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perfect polish without stains in the metal, the following 

 receipt will be found a very effective and valuable polish- 

 ing liquid : — 



Sulphuric acid , . . . . .1 ounce. 



Cold Avater ...... J pint. 



Tripoli ....... 1 ounce. 



Pour the acid into the Avater in a bowl, till the heat that is gen- 

 erated passes off; then pour it into a bottle and add the tripoli. 

 This will prevent the breaking of the bottle and the loss of the 

 liquid. 



The above mixture was given by us to a few persons, 

 and was used with great effect for the first time in the sum- 

 mer of 1868 at Long Branch. It is next to impossible 

 to keep brass and yellow metal in order at the sea side. 



Saddles are, since the late war. made of various shapes 

 and of different materials, each of which, no doubt, pos- 

 sesses properties of value, peculiar to itself, and as we are 

 not as a people much in favor of scampering on horseback, 

 we will confine ourselves to the case of saddles made in 

 part of the skin of the pig and of other brown leather. 

 Saddles should, like harness and carriages, be washed when 

 dirty, and when not in use covered from the dust and pro- 

 tected from moths. To give a fine dark brown shade to 

 white or brown leather, nothing answers so good a purpose 

 as the watery portion of the blood of the ox, kept in a 

 corked bottle and protected from smelling and decay by a 

 few drops or grains of carbolic acid mixed with it. As a 

 substitute for this, no better is known than the crown soap, 



