How To Preserve Eggs

Mix together in a tub or vessel 1 bushel of quicklime, 32 ozs. of salt, 8 ozs. cream of tartar, with as much water as will reduce the composition to a sufficient consistence to float an egg. It is said that this treatment will preserve the eggs perfectly sound for two years at least.

Adhesive Fly-Paper

Smear paper with a mixture of moand linseed oil.

Extracting Fragments Of Metal From The Flesh

A simple and usually successful mode of extracting a needle, or any piece of steel or iron broken off in the flesh, is accomplished by the application of a simple pocket magnet. Iron filings have a way of imbedding themselves in the eye which defies almost every ordinary means for their extraction. For their removal, a small, blunt, pointed bar of steel, well magnetized, will be found excellent, and we should recommend that workmen liable to such in-juries keep such an instrument about them. It would be a good plan 10 insert such a bar in a penknife, in a manner similar to a blade.

Canning Fruit

The following table for boiling fruit in cans will doubtless prove useful. The first figure after the name of the fruit refers to time of boiling in minutes, the second to ounces of sugar to the quart: Cherries, 5, 6; raspberries, 6, 4; blackberries, 6, 6; gooseberries, 8, 8; currants, 6, 8; grapes, 10, 8; plums, 10, 8; peaches (whole), 15, 4; peaches (halves), 8, 4; pears (whole), 30, 8; crab-apples, 25, 8; quinces (sliced), 15, 10; tomatoes, 30, none; beans and peas, 3 to 4 hours.

How To Moisten Furnace Heat

Dry furnace heat, productive of throat and lung diseases, may be moistened by hanging a wet towel in front of the register, the lower edge of the towel being allowed to dip in a shallow vessel of water.

How To Prevent Rust In Furnace

Throw some quicklime loosely on a board, and place inside the furnace.

Refinishing Oiled Or Varnished Furniture

Oiled furniture, scratched or marred, may be restored by rubbing with a woolen rag dipped in boiled linseed-oil. Varnished, by similarly rubbing with a varnish of shellac dissolved in alcohol.

How To Make Uninflammable Fabrics

The lightest materials are rendered uninflammable by washing in a concentrated neutral solution of tungstate of soda, diluted with about one third of water, and then mixed with 3 per cent of phosphate of soda.

Frosted Feet

These can be relieved of soreness by bathing in a weak solution of alum.

Ornaments Made Of Ferns

Handsome ornaments can be made by mounting fern-leaves on glass. The leaves must first be dyed or colored. They are then arranged on the mirror according to fancy. A butterfly or two may be 'added. Then a sheet of clear glass of the same size is placed on top, and the two sheets secure. d together at the edges and placed in a frame.