimensions together and the product by
four Cut off the last figure, and the result will
be the number Of bushels Of sheed corn and the
decimal of bushel.
Bee moths can easily be killed in large num-
bers by setting pan of grease, in which is float
ing ignted wick, near the hives alter dark, The
moths will fly into the light and fall into the
grease.
The best way to catch hawks or owls is to set
up high pole with steel trap on top. The
birds often alght directly in the trap.
Pictures may be transferred to painted surfaces
in the following manner: Cover the ground With
an even coat of light colored carriage varnlsb,
which should be allowed to set (uearly dry If
for gildng) II the print to be transferred be col
cred, soak it in salt and water; il not colore1,
use water alone. Remove supetfuous water by
pressing between blotting pads, and then place
the picture face down upon the varnisb, pressing
it smooth. When the varnish is dry dampen the
paper and rub it off with the finger. The pic
ture will be found upon the varnish, and another
coat or the latter should be added to bring out
the effect. The process answers equally well for
glass or metal surfaces.
For the protection of iron and steel tools
against rust, Vogel recommends solution of
white wax in benzine, The latter, heated, will
dissolve half its weight of wax. This will pre-
serve the metal even from the action of acid va
pors Apply with brush.
Round steel wire rope will bear more than
double the weight required to break iron rope of
similar diameter.
The following rule for strength of iron pipes is
based upon the fact that o ten inch pipe, one
inch thick. will stand the pressure of one hundred
yards head water. Thelconcidence OF one inch
Of metal 20 every ten inches diameter and one
hundred yards pressure should be remembered.
For every inch in diameter OF pipe increase or
deduct LILO of an inch and for every yard of
pressure, increase or deduct l-l00 of an inch.
Id calculating the strength Of iron columns,
the safe plan is to find the diameter of solid
column necessary to bear the compression, and
then distribute the same area of metal in tube !
form or a hollow column.
A mixture of peroxide Of manganese and water
glass is recommend to be applied to cooking |
stoves when they are red hot, as it is said to |
make good backing, not as liable to burn of as
common black lead.
According TO recent experiments Of M. NJ. |
Kuudt aud Lehmana, the velocity of sound in |
pipes filled with water increases with the thick.
ness of the sides of the tubes.
To make yellow wax into white wax, the for |
mer is boiled in water spread outint thin layers
and exposed to the light and air. This is repeated
until all the color is gone.
Cuttings of many kinds of plants, not usually |
with facility by farmers, may be rooted
easily in Wardian case 10 the sitting-room.