HOMELY HINTS.
The following hint may prove to be worthy of note by some of our diggers who may have scant supply of bed clothing during the winter months:— " Sir, —Winter is upon us in rigour, and many persons are not so well off for bed clothes as could be wished. Well, if they will take two or three newspapers, stitch them together, and lay them over the bed, under the coverlet, they will be astonished to find how much extra warmth they get. If you want to be very snug, use thick brown paper, and stitch it on the inside of the blanket or coverlet (double if you like) letting the latter overlap the paper a few inches round the edge, which will let it sit closer and tuck in better.—Tours, &c, Jack Feost." A correspondent of a Calcutta paper makes a curious suggestion to tobaccosmokers. Alluding to the alleged discovery, by a Parisian chemist, that watercress is a perfect antidote to nicotine, he says:—" It lately entered into my head to try how some of it dried would smoke. To my great satisfaction I found that when put into my pipe, after a couple of days' drying in the sun, it had all the flavor of the best Cavendish without the treacle, and it was even stronger than Cavendish. Here, then, is a perfect substitute for tobacco, without the deleterious and deadly poison so freely contained in the latter; and it is at the same time cheaper. Watercress, with its fine stalks and leaves, when dried, requires no cutting to fit it for the pipe; and while a pound of cut tobacco ranges from 2rs to 4rs, here we have an article, a rupee's worth of which, when dried, would weigh more than a couple of pounds."
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 641, 5 April 1870, Page 3
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