TO TAKE OIL AND GREASE OUT OF BOARDS, MARBLE, ETC.—Make a paste with fuller’s earth and hot water; cover the spots therewith, let it dry on, and the next day scour it off with soft or yellow soap. _Or_—Make a paste with soft soap, fuller’s earth, and a little pearlash, and use it as above. FOR CLEANING WAINSCOTS AND OTHER PAINTED WOODS.—Four ounces of potass, and four ounces of powdered quick-lime are to be mixed together, and boiled for half an hour in three quarts of water; this mixture is to stand until it is cold and quite clear; the clear liquid is then poured off, and a painter’s brush dipped into it is to be passed over the surface of the wood, in the same way as for painting, immediately afterwards washing with cold water. This mode of cleaning will frequently render a new coat of paint unnecessary, and it has the advantage of being destructive to the eggs of insects which may be deposited in the interstices of the wood; where there is reason to suspect that there are bugs in the wood, it may be well, as an additional precaution, to add to the mixture two drachms of corrosive sublimate. CHAIRS.—The black leather-work of chairs, settees, &c., may be restored by first well washing off the dirt with a little warm water and soap, and afterwards with clean water. The brown and faded portions may now be re-stained by means of a little black ink, or preferably black reviver, and when this has got thoroughly dry, they may be touched over with white of egg, strained and mixed with a little sugar-candy. When the latter is nearly dry, it should be polished off with a clean dry brush. WASHING-PAINT.—The best method to wash paint is to rub some Bath brick fine, and when you have rubbed some soap on the flannel, dip it in the brick. This will remove the grease and dirt speedily, without injury.—Mrs. H. TO MAKE OAK WOOD COLOUR.—The basis of this colour is still formed of ceruse. Three-fourths of this oxide, and a fourth of ochre de rue, umber earth, and yellow de Berri; the last three ingredients being employed in proportions which lead to the required tint, give a matter equally proper for distemper, varnish, and oil.—A. S. TO GIVE A FINE COLOUR TO MAHOGANY.—Into a pint of cold-drawn linseed oil put one ounce of alkanet root, and one ounce of rose-pink in an earthen vessel; let it remain all night; then stirring it well, rub some of it over the tables with a linen rag; when it has lain some time rub it with a linen cloth.—R. M.