m the coals below, which will now
be affected by the heat, will take fire as it passes through them,
leaving a very small portion of smoke to go up the chimney. One of the
advantages of this mode of lighting a fire is, that small coal is better
suited to the purpose than large, except a few pieces in front to keep
the small from falling out of the grate. A fire lighted in this way will
burn all day, without any thing being done to it. When apparently quite
out, on being stirred, you have in a few minutes a glowing fire. When
the upper part begins to cake, it must be stirred, but the lower must
not be touched.

FUMIGATION. To prevent infection from fever, take a handful each of rue,
sage, mint, rosemary, and lavender, all fresh gathered. Cut them small,
put them into a stone jar, pour on a pint of the best white-wine
vinegar, cover the jar close, and let it stand eight days in the sun, or
near the fire. Then strain it off, and dissolve in it an ounce of
camphor. This liquid sprinkled about the chamber, or fumigated, will
much revive the patient, and prevent the attendants from receiving the
infection. Or mix a spoonful of salt in a cup, with a little powdered
magnesia: pour on the mixture at different times a spoonful of strong
vitriolic acid, and the vapour arising from it will destroy the putrid
effluvia.

FURNITURE LININGS. These articles require to be first washed, and
afterwards dyed of a different colour, in order to change and improve
their appearance.--For a Buff or salmon colour, according to the depth
of the hue, rub down on a pewter plate two pennyworth of Spanish
arnatto, and then boil it in a pail of water a quarter of an hour. Put
into it two ounces of potash, stir it round, and instantly put in the
lining. Stir it all the time it is boiling, which must be five or six
minutes; then put it into cold spring water, and hang the articles up
singly without wringing. When almost dry, fold the lining, and mangle
it.--For Pink, the calico must be washed extremely clean, and thoroughly
dried. Then boil it in two gallons of soft water, and four ounces of
alum; take it out, and dry it in the air. Meanwhile boil in the alum
water two handfuls of wheat bran till quite slippery, and then strain
it. Take two scruples of cochineal, and two ounces of argall finely
pounded and sifted, and mix it with the liquor a little at a time. Put
the calico into the liquor, keep it stirring and boiling, till the
liquor is nearly w