The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-10-19
FAMILY SCRAP BASKET.
An Interesting Compilation of Household
Fact and Fancy.

Fact and Fancy.
1t is recommended to freshen salt fish
by soaking them in sour milk.
A salt ham should be soaked ovei
night in plenty of soft water previous
to boiling.
Eat only pure food, drink only pure
liquids, think only pure thoughts, and
keep your blood pure.
1t is said that kerosene will soften
boots and shoes that have been hard
ened by water. and make them pliable
as new.
Corks may be made air and water
tight by keeping them for five minutes
under melted paraffine. They must be
kept down with a wire screen.
The best whitewash for a cellar is
made of lime and water only. The adj
dition OF other things hinders the pur-
pose of keeping the cellar pure and
healthful.
In picking cucumbers for putting
down in brine, it is best to leave a
small portion OF the stem adhering to
prevent whitening and insure perfect
keeping.
To set delicate colors in embroidered
handkerchiefs, soak them ten minutes
previous to washing in pail of tepid
water, in which desertspoonful OF
turpentine has been we'll stirred.
Coffee pounded in mortar and
roasted on an iron plate, sugar burned
on hot Goals. and vinegar boiled with
myrrh and sprinkled on the floor and
furniture of sick room are excellent
deodorizers.
To cleanse porcelain sauce-pans, fill
them half full of hot water and put in
the water tablespoonful OF powdered
borax and let it boil. II this does not
remove all the stains. scour well with
cloth rubbed with soap and borax.
Stains of vegetable colors, fruit red
wine and red ink may be removed from
white goods by sulphur fumes or chic
rine water. On colored cottons and
woolens, wash with lukewarm soap lye
or ammonia Silk the same, but more
cautiously.
A hammock pillow is an addition
considered necessary to complete the
furniture OF garden in city or country
during the summer. Filled with down
hair, or the odorous twigs of the pine
1t is covered with the gay striped tick
ing used by the manufacturers OF avn
ings.
Canaries are often famished for fresf
cool water. You see bits of sugar. ant
sponge cake and cracker tucked al
about the wires, while the drinking
cup will be empty, or filled with dirt.
water that no bird with respect fo
itself will touch. Have bath tub, too
that is large enough tospread its wing
and splash.
A formula for cream candy: Bea
the whites of four eggs to stiff froth
add one tablespoonful of cold waite
and flavor to the taste. Stir tOgethe
a little and then add confectioner.
(pulverized) sugar till stiff enough t,
knead like bread. Then mold in shap
and add your nuts, either on top o
inside.
A glue which will resist the actio1
of water is made by boiling pound O
glue in sufficiency of skinned milk
To make a strong glue for inlayin
and veneering, take the best ligh
brown glue, free from clouds o
streaks, dissolve it in water, and
every pint add one-half gill of the bes
vinegar and one-half ounce of isinglas'
A new source of intoxication ne
been discovered. 1t is simply dry tes
eaten, of course, before it is stepped.
produces an agreeable effect at frs
but indulgence finally causes sleeples'
ness. disorderly impulses and deliriun
Not few persons have already bee
found to have contracted this deadl
form of the tea habit.
The following is recommended b
IN English writer for cleaning zin
Clean off all old paint, and apply til
following mixture: In sixty parts
water dissolve one part chloride
copper, one part nitrate of copper. OF
part sal-ammoniac, and one part b.
dro-chloric acid. Brush the zinc ov'
with this, which gives it deep blac
leave it to dry until next day. and it
then ready for painting. The be
paint to use is prepared varnish pal
which can not be surpassed for tenaci
and durability Good Housekeepin