How To Cut Glass Jars

Fill The Jar With Lard-Oil To Where You Want To Cut The Jar; Then Heat An Iron Rod Or Bar To Red Heat, Immerse It In The Oil; The Unequal Expansion Will Check The Jar All Round At The Surface Of The Oil, And You Can Lift Off The Top Part. Glass, To Cut Without A Diamond. Hold it level under water, and, with a pair of scissors, clip it away by small hits from the OB.

How To Remove Grease-Spots On Clothing

In using benzole or turpentine, people make the mistake of wetting the cloth with the turpentine and then rubbing it with a sponge or piece of cloth. The only way to radically remove grease-spots is to place soft blotting-paper beneath and on top of the grease-spot, which spot has first been thoroughly saturated with the benzole, and then well pressed. The fat gets now dissolved and absorbed by the paper, and entirely removed from the clothing.

Pickle For Curing Hams

An excellent, well-recommended pickle for curing hams is made of l-1/2 lbs. of salt, 1/2 lb. of sugar, 1/2 oz. of saltpetre, and \ oz. of potash. Boil all together till the dirt from the sugar has risen to the top and is skimmed. Pour it over the meat, and leave the latter in the solution for 4 or 5 weeks.

How To Wash Soapstone Hearths

Use pure water, and then rub with powdered marble or soapstone put on with a piece of the same stone.

How To Clean Gray Marble Hearths

Rub with linseed-oil, and no spots will show.

How To Preserve Ice-Water

Make a hat-shaped cover of two thicknesses of paper, with cotton batting 1/2 inch thick between. Place over the entire pitcher

How To Remove Indelible Ink

If the ink is a nitrate of silver preparation, it may be taken out of the fabric (1) by washing the latter in a solution of hyposulphite of soda, or (2) by moistening it with a solution of bichloride of copper, and then washing it with liquid ammonia.

How To Remove Ink-Stains From Mahogany

Put a few drops of spirits of nitre in a teaspoonful of water, touch the spot with a feather dipped in the mixture, and, on the ink disappearing, rub it over immediately with a rag wetted in cold water, or there will be a white mark which will not easily be effaced.

How To Remove Ink-Stains

Wash carefully with pure water, and apply oxalic acid; and, if the latter changes the dye to a red tinge, restore the color by ammonia.

Insect Bltes

A good remedy is borax, 1 oz., dissolved in 1 pint water previously boiled and allowed to cool.

Fitting Keys

When it is not convenient to take a lock apart to fit a new key, the key-blank should be smoked over a candle, inserted in the keyhole, and pressed firmly against the opposing wards of the lock. The indentations in the smoked portion made by the wards will show where to file.