HOW TO DESTROY BED-BUGS.—­1.  When they have made a lodgement in the wall, fill all the apertures with a mixture of soft soap and scotch snuff.  Take the bedstead to pieces, and treat that in the same way. 2.  A strong decoction of red pepper applied to bedsteads will either kill the bugs or drive them away. 3.  Put the bedstead into a close room and set fire to the following composition, placed in an iron pot upon the hearth, having previously closed up the chimney, then shut the door, let them remain a day:  sulphur nine parts; saltpetre, powdered, one part.  Mix.  Be sure to open the door of the room five or six hours before you venture to go into it a second time. 4.  Rub the bedstead well with lampoil; this alone is good, but to make it more effectual, get ten cents worth of quicksilver and add to it.  Put it into all the cracks around the bed, and they will soon disappear.  The bedsteads should first be scalded and wiped dry, then put on with a feather. 5.  Corrosive sublimate, one ounce; muriatic acid, two ounces; water, four ounces; dissolve, then add turpentine, one pint; decoction of tobacco, one pint.  Mix.  For the decoction of tobacco boil one ounce of tobacco in a 1/2 pint of water.  The mixture must be applied with a paint brush.  This wash is deadly poison. 6.  Rub the bedsteads in the joints with equal parts of spirits of turpentine and kerosene oil, and the cracks of the surbase in rooms where there are many.  Filling up all the cracks with hard soap is an excellent remedy.

March and April are the months when bedsteads should be examined to kill all the eggs. 7.  Mix together two ounces spirits of turpentine, one ounce corrosive sublimate, and one pint alcohol. 8.  Distilled vinegar, or diluted good vinegar, a pint; camphor one-half ounce; dissolve. 9.  White arsenic, two ounces; lard, thirteen ounces; corrosive sublimate, one-fourth ounce; venetian red, one-fourth ounce. (deadly poison.) 10.  Strong mercurial ointment one ounce; soft soap one ounce; oil of turpentine, a pint 11.  Gasoline and coaloil are both excellent adjuncts, with cleanliness, in ridding a bed or house of these pests.

HOW TO DESTROY CATERPILLARS.—­Boil together a quantity of rue, wormwood, and any cheap tobacco (equal parts) in common water.  The liquid should be very strong.  Sprinkle it on the leaves and young branches every morning and evening during the time the fruit is ripening.

HOW TO DESTROY COCKROACHES AND BEETLES.—­1.  Strew the roots of black hellebore, at night, in the places infested by these vermin, and they will be found in the morning dead or dying.  Black hellebore grows in marshy grounds, and may be had at the herb shops. 2.  Put about a quart of water sweetened with molasses in a tin wash basin or smooth glazed china bowl.  Set it at evening in a place frequented by the bugs.  Around the basin put an old piece of carpet that the bugs can have easy access to the top.  They will go down in the water, and stay