To Purify A Sink

- Iu hot weather it is almost impossible to prevent sinksbeeomÏDg foul, unless somc obemical prepnration is uscd. One pound of copperas dissolved in three or four gallons of water, poured over a sink three or four times, will completely destroy the offensive odor. As a diainfecting agent, to jatter around premises affected with any nnplcataDt odor, nothing is better than a mixture of four parta dry ground piaster of Paris to one part fine charcoal, by woight. All sorts of glass vessels and other utensils may be effectually purifiod from offensive smells by rinsiog theni with cbarooal powder after the g rosser impuritie have buen seoured off w ith soap and Band.