A Good Receipt for Making Honey, Without Using Honey as One of the Ingredients,—­5 lbs. white sugar, 2 lbs. water, gradually bring to a boil, and skim well.  When cool add 1 lb. bees’ honey, and 4 drops peppermint.  To make of better quality add less water and more real honey.

What the Chemical Composition of Honey is.—­Principally of saccharine matter and water, about as follows:  Levulose 33-1/2 to 40 per cent., dextrose 31-3/4 to 39 per cent., water 20 to 30 per cent., besides ash and other minor constituents.

How to Clean Carpets on the Floor to Make Them Look Bright.—­To a pailful of water add three pints of oxgall, wash the carpet with this until a lather is produced, which is washed off with clean water.

How to Take Out Varnish Spots from Cloth.—­Use chloroform or benzine, and as a last resource spirits of turpentine, followed after drying by benzine.

Flour Paste for all Purposes.—­Mix 1 pound rye flour in lukewarm water, to which has been added one teaspoonful of pulverized alum; stir until free of lumps.  Boil in the regular way, or slowly pour on boiling water, stirring all the time until the paste becomes stiff.  When cold add a full quarter pound of common strained honey, mix well (regular bee honey, no patent mixture).

How to Make Liquid Glue.—­Take a wide mouthed bottle, and dissolve in it 8 ounces beet glue in 1/2 pint water, by setting it in a vessel of water, and heating until dissolved.  Then add slowly 2-1/2 ounces strong nitric acid 36 deg.  Baume, stirring all the while.  Effervescence takes place, with generation of fumes.  When all the acid has been added, the liquid is allowed to cool.  Keep it well corked, and it will be ready for use at any time.

How the World is Weighed and Its Density and Mass Computed.—­The density, mass, or weight of the earth was found by the observed force of attraction of a known mass of lead or iron for another mass; or of a mountain by the deflection of a torsion thread or plumb line.  In this manner the mean density of the earth has been found to be from 4.71 to 6.56 times the weight of water, 5.66 being accredited as the most reliable.  The weight of a cubic foot of water being known, and the contents of the earth being computed in cubic feet, we have but to multiply the number of cubic feet by 5.66 times the weight of 1 cubic foot of water to obtain the weight of the earth in pounds, or units of gravity at its surface, which is the unit usually used.  Another method of determining the mean density of the earth is founded on the change of the intensity of gravity in descending deep mines.