398. How to Clean Marble

398.    How to Clean Marble. The following is an excellent way of cleaning marble:

First, brush the dust off the piece to be cleaned, then apply with a brush a good coat of gum arabic, about the consistency of thick office mucilage; expose it to the sun or dry wind, or both. In a short time it will crack and peel off. If all the gum should not peel off, wash it with clean water and a clean cloth. If the first application does not have the desired effect, it should be applied again.

399. To Clean Marble

399.    To Clean Marble. Mix 1/4 pound soft soap with the same of pounded whiting, 1 ounce soda, and a piece of stone-blue the size of a walnut; boil these together for 1/4 of an hour; whilst hot, rub it over the marble with a piece of flannel, and leave it on for 24 hours; then wash it off with clean water, and polish the marble with a piece of coarse flannel, or, what is better, a piece of an old hat,

400. To take Stains out of White Marble

400.    To take Stains out of White Marble. Take 1 ox-gall, 1 wine-glass soap lees, 1/2 wine-glassful turpentine; mix and make into a paste with pipe clay. Put on the paste over the stain and let it remain for several days. If the stain is not fully removed a second application will generally prove sufficient.

401. To Remove Oil Stains in Marble

401.    To Remove Oil Stains in Marble. Stains in marble caused by oil can be removed by applying common clay saturated with benzine. If the grease has remained long enough it will have become acidulated, and may injure the polish, but the stain will be removed.

402. To Remove Iron Mould or Ink from Marble

402.    To Remove Iron Mould or Ink from Marble. Iron mould and ink spots may be taken out in the following manner: Take 1/2 ounce butter of antimony and 1 ounce oxalic acid, and dissolve them in 1 pint rain water; add flour, and bring the composition to a proper consistence. Then lay it evenly on the stained part with a brush, and after it has remained for a few days wash it off, and repeat the process if the stain is not quite removed.

403. To Remove Stains from Marble

403.    To Remove Stains from Marble. Mix an ox-gall with a quarter of a pound of soap-boiler's lye, and an eighth of a pound of oil of turpentine, and add enough pipe-clay earth to form a paste, which is then to be placed upon the marble for a time, and afterwards scraped off; the application to be repeated until the marble is perfectly clean. It is quite possible that a faint trace of the stains may be left; but this will bo almost inappreciable. Should the spots be produced by oil, these are to be first treated with petroleum, for the purpose of softening the hardened oil, and the above-mentioned application may be made subsequently.

404. To Remove Printing Ink from any Article

404.    To Remove Printing Ink from any Article. Printing ink can be readily taken from any article by means of ether or oil of turpentine. Pure benzine will also have a similar effect.