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To Revive and Preserve Leather. — 1 part best vinegar, 2 parts boiled linseed. Bottle and shake till like cream. Apply with soft rag, and polish with very soft duster. Cleans leather, softens, and prevents it cracking. Clean Copper Kettles with a cut lemon dipped in salt. Rinse with clean water, and polish with soft cloth. Wash alabaster figures with borax and water, allowing 1/2 oz. borax to 1 pint water. Diy carefully with old piece of soft silk. Wash brushes and brooms every 6 weeks in mixture of 2 tablespoonfuls ammonia to 4 gallon of water. Let the bristles stand 1/2 hour in the water. Rinse thoroughly and hang in cool place to dry. Always keep them hanging on nail, so that bristles do not touch the floor. Magic Polishing Cloth. Take one gallon gasolene, two pounds whiting, and half an ounce oleic acid ; mix and shake up well. Pieces of woollen cloth soaked in this mixture, wrung out, and hung up to dry are said to put a fine gloss on any polished surface, silver-ware, &o. ; and although the cloths may become soiled and dirty with constant use, they will never dirty the hands of the user, or lose their polishing power. A, word of warning may be added as to the danger of using gasolene anywhere near a naked light or fireplace. .It is obvious, tlierefore, that the cloths should be dried in the open air ; once dried, of course, there will be no further danger. Various Remedies. Onion juice is one of the most effective remedies for earache. Wrap a large onion in heavy wrapping paper, wet it thoroughly, and roast in the coals. When tender, strip off the skin and squeeze out the juice by twisting in a thin cloth. Bottle and save for use. When needed, pour one or two drops in a spoon, warm a little, and drop into the ear. Afterwards put in a bit of warm cotton to exclude the air. It rarely, if ever, fails to effect a speedy cure. Ivy Leaves Cure for Corns. — The ordinary climbing ivy furnishes a very inexpensive and easily obtainable remedy. Take a few of the leaves (say about a dozen), saturate for about three days in strong vinegar sufficient to cover them. Tlie leaves may be laid on as a plaster before putting the stockings on in the moniing, or the solution may be used as a paint with a camel’s-hair pencil. For hot, tired feet, try a little Paterson’s Clensel in bath water. Relieves wonderfully. Curb for Toothache. — It is said that equal quantities of cayenne and common pepper mixed with vinegar is a certain cure. The tooth should be plugged with a pill of the mixture. Lard and Camphor are excellent remedies for a cold in the head Or tightness of the chest, causing hard breathing. Soften a little fresh lard near the fire, and stir into it an equal amount of camphor. Pour into a tin salve box or open-mouthed bottle, and cool as rapidly as possible, beating all the time, that the camphor may be thoroughly incorporated w'ith the lard, else the latter will settle to the bottom, and the camphor remain on the top. If one’s head be “stopped np,” rub all about nose, as well as forehead and temples. If a little be rubbed or snuffed up the nostrils it will be all the better. For tightness in chest rub thoroughly on throat and chest, and only a few applications will be needed to effect a cure.