Show AXI A picco of zinc placed on alio live coals in a lot stove will it is said effectually clean out n clovo pipe tho va pora produced carrying of sool by chemical decomposition ink stains on mahogany or black walnut may bo removed by touching alio stains with a feather wet iu a solution of and water eight ill aps ops to n spoonful of water As soon as tho spots disappear di appear rub alio place nt a wet in cold water t allm ink stains thou remain repeat making tho solution stronger iino A capital way of disposing of thu remains of n ham and making an excellent diali tor breakfast sa tako a anund and n half of ham fat and lean together put it into a mortar and pound it or pass it through a sausage boil a largo slice of broad in halt a pint of milk and beat it and tho ham well together add an egg beaten up aut tho whole into a mold and bako a brown cream of fish for each quart of soup mix together over tho allro ono ta caoli u butter im til quite broo from lumps then gradually add one quart of liot milk stirling constantly until tho soup is quitu smooth then season it palatably with alt and pepper dust in a vary little grated nutmeg and stir in with sin agi a cupful of cold boiled asli enrco rubbed through a sicco with a botalo maslick the practice of whitewashing trees is useful anil and ono can afford to be laughed at for doing it for those who win may laugh with tho best reason the whitewash reflects alie heat of the sun ami of tho bark in warm bright winter days it kills eggs of insects and ro alio borer and tho lime washing from alio stems alio roots and fertilizes tho trees all this will overbalance any ridicule ridi culo eliat may bo cast on tho practice by avor and hypercritical persona who know nothing about tho business for tho sake of variety and to picaso children who seem sometimes to bo fascinated by pie make a year a moat anil potato pie mako a crust as lor chicken pie and fill it with pieces of beef stake cither partly cooked or raw season it well and mako a gravy of bolted molted and thickened allour pour over the meat and put sn n layer of mashed potato and the crust on alio top of thit if it is too lucli trouble to mash tho potato put in small cooked ones whole bo suro and have enough gravy so tho pio will not be arv do not mako the crust so rich us bolc unwholesome begets vico just as well in the hortio as it docs in man and tho various vices thus begotten in tho borso is the ono of kicking tharo aro several methods of prevention resorted to more or less success one is to lot the lionso go loose in a roomy box stall or a shed instead of tying him up another method is to anckle a strap around tho leg above tho pastern to which is attached n chain about a foot long to the cad of which is fixed a log of biard wood weighing about two pounds every fmc the borso kicks ho will hurt him bolf and after somo trials of ridding himself of tho attachment lie inelly gives in and will grit dually abandon tho practice of kicking but it ina bo necessary to keep alio davico applied to his leg for a longtime especially if he is nn inveterate kicker a borno horno only kicks to ono picc or only with one leg and it will only bo necessary to apply iho chain to that leg hut if ho kicks to both sides it will bo to apply one on each log |