till you come. 3.  Take pulverized borax, 4 parts, flour 1 part, mix intimately and distribute the mixture in cupboards which are frequented by the roaches, or blow it, by means of a bellows, into the holes or cracks that are infested by them. 4.  By scattering a handful of fresh cucumber parings about the house. 5.  Take carbonic acid and powdered camphor in equal parts; put them in a bottle; they will become fluid.  With a painter’s brush of the size called a sash-tool, put the mixture on the cracks or places where the roaches hide; they will come out at once.  Then kill. 6.  Mix up a quantity of fresh burned plaster of paris (gypsum, such as is used for making molds and ornaments), with wheat flour and a little sugar, and distribute on shallow plates and box boards, and place in the corners of the kitchen and pantry where they frequent.  In the darkness they will feast themselves on it.  Whether it interferes with their digestion or not, is difficult to ascertain, but after three or four nights renewal of the preparation, no cockroaches will be found on the premises.

HOW TO DESTROY CRICKETS.—­Sprinkle a little quick lime near to the cracks through which they enter the room.  The lime may be laid down overnight, and swept away in the morning.  In a few days they will most likely all be destroyed.  But care must be taken that the children do not meddle with the lime, as a very small portion of it getting into the eye, would prove exceedingly hurtful.  In case of such an accident the best thing to do would be to wash the eye with vinegar and water.

HOW TO GET RID OF FLEAS.—­Much of the largest number of fleas are brought into our family circles by pet dogs and cats.  The oil of pennyroyal will drive these insects off:  but a cheaper method, where the herb flourishes, is to throw your cats and dogs into a decoction of it once a week.  When the herb cannot be got, the oil can be procured.  In this case, saturate strings with it and tie them around the necks of the dogs and cats.  These applications should be repeated every twelve or fifteen days.  Mint freshly cut, and hung round a bedstead, or on the furniture, will prevent annoyance from bed insects; a few drops of essential oil of lavender will be more efficacious.

HOW TO DESTROY FLIES.—­1.  Take an infusion of quassia, one pint; brown sugar, four ounces, ground pepper, two ounces.  To be well mixed together, and put in small shallow dishes where required. 2.  Black pepper (powdered), one drachm; brown sugar, one drachm; milk or cream, two drachms.  Mix, and place it on a plate or saucer where the flies are most troublesome. 3.  Pour a little simple oxymel (an article to be obtained at the druggists), into a common tumbler glass, and place in the glass a piece of cap paper, made into the shape of the upper part of a funnel, with a hole at the bottom to admit the flies.  Attracted by the smell, they readily enter the trap in swarms, and by the thousands soon collected prove that they have not the wit or the