Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-23
wORTHH REmEMBERIN
A Variety of Things That iG Is Ve
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A Variety of rhings That is is Very
 Desirable 10 Know.
 If person subject to prickIy heat in summer will bathe the places in weak so- lution of saleratus water and dry them with a soft cloth, and afterward powder them with powder made of equal parts of full ler's earth and rice flower, they will have perfect ease. It should be done night and morning in the hot weather, and if mo- dy, but simply apply a little cold cream, which somehow overcomes the poison and irritation when nothing else will. Children nearly wild with the irritation of many mos squito bites have been calmed in moment by the application of cold cream.
 Umbrellas should be placed handle down. wards to dry. The moisture falls from the edges of the frame and the fabric dries uni- formly. If stood handle upward, as is com monly the case, the top of the umbrella holds the moisture, owing to the lining un- derneath the ring, and it takes long time to dry, thereby injuring the silk or other fa- brio 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 to appear provokingly early. When not in use the umbrella should be left loose, and when wet left loose to dry.
 A liberal application of a mixture of equal portions of air slaked lime and wood ashes will often cause the ground to produce grass when other methods have failed. It is difficult to secure stand of grass under trees. 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 fertilizers are cheap they should be used more extensively.
 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. OH, as is we'll known, thickens and smears the stone. The glyeerine may be mixed with spirits in greater or less proror- tion, 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 a person warm because of the inhalation of an increased amount of air, causing the 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 while running at the rate of six miles an hour is six times that breathed while walking at the rate of one mile an hour. The superfuous heat arising from the sxertion of running is disposed of through | the skin by means of increased precipitation.
 The ordinary method Of scraping or burn- | Iu$ OAA UAu putue ID AnkuAy 0Ap0uAt1ouc oAouSn for general purposes, and is also laborious. Soda and quicklime arc far more thorough. The solution of half of each is thus made: Dissolve the soda in water and then add the lime and apply with brush to the old paint, l which can thus be removed in a few minutes. Reports come constantly from St. Peters- burg of the ever inefeesing use of naphtha dregs as fuel. Russian manufacturers and railways are adopting it in place of wood and coal, and it is even utilized for domestic purposes in stoves of special construction. It is about thirty.fve per cent. cheaper than wood or coal, and it occupies less space in storage.
 Professor R. O. Kedsie, in his lecture when president of the State Board of Health some years ago, advised his audience to forego the pleasure of decorated walls, or to simply whitewash them with lime, rather than stop what he terms 'twall respiration" by sealing or strangling the pores in the plaster with paste and paper, kalsomine or paint. He il- frustrated to his audience, by means of blow pipes filled with dry mortar and some coated with paper, others with paint and kalsomine, how readily air passes through walls of or dinary mortar and with stucco finish, and