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Stain of fruit or wine
Apply strong spirits of wine; if that does not succeed, apply oxy muriatic acid, and washing with soap alternately. Apply this, in a small tea or coffee cup, put three or four tea spoonfuls of common spirits of salt, to this add about half a spoonful of red lead, after having immersed the small cup in a larger one containing hot water; moisten the stain and stretch it over the vapor, till the stain be effaced--wash it well in water.