The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-30
USEFUL HINTS.
guages.'

1T II good rule 70 have nothlng 10
do with q person or firm that, III an adj
vertisement, proposes to give you more
for dollar than dollars worth.
COMMON soda is excellent for scour-
ing tin, as it will not scratch the tin,
and will make it look like new. Apply
with piece of moistened newspaper
and polish with drypiece. Wood ashes
are good substitute.
To REMOVE OLD PAINT.-Take sal
soda, two pounds lime, one-fourth
pound; hot water, one gallon; agitate
all together and apply to old paint while
warm. The mixture will soon loosen
the paint so that you can easily re-
move it.
The cracking of glue, which frequent
ly occurs when glued objects become
very dry or are subjected to the heat OF
n stove, it is said. may be prevented by
the addition of chloride OF calcium to
the glue, which prevents its drying so
completely as to become brittle. Glue
thus treated will adhere to glass, metals,
etc, and can be employed for aifixing
labels to bottles.
A LEIPZIG journal devoted to the glass
interest states that the cracking OF lamp
chimneys may be prevented by placing
them in pot filled with cold water, add
ing little cooking salt, and after the
mixture has been allowed to boil well
over fire to have the articles cool slow
ly. Treated in this way glass will be
found to resist cracking, even If exposed
to very sudden changes of temperature,
o,,1 tba az, haon1na ua,.x llro nl "a
by passing through such an operation.
The process is, indeed, simply one OF
annealing, and it results that the slower
the operation is carried on, especially
the cooling portion of it, the more ef-
fective will be the work.
To REPEL MOSQUITOES Mr.. Ivers
w. Adams writes from Bathurst, n. b.,
to Forest and Stream, that he tried a
dozen prescriptions for repelling mos
quitoes, flies and similar pests, and
found none of them effective until he
came across the following, which are
dead sure every time: Three ounces
sweet oil, one ounce carbolic acid. Let
it be thoroughly applied upon hands,
face aud all exposed parts Carefully
avoiding the eyes, once every half hour,
the first two or three days, until the skin
is filled with it, and after this its appli-
cation will be necessary only OCCASION
ally Another recipe, equally eflicacious,
is Six parts sweet oil, one part creo-
sote, one part pennyroyal. Either of
these is agreeable to use, and in no way
injurious to the skin. We have both of
these in our camp with us, and all flies
keep safe distance.
To GET RID OF CooKRoAcHEs.-A
writer in an exchange says "a few
years ago my house was infested with
cockroaches Tor Clocks as they are
called here), and was recommended to
try cucumber peeling as q remedy. L
accordingly, Immediately before bed
time, strewed the floor of those parts of
the house most infested with the vermin
with green peel, cut not very thin from
the cucumber, and sat up half an hour
later to watch the effect. Before the
expiration of that time the floor where
the peel lay was completely covered with
cockroaches, SO much 50 that the vegetable
could not be seen, SO voraciously were
they engaged in sucking the poisonous
mixture from it. / adopted the same
plan the following night, but my visit
ors were not so numerous-I should
think not more than fourth of the pre-
vious night. On the third night L did
not discover one, but anxious to ascer-
tain whether the house was quite clear
of them, examined the peel after had
laid it down about half an hour, and
perceived that it was covered with
myrlads of minute cockroaches about the
size of flea. L therefore allowed the
peel to lie till morning, and from that
moment l have not seen q cockroach in
the house. 1t is very old building,
and / can assure you the above remedy
only requires to be persevered in for
three or four nights to completely eradi-
fresh cucumber every night"