The following very old plan of staining wood a walnut color is revived as new "from a Belgian journal," but is as useful as if only discovered to-day:

"The wood, first thorougly dried and warmed, is coated once or twice with a liquid composed of one part by weight of extract of walnut peel, dissolved in six parts of soft water, by heating it to boiling, and stirring. The wood thus treated is, when half dry, brushed with a solution of one part by weight of bichromate of potash in five parts of boiling water, and, after drying thoroughly, is rubbed and polished. The color is thus said to be fixed in the wood to a depth of one or two lines, and in the case of red beech or alder, for instance, the walnut appearance is most perfect.