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Show ABOUT THE HOUSE. To clean marble: Take finely powdered pow-dered pumicestone and vinegar, wash tlm surface with tho mixture, and leave it for several hours. Then Drum m nam auu wash it cicuu. When dry, rub it with whitening and wash-leather. To estract ink from cotton, silk and wullen goods: Saturate the spot with spirits of turpentine, and let it remain eoveral hours; then rub it between be-tween the bands. It will crumble away without injuring either the color or texture of the article. To remove coal oil from cotton and woolen clothes when boiling water and soap will not do it, try steeping them for a short time in bisulphide ol carbon in a closed vessel, and then allowing them to remain exposed to the air until completely deodorized. When the color of a fabric baa btn destroyed by acid, ammonia is applied to neutralize the acid, after which an application of chloroform will, in almost all caacs, restore the original color. The application of ammonia 13 common, but that of chloroform is but little known. A cement lor covering the joints of ovens, which is said not to crack but to become very hard with service, is made by mixing equal quantities of finely-sifted wood ashes and crushed and sifted clay, some gull, and enough water to make a dough. With this dough coat the cracks when the oven is cold. If this cement is employed instead of clay in setting new ovens, ibey will be almost indestructible. A lady writes of sick canurus: i "The following treatment has completely com-pletely restored a fine singer for nie, which I Quite despaired aliout, as he had been sick and siUnt for months: Leave ofTeeed entirely. Make a panic of sweet milk and bread crumbs, throwing the crumbs into the milk while bulling, and stir until quite smooth; add a pinch of cayenne pepper, varied occasionally by some finely-mingled clove or garlic; di..-olve in the drinking water a little black currant jelly, a bit of fig, or half ft potash lcvnfce. I ustd all of t'titse and my bird is well; so to which the preference should be given I know nut, though I incline to tho jelly. It may take a long time to cure the bird, and if the trouble rises from hard new of the tongue it must be minted daily with strong borax water. If he sneeze, a little olive-oil numt Ix1 gently put up tho nostrils. Ifcshould nave plently of tepid water to b.iilie in, celery, Bweet apple or leltucu. lint by no means hang him close to tuo window; the cold is loo severe, evan in a moderately warm rouni, f&r a bird in delicate health, l'oste must be fresh daily." To wash flannels or other woollen articles: Have the suda ready prepared pre-pared by boiling up S'Huc good soap iu bo ft water with Taylor's washing crynUl, but do nut use the suds wln'ii boiling; let them be as hut as the nana will near wnen the articles are put in. The fUnneU should tint he rubbed, with soap, nor nhuuld the material itself I e rubbed, as iu washing linen, etc- Tho fibers ol the wool contain numberless little books, which the rubbing knots together; hence tho thickening o I the fabric nnd consequent shrinking in its dimensions. Sluice the itrticlt'Mun and down in plenty of ends, which afterward squeeze (not wring) out. Tbo clothes wringers are a groat improvement upon hand labor, as, without injury to the fahrio, they fquee.e out the water so thoroughly that the article dries in considerably less time than it other wine would do. After rinsing, Bqueuze out thy water ar.d dry in tbo open air, if tho weather is such as to admit of the articles drying quickly; if not, dry in a warm room, but avoid loo cloHe proximity to a fire. Let any duht or mud be beaten out or brushed oil prior to washing. All flannels for shirts should bo etirunk buforo making mak-ing up, or they will upeedly become too small. |