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To HOUSEWIVES Recent experiments
IN more than one family in this city. have
established that the plant known to botanists
as the Pologonum punetatum, commonly
called water pepper or smart weed. and
which way be found in great abundance "a
long dtches roads. lanes and barn yards, is
an effeetual and certain DESTROYER of the bed
bug. It's said to exercise he same poison
Gus effect on the flea A strong decoction
is made of the herb, aud the places infested
with the insect are carefully washed there
with. The plant may also, with much ad-
vantage, be strewn about the room. Elder
berry leaves, laid upon the shelves of a elSp-
board, will also drive away reaches and d<aas
in a very short time-Del Ga.