Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-05
Worth Remembering.

II psrsou suDJect 10 pTichlg neat IN summer
will battle the places IN a weak solution OF sale
ratus water and dry them with soft cloth.
and afteward powder them with powder made
| of equal parts of fuller's earth and rice nsur.
they will have perfect ease. 1t should be done
| night and morning in the hot weather, and il a
| mosquito bites you don't try any heroic rem
| efy, but simply apply little cold cream, which
somehow overcomes the poison and irritation
when nothing else will. Children nearly wild
| with the irritation of many mosquito bites have
| been Gained in moment by the application
| of cold cream.
Umbrellas should be placed handle down.
ward to dry. The moisture falls from the
| edges of the frame and the fabric dries uni
| formly. If stood handle upward. az is CON-
monty the case, the top of the umbrella holds
the moisture. owing TO the lining underneath
the ring, and it takes long time to dry. there
| by injuring the silk or other fabric with which
| it is covered. This is the main cause of the
| umbrella wearing out at the top. Umbrella
| cases are responsible for the wear of the silk
| The constant friction causes tiny holes 10 APP
pear so proyokinely early. When not in use
| the umbrella should be left loose, and when
/ wet left loose TO dry.
liberal application of mixture of equal
| portions of air-slaked lime and wood ashes
| will often cause the ground to produce grass
when other methods have failed 1t is din
| cult to secure a stand Of grass under tress, as
| the trees take all the nourishment OF the soil
| from the grass. Lime and ashes will prove
| beneficial to shade trees also, and as such fer
tillzers are cheap they should be used more OK
tensively.
Carpenters and other tool users who keep up
with the times now use a mixture Of glycerine
instead Of oil for sharpening their edge tools
Oil, as is well known. thickens and smears the
stone. The giycerine may be mixed wish
spirits in greater or less proportion, according
as the tools to be sharpened are fine or coarse
For the average blade two parts Of glycerine to
one of spirits will suffice.
Running makes person warm because Of the
inhalation OF an increased amount Of air, caus-
ing tue blood to pass more rapidly through the
lungs. The rapid inhalation of air involves the
introduction OF a greater quantity of air into
the body, which renders combustion of the
blood more rapid and the blood itself more
heated. The quantity OF air breathed viii
running at the rate of six miles an hour is 81
times that breathed while walking at the r at
OF one mile an hour. The super huous hea
arising from the exertion of running is disposed
of through the skin by means of increased per-
SEPARATION.
The ordinary method of scraping or burning
off old paint is hardly expeditions enough for
general purposes, and is also laborious. Soda
and quicklime are far more thorough. The
solution OF half of each is thus made: Dissolve
the soda in water aud then add the lime and
apply with brush to the old paint, which can
thus be removed in q few minutes.
Reports come constantly from ST. Petersburg
fuel. Russian manufacturers and railways
adopting il in place of wood and coal, and ii is
even utilized for domestic purposes, in stoves
of special construction. 1t is about IS per cent
cheapter than wood or coal, and it occupies less
space in storage
Prof. r. c. Kedsie, in his lecture whom presi-
dent of the state board Of health some years
ago, advised his audience to forego the pleasure
of decorated walls. or to simply whitswash
them with lime, rather than stop what he terms
wall respiration" by sealing or strangling the
pores in the plaster with paste and paper, kali
somine or paint. He illustrated to his audience,
by means of blowpipes filed with dry mortar
and some coated with paper, Others with paint
and kalsomine, how readily air passes through
walls of ordinary mortar and with stucco
finish, and when simply whitewashed, and how
this wall respiration was prevented by all the
other modes. That air passes through walls is
proven by the dust marks seen on plastsred
walls or those that have been only whitswashed
and alabastined, indicating the spaces between
the lathing caused by the dust being filtered
from the air moro between the laths than on
them.
new cement for securing iron into stone
is described in some OF the foreign papers. The
cement is made by melting rosin aud stirring
in brick dust, which must be finely ground and
sifted, until sort of putty is formed, which,
however, runs easily while hot. In using the
iron is set into the hole in the stone prepared
to receive it and the melted putty poured in
until the space is filed then il desired bits of
the mass and a little of the cement thereby
saved. As soon the whole il cool the iron
will be firmly held to the stone, and the cement
is quite durable and unipjured by the weather,
while, unlike lead and sulphur, it has no inju-
rious effect on the iron.