Protection Of Brick Work

-Th o ponetration of inoistur through the surface of brick work may be obriated by the following iraple remedy: Three-quarten of a pound oí mottled soap are to be diesolved in a gallon of boiling water, and the hot uolution erread stendily, with a fint bru-h, over the outer surface of the brick work, tuking oare that it does not luther. Th is is to be allowed to dry fur twenty-four hnurs, when a olution formod of a quarter of a pound of ahira, dissolved in two gallons of water, is to bo applied over the coating of soap. The operation nhould bt performcd in dry, eottled weather The soiip and alurn mutually docomposo euch other, and fonn nn insolublo varnih whioli th rain is unable to penétrate, and this cauee of dninpness is thns to be efloctually removed. Another method was ome time einoe deecribed to ub, (as, by tho way, the pruvicus ono was), at tho Royal Instituto of Architect. It consists _ of sul phurizing oil as a varnish or paint, aria is s:iid to improve tho color of brick and store, as wel! ns preserve them. Jt is preparud by subjecting eiglit purts of linseed oil tuïd ono of siilplmr to a temperature of 278 degrces, in au iron vessel. It is said both to l;eep out air and pi e rent deposits of soot and (lirt, when pplied with a brush to the surface of a building o brick or stone, or even of wond work. (y A hunter bagi bis gamo. A ' coqitctte sack hrs,