Some Hints About Screws

Where scrows are driven into soft vood and subjected to considerable Btrain, they are very likely to wort loose; md it is often dííricult to malte tlieir. ïold. In suco cuses, the use of gUic is rofitable. Prepare tue glue thiok ; iainerse a stiolí about half the size of tha crew, and put it into the hole; then mmerse the sciew, and drive it bon quickly as poésibk When there is an iriiclo of furniture to be hastily repn Hiid 110 gliie is to be had bandily, iiisert 10 stiok, iiil the rest of the cavity witli lulverized resin, then heat the serew iuficient to melt the resLu, as it is driveu B. CHair, tables, lounges, &c, arecontinnally getting out of order in every h ■ and the proper tiiue to repair them is when first notioed. If neglected, the matter prows still worse, and finally reBults in laying by the article of furnitore as worthlcss. Where screvvs are driven into wood for teioporary parposes, they can be removed inuoh easier by dipping them in oü before insertiug. When ing screws, nouue wnat you are gettmg, for there ara poor as well as good i See tnat tbe headg are soumi and wel] cut ; tb at there are no fl.tws in the body or thread part, and that they have gimlet-points, A scrow of good raako wil) drive into oak as easily as others into pine, H.ii'1 vrill endure baviag twice forco brought against it.-Cabinetmaker. Wiiat Boses Have Do.e.- In Great Britain, thirty yeara ap;o, the average prodnetion of wheat per acre was hut Beven bushels. About that period the farmers commenoed applying bone dust and superphosphate to their wheat lands, and (o procun; it thousands of ship lo ids of bopes wero brought from the continent of Europe, and oven the bones from the oíd battle-tíelds were gutherod up, irround auil applied to their landl, and recent agricultural reporta show a production of twenty-seven bushels of wheat to the ao Steamed Tndian Pudbixg. - Take one teacup iweet milk, half-teaoup buttermilk, half-teacup molasses, two oups Indian meal, one of flour, ona of Englisli currants, one teaspoon Baleratus, and n. littl salt; put it in a basin and set it in a steamer over boiling water for two houra ; serve with a sauce made of buttor and sugar, or sweetened cream. . The Shah, while in Bngland, is said to have hinted a w some one exoouted in the English marmer. Bcingtold that Buch tilines could not be done ín England except in due course of ]i"-, i the objection with the rearty offer 1 some ouefrom his ovvn suite wijo migrht be opSrated upon without fear of legal questions. A debating society discussecl the questioH, "Is it wrong to chaat a lawyorr"' After ful! diaouwion and raature deliber ation, tho decisión was, " Not wrong, bu too üiffioult to pay for the tronble. An Iowa debating will dicii'-s the question : "If one paan appliee the toe of his boot aposteriori to another, which of thé two can be 6aid to bave proceeded to extremities'c1"