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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1026, 23 March 1894, Page 3

We must ourselves ascend if we would lift others, and in this very upward climbing we are taking the first and most essential step in social improvement

Morphy, the celebrated chess player, could play several games of chess simultaneously without seeing any of the boards on which the various games were being conducted. It was certainly a wonderful feat of memory, to see how attention and abstraction were retained throughout — a most extraordinary feat, and one performed by him over and over again, as he used to stand alone attacking and defending himself against the several opponents who were arrayed against him.

Salt is now pronounced to be beyond all other things in the extermination of moths. Women in. hospitals, large storage rooms, etc. have tried all remedies, only to come back to common salt. For carpets, just previous to their storage, there is nothing better to keep out' moths than to sweep them with salt— just ordinary common dry salt. Particles of salt remain in the carpet and these -keep out the moths.

Copper saucepans are cleaned on the outside with salt and yinegar, and on the inside with soap and water— -after they Have been filled, with water and K small lump of soda, which must come to a boil. . - '.:'•;