Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-20

COMMON soda is excellent for scour-
ing tin, as it will not scratch the tin,
and will make it look Ike new. Apply
with piece OF moiste | newspaper
and polish with drypiece. Wood ashes
are a good substitute.
To REMOVE OLD PAINT.-Iahe 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
very dry or are subjected to the heat Of
a 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 afixing
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 filed 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,
and the chimneys become very durable
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
tue cooling portion of it, the more ef-
fective viii be the work.
To REPEI 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
1t be thoroughly applied upon hands,
face and al exposed parts Carefully
avoiding the eyes, once every half hour,
when the flies are troublesome, or for
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 efficacious,
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 CoCKRoACHEs.-A
writer in an exchange says ga 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. 1
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, omuch SD 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 did
not discover one, but anxious to ascer-
tain whether the house was quite clear
of them, I examined the peel after had
laid it down about half an hour, and
perceived that it was covered with
myriads of minute cockroaches about the
size of flea. I therefore allowed the
peel to lie till morning, and from that
moment I have not seen a 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-
cate the pest OF course, II should be 3
fresh cr1rI1ro nor pvery- r7ioh~ -