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Remedy for Frozen Potatoes

ficial aeration. This may be done by simply affected thereby should be laid in a perfectly blowing through a glass tube which reaches dark place for some days after the thaw has to near the bottom, or, better still, in the folcommenced. If thawed in open day they lowing way: Take a glass syringe which can rot; but if in darkness, they do not rot; and be easily worked. Having filled it with wa- they lose very little of their natural properter, hold it with the nozzle about 2 inches ties. from the surface of the water in the aquarium, 6205. Το Make Fire Kindlers. Take into which the contents are to be discharged a quart of tar and 3 pounds of resin, melt quickly, and with a sort of jerk. By this them, bring to a cooling temperature, mix means a multitude of small bubbles are with as much coarse sawdust, with a little forced down into the fluid. This operation charcoal added, as can be worked in; spread should be repeated for a considerable number out while hot upon a board; when cold, break of times. 6199. To Prevent Stair Carpets from Wearing. Stair carpets should always have slip of paper put under them, at and over the edge of every stair, which is the part where they wear first, in order to lessen the friction of the carpet against the boards beneath. The strips should be within an inch or two as long as the carpet is wide and about 4 or 5 inches in breadth. A piece of old carpet answers better than paper if you have it. This plan will keep a stair carpet in good condition for a much longer time than without it. nut, and you have, at a small expense, kindup into lumps of the size of a large hickory ling material enough for a household for one year.

They will easily ignite from a match and burn with a strong blaze, long enough to start any wood that is fit to burn. pers. Sometimes the ground glass stoppers. 6206. To Loosen Ground Glass Stopof bottles become, from one cause or another, fixed in the neck, and cannot be removed by pulling or twisting. An effectual method is to wrap a rag wet with hot water around the neck and let it remain a few seconds. The heat will expand the neck of the bottle, wher 6200. Το Make an Eolian Harp. Of the stopper can be removed before the heat penetrates the stopper itself. Or, wind a string once or twice around the neck, and, holding the bottle between the knees, pull alternately on one and the other end, thus creating friction, and consequently heat.

Or a little camphene dropped between the neck and stopper of the bottle will often relieve the stopper. very thin cedar, pine, or other soft wood, make a box 5 or 6 inches deep, 7 or 8 inches wide, and of a length just equal to the width of the window in which it is to be placed. Across the top, near each end, glue a strip of wood 1/21 inch high and 1 inch thick, for bridges. Into the ends of the box insert wooden pins, like those of a violin, to wind the strings around, two pins in each end. Make a sound-hole in the middle of the top, and string the box with small cat-gut, or blue violin strings. Fastening one end of each string to the wooden pin in one end of the box, and carrying it over the bridges, wind it around the turning-pin in the opposite end of the box. The ends of the box should be increased in thickness where the wooden pins enter, by a piece of wood glued upon the inside. Tune the strings in unison and p'ace the box in the window. It is better to have 4 strings, as described, but a harp with a single string produces an exceedingly sweet melody of notes, which vary with the in length; at the doubled end, bring the knot force of the wind.

The most effectual mode of removing stop- 6207. To Remove a Glass Stopper . pers, especially those of small bottles, such as smelling-bottles, is as follows: Take a piece of strong cord, about a yard or 4 feet in length, double it at the middle, and tie a knot (Fig. 1, b) so as to form a loop (a) of about 4 inches Fig. 1. b close to one side of the stopper, and tie the 6201. To Remove the Disagreeable ends tightly together on the opposite side, as Taste from New Wooden Vessels. First at Fig. 2 (e) so as to fasten the string securely scald them with boiling water, then dissolve round the neck of the stopper; now pass one some pearlash or soda in lukewarm water, of the ends through the loop (a), and then tie adding a little lime to it, and wash the inside it firmly to the other end; the doubled cord is then to be placed over a bar or other sup-6212. To Clean Discolored Glass. port, then if the bottle is surrounded by a Glass that appears smoky may be cleaned cloth, to prevent accident in case of fracture, by applying dilute nitric acid, when soap, turacid, when soap, turand pulled downwards with a jerk, the force pentine, alcohol, or scouring with whiting of which is gradually increased, it will be would make no impression on it. Water of found that in a short time the stopper is liber- Fig. 2. e ammonia is also effective. 6213. To Remove a Ring from a Swollen Finger. A thread should be wound evenly around, beginning at the extremity of the finger, and bringing each coil close to the preceding, until the ring be reached. A needle is then threaded on and passed under the ring, and the thread is carefully unwound from the finger. The ring follows each coil as it is successively unrolled, and by almost imperceptible degrees is brought over the knuckle and removed. Care must be taken that the thread is wound on evenly, particularly over the swollen knuckle, or an entanglement will occur in the unwinding. A curved needle will pass under the ring more easily than a straight one.

Freezing. Half a pint (or less) of good ated. Two precautions are requisite-one is, that the strain on both sides of the stopper is equal; the other, that care be taken that when the stopper is liberated, it is not dashed by the rebound against any hard substance, 6214. Το Prevent Gas Meters from which would cause its fracture.