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Otago Witness, Issue 1501, 21 August 1880, Page 27

HINTS FOR HOUSE CLEANERS. Paint should be oleaned with ammonia or whiting, never with soap. For grained wood many people prefer cold tea. To olean mortar and paint from window glass, use hot, sharp vinegar. Repeated applications of washing soda will remove grease from unpainted floors. . Carbolic aoid is the beßt dismfeotant, although lime water and copperas water are used. Carbolic aoid will kill and prevent motha. Frequent and thorough washings with a solution of carbolic aoid should be given to sinks, drain pipes, and any sour or impure vessels. Open vials of It should be hung in all indoor water- closets. It has also great healing qualities, and may be used with benefit upon almost any eruption of the body. It neutralizes the poison of inseotß, and mosquitoes willjnot trouble a person who has used it. When carpets have been well shaken, the spots oan be removed with ox-gall or ammonia. While the bedsteads are down, have the slats and springs and inside of the rails washed with a solution of carbolic acid. Have the mattress turned | and well aired every morning. Since we spend nearly a third of our time in bed it pays to bestow care and labour upon reoting places. If unfortunate enough to find bugs in the beds, the quickest and Bureßt way of getting rid of them is to make a bonfire of the bedsteaa. But as this is a very expensive way, carbolic aoid, insect powder, and various poiaons which the druggists sell for the purpose, may be used. If any degree of success is to be obtained, thorough and unremitting work must be done. One application alone will never banish them j for weeks and months, if need be, careful examination of the beds must be made daily, for these little fiends multiply and increase with astonishing rapidity. „ . . . Cayennne pepper will drive away ants, and oil of oinnamon will scatter the tiny red ants. A good cat is the best remedy for rats and mice; poison ia very effeotual, but should they die between the walls or under the floors, the result is, to say the least, disagreeable. The backs of upholstered chairs and the heads of lounges, whioh have become soiled by contact with greasy heads, may be cleaned by rubbing well with gisohne or benzine. If gilt frames are varnished with white varnish when new they oan be easily oleaned with a damp cloth. Marbles Bhould not be washed too often, as the water dulls the polish ; dust well and rub with chamois. It is ruinous to scour silver ware every week as some housekeepers do. If it is washed daily, or at least every other day, in hot suds with a little ammonia in the water it will keep clean, and remain bright a long time. If tin- ware is washed in olean water and rinsed in hot water, and thoroughly dried every time it is used, ,it will last as long again aa it will when only half taken care of. COMPANIONS IN THE SKY. See yon silvery crescent ' Away up in the sky : It is the moon, tho' yet so young, Hieing after her lord, the sun. Follow him she must ever, For were those two to sever _ Her light so bright in the dark night Before the dawn would die. So faithful does he prove, So trusty is her love, That on and on for centuries In constancy they move. Nor till his work is done; Rest she will ask for none But in our long cold wintry night Pour purest, clearest, silvery light. r V MILBNY MONQOJIEItY. Invercargill, 1880. LITILS JOHNNY ON HENS. Hens is curious animals. They don't have no nose, nor no teeth, nor no ears. They swallow their wittles whole and ohew it up in their crops inside of 'em. The outside of hens is generally put inter pillers and inter feather da&ters: The inside of a hen is sometimes filled with marbles, and^hirt-buttons, and sioh. A hen is very much smaller than a good many other animals, but they'll dig up more tomato plants than anything that ain't a hen. Hens is very useful to lay eggs for plunvpuddings. Skinny Bates eat so much plum pudding once that it sent him inter the collery. Hens has got wings, and can fly when they get scart. I cut Uncle William's hen'a hed off with a hatchet, and it scart her to death. Hens sometimes makes very fine spring chickens. NOTES FOR THE YOUNG-FOURTH CLASS OF THE VERTEBRATA.BIRDS. * . By Uncle David. The animals whioh we have hitherto glanced at were inhabitants of the land or the water, and sometimes of both ; but those which we are about to notice ate properly inhabitants of neither land nor water, but of the air. Thus we find, as we proceed with our study, that " no department of nature is left unfurnished with appropriate inhabitants. Birds (Ayes) may be described aa vertebrate animals, having warm blood, breathing by means of lungs, and having a double circulation (the heart consists of four chambers, two auricles and two ventricles), the fore limbs modified so as to form " winga," the body covered with feathers, and truly oviparous j for no little chick ever comes into life in any other way than by being hatched from an egg. You will remember that some other animals were mentioned as producing their young from eg«;s ; but although these do so, every species of these classes do not produce their young thus. Some species of a class may be oviparous, while others of the same class produce their young in a living state, but ' still within a soft egg covering. Birds, on the other hand, are all oviparous. I neei <j not take up any space in describing the pro- 1 cess of hatohing, as every boy or girl who I has followed me thus far will have learned J