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in the hand, wetting it in water, and scrubbing the article. 

 Or we may do the scrubbing with a wet strip of wash-leather 

 on which silver sand and a little soft soap (to prevent the sand 

 from falling off) has been placed ; or with a wet flannel 

 rag rubbed on a cake of " Monkey Soap." Emery powder 

 placed on a flannel rag and moistened with paraffin oil, 

 is useful for removing rust. The article is then dried 

 with a rubber, burnished and finally polished up with 

 a chamois leather, piece of velveteen, or soft dry rubber. 

 Steel, in order to be burnished, should be dry and 

 free from grease, the presence of which will prevent the 

 burnisher from " biting " the steel. Alloys of nickel should 

 not be scrubbed with silver sand, monkey soap, or other gritty 

 applications, which would scratch them. As a rule, they need 

 only be washed in water, and polished with a wash-leather or 

 rubber. To add to their lustre, we may polish them 

 with whiting or plate powder applied on a flannel rag and 

 moistened with methylated spirits. 



BRASS. 



Brass may be cleaned with powdered rotten-stone (Tripoli 

 powder) and oil placed on a flannel rag ; and polished with 

 a rubber, which, when in a greasy condition, will be easier to 

 wash than a greasy wash-leather. Probably a better and a 

 more convenient application than rotten-stone and oil, is 

 " Globe Metal Polish," which is of a greasy nature, and 

 which should be sparingly applied to the surface of brass by 

 means of a rag. 



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Put plate powder on a flannel rag, fold the rag so as to 

 enclose the powder; wet each side with methylated spirits, 

 and rub the article with the rag thus prepared. During the 

 rubbing, the plate powder will work through the rag in a 



