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bit of "paper, put it into the can, slipped the rubber ring over, and put the 

 glass cover on. The burning paper exhausted the air, and behold the cover 

 was with diflaculty removed. 



Cleaning Lamp Cliimneys—Most people, in cleaning lamp chimneys, 

 use either a brush made of bristles twisted into a wire, or a rag on the point 

 of scissors. Both of these are bad; for without great care the wire or scis- 

 sors will scratch the glass as a diamond does, which under the expansive 

 power of heat soon breaks, as all scratched glass will. If you want a neat 

 little thing that costs nothing, and will save half your glass, tie a piece of 

 sponge the size of your chimney to a pine stick. 



Filling for Cracks in Floors. — A very complete filling for open cracks 

 in floors may be made by thoroughly soaking newspapers in a paste made 

 of one pound of flour, three quarts of water and a tablespoonful of alum, 

 thoroughly boiled and mixed; make the final mixture about as thick aa 

 putty, a kind of paper putty, and it will harden like papier macho. 



Painting and Kalsomtning AValls — Before pamt or kalsomine is 

 applied to walls every crevice should be filled with plaster or cement. For 

 the kalsomine put a quarter of a pound of white glue in cold water over 

 night, and heat gradually in the morning until dissolved. Mix eight pounds 

 of whiting with hot water, add the dissolved glue and stir together, adding 

 warm water until about the consistency of thick cream. Use a kalsomine 

 brush, and finish as you go along. If skim milk is used instead of water, 

 the glue may be omitted. 



Marine Glue. — This glue resists the action of water, both hot and cold, 

 and most of the acids and alkalies. It is made in the following manner: 

 Take of gum shellac three parts, and of caoutchoiic, or India rubber, one 

 part by weight. Dissolve the shellac and rubber in separate vessels, in 

 ether, free from alcohol, applying a gentle heat. "When thoroughly dissolved, 

 mix the two sohitions, and keep in a bottle tightly corked. Pieces of wood, 

 leather, or other substances, joined together by it, will part at any other 

 point than the joint thus made. If the glue bo thinned by the admixture of 

 ether, and applied as a varnish to leather, along the seams where it is sewed 

 together, it renders the joint or seam water tight, and almost impossible to 

 separate. 



Artificial Honey. — Take ten pounds of Havana sugar, and three ])ounds 

 of water, and forty grains of cream tartar, and ten drops of essence of pep- 

 permint, and three pounds of honey. Fii-st dissolve the sugar in the water 

 over a slow fire, and take off" the scum arising therefrom; then dissolve the 

 cream tartar in a little warm water, and add with some stirring; then add 

 *.he honey heated to a boiling pitch; then add the essence of peppermint, 

 stir a few moments, and let stand until cold, Avhen it will be ready for use. 



Clement to Mend Cliina — Take a very thick solution of gum arabic, 



and stir into it plaster of Paris, until the mixture is of proper consistency. 

 Apply it with a brush to the fractional edges of the chinawaro, and stick 

 them together. In a few days it will bo impossible to break the article in 

 the same place. The whiteness of the cement rondore it doubly valuable. 



How to Cut Glas!<. — It is not generally known that glass may bo ctit, 

 under water, with a strong pair of scissors. If a round or oval bo required, 



