Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-13
Family Scrap Basket.

| Il is said that person troubled with an
oily face can keep it clean by washing it
vigorously with towel, instead OF with
his hands.
Instruction and board free for three
months are given to learners at the Boston
Young Women's Christian Associations
school for house servants.
tits said that in the extreme South
clothes pins are not used. There the
clothing is doubled over the line and al
lowed to hang until it is dry, which, ow-
ing to the warmth of the climate, lis mat
ter of short time.
The Scientific American states that
plush goods and all articles dyed with an
aline colors. faded from exposure to light
will look bright as ever after being
sponged with chloroform. The CONNER
cial chloroform will answer the purpose
very well, and is less expensive than the
purified.
The poisonous properties of stockings
dyed with the brilliant aniline dyes. it is
said, may be rendered harmless by dip
ping the articles in bath of rubber dis
solved in naphtha or some other reagent.
This having been done, subsequent evap-
Grafton has the effect to cover each fiber
with thin film of rubber, and by this
means the transfer of the coloring materi-
al from the goods to the skin Is prevented
Texas has new industry. The Clear
Greek Crab Canning Company has been
organized in Galveston County, and is
doing a big business in catching and can
ming crabs. The shells are removed en-
hn nlo in,
and shipped to France, where they are
manufactured into a dentifrice. The oil
that arises on the watts where the crabs are
boiled is used in making soap, and it is
said to be equal to cocoanut oil tor this
purpose. The crabs themselves are
packed in fve-gallon cans, and are reck.
oned good.
The card is the epitome of civilization
A lady's visiting card is representative
and implies far more than the mere data
of name and residence. Giving you heI
card lady gives with it her social recog
milton, her goodwill. her remembrance
the entree to her house. The card being
thus representative should stand for more
than it often does. A card is call, and
save among special friends it is the mos,
desirable form of a call. 1t implies that
you are held in kindly regard, and that
future meetings will be agreeable. II
does away with any possibility OF mis-
takes, or with any awkwardness or chance
meetings. In TACT, the card is the sign
and symbol of social enlightenment, ant
deserves to be canonized.-BoSton Trau
eller
Pine shavings are now used for stuffing
purposes At Perth in Hungary there il
factory where they are prepared by the
aid of machinery and reduced to such &
degree of fneness that the product closely
resembles tow. Shavngs of this kline
are superior, it is asserted, to every othel
substitute for horsehair in connection witt
upholstering purposes, alike as regards
elasticity. sottness and durability; fo
bedding they are recommended on accoun
of the resin contained in the wood being
an effectual preventative of vermin, tn,
utility of the material in this line, especial
ly for hospital and barrack purposes
having been satisfactorily tested by thu
German government. After having beer
used as stuffing for some five or six years
the shavings can be renovated by bein.
exposed to the heat of the sun or
heightened temperature.