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I INFOKMATION FOR EVERYBODY. 
 
 AN IXVALTABLE COLLECTION 
 
 OF OVER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTF 
 
 PRACTICAL RECIPES, 
 
 FOR 
 BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN, 
 
 3IECUAMC.% ARTI?*TS, FAR31EKS, 
 
 AND 
 
 Jor families (Scncralli). 
 
 Sixth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 
 
 Entered according to Act of Cons^resSyiit the years /5C.7.8»S<:9, in the 
 Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Vnitd States in 
 the District of 'Micitigav. A forfeiture of all the books 
 (J- afiup oftA) cts. oil each copy, is the -penalty of get- 
 ting a Copy Right work printed, and the Prin- 
 ter is equally liable as the publisher in get- 
 ting vp the u-ork. 
 
 A. Vr. CHASE, M. P., AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER. 
 OF ANN ARBOR, SilVa. 
 
 1859 
 
 Ann Arbor Journal Print 
 
PREFACE, 
 
 The Sixth Edition of " Information for Everybody" hein% 
 called for inside of three years from its first introduction, is suf" 
 flcient evidence to the author that his efforts to diffuse prac 
 tical and useful information for the People have been appreci- 
 ated by them, and encourages him to renewed energy and ex- 
 pense in making the work more valuable by introducing reci- 
 pes embracing a greater range of subjects in the various ait^ 
 and sciences in which all are more or less interested. 
 
 There is not a man or woman in the whole extent of out 
 great country but who would derive much benefit by the pur- 
 chase of this small book, and it contains recipes that every JBu- 
 tiness man, every Mechanic, and every Family, ought to po< 
 eess, as much of the Information is not published in" any other 
 xvork. The physician as well as the blacksmith — theclergv 
 man as well as the shoemaker — the lawyer as well as the fana- 
 «r— the druggist, merchant, grocer and artist as well as the la 
 borer — the lady as well as the gentleman and the girl as well as 
 the boy, will find something that will be useful and profitable 
 in a mechanical, artistical and practical point of view. 
 
 Many firesides that are now idle, can be made busy, cheer- 
 ful and profitable. Many who are now anxious for employ- 
 ment, may find it here, — many will be restored to health, and 
 many more will be prevented from contracting permanent dis- 
 ease, while '' everybody" can derive pleasure and amusement iii 
 the perusal. 
 
 Now all that is necessary to procure purchasers,is to sati?- 
 iy those to whom they are offered that the foregoing statements 
 are true, or in other words that by following the directions giv- 
 en in the recipes, or receipts, the articles made will be^ ail 
 represented by the statements in the Index or Contents c'^Ai 
 FamphUt. 
 
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 And to this end, alloff md to say that moat persons who g^ 
 about the country selling recipes, are young men who have 
 purchaaed one or more from others, and possess no knowledge 
 thaniselvea of the practicability or usefulness of the information 
 olfered; you know not from whence they come, whither they 
 go, nor even their names: — but they follow the business for the 
 sole purpose of making money ; for the gratification of their 
 spendthrift dispositions, without the least regard to the benefit 
 of the purchaser or the good of community. 
 
 While on the other hand, the author's object is as much 
 for the good of community as to support and educate his family 
 — he gives you his name and residence — is nearly fifty years of 
 age — his information also, instead of being obtained from the 
 wild Savages of our country, as many traveling Doctors pre 
 tend, has been obtained by years of patient study with respect- 
 able Physicians, and at the best Institutions in our land — th© 
 " University of Michigan," (Medical Department) Ann Arboj, 
 also at the " Eclectic Medical Institute," of Cincinnati, with 
 many years of practice and experience in the Drug and Groce- 
 KY business, as also in his own Family where many of the reci- 
 pes offered here, have been, and are still used with entire succe.s8, 
 and during thethree yeart, the author has been selling them,over 
 iSavBJf Thousand copies have pas.sed into use with the many 
 Druggists, Merchants, Grocers, Physicians, Artists and Families 
 hi the various States where he has been traveling, and so far aa 
 known, entire satisfaction has been given. He has even sold 
 the last edition to many who had purchased and used the ear- 
 lier editions, for the sake of the additional recipes in the last. 
 
 In traveling to sell these recipes, I have been brought in 
 contact with the practical bu$iness men of the various Cities and 
 Towns passed through, from whom much more information of 
 a practical and useful character has been obtained: — some from 
 a sincere wish on their part that good might be done to their 
 fellows, while to others, from $1 to $5, and even $8 has been 
 paid for single recipes, after being satisfied of their practica- 
 bility and usefulness in cases for which they were recommen- 
 ded, with which the Sixth Edition is enriched and enlarged as 
 Qow offered to the Public. 
 
 Much inquiry has been made of me, why I did not put in 
 recipes for coloring. The answer has been, I knew nothing 
 practically of it. But to satisfy this constant inquiry, I have 
 been to the expense of obtaining from 0. W. Oviatt, of Battle 
 Creok, Mich., who has been over tu>enty yeart a manufacturer 
 of cloths, requiring this information to he constantly used, and 
 ha ha.^ tak«n much paioi to prepare these recipes expressly for 
 
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 l^'amily use, asauring me that the color* will be bright and per- 
 manent, so that much confidence may also bo placed in this De- 
 partment of the b«ok: while all recipes obtained of others, the 
 nature of which admit of a trial, ar« first tested before embod- 
 ying thena in my Pamphlet. The author is thus perfectly sat- 
 isfied that no book of the kind is as much entitled to the confi- 
 dence of the public as the one now offered to them entitled, 
 " Information for Everybody." 
 
 This is further established by the fact that some Fotir 
 TKousand copies have been sold in our own State, where the 
 J^ersons to whom I am permitted to refer, and with whom I 
 have dealt for years, living and doing business in Detroit, are 
 known to our business men throughout tho State, and these 
 certificates have given them the assurance that in buy- 
 ing my book, they were not encouraging another of the Hum- 
 bugs and Deceptions of the day. 
 
 And it is for the reason tliat so much fraud is used in 
 palming off worthless recipes or receipts upon the people, that 
 I have taken the pains in getting these references to Detroit 
 dealers with whom I am acquainted, as well as those from oth- 
 er i>er3ons in the various States who have used such recipes 
 from my book, as they speak of in their certificates, and have 
 made these expressions voluntarily by letter or personally ,when 
 I have called on them in passing through their places, months 
 or years after selling them the recipes. 
 
 I do not want any person's money without giving them 
 the full value therefor, and in this case I know that the book is 
 not only worth the price asked for it, but that any single item 
 or recipe in it which any person may wish to wse, is worth tlie 
 whole amount, and many of them, to business men or familie>, 
 are worth many times the amount asked for the whole, as sin- 
 gle items have sold very recently to my knowledge for from 25 
 cents to 2, 5, 10, 50, and even as high as $125, by some of the 
 persons referred to in these certificates. 
 
 One recipe, I must particularly refer to, from the great 
 prejudice existing against it. I mean the VVashiko Fluid. — 
 So many females have tried the various fluids without success 
 that you only mention washing fluid to them, and they cry out 
 at once : " Just g-ive me the old xcay — soap and elbow grease — 
 for I have streaked or rotted my clothes enough already with 
 nuids, which are good for nothing." I know that the basest 
 deception has been practiced in this matter, and I regret it as 
 much aa any man can, but this I also know that my family 
 have used the article recommended here, for years, and I hav* 
 »«ea maoy who have uwd it from my book long enough tq 
 
judg« understandingly of its trIuo, and every one says the sam* 
 thing of it; — that is — that half of tie labor will do the washing, 
 ftnd the clothes last longer, and are clearer and whiter than 
 when rubbed on the wash-board. 
 
 My Recipes for Ringbone and Spavin are from Mr. "Wal- 
 lington, an English Farrier of our own city, who has had many 
 years experience in their application and cares not of how 
 long standing they may be, yet it is from having seen him ap- 
 pjy them with entire success, that I introduce them with his 
 consent into the work. They can be depended upon. 
 
 Then it must be conceded that those who obtain this pam- 
 phlet, and desire to use any article mentioned in it, need hav© 
 no fears as to the result, but make the article as directed, feel- 
 ing assured that a good thing will be obtained; — often for,from 
 cn^-third to even as low as one-sixth of the amount usually paid 
 for similar articles ready made; while, many of them cannot bti 
 obtained at all without these recipes to work from. The arti^ 
 cles also required to use in manufacturing them, are easily ob- 
 tained, as a general thing. 
 
 And if the recipes do not give general saiisfaciion on tvialf 
 the money shall be refunded by the 
 
 AUTHOR. 
 
 EXPLANATION OF CHABACTBB8. 
 
 lb. stands in place of pound, 
 
 oz. 
 
 u 
 
 (< 
 
 ounce, 
 
 ii 
 
 a 
 
 (( 
 
 one-eighth, one-fourth^ 
 
 ^f 
 
 a 
 
 H 
 
 one-half, three-fourths, 
 
 gal. 
 
 iC 
 
 a 
 
 gallons, 
 
 qt. 
 
 ti 
 
 « 
 
 quart, 
 
 pt. 
 
 ii 
 
 u 
 
 pint. 
 
DIRECTIONS 
 
 FOR MAKING TH£ VARIOUS BEERS. WINEQ. C1D£R8» 
 SODA-SYRUPS, &V,, &C. 
 
 Cider Without Apples. — To each gallon of cold water, 
 put 1 lb. dark brown sugar, | oz. Tartaric Acid, 3 tablespoon- 
 fulls of yeast, shake well, make in the evening, and it will be 
 fit for use next day. I make in a keg a few gallons at a time, 
 leaving a few quarts to make into next time— not using yeast 
 again until the keg needs rinsing. If it gets a little sour make 
 more into it. If it is desired to bottle this cider by manu/ac- 
 iurers of t,mall dyinks, yon wWl proceed as follows : Put in a 
 barrel 5 gallons of hot water, 30 lbs. brown sugar, | lb. Tar- 
 taric Acid, 25 gallons cold water, 3 pints of Hop or Brewers* 
 yeast, worlced into a paste with | lb. flour, and 1 pint of water 
 will be required in making this paste, put all together in o, bar- 
 rel, which it will fill, and let it work 24 hours — the yeast run- 
 ning out at the bung all the time, by putting in alittle at a 
 time to keep it full. Then bottle, putting in 2 or 3 broken rai- 
 Kins to each bottle, and it will nearly equal Champagne. Let 
 the bottles lay in a cool place on the side. This Cider is some- 
 times made as foIIc'AS t For 20 gallons of water put 15 lbs. of 
 ^'.'CYiTi sugar and ^ lb. of Tartaric acid and no yeast, as this 
 "will keep for any length of time in kegs or barrels. If made in 
 this way I would boil 2 lbs. of dried apples and add the juice to 
 this amount of cider. The darker the sugar, the more natural 
 will be the color of the cider. Dr. 0. B. need, with whom I 
 r«ad medicine, drank of this cider freely while sick with bil- 
 lious fever, knovsing its composition and recommended it to hia 
 patients as soon as he got out amongst them again, as a drink 
 that would allay thirst, with the least amount of fluid, of any 
 thing with which he was acquainted, 
 
But I prefer Profesfior Hufeland's drink for fever patlcnU 
 fts follows: — Boil \ an oz. of Cream-of-Tartar in 8 quarts of 
 water until all is dissolved — after taking it from the fire add a 
 sliced orange with from IJ to 8 o%. of white sugar, according 
 to the desire of the patient, bottle and keep cool, and use for a 
 common drink in fevers of all grades. 
 
 Spruce or Aromatic Beer. — Take 3 gal. water, 1 quart 
 and I pintmola{<ses, 3 eggs well beat, 1 gill yeast; into 2 quart* 
 of the water boiling hot, put 60 drops of any oil you wish the 
 flavor of ; or mix I oz. each, oil Sasafras, Spruce and Winter- 
 green, then use the 50 drops. For Ginger flavor, take 2 oz. 
 Ginger root bruised, and a few hops, and boil for 30 minutes in 
 1 gal. of the water; strain and mix all. Let it stand 2 houra 
 and bottle, using yeast of course as before, bearing in mind 
 that yeast must never be scalded. 
 
 Lemon Bper. — To make 20 gallons, boil 6 oz. of Ginger 
 root bruised.J lb. Cream-of-tartar for 20 or 30 minutes in 2 or 3 
 galls, of the water. This will be strained into 13 lbs. of coffee 
 sugar, on which you have put 1 oz. oil lemon. or | oz. oil lemon 
 and 6 good lemons all squeei:ed up together, having warm wa- 
 ter enough to make the whole 20 gallons just so you can hold 
 your hand in it without burning, or about 70 deg. of heat, put 
 in 1^ pints of hop or brewers' yeast worked into paste, as for 
 the cider, with 6 or 6 oz. of flour. Let it work over night,then 
 strain and bottle for use. This will keep 15 to 20 days. 
 
 Philadelphia Beer. — Take 30 gallons of water; brown 
 fltlgar 20 pounds;ginger root bruised 1^ lbs.;cream-of-tartar lib. 
 Carbonate of soda 3 oz.; 1 teaspoonful of oil of lemon cut in a 
 little alcohol; whites of 10 eggs well beat; hops 2 oz.; yeast 1 
 quart. The ginger root and hops should be boiled 20 or 80 
 minutes in enough of the water to make all milk warm, then 
 strain into the rest and the yeast added and allowed to work it- 
 self clear as the cider,and bottled. 
 
 Silver Top Drink. — Water 8 quarts ; white sugar 4 lb«.; 
 Lemon oil 1 teaspoonful : whites of 6 eggs well beat with one 
 tablespoonful of flour, boil to form a syrup, then divide into 
 equal parts,and to 1 part add 3 oz. tartaric acid, and to the oth- 
 ®r part 4 oz. carbonate of soda two-ihirds of a glass of water.and 
 put in a spoonful of each of the syrups more or less, accord- 
 ing to the size of the glass. 
 
 Imperial Cream Nbctar. — Part first. Take 1 gallon of 
 water, 6 lbs, loaf sugar, oz. tartaric acid, gum arable 1 ok>— 
 
Part second. 4 teMpoonfuls of floor, the whites 0/ 4 eggs.bt&t 
 th6 flour and eggs finely together, then add | pint water;wh€n 
 the first is blood warm put in the second, boil 8 minutes andii 
 ifl done. Directions : 3 tablespoonfuls of the syrup to a glass 
 half or two-thirds full of water, and add one-third teaepoonful 
 of Buper-carbonate of soda made flnej stir well and drink at 
 your leisure. 
 
 I^In getting up any of the Soda drinks which are spoken 
 of it will be found preferable to put about 4 oz. of carbonate, 
 sometimes called super-carbonate of Soda, into 1 pint of wate: 
 in a bottle and shake when you wish to make a glass of sodf. 
 and pour of this into the glass until it foams well, instead of 
 using the dry soda as directed. 
 
 QiNGKR Pop. — Take 5 and one-half gals, water, i lb, gin 
 get root bruised, one-half oz. tartaric acid, 2| lbs. white sugar, 
 whites of 3 eggs well beat, 1 small teaspoonful of lemon oil, 1 
 gill yeast; boil the root for 30 minutes in 1 gal of the water, 
 strain off, and put the oil in while hot, rnix. Make over night, 
 In the morning skim and bottle, keeping out sediments. 
 
 Spanish Gingerette. — To each gal. of water, put 1 lb 
 white sugar, one-half oz. best bruised ginger root, | oz. cream- 
 tartar and 2 lemons sliced. Directions: In making 5 gals,, boil 
 the ginger and lemons ten minutes in 2 gals, of the water, the 
 sugar and cream tartar to be dissolved in the cold water, and 
 mix all, and add one-half pint of good yeast; let it ferment 
 over night, strain and bottle in the morning. This is a valua- 
 ble recipe for a cooling and refreshing beverage, compounded 
 of ingredients highly calculated to assist the stomach, and is 
 recommended to persons Miftering with dyspepsia or sick-head- 
 ache. It is much used in European countries, and persons hav- 
 ing once tested its virtues, will constantly use it as a commou 
 drink . And for saloons or groceries no temperance beverage 
 will set it aside. 
 
 Yeast. — Take a good single handful of hops, and toil f-r-p 
 20 minutes in 3 pints of water, strain, stir in a teacup of liour, 
 a tablespoonful of sugar and a teaspoonful of salt; when a little 
 cool put in 1 gill brewers' or bakers' yeast ; and after 4 or 5 
 hours cover \ip and stand in a cool place for use; make again 
 from this unless you let it get sour. 
 
 Soda Syrups. — Loaf or crushed sugar 8 lbs.; pure water 
 1 gal.; gum arable 2 oz.; mix in a brass or copper kettle; boil 
 cntil the gum is dissolved, then skim and strain through white 
 
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 fiannel, after \Thicli add Tartaric acid 5 and one-half ot. disfto?- 
 ^ed in hot water; to flavor, use extract of lemon, orange, rose, 
 pine apple, peach, sarsaparilla, strawberry, &c., one-half 02., to- 
 each bottle.or to your taste. If you use the juice of lemon and 1 
 and one-half lbs. of sugar to a pint, you do not need any tar- 
 taric acid with it; now use 2 or 3 tablespoonfuls of syrup, to | 
 of a tumbler of water and one-half teaspoonful of super carbon- 
 ate of soda made fine; stir well and be ready to drink, or wm 
 ihe soda in water as mentioned in tbe imperial cream nectar ; 
 the gum arabic, however, holds the carbonic acid so it will not 
 fly off as rapid as common soda. For soda fountains 1 oz. of 
 >.uper-carbonate of soda is used to 1 gallon of water. For char- 
 ged fountains no acids are needed in the syrups. 
 
 Mineral Water. — Epsome Salts, 1 oz.; cream tartar 
 one half oz.; tartaric acid | oz.; loaf f^ugar 1 lb.; oil birch 20 
 drops, put 1 quart boiling water on all these articles, and add 
 ^ qts. cold water and 2 tablespoonfuls yeast, (wintergreen oil 
 will do) let it work 2 hours and then bottle. 
 
 Improved English Strong Beer. — If you have Malt \\m 
 it, if not take 1 peck of barley, (oats will do but not so good) 
 and put into au oven after the bread is drawn or into a stove 
 oven and steam the moisture from them. Grind coarsely (not 
 une,) and pour into them 3 and one-half gals, water at 170 or 
 72 degrees. (If you use malt it does not need quite so much 
 water as it does not absorb so much as the other. Tbe tub 
 should have a false bottom with many gimblet holes to keep 
 back the grain.) Stir them well and let stand three hours and 
 draw off, put on 7 gals, more water at 180 to 82 degs.; stir well 
 and let stand 2 hours and draw off. Then put on a gal- or two 
 of cold water, stir well and draw off; you should have about 5 
 or 6 gals. Mix 6 lbs. coarse brown sugar in equal amount of 
 water ; mix with the wort, and boil 1 and one-half to 2 hours 
 with 4 ozs. good hops in it; you should have 8 gals when boiled, 
 when cooled to 80 degs. put in a teacupful of good yeast and 
 let it work 18 or 20 hours covered with a sack; use sound iron 
 liQOped kegs or porter bottles, bung or cork tight and in two 
 weeks ft will be good sound beer, nearly equal in strength to 
 London Porter or good ale, and will keep a long time; and for 
 persons of a weak habit of body and especially females, 1 glass 
 of this with their meals is far better than tea or coffee, or all 
 the ardent spirits in the universe. 
 
 Ginger Wine. — Take 1 quart of 95 per cent Alcohol, and 
 put into it 1 oz. of best ginger root, (bruised not ground) 5. grso 
 of capsicum and \ drachiA of tartaric aci4. I^et stand 1 wef 1; 
 
iand filter. Now add 1 gal. water, in which 1 lb. of crushed su- 
 gar has been boiled. Mix when cold. To make the color, boil 
 one-half oz. of cochineal, | oz. cream-of -tartar.one-half oz.salo- 
 ratus, and one-half oz. alum in a pint of water till you get a 
 bright red color; and use a proper amount of this to bring the 
 wine to the desired color. This wine is suitable for nearly all 
 the purposes for which any wine is used, and a gallon of it will 
 not cost more than a pint of many wines sold throughout the 
 country for medicinal uses, represented to be imported from Eu- 
 rope. Let a man, sufifering with a bad cold, drink about half a 
 pint of this wine hot, on going to bed, soaking his feet at 
 the same time in hot water 15 or 20 minutes and cov- 
 ering up warm and sweating it out till morning, then wash- 
 ing off his whole body with cool or cold water, by means of a 
 wet towel, and rubbing briskly with a coarse dry towel for 4 or 
 5 minutes will not be able to find bis cold or any bad effects of 
 it in one case out of a hundred. Ladies or children would take 
 less, in proportion to age and strength.. Females in a weakly 
 condition, with little or no appetite and spare in flesh, from 
 food not properly digesting, but -not yet ripened into adual in- 
 digestion will find almost entire relief by taking about half a 
 wine-glass of this wine 20 minutes before meals and following 
 it up a month or two according to their improved condition. — 
 For family use it is just as good not to use the coloring in this 
 wine at all. 
 
 Ice Cream. — Have rich sweet cream, and J lb. loaf sugar 
 to each quart of cream or milk; if you cannot get cream, the 
 best imitation is to boil a soft custard; 6 eggs to each quart of 
 milk, (eggs to be well beat;) or another is made as follows: boil 
 a quart of milk and stir into it while boiling a tablespoonfull of 
 arrow root wet with cold milk; when cool stir in the yolk of 1 
 egg to give a rich color. Five minutes boiling is enough for 
 either plan. Put the sugar in after they cool; keep the same 
 proportions for any amount desired. The .juice of strawberries 
 or raspberries give a beautiful color and flavor to ice creams; 
 or about | oz of essence or extracts to a gallon, or to suit the 
 taste. Have your ice well broken; 1 qt. .salt to a bucket of ice. 
 About one-half hour's constant stirring and occasional scraping 
 down and beating together will freeze it; and the less a person 
 eats of it, for their health, the better. 
 
 IcB Cream vert Cheap. — For 6 qta. of milk, you will add 
 one-half lb. of Oswego corn starch. First dissolve the st^^y^^^ j^ 
 one qt. of the milk, theii Siil «11 tOgwiher and just simmer a lit- 
 tle, (not to boil.) Sweeten and flayer to guit your taste, or as 
 above. 
 
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 CsKAM Soda. — Lo&f sugar, 10 Ibfl., water 3 gills, warm 
 gradually so as not to burn; good rich cream, 2 qt«.; extract of 
 vanilla 1 and one-half ozs., and extract nutmeg one-half ounce, 
 tartaric acid 4 om. Just bring to a boiling heat, for if yon 
 cook it any length of time it will crystallize ; use 4 or 5 spoon- 
 fuls of this fiyrup instead of three as in other syrups, put one- 
 third tea-spoonful of soda to a glass, if used without a fountain. 
 For charged fountains no acids are used. 
 
 Lemon, Orangjc xvb Rabpberry Sitrups.— Where yon 
 have lemons which are spoiling and drying up, take the insides 
 which are yet sound, squeeze out the juice, and to each pint 
 put 1 J lbs. white sugar; add a little of the peel, boil a lew min* 
 utes, strain and cork for use. This will not require any acid 
 but orange or raspberry ; syrups are made in the fame way 
 with the addition of 1 oz. tartaric acid to each pint of juice.and 
 i teaspoonful of soda to | of a glass of water with 2 or 3 table- 
 Bpoonfuls of syrup. If water is added the syrup will not keep 
 as well, and takes more of it. 
 
 PuHE Wine. — Take 3 lbs. nice raisins, free of stems, cut 
 each one in 2 ]iieces, put them into a stone jug with 1 gal. pure 
 soft water, let them stand two weeks uncorked, shaking occa- 
 sionally, (warm place in winter;) strain through 3 or 4 thick- 
 nesses of woolen or filter, color with burned sugar, bottle and 
 cork well for use. The more raisins that are used the better 
 will be the wine, not exceeding 5 lbs. 
 
 This is from the Eclectic Dispensatory and I have made ii 
 and used it in prescriptions, but I prefer the following plan, if 
 one can take the time necess?iry to let it work properly, which 
 of course any one can do and especially where it is to be used 
 in medicine or for sacramental purposes, for which it is perfect- 
 ly appropriate: — to each pound of nice box raisins, finely chop- 
 ed, pour on 1 qt. of boiling soft water, using jars to stand them 
 in, cover closely to keep in the steam, let stand until cold, or 
 24 hours, then strain off, squeezing out all the juice and add 1 
 lb. of whiti sugar for every lb. of raisins used, then put in a 
 jug or jugs and let stand two months before using, color to 
 suit with the wine coloring. 
 
 Coloring for Wines. — Take any amount of white sugar 
 desired, put into an iron kettle, moi«ten a little, let boil and 
 f^me to a red black and thick; remove from the fire and add a 
 little hot water io ke^p it fr"«n bartl«niRg as it cools; bottle for 
 use, and color your wines with this to any desired tint you wish. 
 
 Thete wines are every way appropriate for sacrsmental or 
 
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 medicinal purposes and far more pure than can b« parcha«Ki 
 ©nc« in a hundred times, and if one make* their own they hare 
 tb« satisfaction of knowing that their wines are not made of 
 what is vulgarly yet truly called rot gut whitky. 
 
 PuRB Wink Vinegar — Is made by putting the same quan- 
 tity of water on the above raisins (after the wine is poured cfif) 
 as at first, and standing the same length of time in the same way. 
 
 Port Winb.— Take 42 gals, of worked cider, 12 gals, good 
 Port Wine, 3 gals, good Biandy, 6 gals, pure spirits; color with 
 burned sugar, as you like. This is more particularly applica- 
 ble to medicinal purposes. This wine is the prescription of 
 Prof. Douglass of the University of Michigan, in his lectures to 
 the medical class of which I was a member in tie winter of '6(5- 
 7 ; to be used by us as physicians in our prescriptions, in pref- 
 erence to the stuff usually sold, representing to be an importtd 
 article. But I say from the difficulty of getting good wine or 
 brandy leave them out entirely as al.so the pure ipirit mention- 
 ed, and use instead of them for the 42 gallons of pure cider free 
 of pummace 4 J to 5 gals, of best alcohol and 10 lbs. of the best 
 cut raisins with j lb. of cinnamon bark and alspice each and 1 
 oz. each of cloves and nutmegs ground, let stand two weeka 
 shaking occasionally, then rack off to be free of the raisins and 
 sediment, and you will have a wine as strengthening and invig- 
 orating, and much more so than any wine you can buy and for 
 one fourth the cost. 
 
 Currant and other Fruit Wines. — For Currant. Cher* 
 ry, Raspberry, Elderberry, Strawberry, either one can be used 
 alone, or a corabinarinn of several of the difleient kinds, to 
 make a variety of flavors or suit persons who have some and 
 not the other kinds of fruits. To every gallon of expressed 
 juice, add 2 gals, of soft water and 8 lbs. of brown sugar, and 1 
 and one-half oz. of cream-of-tartar, have them dissolved. Af- 
 ter fermentation, take 4 ozs. Isinglass dissolved in a pint of the 
 wine and put to each barrel will fine and clear it by eettling 
 every impurity, when it must be drawn off into clean casks, or 
 bottled, which is far the best. Give these wines age and you 
 yfVtl be forced to hide them if you do not want them drank. If 
 bottled, let the bottles lie on the side. 
 
 Dinner Wine, or Enolish Pattent Wine FSom the sxALa 
 
 OP OARDEX RhBUBARB, WILL NOT LEAD TO InTKMPERANCK. 
 
 — An agreeable and healthful wine is made from the express- 
 ed juioe of the garden Rheubarb. To each gal. of juice add 
 1 gal. of soft water in which 7 lb«. brown sugar has been di»- 
 
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 solved ; fill a keg or a barrel with this proportion, leaving the 
 bung out, and keep it filled with sweetened water as it work* 
 off* until clear ; then bung down or bottle as you desire. These 
 stalks will furnish about | their weight in juice. Fine and 
 settle with isinglass as in the fruit wines. Or for every 4 Iba. 
 of the stalks cut fine, pour on 1 gal. of boiling water, adding 
 4 lbs. of brown sugar, let stand covered tight 24 hours, having 
 also added a little cinnamon, allspice, cloves and nutmegs, 
 bruised, as may be desired for flavoring, then strain and let it 
 work a few days or weeks, then settle with isinglass as above 
 Bottle or bung tight, and the longer kept the better it will be 
 for medicine or drink. Where wine or any drink is bottled, 
 always lay them on the side. This has been patented in Eng- 
 land. 
 
 Blackberry WiNB.-'There is no wineequal to the black- 
 berry wine when properly made, either in flavor or for medic- 
 inal purposes, and all persons who can conveniently do so, 
 •;hould manufacture enough for their own use every year, as 
 't is invaluable in sickness as a tonic, and "nothing is better for 
 •)Owel disease. I therefore give the recipe of making it, and 
 ■lavino; tried it myself I speak advisedly on the subject; meas- 
 ure your berries and bruise them : to every gallon adding 1 qt. of 
 ;)oilirig water, let the mixture stand 24 hours, stirring occasion- 
 illy , then strain all the liquor into a cask, to every gallon 
 •idding 2 lbs. of sugar ; cork tight, and let it stand until the 
 following October, and you will have wine fit for use, without 
 further straining or boiling, that will make lips smack as they 
 never smacked under its influence before." This recipe I insert 
 upon the authority of C, W. Starbuck, of the Cincinnati Dollar 
 Weekly Times, not bavins; had an opportunity to try it my- 
 self, but from my knowledge of the fruit and the directions 
 given in the recipe, I feel assured that where this fruit is plen- 
 ty, that this wine should take the place of all other wines, un- 
 less a person raises the grapes and understands the manufac- 
 turing of wines himself, or has an assistant who does, which 
 by the way, are very scarce. 
 
 Stomach Bitters Equal to Hostetter's for Onjb • 
 Fourth Its Cost. — Take gention root, 1 and i oz. ; orange 
 l>eel, 2 and \ oz. ; cinnamon, | qz.\ ani,se seed, | oz. ; corian- 
 ^Zl ZZZ^\, C2"-nalf oz. ; cardamon seed, | oz. ; unground Peru- 
 vian bark, one-half oz. : bruise all these articles and put them 
 with one-quarter oz. gum kino into one qt. of alcohol of at least 
 76 per cent, proof, let stand 2 weeks shaking occasionally, then 
 pour off the clear tincture, and put into it 1 lb. of loaf sugar 
 
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 and 4 qt8. of water, or you can add theee and let it stand on 
 the dregs if preferred. 
 
 When it is deemed necessary for a person who is debilita* 
 ted to take a strengthening cordial for the stomach, nothing oif 
 the kind will be found to work so kindly and effectnally to res- 
 tore the tone of the general system as this preparation. 
 
 Dose, from a tablespoonful to a wine glass, according to 
 the strength and age of the patient, to be taken 15 or 20 min- 
 utes before meals. 
 
 To Keep Apple Cider Sweet Without Expense. — 
 When your cider has worked so as to have let the pomace sink 
 or just to suit your taste, rack it oflf and rinse the barrel, (un- 
 less you have plenty of barrels,) and return 3 gals, of the ci- 
 der into the barrel. Now take a strip of cotton cloth 2 by 6 
 inches, which has been dipped in melted sulphur and dried, 
 fire one end of this strip and introduce it into the bung-hole, 
 and hold it by means of the bung, giving it air sufficient to let 
 it burn, keeping the smoke in as,it burns, when you will push 
 the bung in tight and shake the barrel until the sulphur gas \i 
 absorbed into the cider ; then return the cider to the barrel 
 free of sediment, shake all together, and it is complete for any 
 length of time, so says Gideon Howell of On-amel, N. Y., who 
 gays he has drank it 2 years after it was put up, just as nice as 
 when first made, I know that with one half lb. of mustard 
 seed, after rectifying, and kept in a cool cellar, that it is safe ; 
 but if any one desires to try it without the mustard, or can net 
 get it, they have a good prospect of success without that ex- 
 pense, the first not costing ^ of a cent per barrel. And I know 
 that in some parts of England, by using only ripe sound apples 
 to make cider from, letting it work clear, racking off about 
 twice, bottling, &c,, &c., cider is kept from 20 to 30 years. — 
 When cider is drawn off and bottled, it should not be corked 
 until the next day after filling the bottles, or many of them 
 will burst. 
 
 Cider Wine. — Prof. Eorsford a celebrated chemist, com- 
 municated the following recipe to the Horticultural Society of 
 Massachusetts and recommends it for general trial and I have 
 much confidence in the success being satisfactory. " Let the 
 new cider from sour apples (ripe, sound fruit to be preferred) 
 ferment from 1 to 3 weeks, as the weather is warm or cool. — 
 When it has attained to lively fermentation, add to each gallon 
 according to its acidity, from one-half a lb. to 2 lbs. of whit© 
 crushed sugar, and let the whole ferment until it posBesses pre- 
 cisely the taste which it is desired should be permanent. la 
 
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 this condition pour out a quart of the elder and add for each 
 gallon on«-fourth of an oz. of sulphate of lime, known a« an 
 article of mancfacture under the name of 'anti-chloride of lime.' 
 Siir the powder and cider until intimately mixed, and return 
 the emulsion to the fermenting liquid. Agitate briskly and 
 thoroughly for a few moments, and then let the cider settle. — 
 The fermentation will cease at once. When, after a few days, 
 the cider has become clear, draw off and bottle carefully, or re- 
 move the sediment and return to the original vessel. If loosely 
 corked, which is better, it will become a sparkling cider wine, 
 and may be kept infinitely long." 
 
 Alcohol in Mkdicines in preperbncb to Brandy, Rum 
 OR Gin. — There is no one thing doing so much to bolster up the 
 t-ottering yet strong tower of Intemperance as the Old Fogy 
 Physicians who are constantly prescribing these articles to 
 their patients, and one-half the reason for it is to cover the 
 faults of their own constant use of these beverages. This un- 
 Dioce-ssary call for these articles thus used as medicine, keeps 
 up a large demand ; and when we take into consideration, the 
 almost t//i/5ossr6i/i/j/ of obtaining a genuine article, the sin of 
 prescribing them, becomes so much the gi eater, when it is also 
 known to all really scientitic men that with alcohol (which is 
 pure,) and the native fruit wines, cider and cider wines, (which 
 every one can make for themselves, and can thus know their 
 purity,) that all the indications desired to be fulfilled in curing 
 diseane can be accomplished without their use. 
 
 Then, when it is deemed advisable to use spirits to preserve 
 any bitters or syrups from souring, instead of brandy, rum or 
 gin 1 qt.; use one-half a pint of alcohol or § of a pt at most, and 
 water to make the qt. with about 2 or 3 ounces of crushed sugar 
 for this amount, increasing or lessening, according to the 
 amount desired, in these proportions: If a diuretic effect is 
 desired, which is calculated to arise where gin is prescribed, put 
 1 drachm of oil juniper into the alcohol before reducing with 
 the water ; or if the preparation admits of it you may put in 
 from 1 to 2 oz. of the juniper berries instead of the oil. If the 
 astringent effect is desired, as from brandy, use, say one-fourth 
 ci. of gum kino or catechu, either or a half of each may be used 
 If the sweating or opening properties are required as indicated 
 by the prescription of rum, sweeten with molasses in place of 
 the sugar, and use 1 drachm of oil of caraway, or I to 2 oz. of 
 the Beed for the above amount, as the juniper berries for gin. 
 
 If the strength of wine only is desired, use the ginger wine, 
 er if that flavor i& not fancied, use any oth«r fi&yor, of not any 
 favoring, m preferred by the patieol 
 
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 It »hottl<i b« known however, that sugar will keep such 
 meiicines (of the syrup kind) if used in proportion of about 1 
 lb. to a pint of the fluid, or eren molasses used pint for pint, 
 and not put in until they are perfectly cool, just as well as al- 
 cohol if the stimulating effects of the alcohol is not desired. 
 
 And no one should use any of the descriptions of alcohol as 
 a constant beverage, even in medicine, unless advised to do so 
 by a physician wlio is not himself a toper. 
 
 If families will follow the directions above given, and U!»e 
 proper care in making some of the various fruit wines as given 
 in this book for medicinal use, preparing cider, &c., which is 
 often used in prescriptions, they would seldom if ever, be 
 obliged to call for the pretended pure brandies, rums, gins, &c, 
 &c., of commerce, and intemperance ivould die a natural iUath 
 ^'or want of support. 
 
 And you will please allow me here to correct a common 
 orror, with regard to the presence of alcohol in wines. It is 
 generally supposed that wine made from fruit without putting 
 some kind of spirit into it, does not contain any alcohol ; but a 
 greater mistake does not exist in the world. Any fruit, the 
 juice of which will not pass into the vinous fermentation, by 
 which alcohol is produced, will not make wine at all : distilla- 
 ijon will produce brandy or alcohol from any of these fermented 
 liquors. 
 
 There is no wine of any note containing less than 10 parts 
 of alcohol to 100 parts of the wine, and from that amount up to 
 26 and a half part^; currant 20 and J; gooseberry llj ; 
 cider from 5 to 9 parts ; porter 4 and J — even small beer li 
 parts or quarts to 100 quarts. So it will be seen that every 
 quart of fruit wine not made for medicine, or sacramental pur- 
 poties, helps to build up the very cause (intemperance) we all 
 fro much desire not to encourage. 
 
 PRB^BBYATION OF £«GS, TINECSAB, JELLIES 6tC, 
 
 VlIfBOAR IN THREE DaTS WjTHOUT DrUOS. — A CAsk of 
 
 any desired size is filled with Maple, Beach or Basswood shav- 
 ings (or clean corn cobs,) shavings is the best, however, which 
 have been well soaked in good vinegar ; around the lower part 
 <»f the cask are 6 or 8 small holes, slanting towards the bottom, 
 to allow the access of air, and a »top cock or spigot to allow the 
 riuegar fluid to paM iato a tab b^low ; iust«ad of th« commoo 
 
top, a wash-tub or other cask Is put at the top which will hold 
 as much fluid as it is desired to make at one time ; the top tub 
 needs to fit quite close, so as to allow only a little air to pass 
 between that and the barrel, or cask, on which it sits, and if 
 turnlngr shavings, or woollen cloths are put over the top of tho 
 coai'se shavings, it helps to retain the heat, and the vinegar 
 thereby makes faster than without this precaution. The bot- 
 tom of this top tub is pierced with many small holes, through 
 which a few threads of cotton is drawn to conduct the vinegar 
 •evenly over the top of the shavings, let these holes and threads 
 be so arranged that the fluid will run through every 12 hours 
 or oftener if time can be given to dip or pump it up as it runs 
 through. Now, into the upper tub put the best alcohol, and 
 nine times as much soft water, as warm as the hand can be held 
 in it with comfort, or 75 to 80 degrees of heat, and 1 pint of 
 honey or good yeast for every barrel being made. The dilute 
 alcohol in streaming over the wood shavings is oxydized and 
 partially converted into vinegar; and by pumping or dipping it 
 up for a few times and letting it pass through again it becomes 
 very strong vinegar in the lime stated at the head of this Re- 
 cipe. By this process, the shavings become quite hot from 
 the action of the oxygen on the alcohol. If it is desired to 
 make vinegar out of cider, put it one-third water, and heat it 
 eame as the above method. In cold Aveather it will be neces- 
 sary to keep the room warm, and at all times it will make fast- 
 er in a tight warm room, but it is not absolutely necessary in 
 warm weather. 
 
 Many persons will desire to use sugar or molasses, then 
 you will proceed as follows: for every gallon of molasses pub 
 14 gallons of soft water, or for each pound of sugar put 2 gal- 
 lons water which makes the proper proportions for good vine- 
 gar, and instead of having holes near the bottom of the cask, 
 they are omitted and the fluid is put into the cask having the 
 shavings arranged as before, and instead of running through 
 constantlv, it is allowed to stand on the shavings drawing a few 
 buckets full 4 or 5 times a day by a faucet at the bottom, and 
 throwing on again at the top until a proper taste or strength 
 is obtained ; the reason why this plan is pursued, is, that mo- 
 ther makes so fast from sugar that the holes in the tub having 
 the threads in them soon clog up and the vinegar will noft 
 run. 
 
 To make these shavings I cut the hoards about 2 feet long, 
 and plane them from the edge so they roll and do not pack a| 
 they would if plained from the face of the board. Commoii 
 whisky will bear 4 times as much water, and make good vin«^ 
 
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 far ; I know men making stuflf and calling it yincgar, and onl/ 
 using one-half gallon of molasses and one-half gallon of high 
 wines to make 16 of vinegar, and many use only 1 of whisky to 
 7 of water, but allow me to say, make a good article and you 
 will loo«e nothing by it in the end About two good sized tubs 
 or casks or barrels will by the last plan make a I the vinegar 
 that any tirm will retail ; manufacturers will use large cask»» 
 whilst families need only use small kegs. 
 
 The tirst meichant I sold this recipe to, made all the vine 
 gar he could retail, by placing strips of wood across the centre 
 of a whiskey barrel, and putting the shavings in the top half 
 only, and allowing the vinegar to stand in the lower half; as 
 his room was so low he could only u^e the one barrel and a 
 wash tub at top, and have room to pour the fluid in, he used 
 1 gallon of good whiskey to 4 of water ; and 1 never used any 
 better vinej,ar than he made in this way, in a week's lime ; and 
 I lived next house to him for two year.s. 
 
 If suoar is u^ed from molasses barrels, the vinegar will 
 not cost over 2 or 3 cents per gallon, and from apple ciaer, al- 
 cohol or molasses, only from 6 to 8 cents, according to the dis 
 tance from market. The taller the cask is, however, that con 
 tains the shaviiigs, the faster will the vinegar make, and if tlie 
 room is small and tight, there will be sufficient heat throw-u 
 out by the oxydation to keep it suliicieiitly warm, after the first 
 warming, wlieie a man is running 2 to 4 casks, which all 
 will need to do. where they are making to sell at wholesale. 
 
 Best Burning Fluid in Use. — Take nine pints of 95 or 
 98 per cent, alcohol, and put in one quart ot good camphenb 
 and shake it briskly; and it will at once become clear, when 
 without the shaking it would take from six to seven quarts of 
 alcohol to cut the camphene. 
 
 These proportions make the best burning fluid which can 
 be combined. Many put in camphor gum, alum, &c., the first 
 to improve its burning qualities, the last to prevent explosion, 
 but they are perfectly useless for either from the fact that cam- 
 phor adds to the smoking properties, and nothing can prevent 
 the gas arising from any fluid that will barn, from explosion if 
 fire gets to it when it is confined, then the only safety is in fill- 
 ing lamps in day time, or far from fire or lights ; and also to 
 have lamps which are perfect in their construction, so tliat ho 
 gas may leak out along the tube; or at the top of the lamp : 
 then Uft who will say he can sell you a recip« for non-explosive 
 £ft8 or fluid, you may set him down at once for a humbug, ig- 
 ftoranttts or koare. 
 
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 Vet you may set fire to this fluid if not conflned, and H 
 will not explode, but will coutiuue to burn until all U 
 cTOusunied. 
 
 Families cannot make fluid any chea{)er than to buy it, as 
 the praflt charged on U»e alL<>hol is usually nune than that 
 charged on fluid ; but they will have a better article l)y this re- 
 cite than t-liey can buy, unless it is made from the s^ime, and it 
 is be>it for any one, evei: the retailei', only to make .vmall quaa« 
 titles et a tiu<e, and get tlie freshest camphei.e possibie. 
 
 To PRgSBB.E Ei>Gs. — For every 3 gallons of water, pttt 
 ia 1 pint of fresh slacked lime, and ilje same amount of com- 
 raon salt, mix well, aiui let the barrel l)e about half full of thig 
 fiulfl, then vviih a dish let down your fienh e^gs into it, tipping 
 the dish after it rcache.8 the water s-o they roll out without 
 •'.racking the Klioll, for if the .siiell is cracked the eggs will 
 Fpoil. 
 
 If f;x5sh esjws are used, frr-sh egi^s will come out, as I have 
 soo:i men who have kept them 2 ami even 4 years at sea. Bar- 
 rels may be headed up and filled so the fluid will come over 
 ihc head, and a little salt and lime may be paton the head also, 
 80 a-j to keep the top of the fluid as strons; as the bottom, or a 
 piece of hoard may l>e laid across the typ or on top of the egjjs 
 ^nd a litUo lime and salt ke[)t upon it will make a su -er thing 
 wdicre i>eraon8 arc puttinnj up 0223 to a con.'^idcrahle extent. 
 This will not fail you. For families this need not L>e doi>e, but 
 ihey must always l-e kept covered with the l>rii^, The beauty 
 of this plan is, that e^-?^ ^^'i'-' 'i<^t freeze if ke])t in any mcKler- 
 ately good cellar. Families in towns and cities by this plaa 
 can have e,Z2s for winter use at summer prices. I have put up 
 10 dozen i>6r year for family use witli entire success. 
 
 CunA. IIoNEY. — Good brown sugar, 10 lbs. , water, 1 qt., 
 old bee broad liouey ir. the couib, 2 i>ound.'<, cream tartar, 1 
 tea.spooiiful ) gum arable, 1 oz. ; oil of peppermint, 6 drops, oil 
 ro-so 2 drops. Mix and boil two or three minutes and hav« 
 ready 1 qt nlnrc of water in which an egg is j>ut well l)eat up, 
 pDur it in, and as it begins to boil, iskim well, remove from the 
 ihx), and v.lien a liitie cool, add two {>ouuds of nice bets' honey 
 and strain the whole, and you will have not only an article 
 which loi)ks and tast«s like honey, but which |>o8sesses all its 
 meiical proi)6: ties. It has been shipi)ed in large quantities 
 riiidar the name of CucA Honey. It will keen as fresh and 
 liice A-i whsa inxao any length of time if properly covered. I 
 have it now a year old as good a.s no\y. 
 
 &QWdi u«>c tt ublosrvooafal ^■f sUpp-srj- entn bark in tbia 
 
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 amount; but it will ferment in warm weather, and rise to the 
 top requiring to be skimuied otF. If it is to l)e used only for 
 eating purposes the cream tariar and gum arabic may be left 
 out, also the old bee bread honey, substituting for it another 
 IK)und of nice honey. 
 
 Jellies Without Fruit. — To 1 pint of water, ])Ut i oz. 
 of alum and boil a minute or two ; then add 4 Tns. white 
 crushed or coffee sugar, continue the boiling a littl<*, straiu 
 while iiot; and when cold put in half of a tsvo shilling bottle of 
 extract of vanilla, strawberry, or lemon, or any otl.er flavor as 
 you desire for the jolly — or a still cheaper plan is to u e from 
 6 to 10 drops of Ieiu:)ii oil to this amount, or any other flavore<l 
 oil, which may be i^referrel. If you wish any flavor which you 
 cannot get the oil of, then you mu-it use the extract, as vanilla, 
 strawberry, &c. 
 
 If you dedre a nicer article of honey for the tablo th.an is 
 raade by tli.it rejipe,.ju-;t put in 1 drop of rose oil and 3 or 4 
 drops of pe »;)e -tni'iL oil. an I 1 paun I of nice honey to the 
 above amou'if, leiving out the extracLs, and it will be as idee 
 '• To set befoie the King (as the i»ie) iu which the birds began 
 t-o sing." 
 
 Bl.^C'C CoPYisa TxK or Writing Fluid — Take 2 gal- 
 lons of rain wate.' and put into it gum Arabic, | lb., brown su- 
 gar, I lb , cleaii cop[)eras, ^ lb., powdered nut-galls, | ll> Mis, 
 a.'id shake occasionally for 10 days and strain, if neede I soon- 
 er, let it steep in an iron Kettle until the stiength is obtained. 
 This ink can he depended U[)i)!i for deeds or records which vou 
 may wish some one to re id luindre Is of years to come. Oxalic 
 acid i OA. was formerly put in but since the u-e of steel pens it 
 diKJS not work well on them. If uot used as a copying ink, 
 i the gum or sugar is sufficient. 
 
 Common Ink. — To I gallon boiling soft water, add | oz. 
 extract of [og.vood, boil 2 minutes, remove from tiie tire, and 
 Ptir in 43 grains of Bichromate of potash, 48 grains of powder. 
 el gum Arabic and 8 grains of prusiate of potash. For 10 
 gallon's, use 7^ o/.. extract logwo d, 1 oz. Bichromate potash, 
 1 07i. gn n A'aliic, ^ o'.. of prusiate of potash. Six cents ought 
 to buv the first aiid 25 cents tlie last. 
 
 This ink, ho^veve *, is of but little account, as it does not 
 fiow fieely from tlie pen after having stood a litt'e time ; but 
 thousands of dollars have changed hands for tlds recipe alono. 
 
 Red Ink. — Take an oz. vial, put in a teA.spoonful of aqua 
 «tiuaoaia, guna arabic, aize of Iwo or iLree pe^y, ai>d 6 graiiia 
 
of No. 40. Carmine ; fill up with Boft water and it is soon ready 
 toMse; thiH is a beautiful ruiing ink, and does not cost one' 
 sixth as rauch as to buy it by the dozen. 
 
 Blue Ink. — Take sulphate of indigo and put it into water 
 «ntil you set the desired depth of color ; the article sold in 
 little boxes for blueing clothes in the article desiied. This doe* 
 'well for school childien, or any writing rot of importance to 
 keep; but for book-keeping it is not of any importance, as the 
 heat of a safe in a burning building fades away the color. 
 
 Indelible Ink for Writing on Cotton ok Linek 
 Goods. — Take nitrate of silver, eleven graiqs ; dissolve it in 30 
 grains (or about a teaspoonful) of water of ammonia ; in 85 
 grains (or 2^ teaspoonlnls) of rain water, dissolve 20 grains of 
 gum arabic. When the gum is dissolved, put into the same 
 vial also 22 grains of carbonate of soda (sal soda.) When all 
 is well dissolved, mix both vials, or their contents, and place 
 the vial contaiuins the mixture into a basin of water, and boil 
 for several minutes, or until a black compound is the resulL 
 When cold it is ready for use. Have the liunen or other goods 
 perfectly dry, and write with a quill pen, stretching the hand- 
 kerchief on the table, and carrying the pen with a quick mo- 
 rion, or ()therwi;-e the ink will spread too much ; yet no fears 
 i>eed be apprehended, as you can write as well on cloth with a 
 quiil pen as you can on paper with a steel i)en. Every piece of 
 white goods in the house should be marked. If twice the 
 amount is made at a time it will not cost any more, as the ex- 
 pense is only from the trouble of weighing, so little is used of 
 the materials. Soft soap and boiling cannot efface it^ — nor 
 years of wear Use only glass vessels. This also makes a very 
 nice brown on hair or whiskers, and unless left on very long 
 will not stain the skin, used with a brush as the hair dye. 
 
 MEDICINES, &C., &C. 
 
 Dr. Krieder's Ague Pills. — Take 20 grains qui- 
 nine, 10 grains Dover's powders, 10 grains sub-carbonate 
 of iron, mix with molasses or mucillage of gum arabic, 
 divide into 20 pills. Dose, 2 each hour commencing 5 
 hours before the cbill should set in. Then take one 
 
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 night and morninG; until all are taken. If a liquid is 
 preferred, put it into 1 pint p:in or port wine, or my ssub- 
 stitute, and 1 pint water. Dose, a wine glass as above 
 until broke, then 2 or 3 times a day until alUs used. — 
 For small children nothing is better than five or six 
 grains of quinine in a 2 oz. vial, I tablespoonful of white 
 sugar, then fill with water. Dose, a teaspoonful as 
 above. Recollect in all cases, first give a cathartic "to 
 cleanse the stomach and bowels. 
 
 Cholagogue. — Quinine, 20 grains, Peruvian Bark, 1 
 ounce, Rheubarb, 1 ounce, sulphuric acid, 15 or 20 drops, 
 (or 1 scruple of tart^iric acid I think best) Brandy, one 
 gill, water to make a pint. Dose, two spoonfuls every 
 two hours in absence of fever. 
 
 Febrifuge Wine. — Quinine, 25 grains, water. 1 pint, 
 sulphuric acid, 15 drops, epsom salts, 2 ounces, brandy, 
 1 gill, loaf sugar, 2 ounces, color with tincture of red 
 Banders. Dose, a wine glass 3 times per day. This is- 
 highly recommended by a regular practicing physii^'an, 
 in one of the ague holes (i^aginaw) of the West. This, 
 of course, can be taken without any previous preparation 
 of the system. 
 
 Eye VVater. — Take one tablespoonful each of table 
 salt and sulphate of zinc, (white vitrei,) burn it on cop- 
 per or earthen until dry: ^ pint soft water, 1 spoonful 
 white sugar, and sulphate of copper (blue vitrol) size of 
 a coratnon pea. If too strong reduce with soft water. — 
 If the eyes are very sore, or of long standing, take a 
 spoonful of epsom salts every other night for two or three 
 times, and use three or four times daily of the eye water. 
 The use of this eye water enabled me to lay by the spec- 
 tacles after four years wearing, and I have since studied 
 medicine and graduated as a physician, without resortmg 
 again to their use, by the occasional application of tho 
 eye water. For any inflam mation of any part of the bod j, 
 apply this by wetting cloths. 
 
I have renentl}' cured myself also of severe inflammation of 
 She throat or bronchetis with ulceration, by surglins t -ite dai- 
 ly witii this EvB W.vte;? — the first 3 diys of full sttn;th, the 
 last 2 (lays of half stren^tli only Thomps mi's eye water is not 
 wortljy oi cninpriUon with it. This recipe aloi.e. t" a Clergy- 
 raan or any 'pnl^>li<^ speaker, is worth 20 times the price of the 
 Book. 
 
 Grken Mountain Salve. — For Rheumatism, burns* 
 pnins in the side or back, boils, &c., &c. Tiike 2 lbs- 
 rasisi, | lb Burtj^undy pitch, \ lb. beeswax, ift). mutton 
 tallow; melt them slowly. When not too warm, add 
 1 oz. oil hemlock, 1 oz. balsam Fir, I oz. oil Orriganum, 
 1 oz. oil red cedar, 1 oz. Venice turpentine. 2 oz. oil 
 wormwood, | oz. verdif:i;ris. The verdigris must be very 
 finely pulverized and mixed with the oils ; then add as 
 above, and work all in cold water as wmx until cool 
 enough to roll ; rolls 5 inches long, 1 inch in diameter, 
 sell for 2s. This salve has no equal for Kheumatio 
 Pains, or weakness in the side, back, shoulders, or any 
 place where pain may locate itself. Where the skin is 
 broken as in ulcers, bruises, c^'c, I use without the ver- 
 digris, making a salve superior to Peleg White's old 
 salve. I have cured dyspepsia with the green salve, by 
 wearing it over the stomach for six weeks. 
 
 Genuine Seidlitz Powders. — Rochelle sa.ts 2 
 drachms; Bicarbonate of soda 2 scruples; put these 
 into a blue paper, and put 35 grains of Tartaric acid in- 
 to a white paper. To use. put each into diferent tum- 
 blers, till I with water and put a little loaf sugar in with 
 the acid, then pour together and drink. Ibis makes a 
 very pleasant cathartic, and ought to be used niore gen- 
 erally tlnn it is. in pla<e of more .-evere medicines. Fmnlies 
 can bu\' 3 o/. of the R )chelle saits and 1 oz. of the Bi carbon- 
 ate of so la an 1 mix evo ily toiether. usin2 about 2 leaspoon- 
 fulls for one fjlass and have the taitaric acid by it.^elf and us« 
 a litt'enve- | a leaspoonfnl of it for the otbe'- ff'ass, with a ta- 
 ble-:noonfu! of sugar, all well dissolved, then pour toetler and 
 drink whi'e effei vesins and they will find this to do ju.-t as well 
 fts 10 have them weighed out and put up in papers, which coat 
 
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 9 tiraei as mnh and <\y m beWe''. Trv it, a<» a chiH will tako 
 It witli p'evsuie, as a uice iKjve/a^e ai>d ask for more^ 
 
 Cough Syrup. — Take hoarhound tops and out them 
 fine, stalk as well as leaf, to the amount of 1 quart, wa 
 ter 1 quart, and steap to get the entire 8trenjj;th of the 
 herb, then strain and boil to 1 pint, and add 3 sticks of 
 Liquorice, \ oz. of essence of Lemon, ^ It), honey and 
 i pint alcohol and siiniuer to form a syrup. Do^e for 
 an adult, one to two tiiblespoonfuls 3 titues a day or c,b 
 often as the couij;h is found troublesome, for children & 
 teaspoonful more or less, according to age. 
 
 The above Recipe will cure more coughs than much 
 more severe medicine. Try it. 
 
 Ltqqld O.mo:<:ld)0. — Tike 1 quart of brandy and 
 warm; then add 1 oz. gum camphor, i oz. eal. ammoni- 
 ae, \ oz. each of oil origanum and rosemary, \ oz. oil 
 wormwood. When the oils are dissolved, add 6 ozs. of 
 »oft soap. This is excellent in sprains, bruises, Ao. 
 
 Diarrhea Cordial.— Best Rheubarb pulverized, 1 
 oz.; Peppermint leaf pulveriz' d, 1 oz., Capsicum \ oz.; 
 cover with boiling water and steap thoroughly, strain 
 through white woolens or filter, and add I oz. Bi-carbon- 
 ate of Potash, h oz, essence Cinnamon, and Brandy (or 
 good whisky ) equal in amount to the whole, and 4 oz. 
 loaf sugar. Dose for an adult, 1 to 2 tablespoonfuls ; 
 child, 1 to 2 teaspoonfuls from 3 to 6 times per day, or 
 until relief is obtained ; and the inflammation must soon 
 subside. 
 
 Vegetable Physic. — Jallap 1 oz., Senna 2 ozs.; 
 Peppermint 1 oz., (a little Cinnamon if desired,) all pul- 
 verized and sifted through gauze. Dose, 1 teaspoonful 
 put in a tea cup with 2 or 3 spoonfuls of hot water and 
 a good lump of loaf sugar; when cool drink all, to be 
 taken fasting in the morning, drink gruel freely. If it 
 does not operate in 3 hours repeat I the quantity. Use 
 Instead of calomel, 
 
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 Magnetic Tooth Cordial and Pain Killer. — 
 Alcohol, 95 per cent., ^ oz.; Laudanum, i oz.; Chloro- 
 form, I oz.; gum camphor, i ♦ oz»; oil cloves, i 
 drachm, Sulphuric Ether | oz.;oil Lavender, 1 drachm. 
 If there is a nerve exposed this will quiet it. Apply 
 with lint. Rub also on the gums and any place where 
 there is pain. Pain cannot long exist under its use. 
 
 Essences. — Peppermint oil, 1 oz.; alcohol, 1 piat, 
 and the same proportion of any oil you wish to use. 
 Peppermint is colored with tincture of turmeric, and 
 cinnamon, with tincture of red sandel or sanders wood. 
 Wintergreen with tincture of kino. Most essences are 
 only made J or i as strong and are not worth the tak- 
 ing, let alone buying. 
 
 Tinctures. — Tinctures are made with 1 oz. of gum, 
 root or bark, &c., dried, to each pint of proof spirit, or 
 alcohol, and usu illy stand about one week and filter. 
 
 British Oil — Fearinf^ that British oil is not now 
 generally kept as it should be, I give its composition. 
 Take oils of turpentine, and linseed, each 8 oz. ; oils of 
 amber and juniper, each 4 oz. ; Barbadoes tar, 3 oz.; 
 Seneca oil, 1 oz. Mix. This of itself is an excellent 
 application to cuts, bruises, swellings and sores of almost 
 any description whatever, and this recipe alone is worth 
 treble the price paid for this book to those who have not 
 got it. 
 
 Goon Samaritan Liniment, or Immediate Relief 
 FROM Pain. — Take 95 i)ei- ce-it alcohol, 2 qts, and add to it 
 ihe following articles : Oi's of Sissafia«<, Hemlock, spirits of 
 turpentine, balsam of fir, chloroform, and tinctures of catechu 
 and Ejaaiaci (oommonlj- calle I ffuac) of each, 1 oz. ; oil oforig- 
 Anum, 2 oz ; oil of \vinterorree:i, ^ oz. ; and jjiitn camphor. | 
 OJ!. This proves a beautiful looking linime:it, and I do assure 
 you it acts as beautiful as it looks. I paid eiirht dollars for 
 this recipe at Finley, Ohio, to a man who was putting it in 
 •unce vials and selling then fast at 25 cents a piece. He had 
 been there some four week.s and curQi many bad, cases of rhevv 
 
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 matism and stiffened joints. The day of my arrival at Finley he 
 gave out word that he wotiM so away two days afte;-, and in 
 those two days, he sold dozens of bott'es to those who had tried 
 it, some taking: five for the $1, others, two, thiee and four 
 bottles as tliey could. In fact, it seemed as though they 
 "Would like fo eat him up or keep him always wnh them; 
 yet, he was a worth 'ess drinkiDg fellow. He made it before 
 me and T paid him a dollar also for one pint of it which 
 cured me of the worst attack of rheumatism that T ever had, 
 (and I have had many) brought on by extreme exposure to 
 cold by ridin» in an ofien sleigh in the nisht. I was waked 
 in the after })art of the night with its pains in tlie riyht knee. 
 Beins away from home I bore them till mornins:, at which 
 time T could not bear my weiiiht on that leij. 1 wot a piece of 
 flannel according to the directions and wet it thorun^Iily with 
 the wood Samaritan and bound it on the knee, and I)y thiee ap- 
 plicntions, at bed time I could walk very conifurlalt'y, jind by 
 putting some of it on my di-awei"s over the knee Uv i\\ o or ihree 
 days I vvas entirelj: Sairiaritanized ; and I do assure you that 
 less severe attacks have held me previously for more than a 
 month at a time. 
 
 Specific Directions for Use. For Rheuma/ism. — Bat7i« 
 the parts utfecte 1 l^eely. and wet apiece «»f tlannel and bind on 
 the parts , and take sufficient of Bill Wright's cure to move 
 the bowels 
 
 For Hei'fnche. Neuralsia , Cuts, Sprains, Burvs, Bruiset 
 and Spinal jJff^ctions. — Bathe externally, innneiii;»'e;y cover- 
 ing with dry tlannel, or else weUiii^ the flannel and keeping it 
 on the part 
 
 F>r Chilblaina. — Ai)ply nishi and morning freely for a 
 few days tlie same for b-inion^ mid itching; fi-et. 
 
 If billions headache, take internally one loa^poonlul in a 
 little water evcy two hou -s, apfilvins to the lie.id at the same 
 time until re'ief is obtained. For Ear ache — Wet (M>tton or 
 wool and ])ut it into the ear. No article equals this for the ear. 
 For Tool h ache — Apply to the gum with tbe finder; and to the 
 face over the painful teeth, pres^inw the ba'id ow the fate until 
 it burns with heat. For Sore Throat — Take ten drops on su- 
 gar, swallowins gradually, and bathe the throat f eely. Repeat 
 if necessary, in all eases. It may be used wherever liniment* 
 are applicable. 
 
 LooMis Liniment for Old Sqrks. — Take alcohol, Iqt.; 
 ammonia, 4 oz. : oil of origanum, 2 oz ; camphpr sum, 2 oz. ; 
 opium, 2 oz. : or best laudanum, 4 oz. ; gum myrrh, 2 oz. ; 
 common salt, 2 tahlespooufub. Mix and shake occasionfin^ 
 
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 for a week. Tliis was prcented for inrertion by H. Loomifl, of 
 Eflwardshiiroli, Midi., Iiopiiitj it may do many others as much 
 good as it lias liim<e!f and neislibors. 'He sliowed me scars of 
 an old soe on his !e^^ which he cu el vvith it aOer yeir- of suf- 
 fering; and also fal!el ui) a youna man who e fathe:- he had 
 cured of a similar sore, yea-, hefoie, whicli had never hroken 
 out again, he u el ii fc vice daily. His lej; Ijeonmc sine after a 
 protrac'el feve,-. I liave sreat confidence in it my.-elf, and 
 shall trv it if o.-casion orfer-; — he d^es it. also f>,r cuts, bruises, 
 horse fledi infjammatoiy rhcumati m, &c. &c'. 
 
 This and the '• Good Samaritan" will .vupjily all tlie places 
 where lininie its oiigit to lie u-er' ; and they will not cost mote 
 than one foU'ih or one third as mu'.h as to huy tiie patent lini- 
 ments sold thi'ongrliout the country, and wiJl do nnudi better 
 than mo^t of tl em. 
 
 Be^" in mind that if miall quantitie.s of the e or any arti- 
 cle-^ a'e desire I. to kee;) the same proportions of each thing 
 mentioned in the lecijcs. 
 
 Cod LtvER Oil maor Palatablr and more DioEsxr- 
 BLE. — To each quart hott'e add oi e outue of fine tah'e salt. 
 Wix well. By this simp'e plan, ('od Liver Oil has its })ei uliar 
 unpIeo>antiiess overcome as well as made far moie easy for the 
 stomaidi to dis[^o^e of. 
 
 Syrup fok Consumptivfs — TaT<e a ] e( k of Tamarack 
 bark, (whi<-h has I cen taken f om tlie Uees without rossing,) 
 sjiikenard root, ^ pounrl ; dandelion roof, ^ pound ; hops, 2 oz. 
 Boil tl'e-e snffifieit to oet tlie sfensth in two or tli'oe gallons 
 of water, strain and l)oil down to «ii;e gallon, wl cm blood warm 
 add three pounds of hocey and three pints of liest brandy, bot- 
 tle and keep in a cool place. [)o^e— Drink freely of it three 
 times a d;iy befo e meals, at least, a gill '-r moie, according to 
 the strength and ace of the j-atie -t. Tlii^ has raided many a 
 person foni an alino>t certain d' nth bed. and >ent tl em lejoic- 
 ing through irinny vears of life and health to b'ess tl eir friends 
 and enjoy tl e'r j)'easant compatiy. Remember with this »«yiup 
 or dit>ea>e. as long as thee is life tliee is hope. 
 
 Fever Sore Plaster or Black Salve. — Take 1 oz. 
 of sweer oil, 1 oz. of lin eed oil, and 1 oz. of red lead, pulver- 
 ized, (or in (he e proportiotis.) Put all into an iion dish over 
 a moderate five constantly stirring, until you can draw your fin» 
 ger ovei' a diop of it on a board when a litt'e cool, without 
 sticking, when it is dot e. Stcead on rh tli and annly aa other 
 salves. My brother J. M. Chase, of Oramel, N. Y , says he 
 has used this salve more than ten rears, and knows it to be one 
 
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 •fthe best in the world for all kinds of old y^ores, as ulrerii, f«- 
 Ter sores and all iuUameil parts, cieaniiig J.nd taking out led- 
 ness or intlamination, causing; a white l.eahliy a]| i';.ian»e iij a 
 sht'Pt time, and a eertaiu p eventative ol nionitii aiion, &c. &c., 
 a« well as to pi event .soieness in nioie recent luls an(i hrui.ses 
 also; and fi'iiii luy own knowledue of a ^alve which is very 
 similar, I have heeu induced to intio.lu.eit into this work leel- 
 ing as.-uied iliai wlmevei- nia> have «n<.asi«>n to try it, will not 
 regiei the spate it occupies l.eie. Try it, you wlio i eed it. 
 
 Tonic Winb Tincture. — A po^^tive cuie for ague without 
 quinine. Peruvian hark, two oumes, wild clicny tice hark, 
 one ounce, cinnamon one drachm, capsicum oi e lea^iioonful, 
 8ul{)hur, Ol e ouiice, po.t wine, two quaits. Let stand a day or 
 two. -.11 tl.e ai tides aie to he pu.veiized. Always 1 uy your 
 Peruvian haik and pu'.veii e it your>elf, a.s most ot the | ulver- 
 ized article is ceaily adulterated. This is the leason wl ) more 
 cures a.e not jjeiloimed hy it. Do.^e — A wine glass luii every 
 two t)r thiee lioU!s tlnough the day until hroken, then two or 
 three times per day untd all is u-ed. Thi> mi.xtu e will he 
 found an ihlallib e tu e lor intern)iitent lever and lever and 
 ague. It icMuoxes the di-ea-e when all oil.er niea s tail. It 
 should le u t'd hy all wiio dislike quinine, and tlie otlier nos- 
 trums »)f the day. 
 
 Cuke vow S*lt HnEU.M — Take turj'entine, ^ oz. ; and 
 spirits ot caujphur, | o/. Mix and apply th ee time> a day. 
 This has cu ed one man who was a mason l>y trade which 
 greatly added to the dilKcu'ties of < u e as the lime was a con- 
 stant irritant. If this laiis, the following will nor. 
 
 Salt Rheum Ointment. — P'lesh or unsahed i)utier 1 ra. 
 beeswax, I <•/,., camphor gum, 1 oz. Me't all toceilier and hox 
 for u.-e, apply to tin* parts attested 3 times a d;iy and take a 
 teasi.ooiiinl of epsom salts every other niLiht r>:- a tew days, 
 and lei eat alier a tew days if neiessary, hut in r^y of every 100 
 ca.ses will he cureil in the first two wreks 
 
 Cklkbrated PiLB Ointment. — Take oarhonate of lead \ 
 , su phate o! morphii, ISgiains; stramonium ointment 1 
 oz. ; o.ive oil. 2 ) droj)s. Mix, and apply 3 times a day or as 
 occasion and piin may require, it will give 2 eit ie'ief. Pil6s 
 have 1 eeii cu e 1 witii lamp oil applied to the })arts 2 or 3 times 
 a day 
 
 Golden Tincture. — Take sulphric ether, 1 oz. ; lauda- 
 num 1 oz. ; <iilorofo'in, one quarter oz.; alcohol, 1 oz. Mix 
 
 This is extensively u.-ed hy the German physicians, called 
 
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 Hoffman's anodyne. Dose from three to thirty drops, accord- 
 ing to circumstances. It makes an excellent local ai)plicatioa 
 in neuralgia and other painful affections. 
 
 Imperial Drop for Gravrl and KrnNEY Com- 
 plaints. — Take oil of origanum, 1 oz. ; oil of lienilock, one- 
 quarter oz. : oil of sassafras, o: e-qnarler oz. ; oil of aiiie, ^ oz.; 
 alcohol, 1 pt. Mix. Dose — | to 1 teaspoonful three times a day 
 in sweetened water will soon give relief whee a constant weak- 
 ness is felt across the small of the hack as we'l a«! in orravelly 
 affection'*, which cau-^e more or less pain reachii>g from the re- 
 gion of the kidneys towards the bladder. 
 
 To Reviove Warps and Corns in five Minutes. — 
 Tho^e who have not pitience to follow the mora reason- 
 able cure for warts or corns, will pursue the following 
 course with success, avoiding, however, the taking cold 
 after re.noving the wirt or corn. Take the potish paste 
 recommended for p >11 evil, and after having pired off 
 the dead part of the wart or corn, put on the piste and 
 let it re aain fro n 5 to 8 minutes, when you will work 
 around with a sharp knife and lift them out, and apply 
 sweet oil or vinegar to kill the alkali. 
 
 Sweating} Drops. — Ipocac, saffron, Virginia snake 
 root and camphor gu n, each 2 oz. ; opiuai, 1 oz.; alco- 
 hol, 2 quirts. Let stand two weeks. A teasp )onful in 
 a cup oi hot sage or catnip tea every half hour until free 
 perspiration is induced. It is excellent in colds, fevers, 
 inflamations, &c. &c. 'Tis good to bathe the feet in hot 
 water at the same time. 
 
 Campjio;? Ice, For Ciiaped Lips, Hands. &c. — Take 
 spermat-eui tallow, 1^ oz. ; oil of sweet, almonds, 4 tea-ipoonfuls; 
 gu n ca.u )i().-, I oz , mi le ti le. Set on the sr.ove ii itil di3- 
 Kolvel constantly stirring. Do not u-;e only jua surti lent heat 
 to melt them together. Whilst warm, pou • into moulds, if de- 
 sired to sell, then pi|)er an;l put up in tin foil. If for your own 
 use, put up in a tight box. Apply to the chaps or crajks two 
 or three tones daily; CipecJally at bed time. It is also good for 
 salt-rbeuin and pil^s. 
 
MISC£LLAN£OUS. 
 
 Boot, Shoe and Harness Edge Color. — Take one 
 gallon water and boil in it for 2 or 3 minutes, 1 oz. ex- 
 tract logwood, then remove from the fire and add 2 oz. 
 copperas, j oz. bi-chromate of potash and i oz. of gum 
 Arabic. This makes a cheap color and one that will not 
 bleach out the first time that water comes in contact with 
 the boot or shoe on which it is used, and for harness edge 
 is far superior to the copperas alone, or the following: 
 
 Best (^lor for Leather in Use. — Take alcohol, I pt.; 
 tinctuie of iron, IJoz. ; extract of logwood, I oz.: nut galls 
 pulverized, 1 oz. ; soft water, | pint. Mix. 
 
 This will make an excellent poliish on an edjie or shank 
 withont heel-ball. Shoe makers and harness makers try it. 
 This costs the most, but the man that wants the best thing will 
 use this if he tries both. 
 
 Water Proof Oil Blacking. — Take one pint of cam- 
 phene and put into it all the India rubber it will dissolve 
 1 pint curriers oil, 6 pounds tallow, and 2 oz. lampblack, 
 mix thoroughly, by heat. This is a nice thing for old 
 harness and carriage tops, as well as for boots and shoes. 
 Or you can dissolve the rubber in the oil by setting them in 
 rather a hot place for a day or two ; and save the expense of 
 the camphene, as that is of no use, only as a solvent to the 
 rubber. 
 
 Crockery Cement — Dissolve 1 oz. common salt in 
 one quart of soft water, bring it to a boil and put one and 
 one-fourth pounds gum shellac. When it is all dissolved 
 pour into cold water and work like wax. Make into 
 imall sticks. This will make crockery as good as new. 
 This receipt alone cost ten dollars. 
 
 Barber's Shampoon Mixture. — Take one pint soft 
 iTftter, 1 oz. sal. soda, i oz. cream tartar, apply & few 
 
so 
 
 spoonfuls and rub the roots of the hair thoroughly, apply- 
 ing a little warm water at the same time. Then wash 
 well from the head and apply a little oil. This should 
 be done once a week and will save a young man many 
 quarters paid to barbers. 
 
 N. Y. Barber's Star Hair Oil. — Castor Oil, 6J 
 pints: alcohol, I2 pints; Citronella and Lavender oil, 
 i oz. each. Mixed and well shaken. Tip top. 
 
 Macassor or Rose Oil — Take 1 quart olive oil, al- 
 eohol 2^oz,, rose oil, ^drachm. Tie 1 oz. of chipped 
 aikanet root in 3 or 4 little muslin b;i<^s, and let them lie 
 in the oil until a pretty red is manifested, then change 
 them to other oil. Do not press them. 
 
 Bears. Oil. — Use good sweet lard oil one quart, berg- 
 amot one ounce. 
 
 Ox Marrow. — Melt four ounces ox marrow, one og. 
 white wa^, six ounces of nice fresh lard: when cool add 
 J oz. oil bergamot. 
 
 CoLoaxR. — Takeofoilrose'nary, and le. -non, each \ oz., 
 oil of bergamot, oil of laveader, each s oz., oil of cinna- 
 mon 8 drops, oils clove and rose each l5 drops, best 
 alcohol, 2 quarts, mix and shake well 2 or 8 times a day 
 for a Wi>ek. This will b3 better if deodorised or cologne 
 alcohol is used. 
 
 Washing Fluid. — Take one pound sal soda, one-har 
 pound g>>d st3:ia linj and five quarts of water, boil 
 a short time, let it settle and pour off the clear fluid into 
 a stone jug and cork for use; soak your white clothes 
 (Tver night, or soak them in warm suds an hour or two 
 )Q the morning, is just as well, wring out, and eoap 
 wristbands, collars and dirty or stained places. Have 
 your boiler half filled with water just beginning to boil; 
 fheu put in one common tea-cup full of the fluid, stir 
 and put in your clothes, and boil for half aa hour, rub- 
 
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 bing lightly through one ^tds only, rinsing well, blueing 
 as usual and all is complete. Soak your calico and 
 woolen in the fluid water while hanging out the whit« 
 ones, then wash them out as usual. This plan requires 
 very little wash board rubbing for white clothes, saves 
 one- half the soap and more than half the labor, and does 
 not injure the clothes, but saves the wear of rubbing 
 through two suds' before boiling, and is a good article 
 for removing grease from floors and doors, and to remove 
 tar or grease from hands or clothes. 
 
 11 ir>l wa er is as ^ >oi as soft to wash with this fluid. 
 
 Soft Soap for Half the Expense, and for Oxb- 
 FouRTH THE Thouble OF THE Old Way — Take 2 bars of 
 good hard soap, cut fiiie and di^ssolve it in 4 Halls, of soft 
 water, and add 1 lb. of sal Koda. When all is dissolved aud 
 well mixed j)Ut away for use. 
 
 Tins soap may be, uj-ed as otfier soaps, or if | a teacap- 
 ful of it i.s put into a tub of clothes, and soaked over nit-ht, 
 then raided up and down quickly iu the water a lew tinies, rung 
 out and boilvd with half ti c amount ol f n d n ei.t'oi cd in tl;e 
 washing fluid recipe, then treated as there dieised, and 
 Ruy to nie after ilie trial that lhe>e two recipes are not 
 worth double the price paid for the book, you can have your 
 money bock. 
 
 This 8oap can le made thicker or tliiiuicr by using more 
 or less water, as you may tliink bet)t, after once making it. 
 
 Prepared Oil for Carriages, Waoons and Floor 
 Faintinp,. — -To 1 gallon linseed oil, add two lbs. gum 
 ehollac, lithrage 2 tb., red lead, i ib.jUnibcr, I oz. Boil 
 Blowly as u.sual until the gums are dissolved; grind your 
 jpaints in this (any color) and reduce with turpentine. 
 Yellow ochre ii- used for floor painting. This dries quick 
 and wears exceedingly well, and is said to make a good 
 furniture varnish; I have not tried it for varnishing 
 however. 
 
 To Cure Warts without Pains or Soreness. — Get 
 & small amount of /jiucta/ic «ci<i, keep it iu a place where it 
 vrjll not l>€ overturne 1, or it will destroy the cork and run out ; 
 er cork it with l)€>eswaK, with a stick the .size of a tomhioh 
 iaJtliag-aeedle; &np}y tc the top of lb€ wart night aud mora- 
 
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 log, ja.st what adheres to the stick by dipping it into the acid 
 once, and rubt>ing it well into the top of the wart with the 
 stick each time. Do not allow the acid to touch tho well skin, 
 if it does, a tittle oil of any kind will stop the pain or smarting. 
 Do this a few days, and a sale and painless cure is the result. 
 If you let it drop on your clothes, a hole will also b© 
 the result. The juice of a common milk weed 
 applied 2 or three times a day for a week, will cure 
 nearly every wart, and often in less than a weeks time. 
 
 To Cure Corns. — Soak the foot or feet on which they 
 are located for iifteen or twenty minutes, night and 
 morning, in cool or cold water, (tepid water may be used) 
 remove at each time all which can be removed without 
 pain or bleeding, keep away all pressure, and in a few 
 days or weeks at most, you will be obliged to buy corn 
 to feed the chickens, as you will not have any of your 
 own. 
 
 Polish for Removing Stains, Spots and Mildews 
 FR0^4 Furniture. — Take 2 pint 95 per cent alcohol, i 
 oz. each pulverized rosin and gum shellac. Let these 
 cut in the alcohol, then add ^ pint linseed oil, shake well 
 and apply with a sponge or brush. 
 
 Secret Art of Catching Fish. — The juice of love* 
 age or smellage mixed with any kind of bait, or a few 
 drops of the oil of Rhodium. IndiA cockle also, is gome- 
 times mixed with flour dough and sprinkled on the sur- 
 face of still water. This intoxicates the fish and makes 
 them turn up on the top of the water, when they are ta- 
 ken and put in a tub of fresh water until they revive, 
 when ail is right. He may be eaten without fear, buJ 
 this will destroy many fish. Oil of Rhodium is the best 
 plan. 
 
 An Excellent Tooth Powder. — Take a little sudi 
 made with castile soap, and an equal amount of spirits 01 
 camphor, then thicken with finely pulverized chalk anc 
 eharooal, equal quaatitiea, to a thick paste. Apply witi 
 
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 the finger, rubbing thoroughly, and it will whiten the 
 teeth better than any tooth powder you can buy. A 
 brush is good to work^ between the teeth. Moisten with 
 a little camphor as you use it. Never use stiff brushes. 
 Badgers hair is soft and best for the teeth. 
 
 Dentrifice, lohich removes tartarous adhesions^ ar- 
 rests decay, and induces a healthy action of the gums. — 
 Dissolve 1 oz. of borax in 1 J pints of boiling water, and 
 when a little cool add one teaspoonful of the tincture of 
 myrrh and one table spoonful of the spirits of camphor 
 and bottle for use. Directions. Take a tablespoonful of 
 this mixture to the same amount of warm water and ap- 
 ply, at bedtime, by means of a soft brush. Badgers hair 
 brushes arc the best, as the common bristle brush tears 
 the gums and should never be used. This to persons 
 who have tartaroas adhesions on the teeth is worth more 
 than the price of the pamphlet. 
 
 Best Varnish Blacking Extant. — Alcohol, 1 p^al- 
 Ion, white turpentine, 1 i lbs.-, gum shellac, 1 J lbs., 
 Venice turpentine 1 gill. Let these stand in a jug in 
 the sun or by a stove until the gums are dissolved, 'then 
 add sweet oil, one gill and lamp black 2 oz., and you 
 have a varnish which will not crack when the harness is 
 twisted, like the old shellac varnish. It is good, also, 
 for boots and shoes, looks well and turns water, what 
 more can be asked ? 
 
 Hair Dye. — No. 1 — Sulphuret of Potassium, 1 drachm; 
 soft water, 1 ounce. 
 
 No. 2 — Crystalized nitrate of silver, 1 drachm; soft 
 water, 1 ounce. 
 
 Apply No. 1, and directly after it, No. 2, for a few 
 minutes alternately; using different tooth brushes for 
 each No. Clear days are best on which to apply it. The 
 longer it is exposed to the light without washing, the 
 darker will be the eolor. Keer> it from shirt besoms and 
 
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 the face, — especially No. 1, as it will make the face sore 
 as well a8 color it. 
 
 If you do get it on the skin, Cyanuretof Potassium, 1 
 drachm, to 1 ounce water, will take it off. This last is 
 poison, however, and should not touch sore places or be 
 left where children may get at it. 
 
 Oil to Make the Hair Grow and Curl. — Olive 
 oil, J pint; Oils of Rosemary and origanum of each, 
 i oz., and applied rather freely. 
 
 Rat exterminator* — -Take 12 pounds of flour and 
 -sufficient water to make it into a thick paste, then work 
 in 4 ozs. of phosphorus which is melted in 6 ozs. of but- 
 ter. This you will leave thickly spread on bread where 
 rats can get at it, covered with sugar. If it is desired 
 to sell this article and you wish to color to hide its compos- 
 ition, work into it 8 oz. of Tumeric. 
 
 Or take warm water, 1 quart, lard, 2 pounds, phos- 
 phoros, 1 oz. Mix, and thicken with flour. One of 
 these has caused more paper puffing and rat bursting, 
 than many things of a much greater account. Yet rats 
 Had mice are very annoying; and these will clear out the 
 nuisances and that is all that can be asked for them, 
 
 American Cement, or Furniture Glue. — To mend 
 marble, wood, glass, china and ornamental ware. Take 
 water, 1 gallon, nice glue, 3 pounds, white lead, 4 ozs., 
 alcohol, 1 quart. Mix. One oz. vials sell for 25 cents. 
 OiKECTiONs — If it is cold weather, warm the bottle until 
 i he cement is dissolved ; then with the finger or brush 
 rub it on the broken parts, both edges, put together, and 
 retain in their places until dry. 
 
 Sure Remedy fot Bots in Horses. — When a horse 
 is attacked with bots, it may be known by the occasional 
 rapping at their own sides, and by red pimples or pro- 
 lections on the inner surface of the upper lip which maj 
 lie fieen plainly by turning up the lip. First, thcD; take 
 
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 two quarts of new milk with 1 quart oi molassea, and 
 give the horse the whole amount, fifteen minutes, af- 
 terwards give two quarts of very strong sage tea; thirty 
 MINUTES after the tea, you will give 3 pints (or enough 
 to operate as physic) of curriers oil ; the cure will be 
 complete as the milk and molasses cause the bots to let 
 go their hold, the tea puckers them up and the oil carrie* 
 them entirely away. If you have any doubt, one trial 
 will satisfy you perfectly. 
 
 RiNOBOXE AND SpAvix CuRE. — Take Egyptiacurn and wine 
 A'inegar, of each, 2 oz. ; water of pure ammonia, spirit of tur- 
 pentine and oil of orriganum, of each 1 oz. ; euphorbium and 
 cantharides, of each one-half oz. ; glass made fine and sifted, 1 
 drachm ; put them in a bottle, and when used, let them be well 
 shaken together. 
 
 This is to be rubbed upon the bone enlargement with the 
 hand or spatula, for one-half an hour each morning ,for G or 7 
 mornings in succession. Let the horse be so tied that he can- 
 not get his mouth to the place for 3 or 4 hours, otherwise, he 
 will blister his mouth and blemish the part. Then let him run 
 until the scab comes oflf of itself without scraping, so as to in- 
 jure the roots of the hair. Then repeat as before, and follow 
 Jip for 3 or 4 times blistering, and all bone enlargements will be 
 reabsorbed, if not of more than a year or two's standing. 
 
 It is good also for callous sinews and strains of long stand- 
 ing — but if there is ringbones or spavins of so long standing, 
 that this does not cause their cure, you will proceed as follows : 
 add to this compound, corosive sublimate in powder one-half 
 oz. ; oil of vitrol, one-half oz. ; and common salt, one-half oz. 
 When it is again ready to use, always shaking well as you use 
 either preparation. Now clip the hair, and prick the bone or 
 aallous part as full of boles as you can with a pegging awl, 
 which is just long enough to break through the callou.^ part 
 only. This done, bathe the part with rinegar, until the blood 
 slops flowing, then apply the double compound as at first for 
 4 or 6 mornings only, repeating again if necessary; and 99 of 
 •rery 100 ringbones or spavins will be cared ; and most of them 
 with only the first preparation. 
 
 The Egyp*iacum is made as follows : — Take verdigris and 
 ftlum in powder, of each 1 and one-half or. ; blue vitrol, pow- 
 dered, one-half oz. ; corosive sublimate, in powder ^ ox. ; vin> 
 ^g«r, S iftd ODC-balf oz. ] booey, onehalf lb. ; boil over & slew 
 
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 fire until of a proper consistence. When used it must be stirred 
 up well, as a sediment will deposite of some of the articles. 
 
 If the hair does not come out ajiain after using the last 
 blister, use the Good Samaritan liniment freely on the part; but 
 the first will never disturV) the growth of hair. It is best al- 
 ways to commence this kind of treatment early in the seasoui 
 §0 as to effect a cure before cold weather comes on. 
 
 Positive Curis for Pollevil and Fistula. — Take 
 1 pound common potash dissolved in i pint of water. Add 
 i oz. of the extract of belladona and 1 oz. of gum arable 
 dissolved in a little water, work all into a paste with 
 wheat flour and box or bottle up tight. 
 
 In applying this, the place should be well cleansesd 
 with soap suds, (castile soap is best) then tallow should 
 toe applied all around outside to prevent the hair from 
 being removed by paste dissolving and running over it. 
 Now this paste must be pressed to the bottom of all the 
 orifices. If very deep it must be made sufficiently thin 
 to inject it by means of a small syringe and repeated once 
 in two days, until all the callous pipes and hard fibrous 
 base around the poll-evil or fistula, is completely des- 
 troyed. Sometimes one application has cured cases of 
 this kind, but it will generally require two or three ap- 
 plications. If the horse cannot be kept up you will put 
 a piece of oiled cloth over the place. The advantage of 
 this caustic over all others is that less pain and inflam- 
 mation is induced than by any other plan. 
 
 Pol!-evils and fistulas are sometimes eat out with lunar 
 caustic, then the hole filled with curriers oil, but His 
 more painful than the other. Cedar oil is to be applied 
 to the tendons to prevent them stiff"ening in poll evil or 
 other cases. 
 
 This will destroy corns and warts as mentioned under 
 that head. 
 
 Degray, OR Sloain's Horse Ointment. — Eosin,4. 
 oz., beeswax, 4 oz., lard, 8 oz., honey, 2 oz. Melt these 
 articles slowly, and gently bring tea boil and as it beginr 
 
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 to boil, slowly add a little less than a pint of spirits tur- 
 peutine, stirring all the time this is being added, and 
 then remove from the fire and stir till cool. 
 
 This is an extraordinary ointment for bruises, in flesh 
 or hoof, broken knees, galled backs, bites, cracked heels 
 &c., &c , or wjien a horse is gelded, to htal and keep a- 
 way flies. Nothing is equal to it to take fire out of burns 
 or scalds in human flesh — Personal Experience. 
 
 Nerve and Bone Liniment. — Take beefs gall, 1 
 quart, alcohol, one pint, volatile liniment, 1 Ife., spirits 
 of turpentine, 1 lb , oil of origanum, 4 oz., aqua ammo- 
 nia, 4 oz., tincture of Cayenne, ^ pint, oil amber, 3 oz., 
 tincture Spanish fly, 6 oz. Mixed. Uses too well known 
 to need description. 
 
 Electro G old Plating. — Take a S2 50 or any other 
 piece of gold and put it into a mixture of 1 oz. of nitric and 
 2 ozs. of muriatic acids, (glass vessels only are to be used in 
 this work ;) when it is all cut, dissolve i oz. of sulphate 
 of potash in 1 pint pure rain water and mix with the 
 gold solution, stirring well : then let stand and the gold 
 will be thrown down, then pour ofi" the acid fluid, and 
 wash the gold in two or three waters, or until no acid is 
 tasted by toujliing tlie tongue to the gold. Now dissolve 
 1 oz. of (Jyauuret of Potassium in one pint of pure rain 
 water, to which add the gold, and it is ready to use. — 
 Clean the article to be plated from all dirt and grease 
 with whiting and a good brush, (if there are cracks it 
 may be necessary to put the article in a solution of caus- 
 tic potash, — at all events every particle of grease and dirt 
 must be rtm(n'edj) then suspend ih.e article in the Cy- 
 anuret-of-G-old Solution, with a small strip of zinc cut 
 about the width of a common knitting-needle, hooking 
 the top over a stick which will reach across the top of 
 the vessel or buttle holding the solution. If the zinc is 
 too large the deposit will be made on the article so fast 
 that it will scale off. The slower the plating goes on the 
 
better, and this is arranged by the size of the zinc used 
 When not using the plating fluid keep it corked and it 
 is always ready to use, bearing in mind that it is as poison 
 as arsenic and must be put high out of the way of child- 
 ren and labeled Poison^ although you will have no fears 
 in using it,— yet accidents might arise if its nature wer« 
 not known. 
 
 Electro Silver Plating — Is done every way the 
 same as gold, (using coin) except, that rock salt is used, 
 instead of the Cyanuret of Potassium, to hold the silver 
 in solution for use, and when it is of the proper strength 
 of salt it has a thick, curdly appearance, or you can add 
 salt until the silver will deposit on the article to be pla- 
 ted which is all that is required. No hesitation need be 
 felt in trying these recipes, as they were obtained of a 
 practical jeweler who plated all of his small lathes and 
 other brass tools, pinch-beck and silver watches, spoons, 
 &c., &c. These two recipes are worth twenty times as 
 much as I get for the whole book. At least, this is the 
 case with all jewelers. 
 
 Writing on Glass by the Rays of the Sun. — 
 "Dissolve chalk in acquafortis to the consistency of milk, 
 and add to that a strong dissolution of silver. Keep this 
 liquor in a glass decanter, well stopped. Then cut out 
 firom a paper the letters you would have appear, and paste 
 the paper on the decanter or jar; which you are to place 
 in the sun in such a manner that its rays may pass thro' 
 the spaces cut out of the paper, and fall on the surface 
 of the liquor. The part of the glass through which the 
 rays pass will turn black, whilst that under the paper 
 will remain white. You must observe not to shake the 
 bottle during the time of the operation.'' Dr. Hooper's 
 national Recreations before 1775, which show Photo- 
 graphy not to be of so recent invention as that which is 
 claimed for it by artists of the present day. Of course 
 JARS for druggists, or other purposes, &c., &c., can 
 
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 be lettered by this plan ; cutting flourishes, ornaments, 
 &o., around the name as desired, having sun for a limner, 
 whose skill in giving perfect representations of nature 
 oflu never be out-done by mortal artists. 
 
 Bill Wright's cure for Inflamitory Rheuma- 
 tism. — Take 1 oz. each, of Sulphur and Nitrate of Po- 
 tassa, Gum Quaiac i oz., Colchicum root and Nutmegs 
 i oz., all to be pulverized and made into an electuary 
 with Simple Syrup. Dose, one teaspoonful 3 timas 
 daily. He has taken it much more often without harm 
 until the bowels moved freely, and thus cured himseh' 
 in 2 or 3 days time, when one knee was nearly as large 
 as his body, which is not small, so he could attend to tho 
 duties of bis house, (The Niagara Hotel, Toledo Ohio,) 
 where from his introduction of it, it has become very 
 popular in the treatment of this disease, he obtained it 
 from an old Physician. I would use the Good Samari- 
 tan in connection with it ; and this in connection with 
 that, for cJironic rheumatism. 
 
 Cure for Asthma.- — Take Elecampane, Angelica, 
 Comfrey, Hoarhound tops, and Spikenard Root, each 1 
 oz., bruised and steeped in one pint of Honey, a table 
 spoonful taken hot, every few minutes until relief is ob- 
 tained, then several times daily until a cure is affected. 
 
 This will be found very excellent in any cough, even 
 low consumptives will find great relief from its use. 
 
 Matches. — Take 16 parts (by weight) of gum arabic 
 14 parts of salt petre, 16 parts of vermillion (used for 
 coloring only,) and 9 parts of phosphorus. Mix well in 
 an earthen vessel with a little water ; as you dip keep 
 well stirred, and dry them in a moderately warm place ; 
 then apply a coat of copal varnish to keep out dampness. 
 The end of the match first dip in melted sulphur ; 
 amooth the end of the block before splitting. If sul- 
 phur adheres to the end scrape it off before putting on 
 *he composition. The other end is best to put on some 
 
glue and a piece of paper to hold them together. The 
 percussion match is made by using a little chlorate of 
 potassa in the mixture, but it is dangerous except in very 
 rimall quantities. There are machines sold for about 
 S50, which split matches evenly and very fast. 
 
 Brilliant Stucco Whitewash.— Many have heard 
 of the brilliant stucco whitewash on the east end of the 
 President's house at Washington. The following is a 
 recipe for it, as gleaned from the National Intelligencer, 
 with some additional improvements learned by experi- 
 ments. 
 
 Take half a bushel of nice unslacked lime, slack it 
 with boiling water, cover it during the process to keep 
 in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or 
 strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously well dis- 
 solved in water; three pounds of ground rice, boiled to 
 a thin paste, and stirred in boiling hot ; half a pound of 
 ♦Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has 
 been previously dissolved by soaking it well, and then 
 hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle, immersed 
 in a larger one filled with water. Add five gallons of 
 hot w^ater to the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand 
 a, few days covered from the dirt. 
 
 It should be put on right hot : for this purpose it can 
 be kept in a kettle on a portable furnace. It is said 
 that about a pint of this mixture will cover a square 
 yard upon the outside of a house, if properly applied. 
 Brushes more or less small may be used according to 
 neatness of the job required. It answers as well as oil 
 paint for wood, brick, or stone, and is much cheaper. 
 It retains its brilliancy many years. There is nothing 
 of the kind that will compare with it, either for inside 
 or outside walls. 
 
 Coloring matter may be put in and made of any shade 
 you like, Spanish brown stirred in will make red pink, 
 more or less deep according to the quantity. A delicate 
 
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 tinge of this is very pretty for inside walls. Finely pul- 
 verized common clay, well mixed with Spanish brown 
 makes reddish stone color. Yellow ochre stirred in 
 makes yellow wash, but chrome pjoes further and makes 
 a color generally esteemed prettier. In all these cases 
 the darkness of the shades of course is determined by 
 the quantity of coloring used. It is difficult to make 
 rules because tastes are diiferent ; it would be best to 
 try experiments on a shingle and let it dry. We have 
 been told that green must not be mixed with lime. The 
 lime d'^stroys the color, and the color has an effect on 
 the whitewash, which makes it crack and peel. 
 
 When walls have been badly smoked and you wish to 
 have theui a clean clear white, it is well to squeeze indi- 
 go plentifully tiirough a bag into the water "you use, be- 
 fore it is stirred in the whole mixture. If a larger 
 quantity than five gallons be wanted, the same propor- 
 tions should ^be observed. I say put 1 gall, boiled lin- 
 seed oil to the amount. 
 
 Drying oil Equal to the Patent Driers for Pain"- 
 TE.is, FOR ONE FouRTH THE Pkice. — Take two grillons of 
 Liii-;ee{J oil, and |)ut inio it, Lithnifje, Rod Lead ;nid IJ'.nber, 
 each 4 dz; Sulphate of Zinc •-' oz. and Sugar of L -ad 2 oz. 
 Boil unril it will s<;orcli a <eather. Uso ihis in qua tity fo suit 
 ihe O'Ject ef thg work being done. No driers, even Frlent, or 
 tiny oi-hiiv prep'-irition wii! be found superior to this, and every 
 Painter will uudersuind llie qu uuity [)ropBr lo be used. 
 
 IIaii ^lEsro'^ATrv-; Superior to W )0os for a Trifi. 
 ING cost. — Preparation — Take r^ugar of Lead 1 oz.; Borax 1 
 oz.; Lac-Suiphur 1 oz. Aqua Ammonia \ oz.; Alcohol j crjij These 
 articles lo stand mixed fur 14 h)jr3, thHii add Bay Ru:n 1 gill, 
 and 1 l.tU'espoonful of fine table salt with 3 pints of soft, water, and 
 flavor with one ounce of essence of iie.gamot. 
 
 This pr 'pararioii notoniy gi es a beautiful gloss to the hair; 
 But will cause hair to grow on l)a'd heads arising from all com- 
 mon causes and restore s^ray hair to its natural color, 
 
 JMinmer of Applicit'On.— \\here the hair is thin or bald, 
 make 2 applications daily, workiig it well to the roots of 
 ihe hair with a soft brush or the ends of the fingers, rubbing well 
 
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 oach timoi. For grny hair 1 application daily it sufficient 
 aodonce a day fo- any persons head will give a nice rich glo$$. 
 It is harmless and will do all that is claimed for it, and will not 
 cost only a trifle in comparison to the Advertised Restoraiivet of 
 the day, and will be found far better than most of them. 
 
 Dr. Thompson's Celebrated Composition Powder. — Take 
 Bayberry bark, 2 lbs.; Hemlock bark 1 lb.; Ginger root 1 lb.; 
 Cayenne pepper 2 oz. Cloves 2 oz.; (can be used without the 
 hemlock) all finely pulverized and well mixed. Dose — A 
 teaspoonful in a cup of hot water well sweetened and a little 
 milk added improves it much in taste. This in first stages and 
 less violent attacks of disease is a valuable medicine and may 
 bo safely employed in all cases. It is good in relax, pain in tha 
 stomach and bowels, and to remove all obstructions caused by 
 cold. A few doses of this, the patient being in bed with a 
 steaming stone at the feet will cure a bad cold, and often throw 
 off disease in its first stages. 
 
 To Remove Grease or Paint from the Finest Cloths 
 OR Textures without Changino Colors. — Take good cam- 
 phene and wet a piece of clean white cotton cloth and rub the 
 coat collar, dress or ribbon or any place where grease or paint 
 may be on your clothing, and it will remove it entirely and not 
 change the color in the least. The camphene loosens the dirt, 
 and rubbing with tte clean cloth removes it, afterwards if de- 
 sired to remove the smell of the camphene, just wet the spot 
 with alcohol and all will evaporate together, and have the arti- 
 cles as nice as before the accident. 
 
 Seven Rules to Detect Counterfeit Money. — First — 
 Examine the form and features of all human figures on the note?. 
 If the forms are graceful, and features distinct, examine the 
 drapery — see if the folds lie natural ; and the hair of the head 
 should be observed, and see if the fine strands can be seen. 
 
 Second — Examine the lettering, the title of the bank, or the 
 round hand writing on the face of the note. On all genuine 
 bills, the work is done with great skill and perfectness, and 
 there has never been a counterfeit but was defective in the let- 
 tering. 
 
 Third — The imprint, or engravers' names. By observing the 
 great perfection of the different company names — in the even- 
 ness and shape of the fine letters, counterfeiters never get the 
 imprint perfect. This rule alone, if strictly observed, will de- 
 tect every counterfeit note in existence, 
 j^ Fourth-^lhQ shading in the back ground of the vignette, or 
 
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 oyer or aronnd the letters formifig the name of the bank, on a 
 good bill is even and perfect, on a counterfeit irregular atid im> 
 perfect. 
 
 Fifth — Examine well the figures on the other parts of the 
 note, containing the denomination, also letters. Examine well 
 the die work around the figures which stand for the denomina- 
 tion, to see if it is of the same character as that which forms 
 the ornamental work surrounding it. 
 
 Sixth — Never take a bill that is deficient in any of the above 
 points, and if your impression is bad when you first see it, you 
 had better be careful how you become convinced to change 
 your mind — whether your opinion is not altered as you become 
 confused in looking into the texture of the workmanship of the 
 bill. 
 
 Seventh — Examine the name of the State, name of the bank, 
 and name of the town where it is located. If it has been alter- 
 ed from a broken bank, the defects can plainly be seen, as the 
 alteration will show that it has been stamped on. 
 
 New and Abridged Method of Computing Interest by 
 ONE Simple Multiplication. — Rule — To find the interest on 
 any given sum of money for any number of years, months or 
 days. Reduce the years to months, add in the months if any, 
 take one third of the days and set to the right of months, in 
 decimal form, multiply this result by one-half the principle and 
 you have the Interest required. 
 
 EXAMPLE.— The interest required on $1,400 for 2 years, 3 
 months and 9 days : 
 
 Interest on $1,400 for 2 years, 3 months and 9 days 
 27.3 
 700 
 
 Answer required, $191,10,0 
 
 The above example at 6 per cent. Rule to obtain the inter- 
 est at any other rate. For 7 per cent, increase the interest at 
 6 per cent, by 1-6, for 8 per cent, by J, for 9 per cent, by J, for 
 10 per cent, by § for 11 per cent. 6-6 for 12 multiply by 2. 12 
 per cent, is the highest legal rate of interest allowed in any 
 State except Minnesota. 
 
 In pointing off", persons will observe to point oif as many pla- 
 ces in the product or answer, as there are decimal points in the 
 multiplicand, and two places for cents. This rule has been uni- 
 versally adopted by all business men who have availed them- 
 selves of it, and pronounced by them to be the shortett, and at 
 the a^me time the iimpUtt rule in use. Any school boy with ft 
 
knowledi^e of multiplication, can in two hours time, become 
 thorough master of the rule in all its forms and applications. 
 
 Cure FOR Colic ix Horses. — Spirits of Turpentine 3 oz.; 
 Laulanutn I oz.; Mix and give all for a dose. If relief is not 
 obtained in one hour re[)eat the do e, addiiis; | oz. of the best 
 powdered aloes well dissolved tog;ether, and have no uneasiness 
 abouL t,!ie result. Symptoms — Tlie horse often lies d.nvn, and 
 suddealy rise> again with a spring; strike-i his belly with his 
 hind faet, stamps with his fore feet, and refuses every kind of 
 food, &c., &c. 
 
 Valuable Stimulant in low Fevers and after Hemor- 
 BHAGES. — {AfistuKi Spi.rilaa vini Gid'ici) — Takebest brandy, 
 cinnainun ware!', each 4 fluid ozs.; tlie yolks of 2 eggs,\vell beat, 
 loaf sugar \ oz.; oil cinnailion 2 drops — Mix. 
 
 This mixtu-e is an iniitarion of the well known compound 
 termed "Eig Flip.' It is an exceedingly valuable stin)ulant 
 and restorative, and is employed in ilie latter stages of low fe- 
 vers, and in extreme exhaustion from urerine hemorrhages. 
 
 Z>o.*e.— From half to one (fluid) oz., as often as required. 
 
 Varnish to prevknt Rust upon Iron or Steel.— Take 
 fresh lard 2 o/.., rosin 1 oz.; and melt together, strain wliile hot 
 to get rid of specks which are in the rosin, and apply \^itha 
 brush or cloth :ind wipe off so it will not daub and you can lay 
 away any articles not in constant u.se for any length of time. — 
 Mechanics having tools exposed to rain or weather v.ill find it 
 to keep tools as bright as ever. 
 
 Alterative Syeup or Blood Purifier. — Take be.st Hon- 
 duras sarsanarilia, 12 ozs., guiacum shavings, 6 ozs.; v.inter- 
 green leaf, 4 ozs.; Sassafras root bark, 4 ozs.; Elder iTfwers, 4 
 ozs.,yello\v or water dock. 3 ozs., burdock root, 4 ozs, .iaiidelion 
 root and ton, G ozs.; bittersweet i-oot, 2 ozs.; all bruised. Place 
 these inj -edie its i:i a suitable vessel, and add alcohol and water, 
 equal quantivies, sufficient to cover handsomely, set xV.v.m. in a 
 moderately warm j)l!ice for a week, pour off the liquor an 1 set it 
 aside. No>v add water to the ingredients and boil to obtain all 
 the strength, nou'- otTand add more water and boil again, then 
 boil the two waters down to about 2 qts , strain and add the 
 liquor first poured off, and add 2\ lbs. crashed or coffee sugar, 
 and simmer to form a syi up, when cool bottle and sed up for 
 use. If ibe condition of the patient is such that alcolnd Is not 
 admissable.you will boil the liquor with the rest down to about 
 3 qts., by which means the spirits evaporate, but it is nectessary 
 
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 to use it to get some of the properties of the roots, and in the 
 last cate 6 lbs. of sugar will be i.eeded to pic^eive it. 
 
 Done — From ha'f to a wii.eclass lull according tu the age and 
 strength of the patient, one hour belove meals and at l;edtime; 
 followed up for weeks or months, according to the di.-ease for 
 which it is prescribed, as scrofula, and fur every di.-ease de- 
 pending upon an impure conditi<tn of the blot)d. Very greal 
 confidence may be placed in this Sijnip. It should be used ia 
 •ore ei/cs, of long standing. Old sore.s, ulcers c^-r. 
 
 If it is preferred you can have the articles all ground finely 
 (of course using dry articles in all cases) and mixed thorough- 
 ly, kept in a bottle or tisht box, and use the decocti<»n, made 
 by mixing a lablcspoonful of the ccnipc und in half a teacuplul of 
 water, sweeten and drink for a dose ; the syrup however is rath- 
 •r the be.>t plan. 
 
 I would not give this for Jayne's Alterative nor Swain's or 
 Tovvnsend s Sarsiparillas', because I know it is good and we 
 also know its comi)onent parts. 
 
 Tincture for DysfEPxrcs axd other Debilitated condi- 
 tions OF THE System. — Take ungrouad Peruvian bark, 1 oz., 
 gentian root, cinnamon, orange peel, coriander or anise seed, of 
 each I oz.. cloves ^ oz ; and if it can be got. angelica root | oz.; 
 let all the^e articles be groutid or brui>ed rather fii ely, and put 
 into 1 pt. of alcohol, after they stand 3 or 4 days you may be- 
 gin to use although the strength may not all be out for 10 or 12 
 days. 
 
 Dose — A teaspoonful to a tablespoonful in 4 or 5 of water and 
 1 of white sugar, to be taken an hour before meals. Ground 
 Peruvian bark is not usually half the strenoih of the unground. 
 If preferied, a teasj)oonful of the well mixed powdei- may be 
 Bteaped in half a cup of water and taken for a dose, using su- 
 gar. 
 
 Three-fourths of dyspeptics aie made by over eating, then to 
 obtain health they must eat in moderate quaniiiies and only 
 such lood a's is known to agiee with tlie stomadi, and all of 
 them who find fluids to cause wind in the stomach must not 
 diink tea, coti'ee or wafer at meal time, nor until from 2 to 4 
 hours after meals, and then, only in small quantities I have 
 found in my own case that good sound ap})'e cider or my aititi- 
 cial cider did not cause wind on the stomach but would help 
 digestion, otheis mav not find them to agree with them, then 
 find something else that will, and follow nature, jndgment and 
 common sense, for I am haj)py to be able to say tliat neither of 
 these rare qualifications are absolutely confined to M. D's. 
 
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 This tincture will be found serviceable for weak and debilita* 
 t«d females after confinement or protracted disease of almost 
 any character whatever. Continue its use for some time in- 
 creasing or lessening the Dose as circumstances may seem to 
 require. 
 
 In dyspepsia, wear the Green Mountain salve over the stom- 
 ach in connection with this tincture, and avoid butter as much 
 as possibic in your food, unless very recently made, and bathe 
 daily in weak ley waiter. 
 
 Diuretics. — Take oil of cubebs. | oz,; sweet spirits of ni- 
 tre, i oz.; balsam of copaiba, 1 oz.; Harlem oil, 1 bottle; oil 
 lavender, 20 drops ; spirits of turpentine, 20 drops — 'mix. Dose 
 — For an adult 10 to 25 drops 3 times daily, or as occasion may 
 require. Or perhaps an article made as follows can be taken 
 easier: Solidified copabia, 2 parts ; alcoholic extract of cubebs, 
 1 part ; formed into pills with a little oil of juniper. Dose — 1 
 or 2 common sized pills 3 or 4 times daily. For children, sim- 
 ple spirits of nitre ; a few drops in a little spearmint tea is all- 
 sufficient. 
 
 To Preserve Butter ajty Length of Time. — Firtt — Work 
 out all the buttermilk. Second — Use rock salt. Third — Pack 
 in air-tight jars or cans. Fourth — Keep in a cool place, and 
 you will have nice butter for years, if desired to keep so long. 
 
 Magic Paper Used to Take off Leaves, Figures, &c., 
 IN Embroidery. — Take lard oil, or sweet oil, mixed to the con- 
 pist^nce of cream, with either of the following paints, the color 
 (jf which, is desired : Prussian blue, lampblack, Venetian red, 
 or crome green, either of which should be rubbed with a knife 
 on a plate or stone until smooth. Use rather thin but firm pa- 
 j er; put on with a sponge and wipe off as dry as convenient ; 
 then lay them between uncolored paper or between newspaper and 
 press by laying books,or some other flat substance upon them.un- 
 ril the surplus oil is absorbed when it is ready to use. Directions 
 —for taking off paterns of embroidery, place a piece of thin 
 paper over the embroidery to prevent soiling it ; then lay on 
 the magic paper, and then put on the cloth you wish to lake 
 the copy on to embroider ; pin fast, and then rub over with a 
 spoon handle, and every part of the raised figure will show up- 
 on the plain cloth. To take impressions of leaves on paper, 
 f lace the leaf between two sheets of this paper and rub over it 
 Jfcard, then take the leaf out and place it between two sheets of 
 whit« paper ; rub again, and you will have a beautiful impre*- 
 iioa of Ui« leaf or flower, d^., ArC. Fereooa traveling without 
 
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 p«n or ink, can write with a sharp stick, placing a sheet of this 
 paper between two sheets of white paper. Engravings can be 
 copied, by placing tho engraving for the top sheet and tracing 
 the lines with any pointed instrument. 
 
 Writing on Iron, Steel, Silver or Gold. — Take | oz. of 
 nitric acid ; 1 oz, of muriatic acid. Mix and shake well togeth- 
 er, when it is ready for use. Cover th€ place you wish te mark 
 with melted beeswax ; when cold write (with a file point or an 
 instrument made for the purpose,) the name plain, carrying it 
 through the wax and cleaning the wax all out of the letter : 
 then apply the mixed acids with a feather, carefully filling €ach 
 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. 
 
 Welding Caststeel without Borax. — Take copperas. 2 
 oz.; saltpetre, 1 oz.; common salt, 6 oz.; all pulverized fine and 
 mixed with three lbs. nice welding sand and use it the same &', 
 you would sand. Higher tempered steel can be used with this 
 better than with borax, as it v/elds with a lower heat — such as 
 pitchfork-tines, toe-cork& &c. The pieces should be held to- 
 gether while heating. 
 
 Root Beer. — For each gallon of water to be used, put in 1 
 pt. of bran ; a small handful of hops ; burdock, yellow dock, 
 dandelion and spikenard root if you can get it, of each an oz. 
 of the green roots, bruised, boil about 20 minutes and strain, 
 while hot add about 8 or 10 drops of oils of spruce and saesa- 
 iras mixed in equal proportions ; when cool enough not to scald 
 your hand, put in 2 or 8 tablespoonfuls of yeast. If bottled di- 
 rectly it will keep a long time, if allowed to work an hour or 
 two then bottled it will be ready to use sooner. Keep these 
 proportions for as many gallons as you wish to make — and I 
 think that J a lb. of white sugar to the gallon does not injure 
 the medical properties, but adds much to its palatableness. — 
 You can use a little more of the roots if desired, and might add 
 any other root known to possess medicinal properties desired in 
 the beer. This is a nice way to take alteratives. 
 
 Irritating Plaster extensively used by Eclkcticb. — 
 Take Tar, 1 lb.; burgunda pitch, ^ oz.; white pine turpentine, 1 
 02.; rosin, 2 ozs. Boil the tar, rosin and gum together a short 
 time, remove from the fire, and stir in finely pulverized man- 
 >2rake root, bloodroot, pokeroot and indian turnip, each 1 or. — 
 /his plaster is used extensively in all cases where counterirrita- 
 tioo or reTDlsivea are indicated ; ai ia rhcamatiam, neuralgia, 
 
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 and chronic affections of the liver and lungs, or diseaped joints 
 dtc. , &c. Eclectics use this in many cases w]ie:e bli.steis are 
 used by the " Old School Physiicians," ana experience has 
 proved it to be a good article, it is a[)plied by spreadins it on 
 cloth and applying over the seat of pain, renewing it every day, 
 wiping off any matter which may be on it, and also wiping 
 the sore produced by it, with a dry ch)th and re apply tlie plas- 
 ter newly spread, until the relief is obtained, or as- long as the 
 patient can bear it. Always avoid wetting the soie or you will 
 cause in- flammation, and be obliged to heal it up immediately, 
 instead of which, the design is to keep a i unning sore as Jong as 
 may be n cessary, usins: at the same time constitutional reme- 
 dies as the case may require. 
 
 EcLKCTic Ltver Pill — Take, Podoph\ilin, 10 grs.: Leptaa- 
 drin, 20 grs., Sanguinarin, 10 grs.: Extract of Dandelion, 20 
 grs., ftuined into 20 pills by being moistened a little with some 
 essential oil as Cinnamon or Pep ermint, &.c. 
 
 Dose — In chronic diseases of the liver, take one pill night 
 and morning, for several days, wearing the irritating plaster 
 over the region of the liver, washing the whole body daily, by 
 means of towels, and rubbing dry, being careful not to wet the 
 sore caused by the plaster ; as an active catliartic from 2 to 3 
 pills may be taken in all cases where Calomel or Blue Pills are 
 considered applicable by " Old School Physicians." 
 
 Remk.dy for Sore Throat. — An Albany physician furnish- 
 es the following remedy for throat diseases, as an infallible 
 cure: — " As soon as the patient is affected by the disease, ap- 
 ply a lemon poultice, made by cutting the lemon in thin pieces 
 and placing them on a ])roper cloth ; place the poultice on the 
 throat so as to cover the entiie snrface ; over this plac e a cloth 
 wet with cold water, so that it covers the throat pioperly ; vet 
 the cloth freely with cold water every half hour ; lenew the 
 poultice once in two hour.><. A garble of common juice — | lem- 
 on, \ water — may he used freely, baker's veast may also be 
 used in a gargle. A mild cathartic, composed of sena, pepper- 
 mint and jalap, may be used once per day. Drink iVeely of 
 lemonade with three teaspoonfuls of good gin in each glass.— 
 Bathe the patient daily in weak ley water." 
 
 To Pl't up PrcKLES IN .T.\KS OR Barrels WiTHOtrT thb 
 Trouble of Brining. — Carefully rinse the cucumbers without 
 bruising them and pack them in your jars, then cover thera 
 with clear wliisky, or alcohol of 76 per cent., with two quarts 
 of water to one of alcohol. The reason why this strength is re- 
 
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 quired is, that cucumbers contain such a large proportion of 
 water themselves, that common vinegar is too much reduced by 
 them. With this strength they will keep any length of time 
 and come out ready for table iise. 
 
 Mrs. Chase's Buckwheat Short Cake.— Take 3 or 4 tea- 
 cups of sour milk, 1 tea-spoonful of soda saleratus, dissolved in 
 the milkjWith a little salt, mix up a jf/ii/i bread dough, with buck- 
 wheat flour, though rather thicker than you would mix the same 
 for griddle cakes, put into a buttered tin, and put directly into 
 the stove oven and bake about 30 minutes, or as you would a 
 short cake from common flour. It takes the place of the grid- 
 dle cake, also of the short cake in every sense of the word, nice 
 with meat, butter, honey, molasses &c. No shortning is used, 
 and no need of setting your dish of batter over night for a Drunk- 
 en Hmband to set his foot in. Wet the top a little and warm 
 it up at next meal if any is left, 'tis just as good as when first 
 made, while griddle cakes have to be thrown away. I read this 
 in a paper or book, I cannot tell which or where, and should nev- 
 er have tried it or known of its deliciousness, had I not bought 
 a bag of Buckwheat flour which became a drug on my wife's 
 hands, as no one except herself cared for the flap-jack-cake. — 
 Consequently I mentioned what I had seen, and she made the 
 trial, when lo ! and behold, a cake arose to her astonished view 
 as plump and full as Pharaoh's '= well-favored'" and '-fat-flesh- 
 ed kine,'' and we all fed upon it w^ith greediness, until there was 
 not so much left of it, as of the " ill-favored and lean-fleshed," 
 which could not be satiated by seven years feeding upon Jo- 
 seph's well filled garners. If this comes to the eye of one who 
 loves " short cake" and they do not try it, I say they do not 
 know which side of buttered bread should fall upermost. If 
 this, falls in view of the original author of the plan and he will 
 let me know it, I will give him due and very great credit-, if not, 
 ^ I shall call it " Mrs. Chase's Shortcake, vdthout shortening.''' 
 
 This is one recipe of a book containing over 150 more, war- 
 ranted to give as good satisfaction as this one, embracing near- 
 ly every art, business and trade in use, published by A. W. 
 Chase, M. D., Ann Arbor, Mich., who sends it post paid, on the 
 receipt of 25 cents, or will send a circular giving a full discrip- 
 tion of all the recipes on the receipt of 8 cents or a 3 cent stamp. 
 
 Any editor who will publish this as it stands above, including 
 this paragraph also, and send me a copy of the paper contain- 
 ing it, shall have the book forwarded to his address, he will thus 
 benefit all his readers and the author as well as himself, thi« 
 would seem to be sufficient reason for its general publication. 
 4 
 
60 
 
 tOLiOUS FOR WOOLEN GOODi^. 
 
 Crome Black for Woolen Goods — Superior to any kow 
 IN USE. — For three pounds of goods, take an ounce and a half of 
 the bichromate of potash, and one oz. of ground arj^ol ; boil a 
 few minutes, and di[) the goods two hours, airing tliem often iu 
 the time; take out the goods, rinse very slightly, and make a 
 new dye with 1 lb. of logwood ; boil ^ hour, then add 1 gill of 
 chamherley ; dip three hours, airing often in the time, after 
 which it will he done. Wash iu clear water only. 
 
 To Dye Black on Wool for iiiXTURES.-For 10 lbs, of goods, 
 take i lb. of the bichromate of potash, an 1 3 ozs. of ground ar- 
 gol, boil together and put in the wool ; stir well, and let it re- 
 main in the dye 4 hours. Then take out the wool, rinse it 
 .slightly in clear water, then make a new dye, into which put 3J 
 lbs. of logwood. Boil 1 hour atid then add 1 pt. of chamlierley; 
 put in the wool, stir well and let it lie in all night. Wash in 
 clear water. 
 
 N. B. — This color I would recommend in all cases in prefer- 
 ence to any other now in use, as it will not impart any of its 
 color in fulling nor fade by exposure to the sun. 
 
 Making a Dark Steel Mix. — Take 10 lbs black wool, and 
 1^ lbs. white, and mix well together : great care should be ta- 
 ken in mixing the while with the black, as the pi-oportion of 
 white is so small the mix will not be even, unless this is borno 
 in mind. 
 
 For a Dark Snuff Brown —For 5 lbs. cloth or yarn, take 
 1 lb. of camwood and boil it 15 minutes, then dip the goods for 
 1 hour ; then add to the dye 2h lbs. of fustic, boil I hour, then 
 dip the goods an hour and a half, boil again and add 3 ozs. of 
 blue vitriol ; dip again 1 hour ; then darken with 4 ozs copper- 
 as, dip ^ hour, theii add 1 teaspoonful of saleratus and 1 pt. of 
 cjiamherley, dip again h hour : then if not dark enough, add 
 more copperas. This color is dark, beautiful and permanent. 
 
 For Wine Color. — For 5 lbs. goods take 2 lbs. Camwood, 
 boil and dip the goods 1 hour ; boil again and dip | hour, then 
 add 1 tablespoonful of oil of vitriol and dip again as before, then 
 darken with 1^ ozs. of blue vitriol and | oz. copperas ; if not 
 dark enough, then add copperas and blue vitriol until it suits. 
 
 For Madder Red.— For 5 lbs, goods take 2 lbs. of alum, 4 
 tfcblespoonfuls of the muriate of tin, and a tea cup full of vine- 
 
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 gar, and a handful or two of bran tied up in a cloth ; boil and 
 dip the goods, let them cool, then rinse very slightly in clear 
 eold water. Mike a new dye with 2 lbs. madder which has 
 been previously soaked over night, let steep in the dye an hour 
 at almost a hoilincr jieat, then dip the goods 1 hour, take out 
 and boil ten minutes, dip until it suits. 
 
 ScARLKT ON Woolen Goods with Cochineal. — For 1 lb. of 
 yarn or cloth take one half oz of cieam -of tartar, half an oz. of 
 cochineal well })ulverized. 2^ ozs. of the solution of tin ; then 
 boil up the dye and ealer the goods, work them briskly for 10 
 or 15 minufes, after which bring the dye to a boiling heat and 
 boil 1| houis, stirring the goods slowly while boiling, wash in 
 clear water and diy in the shade. 
 
 For Pink. — For 3 lbs. of goods take 3 ozs. of alum, boil and 
 dip the goods 1 hour, then add to the dye 4 ozs. cieam-of-tar- 
 tar, and I oz. of cocliineal well pulverized; boil well and dip 
 tlie goods while boiling, until the color suits. 
 
 Orange on Flannel or any other Woolen Goods. — For 
 6 lbs goods take 6 table spoonfuls of the muriate of tin, and J 
 of a lb. of aigol boil and dip 1 hour, then add to the dye 2| lbs. 
 fustic, boil well and dip 1 hour, then add to the dye a tea cup 
 full of madder, dip again 1 hour. 
 
 N. B. — Cochineal used in the place of the madder, makes a 
 much brighter color, which should be added in small quantities 
 until red enou.^h, to make the desired orange, is obtained. 
 
 For Lac IIed. — For 5 lbs. goods take 10 ozs. of argol, boil 
 a few minutes, then take 1 lb. of fine ground lac, mix with 1^ 
 lbs of the muriate of tin, let stand 2 or 3 hours, tlien add one- 
 half of the l;ic to the argol, dye and dip 1 hour, ihen add the 
 balance of the lac and dip again as before ; keep the dye at a 
 boiling heat until the last half hour, when the dye may be cool- 
 ed off. 
 
 For Purple. — For 5 lbs. of goods take 4 ozs cream- of tartar, 
 6 ozs alum, | tea cupful of muriate of tin, 2 ozs. cochineal. — 
 Boil the cream of-tartar, a'um and tin, 15 minutes, then put in 
 the cochineal and boil 5 minutes ; dip the goods 2 hours, than 
 make a new dye with 4 ozs. alum, 6 ozs. Brazil wood, 1 tea- 
 cup ful tin liquor, 14 ozs. logwood and a little chemic. 
 
 For a Light Silver or Pearl Drab.— For 5 lbs. goods 
 take 1 small tea-spoonful of alum, and about the same amount 
 of logwood, boil well together, then dip the goods 1 hour; if 
 not dark eiiouo;h add in equal quantities alum and logwood un- 
 mthe required color is obtained. 
 
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 To Cleanse Wool. — Make a liquor of 3 parts water, and 1 
 of Urine, heat it as hot as you can bear the hand in it, then piit 
 in the wool, a little at a time so as not to have it crowd, let it 
 remain in for 15 minutes, take it out over a basket to drain, 
 then rinse in running water, then spread it out to dry ; thus 
 proceed in the same liquor, when it gets reduced fill it up ; al- 
 ways keep the liquor as hot as you can bear your hand in it. 
 and never use any soap, as it fulls the wool. 
 
 How TO Extract the Color from Dark Rags or othrr 
 Goods and insert Lighter colors. — This recipe is calcula- 
 ted for rags for carpets ; in the first place let the rags be wash- 
 ed clean. The black rags can be colored red or purple at tho 
 option of the dj^er ; to do this take for every 5 lbs. black or 
 brown rags, | lb. muriate of tin, and | lb. lac, mixed with the 
 same as for lac red ; dip the goods in this dye 2 hours, boiling 
 one-half of the time, if not red enough add more tin and lac. — 
 The goods can then be made a purple by adding a little log- 
 wood : be careful and not get in but a very small handful, as 
 more can be added if not enough. White rags make a beauti- 
 ful appearance in a carpet, by tying them in the skein and col- 
 oring them red, green or purple ; gray rags will take a very good 
 green, the color will be in proportion to the darkness of mix. 
 In the following recipes I shall give directions for coloring cot- 
 ton, so that cotton rags will look equally as well as woolen. 
 
 COIiORS FOR C;OTTON GOOD.^. 
 
 For Black on Cotton. — For 5 lbs. goods take 3 lbs. sumac, 
 boil I hour, let the goods then steep in 12 hours, the goods are 
 then "to be dipped in a solution of lime water for § hour, take 
 out and let stand 1 hour, take 8 ozs. copperas and add it to the 
 sumac liquor, in this dip the goods 1 hour, then run them 
 through the tub of lime water again for 15 minutes, then make 
 a new^dye with 2| lbs. logwood, boil 1 hour,then dip the goods 
 o hours, then add to the logwood dye, 4 ozs. copperas, dip 
 again, then wash in clear cold water, and dry in the shade. 
 °N. B. — In using sumac take the wood and bark together. 
 
 To Color Sky Blue on Cotton.— For 3 Ib's. goods take 4 
 ozs. blue vitriol, boil a few minutes, then dip the goods 3 hours, 
 after which pass them through a solution of lime water ; tho 
 lime water is made by putting lime into a pail of water and let- 
 ting it stand until it becomes dear, then turn into a tub of wa- 
 
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 ler, in which dip the goods ; you can make this color a beauti" 
 tiful brown by putting them through a solution of prussiate ef 
 potash. 
 
 Blue on Cotton and Linen with Logwood. — Cotton and 
 linen in all cases (if new) should be boiled in a strong soapsud* 
 and rinsed clean ; then for 5 lbs. cotton or 3 lbs. linen, take 1| 
 lbs. copperas, and 1 lb. alum, put in the goods and dip 2 hours 
 then take out, rinse, make a new dye with 4 lbs. logwood, let 
 stand in this 1 hour, then add to the dye 1 qt. of chamberleY 
 or 1 pt. of salt, put in the goods, let stand 3 or 4 hours, or till 
 the dye is almost cold, dry it before washing. 
 
 For Purple. — For 5 lbs. goods take 3 lbs. logwood, and 
 ^ tea- cupful of muriate of tin, boil the dye ^ hour, cool a 
 littl^ and dip the goods 3 or 4 hours, dry in the shade ; wash in 
 clear cold water after drying. 
 
 For Green. — Cotton should in all cases be perfectly clean ; 
 new cotton should be boiled in weak ley or pota.<^h and washed 
 and dried ; give the cotton a dip in the home made blue dye- 
 tub, until i3]ue enough is obtained to make the green as dark 
 as required, take out, dry and then rinse the goods a little, then 
 make a dye with | of a lb. of fustic, and 3 ozs. logwood, to 
 each lb. of goods, boil 1 hour and let cool until at hand heat, 
 put in the cotton, more briskly a few minutes and let lay in 1 
 hour, take out and let it thoroughly drain, dissolve for each lb. 
 of cotton i oz. blue vitriol, dip again as before, wring out and 
 let dry in the shade. By adding or diminishing the logwood 
 and fustic, any shade of green may be obtained. 
 
 For Yellow. — The following recipe for yellow, supercedes 
 any other in use both in beauty and durability. For 5 lbs. cot- 
 ton goods take 7 ozs. of sugar of lead : make dye enough to 
 thoroughly immerse the goods, dip 2 hours, wring out, dissolve 
 in a separate dye 4 ozs. of bichromate of potash, dip until the 
 color suits, wring out and dry, if not yellow enough repeat the 
 above operation. 
 
 For Orange Color. — For 5 lbs. goods take 4 ozs. sugar of 
 lead, boil a few minutes and when a little cool put in the goods, 
 dip 2 hours, wring out^ (not wash) make a new dye with 8 ozs. 
 of bichromate of notash, dip until it suits ; if the color should 
 be too red take off a small sample and dip it into lime water : 
 when the choice can be taken of the sample dipped in the lima 
 or the original color. This color is very permanent. 
 
 For Red. — For 5 lbs. goods take 1 tea-cup | full of the mu- 
 riate of tia and 2 lbs. of nic wood,bail the nic wood 1 hour, 
 
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 iiiraoffthe dye from the chips and add the tin, dip until it 
 «uits, comniencinj!: at hand heat, let it lay in until cold, if not 
 dark enon.i add nioie nic wood ; dry in the shade and wash it. 
 
 For Mulbrrry. — For 1 lb. of silk take 4 ozs. a!uin, dip two 
 hours, wash ont, and make a new dye witli 1 oz. of biazil wood, 
 and i OA. logwood previously boiled in a kettle t.ooeiher, dip in 
 this h hour, the I add more brazil wood, and logwoo 1, in equal 
 proportions until tlie color is dark enouah. 
 
 For A Black on rjn.K. — Vinkc a wejik ifyeas you would for Blnck on wool- 
 ens : only not so sfruiis- "'Oik the goods in the Biclnomiito of Polnsh. at a 
 little l)olovv boili'iiv hsir, ilieu <iip in the Logwood the biiiiie «ay : if colored 
 in Blue VitiJ!)! dye, use ahoiit flis same heat. 
 
 For a Light C'liiCMK! lJi,i!E — Takp for I f?al. water one-half lable-spoon- 
 ful of AIuui (Ji.-.-iu!\e in a lea-ciip of hot waier. tuin ihis into . ht* mi', of wa- 
 ter which shoulii he cidil, tlien add the Chemic, as niui;li as i- wanted to ob- 
 tain the cesiredcoloi-, ihe mare Chemic that is used llie darker will be th« 
 color . 
 
 Fou A Handsomk Guken.- Tor I Ih. of Silk t;.ke 8 ozs. of Yellow Oak 
 Bark.anc boil one Inilf hour, lurnoff the liquor from ihe BarR and add 6 ozs. 
 Alum, let siand uiiiil cohl ; whilfi this d\ e is Ixdnfr made, color the {roods in 
 'the blue dye tnl), .i lijihr liliie, dry and wairh. then dip in the Alum and Bark 
 dje; if it does nof fcuk • well. w,irm the dye a little. 
 'For PuRPi.i:.— !>'.() the K^'ods in the home made blue f\YO tidi, until a light 
 blue is obiaiind, diy and then make a dyeof 4 oz' of Alum. Inilf to llie lb. 
 of Silk, then clip when the dye is a little warm; if the color is hoc full enough 
 add a little Oliemi'* 
 
 Fou Ye-lliiw. — For 1 lb of silk take 3 ozs. Alum, onefounh oz. of Sugar 
 of Lead, immer.si- ihe j^oods in the solution of Alum nnd Leiul over night, lake 
 out, wi'ini^ and inake i\ new dye with 1 lb. Fustic, dip unril the required col- 
 or is (dlt.lillPi'.. 
 
 Fi)K Or*ngf:.— Take Annatto and Soda, and add in qtiauiities according 
 to tlie auioiint nfuoodsand daikness of (he color wnnled. 
 
 For A BKAiniFc. ("iN.NA.!o\ OR Briiwn on both CoTfoN ano Silk, by a 
 5KW pRociss - Give the jioods as much color, from a sohiiion ofBlne Virriol 
 a<; itwill take up, tii?n run it tiirough Lime water; this will tmike a teauti- 
 ful sky blui* of mn ■•!) dnrahiliiy ; it has now to be run thi onjrh « solution of 
 rrussiiiie of I'oia^h, when it will be a boautilnl cinnamon or brown. 
 
 To Color Cra.MSiN —For 1 lb of sil ; take 3 ozs. AiuiM. dip at hand hfiat 
 4 hours, take on;, wring them ; for I pailful of new dye lakeSozs Cochinoal, 
 2 ozs. Nutj»a]ls.a'.d one-founh oz Cream of Tarfar. boil Ki minuies, cool a 
 little aud dip 1 hoi.r, raising the dye to a boiling he.U at the lime ; wash anil 
 dry. 
 
 r^ D E X . 
 
 VINEGAR in 3 Days, with- / Fruit Jellies withoutFruit, 19 
 
 out Drugs, from Cider, } Black Writino Fluid, or 
 
 Sugar, or Whisky, ]5< Copyingink, 19 
 
 To Preserve Eggs — for 2 S Common Ink, 19 
 
 shillings per barrel, 18? Red Ink, 19 
 
 Best Burning Fluid in Use, 17 (Blue Ink 20 
 
 Cuba Honey, 18< Indellibleink, - 20 
 
55 
 
 Washing Fluid, 30 
 
 Soft Soaj>, for half the ex- 
 expense, 31 
 
 New aiui abridged method 
 of conipuiing interest by 
 one simple multiplica- 
 tion, 48 
 
 Seven rules to detect coun- 
 terfeit money, 42 
 
 Dr. KlllEUER'S Ague Pills, 20 
 
 Cholagogue for Ague,. ., 21 
 
 Febrifuge Wine,. 21 
 
 Tonic Wine Tincture 27 
 
 Bweating Dio[)s, 28 
 
 Imperial Drop for Gravel 
 
 or Kidney Complaints, 28 
 
 Camphor I(.e, 28 
 
 Fluid cm e for Salt-Rheum, 27 
 
 SaltRlicinn Ointment, 27 
 
 Celebrated Pile Ointment, 27 
 
 Eye Wilier, 27 
 
 Green Mountfiin Salve,... 22 
 
 Genuine Seidlitz Powders, 22 
 
 Cough Syrup, 23 
 
 Liquid Opodeldoc, 23 
 
 Diarrhea & Dvsentery Cor- 
 dial, ■ 23 
 
 Vegetable Physic, 23 
 
 Cod Livei- Oil made Pal- 
 
 atcable and Dipestable,. 2G 
 Good-Samai itan, Linim. lit 
 
 01' Immediate Relief,. . . 24 
 Loomis Linime.it f . r old 
 
 Sores, 25 
 
 Golden Tincture 27 
 
 Fever-Sore Plaster, or Bl'k 
 
 Salve, 27 
 
 Nerve and Cone Liniment, 37 
 Magnetic Tooth Cordial, 
 
 and Pain killer, 24 
 
 Tooth Powder, 32 
 
 Dentrificc, for the Tec'h,. . 33 
 
 Syrup for Consumptives,. 33 
 
 BritishOll, 24 
 
 Ttactures, 24j 
 
 (Essences, 2i 
 
 I Alterati o Syrup, 44f 
 
 '< Tin : ure tor Dysjiepti' s,.. 46 
 
 ;Ecl ciic Liver "Pill, 48 
 
 \ Irritating P aster, 47 
 
 ^Diuretics, L. 46 
 
 ( Renu'dy for Putrid Sore, 
 
 \ Throat 48 
 
 K^'a uabie Stimulant, 44 
 
 I Dr Thorn pson'.s celebrated 
 
 ; Composition Powder,.. 45 
 
 jBill Wright's Cure for In- 
 
 ( flamitory Rheumati.sm,. 39 
 
 I Cure for Asthma 89 
 
 ^ To Remove Warts, 31 
 
 :To Cure Corns, 32 
 
 \ To Remove Warts & Corns 
 
 I in Five Minutes, 28 
 
 'Writin:.ion Gl< ss by the 
 
 I Sun's Ravs 88 
 
 ; ALCOHOL, in Medicijie,.... 14 
 
 ;Blackb rry Wire, 12 
 
 ! Stomach Bitters, 12 
 
 1 Port. Wine, 11 
 
 ; Pure Raisin Wine, 10 
 
 JPureR.isin Vinegar, 11 
 
 I Ginger Wine, 8 
 
 ( Wine fi'om Rheubarb plant, 11 
 ; Currant, and other Fruit 
 
 Wines 11 
 
 Cider Wine, 13 
 
 Coloring for Wines, 10 
 
 \ To ma'.e Cider without 
 
 I A])ples, 6 
 
 l To keep Apple Cider sweet 
 
 \ without Expense, 13 
 
 RootB-er, 47 
 
 ) Spruce or Aromatic Beer, 
 
 > Lemon Beer, 
 
 Philadelphia Beer, 
 
 I English Improved Strong 
 I Beer, 
 
 > Silver Top Drink, 
 
 I Imperial Cream Nectar,.. 
 ^Ginger Pop, 
 
56 
 
 Spanish Gingerett, 
 
 Mineral Water, 
 
 Hop Yeast, 
 
 Soda Syrups, 
 
 Cream Sodas, 
 
 Ice C ream, 
 
 Ice Cream very clieap,--- 
 
 Lemon Syrup, - - 
 
 Orange & Raspberry Syr- 
 ups 
 
 BARBERS' Shampoon Mix- 
 ture, 
 
 N. Y. Barbers' Star Hair- 
 Oil, 
 
 MsKiassar Oil, 
 
 Bears' Oil, 
 
 Oil to Make the Hair Grow 
 and Curl, 
 
 Ox Marrow, 
 
 Cologne, 
 
 Hair-Dye, 
 
 Hair Restorative, superior 
 to Wood's, for a triflng 
 cost, 
 
 CHEAP COLOR for Boots, 
 Shoe & Harness Edge,. 
 
 Best edge color for leather 
 
 Water Proof Oil Blacking 
 
 Best Varnish Blacking iu 
 Use, 
 
 Polish to Remove Stains, 
 Spots, and Mildew from 
 Furniture, 
 
 Rat Exterminator, 
 
 To remove grease from the 
 finest textures without 
 changing colors 
 
 Brilliant stucco white wash 
 
 Matches, 
 
 Preparing Oil for Carriages 
 Wagons, & Floor Paint- 
 ing, - 
 
 Brying oil, equal to patent 
 Dryers, for one quarter 
 ihe price, 
 
 7 { Secret Art of catching Fish 32 
 
 8 Crockery Cement, 29 
 
 7 \ American Cement, or Fut- 
 
 7 niture Glue, 34 
 
 10 SURE REMEDY for colic iu 
 
 9 1 Horses 44 
 
 9 \ Sure Remedy for Bots,. . . 34 
 10 \ Sure Cure for Ringbone & 
 
 ; Spavin, S^> 
 
 10 Positive Cure for Poll- 
 Evil and Fistula, " 36 
 
 29 Degray's or Sloan's Horse 
 
 S Ointment, 3P. 
 
 30 \ WRITING on Iron or Steel, 
 
 30 i Silver or Gold, 47 
 
 SO \ Welding Cast steel without 
 
 Borax, 47 
 
 34 ) Varnish to Prevent Rust, . . 44 
 
 30 j To preserve Butter, 46 
 
 30 ,< To put up Pickles, 48 
 
 33 \ Magic Paper, , 4(5 
 
 I Mrs. Chase's Buckwheat 
 
 \ Shortcake, 49 
 
 4liC0L0RI]VG— Crome Black 
 
 \ for AYoolen Goods, 50 
 
 29 \ To Dye Black on Wool,.. 50 
 
 29 \ Making a Dark Steel Mix, 60 
 
 29 \ For a Dark Snuff Brown,. 50 
 
 • For Wine Color, 50 
 
 33 5 For Madder Red, 50 
 
 < Scarlet on Woolen Goods 
 
 I with Cochineal 51 
 
 32 I For Pink, ' 51 
 
 34 < Orange on Flannel or any 
 other Woolen Goods.. . - 51 
 
 For Lac Red, 51 
 
 42 I For Purple, 51 
 
 40 I For Light Silver, . . . . 51 
 
 39 i To Cleanse Wool, 52 
 
 To Extract the Color from 
 
 Dark Rags, 62 
 
 31 ] Coloring Recipes for Cot- 
 ton, are on pages 62 5S 
 
 I Coloring Recipes for Silk 
 
 41 ! are on page 64 
 
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 A Kecipe 
 
 FOR MANUFACrURING THE 
 
 World's Labor-Saving Wash- 
 ing Soap. 
 
 BY J. LAMB, COLDWATEB. 
 
 ~:i'or manufacturing tw€inty-t«ro pounds of 
 traniber one, of the soap;- for washing fine (^ 
 i^lothes, Hands, Dishes, Ex!tra<itifag Grease in- — 
 y tan tly from fine wooUeii or othei- clothing, by 
 rubbing on a little, withbut injiiry in the lea.'^t. -x 
 
 Slack one pound of Btone Lime, in nine quarts 
 foiling soft -water, and when settled clear, dis- '^^ 
 
 lolve in eight of it, (boiling over a fire) four J 
 prtunds Chemical, white or yellow Bar Soap. '^- 
 yne pound sal-soda, one fourth of a pound of 
 Liurax, two ounces Soda-Ash, or two ounoe> 
 Saleratus, all brought to the boil, mould it in 
 »bat you please, 3«t it a side, when cold this i^ 
 lit to use. For number two, fot common wash- 
 ing, cleaning, tfec, five pounds of Common Bin "^ 
 ■r two gallons Soft Soap, in the same as above. - ' 
 
 All costing short of two and a half cents p«r ,. .' 
 !>c)und. Take froM' one to two pounds of tbn 
 i(jap, according to the .size of w'ashing, make h , _0 
 narm suds with ohe half the quantity used in h 
 .wanding barrels or' tub, piit the clothes in soak 
 -ind pound them thirty or forty minutej* ; ria;.j 
 •bam out, piit them in a cold suds in a boiler, (X\ 
 vlaco it over a Tiro, and he*t slowly till brought 
 r.i> ft boil, and no nji*re ; suds, ring, and rineit* (/) 
 them woll for ir/ing, they will require but littlw 
 rubbing, aid i:- a .sa.viug of over one half thy d^ 
 hard Jabor, -tim'S, 5oap, Hud wood; than rheu^uft'' ^ 
 TiTuj of waj 
 
 ^)^ 
 
 .1 
 
J These Recipes are j^ot up on purely- scientific and pliilosopn- 
 ical princiy!es, from long and actual experience in the Drug and 
 Saloo\ basiuess, and eniire satisfaction warranted. 
 
 Reference U made to llic following named gtiitlemen, who 
 liave UJ-'ed the recipes referred to, and recommend them to all 
 Avho wish to MAKK or rsi5 the articles spoken of. Reference 
 could be made to many jnore. as Dr. CHASE has traveled over 
 several statks, selling them to business men only, and so far as 
 known, entire satisfaction has been given. 
 
 HowiiERT &. F.viLOu, Drmrgints, of Bucyrus, Ohio, say: Dr. 
 Chase's Red Ixk is su|)erior to Harrison s Cohmibiaii Ink, and 
 also that his CuRNiNa Fluid can have xo superior. 
 
 J. M. Chase, of Orramel, N. Y., says: Your Yixkgar is all 
 riglit. More than 40 men tasted it last Saturday, and they, to 
 a maj}f Koy it is the best and.pleasantest they ever saw. 
 
 GiDFO.x Howell, of Orramel, N. Y., says: I have drank cider 
 2 years old. (kepi by one of Dr. Chase's recipes.) as good as 
 "when ])Ut uj), and diil not. oost^ of a cent per barrel toprejiareit. 
 
 H. W, Lord and JJ. Fox, Grocers, of Ponliac, Mich., say : We 
 liave kept Eocfs for two years, by Dr. Chase's process, as good 
 as when ])ut down. 
 
 N. S. Reed, Harness maker, of Mansfield 0., says: I have 
 used Dr. Chase's Yarxish Blacking for Harness, over three 
 years, and say that it is the best that I ever used, and it costs 
 me only $1.38 jier gallon. 
 
 The editor of the Country Gentleman says,: They liavc used 
 Di'. Cliase's Washing Fluid for several years, and know, from ex- 
 })erierice, that clothes not only Avash easier, but look better, and 
 last fully as long, as when washed in the old way. 
 
 Cro:n!s & Bro., Merchants, of Peru, HI., say they have used 
 tbio same [)lan as Dr. Chase's, for keeping Eggs, for 12 years 
 past, with entire success. 
 
 W^e have ])oe!i acriuainte 1 with Dr. A. W. Chase for several 
 years in the Drug and Grocery business, and are well satisfied 
 that lie would not do a business wliich he did not know was all 
 right. His information in the form of recipes can be depended 
 upon. 
 
 JOHN J. BAGLEY, Tobacconist, Detroit, Michigan. 
 
 SAISIUEL J. REDFIELD, M. D., Wvandotte, Michigan. 
 
 JOHN ROBERTSON, Captain of Steamer Clifton. 
 
 H. FISH, Captain of Steamer Sam Ward. 
 
 GEORGE BEARD, Dea'er in Ovstcrs and Fruit, Detroit. 
 
 WM. PTTELPS & CO., Conrc-tior.ers, Detroit. 
 ^li commxniic'tiions f^Jmuld be addrefised to 
 
 A. W. CHASH, M. D., Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
 
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