Liquid Glue, (II)

3 quarts soft water, 1½ pounds white glue. Heat by steam or as above. Then add 8 ounces of shellac mixed with 4 ounces dry white lead. Lastly, 1 ounce liquid ammonia. Bottle while warm. This will make 180 bottles (½ oz.). Can be sold at a nice profit. China, etc., can be mended.

How To Preserve Umbrellas

Put umbrellas in the rack to dry with the handles down, that water may not run down and rust the wires.

How To Destroy Ant-Beds In Lawns

Stir up and pour on boiling water.

How To Kill Moss, Weeds And Earth Worms In Lawns

Pulverize fresh lime; mix half-and-half with fresh pulverized eartn or leached ashes and sprinkle over the lawn. This is certain for the moss and earth-worms. A sprinkling of brine will kill grass; and salt sprinkled on grass springing up in the crevices of stone or brick walks will destroy it.

Renovating Plush

Renovating Plush and Aniline Dyed Goods that have faded from exposure to light may be accomplished by sponging with chloroform. Commercial chloroform will answer and is much cheaper.

How To Drive Nails And Screws Into Hard Wood

Soap the points and no resistance will be met, or dip in oil or grease.

Fire Kindlers

To 1 pound of resin put 3 ounces of tallow. Melt together over a slow heat. When hot stir in fine saw-dust until very thick. Sprinkle a board with fine saw-dust and spread the mixture immediately over it to the thickness of one inch. When cold break into lumps one inch square. To do this conveniently grease the edge of a thin board, and while the mixture, is warm mark the kindling off in squares, pressing in deep. When cold they will break off nicely. There is a good profit in selling this.

Rats And Mice

Peppermint sprigs laid around shelves and other places where mice frequent will drive them away. Chloride of lime sprinkled around wherever rats or mice frequent will drive them away. Keep it in a bottle corked.

Ants And Roaches

Scatter powdered borax in their haunts and they will disappear. To free canary birds from mites, wash every part of the cage and perches and the hook and paint behind the hook with a strong solution of borax water.

Second

Ants may be driven away as follows: Mix 1 tea-spoonful of tartar emetic with 1 teaspoonful of sugar. Put in a saucer and set where the ants are troublesome. One day will drive them away. Put in different places where they come. Fleas may be driven away by scattering about the localities troubled either lime or Cayenne pepper.

How To Fill Pin-Cushions

Use hair-combings which do not be-come damp. Dried coffee grounds are also nice, as they neither gather moisture nor rust.

How To Cut Glass Bottles

Useless bottles may be turned into jelly glasses and jars by cutting off the top down to any required depth. Take common cotton cord and wrap two or three times around the bottle, a very little below where it is to be divided. Drop alcohol slowly on the cord until it is well saturated, then ignite with a match. When the flame has about died out, pour on a, very little cold water, and it will immediately separate as smoothly as if cut.