Curriers And Workers In Leather

Lime slaked by rain. Sparks from foal flues and furnaces passing through opening and projecting eaves of drying-rooms. Friction of machinery in bark-mills. Timber, coals, shavings of wood, and leather too near flues. Drying stoves and furnaces. Spontaneous ignition. Smoking in bark and other rooms.

Farming-Stock, Stables, Hay, Grain, Or Flour Stores Of All Descriptions

Stackiug hay while green. Sparks from passing locomotives, etc. Sparks from steam thrashing machines. Sticking candles against walls and timber in barns and stables. Vagrants smoking in stables. Vagrants being refused alms. Fire-arms used near farming-stock, such as haystacks, etc.

Makers Of Gunpowder, Fire Works, Lucifer Matclies, And Explosive Compounds

Overheating of drying-stoves and explosive mixtures. Dropping lucifers. Unprotected lights. Smoking. Leaving phosphorus uncovered with water. Friction and percussion from nails in boots. Sparks passing through broken windows. The sun's rays being concentrated through bull's-eyes, knots, etc., in glass. Defective casks containing gunpowder or other explosive materials. Spontaneous ignition of red fire and suchlike compositions. Carelessness in the supervision of young children employed. Shavings and chips too near fires and lights.

Gas-Works

Hot coke near timber, etc. Seeking for an escape with unprotected lights. Timber too near furnaces, retorts, etc. Lime slaked by rain. Defective fittings and appliances. Spontaneous ignition of coals.

Hat Manufactories

Boiling shellac. Hot irons left on timber and other inflammable things. Defective drying and other stoves. Smoking tobacco.

Comfortable Fishing

A plan practiced on the Western lakes in winter consists in having a small house, built on runners like those of a sled, in which is placed a small stove, while in the floor a small aperture is left through which to drop the lines. Holes are cut in the ice, the houses are moved over them, and the fishermen sit by a warm stove while drawing in the fish.

How To Water-Proof Fishing-Lines

Apply a mixture of 2 parts boiled linseed-oil and 1 part gold size; expose to the air, and dry.

How To Dispose Of Garbage

When not fed to pigs, the best way to get rid of kitchen refuse is to burn it in the range or stove.

How To Restore Gilt Frames

Rub with a sponge moistened in turpentine.

How To Break In Any Required Form Glass

Make a small notch, by means of a file, on the edge of a piece of glass: then make the end of a tobacco-pipe, or a rod of iron about the same size, red hot in the lire, apply the hot iron to the notch, and draw it slowly along the surface of the glass in any direction you please; a crack will be made in the glass and will follow the di-rection of the iron. Hound glass bottles and flasks may be cut in the middle by wrapping round them a worsted thread dipped in spirits of turpentine, and Betting it on fire when fastened on the glass.