Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-09-18

Useful Recipes for the Shop, the House.
hold, and the Farm.
From the Scientific American
A good way to clean black kid gloves is
to take a teaspOonful of said oil. drop a
few drops of ink in it, and rub it over the
gloves with the tip of a feather: then let
them dry in the sun.
When cork gets pushed down into
the neck of bottle, insert loon of
strong Irvine and engage the cork i'm any
direction most convenient. Then give a
strong pull, and the cork will generally
yield sufficiently to be withdrawn.
To clean and restore the elasticity of
cane chair bottoms: Turn the chair bot
tom upward, and with hot water and a
sponge wash the cane; work we'll so that
it is we'll soaked should it be dirty. use
soap, let it dry in the air, and it will be
as tight and firm as new, provided none
of the canes are broken.
The best mode of oiling belt is to take
it from the puileys and immerse it i'm a
warm solution of tallow and oil; after al
lowing it to remain few moments the
belt should be immersed in water heated
to 100 deg. Fan, and instantly removed
This will drive the oil and tallow all i'm,
and at the same time properly temper
the leather.
An easy method of breaking glass to
any required form. is by making a small
notch, by means OF file, on the edge of
a piece of glass; then make the end of a
tobacco pipe, or rod of iron about the
same size, red hot in the fire, apply the
hot iron to the notch, and draw it slowly
along the surface of the glass, i'm any di-
rection you please; a crack will be made
in the glass and will follow the direction
ofthe iron. Round glass bottles and TASKS
may be cut in the middle by wrapping
round them a wOrsted thread dipped in
spirits of turpentine, and setting it on fire
when fastened on the glass.
In case finger ring becomes too tight
to pass the joint of the finger, the finger
should be first held in cold water to re-
duce any swelling or inflammation. Then
rap rag soaked in hot water around the
ring to expand the metal, and lastly soap
the finger. A needle threaded with
strong silk can then be passed between
the ring and the finger, and a person
holding the two ends and pulling the
silk, while sliding it around the periph-
cry of the ring, will readily remove the
latter. Another method is to pass piece
of sewing silk under the ring, and wind
the thread in pretty close spirals and
closely around the finger to the end
that below the ring-and begin unwind
ing.
Guns and rifles may be easily cleaned
from lead by the following: If a muzzle-
loader, stop up the nipple or communi-
cation hole with little wax, or if
breech-lOader insert cork in the breech
rather tightly; next pour some quick
silver into the barrel, and put another
cork In the muZzle; then proceed to roll
it up and down the barrel, shaking it
about for a few minutes. The mercury
and the lead will form an amalgan. and
leave the barrel as clean and free from
lead as the first day it came out of the
shop. The same quicksilver can be used
repeatedly by straining it through wash
leather; for the lead will be left behind the
leather, and the quicksilver will be again
fit for use.
All light woods may be died by INNER
sion. A fine crimson is made rs follows:
Take Id. of ground Brazil, boil in 3
quarts of water, add Is OF. of cochineal,
and boil another half hour may be i'm
proved by washing the wood previously
with q OF. saffron to quart of water; the
wood should be pear wood or sycamore
Purple satin: l lib. logwood chips, soak in 3
quarts of water, boil we'll an hour; add 4
ozs. pearl ash, two Ozsi powdered indigo
Black may be produced by cOpperas ana
nutgalls, or by japanning with two coats
of black japan. after which varnish or
polish. or use size and lampblack previous
to laying on japan. A blue satin; LIB
OF OFT or vftrlUf put III Il SIaSS DOttle with
4 ozs. indigo; lay on the same as black.
n fine green: 3pints of the strongest
vinegar, ozs. best powdered verdigris
(poison}. a OF. sap green. = or. indigo. A
bright yellow may be stained with aloe;
the whole may be Vanished or polished.
A simple and usually successful mode
Of extracting Il needle or any piece Of
steel or iron broken off in the flesh. is
accomplished by the application of Il
small pocket magnet. An acquaintance
Of ours had a little daughter who recent
ly broke needle off in her hand. a
surgeon was called. who made several eff
forts to find the needle by probing and
inrision, but without success. After the
surgeon had left, the mother conceived
the idea of tryinga magnet; one was pro-
cured. and after one or two applications
of it the broken fragment was dis, overed
attached to the magnet. This idea will
be of special utility to workers in iron.
Machine shop surgery is not the most
delicate nor less painful, though men
heroically undergo it rather than stand
the loss of time due to all infiamed eye
or festered finger. Iron filings have a
way Of imbedding themselves in the eye,
which defies almost every ordinary
means for their extraction. For their re-
moval, small, blunt-pointed bar of
steel, well magnetized, win be found ex-
cellent, and we should recommend that
workmen liable to such injuries keep
such an instrument about them. 1t
would be good plan to insert such bar
in penknife, in manner similar to a
blade.