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To Extract Ink from Floors

Remove ink from floors by scouring them with sand wet with water and the oil of vit riol, mixed. Then rinse them with strong saleratus water. lees, 1/2 wine-glassful turpentine; mix and make into a paste with pipe clay. Put on the paste over the stain and let it remain for several days. If the stain is not fully removed a second application will generally prove sufficient. 401. To Remove Oil Stains in Marble. Stains in marble caused by oil can be removed by applying common clay saturated with benzine. If the grease has remained long enough it will have become acidulated, and may injure the polish, but the stain will be removed. 393. To Remove Stains on Mahogany Furniture. Stains and spots may be taken out of mahogany furniture by the use of a little aquafortis, or oxalic acid and water, by rubbing the part with the liquid, by means of a cork, till the color is restored; observing 402. To Remove Iron Mould or Ink afterwards to well wash the wood with water and to dry and polish as usual. from Marble. Iron mould and ink spots may be taken out in the following manner:

Take 1/2 ounce butter of antimony and 1 ounce oxalic acid, and dissolve them in 1 pint rain water; add flour, and bring the composition to

394. To Extract Oil from Boards, Marble or other Stones. Make a strong lye of pearlashes and soft water, and add as much unslacked lime as it will take up; stir a proper consistence. Then lay it evenly on it together, and then let it settle a few min- the stained part with a brush, and after it has utes; bottle it and stop close; have ready remained for a few days wash it off, and resome water to dilute it when used, and scour peat the process if the stain is not quite 10the part with it. If the liquor should lie long moved. on the boards, it will draw the color out of 403. To Remove Stains from Marthem; therefore do it with care and expedi- ble. Mix an ox-gall with a quarter of a tion. When used for marble, the surface may be improved by rubbing or polishing afterward with fine putty-powder and olive oil. (For Putty Powder, see Index.) pound of soap-boiler's lye, and an eighth of a pound of oil of turpentine, and add enough pipe-clay earth to form a paste, which is then to be placed upon the marble for a time, and afterwards scraped off; the application to be re- | cleaned, by the means of a good pair of bel peated until the marble is perfectly clean. It lows, begin at thetop of the room, holding the . It lows, begin at the top of the room, holding the is quite possible that a faint trace of the stains crust in the hand, and wiping lightly downstains crust in the hand, and wiping lightly downmay be left; but this will be almost inappreciable. Should the spots be produced by oil, by oil , these are to be first treated with petroleum, for the purpose of softening the hardened oil, and the above-mentioned application may be made subsequently. ward with the crumb, about half a yard at each stroke, till the upper part of the paper is completely cleaned all round. Then go round again, with the like sweeping stroke down-. wards, always commencing each successive course a little higher than the upper stroke 404. To Remove Printing Ink from had extended, till the bottom be finished. any Article. Printing ink can be readily This operation, if carefully performed, will taken from any article by means of ether or frequently make very old paper look almost oil of turpentine. Pure benzine will also equal to new. Great caution must be used have a similar effect.

405. To Remove the Varnish from Oil Paintings, &c. Varnish and dirt can be removed by washing over with a weak solution of carbonate of ammonia, wiping it off with a sponge wetted with water as soon as it has fulfilled its object; if allowed to remain too long it will injure the oil colors.

Another way is to spread a thick coat of wet fuller's earth over the surface of the varnish, leaving it on long enough to soften it; it may then be removed by washing.