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and healthy. Some of the berries are ripe, and have attained great size, one 

 measuring 3 inches in circumference. — New Orleans Times-Democrat. 



Remarks. — I have seen cucumbers growing in, or rather on top of kegS 

 filled with rich earth, so I know the thing is practicable for those who have only 

 a small yard and no garden. 



Finger Marks Quickly Removed from Mirrors, Win- 

 dows, etc. — Putting a few drops of ammonia on a cloth will do the work admir- 

 ably. The same also from doors about the locks and latches. Take the cloth 

 in such a way as not to irritate the fingers with the strong ammonia. See 

 "Ammonia — Its Uses, etc." 



BRIMSTONE— A Disinfectant After Deaths from Cholera, 

 Also an Exterminator of Bed Bugs, Roaches, etc.— L. H. Spear, 

 in the Rural New Yarker, makes tlie following statement upon this subject, 

 which will be found reliable. He says: "The 'Epidemic of Cleanliness,* as 

 the present effort to prevent cholera has been called by those who have the sani- 

 tary condition of our great cities in charge, mentions, among numerous 

 preventives of malarial poison, the burning of brimstone in houses, and I 

 doubt if any who hastily read the various directions for fumigating dwellings, 

 know half the merits of this agent. A distinguished chemist once said of it: 

 ' While other disinfectants act for a time, so as to seem to destroy bad odors, 

 they chiefly oover Viem up, but brimstone kills them.' All housekeepers should 

 also know that by burning brimstone in a room infested with bugs, it will kill 

 them. Put burning charcoal into a kettle and sprinkle a }4 lb. of powdered 

 brimstone over it. Cloee all windows and doors for an hour or more, when 

 they can be re-opened. 



Remarks. — Let any one who thinks this will not kill the bed bugs, roaches, 

 etc. , even in the cracks and crevices of the walls, pass a lighted sulphur match 

 under his nose, and tlien judge if he could stand it an hour? If the cholera 

 visits your neighborhood, which it is almost certain to do at some time, this 

 should be done to every room in which a cholera patient dies ; and may be done 

 at any time in rooms where these pests have got a lodgement in the cracks of 

 old walls. It is recently claimed that even cholera is caused by a living mite or 

 "microbe," as they call them, and, therefore, the burning of the powdered 

 brimstone, is sure death to them, and that no further spreading of the disease 

 is possible. 



Cess Pools Disinfected Instantly.— Prof. Thos. Taylor reports that 

 1 table-spoonful of spirits of turpentine in 1 pail of water will disinfect an 

 ordinary cess pool instantly, and that in the sick chamber it will prove a power- 

 ful auxiliarj' against germs and bad odors. 



Remarks.— Then, I think, 2 or 3 spoonfuls to the paU of water would be 

 equally effective for a water-closet— privy. 



Oil on the Water has Enabled Vessels to Outride Storms 

 at Sea.— The schooner George Sherman was reported, May 30, 1884, by the 

 Chicago papers, to have ridden out the gale on Lake Michigan that week by 

 pouring on the water 12 gallons of Unseed oil, which calmed the waves for a 



