Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-21
BITS OF SCIENCE.

Milk is the very best thing with which
to clean oilclOth.
The honeysucGle is popular and pretty
figure for embroidery.
Wet tobacco applied to a bee or wasp
sting will give instant relief.
Crazy patchwork is said to have been
suggested by certain Japanese patterns.
Leather chair seats may be revived by
rubbing them with the well-beaten white
of an egg.
Satin panels for the walls, with velvet
bird of rich plumage, appliqued, are very
handsome.
Thermometer panels of satin are made
arbutus and other floral designs are paint
ed in the corner.
An English novelty is called the lovers
lamp. 1t burns for eighteen hours with
out replenishing.
Half a teaspoonful of common table
salt, dissolved in a little cold water and
drank, will instantly relieve heartburn.
Piano covers are made of plush in one
color, the lining silk or satin, of a con-
trasting shade, and the edge embrOid-
cred.
Everlastings for winter bouquets should
be picked before they are quite open,
tied up in punches and hung in the shade
to dry.
A poIisher and cleaner for kitchen cut
lery has been introduced, and is said to
be effective in removing the stains and
marks upon metal.
Storks made of wool, with wings wide
spread, are suspended by invisible wires
in a bay window, and, if handled artIsti-
cally, are very effective.
A hornets nest, which has been desert
ed by the hornets, bound on the throat
with a piece of flannel will cure the most
malignant shore throat.
Equal parts of ground mustard and
-four made into a paste with warm water
| and spread between two pieces of muslin
forms the indispensable mustard plaster.
The fumes of burning coffee are pow
erful disinfectant. Pound the coffee in a
mortar and then strew it on a hot iron
plate, which, however, must not be red
hot.
In Paris there are fine art repair shops,
in which the newest and rarest piece of
pottery may be made to look as cracked
and dilapidated as the most aesthetic soul
could desire.
Tides have embroidered upon them the
| flowers that are in season during the reg
ular months-in spring, the laburnum; in
June, roses; July, carnations, and in
August, the sunflower.
Plain white towels may be made orna-
mental by placing two rows of drawn
work on each edge. The work may be
fastened with red or blue, or with white.
Overcast the edges just above the fringe.
/ A pretty pedestal on which to stand a
basket of flowers has the top, base, upper
and lower parts of the shaft covered with
| red silk plush. In the centre is band of
black, wrought in irregular zigzags of
| gold, with flowers and foliage in silk en-
! broidery.
Tfe epidemic of cleanliness" as the
present effort to prevent cholera has been
! called by those who have the sanitary
! condition of our great cities in charge,
mentions, among numerous preventatiyes
of malarial poison, the burning of brim-
stone in houses, and l doubt if any who
! hastily read the various directions for flu
migating dwellings know half the merits
| of this agent. A distinguished chemist
once said OF it: "While other disinfect-
| ants act for a time, so as to seem to de-
stroy bad odors, they chiefly cover them
up. but birthstone kills them" All house
keepers should know that by burning
birthstone in a room infested with bugs II
! will kill them. Put charcoal into kettle
and sprinkle quarter Of pound of brim-
stone over it. Close all windows and doors
for an hour or more, when the windows
can be reopened.