Taking Care Of Lamps

The easiost way to clean petroleum lanips is to wash with thiu milk of limo, which forma nn emulsión with tho petroleum and removes every trace of it, and by waslúng a soeond time with milk of Mme and a small quantity of chloride of lime, oven the smell muy be so completely removed as to ronder tho vessel thus cleanfcd fit fpi keepipg beverages in. If the milk of limo be ustid warm instead of cold, the opuration is rendered lauch Bhortor. The best time Lor cleaning them is in the morning, ïbr reasons of safety, if not convcnicncc. fícarcely a week passes during the winter months but we read accounts of i'ihrhtt'ul accidenta from kciosene lamps exploding and killing ur searring for Ufe women and children. A simple knowledge of the inflammabh; nature of the fluid Müuld jirobably put a stop fco nearly all the aecidents. As the oil burns down into the lamp, a highly inflammable gas gathers over its surface, und as the oil decreasos the gas increases. When the oil is liearly eonsumed, a sliglit jar will often inüftine the gas, and an explosión is Bure to lollow, dealing with it death and destruction. A bombshell is not more to be dreaded. Now, if the lamp is not allowed to burn more thau half way down, Buch acridenta are almost impossible. Always iill your lamp in the morniug ; then you neyei need t'ear au explosión. - liural llvme.