The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-03
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

| with BOIublOn OF COliuulou uiiu1eu
with alcohol.
WATER containing about seven grains
of salt in each pint, is, when used con-
tinuously, poison to the weaker forms
of vegetation.
To make green gold, melt together
nineteen grains pure gold and five
grains pure silver. The metal thus
prepared has beautiful green shade. %
SANDARAo varnish is the best material
for mending plaster models. Saturate
the broken surfaces thoroughly, press
them we'll together, and allow them to
dry.
FIVE parts of sifted whiting mixed
with q solution of one part glue, togeth-
er with little Venice turpentine to OBJ
viate the brittleness, makes good
plastic material which may be kneaded
into figures or any desired shape. 1t
should be kept warm while being work
ed. 1t becomes as hard as stone when
dry.
In some parts of the country, there
have been large numbers OF the orchard
or tent caterpilars which have left their
rings OF eggs on the young twlgs. If
these are now cut off with n clipping
pole, it will prevent in every instance a
large nest of caterpillara, and be much
more easily done than after the latter
have grown.
UNLESS the mouth is frequently and
carefully cleansed, it becomes infested
with vegetable and animal parasites.
These cause decay of the teeth. Soap
is the best material for preventing the
development of the fungi and for neu'
tralizing the acid. Precipitated chalk
mixed with the soap assists the cleans
ing action.
The German washerwomen use
mixture of 2 Ozs. tn pentine and l OF.
spirits of ammonia well mixed together.
This is put into bucket OF warm
water, in which lb. soap has been dis
solved. The clothes are immersed for
twenty.four hours and then washed.
The cleansing is said to be greatly
ouickened, and two or three rinsings III
cold water remove the turpentine smell.
AMONG some uneducated people there
is n superstition that the ticking noise
made by little insect popularly called
the "death- watch" forebodes death
in the house. This little creature Is
beetle of the timber-boring species.
The tick is only call one to another,
and if not answered it is repeated. 1t
is produced by the beetle lifting itself
upon it's hind legs and beating its head
against the place where it IS standing.
| In cid houses these insects may be
heard rapping all day long.
In using Paris green to extermlnate
the potato bugs, the poison Ihould be
mixed with the cheapest grade OF hour,
one pound OF green to ten of flour. A
good way of applying it to the plants is
to take an old two-quart tin fruit can,
melt off the top, and put in wooden
head in which insert n broom handle.
Bore hole in the head, also, to pour
the powder in, and then punch the bot
tom full of holes about the size of No.
6 shot. Walk alongside the rows when
the vines are wet with dew or rain, and
make one shoot at each hill.
TO REMOVE A RING FROM THE FINGER.
In case finger ring becomes too
tight to pass over the Joint of the finger,
the finger should first be held IN cold |
water to re luce any swelling or lnfam-
nation. Then wrap a rag soaked III
hot water around the ring to expand
the metal, and lastly soap the hnGer'
| A needle threaded with strong SILK can
then be passed between the ring and
finger. and person holding the two
ends and pulling the silk, while sliding
it ar -und the periphery OF the ring,
will readily remove the latter.
THE alloy popularity known as orolde,
from which large number OF cheap
watches. chains, and trinkets are now
manufactured, is made of pure copper
100 parts, tin II parts, magnesla l6
parts, sal ammoniac part, quicklime 1
part. tartar of commerce parts. Ihe
copper is first melted, then the magne-
sia. sal ammoniac, lime, and tartar IN
powder are added little by little and
briskly stirred for half an hour. Ihe
tin is lastly mixed in in grains until Is
fused. The crucible is covered, and the
fusion maintained for 35 minutes, when
the dross is SKINNED off and the alloy
is ready for use.
CATERpILbARs. The tent caterpillar,
egps of which encrcle the small tWlgs
in rings of 400 to 500 each, is most
easily destroyed before 1t matches, or
early in spring. Cut them off and burn
them. In an extensive plantation, we
caused an active man to pass through
early in spring and clear them out. lie
DESTROYED about 1000 nests in two days,
, thus preventing the Matching OF over a
million of eggs-more than oil the
, birds in the township would have done
, after hatchin >. In some parts OF the
country they are abundant this year,
and the sooner they are looked after the
, better.
GONG TO BED.-We should never &c
to bed with hope to rest, sleep anc
perfect repose until call ready" Th'
preliminaries for retirement are all Jus
az important as are those for the day
duties. We must not 90 to bed with a
overloaded stomach, in an anxious
r troubled state of mind, with cold O.
0 tremities, or without anticipating an
Q responding to the calls of nature. b
Q fore or in stove-heated room is n,
J. the best way to get warm for q might
T. sleep. We should take such vigoro'
- exercise as will give quick circulate
to the blood, and not depend on arti
cial, but on natural heat. Attention =,
in all these things should be followed
n such devotional exercises as Will . OH.
as all the feelings, emotions and sem .,;'
at ments into accord with the DlViae W.,
>" snbduing passion, removing n0n;n ha.rSo
ng maeice, jealousy, revenge al a." wbp see
! - .ns, .no Pu neaos ace and sweet repose, 1t IS
If happy custom mutssdngs with %sn Nv W sng;nS uoIu
n the evening 8 g. r. g
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