The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
USEFUL HINTS.

To REMOVE wheel grease from wooden
material without injuring the color OF
the fabric, use good benZine.
THE quickest and best way to boil milk
is to put it into tin dish and set that
into kettle of boiling water. Thus
scorching is avoided.
A SURGEON In the German army calls
attention of all who have to do with
horses to the danger of using the pock-
et-handkerchief to wipe away any foam
which may have been thrown upon their
clothes. Chambers have been communi-
Gated in that way.
"THE surest way to preserve your
books" says bibliophile, sis to treat
them as you woul1 your children, who
are sure to sicken if confined in an at
mosphere which is impure, too hot, too
cold, too damp or too dry. 1t is Just
the same with the progeny OF lltera-
ture."
To REMOVE fshy taste from game
Pare fresh lemon very carefully with
out breaking the thin white inside skin,
put inside wild duck and keep it there
forty-eight hours, and all the fishy taste
so disagreeable in wild fowl will be re-
moved. Every twelve hours remove
the lemon and replace with fresh one.
A lemon thus prepared will absorb
unpleasant favoTs from all meats and
game.
EPSON salts, or sulphate of magnesia,
dissolved in beer, together with small
quantity of dextrine, or artificial gum,
applied to a pane of glass with a brush,
will, on crystallizing, produce the iden-
teal designs formed on glass by frost in
cold weather, with this improvement,
that the liquid may receive any color
whatever at the option of the operator.
A FICTITIOUS amber for manufacturing
purposes is prepared by melting pure
bleached shellac and keeping it over the
fire until it runs clear, with care to pre-
vent burning. 1t may be poured into
molds of the size of pieces required.
The operation requires considerable
management. The darkest and haldest
pieces of gum copal are also substituted
for amber. The copal may be fused with
the shellac.
This is the way to do up lace curtains:
Having washed and dried them in the
usual manner, starch and redry them.
Any number may be prepared in this
way, thus saving the trouble of making
starch every time that you wish to put
them upon the frame Take the num-
Der that you are to use at once, dip
them into cold blueing water and pass
them through the wringer. This will
not remove the starch it will only put
them into a condition SO that when
stretched and dry the meshes of the
lace will be clear and free from starch,
which will not be the case if taken di-
rectly out of hot starch.
The following recipe is said to be
much used in Europe for producing ar
titicial black walnut. By its use, it is
claimed, ordinary white woods have inn
parted to them the appearance of the
most beautiful specimens of walnut, and
are adapted to the finest cabinet work.
The process is as follows: The wood,
first thoroughly dried and warmed, is
coated once or twice with a strong
aqueous solution of extract of walnut
peel. When half dried, the wood thus
treated is brushed with a solution COM
pound of one part (by weight of BIZ
chromate of potasea in five parts of boil
ing water and, after drying thoroughly,
is rubbed and polished. By this treat
ment the color is said to be fixed in the
wood to the depth OF one-twelfth to one
sixteenth of an inch and in the ma
iority of cases the walnut appearance is
declared to be very perfectly initiated.