SOMETHING TO KNOW.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume X, Issue 88, 7 February 1907, Page 3

SOMETHING TO KNOW.

Two more turbine steamers of high speed are to be ordered by the Allan Steamship Company for the mail service between Liverpool and the St Lawrence.

A Too Hot Oven may be quickly cooled by placing in it a basin of cold water. The steam from the water will not injure anything that may be cooking except puff pastry.

“Paste diamonds ” are artificial diamonds made of what is known as “French paste,” a mixture of glass and oxide of lead. Real diamonds are very successfully imitated by the use of this material.

[As a substitute for spirits, the Winnebago Indians in lowa make a liquid from the muscatel bean which produces a blissful delirium at first, but culminates, in the loss of speech, hearing and sight.

Do Not Let tea and coffee remain in the paper bags they came in or they will lose their flavor. All stores should be taken at once out of their paper bags and put away in their different receptacles in the store cupboard.

The late George MacDonald used to tell the following story as an example of the pathetic effect on gentle souls of the rigid Calvinism that prevailed in Scotland in his youth : “An aged Highland woman on her deathbed addressed her granddaughter with these words : ‘Ay. Amy I ken I am not Of the elect. I ken I am not going to Heaven. But I trust the Lord will find a place for me in Hell where I shall not hear His Holy, name blasphemed."