nother batch. Put the cider in a
tight barrel and keep in a cool cellar and it will keep for years.

_A Holland Recipe_.--To one quart of new milk, fresh from the cow (not
strained), add one half pound of ground black mustard seed and six
eggs. Beat the whole well together and pour into a barrel of cider. It
will keep cider sweet for one year or more.

TO BLEACH COTTON CLOTH.

Take one large spoonful of sal soda and one pound of chloride lime for
thirty yards; dissolve in clean, soft water; rinse the cloth
thoroughly in cold, soft water so that it may not rot. This amount of
cloth may be bleached in fourteen or fifteen minutes.

A POLISH FOR LEATHER.

Put a half-pound of shellac broken up in small pieces into a quart
bottle or jug, cover it with alcohol, cork it tight, and put it on the
shelf in a warm place; shake it well several times a day, then add a
piece of camphor as large as a hen's egg; shake it well, and in a few
hours shake it again and add one ounce of lampblack. If the alcohol is
good, it will all be dissolved in two days; then shake and use. If the
materials were of the proper kind, the polish correctly prepared, it
will dry in about five minutes, giving a gloss equal to patent
leather. Using aniline dyes instead of the lampblack, you can have it
any desired color, and it can be used on wood or hard paper.

TO SOFTEN WATER.

Add half a pound of the best quick-lime dissolved in water to every
hundred gallons. Smaller proportions may be more conveniently managed,
and if allowed to stand a short time the lime will have united with
the carbonate of lime, and been deposited at the bottom of the
receptacle. Another way is to put a gallon of lye into a barrelful of
water, or two or three shovelfuls of wood-ashes, let stand over night;
it will be clear and soft.

WASHING FLUID.

One gallon of water and four pounds of ordinary washing soda, and a
quarter of a pound of soda. Heat the water to boiling hot, put in the
soda, boil about five minutes, then pour it over two pounds of
unslaked lime, let it bubble and foam until it settles, turn it off
and bottle it for use. This is the article that is used in the Chinese
laundries for whitening their linen, and is called "Javelle water;" a
tablespoonful put into a suds of three gallons, and a little, say a
quarter of a cupful, in the boiler when boiling the clothes, makes
them very white and clear. Must be well rinsed afterwards. This
preparation will r