carefully. Repeat this operation, changing
cotton and milk each time. After most of the ink has been taken up in
this way, with fresh cotton and clean, rub the spot. Continue till all
disappears; then wash the spot in clean warm water and a little soap;
rinse in clear water and rub till nearly dry. If the ink is dried in,
we know of no way that will not take the color from the carpet as well
as the ink, unless the ink is on a white spot. In that case, salts of
lemon, or soft soap, starch and lemon juice, will remove the ink as
easily as if on cotton.

TO TAKE RUST OUT OF STEEL.

If possible, place the article in a bowl containing kerosene oil, or
wrap the steel up in a soft cloth well saturated with kerosene; let it
remain twenty-four hours or longer, then scour the rusty spots with
brick dust; if badly rusted, use salt wet with hot vinegar; after
scouring rinse every particle of brick dust or salt off with boiling
hot water; dry thoroughly with flannel cloths and place near the fire
to make sure, then polish off with a clean flannel cloth and a little
sweet oil.

TO MAKE A PASTE OR MUCILAGE TO FASTEN LABLES.

Soften good glue in water, then boil it with strong vinegar and
thicken the liquid, during boiling, with fine wheat flour, so that a
paste results; or starch paste with which a little Venice turpentine
has been incorporated while it was warm.

A recipe for a transparent cement which possesses great tenacity and
has not the slightest yellow tinge: Mix in a well-stoppered bottle ten
drachms of chloroform with ten and one-half of non-vulcanized
caoutchouc (rubber) cut in small pieces. Solution is readily effected
and when it is completed add two and one-half drachms of mastic. Let
the whole macerate from eight to ten days without the application of
any heat and shake the contents of the bottle at intervals. A
perfectly white and very adhesive cement is the result.

POSTAGE STAMP MUCILAGE.

Take of gum dextrine two parts, acetic acid one part, water five
parts. Dissolve in a water bath and add alcohol one part.

_Scientific American._

Gum of great strength, which will also keep for a long time, is
prepared by dissolving equal parts of gum arabic and gum tragacanth in
vinegar. A little vinegar added to ordinary gum water will make it
keep much better.

FAMILY GLUE.

Crack the glue and put it in a bottle, add common whisky; shake up,
cork tight, and in three or four days it can be used. It requir