Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — To Keep the Stove Bright. [ARTICLE]

To Keep the Stove Bright.

After doing its first duty as a heater, the next thing we require of a stove is to look bright. A dull, dusty, smoky stove will make a room look disorderly and uncomfortable. It requires only a few minutes' care each day to keep the Solish bright and nickel-plate shining. cep one cloth, used for nothing else, to rub off the stove. When used first on a newly-blacked stove the cloth becomes filled with the surplus polish, which rubs off so easily, and it is then ready to impart a gloss whenever it is needed. Another plan is to use old newspapers to rub off the stove, instoad of a brush. In mixing stove polish use vinegar and a teaspoonful of sugar. Strong soap-suds are recommended for the same purpose. If it is used the luster will appear immediately, saving work and dusL To brighten the nickel-plating rub it with whiting and kerosene, using a wooleu. cloth and flour. If the mica in the stove door has become discolored with smoke it can be easily cleaned by washing it witli vinegar. The fancy zinc uow used so generally under stoves only requires to be dusted off with a dry cloth. To clean a plain zinc wet :ut with vinegar and use it to scour •a zinc, rubbing with a woolen cloth. -Amerioan Agriculturist. Celluloid. tie explosive qualities of celluloid a .practically demonstrated a few ..>ys ago in a Philadelphia saloon, when a spark from a cigarette lauded on the collar of ono of the frequenters of the piece, and Unbiased u» la a second.