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THE 
 
 GUIDE TO FORTUNE; 
 
 A COLLECTION OF 
 
 RECEIPTS OF GREAT VALUE FOR 
 GENERAL USE, 
 
 GIVING FULL, PLAIN, AND PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE 
 MANUFACTURING, PUTTING UP, AND SELLING, OF A 
 GREAT VARIETY OF USEFUL AND SALABLE 
 ARTICLES NEEDED AND USED IN EVERY 
 STORE OR WORKSHOP, IN EVERY HOUSE- 
 HOLD, AND ON EVERY FARM; 
 
 THE WHOLE INTENDED TO FURNISH INFORMATION 
 
 FOR THE USE OF THOSE WHO DESIRE TO MAKE MONEY IN 
 CONNECTION WITH THEIR USUAL BUSI- 
 NESS, OR TO ADOPT A NEW ONE. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 PORTER & COATES, 
 1869 . 
 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by 
 GEORGE PETERSON, 
 
 In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States in 
 and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 
 
 CAXTON PRESS OF 
 SHERMAN ft CO., PHILADELPHIA. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The name of this little volume “ Guide to For- 
 tune,” has been selected, because we believe it to 
 be a sure manual for the use of all who desire to 
 make money, in an easy and legitimate manner. 
 
 The chief difficulty with those who have strug- 
 gled for years against hard fortune has been the 
 want of a method to point out the way of improve- 
 ment. And there are many persons, especially 
 those with large families depending on them for 
 support, who are now struggling along under great 
 difficulties with an unremunerative occupation to 
 whom this little book can be made a great bless- 
 ing. 
 
 It only needs determination and perseverance 
 in pursuing a good business, to make a fortune 
 certain. “ Faint heart never won fair lady,” nei- 
 ther will it win to any one a competence. 
 
 If one of the purchasers of this book will take a 
 single receipt, manufacture it in an attractive busi- 
 
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 ness-like manner, use the utmost energy in push- 
 ing it into the notice of the public, and allow no 
 disappointment to depress, or failure to discourage, 
 success is certain. 
 
 There are many w^ys in which this book can be 
 used to advantage. 
 
 Storekeepers who have opportunities to do so, 
 and desire to add to the amount of their business 
 will find many receipts available, without taking 
 time from their regular occupation. They can 
 also accomplish a great saving by making articles 
 to sell, which would otherwise have to be pur- 
 chased at a much higher price. 
 
 Farmers will find many of the receipts valuable 
 in saving innumerable petty expenses which con- 
 tinually occur about a farm and house. 
 
 Mechanics can use the book to great advantage 
 in regard to tools and implements, and in making 
 much of the material necessary to their business. 
 Housekeepers can make articles for polishing fur- 
 niture, washing clothes, healing burns and sores, 
 and for many other useful purposes without the 
 expense of paying two or three prices at the drug 
 store for patented preparations. 
 
 But above all it will be found a mine of wealth 
 to those who will use it as a means of business, by 
 manufacturing and selling any of the numerous 
 excellent preparations with which it abounds. 
 
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 We have endeavored to place in the hands of 
 the purchasers of this volume, a collection of re- 
 ceipts of the utmost simplicity and economy ; and 
 an examination will, we think, prove that we have 
 succeeded. Every receipt is worded so that it can 
 be perfectly understood, and easily put up by the 
 most inexperienced person. 
 
 Many of the receipts have never been printed 
 before, and all are the result of years of experi- 
 ence and are of proved value. Single receipts 
 that are found here have been sold at prices vary- 
 ing from one dollar (the price of the whole collec- 
 tion,) to one hundred dollars. 
 
 In order to accomodate those who wish to manu- 
 facture for family use, the ingredients are gene- 
 rally given in small quantities. This will also 
 benefit those who wish to experiment before wast- 
 ing larger quantities of material. If they are 
 satisfied with the result, the quantities can be in- 
 creased to an unlimited amount. 
 
 To those who look in these pages for a business, 
 we will repeat what will be found often urged 
 throughout the book: Put up all goods in an 
 attractive style, as regards shape, size and label. 
 There are many noble mansions scattered through 
 our country, which have been erected for the luxu- 
 rious home of persons who have built their fortunes 
 on a receipt as simple as any in this volume. 
 
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 It was done by the same means recommended 
 in the book, and by those who have in many in- 
 stances, failed in other occupations to which they 
 had been educated from youth. 
 
 Many persons commenced late in life, after they 
 had tried without success to make money on other 
 things — on some single receipt and suddenly found 
 themselves on the road to fortune. 
 
 Reader you can accomplish as much, if you de- 
 sire it, by following our directions ; and you will 
 find the book is really a “ Guide to Fortune.* 
 
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 Magic Paper. — This paper enables us to take 
 beautiful impressions of leaves, flowers and patterns 
 for embroidery, and also to make duplicate copies 
 of letters, or other writings. It is made by mixing 
 lard or sweet oil to the consistency of cream with 
 various coloring matter : 
 
 For Red. — Venetian Red. 
 
 Blue. — Prussian Blue. 
 
 “ Black. — Lamp Black. 
 
 “ Green. — Chrome Green. 
 
 The color should be mixed with the grease on a 
 plate, or flat stone, until perfectly smooth. Select 
 thin but strong paper, cut it to the size of a half 
 letter sheet and spread the mixture well upon it 
 with a sponge, then removing all the superfluous 
 fat until it appears to be dry. As the sheets are 
 prepared lay them between pieces of old newspa- 
 pers, cut to same size, alternately, until you have 
 
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 made a sufficient quantity. Then lay a board on 
 the pile, with a weight, to press them, on top ; let 
 them remain in the press for a few hours, until the 
 surplus oil is absorbed, when they are ready for use. 
 
 To take impressions of leaves, place the leaf 
 upon the magic paper and rub the back of the leaf 
 with a bone folder, or with the finger, then take off 
 the leaf and lay it on a sheet of white paper, and a 
 gentle rubbing will leave a beautiful impression, 
 with every vein finely marked. 
 
 Several copies of a writing can be made at once 
 by placing the magic paper alternately with letter 
 paper, with a sheet of letter paper on top and writ- 
 ing with a lead pencil, or merely a pointed stick. 
 
 Directions for putting up: — Fold one of each 
 color to the size of a letter ready for mailing. 
 Place a sheet of manilla paper between each sheet, 
 and also on the outside. Put them in a letter en- 
 velope with a neat label printed on it with direc- 
 tions to use. The cost is trifling, and they will sell 
 readily at 25 cents per package. 
 
 Firs Eindlers. — One quart of tar, three pounds 
 of rosin, melt them in an old kettle over the fire until 
 the rosin is thoroughly dissolved and well mixed with 
 the tar. Take it off the fire, and while cooling stir 
 in as much saw-dust and powdered charcoal as can 
 well be worked in ; spread out while hot on a board 
 to the thickness of about i an inch ; when cold, cut 
 
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 into squares of one inch. These kindlers will ea- 
 sily ignite from a match and burn with a strong 
 blaze long enough to ignite any wood fit to burn. 
 
 Put up in packages of one dozen, with labelled 
 wrappers, and twelve packages into a larger one— 
 to make a gross. 
 
 Imperial Ongusnt. — This mixture is for stimu- 
 lating the growth of hair on the face. 
 
 Mix well together 2 drachms of benzoin comp., 
 2 drachms tincture of cantharides, 6 ounces of 
 castor oil, 9 ounces of alcohol and 1 drachm of oil 
 of bergamot. 
 
 This preparation is to be used on the whiskers 
 and mustache night and morning after increasing 
 the circulation by rubbing the skin briskly with a 
 coarse towel. 
 
 Put up in 4 oz., or 6 oz., bottles with directions. 
 Pack in dozens in a wooden box with bran to pre- 
 vent breakage. A 6 oz. bottle will retail for $1.00. 
 
 Cmiolina for the Hair. — A preparation, as its 
 name indicates, for curling the hair. Mix together 
 1 pound olive oil, 1 drachm oil origanum, 11 
 drachm Oil of Rosemary. Bottle and label. 
 
 Many receipts could be given for curling the 
 hair, but we consider this one of the best and as 
 the ingredients are all cheap will yield a large 
 profit. 
 
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 Chilblain Ointment. — Chilblains arise from a 
 severe cold to the part, causing inflammation, often 
 ulcerating making deep, and very troublesome, 
 long continued sores. 
 
 2 quarts of lard, 1 pint of turpentine, I pound of 
 camphor. Powder the camphor and mix well to- 
 gether. This will stop the itching and the appli- 
 cation causes no pain. 
 
 Put it up in tin boxes labelled, paste the label 
 entirely round the box to prevent the evaporation 
 of the camphor. 
 
 Green Writing Ink. — 1 ounce chrystal of ver- 
 digris, dissolved in 1 pint of vinegar, add to it 5 
 drachms gum arabic and 2 drachms white sugar, 
 dissolved in half pint of water. Let it stand two 
 or three days, strain off the liquid and bottle it. 
 The novelty of this ink will cause it to sell well 
 and with a fancy name its manufacture will be 
 profitable. 
 
 Stoughton Bitters- — Steep f ounce of Peruvian 
 Bark, 1 ounce wild cherry bark, 2 ounces of gen- 
 tian root, 1 ounce dried orange peel, and 1 ounce 
 cardamon seeds bruised, in one gallon of spirits 
 for two or three weeks, when it is ready for use. 
 
 Immense fortunes have been made on bitters, as 
 they are excellent as astringents and tonics for 
 weak stomachs. This is good for dyspepsia. Put 
 
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 up in bottles according to price. Dose, a table- 
 spoonful three times a day in a little water. 
 
 Silver Ink. — Mix 1 ounce of the finest pewter 
 or block tin, and 2 ounces of quick silver together 
 till they become fluid, then grind it with gum 
 water. 
 
 When used as an ink, the writing will look as if 
 done with silver. 
 
 Bottle with a fancy label. 
 
 Glue for Labelling Tin. — Boil 2 ounces pulver- 
 ised borax, 4 ounces gum shellac in one quart of 
 water until all is dissolved. When cold it can be 
 used as a paste or glue for pasting paper upon tin 
 boxes. Ordinary paste or glue will not answer, as 
 the paper will peel off, this will not. 
 
 Eat Exterminator. — Make 3 pounds of flour into 
 a thick paste with water. Dissolve 1 ounce of 
 phosphorus in 1? ounces of butter by heating, mix 
 all together well, then color it by working up in it 
 2 ounces pulverized tumeric. 
 
 This is certain death to rats, and is largely sold. 
 Put it up in tin boxes holding about one gill. It 
 will sell for 25 cts., and pays a large profit. 
 
 Elsotric Oil.— Put 1 ounce of pulverized salt- 
 petre in 1 pint of sweet oil. Bottle and label. 
 This is an excellent remedy for inflammatory rheu- 
 matism. 
 
 
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 Friction Soap. — Mix 4 pounds of fine white sand 
 with 2 pounds of good brown soap, by melting the 
 soap in a vessel. When it is thoroughly mixed, 
 mould it into small cakes. 
 
 This is an article very easily made, and will find 
 a ready sale. Put it up in small packages, so as 
 to retail at from 15 to 20 cts. 
 
 Tricopherous for the Hair.— Mix well together 
 6 ounces of pure castor oil, 10 ounces (95 per cent.) 
 alcohol, 1 drachm oil of bergamot and 1 drachm 
 oil of lavender. 
 
 This is a very agreeable and most excellent 
 preparation for the hair, serving to soften it, stimu- 
 late its growth, and keep it dark and glossy. And 
 as all preparations for the hair are eagerly sought 
 after they pay well to manufacture. 
 
 Put it up in pint bottles neatly labelled. Regu- 
 late the price of this and of all other receipts ac- 
 cording to the cost of your mixture. Many for- 
 tunes have been made with hair preparations. 
 
 Hudson's Lip Salve. — Melt 1 ounce of white wax 
 and 1 ounce of spermaciti, add 2 ounces oil of 
 lemon, mix, and while warm add 2 ounces of rose- 
 water, and % ounce of orange water. Beat well to- 
 gether. 
 
 The lips are very liable to chap in cold weather 
 and crack to a considerable depth causing much 
 
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 pain and annoyance. The above preparation will 
 be found excellent for curing the complaint. 
 
 Put the salve up in neat metal boxes. 
 
 Liquid Glue, No. 1 . — Dissolve in a wide-mouthed 
 vessel 8 ounces of the best glue, in I pint of water. 
 Set the vessel in a larger one containing water and 
 heat it. When the glue is thoroughly dissolved 
 add 2 \ ounces of strong aquafortis, (nitric acid) 
 stirring slowly while putting in the acid. 
 
 This is to be put into bottles and kept well corked. 
 It is a handy and valuable composition as it does 
 not gelatinize, ferment, or become offensive, and 
 can be used cold for all the ordinary purposes of 
 glue in making or mending furniture, or broken 
 vessels that are not exposed to water or heat. 
 
 This receipt for glue is the discovery of a French 
 chemist and is selling about the country as a secret,, 
 at from one to five dollars for the receipt. Bottle, 
 and label. 
 
 Extract of Vanilla. — To 1 quart of pure French 
 brandy add 1 ounce of vanilla beans (cut up fine) 
 and 2 ounces of Tonqua beans, bruised. Let it 
 digest for two weeks, frequently shaking; then, 
 filter carefully, and it is ready for use.. Filtering 
 paper can be procured at any druggists.. 
 
 This is excellent for flavoring pies,, cakes;, pud- 
 dings and ice-cream. It is sold by every druggist 
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 and grocer in the country and can be disposed of 
 at a good profit. Bottle and label. 
 
 Golden Pomade. — Melt 5 ounces of beef marrow, 
 1 ounce of yellow wax, 6 ounces of lard ; perfume 
 while cooking with oil of bergamot or oil of al- 
 monds to suit. 
 
 Put up in 2 oz. glass jars and label. 
 
 A variety of pomades can be made from the 
 above receipt by changing the perfume. 
 
 For rose pomade, scent with ottar of roses and 
 color by tying alkanet root in a bag, and pressing 
 it in the hot grease to the color required. 
 
 It will command a higher price if put up in 
 fancy bottles or jars. 
 
 Magnetic Insect Powder. — -Bub red chamomile 
 to a fine dust and mix it with some cheap divisor 
 (such as fine mahogany or cherry saw dust). 
 
 When this powder is dusted into cracks about 
 the corners of walls, etc., out walk the cock roaches 
 and all other insect intruders without fail. It 
 clears insects from plants, and is death to bed bugs. 
 
 All the insect powders manufactured, owe their 
 efficiency to red chamomile. 
 
 Put up in glass bottles. 
 
 WMskerlino— Mix well together 2 ounces good 
 cologne, 1 drachm liquid hartshorn, 2 drachms 
 
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 tincture of cantharides, 15 drops each of oil of nut- 
 meg and rosemary. Bottle and label. 
 
 This, like similar preparations, ought to be well 
 rubbed into the roots of the whiskers every night 
 so as to stimulate them in their growth. 
 
 French Furniture Polish, * Melt 2 ounces of bees- 
 wax and 1 ounce of alkanet root in an earthen 
 pot, add 2 ounces of spirits of wine and 1 pint of 
 
 turpentine. 
 
 This polish is to be rubbed on with a woolen 
 cloth, and polished with an old piece of silk. 
 
 It makes old furniture look like new, and is ex- 
 tensively sold on the street and in the stores. 
 
 Put up in small bottles. 
 
 Clothes Ball.— Mix together 2 pounds pipe clay, 
 4 ounces of fuller’s earth, 4 ounces whiting and J 
 
 pint ox gall. 
 
 Make into small balls. 
 
 This an excellent article, very easily made, and 
 there is no trouble in finding a market for it. 
 
 The cost of manufacturing is trifling. Put up 
 in packages with circular containing directions. 
 
 Cologne, equal to Farina.— To 2 quarts deodor- 
 ized or cologne alcohol, add 1 pint rosewater, 1 
 ounce of bergamot, 1 drachm neroli, 1 ounce jessa- 
 mine, 1 drachm garden lavender, 5 drops cinna- 
 mon, 11 ounce tincture of benzoin, 1 ounce tinct. 
 of musk. Use fancy bottles and labels. 
 
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 Allow the preparation to stand two or three 
 days, shake occasionally, filter and bottle. 
 
 This is expensive, yet a very nice article. 
 
 Currant Win®. — To 1 gallon currant juice 
 pressed from fully ripe fruit, add 2 gallons of 
 water and 2 tablespoonful yeast ; let stand two or 
 three days, then add 9 pounds sugar, 1 ounce isin- 
 glass, and 1 pint of brandy , after all is thoroughly 
 mixed, strain and bottle In three or four months 
 it is fit for use. 
 
 Blackberry, gooseberry, elderberry, raspberry, in 
 fact all kinds of berries can be made into wine in 
 the same manner. Store your wine when bottled 
 in a cool cellar, by laying them on their sides in 
 sawdust. 
 
 Baking Powder, No. 1 . — Mix 5 pounds bicarb- 
 soda, 2 lbs. tartaric acid, 9 pounds potatoe-flour, 
 and 1 ounce of curcuma. 
 
 The amount of this powder (to rise,) will be 
 about one teaspoonful to each quart of flour to 
 be baked. Mix with cold water, and bake as soon 
 as thoroughly incorporated. It is easy made, and 
 when manufactured for sale renders a big profit. 
 
 Put up in small packages, with directions. 
 
 Carmine Ink. — Mix 12 grains carmine, powdered 
 fine, and 3 ounces spirits of ammonia with 18 grains 
 
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 gum arabic dissolved in I ounce of water. Bottle 
 and label. 
 
 Put in square bottles, fluted at the bottom with a 
 French label, as this is often put up in this man- 
 ner and sold as imported. 
 
 Cheap Hard Soap. — Pour 4 gallons boiling water 
 on 6 pounds salsoda and 3 pounds unslacked lime; 
 stir and let stand over night. Pour oft’ very care- 
 fully the clear liquor, and add 6 pounds good 
 grease or fat, — boil two hours stirring. Try it oc- 
 casionally by putting a little to cool, and when 
 thick remove from the fire, stirring in a handful of 
 salt. 
 
 Have ready a tub in which cold water has been 
 standing to prevent sticking ; put the soap into it, 
 and let stand till solid, cut into strips or pour into 
 moulds for cakes. This will make about forty 
 pounds soap at a cost of two cents per pound. 
 
 Essencs of Peppsrmint. — Take 1 pint of alcohol 
 and add i ounce of oil of peppermint. Bottle. 
 
 Mix, and shake it well ; let it stand a day, and 
 if not clear fiilter it through paper. If you wish 
 to color, add a little turpentine. 
 
 Put up in 2 or 3 oz. bottles. 
 
 Black Ink, No. 1 . — Take 1 pound logwood, and 
 1 gallon of water ; simmer in an iron vessel for one 
 hour; dissolve in a little hot water 24 grains bi- 
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 chromate of potash, 12 grains prussiate of potash, 
 and stir into the liquid over the fire ; strain through 
 a fine cloth. 
 
 No other ink will stand the test of oxalic acid, 
 and is so indelible as not to be removed from paper 
 by it. It is the cheapest ink made. 
 
 Ink is put up in various sizes and styles of bot- 
 tles from 2 oz. to quart. The corks of the bottles 
 should be sealed with a cheap wax, made of rosin 
 and vermillion, and packed in dozens with sawdust 
 or chaff. 
 
 Chloroform Toothache Drops.— To 3 drachms of 
 pulv. gum mastic, add 1 ounce (weight) chloro- 
 form. Mix together till the mastic is dissolved, 
 then bottle. 
 
 This will relieve the toothache almost instantly, 
 in nearly every instance. 
 
 Put up in small bottles well sealed. It would be 
 better to have ground glass stoppers. 
 
 Heliotropo Sachet. — Powder 4 ounces orris root, 
 2 ounces damask rose leave, 1 ounce tonqua beans, 
 
 1 ounce vanilla bean, 15 grains dry musk, and 
 
 2 drops oil bitter almonds. Mix thoroughly by 
 sifting several times through a sieve, then put in 
 satin bags. 
 
 Nothing pays better if well made and put up in 
 nice bags with fancy name. It is a fine perfume 
 bag for bureaus, trunks or boxes. 
 
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 Ply Dsstroyer. — Take 1 pint of infusion of quas- 
 sia, 4 ounces brown sugar, 2 ounces ground 
 pepper. Mix. Put in shallow dishes when re- 
 quired, it makes short work. 
 
 For sale, it can be put up in small bottles, with 
 directions and label. 
 
 Poma&S Diving. — Melt and incorporate well to- 
 gether 8 ounces beef marrow, H ounce cinnamon, 
 1 ounce white wax, 2 drachms essence bergamot, 
 1 drachm of oil of lavender, and 1 drachm oil 
 lemon. 
 
 Put up in small wide-mouthed bottles, neatly- 
 labelled. 
 
 Silver Plating Fluid. — Dissolve 1 ounce nitrate 
 of silver in crystal in 12 ounces soft water; then 
 add to it 2 ounces cyanuret of potash. Shake the 
 whole together, and let it stand till it becomes 
 clear. 
 
 Have ready some half ounce vials half full of 
 Paris white, or fine whiting ; then fill up the bot- 
 tles with the liquid and it is ready for use. 
 
 The whiting does not increase the coating; it 
 only helps to clean the articles, and to save the 
 silver fluid by the bottles. 
 
 It is used by rubbing it on any thing that is to 
 be silvered with a rag until it is well covered. 
 
 Put up in 1 oz. bottles. 
 
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 Ox Marrow Pomatum. — Take 2 ounces yellow 
 wax, and 12 ounces beef marrow. Melt all to- 
 gether, and when sufficiently cool, perfume with 
 the essential oil of almonds. This is cheap and 
 good. 
 
 Put up in small wide-mouthed bottles. 
 
 Blue Ink. — Powder prussian blue and oxalic 
 acid, equal parts, and add soft water until you have 
 the right shade. Add tablespoonful powdered 
 gum arabic to each quart ink. 
 
 Strain, bottle and label. The bottles should be 
 of various size, and packed in a wooden box in 
 dozens with chaff or sawdust. 
 
 Hair Restorative. — Take 1 drachm lac-sulpher, 
 1 drachm sugar of lead, and 4 ounces rose-water. 
 Mix, and shake the vial on using the mixture. 
 
 Bathe the hair twice a day for a week. This 
 preparation does not dye the hair, but restores its 
 original color. Keep from children as it is poison- 
 ous. 
 
 Put up in £ pint and pint bottles. 
 
 Cold Cream, No. 1 . — Add 1 pound of oil of al- 
 monds, to 4 ounces white wax. Gently melt the 
 above in an earthen vessel, when nearly cool stir 
 in 10 ounces rose water. 
 
 This is good for chapped lips, rough skin, etc. 
 Put in small pots or metal boxes and label. 
 
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 Freckle-Lotion. — Take i drachm muriate of am- 
 monia, 2 drachms lavender water, h. pint distilled 
 water. Bottle. 
 
 Apply with a sponge 2 or three times a day. 
 
 Put up in tight bottles, well sealed. 
 
 Tooth Powder, No. 1. — Mix together 2 drachms 
 rose-pink, 12 drachms precipitated chalk, 1 drachm 
 carbonate of magnesia. 6 grains of quinine. 
 
 Put up in nice boxes. 
 
 Shaving Soap. — Take 2 pounds best white bar 
 soap and $ pound good common bar soap, cut 
 up fine so that they will dissolve readily. Put 
 into a vessel with 1 quart soft water, — dissolve, 
 then add 1 pint alcohol, 1 gill beef’s gall, k gill 
 spirits of turpentine; stir while boiling together 
 for five minutes ; while cooling add oil of sassafras 
 to suit and color with fine Vermillion. 
 
 This soap makes a rich lather, softens the face 
 and can be made cheap. This is the best article 
 of the kind ever invented. 
 
 Rod Scaling Wax.- — Melt 4 ounces good shellac 
 (very pale) cautiously in a bright copper pan over 
 a clear fire and when fused add i ounces Venice 
 turpentine, and add vermillion enough to make 
 color to suit. Roll into sticks on a warm stone 
 slab by means of a polished wooden block, or pour 
 into moulds while warm. Put up by wrapping 
 
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 each stick separately in paper and then into pack- 
 ages of one dozen with labelled wrappers. 
 
 Very Fine Tooth Powder, No. 2. — Take 1 ounce 
 
 prepared chalk, 1 ounce peruvian bark, 10 grains 
 dry chloride lime, 3 drops oil cinnamon, 1 drachm 
 powdered bole armenia. Mix thoroughly. 
 
 Cleanse the teeth daily with the powder with a 
 little water. 
 
 Put up in neat boxes. 
 
 Complexion Soap. — Take a quarter of a pound 
 of white castile soap, slice it down into a pewter jar 
 and pour upon it two quarts of alcohol; place the jar 
 in a vessel of water at such a heat as will cause 
 the spirits to boil, when the soap will soon dissolve; 
 then put the jar, closely covered, in a warm place 
 until the liquor is clarified ; take off any scum that 
 may appear on the surface, and pour it carefully 
 from the dregs, then put it into a jar again, and 
 place it in a vessel of hot water, distilling all the 
 spirits that may arise ; dry the remaining mass in 
 the air for a few days, when a white transparent 
 soap will be obtained free from all alkaline impu- 
 rities, and perfectly void of smell. It is much 
 used for softening and beautifying the skin. 
 
 Put up in small cakes with fancy wrapper. 
 
 Marking Ink for Linen. — To make marking ink 
 take one drachm of nitrate of silver (lunar causic), 
 
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 dissolve it in double its weight of water. This forms 
 the ink ; then dissolve one drachm of salts of tar- 
 tar in one ounce of water, wet the linen with this 
 liquid, and when dry it can be written on with the 
 ink. 
 
 Put up the ink in very small bottles, holding 
 about one tablespoonful, and the salts in a 2 ounce 
 bottle. Put them together in a pasteboard box 
 with directions and label. 
 
 Genuine Windsor Soap, — To make this famous 
 soap for washing the hands, shaving, &c., nothing 
 more is neccessary than to slice the best white soap 
 as thin as possible, melt it in a saucepan over a slow 
 fire, scent it well with oil of caraway, and then 
 pour it into a frame or mould made for that pur- 
 pose, or a small drawer adapted in size and form 
 to the quantity. When it has stood three or four 
 days in a dry situation, cut it into square pieces, 
 and it is ready for use. By this simple mode, sub- 
 stituting any more favorite scent for that of cara- 
 way, all persons may suit themselves with a good 
 perfumed soap at the most trifling expense. Shav- 
 ing boxes may be at once filled with the melted 
 soap, instead of the mould. 
 
 Cholera Mixture. — To 3 drachms tinct. opium 
 add 3 drachms camphor, 3 drachms oil turpentine 
 and 50 drops of peppermint oil. 
 
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 Dose for an adult — 1 teaspoonful every hour in 
 two of brandy. Put up in 4 oz. bottles, with di- 
 rections. 
 
 Ink Powders. — Powder 4 lbs. galls, 2 lbs. green 
 vitrol and 1 lb. of gum arabic. 
 
 Put this up in two ounce packages for sale, one 
 of which will make a pint of ink. 
 
 Extract Ginger. — Take 2 ounces powdered gin- 
 ger and 2 pints alcohol. Digest in a gentle heat 
 for several days and strain. Bottle and label. 
 
 This tincture is a cordial and stimulent — it is 
 generally used as a corrective to purgative draughts, 
 without which the latter are apt to be gripping. 
 It makes a wholesome and pleasant drink for sum- 
 mer. The sale is extensive and yields a large 
 profit. 4 oz. bottles would be the best to put it up 
 in. 
 
 Marble Cement. — Saturate plaster of paris in a 
 strong solution of alum ; then bake in an oven for 
 two hours, afterwards grind to powder. 
 
 It sets into a very hard composition capable of 
 taking a very high polish. It can be mixed with 
 various coloring minerals to produce a cement of 
 any color capable of imitating marble. It is a 
 very rare receipt, and is worth $20 to many. 
 
 Eureka Salve. — Melt 1 ounce of beeswax, 1 
 
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 ounce of tallow, 1 ounce rosin and 1 ounce lard ; 
 then take from the fire and put in 1 ounce each 
 olive oil, oil of amber, oil of spike, and just before 
 congelation, add 1 ounce verdigris, stirring until 
 perfectly cold. The verdigris must be well pul- 
 verized. 
 
 Put in tin boxes to sell for 25 cents. It is a 
 healing salve. 
 
 Stomach Bittsrs. — Mix well together 1 pound 
 wild cherry bark, 1 ounce peruvian bark, 1 ounce 
 dried orange peel ; steep in 5 gallons pure gin for 
 two weeks. Strain, bottle and label. 
 
 This cures sour stomach, dyspepsia, loss of appe- 
 tite, etc. Dose, tablespoonful before each meal. 
 
 Polishing Paste for Metals. — Take equal parts of 
 pulverized rotten stone and brick dust, mix well 
 into a stiff paste with lard. It should be put up 
 in tin boxes. 
 
 Profits large. 
 
 Stick Cement. — Heat a good article of shellac 
 and while soft draw out into stick. 
 
 This cement is sold about the country as a great 
 secret. When you apply it, heat the article a little 
 above boiling water heat and apply a thin coating 
 on both surfaces of the broken vessel, press to- 
 gether, and when cold it will be as strong as when 
 new. A stick about 5 inches long and as thick as 
 a lead pencil can be sold for 10 cents. 
 
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 Black Court Plaster, No. 1 .— Dissolve J ounce 
 balsam of benzoin in 6 ounces spirits alcohol : in a 
 separate vessel, dissolve 1 ounce isinglass in as little 
 alcohol as possible, strain each and mix together, let 
 stand, so that any undissolved parts may subside ; 
 when the clear liquid is cold it will form a jelly. 
 Strain black silk on a frame and brush over it 
 several times the above by first warming it. When 
 the coated silk is dry it must be finished off with a 
 coat of a solution of 4 ounces turpentine in 6 ounces 
 tinct. benzoin to prevent it cracking. 
 
 There is a fortune in this if you push it. 
 
 Lemon Syrup, No 1 . — One pound of loaf or 
 crushed sugar, to every ? pint of lemon juice. Let 
 it stand twenty-four hours, or till the sugar is dis- 
 solved, stirring it very often with a silver spoon. 
 When dissolved, dip a flannel in hot water and 
 wring it very dry. Strain the syrup and bottle it. 
 This will keep almost any length of time. 
 
 Put in pint bottles. 
 
 Sarsaparilla Mead.— Three pounds of sugar, 
 three ounces of tartaric acid, one ounce of cream tar- 
 tar, one of flour, one of essence of sarsaparilla, and 
 three quarts of water. Strain and bottle it, then 
 let it stand ten days before using it. 
 
 Twigg’s Hair Dye. — An excellent dye, as well 
 as most serviceable hair-wash. 
 
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 Take 1 drachm lac-sulpher, £ drachm sugar 
 lead, 4 ounces rose water. Mix carefully. Wash 
 the hair repeatedly, till it assumes the desired shade. 
 
 Bottle in 4 or 6oz. bottles, with directions and 
 label. 
 
 Dalbj’s Carminativs.— Take oils caraway, fennel 
 and peppermint, each 10 drops ; rub them up with 
 10 ounces of white sugar and 5 ounces of carbonate 
 or lump magnesia, then add one and a half drachms 
 of sal-tartar and two ounces of laudanum. Mix 
 with three and a half pints of water. 
 
 Put up in small bottles. 
 
 Ointment for Frosted Feet. — Take 1 ounce stra- 
 monium ointment, or, if that cannot be procured, 
 of spermaceti ointment and 1 drachm of Gou- 
 lard’s extract. Mix together perfectly and anoint 
 the parts effected several times a day. It will re- 
 lieve the worst cases. 
 
 Put up in small metal boxes. 
 
 Harnoss Blaoking. — Melt four ounces of mutton 
 suet with twelve ounces of beeswax ; add twelve 
 ounces of sugar candy, four ounces of soft soap dis- 
 solved in water, and two ounces of indigo, finely 
 powdered. When melted and well mixed, add 
 half a pint of turpentine. Lay it on the harness 
 with a sponge, and polish off with a brush. 
 
 Bottle and label. 
 
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 Blackberry Wine. — There is no wine equal to 
 the blackberry wine, when properly made, either 
 in flavor or for medical purposes, and all persons 
 who can conveniently do so, should manufacture 
 enough for their own use every year, as it is in- 
 valuable in sickness as a tonic, and nothing is a 
 better remedy for bowel disease. We, therefore, 
 give the receipt for making it, and having tried it 
 ourselves, we speak advisedly on the subject. 
 Measure your berries and bruise them ; to every 
 gallon add one quart of boiling water. Let the 
 mixture stand twenty-four hours, stirring occa- 
 sionally ; then strain off the liquor into a cask, to 
 every gallon adding two pounds of sugar, cork tight, 
 and you will have wine ready for use, without fur- 
 ther straining or boiling This makes a most excel- 
 lent and palatable wine. 
 
 Baking Powders. — The following are the baking 
 powders in general use: 1. Tartaric acid, four 
 and a half ounces ; arrow-root, or rice flour, five 
 ounces ; mix. Alum, five ounces ; bicarbonate of 
 soda, two and three-quarter ounces ; bicarbonate of 
 ammonia, half an ounce; arrow-root, four ounces. 
 
 Purple Ink. — A beautiful purple ink is made 
 by boiling one ounce of ground logwood in one and a 
 half pints of soft water, and half an ounce of pulver- 
 ized alum. Boil twenty minutes, strain, and bottle 
 
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 for use. Keep the air out, and it will keep a 
 long time. 
 
 Put in bottles of various size. 
 
 Brown's Bronchial Troches, —Take one pound 
 of pulverized extract of licorice, one and a half 
 pounds pulverized sugar, four ounces of pulverized 
 cubebs, four ounces of pulverized gum arabic, and 
 one ounce of pulverized extract of conium. Mix. 
 
 ' Make into a dough with flour, and roll the pre- 
 paration out in thin sheets, cut out in small wafers. 
 
 Peppermint Cordial. — To make peppermint cor- 
 dial take thirteen gallons of rectified spirits, one 
 in five under hydrometer proof, twelve pounds of 
 loaf sugar, one pint of spirits of wine that will fire 
 gunpowder, fifteen pennyweights of oil of pepper- 
 mint, and as much water as will fill up the cask, 
 which should be set on end ; after the whole has 
 been well mixed this will make twenty gallons. 
 
 Bottle in pint and quart bottles. 
 
 Eazor Papsr. — This article supersedes the use of 
 the ordinary strop : by merely wiping the razor on 
 the paper, to remove the lather after shaving, a 
 keen edge is always maintained without further 
 trouble: only one caution is necessary — that is, 
 to begin with a sharp razor, and then “ the paper ” 
 will keep it in that state for years. It may be pre- 
 pared thus: — First, procure oxide of iron (by the 
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 addition of carbonate of soda to a solution of per- 
 sulphate of iron), well wash the precipitate, and 
 finally leave it of the consistency of cream. Se- 
 condly, procure a good paper, soft and thin, then 
 with a soft brush spread over the paper (on one 
 side only) very thinly the moist oxide of iron — 
 dry, aud cut into two inch square pieces. It is then 
 fit for use. 
 
 Put up in packages of one or two dozen sheets. 
 
 Honey Receipt. — White sugar, 10 lbs.; water, 3 
 pints; bees-bread honey, 2£- lbs.; cream tartar, 40 
 grains; oil of peppermint, 12 drops; gum arabic, 2 
 oz.; otto of roses, 1 drop. Put into a brass or cop- 
 per kettle and let boil for 5 minutes, then take 
 pulv. slippery elm 2 teaspoonsful and water, 1 quart ; 
 mix and strain into the kettle and let boil for 5 
 minutes; take off and mix in the white of two 
 eggs, well beaten, and when nearly cold, add 
 one pound of bees-bread honey. By adding more 
 slippery elm and gum arabic to a proportionate 
 quantity of water, you can make it as cheap as 
 you please. Bees-bread honey is that made by the 
 bees in the fall of the year to subsist on during the 
 winter, it being much stronger than made in the 
 spring. When this cannot be obtained, honey in 
 the comb will answer, but it requires half a pound 
 more. Use dark sugar if you want it dark colored. 
 Above receipt makes about twenty lbs., but, to 
 
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 make cheap use 20 spoonsful slippery elm, and 10 
 of gum arabic. This will make about 40 lbs. 
 
 Burgundy Pitch Plasters— 2 pounds Burgundy 
 pitch, 1 pound labdanum, 4oz. each yellow rosin 
 and yellow wax, 1 oz. expressed oil of mace. To 
 the pitch, rosin and wax, melted together, add 
 first the labdanum and then the oil of mace. After 
 a long continued cough in the winter, a pitch 
 should be put over the breast bone. 
 
 Adhesive Plaster, No. 1. — Take 5 oz. common or 
 litherage plaster, 1 oz. white rosin. Melt them to- 
 gether, and spread the liquid compound thin on 
 strips of linen by means of a spatula or table knife. 
 This plaster is very adhesive and is used for keep- 
 ing on other dressing. 
 
 Put up in large envelopes. 
 
 Washing Mixture. — The washerwomen of Berlin 
 in Prussia, use a mixture of 2 oz. of turpentine and 
 \ oz. of spirits of sal-ammoniac well mixed to- 
 gether. This mixture is put into a bucket of 
 warm water, in which \ lb. of soap has been dis- 
 solved. The clothes are immersed over night in 
 this mixture, and the next day washed. The most 
 dirty cloth is said thus to be perfectly cleansed 
 and free from the smell of turpentine. The cloth 
 does not require so much rubbing, and linen fa- 
 brics are thus not so soon destroyed. 
 
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 Lip Salve, No. 1. — Melt together, 1 oz. oil sweet 
 almonds, f ounce spermaciti ; when nearly cold, 
 add any essential oil you please. 
 
 Put in small metal boxes. 
 
 Furniture Paste. — 1 pint turpentine, £ ounce 
 alkanet root, digest until sufficiently colored, then 
 add beeswax, scraped small, 4 oz. ; put into hot 
 water bath, and stir until dissolved. If you want 
 pale color, leave out the alkanet. 
 
 Put up in wooden boxes. 
 
 Cheap Varnish. — A very cheap and durable 
 varnish for rough work may be made by mixing 
 60 parts (by weight) of raw linseed oil, 2 parts of 
 litharge, and 1 part of white vitrol — boiling the 
 whole together, until all the water has evaporated. 
 
 French Rouge. — French chalk, 2 oz.; oil of al- 
 monds, 1 dr.; carmine, i dr. Mix. 
 
 Color Sea Weed Red. — Dip the weed or moss 
 into a boiling solution of 1 oz. alum in 1 pint 
 water. Dry it. Make a solution of I oz. cochi- 
 neal, I oz. cream tartar, one tablespoonful spirits 
 hartshorn to ? tumbler water. Dip again, wring 
 and dry in the shade. 
 
 Crystalize Grasses. — Dissolve 9 oz. alum in 1 pint 
 water. Put in the grass when the alum water is 
 cool enough to bear the hand ; watch it, and take 
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 them on paper. If you wish colors, get a few pow- 
 dered paints and sprinkle over it when it comes 
 from the water ; heat the alum over when it be- 
 comes cold. 
 
 Cough Syrup. — 2 tablespoonsful molasses, 2 
 teaspoonsful castor oil, .2 teaspoonsful paregoric; 
 mix over a slow fire. Dose: adult, teaspoonful 
 three times a day. 
 
 Loather Varnish. — Quart alcohol, half pound 
 gum shellac, 1 ounce rosin, 1 ounce camphor. Set 
 in warm place, stir frequently for several days 
 until dissolved, then add two ounces lamp black, 
 mixed with a little alcohol, and it is ready ; if too 
 thick, thin with alcohol. Bottle and label. 
 
 Metal Powders. — Pound fine crushed chalk, 
 half pound whitening, 1 ounce oil of cinnamon ; 
 mix. Box and label. 
 
 Universal Liniment for Burns.— Equal parts 
 olive oil, linseed oil, lime water; shake well. 
 Bottle and label. 
 
 Oil for Harness.— Mix one quart of neats-foot 
 oil, four ounces of beef tallow and three tablespoons- 
 ful of lamp black. In summer add four ounces of 
 bees-wax. 
 
 Laundry Blue. — 2 ounces Prussian blue, half 
 pint water add 1 pint spirits. Bottle and label. 
 
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 Cure of Drunkenness— Sulphate of iron, five 
 grains ; magnesia, ten grains ; peppermint, eleven 
 drachms ; spirits of nutmeg, one drachm ; twice a 
 day. This preparation acts as a tonic and stimu- 
 lant, and so partially supplies the place of the ac- 
 customed liquor, and prevents that absolute physi- 
 cal and moral prostration that follows a sudden 
 breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks. 
 
 Diamond Cement.— For joining broken glass, 
 china, &c. 
 
 Take one ounce pulv. mastic, dissolved in a 
 little alcohol, and 1 ounce of isinglass that has been 
 steeped in water until soft, also in alcohol ; then 
 mix the two alcoholic solutions, and add two 
 drachms of very finely powdered gum ammoniac. 
 Use a gentle heat by a water bath until they be- 
 come amalgamated; then pour the mixture into 
 half ounce phials, and cork well. When it is to 
 be used, place the phial in warm water, and warm 
 it before applying the cement. Press the pieces 
 of the broken vessel closely together, and set it 
 aside for a whole day. 
 
 Soap for Washing. — The American Agricultu- 
 ralist is responsible for this receipt: — To each 
 pound of common hard soap, add one-half to three- 
 quarters of an ounce of common borax, pulverized, 
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 pan, or other convenient vessel, and put on the 
 stove; put in the borax, and then add the soap, 
 cut in small thin pieces. Keep them hot, but not 
 boiling, several hours, or until the soap is dissolved. 
 When cool, it will be double the quantity, and 
 thus save at least one-half. Rub the dirtiest part of 
 the clothes with this compound and soak them over 
 night, if convenient, or an hour or two in the morn- 
 ing. This mixture does not cut the hands, and is 
 adapted to all sorts of clothes — calicoes, flannels, 
 &c., as well as white cotton or linen. They are to 
 be washed, boiled and rinsed, as usual, but the la- 
 bor of rubbing is greatly lessened. 
 
 Cologne, No. 2. — To a quart of proof spirit, add 
 3 drachms oil lemon, 3 drachms oil garden laven- 
 der, 1 drachm oil rosemary, half ounce bergamot, 
 6 drops oil cinnamon, 1 ounce essence musk, 5 
 drops neroli, or orange flower. 
 
 Water-Proof Blacking. — Take three ounces sper- 
 macitif melt it in an earthen vessel over a slow fire ; 
 and six drachms india rubber, cut it into thin 
 slices, let it dissolve ; then add eight ounces tallow, 
 two ounces lard, and four ounces amber varnish ; 
 mix, and it will be fit for use. 
 
 Indelible Ink, — Marking Liquid : — Lunar cau- 
 stic, 1 dr.; rain water, 2 dr.; nitric acid. 10 ggt. 
 
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 Wetting Liquid: — Salt of tartar, 1 dr.; gum 
 arabic, i dr.; Rain water, 1? oz. 
 
 This is to be put up in the same manner as 
 directed for the former receipt on page 22. 
 
 Cologne, No. 3 . — To a pint of proof spirit, add 1 
 ounce essence musk, 8 drops oil cloves, 1 drachm 
 bergamot, 1 drachm garden lavender, 2 drachms, 
 each, oil rosemary and oil lemon. 
 
 Composition for Grafting.— Take one part tallow, 
 two parts beeswax, and four parts rosin ; melt it 
 together, turn it into water, and mix it as shoe- 
 makers do wax. 
 
 Water-Proof Composition.— To be applied to 
 saddles, harness, gig aprons, boots and shoes ; also, 
 to well ropes, handles of various implements, and 
 many other uses, may be thus prepared : Rosin, 
 
 1 part ; lard, 2 parts ; mix and apply warm, dry- 
 ing it in before the fire. 
 
 Water-Proof Boots , — Boots and shoes may be 
 rendered impervious to water by the following 
 composition. Take 8 oz. of spermaceti ancl melt 
 it in a pipkin, or other earthen vessel, over a slow 
 fire ; add thereto six drachms of india rubber, 
 cut into slices, and these will presently dissolve ; 
 then, add seriatim of tallow, 8 ounces ; hog’s lard, 
 
 2 ounces ; amber varnish, 4 ounces. Mix, and it 
 will be fit for use immediately. The boots, or other 
 
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 material to be treated, are to receive two or three 
 coats with a common blacking brush, and a fine 
 polish is the result. 
 
 Hot Drops, — In one gill of brandy, put one- 
 quarter of an ounce of pure cayenne pepper. Let 
 it stand a few days, then filter. 
 
 Black Ink, No. 2. — Powdered galls, 3 oz.; cop- 
 peras, logwood, gum Senegal, each, 1 ounce ; water,, 
 2 pints. 
 
 Mix well together, and let it stand two ox 
 three weeks ; bottle, and it will be fit fox use.. 
 
 Cologne, No. 4. — Of alcohol,, one gallon ; oil of 
 lavender, twelve drachms;, oil of rosemary^ four 
 drachms; essence of lemon, twelve drachms; oil 
 of bergamot, twelve drachms; oil of cinnamon, 
 twelve drops. 
 
 Furniture Varnish. — White wax, two ounces, 
 oil of turpentine, one gill; melt the wax, and 
 gradually mix in the turpentine. 
 
 Cologne, No. 5. — Oil bergamot, oil lemon, and oil 
 garden lavender, each, 4 ounces ; oil rosemary, half 
 ounce ; oil cloves and cinnamon, each, 1 drachm ; 
 essence musk, 8 ounces ; proof spirit, 3 gallons.. 
 
 Excellent Tonic. — Pour one pint of boiling water- 
 on several dandelion plants, root and leaf; cover 
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 it until cold; drink a teacupful every night and 
 morning. 
 
 Liniment for Prosibiie. — Tincture of opium, l 
 an ounce; spirits of camphor, § an ounce; tinc- 
 ture of cantharides, i an ounce. Mix, and apply 
 as soon as possible. I have found this to be a uni- 
 formly successful remedy. 
 
 Pearl Powdor, — The skin is enamelled with ox- 
 ide of bismuth, a preparation sold by perfumers 
 under the name of pearl powder. 
 
 Oil of Tartar, "”In London, England, oil of tar- 
 tar is thus prepared : Crude potash of commerce, 
 1 i lbs.; water, 1 gallon. It is used by the tavern 
 keepers for scouring and cleansing the pewter beer 
 measures. 
 
 Cologne, No. 6, — One drachm oil lemon, one 
 drachm oil rosemary, one-and-a-half drachms oil 
 garden lavender, 10 drops otto rose, 30 drops rec- 
 tified oil amber, 20 drops vanilla extract, 1 quart 
 proof .spirit and 1 ounce orange flower water. 
 
 Blacking, No. 1 , — Take ivory black and molas- 
 ses, each twelve-ounces ; spermaceti oil, four ounces ; 
 white wine vinegar .two quarts ; mix together. 
 
 Strengthening Plastor. — White turpentine, one 
 part ; hemlock gum, four parts. Mix by heating, 
 and spread on soft Leather. 
 
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 Com Plaster. — Take 2 oz. gum ammoniac, 2 oz. 
 yellow wax, 6 dr. verdegris ; mix them together, 
 and spread the composition on a piece of linen or 
 soft leather ; first rub down the corn with an instru- 
 ment like a file ; it is to be purchased at most 
 chemists ; a file not too coarse will, however, answer 
 the same purpose. Let the plaster be removed in 
 a fortnight, if necessary. 
 
 Scald Hoad Ointment. — Take 1 oz. sulpher, 1 oz. 
 lard, 2 drachms sal-ammoniac ; mix and box. 
 
 To be rubbed upon the part affected two or 
 three times a day. 
 
 Ringworm Ointment. — Take $ drachm finely 
 powdered subacetate of copper, 1 dr. prepared calo- 
 mel, 1 oz. spermaceti ointment, mix well together. 
 To be rubbed over the parts affected every night 
 and morning. This ointment is also very effaca- 
 cious in cases of foul and languid ulcers. 
 
 Citrate Magnesia. — Take 120 grains magnesia, 
 450 gr. citric acid, 40 gr. bicarbonate of potassia ; 
 dissolve the acid in 4 fluid oz. of water, and having 
 added the magnesia, stir until it is dissolved. Fil- 
 ter the solution into a strong 12 oz. bottle, into 
 which has been poured 2 fluid oz. of syrup of citric 
 acid. Then add the bicarbonate of potassia and 
 enough water almost to fill the bottle ; close with a 
 cork and secure with twine. Shake moderately 
 
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 till it is dissolved. This is a very pleasant drink, 
 and in the dose of a tumblerful, a pretty active and 
 cooling purgative. 
 
 Cheap Pomade. — Take 2 pounds lard, lk dr. es- 
 sence bergamot or lemon, 1 dr. essence cloves. 
 Color with alkanet or carmine lake. 
 
 Bottle and label. 
 
 Balsam of limey.— Take 2 oz. balsam of tolu, 
 2 dr. gum storax, 2 dr. opium, 8 oz. honey. Dis- 
 solve these in a quart of spirits of wine. This bal- 
 sam is exceedingly useful in allaying the irritation 
 of a cough. Dose, 1 or 2 teaspoonsful in a little 
 tea or warm water. 
 
 Bhubarb Wine. — Take of sliced rhubarb, 2 k oz., 
 k oz. cardamon seeds, bruised and husked, 2 dr. 
 saffron, 2 pints Spanish white wine, k pint proof 
 spirits. Digest for ten days and strain. This is 
 a warm, cordial, laxative medicine. It is chiefly 
 used in weakness of the stomach and bowels, and 
 and some kinds of looseness. It may be given in 
 doses of k to 3 or 4 teaspoonsful, or even more, ac- 
 cording to the circumstances of the disorder and 
 strength of the patient. 
 
 Anisssd Cordial.— Take 2 lbs. aniseed, bruised, 
 12 k galls, proof spirits, 1 gal. water. Draw off 10 
 galls, with a moderate fire. This water should 
 never be reduced below proof, because the large 
 
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 quantity of oil with which it is impregnated will 
 render the goods milky and foul, when brought 
 down below proof. But if it should be milky, it 
 may be restored by Alteration. 
 
 Extract of Verbena, — 1 gall, rectified alcohol, 
 2 oz. English rosemary, 1 oz. oil lemon peel, 1 oz. 
 oil of Balm, (Melissa,) I dr. oil of mint, 1 pt. es- 
 pril-de-rose, 1 pt. extract orange. 
 
 Violet Fow&er. — 12 lbs. wheat starch, 2} lbs. 
 powd. orris root, h oz. oil lemon, 1 oz. bergamot, 
 2 dr. oil of rose. Mix. 
 
 Stick Pomade. — Use lard and wax, or mutton 
 suet, in proportion to the consistency you wish. 
 In moulding, be sure not to run too hot, as Cavities 
 will occur in the centre, rendering the sticks liable 
 to break. Scent 1 lb. of pomade to 1 dr., each, 
 essence bergamot, thyme, lavender and orange peel. 
 Color with annitto or saffron. 
 
 Camphorated Vinegar. — To 6 dr. camphor, 2 oz. 
 alcohol, 1 lb. strong vinegar. Powder the cam- 
 phor by the aid of alcohol in a mortar and add the 
 vinegar. 
 
 Flour Paste. — Paste is formed principally of 
 wheaten flour, boiled in water, till it be of a gluti- 
 nous or viscid consistency. Add a small quantity 
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 of oxalic acid. This is a secret not generally 
 known. You can label on tin or metal. 
 
 Mark it poison. 
 
 Black Scaling Wax.—' 41 oz. Venice turpentine, 
 9 oz. shellac, 3 oz. calaphony, and sufficient 
 lamp black, mixed with oil of turpentine, to color 
 it. 
 
 Bottle Scaling Wax. — lb oz. dark or common 
 rosin, 1 oz. shellac, 1 oz. beeswax. Melt together, 
 and color with red lead, venitian red or lamp 
 black. 
 
 Sympathetic Ink. — Write with weak boiled 
 starch, and when the writing is required to appear, 
 brush over with a weak solution of iodine — the 
 letters* will appear black. 
 
 Violet Ink. — 8 parts logwood, 64 parts water, 
 boiled down to half, then strain, and add 1 part 
 chloride of tin. 
 
 To Remove Ink from Paper.— Wash alternately 
 with a camel brush, dipped in a solution of oxalic 
 acid and cyanide of potassium. 
 
 Poison. 
 
 Freezing Without Ice.— 4 oz. of each, sal-am- 
 moniac and nitre in 8 oz. of water will reduce the 
 temperature from 50° to 10°. When extreme cold 
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 cooled as much as possible by one portion of the 
 mixture, then by a succeeding one. 
 
 Fir© Proof Paper. — Dip the paper in a strong 
 solution of alum, and then thoroughly dry it. 
 Some paper requires to be dipped more than once, 
 and must be repeated until thoroughly saturated. 
 
 Poach Wafers.— “These are made with flour, 
 sugar and red lead, heated in wafer irons. 
 
 Orris Tooth Wash.™ Water, 1 oz.; honey, 8 oz.; 
 alcohol, 1 oz.; tine, myrrh, J oz.; orris root, 1 * oz.; 
 tine, bark, \ oz. 
 
 When thoroughly mixed, bottle in 2 or 4 oz. 
 bottles, and label neatly. This is an excellent 
 preparation for the teeth. 
 
 Cinnamon Soap. — 30 lbs. tallow soap, 20 lbs. 
 palm oil soap, 7 oz. essence cinnamon, If oz. ess. 
 bergamot, If oz. oil sassafras, 1 lb. finely powdered 
 yellow ochre. Mix with olive oil, and melt into a 
 mass, by means of steam or water bath. 
 
 Stick Pomatum, White. — Melt together, 6 lbs. 
 mutton suet, f lbs. white wax, | lb. spermaceti, 1 
 oz. powd. benzoin ; scent with 4 parts essence ber- 
 gamot, 2 parts essence lemon, and 1 part cloves. 
 Roll in sticks ; wrap with tin foil. 
 
 Castor Oil Pomade. — Castor oil, 4 ounces; sweet 
 lard, 2 ounces; white wax, 2 drachms; oil berga- 
 
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 mot, 2 drachms ; oil lavender, 20 drops. Melt the 
 fat together, and on cooling, add the* scents and stir 
 till cold. 
 
 Put up in nice, wide-mouth bottles, holding about 
 4 ounces. 
 
 Soda Water Powders. — A pleasant, cooling, 
 summer drink. This is put up in two papers — one 
 white and the other blue. 
 
 The blue paper should contain carbonate of 
 soda, 30 grains ; the white paper, tartaric acid, 25 
 grains. 
 
 Directions: — Dissolve the contents of the blue 
 paper in half a tumbler of water ; stir in the other 
 powder, and drink during effervescence. 
 
 Soda powders furnish a saline beverage, which 
 is very slightly laxative, and well calculated to 
 allay thirst in hot weather. 
 
 One pound of carbonate of soda and thirteen 
 ounces and a half of tartaric acid supply the ma- 
 terials for 256 powders of each sort. 
 
 Razor Paste, No. 1 . — Take 1 oz. prepared putty, 
 and mix with a saturated solution of oxalic acid 
 sufficient to form a paste. Spread this over the 
 strops ; when dry, add a little water. It gives a 
 fine edge to the razor. 
 
 Ply Paper. — Half a pound quassia wood and 
 half a pound long pepper are boiled in fifteen 
 
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 pounds of water until they are reduced to ten 
 pounds. The decoction is next filtered, and eight 
 pounds of sugar with two pounds of honey are dis- 
 solved in clear liquor; to which are then added 
 forty pounds of glycerine and forty pounds of soda 
 ley. The paper is dipped in this liquid. The 
 quantities of the ingredients may, of course, be 
 greater or less, but the above proportions must be 
 preserved. 
 
 Black Court Plaster, No. 2.— Strain black silk 
 on a frame, and brush it over with a solution of 
 one ounce of isinglass in 12 ounces of proof spirit, 
 and mix two ounces of tincture benzoin (Turlington’s 
 balsam) with it; when dry, repeat the process 4 or 
 5 times, and finish off with a coat of tine, black 
 balsam of Peru. 
 
 Flesh-Colored Court Plaster— To make flesh- 
 colored court plaster, stretch fine white silk on a 
 frame, and brush it over 5 or 6 times with a solu- 
 tion of one ounce best isinglass in 12 ounces of 
 proof spirit, to which you should first add a few 
 drops of tine, cochineal, to give a slight tint. 
 
 Black Ink, No. 3. — Ink of the very finest and 
 most intense black may be prepared by adding a 
 very minute portion of vanadic acid, or vanadiate 
 of ammonia, to a solution of nutgall. This ink is 
 much more lasting than ordinary ink. 
 
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 Cure for Ear Achs. — Equal parts of strained 
 honey and best balsam-copavia and French brandy, 
 put into a vial. When wanted, warm, shake and 
 put one or 2 drops in the ear 3 times a day. It will 
 even cure deafness in some cases. 
 
 Cologne, No. 7 — To a quart of proof spirit, add 
 one drachm, each, oils garden lavender and berga- 
 mot; 2 drachms, each, oils lemon and rosemary; 
 8 drops, each, oils cinnamon and cloves. Mix well. 
 
 Lip Salve, No. 1. — Of white wax, one ounce; 
 oil of almonds, half an ounce; oil of roses, six 
 drops ; orcanette, half an ounce. 
 
 Essence of Celery. — This is prepared by soaking 
 for a fortnight J ounce of the seeds of celery in I 
 pint of brandy. A few drops will flavor a pint of 
 soup or broth equal to a head of celery. It can be 
 put up in 2 oz. bottles, with label and directions. 
 
 Leather Cement. — An adhesive cement for 
 uniting the parts of boots and shoes, and for the 
 seams of articles of clothing, may be thus made: 
 
 Take one pound of gutta percha, four ounces of 
 india rubber, two ounces of pitch, one ounce of 
 shellac, two ounces of oil. 
 
 These ingredients are to be melted together, and 
 used hot. 
 
 Baking Powders, No. 2.— Baking soda, 6 ounces ; 
 
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 cream of tartar, 8 ounces; first free them from all 
 moisture by drying them separately in an oven on 
 papers. Then mix thoroughly. 
 
 The amount required to raise each quart of flour 
 being baked is one teaspoonful. 
 
 Mix with cold water and bake immediately. 
 
 This contains none of the drugs generally used 
 for baking powders; it is very easily made, and 
 costs but little. 
 
 The best way to put this powder up would be in 
 6 oz. bottles, well corked and sealed, as it attracts 
 moisture from the atmosphere. 
 
 Root Boor. “For each gallon of water to be used, 
 take hops, burdock, yellowdock, sarsaparilla, 
 dandelion and spikenard roots, bruised, each, £ 
 ounce. 
 
 The same proportion will answer for any quan- 
 tity. Boil twenty minutes and strain it while hot ; 
 add 5 drops oil of spruce and 5 drops oil of sassa- 
 fras ; when it has cooled off a little, put in 3 table- 
 spoonsful of yeast, t pint of molasses, or i pound 
 of white sugar. 
 
 After it is well mixed, let it stand in a jar to 
 work for two hours, covering it with a cloth, then 
 bottle and set in a cool place. 
 
 This makes an excellent and wholesome drink 
 for the spring and summer months, and if put up 
 nicely will find a ready sale. 
 
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 Blacking, No. 2. — Half a pound of ivory black, 
 half a pound of molasses, half an ounce of powdered 
 alum, one drachm of turpentine, one ounce sul- 
 phuric acid, and two ounces of raw linseed oil. 
 The ivory black and molasses must first be mixed 
 together until thoroughly incorporated ; then add 
 the rest of the ingredients. This is a good receipt. 
 
 Put it up in tin boxes. 
 
 Honey Soap. — Cut into thin slices two pounds of 
 yellow soap. Put it into a saucepan, which must 
 be set in another containing boiling water over the 
 fire, occasionally stirring it till melted, then add 
 a quarter of a pound of palm oil, quarter of a 
 pound of honey, small quantity of oil of cinnamon ; 
 let all boil together six or eight minutes; then 
 pour out into moulds. It will be fit for use the 
 next day. 
 
 Green Mountain Salve.— Rosin, 5 lbs; Burgundy 
 pitch, beeswax, and mutton tallow, each, l pound ; 
 oil of hemlock, balsam of fir, oil of origanum, oil 
 of red cedar arid Venice turpentine, each, 1 ounce ; 
 oil of wormwood, z ounce; verdigris, very finely 
 pulverized, 1 ounce ; melt the first articles together, 
 and add the oils, having rubbed the verdigris up 
 with a little of the oils, and put it in with the 
 other articles, stirring well; then pour into cold 
 water and work until cool enough to roll. 
 
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 This salve is excellent for rheumatic pains, or 
 weakness. 
 
 Put up in rolls, with fancy wrapper and direc- 
 tions. 
 
 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 moulds, and cool. 
 
 Wrap in tin foil, and again with a paper wrap- 
 per containing fancy label. It should be put up 
 nicely, and will sell well. 
 
 Orange Syrup.- — Put H pounds of white sugar 
 to each pint of juice; add some of the peel; boil 
 ten minutes, then strain it. Bottle and cork it. 
 When mixed with cold water it makes a delight- 
 ful beverage, and is useful to flavor pies, etc. Put 
 up in pint bottles, with a neat label. 
 
 Ginger Beer Powders— Put into blue papers, 
 30 grains of bicarbonate of soda, 5 grains of pow- 
 dered ginger, and 1 drachm of powdered white 
 sugar. Put into white papers 25 grains of tartaric 
 acid. 
 
 When used, dissolve the contents of each paper 
 separately in ^ a tumbler of water ; when thoroughly 
 dissolved, pour one tumbler into the other, and 
 drink while effervescing. 
 
 Put up one dozen of each powder in a box, and 
 label, and enclose directions. 
 
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 Cancer Ointment. — Linseed oil, 1 pint; sweet 
 oil, 1 ounce; boil them in a kettle on the coals for 
 nearly four hours, as warm as you can ; then have 
 pulverized and mixed, borax ? ounce ; red lead, 4 
 ounces, and sugar of lead H ounces; remove the 
 kettle from the fire and stir in the powder ; con- 
 tinue the stirring until cooled to blood heat, then 
 stir in 1 ounce of spirits of turpentine ; try if it is 
 thick enough to spread on linen, as a salve, by taking 
 out a little and letting it get cold ; if not, boil it 
 again. 
 
 Put it up in boxes. 
 
 Black Stick Pomatum.— Prepared lard, melted 
 with a third in winter, and a half its weight in sum- 
 mer, of wax, and colored with powdered ivory- 
 black, and strained through tammy, or any sub- 
 stance that will permit the fine particles of ivory- 
 black to pass through. Stir it constantly, and when 
 it begins to thicken, pour it into paper moulds. 
 
 Put up in tin foil, with a wrapper containing di- 
 rections, &c. 
 
 Chinese Depilatory.— 1 This is for the purpose of 
 removing superfluous hair. 
 
 Chrystalized hydrosulphate of soda, 3 parts ; 
 quicklime in powder, 10 parts; starch, 10 parts. 
 Mix together well. When used, it is to be mixed 
 with water, and applied to the skin where the hair 
 
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 is to be removed, and scraped off in two or three 
 minutes with a wooden knife. 
 
 Put up in wide-mouth bottles. 
 
 Spanish Gmgerette.— 1 lb. of white sugar, § 
 ounce best bruised ginger root, J ounce cream of 
 tartar, 2 lemons, sliced, and 1 gallon of water. 
 
 In making 4 gallons, boil the ginger and lemons 
 ten minutes in 2 gallons of the water, the sugar 
 and cream of tartar to be dissolved in the cold 
 water, and mix all, and add i pint of good yeast; 
 let it ferment over night, strain and bottle in the 
 morning. 
 
 This is a cooling and refreshing beverage, and 
 recommended for dyspepsia and sick headache. 
 
 Pain Killer. — Put 5 tablespoonsful of cayenne 
 pepper, ground, in a wide-mouth bottle; add half 
 a pint of alcohol and a small piece of camphor. 
 Cork, and let it stand two weeks, then pour care- 
 fully into bottles. This is an excellent internal 
 and external remedy. 
 
 Put up for sale in 4 oz. bottles. 
 
 Soothing Syrup. — To one pound of honey, add 
 2 tablespoonsful of paregoric, the same of oil of 
 aniseed, and enough water to make a thick syrup. 
 For children teething, dose, a teaspoonfnl occa- 
 sionally. 
 
 Bottle in 3 oz. bottles. 
 
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 Arnica Liniment. — To one pint of sweet oil, add 2 
 tablespoonsful of tincture of arnica; or the leaves 
 may be heated in the oil over a slow fire. This is 
 an excellent liniment for wounds, stiff joints, rheu- 
 matism and all injuries. Bottle in 4 oz. bottles, 
 with directions and label. 
 
 Adhesive Plaster, No 2 —White rosin, 7 ounces; 
 beeswax and mutton tallow, each, ? ounce ; melt to- 
 gether, then pour into cold water, and work up till 
 thoroughly mixed, and roll out into sticks. In 
 this state it may be put up in papers for salve. 
 To make plaster, it should be spread while 
 warm on stout muslin, and when cold, cut into 
 strips of a convenient size for sale. This will make 
 a firm and adhesive plaster, and will remain when 
 placed on a wound for a long time. 
 
 King of Pain. — Burning fluid, 1 pint; oils of 
 cedar, hemlock, sassafras, and origanum, each, 2 
 ounces ; carbonate of ammonia, pulverized, 1 ounce; 
 mix well together. This is a good remedy for 
 toothache, rheumatism and neuralgia. To be ap- 
 plied freely by bathing the parts affected. 
 
 Bottle and label. 
 
 Pop Corn Balls. — Put i bushel of nicely popped 
 corn on a table, or in a large pan. 
 
 Make a syrup with 1 pound of white sugar, and 
 a little water ; when it has boiled until it slightly 
 
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 hardens on being tried with cold water, remove it 
 from the fire, and add to it 6 tablespoonsful of dis- 
 solved gum arabic, very thick. The solution of 
 gum must be made with boiling water and stand 
 over night. Saturate the corn with the mixture, 
 by pouring it over different parts, and mix well to- 
 gether with the hands, or a stick, then press it into 
 balls very quickly, lest it sets before they are all 
 made. This amount will make about one hundred 
 balls. 
 
 Cements. — The term cement includes all those 
 substances employed for the purpose of causing the 
 adhesion of two or more bodies, whether originally 
 separate, or divided by an accidental fracture. 
 As the substances that are required to be connected 
 together are exceedingly various, and differ very 
 much in their properties as to texture, &c., &c., and 
 as the conditions under which they are placed, 
 with regard to heat and moisture, are also exceed- 
 ingly variable, a number of cements, possessed of 
 very different properties, are required; for a ce- 
 ment that answers admirably under one set of cir- 
 cumstances, may be perfectly useless in others. A 
 vast number of cements are known and used in the 
 various arts, but they may all be referred to a few 
 classes; and our object in this paper will be to de- 
 scribe the manufacture and use of the best of each 
 class, and also to state what are the general princi- 
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 pies upon which the success or failure of cement- 
 ing usually depends. The different parts of a 
 solid are held together by an attraction between 
 their several particles, which is termed the attrac- 
 tion of cohesion, or cohesive attraction. The 
 amount of this varies with the substances; thus, 
 the cohesion of the particles of iron to one another 
 is enormously great, whilst that between those of 
 chalk is but small. This attraction acts only 
 when the particles are in the closest possible con- 
 tact, even air must not be between them. If, after 
 breaking any substance, we could bring the parti- 
 cles into as close contact as before, and remove the 
 air, they would re-unite, and be as strongly con- 
 nected as ever. But, in general, this is impossible ; 
 small particles of grit and dust get between them ; 
 the film of interposed air cannot be removed ; and 
 thus, however firmly we press the edges of a broken 
 cup together, it remains cracked china still. Per- 
 fectly flat, clean surfaces, like those of freshly 
 ground plate-glass, may sometimes be made to co- 
 here, so that the two pieces become one, and can- 
 not be separated without breaking. The attraction 
 of cohesion takes place between the parts of the 
 same substance, and must not be confounded with 
 that of adhesion, which is the attraction of differ- 
 ent substances to one another; for example, the 
 particles of a piece of wood are united by cohe- 
 
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 sive attraction, whilst the union of glue and wood 
 to each other depends on adhesi ve attraction. And 
 it is important that this distinction be borne in 
 mind, for, in almost all cases, the cohesion be- 
 tween the particles of the cement is very much less 
 than the adhesion of the cement to other bodies ; 
 and if torn apart the connected joint gives way — 
 not by the loosening of the adhesion, but by the 
 layer of cement splitting down the centre. Hence 
 the important rule, that the less cement in a joint, 
 the stronger it is. Domestic manipulators usually 
 reverse this, by letting as much cement as possible 
 remain in the joint, which is, therefore, necessarily 
 a weak one. A thick, nearly solid cement, which 
 cannot be pressed out of the joint, is always infe- 
 rior to a thinner one, of which merely a connecting 
 film remains between the united surfaces. 
 
 Mouth Glue, No. L— Affords a very convenient 
 means of uniting papers, and other small light ob- 
 jects ; it is made by dissolving by the aid of heat, pure 
 glue, as parchment glue, or gelatine, with about one 
 quarter or one-third of its weight of coarse brown 
 sugar, in as small quantity of boiling water as pos- 
 sible; this when perfectly liquid, should be cast 
 into thin cakes on a flat surface very slightly oiled, 
 and as it cools cut up into pieces of a convenient 
 size. When required for use one end may be 
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 rubbed on any substances it may be wished to join ; 
 a piece kept in the desk or work-box is exceedingly 
 convenient. 
 
 Liquid Gins. — Several preparations were much 
 in vogue a few months since under this title. The 
 liquid glue of the shops is made by dissolving shel- 
 lac in water, by boiling it along with borax, which 
 possesses the peculiar property of causing the solu- 
 tion of the resinous lac. This preparation is con- 
 venient from its cheapness, and freedom from smell ; 
 but it gives way if exposed to long-continued 
 damp, which that made with naphtha resists. Of 
 the use of common glue very little need be said ; 
 it should always be prepared in a glue-pot or 
 double vessel, to prevent its being burned, which 
 injures it very materially; the objection to the use 
 of this contrivance is, that it renders it impossible 
 to heat the glue in the inner vessel to the boiling 
 point; this inconvenience can be obviated by em- 
 ploying in the outer vessel some liquid which boils 
 at a higher temperature than pure water, such as 
 saturated solution of salt (made by adding one- 
 third as much salt as water). This boils at 224° 
 Fahr., twelve degrees above the heat of boiling 
 water, and enables the glue in the inner vessel to 
 be heated to a much higher temperature than 
 when pure water is employed. If a saturated so- 
 
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 lution of nitre is used, the temperature rises still 
 higher. 
 
 Scent Bags for Linen.— -These may be composed 
 of any mixtures of the following articles — flowers, 
 dried and pounded; powdered cloves, mace, nut- 
 meg, cinnamon; leaves-— dried and pounded- — of 
 mint, balm, dragon-wort, southern-wood, ground- 
 ivy, laurel, hyssop, sweet marjoram, origanum, rose- 
 mary; woods, such as cassia, juniper, rhodium, 
 sandal-wood and rose- wood; roots of angelica, ze- 
 doary, orris ; all the fragrant balsams; ambergris, 
 musk, and civet. These latter should be carefully 
 used on linen. 
 
 Elderberry Wine. — Gather the berries ripe and 
 dry, prick them, bruise them with your hands, and 
 strain them. Set the liquor by in glazed earthen 
 vessels for twelve hours to settle; put to every 
 pint of juice a pint and a half of water, and to 
 every gallon of this liquor three pounds of good 
 moist sugar ; set in a kettle over the fire, and when 
 it is ready to boil clarify it with the white of four 
 or five eggs; let it boil one hour, and when it is 
 almost cold, work it with strong ale yeast, 
 and turn it, filling up the vessel from time to time 
 with the same liquor, saved on purpose, as it sinks 
 by working. In a month’s time, if the vessel 
 holds about eight gallons, it will be fine and fit to 
 
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 bottle, and, after bottling, will be fit to drink in 
 twelve months. 
 
 Preston Salts. — Take of sal-ammoniac and salts 
 of tartar, of each about two ounces ; pound up the 
 sal ammoniac into small bits, and mix them gently 
 with the salts of tartar. After being well mixed, 
 add a few drops of oil of lavender, sufficient to 
 scent, and also a little musk ; stop up in a glass 
 bottle, and when required for use, add a few drops 
 of water, or spirits of hartshorn, when you will im- 
 mediately have strong smelling salts. The musk, 
 being expensive, may be omitted ; it will still be 
 good. Any person can for a few cents obtain 
 these ingredients at any druggist’s, and they will 
 make salts, which to buy, prepared, would cost at 
 least twenty-five cents. 
 
 Sprues Bssr Powisrs. — Powdered white sugar, 
 three ounces ; essence of spruce, forty drops ; carbo- 
 nate of soda, five drachms and a scruple. Mix, 
 and divide into two blue papers. Tartaric acid, 
 six drachms ; wrap in twelve white papers. Mix 
 as ginger beer poAvders. Cost, 10 cts. 
 
 Portable Ls^isuais. — Tartaric or citric acid, 
 one ounce; finely powdered lump-sugar, half a 
 pound; essence of lemon, twenty drops. Mix. 
 Two or three teaspoonsful make a capital glass of 
 lemonade. Cost, 10 cts., Avith tartaric acid; 20 cts. 
 with citric acid. 
 
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 Orangeacb.— Squeeze out the juice of an orange, 
 pour boiling water on a little of the peel, and cover 
 it close. Boil water and sugar to a thin syrup, 
 and skim it. When all are cold, mix the juice, 
 the infusion, and the syrup, with as much more 
 water as will make a rich drink. Strain through 
 a jelly-bag, and ice. 
 
 Gillgor Lsmonade. — Boil twelve pounds and a 
 half of lump sugar for twenty minutes in ten gal- 
 lons of water ; clear it with the whites of six eggs. 
 Bruise half a pound of common ginger, boil with 
 the liquor, and then pour it upon ten lemons 
 pared. When quite cold, put it in a cask, with 
 two tablespoonsful of yeast, the lemons sliced, and 
 add half an ounce of isinglass. Bung up the cask 
 the next day. It will be ready to bottle in three 
 weeks, and to drink in another three weeks. 
 
 Easpberry Vinegar.— Put a pound of fine fruit 
 into a bowl, pour upon it a quart of the best white 
 wine vinegar, next day, strain the liquor on a 
 pound of fresh raspberries ; the following day do 
 the same, but do not squeeze the fruit, only drain 
 the liquor as dry as you can. Bottle, and cork 
 well, then cover the corks with bottle cement. 
 
 Cough Mixture. — Paregoric elixir one penny- 
 worth, and six drops of laudanum. Mix a little 
 treacle with three or four ounces of vinegar, and 
 
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 put it on the fire till nearly boiling; then add it 
 to the other ingredients. Put it in a bottle, shake 
 it, and it will be ready for use. When the cough 
 is troublesome, take a spoonful. 
 
 Yellow Basilicon. is composed of two ounces of 
 yellow wax, five ounces of white rosin, and seven 
 ounces of hog’s lard ; these must be slowly melted 
 together, and stirred constantly with a stick, till 
 completely mixed. This ointment is sometimes 
 used in treating scalds and burns ; also for dress- 
 ing blisters, when it is wished to keep up a dis- 
 charge from them for a few days. This is a stimu- 
 lating ointment. 
 
 Fly Water. — The following preparation, without 
 endangering the lives of children, or other incau- 
 tious persons, is not less fatal to flies than a solu- 
 tion of arsenic. Dissolve two drachms of the ex- 
 tract of quassia in half a pint of boiling water, add 
 a little sugar or syrup, and put the -mixture in 
 plates. 
 
 Camphor Cerate for Chapped Hands.— Take one 
 ounce and a half of spermaceti, half an ounce of 
 white wax, scrape them into an earthen vessel or 
 pipkin (an earthen jam-pot will do), add six 
 drachms of pounded camphor, and pour on the 
 whole four tablespoonsful of best olive oil ; let it 
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 when liquid. Before you wash your hands, take 
 a small piece of the cerate, and rub it into your 
 hands, then wash them as usual. Putting the ce- 
 rate on before going to bed is very good. The in- 
 gredients cost 25 cts. 
 
 Put up in wide-mouth bottles. 
 
 Rose Lip Salve.— Eight ounces sweet almond 
 oil, four ounces prepared mutton suet, one ounce 
 and a half white wax, two ounces spermaceti, 
 twenty drops otto ; steep a small quantity of alka- 
 net root in the oil, and strain before using. Melt 
 the suet, wax, and spermaceti together, then add 
 the chloric oil and otto. 
 
 Bear’s G-rsase (Imitative).— Hog’s lard, sixteen 
 ounces; flour of benzoin and palm oil, of each, a 
 quarter of an ounce. Melt together until com- 
 bined, aud stir until cold. Scent at pleasure. 
 This will keep a long time. 
 
 Pomade Victoria. — This highly-praised and ex- 
 cellent pomade is made in the following way — and 
 if so made, will be found to give a beautiful gloss 
 and softness to the hair : — Quarter of a pound of 
 honey and half an ounce of bees’ wax simmered to- 
 gether for a few minutes, and then strain; and of 
 oil of almonds, lavender, and thyme, half a 
 drachm each. Be sure to continue stirring till 
 quite cold, or the honey and wax will separate. 
 
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 Linen Scant Bags, No. 2.— Rose-leaves dried 
 in the shade, or at about four feet from a stove, 
 one pound ; cloves, carraway-seeds, and allspice, of 
 each, one ounce ; pound in a mortar, or grind in a 
 mill; dried salt, a quarter of a pound. Mix all 
 these together, and put the compound into little 
 bags. 
 
 Tooth Powder, No. 3.— 1 OZ powd. orris root, 
 
 1 dr. gum camphor, 2 dr. powd. myrrh, £ oz. pre- 
 pared chalk. 
 
 Itch Ointment. — Take 2 oz. flowers of sulpher, 
 
 2 drachms (each) pulv. white hellebore, and sal- 
 tartar; add 20 drops oil lemon. Mix well with 
 two oz. lard. Box and label. 
 
 Clean Steel and Iron, — Take 1 oz. soft soap and 
 2 oz. emery ; make into a paste, then rub the arti- 
 cles for cleaning with a washed leather and it will 
 give a brilliant polish. 
 
 Bhllbarb Wine, — An agreeable and healthful 
 wine is made from the expressed juice of the gar- 
 den rhubarb. 
 
 To each gallon of juice, add 1 gal. of soft water, 
 in which 7 lbs. of brown sugar has been dissolved ; 
 fill a keg or a barrel with this proportion, leaving 
 the bung out, and keep it filled with sweetened 
 water as it works over until clear; then bung down 
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 These stalks will furnish about three-fourths 
 their weight in juice, or from sixteen hundred to 
 two thousand gallons of wine to each acre of well 
 cultivated plants. Fill the barrels and let them 
 stand until spring, and bottle, as any wine will be 
 better in glass or stone. 
 
 Blacking, No. 3. — Ivory black, one and a-half 
 ounce; treacle, one and a-half ounce; sperm oil, 
 three drachms ; strong oil of vitrol, three drachms ; 
 common vinegar, half a pint. Mix the ivory 
 black, treacle, and vinegar together, then mix 
 the sperm oil and oil of vitrol separately, and add 
 them to the other mixture. 
 
 Shampooing Mixture, No. 1 .— For five cents per 
 quart.-— Purified carbonate of potash, commonly 
 called salts of tartar, loz. ; rain water, 1 qt. ; mix, 
 and it is ready for use. 
 
 Apply a little of it to the head, rubbing and 
 working it thoroughly ; then rinse out with clean 
 soft water, and dry the hair well with a coarse, 
 dry towel, applying a little oil or pomatum to sup- 
 ply the natural oil which has been saponified and 
 washed out by the operation of the mixture. A 
 barber will make at least five dollars out of this 
 five cents worth of material. 
 
 Shampooing Mixture, No. 2 . — Aqua ammonia, 
 
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 3 oz. ; salts of tartar, \ oz. ; alcohol, I oz. ; and 
 soft water, 2 } pts., and flavoring with bergamot. 
 In applying, rub the head until the lather goes 
 down ; then wash out. 
 
 Vinegar, No. 1 . — Molasses, 1 qt. ; yeast, 1 pt. ; 
 warm rain water 3 gals. Put all into a jug or keg, 
 and tie a piece of gauze over the bung to keep out 
 flies and let in air. In hot weather set it in the 
 sun ; in cold weather set it by the stove or in the 
 chimney corner, and in three weeks you will have 
 good vinegar. 
 
 When this is getting low, pour out some for use, 
 and fill up the jug in the same proportion as at 
 first, and you will never have trouble for want of 
 good vinegar. 
 
 Artificial Skin. — For burns, bruises, abrasions, 
 &c. Proof against water. — Take gun cotton and 
 Venice turpentine, equal parts of each, and dissolve 
 them in 20 times as much sulphuric ether, dis- 
 solving the cotton first, then adding the turpentine ; 
 keep it corked tightly. 
 
 The object of the turpentine is to prevent pres- 
 sure or pinching caused by evaporation of the ether 
 when applied to a bruised surface. Water does 
 not affect it, hence its value for cracked nipples, 
 
 chapped hands, surface bruises, etc., etc. 
 
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 parts; marjoram, 1 part; lavender flowers, 1 part; 
 rub together to a powder. 
 
 This snuff is very useful in relieving a cold in 
 the head, cleaning the nostrils from a disagreeable 
 accumulation of mucus, and also relieving the 
 headache. 
 
 Put up in well-stopped bottles. 
 
 Extract of Sarsaparilla. — Jamaica sarsaparilla, 
 16 ounces; lukewarm water (100° to 112° F.) 
 sufficient to cover it. Macerate six hours, and 
 strain. Add to the water the following ingredi- 
 ents, and boil : bruised licorice root, sassafras, gua- 
 iacum raspings, of each, 2 ounces; mezercum, f 
 ounce. Let it cool, stirring occasionally, and add 
 2 ounces of rectified spirits of wine, in which a few 
 drops of oil of sassafras have been dissolved. 
 Good for humors, &c. Sells for one dollar per 
 quart. 
 
 Put up in pint or quart bottles, 
 
 Brandrcth's Pills. — Take 2 pounds of aloes, 1 
 pound of gamboge, 4 ounces of extract of colo- 
 cynth, i a pound of castile soap, 2 fluid drachms 
 of oil of peppermint, and 1 fluid drachm of cinna- 
 mon. Mix, and form into pills. 
 
 Headache Pills. — 1* drachm castile soap, 40 
 grains rhubarb, 20 drops oil of juniper and syrup 
 of ginger enough to form 20 pills. Take two or 
 three occasionally. 
 
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 Mouth Pastiles, No. 1. — Extract of licorice, 3 
 ounces ; oil of cloves, 1 4 drachms ; oil of cinnamon, 
 15 drops. Mix, and divide into one-grain pills, 
 and silver them. 
 
 Mouth Pastiles, No. 2.“— Chocolate powder and 
 ground coffee, each, 1 4 ounce ; prepared charcoal, 
 1 ounce; sugar, 1 ounce; vanilla (pulverized with 
 the sugar), 1 ounce; mucilage, sufficient to mix. 
 Make into lozenges of any form, six or eight to be 
 used daily, to disinfect the breath. 
 
 Mouth Pastiles. No. 3. — Catechu, 7 drachms; 
 orris powder, 40 grains; sugar, 3 ounces; oil of 
 rosemary, (or of cloves, peppermint, or cinnamon), 
 4 drops. Mix, and roll flat on an oiled marble 
 slab, and cut into very small lozenges. 
 
 Erasive Soap.““2 pounds of good Castile soap ; 
 4 pound of carbonate of potash ; dissolved in 4 pint 
 hot water. Cut the soap in thin slices, boil the 
 soap with the potash until it is thick enough to 
 mould in cakes ; also, add alcohol, 4 ounce ; . cam- 
 phor, 4 ounce ; hartshorn, 4 ounce ; color with 4 
 ounce pulverized charcoal. 
 
 Put the soap up in small cakes with a nice wrap- 
 per and directions for using. 
 
 Lemon Syrup, No. 2. — Take 1 pound of Havana 
 sugar, boil it in water down to a quart, drop in the 
 white of an egg, and strain it ; add 4 of an ounce of 
 
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 tartaric acid ; let it stand two days ; shake it often. 
 4 drops of oil of lemon will much improve it. 
 
 Almond Bloom, for the face.— Boil 1 ounce of 
 Brazil dust in 3 pints distilled water, and strain ; 
 add 6 drachms of isinglass, 2 drachms of cochineal, 
 1 ounce of alum, and 8 drachms of borax; boil 
 again, and strain through a fine cloth. 
 
 Vinegar, No. 2. — Acetic acid, 4 lbs; molasses, 1 
 gal. ; put them into a 40 gallon cask, and fill it up 
 with rain water ; shake it up, and let stand from 
 one to three weeks, and the result is good vinegar. 
 
 If this does not make it as sharp as you like, 
 add a little more molasses. But some will object 
 to this, because an acid is used : let me say to such, 
 that acetic acid is concentrated vinegar. Take 1 
 lb., or 1 pt., or any other quantity of this acid, and 
 add seven times as much soft water,- and you have 
 just as good vinegar as can be made from cider, 
 and that instantaneously. 
 
 Razor Paste, No. 2. — Emery, reduced to an im- 
 palpable powder, two parts ; spermaceti ointment, 
 one part; mix together, and rub it over the strop. 
 
 This paste can be put up in small wide-mouthed 
 bottles for sale, so as to be convenient for the con- 
 sumer. 
 
 Babel, and put in directions. 
 
 Gold Powder. — Powder some whiting, and make 
 
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 it into a moist paste with some sal-volatile. Cover 
 over the gold ornaments and surface with a soft 
 brush, let it dry, and then brush it off with a mod- 
 erately hard brush. 
 
 Mouth Glue, No. 2. — Take 1 pound of the best 
 glue, the stronger the better, boil it and strain it very 
 clear ; boil also 4 ounces of isinglass, put the mix- 
 ture 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 moulds, and when 
 cold you may cut and dry them in small pieces 
 for the pocket. The glue is used by merely hold- 
 ing 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. 
 
 Liquid Glue, No. 2. — Dissolve one part of pow- 
 dered 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 
 
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 vinegar) to keep it. Dissolve 1 pound of best glue 
 in li- pint of water, and add 1 pint of vinegar. 
 It is ready for use. 
 
 Cheap Court Plaster.— Take half a dozen pigs’ 
 feet, well cleaned for cooking, and boil to a jelly 
 of say about half a pint or less — then spread with 
 a brush on any waste scraps of silk, and we find it 
 equal to any adhesive plaster we have ever used. 
 Any fatty substance in the boiling of the feet 
 raises to the surface, and when cold can easily be 
 removed. One of its chief excellencies is, that it 
 costs nothing but the trouble of preparing. 
 
 Silver Plating Powder. — 1 ounce of nitric acid, 
 1 ten cent piece, and 1 ounce of quicksilver. Put 
 in, an open glass vessel, and let it stand until dis- 
 solved ; then add 1 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 sil- 
 ver, &c. 
 
 Writing on Iron, Steel, &c.— Muriatic acid, l 
 oz. ; nitric acid, \ oz. Mix, when it is ready for 
 use. 
 
 Directions : — Cover the place you wish to mark 
 or write upon, with melted bees- wax ; when cold, 
 write the name plain with a file point, or an instru- 
 ment made for the purpose, carrying it through 
 the wax, and cleaning the wax all out of the letter; 
 
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 then apply the mixed acids with a feather, care- 
 fully filling each letter ; let it remain from one to 
 ten minutes, according to the appearance desired ; 
 then put on some water, which dilutes the acids 
 and stops the process. Either of the acids, alone, 
 would cut iron or steel, but it requires the mixture 
 to take hold of gold or silver. After you wash 
 off the acids it is best to apply a little oil. 
 
 Ghltta Percha Soles— Dry the old sole, and 
 rough it well with a rasp, after which, put on a 
 thin coat of warm solution with the finger ; rub it 
 well in ; let it dry, then hold it to the fire, and, 
 whilst warm, put on a second coat of solution, 
 thicker than the first ; let it dry. Then take the 
 gutta-percha sole, and put it in hot water until it 
 is soft ; take it out, wipe it, and hold the sole in 
 one hand and the shoe in the other to the fire, and 
 they will become sticky ; immediately lay the sole 
 on, beginning at the toe, and proceed gradually. 
 In half an hour, take a knife and pare it. The so- 
 lution should be w T armed, by putting as much as 
 you want to use in a cup, and placing it in hot 
 water, taking care that no water mixes with the 
 solution. 
 
 Freckle Ointment. — Dissolve, in half an ounce 
 of lemon-juice, one ounce of Venice soap; and add 
 a quarter of an ounce, each, of oil of bitter almonds 
 and deliquated oil of tartar. Place this mixture 
 
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 in tlie sun till it acquires the consistency of oint- 
 ment. When in this state, add three drops of the 
 oil of rhodium, and keep it for use. Apply it to 
 the face and hands in the manner following : 
 Wash the parts at night with elder-flower water, 
 then anoint with the ointment. In the morning, 
 cleanse the skin from its oily adhesion, by washing 
 it copiously in rose-water. 
 
 Permanent Pasts, made by adding to each half- 
 pint of flour-paste, without alum, fifteen grains of 
 corrosive sublimate, previously rubbed to powder 
 in a mortar, the whole to be well mixed ; this, if 
 prevented from drying, by being kept in a covered 
 pot, remains good any length of time, and is there- 
 fore convenient; but, unfortunately, it is extremely 
 poisonous, though its excessively nauseous taste 
 would prevent its being swallowed accidentally ; 
 it possesses the great advantage of not being liable 
 to the attacks of insects. 
 
 Camphor Balls, to Prevent Chaps.— Melt three 
 drachms of spermaceti, four drachms of white wax, 
 with one ounce of almond oil, and stir in three 
 drachms of camphor (previously powdered by 
 moistening it with a little spirits of wine) ; pour 
 small quantities into small gallipots, so as to turn 
 out in the form of cakes. 
 
 Toilet Soap. — Take a wine=glassful of eau de 
 
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 Cologne, and another of lemon-juice; then scrape 
 two cakes of brown Windsor soap to a powder, and 
 mix well in a mould. When hard, it will be an 
 excellent soap for whitening the hands. 
 
 Marking-Ink, without Preparation —There are 
 several receipts for this ink, but the following is 
 rapidly superceding all the others : — Dissolve, sepa- 
 rately, one ounce of nitrate of silver, and one and 
 a-half ounces of sub-carbonate soda (best washing 
 soda) in distilled or rain water, Mix the solutions 
 and collect and wash the precipitate in a filter; 
 whilst still moist, rub it up in a marble or wedge- 
 wood mortar with three drachms of tartaric acid ; 
 add two ounces of distilled water, mix six drachms 
 of white sugar, and ten drachms of powdered gum 
 arabic, half an ounce of archil and water to make 
 up six ounces in measure. 
 
 Lotion for Baldness. — Eau de Cologne, two 
 ounces ; tincture of cantharides, two drachms ; oil 
 of lavender, or rosemary, of each, ten drops. These 
 applications must be used once or twice a day for 
 a considerable time ; but if the scalp becomes sore, 
 they must be discontinued for a time, or used at 
 longer intervals. 
 
 Bayberry or Myrtle Soap— Dissolve 21 pounds 
 of white potash in 5 quarts of water ; then mix it 
 with 10 pounds of myrtle wax, or bayberry tallow. 
 
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 Boil the whole over a slow fire till it turns to soap,, 
 then add a teacup of cold water; let it boil tens 
 minutes longer; at the end of that time, turn it; 
 into tin moulds, or pans, and let them remain a. 
 week or ten days to dry ; then turn them out of 
 the moulds. 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 moulds.. 
 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. 
 
 Pomade for Baldness. — Macerate a drachm of ‘ 
 powdered cantharides in an ounce, of spirits of 
 wine. Shake it well during a fortnight, and then 
 filter. Take ten parts of this tincture, and rub it 
 with ninety parts of cold lard. Add a little es- 
 sence of bergamot, or any other scent. B,ub the 
 pomade well into the head, night and morning. 
 In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, this appli- 
 cation, if continued, will restore the hair. Another 
 receipt: Take of extract of yellow Peruvian bark, 
 
 14 grains ; extract of rhatany root, 8 grains ; extract 
 of burdock root, and oil of nutmegs (fixed), of each,. 
 2 drachms ; camphor (dissolved with spirits of wine), 
 
 15 grains; beef marrow, 2 ounces; best olive oil, 1 
 ounce; citron juice, I a drachm; aromatic essential 
 
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 oil, as ranch as sufficient to render it fragrant; mix, 
 and make into an ointment. Two drachms of ber- 
 gamot and a few drops of otto of roses would suffice. 
 This is considered a valuable preparation for the 
 hair, and is to be used ns the above. 
 
 Circassian Cream. — 1 pint of olive oil, 3 ounces 
 white wax, 2 ounces spermaceti, i ounce of alka- 
 net root. Digest the oil with the alkanet till suffi- 
 ciently colored ; strain ; melt the wax and sperma- 
 ceti with the oil, and when sufficiently cool, add 
 
 drachms oil of lavender and 1 drachm of essence 
 of ambergris. 
 
 Phosphorus Paste for the Destruction of Eats and 
 
 Mice. — Take of phosphorus, 8 parts ; liquify it in 
 180 parts of hike- warm water, pour the whole into 
 a mortar, and add immediately 180 parts of rye 
 meal; when cold, mix in 180 parts of butter, melt- 
 ed, and 125 parts of sugar. If the phosphorus is in 
 a finely-divided state, the ingredients may be all 
 mixed at once, without melting them. This mix- 
 ture will retain its efficacy for many years, for the 
 phosphorus is preserved by the butter, and only be- 
 comes oxydized on the surface. Rats and mice 
 eat this mixture with avidity, after which they 
 swell out and soon die. This receipt was directed 
 to be .used in place of arsenic by the Prussian 
 Government. 
 
 Marine Glue. — Dissolve 4 parts of india-rubber 
 
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 in 34 parts of coal tar naphtha — aiding the solution 
 with heat and agitation. The solution is then 
 thick as cream, and it should be added to 64 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. 
 
 Grafting Wax. — Five parts of rosin, one part 
 of beeswax, one part of tallow. Melt these in a 
 skillet, tin cup, or any metal vessel: the skillet 
 being preferable, as it can be handled better, and 
 the wax keeps warm longer in it. Melt these over 
 the fire and mix together well. When the scions 
 are set — say as many as twenty or thirty, or as few 
 as is wished— -have the mixture ready and apply 
 it warm, with a small wooden paddle. See that 
 every part is covered and the air completely ex- 
 cluded. It requires no bandage. 
 
 Tracing Paper.— -In order to prepare a beautiful 
 transparent, colorless paper, it is best to employ the 
 varnish formed with Demarara rosin in the follow- 
 ing way : The sheets intended for this purpose are 
 laid flat on each other, and the varnish spread over 
 the uppermost sheet by means of a brush, until the 
 
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 paper appears perfectly colorless, without, however, 
 the liquid therein 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. 
 
 Iron Cement. — Mix from four to five parts of 
 dry clay, two parts of iron filings, one part oxide 
 of manganese, half a part of salt, and half a part 
 ©f borax ; when the cement is wanted for use, this 
 mixture is made with water into a paste, which is 
 applied immediately to the pieces to be joined. It 
 is then allowed to dry gradually, and is subse- 
 quently heated to whiteness. * After this, the ce- 
 ment will resist water, and, of course, heat. 
 
 Put the dry cement up in boxes or bottles, with 
 directions and label. 
 
 Liquid Glue, very strong— Three parts of glue, 
 soaked in eight parts of cold water for several 
 hours, until the glue is soft. Then add half a part 
 of muriatic acid and three-quarters of a part of 
 sulphate of zinc; heat the mixture to 185° Fahr. 
 for ten or twelve hours. The mixture remains 
 liquid after cooling, and is very useful for sticking 
 wood, crockery and glass together. 
 
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 Stove Paint. — Black lead is a great institution 
 in this country; and probably few but cooks and 
 housemaids would care to see its use diminished. 
 It certainly has its recommendations, hut it can 
 hardly be said to be ornamental, while it entails 
 an immense amount of labor on our servants. In 
 Germany, where a stove is continually to be found 
 in the common sitting-room of a respectable family, 
 the unsightliness seems to have been felt, and a 
 suggestion has been made to do away with the 
 black lead, and paint the stoves and ovens. Oil 
 paint, of course, cannot be employed, but water- 
 glass (silicate of potash,) colored with pigment, to 
 match the paint of the apartment is the material 
 recommended. 
 
 Before this is applied, the iron must be tho- 
 roughly cleansed from grease, and all spots must 
 be rubbed off with a scratch brush. Two or three 
 coats of the paint may then be put on and allowed 
 to dry, after which the fire may be lighted with- 
 out fear of injury to the color, which may, indeed, 
 be heated to redness. Grease or milk spilt over 
 the paint, has no effect upon it, and it may be 
 kept clean by washing, with soap and water. 
 
 Dutch ovens and like utensils, may also be 
 coated with the same materials, and the labor spent 
 in polishing be saved. A good coating of the 
 paint will last a year or two. 
 
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 Black Reviver, For Black Cloth.— Bruised galls, 
 one pound ; logwood, two pounds ; green vitrol, 
 half a pound; water, five quarts. Boil for two 
 hours, and strain. Used to restore the color of 
 black cloth. 
 
 Pastils for Burning. — Cascarilla bark, eight 
 •drachms ; gum benzoin, four drachms ; yellow San- 
 ders, two drachms ; styrax, two drachms ; olibanum, 
 two drachms; charcoal, six ounces; nitre, one 
 drachm and a-half; mucilage of tragacanth, suffi- 
 cient quantity. Reduce the substance to a pow- 
 der, and form into a paste with the mucilage, and 
 divide, into small cones: then put them into an 
 oven until quite dry. 
 
 American Tooth Powder.— Coral, cuttle fish- 
 bone, dragon’s blood; of each, eight drachms; 
 burnt alum and red sanders, of each, four drachms; 
 orris root, eight drachms ; cloves and cinnamon, 
 of each, half a drachm; vanilla, eleven grains; 
 rosewood, half a drachm ; rose pink, eight drachms. 
 All to be finely powdered and mixed. 
 
 Scouring Drops, for Removing Grease.— There 
 are several preparations of this name ; one of the 
 best is made as follows : Camphene, or spirits of 
 turpentine, three ounces; essence of lemon, one 
 ounce. Mix. 
 
 Quinine Tooth Powder. — Rose pink, two dr.; 
 
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 12 drachms precipitated chalk, 1 drachm carbo- 
 nate of magnesia, 6 grains sulphite of quinine. 
 All to be finely powdered and mixed ; put up 
 nicely in round or oval wooden boxes. 
 
 Davy’s Corn Solvent.— Powder fine 2 ounces 
 potash, 1 oz. salts of sorrel ; mix well together 
 and lay a small quantity on the corn for four or 
 five successive nights, binding it on with a rag. 
 Corns are usually made by wearing shoes too 
 tight. Walking on pavements in very thin shoes 
 will cause corns and bunions, because of bruising 
 the feet on the hard stones. 
 
 White Varnish. — Take 1 quart of alcohol, and 
 add to it 2 oz. gum mastic, 4 oz. Canada balsam, 
 and 8 oz. of sundaric. It is a white drying var- 
 nish, capable of being polished when hard. A 
 good varnish for objects of the toilet, such as 
 work boxes, card cases, &c., is made as follows : 
 6 ounces sandaric, 4 ounces genuine elemi, 1 
 oz. anime, I an ounce of gum camphor ; melt all 
 slowly in 1 qt. of rectified spirits. 
 
 Salt of Lemons. — Mix 4 oz. of salt of sorrel in 
 very fine powder, with like quantity of cream of 
 tartar. This is the salt sold in the shops. It is re- 
 commended for removing iron moulds or ink 
 spots. 
 
 Jessamine Butter— Take hog’s lard melted, and 
 
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 well washed in pure water ; then lay it an inch 
 thick in a dish and strew over with jessamine 
 flowers; it will imbibe the scent, and make a very 
 fragrant pomatum ; put up in glass pots. 
 
 Almond Paste. — Blanch 2 pounds of sweet al- 
 monds, 1 pound of bitter almonds, and beat them 
 to powder in a mortar with 2 pounds of loaf sugar ; 
 beat into a paste with orange flower water. Used 
 instead of soap for washing the hands ; it imparts a 
 pleasant scent. 
 
 Godfrey’s Cordial. — Dissolve 2£ drachms of sal 
 tartar in 3 1 pints of water, to which add 1 pint of 
 thick sugar-house molasses and afterwards 3 oz. 
 laudanum. Dissolve i drachm oil sassafras in 4 
 ounces alcohol, and add to the above ; shake well 
 and it is ready for use ; bottle in small long bottles, 
 cone shaped. 
 
 Dick’s Eye water. — To 10 grains of sulphate of 
 zinc, add 20 grains sugar of lead and 1 pint rose 
 water ; dissolve each separately and mix ; pour 
 off the clear liquor and bottle in panel vials. 
 
 Gold Ink , — Grind upon a porphyry slab, with a 
 muller, gold leaves along with white honey, till 
 they are reduced to the finest possible division. 
 The paste is then collected upon the edge of a knife, 
 put into a large glass and diffused through water. 
 The gold by gravity soon falls to the bottom, 
 
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 while the honey dissolves in the water, which 
 much be decanted off. The sediment is to be re- 
 peatedly washed until entirely freed from the 
 honey. The powder when dried is very brilliant, 
 and when to be used as an ink, may be mixed up 
 with a little gum water. After the writing be- 
 comes dry it should be burnished. 
 
 The novelty of this ink will make it sell, from 
 which you can derive a large per centage. 
 
 To mako Wafers. — Take 2 pounds of best flour, 
 2 ounces of isinglass, and i a gill of good yeast. 
 Mix to a proper consistancy with gum water, spread 
 the batter evenly on tin or earthen plates and dry 
 in an oven ; cut into whatever shape you wish. 
 Use a small quantity of Vermillion in mixing for 
 red, indigo for blue, and turmeric for yellow ; put 
 into small oval paper boxes — yield a handsome 
 profit. 
 
 Rhubarb Pills. — Make into a stiff paste, 1 oz. 
 ground turkey rhubarb, 2 drachms of sulphate of 
 quinine, 2 drachms of extract of sarsaparilla. 
 First put the sarsaparilla into a cup with five or 
 six teaspoonsful of cold water ; let it stand till dis- 
 solved, then add the other ingredients. It is then 
 ready to make into pills with the use of a little 
 flour. The whole costs but a trifle, and is enough 
 to make nearly two hundred pills. This is a good 
 
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 * remedy for indigestion. Dose — two pills every 
 
 other night. 
 
 Medicated Prunes. — Take a quarter of an ounce 
 of senna and manna, mix thoroughly, and pour 
 on it a pint of boiling water and let it infuse for 1 
 hour, tightly covered. When the infusion is 
 strong enough, strain and stir in a gill of West 
 India molasses ; add about half a pound of prunes, 
 cover tight, and srew until you find the stones of 
 the prunes loose ; do not srew too long, as they 
 become insipid ; pick out the stones and place on 
 a dish to cool. They may be given to children 
 without any perceptible taste of the senna and 
 manna. 
 
 Opodeldoc. — To 1 pound of camphor add i of 
 an ounce of oil of rosemary, £ an ounce of origa- 
 num, 2 pounds of castile soap, cut fine, and 3 
 quarts of spirits of wine. Boil all together for 
 about an hour, and let it stand to cool. Bottle for 
 sale in the regular style of bottle. It is a good 
 embrocation for bruises, sprains, stiffness of the 
 neck, back or shoulder, and for rheumatic pains. 
 
 Wilson’s Eye Water. — Take 1 drachm of sul- 
 phate of zinc, 3 drachms of spirits of camphor, 4 
 ounces of distilled water, hot, and 8 ounces rose 
 water. Pour the boiling water upon the zinc and 
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 cold, strain, and then add the rosewater. It is 
 especially adapted to relieve pain and weakness 
 incident to the eyes of elderly people, when de- 
 pending on debility of the optic nerves. Wash 
 the eyes night and morning. 
 
 To Extract the Perfume of Flowers— Procure 
 a quantity of the petals of any flower which has 
 an agreeable flavor, card thin layers of cotton, 
 which dip into the finest Florence oil ; sprinkle a 
 small quantity of fine salt on the flowers, and 
 place layers of cotton and flowers alternately, un- 
 til an earthen or wide mouthed vessel is quite 
 full. Tie a bladder over the top and leave the 
 vessel for fifteen days exposed to the heat of the 
 sun. When opened, a fragrant oil may be 
 sqeezed away from the whole mass, little inferior 
 (if roses are made use of) to the dear and highly 
 valued otto, or odour of roses. 
 
 To make Candles. — Candle wick, if steeped in 
 lime and saltpetre, and dried in the sun, will give 
 a clearer light and be less apt to run. Good can- 
 dles may be made thus : Melt together 1 0 oz. of 
 mutton tallow, i of an ounce of camphor, 4 oz. of 
 beeswax and 2 oz. of alum ; then run it into 
 moulds or dip the candles. All we ask you is to 
 try this receipt and find it worth the price of the 
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 Blacking without Friction— Two 2 oz. of gum 
 arabic, add 1 oz. ivory black, and 1 ounce sugar ; 
 water enough to make it easily applied with a sponge. 
 Dissolve the sugar and gum and grind the black 
 on a slab with it. This is a labor-saving article, 
 as it requires no friction. 
 
 French Mustard. — Take a sufficient quantity 
 of green tarragon leaves, (pick from the stalks) 
 put into a wide mouth glass jar till it is half full ; 
 pressing down hard. Then fill up the jar with the 
 best cider vinegar, and cork up tight. Let it in- 
 fuse a week or two. Remove all the tarragon by 
 pouring off the vinegar into another vessel. Then 
 put fresh leaves of the plant into the jar and pour 
 back the same vinegar, and either cork or cover up 
 tight again ; let the last tarragon remain in the 
 jar ; in about two weeks the vinegar will be suffi- 
 ciently flavored with the tarragon to use it for 
 French Mustard or other purpose. Mince as fine 
 as possible not more than one clove of garlic ; mix 
 it into 4 oz. of the best mustard powder in a deep 
 pan. Take a gill of the tarragon vinegar (strained 
 from the leaves) and mix it with equal quantity 
 of salad oil ; moisten the mustard powder gradu- 
 ally, using a wooden spoon, till you get it a little 
 thicker than the usual consistency of made mus- 
 tard. Put it into small clean white jars and cork 
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 you need not use the whole of the liquid ; if too 
 thick, dilute with more oil and vinegar. Tarra- 
 gon vinegar is good with boiled cabbage or greens. 
 The leaves of the second infusion should be kept 
 in the jar, pouring off from them as wanted. 
 
 Homo-mado Cider. — To one pound of sugar, 
 add one-half an ounce of tartaric acid, and two 
 tablespoonsful of good yeast. Dissolve the sugar 
 in one quart of warm water ; put all in a gallon 
 jug ; shake it well, fill the jug with pure cold wa- 
 ter, let it stand uncorked twelve hours, and it is 
 fit for use. 
 
 You can treat your friends to cider that they 
 cannot distinguish from that made from apples. 
 
 Extract of Blackberries.— Fill a quart bottle 
 half full of ripe berries ; add to it a teaspoonful 
 of whole allspice, and a few cloves ; fill the bottle 
 with the best whisky. In a month’s time it will 
 be fit for use. 
 
 Artificial Coral. — Take 4 pounds of yellow rosin 
 and 1 pound of Vermillion : melt together ; dip 
 twigs, cinders, or stones in this mixture and it 
 will give them the appearance of coral, and are 
 applicable to rock work, grotto, or any fancy work 
 as a substitute for that costly article. This re- 
 ceipt, alone, is worth to many over $10. 
 
 Camphor Icc. — Melt together 1 oz. spermaceti, 
 
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 6 oz. oil sweet almonds, and 2 oz. camphor. Put 
 up in inch square cakes and wrap with tin foil ; 
 one dozen of cakes in a paper box. These squares 
 retail for 25 cents. 
 
 Liquid Blue. — Take I pound Spanish indigo, 3 
 pounds sulphuric acid and one pound rain-water ; 
 stand the indigo and acid together in a stone ves- 
 sel, in boiling water, till the indigo is dissolved, 
 then add the water. Sold in all grocery stores in 
 4 oz. bottles at a fair profit. 
 
 Bed Bug Poison. — Take 1 pint of alcohol, 2 oz. 
 sal ammoniac, 1 pint spirits t urpentine, 2 ounces 
 corrosive sublimate and 2 ounces gum camphor ; 
 dissolve the camphor in the alcohol, then pulver- 
 ize the corrosive sublimate and sal ammoniac and 
 add to it, after which put in the spirits of turpen- 
 tine, and shake well together. This sells readily 
 at 25 cents per oz. vial. 
 
 Blackberry Brandy. — To 1 quart of strained 
 blackberry juice, add 1 pound white sugar, 1 tea- 
 spoonful powdered allspice, ditto ground cloves. 
 Boil a few minutes, then remove from the fire, 
 and add I a pint fourth proof brandy or good Mo- 
 nongehela whisky. Bottle and cork close. It is 
 fit for immediate use. On no account use inferior 
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 The above preparation of blackberries is con- 
 sidered extremely beneficial in diarrhoea and other 
 summer complaints. 
 
 Sweet Smelling Extract.— Add to 5 pints alco- 
 hol, 3 drachms oil bergamot, 2 drachms oil lemon, 1 
 drachm oil rosemary, 15 drops oil of cinnamon, 7 
 drops oil cloves, 1 drop bitter almond, 5 drops oil 
 orange, and 15 drops essence musk. It makes a 
 splendid perfume for the handkerchief. 
 
 La Belle White , — Reduce to an impalpable 
 powder 1 pound French chalk, 1 pound calcined 
 magnesia, and 1 pound white starch ; mix 
 thoroughly. Apply with soft flannel, and this 
 will not only be found a harmless preparation but 
 a very pleasant addition to the toilet and will be 
 a favorite with the ladies. 
 
 Bloom of Roses.™ Get a paper of Chinese Ver- 
 million, dissolve sufficient gum tragacinth in hot 
 water to make a paste with the vermillion, and 
 add half a teaspoonful of sweet oil ; mix again, 
 making the mass into a stiff paste, then put it into 
 a close pot or cup, and dry it by a slow heat. 
 When used apply with a flannel. There are more 
 elaborate preparations, but this is in every respect 
 equal to the best, and gives satisfaction to the 
 consumer, and is cheaper to manufacture. 
 
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 Soldering Solution. — 2 ounces muriatic acid, in 
 which as much zinc is dissolved as it will hold, to 
 which add \ an ounce sal almoniac. Clean the 
 metal well, and the solder will run and adhere to 
 any part of the metal to which the solution is ap- 
 plied. It will also solder brass and steel together. 
 
 This receipt is highly recommended for making 
 a most excellent soldering fluid. 
 
 Jujube Paste. — Take 5 pounds sugar, 6 pounds 
 gum arabic, dissolve each in one gallon of water ; 
 mix the two solutions and evaporate slowly to a 
 thick syrup. Flavor with essence of lemon or any 
 other you wish. Pour the syrup into pans and eva- 
 porate to a proper consistency at a moderate heat. 
 
 An Excellent Horse Liniment.— Take 1 pint al- 
 cohol, i ounce castile soap, i oz. gum camphor, I 
 oz. of sal ammoniac. When these are dissolved, 
 add 1 oz. of laudanum, 1 oz. oil origanum, I oz. 
 sassafras, and 2 oz. spirits of hartshorn. Bathe free- 
 ly. Excellent for strains, bruises, sprains, wind- 
 galls, &c. 
 
 Extract of Musk. — Add to 2 oz. of grain musk, 
 1 gallon rectified spirits ; let stand one month at 
 a summer temperature ; it is then fit to draw off. 
 Use small short necked bottles, tightly corked and 
 tops covered nicely with sheep skin. 
 
 Hoarhound Candy. — Take the herb hoarhound, 
 
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 as green and fresh as possible, and boil it in a very 
 small quantity of water until all the juice is ex- 
 tracted. Then squeeze it through a cloth, and 
 give the liquid another boil, stirring in gradually 
 enough sugar to make it thick and stiff. After- 
 wards, sift sugar over a shallow tin-pan, fill it with 
 the paste and leave it to congeal, scoring it with 
 a knife, in squares or sticks, before quite hard. 
 Any herb candy may be made in the same man- 
 ner. 
 
 Queen of Hungary Water. — To 1 1 pints of spirits 
 of wine add. 2 a pint of pure filtered rain-water, 
 1 teaspoonful of spirit of roses, one tablespoonful 
 each, essence of lemon, essence of cloves, ( 1 tea- 
 spoonful each, musk, orange, bergamot may be 
 added, or not, at pleasure,) 1 tablespoonful each, 
 spirits of rosemary and essence of violets. In 
 this way you can make the same quantity for one- 
 tenth w 7 hat it retails for in the shops. 
 
 For Staining in imitation of Mahogany.— Add 
 
 to 1 gallon linseed oil, 3 oz. alkanret root, 1 oz. 
 rose pink. Boil ten minutes, and then strain. 
 Rub the furniture every day till the desired pol- 
 ished is attained. Can be manufactured and sold 
 very readily 4 oz. for 25 cents. 
 
 Printers’ Black Ink.— This is really a black 
 paint, composed of lamp-black and linseed oil 
 
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 which has gone through a degree of heat superior 
 to that of common drying oils. It is prepared as 
 follows : Boil linseed oil in a large iron pot for 8 
 hours, adding to it bits of toasted bread for the 
 purpose of absorbing the water contained in the 
 oil, let it rest for several hours, then boil again 8 
 hours, or until it has acquired the consistency re- 
 quired, then add lamp black worked up with tur- 
 pentine. The thickness depends on the degree of 
 heat, and the quantity of lampblack mixed with 
 it. It should be done in the open air to prevent 
 the bad effect arising from the vapour of the burnt 
 oil, and in purticular, to guard against accident 
 by fire. 
 
 Brandy Bitters. — Add to 3 gallons brandy, I 
 pound each, orange and lemon peel, 4 oz. calamus 
 root, 2 pounds sugar, 1 oz. camomile flowers, I 
 gallon syrup, 2 gallons water. Digest the whole 
 well together for 12 days. Draw off carefully and 
 bottle. 
 
 Fever and Agne Mixture —Mix 2 oz. Peruvian 
 bark, 20 grains of sal -tartar or salts of wormwood, 
 12 drachms snake root, 8 oz. alcohol, 8 oz. water. 
 Digest for twenty-four hours, shaking occasionally. 
 Dose, from a tablespoonful to a wineglassful three 
 times a-day. 
 
 Cinnamon Lozenges. — Take 4 pounds pulver- 
 
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 ized sugar, 1 2 grains drop lake, 40 grains gambo- 
 ge, 60 drops oil cinnamon. Make into lozenges 
 with mucilage tragacanth, by rolling out very 
 thin, and when dry cut into whatever shape you 
 wish. 
 
 Instantaneous Toothache Cure— Dissolve 1 oz. 
 gum mastic in one ounce ether. This will pro- 
 duce a yellow oily substance, which is to be kept 
 in a well stoppered bottle. Saturate a small piece 
 of cotton, the size you wish, and fill the cavity. 
 The ether evaporates while the rosin remains pro- 
 tecting the teeth from the action of air and food, 
 This is sold in small bottles as magic toothache 
 drops. 
 
 Blood Purifier. — Take 8 oz. each, white sugar, 
 rice and starch, 6 oz. ground sarsaparilla, 4 oz. 
 ground senna. Pulverize each separate as fine as 
 possible, then mix them well. Dose a tablespoon- 
 ful three times a day. It is recommended as a 
 valuable blood purifier. 
 
 Transparent Soap. — Cut into thin shavings a 
 good article of palm soap, and add to it enough 
 spirits of wine to cover it ; place near the fire un- 
 til the soap is melted. Perfume as you choose. 
 Then pour into moulds to cool and the preparation 
 gives you a transparent soap, which is capable to 
 
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 make a heavy lather either for shaving or toilet 
 purposes. 
 
 Quince Syrup. — Grate quinces, pass the pulp 
 through a sieve and set near the fire for the juice 
 to settle and clarify ; strain and add 1 pound sugar 
 (boiled down) to every 4 oz. of juice ; remove 
 from the fire and when cold bottle for use or sale. 
 A tablespoonful of this syrup will flavor a pint of 
 water. 
 
 Honey Wine. — Put in a forty gallon cask 20 
 pounds honey and 12 gallons cider ; let ferment. 
 Then add h a gallon rum, h gallon brandy, 6 oz. 
 red or white tartar dissolved, f oz. each, almonds 
 and cloves. Mix well together ; let stand twenty- 
 four hours, then bottle. 
 
 Venice Turpentine. — Take 1 qt. of spirits of 
 turpentine and i pound rosin. Dissolve at a 
 gentle heat. When cool it will be fit for use. 
 
 Tincture of Allspice.— Infuse for two weeks 4 
 oz. ground allspice in 2 quarts alcohol ; filter. 
 
 Tincture of Cloves. — Infuse for 2 weeks 2 oz. 
 ground cloves in 1 quart alcohol ; filter. 
 
 Blackberry Cordial. — To 1 gallon of blackberry 
 juice add 4 pounds white sugar ; boil and skim 
 off, then add 1 oz. of cloves, 1 oz. of cinnamon, 10 
 grated nutmegs, and boil down till quite rich ; 
 
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 then let it cool and settle, afterwards drain off, and 
 add 1 pint of good brandy or whiskey. Put up 
 in pint bottles. 
 
 Blackberry Syrup. — Take 2 pounds of the 
 smaller blackberry roots and 2 gallons of water, 
 and boil them down to 3 quarts ; add 5 pounds of 
 crushed sugar and 1 pint best brandy. To 60 
 gallons thus prepared add 3 pounds of allspice and 
 2 pounds each of cloves and cassia. The smaller 
 roots are much better than the larger ones, on 
 account of their possessing superior astringent 
 qualities. Put up in pint bottles. 
 
 Any preparation of blackberry is very benefi- 
 cial, both as a beverage and a medicine. 
 
 Essence Ginger.— To 1 pound capsicum add 3 
 oz. bruised ginger and 1 pound alcohol ; mix and 
 work well for ten days. Bottle. 
 
 Perfume for Note Paper, — Powder 1 oz. starch, 
 to which add 8 drops otto of roses, 1 oz. orris root 
 powder. Put the above into bags and keep in the 
 writing desk with the paper you wish perfumed. 
 This article is used by the Queen of England. 
 
 Peppermint Lozenges. — Powder 7 pounds of the 
 best white sugar and 1 pound pure starch, oil of 
 peppermint to flavor; mix with mucilage, roll 
 out and, when dry, cut into lozenges of whatever 
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 can make a larger profit by making more of these 
 articles that they buy. ^ 
 
 Cure for Piles. — Make an ointment of equal 
 parts of sage, parsley, burdock and chamomile 
 leaves, simmer half an hour in fresh butter, or 
 sweet oil and lard ; then rub the parts affected 
 with it, and drink half a gill of tar water twice a 
 day. If the piles are inward, take the same 
 quantity of tar water, and half a small glass of 
 the essence of fir each night on going to bed. If 
 this course is continued for some time it will do 
 you more good than all the quack medicines in 
 existence. Try it, if you wish to be relieved from 
 this painful disease. 
 
 Balm of life. — Take 4 oz. gum benzoin, 3 oz. 
 gum storax callinter, 1 oz. balsam tolu, IT oz. 
 gum aloes sucatine, 1? oz. gum, myrrh, 2 oz. root 
 of angelica, 2 oz. tops of johnswort. Powder all 
 these together, and put them into about 3 pounds 
 of rectified spirits of wine, in a glass bottle. Let 
 them stand in the spirits 4 weeks at a moderate 
 heat ; shake occasionally, strain it off, and it is fit 
 for use, or to be bottled for sale. If the gums are 
 not all dissolved, add a little more spirits to the 
 same ; shake and let it stand as before. Dose, 
 from 12 to 15 drops in a glass of wine in the morn- 
 ing, before eating. This is a most excellent medi- 
 
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 cine for consumptives, and is very good to strength- 
 en weak lungs. It is a great relief from suffering 
 in nearly all diseases. 
 
 Saffron LozengQS. — Take 1 ounce of finely pow- 
 dered hay-saffron, 1 pound sifted sugar and 8 
 ounces powdered starch. Mix with mucilage. 
 Roll out and cut into lozenges. 
 
 Jellies Without Fruit.— To 1 quart of warm 
 water, add J ounce pulverized alum ; boil for a few 
 minutes, then add 8 pounds of white crushed or 
 coffee sugar, continuing a little while longer, strain 
 while hot, when cold put in 8 ounces of the extract 
 of vanilla, strawberry, lemon, or any other flavor 
 you wish for jelly. There is a fortune in the man- 
 ufacture of this article as there is a handsome 
 profit — as the sale is large for it cannot (if made 
 right) be told from the genuine fruit jellies. 
 
 To Make Acetate of Ivy— Take 1 ounce of ivy 
 leaves fresh gathered ; place them in a wide-mouth 
 vessel which has a close cover or stopper, cover 
 with vinegar ; in two weeks they will be fit to use ; 
 add vinegar as it is absorbed. Place a part of the 
 leaf upon the corn and confine it there in any 
 convenient manner. This is often very effective. 
 
 To Make Spirit of Roses. — T ake 8 pounds fresh 
 petals of r> ses, add half a gallon rectified spirit of 
 wine; macerate for a week and distil to dryness in 
 
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 a water bath. [This is the real article, but it may 
 be made by mixing half a drachm otto of roses 
 with a quart of spirit of wine, and placing the 
 bottle in hot water so as to warm the spirit ; after 
 which cork close, shake until col’d, and next day 
 filter if required.] 
 
 Rhubarb Syrup. — Take 3 ounces bruised rhu- 
 barb, and 16 ounces pure spring water; macerate 
 12 hours; filter and add 32 ounces white sugar. 
 In making a large quantity, use one and three- 
 quarter lbs. rhubarb to 20 lbs. sugar. This is an 
 article that should be kept ready for use in every 
 family. It can be made much cheaper than 
 bought. 
 
 Wistar’s Cough Lozenges.— -Rub well together 
 2 drachms pulverized opium and half an ounce of 
 tincture tolu ; add 1 pound pulverized sugar, and 
 5 ounces pulverized gum arabic ; form into a mass 
 with a solution of extract of liquorice ; roll out and 
 cut into lozenges. Some factors add a few drops 
 of oil, anise or caraway. Put up in small paper 
 boxes neatly labelled, about one ounce of lozenges 
 in each, to retail for 25 cents. 
 
 Lead Solder. — Take 2 pounds of lead to 1 pound 
 of tin. Its worth may be known by melting it, 
 and pouring a small quantity upon a board ; if it 
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 the top. Apply rosin pulverized when using this 
 solder. 
 
 Silvering Powder. — To 30 grains nitrate of 
 silver, add 30 grains common salt and 3£ drachms 
 cream of tartar ; mix. Moistened with water, and 
 rubbed on worn out plate or any copper articles, 
 it coats them with silver. 
 
 Fig Paste for Constipation.— Cut up small 1 
 pound of figs, and mix it with 2 ounces of senna 
 carefully picked over, and one teacupful of molas- 
 ses ; stew it till it becomes thoroughly mixed and 
 firm ; then let stand to cool. A piece about half 
 as large as a fig will generally be sufficient. 
 
 Milk of Poses. — Mix together a pint of rose 
 water, and an ounce of oil of sweet almonds. Then 
 add 10 drops of oil of tartar. Bottle and label 
 nicely. This makes a good preparation for the 
 hands. 
 
 Hull Healing Salve.— Take 3 quarts of olive oil ; 
 3 ounces common rosin ; 3 ounces beeswax. Melt 
 these articles together, and raise the oil almost to 
 boiling heat; then gradually add of pulverized 
 red lead two and a quarter pounds, if it is winter ; 
 if in the summer, two and a half pounds. In a 
 short time after the lead is taken up by the oil, 
 and the mixture becomes brown or a shining black, 
 remove from the fire ; and when nearly cold, add 
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 of pulverized camphor half an ounce. This is 
 found to be very superior to every other salve in 
 burns, fever sores, scrofulous, fistulous and all other 
 ulcers. Spread it on a piece of linen and renew 
 once or twice a day. There is money in this if 
 put up right and pushed. A small box or pot re- 
 tails at 25 cents. 
 
 Spalding's Grins. — Take 1 pound fine white glue 
 and disolve it in water to proper consistency, then 
 add a small quantity of aqua fortis. 
 
 Use one and a half ounce round bottles, which 
 by adding a small brush sells readily for 25 cents 
 per bottle. It will always be found ready and 
 very convenient for many purposes. 
 
 Bl uin g Clothes— Put 1 gallon of soft water over 
 4 ounces Prussian blue, powdered ; add 1 ounce 
 of pulverized oxalic acid. Put in about 2 ounce 
 flat bottles. A teaspoonful is sufficient for a large 
 wash. Sells well, and grocers can do well in its 
 manufacture. 
 
 To Imitate Rosewood. — Brush the wood over 
 with a strong decoction of logwood while hot ; re- 
 peat this process three or four times ; put a small 
 quantity of the filings of iron among strong vine- 
 gar ; then with a flat brush made with a piece of 
 cane, bruised at the end, or split with a knife, ap- 
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 a mannei as to produce the fibres of the wood re- 
 quired. After it is dry, the wood must be polished 
 with turpentine and beeswax. 
 
 Virgin Milk. — Take equal parts of gum benzoin 
 and styrax; dissolve in a sufficient quantity of 
 spirits of wine, the spirits will then become a red- 
 dish tincture and exhale a very fragrant smell. 
 Some people add a small quantity of balm of gilead. 
 Drop a few drops into a glass of clear water and 
 by stirring the water, it becomes milky. 
 
 Ladies use it successfully to clear the complex- 
 ion. Put up nicely in fine bottles with neat label 
 for sale. 
 
 Lavender Water, — Mix in a quart bottle 3 
 drachms of oil of lavender ; 1 pint rectified spirits 
 of wine; shake them well together, and add an 
 ounce of orange-flowers water ; 1 ounce rose-water; 
 4 ounces of distilled water, and, if you like, two 
 or three drachms of essence of musk. 
 
 Cheap Paint for a Barn.— An excellent and 
 cheap paint for rough wood work is made of 6 
 pounds of melted pitch ; 1 pint of linseed oil, and 
 1 pound of brick dust or yellow-ochre. 
 
 To a farmer this receipt is invaluable. 
 
 Essence of Celery. — Soak for two weeks i an 
 ounce of the seeds of celery in 1 gill of good brandy. 
 A few drops will flavor a pint of soup or broth 
 
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 equal to a head of celery. There is economy in its 
 use. 
 
 About 11 ounce flat bottle is retailed for from 
 25 to 35 cents. 
 
 To Choose Sugar— The lowest priced and coar- 
 sest sugar is not the cheapest in the end, as it is 
 dirty, and of a very inferior degree of sweetness ; 
 that which is most refined is the sweetest ; the best 
 has a bright and gravelly appearance. East India 
 sugars appear finer in proportions to the price; 
 but they do not contain so much sweetness as the 
 other kinds. Loaf sugars should be chosen as fine 
 and as close in texture as possible, unless they are 
 for preserving, when the coarse, strong, open kind 
 is preferable. 
 
 Cheap Paint.— Tar mixed with yellow-ochre 
 makes an excellent green paint, for coarse wood 
 work, iron fencing, &c. 
 
 Squill Mixture— Take 4 ounces milk of ammo- 
 nicum ; 3 ounces syrup of squills ; mix together. 
 In doses of two tablespoonsful every few hours, it 
 is a good remedy for coughs, asthma or oppression 
 on the chest. 
 
 Lee’s Pills. — To 1 ounce of pulverized jalup, 
 aloes and rhubarb ; add 3 drachms calomel ; 1 
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 a mass, with shavings of castile soap and syrup ; 
 then make into pills and box in oval boxes. 
 
 Hooper’s Female Pills. — Beat well into a mass, 
 8 ounces pulverized aloes; 2 \ ounces dried sul- 
 phate of iron, (copperas;) 2 ounces myrrh; 1 
 ounce of canella ; 1 ounce ginger root ; 2 ounces 
 of extract black hellebore ; 1 ounce castile soap 
 shavings ; add enough to temper it and divide into 
 pills, each two and one-half grains. 
 
 There is hardly anything that returns so large a 
 profit as pills; but they require much labor to 
 place into" market, so as to come into general use. 
 
 To Blacken the Eye-lashes —The simplest pre- 
 parations for this purpose, are the juice of elder- 
 berries, burnt cork, and cloves burnt at the candle. 
 Another means is, to take the black of frankin- 
 cense, rosin, and mastic. This black will not 
 come off with perspiration. 
 
 A stick of India ink is the best of all. 
 
 Grafting Wax. — Melt 5 ounces of rosin ; 1 ounce 
 beeswax, and 1 ounce of tallow in a metal vessel ; 
 one with a handle is preferable. When all is 
 melted and thoroughly mixed, wrap in tin Toil or 
 put in wooden boxes. We have made the wax in 
 different proportions to the above, but find this to 
 be best adapted to the purpose. 
 
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 Table of Measures,— This is of great use for 
 medicinal or other purposes : — 60 drops is equal to 
 1 teaspoonful or 1 drachm; 2 teaspoonsful to 1 
 dessert spoonful ; 2 dessert spoonsful to 1 table- 
 spoonful or J an ounce ; 4 tablespoonsful to 1 wine- 
 glassful; 2 wine-glassful to 1 teacupful or 1 gill. 
 
 Syrup of Squills —Take 3 pints vinegar of 
 squills; 7 pounds of white sugar; dissolve by a 
 gentle heat. To make in large quantities take 14 
 pounds perfectly transparent vinegar of squills, 
 and 28 pounds double refined sugar — dissolve 
 either cold or by a very gentle heat. 
 
 It should be clear and nearly colorless. 
 
 Economical Scouts,— As cheap perfumes are 
 often required to fill little fancy bottles, such as 
 are sold at the bazaars, toy-shops, arcades, and 
 other places, the following recipes for their manu- 
 facture will be found of service : 
 
 1. Spirits of wine, one pint; essence of berga- 
 mot, one ounce. 
 
 2. Spirits of wine, one pint ; otto of santal, one 
 ounce. 
 
 3. Spirits of wine, one pint; otto of French lav- 
 ender, half ounce ; otto of bergamot, half ounce ; 
 otto of cloves, one drachm. 
 
 4. Spirits of wine, one pint ; otto of lemon grass, 
 three-fourths ounce ; essence of lemons, half ounce. 
 
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 5. Spirits of wine, one pint ; otto of petit grain, 
 quarter ounce ; otto of orange peel, half ounce. 
 
 Plate Powder. — Mix well together 1 pound of 
 levigated oxide of iron and 4 pounds of prepared 
 chalk finely pulverized. Put this mixture into 
 small wood or paper boxes. 
 
 Rub it on the silver dry and then polish with a 
 clean buckskin, finishing with silk. This prepa- 
 ration is a reddish brown color and often sold as 
 plate powder for 25 cents per box of about two 
 ounces. 
 
 Otto of Roses. — Steep a large quantity of the 
 petals of the roses, freed from every extraneous 
 matter, in pure water, in an earthen vessel which 
 is exposed daily to the sun, and housed at night 
 until a scum rises. This is the otto, which is care- 
 fully absorbed by a very small piece of cotton tied 
 to the end of a stick. The oil collected squeeze 
 out of the cotton into a very diminutive vial ; cork 
 the bottle for use. The collection should be con- 
 tinued while any scum is produced. 
 
 All Irish Cordial. — Strip 1 pound of white cur- 
 rants from the stems and bruise, put in the juice 
 the thin rind of a fresh lemon and a quarter of an 
 ounce of ginger, well pounded and sifted. Pour 
 on these 1 quart of good old whiskey ; mix the 
 whole thoroughly, and let it stand twenty-four 
 
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 hours in a well-scalded stone jug or pitcher, covered 
 closely from the air. Strain it off ; stir in it, until 
 dissolved, 1 pound of loaf sugar ; strain again and 
 bottle it. Try it, ye Sons of Erin, as it is given 
 from the old receipt, and will make you think of 
 your mother country. 
 
 To Make a Scent Resembling Violets.— Drop 
 twelve drops of genuine oil of rhodium on a lump 
 of sugar ; grind this well in a glass mortar, and 
 mix it thoroughly with 3 pounds of orris powder. 
 This will, in its perfume, have a resemblance to a 
 well-flavored violet. 
 
 Ground Glass. — The frosted appearance of 
 ground glass may be very nearly imitated by 
 gently dabbing the glass over with a piece of gla- 
 ziers putty, stuck on the ends of the fingers. When 
 applied with a light and even touch, it cannot be 
 told from the genuine. 
 
 Magic Dye. — Dissolve ? an ounce indigo in dilu- 
 ted sulphuric acid, and add to it i an ounce carbo- 
 nate of potash. White cloth dipped in this liquid 
 is changed to blue — yellow cloth to green — red 
 cloth to purple. This is not generally kn >wn, and 
 will often be a great benefit. 
 
 Gum for Envelopes and Paper.— To 2 ounces 
 gum arabic, add 1 ounce isinglass dissolved in three 
 pints of warm water; and 3 ounces loaf sugar; 
 
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 boil down to a thin paste and apply with a brush. 
 This makes a strong gum. 
 
 Brown’s Bronchial Troches— Take one pound 
 of pulverized extract of licorice, one and a half 
 pounds of pulverized sugar, four ounces of pulver- 
 ized cubebs four ounces pulverized gum arabic, 
 and one ounce of pulverized extract of conium. 
 Mix. 
 
 To Make Congress Water— Take of supercar- 
 bonate of soda, two drachms; epsom salts, one- 
 half drachm; table salt, one-half drachm; well 
 water (soft), one quart, or enough to fill your black 
 bottle, which sometimes does not hold quite a 
 quart; mix the powders in a black bottle, and 
 pour on the water ; then add of tartaric acid one 
 drachm to each bottle, and cork tight immedi- 
 ately. Fit for use in twelve hours. Soak the 
 corks in boiling water for an hour before using them. 
 
 To Choose Cinnamon. — When it is good, is rather 
 thin and pliable, and about the substance of thick 
 paper of yellowish brown color, sweetish taste and 
 pleasant odor : that which is hard, thick and dark- 
 colored should be rejected. 
 
 Palm Soap (Superior).— Cut thin two pounds of 
 yellow soap into a double saucepan, occasionally 
 stirring it till it is melted, which will be in a few mi- 
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 add quarter of a pound of palm oil, quarter of pound 
 of honey, and six cents worth of true oil of cinna- 
 mon; let all boil together another six or eight mi- 
 nutes; pour out, and stand it by till next day. it 
 is then fit for immediate use. 
 
 Concklin’s Salve. — Take twelve ounces of rosiu, 
 and one ounce each, of beeswax and mutton tallow ; 
 melt together, strain ; and work into rolls in cold 
 water. 
 
 Frey’s Vermifuge. — Take one ounce of castor 
 oil, one ounce of aromatic syrup of rhubarb, thirty 
 drops of oil of chenopodiam, five drops of croton 
 oil. Mix. 
 
 Magic Ink. — Dissolve some nitrate of bismuth in 
 water ; write with this solution. The writing will 
 be invisible when dry, but as soon as immersed 
 in water, becomes legible. 
 
 Spirit of Bergamotte. — Take 2 pounds of the 
 peel of the bergamotte orange; 1 gallon proof 
 spirit; digest for a week, and then add a quart of 
 water and distil 1 gallon. [This is the genuine 
 article; but a substitute may be made thus: 5 
 ounces best essence of bergamotte; 2 ounces pale 
 essence ambergris ; i an ounce essence of musk ; * 
 of an ounce oil of verbena ; 1 gallon rectified 
 spirits of wine; mix well.] Both these are ele- 
 
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 gant perfumes and can be manufactured to realize 
 a g od percentage. 
 
 To Color Eggs for Easter. — Bind them round 
 with narrow-colored ribbons in a tasteful manner, 
 and boil them about ten minutes- The ribbons 
 will impart their color to them. Or logwood chips 
 for purple, and onion peel for yellow, or loaf-sugar 
 paper for purple. They are improved by being 
 varnished. 
 
 Turkish Eouge. — Take half pound best Brazil 
 wood, fine, and of golden red color ; infuse four 
 days in four quarts best white wine vinegar ; then 
 boil them together for half an hour; strain through 
 a linen cloth, and place the liquid in one pint 
 white vinegar ; mix the two liquids and stir them 
 well together. The scum which now arises should 
 be carefully taken off, and gradually dried and 
 powdered- 
 
 Put in small oval or round fancy boxes. 
 
 Old 'Windsor Soap. — Slice the best white soap 
 as thin as possible, and melt it over a slow fire ; 
 take it from the fire, and, when lukewarm, add oil 
 of caraway, or any other fragrant oil. 
 
 To Choose Pepper. — The finest cayenne pepper 
 consists of powdered bird pepper ; as this is of a 
 bad color, it is often adulterated to heighten its 
 colof. White pepper is merely black pepper de- 
 prived of its outer coating, which has a stimula- 
 
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 ting property ; so that white pepper is much weaker 
 than black. 
 
 Yeast Oakes. — Make a thick batter of a pint of 
 good yeast, a teaspoonful of salt, and rye or wheat 
 flour. When risen, stir in Indian meal till of the 
 right consistency to roll out. When risen again, 
 roll them out very thin, cut them into cakes with 
 a tumbler, and dry them in the shade in clear, 
 windy weather. Care must be taken to keep them 
 from the sun or they will ferment. When per- 
 fectly dry, tie them up in a bag, and keep them in 
 a cool, dry place. To raise four or five loaves of 
 bread, take one of these cakes and put to it a little 
 lukewarm, milk or water. When dissolved, stir 
 in a couple of tablespoonsful of flour ; set it near 
 the fire. When light, use it for your dough. 
 Yeast cakes will keep good for five or six months. 
 They are very convenient to use in summer, as 
 common yeast is so very apt to ferment. 
 
 To Imitate Coral Baskets —Make the basket of 
 pasteboard in any shape you please ; dissolve three 
 sticks of sealing-wax in a pint of alcohol ; wet the 
 basket with this mixture, and sprinkle on rice 
 which has been about half ground; let it dry, and 
 repeat the process until the pasteboard is covered, 
 after which paint it with the mixture until it is 
 red enough. A brush of hair or feathers should 
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 Soluble Glass. — To 15 pounds of powdered 
 quartz, add 1 0 pounds of potash and 1 pound of 
 charcoal ; melt these together in cold water, and 
 then boil with 5 pounds of water in which it 
 entirely dissolves. It is then applied to any sur- 
 face. It is a compound of the utmost importance,,, 
 and is used as a covering for wood, metal and other- 
 practical purposes. As it becomes cool it gelatini- 
 zes, and dries into a transparent, colorless glass, on. 
 the surface of anything to which it has been ap- 
 plied. It makes wood almost incombustible'. 
 
 Black Japan Varnish. —Take 8 ounces burnt 
 umber; 4 ounces genuine asphaltum;, 1 gallon 
 boiled linseed oil ; grind the umber with a little- 
 of the oil ; add it to the asphaltum, previously dis- 
 solved in a small quantity of the oil by heat; mix 
 all together and boil ; thin to proper consistency 
 with oil. 
 
 Freckle Wash. — Take 1 drachm of muriatic 
 acid ; \ pint of rain water ; £ a teaspoonful of 
 spirits of lavender. Mix them well together, and 
 apply two or three times a day to, the freckles- with, 
 a camel’s hair brush. 
 
 Papier-Mache. — This is aplastic materiaVformed; 
 of cuttings of white or brown paper, boiled in. water,, 
 and beaten to a paste in a mortar,, and* then mixed 
 with a solution of gum arabic in size to give tena- 
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 city. It is variously manufactured by being 
 pressed into oiled moulds, afterwards dried, co- 
 vered with a mixture of size, lamp black, and var- 
 nished. 
 
 Carmine, — This is the finest red color we have. 
 It comes chiefly from Germany ; is made from co- 
 chineal, and is consequently simple. There are 
 two or three sorts of this article. The finest, which 
 bears a high price, is in the end b)^ far the cheap- 
 est. The difference between the two sorts will not 
 easily be discerned by mere inspection ; besides, 
 the intensity of the color renders it painful for the 
 eye to dwell on, even for a minute. Comparison 
 will point out a difference, but the surest way of 
 detecting adulteration is to fill a silver thimble 
 with each sort; the finest and best will not weigh 
 above one-half or two-thirds of the worst, which is 
 commonly mixed with vermillion or red lead, both 
 of which are very heavy powders. 
 
 Portuguese Pouge, — Of Portuguese dishes there 
 are two sorts ; one of these is made in Portugal, 
 and is rather scarce ; the paint 'Contained in the 
 dishes being of a fine pale pink hue, and very 
 beautiftd in its application to the face. The other 
 is made in London, and is of a dirty red color ; it 
 may suit those who never saw the genuine Portu- 
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 the two sorts is, that the true one from Portugal 
 is contained in dishes which are rough on the out- 
 sides, whereas those made here are glazed and 
 quite smooth. 
 
 These paints for the face may be used without 
 danger. 
 
 Rhubarb Bitters. — Take 2 ounces of rhubarb 
 root ; ? an ounce of cardamon seeds ; 1 drachm of 
 Virginia snake root ; and % drachm gentian root. 
 Put these articles into a bottle with a quart of 
 good brandy. 
 
 This is a valuable receipt for children in com- 
 plaints incident to summer ; it can be put up easily, 
 and meets with ready sale. 
 
 Almond Powder. — Blanch 6 pounds of bitter 
 almonds, dry and beat them, and press from them 
 1 pint of oil ; then beat them in an iron mortar, 
 and pass the powder through a sieve. Keep it 
 from air and moisture in a glass jar. Used in- 
 stead of soap for washing the hands, it imparts a 
 singular delicacy to their appearance. 
 
 Excellent Rose Water. — Bub up i an ounce of 
 white sugar, and 2 drachms carbonate magnesia, 
 with 12 drops otto of rose; then gradually add a 
 quart of water and 2 ounces of alcohol and filter 
 through paper. This will make rose water far 
 
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 preferable to the distilled sold in the shops, either 
 as a perfume or for culinary purposes. 
 
 Cattle Ointment. — Mix with care, 1 pound tar ; 
 1 pound rosin ; 1 pound spirits turpentine ; 3 pounds 
 tallow; 5 ounces oil vitrol; 5 ounces sulphate cop- 
 per and 5 ounces alum. Put up in tin boxes. It 
 is highly recommended as a good dressing for any 
 cankerous sores in cattle, and is a valuable addi- 
 tion to a farmers’ medicine chest. 
 
 Wart and Corn Salve. — Take 4 drachms of the 
 extract belladonna ; 3 ounces pure oxide of mana- 
 ganese, and 5 pounds potash ; pulverize the potash 
 in an iron kettle and let it stand in the open air 
 for 24 hours ; then mix the whole together. Shave 
 the corn with a sharp knife, and apply for ten mi- 
 nutes the salve ; wash off and soak in sweet oil. 
 This is the same as sold about the corners of the 
 streets in our large cities for 25 and 50 cents per 
 drachm bottle. 
 
 Common Twist Cough Candy— Boil 3 pounds 
 of common sugar and 1 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. 
 
 Purifying the Blood. — Take 1 pound sarsapa- 
 
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 rilla ; £ pound guaiacum shavings ; 1 ounce sassa- 
 fras ; i pound elder-flowers ; i pound alder-buds ; 
 i pound burdock root ; put all these together, and 
 add 2 quarts boiling water to one-third of it. Take 
 a wine-glassful three times a day, and a dose of 
 pills twice a week. 
 
 Cider Champaign©.— Take 20 gallons of good 
 cider ; 6 pounds of honey or sugar. Mix and let 
 rest for two weeks, then refine with 1 quart of 
 skimmed milk. This put up in champaigne bot- 
 tles, silvered and labelled, has often been sold for 
 champaigne. It opens very sparkling. 
 
 Extract of Arnica. — Take 1 ounce of arnica 
 flowers, dried ; put them in a wide-mouthed bottle ; 
 pour just enough boiling water over them to mois- 
 ten them, and afterwards about a pint or a pint 
 and a half of spirits of wine. 
 
 In case of a burn, bruise, or sprain, wet a cloth 
 with the arnica and lay it on the part affected. 
 Renew the application occasionally, and the pain 
 will soon be removed. 
 
 Lemon Sherbet. — Add to I pound ground white 
 sugar, 40 drops. essence lemon ; after it dries, add i 
 of a pound of each, tartaric acid and carbonate of 
 soda. All the powders should be well dried before 
 mixing ; then pass all twice through a hair sieve. 
 Keep in tightly-corked bottles. Large quantities 
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 of this wholesome and refreshing preparation are 
 manufactured and consumed every summer ; it is 
 sold in bottles as a beverage. It is made by dis- 
 solving a large teaspoonful in a tumbler two-thirds 
 filled with water. 
 
 Ray’s Furniture Oil— Put in a jar one pint of 
 linseed oil, into which stir one ounce of powdered 
 rose pink, and one ounce of alkanet root, beaten in 
 a mortar ; set the jar in a warm place for a few 
 days, when the oil may be poured off, and will be 
 excellent for darkening new mahogany. 
 
 To Make Honey Water.— Take 2 quarts alco- 
 hol, add to it 1 ounce oil bergamot ; 1 drachm oil 
 cloves ; 30 drops oil cinnamon ; 2 drachms essence 
 musk ; 1 drachm oil neroli, and 5 drops oil rose. 
 Mix and bottle. 
 
 Kalydor for the Complexion— Take 1 ounce 
 blanched bitter almonds; 1 pound rose water. 
 Mix and strain, then add 5 grains of bichloride of 
 mercury to every 8 ounces of the mixture, and 
 scent with rose or violet. 
 
 Yellow Sealingwax. — To make yellow wax, take 
 2 pounds orange shellac ; 6 ounces Venice turpen- 
 tine, and 12 ounces chrome yellow in fine powder. 
 Melt and mix. Make into sticks. 
 
 Scouring Drops. — Mix 3 ounces camphine, or 
 spirits of turpentine with 1 ounce essence of lemon. 
 
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 There are several preparations for this purpose, 
 but this ia^ about the best for extracting grease and 
 paint from clothes. 
 
 Green Paint. — Mix a quantity of mineral green 
 with white lead, ground in turpentine with a small 
 portion of turpentine varnish for the first coat; 
 for the second, put as much varnish in the color 
 as will produce a good gloss. This is a good out- 
 side paint. 
 
 To Improve Gilding. — Mix 1 gill of water with 
 2 ounces of purified nitre ; 1 ounce of alum and 1 
 ounce of common salt. Lay this over gilt articles 
 with a brush, and their color will be greatly im- 
 proved. 
 
 Japan Varnish. — Dissolve 1 drachm camphor ; 
 8 ounces oil turpentine; 6 ounces oil lavender; 
 2 ounces bruised copal. This is a transparent var- 
 nish and is used for tin, &c. 
 
 Fountain of Fire. — To 6 ounces of water in an 
 earthen basin, add gradually 1 ounce of sulphuric 
 acid, then f of an ounce of granulated zinc and a 
 few pieces of phosphorus the size of a pea. Bub- 
 bles of gas will be immedaitely generated, which 
 on coming to the surface take fire, and in a short 
 time make the entire surface of the liquid illumi- 
 nated, whilst fire balls and jets of fire dart from 
 the bottom with rapidity. 
 
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 Seidlitz Powders.— Add together 2 drachms of 
 tartarized soda, and 2 scruples of bicarbonate of 
 soda for the blue paper ; and 30 grains of tartaric 
 acid for the white paper. 
 
 Bengal Lights. — Take 7 ounces nitre ; 2 ounces 
 sulphur ; 1 ounce antimony. Mix well and press 
 the composition into earthen tubes, and place a 
 slow match on the surface to ignite when neces- 
 sary. 
 
 Symp of Cloves. — Take 2 ounces of cloves, well 
 powdered, and put it into a pint of boiling water 
 in a small stew-pan. Boil for half an hour, then 
 pass the liquor through a hair sieve, dissolve it in 
 1£ pounds of powdered loaf sugar; clear it over 
 the fire with the white of an egg ; add a little rose 
 or orange-flower water ; and let it simmer gently 
 till the syrup is formed and clear. When cold, 
 put in bottles, which must be kept closely corked. 
 Cinnamon, mace, and all others are made exactly 
 on the same plan. 
 
 Aromatic Vinegar. — Throw into 2 pounds of 
 acetic acid, 1 ounce each, of the dried tops of rose- 
 mary, and leaves of sage ; i an ounce each, dried 
 flowers of lavender and of bruised cloves. Let re- 
 main for seven days ; then express the liquid and 
 filter it through paper. This is a very useful arti- 
 cle for use in sick rooms. 
 
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 Wagon Grease.— Melt over a slow fire 1 pound 
 of lard, and \ pound of black lead in powder, stir- 
 ring them well ; remove the mixture from the fire, 
 and stir till cold. This lasts much longer than 
 some preparations, and is very easily made. 
 
 Essence of Nutmeg. — Dissolve 1 ounce of the 
 essential oil in 1 pint of rectified spirits. It is an 
 excellent article for flavoring. 
 
 Artificial Marble. — Soak a quantity of plaster 
 of Paris in a solution of alum. Afterwards bake 
 it in an oven and grind it to a powder. When 
 wanted, mix it with water to about the consistency 
 of plaster. It sets into an exceedingly hard com- 
 position, and takes a high polish. It may be 
 mixed with various colored minerals or ochres to 
 represent various kinds of marbles, and to many 
 will be a valuable receipt. 
 
 Fire and Water-Proof Cement.— Simmer to- 
 gether i a pint of each, of vinegar and milk, until 
 the curd separates. Strain, and with the whey 
 mix the whites of five eggs well beaten up. When 
 the mixture of these two substances are complete, 
 add sifted quick-lime and make the whole to the 
 consistency of putty. Apply carefully to the bro- 
 ken edges, so that they fit exactly ; as soon as it is 
 perfectly dry, it will be found to resist both heat 
 and moisture. The article is again fitted to bear 
 
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 what it did at first. The receipt is sold as a great 
 secret at |1.00. 
 
 Everton Taffee. — This fine, delicious and whole- 
 some candy is made by boiling 1? pounds of sugar; 
 3 ounces butter; a teacup and a half of water, and 
 the rind of one lemon ; when done — which is known 
 by dropping into cold water, when it should be 
 quite crisp. When the boiling ceases, stir in the 
 juice of the lemon. Pour about a quarter of an 
 inch in thickness in a buttered dish. 
 
 French Polish for Boots and Shoes —Put l 
 
 pound logwood chips; 1 pound glue; I ounce pow- 
 dered indigo; I ounce soft soap; 1 ounce isinglass 
 together, and boil these in 4 pints of vinegar and 
 two of water; strain. When cold it is fit for use. 
 Apply with a sponge when the boots are perfectly 
 dry. If you make for sale, put in earthen pots to 
 hold about three ounces. 
 
 Copal Varnish. — Take 7 pounds of the best 
 pale African copal, add 2 quarts of clarified lin- 
 seed oil. Boil for one-quarter of an hour ; remove 
 it into the open air and add 3 gallons of boiling 
 oil of turpentine; mix well, then strain into a ves- 
 sel and cover up immediately. 
 
 To Shape Ivory. — Take I pound of mandrake, 
 sliced, and put it in 1 quart of the best vinegar ; 
 into this, place the ivory, and if you keep it warm 
 
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 for two or three days, you can bend it in any shape 
 you require. 
 
 To Melt a Coin in a Nutshell— Rub together 3 
 
 ounces of nitre, 1 ounce sulphur and 1 of dry saw- 
 dust, and press down ; half fill a walnut shell with 
 it; place in it a small rolled up coin of silver or 
 copper, and then fill up the shell with the powder, 
 pressing down tightly : ignite, and when it has 
 burned out, the coin will be melted into a mass. 
 
 British Oil. — Take half a pint each, spirits tur- 
 pentine and linseed oil ; 2 ounces oil amber ; half 
 an ounce oil juniper; 3 ounces Barbadoes tar. 
 Mix the whole well together. 
 
 Elder 'Wine flavored with Hops— A lady, disli- 
 king the taste of spices in home-made wines, was 
 induced to try the effect of flavoring elder wine 
 with hops. The result is one of the most grateful, 
 wholesome, and valuable beverages. Its color 
 equals that of the finest claret; and it produces no 
 acidity after drinking, as many home-made wines 
 do. The berries, which must be thoroughly ripe, 
 are to be stripped from the stalk, and squeezed to a 
 pulp. Stir and squeeze this pulp once every day 
 for four days ; then separate the juice from the 
 pulp by passing through a cane sieve or basket ; 
 to every gallon of juice, add half a gallon of cold 
 spring water ; boil nine gallons with six ounces of 
 
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 hops for half an hour ; then strain it, and boil 
 again, with three pounds of sugar to the gallon, 
 for about ten minutes, skimming it all the time ; 
 pour it into a cooler, and, while lukeVarm, put a 
 piece of toasted bread with a little barm on it to 
 set it working ; put it into a cask as soon as cold ; 
 when it has done working, cork it down, and leave 
 it six months before it is tapped ; it is then drink- 
 able, but improves with age exceedingly. 
 
 Dysentery and Bloody Flux— Take 2 table- 
 spoonsful elixir salutis ; 1 do. castor oil ; 1 do. loaf 
 sugar; add to this four tablespoonsful boiling wa- 
 ter ; skim and drink hot. The above is a dose for 
 an adult ; for a child six to seven, half the quantity ; 
 one year old, i the quantity. 
 
 When this is manufactured for sale, the water is 
 added when used. This receipt cost $10. 
 
 To Make Sweet Oil. — With a small hand-mill, 
 
 every family might make their own sweet oil. 
 This may easily be done, by grinding or beating 
 the seeds of w r hite poppies into a paste, then boil 
 it in water, and skim off the oil as it rises ; one 
 bushel of seed weighs fifty pounds, and produces 
 two gallons of oil. Of the sweet olive oil sold, 
 one-half is oil of poppies. The poppies will grow 
 in any garden; it is the large-head white poppy, 
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 poppies in France and Flanders, for the purpose 
 of expressing oil from their seed for food. When 
 the seed is taken out, the poppy head when dried is 
 boiled to an extract, which is sold at twenty -five 
 cents per ounce, and it is to be preferred to opium, 
 which now sells very high. 
 
 Large fortunes may be amassed by the cultiva- 
 tion of poppies. They are very productive, and 
 require very little attention in their cultivation. 
 
 Gutta-Percha Cement. — This is made by dis- 
 solving small pieces of gutta-percha (cut in shav- 
 ings) in chloroform, so as to produce a honey-like 
 fluid. 
 
 This is spread upon the articles to be secured, 
 and allowed to dry. The pieces are then warmed 
 until the coating softens, and are pressed together. 
 
 Patches may thus be put upon the soles of boots 
 in a manner which defies equally detection and 
 dampness. Many persons are traveling, selling 
 this receipt for from 1 to 10 dollars. 
 
 The Art of Painting on Glass— The only differ- 
 ence between ordinary painting and painting on 
 glass is, that in the latter all transparent colors 
 are used instead of opaque ones, and the colors 
 being ground up with turpentine and varnish in- 
 stead of oil. In painting upon glass, it is neces- 
 sary occasionally, to place the picture between ar- 
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 tist and the light, to enable him to see the effect, 
 the light having the property of casting a yellow- 
 ish tinge upon all colors so exposed. 
 
 To persons having a knowledge of coloring, this 
 art is easily learned, and affords a handsome re- 
 numeration. 
 
 A Varnish to Color Baskets. —Take either red, 
 
 black, or white sealingwax, which ever color you 
 wish to make ; to every two ounces of sealingwax, 
 add one ounce of spirits of wine ; pound the wax 
 fine ; then sift it through a fine lawn sieve, till you 
 have made it extremely fine ; put it into a large 
 phial with the spirits of wine, shake it, let it stand 
 near the fire forty-eight hours, shaking it often ; 
 then, with a little, brush the baskets all over with 
 it ; let them dry, and do them over a second time. 
 
 To Color Meorschaums. — Tobacco which con- 
 tains a great quantity of nicotine is the best for 
 coloring meerschaums. The pipe is most beauti- 
 fully colored, when done so gradually by never 
 allowing it to get very hot, and thus expelling the 
 wax from the meerschaums by degrees. When 
 you first use the pipe, only half fill it with tobacco, 
 and on every occasion after smoking, allow it to 
 cool thoroughly before you use it again. 
 
 A meerschaum boiled in beeswax and oil — olive 
 oil or mutton tallow — will color in a short time. 
 
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 Pipes boiled in oil present a beautifully mottled 
 appearance after having been smoked for three 
 weeks. 
 
 FuT 3 Win© of apples.- — Take pure cider made 
 from sound ripe apples as it runs from the press ; 
 put sixty pounds of common brown sugar into 
 fifteen gallons of the cider, and let it dissolve; 
 then put the mixture into a clean barrel, and fill 
 the barrel up to within two gallons of being full, 
 with clean cider; put the cask in a cool place, 
 leaving the bung out for forty.eight hours ; then 
 put in the bung, with a small vent, until fermen- 
 tation wholly ceases, and bung up tight ; and in 
 one year the wine will be fit for use. This wine 
 requires no racking ; the longer it stands upon the 
 lees, the better. 
 
 Simple Mode of Furifying Water— A table- 
 spoonful of powdered alum, sprinkled into a hogs- 
 head of water, and stirred, will in the course of a 
 few hours precipitate to the bottom all the impure 
 particles, and leave the water as clean and pure 
 as spring water. Four gallons would need but a 
 teaspoonful 
 
 A New Art, to Draw from Nature— First, 
 Prepare your ink by taking printer’s ink and 
 thining it with spirits of turpentine, to the consis- 
 
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 tency of cream, or just enough so that it can be 
 used with a pen. 
 
 Second, Take a clear, nice pane of glass ; a 
 large size is preferable, as it will then do for large 
 or small drawings, and if the object, to be drawn 
 is anything over which the glass can be laid, so as 
 to lie flat like a sheet of paper, in writing, such a 
 picture, drawing, or sketching of any kind, or a 
 leaf, flower, or anything that can be laid under 
 the glass in any way, so arrange it. Or the glass 
 can be put in a frame, so as to raise one end like 
 a desk lid ; behind and under which may be laid 
 any small object. Then, when the glass and ob- 
 ject to be drawn are so fixed as to be stationary, 
 (for there should be no movement of them after 
 the drawing is commenced till finished,) you may 
 proceed to draw an outline of the object on the 
 glass with a pen, using the ink prepared as above, 
 doing it expeditiously, so it will not become too 
 dry ; and when the entire outline is drawn, breathe 
 on the drawing, so as to moisten the ink on the 
 glass, holding it so it cannot slide about at all, and 
 gently rub the hand over the paper a few times, 
 pressing it on the glass, and when it comes off you 
 have a perfect etching of the object. This can be 
 shaded and colored to suit the fancy, or left as it 
 is a beautiful etching. With a little practice and 
 care, any one can thus draw most perfectly. All 
 
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 you have to do, is just to follow with the pen on 
 the glass the outlines of the object to be drawn. 
 Commence with small pictures at first, till you get 
 a little practice. 
 
 Third, If you wish to draw a landscape, ani- 
 mal, house, or anything in perspective, so as to 
 need to set the glass up perpendicularly, the ink 
 of course will not flow from the pen on the glass ; 
 hence, you have to proceed as follows, viz : with a 
 thin solution of gum arabic, or a little loaf sugar, or 
 even cigar ashes, rub the glass over and let it dry ; 
 (but it must not be so thick as to prevent seeing 
 the object through the glass,) then, with a crayon, 
 or some sharp-pointed instrument, draw the object 
 on the glass, by marking or scratching it on the 
 gummed side, and when completed, turn the glass 
 over, laying it down flat, and draw the same with 
 ink on the opposite side, and proceed to transfer 
 it to paper as before. 
 
 Almost anything can be drawn with great accu- 
 racy and facility in this way, even portraits. Five 
 dollars is charged for instruction in this art, and 
 even in some cases as high as $25. 
 
 To Make Water Cold, for Summer.— It may 
 
 be kept nearly as cold as ice water, by surround- 
 ing the pitcher or jar with several folds of coarse 
 cotton, to be constantly wet. The evaporation 
 carries off the heat inside, and it will be reduced 
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 almost to freezing. In India and other tropical 
 regions this is common. 
 
 Horse Flies.~“To prevent horses being teased 
 with flies, take two or three small handsful of 
 walnut leaves, upon which pour two or three 
 quarts of soft cold water ; let it infuse one night ; 
 pour the whole next morning into a kettle, and let 
 it boil for a quarter of an hour : when cold, it will 
 be ready for use. 
 
 Nothing more is required than to moisten a 
 sponge with the liquid, and, before the horse goes 
 out of the stable, let those parts which are most 
 irritable be smeared over with the liquid, namely, 
 between and upon the ears, the flanks, &c. 
 
 French Chemical Soap. — -Take 5 lbs. castile soap, 
 cut fine; 1 pt. alcohol, 1 do. soft water, 2 ozs. 
 aquafortis, I oz. lamp black, 2 ozs. saltpetre, 3 ozs. 
 potash, 1 oz. camphor, and 4 ozs. cinnamon in 
 powder. First dissolve the soap, potash, and salt- 
 petre by boiling ; then add all the other articles 
 and continue to stir until it cools ; then pour it 
 into a box and let it stand 24 hours, then cut into 
 cakes. For taking oil, grease and tar from clothes, 
 &c., there is nothing superior. It can be manu- 
 factured and sold at 100 per cent profit. 
 
 To Keep a Stove Bright. — Make a weak alum 
 water, and mix your British luster with it, per- 
 
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 haps two teaspoonsful to a gill of alum water ; let 
 the stove be cold, brush -it with the mixture, then 
 take a dry brush, and rub the stove till it is per- 
 fectly dry. 
 
 Should any part, before polishing, be so dry as 
 to look gray, moisten it with a wet brush, and pro- 
 ceed as before said. Warm water will do, if you 
 have no alum. Soap-suds is better than either. 
 
 Rowland’s Maccassar Oil,— 8 ozs. sweet oil; 
 60 drops cantharides; 10 drops oil of rose; 60 
 drops each, oil of bergamot and oil of lemon ; alka- 
 net sufficient to color it. 
 
 The above receipt is worth $300 to any one who 
 wishes to manufacture. 
 
 Rosin Ointment. — Composed of two ounces of 
 yellow wax, five ounces of white rosin, and seven 
 ounces of hog’s lard ; these must be slowly melted 
 together, and stirred constantly with a stick, till 
 completely mixed. 
 
 This ointment is sometimes used in treating 
 scalds and burns ; also for dressing blisters, when 
 it is wished to keep up a discharge from them for 
 a few days. This is a stimulating ointment. 
 
 Water-Proof and Fire-Proof Cement, for roofs 
 of Houses. — Slack stone lime in a large tub or 
 barrel with boiling water, covering the tub or bar- 
 rel to keep in the steam. When thus slacked, 
 
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 pass 6 quarts through a fine sieve, it will then be 
 in a state of fine flour. — To this add 1 quart rock 
 salt and 1 gallon of water. Boil the mixture and 
 skim it clean. To every 5 gallons of this skimmed 
 mixture, add 1 lb. of alum and \ lb. of copperas ; 
 by slow degrees add f lb. potash and 4 quarts fine 
 sand or wood ashes sifted. Both of the above will 
 admit of any coloring you please. 
 
 It looks better than paint, and is as durable as 
 slate. 
 
 Sassafras Mead. — This is a very pleasant, whole- 
 some, and cheap beverage in warm weather. Stir 
 gradually with two quarts of boiling water, three 
 pounds and a half of good West Indian molasses, 
 and a quarter of a pound of tartaric acid. Stir it 
 well, and when cool, strain it into a large jug or 
 pan, then mix in a quarter of an ounce of essence 
 of sassafras. Transfer it to clean bottles, (it will 
 fill about half a dozen,) cork it tightly, and keep 
 it in a cool place. 
 
 To prepare a glass of it for drinking, pour a 
 little of the mead into a tumbler, stir into it a 
 small quantity of carbonate of soda, and then add 
 sufficient ice water to half fill the glass ; give it a 
 stir, and it will immediately foam up to the top. 
 
 About one-third of a pound of carbonate of soda 
 is sufficient for above. 
 
 To Crystallize Baskets. — Take a small basket, 
 
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 about the size of your hand, of iron wire or split 
 willow; take some lamp cotton, untwist it, and 
 wind it round every portion of the basket ; then 
 mix alum in the proportion of one pound to a 
 quart of water, and boil till the alum is dissolved ; 
 pour the solution into a deep pan, and in the 
 liquor suspend the basket without allowing any 
 part to touch the pan, or to be exposed above the 
 surface ; let the whole remain properly at rest for 
 twenty-four hours, when, if you take out the basket, 
 the alum will be found prettily crystalized over all 
 parts of the cottoned frame. 
 
 After this first experiment, it will be easy to ex- 
 tend the crystalizing process to larger objects, and 
 to adorn flowers with alum crystals of various 
 colors. 
 
 Substitute for Coffee. — Scrape clean three or 
 four good parsnips, cut them into thin slices, bake 
 till well brown, grind or crush, and use in the 
 same manner as coffee, from which it is scarcely 
 distinguishable. This is not only a beverage 
 equally good as coffee, but is likewise a cure for 
 asthma. 
 
 Tooth Powder, No. 4.- — Take 2 ozs. prepared chalk 
 1 drachm gum myrrh, in fine powder ; £ oz. peru 
 vian bark ; 1 oz. white sugar ; 1 oz. rose pink ; mix 
 well. This is one of the best tooth powders in use ; 
 
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 it cleans the teeth, hardens the gums and sweetens 
 the breath, and can be made and sold at a moder- 
 ate price. 
 
 For Whooping Cough, — Dissolve a scruple of salt 
 of tartar in a quarter-pint of water ; add to it ten 
 grains of cochineal ; sweeten it with sugar. Give 
 to an infant the fourth part of a tablespoonful four 
 times a day ; two years old, half a spoonful ; from 
 four years, a tablespoonful. This is a very suc- 
 cessful mixture. 
 
 Prizo Liquid Blacking.— Equal to any made. 
 Use 28 pounds ivory black, in fine powder ; 8 
 pounds treacle ; 1 pint refined or droppings sweet 
 oil; one gallon good malt vinegar; two gallons 
 stale but good beer; two ounces oil of vitriol; six 
 gallons soft water distilled. Mix treacle and wa- 
 ter together; and to powder add oil till well 
 mixed ; then add porter and vinegar in pan ; stir 
 well together one hour with stick, then fill for use. 
 
 This excellent prize blacking meets with ready 
 sale to grocers, &c., at a profit of $8 to $10 per 
 gross. A person trying its virtues once will be in- 
 duced to take none other in the future. 
 
 Dr. Davies’ Gout Mixture. — One ounce wine of 
 colchicum; one ounce spirit of nitrous ether; two 
 scruples iodine of potassium ; two ounces distilled 
 
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 131 
 
 water. Mix. A teaspoonful in chamomile tea 
 two or three times a day. 
 
 To Perfume Clothes —Take one ounce each, 
 cloves, cedar, and rhubarb ; pulverize and sprinkle 
 it in the chest or drawer. 
 
 It will create a beautiful scent, and prevent 
 
 moths. 
 
 Cure for Bheumatism.' — One gill of alcohol, one 
 of beef’s gall, one of spirits of turpentine, one of 
 sweet oil, and four ounces of camphor gum. Put 
 them all in a bottle and shake it up ; use it two 
 or three times a day, a teaspoonful at a time. Ap- 
 ply it to the parts affected before the fire. It is 
 good, also, for frost bites. 
 
 Nerve Invigorating. — 1 oz. juniper berries, 2 oz. 
 orris root, 1 oz. bitter bugle, 3 oz. chamomile flow- 
 ers ; break them up fine, steep 1 tablespoonful in 
 half a pint of boiling water, and drink it through 
 the day. Take a dose of pills twice a week. 
 
 Yellow Ink.- — A little alum added to saffron 
 makes a beautiful yellow ink. 
 
 Peasley’s Cement. — Prepare a solution of 200 
 parts of white glue in water ; 50 parts of isinglass, 
 3 of gum arable, and 3 of gum tragacinth ; and 
 finally another of 1 part of bleached shellac in al- 
 cohol. Then pour these three solutions together, 
 mix them with 24 parts of white lead, and at last 
 
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 GUIDE TO FORTUNE. 
 
 12 parts of the best glycerine and 200 parts of al- 
 cohol. The mastic thus obtained should be imme- 
 diately put up in one ounce bottles, and well corked. 
 
 This article is sold rapidly in our streets from 
 a wagon, containing a bale of hay ; the traces are 
 put together with it, thus showing its durability 
 and strength, which is a good advertisement. Try 
 it and be convinced. 
 
 Dr. Stryker’s Eye Water— Mix 1 grain tartaric 
 acid; two grains chloride of zinc, and 2 ounces 
 soft water. Wet a soft rag with this preparation 
 and wash the eyes two or three times a day, and 
 let a few drops fall into each eye. Just before re- 
 tiring is the proper time to bathe it once. 
 
 There are fortunes made and still making in 
 these simple preparations for the eyes. 
 
 Bookbinders’ Past8. — Mix wheaten flour first 
 in cold water, then boil it till it be of a glutinous 
 consistence; this method makes common paste. 
 Mix a fourth, fifth, or sixth of the weight of the 
 flour of powdered alum, and if required stronger, 
 add a little powdered rosin. 
 
 A business can be made in the manufacturing 
 of this article alone. 
 
 Curry Powder, — Take 2 ounces of turmeric, 6 
 ounces of coriander seed, half an ounce of powdered 
 ginger, 2 drachms of cinnamon, 6 drachms of ca- 
 
GUIDE TO FORTUNE. 
 
 133 
 
 yenne pepper, 4 drachms of black pepper, 1 drachm 
 of mace and cloves powdered fine, 2 drachms of 
 pimento, 4 drachms of nutmeg, and an ounce and 
 a half of fennel seed ; powder finely, mix, dry, and 
 bottle for use. 
 
 This can be sold at grocery stores very readily 
 if put up nicely, and will be found by an epicure 
 to be nice to eat with meats, &c. 
 
 To Clean Kid Gloves. — First see that your hands 
 are clean ; then put on the gloves and wash them, 
 as though you were washing your hands, in a ba- 
 sin of turpentine. Burning fluid will do equally 
 well. Then , hang them up in a warm place, or 
 where there is a good current of air, which will 
 carry off all smell of turpentine. 
 
 This method was brought from Paris, and thou- 
 sands of dollars have been made by it. The spirits 
 of hartshorn may be substituted for the turpentine. 
 
 To Marble Books or Paper.-— Marbling of books 
 or paper is performed thus : — Dissolve four ounces 
 of gum arabic in two quarts of fair water ; then 
 provide several colors mixed with water in pots or 
 shells, and with pencils peculiar to each' color; 
 sprinkle them by way of intermixture upon the 
 gum water, which must be put into a trough, or 
 . some broad vessel; then, with a stick, curl them, 
 or draw them out in streaks to as much variety as 
 12 
 
134 
 
 GUIDE TO FORTUNE. 
 
 may be done. Having done this, hold your book, 
 or books, close together, and only dip the edges 
 in, on the top of the water and colors, very lightly ; 
 which done, take them off, and the plain impres- 
 sion of the colors in mixture will be upon the leaves ; 
 doing as well the ends as the front of the book in 
 like manner, and afterwards glazing the colors. 
 
 Imperial Pop. — Take three ounces of cream of 
 tartar, an ounce of bruised ginger, a pound and a 
 half of white sugar, an ounce of lemon juice, and 
 pour a gallon and a half of boiling water on them ; 
 add two tablespoonsful of yeast. Mix, bottle, and 
 tie down the corks as usual. 
 
 All small confectioners sell it at a large profit. 
 
 Imitation of Ebony, — Pale-colored woods are 
 stained in imitation of ebony by washing them 
 with, or steeping them in a strong decoction of 
 logwood or galls, allowing them to dry, and then 
 washing them over with a solution of the sul- 
 phate or acetate of iron. When dry, they are 
 washed with clean water, and the process repeated, 
 if required. They are, lastly polished or varnished. 
 
 Chemical Renovating Balls— Quarter ounce of 
 fuller’s earth, quarter ounce of pipe-clay, one ounce 
 salt of tartar, one ounce beef gall, one ounce spirits 
 of wine. Pound the hard parts, and mix the in- 
 gredients well together. Wet the stain with cold 
 
GUIDE TO FORTUNE. 
 
 135 
 
 water, rub it well with this ball, then snonge it 
 with a wet sponge and the stain will disappear. 
 
 All kinds of grease, paint, pitch and tar can be 
 taken out from silks, linen, wollen, carpets, hats, 
 coats. &c., without fading the color or injuring the 
 cloth. 
 
 Almoni Flavor. — Dissolve one ounce of essen- 
 tial oil of bitter almonds in one pint of spirits of 
 wine. Used as flavoring for cordials, and perfum- 
 ing pastry. In large quantities exceedingly pois- 
 onous. A few drops only should be used to several 
 pounds of syrups, pastry, &c., 
 
 Anglo- Japanese Work. — This is an elegant and 
 easy domestic art. Take yellow withered leaves, 
 dissolve gum, black paint, copal varnish, &c. Any 
 articles may be ornamented with these simple ma- 
 terials. An old work-box, tea-caddy, flower-pots, 
 fire-screens — screens of all descriptions, work-boxes, 
 &c. Select perfect leaves, dry and press them be- 
 tween the leaves of books ; rub the surface of the 
 article to be ornamented with fine sand-paper, then 
 give it a coat of fine black paint, which should be 
 procured mixed at a color-shop. When dry, rub 
 smooth with pumice-stone, and give two other 
 coats. Dry. Arrange leaves in any manner and 
 variety, according to taste. Gum the leaves on 
 the under side, and press them upon their places. 
 
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 GUIDE TO FORTUNE. 
 
 Then dissolve some isinglass in hot water and 
 brush it over the work. Dry. Give three coats 
 of copal varnish, allowing ample time for each 
 coat to dry. Articles thus ornamented last for 
 years, and are very pleasing. 
 
 Turner's Cerate. — This consists of half a pound 
 of yellow wax and a pint of olive oil, which are to 
 be melted together ; this being done, half a pound 
 of calamine powder is to be sifted in, and stirred 
 till the whole be completely mixed. 
 
 This is put in small round wooden boxes. 
 
 Spice Plaster. — Half an ounce each, pulverized 
 cloves, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper;- mix, and 
 add flour and wine of galls, or diluted spirits, to 
 form this plaster. 
 
 Spread and lay it as near the diseased parts as 
 possible. It is excellent for pains and spasms. 
 
 Leaf Printing. — After warming the leaf between 
 the hands, apply printing ink, by means of a small 
 leather ball containing cotton, or some soft sub- 
 stance, or with the end of the finger. The leather 
 ball (and the finger when used for that purpose), 
 after the ink is applied to it, should be pressed 
 several times on a piece of leather, or some smooth 
 surface, before each application to the leaf, that 
 th6 ink may be smoothly and evenly applied. 
 After the under surface of the leaf has been suffi- 
 
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 137 
 
 eiently inked, apply it to the paper, where you 
 wish the impression ; and, after covering it with a 
 slip of paper, use the hand or roller to press upon 
 it, as described in the former process. 
 
 Even for past time, this art will be beneficial, 
 and many instances profitable. 
 
 To Write Secretly on a Pocket Handkerchief.— 
 
 Dissolve alum in pure water, and write upon a fine 
 white handkerchief, which, when dry, will not be 
 seen at all ; but when you would have the letters 
 visible, dip the handkerchief in pure water, and it 
 will be of a wet appearance all over, except where 
 it was written on with the alum water. 
 
 You may also write with alum water upon writ- 
 ing paper, which will not be visible till dipped in 
 water. 
 
 Zinc Ointment. — Itub well together 1 ounce of 
 oxide of zinc, and 6 ounces of hog’s lard. This 
 ointment is useful for chilblains ; it is also com- 
 monly used for dressing the sores remaining after 
 scalds and burns, to absorb the great discharge 
 which generally follows; and it is a very good ap- 
 plication to cracked skin, from which a watery 
 fluid oozes and irritates the neighboring skin. 
 
 Put in metal boxes. 
 
 To Make Toffee for Hooping Cough— Take 1 
 
 pound of treacle; half a pound of moist sugar; a 
 
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 GUIDE TO FORTUNE. 
 
 piece of butter, the size of a walnut ; a teaspoon- 
 ful of ginger or lemon-peel, or oil of peppermint ; 
 and half a teaspoonful of jalap. Boil them to- 
 gether till it will set firm in a basin of cold water. 
 It requires stirring while boiling, and takes a long 
 time to boil. 
 
 Make into small squares for sale. 
 
 True Indian Curry Powder.— 4 ounces turmeric, 
 11 ounces coriander seed, half an ounce cayenne, 
 5 ounces black pepper, 2 ounces pimento, half an 
 ounce of cloves, 3 ounces cinnamon, 2 ounces gin- 
 ger, 3 ounces cumin seed, 1 ounce shallots. All 
 these ingredients should be of a fine quality, and 
 recently ground or powdered. 
 
 An Excellent Paste for Gloves —Half an ounce 
 liquor ammonia, 10 ounces chloride of potash, 1 
 pound cured soap, half a pint of water; dissolve 
 the soap in the water, with a gentle heat, then, as 
 the mixture cools, stir in the other ingredients. 
 Use it by rubbing it over the gloves until the dirt 
 is removed. 
 
 Prepared Ox Gall, for taking out spots— Boil 
 
 together, 1 pint of ox-gall and 2 ounces of pow- 
 dered alum ; to which, add 2 ounces of common 
 salt ; let the liquor settle, add a few drops of es- 
 sence of lemon, pour it off into a bottle, and cork 
 tightly. 
 
GUIDE TO FOKTUNE. 
 
 139 
 
 Supreme Nectar, — Put into a 9 gallon cask, 6 
 pounds of moist sugar, 5* ounces of bruised ginger, 
 4 ounces of cream of tartar, 4 lemons, 8 ounces of 
 yeast, and 7 gallons of boiling water. Work two 
 or three days, strain, add 1 pint of brandy, bung 
 very close, and in fourteen days bottle and wire 
 down. 
 
 Eureka Vermifuge. — Take § gallon castor oil ; 
 £ pound wormseed-oil ; \ ounce oil of aniseed ; 2 
 ounces (each) tincture of myrrh and pinkroot; 1 
 ounce senna. Boil the pinkroot and senna to- 
 gether in two quarts of water ; strain and boil down 
 one-half ; mix all together and shake well, so that 
 it shall be mixed thoroughly while you put it into 
 vials 
 
 dose. — 1 teaspoonfu], morning and evening for 
 a child of 3 years. Shake well, so that the sedi- 
 ment is mixed. 
 
 This receipt cost $20 alone, and is very valuable 
 as an article of trade. 
 
 THE END 
 
USTIDIEilX:. 
 
 A 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Acetate of Ivy. to make 95 
 
 Adhesive Plaster, No. 1 31 
 
 No. 2 52 
 
 Almond Bloom, for the face.... 67 
 
 Flavor 135 
 
 Anglo-Japaue6e work 135 
 
 Artificial Coral 85 
 
 Marble 117 
 
 Skill 64 
 
 B 
 
 Baking Powders, No. 1 16 
 
 No. 2 46 
 
 Balsam of Honey 40 
 
 Balm of file 94 
 
 Basiiicon, Yellow 60 
 
 Bear'sUrease 61 
 
 Bed-Bug Poison 86 
 
 Beer Powdeis, Ginger 49 
 
 Spruce 58 
 
 Bengal Lights 116 
 
 Bitters, Brandy 90 
 
 Rhubarb Ill 
 
 Bit'ers, Stoughton 10 
 
 , Stomach 25 
 
 Black Peviver,for black cloth, 78 
 
 Blackbeiry Brandy 
 
 ... 86 
 
 Blacken the Eye-Lashes 
 
 .. 101 
 
 Blacking, Prize Liquid 
 
 ...130 
 
 Harness 
 
 ... 27 
 
 WaterProof 
 
 ... 35 
 
 No. 1 
 
 ... 38 
 
 No. 2 
 
 ... 48 
 
 No. 3 
 
 
 without friction... 
 
 ... 84 
 
 Bloom of Roses 
 
 ... 87 
 
 Bloud Purifier 
 
 ... 91 
 
 Blue. Lauudry 
 
 ... 33 
 
 BueingClo h< s 
 
 
 Books or Paper, to marble... 
 
 ...133 
 
 Brown’s Bronchial Troches... 
 
 ... 29 
 
 c 
 
 
 Camphorated Vinegar 
 
 Camphor Balls, to prevent 
 
 ... 41 
 
 chaps 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Camphor Cerate, for chapped 
 
 hauds 60 
 
 Ice 85 
 
 Tablets, for chapprd 
 
 hands 49 
 
 Candles, to make 83 
 
 Candy, Hoarhound 88 
 
 Carminative, Dal by ’s 27 
 
 Carmine 110 
 
 Cements, Diamond 34 
 
 (Explanation of) 53 
 
 Fire and water-proof, 117 
 Fire and water-proof, 
 
 for houses 127 
 
 Gutta Percha.. 121 
 
 Iron 76 
 
 Leather 46 
 
 Mamie 24 
 
 Stick 25 
 
 Peasley's 131 
 
 Celery, Essence of. 99 
 
 Cerate, Turner s 136 
 
 Chilblain Ointment 10 
 
 Cholera Mixture 23 
 
 Cider, Home-Made 85 
 
 Champagne 113 
 
 Cinnamou. to choose 105 
 
 Circassian Cream „ 74 
 
 Cii rate Magnesia 39 
 
 Clean St el and Iron 62 
 
 Clothes Ball 15 
 
 Clothes Blin-iug 98 
 
 Coffee, substitute for 129 
 
 Cold Cream, No. 1 20 
 
 Cologne, equal to Fariua. 15 
 
 No. 2 35 
 
 No. 3 36 
 
 No. 4 37 
 
 No. 5 37 
 
 No. 6 38 
 
 No. 7 46 
 
 Cordial, Aniseed 40 
 
 Blackberry 92 
 
 God fey’s 80 
 
 Irish 103 
 
 Peppermint, 29 
 
 Composition, f..r grafting 36 
 
 Congress Water, to make 104 
 
 Coral Baskets, to imitate 108 
 
 ( 140 ) 
 
Index. 
 
 141 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Com Solvent, Davy’s 79 
 
 Cough Candy, Common Twist, 112 
 
 Mixture 59 
 
 Court Plasters, black, No. 1.... -26 
 No. 2.... 45 
 
 flesh 45 
 
 cheap 69 
 
 Cure for Drunkenness 84 
 
 Curolina, for the Hair 9 
 
 Curry Powder 132 
 
 true Indian 138 
 
 Crystallize Baskets 128 
 
 Grasses 32 
 
 D 
 
 Depilatory, Chinese 50 
 
 Draw from Nature, a new art..l23 
 
 Drops, Hot 37 
 
 for scouring 114 
 
 Dysentery and Bloody Flux... 120 
 
 E 
 
 Earache, cure for - 46 
 
 Easter Eggs, to color 107 
 
 Ebony, imitation of 134 
 
 Electric Oil 11 
 
 Essence of Celery 46 
 
 GiDger 93 
 
 Nutmegs 117 
 
 Peppermint 17 
 
 Exterminator, Rat 11 
 
 Extract Arab a 113 
 
 Blackberries 85 
 
 Ginger 24 
 
 Musk 88 
 
 Sweet Smelling 87 
 
 Sarsaparilla 65 
 
 Verbena 41 
 
 VaDilla 13 
 
 Eye Water, Dick’s 80 
 
 Dr. Stryker's 132 
 
 Wilsons., 82 
 
 F 
 
 Fig Pa<te. for Constipation 97 
 
 Fever and Ague Mixture 90 
 
 Fire Kindlers 8 
 
 Proof Paper 43 
 
 Fly Destroyer 19 
 
 Paper 44 
 
 Water 60 
 
 Fountain of Fire 115 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Freckle Lotion 21 
 
 Ointment 70 
 
 Wash 109 
 
 Freezing without Ice 42 
 
 Friction Soap 12 
 
 Furniture Oil, Ray’s 114 
 
 Paste 32 
 
 Polish, French. 15 
 
 G 
 
 Gingerette, Spanish 51 
 
 Gilding, to improve 115 
 
 Glue tor labeling tin 11 
 
 Marine 74 
 
 Spaulding’s 98 
 
 Golden Pomade 14 
 
 Gout Mixture, Dr. Davie’s 130 
 
 Grafting Wax 75 
 
 Ground Glass 104 
 
 Gum for Envelopes and Paper. .104 
 Gutta Percha Soles 70 
 
 H 
 
 Hair Dye, Twiggs’ 26 
 
 HoarhoundCandy 88 
 
 Honey, artificial 30 
 
 Water, to make.. 114 
 
 Hooping Cough, cure of. 130 
 
 Horse Flies 126 
 
 Hungary Water, Queen of. 89 
 
 I 
 
 Ink, black, No. 1 17 
 
 No. 2 37 
 
 No. 3 45 
 
 Blue 20 
 
 Carmine 16 
 
 Greon writing 10 
 
 Gold 80 
 
 Indelible 35 
 
 Marking, for Linen 22 
 
 Magic 106 
 
 Black, for Printers 89 
 
 Marking without prepara- 
 tion 72 
 
 Purple 28 
 
 Sympathetic 42 
 
 Silver 11 
 
 Violet 42 
 
 Yellow 131 
 
 From Paper, to remove 42 
 
 Powders 24 
 
142 
 
 Index. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Insect Powders, Magnetic 14 
 
 Ivoiy, to shape 118 
 
 J 
 
 Jellies without F uit 95 
 
 Jess mine Gutter 79 
 
 Jujube Paste 88 
 
 K 
 
 Kalydor, tor the complexion. ..Ill 
 
 Kid Gloves, to clean 133 
 
 King of Pain 52 
 
 L 
 
 La Belle White 87 
 
 Leaf Printing 136 
 
 Lemonade, portable 58 , 
 
 Ginger 59 
 
 Liniment for Burns, Universal, 33 
 
 Arnica 52 
 
 An excellent Horse... 8S 
 
 For Frost Bites 38 
 
 Lip Salve, Hudson 12 
 
 No. 1... 32 
 
 No. 2 46 
 
 Rose 61 
 
 Liquid Glue, No. 1 13 
 
 No. 2 68 
 
 common 56 
 
 very strong 76 
 
 Blue 86 
 
 Lotion for Baldness 72 
 
 Lozenges, Cinnamon 90 
 
 Peppermint 9 5 
 
 Saffron 95 
 
 Wister’s Cough 96 
 
 M 
 
 Magnesia, Citrate - 39 
 
 Magic Dye 7. 104 
 
 Paper 7 
 
 Mahogany, for staining in imi- 
 tation 89 
 
 Mead, Sassafras 128 
 
 Medicated Prunes 82 
 
 Meerschaum, to color ...122 
 
 Melt a Coin in aNutshell,how 
 
 to 119 
 
 Milk of Roses 97 
 
 Mouth Glue, No. 1 55 
 
 No. 2 68 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Mouth Pastilles, No. 1 66 
 
 No. 2 66 
 
 No. 3 66 
 
 Mustard, French 84 
 
 N 
 
 Nectar, Supreme 139 
 
 Nerve Invigorating 131 
 
 o 
 
 Oil, British 119 
 
 tor Harness 33 
 
 Rowland s Macassar 127 
 
 of Tartar .. 38 
 
 Ointment, Cattle 112 
 
 Cancer 50 
 
 Cliilhlain 10 
 
 for Fn-sted Feet 27 
 
 Fr ckle 70 
 
 Itch 62 
 
 Ro in 127 
 
 Ringworm— 39 
 
 Scald Head. 39 
 
 Zinc 137 
 
 Ouunent, Imperial 9 
 
 Opedildoc - 82 
 
 Orangeade 59 
 
 Otto of Roses 103 
 
 Ox Gall, for taking out spots, 
 prepared 138 
 
 P 
 
 Paint for a Baru, cheap 99 
 
 Cheap 100 
 
 Green 115 
 
 Painting on Glass, the art of... 121 
 
 Pain Killer 51 
 
 Papier Mache 109 
 
 Paste, Almoi’d 80 
 
 Bookbinders 132 
 
 Flour.. 41 
 
 Jujube 8*5 
 
 Permanent 71 
 
 for Gloves, an excel lent,. 13S 
 
 Pastiles for burning 7S 
 
 Pepper, to choose 107 
 
 Perfume, Clothing 131 
 
 ot Flowers to extract 83 
 
 for Note Paper 93 
 
 Phosphorus Paste, for rats, Ac... 74 
 
 Piles, cure for 94 
 
 Pills, Brandreth’s 65 
 
Index. 
 
 143 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Pills, Headache 65 
 
 Hooper’s Female 101 
 
 Lee’s .100 
 
 Rhubarb 81 
 
 Plasters, Adhesive, No 1 31 
 
 No. 2 52 
 
 Burgundy Pitch 31 
 
 Corn 39 
 
 Strengthening 38 
 
 Spice 136 
 
 Poison, Bed-Bug 86 
 
 Po'i-hing Paste for Metals 25 
 
 Polish for Boots and Shoes, 
 
 French 118 
 
 Pomatum, Ox Marrow 20 
 
 Pomade. Black Stick.... 50 
 
 for Baldness 73 
 
 Cheap 40 
 
 Castor Oil 43 
 
 Divine 19 
 
 Stick 41 
 
 White Stick... 43 
 
 Victoria 61 
 
 Pop Corn Balls 52 
 
 Imperial 134 
 
 Preston Salts 58 
 
 Powders, Almond Ill 
 
 Baking 28 
 
 Gold 67 
 
 Metal 33 
 
 Plate 103 
 
 Pearl 38 
 
 Vi let 41 
 
 Purifying ibe Blood 112 
 
 Water, simple mode 
 of 123 
 
 R 
 
 Rat Exterminator 11 
 
 Razor Paste, No. 1 44 
 
 No. 2 67 
 
 Paper 29 
 
 Renovating Balls, Chemical 134 
 
 Restorative, Hair 20 
 
 Rheumatism, cure of. 131 
 
 Roach Wafers 43 
 
 Root Beer 47 
 
 Rosewood, to imitate 98 
 
 Rose W’ater, excellent Ill 
 
 Rouge, Fiench 32 
 
 Turkish 107 
 
 Portuguese 110 
 
 PAGE 
 
 s 
 
 Sachet, Heliotrope 18 
 
 Salve, Conkling’s 106 
 
 Eureka 24 
 
 Hull's Healing 97 
 
 Green Mountain 48 
 
 Wart and Coin 112 
 
 Sarsaparilla Mead 26 
 
 Salts of Lemons 79 
 
 Sealing-Wax, Red,... 21 
 
 Black 42 
 
 Bottle 42 
 
 Yellow 114 
 
 Sea Weed Red, to c>lor 32 
 
 Scent Bags for Linen 57 
 
 No. 2 62 
 
 Economical 102 
 
 Resembling Violet, to 
 
 make . 104 
 
 Scouring Drops, for renovating 
 
 grease, &c 78 
 
 Shampooing Mixture, No. 1.... 63 
 No. 2 ... 63 
 
 Sherbet, Lemon 113 
 
 Seidiiiz Powders 116 
 
 Silver-Plating Fluid 19 
 
 Powder 69 
 
 Silvering Powder... 97 
 
 Soap, Bay berry or Myrtle 72 
 
 Cheap hard 17 
 
 Complexion 22 
 
 Cinnamon 43 
 
 Erasive 66 
 
 French Chemical 126 
 
 Genuine Windsor 23 
 
 Honey 48 
 
 Palm, (superior) 105 
 
 Shaving 21 
 
 Toilet 71 
 
 Transparent 91 
 
 Washing 34 
 
 Windsor, (old) 107 
 
 Snuff, Cephalic 64 
 
 Soda Water Powders 44 
 
 Solder, Lead 96 
 
 Soldering Solution 88 
 
 Soluble Glass 109 
 
 Soothing Syrup 51 
 
 Spirit of Bergamotto 106 
 
 Rose, to make 95 
 
 Syrup, Blackberry 93 
 
 Cough 33 
 
 Cloves 116 
 
 Lemon, No. 1 26 
 
144 
 
 Index. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Syrup, Lemon, No. 2 66 
 
 Rhubarb 06 
 
 Quince 92 
 
 Squills 102 
 
 Orange .. 49 
 
 Squill Mixture 100 
 
 Stove Paint 77 
 
 To keep bright 126 
 
 Sweet Oil, to make 120 
 
 Sugar, to choose 100 
 
 T 
 
 Table of Measures 102 
 
 Taffee, Everton 118 
 
 Tincture of Allspice 92 
 
 Ckm-s 92 
 
 Toffee for Hooping Cough, to 
 
 make 137 
 
 Tonic, Excellent 37 
 
 Tooth Powder, N o. 1 21 
 
 No. 2, very fine.. 22 
 
 No 3 62 
 
 American 78 
 
 No. 4 129 
 
 Quinine 78 
 
 Toothache Cure, Instautaue- 
 
 ous 91 
 
 Tooth-Ache Drops, Chloroform, 18 
 
 Tooth Wash, Orris 43 
 
 Tracing Paper 75 
 
 Tricopherous.for the Hair 12 
 
 Troches, Brown’s Bionchial 105 
 
 V 
 
 Varnish, Black Japan 109 
 
 Copal 118 
 
 Cheap 32 
 
 Furniture 37 
 
 Japan 115 
 
 Leather 33 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Varnish, to color baskets 122 
 
 White 79 
 
 Venice Turpentine 92 
 
 Vermifuge, Eureka 139 
 
 Frey’s„ 106 
 
 Vinegar, Aromatic 116 
 
 Camphorated 41 
 
 No. 1 64 
 
 No. 2 67 
 
 Raspberry 59 
 
 Virgin Milk 99 
 
 w 
 
 Wafers, to make 81 
 
 Wagon Grease , 117 
 
 Washing Mixture 31 
 
 Water Cold for Summer, to 
 
 mike 125 
 
 Water, Congress 104 
 
 Lavender 99 
 
 Proof Composition 36 
 
 for boots 36 
 
 Wax, Grafting 101 
 
 Wine, Blackberry 28 
 
 Currant 16 
 
 Elderberry 57 
 
 Rhubarb 40 
 
 Honey 92 
 
 Rhubarb 62 
 
 of Apples, pure 123 
 
 fl -.vored with hops, El- 
 
 dr 119 
 
 Whiskerlino 14 
 
 Writing on Iron and Steel, Ac., 69 
 Write S ■cretly on a Pocket 
 Handkerchief. 137 
 
 Y 
 
 Yeast Cakes 108 
 


 
 
 
 
 
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