GOLD DETER′GENT

Prep. (Upton.) Take quicklime, 1 oz.; sprinkle it with a little hot water to slake it, then gradually add boiling water, 1 pint, so as to form a milk. Next di olve pearlash, 2 oz., in boiling water, 1 1 ⁄ 2 pint; mix the two solutions, cover up the ve el, agitate occasionally for an hour, allow it to settle, decant the clear, put it into flat half-pint bottles, and well cork them down. Use. To clean gilding, ., either alone or diluted with water. It is applied with a soft sponge, and then washed off with clean water. It is e entially a weak solution of pota a, and may be extemporaneously prepared by diluting solution of pota a (Ph. L.) with about 5 times its volume.