The Arizona sentinel., 1885-03-28
USEFUL HINTS

A MIXTURE of oil and ink is good lining to clean kid boots with the first softens and the latter blackens them.
 "RUsT1o" gives the following direc lions for keeping the hands smooth dur. ing cold weather and curing them when chapped Wash them in buttermlk in which some wheat bran has been stirred twenty hours before using, and dry them over the fire without towel. The remedy Is most effective if used at night just before retiring.
 AN Iowa farmer gives this method oi destroying cabbage worms: Take oi saltpetre and common salt each table spoonful, dissolve in a little hot water, and add twelve quarts of cold water. Apply Co the cabbages in the heat of the day when the sun shines. If you apply with good sprinkler, and do your work thoroughly, one application will be sui fcient.
 To RESTORE scorched linen: Peel and slice two onions, extract the juice by pounding and squeezing; cut up half an ounce of fine white soap and add to the juice two ounces of fullers' earth and half a pint of vinegar; boil all together when cool, spread over the scorched linen and let it dry on it; then wash and boil out the linen, and the spots will disappear, unless burned so badly as to break the threads.
 How TO USE OL-SToNEs. s.-Instead of oil, which thickens and makes the stone dirty, mixture of glycerine and alcohol e. >1f the mixture vary according to the instru- ment operated upon. An article of large surface-a razor, for instance sharpens best with Gmpid liquid, as three parts of glycerine to one of alco- hol. For a graving tool, the surface of which is small, as is also the pressure exercised upon the stone iR sharpening, it is necessary to employ glycerine nearly pure, with but few drops of al- cohol.
 THE Chicago Tribune gives the fol lowing formula by which any house. keeper can detect the presence of glu- cose in sugar "Take handful of the mixture and drop it into glass of cold water. Stir it few minutes, and you will notice that the cane sugar is en- tirely dissolved, leaving the grape sugar undissolved at the bottom of the glass, in the form of white, sticky substance, not at all unlike starch in looks, and quite bitter to the taste. It won't do to use hot water in your test, however, for if you do the whole thing will dissolve. The testisso simple that any housekeeper can make it, and there is no reason for
 Ix,1 ing the fraud unless he or she chooses to be-" With this at hand the adulter- Rted stuff can readily be known. If any body is imposed upon it is because they choose to be.
 To PRESERVE leaves for preservation try the Glowing plan Dissolve four Ounces of common washing soda in a quart of boiling water, then add two ounces of slaked quicklime, and boil for sbout fifteen minutes. Allow the solu- tion to cool and afterward pour off all the clear liquor into clean saucepan. When this liquor is at boiling point place the leaves carefully in the pan and boil the whole together for an hour, adding from time time enough of water to make up for the loss by evaporation. The epidermis and the parenchyma of some leaves will more easily separate than others. A good test is to try the leaves after they have been boiling for an hour, and if the cellular matter does not rub of between the the thumb and forefnger beneath cold water, boil them again for short time. When the feshy part has been sufficiently softened, rut them separately but very gently beneath cold water till a perfect skeleton is ex- posed. The skeletons are at first dirty white color. To make them quite white and, therefore, moro beautiful, it is necessary to bleach in a weak solution of chloride of lime-a large spoonful to a quart of water-if few drops of vinegar is added'to the solution it is all the bet ter, for then the free chloride is liberated. Do not allow them to remain long in the bleaching liquor or they become too brit tie and cannot be handled without in- jury. About fifteen minutes will be re- quired to make them white and clean looking. Dry the specimens in white plotting paper with gentle pressure.