Cleaning Oil- Cloths

These should not be washed with soap. A coat of good copal varnish at long intervals improves them. Oil-cloths should never be scrubbed. Wipe with a wet c loth, after brushing with a soft floor brush.

Oiled Floors

The scrapings from these should immediately be placed in the open air. They are liable to spontaneous com-bustion.

How To Restore Old Oil-Paintings

Take the painting out of the frame, lay it on a table, face up, and keep a wet cloth on it for two or three days, changing or cleaning the cloth as often as it becomes soiled. When the painting is clean, wash it with a sponge or brush dipped in nut-oil. This is much better than varnishing

Painter's Colic

(1.) One drachm of sulphuric acid in 10 pints of table or spruce beer, or mild ale. Shake well, and allow it to stand for a few hours. Take a tumblerful twice or three times daily. (2.) Make a beer of molasses, 14 lbs.; bruised ginger, 1/2 lb.; coriander-seed, 1/2 oz.; capsicum and cloves, 1/4 oz. each; water, 12-1/2 galls.; yeast, 1 pint. Put the yeast in last, and let it ferment. When the fermentation has nearly ceased, add sulphuric acid, 1-1/2 ozs., mixed with 12 ozs. water, and 1-1/2 ozs. bicarbonate of soda dissolved in water. It will be fit to drink in three or four days.

How To Clean Paint

Dip a flannel rag into warm water, and wring it out nearly dry. Take up on the rag as much whiting as will adhere, and rub this on the paint until the dirt or grease disappears. Wash the part well with clean water, and rub dry with soft chamois-skin.

How To Remove Paint From Clothes

Chloroform will remove paint from a garment or elsewhere, when benzole or bisulphide of carbon fails.

How To Remove Old Paint

Slake 3 lbs. of stone quicklime in water, and add 1 lb. American pearlash, making the whole into the consistence of paint. Lay over the old work with a brush, and let it remain for from 12 to 14 hours, when the paint is easily scraped off.

Paper Comforters

Two thicknesses of paper are better than a pair of blankets, and much lighter for those who dislike heavy bedclothes. A spread made of double layers of paper tacked together, between a covering of chintz or calico, is really a desirable household article. Soft paper is the best, but newspapers will answer.

A Superior Flour Paste

Thoroughly mix good clean flour with cold water to a paste, then add boiling water, stirring up well until it is of a consistence capable of being easily spread with a brush. Add to this a little brown sugar, a little corrosive sublimate, and about half a dozen drops of oil of lavender; and keep, if convenient, two days before using.