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 THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR 
 
 75 the ruler of men to a great extent, and 
 how to get and keep the " root of all evil " is 
 the one study and aim in the life of the gen- 
 erality of mankind. While those who expect 
 that this look will supply them with a ready- 
 made fortune will le doomed to disappointment, 
 the man or woman who gives these pages a 
 thorough, thoughtful perusal, and faithfully fol- 
 lows their advice -and instructions, cannot fail 
 of ultimate success. . 
 
 
THIS HOOK IS FOR THE EYE OF THE rUHCHASKH OM.Y 
 AND SHOULD NOT HE LOANED. 
 
 TH E 
 
 SILENT ASSISTANT^ 
 
 Revised and Enlarged. 
 
 A Key to a Profitable Occupation 
 
 FOR ANY PERSON. 
 
 Containing Rare and Valuable Trade and Mechanical Secrets, Mom y making 
 
 Inventions, Old and New Discoveries, Curious and Scientific Expt-n- 
 
 ments, and Practical Recipes, witii full instructions for 
 
 Manufacturing and Preparing for Sale some of 
 
 The Most Popular and Best Selling Household Articles ok the Day. 
 
 A VERITABLE ASSISTANT, 
 
 • A useful book may live from age t<J npc, .,. — "Zj^OF COA/*^ 
 
 And tliose unborn may read its printed pagfe.'b^' _,^ '^''?^«"> 
 
 / ■ PYRIGHr ^"^vTi 
 
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 RUTLAND, V EM MONT: .. ~,r^0'^ ' 
 
 TME WORLD iSUPJPLY X^O^, 
 
 Publishers. 
 First Copyriohtkd, 1883. 
 
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 Copyright 1888 by 
 H. C. ROWELL & CO., Rutland, Vr. 
 
TO Y^ 
 
 The Laborers of the World 
 
 Of Both Sexes and of All Classes 
 
 ■WHO ARE EAUNKSTLY SEEKING 
 
 A BETTERMENT OF THEIR CONDITION, 
 
 THIS LITTLE VOLUME, 
 
 A. Complete Q-uicie to 
 
 Honorable Self - Employment, 
 
 REQUIRING NO CAPITAL, 
 
 But ENERGY AND COMMON SENSE To Acquire 
 
 WEALTH AND PROSPERITY, 
 
 Is Respectfully Dedicated by 
 
 THE PUBLISHERS. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Ayers' Cherry Pectoral 16 
 
 Artificial Honey 17 
 
 Anglers' Secret. No. 1 and Xo. 2 23 
 
 Artificial Oysters 25 
 
 Artificial Iiidia Rubber 38 
 
 Artificial Marble 37 
 
 Business Law 38, 39 
 
 liuchner's Carniine Ink 28 
 
 Blue Writing Fluid 27 
 
 Brilliant Self-Shining Stove I'olisli 10 
 
 Bright Red Ink 15 
 
 Bottle Wax ... 15 
 
 Brown Ink .15 
 
 Bluing 15 
 
 Black Copying Ink 16 
 
 Brown's Bronchial Troches . 16 
 
 Hoot and Shoe Blacking 23 
 
 Hay Rum 23 
 
 lil.-ick Ink 27 
 
 I'.rilliant Red Ink 28 
 
 branding Ink 32 
 
 Balm of a Thousand Floweis 32 
 
 Barbers' Shampooing Mixture 32 
 
 Bristol's Tooth Powder 23 
 
 llaking I'owder 30 
 
 r.hick Sealing Wax 20 
 
 Itoring Holes in Glass 28 
 
 Coffee for Packages 15 
 
 Common Ink 16 
 
 ( 'ourt Plaster 18 
 
 < 'leaning Compound 19 
 
 Cough Syrup 19 
 
 Cenient for Leather 20 
 
 Champagne Cider 20 
 
 Cider without Apples . .• 20 
 
 Cologne 21 
 
 Coin Value List 43 
 
 (Chemical ('omi)ound 21 
 
 <'ondition Powders 22 
 
 <'oinmercial Writing'Ink 23 
 
 (uilolina 24 
 
 r<3mmon Twist Candy 26 
 
 Copying Pad 31 
 
 Caveats 35 
 
 Copyrights 35 
 
 <^'ure for Chilblains . . . . ■ 33 
 
 <'ure for Sore Hacks on Horses 20 
 
 Divorce (Laws of) 40, 41 
 
 Daily Savings at Compound Interest 39 
 
 Distilling Whiskey ' . 22 
 
 Designs 35 
 
 Dedication 2 
 
 Dr. Savery's Diphtheria Preventative 17 
 
 Dr. Kittridge's Remedy for Rheumatism 28 
 
 Egyptian Cement 24 
 
 Etching on (ilass 29 
 
 Everlasting Fence Posts] 31 
 
 English Gin 21 
 
 Essences 26 
 
 Felon Ointment 27 
 
 Fay's Compound Bar Soap 42 
 
 Furniture I'olish 19 
 
 Fire Kindlers 19 
 
French Lustr:il •-■(> 
 
 French Fiuiiiiure I'olish '12 
 
 Florida Water 23^ 
 
 Fitr Candy '2.6 
 
 Fran};;ij)anni 32 
 
 French I'olish for I.i athor 34 
 
 Fasteninfi l*ai)er to Tin 19 
 
 French Krandy 20 
 
 Fine I'epiierinmt Lozenf>-es 2(> 
 
 Gas Fitters' Cement 23 
 
 Greetinj;- 6 
 
 Gold Ink .18 
 
 Green Mountain Salve 22 
 
 Green Ink 27 
 
 Gold Plating 37 
 
 Gelatine Mould 37 
 
 Grains of Gold 44 
 
 Good Samaritan Liniment 3:} 
 
 How to Keep Cider Svve> t 33 
 
 How to Make One Hundred INnuids Soap Yery Cheap .... -.'6 
 
 How to Reinove Rust from Saws 25 
 
 Housekeepers' Friend U 
 
 Honicultuial Ink 13 
 
 Hunteis' and Trappers' Secret 19 
 
 Hdir Restorative and Invigorator 24 
 
 Hanily Water Pens 25 
 
 How to Fasten Rubber to Wood and Jletal 29 
 
 How to Test the Richness of Milk . . 31 
 
 How to Protect your Inventions 34 
 
 How a Copyright is Secured .35 
 
 How to Cluily Liquids 38 
 
 How to Pievent Windows from Steaniiiij^ .38 
 
 How to Make Ink Pads .16 
 
 How to Make Wax Flowers .17 
 
 How to Take Fac-Similes of Signatures 21 
 
 How to Remove Grease or Stains f I oni Clothinj:; 25 
 
 How to Commence and Carry on Business i 8 
 
 Improved Troy Starch Enamel 9 
 
 Invisihlo Ink 15 
 
 Indclililc Ink for Glass or Metal ,15 
 
 Ink for Marking Packages 18 
 
 Irish Wliiskey 29 
 
 Indelible Marking Ink 22 
 
 Ink Powder . . 22 
 
 Iui|)eri:d Onguent for Forcing ^Moustaches and Whiskers ... 24 
 
 In(lelil)le Ink for Marking Linen 28 
 
 Indcst uctible Lamp Wicks 37 
 
 Imitation of Ground Glass 37 
 
 Jockey Club 32 
 
 Kiss Me Ciuick .31 
 
 Liqtiid Glue 39 
 
 Lightning Ink Eraser 12 
 
 Luminous Iidv J5 
 
 Liquid Mucilage 15 
 
 Leather Cement 19 
 
 Lung IMedicinc 29 
 
 Ladies' Own 32 
 
 Lightning Interest Rule 14 
 
 Legal 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 
 
 Mason's Frozen Perfume 12 
 
 Magic Annihilator 13 
 
 Madeira Wine 18 
 
 Magnetic Toothache Drops 21 
 
 Moth and Freckle Lotion 23 
 
 Mucilage for Labels 2& 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Molasses Candy 
 
 Mending Tinware 
 
 Moulds of Glue . 
 
 Magic Cure for Burns 
 
 Marriage (Laws of) . 
 
 Neutralizing Whiskey . 
 
 New Invisible Ink , 
 
 Oil of Roses 
 
 Oleomargarine Manufacture 
 
 Partnersliip 
 
 Poriable hemonade . 
 
 Plumbers' Cement . 
 
 Port Wine .... 
 
 Paradise Liniment . 
 
 Paste that Will Not Sour 
 
 Plain Court Plaster . 
 
 Peerless Liniment . 
 
 Premium Method for Keeping Hams 
 
 Rubber Stamp Ink . 
 
 Root Ijeer .... 
 
 Red Ink .... 
 
 Russia Salve 
 
 Red Servling Wax 
 
 Royal Washing Powder . 
 
 Raisin Candy (See Fig Candy; 
 
 Rubber Hand Stamps 
 
 Rubber Stamps for Photogra] 
 
 Removing Rust from Saws 
 
 Soldering Fluid 
 
 Swiss Chimney Powder . 
 
 Sure Corn Cure 
 
 f^waim's Vermifue . 
 
 Sheiry Wine 
 
 Silver Ink .... 
 
 Shaving Soap 
 
 St. Croix Rum . 
 
 Star Hair Oil . . 
 
 Sticky Fly Paper 
 
 Silver Pl.ating Fluid 
 
 Secret Writing Ink . 
 
 Silvering Powder 
 
 St. James's Liniment 
 
 Soap without Lye or Grease 
 
 Tinctures .... 
 
 Ticketing Ink 
 
 Travellers' Ink . 
 
 To Mark Sheep without Inju 
 
 To Transfer Printed Matter 
 
 To Mend Tinware 
 
 To Whiten and Soften the Hancb 
 
 To Cure Warts and Corns 
 
 Tin Cans. Sizes of Sheets, et. 
 
 Trade Marks, Labels, etc. 
 
 Taking Leaf Photographs 
 
 The Silent Assistant 
 
 Upper Ten .... 
 
 Unshrinkable Patterns . 
 
 Valuable Trade Secrets . 
 
 Violet Copying Ink . 
 
 Washing Fluid 
 
 Waterproof Leather Preservativi 
 
 Wonder Hair Grower 
 
 What to Invent . 
 
 What a Patent Is 
 
 Who Can Obtain Letters Patent 
 
« ©re:e;tiFi< 
 
 ^- 
 
 In placing this boot: in the hands of our friends and ihG 
 public generally, we take much pleasure in stating that it 
 is designed more especially for the benefit of the working 
 classes. We do not believe it was intended that people 
 should drudge in perpetual slavery in order to keep the 
 breath of life in their bodies, nor that they should toil 
 from morning till night and live in the most economical 
 manner possible for the privilege of staying upon the 
 earth. The desire to make money being universal, th^ 
 question which follows is how to make it in the shortest 
 time and in the easiest manner. The surest and easiest 
 road to fortune lies in trade. Not one man in ten thou- 
 sand ever acquired wealth in any other way ; and the fact' 
 that many of the richest men the world ever saw, started 
 peddling on less than ten dollars capital, goes to show 
 that large amounts of money are not required in order to 
 start you well along on the road to fortune. But to suc- 
 ceed in life three prime requisites are absolutely neces- 
 sary — energy, enterprise, perseverance. 
 
 ist. Be energetic. Have a willing cheerfulness to 
 "work. Remember that no drones are v/anted in the 
 world's busy hive of industry, and that the hero of ever- 
 folded hands wins nothing in this world but the contempt 
 of his fellow-men. 
 
 2d. Be enterprising. Don't always wait for some- 
 thing to turn up. Don't hide your light under a bushel. 
 Don't always allow some one else to do your thinking and 
 acting for you, but strike out for yourself and lay broad 
 and firm the foundation of future prosperity. 
 
GREETING, 7 
 
 3d. Be persevering. Thousands of worthy enterprises, 
 large and small, have been started in this world and have 
 fallen through solely from a lack of persistency. What- 
 ever business you undertake, stick to it through "thick 
 and thin," and success cannot be doubtful. In the man- 
 ufacture and sale of any of the articles mentioned in this 
 book, any man or woman can make money. The major- 
 ity of the recipes are new, while many of them have never 
 before appeared in print. Manufactured and neatly put 
 up, the goods will afford large profits in almost any 
 locality. Ascertain what goods will sell best in your 
 vicinity, and then carefully prepare them, putting them 
 up as neatly and tastefully as possible. With ordinary 
 energy, enterprise, and perseverance, there is no reason 
 why you cannot make an income of five to twenty dollars 
 per day by consulting this little book, and adopting the 
 suggestions herein given. Believing it will prove a ver- 
 itable assistant to those who already have satisfactory 
 occupations, and a friend in need to such as are not pro- 
 vided with suitable and honorable business pursuits, — con- 
 densing as it does an amount of information which, could 
 it be collected in other forms, would cost many times the 
 price of this volume, — we submit the contents to those to 
 whom the book is dedicated, as a constant and invaluable 
 source of reference in their daily and hourly needs. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
8 I'HK SII.KNI ASSISIANT. 
 
 INSTRUCTIONS. 
 
 How to Commence and Carry on a Manufacturing Business. 
 
 Send for our $io outfit of supplies, if you can, and start at once ; get 
 all the agents you can to work for you, and sell to families and stores; 
 and, if you have the means at your command, leave thern on commis- 
 sion and advertise them in every way that you can. Talk about your 
 goods whenever you have an opportunity, and by so doing you will 
 get others incjuiring about them, and you will soon have a business 
 started, with an income from it that will surprise you. 
 
 If you do not wish to leave home, sell all you can in your own town, 
 and then advertise in your local newspaper, telling them what you 
 have for sale. 
 
 After you have got a little start, advertise more largely, and you 
 will find your profits steadily increasing; and by continued exertion 
 and constant effort you will establish yourself in a permanent and 
 profitable business. You can give any article you manufacture any 
 name you desire. 
 
 We cannot impress too strongly on your mind the policy of employ- 
 ing agents. Your profits on a good agent will be from ^i to $5 per 
 day. Don't you think you can get at least five in your county? We 
 think you can, if you try. 
 
 It will be a good plan for you to put up a written or printed notice 
 in your Post Ofiice and one or two other prominent places, asking for 
 agents to sell your goods, and after you get started advertise in the 
 newspapers. In shipping by mail or express, goods, should be securely 
 packed and plainly marked. 
 
 In making the different articles, always strictly follow the direc- 
 tions. In advertising, use mediums of good and reliable circulation. 
 In selling, have one price and do not deviate. Above all, do all your 
 transactions honorably, and work energetically, and success is yours. 
 
 Trusting that we shall receive your order for an outfit at once, and 
 that our acquaintance made thus far may continue, and grow into one 
 of everlasting friendship, we remain, 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 THE WORLD SUPPLY CO., Rutland, Vt. 
 
 TO OTJH, FPlIElSriDS. 
 
 Those -who wish for manufacturing supplies or anything advertised 
 in this book are cautioned that they must address their letters to 
 
 THE WORLD SUPPLY CO., RUTLAND, VT. 
 
 and to no one else, as we ap])oint no as^eitls whatever, except for sell- 
 ing the " Silent Assistant." 
 
 2®=- See $10 Outfit of Supplies, last Page of Cover. 
 
The Silent Assistant, 
 
 CONTAININti 
 
 Kare and Valuable Secrets, Money-making Inven- 
 tions, Old and New Discoveries, Scientific 
 Experiments, and Practical 
 Recipes^ 
 
 WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANUFACTURING ANIJ PREPARING 
 FOR SALE SOME OF 
 
 THE MOST VALUABLE AND BEST SELLING 
 ARTICLES OF THE DAY. 
 
 VALUABLE TRADE SECRETS. 
 
 We desire to call your attention to the first seven 
 recipes given in this book. We consider this information 
 worth ONE thousand dollars to any smart, active man 
 or woman. We mean just what we say. Bear in 7nind 
 these articles are not new inventions or nonsensical 
 novelties, but staple and salable goods. Over 5,000 
 stores are selling these goods in New York City, and it 
 will be clearly perceived that in calculating the demand 
 for any populous village or town, the manufacture of 
 these articles as a business must prove very profitable to 
 any person who may devote attention to the subject. 
 
 Improved Troy StarcJi JE^uunel, 
 
 Melt 5 lbs. of refined ]:)araffine wax in a tin boiler or 
 pan over a slow fire; use care in melting. When melted, 
 remove the vessel from the fire and add :!oo drops of 
 
lO THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 oil of ciironelli. Take some new round tin pie pans and 
 oil them with sweet oil as you would for pie baking, but 
 do not use lard. Put these pans on a level table, and 
 pour in enough of the hot wax to make a depth in each 
 pan equal to about the thickness of one-eighth of an 
 inch. While hot, glance over the pans to see that they 
 are level. As this is very essential, please remember it. 
 If the pans are not level, the cakes will be all thicknesses, 
 which should not be so. Let them cool, but not too 
 fast. Watch them closely, and have a tin stamp ready 
 to stamp the cakes out about the size of an ordinary 
 candy lozenge. This stamp should be about eight inches 
 long, larger at the top than at the bottom, so that the 
 cakes can pass up through the stamp as you are cutting 
 them out of the pans. Lay the cakes in another pan to 
 cool. Before they become very hard, separate them from 
 (jach other ; if not, it will be difficult to do so when they 
 become very hard. Do not neglect this. Have boxes 
 made at any paper box maker's in any large city. They 
 cost about from one to two cents each; sliding boxes are 
 the best. Have your labels printed, and commence 
 business at once. Put 24 to 30 cakes in each box, and 
 retail for 25 cents. Wholesale for $1.50 per dozen. 
 
 Directions for Use. — To a pint of boiling starch 
 stir in one cake or tablet. This gives an excellent lustre 
 to linen or muslin, and imparts a splendid perfume to 
 the clothes, and makes the iron pass very smoothly over 
 the surface. It requires but half the ordinary labor to 
 do an ironing. It is admired by every lady. It prevents 
 the iron from adhering to the surface, and the clothes 
 remain clean and neat much longer than by any other 
 method. 
 
 lirilliant Self - Shining Stove l^olisfi. 
 
 This is one of the greatest inventions of the age. It 
 has been the result of a large amount of study on the 
 part of the inventor to perfect a polish that would work 
 easily and satisfactorily in a perfectly dry state, thereby 
 obviating the disagreeable task of mixing and preparing. 
 
 YOU DO NOT REQUIRE A LICENSE IN ANY STATE 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. I r 
 
 A good Stove polish is an absolute necessity in every 
 family. It is only a question, then, of offering the best 
 to make a sale. To prove that this polish is the best, is 
 an easy task. All you have to do is to have a box open 
 and a piece of rag to begin operations. You now 
 approach the stove, and apply the polish. The result will 
 be so startlingly beautiful that no further words will be 
 necessary. If the stove is not convenient, anything will 
 do to experiment with. You can produce on a piece of 
 wood, a scrap of paper or a potato, a lustre equal to a 
 burnished mirror. 
 
 Now make the following points just as strong as you 
 can: i. That this polish requires no water or mixing 
 like the various cake or powder polishes. 2. That it is 
 self-shining, and no labor is required. 3. That no dust or 
 smell of any kind rises from its use. And lastly, that it 
 has no equal in the world. 
 
 RECIPE. — Take plumbago (black lead) finely pulver- 
 ized, and put in 2 oz, wood boxes nicely labelled, and sell 
 for 10 or 15 cents a box. Wholesale to stores and agents 
 at $6.00 a hundred. Costs less than 3 cents per box to 
 manufacture. 
 
 Directions for Use. — Use a damp woolen rag, dip 
 in the box, and apply to the stove. Then polish with a 
 dry cloth, and a most beautiful polish will appear. 
 
 The Housekeeper's Friend, 
 
 Or ELECTRIC POAVDER. 
 
 This is one of the most saleable articles of the day, and 
 staple as flour — something that every housekeeper will 
 buy. It is used for gold and silver plated ware, German 
 silver, brass, copper, glass, tin, steel, or any material 
 where a brilliant lustre is required. Is put up in 2 oz. 
 wood boxes, costs 3 cents to manufacture, sells at retail 
 for 25 cents, to agents and stores for $12.00 per 100 
 boxes. 
 
 RECIPE.— To 4 lbs. best quality whiting add i4 lb. 
 cream tartar and 3 ozs. calcined magnesia, mix thoroughly 
 together, box and label. 
 
 TO SELL ANY OF THESE GOODS. 
 
12 THE SILKXT ASSISTANT. 
 
 Directions. — Use the polish dry with a piece of 
 chamois skin or canton flannel previously moistened with 
 water or alcohol, and finish with the polish dry. A few 
 moments rubbing will develope a surprising lustre, differ- 
 ent from the polish produced by any other substance. 
 
 Mason's Frozen Perfume. 
 
 This perfume is in a solid, transparent form, and by 
 rubbing on a handkerchief it imparts an exquisite per- 
 fume ; by carrying it in the pocket it perfumes the entire 
 wearing apparel ; by keeping in a drawer or box all 
 articles therein obtain the benefits of this perfume. 
 
 Solidified perfumes are superior to all liquid, as they 
 cannot spill or waste in any manner, but will last for 
 \ears. 
 
 Perhaps no article of luxury has had such a sale as 
 this, and as the sales have steadily increased since its 
 introduction, no other proof of its excellence is needed. 
 
 RECIPE. — Follow the same direction as in "Starch 
 Enamel," and perfume as follows: Take 2 ozs. oil lemon 
 grass and 3-^ oz. oil cloves, and ^ oz. oil lavender 
 flowers ; mix them well together. For this amount of 
 perfume you require about 4 quarts of the liquid parafiine. 
 Pour the oils into the melted parafiine while warm, stirring 
 it well while pouring. Stamp into square cakes 'and put 
 into neatly printed envelopes. Sell for ten cents a cake, 
 cost 2 cents. Agents can sell 100 cakes a day. 
 
 TJie Lightning Ink Eraser, 
 
 The great Lightning Ink Eraser may be used instead 
 of a knife or .scraper for erasing in order to rectify a 
 mistake or clean off a blot, without injury to the paper, 
 leaving the paper as clean and good to write upon as it 
 was before the blot or mistake was made, and without 
 injury to the printer's ink upon any printed form or ruling 
 upon any first-class paper. Take of chloride of lime 
 1 lb., thoroughly pulverized, and 4 quarts soft water. 
 The above must be thoroughly shaken when first put 
 together. It is required to stand twenty-four hours to 
 
 ORDER ALL GOODS ADVERTISED IN THIS BOOK 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. IJ 
 
 dissolve the chloride of lime. Then strain through a 
 cotton cloth, after which add a teaspoonful of ascetic acid 
 (No. 8, commercial) to every ounce of chloride of lime 
 water. The eraser is used by reversing the penholder in 
 the hand, dipping the end in the fluid, and applying it, 
 without rubbing, to the blot to be erased. When ithe ink 
 has disappeared, absorb the fluid into a blotter, and the 
 paper is immediately ready to write upon. Put up in 
 common ink bottles and retail for 25 cents each. 
 
 Su7'e Corn Cure, 
 
 One-half oz. tincture of iodine, ^ oz. chloride of 
 antimony, 12 grains iodide of iron; mix; pare the com 
 with a sharp knife; apply the lotion with a small pencil 
 brush. Put up in one ounce bottles. Sells for 25 to 40 
 cents. This sells to everybody. (See price of labels). 
 
 N. B. — The law imposing stamp duty on medicines, 
 compounds, perfumes, cosmetics, etc., has been repealed. 
 
 TJie Magic Annihilator. 
 
 To make one gross 8 oz. bottles — aqua-ammonia i 
 gallon, soft water 8 gallons, best white soap four lbs., 
 saltpetre 8 ounces. Shave the soap fine, add the water, 
 boil until the soap is dissolved, let it get cold, then add 
 the saltpetre, stirring until dissolved. Now strain, let 
 the suds settle, skim off the dry suds, add the ammonia, 
 bottle and gork at once. Costs about $7.25 per gross; 
 sells for ^72.00. It will do everything claimed for it and 
 more too. It is no mixture of soap suds as some may 
 suppose, but a pure, scientific, chemical preparation. If 
 you wish to make a small quantity for trial take aqua- 
 ammonia 2 ozs., soft water i quart, saltpetre one teaspoon- 
 ful. Shave the soap fine, mix all, shake well, and let 
 settle a day or two to dissolve the soap. 
 ^ What If Will Do. — It will remove all kinds of grease 
 and oil spots from every variety of wearing apparel, 
 such as coats, pants, vests, dress goods, carpets, etc., 
 without injury to the finest silks or laces. It will 
 shampoo like a charm, raising the lather in proportion 
 
 FROM THE WORLD SUPPLY CO., RUTLAND, VT. 
 
14 
 
 THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 to the amount of dandruff and grease in the hair. A 
 cloth wet with it will remove all grease from door knobs, 
 window sills, etc., handled' by kitchen domestics in their 
 daily routine of kitchen work. It will remove paint from 
 a board, I care not how hard or dry it is, if oil is used in 
 the paint, yet it will not injure the finest textures. Its 
 chemical action is such that it turns any grease or oil into 
 soap, which is easily washed out with clear cold water. 
 For cleaning silver, brass and copper ware it can't be 
 beat. It is certain death to bed bugs, for they will never 
 ,stop after they have encountered the Magic Annihilator. 
 
 Directions for Use. — For grease spots, pour upon 
 ihe article to be cleaned a sufhcient quantity of the 
 Magic Annihilator, rubbing well with a clean sponge, and 
 applying to both sides of the article you are cleaning. 
 Upon carpets and coarse goods, where the grease is hard 
 and dry, use a stiff brush and wash out with clear cold 
 water. Apply again ff necessary. One application is 
 all that is needed for any fresh grease spots, but for old 
 or dried a second may be required. For shampooing, 
 take a small quantity of the Magic Annihilator with an 
 <iqual quantity of water, apply to the hair with a stiff 
 brush, brushing into the pores of the scalp, and wash out 
 with clear water. You will be surprised at the silk gloss 
 of your hair. For cleaning silverware, etc., buy* five 
 cents' worth of whitening, mix a small quantity with the 
 Magic Annihilator and apply with a rag, rubbing briskly. 
 For killing bed bugs, apply to the places they frequent, 
 and they will leave in short order. You will find it useful 
 in many other ways. (See price list of labels). 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES. 
 
 A New Art, or the Lightning Interest Rule. — Re- 
 duce the whole time to months and set it down in figures; divide the 
 number of days by three, and set the quotient down to the right of the 
 months, and multiply that by the quotient of the money divided by 
 the two; the answer will be the interest at six per cent. To change to 
 any other rale, multiply the interest by it and divide by six. J1160 — 
 one year, seven months, 21 days, at 6 per cent. — $160 — 2 — $80 x 197 
 — $15.76 at 6. 
 
 Parties in New York are teaching this rule at $5 a scholar. 
 
 ENERGY AND PERSEVERANCE ARE 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. I 5 
 
 Beautiful Bright Red Ink. — Cochineal 2 ounces, bruised; 
 pour over it one quart of boiling water and let it stand. Boil 2 ounces 
 Brazil wood in i pint soft water, for half an hour, and in twenty-four 
 hours mix the two together. Dissolve half ounce gum arabic in a 
 pint of hot water, and when cool add to the other, stir well, bottle, 
 let stand one week, and then strain it through muslin. 
 
 Luminous Ink. — Shines in the dark. Phosphorous yi 
 drachm; oil cinnamon y^, ounce; mix in a vial, cork tightly, heat it 
 slowly until mixed. A letter written in this ink can only be read in a 
 dark room, when the writing will have the appearance of a fire. 
 
 Invisible Ink. — Sulphuric acid i part, water 20 parts; mix 
 togutlier and write with a quill pen, which writing can be read only 
 after heating it. 
 
 Horticultural Ink. — Copper, t part; dissolve in nitric acid, 
 10 p.irts, and add water, 10 parts; used to write on zinc or tin labels. 
 
 Bottle Wax. — Black. — VAd^cV rosin, G}i lbs.; beeswax, yi lb.; 
 finely powdered ivory black, i}^ lbs. Melt together. Red. — As the 
 last, but substitute Venetian red or red lead, for the ivory black. 
 
 Brown Ink. — A strong decoction of catechu. The shade may 
 be varied by the cautious addition of a little weak solution of bi-chro- 
 mate of potash. 
 
 Indelible Ink for Glass or Metal. — Borax, i 02.; shellac, 
 
 2 oz.; water, \Z fluid oz. ; boil in a covered vessel; add of thick 
 mucilage, i oz.; triturate it with levigated indigo and lamp-black q. s. 
 to give it a good color. After two hours repose decant from the 
 dregs and bottle for use. It may be bronzed after being applied. 
 Resists moisture, chlorine and acids. 
 
 Liquid Mucilage. — Fine clean glue, I lb.; gum arabic, 10 oz.; 
 water, i quart; melt by heat in a glue kettle or water bath; when 
 entirely melted, add slowly 10 oz. strong nitric acid, set off to cool. 
 Then bottle, adding a couple of cloves to each bottle. 
 
 Coffee for Pound Packages. — Best Java coffee, i lb.; 
 rye, 3 lbs. ; carefully clean the rye from all bad grains, wash to remove 
 dust, drain off the water, and put the grain into your roaster, carefully 
 stirring to brown it evenly. Brown the rye and coffee separately, 
 grind, and put up in tight packages to preserve the aroma. 
 
 Blueing for Clothes. — Take 1 oz. of soft Prussian blue, 
 powder it, and put in a bottle with i quart of clear rain water, and 
 .idd 3^ oz. of oxalic acid. A teaspoonful is sufificient for a large 
 washing. 
 
 Swaim's Vermifuge. — Wormseed 2 oz., valerian, rhubarb, 
 pink-root, white 'agaric, of each i^ oz.; boil in sufficient water 
 to yield 3 quarts of decoction, and add to it 30 drops of oil of tansy 
 and 45 drops of oil of cloves, dissolved in a quart of rectified spirits. 
 Dose. I tablesDOonful at niffht. 
 
 Dose, I tablespoonful at night 
 
 THE TWIN GIANTS OF PROSPERITY. 
 
1 6 THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 Tioketing Ink, for Grocers, &c. — Dissolve i oz. of gum 
 arabic in 6 oz. of water, and strain; this is the mucilage; for a biack 
 color, use drop-black, powdered, and ground with the mucilage to 
 extreme fineness; for blue, ultra-marine is used in the same manner; 
 for ^nv«, emerald green; for zc/;//t', flake white; for rtv/, vermillion, 
 lake, or carmine ; iox yellow, chrome yellow. When ground too thick, 
 they are thinned with a little water. Apply to the cards with a small 
 brush. The cards may be sized with a thin glue, and afterwards var- 
 nished, if it is desired to preserve them. 
 
 Coinmou Ink. — To i gallon boiling soft water, add ^ oz. 
 extract logwood; boil two minutes ; remove from the fire, and stir in 
 48 grains bi-chromate of potash, and 8 grains prussiate of potash; 
 for 10 gallons, use 6j4 oz. logwood extract, i oz. bi-chromate of jjot- 
 ash, and 80 grains prussiate potash; strain; six cents should buy the 
 first and twenty-five cents the last. 
 
 Black Copying Ink, or Writing; Fluid. — Take 2 gal- 
 lons rain water, and put into it gum arabic, % lb.; brown sugar, 
 )^ lb.; clean copperas, % lb.; powdered nutgalls, ^4^ lb.: mix, and 
 shake occasionally for ten days, and strain; if needed sooner, let it 
 stand in an iron kettle until the strength is obtained. This ink will 
 stand the action of the atmosphere for centuries if required. 
 
 Re<l Ink. — In an ounce phial put i teaspoonful aqua-ammonia, 
 gum arabic, size of two or three peas, and 6 grains of No. 40 carmine; 
 fill up with soft water, and it is soon ready for use. 
 
 Portable Lemonade. — Tartaric acid i oz., white sugar 
 2 lbs., essence of lemon )^ oz. ; powder and keep dry for use. One 
 dessert spoonful will make a glass of lemonade. 
 
 Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. — Take 4 grains of acetate of 
 morphia, 2 fluid drams of tincture of bloodroot, 3 fluid drams each of 
 antimonial wine and wine of ipecacuanha, and 3 fluid oz. syrup ot 
 wild cherry. Mix. 
 
 Brown's Bronchial Troches. — Take i lb. of pulverized 
 extract of licorice, i}^ lbs. of pulverized sugar, 4 oz. of pulverized 
 cubebs. 4 oz. pulverized gum arabic, and i oz. of pulverized extract 
 of conium. Mix. 
 
 Russia Salve. — Take equal parts of yellow wax and sweet oil, 
 melt slowly, carefully stirring ; when cooling, stir in a small quantity 
 of glycerine. Good for all kinds of wounds, &c. 
 
 To Make Rubber Stamp Ink. — Dissolve aniline in hof 
 glycerine, and strain while hot or warm. 
 
 To Make Pads. — A piece of fine woolen cloth, saturated 
 with ink, makes an excellent pad, but it is customary to place sheet 
 cotton underneath and muslin over the cloth, bringing the muslin 
 down around the edges and fasten hy tacking on a binding of tin or 
 morocco leather strips. 
 
 BETTER STOP WORKING UNDER A FOREMAN 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 17 
 
 To Make Wax Flowers. — The following articles will he 
 required to commence wax work: 2 lbs. white wax, ^4 lb. hair wire, 
 I bottle carmine, i ultramarine blue, i bottle chrome yellow, 2 
 bottles chrome green. No. i, 2 bottles chrome green. No. 2, I bottle 
 each of rose pink, royal purple, scarlet powder, and balsam fir, 2 
 dozen sheets white wax. This will do to begin with. Now have a 
 clean tin dish, and pour therein a quart or two of water; then put in 
 about I lb. of the white wax, and let it boil. When cool enough, so 
 the bubbles will not form on toj"), it is ready to sheet, which is done 
 as follows: Take half of a window-pane, 7 x 9, and after having 
 washed it clean, clip into a dish containing weak soap-suds; then difi 
 into the wax and draw out steadily, and ])lunge it into the suds, when 
 the sheet will readily come off. Lay it on a cloth or clean paper to 
 dry. Proceed in like manner until you have enough of the white; 
 then add enough of the green powder to make a bright color, and 
 heat and stir thoroughly until the color is evenly distributetl, then 
 proceed as for sheeting white wax. The other colors are ruhl^ed into 
 the leaves after they are cut out, rubbing light or heavy according to 
 shade. 
 
 For patterns you can use any natural leaf, forming the creases in 
 wax with the thumbnail ornecdle. To put the flowers together, or 
 the leaves on to the stem, hold in the hand until warm enough to 
 stick. If the sheeted wax is to be used in summer, put in a little 
 balsam of fir to make it hard. If for winter none will be required. 
 
 You can make many flowers without a teacher, but one to assist in 
 the commencement would be a great help, though the most particular 
 thing about it is to get the wax sheeted. The materials I have sug- 
 gested can be procured at any drug store, and will cost from $3 to 
 $4-50- 
 
 Dr. Savery's Diphtheria Preventative. — Take ;^ tea- 
 
 cu|3 of pulverized sugar, pour on boiling water sufficient to melt. 
 Take 2 ozs. chloride potash in another teacuj:), and pour on boiling- 
 water enough to dissolve, and mix with dissolved sugar. When cold 
 add 3 teaspoonfuls of muriate tincture of iron. Directions, — Take 2 
 teaspoonfuls three times a day. 
 
 Artificinl Honey. — Take 8 lbs. of white sugar, add 2 quarts of 
 water, boil four minutes, then add i lb. of bees' honey. Strain while 
 hot. Flavor with a drop of the oil of peppermint and a drop of the 
 oil of rose. 
 
 Peerles.s IJiniinent. — One of the very best ever made for 
 man or beast. Take equal parts of laudanum, alcohol, and oil of 
 wormwood. Mix thoroughly. Used externally for rheumatismj neu- 
 ralgia, toothache, earache, sprains, and bruises. 
 
 Oil of Ro.ses. — Olive oil i lb., otto of roses 50 drops, oil 
 of rosemary 35 drops; mix. Another, roses (hardly opened) 12 ozs., 
 olive oil 16 ozs. ; beat them together in mortar, let them remain for 
 a few days, then express the oil. 
 
 AND START A BUSINESS OF YOUR OWN. 
 
iS THK SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 To Neutralize Whiskey to Make Various Iii<iuors. 
 
 — To 40 gallons of whiskey add \%, lbs. unslacked lime, 3,^ lb. alum, 
 and yz pint si)irils of lutre. Stand twenty-four hours, and draw 
 it off. 
 
 Madeira Wine. — To 40 gallons prepared cider add )^ lb. 
 tartaric acid, 4 gallons of spirits, 3 lbs. loaf sugar. Let it stand 10 
 tlays, draw it off carefully. Fine it down, and again rack it into 
 another cask. 
 
 Slierry AVine. — To 40 gallons prepared cider add 2 gallons 
 sjjirits, 3 lbs. of raisins, 6 gallons good sherry and ^ oz. oil of 
 bitter almonds dissolved in alcohol. Let it stand 10 days, and draw 
 it off carefully. Fine it down, and again rack it into another cask. 
 
 Court Plaster. — This plaster is merely a kind of varnished 
 silk, and its manufacture is very easy. Bruise a sufficient quantity 
 of isinglass, and let it soak in a little warm water for twenty-four 
 hours. Expose it to heat over the fire until the greater part of the 
 water is dissipated, and supply its place by proof spirits of wine, 
 which will combine with the isinglass. Strain the whole through a 
 l)iece of open linen, taking care that the consistence of the mixture 
 shall be such that when cool it may form a trembling jelly. E.xtend 
 a piece of black or fiesh-colored silk on a wooden frame, and fLx it 
 in that position by means of tack or twine. Then apply the 
 isinglass, after it has been rendered liquid by a gentle heat, to the 
 silk with a brush of fine hair (badgers' is the best). As soon as this 
 coating is dried, which will not be long, apply a second, and after- 
 ward, if the article is to be very superior, a third. When the whoje 
 is dry, cover it with two or three coatings of the Balsam of Peru. 
 This is the genuine court plaster. It is pliable, and never breaks, 
 which is far from being the case with spurious articles sold under 
 the same name. 
 
 Port W^ilie. — To 40 gallons prepared cider add 6 gallons good 
 port wane, 10 quarts wild grajies, clusters, yi lb. bruised rhatany 
 root, 3 ozs. tincture of kino, 3 lbs. loaf sugar, 2 gallons spirits. Let 
 this stand 10 days. Color, if too light, with tincture of rhatany, 
 then rack it off, and fine it. This should be repeated until the color 
 is perfect and the liquid clear. 
 
 CrOlcl Ink. — Honey and gold leaf equal parts, friturate until 
 the gold is reduced to the finest possible state of division, agitate 
 with 30 parts of hot water, and allow it to settle. Decant the water, 
 and repeat the washing several times ; finally dry the gold and mix 
 it with a little gum water for use. 
 
 Silver Ink. — For silver ink the process is the same as gold, 
 substituting silver leaf for the gold leaf. 
 
 Ink for Marking- Packages.— Take lamp-black and mix 
 thoroughly with sufficient turpentine to make it thin enough to flow 
 from the brush. Pov/dered ultramarine, instead of lamp-black, 
 makes a fine blue marking mixture for the same purpose. 
 
 OUR SPECIAL $10 OUTFIT 
 
THK SILENT ASSISTANT. 19 
 
 Shaving" Soap. — Good white soap in fine shavings 3 lbs., 
 balm soap i lb., soft water 3,4 of a lb., soda i oz. Melt carefully 
 over a slow fire in an earthen vessel ; then add oil of lavender 60 
 drops, oil of lemon 40 drops. Mi.x well and make into forms. 
 
 L/Cather Cement. — Take gutta percha, cut in chloroform to 
 right thickness for use, equal to Cook's best, for putting patches on 
 leather, cloth shoes or boots. Well worth $100. 
 
 Cleaning Coniponnd. — Mix i oz. of bora.v and I oz. of guin 
 camphor with i quart of boiling water. When cool add i pint of 
 alcohol, bottle, and cork tightly. When wanted for use, shake well^ 
 and sponge the garments to be cleaned. This is an excellent mixture 
 for cleaning soiled black cashmere and woolen dresses, coat collars 
 and black felt hats. 
 
 To Fasten Paper to Tin. — Take good, clear, pale yellow 
 glue, break it into rather small pieces, and let it soak a few hours in 
 cold water. Pour off the supernatant water, place the glue thus 
 softened in a wide-mouthed bottle ; add sufficient glacial acid to cover 
 the glue, and facilitate the solution by standing the bottle in warm 
 water. This acetic glue will stick almost anything. 
 
 Fnrnitnre Polish. — Equal parts sweet oil and vinegar, and 
 a pint of gum arabic finely powdered. Shake the bottle, and apply 
 the polish with a rag. It will make furniture look as good as new. 
 
 Hunters' and Trappers' Secret. — Take equal parts of 
 
 oil of rhodium, anise oil, sweet oil and honey, and mi.x well. Put a 
 few drops on any kind of bait. For musk-rat use sweet apples or 
 vegetables for bait. For mink use a chicken's head or a piece of 
 fresh meat. 
 
 Coug'h Syrup. — Put i quart of horehound to i quart of water, 
 and boil it down to a ])int ; add 2 or 3 sticks of licorice, and a table- 
 sj^oonful of essence of lemon. Take a tablespoonful of the syrup 
 ihree times a day, or as often as the cough may be troublesome. The 
 above receipt has been sold for $100. Several firms are making much 
 money by its manufacture. 
 
 Fire Kindlers. — To make very nice fire kindlers, take resin, 
 any quantity, and melt it, putting in for each pound being used, 2 or 3 
 ozs. of tallow, and when all is hot, stir in pine sawdust to make very 
 thick; and while yet hot, spread it out about one inch thick, upon 
 boards which have fine sawdust sprinkled upon them, to prevent it 
 from sticking. When cold, break up into lumps about an inch square. 
 But if for sale, take a thin board and press upon it, while yet warm, to 
 lay it off into inch squares. This makes it break regularly, if you 
 press the crease sufficiently deep. Grease the marked board to pre- 
 vent it from sticking. 
 
 Paradise Liniment. — Take i gill of alchol, % o^- tincture 
 capsicum, % oz. paradise seed, cracked, and put all together. For 
 rheumatism, sprains, lameness, etc. 
 
 IS A GRAND COMBINATION FOE AGENTS. 
 
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20 'i'HE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 Frencll LiUStral. — Take castor oil 3 ozs., alcohol 2^ ozs., 
 
 ammonia 1-16 of an oz., well shaken and mixed together; perfume 
 to suit. Bergamot, or any other perfume. Splendid hair dressing. 
 3-OZ. bottles, 25 cents. 
 
 Liling" Medicine. — Take black cohosh y^ oz., lobelia J^f oz.^, 
 canker root ^4 of an oz., blackberry root ^ of an oz., sarsaparilla 
 I oz., pleurisy ro(n ^ of an oz., steeped in 3 pints of water. Dose, 
 T tablespoonful 3 times a day, before eating. Sure cure for spitting 
 blood. 
 
 Red Sealing- Wax. — Purchase 4 lbs. shellac, i^ lbs. Venier 
 turpentine, 3 lbs. finest cinnabar, and add 4 oz, Venetian; mix the 
 whole well together, and melt over a very slow fire. Pour it on a 
 thick, smooth glass, or any other flat, smooth surface, and make it 
 into 3, 6, or 10 cent sticks. 
 
 Black SealinST Wax. — Purchase the best black resin, 3 lbs., 
 beeswax y^ lb., and finely powdered ivory black i lb. Melt th& 
 whole together over a slow fire, and make it into sticks. 
 
 Cement for Ijeatlier. — Virgin India rubber dissolved in bisul- 
 phide of carbon. Add bisulphide until of proper consistency to 
 apply. Alter applying hold a moderately warm iron over the patch. 
 
 Cure for Sore Backs of Horses. — The best method of 
 
 curing sore backs is to dissolve j^ oz. blue vitriol in i pint water and 
 daub the injured parts with it four or five times a day. Above is in 
 general use with teamsters and horsemen, and is said to be the best cure 
 of its kind known. 
 
 St. Croix Glim. — To 40 gallons p. or n. spirit, add 2 gallons 
 St. Croix rum, 2 ozs. acetic acid, ly ozs. butyric acid, 3 lbs. loaf sugar. 
 
 Irish or Scotch Whiskey. — To 40 gallons proof spirits, 
 
 add 60 drops of creosote dissolved in I quart of alcohol, 2 ozs. 
 acetic acid, i lb. loaf sugar. Stand 4S hours. 
 
 French Brandy. — Pure spirits i gallon, best French brandy, 
 or any kind you wish to imitate, I quart, loaf sugar 2 ozs., sweet spir- 
 rits (if nitre yz oz., a few drops of tincture of catechu, or oak bark, to 
 roughen the taste, if desired, and color to suit. 
 
 Champajfne Cider. — Good cider, pale, i hogshead, spirits- 
 3 gallons, honey or sugar 20 lbs. Mix and let them rest for two 
 weeks; then fine with skimmed milk, y gallon. This will be very- 
 pale ; and a similar article, when bottled in champagne bottles and 
 silvered and labeled, has been often sold to the ignorant for cham- 
 pagne. 
 
 Cider without Apples. — To i gallon of cold water add 
 dark brown sugar i lb., tartaric acid y oz., yeast 3 tablespoonfuls, 
 .Shake well together. 
 
 YOU DO NOT REQUIRE A LICENSE IN ANY STATE 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 2 1 
 
 English Gin. — Plain malt spirits loo gallons, spirits of tur- 
 pentine I pint, bay salt 7 lbs. Mix and distil. The difference in the 
 ilavor of gin is jnoduced by varying the proportion of turpentine, and. 
 by occasionally adding a small quantity of juniper berries. 
 
 Centennial Water Proof Leather Preservative. — 
 
 This is said to have been in use among New England fi>hermen for 
 100 years. One pint of boiled linseed oil, ^ lb. of mutton suet, 6 
 •ozs. clean bees' wax, 4 ozs. of resin. Melt and mix over a fire and 
 apply wliile warm, but not hot enough to burn the leather. Lay it 
 on plentifully with a brush and warm it in. Best preservative in the 
 world. 
 
 To Take Fac-siniiles of Signatures. — Write your name 
 
 'On a piece of paper, and while the ink is wet sprinkle over it some 
 finely powdered gum arabic, then make a rim around it, and pour on 
 it some fusible alloy in a liquid state. Impressions may be taken 
 from the plates, formed in this way, by means of printing-ink and the 
 copperplate-press. 
 
 Magnetic Toothache Drops. — Take equal parts of cam- 
 phor, sulphuric ether, ammonia, laudanum, tincture of cayenne, and 
 J/g put oil of cloves. Mix well together. Saturate with the liquid 
 a small piece of cotton, and apply to the cavity of the diseased tooth, 
 and the pain will cease innnediately. Put n;) in long drachm bottles. 
 Ketail at 25 cents. This is a very salable preparation, and affords 
 a large protit to the manufacturer. 
 
 Cologne. — Take I gallon 95 per cent alcohol or cologne spirits, 
 2 ozs. oil of bergamot, ^ oz. of orange, ^ oz. oil of cedar, ^ drachm 
 ■oil Nevoi, ^ drachm oil of rosemary. Mix well, and it is fit for use. 
 A nice article. 
 
 New York Barhers' Star Hair Oil. — Castor oil 6}^ 
 
 pints, alcohol i}4 pints, oil of citronella }4 oz., lavender J4 oz. Mix 
 well, put up in 4-0Z. bottles, retail for 25 cents. 
 
 Chemical Compound. — Aqua-ammonia 2 ozs., soft water 
 I quart, saltpetre i teasponnlul, shaving soap in shavings i oz. Mix 
 all together. Dis'jolve tie soap well, and any grease or dirt that 
 cannot be removed with this preparation, nothing else need be tried 
 for it. 
 
 To Mend Tinware. — Take a vial two-thirds full of muriatic 
 acid, ]5ut into it all the chi|3pings of sheet zinc it will dissolve, then 
 put in a crumb of sal ammoniac, and fill up with water. Wet the 
 place to be mended with this liquid, put a piece of zinc over the hole, 
 and apply a sj.irit lamp or candle below it, which melts the solder on 
 the tin, and causes the zinc to adhere. 
 
 Soldering Fluid. — Take 2 ozs. muriatic acid; add zinc till 
 bubbles cease to rise; add }4 tcnspoonful of sal ammoniac and 2 ozs. 
 water. Damp the part you wi-h to solder with this fluid; lay on a 
 small piece of solder, and with a piece of hot iron or soldering iron 
 solder the part. 
 
 TO SELL ANY OF THESE GOODS. 
 
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 22 THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 Green Mountain Salve. — Take i 11). beeswax, i lb. of soft 
 
 butler, and i j^ lbs. of soft turpentine, 12 ozs. balsam fir. Melt and 
 Strain. Used to heal fresh wounds, burns, scalds, and all bad sores. 
 
 Distilling Whiskey from Mola.sses. — Take 5 gallons of 
 
 molasses, mix thoroughly willi 25 gallons soft water in a barrel, 
 ijtir in Yz gallon brewers' yeast ; let it set from 5 to 7 days in a warm 
 place, say 70 degrees. During this time fermentation will proceed^ 
 which is known by a bubbling sensation. When this subsides, it is 
 ready for distilling. To distil, use a common washing boiler, with 
 the top well closed, and a hole in the same, or thimble soldered on, 
 for the steam to pass through a pipe. Connect a tin pipe, say z 
 inches in diameter and 10 feet long, with a short elbow end to the 
 boiler; let the other end incline downward. Fill the boiler one half 
 full of the fermented wort, boil slowly and regularly until there is no 
 taste of spirits left. The atmosphere condenses the steam. In this 
 case, if it should not entirely condense it, lengthen or enlarge the 
 pipe. The liquid thus obtained is low wines, and to use the same 
 process of running it, ]iroof sjiirits can be obtained. To continue 
 this daily, any given amount of molasses, etc., can be mixed, say one 
 barrel each day. Five quarts can be obtained from 4 quarts of com- 
 jnon molasses. 
 
 Indelible Marking Ink without a Preparation. — 
 
 Dissolve separately i oz. of nitrate of silver, and i^ ozs. of sub-car- 
 bonate of soda (best washing soda) in rain water. Mix the solutions, 
 and collect and wash the precipitate in a filter; while still moist, rub' 
 it up in a marble or hard wood mortar with 3 drachms of tartaric 
 acid, add 2 ozs. of rain water, mix 6 drachms white sugar and 10 
 drachms of jiowdered gum arable, % oz. of archil and water to make 
 up 6 ozs. in measure. It should be ]3ut up in short drachm bottles, 
 and sold at 25 cents. This is the best ink for marking clothes that 
 has ever jjeen discovered. There is a fortune in this recipe, as a 
 good marking ink is very salable. 
 
 Soap without Lye or Grease. — In a clean pot put yi lb. 
 
 home-made hard or soft soap, ]^ lb. sal soda, and 5 pints of soft 
 water. Boil the mixture fifteen minutes, and you will have 5 lbs. 
 of good soap for 7^ cents. 
 
 Condition Powders. — Take antimony crude I oz., lobelia 
 gr. I oz., ginger 2 ozs., sul])luir flour 3 ozs., bayberry gr. i oz., cream 
 tartar 4 ozs., saltpetre floiw 4 ozs. ; well mixed. Dose, I tablespoon- 
 ful each day in wet feed. l!est in market; will sell well. 
 
 French Furniture Polish. — Alcohol 98 per cent, i pint, 
 gum copal and shellac of each i oz., dragon's blood. Mix and dis- 
 solve by setting in a warm place. 
 
 Ink Powder. — Powdered nut galls 4 ozs., copperas 3 ozs., log- 
 wood I oz., gum arable ^ oz. Sufficient for i quart of water. 
 
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THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 23 
 
 Florida Water. — Dissolve in ^ gallon go per cent, alcohol, 
 
 1 oz. each oil of lavender, oil of bergamot, and oil of lemon, and 
 oil of cloves and cinnamon i drachm each. Add i gallon of 
 water and filter. 
 
 Wonder Hair Grower. — 6 ozs. bay rum, 3 ozs. glycerine, 2 
 ozs. tincture cantharides. Mix and let stand 24 hours before using. 
 This preparation gives a fine gloss, turns gray hair to a dark color, and 
 will grow hair on bald heads unless the loss of hair was caused in 
 some unusual manner. Mode of applying. — For thin hair or bald- 
 ness apply twice each day until above amount of the grower is used. 
 Rub in thoroughly, using a soft brush freely. For gray hair apply less 
 frequently. Once a day will be sufficient. 
 
 Bri.stol's Tooth Powder. — Prepared chalk i lb., castile 
 soap _j4 lb., powdered yellow bark 2 ozs., powdered gun) myrrli 
 
 2 ozs., powdered loaf sugar 2 ozs., j^owdered orris 2 ozs. Mix 
 intimately, having first pulverized the castile soap. 
 
 Boot and Shoe Blaokinjf. — Ivory black i lb., molasses 2 
 ozs., olive oil 4 ozs., oil of vitriol 4 ozs., alcohol 8 ozs., rye flour i lb. 
 Mix them together in a kettle. 
 
 Aniflers' Secret, iNo. 1. — Mix the juice of lovage or smell- 
 age with any kind of bait. 
 
 No. 2. — Mullein seed pulverized and mixed with dough, and 
 sprinkled on the surface of still water, intoxicates the fish, and makes 
 them turn up on the top of the water. 
 
 Bay Rum, Equal to the Best Imported. — Oil of Bay, 
 
 fine, ij4 drachms, oil of neroli (bigard) 10 drops, ether acetic 2 
 drachms, alcohol deod. (strong) 3 pints, water 2)^ pints, caromel 
 sufficient to tinge. Let it stand two weeks and filter. 
 
 Commercial Writing- Ink. — Galls i oz., gum yi oz., <^loves 
 
 y^ oz., sulphate of iron ]4. oz., water 8 ozs. Digest by frequent 
 shading till it has sufficient color. This is a good durable ink, and 
 will bear diluting. 
 
 Celehrated Moth and Freckle Lotion. — For the ski 1 
 
 and complexion; a great secret. Distil two handfuls jessamine 
 flowers in a quart of rose water and a quart of orange water. Strain 
 through porous paper and add a scruple of musk and a scrujile of 
 ambergris. Bottle and label. Splendid wash for the skin. 
 
 Gas Fitter's Cement. — Mix together resin, four and a half 
 parts; wax, one part; and Venetian red, 3 parts. 
 
 Plumber's Cement. — Black resin, i part; brick dust, 2 
 parts, well incorporated by a melting heat, pjoiled linseed oil and red 
 lead mixed together into a putty are often used by coppersmiths and 
 engineers to secure joints; the washers of leather or cloth are 
 smeared with this mixture in a pasty state. 
 
 UNLESS THEY CONTAIN A STAMP FOR A REPLY. 
 
2 4 THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 Imperial Onfjuent for Forciui? Whiskers and 
 
 Moustaclie to (jrrow. — Made as follows: 2 drachms of ben- 
 zoin coinp., 2 draclims tincture of cantharides, 6 ozs. castor oil, g)^ 
 ozs. alcohol, I draciim oil bergamot. Mix well, bottle and label. 
 Apply the onguent night and morning. Circulation should be 
 stimulated with a rough towel. 
 
 Curloliiie, f<»r Makingr the Hair Curl. — One lb. olive 
 
 oil, I drachm oil of origanum, ij4 drachms oil rosemary. Mix well, 
 bottle and label. Ap]5iy two or three times weekly. Will curl the 
 straightest hair if not cut too short. 
 
 Hair Restorative and Invifforator. — For a trifling cost. 
 .Sugar of lead, borax and lac sulphur of each i oz., aqua-annnonia 
 J4 oz., alcohol I gill, mix and let stand for 14 hours; then add bay 
 rum I gill, fine table salt i tablesj^oon, soft water 3 pints, essence of 
 bergamot i oz. This preparation not only gives a beautiful gloss, 
 but will cause hair to grow upon bald heads arising from all common 
 causes, and turning gray hair to a dark color. 
 
 Manner of Application. — When the hair is thin or bald, make 
 two a])plications daily, until this amount is used up. Work it into 
 the roots of the hair with a soft brush or the ends of the fingers, 
 rubbing well each time. For gray hair one application daily is 
 sufificient. 
 
 Royal Washing' Powder. — Mix any quantity of soda ash 
 with an equal jjortion of carbonate of soda — ordinary soda — ■ 
 crushed into coarse grains. Have a thin solution of glue or decoc- 
 tion of linseed oil ready, into which pour the soda until quite thick. 
 Spread it out on boards in a warm apartment to dry. As soon as 
 dry, shake up well, so that it will pack easily into nice square 
 packages. Label neatly. Found packages cost 7 cents; retail for 
 35 cents. 
 
 Eg'yptian Cement. — For mending china, glass or wooden 
 ware: Take i lb. of the best white glue, y^ lb. dry white lead, 
 1 quart soft water, ^ pint alcohol. I'ut the three first articles in a 
 dish, and that dish in a pot of boiling water. Let it boil until 
 dissolved, tiien add the alcohol, and boil again until mixed. A little 
 camphor should be added, to preserve it and disguise its composition. 
 Put in small bottles; 215 cents each. 
 
 Traveller's Ink. — White blotting paper is saturated with ani- 
 line black, and several sheets are pasted together, so as to form a 
 thick jiad. When required for use a small piece is torn off and 
 covered with a little water. The black liquid which dissolves out is 
 a good writing ink. A square inch of paper will produce enough ink 
 to last for a considerable writing, and a few ]iads would be all that an 
 exploring party need carry with them. As w^ter is always available 
 the ink is readily made. This is a })erfectly (r-'ginal and new receipt. 
 Any enterprising man can make a large income out of its manufac- 
 ture. 
 
 GOOD FORTUNE WILL NOT ALWAYS TARRY, 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 25 
 
 *• Haudy " Water Pens. — Take best quality of violet 
 aniline, reduce to a thick ])aste with water ; then add mucilage and 
 mix thoroughly. Apply the paste thus made to the pen, and let i\. 
 iky twelve hours. Any steel pen may be prepared in this way. We 
 always keep in stock the best violet aniline, also a large stock of 
 pens. (See price list.) 
 
 Artificial Oysters. — Grate green com in a dish; to i pint of 
 this add i egg well beaten, small teacuj) of Hour, half a cuj) of Ijutter, 
 salt, and pepper; mix well together, and fry them brown. 
 
 To Remove Grease or Stains from Clothing. — Ordi- 
 nary benzine is as good a grease eradicator as is now used. I'ut up 
 in 4-0Z. bottles and label it " The Nation's Grease Extractor," and 
 sell for 20 or 25 cents. Benzine generally costs about 15 cents a 
 gallon. Dip the corks in wax. 
 
 Majfic Cure for Burns, Cuts, Scalds, Salt Rheum, 
 Brui.*>es, etc., etc. — To be used externally only. This cure is 
 used extensively by physicians throughout the United States and 
 Canada, and is pronounced by all the most marvelous cure of its kind 
 in the known world. Carbolic acid 48 grains, yellow wax ^ oz., lard 
 34!' oz., tannin 6 grains. Mix. Apply twice or three times daily, and 
 a cure will be effected in a short time. Relief almost immediately. 
 
 To Remove Rust from Saws. — Procure at some drug 
 vtore a piece of pumice stone as large as a hen's egg, grind one side 
 flat on a grindstone, then scour off the rust with the pumice stone 
 and soap suds. Cover the surface with lard in which there is no 
 
 ^alt. 
 
 Another. — Immerse the articles in kerosene oil and let them 
 remain for some time. The rust will become so much loosened as to 
 come off very easily. 
 
 Paste That Will Not Sour.— Dissolve ;^ an oz. of alum in 
 a pint of boiling water, add an equal weight of flour, made smooth in 
 a little cold water, and a few drops of oil of cloves, and let the whole 
 come to a boil. Put it into glass or ointment jars. It will keep for 
 months. 
 
 Washing" Fluid. — Take i lb. sal soda, )A lb. good stone lime, 
 and 5 c|uarts 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 over night in simple water, wring out and soap wristbands, 
 collars, and dirty or stained places; have your boiler half filled with 
 water just beginning to boil, then put in one common teacupful of 
 fluid, stir and put in your clothes, and boil for half an hour; then 
 Tiib lightly through one suds only, and all is complete. 
 
 To Mark Sheep without Injury to the Wool.— To 
 
 30 spoonfuls of linseed oil, add 2 ozs. of litharge and i oz. of lamp- 
 black; boil all together, and mark the sheep therewith. 
 
 THEREFORE "BE WISE WITH SPEED." 
 
26 THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 Tinctures are made with i oz. of gum, root, (jr bark, etc.» 
 dried, to each pint of proof spirits, and let it stand one week and 
 filter. 
 
 Essences are made witli i oz. of any given oil added to i pint 
 of alcohol. Peppermint is colored with tincture turmeric, cinnamon 
 with tincture red saunders, wintergreen with tincture kino. 
 
 How to Make One Hundred Pounds of Soap Very 
 
 Cheap. — Potash 6 lbs., lard 4 lbs., rosin J4 lb. Beat up the rosin, 
 mix all together, and set aside for five days. Then put the whole 
 into a ID-gallon cask of water and stir twice a day for ten days,, 
 when it is ready for use. 
 
 Oleomargarine 3Iauufacture. — The process liy which 
 
 suet is converted into the substance called oleomargarine is as fol- 
 lows : The crude suet, after first being washed in cold water, is 
 "rendered," melted, and then drawn off into movable tanks. The 
 hard substance is subjected to a hydraulic pressure of 350 tons, and 
 the oil extracted. The butter is made from the oil thus obtained,, 
 while the hard substance remaining is disposed of as stearine. The 
 oil, being carried off into churns, is mixed with milk and from 3 t<> 
 5 per cent, of dairy butter. It is then drawn off into a consistent 
 form, and cooled with broken ice. The latter is soon removed, and 
 the butter worked up with a small portion of salt. When this is 
 done, the article is ready for packing and consumption. 
 
 Mucilage for Isabels. — Dexterine 2 ozs., glycerine i drachm,, 
 alcohol I oz., water 6 ozs. 
 
 Common Twist Candy. — Boil 3 lbs. of common sugar and 
 I jiint of water over a slow fire for half an hour, without skimming. 
 When boiled enough, take it off ; rub your hands over with butter; 
 take that which is a little cooled, and pull it as vou would molasses, 
 candy until it is white ; then twist or braid it, and cut it up in strips. 
 
 Fine Peppermint Lozenges. — Best powdered white sugar 
 7 Ills., jjure starch i lb., oil of peppermint to flavor. Mi.\ with 
 mucilage. 
 
 Molasses Candy. — r>oil molasses over a moderately hot fire, 
 stirring constantly. When you think it is done, drop a little on a 
 plate, and if sufficiently boiled it will be hard. Add a small quantity 
 of vinegar to render it brittle, and any flavoring ingredient yon prefer. 
 Pour in buttered tin pans. If nuts are to be added, strew them in 
 the pans before pouring out the candy. 
 
 Fig Candy. — Take i lb. of sugar and i pint of water, set over 
 a slow fire. When done add a few drops of vinegar and a lump of 
 butter, and pour into pans into which split figs are laid. 
 
 Raisin Candy. — Can be made in the same manner, substi- 
 tuting stoned raisins for the figs. Common molasses candy is very 
 nice with all kinds of nuts added. 
 
 $30 PER WEEK MAY LOOK LARGE, 
 
TliK SILENT ASSISTANT. 2/ 
 
 Felon Ointment. —Take sweet oil y^ pint, and stew a 3-cent 
 plug of tobacco in it until the tobacco is crisped; then squeeze it out, 
 and add red lead i oz., and boil until black ; when a little cool add pul- 
 verized camphor gum i oz. 
 
 Black Ink. — Shellac 4 ozs., borax 2 ozs., water i quart ; boil 
 till dissolved, and add 2 ozs. gum arable dissolved in a little hot 
 water; boil and add enough of a well triturated mixture of equal parts 
 of indigo and lamp-black to produce a proper color; after standing 
 several hours draw off and bottle. 
 
 Green Ink. — Dissolve iSo grains birchromate of potassa in 
 I fluid oz. of water, add while warm ^ oz. spirit of whie, then decom- 
 pose the mixture with concentrated sulphuric acid until it assumes a 
 brown color; evaporate this liquid until its quantity is reduced one 
 half, dilute it with 2 ozs. distilled water, filter it, add y^ oz. alcohol, 
 followed by a few drops of strong sulphuric acid; it is now allowed to 
 rest, and after a time it assimies a beautiful green color. Add a small 
 quantity of gum arable and it is ready for use. 
 
 Beautiful Blue Writing Fluid. — Dissolve basic or sol- 
 uble Prussian blue in pure water. This is the most j^ermanent and 
 beautiful blue ink known. 
 
 Violet Copying Ink. — For blue violet, dissolve in 300 parts 
 of boiling water, methyl violet 5H, Hofman's violet, 3B, or gentiana 
 violet, B. Yox reddish violet, dissolve in a similar quantity of water> 
 methyl-violet BR. A small quantity of sugar added to these inks im- 
 proves their copying qualities. If the writing, when dry, retains a 
 bronzy appearance, more water must be added. 
 
 Root Beer. — For lo gallons beer, take 3 lbs. common burdock 
 root, or I oz. essence of sassafras; ^ lb. good hops; i pint corn, 
 roasted brown. Boil the whole in 6 gallons pure water until the 
 strength of the materials is obtained; strain while hot into a keg, add- 
 ing enough cold water to make 10 gallons. \Vhen nearly cold, add 
 clean molasses or syrup until palatable, — not sickishly sweet. Add 
 also as much fresh yeast as will raise a batch of eight loaves of bread. 
 Place the keg in a cellar or other cool place, and in forty-eight hours 
 you will have a keg of first-rate sparkling root beer. 
 
 Premium Method of Keeping- Hams, etc. — To 4 gal- 
 lons water add 8 lbs. coarse salt, i '4 oz. potash, 2 ozs. saltpetre, 2 
 lbs. brown sugar. Boil together, skim when cold, put on the above 
 quantity to 100 lbs. meat; hams to remain in eight weeks, beef, three 
 weeks. Let the hams dry several days before smoking. Meat of all 
 kinds, salmon and other fi-h, lobsters, etc., may be preserved for 
 years bv a light application of pyroligneous acid aj^plied with a brush, 
 sealing up in cans as usual. It imparts a splendid flavor to the meat, 
 is very cheap, and an effectual preservative a"-ainst loss. 
 
 BUT YOU CAN MAKE IT IF YOU TRY. 
 
J28 THE SILENT A.SSKSTANT. 
 
 K rill iailt Red Ink. — Brazil wood 2 ozs., muriate of tin y^ 
 ■tlraciiiii, gum arabic i drachm; boil down in 32 ozs. water to one half, 
 and strain. 
 
 Bucliner's Carmine Ink. — Pure carmine 12 grains, water 
 of ammonia 3 ozs., dissolve, then add powdered gum 18 grains; ^ 
 drachm of powdered drop lake may be substituted for the carmine 
 where expense is an object. 
 
 Dr. Kittredge's Remedy for Rheumatism and Stiff 
 
 Joints* — Strong camphor spirits, i pint ; neats-foot, coon, bear, or 
 si^unk's oil, I pnit ; spirits of turpentine, ^ pint. Shake the bottle 
 when used, and apply 3 times daily, by pouring on a little at a time 
 and rubbing in all you can for 20 to 30 minutes. 
 
 Indelible Ink for Marking Linen. — Add caustic alkali 
 
 to a saturated solution of cuprous chloride until no further precipitate 
 forms ; allow the precipitate to settle, draw off the supernatant liquid 
 with a siphon, and dissolve the hydrated copper oxide in the smallest 
 quantity of ammonia. It may be mixed with about 6 per cent, of 
 gum dexterine for use. 
 
 Plain Court Plaster that will not stick and remains flexible: 
 Soak isinglass in a little warm water for twenty-four hours, then 
 evaporate nearly all the water by a gentle heat. Dissolve the residue 
 in a little proof spirits of wine, and strain the whole through a piece 
 of open linen. The strained mass should be a stiff jelly when cool. 
 Stitch a piece of silk or sarcenet on a wooden frame with tacks or 
 thread. Melt the jelly and apply it to the silk thinly and evenly with 
 a badger hair brush. A second coating must be applied when the 
 first has dried. When both are dry, apply over the whole surface 
 two or three coatings of balsam of Peru. This plaster remains quite 
 pliable, and never breaks. 
 
 New Invisible Ink. — C. Wideman communicates a new 
 method of making an invisible ink to Die Natur. To make the writ- 
 ing or drawing appear which has been made upon paper with the ink, 
 it is sufficient to dip it into water. On drying, the traces disappear 
 again, and reappear at each succeeding immersion. The ink is made 
 by intimately mixing linseed oil I part, water of ammonia 20 parts, 
 water 100 parts. The mixture must be agitated each time before the 
 pen is dipped into it, as a little of the oil may separate and float on 
 top, which would, of course, leave an oily stain upon the paper. 
 
 To Bore Holes in Glass. — Any hard steel tool will cut glass 
 with great facility when kept freely wet with camphor dissolved in 
 turpentine. A drill-bow may be used, or even the hand alone. A 
 hole bored may be readily enlarged by a round file. The ragged 
 ■edges of glass vessels may also be thus easily smoothed by a flat file. 
 Flat window glass can readily be sawed by a watch spring saw by aid 
 of this solution. In short, the most brittle glass can be wrought 
 almost as easily as brass by the use of cutting tools kept constantly 
 moist with camphorized oil of turpentine. 
 
 "DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS." 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 2f> 
 
 To Etch Upon Glass. — Procure several thick, clear pieces 
 of crown glass, and immerse them in melted wax, so that each mav 
 receive a complete coating, or pour over them a solution of \vax in 
 benzine. When perfectly cold, draw on them, with a fine steel 
 point, flowers, trees, houses, portraits, etc. Whatever parts of the 
 drawings are intended to be corroded with the acid should be 
 perfectly free from the least particle of wax. When all these 
 drawings are finished, the pieces of glass must be immersed one 
 by one in a square leaden box or receiver, where they are to 
 be sul)initted to tlie action of hydroflouric acid gas, made by acting 
 on ])owdered flu irspar by concentrated sulphuric acid. When the 
 glasses are sufficiently corroded, they are to be taken out, aird 
 the wax is to be removed by first dipping them in warm and then 
 in hot \\ater, or by washing with turpentine or benzine. Various 
 colors may be applied to the corroded j^arts of the glass, whereby 
 a fine paintmg may be executed. In the same manner sentences 
 and initials of names may be etched on wine-glasses tumblers, etc. 
 
 Rubber Hand Stamps. — Set up the desired name and 
 address in common type, oil the type, and place a guard about 
 Yz i ich high around the form. Now mix plaster of Paris to the 
 desired consistency, pour in and allow it to set. Have your vul- 
 canized rubber ail ready, as made in long strips 3 inches wide and 
 y^ of an inch thick, cut off the size of the intended stamp. Remove 
 the plaster cast from the tyjje, and ])lace both the cast and the 
 rubber in a screw press, applying sufficient heat to thoroughly 
 soften the rubber, then turn down the screw hard, and let it remain 
 until the rubber receives the exact impression of the cast and 
 becomes cold, when it is removed, neatly trimmed with a sharp 
 knife, and cemented to the handle, ready for use. 
 
 Sticky Fly-Paper. — Boiled linseed oil and resin; melt and 
 add honey. Soak the paper in a strong solution of alum, then dry 
 before applying the above. 
 
 Silver Plating" Fluid. — Take i oz. of precipitate silver to 
 % OZ- of cyanite of potash and % oz, of hyposulphate of soda. 
 Put all in a quart of water, add a little whiting, and shake before 
 using. A])ply with a soft rag. Put up in ounce bottles, and retails 
 at 25 cents. This secret is worth $100 to an agent to sell to families. 
 
 How to Fasten Rubber to Wood and Metal. — As 
 
 rubber plates antl rmgs are now-a-days used almost exclusively for 
 making connections between sleain and other pipes and apparatus, 
 much annoyance is often experienced by the impossibility or imper- 
 fection of an air-tight connection. This is obviated entirely by em- 
 ploying a cement which fastens alike well to the rubber and to the 
 metal oi wood. Such cement is prepared by a solution of shellac in 
 ammonia. This is best made by soaking pulverized gum shellac in 
 ten times its weight of strong ammonia, when a slimy mass is obtained, 
 which in three to four weeks will become liquid without the use of 
 hot water. This softens the rubber, and becomes, after volatilization 
 of the ammonia, hard and imner'neable to gases and fluids. 
 
 SEND FOR AN OUTFIT TO-DAY. 
 
3° THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 To Transfer Printed Matter, and Print from it 
 
 again. — Take your picture or ])rint and soak it for a short time in 
 a weak solution of caustic potash, then remove it carefully, and let 
 it dry on a sheet of clean paper. Now take a piece of copper, zinc, 
 or steel, which has previously been well cleaned, and dip it into hot 
 white wax. Let the first coat set, then dip again. Having got the 
 plate thoroughly coated and set, lay the matter to be transferred 
 on the plate, and rub it gently all over on the back; now raise it up, 
 and it will be transferred on to the wax on the plate. Now take 
 needles of a different thickness, and scrawl all over the wax, follow- 
 ing the lines of the engraving. Having got the picture all traced 
 out, pour upon it some weak acid if you use zinc, which is too soft 
 to print many from, therefore it is better to use copper or steel. If 
 you use f^//fr make the following solution to pour over it: Verdi- 
 gris 4 parts, salt 4 parts, sal ammoniac 4 parts, alum I part, water 
 16 parts, strong vinegar 12 parts. Dissolve by heat. For steel, use 
 pyroligneous acid 5 joarts, alcohol i part, nitric acid i part. Mix 
 the first two, then add the nitric acid. Pouring the preparations 
 over the plates where the traces of the picture are, it will eat into 
 the metal plate without affecting the wax. Let it stand till it has 
 eaten a sufficient depth, then wash the plate in cold water, dry 
 it, and place it near the fire till all the wax is melted off. You 
 can now print as many as you please from the plate by rubbing on 
 it printers' ink, so as to fill all the fine spaces ; which, when done, 
 wipe it over smoothly with clean cloths to remove the superfluous 
 ink which is on the face of the plate. Now take damp jjaper 
 or card board, and press it on the plate, either with a coyping press 
 or the hand, and you get a fine impession, or as many as you want 
 by repeating the inking process. I would recommencl beginners to 
 try their skill with valueless prints before attempting to make 
 transfers of fine engravings, as the picture to be transferred is 
 destroyed by the process. 
 
 liiquid Glue. — To i oz. of borax in i pint of boiling water, 
 add 2 ozs. of shellac, and boil until the shellac is dissolved. 
 
 I. X. li. Baking' Powder. — Receipt. Take i lb. tartaric 
 acid in crystals, 1% lbs. bi-carbonate of soda, and 1^2 lbs. of potato 
 starch. Each must be powdered separately, well dried by a slow 
 heat, well mixed through a sieve. Pack hard in tinfoil, tin or paper 
 glazed on the outside. The tartaric acid and bi-carbonate of soda 
 can of course be bought cheaper of wholesale druggists than you 
 can make them unless you are doing things on a very large scale, 
 but potato starch any one can make. It is only necessary to peel 
 the potatoes, and to grate them up fine into vessels of water, 
 to let Ihem settle, pour off the water, and make the settlings in 
 balls, and to dry them. With these directions any one can make as 
 good a baking powder as is sold anywhere. If he wants to make 
 it very chea]i, he can take cream of tartar and common washing 
 (carbonate) soda, instead of the articles named in the receipt, but 
 this would be advisable only where customers insist on excessively 
 low prices in preference to quality of goods. 
 
 ORDER ALL GOODS ADVERTISED IN THIS BOOK 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 3 I 
 
 To Write Secret Letters.— Put five cents' worth citrate 
 'of potassa in an ounce vial of clear cold water. This forms an 
 invisible fluid. Let it dissolve, and you can use on paper of any 
 color. Use goose-quill in writing. When you wish the writing to 
 become visible, hold it to a red-hot stove. 
 
 Coi>yini»- Pad.— White gelatine 4 ozs., water S ozs., glycerine 
 S ozs., <;uni dexterine 2 ozs. Always use these same proportions for 
 any amount. Melt the gelatine in the water at a gentle heat; 
 add to it the glycerine, in which the gum dexterine has been 
 thoroughly incorporated. Now stir all together, until thoroughly 
 mixed, and then pour into pans of the desired size, to the depth of 
 Yz mch. 
 
 Receipt for Ink to Be Used. — Violet aniline 40 grains, gum arable 
 12 grains, alcohol X o^., water ^ oz. Dissolve the gum in the 
 water and alcohol, then add the aniline. Shake in a bottle from 
 Time to time, until the aniline is dissolved. To work tlie Copying 
 Pads. — Write with the ink on any good paper, press the written 
 surface on the pad, and allow it to remain two minutes; then take 
 off, and the writing will remain, from which impressions may be 
 taken by laying plain paper, and smoothing with the hand. As soon 
 as the last impression is taken, be sure and wash off with a wet 
 sponge. 
 
 Everlasting" Fence Posts. — I discovered many years ago 
 that wood could be made to last longer than iron in the ground, but 
 thought the process so simple and inexpensive that it was not worth 
 while to make any stir about it. I would as soon have poplar, bass- 
 wood, or quaking ash as any other kind of timber for fence posts. I 
 have taken out basswood j)osts after having been set seven years, 
 which were as sound when taken out as when they were first put in 
 the ground. Time and weather seem to have no effect on them. The 
 posts can be prepared for less than two cents apiece. This is the 
 receipt: Take boiled linseed oil and stir it in pulverized charcoal to 
 the consistency of paint. Put a coat of this over the timber, and 
 there is not a man that will live to see it rotten. 
 
 Ho^v to Test the Richness of Milk. — Procure any 
 long glass vessel — a cologne bottle or long ])hial. Take a narrow 
 strip of paper, just the length from the neck to the bottom of the 
 phial, and mark it off with 100 lines at equal distances, or into 
 50 lines, and count each as two, and paste upon the phial, so as to 
 tlivide its length into 100 equal parts. Fill it to the highest mark 
 with milk fresh from the cow, and allow it to stand in a perpendicular 
 position 24 hours. The number of spaces occupied by the cream will 
 give you its exact percentage in the milk without any guess work. 
 
 Kiss Me Quick. — Spirits i gallon, essence of thyme '%. oz., 
 €ssence of orange flowers 2 ozs., essence neroli y^ oz., otto of roses 
 30 drops, essence of jasmine i oz., essence of balm mint l^ oz., petals 
 of roses 4 ozs., oil lemon 20 drops, calorus aromaticus J4 oz., essence 
 neroli ]^ oz. Mix and strain. 
 
 FROM THE WORLD SUPPLY CO., RUTLAND, VT. 
 
32 THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 To Mend Tiaware by the Heatof a Candle.— Take 
 
 a vial about tvvo-tliirds lull of muriatic acid and j^ut into it little bits. 
 of sheet zinc as long as it dissolves them ; then put in a crumb of sal 
 ammoniac and fill up with water, and it is ready to use. Then, with 
 the cork of the vial, wet the place to be mended with the preparation; 
 then put a piece of zinc over the hole and hold a lighted candle 
 or spirit lamp under the place, which melts the solder on the tin, and 
 causes the zinc to adhere without further trouble. Wet the zinc also 
 with the solution ; or a little solder may be put on instead of the zinc, 
 or with the zinc. 
 
 To Whiten and Soften the Hands.— Take Yz lb. mutton 
 tallow, 1 oz. camphor gum, i oz. glycerine ; melt, and when thor- 
 oughly mixed, set away to cool. Rub the hands with this every night. 
 
 A Branding Ink. — A viraterproof branding ink, good for 
 marking .sheep: Shellac 2 ozs., borax 2 ozs., water 24 ozs., gum 
 arable 2 ozs., lamp-black sufficient. Boil the borax and shellac in the 
 water till they are dissolved, and withdraw from the fire. When the 
 solution becomes cold, complete 25 ozs. with water and add lamp- 
 black enough to bring the preparation to a suitable consistency. 
 When it is to be used with a stencil it must be made thicker than 
 when it is applied with a brush. The above gives lilack ink. For 
 red ink substitute Venetian red for lamp-iolack, for blue, ultramarine,. 
 and for green, a mixture of ultramarine and chrome yellow. 
 
 Balm of a Thousand Flowers. — Deodorized alcohol 
 
 I pint, nice white bar soap 4 ozs., shave the soap when ])ut in, stand 
 in a warm place till dissolved; then add oil of citronella i drachm, 
 and oils of neroli and rosemary, of each ^ drachm. 
 
 Barber's Shampooing' Mixture. — Soft water i pint, sal 
 soda I oz., cream tarter ]/^ oz. Apply thoroughly to the hair. 
 
 Frang'ipanni. — Spirits i gallon, oil bergamot i oz., oil of 
 lemon i oz. ; macerate for 4 days, frequently shaking ; then add water 
 I gallon, orange-flower water i pint, essence of vanilla 2 ozs. Mix. 
 
 Jockey Club. — Spirits of wine 5 gallons, orange-flower water 
 I gallon, balsam of Peru 4 ozs., essence of bergamot 8 ozs., essence 
 of musk 8 ozs., essence of clove 4 ozs., essence of neroli 2 ozs. Mix. 
 
 Ladies' Own. — Spirits of wine I gallon, otto of roses 20 drops, 
 essence of thyme ^ oz., essence of neroli % oz., essence of vanilla 
 % oz., essence of bergamot % oz., orange-flower water 6 ozs. 
 
 Upper Ten. — Spirits of wine 4 quarts, essence of cedrat 2 
 drachms, essence of violets yi oz., essence of neroli ^ oz., otto of 
 roses 20 drops, orange-flower essence i oz., oil of rosemary 30 drops^ 
 oils of bergamot and neroli, each ^ oz. 
 
 WRITE TO US FOR ANY INGREDIENTS NAMED IN THIS 
 
THE SILENT ASSISIA'NT. i- ^ 
 
 'J.J' 
 
 Warts and Corns. To Cure in Ten Minutes. — 
 
 Take a small piece of potash and let it stand in the open air until it 
 slacks, then thicken it to a paste with pulverized gum arable, which 
 ]3revents it from spreading where it is not wanted. 
 
 Liniment. G-ood Samaritan.— Take 98 per cent, alcohol 
 
 2 quarts, and add to it the following articles : (Mis of sassafras, hem- 
 lock, spirits of turpentine, tincture of cayenne, catechu, guaiac (guac),. 
 and laudanum, of each i oz., tincture of myrrh 4 ozs., oil of origanum 
 2 ozs., oil of wintergreen j4 oz., gum camphor 2 ozs., and chloroform 
 i^ ozs. This is one of the best applications for external pains 
 known. It is superior to any other enumerated in this work. 
 
 Silvering' Powder. — Nitrate of silver and common salt, of 
 each 30 grains, cream of tartar 3)^ drachms. Pulverize finely, mix 
 thoroughly, and bottle for use. Unequaled for polishing copper and 
 plated goods. 
 
 Tin Cans. — Size of Sheet for from i to 100 Gallons. 
 
 r I gallon. 
 
 7 by 20 inches. 
 
 F 
 
 or 25 gallons, 
 
 30 by 56 inches. 
 
 ^Yz " 
 
 10 by 28 " 
 
 
 40 " 
 
 36 by 63 " 
 
 5 
 
 12 by 40 " 
 
 
 50 " 
 
 40 by 70 " 
 
 6 
 
 14 by 40 " 
 
 
 75 " 
 
 40 by 84 
 
 10 " 
 
 20 by 42 " 
 
 
 100 " 
 
 40 by 98 " 
 
 15 
 
 30 by 42 " 
 
 
 
 
 This includes all the laps, seams, etc., which will be found suffi- 
 ciently correct for all practical purposes. 
 
 Chilblains. To Cure. — Published by order of the Govern- 
 ment of Wirtemburg. Mutton tallow and lard, of each % lb.; melt in 
 an iron vessel, and add hydrated oxide of iron 2 ozs. stirring continually 
 with an iron spoon, until the mass is of a uniform black color; then 
 let it cool, and add Venice turpentine 2 ozs., Armenian bole i oz., 
 oil of bergamot i drachm; rub up the bole with a little olive oil before 
 putting it in. 
 
 To Keep Cider Sweet, and Sweeten Sour Cider. — 
 
 To keep cider perfect, take a keg and bore holes in the bottom of it; 
 spread a ijiece of woolen cloth at the bottom; then fill with clean 
 sand closely packed; draw your cider from a barrel just as fast as it 
 will run through the sand; after this, put it in clean barrels which 
 have had a piece of cotton or linen cloth 2 by 7 inches dipped in 
 melted sulphur and burned inside of them, thereby absorbing the 
 sulphur fumes (this process will also sweeten sour cider); then keep 
 it in a cellar or room where there is no fire, and add ^ lb. white 
 mustard seed to each barrel. If cider is long made, or souring when 
 you get it, about i quart of hickory ashes (or a little more of other hard 
 wood ashes) stirred into each barrel will sweeten and clarify it nearly 
 equal to rectifying it as above; but if it is not rectified, it must be 
 racked off to get clear of the pomace, as, with this in it, it will sour. 
 Oil or whiskey barrels are best to put cider in, or y, pint sweet oil to 
 a barrel, or a gallon of whiskey to a barrel, or lioth, may be added 
 with decidedly good effects; isinglass, 4 ozs. to each barrel, helps to 
 clarify and settle cider that is not going to be rectified. 
 
 BOOK WHICH YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT FURNISH. 
 
34 'i'HK SILENT ASSISTANi'. 
 
 Swiss Chiniliey Powder. — Simplest and best preparation 
 for cleaning lamp chimneys. Scour the chimney thoroughly with a 
 woolen rag dampened and dipped in common soda. Afterwards wash 
 thoroughly and dry. Chimneys will look bright and clean much 
 longer than when cleaned in any other way. Above is valuable to all 
 housekeepers. 
 
 French Polish or Dressing for Lieather. — Mix 2 pints 
 
 best vinegar with i pint soft water. Stir into it }^ lb. glue, broken 
 up, K ^^- logwood chips, X oz. of finely powdered indigo, ){ oz. of 
 the best soft soap, X oz. of isinglass. Put the mixture over the fire, 
 and let it boil ten minutes or more; then strain, bottle, and cork. 
 When cold it is fit for use. Apply with a sponge. 
 
 Molasses Candy. — West India molasses i gallon, brown 
 sugar 2 lbs. Boil the molasses and sugar in a preserving kettle 
 over a slow fire; when done enough, it will cease boiling; stir fre- 
 quently, and when nearly done stir in the juice of four lemons, or 
 two teaspoonfuls of essence of lemon ; afterwards butter a pan and 
 pour out. 
 
 PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, ETC. 
 
 A Patent is a Protection given to secure the inventor in 
 tV.e profits arising from the manufacture and sale of an article of his 
 own creation. 
 
 What to Invent. — Cheap, useful articles that will sell at 
 sight. Something that every one needs, and the poorest can afford. 
 Invent simple things for the benefit of the masses, and your fortune 
 is made. Some years back a one-armed soldier amassed a fortune 
 from a simple toy — a wooden ball attached to a rubber string. 
 They cost scarcely nothing, yet millions were sold at a good price. 
 A CJerman became enormously rich by patenting a simple wooden 
 phtg for beer barrels. " What man has done, man can do." 
 
 How to Protect Your Invention. — Patent it. If you do 
 
 not, others will reap the benefits that rightfully belong to you. 
 
 To Whom Letters Patent Are Granted. — Section 
 
 4886 of the Revised Statutes of the United States provides that: 
 "Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, 
 machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and use- 
 ful improvement thereof, not known or used by others in this country, 
 and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or 
 any foreign country, before his invention or discovery thereof, and not 
 in public use, or on sale for more than two years prior to his applica- 
 tion, unless the same is proved to have been abandoned, may, upon 
 the payment of the fees required by law, and other due proceedings 
 had. obtain a patent therefor." 
 
 THE LARGEST DOSE OF MEDICINE 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 3- 
 
 And section 4888 of the same Statutes enacts : 
 
 " Sec. 4888. Before any inventor or discoverer shall receive a 
 patent for his invention or discovery, he shall make application there- 
 for, in virriting, to the Commissioner of Patents, and shall file in the 
 Patent Office a written description of the same, and of the manner 
 and process of making, constructing, compounding, and using it, in 
 such full, clear, concise and exact terms, as to enable any i)ersoiiL 
 skilled in the art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is 
 most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the 
 same ; and in case of a machine, he shall explain the principle there- 
 of, and the best mode in which he has contemplated applying that 
 principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions; and he shall 
 particularly point out and distinctly claim the part, improvement, or 
 combination which he claims as liis invention or discovery. The 
 specification and claim shall be signed by the inventor, and attested 
 by two witnesses." 
 
 It is also required by law that when "The case admits of draw- 
 ings," it shall be properly illustrated; and also, if the Commissioner 
 requires it, that a model shall be furnished in cases capable of such 
 demonstration. 
 
 The cost of obtaining Letters Patent in ordinary cases is : P'irst 
 Government fee, $15; counsel fees, including drawings, $:^5; second, 
 or final Government fee, to be paid within six months from date of 
 allowance, $20; total, $60. 
 
 Desig'ns. — A design patent can be obtained for novelties in 
 the shape or configuration of articles, or impressions by any means 
 whatever. These patents are of great value to the trade. 
 
 The government fees for a design patent are : — 
 On filing every application for a design patent . . . $10.00 
 On issuing a design patent for 3}^ years no further charge. 
 
 On issuing a design patent for 7 years 5,00 
 
 On issuing a design patent for 14 years 20.00 
 
 Caveats. — A caveat is a confidential communication filed in the 
 Patent Office, and it consists of a specification, drawings, oath and 
 ])etition. The specification must contain a clear description of the 
 intended invention. 
 
 How a Copyripfht is Secured. — The method by which a 
 
 copyright is obtained under the revised acts of Congress is as simple 
 and inexpensive as can be reasonably asked. All unnecessary red- 
 tape is dispensed with, and the cost to the author who is seeking thus 
 to protect himself in the enjoyment of the profits of his work, is so 
 small as to be scarcely appreciable. This is an example of choa])ness 
 and directness towards which all branches of public administration 
 should tend, if a government is to fulfill its proper mission of serving 
 the people without needlessly taxing them. Directions have lately 
 been issued for the guidance of persons wishing to obtain cop3Tights; 
 and as many of our readers may not be conversant with the subject, 
 we give a brief abstract of the process. 
 
 IS NOT ALWAYS THE STRONGEST. 
 
36 THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 The first thing necessary is to send a printed copy of the title of the 
 Avork, plainly directed to " Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C." 
 The copyright law applies not only to books, pamphlets and news- 
 papers, but also to maps, charts, photographs, paintings, drawings, 
 music, statuary, etc. If there is a title page, send that; if not, a title 
 must be j)rinted expressly for the purpose, and in both cases the 
 name of the author or claimant of copyright must accompany the 
 title. Use no smaller paper than commercial note. 
 
 A remittance of one dollar must be made along with the application. 
 This is the whole charge — half of it being for the entry on the record, 
 and the other half for your certificate, which the Librarian will send 
 YOU promptly by mail. You will of course prepay your postage. 
 
 Within ten days after your book, or other article, is published, you 
 are required to send two complete copies of the best edition to the 
 Librarian, addressed as before, prepaying the jjostage; or the Librar- 
 ian will furnish "penalty labels," under which they can be sent free 
 of postage. If this deposit of copies is neglected, the copyright is 
 void, and you are liable to a fine of $25. 
 
 The law requires that on the title page of a copyrighted work, or 
 some part of the drawing, painting, statue, or whatever it may be, 
 there shall be printed these words: "Entered according to act of 
 
 Congress, in the year , by , in the office of the Librarian of 
 
 Congress, at Washington; " or, if preferred, this briefer form may be 
 
 used: "Copyright, 18 — , by ." To this may be added, " Right of 
 
 translation reserved," or "All rights reserved;" but in that case the 
 Librarian must have been duly notified, so that he may include it in 
 the record. 
 
 Any person who prints the copyright notice on his work without 
 having obtained a copyright, is liable to a penalty of $roo. The 
 original term of a copyright runs for twenty-eight years, and it may 
 then be renewed for a further term of fourteen years, either by the 
 author or by his widow or children, apy^lication being made not less 
 than six months before the expiration of the right. Trade marks and 
 labels can not be copyrighted under this law, but are i)rovided for by 
 a separate act, relating to matters of detail, which can not here be 
 recited, but in regard to which, the Librarian at Washington will give 
 the needed information whenever required. 
 
 Trade Marks, Labels, Priiils, etc. — Copyrights cannot 
 
 ])e granted upon trade marks, nor upon mere names of companies or 
 articles, nor upon prints or labels intended to be used with any article 
 of manufacture. If protection for such names or labels is desired, 
 application must be made to the Patent Office, where they are regis- 
 tered at a fee of $6 for labels, and $25 for trade marks. 
 
 By the word "label" is meant a slip of paper, or other material, to 
 be attached to manufactured articles, or to jjackages containing them, 
 and bearing the name of the manufacturer, directions for use, etc. 
 
 By the word "print," is meant any device, word, or figures (not a 
 trade mark) impressed directly upon the article, to denote the name 
 of the manufacturer, etc. 
 
 NOR DOES THE VALUE OF A BOOK 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 CURIOUS INVENTIONS. 
 
 il 
 
 Indestructible Lamp Wicks. — Steep common wicks in a 
 concentrated aqueous solutit)n of tungstate of soda, and then dry 
 thorough]y in an oven. 
 
 A Gold Plate for Small Articles, Avithoiit a Bat- 
 tery. — Digest a small fragment of gold with about ten times its 
 weight of mercury until it is dissolved, shake the amalgam together in 
 a bottle, and after cleansing the articles, coat them uniformly with the 
 amalgam. Then expose them on an iron tray heated to low redness 
 for a few minutes. The mercury volatilizes, leaving the gold attached 
 as a thin coating to the article. I'he heating should be done in a 
 Ntove, so that the poisonous mercurial fumes may pass up the chim- 
 ney. 
 
 A Gelatine Moiild for Casting Plaster Ornaments. 
 
 .Allow 12 ozs. of gelatine to soak for a few hours in water, until it 
 has absorbed as much as it can, then a])ply heat, by which it will 
 liquefy. If the mould is required to be elastic, add 3 ozs. of treacle, 
 and mix well with the gelatine. If a little chrome alum (precise pro- 
 i>ortions are immaterial) be added to the gelatine, it causes it to lose 
 its property of being again dissolved in water. A saturated solution 
 of bichromate of potash brushed over the surface of the mould, 
 allowed to become dry and afterwards exposed to sunlight for a few 
 minutes, renders the surface so hard as to be unaffected by moisture. 
 
 To make Artificial Marl)le for Papta* Weights or 
 other Fancy Articles. — .Soak plaster of Paris in a solution of 
 alum, bake it in an oven, and then grind it to a powder. In using, mix 
 it with water, and to produce the clouds and veins, stir in any drv 
 color you wish ; this will become very hard, and is susceptible of a 
 very high polish. 
 
 Unshrinkable Patterns. — The best mixture for small pat- 
 terns, that does not shrink in casting, is, 69 parts lead, 153^ parts anti- 
 mony, 15^^ parts of bismuth, by weight. A cheap kind for finished 
 jjatterns can be made of 10 parts zinc, i part antimony, i part tin. 
 
 Imitation of Ground Glass. — The following is from an Ant- 
 werp scientific journal : Paint the glass with the following varnish : 
 .Sandarac 18 drachms, mastic 4 drachms,, ether 24 ozs., benzine 6 to 
 18 ozs. The more benzine the coarser the grain of imitation glass 
 will be. 
 
 Moulds of Glue an<l Molasses, Such as Kodgers 
 Uses for Making his Statuettes. — The flexible moulds 
 referred to are ])repared as follows: Glue 8 lbs., molasses (New 
 Orleans) 7 lbs. Soak the glue over night in a small cjuantity of cold 
 water, then mel{ it by heat over a salt water bath, stir until froth 
 begins to rise, then add and stir in briskly the molasses previously 
 heated. Continue to heat and stir the mixture for about half an hour: 
 then pour. 
 
 ALWAYS DEPEND UPON ITS SIZE. 
 
38 THE SILKXr ASSISTANT. 
 
 To Clarify Liquids. — The following comiJosition is said to 
 bleach all coloied liquids, and to render bone-l)lack perfectly unneces- 
 sary: Albumen 300, neutral tartrate of potash 2, alum 5, sal ammo- 
 niac 700 ]5arts. The albumen must, of course, not be coagulated. 
 The ingredients are first dissolved in a little water and then added to 
 the liquid to be clarified. 
 
 To Prevent Store Windows from Steaming.— J. F. 
 
 writes: I am about to have the front show windows of my store 
 inclosed with inside windows. Can you tell any way to prevent the 
 outside windows frosting in cold weather.'' A. Clean the glass occa- 
 sionally with a cloth moistened with jiure glycerine, wij^ing it so as to 
 leave only a trace of the glycerine adhering to the surface — this on 
 the inside. 
 
 Artificial India Rubber. — A cheaj) and useful substitute 
 for India rubber is [prepared by mixing a thick solution of glue with 
 tungstate of soda and hydrochloric acid. A compound of tunstic 
 acid and glue is precipitated, which at a temjjerature of S6 deg. to 
 104 deg. F. is sufficiently elastic to admit of being drawn out into 
 very thin sheets. On cooling, this mass becomes solid and Ijrittle, 
 but on being heated is again soft and plastic. This new compound 
 can be used for many of the purposes to which rubber is adapted. 
 
 Rubber Stamps for Photographs. — Many photographers 
 
 employ a rubber stamp for imprinting the backs of mounts, and in 
 these circumstances a good ink is very essential. Here is the recipe 
 for making one quoted from the Engineer, and said to yield an excel- 
 lent ink which, while not drying on the pad, will yet not readily 
 smear when impressed upon paper: Aniline red (violet) 180 grain.->, 
 distilled water 2 ozs., glycerine i teaspoonful, treacle }i teaspoonfui. 
 The crystals of aniline are powdered and dissolved in the boiling 
 distilled water, and the other ingredients then added. 
 
 BUSINESS LAW. 
 
 Ignorance of the law excuses no one. 
 An agreement without a consideration is void. 
 Signatures made with a lead pencil are good in law. 
 A receipt for money paid is not legally conclusive. 
 The acts of one partner bind all the others. 
 Contracts made on Sundav cannot be enforced. 
 A contract made with a minor or a lunatic is void. 
 Principals are responsible for the acts of their agents. 
 Agents are responsible to their principals for errors. 
 Each individual in a partnership is responsible for the whole 
 amount of the debt of the firm. 
 A note given by a minor is void. 
 Notes bear interest only when so stated. 
 
 It is not legallv necessary to say on a note " for value received." 
 A note drawn on Sunday is void. 
 
 MANUFACTURE YOUR OWN GOODS. 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 39 
 
 A note obtained by fraud, oi from a jjcrson in a state of intoxica- 
 tion cannot be collected. 
 
 If a note be lost or stolen it does not release the maker; he must 
 pay it. 
 
 An endorser of a note is exempt from liability if not served with 
 notice of its dishonor within twenty-four hours of its non-])ayment. 
 
 It is a fraud to conceal a fraud. 
 
 The law compels no one to do impossibilities. 
 
 A personal right of action dies with the person. 
 
 An oral agreement must be proved by evidence. A written agree- 
 ment proves itself. 'Ihe law prefers written to oral evidence, because 
 of its precision. 
 
 You do not require a license in any State to sell goods of your own 
 manufacture, or which are manufactured for you. 
 
 Taking' Leaf Photographs.— A very pretty amusement, 
 especially for those who have just completed the study of botany, is 
 the taking of leaf photographs. One very simple process is this: 
 At any druggist's get an ounce of bichromate of potassium. Put this 
 into a pint bottle of water. When the solution becomes saturated, — 
 tliat is, the water has dissolved as much as it will, — pour off some of 
 the clear liquid into a shallow dish; on this float a piece of ordinary 
 writing paper till it is thoroughly moistened ; let it dry in the dark. 
 It should be of a bright yellow. On this put the leaf, under it a piece 
 of black soft cloth and several sheets of newspaper. Put these 
 between two pieces of glass (all the pieces should be of the same 
 size), and with spring clothespins fasten them together, ii.xpose to a 
 bright sun, placing the leaf so that the rays will fall upon it as nearly 
 perpendicular as possible. In a few moments it will begin to turn 
 ijrown; but it requires from half an hour to several hours to produce 
 a perfect print. When it has become dark enough, take it from the 
 frame, and put it into clear water, which must be changed every few 
 minutes until the yellow part becomes white. Sometimes the leaf 
 veinings will be quite distinct. By following these directions, it is 
 scarcely possible to fail, and a little practice will make perfect. 
 
 DAILY SAVINGS AT COMPOUND INTEREST, 
 
 Cents per Day Per Y^ar In Ten Wars P'flv Years 
 
 2% ^'O $130 52,900 
 
 5 "J 20 260 5,800 
 
 II 40 520 11,600 
 
 27^ 100 1.3°° 2g,ooo 
 
 55 200 2,600 58,000 
 
 1. 10 400 5.200 1 16,000 
 
 1 .37 500 6, 500 1 45,000 
 
 HIRE AGENTS TO WORK FOR YOU. 
 
40 THK SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 MARRIAGE. 
 
 Marriage is consideied'by the law as an agreement between a niati 
 and woman to fulfil the duties of husband and wife toward each 
 other. The duties of the man are to be chaste and faithful ; to live 
 with his wife so long as she lives up to her part of the contract ; to 
 provide suitable support, if he is able so to do, for her and his chil- 
 dren so long as she performs her duties; to refrain from cruelty and 
 habitual drunkenness. He has a right under the agreement to 
 decide where his home shall be. 
 
 The duties of the wife under the marriage contract are to be chaste, 
 temperate, and faithful, and to live with her husband so long as he 
 performs his duties as above described. The husband usually claims 
 the right to direct the actions of his wife, the company she shall fre- 
 quent, and how she shall conduct his household; but tfie law of cus- 
 tom and circumstance are all that give him these rights. 
 
 The husband can choose any trade or occupation which he inclines 
 to; he can choose to live wherever fancy inclines; he can furnish his 
 house or leave it unfurnished as he chooses; he can abandon his 
 house and family for weeks and months together to loneliness; he 
 can become a gambler or a highwayman without breaking his mar- 
 riage obligations according to law. Then again the law of custom 
 comes in with its beneficent rule. Marriage may be contracted by 
 minors above the age of discretion, being almost the only contract 
 minors can be bound by, but not by insane persons or by near rela- 
 tions. 
 
 A marriage made by fraud or imposition upon either or both of the 
 parties or by force or fear is not binding. On the other hand it is 
 provided by law that no defect in ceremony or lack of authority in the 
 person pretending to marry the parties shall nullify the marriage when 
 either of the parties supposed he or she was being really married. 
 
 A promise to marry, though not binding upon a minor, is binding 
 upon adults, and if such promise is broken suit can be brought by the 
 injured party for damages to her affections and fortunes, and large 
 verdicts are frequently given for this cause. 
 
 Divorce. — According to the laws a breach of the marriage contract 
 gives the injured party a right to apply to the court assigned to that par- 
 ticular branch of business for a divorce which frees him or her from the 
 marriage bond, and gives the ]jrivilege of remarriage. Divorces are 
 usually granted for one of the following causes : i, Adultery ; 2, Deser- 
 tion for several years; 3, Cruel and abusive treatment; 4, Wilful and 
 cruel neglect to provide support on the part of the husband ;5, Habitual 
 drunkenness. The proof of adultery is usually to the effect that the 
 accused j^erson showed a disposition to err, and that he or she was 
 afterwards placed under circumstances which gave suspicious oppor- 
 tunity for the commission of the crime. Undue familiarity or inter- 
 cepted correspondence are often sufficient to prove the evil dis- 
 position. 
 
 ORDER ALL GOODS ADVERTISED IN THIS BOOK 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 41 
 
 DIVORCE. — Continued. 
 
 Desertion sufficient to entitle the injured party to a divorce must be 
 wilful and continued for the prescribed length of time without a 
 break. Desertion is proved by the evidence of the deserted wife or 
 husband to the circumstances, supported by the evidence of neigh- 
 bors who are knowing to the facts, or, better yet, by some admission 
 of the guilty party to some third party of his or her intention to desert. 
 
 Cruel and abusive treatment entitles a wife to divorce where blows 
 have been struck or where the husband wilfully causes the wife great 
 suffering and pain. 
 
 Wilful refusal or neglect to provide support is one of the most diffi- 
 cult of all accusations to prove so as to obtain divorce. The wife 
 who applies for divorce upon this ground must show the following 
 facts to the Court before she can obtain the desired decree : — 
 
 1st. That her husband is able to support better, and that he wil- 
 fully refused so to do. 
 
 2d. That she was unable to support herself. 
 
 3d. That she has positively suffered the pains of privation or has 
 been forced to resort to charity. 
 
 Habitual drunkenness is sufficient cause for divorce where gross 
 and confirmed habits of intoxication are proved. .Sentence of some 
 criminal court punishing the husband or wife as a common drunkard 
 is usually sufficient evidence. 
 
 If after a husband or wife has committed some of the just- 
 described offences which would entitle the injured party to a divorce, 
 the injured partv knowing the offense forgives it, this act of for- 
 giveness cuts off the right to obtain a divorce. In order to obtain a 
 divorce against the parly once forgiven, evidence must be produced 
 of some new error or crime committed since the act of forgiveness. 
 
 PARTNERSHIP. 
 
 When two or more persons associate themselves together in busi- 
 ness they do not require written papers in order to make themselves 
 subject to the rules of law governing partnership, although such 
 papers are useful as regards each other in deciding what the duties 
 and profits of each member shall be. It is enough to constitute a 
 partnership that two or more men share in the profits or agree to share 
 in the profits in a certain line of business. Partners are all responsible 
 for the debts contracted for the business, no matter if by private 
 agreement one or more of them is not to be holden for debts or 
 losses. Each partner can make bargains or contract debts in the 
 general course of the business which shall bind them all. The strict- 
 ness of the law has many times held men and partners liable in their 
 private property for debts contracted by a person with whom they 
 had, as they supposed, only an agreement which should give them a 
 part of the profits of a busmess and no responsibility for its losses. 
 Under the laws, however, there is a provision by which one man can 
 l^ublish a notice to the effect that he is to be liable only to a certain 
 
 FROM THE WORLD SUPPLY CO., RUTLAND, VT. 
 
42 THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 PARTNERSHIP.— Continued, 
 
 amount in a certain firm, and thus relieve himself of further indi- 
 vidual liability. A partnership is dissolved by the retiring or death 
 of either or any partner, or by the selling out of the interest of either 
 partner. When a partner leaves his firm it becomes important for 
 him, and for the remaining members of the firm, to give notice to the 
 world that the partnership heretofore existing between thtm is dis- 
 solved. Unless a general notice to this effect is given, the retiring 
 or remaining members might continue to bind the other, by orders or 
 purchases, or by collecting and receipting accounts with parties who 
 had had previous dealings with them as partners. 
 
 Fay's Compound Bar Soap. — Recipe for making 15 
 lbs. Take 7 lbs. of any kind of bar soaj), the tougher it is the 
 better; cut it into thin slices and put it into some suitable dish; 
 then take 2 lbs. of sal soda, i lb. unslacked lime, and put into 
 another dish, and pour over it 2 gallons of 'boiling water (rain or soft 
 water is preferable). Stir this well and let it settle, then pour off 
 the clear water or solution into the dish containing the soap; put it 
 on the fire and let it remain there until the soap is all dissolved. 
 Dissolve I oz. of alum and 2 ozs. of bora.x. Stir the soap and put in 
 the alum and borax, just as the soap is taken from the fire. ],et the 
 soap cool a little, and then put in i oz. of benzine, and stir well. 
 When it gets perfectly cold the soap is hard, and can be cut in any 
 size bars. It should stand a few days after being made, in order 
 that it may become well hardened. Also the same ingredients in the 
 same proportion, and made in the same way, with the exception of 
 substituting common home-made soap for common bar soap, will 
 make the best soft soap in the world for all washing purposes. 
 
 Directions for using. — Put on your water and let it warm ; then 
 put in I lb. of the soap to every 7 gallons of water. Put in 
 your white clothes and let them boil briskly from ten to twenty 
 minutes, according to the degree of dirtiness; rinse in two waters, 
 blue, and hang out. Put vour colored clothes in the same suds, and 
 let tiiem boil slowly eight or ten minutes, rinse thoroughly and hang 
 out. Then put in your woolens, not allowing them to boil, but keeji- 
 ing them in the hot suds eight or ten minutes. Then take the suds 
 and mop the floor. .Soak your white clothes over night, or soak in 
 warm suds an hour before boiling. Do not crowd your boiler too 
 full, or put in clothes twisted hard. For house cleaning, use in the 
 same ]iroportion as above stated. For crockery and glassware, use 
 as other soap. 
 
 Note. — You will receive a circular from us in a few weeks offering 
 you the agency of a new discovery called Fay's Wonder Soap" which 
 is entirely different and far superior to " Fay's Compound Par Soap." 
 
 St. tTame.s's Liniment.— One of the very best ever made for 
 man or beast. Magical in effects when used for bruises, sprains, 
 neuralgia, rheumatism, etc. Take equal parts of laudanum, alcohol, 
 and oil of wormwood; mix well by shaking thoroughly; apply 
 externally. 
 
 POSITIVELY NO LETTERS ANSWERED 
 
THE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 43 
 
 COIN VALUE LIST. 
 
 Latest edition, containing a complete list of all United States coins 
 worth more than their face value, with prices paid by leading coin 
 dealers. Read this carefully. This little list is intended for the use of 
 all persons who handle money, and there are thousands of coins now 
 in circulation that the possessors might sell at good prices to coin 
 dealers who in turn sell them for collections. Below are given the 
 dates of all United States coins worth more than theirface value, with 
 bri.ef description and estimate of value. The estimates are based upon 
 the average prices paid by Boston, New York, and Philadelphia 
 dealers. All letters of inquiry regarding these coins must contain 
 stamp for reply. Otherwise we positively decline to answer them. 
 
 
 U. S. Silver Dollars. 
 
 U. 
 
 S. Silver Half Dollars. 
 
 •794- 
 
 Plowing Hair. . . 
 
 ^25.00 
 
 1794. 
 
 Flowing Hair . . 
 
 $ 4.00 
 
 1796. 
 
 Fillet Head . . 
 
 1.50 
 
 1795- 
 
 " " . . 
 
 .60 
 
 1797- 
 
 (( 
 
 1.50 
 
 1796. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 15.00 
 
 .798. 
 
 Small Eagle . . 
 
 2.00 
 
 1797- 
 
 " " . . 
 
 10.00 
 
 1798. 
 
 Large Lagle . . 
 
 r.io 
 
 1801. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 2.00 
 
 1799. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 I. ID 
 
 1802. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 2.00 
 
 1800. 
 
 11 « 
 
 I. ID 
 
 1815. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 2.50 
 
 1801. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 1.30 
 
 1836. 
 
 Edge like our Half- 
 
 
 1802. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 1.30 
 
 
 Dollars .... 
 
 2.00 
 
 1803. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 I. ID 
 
 1S38. 
 
 Liberty Cap hav- 
 
 
 1804. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 500.00 
 
 
 ing C) marked un- 
 
 
 1S36. 
 
 Liberty Seated Fly- 
 
 
 
 der head. . . . 
 
 5.00 
 
 
 ing Eagle . .' 
 
 5.00 
 
 1S52. 
 
 Liberty Seated . . 
 
 2.00 
 
 1838. 
 
 Liberty Seated Fly- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ing Eagle . . 
 
 16.00 
 
 
 Quarters. 
 
 
 1839. 
 
 Liberty Seated Fly- 
 ing Eagle . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 16.00 
 
 1796. 
 
 Fillet head . . . 
 
 1.50 
 
 1851. 
 
 Liberty Seated Fly- 
 ing Eagle . . ' 
 
 2.00 
 
 1804. 
 1823. 
 
 Head to Left . . 
 
 1. 00 
 
 25.00 
 
 1852. 
 
 Liberty Seated Fly- 
 ing Eagle . . 
 Liberty Seated Fly- 
 
 16.00 
 
 1827. 
 1853- 
 
 No Arrows Side of 
 
 20.00 
 
 1854. 
 
 
 
 Date 
 
 3.00 
 
 
 ing Eagle . . 
 
 3.00 
 
 Some not mentioned here are 
 
 1855- 
 
 Liberty Seated Fly- 
 
 
 worth 
 
 a small premium. 
 
 
 1856. 
 
 ing Eagle . . 
 Liberty Seated Fly- 
 
 2.50 
 
 
 Twenty Cents. 
 
 
 
 ing Eagle . . 
 
 1.50 
 
 
 (Proofs only.) 
 
 
 1857- 
 
 Liberty Seated Fly- 
 
 
 
 
 
 1858. 
 
 ing Eagle . . 
 Liberty Seated Fly- 
 ing Eagle . . ' 
 
 2.00 
 15.00 
 
 1877. 
 1S78. 
 
 
 1.50 
 1.50 
 
 UNLESS THEY CONTAIN STAMP FOR REPLY. 
 
44 
 
 'I'HE SILENT ASSISTANT. 
 
 COIN VALUE LIST (Continued) 
 
 
 
 Dimes. 
 
 
 
 
 Copper Cents. 
 
 
 1796 
 
 Fillet Head . . 
 
 $ 
 
 1.50 
 
 '793- 
 
 I'"lo\ving Hair 
 
 $ :3.50 
 
 1797 
 
 " 
 
 
 
 2.00 
 
 1793- 
 
 Liberty Cap . . 
 
 3.00 
 
 1798 
 
 " 
 
 
 
 2.00 
 
 1794. 
 
 " ' " . . 
 
 ■35 
 
 1800 
 
 " 
 
 
 
 2.0c 
 
 1795- 
 
 " " . . 
 
 .50 
 
 I80I 
 
 " 
 
 
 
 2.50 
 
 1799. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 10.00 
 
 1802 
 
 " 
 
 
 
 3.00 
 
 1804. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 5.00 
 
 1804 
 
 " 
 
 
 
 5.00 
 
 1809. 
 
 Head to Left . . 
 
 1. 00 
 
 1822 
 
 Head 
 
 to Left . . 
 
 
 2.00 
 
 181 1. 
 
 1 8 56. 
 
 Fagle Nickel .' ." 
 
 1. 00 
 
 I.£0 
 
 
 Half Dimes. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Half Cents. 
 
 
 1794 
 
 Flovviwi^ Hair . . 
 
 
 2.50 
 
 
 
 
 1796 
 
 Fillet 
 
 Head . . 
 
 
 1.50 
 
 1793- 
 
 Lil)erty Cap . . 
 
 1.00 
 
 1797 
 
 " 
 
 " 
 
 
 1.25 
 
 1794. 
 
 ** " , . 
 
 .20 
 
 i8or 
 
 " 
 
 " 
 
 
 1-35 
 
 1795- 
 
 " " . . 
 
 •30 
 
 1802 
 
 " 
 
 " . . 
 
 
 25.00 
 
 1796. 
 
 (1 (1 
 
 10.00 
 
 1803 
 
 " 
 
 " . . 
 
 
 1.25 
 
 1802. 
 
 Fillet Head '. '. 
 
 1. 00 
 
 1805 
 
 " 
 
 " . . 
 
 
 1.50 
 
 1831. 
 
 Head to Left . . 
 
 • 3-00 
 
 1846 
 
 Liber 
 
 ty Seated 
 
 
 1. 00 
 
 1852. 
 
 " " . . 
 
 • 3-50 
 
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 GRAINS OF GOLD. 
 
 Few things are impracticable in themselves, and it is for want of 
 application rather than of means that men fail of success. 
 
 The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A 
 little is enough if used wisely — too much if used foolishly. 
 
 There is nothing nobler in man than courage ; and the only way to 
 be courageous is to be clean-handed and clean-hearted, to be able to 
 respect ourselves and face our record. 
 
 The coldest-mannered people are frequently those who look for 
 most warmth from others; and, when their expectations are not grati- 
 fied, they forget that the coolness they meet with is but a dim reflec- 
 tion of their own. 
 
 Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality, of which the highest in- 
 stances are frequently found in the lowest savages, and which is often 
 more conspicuous in the brute creation than in the most intrepid of 
 the human race. 
 
 Note. — The author has endeavored to give such recipes only as 
 are worthy of every confidence on the ground of being perfectly free 
 from all injurious or deleterious ingredients. He has ]mid dearly for 
 recipes which are of an entirely opposite quality, and which no con- 
 sideration whatever, either of money or to satisfy curiosity, could in- 
 duce him to give to the public. 
 
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