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 as limpid as water.) Pour a few drops of the mixture on the spot which you wish to remove, and rub it briskly with a piece of white fine flannel if on woollen, or with silk if upon silk, and it will soon disappear and leave no stain or darkness behind it even on the most delicate colours. As it is not only absolutely necessary that the oil of lemons should be pure and unadulterated, but that the spirits of wine should be of the first quality, its goodness may be easily proved by firing a small quantity in a silver spoon, when, if really good, it will burn quite dry. This latter observation will apply to most of the receipts in which alcohol is employed.

Another.

IN a pint of spring water dissolve an ounce of pure pearlash, adding to the solution a lemon, cut in small slices; this being properly mixed, and kept in a warm state for two days, the whole mass must be strained, and the clear liquid kept in a bottle for use.

—To remove from Cotton or Linnen, if recent.

APPLY strong vinegar, lemon juice and salt, by rubbing the spot with part of a lemon, or oxy-muriatic acid, or common muriatic acid, (spirit of Sea Salt) diluted—washing the spot well in cold water after the stain is removed.

To remove Iron moulds.

THE per oxyd of iron is very difficult to remove. The bleachers remove it, by taknigtaking [sic] strong muriatic acid, (spirit of salt) and dipping the finger in it, they dab the stain with the acid, letting it rest till the spot is