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 Another.

TAKE a sponge and anoint with mutton marrow.

, mode of polishing.

AFTER well oiling the rusty parts, let it remain two or three days in this state; then wipe it dry with clean rags and polish it with emery or pumice stone, or hard wood. A little unslacked lime finely powdered, will, however, frequently be sufficient after the oil is cleaned off. Where a very great degree of polish is required, it will be most effectually obtained by using a paste composed of fine levigated blood-stone and spirits of wine. Bright bars are, however, admirably cleaned in a few minutes, by using a small portion of fine corn emery, and finishing with flour of emery or rotten stone.

—cure for.

THE expressed juice or a strong decoction of dry horsemint, and of red onions, one gill of each to be taken every morning and every evening till the complaint be removed.

Another cure.

BOIL thirty unroasted coffee berries in a quart of water, till the liquid becomes of a greenish hue; half a pint of which is to be taken every morning and evening, with ten drops of the sweet spirit of nitre. It will be proper, while using this medicine, occasionally to open the bowels by taking a spoonful or two of castor-oil. This simple remedy is said to have been administered with great success in this most painful disease.