To prevent onion and cabbage odors - When cooking these vegetables or fish, set a tincup of vinegar on the stove and let it boil.

Salt will curdle new milk. Hence in preparing dishes from the latter, add salt after it is taken from the fire.

Lemons will keep better and fresher in water than any other way. After six weeks the peel will be fresh as the day they were put in.

When your kerosene lamps give a bad light, and smoke, or smell, boil the burners half an hour with a tablespoonful of soda in the water.

Ladies may avoid the injurious results occasioned by running sewing machines if, while sewing they sit upon a chair somewhat higher than is generally used at the machine.

Sufferers from asthma will find great relief and oftentimes a permanent cure in the prescription which J. H. Widber advertises in this book. We have used it and know its merits.

If you are troubled with ants, ask your druggist for a strong solution of corrosive sublimate; wipe 3 our shelves with it and they will disappear. This is unfailing.

Glass bottles can be cut off below the neck and used for jelly glasses. Tie a cord around the bottle, wet with turpentine or coal oil and set fire to it. Try it.

To stop a creaking door, rub the hinges with hard soap.

Coal oil will soften boots and shoes that have been hardened by water.

To wash flannels, make a suds of borax-soap and rinse in warm suds.

To renovate carpets or upholstered furniture, first beat out the dust, have ready a strong solution of Spanish bark, prepared by covering two pounds of bark with two gallons of cold water; let it steep all day slowly; when ready to use add more water, (use cold). Then scrub your carpets with this as you would a floor, using a small scrubbing brush; rub afterward with a dry linen cloth; proceed in the same way with furniture. This restores colors, removes grease and makes old things look new.

Calicos and Chambreys will not fade if before the first washing they are soaked for an hour in a bucket of cold water containing one tablespoonful of sugar of lead.

To keep ice-water. Make a cover of two thicknesses of brown paper, with cotton batting quilted between, large enough to drop over and completely envelop the pitcher. This prevents the hot air from coming in contact with the pitcher. The ice will last a long time.

For Poison Oak. - Bathe freely with ammonia.

If troubled with indigestion, take one tablespoonful lime water in a goblet of milk at meals.

Keep an oyster shell- in your tea kettle and it will prevent the formation of a crust on the inside of it, by attracting the stony particles to itself.

To keep out moths, use pulverized alum; to drive away cockroaches, use Pulverized Borax; to rid your premises of rats and mice use "Rough on Rats." All of which you can purchase of H. Bowman, druggist, 951 Broadway, corner of Ninth.

Japanese Cleaning Cream

Take three ounces of white castile soap; shave it fine; put in it a quart of water and boil until dissolved, then add three quarts of water. When cool, add three ounces of ammonia, three of ether, three of alcohol, two of glycerine. Put all together and it is ready for use. Excellent for cleaning clothes, spots from carpets, etc., etc.