Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-08-26
USEFUL HINTS.

IT is good rule to have nothing te do with person or firm that; in an ad- vertisement, proposes to give you more for dollar than dollars worth.
 COMMON soda is excellent for SCOUT 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 all together and apply to old paint while warm. The mixture will soon loosen the paint so that you can easily re- move 1t.
 TEE cracking of glue, which frequent ly occurs when glued objects become very dry CT are subjected to the heat of stove, it Is said, may be prevented by the addition of chloride of calcium to the glue, which prevents its drying sd 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 flied with cold water, add ing little cooking salt, and after the mixture has been allowed to boil we'll over fire to have the articles cool slow ly. Treated ia this way glass will be found to resist cracking, even if exposed to very sudden changes of temperature, l.,r 1.1. by passing through such an operation. The process IS, indeed, simply one of annealing, and 1t 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 MosoUIroEs. s.-Mr. Ivers l ". Adams writes from Bathurst, N. B., to Forest and St1'eane, that he tried 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 and all 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 it's appli- cation will be necessary only occasion> ally. Another recipe, equally efficaeious, 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.-4 writer in an exchange says: "A few years ago my house was infested with cockroaches tor clocks, as they are called here), and I was recommended to try cucumber peeling as 8 remedy. I accordingly, immediately before bed- time, strewed the floor of those parts ef 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 tine floor where the peel lay was completely covered with cockroaches, so omuch SD that the vegetable could not be seen, so voraciorlsly were they engaged in sucking the poisonous mixture from 1t. I adopted the same plan the following night, but my visit ors were not 90 nunerous-I should think not mere than fourth of the pre-; vious night. On the third night 1 did not discover one, but anxious to ascer- tain whether the house was Guite cleai of them, examined the peel after I had laid 1t down about half au hour, and perceived that at was covered with myriads of minute cockroaches about the size of a flea. I therefore allowed the peel to lie till morning, and from that
 moment I have not seen 8 cockroach II the house. It is a very old building
 and I can assure you the above remedy
 only requires to l,e persevered in fol
 three or four nights to completely eradi
 cate the pest. Of course, 1t should be fresh cucumber every night"
 IT dces nou exactly appear when tn
 first use of tea was made Tradition
 speaks of 1t as early as the third cent
 ury. A legend relates that pious her
 init who, ill his watching and praEefa
 had often been overtaken by Sle<6 i
 that his eyeiids closed, in ho1y mt
 against the weakness of the flesh czI
 them off and threw them on the Er<!f<< ]
 4 god, in admiration of the piefy dia
 played, caused tea shrub to sp1<z5 u| from the spot. and decreed thak 31e after the shape of the leaf shos15 Hp ]!
 the form of an eyelid borde<ed Tit' fringy lashes, and that 1t should p<<aea the virtue of hindering sleep. E M
 after the year 600 that the use q sEsa sa
 became gener Il in China, and about tn
 year 810 that it was introduced int
 Japan. In 1644 it found its way to Er
 gland.
 , A CONDENSED explanation in regard [ the needle pointing northward and soutf z ward Is as follows: The magnetic pole of the earth do not coincide with th
 geographical poles. The axis Of Tot. ton makes an angle of about g degree with line joint to the former. Th northern magnetic pole IS at present nes the Arctic circle on the meridian ( , Omaha. Hence tho needle does n, everywhere point to the astronomic, , north, and Is constantly variable withi . certain limits. At San Francisco points about IT degrees to the east 1, north, and at Calais, Me-, as much 1 .. the west. At the northern magnet pole balanced needle points with i north end downward in a plumb lin, r At San Francisco 1t dips about 63 d. < grees, and at the southern magnetic DO 2 to the south, and points directly dow 1. The action of the earth upon the na, i netic needle at its surface IS Of ai5o1 : the same force as that of hard-st9 ', magnet, forty inches long, strongly n31I V netized, st distance of one foot: Fl
 foregoing is the accepted explanatioa]
 the fact that the needle points to n
 northward and southward. Of cosfr t no ultimSte reason caL be given for l6 e natural effect any more than of any t @ CT observed fact in nature. & Y A covEToUs man does nothing tI1atl q cbonId till ha diazs