827. _Candles and Lamps._--In purchasing wax, spermaceti, or composition candles for _company_, there will be a saving by proportioning the length and size of the lights to the probable duration of the party. Mixed wax and spermaceti make the best candles, of which a long _four_ (that is, four to the pound,) will last ten hours; a short _six_ will burn six hours; a _three_, twelve hours. A moderate-sized French table-lamp, will consume a quarter of a pint of oil in twelve hours and a half. A common japanned kitchen-lamp, with one burner, will consume one-eighth of a pint of oil in nine hours. 828. _Neats'-foot Oil._--Boil the feet for several hours, as for making stock for jelly; skim off the oily matter from time to time as it rises, and, when it ceases to come up, pour off the water; next day, take off the cake of fat and oil which will be found on the top; boil it and the oil before obtained, together with a little cold water; let it cool; pour off the water, and bottle the oil for use. This oil being perfectly pure, and free from smell, may be used with the French lights in a sick-room. 829. _Soap._--Soap, as well as candles, is improved by keeping. Buy your store for the winter as early as September, and cut the large bars of soap into pieces, to dry. It goes farther, and is better. 830. _Coals._--Lay in your stock of coal and wood, during summer, when fuel of all kinds is cheapest. 831. _Good method of making Fires._--In managing your fires during the day, first lay on a shovelful of the dust and ashes from under the grate, then a few coals, then more ashes, and afterwards a few more coals, and thus proceed till your grate is properly filled, placing a few round coals in front. You will find that the ashes retain the heat better than coals alone; you will have less smoke, a pleasant fire, and a very little waste left at night. 832. _Kitchen-Paper._--Whited-brown and common writing is much used: it should be bought by the ream or half-ream, which will be much cheaper than by the quire. White paper only should be used for singeing, and for covering meat, pastry, &c. 833. _Economy in Tinder._--The very high price of paper, at present, renders the saving of even the smallest quantity of linen or cotton rags of consequence, as they sell very dear. Trifling as it may be thought, yet it will be found that a considerable quantity of rags may be saved in a family, by using as tinder for lighting matches, the contents of the common snuffers, collected in the course of the evening. 834. _To prevent Accidents, from leaving a poker in the fire._--The following invention is equally simple and secure:--Immediately above that square part of the poker, by blacksmiths called "the bit," let a small cross of iron, about an inch and a half each way, be welded in. The good consequences of this simple contrivance will be-- 1st. If the poker, by the fire giving way, should slip out, it will probably catch on the edge of the fender.