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diff --git a/43418-0.txt b/43418-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10fccbc --- /dev/null +++ b/43418-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3220 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43418 *** + +Transcriber's note. + +Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. A list of +other changes made can be found at the end of the book. + + Mark up: _italics_ + =bold= + + + + +=MADAME LANORMAND'S FORTUNE-TELLER AND DREAM BOOK.= + +This is the greatest book ever published on these subjects, and contains +plain and correct rules for foretelling what is going to happen. It +treats on the art of telling fortunes by the hands or Palmistry, as +practiced by the Gypsies.--On Moles.--The Birth of Children, and +Foretelling Events by the Moon's Age and the days of the week; and How +to know if your love for a person will be returned.--Also, on Charms, +Spells, and Incantations.--Fast of St. Agnes.-The Nine Keys.--Magic +Rose.--Cupid's Nosegay.--The Ring and Olive Branch.--Love's +Cordial.--The Witch's Chain.--Love Letters.--Strange Bed.--To see a +Future Husband.--The Lover's Charm.--How soon you will marry.--How to +tell a person's character by Cabalistic Calculations.--How to tell +Fortunes by Tea Leaves and Coffee Grounds; by the White of an Egg.--How +to Choose a Husband by the Hair.--Lucky Days, etc., etc. It also +contains a complete Dictionary of all Dreams, arranged alphabetically, +and with a clear interpretation of each.--Also, Hymen's Lottery, and all +good and bad Omens.--Also, the only true copy of the Oraculum ever +published in this country; it is the Oracle that foretold to Alexander +the Great, his successes; it was found by MADAME LANORMAND, in 1801, in +one of the Royal Egyptian Tombs; it was given by her to Napoleon the +First, who always consulted it previous to any of his undertakings. +=Mailed for 20 Cents.= + + +=THE SHOWMAN'S GUIDE; OR, THE BLACK ART FULLY EXPOSED AND LAID BARE.= + +This book contains most of the marvelous things in Ancient or Modern +Magic, and is the Text Book for all showmen. It shows How to knock a +Tumbler through a Table.--To drive one Tumbler through another.--How to +make the Protean Liquid.--To make a Watch stop or go at the word of +command.--How to walk barefooted on a hot iron bar.--To discover any +Card in a pack by its weight or smell.--To turn Water into Wine.--How to +eat Fire.--To Dip the Hand into Water without wetting it.--How to Fill a +Glass with two different Liquids, without mixing them.--How to Light a +Candle by a Glass of Water.--To Freeze Water by shaking it.--To break a +Stone with a Blow of the Fist.--To tear a Handkerchief into pieces and +to make it whole again.--How to fire a loaded Pistol at the Hand without +hurting it.--To change a bowl of Ink into clear Water with Fish swimming +in it.--To produce Candies, Nuts, etc., from a handkerchief, and many +other tricks too numerous to mention. =Mailed for 25 Cents.= + + +=THE MAGICIAN'S GUIDE; OR, CONJURING MADE EASY.= + +This work was written by the celebrated HOUDIN, who, being prompted by +an honest desire to instruct those who wish to be initiated into the +depths and mysteries of his art, laid bare all his professional secrets, +and has treated the subject in the most eminently successful manner. By +a series of lessons he has thoroughly explained the principles of the +higher science. Numerous illustrations, together with full and explicit +directions, make success sure, and he who desires to be the sought after +and honored guest at every party or entertainment, has but to study this +book. It treats on all kinds of Magic, Legerdemain, and Prestidigitation; +Galvanism, Magnetism and Electricity, and is illustrated with 33 first +class engravings. =Mailed for 25 Cents.= + + + + + OUR KNOWLEDGE BOX: + + OR, + + OLD SECRETS AND NEW DISCOVERIES. + + _A COMPENDIUM OF VALUABLE INFORMATION, AND AN INDISPENSABLE + HAND-BOOK FOR THE USE OF EVERYBODY: THE BEST COLLECTION OF RARE AND + VALUABLE RECIPES EVER PUBLISHED._ + + + GEO. BLACKIE & CO., + Publishers, + _746 BROADWAY, NEW YORK._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + + PAGE. + + Secrets of the Liquor Trade 3 + + Druggists' Department 8 + + Manufacturers' Department 14 + + The Toilet, Perfumery, Etc. 27 + + Hunters' and Trappers' Secrets 34 + + The Fine Arts and Sciences 36 + + Farmers' Department 43 + + Confectioners' Department 46 + + Valuable Miscellaneous Recipes for the Household and every day + Requirements 48 + + + Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by CHAS. + MCARTHUR, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, + D. C. + + + + +OUR KNOWLEDGE BOX. + + + + +SECRETS OF THE LIQUOR TRADE. + + +_Cider Without Apples._--To each gallon of cold water, put 1 lb. common +sugar, ½ oz. tartaric acid, 1 tablespoonful of yeast, shake well, make +in the evening, and it will be fit for use next day. I make in a keg a +few gallons at a time, leaving a few quarts to make into next time; not +using yeast again until the keg needs rinsing. If it gets a little sour +make a little more into it, or put as much water with it as there is +cider, and put it with the vinegar. If it is desired to bottle this +cider by manufacturers of small drinks, you will proceed as follows: Put +in a barrel 5 gallons hot water, 30 lbs. brown sugar, ¾ lb. tartaric +acid, 25 gallons cold water, 3 pints of hop or brewers' yeast worked +into paste with ¾ lb. flour, and 1 pint water will be required in making +this paste, put altogether in a barrel, which it will fill, and let it +work 24 hours--the yeast running out at the bung all the time, by +putting in a little occasionally to keep it full. Then bottle, putting +in 2 or 3 broken raisins to each bottle, and it will nearly equal +Champagne. + +_Cider Champagne, No. 1._--Good cider, 20 gallons; spirits, 1 gallon; +honey or sugar, 6 lbs. Mix, and let them rest for a fortnight; then fine +with skimmed milk, 1 quart. This, put up in champagne bottles, silvered +and labeled, has often been sold for Champagne. It opens very sparkling. + +_Cider--To Keep Sweet._--1st. By putting into the barrel before the +cider has begun to work, about half a pint of whole fresh mustard seed +tied up in a coarse muslin bag. 2d. By burning a little sulphur or +sulphur match in the barrel previous to putting in the cider. 3d. By the +use of ¾ of an ounce of the bi-sulphite of lime to the barrel. This +article is the preserving powder sold at rather a high price by various +firms. + +_To Neutralize Whiskey to make various Liquors._--To 40 gallons of +whiskey, add 1½ lbs. unslacked lime; ¾ lb. alum, and ½ pint of spirits +of nitre. Stand 24 hours and draw it off. + +_Madeira Wine._--To 40 gallons prepared cider, add, ¼ lb. tartaric acid; +4 gallons spirits; 3 lbs. loaf sugar. Let it stand 10 days, draw it off +carefully; fine it down, and again rack it into another cask. + +_Sherry Wine._--To 40 gallons prepared cider, add, 2 gallons spirits; 3 +lbs. of raisins; 6 gallons good sherry, and ½ ounce oil bitter almonds, +(dissolved in alcohol). Let it stand 10 days, and draw it off carefully; +fine it down and again rack it into another cask. + +_Port Wine._--To 40 gallons prepared cider, add, 6 gallons good port +wine; 10 quarts wild grapes, (clusters); ½ lb. bruised rhatany root; 3 +oz. tincture of kino; 3 lbs. loaf sugar; 2 gallons spirits. Let this +stand ten days; color if too light, with tincture of rhatany, then rack +it off and fine it. This should be repeated until the color is perfect +and the liquid clear. + +_To correct a bad Taste and sourness in Wine._--Put in a bag the root of +wild horse-radish cut in bits. Let it down in the wine, and leave it +there two days; take this out, and put another, repeating the same till +the wine is perfectly restored. Or fill a bag with wheat; it will have +the same effect. + +_To restore Flat Wine._--Add four or five pounds of sugar, honey, or +bruised raisins, to every hundred gallons, and bung close. A little +spirits may also be added. + +_To restore Wine that has turned sour or sharp._--Fill a bag with +leek-seed, or of leaves or twisters of vine, and put either of them to +infuse in the cask. + +_Ginger Wine._--Take one quart of 95 per cent. alcohol, and put into it +one ounce of best ginger root (bruised and not ground), five grains of +capsicum, and one drachm of tartaric acid. Let stand one week and +filter. Now add one gallon of water, in which one pound of crushed sugar +has been boiled. Mix when cold. To make the color, boil ½ ounce of +cochineal, ¾ ounce of cream tartar, ½ ounce of saleratus, and ½ ounce +alum in a pint of water till you get a bright red color. + +_French Brandy._--Pure spirits, 1 gallon; best French brandy, or any +kind you wish to imitate, 1 quart; loaf sugar, 2 ounces; sweet spirits +of nitre, ½ ounce; a few drops of tincture of catechu, or oak bark, to +roughen the taste if desired, and color to suit. + +_Gin._--Take 100 gallons of clean, rectified spirits; add, after you +have killed the oils well, 1½ ounces of the oil of English juniper, ½ +ounce of angelica essence, ½ ounce of the oil bitter almonds, ½ ounce of +the oil of coriander, and ½ ounce of the oil of caraway; put this into +the rectified spirit and well rummage it up; this is what the rectifiers +call strong gin. + +To make this _up_, as it is called by the trade, add 45 pounds of +loaf-sugar, dissolved; then rummage the whole well up together with 4 +ounces of roche alum. For finings there may be added two ounces of salts +of tartar. + +_Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps, to imitate._--To 25 gallons good common +gin, 5 over proof, add 15 pints strained honey; 2 gallons clear water; 5 +pints white-sugar syrup; 5 pints spirit of nutmegs mixed with the nitric +ether; 5 pints orange-flower water; 7 quarts pure water; 1 ounce acetic +ether; 8 drops of oil of wintergreen, dissolved with the acetic ether. +Mix all the ingredients well; if necessary, fine with alum and salt of +tartar. + +_St. Croix Rum._--To 40 gallons p. or n. spirits, add 2 gallons St. +Croix Rum; 2 oz. acetic acid; 1½ ounce butyric acid; 3 pounds loaf +sugar. + +_Pine-Apple Rum._--To 50 gallons rum, made by the fruit method, add 25 +pine-apples sliced, and 8 pounds white sugar. Let it stand two weeks +before drawing off. + +_Irish or Scotch Whiskey._--To 40 gallons proof spirits, add 60 drops of +creosote, dissolved in 1 quart of alcohol; 2 oz. acetic acid; 1 pound +loaf sugar. Stand 48 hours. + +_Rum Shrub._--Tartaric acid, 5 pounds; pale sugar, 100 pounds; oil +lemon, 4 drs.; oil orange, 4 drs.; put them into a large cask (80 +gallons), and add water, 10 gallons. Rummage till the acid and sugar are +dissolved, then add rum (proof), 20 gallons; water to make up 55 gallons +in all; coloring one quart or more. Fine with 12 eggs. The addition of +12 sliced oranges will improve the flavor. + +_Bourbon Whiskey._--To 100 gallons pure proof spirit, add 4 ounces pear +oil; 2 ounces pelargonif ether; 13 drs. oil of wintergreen, dissolved in +the ether; 1 gallon wine vinegar. Color with burnt sugar. + +_Strong Beer, English Improved._--Malt, 1 peck; coarse brown sugar, 6 +pounds; hops, 4 ounces; good yeast, 1 teacup; if you have not malt, take +a little over 1 peck of barley, (twice the amount of oats will do, but +are not as good,) and put it into an oven after the bread is drawn, or +into a stove oven, and steam the moisture from them. Grind coarsely. Now +pour upon the ground malt 3½ gallons of water at 170 or 172° of heat. +The tub in which you scald the malt should have a false bottom, 2 or 3 +inches from the real bottom; the false bottom should be bored full of +gimlet holes, so as to act as a strainer, to keep back the malt meal. +When the water is poured on, stir them well, and let it stand 3 hours, +and draw off by a faucet; put in 7 gallons more of water at 180 to 182°; +stir it well, and let it stand 2 hours, and draw it off. Then put on a +gallon or two of cold water, stir it well, and draw it off; you should +have about 5 or 6 gallons. Put the 6 pounds of coarse brown sugar in an +equal amount of water; mix with the wort, and boil 1½ to 2 hours with +the hops; you should have eight gallons when boiled; when cooled to 80° +put in the yeast, and let it work 18 to 20 hours, covered with a sack; +use sound iron hooped kegs or porter bottles, bung or cork tight, and in +two weeks it will be good sound beer, and will keep a long time; and for +persons of a weak habit of body, and especially females, 1 glass of this +with their meals is far better than tea or coffee, or all the ardent +spirits in the universe. If more malt is used, not exceeding ½ a bushel, +the beer, of course, would have more spirit, but this strength is +sufficient for the use of families or invalids. + +_Root Beer._--For 10 gallons beer, take 3 pounds common burdock root, or +1 ounce essence of sassafras; ½ pound good hops; 1 pint corn, roasted +brown. Boil the whole in 6 gallons pure water until the strength of the +materials is obtained; strain while hot into a keg, adding enough cold +water to make 10 gallons. When nearly cold, add clean molasses or syrup +until palatable,--not sickishly sweet. Add also as much fresh yeast as +will raise a batch of 8 loaves of bread. Place the keg in a cellar or +other cool place, and in 48 hours you will have a keg of first-rate +sparkling root beer. + +_Superior Ginger Beer._--Ten pounds of sugar; 9 ounces of lemon juice; ½ +a pound of honey; 11 ounces of bruised ginger root; 9 gallons of water; +3 pints of yeast. Boil the ginger half an hour in a gallon of water; +then add the rest of the water and the other ingredients, and strain it +when cold. Add the white of an egg, beaten, and ½ an ounce of essence of +lemon. Let it stand 4 days, then bottle, and it will keep many months. + +_Spruce Beer._--Take of the essence of spruce half a pint; bruised +pimento and ginger, of each four ounces; water, three gallons. Boil five +or ten minutes, then strain and add 11 gallons of warm water, a pint of +yeast, and six pints of molasses. Allow the mixture to ferment for 24 +hours. + +_To Cure Ropy Beer._--Put a handful or two of flour, and the same +quantity of hops, with a little powdered alum, into the beer and rummage +it well. + +_To give Beer the appearance of Age._--Add a few handfuls of pickled +cucumbers and Seville oranges, both chopped up. This is said to make +malt liquor appear six months older than it really is. + +_How to make Mead._--The following is a good receipt for Mead:--On +twenty pounds of honey pour five gallons of boiling water; boil, and +remove the scum as it rises; add one ounce of best hops, and boil for +ten minutes; then put the liquor into a tub to cool; when all but cold +add a little yeast, spread upon a slice of toasted bread; let it stand +in a warm room. When fermentation is set up, put the mixture into a +cask, and fill up from time to time as the yeast runs out of the +bunghole; when the fermentation is finished, bung it down, leaving a +peg-hole which can afterwards be closed, and in less than a year it will +be fit to bottle. + +_Stomach Bitters, equal to Hostetter's, for one-fourth its +cost._--European Gentian root, 1½ ounce; orange peel, 2½ ounces; +cinnamon, ¼ ounce; aniseseed, ½ ounce; coriander seed, ½ ounce; cardamon +seed, 1/8 ounce; unground Peruvian bark, ½ ounce; gum kino, ¼ ounce; +bruise all these articles, and put them into the best alcohol, 1 pint; +let it stand a week and pour off the clear tincture: then boil the dregs +a few minutes in 1 quart of water, strain, and press out all the +strength; now dissolve loaf sugar, 1 pound, in the hot liquid, adding 3 +quarts cold water, and mix with spirit tincture first poured off, or you +can add these, and let it stand on the dregs if preferred. + +_Soda Syrup, with or without Fountains._--The common or more watery +syrups are made by using loaf or crushed sugar, 8 pounds; pure water, 1 +gallon, gum arabic, 2 ounces, mix in a brass or copper kettle; boil +until the gum is dissolved, then skim and strain through white flannel, +after which add tartaric acid, 5½ oz., dissolved in hot water; to +flavor, use extract of lemon, orange, rose, pine-apple, peach, +sarsaparilla, strawberry, etc., ½ ounce to each bottle, or to your +taste. + +_Bead for Liquor._--The best bead is the orange-flower water bead, (oil +of neroli,) 1 drop to each gallon of brandy. _Another method_:--To every +40 drops of sulpuric acid, add 60 drops purest sweet oil in a glass +vessel; use immediately. This quantity is generally sufficient for 10 +gallons spirit. _Another_:--take 1 ounce of the purest oil sweet +almonds; 1 ounce of sulphuric acid; put them in a stone mortar, add, by +_degrees_, 2 ounces white lump sugar, rubbing it well with the pestle +till it becomes a paste; then add small quantities of spirits of wine +till it comes into a liquid. This quantity is sufficient for 100 +gallons. The first is strongly recommended as the best. + +_Coloring for Liquors._--Take 2 pounds crushed or lump sugar, put it +into a kettle that will hold 4 to 6 quarts, with ½ tumbler of water. +Boil it until it is _black_, then take it off and cool with water, +stirring it as you put in the water. + +_Wax Putty for Leaky Casks, Bungs, etc._--Spirits turpentine, 2 pounds; +tallow, 4 pounds; solid turpentine, 12 pounds. Melt the wax and solid +turpentine together over a slow fire, then add the tallow. When melted, +remove far from the fire, then stir the spirits turpentine, and let it +cool. + +_Cement for the Mouths of Corked Bottles._--Melt together ¼ of a pound +of rosin, a couple of ounces of beeswax. When it froths stir it with a +tallow candle. As soon as it melts, dip the mouths of the corked bottles +into it. This is an excellent thing to exclude the air from such things +as are injured by being exposed to it. + + + + +DRUGGISTS' DEPARTMENT. + + +_Arnica Liniment._--Add to one pint of sweet oil, two tablespoonfuls of +tincture of arnica; or the leaves may be heated in the oil over a slow +fire. Good for wounds, stiff joints, rheumatic, and all injuries. + +_Ayer's Cherry Pectoral._--Take four grains of acetate of morphia, 2 +fluid drachms of tincture of bloodroot, 7 fluid drachms each of +antimonial wine and wine of ipecacuanha, and 3 fluid ounces of syrup of +wild cherry. Mix. + +_Balm Gilead._--Balm-gilead buds, bottled up in new rum, are very +healing to fresh cuts or wounds. No family should be without a bottle. + +_Blackberry Cordial._--To one quart of blackberry juice, add one pound +of white sugar, one tablespoonful of cloves, one of allspice, one of +cinnamon, and one of nutmeg. Boil all together fifteen minutes; add a +wineglass of whiskey, brandy or rum. Bottle while hot, cork tight, and +seal. This is almost a specific in diarrhea. One dose, which is a +wineglassful for an adult--half that quantity for a child--will often +cure diarrhea. It can be taken three or four times a day if the case is +severe. + +_Brandreth's Pills._--Take two pounds of aloes, one pound of gamboge, +four ounces of extract of colocynth, half a pound of castile soap, two +fluid drachms of oil of peppermint, and one fluid drachm of cinnamon. +Mix, and form into pills. + +_Brown's Bronchial Troches._--Take one pound of pulverized extract of +licorice, one and a half pounds of pulverized sugar, four ounces of +pulverized cubebs, four ounces of pulverized gum arabic, and one ounce +of pulverized extract of conium. Mix. + +_Bryan's Pulmonic Wafers for Coughs, Colds, Etc._--Take white sugar, +seven pounds; tincture of syrup of ipecac, four ounces: antimonial wine, +two ounces; morphine, ten grains; dissolved in a tablespoonful of water, +with ten or fifteen drops sulphuric acid; tincture of bloodroot, one +ounce; syrup of tolu, two ounces; add these to the sugar, and mix the +whole mass as confectioners do for lozenges, and cut into lozenges the +ordinary size. Use from six to twelve of these in twenty-four hours. +They sell at a great profit. + +_Candied Lemon or Peppermint, for Colds._--Boil one and a half pounds of +sugar in a half pint of water, till it begins to candy round the sides; +put in eight drops of essence; pour it upon buttered paper, and cut it +with a knife. + +_Camphor Balls_, for rubbing on the hands, to prevent chaps, etc.--Melt +three drachms of spermaceti, four drachms of white wax, and one ounce of +almond oil; stir in three drachms of powdered camphor. Pour the compound +into small gallipots, so as to form small hemispherical cakes. They may +be colored with alkanet, if preferred. + +_Camphorated Oil._--This is another camphor liniment. The proportions +are the same as in the preceding formula, substituting olive oil for the +alcohol, and exposing the materials to a moderate heat. As an external +stimulant application it is even more powerful than the spirits; and to +obtain its full influence the part treated should be also covered with +flannel and oil silk. It forms a valuable liniment in chronic rheumatism +and other painful affections, and is specially valuable as a +counter-irritant in sore or inflamed throats and diseased bowels. +Camphor constitutes the basis of a large number of valuable liniments. +Thus, in cases of whooping-cough and some chronic bronchitic affections, +the following liniment may be advantageously rubbed into the chest and +along the spine. Spirits of camphor, two parts; laudanum, half a part; +spirits of turpentine, one part; castile soap in powder, finely divided, +half an ounce; alcohol, 3 parts. Digest the whole together for three +days, and strain through linen. This liniment should be gently warmed +before using. A powerful liniment for old rheumatic pains, especially +when affecting the loins, is the following: camphorated oil and spirits +of turpentine, of each two parts; water of hartshorn, one part; +laudanum, one part; to be well shaken together. Another very efficient +liniment or embrocation, serviceable in chronic painful affections, may +be conveniently and easily made as follows: Take of camphor, one ounce; +cayenne pepper, in powder, two teaspoonfuls; alcohol, one pint. The +whole to be digested with moderate heat for ten days, and filtered. It +is an active rubificant; and after a slight friction with it, it +produces a grateful, thrilling sensation of heat in the pained part, +which is rapidly relieved. + +_Camphor Tablet for Chapped Hands, etc._--Melt tallow, and add a little +powdered camphor and glycerine, with a few drops of oil of almonds to +scent. Pour in molds and cool. + +_Camphorated Eye-Water._--Sulphate of copper, 15 grains; French bolo, 15 +grains; camphor, 4 grains; boiling water, 4 oz. Infuse, strain, and +dilute with 2 quarts of cold water. + +_Canker-Cure._--Take one large teaspoonful of water, two teaspoonfuls of +honey, two of loaf sugar, three of powdered sage, two of powdered +gold-thread, and one of alum. Stir up all together; put into a vessel, +and let it simmer moderately over a steady fire. An oven is better. Then +bottle for use. Give a teaspoonful occasionally through the day. + +_Cephalic Snuff._--Dried asarbacca leaves, three parts; majoram, one +part, lavender flowers, one part; rub together to a powder. + +_Certain Cure for Headache and all Neuralgic Pains._--Opodeldoc, spirits +of wine, sal ammoniac, equal parts. To be applied as any other lotion. + +_Chamomile Pills._--Aloes, twelve grains; extract chamomile, thirty-six +grains; oil of chamomile, three drops; make into twelve pills: two every +night, or twice a day. + +_Chlorine Pastiles for Disinfecting the Breath._--Dry chloride of lime, +two drachms; sugar, eight ounces; starch, one ounce, gum tragacanth, one +drachm; carmine, two grains. Form into small lozenges. + +2. Sugar flavored with vanilla, 1 ounce; powdered tragacanth, 20 grains; +liquid chloride of soda sufficient to mix; add two drops of any +essential oil. Form a paste and divide into lozenges of 15 grains each. + +_Cholera Morbus._--Take two ounces of the leaves of the bene plant, put +them in half a pint of cold water and let them soak an hour. Give two +tablespoonfuls hourly, until relief is experienced. + +_Cholera Remedy._--Spirits of wine, one ounce; spirits of lavender, +quarter ounce; spirits of camphor, quarter ounce; compound tincture of +benzoin, half an ounce; oil of origanum, quarter ounce; twenty drops on +moist sugar. To be rubbed outwardly also. + +2. Twenty-five _minims_ of diluted sulphuric acid in an ounce of water. + +_Corn Remedy._--Soak a piece of copper in strong vinegar for twelve or +twenty-four hours. Pour the liquid off, and bottle. Apply frequently, +till the corn is removed. + +2. Supercarbonate of soda, one ounce, finely pulverized, and mix with +half an ounce of lard. Apply on a linen rag every night. + +_Cough Compound._--For the cure of coughs, colds, asthma, whooping cough +and all diseases of the lungs; One spoonful of common tar, three +spoonfuls of honey, the yolk of three hen's eggs, and half a pint of +wine; beat the tar, eggs and honey well together with a knife, and +bottle for use. A teaspoonful every morning, noon and night, before +eating. + +_Cough Syrup._--Put one quart hoarhound to one quart water, and boil it +down to a pint; add two or three sticks of licorice and a tablespoonful +of essence of lemon. Take a tablespoonful of the syrup three times a +day, or as often as the cough may be troublesome. The above receipt has +been sold for $100. Several firms are making much money by its +manufacture. + +_Cure for Diarrhea._--The following is said to be an excellent cure for +the above distressing complaint: Laudanum, two ounces; spirits of +camphor, two ounces; essence of peppermint, two ounces; Hoffman's +anodyne, two ounces; tincture of cayenne pepper, two drachms; tincture +of ginger, one ounce. Mix all together. Dose, teaspoonful in a little +water, or a half teaspoonful repeated in an hour afterward in a +tablespoonful of brandy. This preparation it is said, will check +diarrhea in ten minutes, and abate other premonitory symptoms of cholera +immediately. In cases of cholera, it has been used with great success to +restore reaction by outward application. + +_Digestive Pills._--Rhubarb, two ounces; ipecacuanha, half an ounce; +cayenne pepper, quarter of an ounce; soap, half an ounce; ginger, +quarter of an ounce; gamboge, half an ounce. Mix, and divide into four +grain pills. + +_Dried Herbs._--All herbs which are to be dried should be washed, +separated, and carefully picked over, then spread on a coarse paper and +keep in a room until perfectly dry. Those which are intended for cooking +should be stripped from the stems and rubbed very fine. Then put them in +bottles and cork tightly. Put those which are intended for medicinal +purposes into paper bags, and keep them in a dry place. + +_Dysentery Specific_, (particularly for bloody dysentery in Adults and +Children.)--Take one pound gum arabic, one ounce gum tragacanth, +dissolved in two quarts of soft water, and strained. Then take one pound +of cloves, half a pound of cinnamon, half a pound allspice, and boil in +two quarts of soft water, and strain. Add it to the gums, and boil all +together over a moderate fire, and stir into it two pounds of loaf +sugar. Strain the whole again when you take it off, and when it is cool, +add to it half a pint sweet tincture rhubarb, and a pint and a half of +best brandy. Cork it tight in bottles, as the gums will sour, if +exposed. If corked properly it will keep for years. + +_Anti-Bilious Pills._--Compound extract of colocynth, 60 grains; +rhubarb, 30 grains; soap, 10 grains. Make into 24 pills. Dose 2 to 4. + +2. Compound extract of colocynth, 2 drachms; extract of rhubarb, half a +drachm; soap, 10 grains. Mix, and divide into 40 pills. Dose, 1, 2, or +3. + +3. Scammony, 10 to 15 grains; compound extract of colocynth, 2 scruples; +extract of rhubarb, half a drachm; soap, 10 grains; oil of caraway, 5 +drops. Make into 20 pills. Dose, 1 or 2, as required. + +_Great Pain Extractor._--Spirits of ammonia, one ounce; laudanum, one +ounce; oil of organum, one ounce; mutton tallow, half-pound; combine the +articles with the tallow when it is nearly cool. + +_Godfrey's Cordial._--Sassafras, six ounces; seeds of coriander, caraway +and anise, of each one ounce; infuse in six pints of water; simmer the +mixture till reduced to four pints; then add six pounds of molasses; +boil a few minutes; when cold, add three fluid ounces of tincture of +opium. For children teething. + +_Hydrophobia, to Prevent._--Elecampane, one drachm; chalk, four drachms; +Armenian bole, three drachms; alum, ten grains; oil of aniseseed, five +drops. + +_Infant's Syrup._--The syrup is made thus: one pound best box raisins, +half an ounce of aniseseed, two sticks licorice; split the raisins, +pound the aniseseed, and cut the licorice fine; add to it three quarts +of rain water, and boil down to two quarts. Feed three or four times a +day, as much as the child will willingly drink. The raisins are to +strengthen, the anise is to expel the wind, and the licorice as a +physic. + +_Basilicon Ointment._--Good resin, five parts; lard, eight parts; yellow +wax, two parts. Melt, and stir together till cool. + +_Cancer Ointment._--White arsenic, sulphur, powdered flowers of lesser +spearwort, and stinking chamomile, levigated together and formed into a +paste with white of egg. + +_Elder Flower Ointment._--Lard, twenty-five pounds; prepared mutton +suet, five pounds; melt in an earthen vessel; add elder flower water, +three gallons. Agitate for half an hour, and set it aside; the next day +gently pour off the water, remelt the ointment, add benzoic acid three +drachms; otto of roses, twenty drops; essence of bergamot and oil of +rosemary, of each, thirty drops; again agitate well, let it settle for +a few minutes, and pour off the clear into pots. + +_Eruption Ointment, for Frosted Feet, etc._--Chrome yellow, and hog's +lard. + +_Foot Ointment_ (for all domestic animals).--Equal parts of tar, lard +and resin, melted together. + +_Golden Ointment._--Orpiment, mixed with lard to the consistence of an +ointment. + +_Pile Ointment._--Powdered nutgall, two drachms; camphor, one drachm; +melted wax, one ounce; tincture of opium, two drachms. Mix. + +_Swaim's Vermifuge._--Wormseed, two ounces: valerian, rhubarb, +pink-root, white agaric, of each, one and a half ounces; boil in +sufficient water to yield three quarts of decoction, and add to it +thirty drops of oil of tansy, and forty-five drops of oil of cloves, +dissolved in a quart of rectified spirits. Dose, one teaspoonful at +night. + +_For Tetter, Ringworm, and Scald Head._--One pound simple cerate; +sulphuric acid, one-quarter of a pound; mix together, and ready for use. + +_Tincture for Wounds._--Digest flowers of St. Johnswart, one handful, in +half a pint of rectified spirits, then express the liquor and dissolve +it in myrrh, aloes, and dragon's blood, of each one drachm, with Canada +balsam, half an ounce. + +_Tonic._--The following is the tonic used by reformed drunkards to +restore the vigor of the stomach. Take of gentian root, half an ounce; +valerian root, one drachm; best rhubarb root, two drachms; bitter orange +peel, three drachms; cardamom seeds, half an ounce; and cinnamon bark, +one drachm. Having bruised all the above together in a mortar (the +druggist will do it if requested), pour upon it one and a half pints of +boiling water and cover up close; let it stand till cold; strain, +bottle, and cork securely; keep in a dark place. Two tablespoonfuls may +be taken every hour before meals, and half that quantity whenever the +patient feels that distressing sickness and prostration so generally +present for some time after alcoholic stimulants have been abandoned. + +_Whooping Cough._--Mix a quarter of a pound of ground elecampane root in +half a pint of strained honey and half a pint of water. Put them in a +glazed earthen pot, and place it in a stone oven, with half the heat +required to bake bread. Let it bake until about the consistency of +strained honey, and take it out. Administer in doses of a teaspoonful +before each meal, to a child; if an adult, double the dose. + +_Wild Cherry Bitters._--Boil a pound of wild cherry bark in a quart of +water till reduced to a pint. Sweeten and add a little rum to preserve, +or, if to be used immediately, omit the rum. Dose, a wineglassful three +times a day, on an empty stomach. + +_A Certain Cure for Drunkenness._--Sulphate of iron, 5 grains; magnesia, +10 grains peppermint water, 11 drachms; spirits of nutmeg, 1 drachm; +twice a day. This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant, and so +partially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and prevents that +absolute physical and moral prostration that follows a sudden breaking +off from the use of stimulating drinks. + + + + +MANUFACTURERS' DEPARTMENT. + + +_Indelible Ink for Marking Clothing._--Nitrate of silver, five scruples; +gum arabic, two drachms; sap green, one scruple; distilled water, one +ounce; mix together. Before writing on the article to be marked, apply a +little of the following: carbonate of soda, one-half ounce; distilled +water, four ounces; let this last, which is the mordant, get dry; then, +with a quill pen, write what you require. + +_Imitation Gold._--16 parts platina; 7 parts copper; 1 part zinc. Put in +a covered crucible, with powdered charcoal, and melt together till the +whole forms one mass, and are thoroughly incorporated together. Or, take +4 oz. platina, 3 oz. silver, 1 oz. copper. + +_Imitation Silver._--11 oz. refined nickel; 2 oz. metalic bismuth. Melt +the compositions together three times, and pour them out in ley. The +third time, when melting, add 2 oz. pure silver. Or take ¼ oz. copper, 1 +oz. bismuth, 2 oz. saltpetre, 2 oz. common salt, 1 oz. arsenic, 1 oz. +potash, 2 oz. brass, and 3 oz. pure silver. Melt all together in a +crucible. + +_Recipe for Making Artificial Honey._--To 10 lbs. sugar add 3 lbs. +water, 40 grains cream tartar, 10 drops essence peppermint, and 3 lbs. +strained honey. First dissolve the sugar in water, and take off the +scum; then dissolve the cream of tartar in a little warm water, which +you will add with some little stirring; then add the honey; heat to a +boiling point, and stir for a few minutes. + +_Vinegar._--Take forty gallons of soft water, six quarts of cheap +molasses, and six pounds of acetic acid; put them into a barrel (an old +vinegar barrel is best), and let them stand from three to ten weeks, +stirring occasionally. Add a little "mother" of old vinegar if +convenient. Age improves it. + +_Soft Soap._--Dissolve fifteen pounds of common cheap hard soap in +fifteen gallons of hot water, and let it cool. Then dissolve fifteen +pounds of sal soda in fifteen gallons of hot water; add six pounds of +unslaked lime, and boil twenty minutes. Let it cool and settle, and then +pour off the clear liquor very carefully and mix it with the soap +solution. It improves it very much to add one quart of alcohol after +mixing the two solutions. Smaller quantities can be made in the same +proportions. If too strong, add water to suit. + +_Babbit's Premium Soap._--5 gals, strong ley; 5 gals water; 5 lbs. +tallow; 1 lb. potash; 2 lbs. sal soda; ½ lb. rosin; 1 pt. salt; 1 pt. +washing fluid. Let the water boil; then put in the articles, and boil +half an hour. Stir it well while boiling, and then run into moulds. It +will be ready for use as soon as cold. The above preparations are for +100 pounds of soap. + +_Celebrated Recipe for Silver Wash._--One ounce of nitric acid, one +ten-cent piece, and one ounce of quick-silver. Put in an open glass +vessel and let it stand until dissolved; then add one pint of water, and +it is ready for use. Make it into a powder by adding whiting, and it may +be used on brass, copper, German silver, etc. + +_Cement for Aquaria._--Many persons have attempted to make aquarium, but +have failed on account of the extreme difficulty in making the tank +resist the action of water for any length of time. Below is a recipe for +a cement that can be relied upon; it is perfectly free from anything +that injures the animals or plants; it sticks to glass, metal, wood, +stone, etc., and hardens under water. A hundred different experiments +with cements have been tried, but there is nothing like it. It is the +same as that used in constructing the tanks of the Zoological Gardens, +London, and is almost unknown in this country. One part, by measure, say +a gill, of litharge; one gill of plaster of Paris; one gill of dry, +white sand, one-third of a gill of finely-powdered resin. Sift and keep +corked tight until required for use, when it is to be made into a putty +by mixing in boiled oil (linseed) with a little patent dryer added. +Never use it after it has been mixed (that is, with the oil) over +fifteen hours. This cement can be used for marine as well as fresh water +aquaria, as it resists the action of salt water. The tank can be used +immediately, but it is best to give it three or four hours to dry. + +_Cement for Attaching Metal to Glass._--Take two ounces of a thick +solution of glue, and mix it with one ounce of linseed-oil varnish, and +half an ounce of pure turpentine; the whole are then boiled together in +a close vessel. The two bodies should be clamped and held together for +about two days after they are united, to allow the cement to become +dry. The clamps may then be removed. + +_Cement for Mending Broken China._--Stir plaster of Paris into a thick +solution of gum arabic, till it becomes a viscous paste. Apply it with a +brush to the fractured edges, and draw the parts closely together. + +_Cement for Mending Steam Boilers._--Mix two parts of finely powdered +litharge with one part of very fine sand, and one part of quicklime +which has been allowed to slack spontaneously by exposure to the air. +This mixture may be kept for any length of time without injury. In using +it a portion is mixed into paste with linseed oil, or, still better, +boiled linseed oil. In this state it must be quickly applied, as it soon +becomes hard. + +_Cheap White House Paint._--Take skim milk, two quarts, eight ounces +fresh slaked lime, six ounces linseed oil; two ounces white Burgundy +pitch, three pounds Spanish white. Slake the lime in water, expose it to +the air, and mix in about one-quarter of the milk, the oil, in which the +pitch is previously dissolved, to be added, a little at the time; then +the rest of the milk, and afterwards the Spanish white. This quantity is +sufficient for thirty square yards, two coats, and costs but a few +cents. If the other colors are wanted, use, instead of Spanish white, +other coloring matter. + +_Composition for House-Roofs._--Take one measure of fine sand, two of +sifted wood-ashes, and three of lime, ground up with oil. Mix +thoroughly, and lay on with a painter's brush, first a thin coat and +then a thick one. This composition is not only cheap, but it strongly +resists fire. + +_Diamond Cement._--Isinglass, one ounce; distilled vinegar, five and a +half ounces; spirits of wine, two ounces; gum ammoniacum, half an ounce; +gum mastic, half an ounce. Mix well. + +_French Polish._--To one pint of spirits of wine, add a quarter of an +ounce of gum copal, a quarter of an ounce of gum arabic, and one ounce +of shellac. Let the gums be well bruised, and sifted through a piece of +muslin. Put the spirits and the gums together in a vessel that can be +closely corked; place them near a warm stove, and frequently shake them; +in two or three days they will be dissolved; strain the mixture through +a piece of muslin, and keep it tightly corked for use. + +_Furniture Oil for Polishing and Staining Mahogany._--Take of linseed +oil, one gallon; alkanet root, three ounces; rose pink, one ounce. Boil +them together ten minutes, and strain so that the oil be quite clear. +The furniture should be well rubbed with it every day until the polish +is brought up, which will be more durable than any other. + +_Glue for ready Use._--To any quantity of glue use common whiskey +instead of water. Put both together in a bottle, cork tight, and set it +away for three or four days, when it will be fit for use without the +application of heat. + +_A Quart of Ink, for a Dime._--Buy extract of logwood, which may be had +at three cents an ounce, or cheaper by the quantity. Buy also, for three +cents, an ounce of _bi-chromate of potash_. Do not make a mistake, and +get the simple chromate of potash. The former is orange red, and the +latter clear yellow. Now, take half an ounce of extract of logwood and +ten grains of bi-chromate of potash, and dissolve them in a quart of hot +rain water. When cold, pour it into a glass bottle, and leave it +uncorked for a week or two. Exposure to the air is indispensable. The +ink is then made, and has cost five to ten minutes' labor, and about +three cents, beside the bottle. The ink is at first an intense steel +blue, but becomes quite black. + +_An Excellent Substitute for Ink._--Put a couple of iron nails into a +teaspoonful of vinegar. In half an hour pour in a tablespoonful of +strong tea, and then you will have ink enough for a while. + +_Ink, First-Rate Black._--Take twelve pounds of bruised galls, five +pounds of gum Senegal, five pounds of green sulphate of iron, and twelve +gallons of rain water. Boil the galls with nine gallons of water for +three hours, adding fresh water to replace what is lost by evaporation. +Let the decoction settle, and draw off the clear liquor; add to it a +strained solution of the gum; dissolve also the sulphate of iron +separately, and mix the whole. + +_Ink, Blue._--Chinese blue, three ounces; oxalic acid, (pure,) +three-quarters of an ounce; gum arabic, powdered, one ounce; distilled +water, six pints. Mix. + +_Ink, Cheap Printing._--Take equal parts of lampblack and oil; mix and +keep on the fire till reduced to the right consistency. This is a good +ink for common purposes, and is very cheap. We have used it extensively +ourselves. + +_Ink, Copying._--Dissolve half an ounce of gum and twenty grains of +Spanish licorice in thirteen drachms of water, and add one drachm of +lampblack, previously mixed with a teaspoonful of sherry. + +_Ink, Indelible._--To four drachms of lunar caustic, in four ounces of +water, add 60 drops of nutgalls, made strong by being pulverized and +steeped in soft water. The mordant, which is to be applied to the cloth +before writing, is composed of one ounce of pearlash, dissolved in four +ounces of water, with a little gum arabic dissolved in it. Wet the spot +with this; dry and iron the cloth; then write. + +_Ink, Indelible Marking._--One and a half drachms of nitrate of silver, +one ounce of distilled water, half an ounce of strong mucilage of gum +arabic, three-quarters of a drachm of liquid ammonia. Mix the above in a +clean glass bottle, cork tightly, and keep in a dark place till +dissolved, and ever afterwards. Directions for use: Shake the bottle, +then dip a clean quill pen in the ink, and write or draw what you +require on the article; immediately hold it close to the fire (without +scorching), or pass a hot iron over it, and it will become a deep and +indelible black, indestructible by either time or acids of any +description. + +_Ink, Indestructible._--On many occasions it is of importance to employ +an ink indestructible by any process, that will not equally destroy the +material on which it is applied. For black ink, twenty-five grains of +copal, in powder, are to be dissolved in two hundred grains of oil of +lavender, by the assistance of a gentle heat, and are then to be mixed +with two and a half grains of lampblack and half a grain of indigo. This +ink is particularly useful for labelling phials, &c., containing +chemical, substances of a corrosive nature. + +_Ink for Marking Linen with Type._--Dissolve one part of asphaltum in +four parts of oil of turpentine, and lamp-black or black-lead, in fine +powder, in sufficient quantity to render of proper consistency to print +with type. + +_Ink Powder for Immediate Use._--Reduce to powder ten ounces of +gall-nuts, three ounces of green copperas, two ounces each of powdered +alum and gum arabic. Put a little of this mixture into white wine, and +it will be fit for immediate use. + +_Ink Stains._--The moment the ink is spilled, take a little milk, and +saturate the stain, soak it up with a rag, and apply a little more milk, +rubbing it well in. In a few minutes the ink will be completely removed. + +_Red Ink._--Take of the raspings of Brazil wood, quarter of a pound, and +infuse them two or three days in colorless vinegar. Boil the infusion +one hour and a half over a gentle fire, and afterward filter it while +hot, through paper laid in an earthenware cullender. Put it again over +the fire, and dissolve in it first half an ounce of gum arabic, and +afterward of alum and white sugar each half an ounce. Care should be +taken that the Brazil wood be not adulterated with the Braziletto or +campeachy wood. + +_Transfer Ink._--Mastic in tears, four ounces; shellac, six oz.; Venice +turpentine, half an ounce; melt together; add wax, half a pound; tallow, +three ounces. When dissolved, further add hard tallow soap (in +shavings), three ounces; and when the whole is combined, add lampblack, +two ounces. Mix well, cool a little, and then pour it into molds. This +ink is rubbed down with a little water in a cup or saucer, in the same +way as water-color cakes. In winter, the operation should be performed +near the fire. + +_Indian Glues._--Take one pound of the best glue, the stronger the +better, boil it and strain it very clear; boil also four ounces of +isinglass; put the mixture into a double glue pot, add half a pound of +brown sugar, and boil the whole until it gets thick; then pour it into +thin plates or molds, and when cold you may cut and dry them in small +pieces for the pocket. The glue is used by merely holding it over steam, +or wetting it with the mouth. This is a most useful and convenient +article, being much stronger than common glue. It is sold under the name +of Indian glue, but is much less expensive in making, and is applicable +to all kinds of small fractures, etc.; answers well on the hardest +woods, and cements china, etc., though, of course, it will not resist +the action of hot water. For parchment and paper, in lieu of gum or +paste, it will be found equally convenient. + +_Japanese Cement._--Intimately mix the best powdered rice with a little +cold water, then gradually add boiling water until a proper consistence +is acquired, being particularly careful to keep it well stirred all the +time; lastly, it must be boiled for one minute in a clean saucepan or +earthern pipkin. This glue is beautifully white and almost transparent, +for which reason it is well adapted for fancy paper work, which requires +a strong and colorless cement. + +_Liquid Blacking._--Mix a quarter of a pound of ivory-black, six gills +of vinegar, a tablespoonful of sweet oil, and two large spoonfuls of +molasses. Stir the whole well together, and it will then be fit for use. + +_Liquid Glue._--Dissolve one part of powdered alum, one hundred and +twenty parts of water; add one hundred and twenty parts of glue, ten of +acetic acid, and forty of alcohol, and digest. Prepared glue is made by +dissolving common glue in warm water, and then adding acetic acid +(strong vinegar) to keep it. Dissolve one pound of best glue in one and +a half pints of water, and add one pint of vinegar. It is then ready for +use. + +_Magic Copying Paper._--To make black paper, lampblack mixed with cold +lard; red paper, Venetian red mixed with lard; blue paper, Prussian blue +mixed with lard; green paper, Chrome green mixed with lard. The above +ingredients to be mixed to the consistency of thick paste, and to be +applied to the paper with a rag. Then take a flannel rag, and rub until +all color ceases coming off. Cut your sheets four inches wide and six +inches long; put four sheets together, one of each color, and sell for +twenty-five cents per package. The first cost will not exceed three +cents. + +Directions for writing with this paper: Lay down your paper upon which +you wish to write; then lay on the copying paper, and over this lay any +scrap of paper you choose; then take any hard pointed substance and +write as you would with a pen. + +_Mahogany Stain._--Break two ounces of dragon's blood in pieces, and put +them in a quart of rectified spirits of wine; let the bottle stand in a +warm place, and shake it frequently. When dissolved, it is fit for use, +and will render common wood an excellent imitation of mahogany. + +_Marine Glue._--Dissolve four parts of India-rubber in thirty-four parts +of coal tar naptha, aiding the solution with heat and agitation. The +solution is then thick as cream, and it should be added to sixty-four +parts of powdered shellac, which must be heated in the mixture till all +is dissolved. While the mixture is hot it is poured on plates of metal, +in sheets like leather. It can be kept in that state, and when it is +required to be used, it is put into a pot and heated till it is soft, +and then applied with a brush to the surfaces to be joined. Two pieces +of wood joined with this cement can scarcely be sundered. + +_Parchment._--Paper parchment may be produced by immersing paper in a +concentratic solution of chloride of zinc. + +_Amalgam of Gold._--Place one part of gold in a small iron saucepan or +ladle, perfectly clean, then add 8 parts of mercury, and apply a gentle +heat, when the gold will dissolve; agitate the mixture for one minute, +and pour it out on a clean plate or stone slab. + +For gilding brass, copper etc. The metal to be gilded is first rubbed +over with a solution of nitrate of mercury, and then covered with a very +thin film of the amalgam. On heat being applied the mercury volatilizes, +leaving the gold behind. + +A much less proportion of gold is often employed than the above, where a +very thin and cheap gilding is required, as by increasing the quantity +of the mercury, the precious metal may be extended over a much larger +surface. A similar amalgam prepared with silver is used for silvering. + +_Amalgam for Mirrors._--Lead and tin, each 1 oz; bismuth, 2 oz; mercury, +4 oz.; melt as before, and add the mercury. These are used to silver +mirrors, glass globes, etc., by warming the glass, melting the amalgam, +and applying it. + +_Annealing Steel._--1. For a small quantity. Heat the steel to a cherry +red in a charcoal fire, then bury in sawdust, in an iron box, covering +the sawdust with ashes. Let stay until cold.--2. For a larger quantity, +and when it is required to be very "soft." Pack the steel with cast iron +(lathe or planer) chips in an iron box, as follows: Having at least ½ or +¾ inch in depth of chips in the bottom of the box, put in a layer of +steel, then more chips to fill spaces between the steel, and also the ½ +or ¾ inch space between the sides of box and steel, then more steel; and +lastly, at least 1 inch in depth of chips, well rammed down on top of +steel. Heat to and keep at a red heat for from two to four hours. Do not +disturb the box until cold. + +_To make Bell Metal._--1. Melt together under powdered charcoal, 100 +parts of pure copper, with 20 parts of tin, and unite the two metals by +frequently stirring the mass. Product very fine.--2. Copper 3 parts; tin +1 part; as above. Some of the finest church bells in the world have this +composition.--3. Copper 2 parts: tin 1 part; as above.--4. Copper 72 +parts; tin 26½ parts; iron 1½ parts. The bells of small clocks or +pendules are made of this alloy in Paris. + +_Brass to Make._ 1. _Fine Brass._--2 parts of copper to 1 part of zinc. +This is nearly one equivalent each of copper and zinc, if the equivalent +of the former metal be taken at 63-2; or 2 equivalents of copper to 1 +equivalent of zine, if it be taken with Liebig and Berzelius, at 31-6. + +2. Copper 4 parts, zinc 1 part. An excellent and very useful brass. + +_Cleansing Solution for Brass._--Put together two ounces sulphuric acid, +an ounce and a half nitric acid, one dram saltpetre and two ounces rain +water. Let stand for a few hours, and apply by passing the article in +and out quickly, and then washing off thoroughly with clean rain water. +Old, discolored brass chains treated in this way will look equally as +well as when new. The usual method of drying as in sawdust. + +_To Cover Brass with beautiful Luster Colors._--One ounce of cream of +tartar is dissolved in one quart of hot water, to which is added half an +ounce of tin salt (protochloride of tin) dissolved in four ounces of +cold water. The whole is then heated to boiling, the clear solution +decanted from a trifling precipitate, and poured under continual +stirring into a solution of three ounces hyposulphite of soda in +one-half a pint of water, whereupon it is again heated to boiling, and +filtered from the separated sulphur. This solution produces on brass the +various luster-colors, depending on the length of time during which the +articles are allowed to remain in it. The colors at first will be light +to dark, gold yellow, passing through all the tints of red to an +irridescent brown. A similar series of colors is produced by sulphide of +copper and lead, which, however, are not remarkable for their stability; +whether this defect will be obviated by the use of the tin solution, +experience and time alone can show. + +_Bronzing Gun-Barrels._--The so-called butter of zinc used for bronzing +gun-barrels is made by dissolving zinc in hydrochloric acid till no more +free acid is left; which is secured by placing zinc in the acid until it +ceases to be dissolved. The liquid is then evaporated until a drop taken +out and placed on a piece of glass solidifies in cooling, when it is +mixed with 2 parts of olive oil for every three parts of the liquid. The +barrels must be cleansed and warmed before applying the so-called +butter, which put on with a piece of linen rag. + +_Bronzing Fluid._--For brown: Iron filings, or scales, 1 lb.; arsenic, 1 +oz.; hydrochloric acid, 1 lb.; metallic zinc, 1 oz. The article to be +bronzed is to be dipped in this solution till the desired effect be +produced. + +_Bronze, Green._--Acetic acid, diluted, 4 lbs; green veriter, 2 oz.; +muriate of ammonia, 1 oz.; common salt, 2 oz.; alum, ½ oz.; French +berries, ½ lb.; boil them together till the berries have yielded their +color, and strain. Olive bronze, for brass or copper.--Nitric acid, 1 +oz.; hydrochloric acid, 2 oz.; titanium or palladium, as much as will +dissolve, and add three pints of distilled water. + +_To Soften Cast-Iron, for Drilling._--Heat to a cherry red, having it +lie level in the fire, then with a pair of cold tongs put on a piece of +brimstone, a little less in size than you wish the hole to be when +drilled, and it softens entirely through the piece; let it lie in the +fire until a little cool, when it is ready to drill. + +_To Weld Cast-Iron._--Take of good clear white sand, three parts; +refined solton, one part; fosterine, one part; rock-salt, one part; mix +all together. Take 2 pieces of cast-iron, heat them in a moderate +charcoal-fire, occasionally taking them out while heating, and dipping +them into the composition, until they are of a proper heat to weld; then +at once lay them on the anvil, and gently hammer them together, and, if +done carefully by one who understands welding iron, you will have them +nicely welded together. One man prefers heating the metal, then cooling +it in the water of common beans, and heat it again for welding. + +_To recut old Files and Rasps._--Dissolve 4 oz. of saleratus in 1 quart +of water, and boil the files in it for half an hour; then remove, wash +and dry them. Now have ready, in a glass or stoneware vessel, 1 quart of +rain water, into which you have slowly added 4 oz. of best sulphuric +acid, and keep the proportions for any amount used. Immerse the files in +this preparation for from six to twelve hours, according to fineness or +coarseness of the files; then remove, wash them clean, dry quickly, and +put a little sweet oil on them to cover the surface. If the files are +coarse, they will need to remain in about twelve hours, but for fine +files six to eight hours is sufficient. This plan is applicable to +blacksmiths', gunsmiths', tinners', coppersmiths' and machinists' files. +Copper and tin workers will only require a short time to take the +articles out of their files, as the soft metals with which they become +filled are soon dissolved. Blacksmiths' and saw-mill files require full +time. Files may be recut three times by this process. The liquid may be +used at different times if required. Keep away from children, as it is +poisonous. + +_Twist, Browning for Gun-Barrels._--Take spirits of nitre ¾ oz.; +tincture of steel, ¾ oz.: (if the tincture of steel cannot be obtained, +the unmedicated tincture of iron may be used, but it is not so good) +black brimstone, ¼ oz.; blue vitriol, ½ oz.; corrosive sublimate, ¼ oz.; +nitric acid, 1 dr. or 60 drops; copperas, ¼ oz.; mix with 1½ pts. of +rain water, keep corked, also, as the other, and the process of applying +is also the same. + +_Gun Metal._--1. Melt together 112 lbs. of Bristol brass, 14 lbs. of +spelter, and 7 lbs. of block tin.--2. Melt together 9 parts of copper +and 1 part of tin; the above compounds are those used in the manufacture +of small and great brass guns, swivels, etc. + +_Chinese Method of Mending Holes in Iron._--The Chinese mend holes in +cast-iron vessels as follows: They melt a small quantity of iron in a +crucible the size of a thimble, and pour the molten metal on a piece of +felt covered with wood-ashes. This is pressed inside the vessel against +the hole, and as it exudes on the other side it is struck by a small +roll of felt covered with ashes. The new iron then adheres to the old. + +_Common Pewter._--Melt in a crucible 7 lbs. of tin, and when fused throw +in 1 lb. of lead, 6 oz. of copper and 2 oz. of zinc. This combination of +metal will form an alloy of great durability and tenacity; also of +considerable luster. + +_Best Pewter._--The best sort of pewter consists of 100 parts of tin, +and 17 of regulus of antimony. + +_Hard Pewter._--Melt together 12 lbs. of tin, 1 lb. of regulus of +antimony, and 4 oz. of copper. + +_To Mend Broken Saws._--Pure silver, 19 parts: pure copper, 1 part: pure +brass, 2 parts; all are to be filed into powder and intimately mixed. +Place the saw level upon the anvil, the broken edges in close contact, +and hold them so: now put a small line of the mixture along the seam, +covering it with a large bulk of powdered charcoal; now with a spirit +lamp and a jeweler's blow-pipe, hold the coal-dust in place, and blow +sufficient to melt the solder mixture: then with a hammer set the joint +smooth, if not already so, and file away any superfluous solder; and you +will be surprised at its strength. + +_Solder, to Adhere to Brass or Copper._--Prepare a soldering solution in +this way: Pour a small quantity of muriatic acid on some zinc filings, +so as to completely cover the zinc. Let it stand about an hour, and then +pour off the acid, to which add twice its amount of water. By first +wetting the brass or copper with this preparation, the solder will +readily adhere. + +_Common Solder._--Put into a crucible 2 lbs. of lead, and when melted +throw in 1 lb. of tin. This alloy is that generally known by the name of +solder. When heated by a hot iron and applied to tinned iron with +powdered rosin, it acts as a cement or solder. + +_Tempering Steel._--For tempering many kinds of tools, the steel is +first hardened by heating it to a cherry red, and plunging it into cold +water. Afterward the temper is drawn by moderately heating the steel +again. Different degrees of hardness are required for different +purposes, and the degree of heat for each of these, with the +corresponding color, will be found in the annexed table: + + Very pale straw color, 430°--the temper required for lancets. + + A shade of darker yellow, 450°--for razors and surgical instruments. + + Darker straw-yellow, 470°--for penknives. + + Still darker yellow, 490°--chisels for cutting iron. + + A brown yellow, 500°--axes and plane-irons. + + Yellow, slightly tinged with purple, 520°--table-knives and + watch-springs. + +_Tempering Liquid._--1. To 6 quarts of soft water put in corrosive +sublimate, 1 oz.; common salt, 2 handfuls; when dissolved it is ready +for use. The first gives toughness to the steel, while the latter gives +the hardness. Be careful with this preparation, as it is a dangerous +poison.--2. Salt, ½ teacup; saltpetre, ½ oz.; alum, pulverized, 1 +tea-spoon; soft water, 1 gallon; never heat over a cherry red, nor draw +any temper.--3. Saltpetre, sal-ammoniac, and alum, of each 2 oz.; salt, +1½ lbs.; water, 3 gallons, and draw no temper.--4. Saltpetre and alum, +each 2 oz.; sal-ammoniac, ½ oz.; salt, 1½ lbs.; soft water, 2 gallons. +Heat to a cherry red, and plunge in, drawing no temper. + +_Bayberry, or Myrtle Soap._--Dissolve two and a quarter pounds of white +potash in five quarts of water, then mix it with ten pounds of myrtle +wax, or bayberry tallow. Boil the whole over a slow fire till it turns +to soap, then add a teacup of cold water; let it boil ten minutes +longer; at the end of that time turn it into tin molds or pans, and let +them remain a week or ten days to dry; then turn them out of the molds. +If you wish to have the soap scented, stir into it an essential oil +that has an agreeable smell, just before you turn it into the molds. +This kind of soap is excellent for shaving, and for chapped hands: it is +also good for eruptions on the face. It will be fit for use in the +course of three or four weeks after it is made, but it is better for +being kept ten or twelve months. + +_Chemical Soap_, (for taking Oil, Grease, etc., from Cloth).--Take five +pounds castile soap, cut fine; one pint alcohol; one pint soft water; +two ounces aquafortis; one and a half ounces lampblack; two ounces of +saltpetre; three ounces potash; one ounce of camphor; and four ounces of +cinnamon, in powder. First dissolve the soap, potash and saltpetre, by +boiling; then add all the other articles, and continue to stir until it +cools; then pour into a box and let it stand twenty-four hours and cut +into cakes. + +_Cold Soap._--Mix twenty-six pounds of melted and strained grease with +four pailfuls of ley, made of twenty pounds of white potash. Let the +whole stand in the sun, stirring it frequently. In the course of the +week, fill the barrel with weak ley. + +_Genuine Erasive Soap._--Two pounds of good castile soap; half a pound +of carbonate of potash; dissolve in half a pint of hot water. Cut the +soap in thin slices, and boil the soap with the potash until it is thick +enough to mould in cakes; also add alcohol, half an ounce; camphor, half +an ounce; hartshorn, half an ounce; color with half an ounce of +pulverized charcoal. + +_Hard White Soap._--To fifteen pounds of lard or suet, made boiling hot, +add slowly six gallons of hot ley, or solution of potash, that will bear +up an egg high enough to leave a piece big as a shilling bare. Take out +a little, and cool it. If no grease rise it is done. If any grease +appears, add ley, and boil till no grease rises. Add three quarts of +fine salt, and boil up again. If this does not harden well on cooling, +add more salt. If it is to be perfumed, melt it next day, add the +perfume, and run it in molds or cut in cakes. + +_Labor-Saving Soap._--Take two pounds of sal-soda, two pounds of yellow +bar soap, and ten quarts of water. Cut the soap in thin slices, and boil +together for two hours; strain, and it will be fit for use. Put the +clothes in soak the night before you wash, and to every pail of water in +which you boil them, add a pound of soap. They will need no rubbing; +merely rinse them out, and they will be perfectly clean and white. + +_To Make Good Soap._--To make matchless soap, take one gallon of soft +soap, to which add a gill of common salt, and boil an hour. When cold, +separate the ley from the crude. Add to the crude two pounds of +sal-soda, and boil in two gallons of soft water till dissolved. If you +wish it better, slice two pounds of common bar soap and dissolve in the +above. If the soft soap makes more than three pounds of crude, add in +proportion to the sal-soda and water. + +_To Make Hard Soap from Soft._--Take seven pounds of good soft soap; +four pounds sal-soda; two ounces borax; one ounce hartshorn; half a +pound of resin; to be dissolved in twenty-two quarts of water, and +boiled about twenty minutes. + +_Whale Oil Soap_ (for the destruction of Insects.)--Render common ley +caustic, by boiling it at full strength on quicklime; then take the ley +and boil it with as much whale oil foot as it will saponify (change to +soap), pour off into molds, and, when cold, it is tolerably hard. Whale +oil foot is the sediment produced in refining whale oil, and is worth +two dollars per barrel. + +_Soluble Glass._--Mix ten parts of carbonate of potash, fifteen parts of +powdered quartz, and one pound of charcoal. Fuse well together. The mass +is soluble in four or five parts of boiling water, and the filtered +solution, evaporated to dryness, yields a transparent glass, permanent +in the air. + +_To Make Eggs of Pharaoh's Serpents._--Take mercury and dissolve it in +moderately diluted nitric acid by means of heat, taking care, however, +that there be always an excess of metallic mercury remaining; decant the +solution and pour it into a solution of sulpho-cyanide of ammonium or +potassium, which may be bought at a good drug store, or of a dealer in +chemicals. Equal weights of both will answer. A precipitate will fall to +the bottom of the beaker or jar, which is to be collected on a filter +and washed two or three times with water, when it is put in a warm place +to dry. Take for every pound of this material one ounce of gum +tragacanth which has been soaked in hot water. When the gum is +completely softened it is to be transferred to a mortar, and the +pulverized and dried precipitate gradually mixed with it by means of a +little water, so as to present a somewhat dry pill mass, from which by +hand pellets of the desired size are formed, put on a piece of glass, +and dried again; they are then ready for use. + +_Tracing Paper._--In order to prepare a beautiful transparent, colorless +paper, it is best to employ the varnish formed with Demarara resin in +the following way: The sheets intended for this purpose are laid flat on +each other, and the varnish spread over the uppermost sheet with a +brush, until the paper appears perfectly colorless, without, however, +the liquid thereon being visible. The first sheet is then removed, hung +up for drying, and the second treated in the same manner. After being +dried, this paper is capable of being written on, either with chalk or +pencil, or steel pens. It preserves its colorless transparency without +becoming yellow, as is frequently the case with that prepared in any +other way. + +_Unsurpassable Blacking._--Put one gallon of vinegar into a stone jug, +and one pound of ivory-black well pulverized, half a pound of loaf +sugar, half an ounce of oil of vitriol, and seven ounces of sweet oil. +Incorporate the whole by stirring. + +2. Take twelve ounces each of ivory-black and molasses; spermaceti oil, +four ounces; and white wine vinegar, two quarts. Mix thoroughly. This +contains no vitriol, and therefore will not injure the leather. The +trouble of making it is very little, and it would be well to prepare it +for one's self, were it only to be assured that it is not injurious. + +_Varnish for Iron Work._--To make a good black varnish for iron work, +take eight pounds of asphaltum and fuse it in an iron kettle; then add +five gallons of boiled linseed oil, one pound of litharge, half a pound +of sulphate of zinc (add these slowly, or it will fume over), and boil +them for about three hours. Now add one and a half pounds of dark gum +amber, and boil for two hours longer, or until the mass will become +quite thick when cool, after which it should be thinned with turpentine +to due consistency. + + + + +THE TOILET, PERFUMERY, ETC. + + +_Hair Restorers and Invigorators._--There are hundreds; Lyon's, Wood's, +Barry's, Bogle's, Jayne's, Storr's, Baker's, Driscol's, Phalon's, +Haskel's, Allen's, Spaulding's, etc. But, though all under different +names, are similar in principle, being vegetable oils dissolved in +alcohol, with the addition of spirit of soap, and an astringent +material, such as tincture of catechu, or infusion of bark. The best is +to dissolve one ounce of castor oil in one quart of 95 alcohol, and add +one ounce of tincture of cantharides, two ounces of tincture of catechu, +two ounces of lemon juice, two ounces of tincture of cinchona; and to +scent it, add oil of cinnamon, or oil of rosemary, or both. + +_To Make the Hair Soft and Glossy._--Put one ounce of castor oil in one +pint of bay rum or alcohol, and color it with a little of the tincture +of alkanet root. Apply a little every morning. + +_Instantaneous Hair Dye._--Take one drachm of nitrate of silver, and add +to it just sufficient rain water to dissolve it, _and no more_; then +take strong spirit of ammonia, and gradually pour on the solution of +silver, until it becomes as clear as water, (_the addition of the +ammonia at first makes it brown_); then wrap round the bottle two or +three covers of blue paper, to exclude the light--otherwise it will +spoil. Having made this, obtain two drachms of gallic acid; put this +into another bottle which will contain one-half pint; pour upon it hot +water, and let it stand until cold--when it is fit for use. + +_Directions to Dye the Hair._--First wash the head, beard, or moustaches +with soap and water; afterwards with clean water. Dry, and apply the +gallic acid solution, with a clean brush. When it is almost dry, take a +small tooth comb, and with a fine brush, put on the teeth of the comb a +little of the silver solution, and comb it through the hair, when it +will become a brilliant jet black. Wait a few hours; then wash the head +again with clean water. If you want to make a brown dye, add double or +treble the quantity of water to the silver solution, and you can obtain +any shade of color you choose. + +_To Prevent Gray Hair._--When the hair begins to change color, the use +of the following pomade has a beneficial effect in preventing the +disease extending, and has the character of even restoring the color of +the hair in many instances: Lard, 4 ounces: spermaceti, 4 drachms: oxide +of bismuth, 4 drachms. Melt the lard and spermaceti together, and when +getting cold stir in the bismuth; to this can be added any kind of +perfume, according to choice. It should be used whenever the hair +requires dressing. It must not be imagined that any good effect speedily +results; it is, in general, a long time taking place, the change being +very gradual. + +_Liquid Rouge for the Complexion._--Four ounces of alcohol, two ounces +of water, twenty grains of carmine; twenty grains of ammonia, six grains +of oxalic acid, six grains of alum--mix. + +_Vinegar Rouge._--Cochineal, three drachms; carmine lake, three drachms; +alcohol, six drachms; mix, and then put into one pint of vinegar, +perfumed with lavender; let it stand a fortnight, then strain for use. + +_Pearl Powder for Complexion._--Take white bismuth, one pound; starch +powder, one ounce; orris powder, one ounce. Mix and sift through lawn. +Add a drop of otto of roses or neroli. + +_Pearl Water for the Complexion._--Castile soap, one pound; water, one +gallon. Dissolve, then add alcohol, one quart; oil of rosemary and oil +of lavender, each two drachms. Mix well. + +_Complexion Pomatum._--Mutton grease, one pound; oxide of bismuth, four +ounces; powdered French chalk, two ounces; mix. + +_Feuchtwanger's Tooth Paste._--Powdered myrrh, two ounces; burnt alum, +one ounce; cream tartar, one ounce; cuttlefish bone, four ounces: drop +lake, two ounces; honey, half a gallon; mix. + +_Spanish Vermilion for the Toilette._--Take an alkine solution of +bastard saffron, and precipitate the color with lemon juice; mix the +precipitate with a sufficient quantity of finely powdered French chalk +and lemon juice, then add a little perfume. + +_Fine Tooth Powder._--Powdered orris root, one ounce; peruvian bark, one +ounce; prepared chalk, one ounce; myrrh, one-half ounce. + +_To Make Brown Teeth White._--Apply carefully over the teeth, a stick +dipped in strong acetic or nitric acid, and immediately wash out the +mouth with cold water. To make the teeth even, if irregular, draw a +piece of fine cord betwixt them. + +_Superior Cologne Water._--Alcohol, one gallon: add oil of cloves, +lemon, nutmeg and bergamot, each one drachm; oil neroli, three and a +half drachms; seven drops of oils of rosemary, lavender and cassia; half +a pint of spirits of nitre; half a pint of elder-flower water. Let it +stand a day or two, then take a cullender and at the bottom lay a piece +of white cloth, and fill it up, one-fourth of white sand, and filter +through it. + +_Smelling Salts._--Super carbonate of ammonia, eight parts; put it in +coarse powder into a bottle, and pour out lavender oil one part. + +_Oil of Roses--for the Hair._--Olive oil, two pints: otto of roses, one +drachm; oil of rosemary, one drachm; mix. It may be colored by steeping +a little alkanet root in the oil (by heat) before scenting it. + +_Arnica Hair Wash._--When the hair is falling off and becoming thin, +from the too frequent use of castor, Macassar oils, &c., or when +premature baldness arises from illness, the arnica hair wash will be +found of great service in arresting the mischief. It is thus prepared: +take elder water, half a pint; sherry wine, half a pint; tincture of +arnica, half an ounce; alcoholic ammonia, 1 drachm--if this last named +ingredient is old, and has lost its strength, then two drachms instead +of one may be employed. The whole of these are to be mixed in a lotion +bottle, and applied every night to the head with a sponge. Wash the head +with warm water twice a week. Soft brushes only must be used during the +growth of the young hair. + +_Ammoniacal Pomatum for Promoting the Growth of Hair._--Take almond oil, +quarter of a pound; white wax, half an ounce; clarified lard, three +ounces; liquid ammonia, a quarter fluid ounce; otto of lavender, and +cloves, of each one drachm. Place the oil, wax and lard in a jar, which +set in boiling water; when the wax is melted, allow the grease to cool +till nearly ready to set, then stir in the ammonia and the perfume, and +put into small jars for use. Never use a hard brush, nor comb the hair +too much. Apply the pomade at night only. + +_Bandoline for the Hair._--This mixture is best made a little at a time. +Pour a tablespoonful of boiling water on a dozen quince seeds, and +repeat when fresh is required. + +_Artificial Bear's Grease._--Bear's grease is imitated by a mixture of +prepared veal suet and beef marrow. It may be scented at pleasure. The +following are some of the best compounds sold by that name: + +1. Prepared suets, 3 ounces; lard, 1 ounce; olive oil, 1 ounce; oil of +cloves, 10 drops; compound tincture of benzoin, 1 drachm. Mix. + +2. Lard, 1 pound; solution of carbonate of potash, 2 ounces. Mix. + +3. Olive oil, 3 pints; white wax, 3 ounces; spermaceti, 1 ounce; scent +with oil of roses and oil of bitter almonds. + +_Bears' Oil._--The best description of lard oil, properly perfumed, is +far preferable to any other kind of oil. + +_Cosmetic Soap, for Washing the Hands._--Take a pound of castile soap, +or any other nice old soap; scrape it fine; put it on the fire with a +little water, stir it to a smooth paste; turn it into a bowl; or any +kind of essence; beat it with a silver spoon till well mixed; thicken it +with Indian meal, and keep it in small pots, closely covered; exposure +to the air will harden it. + +_Cosmetic Wash for the Hair._--Red wine, one pound; salt, one drachm; +sulphate of iron, two drachms; boil for a few minutes, add common +verdigris, one drachm; leave it on the fire two minutes; withdraw it, +and add two drachms of powdered nutgall. Rub the hair with the liquid, +in a few minutes dry it with a warm cloth, and afterwards wash with +water. + +_To Remove Dandruff._--Take a thimbleful of powdered refined borax, let +it dissolve in a teacupful of water, first brush the head well, then wet +a brush and apply it to the head. Do this every day for a week, and +twice a week for a few times, and you will effectually remove the +dandruff. + +_To Make the Complexion Fair._--Take emulsion of bitter almonds, one +pint; oxymuriate of quicksilver, two and a half grains; sal ammonia, one +drachm. Use moderately for pimples, freckles, tanned complexions. + +_Eau de Cologne--Cologne Water._--Oil of lavender, oil of bergamot, oil +of lemon, oil of neroli, each one ounce; oil of cinnamon, half an +ounce; spirit of rosemary, fifteen ounces; highly rectified spirits, +eight pints. Let them stand fourteen days; then distil in a water bath. + +2. Essential oils of bergamot, lemon, neroli, orange-peel and rosemary, +each twelve drops; cardamon seeds, one drachm, rectified spirits, one +pint. It improves by age. + +_Eau de Rosieres._--Spirits of roses, 4 pints; spirits of jessamine, one +pint; spirits of orange flowers, one pint; spirits of cucumber, two and +a quarter pints; spirits of celery seed, two and a quarter pints; +spirits of angelica root, two and three quarter pints; tincture of +benzoin, three quarters of a pint; balsam of Mecca, a few drops. + +_Eau de Violettes._--Macerate five ounces of fine orris root in a quart +of rectified spirits, for some days, and filter. + +_Esprit de Bouquet._--Oil of lavender, oil of cloves and oil of +bergamot, each two drachms; otto of rose, and oil of cinnamon, each, +twenty drops; essence of musk, one drachm; rectified spirits, one pint. +Mix. + +_Essence of Ambergris._--Spirits of wine, half a pint; ambergris, 24 +grains. Let it stand for three days in a warm place, and filter. + +_Essence of Bergamot._--Spirits of wine, half a pint; bergamot-peel, +four ounces: as above. + +_Essence of Cedrat._--Essence of bergamot, one ounce; essence of neroli, +two drachms. + +_Essence of Cloves._--Spirits of wine, half a pint; bruised cloves, one +ounce. + +_Essence for the Headache._--Spirits of wine, two pounds; roche alum, in +fine powder, two ounces; camphor, four ounces; essence of lemon, half an +ounce; strong water of ammonia, four ounces. Stop the bottle close, and +shake it daily, for three or four days. + +_Essence of Lavender._--Essential oil of lavender, three and a half +ounces; rectified spirits, two quarts; rose water, half a pint; tincture +of orris, half a pint. + +_Essence of Lemon._--Spirits of wine, half a pint; fresh lemon-peel, +four ounces. + +_Essence of Musk._--Take one pint proof spirit, and add two drachms +musk. Let it stand a fortnight, with frequent agitation. + +_Essence of Neroli._--Spirits of wine, half a pint; orange-peel, cut +small, three ounces; orris root in powder, one drachm; musk, two +grains. + +_Essence for Smelling Bottles._--Oil of lavender and essence of +bergamot, each one drachm; oil of orange-peel, eight drops; oil of +cinnamon, four drops; oil of neroli, two drops; alcohol and strongest +water of ammonia, each two ounces. + +_Essence of Verbena Leaf._--Take rectified spirits of wine, half a pint; +otto of verbena, half a drachm; otto of bergamot, one drachm; tincture +of tolu, quarter of an ounce. Mix them together, and it is ready for +use. This sweet scent does not stain the handkerchief and is very +economical. + +_Essence of Violets._--Spirits of wine, half a pint; orris root, one +ounce. Other essences in the same manner. + +_Eye Water._--Take one pint of rose water, and add one teaspoonful each +of spirits of camphor and laudanum. Mix and bottle. To be shaken and +applied to the eyes as often as necessary. Perfectly harmless. + +_Honey Water._--Rectified spirits, eight pints; oil of cloves, oil of +lavender, oil of bergamot, each half an ounce; musk, eight grains; +yellow sandus shavings, four ounces; digest for eight days and add two +pints each of orange flower and rose water. + +_Lavender Water._--Oil of lavender, four ounces; spirit, three quarts; +rose water, one pint. Mix and filter. + +_Lisbon Water._--To rectified spirit, one gallon, add essential oils of +orange-peel and lemon-peel, of each three ounces, and otto of roses, one +quarter of an ounce. + +_Odoriferous Lavender Water._--Rectified spirit, five gallons; essential +oil of lavender, twenty ounces; oil of bergamot, five ounces; essence of +ambergris, half an ounce. + +2. Oil of lavender, three drachms; oil of bergamot, twenty drops; +nerolic, six drops; otto of roses, six drops; essence of cedrat, eight +drops; essence of musk, twenty drops; rectified spirit, twenty-eight +fluid ounces; distilled water, four ounces. + +_Queen of Hungary's Water._--Spirit of rosemary, four pints; orange +flower water, one quarter of a pint; essence of neroli, four drops. + + +FACE PAINTS. + +_Almond Bloom._--Boil one ounce of Brazil dust in three pints of +distilled water, and strain; add six drachms of isinglass, 2 drachms of +cochineal, one ounce of alum, and eight drachms of borax; boil again and +strain through a fine cloth. + +_Fine Carmine._--(prepared from cochineal) is used alone, or deduced +with starch, &c. And also the coloring matter of safflower and other +vegetable colors, in the form of pink saucers, &c. + +_Face Powder._--Starch, one pound; oxide of bismuth, four ounces. + +_Face Whites._--French chalk is one of the most innocent; finely +powdered. White starch is also used. + +_Rouge._--Mix vermillion with enough gum tragacanth dissolved in water +to form a thin paste; add a few drops of almond oil, place the mixture +in rouge pots, and dry by a very gentle heat. + +_Turkish Rouge._--Take half pint alcohol and one ounce of alkanet; +macerate ten days and pour off the liquid, which should be bottled. This +is the simplest and one of the best articles of the kind. + +_Caution._--White lead, and all cosmetic powders containing it should +never be applied to the skin, as it is the most dangerous article that +could be used. + +_Mouth Pastiles, for Perfuming the Breath._--Extract of licorice, three +ounces; oil of cloves, one and a half drachms; oil of cinnamon, fifteen +drops. Mix, and divide into one-grain pills, and silver them. + +2. Catechu, seven drachms; orris powder, forty grains; sugar, three +ounces; oil of rosemary, (or of clove, peppermint, or cinnamon,) four +drops. Mix, and roll flat on an oiled marble slab, and cut into very +small lozenges. + +_Oil for the Hair._--A very excellent ready-made oil for the hair which +answers all common purposes, is made by mixing one part brandy with +three parts of sweet oil. Add any scent you prefer. + +_Oil of Roses._--Fine olive oil, one pint; otto of roses, sixteen drops. +If required red, color with alkanet root, and strain before adding the +otto. For common sale essence of bergamot or of lemon is often +substituted, wholly or in part, for the expensive otto. + + + + +HUNTERS' AND TRAPPERS' SECRETS. + + +The following secret applies to _all_ animals, as every animal is +attracted by the peculiar odor in a greater or less degree; but it is +best adapted to land animals, such as Foxes, Minks, Sables, Martins, +Wolves, Bears, Wild Cats, &c., &c. + +Take one half pound strained honey, one quarter drachm musk, three +drachms oil of lavender, and four pounds of tallow, mix the whole +thoroughly together, and make it into forty pills, or balls, and place +one of these pills under the pan of each trap when setting it. + +The above preparation will most wonderfully attract all kinds of +animals, and trappers and others who use it will be sure of success. + +_To Catch Foxes._--Take oil of amber, and beaver's oil, each equal +parts, and rub them over the trap before setting it. Set in the usual +way. + +_To Catch Mink._--Take oil of amber, and beaver's oil, and rub over the +trap. Bait with fish or birds. + +_To Catch Muskrat._--In the female muskrat near the vagina is a small +bag which holds from 30 to 40 drops. Now all the trapper has to do, is +to procure a few female muskrats and squeeze the contents of a bag into +a vial. Now, when in quest of muskrats, sprinkle a few drops of the +liquid on the bushes over and around the trap. This will attract the +male muskrats in large numbers, and if the traps are properly arranged, +large numbers of them may be taken. + +In trapping Muskrats, steel traps should be used, and they should be +set in the paths and runs of the animal, where they come upon the banks, +and in every case the trap should be set under the water, and carefully +concealed; and care should be taken that it has sufficient length of +chain to enable the animals to reach the water after being caught, +otherwise they are liable to escape by tearing or gnawing off their +legs. + +_To Catch Beaver._--In trapping for beaver, set the trap at the edge of +the water or dam, at the point where the animals pass from deep to shoal +water, and always beneath the surface, and fasten it by means of a stout +chain to a picket driven in the bank, or to a bush or tree. A flat stick +should be made fast to the trap by a cord a few feet long, which, if the +animal chanced to carry away the trap, would float on the water and +point out its position. The trap should then be baited with the +following preparation, called + + "_The Beaver Medicine_." + +This is prepared from a substance called castor, and is obtained from +the glandulous pouches of the _male_ animal. + +The contents of five or six of these castor bags are mixed with a +nutmeg, twelve or fifteen cloves and thirty grains of cinnamon in fine +powder, and the whole well stirred together with as much whiskey as will +give it the consistency of mixed mustard. This preparation must be left +closely corked up, and in four or five days the odor becomes powerful; +and this medicine smeared upon the bits of wood, &c., with which the +traps are baited, will attract the beaver from a great distance, and +wishing to make a close inspection, the animal puts its legs into the +trap and is caught. + +The same caution in regard to length of chain should be observed for +Beaver, as for Otters, Muskrats, &c., for unless they can reach the +water they are liable to get out of the trap and escape. + +_Chinese Art of Catching Fish._--Take Cocculus Indicus, pulverize and +mix with dough, then scatter it broadcast over the water, as you would +sow seed. The fish will seize it with great avidity, and will instantly +become so intoxicated that they will turn belly up on top of the water, +by dozens, hundreds, or thousands, as the case may be. All that you now +have to do, is to have a boat, or other convenience to gather them up, +and as you gather put them in a tub of clean water and presently they +will be as lively and healthy as ever. + +This means of taking fish, and the manner of doing it, has, heretofore, +been known to but few. The value of such knowledge admits of no +question. This manner of taking fish does not injure the flesh in the +least. + +_Secret Art of Catching fish._--Put the oil of rhodium on the bait, when +fishing with the hook, and you will always succeed. + +_To Catch Fish._--Take the juice of smallage or lovage, and mix with any +kind of bait. As long as there remain any kind of fish within many yards +of your hook, you will find yourself busy pulling them out. + +_To Catch Abundance of Eels, Fish, &c._--Get over the water after dark, +with a light and a dead fish that has been smeared with the juice of +stinking glawdin--the fish will gather round you in large quantities, +and can easily be scooped up. + + + + +THE FINE ARTS AND SCIENCES. + + +_To Transfer Engravings to Plaster Casts._--Cover the plate with ink, +polish its surface in the usual way, then put a wall of paper round; +then pour on it some fine paste made with plaster of Paris. Jerk it to +drive out the air bubbles, and let it stand one hour, when you have a +fine impression. + +_The New and Beautiful Art of Transferring on to Glass._--Colored or +plain Engravings, Photographs, Lithographs, Water Colors, Oil Colors, +Crayons, Steel Plates, Newspaper Cuts, Mezzotinto, Pencil, Writing, Show +Cards, Labels,--or in fact anything. + +_Directions._--Take glass that is perfectly clear--window glass will +answer--clean it thoroughly; then varnish it, taking care to have it +perfectly smooth; place it where it will be entirely free from dust; let +it stand over night; then take your engraving, lay it in clear water +until it is wet through (say ten or fifteen minutes), then lay it upon a +newspaper, that the moisture may _dry from the surface_, and still keep +the other side damp. Immediately varnish your glass the _second_ time, +then place your engraving on it, pressing it down firmly, so as to +exclude every particle of air; next rub the paper from the back, until +it is of uniform thickness--so thin that you can see through it, then +varnish it the _third_ time, and let it dry. + +_Materials Used for the Above Art._--Take two ounces balsam of fir, to +one ounce of spirits of turpentine; apply with a camel's hair brush. + +_To Make Wax Flowers._--The following articles will be required to +commence wax work: 2 lbs. white wax, ¼ lb. hair wire, 1 bottle carmine, +1 ultramarine blue, 1 bottle chrome yellow, 2 bottles chrome green, No. +1; 2 bottles chrome green, No. 2; 1 bottle rose pink, 1 bottle royal +purple, 1 bottle scarlet powder, 1 bottle balsam fir, 2 dozen sheets +white wax. This will do to begin with. Now have a clean tin dish and +pour therein a quart or two of water; then put in about 1 lb. of the +white wax and let it boil; when cool enough, so the bubbles will not +form on top, it is ready to sheet, which is done as follows:--Take half +of a window pane, 7×9, and, after having washed it clean, dip into a +dish containing weak soap-suds; then dip into the wax and draw out +steadily and plunge it into the suds, when the sheet will readily come +off. Lay it on a cloth or clean paper to dry. Proceed in like manner +until you have enough of the white; then add enough of the green powder +to make a bright color, and heat and stir thoroughly until the color is +evenly distributed; then proceed as for sheeting white wax. The other +colors are rubbed into the leaves after they are cut out, rubbing light +or heavy according to shade. + +For patterns you can use any natural leaf, forming the creases in wax +with the thumb nail or a needle; to put the flowers together or the +leaves on to the stem, hold in the hand until warm enough to stick. If +the sheeted wax is to be used in Summer, put in a little balsam of fir +to make it hard. If for Winter, none will be required. + +You can make many flowers without a teacher; but one to assist, in the +commencement, would be a great help; though the most particular thing +about it is to get the wax sheeted. The materials I have suggested can +be procured at any drug store, and will cost from $3 to $4.50. + +_How to Charm Those Whom You Meet and Love._--When you desire to make +any one "Love" you with whom you meet, although not personally +acquainted with him, you can very readily reach him and make his +acquaintance, if you observe the foregoing instructions, in addition to +the following directions: Suppose you see him coming towards you in an +unoccupied mood, or is recklessly, or passively walking past you, all +that remains for you to do at that moment is to concentrate your thought +and send it into him as before explained; and, to your astonishment, if +he was passive, he will look at you, and now is your time to send a +thrill to his heart, by looking him carelessly, though determinately, +into his eyes, and praying with all your heart, mind, soul and strength, +that he may read your thought, and receive your true Love, which God +designs we should bear one another. This accomplished, and you need not +and must not wait for a cold-hearted, fashionable, and popular Christian +introduction; neither should you hastily run into his arms, but continue +operating in this psychological manner; not losing any convenient +opportunity to meet him at an appropriate place, when an unembarrassed +exchange of words will open the door, to the one so magnetized. At this +interview, unless prudence sanction it, do not shake hands, but let your +manners and loving eyes speak with Christian charity and ease; wherever, +or whenever you meet again, at the first opportunity grasp his hand, in +an earnest, sincere and affectionate manner, observing at the same time, +the following important directions, viz.:--As you take his bare hand in +yours, press your thumb gently, though firmly, between the bones of the +thumb and forefinger of his hand, and at the very instant when you press +thus on the blood vessels, (which you can before ascertain to pulsate,) +look him earnestly and lovingly, though not pertly or fiercely, into his +eyes, and send all your heart's, mind's and soul's strength into his +organization, and he will be your friend, and if you find him not to be +congenial, you have him in your power, and by carefully guarding against +evil influences, you can reform him to suit your own purified, +Christian, and loving taste. + +_Mesmerism._--If you desire to mesmerise a person, who has never been +put into that state, nor in the least affected, the plan is to set him +in an easy posture, and request him to be calm and resigned. Take him by +both hands, or else by one hand and place your other gently on his +forehead. But with whatever part of his body you choose to come in +contact, be sure to always touch two points, answering to the _positive_ +and _negative_ forces. Having taken him by both hands, fix your eyes +upon his, and, if possible, let him contentedly and steadily look you in +the face. Remain in this position until his eyes close. Then place both +your hands on his head, gently pass them to his shoulders, down the +arms, and off at the ends of his fingers. Throw your hands outward as +you return them to his head, and continue these passes till he can hear +no voice but yours. He is then entirely in the mesmeric state. When a +person is in the mesmeric state, whether put there by yourself or some +one else, you can awake him by the upward passes: or else do it by an +impression, as follows: Tell him, "I will count _three_, and at the same +instant I say _three_, I will slap my hands together, and you will be +wide awake and in your perfect senses. Are you ready?" If he answers in +the affirmative, you will proceed to count "_one_, TWO, THREE!" The word +_three_ should be spoken suddenly, and in a very loud voice, and at the +same instant the palms of the hands should be smitten together. This +will instantly awake him. + +_To Make Magic Photographs._--Take, in the first place, an ordinary +print--a card-picture, for instance--on albumen paper, beneath the +negative in the usual way, and, when sufficiently printed, let it be +carefully washed in the dark room, so as to remove all the free nitrate +of silver, etc. Now immerse it in the following solution, also in the +dark room: saturated solution bichloride of mercury (corrosive +sublimate), one ounce; hydrochloric acid, one drachm. The saturated +solution is previously prepared by putting into water more bichloride of +mercury than it will dissolve by shaking in about twelve hours. The +print will gradually be bleached in this liquid, in the ordinary meaning +of the word--that is, it will disappear; but the fact is, the print is +still there--its color alone is changed, a double salt having been +formed of mercury and silver, which is white, as many of our readers, +who have been in the habit of intensifying with a mercurial salt, are +aware. As soon as the print has quite disappeared, the paper is +thoroughly washed and dried in the dark room; it is also preserved +between folds of orange-colored paper, in order to keep it from the +action of light, for the surface is still in some measure sensitive to +light. The bleaching of the print--that is, its conversion into a white +salt--is effected more quickly by keeping it in motion in the mercurial +solution. As we said before, the print has not been bleached in +reality--the substance which originally formed it is still there, +together with a new substance, a salt of mercury. But the two salts of +silver and mercury may be easily brought out and made visible by several +solutions, such as sulphide of ammonium, solution of hydrosulphuric +acid; in fact, any of the soluble sulphides, ammonia and hyposulphite of +soda. The latter salt is used in preference to the others. Small pieces +of blotting-paper, therefore, of the same size as the prints, are cut +out and steeped in a saturated solution of hyposulphite of soda and then +dried. The magic photographs are packed as before stated, between folds +of orange-colored paper; the papers dipped in hyposulphite of soda are +the developers, and may be packed between two sheets of common +writing-paper. The development of the image is effected in the following +manner: place the albumen paper which contains the whitened print on a +pane of glass, print side upward; on this lay the dry piece of +blotting-paper that has been previously dipped in hyposulphite of soda. +Moisten the latter thoroughly, then place over it a pane of glass, and +upon this a weight, to bring the two pieces of paper into intimate +contact. In a very short time the picture will appear in all its +original detail, and of a sepia tone. + +_Writing on the Arm._--The conjurer's explanation was a great lesson in +"spiritualism." I next asked him to elucidate the trick of writing on +the arm. On the occasion of my visit to Mr. Forster, when the raps +indicated the second pellet, he required the "spirit" present to write +the initials on his bare arm. Mr. Forster placed his arm under the table +for a moment, then rested it in front of a lamp burning on the table, +and quickly rolled up the sleeve of his coat. The skin was without stain +or mark. He passed his hand over it once or twice, and the initials of +the names I had written on the second pellet seemed to grow on the arm +in letters of crimson. "It's a trick I do every night. It goes with the +audience like steam," said the conjurer. "Very simple. Well, suppose a +name. What name would you like?" "Henry Clay," I replied. Down went the +conjurer's arm under the table. In a few seconds he raised it and +exposed the bare forearm without mark upon it. He doubled up his fist +tightly so as to bring the muscles of the arm to the surface, and rubbed +the skin smartly with his open hand. The letters "H. C." soon appeared +upon it in well-defined writing of a deep red color. "There you have it, +gentlemen; that's the blood-red writing. Very simple. All you have to do +is take a lucifer match, and write on your arm with the wrong end of it. +If you moisten the skin with a little salt water first, all the better. +Then wet the palm of the other hand, rub your arm with it. Send up the +muscles and the blood-red writing will come out. It will fade away in +less than no time. If you look under the table, you will see that I have +a little piece of pointed wood. I can move my arm under that and write +the letters without using the other hand. But that's a trick which wants +practice." + +_Electrical Psychology._--The most easy and direct mode to produce +electro psychological communication is to take the individual by the +hand, in the same manner as though you were going to shake hands. Press +your thumb on the _Ulnar nerve_, which spreads its branches to the ring +and little finger, an inch above the knuckle, and in range of the ring +finger. Lay the ball of the thumb flat so as to cover the minute +branches of this nerve of motion and sensation. When you first take him +by the hand, request him to place his eyes upon yours, and to keep them +fixed, so that he may see every emotion of your mind expressed in the +countenance. Continue this pressure for a half a minute or more. Then +request him to close his eyes, and with your fingers gently brush +downward several times over the eyelids. Throughout the whole process +feel within yourself a fixed determination to close them, so as to +express that determination fully in your countenance and manner. Then +place your hand on the top of his head and press your thumb firmly on +the organ of Individuality, bearing partially downward, and with the +other thumb still pressing the ulnar nerve, tell him--_you can not open +your eyes!_ Remember, that your manner, your expression of countenance, +your motions, and your language must all be of the most positive +character. If he succeed in opening his eyes, try it once or twice more, +because impressions, whether physical or mental, continue to deepen by +repetition. In case, however, that you cannot close his eyes, nor see +any effect produced upon them, you should cease making any further +efforts, because you have now fairly tested that his mind and body both +stand in a positive relation as it regards the doctrine of impressions. +If you succeed in closing the subject's eyes by the above mode, you may +then request him to put his hands on his head, or in any other position +you choose, and tell him, _you can not stir_ them! In case you succeed, +request him to be seated, and tell him, _you can not rise!_ If you are +successful in this, request him to put his hands in motion, and tell +him, _you can not stop them!_ If you succeed, request him to walk the +floor, and tell him, _you can not cease walking!_ And so you may +continue to perform experiments involving muscular motion and paralysis +of any kind that may occur to your mind, till you can completely control +him, in arresting or moving all the voluntary parts of his system. + +_How to Make Persons at a Distance Think of You._--Let it be +particularly remembered that "Faith" and concentration of thought are +positively needful to accomplish aught in drawing others to you or +making them think of you. If you have not the capacity or understanding +how to operate an electric telegraph battery, it is no proof that an +expert and competent person should fail doing so; just so in this case; +if faith, meditation, or concentration of thought fail you, then will +you also fail to operate upon others. First, you must have an yearning +for the person you wish to make think of you; and secondly, you must +learn to guess at what time of day or night he may be unemployed, +passive, so that he be in a proper state to receive the thought which +you dispatch to him. If he should be occupied in any way, so that his +nervous forces were needed to complete his task, his "Human Battery," or +thought, would not be in a recipient or passive condition, therefore +your experiment would fail at that moment. Or if he were under heavy +narcotics, liquors, tobacco, or gluttonous influences, he could not be +reached at such moments. Or, if he were asleep, and you operated to +affect a wakeful mind or thought, you would fail again at the moment. To +make a person at a distance think of you, whether you are acquainted +with him or not, matters not; I again repeat, find out or guess at what +moment he is likely to be passive; by this I mean easy and careless: +then, with the most fervent prayer, or yearning of your entire heart, +mind, soul and strength, desire he may think of you; and if you wish him +to think on any particular topic in relation to you, it is necessary for +you to press your hands, when operating on him, on such mental faculties +of your head as you wish him to exercise towards you. This demands a +meagre knowledge of Phrenology. His "Feeling Nature," or "Propensities," +you cannot reach through these operations, but when he once thinks of +you, (if he does not know you he imagines such a being as you are,) he +can easily afterwards be controlled by you, and he will feel disposed to +go in the direction where you are, if circumstances permit, and he is +his own master, for, remember, circumstances alter cases. I said, you +cannot reach his "Feeling," but only his "Thinking Nature," truly, but +after he thinks of you once, his "Feeling Nature," or propensities, may +become aroused through his own organization. In conclusion on this +topic, let me say, that if you wish the person simply to think of you, +one operation may answer; but on the contrary, if you wish him to meet +you, or go where you are, all you have to do is to persevere in a lawful +and Christian manner to operate, and I assure you, in the course of all +natural things, that is, if no accident or very unfavorable +circumstances occur, he will make his way towards you, and when he comes +within sight, or reaching distance of you, it will be easy to manage +him. + +_How to Make Large Noses Small._--Dr. Cid, an inventive surgeon of +Paris, noticed that elderly people, who for a long time have worn +eyeglasses supported on the nose by a spring, are apt to have this organ +long and thin. This he attributes to the compression which the spring +exerts on the arteries by which the nose is nourished. The idea occurred +to him that the hint could be made useful. Not long afterward, a young +lady of fifteen years consulted him, to see if he could restore to +moderate dimensions her nose, which was large, fleshy, and unsightly. +The trait, he found, was hereditary in her family, as her mother and +sister were similarly afflicted. This was discouraging, as hereditary +peculiarities are particularly obstinate. But the doctor determined to +try his method; he took exact measurements, and had constructed for her +a "lunette pince-nez"--a spring and pad for compressing the +artery--which she wore at night and whenever she could conveniently in +daytime. In three weeks a consolatory diminution was evident, and in +three months the young lady was quite satisfied with the improvement in +her features. + +_Jockey Tricks._--_How to make a horse appear as though he was badly +Foundered._--Take a fine wire and fasten it tight around the fetlock, +between the foot and the heel, and smooth the hair over it. In twenty +minutes the horse will show lameness.--Do not leave it on over nine +hours.--_To make a horse lame._--Take a single hair from his tail, put +it through the eye of a needle, then lift the front leg, and press the +skin between the outer and the middle tendon or cord, and shove the +needle through, cut off the hair each side and let the foot down; the +horse will go lame in twenty minutes.--_How to make a horse stand by his +food and not take it._--Grease the front teeth and the roof of the mouth +with common beef tallow, and he will not eat until you wash it out; this +in conjunction with the above will consummate a complete founder.--_How +to cure a horse from the crib or sucking wind._--Saw between the upper +teeth to the gums.--_How to put a young countenance on a horse._--Make a +small incision in the sunken place over the eye, insert the point of a +goose quill and blow it up; close the external wound with thread and it +is done.--_To cover up the heaves._--Drench the horse with one-fourth +pound of common bird shot, and he will not heave until they pass through +him.--_To make a horse appear as if he had the glanders._--Melt four +ounces of fresh butter and pour it into his ear.--_To distinguish +between distemper and glanders._--The discharge from the nose in +glanders will sink in water; in distemper it floats.--_How to make a +true pulling horse baulk._--Take tincture of cantharides one ounce, and +corrosive sublimate one drachm; mix, and bathe his shoulder at +night.--_How to nerve a horse that is lame._--Make a small incision +about half way from the knee to the joint on the outside of the leg, and +at the back part of the shin bone you will find a small white tendon or +cord, cut it off and close the external wound with a stitch, and he will +walk off on the hardest pavement and not limp a particle. + +_To Bore Holes in Glass._--Any hard steel tool will cut glass with great +facility when kept freely wet with camphor dissolved in turpentine. A +drill-bow may be used, or even the hand alone. A hole bored may be +readily enlarged by a round file. The ragged edges of glass vessels may +also be thus easily smoothed by a flat file. Flat window glass can +readily be sawed by a watch spring saw by aid of this solution. In +short, the most brittle glass can be wrought almost as easily as brass +by the use of cutting tools kept constantly moist with camphorized oil +of turpentine. + +_To Etch upon Glass._--Procure several thick, clear pieces of crown +glass, and immerse them in melted wax, so that each may receive a +complete coating, or pour over them a solution of wax in benzine. When +perfectly cold draw on them, with a fine steel point, flowers, trees, +houses, portraits, etc. Whatever parts of the drawing are intended to be +corroded with the acid, should be perfectly free from the least particle +of wax. When all these drawings are finished the pieces of glass must be +immersed one by one in a square leaden box or receiver, where they are +to be submitted to the action of hydrofluoric acid gas, made by acting +on powdered fluor-spar by concentrated sulphuric acid. + + + + +FARMERS' DEPARTMENT. + + +_How to get New Varieties of Potatoes._--When the vines are done growing +and are turned brown; the seed is ripe: then take the balls and string +with a large needle and strong thread; hang them in a dry place where +they will gradually dry and mature, without danger or injury from frost. +In the month of April, soak the ball for several hours from the pulp; +when washed and dried, they are fit for sowing in rows, in a bed well +prepared in the garden; they will sprout in a fortnight; they must be +attended to like other vegetables. When about two inches high, they may +be thinned and transplanted into rows. As they increase in size, they +should be hilled. In the autumn many of them will be of the size of a +walnut, and from that to a pea. In the following spring they should be +planted in hills, placing the large ones together,--they will in the +second season attain their full size, and will exhibit several varieties +of form, and may then be selected to suit the judgment of the +cultivator. I would prefer gathering the balls from potatoes of a good +kind. The first crops from seeds thus obtained will be productive, and +will continue so for many years, gradually deteriorating, until they +will need a renewal by the process. + +_To Destroy Rats._--Fill any deep smooth vessel of considerable capacity +to within six inches of the top with water, cover the surface with bran, +and set the vessel in a place most frequented by these pests. In +attempting to get at the bran they will fall in and be drowned. Several +dozen have been taken by this simple method at a time. + +_To Kill Rats in Barn and Rick._--Melt hog's lard in a bottle plunged in +water of temperature of 150 degrees Fahrenheit: introduce into it half +an ounce of phosphorus for every pound of lard; then add a pint of proof +spirits or whiskey; cork the bottle firmly after its contents have been +to 150 degrees, taking it out of the water and agitating till the +phosphorus becomes uniformly diffused, making a milky looking fluid. The +spirit may be poured off on the liquor cooling; and you then have a +fatty compound, which, after being warmed gently, may be incorporated +with a mixture of wheat flour, or sugar, flavored with oil of rhodium, +or oil of anise-seed, etc., and the dough, on being made into pellets, +should be laid at the rat holes; being luminous in the dark, and +agreeable both to the palates and noses, it is readily eaten, and proves +certainly fatal. The rats issue from their holes and seek for water to +quench their burning thirst, and they commonly die near the water. + +_Rat Poison._--Flour, six pounds; sugar, one pound; sulphur, four +pounds; phosphorus, four pounds. + +_To Banish and Prevent Mosquitoes from Biting._--Dilute a little of the +oil of thyme with sweet oil, and dip pieces of paper in it. Hang in your +room, or rub a little on the hands and face when going to bed. + +_To Keep Milk Sweet in the Hottest Weather._--Put a spoonful of +horse-radish in a pan of milk; this will keep it sweet for several days +longer than without. + + +RECIPES FOR HORSES. + +_Blistering Liniment._--Powdered Spanish flies, one ounce; spirits +turpentine, six ounces. Rub on the belly for pain in the bowels, or on +the surface for internal inflammation. + +_Cathartic Powder._--To cleanse out horses in the spring, making them +sleek and healthy; black sulphuret of antimony, nitre, and sulphur, each +equal parts. Mix well together, and give a tablespoonful every morning. + +_Cough Ball for Horses._--Pulverized ipecac, three-quarters of an ounce; +camphor, two ounces; squills, half an ounce. Mix with honey to form into +mass, and divide into eight balls. Give one every morning. + +_Diuretic Balls._--Castile soap scraped fine, powdered resin, each three +teaspoonfuls; powdered nitre, four teaspoonfuls; oil of juniper, one +small teaspoonful; honey, a sufficient quantity to make into a ball. + +_To prevent Horses being Teased by Flies._--Boil three handfuls of +walnut leaves in three quarts of water; sponge the horse (before going +out of the stable) between and upon the ears, neck and flank. + +_To Prevent Botts._--Mix a little wood-ashes with their drink daily. +This effectually preserves horses against the botts. + +_Liniment for Galled Backs of Horses._--White lead moistened with milk. +When milk cannot be procured, oil may be substituted. One or two ounces +will last two months or more. + +_Remedy for Strains in Horses._--Take whiskey, one half pint: camphor, +one ounce; sharp vinegar, one pint. Mix. Bathe the parts affected. + +_Another._--Take opodeldoc, warm it, and rub the strained part two or +three times a day. + +_Lotion for Blows, Bruises, Sprains, etc._--One part laudanum, two parts +oil origanum, four parts water ammonia, four parts oil of turpentine, +four parts camphor, thirty-two parts spirits of wine. Put them into a +bottle, and shake them until mixed. + +_Fever Ball._--Emetic tartar and camphor, each half an ounce; nitre, two +ounces. Mix with linseed meal and molasses to make eight balls. Give one +twice a day. + +_Liniment for Sprains, Swellings, etc._--Aqua ammonia, spirits camphor, +each, two ounces; oil origanum and laudanum, each, half an ounce. Mix. + +_Lotion for Mange._--Boil two ounces tobacco in one quart water: strain; +add sulphur and soft soap, each, two ounces. + +_Purgative Ball._--Aloes, one ounce; cream tartar and castile soap, one +quarter of an ounce. Mix with molasses to make a ball. + + + + +CONFECTIONERS' DEPARTMENT. + + +_Ginger Candy._--Boil a pound of clarified sugar until, upon taking a +drop of it on a piece of stick, it will become brittle when cold. Mix +and stir up with it, for a common article, about a teaspoonful of ground +ginger; if for a superior article, instead of the ground ginger add half +the white of an egg, beaten up previously with fine sifted loaf sugar, +and twenty drops of strong essence of ginger. + +_Ginger Lozenges._--Dissolve in one-quarter of a pint of hot water half +an ounce of gum arabic; when cold, stir it up with one and a half pounds +of loaf sugar, and a spoonful of powdered ginger, or twelve drops of +essence of ginger. Roll and beat the whole up into a paste; make it into +a flat cake, and punch out the lozenges with a round stamp; dry them +near the fire, or in an oven. + +_Peppermint Lozenges._--Best powdered white sugar, seven pounds; pure +starch, one pound; oil of peppermint to flavor. Mix with mucilage. + +_Peppermint, Rose or Hoarhound Candy._--They may be made as lemon candy. +Flavor with essence of rose or peppermint or finely powdered hoarhound. +Pour it out in a buttered paper, placed in a square tin pan. + +_To Clarify Sugar for Candies._--To every pound of sugar, put a large +cup of water, and put it in a brass or copper kettle, over a slow fire, +for half an hour; pour into it a small quantity of isinglass and gum +Arabic, dissolved together. This will cause all impurities to rise to +the surface; skim it as it rises. Flavor according to taste. + +All kinds of sugar for candy, are boiled as above directed. When boiling +loaf sugar, add a tablespoonful of rum or vinegar, to prevent its +becoming too brittle whilst making. + +Loaf sugar when boiled, by pulling and making into small rolls, and +twisting a little, will make what is called little rock, or snow. By +pulling loaf sugar after it is boiled, you can make it as white as snow. + +_Common Twist Candy._--Boil three pounds of common sugar and one pint of +water over a slow fire for half an hour, without skimming. When boiled +enough take it off; rub the hands over with butter; take that which is a +little cooled, and pull it as you would molasses candy, until it is +white; then twist or braid it, and cut it up in strips. + +_Fine Peppermint Lozenges._--Best powdered white sugar, 7 pounds; pure +starch, 1 pound; oil of peppermint to flavor. Mix with mucilage. + +_Everton Taffee._--To make this favorite and wholesome candy, take 1½ +pounds of moist sugar, 3 ounces of butter, a teacup and a half of water +and one lemon. Boil the sugar, butter, water, and half the rind of the +lemon together, and when done--which will be known by dropping into cold +water, when it should be quite crisp--let it stand aside till the +boiling has ceased, and then stir in the juice of the lemon. Butter a +dish, and pour it in about a quarter of an inch in thickness. The fire +must be quick, and the taffee stirred all the time. + +_Candy Fruit._--Take 1 pound of the best loaf sugar; dip each lump into +a bowl of water, and put the sugar into your preserving kettle. Boil it +down and skim it until perfectly clear, and in a candying state. When +sufficiently boiled, have ready the fruits you wish to preserve. Large +white grapes, oranges separated into small pieces, or preserved fruits, +taken out of their syrup and dried, are very nice. Dip the fruits into +the prepared sugar while it is hot; put them in a cold place; they will +soon become hard. + +_Popped Corn._--Dipped in boiling molasses and stuck together forms an +excellent candy. + +_Molasses Candy._--Boil molasses over a moderately hot fire, stirring +constantly. When you think it is done, drop a little on a plate, and if +sufficiently boiled it will be hard. Add a small quantity of vinegar to +render it brittle and any flavoring ingredient you prefer. Pour in +buttered tin pans. If nuts are to be added strew them in the pans before +pouring out the candy. + +_Liquorice Lozenges._--Extract of liquorice, 1 pound, powdered white +sugar, 2 pounds. Mix with mucilage made with rosewater. + +_Fig Candy._--Take 1 pound of sugar and 1 pint of water, set over a slow +fire. When done, add a few drops of vinegar and a lump of butter, and +pour into pans in which split figs are laid. + +_Puds in Candy._--Can be made in the same manner, substituting stoned +raisins for the figs. Common molasses candy is very nice with all kinds +of nuts added. + +_Scotch Butter Candy._--Take 1 pound of sugar, 1 pint of water: dissolve +and boil. When done add 1 tablespoonful of butter, and enough lemon +juice and oil of lemon to flavor. + +_Icing for Cakes._--Beat the whites of two small eggs to a high froth; +then add to them a quarter of a pound of white, ground, or powdered +sugar; beat it well until it will lie in a heap; flavor with lemon or +rose. This will frost the top of a common-sized cake. Heap what you +suppose to be sufficient in the centre of the cake, then dip a +broad-bladed knife in cold water, and spread the ice evenly over the +whole surface. + +_Saffron Lozenges._--Finely powdered hay-saffron, 1 ounce; finely +powdered sugar, 1 pound; finely powdered starch, 8 ounces. Mucilage to +mix. + +_Chocolate Cream._--Chocolate, scraped fine, ½ ounce; thick cream, 1 +pint; sugar (best), 3 ounces; heat it nearly to boiling, then remove it +from the fire, and mill it well. When cold add the whites of four or +five eggs; whisk rapidly and take up the froth on a sieve; serve the +cream in glasses, and pile up the froth on the top of them. + +_Candied Lemon or Peppermint for Colds._--Boil 1½ pounds sugar in a half +pint of water, till it begins to candy around the sides; put in 8 drops +of essence; pour it upon buttered paper, and cut it with a knife. + + + + +VALUABLE MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS, FOR THE HOUSEHOLD AND EVERY DAY +REQUIREMENTS. + + +_Alum in Starch._--For starching muslins, ginghams, and calicoes, +dissolve a piece of alum the size of a shellbark, for every pint of +starch, and add to it. By so doing the colors will keep bright for a +long time, which is very desirable when dresses must be often washed, +and the cost is but a trifle. + +_Cider Yeast._--Take cider from sour apples before it ferments, scald, +skim thoroughly, and pour, while hot, upon flour enough to make a stiff +batter. When cool, add yeast of any kind, and let it rise, stirring it +down as often as it tries to run over for several days, then put it in a +cool place (where it will not freeze), and you will have something equal +to the best hop yeast. It will keep until May without any further labor. + +_To Destroy Cockroaches._--The following is said to be effectual: These +vermin are easily destroyed, simply by cutting up green cucumbers at +night, and placing them about where roaches commit depredations. What is +cut from the cucumbers in preparing them for the table answers the +purpose as well, and three applications will destroy all the roaches in +the house. Remove the peelings in the morning, and renew them at night. + +_Fire Kindlers._--Take a quart of tar and three pounds of resin, melt +them, bring to a cooling temperature, mix with as much sawdust, with a +little charcoal added, as can be worked in; spread out while hot upon a +board, when cold break up into lumps of the size of a large hickory nut, +and you have, at a small expense, kindling material enough for a +household for one year. They will easily ignite from a match and burn +with a strong blaze, long enough to start any wood that is fit to burn. + +_Remedy against Moths._--An ounce of gum camphor and one of the powdered +shell of red pepper are macerated in eight ounces of strong alcohol for +several days, then strained. With this tincture the furs or cloths are +sprinkled over, and rolled up in sheets. Instead of the pepper, bitter +apple may be used. This remedy is used in Russia under the name of the +Chinese tincture for moths. + +_Substitute for Yeast._--Boil one pound of flour, one quarter pound of +brown sugar and a little salt in two gallons of water for one hour. When +milk-warm, bottle and cork close, and it will be ready for use in +twenty-four hours. + +_To make Ley._--Have a large tub or cask and bore a hole on one side for +a tap, near the bottom; place several bricks near the hole and cover +them with straw. Fill the barrel with strong wood ashes. Oak ashes are +strongest, and those of appletree wood make the whitest soap. Pour on +boiling water until it begins to run, then put in the tap and let it +soak. If the ashes settle down as they are wet, fill in until full. + +_Tomato Wine._--Take ripe, fresh tomatoes, mash very fine, strain +through a fine sieve, sweeten with good sugar, to suit the taste, set it +away in an earthen or glass vessel, nearly full, cover tight, with +exception of a small hole for the refuse to work off through during its +fermentation. When it is done fermenting it will become pure and clear. +Then bottle, and cork tight. A little salt improves its flavor; age +improves it. + +_To Color Brown on Cotton or Woolen._--For ten pounds of cloth boil +three pounds of catechu in as much water as needed to cover the goods. +When dissolved, add four ounces of blue vitriol; stir it well; put in +the cloth and let it remain all night; in the morning drain it +thoroughly; put four ounces of bi-chromate of potash in boiling water +sufficient to cover your goods; let it remain 15 minutes; wash in cold +water; color in iron. + +_To Cleanse and Brighten Faded Brussels Carpet._--Boil some bran in +water and with this wash the carpet with a flannel and brush, using +fuller's earth for the worst parts. When dry, the carpet must be well +beaten to get out the fuller's earth, then washed over with a weak +solution of alum to brighten the colors. Some housekeepers cleanse and +brighten carpets by sprinkling them first with fine salt and then +sweeping them thoroughly. + +_To give Stoves a Fine, Brilliant Appearance._--A teaspoonful of +pulverized alum mixed with stove polish will give a stove a fine luster, +which will be quite permanent. + +_Method of Keeping Hams in Summer._--Make bags of unbleached muslin; +place in the bottom a little good sweet hay; put in the ham, and then +press around and over it firmly more hay; tie the bag and hang up in a +dry place. Ham secured in this way will keep for years. + +_How to Cause Vegetables and Fruits to Grow to an Enormous Size and also +to Increase the Brilliancy and Fragrancy of Flowers._--A curious +discovery has recently been made public in France, in regard to the +culture of vegetable and fruit trees. By watering with a solution of +sulphate of iron, the most wonderful fecundity has been attained. +Pear-trees and beans, which have been submitted to this treatment, have +nearly doubled in the size of their productions, and a noticeable +improvement has been remarked in their flavor. Dr. Becourt reports that +while at the head of an establishment at Enghien, or the sulphurous +springs, he had the gardens and plantations connected with it watered, +during several weeks of the early Spring, with sulphurous water, and +that not only the plantations prospered to a remarkable extent, but +flowers acquired a peculiar brilliancy of coloring and healthy aspect +which attracted universal attention. + +_Drying Corn._--With a sharp knife shave the corn from the ear, then +scrape the cob, leaving one-half the hull clinging to the cob. Place a +tin or earthen vessel two-thirds full of this "milk of corn" over a +kettle of boiling water, stir frequently until dry enough to spread upon +a firm cloth without sticking, when the wind and sun (away from dust and +flies) will soon complete the process. To prepare for the table, put in +cold water, set it where it will become hot, but not boil, for two +hours; then season with salt and pepper, boil for ten minutes; add of +butter and white sugar a tablespoonful of each just before ready to +serve. + +_To Destroy Lice on Chickens._--The following will kill lice on the +first application: Put six cents worth of cracked _Coculus Indicus_ +berries into a bottle that will hold a half pint of alcohol: fill the +bottle with alcohol, and let it stand twenty-four hours. When the hen +comes off with the young chickens, take the mixture, and with a small +cotton rag, wet the head of each chicken enough to have it reach through +the little feathers to the skin; also, with the same rag, wet the hen +under her wings. Be careful that no child, nor any one else uses it, +because it a _deadly poison_. + +_Cracked Wheat._--For a pint of the cracked grain, have two quarts of +water boiling in a smooth iron pot over a quick fire; stir in the wheat +slowly; boil fast and stir constantly for the first half hour of +cooking, or until it begins to thicken and "pop up;" then lift from the +quick fire, and place the pot where the wheat will cook slowly for an +hour longer. Keep it covered closely, stir now and then, and be careful +not to let it burn at the bottom. Wheat cooked thus is much sweeter and +richer than when left to soak and simmer for hours, as many think +necessary. White wheat cooks the easiest. When ready to dish out, have +your moulds moistened with cold water, cover lightly, and set in a cool +place. Eat warm or cold with milk and sugar. + +_How to Have Green Pea Soup in Winter._--Sow peas thickly in pots and +boxes, say six weeks before the soup is wanted. Place them in a +temperature of 60° or so, close to the glass in a house or pit. Cut the +plants as soon as they attain a height of from three to six inches, and +rub them through a sieve. The shoots alone will make a fair soup. Mixed +with dry peas, also passed through a sieve, no one could scarcely +distinguish color or flavor from that of real green pea soup. There is, +however, considerable difference in the flavor of pea leaves, as well as +of the peas themselves. The best marrows, such as Ne Plus Ultra and +Veitche's Perfection, yield the most piquant cuttings. Also the more +light the plants receive the higher the flavor, plants drawn up or at +all blanched, being by no means comparable with those well and strongly +grown. + +In the spring, a few patches or rows may be sown in open quarters +expressly for green cuttings. These are most perfect and full flavored +when four inches high. When too long, the flavor seems to have run to +wood, and the peculiar aroma of green peas is weaker. + +There is yet another mode of making green pea soup at any season at very +short notice. Chip the peas by steeping them in water and leaving them +in a warm place for a few days. Then slightly boil or stew, chips and +all, and pass them through a sieve. The flavor is full and good, though +such pea soup lacks color. It is astonishing how much the mere +vegetation of seeds develops their more active and predominant flavor or +qualities; a fact that might often be turned to useful account in the +kitchen in the flavoring of soups or dishes, with turnips, celery, +parsley, etc. + +_Composition for Restoring Scorched Linen._--Boil, to a good +consistency, in half a pint of vinegar, two ounces of fuller's earth, an +ounce of hen's dung, half an ounce of cake soap, and the juice of two +onions. Spread this composition over the whole of the damaged part; and +if the scorching is not quite through, and the threads actually +consumed, after suffering it to dry on, and letting it receive a +subsequent good washing or two, the place will appear full as white and +perfect as any other part of the linen. + +_To Remove Indelible Ink Stains._--Soak the stained spot in strong salt +water, then wash it with ammonia. Salt changes the nitrate of silver +into chloride of silver, and ammonia dissolves the chloride. + +_To Cook Cauliflower._--Choose those that are close and white and of +middle size, trim off the outside leaves, cut the stalk off flat at the +bottom, let them lie in salt and water an hour before you boil them. Put +them into boiling water with a handful of salt in it, skim it well and +let it boil slowly till done. Fifteen minutes will suffice for a small +one, and twenty will be long enough for a large one. If it is boiled a +minute or two after it is done the flavor will be impaired. + +_To Pickle String Beans._--Place them in a pan with alternate layers of +salt and leave them thus for 24 hours. Drain them and place them in a +jar with allspice, cloves, pepper and a little salt. Boil enough vinegar +to cover them, pour over them and let them stand till the next day, boil +the vinegar the second time, and pour it on again. The next day boil the +vinegar for the last time, pour it over the beans, and when quite cold, +cover the jar tightly and set in a cool closet. + +_How to Cause a Baby to Thrive and Grow._--Try the milk first drawn from +a cow that is fresh, add one-quarter water, and a little sugar. If the +milk constipates, sweeten it with molasses, or mix with it a small +quantity of magnesia. Abjure soothing syrups, and for colic give catnip +or smellage tea. Give the baby a tepid bath at night as well as in the +morning, rubbing him well with the hand. After the bath, let him feed +and then sleep. We find open air the best of tonics for babies. Ours +takes his naps out of doors in the shade during the warm weather, and +his cheeks are two roses. + +_To Can Gooseberries without Breaking them._--Fill the cans with +berries, and partly cover with water, set the jars into a vessel of +water, and raise the temperature to the boiling point. Boil eight +minutes, remove from the kettle, cover with boiling water, and seal +immediately. If sugar is used, let it be pure white, and allow eight +ounces to a quart of berries. Make into a syrup, and use in the cans +instead of water. The glass cans with glass tops, a rubber and a screw +ring, we have found the simplest and most perfect of the many kinds +offered for sale in the market. + +_Ready Mode of Mending Cracks in Stoves, Pipes and Iron Ovens._--When a +crack is discovered in a stove, through which the fire or smoke +penetrates, the aperture may be completely closed in a moment with a +composition consisting of wood ashes and common salt made up into paste +with a little water, and plastered over the crack. The good effect is +equally certain, whether the stove, etc., be cold or hot. + +_To Keep Milk from Turning Sour._--Add a little sub-carbonate of soda, +or of potash. This by combining with, and neutralizing the acetic acid +formed, has the desired effect, and keeps the milk from turning sooner +than it otherwise would. The addition is perfectly harmless, and does +not injure the taste. + +_Strawberry Vinegar._--Put four pounds of very ripe strawberries, nicely +dressed, into three quarts of the best vinegar, and let them stand three +or four days; then drain the vinegar through a jelly-bag, and pour it on +the same quantity of fruit. Repeat the process in three days for a third +time. Finally, to each pound of the liquor thus obtained, add one pound +of fine sugar. Bottle, and let it stand covered, but not tightly corked, +one week; then cork it tight, and set it in a cool, _dry_ place, where +it will not freeze. Raspberry vinegar is made the same way. + +_Cider Vinegar._--After cider has become too sour for use, set it in a +warm place, put to it occasionally the rinsings of the sugar basin or +molasses jug, and any remains of ale or cold tea; let it remain with the +bung open, and you will soon have the best of vinegar. + +_To Give Luster to Silver._--Dissolve a quantity of alum in water, so as +to make a pretty strong brine, and skim it carefully; then add some soap +to it, and dip a linen rag in it, and rub over the silver. + +_To Make Water-Proof Porous Cloth._--Close water-proof cloth fabrics, +such as glazed oil-cloth, India-rubber, and gutta-percha cloth are +completely water-proof, but do not permit perspiration and the exhaled +gases from the skin to pass through them, because they are air-tight as +well as water-tight. Persons who wear air-tight garments soon become +faint, if they are undergoing severe exercise, such as that to which +soldiers are exposed when on march. A porous, water-proof cloth, +therefore, is the best for outer garments during wet weather, for those +whose duties or labor causes them to perspire freely. The best way for +preparing such cloth is by the following process: Take 2¼ pounds of alum +and dissolve this in 10 gallons of boiling water; then in a separate +vessel dissolve the same quantity of sugar of lead in 10 gallons of +water, and mix the two solutions. The cloth is now well handled in this +liquid, until every part of it is penetrated; then it is squeezed and +dried in the air, or in a warm apartment, then washed in cold water and +dried again, when it is fit for use. If necessary, the cloth may be +dipped in the liquid and dried twice before being washed. The liquor +appears curdled, when the alum and lead solutions are mixed together. +This is the result of double decomposition, the sulphate of lead, which +is an insoluble salt, being formed. The sulphate of lead is taken up in +the pores of the cloth, and it is unaffected by rains or moisture, and +yet it does not render the cloth air-tight. Such cloth is also partially +non-inflammable. A solution of alum itself will render cloth, prepared +as described, partially water-proof, but it is not so good as the +sulphate of lead. Such cloth--cotton or woolen--sheds rain like the +feathers on the back of a duck. + +_To Cleanse Carpet._--1 teaspoonful liquid ammonia in one gallon warm +water, will often restore the color of carpets, even if produced by acid +or alkali. If a ceiling has been whitewashed with the carpet down, and a +few drops are visible, this will remove it. Or, after the carpet is well +beaten and brushed, scour with ox gall, which will not only extract +grease but freshen the colors--1 pint of gall in 3 gallons of warm +water, will do a large carpet. Table floor-cloths may be thus washed. +The suds left from a wash where ammonia is used, even if almost cold, +cleanses these floor-cloths well. + +_To Keep Hams._--After the meat has been well cured by pickle and smoke, +take some clean ashes from bits of coal; moisten them with a little +water so that they will form a paste, or else just wet the hams a +little, and rub on the dry ashes. Rubbed in thoroughly they serve as a +capital insect protector, and the hams can be hung up in the smoke-house +or wood-chamber without any danger of molestation. + +_A Cold Cement for Mending Earthenware_, says a recent English work, +reckoned a great secret among workmen, is made by grating a pound of old +cheese, with a bread grater, into a quart of milk, in which it must be +left for a period of fourteen hours. It should be stirred quite often. A +pound of unslaked lime, finely pulverized in a mortar, is then added, +and the whole is thoroughly mixed by beating. This done, the whites of +25 eggs are incorporated with the rest, and the whole is ready for use. +There is another cement for the same purpose which is used hot. It is +made of resin, beeswax, brick-dust, and chalk boiled together. The +substances to be cemented must be heated, and when the surfaces are +coated with cement, they must be rubbed hard upon each other, as in +making a glue-joint with wood. + +_How to Make Cucumber Vines Bear Five Crops._--When a cucumber is taken +from the vine let it be cut with a knife, leaving about the eighth of an +inch of the cucumber on the stem, then slit the stem with a knife from +the end to the vine, leaving a small portion of the cucumber on each +division, and on each separate slit there will be a new cucumber as +large as the first. + +_White Cement._--Take white (fish) glue, 1 lb. 10 oz.; dry white lead, 6 +oz.; soft water, 3 pts.; alcohol, 1 pt. + +Dissolve the glue by putting it in a tin kettle or dish, containing the +water, and set this dish in a kettle of water, to prevent the glue from +being burned; when the glue is all dissolved, put in the lead and stir +and boil until it is thoroughly mixed; remove from the fire, and when +cool enough to bottle, add the alcohol, and bottle while it is yet warm, +keeping it corked. This last recipe has been sold about the country for +from twenty-five cents to five dollars, and one man gave a horse for +it. + +_Bruises on Furniture._--Wet the part in warm water; double a piece of +brown paper five or six times, soak in the warm water, and lay it on the +place; apply on that a warm, but not hot, flatiron till the moisture is +evaporated. If the bruise be not gone repeat the process. After two or +three applications the dent will be raised to the surface. If the bruise +be small, merely soak it with warm water, and hold a red-hot iron near +the surface, keeping the surface continually wet--the bruise will soon +disappear. + +_To Prevent Iron Rust._--Kerosene applied to stoves or farming +implements, during summer, will prevent their rusting. + +_To Color Sheep Skins._--Unslaked lime and litharge equal parts, mixed +to a thin paste with water, will color buff--several coats will make it +a dark brown; by adding a little ammonia and nitrate of silver a fine +black is produced. Terra japonica will impart a "tan color" to wool, and +the red shade is deepened by sponging with a solution of lime and water, +using a strong solution of alum water to "set" the colors; 1 part +crystallized nitrate silver, 8 parts carbonate ammonia, and 1½ parts of +soft water dyes brown; every additional coat darkens the color until a +black is obtained. + +_Remedy for Bums._--Take one teacup of lard and the whites of two eggs; +work together as much as it can be, then spread on cloths and apply. +Change as often as necessary. + +_How Summer Suits should be Washed._--Summer suits are nearly all made +of white or buff linen, pique, cambric, or muslin, and the art of +preserving the new appearance after washing is a matter of the greatest +importance. Common washerwomen spoil everything with soda, and nothing +is more frequent than to see the delicate tints of lawns and percales +turned into dark blotches and muddy streaks by the ignorance and +vandalism of a laundress. It is worth while for ladies to pay attention +to this, and insist upon having their summer dresses washed according to +the directions which they should be prepared to give their laundresses +themselves. In the first place, the water should be tepid, the soap +should not be allowed to touch the fabric; it should be washed and +rinsed quick, turned upon the wrong side, and hung in the shade to dry, +and when starched (in thin boiled but not boiling starch) should be +folded in sheets or towels, and ironed upon the wrong side as soon as +possible. But linen should be washed in water in which hay or a quart +bag of bran has been boiled. This last will be found to answer for +starch as well, and is excellent for print dresses of all kinds, but a +handful of salt is very useful also to set the colors of light cambrics +and dotted lawns; and a little ox gall will not only set but brighten +yellow and purple tints, and has a good effect upon green. + +_How to Fasten Rubber to Wood and Metal._--As rubber plates and rings +are now-a-days used almost exclusively for making connections between +steam and other pipes and apparatus, much annoyance is often experienced +by the impossibility or imperfection of an air-tight connection. This is +obviated entirely by employing a cement which fastens alike well to the +rubber and to the metal or wood. Such cement is prepared by a solution +of shellac in ammonia. This is best made by soaking pulverized gum +shellac in ten times its weight of strong ammonia, when a slimy mass is +obtained, which in three to four weeks will become liquid without the +use of hot water. This softens the rubber, and becomes, after +volatilization of the ammonia, hard and impermeable to gases and fluids. + +_Renewing Maroon Colors on Wool._--Wash the goods in very weak lye; then +rinse thoroughly in clear water; thus you have a beautiful, _even_ +color, although your goods may have been much faded and stained. Though +the color thus obtained may not be the exact shade as when new, it is, +however, a very pretty one. The above will not answer for other than all +woolen goods of a maroon color. + +_To make Waterproof Cloth out of thick Ducking._--The following French +recipe is given: Take two pounds four ounces of alum, and dissolve it in +ten gallons of water. In like manner dissolve the same quantity of sugar +of lead in a similar quantity of water, and mix the two together. They +form a precipitate of the sulphate of lead. The clear liquor is now +withdrawn, and the cloth immersed one hour in the solution, when it is +taken out and dried in the shade, washed in clean water and dried again. + +_How to Stop a Pinhole in Lead Pipe._--Take a ten-penny nail, place the +square end upon the hole, and hit it two or three slight blows with a +hammer, and the orifice is closed as tight as though you had employed a +plumber to do it at a cost of a dollar or more. + +_To Build a Chimney that Will Not Smoke._--The _Scientific American_ +gives the following hints to those who would "build a chimney which will +not smoke":--The chief point is to make the throat not less than four +inches broad and twelve long; then the chimney should be abruptly +enlarged to double the size, and so continued for one foot or more; then +it may be gradually tapered off as desired. But the inside of the +chimney, throughout its whole length to the top, should be plastered +very smooth with good mortar, which will harden with age. The area of a +chimney should be at least half a square foot, and no flues less than +sixty square inches. The best shape for a chimney is circular, or +many-sided, as giving less friction, (brick is the best material, as it +is a non-conductor,) and the higher above the roof the better. + +_To Prevent Turners' Wood Splitting._--Small pieces of valuable wood, +such kinds as are used for turning, etc., are very liable to split +readily--that is, outward from the centre. To prevent this, soak the +pieces, when first cut, in _cold_ water for 24 hours, then boil in hot +water for two or three hours, and afterward dry slowly and under cover. +This will be found useful in making handsome mantel, toilet, and other +articles from sumac, cherry, and other woods that never grow very large. + +_To Remove Dry Paint on Windows._--The most economical way to remove dry +paint from the panes is to make a small swab having a handle some eight +inches long, dip it in a little diluted oxalic acid, and rub off the +paint with a swab. + +_Everlasting Fence Posts._--I discovered many years ago that wood could +be made to last longer than iron in the ground, but thought the process +so simple and inexpensive that it was not worth while making any stir +about it. I would as soon have poplar, basswood, or quaking ash as any +other kind of timber for fence posts. I have taken out basswood posts +after having been set seven years, which were as sound when taken out as +when they were first put in the ground. Time and weather seemed to have +no effect on them. The posts can be prepared for less than two cents a +piece. This is the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir in it +pulverized charcoal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat of this over +the timber, and there is not a man that will live to see it rotten. + +_How to Test the Richness of Milk._--Procure any long glass vessel--a +cologne bottle or long phial. Take a narrow strip of paper, just the +length from the neck to the bottom of the phial, and mark it off with +one hundred lines at equal distances; or into fifty lines and count each +as two, and paste it upon the phial, so as to divide its length into a +hundred equal parts. Fill it to the highest mark with milk fresh from +the cow, and allow it to stand in a perpendicular position twenty-four +hours. The number of spaces occupied by the cream will give you its +exact percentage in the milk without any guess work. + +_To Remove Stains._--The stains of ink on cloth, paper, or wood may be +removed by almost all acids: but those acids are to be preferred which +are least likely to injure the texture of the stained substance. The +muriatic acid, diluted with five or six times its weight of water, may +be applied to the spot, and after a minute or two may be washed off, +repeating the application as often as may be necessary. But the +vegetable acids are attended with less risk, and are equally effectual. +A solution of the oxalic, citric (acid of lemons), or tartareous acids +in water may be applied to the most delicate fabrics, without any danger +of injuring them; and the same solutions will discharge writing but not +printing ink. Hence they may be employed in cleaning books which have +been defaced by writing on the margin, without impairing the text. +Lemon-juice and the juice of sorrels will also remove ink stains, but +not so easily as the concrete acid of lemons or citric acid. + +_To Prevent Snow-water or Rain from Penetrating the Soles of Shoes or +Boots in Winter._--This simple and effectual remedy is nothing more than +a little beeswax and mutton suet, warmed in a pipkin until in a liquid +state. Then rub some of it lightly over the edges of the sole where the +stitches are, which will repel the wet, and not in the least prevent the +blacking from having the usual effect. + +_An Easy Method of Preventing Moths in Furs or Woolens._--Sprinkle the +furs or woolen stuffs, as well as the drawers or boxes in which they are +kept, with spirits of turpentine; the unpleasant scent of which will +speedily evaporate on exposure of the stuffs to the air. Some persons +place sheets of paper, moistened with spirits of turpentine, over, +under, or between pieces of cloth, etc., and find it a very effectual +mode. + +_To make Sea-water fit for Washing Linen at Sea._--Soda put into +sea-water renders it turbid; the lime and magnesia fall to the bottom. +To make sea-water fit for washing linen at sea, as much soda must be put +in it, as not only to effect a complete precipitation of these earths, +but to render the sea-water sufficiently laxivial or alkaline. Soda +should always be taken to sea for this purpose. + +_To Destroy Insects._--When bugs have obtained a lodgment in walls or +timber, the surest mode of overcoming the nuisance is to putty up every +hole that is moderately large, and oil-paint the whole wall or timber. +In bed-furniture, a mixture of soft soap, with snuff or arsenic, is +useful to fill up the holes where the bolts or fastenings are fixed, +etc. French polish may be applied to smoother parts of the wood. + +_Poultice for Burns and Frozen Flesh._--Indian-meal poultices, covered +with young hyson tea, moistened with hot water, and laid over burns or +frozen parts, as hot as can be borne, will relieve the pain in five +minutes; and blisters, if they have not, will not arise. One poultice is +usually sufficient. + +_Cracked Nipples._--Glycerine and tannin, equal weights, rubbed together +into an ointment, is very highly recommended, as is also mutton tallow +and glycerine. + +_To take the Impression of any Butterfly in all its Colors._--Having +taken a butterfly, kill it without spoiling its wings, which contrive to +spread out as regularly as possible in a flying position. Then, with a +small brush or pencil, take a piece of white paper; wash part of it with +gum-water, a little thicker than ordinary, so that it may easily dry. +Afterwards, laying your butterfly on the paper, cut off the body close +to the wings, and, throwing it away, lay the paper on a smooth board +with the fly upwards; and, laying another paper over that, put the whole +preparation into a screw-press, and screw down very hard, letting it +remain under that pressure for half an hour. Afterwards take off the +wings of the butterfly, and you will find a perfect impression of them, +with all their various colors, marked distinctly, remaining on the +paper. When this is done, draw between the wings of your impression the +body of the butterfly, and color it after the insect itself. + +_To take the Stains of Grease from Woolen or Silk._--Three ounces of +spirits of wine, three ounces of French chalk powdered, and five ounces +of pipe-clay. Mix the above ingredients, and make them up in rolls about +the length of a finger, and you will find a never-failing remedy for +removing grease from woolen or silken goods. N. B.--It is applied by +rubbing on the spot either dry or wet, and afterwards brushing the +place. + +_Easy and Safe Method of Discharging Grease from Woolen +Cloths._--Fuller's earth or tobacco pipe-clay, being put wet on an +oil-spot, absorbs the oil as the water evaporates, and leaves the +vegetable or animal fibres of the cloth clean on being beaten or brushed +out. When the spot is occasioned by tallow or wax, it is necessary to +heat the part cautiously by an iron or the fire while the cloth is +drying. In some kinds of goods, blotting-paper, bran, or raw starch, may +be used with advantage. + +_To take out Spots of Ink._--As soon as the accident happens, wet the +place with juice of sorrel or lemon, or with vinegar, and the best hard +white soap. + +_To take Iron-moulds out of Linen._--Hold the iron-mould on the cover of +a tankard of boiling water, and rub on the spot a little juice of sorrel +and a little salt; and when the cloth has thoroughly imbibed the juice, +wash it in lye. + +_To take out Spots on Silk._--Rub the spots with spirits of turpentine; +this spirit exhaling, carries off with it the oil that causes the spot. + +_To take Wax out of Velvet of all Colors except Crimson._--Take a crumby +wheaten loaf, cut it in two, toast it before the fire, and, while very +hot, apply it to the part spotted with wax. Then apply another piece of +toasted bread hot as before, and continue this application until the wax +is entirely taken out. + +_To Bleach Straw._--Straw is bleached by the vapors of sulphur, or a +solution of oxalic acid or chloride of lime. It may be dyed with any +liquid color. + +_Windows, to Crystallize._--Dissolve epsom-salts in hot ale, or +solution of gum arabic, wash it over the window, and let it dry. If you +wish to remove any, to form a border or centre-piece, do it with a wet +cloth. + +_Wax for Bottling._--Rosin, 13 parts; wax, 1 part; melt and add any +color. Used to render corks and bungs air-tight by _melting the wax_ +over them. + +_Whitewash._--Slack half a bushel of lime with boiling water, and cover +the vessel to retain the steam. Strain the liquor, and add one peck of +salt previously dissolved in warm water, 3 lbs. of rice boiled and +ground to a paste, Spanish whiting, 8 oz.; glue, 1 lb.; mix and add hot +water, 5 gallons; let it stand a few days, and apply hot. It makes a +brilliant wash for inside or outside works. + +_To Purify Water for Drinking._--Filter river-water through a sponge, +more or less compressed, instead of stone or sand, by which the water is +not only rendered more clean, but wholesome; for sand is insensibly +dissolved by the water, so that in four or five years it will have lost +a fifth part of its weight. Powder of charcoal should be added to the +sponge when the water is foul or fetid. Those who examine the large +quantity of terrene matter on the inside of tea-kettles, will be +convinced all water should be boiled before drunk, if they wish to avoid +being afflicted with gravel or stone, etc. + +_To Purify the Muddy Waters of Rivers or Pits._--Make a number of holes +in the bottom of a deep tub; lay some clean gravel thereon, and above +this some clean sand; sink this tub in the river or pit, so that only a +few inches of the tub will be above the surface of the water; the river +or pit water will filter through the sand, and rise clear through it to +the level of the water on the outside, and will be pure and limpid. + +_Method of Making Putrid Water Sweet in a Night's Time._--Four large +spoonfuls of unslacked lime, put into a puncheon of ninety gallons of +putrid water at sea, will, in one night, make it as clear and sweet as +the best spring-water just drawn; but, unless the water is afterwards +ventilated sufficiently to carbonize the lime, it will be a lime-water. +Three ounces of pure unslacked lime should saturate 90 gallons of water. + +_To Keep Apples from Freezing._--Apples form an article of chief +necessity in almost every family; therefore, great care is taken to +protect them from frost; it being well known that they, if left +unprotected, are destroyed by the first frost which occurs. They may be +kept in the attic with impunity throughout the winter, by simply +covering them over with a linen cloth; be sure you have _linen_, for +woolen or other cloth is of _no avail_. + +_To Preserve Grapes._--Take a cask or barrel which will hold water, and +put into it, first a layer of bran, dried in an oven, or of ashes well +dried and sifted; upon this place a layer of grapes well cleaned, and +gathered in the afternoon of a dry day, before they are perfectly ripe; +proceed thus with alternate layers of bran or ashes and grapes, till the +barrel is full, taking care that the grapes do not touch each other, and +to let the last layer be of bran or ashes; then close the barrel so that +the air may not penetrate, which is an essential point. Grapes thus +packed will keep for nine or even twelve months. To restore them to +freshness, cut the end of the stalk of each bunch of grapes, and put it +into red wine, as you would flowers into water. White grapes should be +put into white wine. + +_To Increase the Laying of Eggs._--The best method is to mix with their +food, every other day, about a teaspoon of ground cayenne pepper to each +dozen fowl. Whilst upon this subject, it would be well to say, that if +your hens lay soft eggs, or eggs without shells, you should put plenty +of old plaster, egg-shells, or even oyster-shells broken up, where they +can get at it. + +_To Preserve Meats._--Beef to pickle for long keeping. First, thoroughly +rub salt into it, and let it remain in bulk for twenty-four hours to +draw off the blood. Second, take it up, letting it drain, and pack as +desired. Third, have ready a pickle prepared as follows: for every 100 +pounds of beef use 7 pounds salt; saltpetre and cayenne pepper each, 1 +ounce; molasses, 1 quart; and soft water, 8 gallons; boil and skim well, +and when cold pour over the beef. + +Another method is to use 5 pounds salt, 1 pound brown sugar, and ¼ oz. +of saltpetre, to each 100 pounds; dissolve the above in sufficient water +to cover the meat, and in two weeks drain all off, and make more same as +first. It will then keep through the season. To boil for eating, put +into boiling water; for soups, into cold water. + +_Flies, to Destroy._--Boil some quassia-chips in a little water, sweeten +with syrup or molasses, and place it in saucers. It is destructive to +flies, but not to children. + +_Walnuts, to Pickle._--Take 100 young walnuts, lay them in salt and +water for two or three days, changing the water every day. (If required +to be soon ready for use, pierce each walnut with a larding pin that the +pickle may penetrate). Wipe them with a soft cloth, and lay them on a +folded cloth for some hours. Then put them in a jar, and pour on them +sufficient of the above spiced vinegar, hot, to cover them. Or they may +be allowed to simmer gently in strong vinegar, then put into a jar with +a handful of mustard-seed, 1 oz. of ginger, ¼ oz. mace, 1 oz. allspice, +2 heads of garlic, and 2 split nutmegs; and pour on them sufficient +boiling vinegar to cover them. Some prefer the walnuts to be gently +simmered with the brine, then laid on a cloth for a day or two till they +turn black, put into a jar, and hot spiced vinegar poured on them. + +_To Pickle Cucumbers and Gherkins._--Small cucumbers, but not too young, +are wiped clean with a dry cloth, put into a jar, and boiling vinegar, +with a handful of salt, poured on them. Boil up the vinegar every three +days, and pour it on them, till they become green: then add ginger and +pepper, and tie them up close for use, or cover them with salt and water +(as above) in a stone jar; cover them, and set them on the hearth before +the fire for two or three days, till they turn yellow; then put away the +water, and cover them with hot vinegar, and set them near the fire, and +keep them hot for eight or ten days, till they become green; then pour +off the vinegar, cover them with hot spiced vinegar, and cover them +close. + +_Mushroom Ketchup._--Pickled mushrooms, 4 lbs.: salt, 2 lbs. Sprinkle it +on the mushrooms; and, when they liquefy, remove the juice; acid +pimento, 6 oz.; cloves, 1 oz.; boil gently and strain: the remaining +liquor, if any, may be treated with pepper, mace and ginger for a second +quality. + +_Tomato Ketchup._--Proceed as for mushroom ketchup, and add a little +Chili pepper vinegar. + +_To Take Fac-Similes of Signatures._--Write your name on a piece of +paper, and while the ink is wet sprinkle over it some finely-powdered +gum arabic, then make a rim round it, and pour on it some fusible alloy, +in a liquid state. Impressions may be taken from the plates formed in +this way, by means of printing-ink and the copperplate-press. + +_To Copy Letters without a Press._--A black copying ink, which flows +easily from the pen, and will enable any one to obtain very sharp copies +without the aid of a press, can be prepared in the following manner: One +ounce of coarsely broken extract of logwood and two drachms of +crystallized carbonate of soda are placed in a porcelain capsule with +eight ounces of distilled water, and heated until the solution is of a +deep red color, and all the extract is dissolved. The capsule is then +taken from the fire. Stir well into the mixture one ounce of glycerine +of specific gravity of 1.25, fifteen grains of neutral chromate of +potash, dissolved in a little water, and two drachms of finely +pulverized gum arabic, which may be previously dissolved in a little hot +water so as to produce a mucilaginous solution. The ink is now complete +and ready for use. In well closed bottles it may be kept for a long time +without getting mouldy, and, however old it may be, will allow copies +of writing to be taken without the aid of a press. It does not attack +steel pens. This ink cannot be used with a copying press. Its impression +is taken on thin moistened copying paper, at the back of which is placed +a sheet of writing paper. + +_To Obtain Fresh Blown Flowers in Winter._--Choose some of the most +perfect buds of the flowers you would preserve, such as are latest in +blowing and ready to open; cut them off with a pair of scissors, leaving +to each, if possible, a piece of stem about three inches long; cover the +end of the stem immediately with sealing wax, and when the buds are a +little shrunk and wrinkled, wrap each of them up separately in a piece +of paper, perfectly clean and dry, and lock them up in a dry box or +drawer; and they will keep without corrupting. In winter, or at any time +when you would have the flowers blow, take the buds at night and cut off +the end of the stem sealed with wax, and put the buds into water wherein +a little nitre or salt has been diffused, and the next day you will have +the pleasure of seeing the buds open and expanding themselves, and the +flowers display their most lively colors, and breathe their agreeable +odors. + +_Cheap Ice Cream._--Sweet milk, two quarts. Scald the milk, pour over +four eggs, and stir well. Cool off and add sugar and essence of lemon or +vanilla. Pour into a deep, narrow tin pail. Cover, and set into a wooden +pail. Fill up the space between the two vessels with pounded ice and +salt. In half an hour it will be fit for use. Keep thus in the ice till +wanted to use. + +_To Take Impressions from Coins._--Make a thick solution of isinglass in +water, and lay it hot on the metal; let it remain for twelve hours, then +remove it, breathe on it and apply gold or silver-leaf on the wrong +side. Any color may be given to the isinglass instead of gold or silver, +by simple mixture. + +_To Print Pictures from the Print Itself._--The page or print is soaked +in a solution first of potass, and then of tartaric acid. This produces +a perfect diffusion of crystals of bitartrate of potass through the +texture of the unprinted part of the paper. As this salt resists oil, +the ink roller may now be passed over the surface, without transferring +any of its contents, except to the printed paper. + +_To Preserve Steel Knives from Rust._--Never wrap them in woolen cloths. +When they are not to be used for some time, have them made bright and +perfectly dry; then take a soft rag, and rub each blade with dry wood +ashes.--Wrap them closely in thick brown paper, and lay them in a drawer +or dry closet. A set of elegant knives, used only on great occasions, +were kept in this way for over a hundred years without a spot of rust. + +_To Plate and Gild without a Battery._--A very useful solution of silver +or gold for plating or gilding without the aid of a battery may be made +as follows: Take say, 1 ounce of nitrate of silver, dissolved in one +quart of distilled or rain water. When thoroughly dissolved, throw in a +few crystals of hyposulphite of soda, which will at first form a brown +precipitate, but which eventually becomes redissolved if sufficient +hyposulphite has been employed. A slight excess of this salt must, +however, be added. The solution thus formed may be used for coating +small articles of steel, brass, or German silver, by simply dipping a +sponge in the solution and rubbing it over the surface of the article to +be coated. I have succeeded in coating steel very satisfactorily by this +means, and have found the silver so firmly attached to the steel (when +the solution has been carefully made) that it has been removed with +considerable difficulty. A solution of gold may be made in the same way, +and applied as described. A concentrated solution either of gold or +silver thus made, may be used for coating parts of articles which have +stripped or blistered, by applying it with a camel hair pencil to the +part, and touching the spot at the same time with a thin clean strip of +zinc. + +_To make a Clock for 25 Cents._--First you get a sheet of stout +millboard, such as is used by bookbinders. This will cost you from six +to ten cents. Get size twenty-seven by twenty-two inches. Draw two lines +the longest way equally distant from the edge and each other. This +divides it into three parts of the same size. Now from the top measure +off ten inches for the face, and then with your knife partly cut the +board through the rest of the lines below the face, and bend them back +and glue together by putting a strip of cloth over the edges where they +meet. Mark out the face of your clock, and make a hole for the hands. 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B.--It is applied by rubbing + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Knowledge Box, Edited by Geo. Blackie + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43418 *** |