Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-05
USEFUL HINTS.

COTTON wool wet with sweet oil and
laudanum relieve the ear-ache very
soon.
LINsEED oil is the best substance to
coat eggs with for the purpose of pre-
serving them and preventing the evapor-
alton of their watery elements.
WHEN washing fine laces, do not use
starch at all; in the last water in which
they are rinsed put little fine white
sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the re-
suit will be pleasing.
No HoUsEKEEPER should put quick
silver on her bedsteads. The mineral is
absorbed by those sleeping upon them,
causing paralysis and many other serious
and fatal diseases.
You can get bottle or barrel of oil
off of any carpet or wooden stuff by APP
plying dry buckwheat plentifully and
faithfully. Never put water or liquid Of
any kind to such grease-spot.
To OBTAIN glossy skin: Pour upon
pint of bran sufficient boiling water to
cover it. Let it stand until cold and
then battle the face with it, only patting
the skin with soft towel to dry it.
To TAKE iron stains out of marble. An
equal quantity Of spirits Of vitriol and
lemon juice being mixed in bottle,
shake well, wet the spots and in few
minutes rub with soft linen till they dis
appear.
CHEAP paint: Three hundred parts
washed and sieved white sand, forty
parts of precipitated chalk, fifty parts of
rosin and four parts of linseed oil are
mixed and boiled in an iron kettle and
then one part of oxide of copper and one
part of sui phuric acid are added This
mass is applied with an ordinary paint
brush while warm. If it is too thick, it
is diluted with inseed oil. This paint
dries very rapidly and gets very hard,
but protects woodwork excellently.
To BLEACH cloth Into eight quarts
Of warm water put one pound of chloride
of lime stir with a stick few minutes,
then strain through bag of coarse mus
lin, working it with the hand to dis
solve thoroughly. Add to this five
bucketfuls of warm water, stir it well
and put in themuslin. Let it remain in
one hour, turning it constantly that
every par. may get thoroughly bleached
When taken out, wash well in two
waters to remove the lime, rinse and
dry. This quantity will bleach twen-
ty-tive yards of yard-wide muslin.
The muslin will bleach evenly and
quickly if it has been thoroughly wet
and dried before bleaching.
One of the things "not generally
known" at least in this country, is the
Partisan method of cleaning black silk;
the modus operandi is very simple, and
the result infinitely superior to that
achieved in any other manner. The silk
must be thoroughly brushed and wiped
with a cloth, then laid flat on a board or
table and well sponged with hot coffee,
thoroughly freed from sediment by be-
ing strained through muslin. The silk
is sponged on the side intended to show,
it is allowed to become partially dry,
then iron on the wrong side. The cof-
fee removes every particle of grease and
restores the brilliancy of the silk with
out imparting to it either the shiny ap-
pearance or the crackly and papery
stiffness obtained by beer, or, indeed,
any other liquid. The silk really ap-
pears thickened by the process, and this
good effect is permanent. Our readers
who will experiment on an apron or
cravat will never again try any other
method