Stains occasioned by fruit, iron rust and other similar causes may be removed by applying to the parts injured a weak solution of the chloride of lime, the cloth having been previously well washed. The parts subjected to this operation should be subsequently rinsed in soft, clear, warm water, without soap, and be immediately dried in the sun. Oxalic acid diluted with water will accomplish the same end. TO TAKE STAINS OUT OF SILK. Mix together in a vial two ounces of essence of lemon and one ounce of oil of turpentine. Grease and other spots in silk must be rubbed gently with a linen rag dipped in the above composition. To remove acid stains from silks, apply with a soft rag, spirits of ammonia. TO REMOVE STAINS FROM WHITE COTTON GOODS. For mildew, rub in salt and some buttermilk, and expose it to the influence of a hot sun. Chalk and soap or lemon juice and salt are also good. As fast as the spots become dry, more should be rubbed on, and the garment should be kept in the sun until the spots disappear. Some one of the preceding things will extract most kinds of stains, but a hot sun is necessary to render any one of them effectual. Scalding water will remove fruit stains. So also will hartshorn diluted with warm water, but it will be necessary to apply it several times. Common salt rubbed on fruit stains before they become dry will extract them. Colored cotton goods that have ink spilled on them, should be soaked in lukewarm sour milk. TO REMOVE SPOTS OF PITCH OR TAR. Scrape off all the pitch or tar you can, then saturate the spots with sweet oil or lard; rub it in well, and let it remain in a warm place for an hour. TO EXTRACT PAINT FROM GARMENTS. Saturate the spot with spirits of turpentine, let it remain a number of hours, then rub it between the hands; it will crumble away without injury either to the texture or color of any kind of woolen, cotton or silk goods. TO CLEAN SILKS AND RIBBONS. Take equal quantities of soft lye-soap, alcohol or gin, and molasses. Put the silk on a clean table without creasing; rub on the mixture with a flannel cloth. Rinse the silk well in cold, clear water, and hang it up to dry without wringing. Iron it before it gets dry, on the wrong side. Silks and ribbons treated in this way will look very nicely. Camphene will extract grease and clean ribbons without changing the color of most things. They should be dried in the open air and ironed when pretty dry. The water in which pared potatoes have been boiled is very good to wash black silks in; it stiffens and makes them glossy and black. Soap-suds answer very well. They should be washed in two suds and not rinsed in clean water. REMEDY FOR BURNT KID OR LEATHER SHOES.