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StGRETS

A COLLECTION OF

FORMULAS FOR GENERAL USE

GIVING FULL, PLAIN AND PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE

MANUFACTURING, PUTTING UP AND SELLING ARTICLES

UlEEDED IN EVERT WORKSHOP, HOUSEHOLD AND

ON EVERY FARM.

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Published by

MERRIAM, COLLINS &

CHICAGO,
ILL.

CO.

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{[C elebrated

Hats.

THE

DLINLA>

SILK UnBRELLA. Palmer House, ChicaKo.

PREFACE.

We

have endeavored to place

in the

hands

of the purchaser of this volume, a collection of

lecipes and formulas of the utmost simplicity

value.

and economy in preparation, and of the greatest Every recipe is worded so that it can be perfectly understood and prepared by the
'

most inexperienced person. In order to accommodate those who wish to manufacture for family use, the ingredients are
generally given in small quantities.
also benefit those

This will

who wish

to experiment in

economical
material.

compounding, and prepare themselves for the handling of large quantities of

Let the person or persons who contemplate

entering the manufacturer's field bear one fact

in

sible

Put your goods up in the best posmanner before offering them to the public, and when once offered use the utmost energy in
mind:

PREFACE.

pushing them, and allow no minor disappoint-

ments

to depress or discourage you.

The

chief

difficulty

with those

who have
way
to

struggled for years against

fortune has been

the want of a method to point out the

improvement.

We
labors

believe this volume

is

as serviceable to

the person well along in

life,

even though hia

may have been unrewarded, as to the young man just budding into manhood and who is eager to reach the
up
to the present in other fields

highest round of the ladder without a trace of

care or age to

mark

his brow.

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Comfortable, Attractive and Indestructible.

Supplanting

all

wooden

chairs.

Piano and Stenographer Chair

only $5.00.
Highly polished with adjustable seat and back. Supports the back where it is needed.

Best and

CHEAPEST

Chairs made.

ANDREWS FOLDING
Revolving Mirror

COMFORT
Low

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Send
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Price*.

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HARDWOOD
Wood

FLOORS.

Carpets,
Rug" Borders.

Parquet Floors,
SEND FOR BOOK OF DESIGNS. E. B.
IS

MOORE &
ILL.

CO.,
Street)

and 50 Randolph

CHICAGO,

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
CANDY.
Molasses Candy
leans
is best),

One cup molasses (Xew Orh cup white sugar, butter as large
spoon vinegar.
of soda. of 2 eggs beaten to a stiff
this together

as a cherry, 1

Boil

until

it

breaks crisp in water; just before taking from the

fire

add ^ teaspoon

Kisses
froth, 1

Whites

cup powdered sugar, beat

15 minutes, drop in teaspoonfuls on brown paper,

put on dripping pan turned bottom side up

the oven; bake until a crust forms on them.

in

Cream Candy
spoons

One bowl white sugar, 2 table1

vinegar,

teaspoon

cream
it

tartar, 1
is

tumbler water; put in vanilla just as

Boil until
it

done.
it

crisps in water.

Pull

it

when

is

cool, until white

and porous, and cut

in pieces.

sugar, 1

Peanut Candy Two cups molasses, 1 cup cup water, ^ cup vinegar (a small
Boil until brittle,
stir in

one), butter size of an egg.

then

the

peanuts

(take

the skins

off

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first),

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

and pour out on greased

plate.

Can use

English walnut or hickory nut meats.

Cream for French Caiidies (Without cooking) and sift 3 pounds confectioners' XXX powdered sugar (get it at the confectioner's). Put the whites of 2 eggs in a tumbler, and mark with the thumb the amount; pour this in a dish and add the same measure of cold water, and a scant tablespoon of vanilla (or any flavoring you like). well together, then add Stir these

Roll

sugar slowly, stirring

silver spoon.
It

all

well together with a

less

sometimes takes more or

sugar;

make it

stiff

enough

to

mould

into shape

with the fingers;

the hands shape

roll

this with

your hands on

the moulding board until smooth, and then with

into small balls for chocolate

creams, or into squares and put English walnut

meats on them, or roll grated cocoanut into it, or chop figs and mix with it, or oj^eu dates and
fill

them with some of the cream, or cover almond meats with it, then roll them in granuFor the chocolate creams make lated sugar.
with the fingers little cone shaped balls, place on greased platter to harden (over night), or make them in the morning and leave them until afternoon. Melt some chocolate (confectioners'
is

best),

in

basin,

set

in

another

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basin
of boiling water;

when melted, and the

to handle, take

creams are hard enough

time on a fork and droj)
late; roll
it

one

at a

it

in

the melted chocoslip

until

well covered, then

from

the fork uj)on waxed paper (or greased plates),

and

set

away

to harden.

Chocolate Caramels

One

and one-half cups

4 teaspoon soda

sugar, 1 cup molasses, i cup sweet milk, i cake

bakers' chocolate scraped

fine,

dissolved in milk, 2 teaspoons pulverized

arable, piece of butter half size of

gum

an egg; boil
tins;
little

without stirring until

it

breaks crisp in water,

pour out quarter of an inch thick in greased

cut in squares with a knife
cool; i of this recipe

when
1

it

gets a

makes

square

tin full.

Fever Sores
vitriol, 1

Successful

Treatment

White

teaspoonful; copj)eras, 3 teaspoonfuls;

gunpowder, 5 teaspoonfuls; soft water, 1 quart. Put the articles into an earthen or glass dish, and pour the water upon them, boiling hot, and
stir till cool.

Let
use.

it

settle,

and

bottle the clear

liquid

for

It will

be

very

black while
sores 3

stirring,

but settles very clear.

It is

Wash the

or 4 times daily.
sores, cuts, etc.

equally valuable for fresh

Asthma Inhalent Ether, ounce

1;

oil tur-

pentine and benzoic acid, each, drachms 4; tola

CAPTIVE SEOEETS.
2.

balsam, drachms

To be

inhaled from a
acid, grains 30;

wide-mouthed
SnufF for

bottle,

during the attack.

Hay Fever

Boric

sodium

salicylate, grains 40;

cocaine hydrochlo-

rate, grains 2.

2;

Mix them thoroughly. SnufF for Colds Sodium bicarbonate, grains magnesium carbonate (light), grains 3;

menthol, grain
4;

1;

cocaine hydrochlorate, grains

1^.

milk sugar, drachms

The most marked

this

relief will follow

the use of

powder, and a few applications will do

to

much

abort the catarrhal attack.

Its effects

are immediate, highly agreeable to the patient,

and continuous for a number of hours. Spray for Catarrh Acid carbolic, grains 20; sodium borate, sodium bicarbonate, each, drachm

1; glycerine, rose

water, each, ounce

1;

water

pint, 1.

Dissolve and use with an atomizer.

THE CARE OF THE TEETH.

The
arising
teeth should be brushed twice daily,

and

retiring.
stiff

The brush

upon employed

should be not too

ices

so as to cause the

gums

to bleed, yet suflBciently

hard to enter the crevand remove the impurities. The brush

should always be thoroughly washed after each

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operation,

9
dry quickly.

and placed

in a position to

The

following shows the composition of the best

dentifrices:

Cherry Tooth Paste

of lemon,

Pumice, honey, glycerine,

30 m.;
oil of rose,

orris, each, 2 ounces; myrrh, 4 drachms; essence

90 m.;

oils of cloves,

8 drops; cochineal coloring, enough.

Damask Rose Tooth Paste

neal, lavender water, each, 3
bitartrate, 2

Orris, prepared
cloves

chalk, each, 3 ounces; alum, 4 drachms; cochi-

drachms; potassium

drachms

oils of

and

rose,

each, 10 m; glycerine, enough.

Saponaceous Tooth Paste

of sassafras

Precipitated chalk,
1

2 ounces; castile soap, orris, each,

ounce;

oils

and bay, each, 10 m.; honey, enough,

or about 3^ ounces.

Pink Tooth Paste Precipitated chalk, 200

grains; pumice, orris, each, 100 grains; cinna-

mon,
drops;

cloves,

each, 60 grains; oil of cloves, 6

carmine,

grains;

ammonia,

drop;

honey, enough, or about 400 grains.

Odontine (a)

Castile soap, white, 1^ ounces,

3

alcohol, 24 ounces; water, 8 ounces.

(6)

Myrrh,

ounces

alcohol,

24 ounces;

water, 8 ounces.

After filtering the two tinctures, add: Spirit

pf lemon,

^ ounce;

oils

of peppermint, winter-

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
glycerine, 4

green, star anise, each, 15 drops;

ounces: acetic ether, i ounce.

Color with tincture of alkanet.

Eudonto
1 grain;

Quillaia

bark, 1 ounce: cochineal,

alcohol, 3 ounces; water, -ih ounces.

filter,

Macerate for one week,

of wintergreen, i

then add: Oil

drachm; alcohol 3 drachms; peppermint water, 4 ounces; glycerine, 2 ounces; water, enough to make 24 ounces. Artificial Seawater is Prepared From Sodium

chloride, 78 parts;

magnesium chloride,
parts.

1 parts;

potassium chloride, calcium sulphate, each, 3

parts;

magnesium, 5

Of the dry mixture

in 3 cubic meters of

100 kilos are to be dissolved

water.
satisfaction
position.
in

This compound was used with entire

the aquaria of the Paris Ex-

Curlolina for the Hair

A preparation, as

its

name indicates,

for curling the hair.

Mix together

1 pound olive oil, 1 drachm oil origanum, \h drachm oil of rosemary. Bottle and label.

Many
hair, but

recipes could be given for curling the

we consider

this

one of the best and as

will

the ingredients are

profit.

all

cheap

yield a large

Chilblain Ointmeiit

Chilblains

arise

from a

severe cold to the part, causing inflammation,

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often ulcerating,

11

making deep and very trouble-

some, long-continued sores.

2 quarts of lard,
of camphor.
1 pint of turpentine, \ pound Powder the camphor and mix well This will stop the itching and the

together.

ajiplication causes

no pain.

Put

it

up

in tin boxes labelled, paste the label

entirely around the box to prevent the evaporation of the camphor.

Green Writing Ink

5 drachms

ounce crystal of ver-

digris, dissolved in 1 pint of

vinegar, add to it and 2 drachms white sugar, dissolved in half pint of water. Let it stand two or three days, strain off the liquid and

gum

arabic

bottle

it.

The

novelty of this ink will cause

its

it

to sell well,

and with a fancy name

manu-

facture will be profitable.

Stoughton Bitters
tian root, 1

Steep | ounce of Peruvian

bark, 1 ounce wild cherry bark, 2 ounces of gen1 ounce cardamon seeds bruised, in one gallon of spirits for two or three weeks, when it is ready for use.

ounce dried orange peel, and

Immense

fortunes have been

made on

bitters,

as they are excellent as astringents

weak stomachs. This is good for up in bottles according to price. Dose, a tablespoonful three times a day in a little water.

and tonics for dyspepsia. Put

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Silver

CAPTIVE SEOBE*^.

Ink
till

Mix

ounce of the

finest pewtei?

or

block

tin,

together

and 2 ounces of quick silver they become fluid, then grind it

an ink, the writing will look as

with

gum water. When used as

if

done with

silver.

Bottle with a fancy label.

Glue for Labeling Tin

verized borax, 4 ounces
of water until all
is

Boil

2 ounces pul-

gum

shellac in one quart

dissolved.

When cold

it

can
will

be used as a paste or glue for pasting paper

upon
not.

tin

boxes.

Ordinary paste or glue

off;

not answer, as the paper will peel

this will

Rat Exterminator
of

Make 3 pounds

of flour

into a thick paste with water.

Dissolve 1 ounce

ing,

phosphorous in 1^ ounces of butter by heatmix all together v'ell, then color it by workit

ing up in

2 ouncec. pulverized tumeric.

This
sold.
gill.

is

certain death to rats,

it

and

is

largely

Put

up in tin boxes holding about one

25
cts.,

It will sell for

and pays a large

salt-

profit.

Electric Oil

Put

ounce of pulverized
oil.

petre in 1 pint of sweet

Bottle and

label.

This

is

an excellent remedy for inflammatory

rheumatism.

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Friction Soap Mix 4 pounds of fine white sand with 2 pounds of good brown soap, by melting the soap in a vessel. When it is thor-

oughly mixed, mould it into small cakes. Tricopherous for the Hair Mix well together

6 ounces of

[)ure
1

castor

oil,

10 ounces (95 per

cent.) alcohol,

drachm

oil of

bergamot and

drachm
This

oil of
is

lavender.

a very agreeable and most excellent

it,

preparation for the hair, serving to soften

stimulate
glossy.
its

growth, and keep

it

dark and

And

as all preparations for the hair

are eagerly sought after they pay well to

ufacture.

man-

Put

it

up

in

pint

beetles
-

neatly labeled.

Regulate the price of this

fortunes
tions.

d of all other recipes

according to the cost of your mixture.

Many

have beenmade with

hair

prepara-

Hudson's Lip Salve

Melt

ounce of white
oil

wax and

ounce of spermaceti, add 2 ounces

of lemon, mix,

and while warm add 2 ounces of rose water, and ^ ounce of orange water. Beat

well together.

The
ing

lips

are

very liable to chap

in

cold

weather and crack to a considerable depth caus-

much

pain

and annoyance.

The above

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

preparation will be found excellent for curiiig

the complaint.

Put the
Liquid

salve

up

in neat metal boxes. in

Glue

Dissolve

a wide-mouthed

vessel 8 ounces of the best glue, in J pint of water.

Set the vessel in a larger one containing water

and heat it. When the glue is thoroughly dissolved add 2| ounces of strong aquafortis (nitric
acid), stirring slowly while putting in the acid.

This
corked.
tion as

is

to be put into bottles

It
is

and kept well handy and valuable composifor all the

it

does not gelatinize, ferment, or be-

come

offensive,

and can be used cold

ordinary purposes of glue in making or mending

furniture, or broken vessels that are not exposed
to water or heat.

This recipe for glue is the discovery of a French chemist and is selling about the country as a secret, at from one to five dollars for Bottle and label. the recipe. Extract of Vanilla To 1 quart of pure French brandy add 1 ounce of vanilla beans (cut up fine), and 2 ounces of Tonqua beans, bruised. Let it digest for two weeks, frequently shaking; then filter carefully, and it is ready for use. Filtering paper can be procured at any

druggists.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

15
pies,

This

is

excellent

for

flavoring
It
is

cakes,

puddings and ice-cream.

l)e

sold by every

druggist and grocer in the country and can

disposed
of
at

good

profit.

Bottle and

label.

Golden
marrow,
lard;

Melt 5 ounces of beef ounces of ounce of yellow wax, perfume while cooking with oil of berga1

Pomade

mot or oil of almonds to suit. Put up in 2 oz. glass jars and label. A variety of pomades can be made from the above recipe by changing the perfume. For rose pomade, scent with ottar of roses and color by tying alkanet root in a bag, and
pressing
quired.
It will
it

in the hot

grease to the color re-

command

a higher price

if

put up

in

fancy bottles or jars.

omile to a fine

Magnetic Insect Powder du.st and mix

Rub
it

red cham-

with some cheap

or cherry

divisor (such as fine

dust).

mahogany

saw

When

this

powder
all

is

dusted into cracks about

etc.,

the corners of

walls,

out walk the cock-

roaches and
fail.

other insect intruders without

It clears insects

from plants, and

is

death

to

bed bugs.

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All

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

the insect

powders manufactured owe

their efficiency to red chamomile.

Put up in glass bottles. French Furniture Polish Melt 2 ounces of beeswax and ^ ounce of alkonet root in an earthen pot, add 2 ounces of spirits of win(> and

h pint of turpentine.
is to be rubbed on with a woolen with an old piece of silk. polished and cloth, furniture look like new, and is old makes It the street and in the stores. sold on extensively bottles. small Put up in Mix together 2 pounds pipe Clothes Ball

This polish

clay,4 ouncesof Fuller's earth, 4 ounces whiting

and 4 pint ox

gall.

Make

into small balls.

article,

This an excellent

very easily made,

and there is no The cost of manufacturing

in

trouble in finding a

market

for

it.

is trifling.

Put up

packages with circular containing directions. Cologne, equal to Farina To 2 quarts

deodorized or cologne alcohol, add

water,
1

pint rose

neroli, ^ ounce jessamine, 1 drachm garden lavender, 5 drops cinnamon, li ounce tincture of benzoin, 4 ounce tincture of musk. Use fancy bottles and
1

ounce of bergamot,

drachm

labels.

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Allow the
This
be

pi(.'[);iratiou

to stautl
filter

two or three
bottle.

days, shake occasioually,

is ('xpt'iisivc,

and

yet a very nice article.

Compound Blackberry Root for Diarrhea will fouml very valuable. Take blackberry
waHhed, cut fine and
each,
bill
i

root,

l)ruis('d.

and the dried

fruit, of

ounces; bayberry bark 2 ounces;

root,

crane's

(geranium)
1

and cinnamon
fennel

barks, of each

ounce;

gum myrrh and

seed and cloves, of each

\ ounce; pulverized
1

sugar
pint.

pound; brandy or best rye whisky

all

Bruise

the articles and put them to 8 or 4

quarts of soft water, and half cf the whisky and

simmer
water
is

for

a day, or

until about

half the

evaporated, then strain and press out

and

hot;

down to a pint and add the sugar while and when cold add the ^ pint of spirits left. Dose A teasjioonful every hour, for 2 or 3
boil

times, then once in 3 or 4 hours, as needed,

especially valuable with children, in Doses from

5 to 30 drops, according to age, and

if

over 5 or

6 years old, a teaspoon ful

Dose.

may

be given for a

Diarrhea Tincture

Very Valuable Tincture

and essence
of cin-

of rheubarb, 1 ounce; spirits of camphor, lauda-

num and

tincture of ginger,

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
of each ^ ounce; tincture of capsicum,

namon,
ounce.

Mix, and shake when using.

Dose
little

Half

teaspoouful, on sugar or in a

sweetened water, and

repeat every 30

minutes, in severe cases, until relief from pain

is

obtained, then every hour or two, as needed,

until the evacuations are lessened

in appearance.

The
first

friend from

whom

and improved this was

after a long

obtained, was
siege,

cured with

it,

and afterwards cured many others. If used with judgment, it will l)e found a very

valuable medicine.

Carmine Ink Mix 12 grains carmine, powfine, and 3 ounces spirits of ammonia with 18 grains gum arabic dissolved in i ounce of water. Bottle and label. Put in square bottles, fluted at the bottom, with a French label, as this is often put up in
dered

manner and sold as imported. Cheap Hard Soap Pour 4 gallons boiling water on 6 pounds salsoda and 3 pounds unslacked lime; stir and let stand over night. Pour off very carefully the clear liquor, and add boil two hours 6 pounds good grease or fat occasionally putting a little Try it by stirring. when thick remove from the fire, to cool, and
this

stirring in a handful of salt.

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Have ready
into
it

tub

in

which cold water haa

solid,

beeu standing to jjreveut sticking; put the soap

and

let

stand

till

cut into strips or

will

pour into moulds for cakes. This

forty ])ounds soap
at a cost of

make about

two cents per

pound.

Take 1 pint of alcoami add J ounce of oil of peppermint. Bottle. Mix, and shake it well; let it stand a day and if not clear filter it through j)aper. If you wish to color, add a little turpeiitint;. Put up in 2 or 15 ounce bottles. Black Ink Take 1 pound logwood, and 1 gallon of water; simmer in an iron vessel for one hour; dissolve in a little hot water 24
Essence of Peppermint
hol

grains bichromate of potash, 12 grains prussiate

of potash,
strain

and

stir into

the li(|uid over the

fire;

through

a fine cloth.

No
and

other ink will stand the test of oxalic acid,

so indelil)le as not to be
it.

is

removed from

paper by

It is the

cheapest ink made.

sizes

Ink
bottles

is

put up

in various

and

styles of

from 2 ounce to quart.

The

corks of

the bottles should be sealed with a cheap wax

made

of rosin

and Vermillion, and packed

chalf.

in

doz<'ns with

sawdust or

Chloroform Toothache Drops

To 3

drachms

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of pulverized

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

gum

mastic,

add
till

ounce (weight)
is dis-

chloroform.

Mix together
relieve

the mastic

solved, then bottle.

This will

the

toothache almost

in-

stantly in nearly every instance.

Put up

in small bottles well sealed.

It

would

be better to have ground glass stoppers.

Heliotrope Sachet Powder 4 ounces orria root,
2 ounces damask rose leaves,
1

ounce tonqua

beans, J ounce vanilla bean, 15 grains dry

musk

and 2 droj^s oil bitter almonds. Mix thoroughly by sifting several times through a sieve, then
put in satin bags.

Nothing pays better if well made and put up bags with fancy name. It is a fine perfume bag for bureaus, trunks or boxes. Fly Destroyer Take 1 pint of infusion of quassia, 4 ounces brown sugar, 2 ounces ground pepper. Mix. Put in shallow dishes when required, it makes short work. For sale, it can be put up in small bottles, with directions and label. Pomade Divine Melt and incorporate well together 8 ounces beef marrow, lo- ounces cinnamon, 1 ounce white wax, 2 drachms essence bergamot, 1 drachm of oil of lavender, and 1 drachm
in nice

oil

lemon.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

21

Put up
labeled.

in

small wide-mouth bottles, neatly

Silver Plating Fluid

Dissolve
let
it

ounce nitrate

of silver in crystal in 12

ounces soft water; then

stand

add

to

it

2 ounces cyanuret of potash.

till it

the whole together, and

clear.

Shake becomes

Have ready some

tles

half ounce vials half full of

fill

Paris white, or fine whiting; then

up the

bot-

with the liquid and

it is

ready for use.

it

The whiting does

silver fluid
It is

not increase the coating;

only helps to clean the articles, and to save the

by the

bottles.
it

used by rubbing
in

on anything that
it is

is

to

be silvered with a rag until

well covered.

Put up

ounce

bottles.

Carriage Varnish

Pale and Good One of the

work
is

best varnishes for carriage

made by mix-

ing boiled linseed-oil, hot, 2| gallons, with pale

African copal gum, 8 pounds, melted in an iron

vessel of suitable size to hold
all,

and
it

to allow

the mixture to have slowly stirred into

of sulphate of zinc,

4 pound and the boiling continued until it jjecomes ropy, or stringy; then removed from fire and thinned down to a proper consistIt dries in a

ence for use, with turpentine.

hours,

few

and

is

durable.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Blue Ink

Powder Prussian blue

add
soft

and

oxalic

acid, equal parts,

water until you have

the right shade.

Add

tablespoon ful powdered

gum

arabic to each quart ink.

Strain, bottle

be of various
in

sizes,

and label. The bottles should and packed in a wooden box

dozens with chaff or sawdust.

Hair Restorative
1

Takel drachm lac-sulphur,

and 4 ounces
a

draclini sugar of lead

vial

rose water.

Mix, and shake the

on using the mixture.

Bathe the hair twice

its

day

for a week.

This

preparation does not dye the hair, but restores

original color.

Keep from

children as

it is

poisonous.

Put up

in

h pint and pint bottles.

Cold Cream

Add

pound

of oil of almonds,

to 4 ounces white wax.

in

Gently melt the above

stir in

an earthern vessel, when nearly cool This

10

ounces rose water.

is

good

for

chapped lips, rough

skin, etc.

Put

in

small pots or metal boxes and label.

Freckle-Lotion Take i drachm muriate of ammonia, 2 drachms lavender water, J })int distilled water.

Bottle.

Apply with a sponge 2 or 3 times a day. Put up in tight bottles, well sealed. Shaving Soap Take 2 pounds best white bar

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

23

soap and

up

fine o that they will dissolve readily.

1

pound good common bar soap, cut Put

quart soft water
1

into a vessel with

dissolve,

then add

pint alcohol,

gill beef's gall, J gill

spirits of turpentine;
f(jr

stir

while boiling together

oil of sassa-

five

minutes; while cooling add

and color with fine vermillion. This soap makes a rich lather, softens the face and can be made cheaj). This is the best article
fras to suit

of the kind ever invented.

Red Sealing
a clear fire

WaxMelt 4 ounces good shellac

pan over and when fused add 4 ounce Venice turpentine, and add vermillion enough to make
(very pale) cautiously in a bright copper
color to suit.

Roll into sticks on a

warm

stone

slab by

means of a polished wooden block, or pour into moulds while warm. Put U2) by wrapping each stick separately in paper and then into
packages of one dozen with labeled wrappers.

Complexion Soap
tile

soap, slice
it

it

Take ^ pound of white casdown into a pew'ter jar and pour

upon

2 quarts of alcohol; place the jar in a

vessel of water at such a heat as will cause the

spirits to boil,

when

the soap will soon dissolve;

covered, in a

then put the

jar, closely

warm place
scum that
carefully
it

until the liquor

is clarified;

takeoff any

may appear on

the surface, and jjour

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
into a jar again,

from the dregs, tben put

place
it

it

and

in a vessel of hot water, distilling all the

spirits that

may

arise;

dry the remaining mass

all

in the air for a

few days, when a white transparent

alkaline

soap

will

be obtained free from

and perfectly void of smell. It is much used for softening and beautifying the skin. Put up in small cakes with fancy wrapper. Marking Ink for Linen To make marking ink take 1 drachm of nitrate of silver (lunar caustic),
impurities,

dissolve

it

in

double

its

weight of water.
1

This

forms the ink; then dissolve

tartar in 1
this liquid,

drachm

of salts of

ounce of water, wet the linen with and when dry it can be written on
in very small bottles,

with the ink.

Put up the ink

about
1

holding

tablespoonful, and the salts in a 2

ounce

bottle.

Put them together

label.

in a

pasteboard

box with directions and

soap for washing
the

Genuine Windsor Soap

nothing more
is

To make
hands,
it

this

famous
&c.,

shaving,

necessary than to slice the best

in a sauce-

white soap as thin as possible, melt

pan over a slow fire, scent it well with oil of caraway, and then pour it into a frame or mould

made

for that purpose, or a small

drawer adapted

in size

and form

to the

quantity.

When

it

has

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

25

stood three or four days in a dry situatiuu, cut

it

iuto square pieces,

this simi:)le

and it is ready for use. By mode, substituting any more favorite

scent for that of caraway, all jjcrsons

may

suit

themselves with a good perfumed soap at the

most
at

trifling expense.
filled

Shaving boxes may be

once

with the melted soap, instead of

the mould.

Ink Powders^ Powder 4 pounds galls, 2 pounds green vitriol and 1 pound of gum arabic. Put this up in two ounce packages for sale,
one of wliich
will

make

a pint of ink.

Extract Ginger
for several days

Take 2 ounces powdered ginstrain.

ger and 2 pints alcohol. Digest in a gentle heat

and
is

This tincture
generally

a cordial

Bottle and label. and stimulant it is

used

as

corrective

to purgative

draughts, without which the latter are apt to be

drink for summer.

makes a wholesome and pleasant The sale is extensive and yields a large profit. 4 ounce bottles would be the best to put it up in. Marble Cement Saturate plaster of paris in a
griping.
It

strong solution of alum; then bake in an oven

for It sets into a very

two hours, afterwards grind to powder. hard composition capable

It

of taking a very high polish.

can be mixed

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

with various coloring minerals to

produce a

cement of any color capable

It is a

of imitating marble.

very rare recipe.

Eureka Salve

Melt

ounce of beeswax,

ounce of tallow, 1 ounce rosin and 1 ounce lard; then take from the fire and put in 1 ounce each olive oil, oil of amber, oil of spike, and just
before congelation, add
1

ounce verdigris,

stir-

ring until perfectly cold.

well pulverized.

The

verdigris

must be
It is

Put

in tin

boxes to

sell for

25 cents.
together

healing salve.

Stomach Bitters
wild cherry bark,
1

Mix well

pound
1

ounce peruvian bark,

ounce

dried orange peel; steep in 5 gallons pure gin

for

two

wrecks.

Strain, bottle

and

label.

This cures sour stomach, dyspepsia,loss of appetite, etc.

Dose, tablespoonful ])efore each meal.

Polishing Paste for Metals

of pulverized rotten

Take equal parts

mix
It

stone and brick dust,

lard.

well into a stiff paste with

should be

put up in tin boxes.

Profits large.

Stick Cement Heat a good article of shellac and while soft draw out into stick. This cement is sold about the country as a
great secret.

When you

ap|)ly

it,

heat the article

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

27

a little

above boiling water heat and apply a

thin coating on both surfaces of the broken vessel,

press together,

strong as

and when cold it will be as when new. A stick about 5 inches

long and as thick as a lead pencil can be sold

for

10 cents.
1

Black Court Plaster, No.

Dissolve l

ounce
in

balsam of benzoin

in

(3

ounces spirits alcohol;

1

a separate vessel, dissolve

ounce isinglass

in

as little alcohol as possible, strain each

and mix
it

together, let stand, so that any undissolved parts

may
form

subside;
a jelly.
it

when the

clear liquid

is

cold

will

Strain black silk on a frame

and

brush over

several times the above by first

warming

it.

When the coated silk is dry

off

it

must

be finished
to prevent

with a coat of a solution of 4

ounces turi3entine in 6 ounces tincture benzoin

it

cracking.
if

There

is

a foituue in this

you push

it.

Lemon Syrup, No. 1 One pound

Let
it

of loaf or
juice.
is

crushed sugar, to every i pint of lemon

stand 24 hours, or
it

till

the sugar

dis-

solved, stirring

very often with a silver spoon.

When
wring

dissolved, dij) a flannel in hot

it

water and
it.

very dry. Strain the syrup and bottle

This will keep almost any length of time.

Put

in pint bottles.

28
Sarsaparilla

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Mead Three pounds

1

of sugar, 3
tartar,

ounces of tartaric acid,

1

ounce of cream

of flour, 1 of essence of sarsaparilla,

and 3
let it

quarts of water.

Strain and l)ottle

it.

it,

then

stand ten days before using

as

Twigg's Hair Dye An excellent dye, as well most serviceable hair-wash.

Take
lead,

4 ounces rose water.

till

drachm lac-sulphur, i drachm sugar Mix carefully. Wash

it

the hair repeatedly,

assumes the desired

shade.
Bottle in 4 or 6 ounce bottles, with directions,

and
nel

label.

Take oils caraway, fenand peppermint, each 10 drops; rub them up with 10 ounces of white sugar and 5 ounces of carbonate or lump magnesia, then add 1^ drachms of sal-tartar and 2 ounces of laudanum. Mix with 3i pints of water. Put up in small bottles. Ointment for Frosted Feet Take 1 ounce stramonium ointment, or, if that cannot be procured, of spermaceti ointment, and 1 drachm of Goulard's extract. Mix together perfectly and
Dalby's Carminative

anoint the parts affected several times a day. It

will relieve the worst cases.

Put up

in small metal boxes.

CAI'TIVi:

SECRETS.

29

Harness Blacking Melt 4 ounces of mutton add 12 (nnices of sugar candy, 4 ounces of soft soap dissolved in water, and 2 ounces of indigo finely powsuet with 12 ounces of beeswax;

dered.

When

melted and well mixed, add half

a pint of turpentine.

Lay
off

it

on the harness with

a sponge,

and polish Bottle and label.

with a lirush.

Blackberry

Wine There

is

no wine equal to

when properly made, either in flavor or for medical purposes, and all persons w^ho can conveniently do so should manufacture enough for their own use every year, as it is invaluable in sickness as a tonic, and nothing is a better remedy for bowel disease. We, therefore, give the recipe for making it, and, having tried it ourselves, we speak advisedly on the subject. Measure your berries and bruise them; to every gallon add 1 quart of boiling
the black) )erry wine
water.

Let the mixture stand 24 hours, stirring

occasionally; then strain off the liquor into a

cask, to every gallon

adding 2 pounds of sugar;

cork tight and you will have wine ready for use

without further straining or boiling. This makes

and jialatable wine. Baking Powders The following are the baking powders in general use: 1. Tartaric acid, 4i
a most excellent

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

ounces; arrow-root or rice flour, 5 ounces; mix.

Alum, 5 ounces; bicarbonate

root,

of soda,

2f ounces;

bicarbonate of ammonia, | an ounce; arrow-

4 ounces.

Purple Ink
of soft

A beautiful purple ink

is

made by

boiling 1 ounce of ground logwood in 1^ pints

water and half an ounce of pulverized

Boil 20 minutes, strain andbottle for use.
a long time.

alum.

Keep the air out, and it will keep Put in bottles of various sizes.
Brown's Bronchial Troches
of pulverized extract of licorice,
1|^

Take

1 pound pounds pul-

verized sugar, 4 ounces of pulverized cubebs, 4

ounces of pulverized

gum

arable,

and

ounce

of pulverized extract of conium.

Mix.

Make into a dough

with flour, and roll prepara-

tion out in thin sheets; cut out in small wafers.

Peppermint Cordial
cordial
in 5

To

make peppermint
1

take

13 gallons of rectified spirits, 12

under hydrometer proof,

1

pounds

of

loaf sugar,
fire

pint of spirits of wine that will

of oil of pepfill

gunpowder, 15 pennyweights

permint, and as
cask, which

much water

as will

up the

should be set on end; after the whole has been well mixed this will make 20
gallons.

Bottle

ip.

pint

and quart

bottles.

CAPTIVK SECKETS.

31

Razor Paper
of the

This
is

article

supersedes the use

the

ordiuciry

strop; by merely wiping

razor on the paper to remove the lather after

shaving a keen edge

sary

always maintained withis

out further trouble; only one caution

neces-

that

is,

to begin with a
it

sharp razor, and

in that state for

then "the paper" will keep

years.
It

may

be prepared thus:

First, pro-

cure oxide of iron (by the addition of carbonate

of soda to
a solution of persulphate of iron),

well

wash the

precipitate,

and

finally leave

it

of

the consistency of cream.

Secondly, procure a

good paper,

soft

and

thin, then

with

a soft

brush spread over the paper (on one side only) very thinly the moist oxide of iron; dry and cut
into two inch square pieces.
use.
It is

then

fit

for

Put up
3 pints;

in

packages of one or two dozen sheets.

Honey Recipe

White sugar, 10 {rounds; water,

1 drop.

bees-bread honey, 2^ pounds; cream tartar, 40 grains; oil of peppermint, 12 drops;

gum

arable, 2 ounces; ottar of roses,

hriinH or

Put into a
5 minutes;

copper kettle and

let boil for

then take pulverized slippery elm, 2

1

teaspoonsful, and water,

into the kettle
off

quart; mix and strain

for 5

and

let boil

minutes; take

and mix

in the whites of 2

eggs well beaten.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

and when nearly cold add 1 pound of bees-bread By adding more slippery elm and gum honey. arable to a proportionate quantity of water, you can make it as cheap as you please. Bees-bread honey is that made by the bees in the fall of the
^

year to subsist on during the winter,

it

being

much

stronger than that

this

made

in the spring.

When
comb

cannot be obtained, honey in the

but
it

will answer,

requires half a

pound

more. Use dark sugar if you want it dark colored. Above recipe makes about 20 pounds, but to make cheap use 20 spoonsful slippery elm and 10 of gum arable. This will make about 40 pounds. Burgundy Pitch Plasters 2 pounds Burgundy pitch, 1 pound labdanum, 4 ounces each yellow rosin and yellow wax, 1 ounce expressed To the pitch, rosin and wax, oil of mace. melted together, add first the labdanum and

then

the

oil

of

mace.

After

long

con-

tinued cough in the winter, a pitch should be

put over the breast bone. Adhesive Plaster, No. 1

Take 5 ounces com1

mon

or litherage plaster,

ounce white

rosin.

Melt them together, and spread the liquid compound thin on strips of linen by means of a
spatula
or
table knife.

This plaster

is

very

CAPTrVE SECRETS.

33

adhesive aiul
dressing.

is

used

for

keeping

on

other

Put

iij)

in

l;ir<^i'

(-iivelopes.

Washing Mixture

The

washerwomen

of

Berlin in Prussia, use a mixture of 2 ounces of

turpentine and \ ounce of spirits of sal-annnoniac

well

mixed together.

This mixture

is

put into

a bucket of

warm

water, in which h

pound

of

soap has been dissolved.

The

clothes are im-

mersed over night in this mixture, and the next day washed. The most dirty cloth is said thus to be perfectly cleansed and free from the smell
of turpentine.

The

cloth does not require so

much

rubbing, and linen fabrics are thus not so

1

soon destroyed.

Lip Salve, No.

Melt together,

ounce

oil

sweet almonds, | ounce spermaceti; when nearly cold, add any essential oil you please.

Put

in small

metal boxes.
1

Furniture Paste

pint turpentine, h ounce

alkanet root, digest until sufficiently colored,

then add beeswax, scraped small, 4 ounces; put

into hot water bath, and stir until dissolved. If you want pale color, leave out the alkanet. Put up in wooden boxes. Cheap Varnish A very cheap and durable varnish for rougli work may l)e made by mixing

34

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

of litharge

60 parts (by weight) of raw linseed oil, 2 parts and 1 part of white vitriol boiling the whole together; until all the water has

evaporated.

of almonds,

French Rouge French chalk, 2 ounces; oil Mix. 1 drachm; carmine, i drachm. Dissolve 9 ounces alum Crystalize Grasses

in

pint water.

alum water is are large it, and take it out when the crystals If you wish as you wish; dry them on paper. colors, get a few powdered paints and sprinkle over it when it comes from the water; heat the alum over when it becomes cold. Cough Syrup 2 tablespoonsful molasses, 2

Put in the grass when the cool enough to bear the hand; watch

teaspoousful castor

oil,

2 teaspoonsful paregoric;

mix over

a slow

fire.

Dose:

adult, teaspoonful

three times a day.

gum
Set

Leather Varnish Quart alcohol, i pound shellac, 1 ounce rosin, ^ ounce camphor.
in

warm

place, stir

frequently for several

days until dissolved,then add 2 ounces lamp black,

mixed with

a little alcohol,

and

it is

ready;

if

too

thick, thin with alcohol.

Bottle and label.

Pound fine crushed chalk, pound whitening; 1 ounce oil of cinnamon; mix. Box and label.
Metal Powders

CAI'TIVE SIXKKTS.

85

Universal Liniment for Burns

ulive
oil,

Equal parts
shake well.

linseed

oil,

lime

water;

Bottle and label.

Oil for
oil,

Harness
black.

Mix
In

quart of ueats-foot
4 ounces of

4 ounces of

beef tallow and 8 tablespoons-

ful of

lamp

summer add

bees wax.

pint water,

Laundry Blue 2 ounces Prussian blue, h add 1 pint spirits. Bottle and label. Cure for Drunkenness Sulphate of iron 5

grains;

magnesia, U) grains;
spirits

peppermint, 11
1

drachms;
a day.

of

nutmeg,

drachm; twice

This preparation acts as a tonic and

stimulant, and so partially supplies the i)lace of

licjuor. and prevents that aband moral ])rostration that follows a sudden breaking off from the use of

the accustomed

solute physical

stimulating drinks.

Diamond Cement
china, etc

For joining

broken glass,

Take
little

alcohol,

ounce pulverized mastic, dissolved in a and 1 ounce of isinglass that has

been steeped in water until soft, also in alcohol; then mix the two alcoholic solutions, and add 2 t" achms of very finely powdered gum annnoniac.
.

Use a gentle heat by a water bath until they become amalgamated; then jjour the mixture

3()

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

iuto ^
is

ounce phials, and cork

well.

When

it

to be used, place
it

the phial in

warm

water,

and warm

before applying the cement.

Press

the 2)ieces of the broken vessel closely together,

and

set

it

aside for a whole day.

Soap for "Washing

ralist
is

responsible for this recipe:

The American AgricultuTo each

pound
ounce

of of

common hard soap, add i to | of an common borax, pulverized, and 1

quart of'water.

or other convenient vessel,

put in
cut
in

Put the water into a tin pan, and put on the stove; the borax, and then add the soap, small, thin pieces. Keep them hot,
boiling, several

but

not

hours,
it

or
will

until

the

soaii is dissolved.

When cool,

be double

the quantity, and

thus save at least one-half.

Rub

the dirtiest part of the clothes with this

night,
if

compound and soak them over

ient, or

conven-

an hour or two in the morning.

is

This

mixture does not cut the hands, and

to all sorts of ctethes

adapted

calicoes, flannels, etc., as

well as white cotton or linen.

They

are to be

washed, boiled and rinsed as usual, but the labor

of

rubbing
Cologne,

is

greatly lessened.

No

To

quart of proof

spirit,

add 3 drachms oil lemon, 3 drachms oil garden lavender, 1 drachm oil rosemary, i ounce ber-

CAI'TIVi: SKt'RKTH.

37

gamot,

()
T)

drops

oil

ciunamou, one ounce essence

musk,

drops meroli, or orange flower.

Water-Proof Blacking Take three ounces it in an earthen vessel over a slow fire; and six drachms india rubber, cut it into thin slices, let it dissolve; then add Bounces tallow, 2 ounces lard, and four ounces amber
spermaceti, melt
varnish; mix,

Indelible Ink
tic, 1

and it will ])e fit for use. Marking Liquid: Lunar causdrachm; rain water, 2 drachms; nitric

acid,

10 ggt.

Wetting Liquid: Salt of tartar, 1 drachm; gum ara])ic. I drachm; Rain water, IJ ounce. Cologne, No. 3 To a pint of proof spirit, add

ounce essence musk, 8 drops oil cloves, 1 drachm bergamot, 1 drachm garden lavender, 2 drachms, each, oil rosemary and oil lemon. Composition for Grafting Take one part tal1

two parts beeswax, and four parts rosin; melt it together, turn it into water, and mix it as shoemakers do wax. Water-proof Composition To be applied to saddles, harness, gig aprons, boots and shoes;
low,

also,

to well

ropes,

handles of various imple-

ments, and

many
1

other uses,

may be

thus pre-

pared: Rosin,
apj)ly

part; lard,
it

2 parts; mix and

warm, drying

in before the fire.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Water-Proof Boots
composition.
it

Boots aud
oz. of

shoes

may be

rendered impervious to water by the following

Take 3
or

spermaceti and melt

in a pipkin,
fire;

other

earthen vessel, over a

add thereto drachms of india ruband these will presently dissolve; then add seriatim of tallow, 8 ounces; hog's lard, 2 ounces; amber varnish, 4 ounces. Mix, and it will be fit for use immediatdy. The
slow
ber, cut into slices,

other material to be treated, are to two three coats with a common blacking brush, and a fine polish is the result. Hot Drops In one gill of brandy, put onequarter of an ounce of pure cayenne pepper. Let it stand a few days, then filter. Black Ink, No. 2 Powdered galls, 3 oz.; copboots, or

receive

peras, logwood,

gum

Senegal, each,

ounce;

water, 2 pints.

Mix

well together,

and
it

let

it

stand two or
fit

three weeks; bottle, and

will

be
of

for use.
oil

Cologne, No. 4
lavender,

Of

alcohol, 1
oil

gallon;

of

12

drachms;

rosemary,

drachms; essence of lemon, 12 drachms, oil of bergamot, 12 drachms; oil of cinnamon, 12 drops.
Furniture Varnish
oil of turp(>ntine,
1

White

wax, two ounces

gill;

melt the wax, and grad-

ually

mix

in the turpentine.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

39
oil

Cologne, No. 6 -Oil bergamot,

oil

lemon, and

garden lavender, each 4 ounces; oil rosemary, i ounce; oil cloves and cinnamon, each, I

drachm; essence musk, 8 ounces; proof

gallons.

spirit,

Excellent
cover

Tonic

Pour

pint

of

boiling

water on several dandelion

it

j)lants, root

and

leaf:

until

cold;

drink a teacupful every

night and morning.

Liniment for Frostbite

ture of cautharides,
as soon as possible.
J

Tincture of opium, |
|

an ounce; spirits of camphor,

an ounce;

tinc-

an ounce.
I

Mix, and apply

have found this to be

uniformly successful remedy.

The Scientific Axle, or Lubricating Grease American, informs us that the following compound was patented in England, and, that with 25 parts of black lead mixed with it it makes a good axle grease for carts and carriages.
1.

Tallow, 252 parts;

oil,

333; soda, 14;

potash, 12,

and water, 389

first

parts, pounds, grains,

ounces, or whatever weight shall be taken.

The
to
in

potash and soda are

dissolved in the water;

and the tallow and

oil

mixed and kneaded

It

thoroughly incorporate.
small quantities for one's
quantities,

can be made

own

use; or in large

and boxed

for sale.

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2.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Another. 4 pounds.

Fine

black-lead,

pound;

lard,

Grind the two

articles together

together
board.
3.

on a painter's stone, or else rub them thoroughly with a spatula, upon a smooth
Booth's axle grease,
patent,
expired,

common soda, ^ pound; tallow, 3 pounds, and palm-oil, 6 pounds, or if you preconsists of
fer,

palm-oil, 10 pounds, with no tallow; water,

gallon.

Heat to 200 degrees or 210 degrees Fah., and mix by constantly stirring; then remove from the fire and stir until cool, to prevent any sepais made with the same and water, with rape-oil, 1 gallon, and tallow, or palm-oil, 4 pound; mixed by heat. The rape plant belongs to the cabbage tribe, but has a root and seed like the turnip. The oil is made from the seed. For carriages having a nicely turned 5.

ration of the articles.

4.

THIN composition

amount

of soda

bearing, or axle, in

warm

weather, there

is

prob-

ably nothing better than castor-oil alone; and

for winter, castor-oil

amount

of

petroleum

mixed with about an equal oil, which prevents the

This
oil

thickening of the castor-oil.

last

also

makes a valuable lubricating

journals.

for

shafting

captivl; secrets.

41

1.

Babbitt's Anti-Friction
nit'tal
Is com\}os('(.\

Metal For Boxes

1

This
block
in this

of copper, 8 pounds;

tin,

3 pounds.; and antimony,

pound; and
tin,

proportion for any amount desired.

tlie

First melt

copper, then add the

then

the antimony; and

when

all

is

melted,

pour

into bars, ready for use as desired, or {)our into

journal boxes,
2.

if

needed

at the time.

Where

small shafts have got to be run at

a very high rate of speed, the journals invaria-

bly heat with any of the

common

metal boxes.
higl

But

in cases

where they have been run as

as 7,000 revolutions per minute, the following

per,

aluminum bronze has proved successful: Cop90 parts; aluminum, 10 parts. Scald Head Ointment Take 1 ounce sulphur

ounce

lard, 2

drachms

sal

ammoniac; mix and

box.

To be rubbed upon
three times a day.

the part affected two or

Ringworm Ointment Take h drachm finely powdered subacetate of copper, 1 draclim prepared calomel, 1 ounce spermaceti ointment, To be rubbed over the mix well together. parts affected every night and morning. This

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ointment
foul
is

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
also very
efficacious in

cases of

and languid ulcers. Take 120 grains magneCitrate Magnesia sia, 450 grains citric acid, 40 grains bicarbon-

ate of potassia; dissolve the acid in four fluid

ounces of water, and having added the magnesia, stir until it is

dissolved.

Filter the solu-

tion into a strong

12 ounce bottle, into which

cit-

has been poured 2 tluid ounces of syrup of

ric acid.

Then add

the bicarbonate of potassia

and enough water almost to fill the bottle; close Shake with a cork and secure with twine.
moderately
till it is

dissolved.

This

is

a very

pleasant drink, and in the dose of a tumblerful,

a pretty active

Tomatoes
sized,

to

and cooling purgative. Dry for Winter Use

Small

but

(juite ripe

tomatoes are to be chosen.

scald them with boiling water; then and squeeze, singly in the hand, to remove a little of the juice, or water, after which slice them and dry on tins, in an oven to prevent souring. For use, soak awhile, then stew, or
peel,

Wash and

cook as fresh tomatoes

canning.

saves

the expense of

Balsam of Honey Take 2 ounces balsam of tolu, 2 drachms gum storax, 2 drachms opium,
8 ounces honey.
Dissolve these in a quart of

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
spirits of

48
is

wine.

This balsam

exceedingly
a cough.

useful in

allaying the

irritation of
little

Dose,
water.

or 2 teaspoonsful in a

tea or

warm

Rhubarb Wine

Take

of sliced

rhubarb, 2|

ounces, I ounce cardamon seeds, bruised and husked, 2 drachms saffron, 2 pints Spanish

days and

white wine, ^ pint proof spirits. Digest for ten This is a warm, cordial, laxastrain.
It is chiefly used in weakness of and bowels, and some, kinds of

tive medicine.

the stomach
looseness.
It

may

be given in doses of ^ to 8 or

4 teaspoonsful, or even more, according to the

circumstances of the disorder and strength of
the patient.

Aniseed Cordial-^Take
b^-uised,

pounds aniseed,
spirits,
1

12i gallons proof

gallon

water.
fire.

Draw

off

10 gallons, with a moderate

This water should never be reduced beoil

low proof, because the large quantity of

with which
it

is

impregnated
foul,

will

render the
be-

goods milky and

low proof.

when brought down

But if it should be milky, it may be restored by fi Iteration. Extract of Verbena One gallon rectified alco-

hol, 2

ounces English rosemary,

peel,
1

ounce

oil

lemon

ounce

oil

of

balm (Melissa), ^

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
mint,
pint espril-de-rose, 1 pint

drachm

oil of

extract orange.

Violet Powder Twelve pounds wheat starch, 2^ pounds powdered orris root, ^ ounce oil lemon, ^ ounce bergamot, 2 drachms oil of rose. Mix. Use lard and wax, or mutton Stick Pomade

suet, in proportion to the consistency

you wish.

In moulding, be sure not to run too hot, as

cavities will occur
in the center,

rendering the

sticks liable to break.

of pomdrachm each essence bergamot, Color with thyme, lavender and orange peel.

Scent

pound

ade

to

annitto or saffron.

Camphorated Vinegar
phor, 2 ounces alcohol,
1

To

6 drachms campound strong vinegar.

aid of alcohol in a

Powder the camphor by the

mortar and add the vinegar.

Flour Paste

Paste

is

formed principally of
water,
till
it

wheaten

flour, boiled

in

be of a
a small

glutinous or viscid consistency.

quantity of oxalic acid.
erally

Add

This
label

is a

secret not

gen

known.
it

You can

on

tin or metal.

Mark
Black

poison.

Sealing

Wax Four

and

one-half

ounces Venice turpentine, 9 ounces shellac, 3

ounces calaphony, and sufficient lamp black,

mixed with

oil of

turpentine, to color

it.

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45
ounces dark
1

Bottle Sealing
or coniniou rowin,

Wax Eighteen
1

ounce shellac,
black.

wax.

Mt'lt

together,

ounce beesand color with red lead,

with weak, boiled

venitiau red or

lamp

Sympathetic Ink
starch,

Write

and when the writing is required to appear, brush over with a weak solution of iodine the letters will appear black. Violet Ink Eight parts logwood, 04 parts water, boiled down to half, then strain, and add

part chloride of

tin.

To Remove Ink from Paper Wash

with a camel brush, dipped
oxalic acid
in

alternately

a solution of

and cyanide of potassium.

Poison.

Freezing Without Ice

Four
in

ounces of each

sal-ammoniac and nitre

8 ounces of water will reduce the temperature from 50^ to 10^.

When
ble

extreme cold

is

required, the body to be

frozen should be

first

cooled as

much

as possi-

by one portion

of the

mixture, then

by a

succeeding one.

Dip the paper in a strong and then thoroughly dry it. Some paper requires to be dipped more than once, and must be repeated until thoroughly
Fire Proof Paper
solution of almn,
saturated.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Roach Wafers
Orris Tooth

These

are
in

^made with Hour,

wafer irons.
1

sugar and red lead, heated

Wash Water,

ounce; honey, 8
i^

ounces; alcohol,! ounce; tincture myrrh,

ounce;
2

orris root, 1 ounce; tincture bark, ^ ounce.

When
ounce

thoroughly mixed, bottle

in

or 4

bottles,

and label

neatly.

This

is

an ex-

cellent preparation for the teeth.

Cinnamon Soap
20 pounds palm

Thirty

pounds tallow soap,

oil

soap, 7 ounces essence cinna-

mon, l^ounce essence bergamot, 1^ ounce oil sassafras, 1 pound finely powdered yellow ochre. Mix with olive oil, and melt into a mass, by means of steam or water bath.
Stick

Pomatum, White

Melt

together,

pounds mutton suet, j pounds white wax, % pound spermaceti, 1 ounce powdered benzoin;
scent with 4 parts essence bergamot, 2 parts

essence lemon,
sticks;

and

part cloves.

Roll

in

wrap with

tin foil.
oil,

Castor Oil

Pomade Castor
oil

ounces;
oil

sweet lard, 2 ounces; white wax, 2 drachms;

bergamot, 2 drachms;

lavender,

20 drops.

Melt the
scents

fat

together, and on cooling,

add the
holding

and Put up

stir till cold.

in

nice, wide- mouth bottles,

al)out 4 ounces.

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47

Razor Paste No. 1 Take 1 ounce prepared mix with a saturated solution of oxalic acid sufficient to form a paste. Spread this over the strop; when dry, add a little water. It gives a fine edge to the razor. Fly Paper Half a pound quassia wood and long pepper are boiled in 15 pounds \ pound
putty, and

of water until they are reduced to 10 pounds.

next filtered, and 8 pounds pounds of honey are dissolved in clear liquor; to which are then added 40 pounds of glycerine and 40 pounds of soda ley. The paper is dipped in this liquid. The quantities of the ingredients may, of
is

The decoction

of sugar with 2

course, be greater or

less,

but the above pro2.

portions must be preserved.

Black Court Plaster, No.

on a frame, and brush
1
it

Strain black

silk

over with a solution of

ounce of

isinglass,

in

12 ounces of proof

spirit,

and mix 2 ounces of tincture benzoin

it;

(Turlington's balsam) with

when

dry, repeat
oflf

the process 4 or 5 times, and finish

coat of tincture black balsam of Peru.

with a

Flesh-Colored Court Plaster. To make

flesh-

colored court plaster, stretch fine white silk on

and brush it over 5 or 6 times with a solution of 1 ounce best isinglass in 12 ounces
a frame,

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proof
spirit, to

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

which you should

first

add

few drops of tincture cochiueal, to give a slight

tint.

Black Ink, No. 3 Ink of the very finest and most intense black may be prepared by adding a very minute portion of vauadic acid, or van-

ammonia, to a solution of nutgall. much more lasting than ordinary ink. Cure for Ear Ache. Equal parts of strained honey and best balsam-capavia and French brandy, put into a vial. When wanted, warm, shake and put 1 or 2 droj^s in the ear 3 times a It will even cure deafness in some cases. day.
adiate
of

This ink

is

Cologne, No. 7

To a
oils

quart of proof

spirit,

add one drachm,

each, oils garden lavender

oils

bergamot; 2 drachms, each,

mary; 8 drops, each,

and lemon and rosecinnamon and cloves.

wax,
1

Mix

well.
1.

Lip Salve, No.

oil of

Of white
oil

ounce;

almonds, ^ ounce;
Celery

of roses, 6 drops;

orcanette, | ounce.

Essence of

This
I

is

prepared by

soaking for a fortnight

ounce of the seeds of

A few drops will celery in 4 pii^t of brandy. flavor a pint of soup or broth equal to a head of
celery.
It

can be put up

in 2

ounce

bottles,

with labels and directions.

CAPTIVE SECnETS.

4^9

Leather Cement

An

adhesive

cement

for

uniting the parts of boots and shoes, and for the

seams of articles of clothing, may be thus made: Take 1 pound of gutta percha, 4 ounces of india rubber, 2 ounces of pitch, 1 ounce of shellac, 2 ounces of oil. These ingredients are to be melted together,

and used hot. Baking Powders Baking soda, 6 ounces; cream of tartar, 8 ounces; first free them from all moisture by drying them separately in an oven on papers. Then mix thoroughly. The amount required to raise each quart of flour being baked is one teaspoonful. Mix with cold water and bake immediately. This contains none of the drugs generally used for baking powder; it is very easily made,

and costs but

little.

The
in

best

way

to put this

powder up would be
it

6 ounce bottles, well corked and sealed, as

attracts moisture

from the atmosphere.

of water to be

Root Beer.
rilla,

For each gallon

used, take hops, burdock, yellowdock, sarsapa-

dandelion and spikenard roots, bruised,

each h ounce.

The same proportion

quantity.

will

answer

for

any
it

Boil twenty minutes

and

strain

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
oil of
it

while hot; add 5 drops

oil

spruce and 5 drops

of

sassafras;

when

has cooled

off

little,

put

in 3 tablespoousful of yeast,

pint of

molasses, or | pound of white sugar. After it is well mixed, let it stand in a jar to

work

two hours, covering it with a cloth, then set in a cool place. and bottle This makes an excellent and wholesome drink for the spring and summer months, and if put
for

up

nicely will find a ready sale.

Grafting

Wax To

work well early

in

the

grafting season, while the weather is still cool, the wax must be a little softer, to spread nicely,

than
1.

later, as

the weather becomes warmer.

rosin,
1

Then for cool weather, take

4 pounds,

bees-wax, 1 pound; and linseed-oil,

all

pint.

Melt

together and pour into cold water, and as soon

it

as

is

sufficiently cool
little

to be handled, grease

the hands a

and begin to work it, by pulling out, doubling over, and pulling out again, The more it is worked, the easier it will etc. spread, and the nicer it will be. 2. For warm weather, add 1 pound more of rosin to the wax mixture, above, and work otherwise the same as No.
1.

Honey Soap Cut

of

into

thin

slices 2

pounds
which

yellow soap.

Put

into a saucepan,

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

51

must be
over the

sot in
fire, 4

another containing l)oiling water

it till

occasionally stirring

melted,
of
let

then add

pound

of

palm
oil

oil,

pound

honey, small quantity of

all

of

cinnamon;

boil

together
It

or 8 minutes; then pour out

will

into moulds.

be

lit

for use the

next

day.

Green Mountain Salve Rosin, 5 pounds; Burpitgh, bees-wax. and mutton tallow, each pound; oil of hemlock, balsam of fir, oil of \ origanum, oil of red cedar and Venice turpen-

gundy

tine,

each

ounce;

oil

of

wormwood, ^ ounce;
ounce; melt

verdigris, very finely pulverized. 1

the

and add the oils, having rubbed the verdigris up with a little of the oils, and put it in with the other articles, stirring well; tlien pour into cold water and work
first articles

together,

until cool

enough
is

to roll.

This salve
weakness.

excellent for rheumatic pains, or

Put up
tions.

in rolls,

with fancy wrapper and direc-

Camphor Tablet for Chapped Hands, etc Melt tallow, and add a little powdered camphor and glycerine, with a few drops of oil of almonds
to scent.

Pour
in
tin

in

moulds, and cool.

Wrap

foil

and again with

paper

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52

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
label.

wrapper containing fancy

put up nicely, and will

It

should be

sell well.

Orange Syrup

Put H pounds of white sugar

add some
it.

to each pint of juice;

of the peel; boil

it.

ten minutes, then strain

Bottle and cork

it

When mixed
ful

with cold water

is

mades a

delight-

beverage, and

useful to flavor pies, etc.

Put up in pint bottles, with a neat label. Ginger Beer Powders Put into blye papers, 80 grains of bicarbonate of soda, 5 grains of powdered ginger, and 1 drachm of powdered Put into white papers 25 grains white sugar.

of tartaric acid.

When

used,

dissolve
in

the contents of each

paper separately
other,

h a tumbler of water; when

thoroughly dissolved, pour one tumbler into the

and drink while effervescing. Put up one dozen of each powder in a box, and label, and enclose directions. Cancer Ointment Linseed oil, 1 pint; sweet oil, 1 ounce; boil them in a kettle on the coals for nearly 4 hours, as. warm as you can; then have pulverized and mixed, borax ^ ounce; red lead 4 ounces, and sugar of lead Ih ounces; remove the kettle from the fire and stir in the powder; continue the stirring until cooled to blood heat, then stir in 1 ounce

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
of spirits of turpentine; try to spread
little

53
thick

if it is

enough
boil
it

on

linen, as a
it

salve,

by taking out a
if

and letting
it

get cold;

not,

again.

Put
with

up

in boxes.

Black Stick
.\

Pomatum
and
h

Prepared
its

lard,
in

melted

summer, of wax, and colored with powdered ivory black, and strained through tammy, or any
in winter,

weight

substance that will permit the fine particles of

ivory-black to pass through.
Stir
it it

constantly,
into paper

and when
moulds.

it

begins to thicken, pour

Put up

in tin foil, with a

wrapper containing
is

directions, etc.

Chinese Depilatory
of

This
hair.

for the

purpose

removing superfluous

Crystallized hydrosulphate of soda, 3 parts;

quicklime in powder, 10 parts; starch, 10 parts. Mix together well. When used, it is to be

mixed with water, and applied to the skin where is to be removed, and scraped off in two or three minutes with a wooden knife. Put up in wide-mouth bottles.
the hair

Spanish Gingerette 1 pound of white sugar, i ounce best bruised ginger root, \ ounce cream of tartar, 2 lemons, sliced, and 1 gallon of water.

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In makiug 4

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
gallons, boil

the

ginger and

lemons 10 minutes in 2 gallons of the water,

the sugar and cream of tartar to be dissolved in

the cold water, and mix

all,

and add

pint of

good yeast;
This
is

let it

ferment over night, strain and

bottle in the morning.

a cooling
for

and refreshing beverage, and

dyspepsia and sick headache.

recommended
Pain Killer

Put 5 tablespoonsful of cayenne

pepper, ground, in a wide-mouth bottle; add

Cork, and

^ pint of alcohol and a small piece of camphor. let it stand two weeks, then pour carefully into bottles.

This

is

an excellent internal

and external remedy. Put up for sale in 4 ounce bottles. Soothing Syrup To 1 pound of honey, add 2 tablespoonsful of paregoric, the same of oil of aniseed, and enough water to make a thick syrup. For children teething, dose, a teaspoonful occasionally.

Bottle in 3 ounce bottles.

Arnica Liniment
leaves

To

pint of sweet

oil,

add
fire.

2 tablespoonsful of tincture of arnica; or the

may be

heated in the

oil

over a slow

This

is

an excellent liniment
all

for

wounds,
label.

stiff

joints,

rheumatism, and
bottles,

injuries.

Bottle in

4 ounce

with directions and

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

55
1

King

of Pain

Burning

fluid,

pint; oils of

cedar, hemlock, sassafrns,

and origanum, each, 2 ounces; carbonate of ammonia, pulverized, 1 ounce; mix well together. This is a good remedy for toothache, rheumatism and neuralgia. To be applied freely by bathing the parts aflfected. Bottle and label. Pop Corn Balls Put ^ bushel of nicely popped corn on a table, or in a large pan.

Make
and

syrup with
water,

pound
it

of

white sugar
it

a little

when
fire

has boiled until

to

slightly hardens on being tried with cold water,

remove

it

from the

and add

it

table-

spoonsful of dissolved

The

solution of the

gum arable, very thick. gum must be made with

night.

boiling water and stand over

Saturate
it

the corn with the mixture, by pouring

different parts,

over

and mix
sets

well together with the

it

hands or a

stick,
it

then press

into balls very

all

quickly, lest

before they are

made.
balls.

This amount
Dr.
bark, black

will

make about one hundred

Hale's

Cough Tincture

Wild

cherry

cohosh root {macrotys racemosa)

and liquorice root, of each, 2 ounces; blood-root, 1 ounce; good whisky, li pints; soft water, 1 pint; white sugar, 1 pound; wines of ipecac and
antimony, of each,
'2

ounces; (I greatly prefer

56
for

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

my own
prefer

use tincture of lobelia,

ounce, in

place of the wine of antimony, but an allopath

will

the wine of antimony; each

can

suit himself).

Let the roots and bark be coarsely bruised and put into the whisky for 48 hours, then strain and gently press to obtain 1 pint of spirit, which set by, and put the water upon the roots and gently steep in a covered dish for 2 or 3 hours, and then strain and gently press out the liquid, in which dissolve the sugar, then add the spirit tincture first set aside, and also the wine of ipecac and tincture of lobelia. Dose A teaspoonful Vv'henever the cough is

troublesome.

In

recent

colds,

attended

with

considerable cough, take a teaspoonful 2 or 8

times, once in ^ to 1 hour before retiring,
it

will ordinarily start a gentle perspiration,

relief.

and and

very greatly help any other means of

Milk of

Wax

for the

Skin

There are quite a

a very thin

proportion of the ladies

who have

and

active skin,

i.

e.,

the blood circulates in the

skin freely;

and

as the

common

yellow soaps

contain a large amount of alkali, they irritate

these delicately organized surfaces, especially

the face, so

much

so

that

very

unpleasant

roughness

is

almost always present.

Persons of

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

57

this class will find a great satisfaction in tlio use

of

the

following combination, instead of the

common

soaps for

toilet
oil of

purposes:

Pure white wax,

sweet almonds, sperm-

white bar soap, of each, ^ aceti, and any water, li pints, and essence of ounce; rose
nice,

lavender, 6 ounces.
flavor of

If

any one should prefer the

substitute

camphor to that of lavender, they can camphor spirits for the essence of
fine

lavender.

Shave the soap

and put

it

into a suitable

dish to set inside of a pan of hot water, and put

set

and where the heat shall dissolve the soap; then add the oil, wax and spermaceti, stirring well; then, as soon as the wax melts, add the balance of the rose water, a little at a time, and last, the lavender or camphor, whichever flavor
al)Out h pint of the rose water with the soap
it

suits

you best; or alcohol may be used, perfume at all is desired.

if

no

Milk of Almonds
nice Cosmetic
is

for the Complexion.

A very
1

prepared with:
pits, 4

Sweet almond meats, or

white or curd
soaji, \

pound; nice
quart.

ounce; rose water,

Pour boiling water over the almond meats for 3 or 4 minutes, then pour off and put on cold
water for
a

minute or two; then pour

off

again

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
fingers slip off the skin of all the

and with the

meats,

now rub them and

the soaps in a mortar

or bowl to a fine pulp, for

10 or 15 minutes;

then begin to add the rose water, and rub to a

milky appearance; then strain and bottle for

use.

To be

applied after washing by means of

a towel or cloth.

Stick Glue

Affords a very convenient means

and other small
light objects;

of uniting papers,
it is

made by
^

dissolving by the aid of heat, pure

glue, as

^ or
this,

parchment glue, or gelatine, with about of its weight of coarse brown sugar,
water as possible;
perfectly
liquid,
flat

in as small quantity of boiling

when
and
as

should

be

cast

into thin cakes

oiled,
it

on a

surface very slightly

into pieces of a con-

cools cut

up

venient size.

When

required for use one end

the mouth, and
it

may be moistened by

is

then
be

ready to be rubbed on any substances

may

wished to join; a piece kept

in the

desk or workbenzoic acid,

box

is

exceedingly convenient.

Bronzing Fluid

Red

aniline,

violet aniline, each, grains 50; alcohol,

ounces

2.

Dissolve the aniline in the alcohol, in a bottle,

by the aid of water bath, add the benzoic acid, boil in the water bath 5 or 10 minutes, until the
greenish color of the liciuid has changed to a

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
light

59

brownish bronze. This

is

applied to leather,

metal,

wood

or other surfaces.

Leather Bronze
mixture
witli a

Tannin,

parts 5;

alcohol,
this

parts 100; goldbronze, real, enough.

Apply

sponge.

Acid-Free Shoe Blacking To a solution of

casein in soda

add ivory black, glucose,

olive oil

and

oletate of iron.

little

soluble blue or
oxalic

Prussian

blue

dissolved

with

acid

improves the
oil of

color.

Dressing for Tan Shoes

turpentine, 4 parts.

Bees- wax,
acid,
1

part;

Elastic Mucilage
soft soap, 3

Salicylic

drachm;

drachms; glycerine, 20 drachms. Disto a

solve

and add

mucilage composed of acacia,

12 ounces; water, 24 ounces.

off

To Clean Marble Counters Brush the dust with a piece of chamois. Then apply with a brush a good coat of gum arable about the consistency of tliick mucilage and exposse it to the sun or wind to dry. In a short time it will peel off. If all the gum should not peel off wash it If the first with clean water and a clean cloth.
application does not have the desired effect
it

should be tried again.

Bedbug Poison
each,
1

Tobacco,

crude naphthalin,

ounce;

oil of

melissa, enough; benzine, 10

60
ounces.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Extract the tobacco by macerating for

5 days in the benzine

and dissolve the other

ingredients iu the

filtrate.

The following recommended as one of the best preparations known for killing aphis, mealy bug, cotton blight and other insects: Rub 1 pound of sulphurated potash as fine as possible, and mix intimately with 4 pounds of soft soap. A large teaspoonful
Insecticide for Agriculturists
is

of this should be

water,

mixed with each gallon of soft and the plants should be well sprayed

with the solution.

Liquid for Destroying Parasites on Plants

Boric acid,

10 parts;

salicylic

acid, 5 parts;

alcohol, 20 parts; water,

200

parts.

Apply by
1

means

of a spray.

Universal Insecticide Dissolve

of the oils of cedar

ounce each
in 2 pints

and winter-green
is

deodorized benzine. This

claimed to resemble
all respects,

"Kern's Insect Annihilator" in

is

and

certain death to cockroaches, bedbugs, fleas,

and other insects. To Keep Earth Worms out of Flower Pots Pour on the soil a warm (80-90^F.) decoction of quassia wormwood and powdered horse-chestnuts. In a few moments every worm will come
to the surface

and can be removed.

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61

Spanish

Rat

Poison
1

Cantharides,
oil

brown
oil

sugar, inusk, each

of caraway, each 4

ounce;

of rhodium,

drops; mix with 10 ounces

ground malt.
Fertilizing Mixture for

Lawns

Nitrate
parts.
acre,

of

sodium, SO parts; superphosphate of calcium,100

parts; guano, '200 parts,

This amount

is

sufficient

gypsum, 120 for one

and
This

should be applied once or twice a year.

yields excellent results.

Chemical Food for Plants Sulphate of am-

monium, 4
About
1

parts; nitrate of potassium, 2 parts-

sugar, 1 part.
forty or fifty grains should
])e

added

to

gallon of water and applied once or twice a week.

Preston Salts

Takeof sal-ammoniac and

salts

two ounces; pound up the sal-ammoniac into small bits, and mix them
gently with the salts of tartar.
After being well
lavender,
suffi-

of tartar, of each about

mixed, add a few drops of

cient to scent,
a glass ))ottle,

oil of

and also a little musk; stop up in and when required for use, add^a

you

few drops of water, or spirits of hartshorn, when will immediately have strong smelling salts.
expensive,

The musk, being

will still

be good.

may be omitted; it Any person can for a few

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

cents obtain those ingredients at any druggist's,

and they will make salts, which to buy, prepared, would cost at least tweuty-five cents. Spruce Beer Powders Powdered white sugar, 3 ounces; essence of spruce, 40 drops; carbonate of soda, 5 drachms and a scruple. Mix,, and divide into 2 blue papers. Tartaric acid, Mix as C) drachms; wrap in 12 white papers.

ginger beer powders.

Portable Lemonade
1 ounce; finely

Tartaric

or citric acid,
a pound,

powdered lump-sugar, ^
Mix.
a capital glass of

essence of lemon, 20 drops.

Two

or 3

teaspoonsful

make

lemonade.

Orangeade
cover
it

Squeeze out the juice of an orange,

little

pour boiling water on a

close.

of the peel,

and

Boil water
it.

and sugar
all

to a thin

syrup, and skim

When
make
and

are cold,

mix the
as

juice, the infusion,

and the syrup, with

a rich drink.
ice.

much
Strain

more water
through

as will

a jelly-bag,

Ginger Lemonade

Boil 12 J pounds of
Bruise
i

lump
of

sugar for 20 minutes in 10 gallons of water; clear

it

with the whites of 6 eggs.

pound

common
pour
put
it it

ginger, boil with the liquor, and then

upon 10 lemons pannl.

When

quite cold

in a cask,

with 2 tal^lespoonsful of yeast,

the lemons sliced, and add ^ ounce of isinglass.

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63
It

Bung up

the cask the next day.

will

be ready

to bottle in three weeks,

and

to drink in another

three weeks.

Raspberry Vinegar Put [)ound()f line fruit pour u[)ou it a ([uart of the best white wine vinegar, next day strain the li(j[Uor on a pound of fresh raspberries; the following day do
1

into a l)owl,

the same, but do not squeeze the fruit, only drain the licpior as dry as you can.
Bottle,

and cork

well, then cover the corks with bottle cement.

Yellow Basilicon
yellow wax,
T)

is

composed

of 2 ounces of
7

ounces of white rosin, and

these

ounces

of hog's lard;

must be slowly melted

till

together,

and

stirred constantly with a stick,

completely mixed.
ing blisters, when

This ointment

is

sometimes
disis

used in treating scalds and burns; also for dressit

is

washed to keep up a
This

charge from them for a few days.

stimulating ointment.

Fly Water The following preparation, without endangering the lives of children, or other
incautious persons,
is

not less fatal to

flies

than

a solution of arsenic.

Dissolve 2 drachms of the

J

extract of quassia in

pint of boiling water,

add

little

sugar or syrup, and put the mixture on

for

plates.

Camphor Ceiate

Chapped Hands

Take IJ

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

ounce of spermaceti, h ouuce of white wax, scrape

them

into an earthen vessel or pipkin (an earthen

jam-pot will do), add G drachms of pounded camphor, and pour on the whole 4 tablespoonsful of
best olive
oil; let it
it

stand before the

well

fire

till

it

dissolves, stirring

when

liquid.

Before

you wash yovir hands, take a small piece of the cerate, and rub it into your hands, then wash them as usual. Putting the cerate on before
going to bed
is

very good.

Put up in wide-mouthed bottles. Rose Lip Salve Eight ounces sweet almond oil, 4 ounces prepared mutton suet, 1^ ounce
white wax, 2 ounces spermaceti, 20 drops otto;
steep a small quantity of alkanet root in the
oil,

and
otto.

strain before using.

Melt the

suet,

wax and
oil

spermaceti together, then add the chloric

and

Fever-Sore Ointment

Extract

of tobacco (kept
1

by druggists),
wax, ^ ounce;

drachm; alcohol,
lard,

ounce; bees-

4i ounces. Dissolve the extract in the alcohol, having melted the bees- wax and lard together, add the dissolved extract and
continue the heat to evaporate the alcohol.
till

Stir

cold.

excellent

Pomade Victoria This highly-praised and pomade is made in the following way

\I"TIVK

SKCRKTS.

C)T)

iiud

if

SO

iiiiuli',

will

l)i-

l(Miii(l

to giv()a bt'iiutiful

ami softness to the hair: Quarter of a pound of houcy and l ounce of beos-wax simmered together for a few minutes, and then strain; and of oil of almonds, lavender, and thyme, \ drachm each. Be sure to continue stirring till quite cold, or the honey and wax will separate.
gloss

Linen Scent Bags, No. 2

in the shade, or at
1

Rose-leaves

dried

about four feet from a stove, pound; cloves, carraway seeds and allspice, of

each, 1 ounce;

pound

in

mortar, or grind in a
all

mill; dried salt, \

pound. Mix

these together,

and put the compound into little bags. Tooth Powder, No. 3 One ounce powdered orris root, 1 drachm gum camphor, 2 drachms powdered myrrh, h ounces prepared chalk. Itch Ointment Take 2 ounces flowers of sulphur, 2 drachms (each) pulverized white hellebore and sal-tartar; add 20 drops oil lemon. Mix well with 2 ounces lard. Box and label. Clean Steel and Iron Take 1 ounce soft soap and 2 ounces emery; make into a paste, then rul) the articles for cleaning with a washed leather and it will give a brilliant polish. Rhubarb Wine An agreeable and healthful

wine

is

made from

the expressed juice of the

irardeu rhubarb.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

To each

gallon of juice, add

gallon of soft

pounds of brown sugar has been dissolved; fill a keg or barrel with this proportion, leaving the bung out, and keep it filled with sweetened water as it works over until clear; then bung down or bottle as you desire. These stalks will furnish about three-fourths their weight in juice, or from 1,600 to 2,000 gallons of wine to each acre of well cultivated plants. Fill the barrels and let them stand until spring, and bottle, as any wine will be
water, in which 7
better in glass or stone.

Blacking,
treacle,
oil

Ivory black, 1| ounce; No. 3 1| ounce; sperm oil, 3 drachms; strong of vitriol, 3 drachms; common vinegar, A- pint.
together,

Mix the ivory l^lack, treacle and vinegar

then mix the sperm
arately;
ture.
oil

and

add

and oil of vitriol septhem to the other mix1

Shampooing Mixture, No.

per quart.

Purified carbonate
salts of tartar,
1

For

five

cents

of potash,

com-

monly called
1 quart;

ounce; rain water,

mix, and it is ready for use. Apply a little of it to the head, rubbing and working it thoroughly; then rinse out with clean soft water, and dry the hair well with a coarse,

dry towel, applying a

little oil

or

pomatum

to

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

0'^

supply the natural

oil

which has been saponified

of the mixture.
least five dollars out of

and washed out by the operation

barber will

make

at

this five cents

worth of material.

Shampooing Mixture, No, 2

and
soft

Aqua ammonia,

3 ounce, salts of tartar, \ ounce; alcohol, | ounce;

water, 2^

j)ints,

and flavoring with

out.
1

bergauiot.
lather goes

In applying, rub the head until the

down, then wash

1

Vinegar, No.
pint;

Molasses,
flies

quart; yeast,

warm

rain water, 3 gallons.

Put

all

into

a jug or keg,

and

tie a piece of

gauze over the

in air.

bung

to keep out
it

and

let

In hot
it

weather set

in the sun; in cold

weather set

by

the stove or in the chimney corner, and in three

weeks you

will
is

have good vinegar.

getting low, pour out some for up the jug in the same proportion as at first, and you will never have trouble for want of good vinegar. Artificial Skin For burns, bruises, abraisions, etc. Proof against water. Take gun cotton and Venice turpentine, equal parts of each, and dissolve them in 20 times as much sulphuric
this
fill

When

use,

and

ether, dissolving the cotton

first,

then adding

the turpentine; keep

it

corked tightly.
is

The

object of the turpentine

to prevent pres-

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

sure or pinching caused by evaporation of the

ether

when applied
it,

to a bruised surface.
its

Water

does not affect

ples,

hence

value for cracked nip-

chapped hands, surface bruises, etc., etc. Dried asarbacca leaves, 3 Snuff lavender flowers, 1 parts marjoram, 1 part
Cephalic
;

part;

rub together to a
is

po^\'der.

This snuff

very useful in relieving a cold in

the head, cleaning the nostrils from a disagreeable accumulation of mucus, and also relieving

the headache.

Put up

in well-stopped bottles.

Extract of Sarsaparilla
sufficient to cover
strain.

Jamaicasarsaparilla,
six hours,

IG ounces; lukewarm water (100 to 112 F.)

it.

Macerate

and

Add

to the water the following ingredi-

ents,

and boil: bruised liquorice root, sassafras, guaiacum raspings, of each, 2 ounces; mezercum, Let it cool, stirring occasionally, and I ounce. add 2 ounces of rectified spirits of wine, in which
a few drops of oil of sassafras have been dissolved.

Good

for

humors,

etc.

Sells for $1

per quart.

Put

u]) in })int or

quart bottles.

Brandreth's Pills

Take 2 pounds of aloes,

pound of gamboge, 4 ounces of extract of colocynth, h

pound

of castile soap, 2 fluid

drachms

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
of oil of peppermint,

09

and 1 fluid drachm of cinnamon. Mix, and form into pills. Headache Pills 1^ drachms castile soap, 40 grains rhubarb, 20 drops oil of juniper and syrup of ginger enough to form '20 pills. Take two or three occasionally. Arrack Punch Extract Pineapple fruit 1, cut into small cubes and extract with deodorized

alcohol, 3 quarts; arrack, 2 quarts; filter

and

add sugar 10 pounds: water, enough

10 quarts.
selle wine, 2

to

make
;

Rum, 2 quarts moorange flower water, 8 ounces, sugar, 10 pounds; oil lemon, fresh, 8
Punch Extract
quarts;

Rum

minims; water, enough to make 10 quarts.

Tea Punch Extract

Arrack, 3 quarts;

rum,
J

3 quarts; sugar, 10 pounds; essence lemon,

ounce; citric acid, ounce; infusion tea (1:10), 1 pint; water, enough to make 10 quarts.
of orange

To Improve Lemonade An ounce and a half owe r water to the gallon of syrup is
II

found to be a great improvement to lemonade,

giving more bouquet and a more delicate flavor,

Erasive Soap
i-

2 poun:ls of good castile soap;

Cut the soap
in thin slices, boil
it is

pound

of carbonate of potash dissolved in h

pint hot water.

the soap with the potash until

thick

enough

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

to

mould

ill

cakes; also,
;

add

alcohol, h ounce;

camphor, i ounce hartshorn, -^ ounce; with ^ ounce pulverized charcoal.

color

Put the soap np in small cakes with a nice wrapper and directions for using. Lemon Syrup, No. 2 Take 1 pound of

Havana
drop

sugar, boil

it

in water

down
it

to a quart,
it;

in the white of

an egg, and strain

add

4 of an ounce of tartaric acid; let days; shake

will
it

stand two
of

often.

Four drops of
face.

oil

lemon

much improve it. Almond Bloom, for the

add G drachms
boil

Boil

ounce of

Brazil dust in 3 pints of distilled water,

strain;

cochineal, 1

borax;
cloth.

and drachms of ounce of alum, and 8 drachms of again, and strain through a fine
of isinglass, 2

Vinegar,
cask,

No.

2.

Acetic
them
to 3 weeks,

acid,

4 pounds;

molasses, 1 gallon; put

into a

40 gallon
it

and

fill it

up with
1

rain water; shake

up,
is

and let stand from good vinegar.

If this

and the

result

does not
little

add

make it as sharp as you more molasses. But some

is

like,

will

object to this, because an acid

to such, that acetic acid
is

used; let

me say

concentrated vinegar.

Take

found, or

pint, or

any other quantity

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
of
this
acid,

71

and add seven times as much and you have just as good vinegar as can be made from cider, and that instantanesoft water,

ously.

Razor Paste, No.

impalpable
ment,
1

2.

Emery,

reduced to an
oint-

])o\vder,

two parts; spermaceti

it

part;

mix together, and rub

over

the strop.

This paste can be put up in small wide-

mouthed
for the

bottles for sale, so as to be convenient

consumer.

Label, and put in directions.

make

some whiting, and some sal-volatile. Cover over the gold ornaments and surface with a soft brush, let it dry, and then l)rush it off
Gold Powder.
it

Powder

into a moist paste with

with a moderately hard brush.

Stick Glue, No.

2. Take

pound
it

of the best

glue, the stronger the better, boil

it

and

strain

very clear; boil also 4 ounces of isinglass, put

of

the mixture into a double glue pot, add half a

brown sugar, and boil the whole until then pour it into thin plates or moulds, and when cold you may cut and dry them in small pieces for the pocket. The glue is used by merely holding it over steam, or wetit

pound

gets thick;

tinrr it

with the mouth.

This

is

a most useful

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CAPTIVE SECRETS
article, being

and convenient

much

stronger than

common
ing,

glue.

It
is

is

sold under the

name

of

Indian glue, but

much

less expensive in
all

mak-

and

is

applicable to

kinds of small frac-

tures, etc.;

answers well on the hardest woods,

etc.,

and cements china,

will

though, of course,

it

not resist

the action of hot water.

For

parchment, and paper, in lieu of

it

gum

or paste,

will ])e

found eciually convenient.

Liquid Glue, No. 2. Dissolve 1 part of powdered alum, 120 parts of water; add 120 parts
of glue, 10 of acetic acid,
digest.

and 40

of alcohol,

and

Prepared glue
glue in

is

made by
keep

dissolving

common
1

warm

w^ater,

and then adding

it.

acetic acid (strong vinegar) to

Dissolve

pound of best glue in 1| pints of water, and add 1 pint of vinegar. It is ready for use. Compound Padophylin Pill For the Liver.
Padophylin,
h

drachm; extract of leptandra

extract rhubarb, J

(Culver's physic), 1 drachm, extract of hyoscia-

mus, f

drachm;

drachm;

cayenne, pulverized, J drachm. Mix thoroughly, using a little gum mucilage, as needed, and divide
into

60

pills.

Dose.

The dose

will

be from
pill will

1 to

3 pills, at
if

bed time, to be repeated the next night

have not operated. This

they

be found valu-

t'AI'TIVE

SECRETS.

73

able in

all

liver diflBculties,

constipation, etc.,

and as a general cathartic. Experience has shown that tlie article of leptandrin, from the manner of its preparation, does not possess the
properties
extract has
of the root (leptandra),

hence, the
place.

been substituted in
is

its

The
pain,

hyosciamus

gently

laxative,

allays

soothes irritability, and, with the cayenne, prevents griping, etc.

liver

In chronic constipation, or
1 pill

derangement,

at night,

continued
is

until the bowels

have become regular,

a very

good way to take these pills. Writing on Iron. Steel, &c.

ounce;
nitric

Muriatic acid, 1
Mix, when
it is

acid,

},

ounce.

ready for use.

Directions:

Cover thepliice you wish

to

mark
cold,

or write ujion, with melted bees-wax;

when

name plain with a file point, or an instrument made for the purpose, carrying it through the wax, and cleaning the wax all out
write the
of the letter; then apply the
feather, carefully filling each letter; let

mixed acids with a it remain

which

from

1 to

10 minutes, according to the appear-

ance desired; then put on some water,

dilutes the acids
of the acids,
it

and stops the process. Either alone, would cut iron or steel, but

requires the mixture to take hold of gold or

74
silver.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

After you wash off the acids

little oil.

it is

best to

apply a

ftueen
spirits of

of

Hungary Water
h pint of

To 1^
pure

pints of

wine add

filtered rain

water, 1 teaspoonful of spirit of roses, 1 table-

spoonful each, essence

of

lemon, essence of

cloves (1 teaspoonful each, musk; orange, berga-

mot may be added, or not, at pleasure), 1 tablespoonful each, spirits of rosemary and essence of
violets.

In this

way you can make

it

the

same

quantity for one-tenth what

shops.

retails for in the

Brandy Bitters Add to 3 gallons brandy, | pound each, orange and lemon peel,4 ounces calamus root, 2 pounds sugar,! ounce camomile flowers,
|^

gallon syrup, 2 gallons water.

Digest the
care-

whole well together for 12 days. fully and ])ottle.

Freckle Ointment.
lemon-juice,
1

Draw off
in

Dissolve,

^ ounce of

ounce of venice soap; and add 4 ounce, each, of oil of bitter almonds and deliquated oil of tartar. Place this mixture
in

the

sun

till

it

acquires
in

the consistency
state,

of

ointment.

When

this

add

drops of the

oil of

rhodium, and

keejj it for use.

Apply

it

to the face

and hands

in the

manner

following:

Wash

the parts at night with elder-

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
flower water, then anoint w

75 In

itli

the ointment.
its

the niornin}^, cleanse the skin from

liesion,

oily ad-

by washing it eojiiously Permanent Paste Made l)y

of
flour paste,

in rose-water.

ac^iding

to each
IT)

half-pint

without

alum,

grains of corrosive sublimate, previously rul)bed

to

powder

in

mortar, the whole to be well

mixed;
of time,

this, if

prevented from drying, by being

therefore convenient; but, unfor-

kept in a covered pot, remains good any length

and
it

is is

tunately,

extremely poisonous, though

its
its

excessively

nauseous taste would prevent

it

being swallowed accidentally;

of insects.

possesses the

great advantage of not being liable to the attacks

Camphor
drachms
of
1

Balls,

to

Prevent Chaps

Melt
of

spermaceti, 4 drachms

white

wax, with ounce of almond oil, and stir in 3 drachms of camphor (previously powdered by

moistening

it

with a

little s])irits of

wine); pour

small quantities into small gallipots, so as to

turn out in the form of cakes.

Toilet Soap

Take a
mould.

wine-glassful of eau de

Cologne, and another of lemon- juice; then scrape

2 cakes of

brown Windsor soap

to a

powder, and
it

mix well

in a

When

hard,

will be

an

excellent soap for whitening the hands.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Marking-Ink,
is

without
this,

Preparation
ink,

There

are several recipes for

bat the following

rapidly superceding
1

all

the others:

Dissolve,

separately,

ounce of nitrate of

ounces of sub-carbonate soda (best

in distilled or

and li washing soda)

silver,

rain water. Mix the solutions and the precipitate in a filter; and collect wash whilst still moist, rub it up in a marble or wedgewood mortar with 3 drachms of tartaric acid; add 2 ounces distilled water, mix 6 drachms of white sugar, and 10 di'achms of powdered gum arable, h ounce of archil and water to make up

6 ounces in measure.

Bayberry or Myrtle Soap

it

Dissolve 24 pounds
mix
fire till it

of white potash in 5 quarts of water; then

with 10 pounds of myrtle wax, or bayberry

Boil the

tallow.

whole over a slow

turns to soap, then add a teacup of cold water;

let it boil

10 minutes longer; at the end of that

time, turn

it into tin moulds, or pans, and let them remain a week or 10 days to dry; then turn them out of the moulds. If you wish to have the

soap scented,
the moulds.

stir into it

an essential

oil

that has
it

an agreeable smell, just before you turn

This kind of soap
is

into

excellent for
also
fit

shaving, and for chapped hands;

for eruptions

it is

good

on the

face.

It

will

be

for use

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
in the course of 3

77
it is

or 4 weeks after

made,
ounces

but

it is

hotter for being kept 10 or 12 months.

Circassian Cream

One

i)iut of olive oil, 8

white wax, 2 ounces spermaceti, J ounce of alkanet root. Digest the oil with the alkanet till
sufficiently colored; strain; melt

the wax and

sufficiently
1

spermacetic with the

cool,

oil,

and when
of

add 2i drachms

oil

lavender and

drachm

of essence of ambergris.

Phosphorus Paste for the Destruction of Rats and Mice Take of phosphorus, 8 parts; liquify parts of luke-warm water, pour the it in ISO

whole into a mortar, and add immediately 180 l)arts of rye meal; when cold, mix in 180 parts of butter, melted, and 125 parts of sugar. If the phosphorus is in a finely-divided state, the ingredients may be all mixed at once, without
melting them.
cacy for

This mixture

will retain its

is

effi-

many

years, for the phosphorus

pre-

served by the

l^utter,

and only becomes oxydized

which they swell out and

on the surface.
with avidity, soon
in die.

Rats and mice eat this mixture

after

This recipe was directed to be used

place of arsenic by the Prussian government.

Marine Glue

Dissolve 4 parts
and
agitation.

of india-rub-

ber in 84 }iarts of coal tar naphtha

solution with heat

aiding the
The
solution

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

is

then thick as cream, ami

it

should be added
dissolved.

to

64 parts of powdered
in

shellac,

heated

the mixture
is

till all is

which must be While

the mixture

hot

it

is

metal, in sheets like leather. that state,

is

poured on plates of It can be kept in

it

and when

it is

required to be used,
till it is soft,

put into a pot and heated

and
this

then applied with a brush to the surfaces to be

joined.

Two

pieces of

wood joined with

cement can scarcely be sundered. Grafting Wax Five parts of rosin, 1 part of Melt these in a skilbees-waXj 1 part of tallow.

let, tin

preferable, as

cup or any metal vessel, the skillet being it can be handled better, and the
in
it.

wax keeps warm longer

the
fire

Melt these over

and mix together well. When the scions are set say as many as 20 or 30, or as few as is wished have the mixture ready and apply it warm with a small wooden paddle. See that every part is covered and the air completely

excluded.

It requires

no bandage.
a

Tracing Paper
tiful,

In order to prepare
it

beau

transparent, colorless paper,

is

best to

employ the varnish formed with Demarara rosin

in the following

way:

The
flat

sheets intended for

this

purpose are laid

on each other and the

varnish

spread over the uppermost sheet by

CAPTIVE SKCKETS.

7'J

means
fectly

of a brush, until the paper appears percolorless,

without,

however,
first

the
is

liquid

then removed, hung up for drying, and the second treated in the same manner. After being dried this paper is capable of being written on, either
with chalk or pencil or steel pens.
its

therein being visible.

The

sheet

It

preserves
yel-

colorless transparency without

is

becoming

frequently the case with that prepared in any other nay.

low, as

Iron
ganese,

Cement Mix from

I

4 to 5 parts of dry

clay, 2 parts of iron filings, 1 part oxide of

man-

part of salt and i part of borax;

is

when
is

the cement

wanted

for use this

mixture
is

made with water

into a paste,

which

applied

immediately to the pieces to be joined. It is then allowed to dry gradually, and is subsequently heated to whiteness. After this the

cement will resist water and, of course, heat. Put the dry cement up in boxes or bottles,
with directions and
lalK'l.

Liquid Glue, Very Strong Three i)arts of glue soaked in 8 parts of cold water for several hours
until the glue is soft. Then add J part of muriatic acid and f part of suli)hate of zinc; heat the mixture to 185 Fahr. for 10 or 12 hours. The mixture remains liquid after cool-

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iug,

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

aud

is

very useful for sticking wood, crock-

ery and glass together.

Cold Creams for Irritation of the Skin. Chaps,

Cracks,
etc.

Neat's-foot

oil

or

almond

oil,

pound; spermaceti, 3 ounces; white wax, J ounce;

rose or orange- flower water, ^ pint; essence of bergamot, ^ ounce. Put the oil, spermaceti aud wax into a tin

basin

to

melt that will set in one of larger

a

dimensions containing water, like

glue kettle,

or otherwise place the basin on a stove

in

drum

or

a stove oven, having only sufficient heat to

burning them. mass with a clean, flat When melted beat the wooden spatula until of a uniform appearance; then add the perfumes aud beat again to a uniform mass. Sweet oil, or nice white lard from a young hog, might be substituted for the neat'sfoot oil or almond oil with very good satisfaction. Another Almond oil, f ounce; glycerine, \ ounce; spermaceti and powdered camphor, of each 1 drachm; oil of rose, 3 or 4 drops. Melt the spermaceti in the oil, and add the Put into a widecamphor and glycerine. mouthed bottle that will admit the finger, in
melt the ingredients without

which you have dropped the

corked for use, as No.
1.

oil

of rose.

Keep

Glycerine has proved

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

81

a very valuable addition to preparations for the

skin, as

it

keeps the surface soft and pliable, as

well as to promote a healthy action of the skiu.

Chapped Hands or
oil,

Lips,

Ointment

for

Sweet

3 ounces;
1

spermaceti, 4 ounces; pulverized

camphor,

ounce.

Mix together in a clean earthen vessel l^y gentle heat, and apply by warming a little night and morning. Butter just churned and unsalted may be substituted for the sweet oil same

quantity.

Black Reviver for Black Cloth

1

Bruised galls, pound; logwood, 2 pounds; green vitriol, |Boil for 2 hours

pound; water, 5 quarts.

strain.

and
8

Used
for

to restore the color of black cloth.

Pastils

Burning

Cascarilla

bark,

drachms;
ders, 2

gum

benzoin, 4 drachms; yellow San-

drachms; styrax, 2 drachms; olil)anum,

2 drachms; charcoal, 6 ounces; nitre,

H drachms;
quantity.

mucilage

of

tragacanth,
to a

sufficient

powder and form into a paste with the mucilage, and divide into small cones; then put them into an oven until quite dry. Turkish Cement for Water Pipes, etc.

Reduce the substance

Fresh hydraulic lime (water lime), any quantity,

according to the work to be done, and half as

much pounded

brick

or

pounded

tile

finely

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

sifted (by measure),

it

and chopped tow

hair mortar.

like

our

common
it

to make Mix dry as

oil (if

wanted
it is

for use; then

will

wet up with linseed

boiled

dry quicker) to the consistence

pipes with
res-

of

common
They

mortar.

use

common earthenware

socket-joints to carry water

ervoirs,

from springs to
for the joints.

It and use this cement makes them water-tight. Quinine Tooth Powder Rose pink, 2 drachms; 12 drachms precipitated chalk; 1 drachm car-

bonate of magnesia, 6 grains sulphate of quinine; all to be finely

up nicely
potash,
1

in

powdered and mixed. round or oval wooden boxes.

Put

Davy's Corn Solvent

ounce

Powder
binding

fine

2 ounces

salts of sorrel;

mix well together

and
five

lay a small quantity

successive

nights,

on the corn for four or it on with a

1

rag.

White Varnish
add
to
it

Take
gum

quart of alcohol, and

2 ounces

mastic, 4 ounces

Canada
white

balsam, and 8 ounces of sandarac.

It is a

drying varnish, capable of being polished when

hard.

A good

varnish for objects of the toilet,

such as work boxes, card cases, &c., is made as follows: 6 ounces sandarac, 4 ounces genuine
elemi,
1

ounce anime, i ounce of

gum cam-

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83
rectified

phor; melt
spirits.

all

slowly in

quart of

Salt of

Lemons
This

Mix 4

ounces of

salt of sorrel

in very line

powder, with like quantity of cream

is

of tartar.
is

the salt sold in the shops.

It

recommended

for

removing iron molds or ink

spots.

Jessamine Butter
well

Take hog's lard melted, and

it

washed

in

pure water; then lay

an inch

thick in a dish

and strew over with jessamine flowers; it will imbibe the scent, and make a very fragrant pomatum; put up in glass pots. Almond Paste Blanch 2 pounds of sweet almonds, 1 pound of bitter almonds, and beat them to powder in a mortar with 2 pounds of loaf

sugar; beat into a paste with orange flower water.

Used instead

of soap for

washing the hands;

it

imparts a pleasant scent.

Dissolve 2| drachms of sal 34 pints of water, to which add 1 pint of thick sugar-house molasses and afterwards 3

Godfrey's Cordial

tartar in

ounces laudanum.
fras in

Dissolve

drachm

oil sassa-

4 ounces alcohol, and add to the above;

it is

shake well and

Dick's
of 1?inc.

ready for use; bottle in small

long bottles, cone shajDed.

Eye "Water

To 10 grains of

sulphate
1

add 20 grains sugar of lead and

pint

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

rose water; dissolve each separately

and mix;

pour
vials.

off

the clear liquor and bottle in panel

Gold Ink
a muller,

Grind upon a porphyry

slab, with
till

gold leaves along with white honey,

they are reduced to the finest jwssible division.

Tlie paste
knife,
is

then collected upon the edge of a

gravity soon falls to the

put into a large glass and diffused through

water.

The gold by

bottom, while the honey dissolves in the water,

which must be decanted off. The sediment is to be repeatedly washed until entirely freed from
the honey.
ant,

The powder when dried is very brilliand when to be used as an ink, may be mixed

up with a little gum water. After the writing becomes dry it should be burnished. The novelty of this ink will make it sell, from
which ypu can derive a large percmtage.

Rhubarb Pills Make into a stiff paste, 1 ounce ground turkey rhubarb, 2 drachms of sulphate of quinine, 2 drachms of extract of sarsaparilla. First put the sarsaparilla into a cup with 5 or 6
teaspoonsful of cold water;
solved, then
l(^t

it

stand

till

disIt is

add the other ingredients.

pills

then ready to make into

little flour.

with the use of a

enough

to

The whole costs but a trifle, and is make nearly two hundred pills. Tliis

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
is

OiJ

good remedy

for

indigestion.

Dose:

Two

pills

every other night.

Medicated Prunes Take \ ounce of senna and manna, mix thoroughly, and pour on it a pint of boiling water and let it infuse for 1 hour,
tightly covered.

When

the infusion
of

is

strong

enough, strain and

tight,

stir in a gill

West India

molasses; add about h

pound

of prunes, cover

and stew until you find the stones of the prunes loose; do not stew too long, as they Ixjcome insipid; pick out the stones and place on a dish to cool. They may be given to children without any perceptible taste of the senna and niiiniia.
Wilson's Eye Water

Take

drachm

of sul-

phate of zinc, 3 drachms of spirits of camphor,

4 ounces of distilled water, hot, and 8 ounces

Pour the boiling water upon the and camphorated spirits in a closed vessel' and when cold, strain, and then add the rose
rose water.

zinc

water.

It is especially

adapted to relieve pain

to the eyes of elderly

and weakness incident

people,
optic nerves.
ing.

when dei)ending on

debility

of

the

Wash

the eyes night and mornof Flowers Procure any flower which has

To Extract the Perfume

a

quantity of the

jx'tuls of

00
an agreeable

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
flavor,

card thin layers of cotton,

oil;

which

diji into

the finest Florence

sprinkle

a small quantity of fine salt on the flowers,

place layers of cotton

until
full.

and and flowers alternately, an earthen or wide mouthed vessel is quite Tie a bladder over the top and leave the

vessel for fifteen days exposed to the heat of the

sun.

When

opened, a fragrant

oil

may

be

squeezed away from the whole mass,

rior (if roses are

little infe-

made use

of) to

the dear and

highly valued otto, or odour of roses.

Cement

for

chloroform, as

Mending Boots and Shoes Take much as you choose, and put
it

small bits of pure gutta-percha into

solve to the consistence of honey.
It is well

to dis-

to

do

this in a
fine

bottle

to prevent

evaporation.
pliable

Upon

boots,

or

shoes,

of

and

soft leather, small

patches

may be
First

put that

will give very

good

satisfaction.

prepare the patch by paring the

nicely; then scrape
it is it

edges very

and the place to which remove dirt and grease, then apply the cement to each surface, thorto be applied, to

oughly, then

heat the surfaces to soften the

it

cement and then put on the patch and press firmly to the boot or shoe for a moment, until
sets.

it

If

neatly done

it

will

hardly show at

all;

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

87
it

and

it

will

remain permanent unless

fire.

is

held

too close to the

Blacking without Friction

gum

arable,

add

Two 2 ounces of ounce ivory black, and 1

it

ounce sugar; water enough to make

applied with a sponge.

easily

Dissolve the sugar and

it.

gum and
This
is

grind the black on a slab with

it

a labor-saving article, as

requires no

friction.

French Mustard

Take
hard.

a sufficient quantity

of green tarragon leaves (pick

from the
till it
fill

stalks),
is

put into a wide mouth glass jar

full;

half

up the jar with the best cider vinegar, and cork up tight. Let it infuse a week or two. Remove all the
pressing
off

down

Then

tarragon by pouring
vessel.

the vinegar into another

Then put

fresh leaves of the plant into

the jar and pour back the

either cork or cover

same vinegar, and

about two weeks

up

tight again; let the last

jar; in

tarragon remain in the

the vinegar will be sufficiently flavored with the

tarragon to use
purpose.

French Mustard or other more than one clove of garlic; mix it into 4 ounces of the best mustard powder in a deep pan. Take a gill of the tarragon vinegar (strained from the leaves) and mix it with equal quantity
it

for

Mince

as fine as possible not

88
of salad
ally,
tle
oil;

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

moisten the mustard powder gradutill

using a wooden spoon,

you get

it

lit-

thicker than the usual consistency of

made

coik closely.

into small clean white jars and you find the above makes too thin, you need not use the whole of the liquid; if too thick, dilute with more oil and vinegar. Tarragon vinegar is good with boiled cabbage
it

mustard.

Put

If

or greens.

The

leaves of the second infusion

jar,

should be kept in the

pouring

off

from

them

as wanted.

Home-made
ful

Cider

To

pound

of sugar,

add

h ounce of tartaric acid, and 2

of

tablespoons1

good
it

yeast.

Dissolve the sugar in

all in a

quart of

warm
well,

water; put

gallon jug;

shake
let it

fill

the jug with pure cold water,

it

stand uncorked 12 hours, and

treat

is fit for

use.

You can

your friends to cider that they

cannot distinguish from that made from apples.

Extract of Blackberries
half full of ripe berries;
of
tle

Fill a to
it

quart bottle
the botit

add

a teaspoonful
fill

whole
be
fit

allspice,

and

a tew cloves;

with the best whisky.

for use.

In a month's time

will

Artificial Coral

Take

4 pounds of yellow

rosin

and

pound

of vermillion; melt together;

CAPTIVE SECRETS

89
mixture and
coral,

dip twigs, cinders, or stones

it

in this

will

give

them the appearance

of

and

are applicable to rockworli, grotto, or any fancy

work as a substitute

for that costly article.

1

Camphor
ceti,
(j

Ice

Melt together

ounce sperma-

ounces

oil

sweet almonds, and 2 ounces

camphor.

Put up in inch square cakes and wrap with tin foil; one dozen of cakes in a paper box. These squares retail for 25 cents. Liquid Blue Take J pound Spanish indigo, 8 pounds sulphuric acid and 1 pound rainwater; stand the indigo and acid together in a
stone vessel, in boiling water,
dissolved,
till

the indigo

is

then
stores

grocery
profit.

add the water. Sold in in 4 ounce bottles at a

all

fair

Bed Bug Poison

ounces
sal

Take
1

pint

of

alcohol, 2

annnoniac,

pint spirits turpentine, 2

ounces corrosive sublimate and 2 ounces

gum

camphor; dissolve the camphor

in

the alcohol,

then pulverize the corrosive sublimate and sal

ammoniac and add

the spirits
gether.
of

to

it,

after

which put

in

turpentine,

and shake
1

well to-

Blackberry Brandy
blackl)erry juice,

To
1

quart of strained

teaspoouful

add powdered

pound white sugar, 1 ground allspice, ditto

90
cloves.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Boil a few minutes, then remove from

the
or

and add ^ pint fourth proof brandy good Monongehela whisky. Bottle and cork close. It is fit for immediate use. On no
fire,

account use inferior brandy.

The above preparation

sidered
other

of blackberries

is

con-

extremely beneficial in diarrhoea and

complaints.

summer

Sweet Smelling Extract Add to 5 pints alcohol, 3 drachms oil bergamot, 2 drachms oil
lemon,
1

drachm

oil

rosemary, 15 drops
oil

oil of

cinnamon, 7 drops
almond, 5 drops
musk.
It
oil

cloves,

drop

bitter

orange, and 15 drops essence

a

makes

splendid perfume for the

handkerchief.

La Belle White Reduce to an impalpable powder 1 pound French chalk, 1 pound calcined magnesia, and 1 pound white starch; mix thoroughly. Apply with soft flannel, and this will
not only be found a harmless preparation, but
a very pleasant addition to

the

toilet,

and

will

be a favorite with the ladies.

Bloom

of Roses

Get a paper of Chinese vergum

of

million, dissolve suflficient

tragacanth

in

hot water to

make

a paste

with the vermillion,

and add half a teaspoonful again, making the mass into

sweet

oil;

mix

a stiff

paste, then

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

91

put

it

into a close pot or cup,

slow heat.

When

and dry it by a used apply with a flannel.

There are more elaborate preparations, but this in every respect equal to the best, and gives satisfaction to the consumer, and is cheaper to
is

manufacture.
Solution Two ounces muriatic which as much zinc is dissolved as it will hold, to which add h ounce sal ammoniac. Clean the metal well, and the solder will run and adhere to any part of the metal to which

Soldering

acid, in

the solution

is

applied.

It will also solder brass

and

steel together.
is

This recipe

highly recommended for mak-

ing a most excellent soldering fluid.

Jujube Paste Take 5 pounds sugar, 6 pounds gum arabic, dissolve each in 1 gallon of water; mix the two solutions and evaporate
slowly to a thick syrup.

Flavor with essence of

lemon or any other you wish. Pour the syrup into pans and evaporate to a proper consistency at a moderate heat. An Excellent Horse Liniment Take 1 pint alcohol, 4 ounce castile soap, \ ounce gum camphor, 4 ounce of sal ammoniac. When these are dissolved, add 1 ounce laudanum; 1 ounce oil origanum, | ounce sassafras, and 2 ounces

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

spirits of hartshorn.

Bathe

freely.

Excellent for

strains, bruises, sprains, windgalls, etc.

Scalds and Burns

aid in healing.
oil

Carbolic acid

Lotions to remove pain and

crystals,!

drachm;

of pennyroyal and

spirits of

turpentine, of

each, 2 ounces; water, f pint. After mixing the above, a cloth saturated in

the lotion should be placed over the burnt sur-

and kept constantly wet, without removal. It is also advisable to place over this some cotton batting, to exclude the air more effectually.
face,

The

carbolic acid gives instant relief in scalds

and burns.

Hoarhound Candy
as green

Take the herb hoarhound,

and
boil
all
it

and fresh

as possible,

in a

very small quantity of water until

the juice

Then squeeze it through a cloth, is extracted. and give the liquor another boil, stirring in gradually enough sugar to make it thick and
stiff.

Afterwards,
fill it

sift

sugar over

a
it

shallow tin
to congeal,

pan,

with the paste and leave with a

scoring
before

it

knife, in squares

or

sticks,

quite hard.
in the

Any herb candy may be

made

same manner.

Fever and Ague Mixture Mix 2 ounces Peruvian bark, 20 grains of sal-tartar or salt of wormwood, 12 drachms snake
root, 8

ounces alcohol,

CAPTIVE SECBETS.

93

8 ounces water.
occasionally.

Digest for 24 hours, shaking

Dose, from a tablespoouful to a

wiucglassful 3 times a day.

Cinnamon Lozenges
ized sugar, 12 grains
Ijoge,

00 drops

oil

Take 4 pounds pulverdrop lake, 40 grains gamcinnamon. Make into lozinto whatever shape

enges with mucilage tragacanth, by rolling out

very thin, and

when dry cut

you wish.
Instantaneous

Toothache Cure

Dissolve
is

ounce

gum
a

mastic in 1 ounce ether.

well stoppered

This will
to be

produce a yellow oily substance; which

kept in
bottle.

Saturate a
fill

small piece of cotton, the size you wish, and

the cavity.
rosin

The

ether

e eporates

while the

remains protecting
air

the teeth from the

and food. This is siAd in small bottles as magic toothache drops. Blood Purifier Take 8 ounces each, white sugar, rice and starch, ounces ground sarsaparilla, 4 ounces ground senna. Pulverize each separate as fine as possible, then mix them well.
action of

(')

Dose:

tablespoouful three times a day. It

as a valuable blood purifier.

is

recommended
good

Transparent Soap
article of
spirits of

Cut into thin shavings "a palm soap, and add to it enough
it;

wine to cover

place

near the

fire

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

until the soap

is

melted. Perfume as you choose.

Then pour
tion

to cool and the preparayou a transparent soap which is capable to make a heavy lather either for shav-

iuto

moulds

gives

ing or toilet purposes.

Q,uince

Syrup

Grate
set

quinces, pass the pulp

through a sieve and

juice to settle

near the
strain

fire for

the
1

and

clarify;

and add

pound sugar
juice;

(boiled

down)
fire

to every 4 ounces of

remove from the

and when cold

bottle

for use or sale.

tablespoonful of this syrup

will flavor a pint of water.

Honey Wine Put in a 40 gallon cask 20 pounds honey and 12 gallons cider; let ferment. Then add ^ gallon rum, | gallon brandy, 6
ounces red or white tartar dissolved, 4 ounce
each, almonds
let

and

cloves.

Mix

well together;

stand 24 hours, then bottle.

Venice Turpentine
of turpentine

Take 1 quart of spirits and ^ pound rosin. Dissolve at a

gentle heat.

When

cool

it

will be

fit

for use.

Tincture of Allspice

Infuse

for 2

weeks 4
alcohol;

ounces ground allspice in 2 quarts

filter.

Tincture of Cloves

Infuse
in 1
1

for

2 weeks 2
filter.

ounces ground cloves

quart alcohol;
gallon

Blackberry Cordial

To

of black-

CAPTIVE SEC'RKTS.

95

berry juicT add

poundH

wbiti! Hiij^ar; boil

1

aud

skim off, then add 1 ouuce cIovch, cinnamon, 10 grated mitnu'gs, and
till

ounce of

boil

down

quite rich; then let

off,

it

cool
1

and

settle, after-

wards drain
or whiskey.

and add
u]) in

pint of good brandy

Put

pint bottles.
2

Blackberry Syrup

Take
1

pounds

of

the

smaller blackberry roots and 2 gallons of water,

and

boil tbeni

down

to 3 (piarts;

add

pounds

of crushed sugar

and

pint best Ijrandy.

To

60 gallons thus prepared add 3 pounds of allspice and 2 pounds each of cloves and cassia.

The smaller
larger
ones,

roots

are

much
of

better
their

than the
in pint

on

account

possessing

superior
bottles.

astringent qualities.

Put up
is

Any
cial,

preparation of blackberry

very benefi-

both as a beverage aud a medicine.

Essence Ginger.
8 ounces bruised

To

ginger and

pound capsicum add 1 pound alcohol;

Bottle.
1

mix and work well

for 10 days.

Perfume
starch, to

for

Note Paper
powder.
in

Powder

ounce
into

which add 8 drops otto of

root

roses, 1

ounce

orris

Put the above

bags and keep

the

writing desk with the

paper you wish perfumed.

Peppermint Lozenges

Powder

pounds

of

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

the best white sugar and

oil of

peppermint to

flavor;

pound pure starch, mix with mucihige,

roll

out and,

when

dry,

cut into lozenges of

whatever shape you desire.

fectioneries can

Many

small con-

make

a larger profit by

making

these articles.

Cure for Piles

leaves,

Make

an ointment of equal

parts of sage, parsley, burdock and camomile

simmer ^ hour in sweet then rub the parts affected with

J
gill of tar

oil
it,

and lard; and drink

the piles

water twice a day.

If

are inward, take the

same quantity

of tar water,

and ^ small glass of the essence of fir each If this course is continnight on going to bed. ued for some time it will do you more good than all the quack medicines in existence. Try it, if you wish to be relieved from this painful
disease.

Balm
ouncos
tolu,

of Life

Take 4 ounces gum benzoin,

calliuter, 1

gum

storax

ounce balsam

gum

1^ ounces gum aloes sucatine, 1^ ounces myrrh, 2 ounces root of angelica, 2 ounces

tops of johnswort.

Powder

all

these together,

and put them into about 3 pounds of rectified

spirits of wine,

in a

glass bottle.
at a

Let them

stand in the spirits

4 weeks

shake occasionally, strain

it off,

moderate heat; and it is fit for

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
use, or to

97
If th<i gtiniH

be bottled for Hale.

are

not

all

dissolved,

add
let

a little
it

more

spirits to the

same; shake and

stand as before.

Dose:

From

12 to

5 drops in

a glass of wine in the

morning before

eating.

This

is

a most excellent
is

medicine for consumptives, and

strengthen weak lungs.
suffering in nearly all diseases.
Jellies

very good to

It is a great relief from

Without Fruit
A

To

quart of

warm

water, add

ounce pulverized alum;

boil for a

few minutes, then add 8 pounds of white crushed

or coffee sugar, continuing a little while longer,
strain while hot,

when cold put

jelly.

in 3

ounces of
a for-

the extract of vanilla, strawberry, lemon, or any

other flavor you wish for

There

is

tune in the manufacture of this article as there

is

cannot

handsome profit as the sale is large, for it (if made right) be told from the genuine
of

fruit jellies.

To make Acetate

Ivy

Take

ounce of
in a wide-

ivy leaves fresh gathered; place

them

mouth
fit

vessel

which has a close cover or stopper,

be

cover with vinegar; in two weeks they will

to use;

add vinegar as it is absorbed. Place a part of the leaf upon the corn and confine it there in any convenient manner. This is often
very effective.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS
of Roses Take S pounds add | gallon rectified spirit wine; macerate for a week and distil to drySpirits

To make
of

fresh petals of roses,

ness in a water bath.

[This

is

the real article,

otto of

but

it

may

be

made by mixing ^ drachm

roses with a quart of spirit of wine,

and placing
the spirit;

the bottle in hot water so as to

after

warm

which cork

close,

shake until cold, and next

3

day

filter if

required.]

Rhubarb Syrup Take

ounces bruised rhu-

barb, and 16 ounces pure spring water; macerate 12 hours; filter and add 32 ounces white In making a large quantity, use If sugar. rhubarb to 20 pounds sugar. This is pounds

an article that should be kept ready for use in

every family.
It

can be made much cheaper

than bought.
Wistar's Cough Lozenges Rub well together drachms pulverized opium and h an ounce of tincture tolu; add 1 pound pulverized sugar,
2

and 5 ounces pulverized gum arabic; form into a mass with a solution of extract of liquorice; roll Some factors add a out and cut into lozenges. few drops of oil, anise or caraway. Put up in
small paper boxes neatly labelled.

Lead Solder pound of tin.

Take
Its

pounds

of

lead to

worth

maybe known by melt-

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

99

and pouring a small quantity upon a good (or rich) little bright spots will arise on the top. Apply rosin pulverized when using this solder. Silvering Powder To 30 grains nitrate of silver, add 30 grains common salt and 31 draciinis cream of tartar; mix. Moistened with water, and rubbed on worn out plate or any copper articles, it coats them with silver. Fig Paste for Constipation Cut up small 1 pound of figs, and mix it with 2 ounces of senna carefully picked over, and 1 teacupful of molasses; stew it vmtil it becomes thoroughly mixed and firm; then let stand to cool. A piece about
ing
it,

board;

if it is

half as larg<> as a fig will generally be sufficient.

Milk of Roses Mix together a pint of rose and an ounce of oil of sweet almonds. Then add 10 drops of oil of tartar. Bottle and label nicely. This makes a good preparation
water,
for the hands.

Hull Healing Salve

oil;

Take
rosin; 3

3 quarts of olive

3 ounces

common

ounces bees-wax.
raise the oil al-

Melt these

articles together,

and

most to boiling heat; then gradually add of pulverized red lead 2^ pounds, if it is winter; if In a short time in the summer, 2h pounds.
after the lead
is

taken up by the

oil,

and the

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
a

mixture becomes brown or

shining black, recold,

is

move from the fire, and when nearly of pulverized camphor ^ ounce. This
to

add

found
other

be very superior to every other salve

in burns,
all

fever sores, scrofulous, fistulous

ulcers.

and

Spread

it

on

a piece of linen

and renew
in this if

once or twice a day.

Spalding's

There
1

is

money

put up right and pushed.

Glue

Take
in

pound

fine

white

glue and dissolve

tency, then

it

water to proper consis-

add

a small quantity of
bottles,

aqua

fortis.

Use Ih ounce round

tle.

which by adding

a small brush sells readily for 25 cents per botIt will

always be found ready and very

convenient for

many

purposes.
1

Bluing Clothes

Put
A

gallon

of

soft

water

over 4 ounces Prussian blue, powdered;

add

ounce of pulverized oxalic

2 ounce flat bottles.
for a large wash.

acid.

Put

in

about

teaspoonful

is sufficient

Sells well,

and grocers can do

well in

its

manufacture.

THE CARE OF THE HAIR.

a

Hair brushes should be frequently cleaned by weak solution of ammonia water. Dandruff

and other scalp diseases are contagious, and are

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

101

transmitted by unclean combs and brushes.

best kind of
tar soap

The

shampoo

is

washing the hair with

and hot water, rinsing with cold water,

wiping dry, and then rubbing the scalp thoroughly with a good cologne or toilet water or

"Eau de

quinine."

Hair Curling Fluid or Curlique. No. 1. Borax, 3 ounces; gum arabic, 1 drachm; hot water, 2 pints; spirits of camphor, 2 J fluid Dissolve the borax and the gum in hot ounces. water, and when nearly cool add the spirit of camphor. On retiring at night wet the hair
with the above liquid.

No.

2.

Gum arabic,

sugar, each, 1 drachm;

dissolve. Moisten

rose water, 2 ounces.

Mix and

the hair with

the solution

at bedtime; roll in

twists or paper, so as to

make

papillotes.
for

No.

3.

Steep 6 ounces gum tragacanth

1

40

hours in

gallon

of

rose

water, stirring fre-

quently, strain through a cloth and let stand for

a few days, then strain and
of oil of roses.

work

into

it 1

drachm

No.

4.

Carbonate

of potassium, 2 drachms;

powdered cochineal, i drachm; liquid ammonia, spirits, rose each 1 drachm; glycerine, alcohol, each, 2 drachms; distilled water, 18 fluid ounces.
Digest with agitation for a week, then decant or

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filter.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

The

hair

is

moistened with

it

and then
as
it

loosely
dries.

adjusted.

The

effect

occurs

No.

5.

Borax, 2 ounces, gum arable,

1

drachm.

Add

hot water (not boiling)

(juart; stir,

as soon as the ingredients are dissolved,

and add 3

tablespoonsfuls strong spirits of camphor.

retiring to rest
liquid,

On

wet the hair with the above

and roll it in twists of paper as usual. Mucilage of quince seed may be used No.
6.

as a bandoline or tincture benzoin with a little

washed sulphur and oil of almonds. Lavender Water Mix in a quart bottle 3 drachms of oi^of lavender; 1 pint rectified spirits of wine; shake them well together, and add an ounceof orange-flower water; 1 ounce rose-water; 4 ounces distilled water, and, if you like, 2 or 3

drachms of essence of musk. Cheap Paint for a Barn An excellent and clieap paint for rough wood work is made of

pounds of melted pitch; 1 pint of linseed and 1 pound of brick dust or yellow-ochre.

oil,

To

a farmer this recijie

is

invaluable.
caustics
act

Vegetable
for the

Caustic

Vegetable
flesh, or

much more mildly than

removal of fungus
called
erally

mineral, and perhaps

what

is

gen-

"proud

flesh,"

nothing will

be

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

KK^

found better than Beach's Vegetable Caustic,

made as fcjllows: "Make a strong

pulverize

lye of liickory, or oak ashes,

till

put into an iruu kettle, and evaporate

dry;
I

and preserve in covered would say bottle and cork.

"This caustic
acter.
It
is

vessels."

highly

luseful in the

treatment

of fistulas; also in indolent ulcers of every char-

removes fungus
flesh.

flesh

without exciting
little,

any inflammation, and acts but

sjiongy or soft
IJ
is

except on

useful in cancers,
is

and

in every case

where a caustic

required.

Painter's, or Lead-paralysis of the Wrists

is

To

Avoid.

Experience has

shown that what

motion of the wrist- joints, among painters, is largely owing to the habit they have of washing the hands in
called lead-paralysis, or loss of

turpentine to remove the paint.

the lead, zinc,
etc.,

This dissolves

allowing

it

to be

more

freely

absorbed than would otherwise occur; therefore

to avoid the

paralysis, avoid the

turpentine

soap was made to wash with.

Pain Killer
internal

For

bilious
alcohol,

colic
1

and

other

pains.

Best
-i

pint;

opium,
fir

gum

cami^hor. arabic and guaiac, balsams of

of each

and copaiba,

ounce.

Mix and shake

occasionally until

all is dissolved.

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Dose.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Half

to a teaspoonful, according to the

colic or other internal has been found valuable.

severity of the paiu, in

pains, in which

it

Mixture Take 4 ounces milk of ammonicum; o ounces syrup of squills; mix together. In doses of 2 tablespoonsful every few hours, it
Squill
is

good remedy

for coughs, asthma, or oppres-

sion on the chest.

To ^ ounce of pulverized jalup, and rhubarb, add 3 drachms calomel 1; drachm pulverized gamboge; form the whole
Lee's Pills
aloes
into a mass, with shavings

of castile

soap and
in oval

syrup; then
boxes.

make

into pills

and box

Comstock's Female Pills Beat well into a

mass, 8 ounces pulverized aloes, 2^ ounces dried

sulphate of iron (copperas), 2 ounces myrrh,

ounce of canella,
shavings;

ounce ginger
1

root, 2

ounces
soap

of extract black hellebore;

ounce
it

castile

add enough

to

temper

and divide

into pills; each

2^ grains.

There

is

hardly anything that returns so large

a profit as pills; but they require

much

labor to

place into market, so as to

Boots and Shoes,

come into general use. Cement for Mending, No. 2

1

Raw gutta-percha,

ounce; rosin, the size of

1

a hen's egg; bisul])huret of carbon,

pound.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

105

Dissolve

tlie

gutta in the bisulplmret; then

add the
use.
little

when all is dissolved, bottle for The leather must be clean, and scraped a This of late years has to make it adhere.
rosin;

been quite an item with "street-corner peddlers."

It

holds a patch, upon fine leather, very satis-

factorily.

Table of Measures
to 1 teaspoonful or
1

This

is

of great use for

medicinal or other purposes:

1

()0

drops

is

equal

drachm; 2 teaspoonsful to
2 dessert spoonsful
to
I

dessert spoonful;

tablespoonful or I

an ounce; 4 tablespoonsful
wine-glassesful to
1

to 1 wine-glassful; 2

tea-

cupful or

gill.

squills;

Syrup of Squills 7 pounds

Take
of

pints vinegar

of

white

sugar;

dissolve

tities

To make in large quanby a gentle heat. take 14 pounds perfectly transparent

of squills, and 28 pounds double resugar dissolve either cold or by a very

vinegar
fined

gentle heat.
It

should be clear and nearly colorless.

Economical Scents
often required to
fill

As

cheap perfumes are

fancy bottles, such as

little

are sold at the bazaars, toy-shoi)s, arcades and

other places, the

following

recipes

for

their

manufacture

will be

found of service:

lOG
1.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
Spirits of wine,
1
''

pint; essence of berga-

mot,
2.

ounce.
1

Spirits of wine,

r)int;

otto of sautal,

ounce.
3.

Spirits of wine, 1 pint; otto of

-i

French

lav-

ender, h ounce; otto of bergamot,

of cloves, 1 drachm.
4.

ounce; otto

Spirits of wine, 1 pint; otto of

lemon

grass,

f ounce; essence of lemons, ^ ounce.

5.

Spirits of wine, 1 pint; otto of petit grain,

4 ounce; otto of orange peel, ^ ounce.

Plate

Powder

Mix well together

Put
this

pound

of

levigated oxide of iron and 4 pounds of prepared

chalk finely pulverized.

small

mixture into

wood
it

or paper boxes.
silver

Rub
a

on the
is

dry and then polish with

with
silk.

clean

buckskin,

finishing

This

preparation

a reddish

brown

sold as plate
a]:)out

powder

for

and often 25 cents per box of

color

2 ounces.

Otto of Eoses

Steep

a large quantity of the

petals of the roses, freed from every extraneous

matter, in pure water, in an earthen vessel which

is

exposed daily to the sun, and housed

at night
is

until a

scum

rises.

This

is

the otto, which

carefully absorbed by a very small piece of cot-

ton tied to the end of a stick.

The

oil

collected

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

107
very diminutive

squeeze out of the

vial
;

cottc^n inU)

;i

cork
!)'

tiie

bottle

for

use.

The
is

collection

should

coiitinu(^d while

any scum
1

produced.
of white

An

Irish

Cordial

Strip

pound

currants

from the stems and

l)ruise,

put

in

the juice, the thin rind of a fresh hnnon and

\

ounce of ginger, well pounded and

1 let

sifted.

Pour on these

quart of good old whisky; mix

it

the whole thoroughly, and

in a well-scalded stone

stand

21:

hours

jug or pitcher, covered

Strain
of
it,

closely from the air.

until

it

off;

stir in

it,

dissolved, 1

again and bottle

it is

pound it. Try

loaf sugar; strain

ye Sons of Erin, as

given from the old recipe, and will

make

you tliink of your mother country. To Make a Scent Resembling Violets Dro]) 12 drops of genuine oil of roditun on a lump of

sugar; grind this well in a glass mortar, and

mix
This

it

will, in its

thoroughly with 8 pounds of orris powder. perfume, have a resemblance to

a well -flavored violet.

Ground Glass The frosted appearance of ground glass may be very nearly imitated by
gently dabliing the glass over with a piece of
glazier's putty, stuck

on the ends of the

fingers.
it

When

applied with a light and even touch,

cannot bo told from the frenuine.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Magic Dye

Dissolve
changed

}y

ounce

indigo
it

in

diluted sulphuric acid, and add to

carbonate of potash.
this li<|uid
is

ounce White cloth dipped in

i

to blue, yellow cloth to

ally

This is not generknown, and will often ])e a great l^enefit. Gum for Envelopes and Paper To 2, ounces gum arable, add 1 ounce isinglass dissolved in 3 pints of warm water; and 3 ounces loaf sugar;
green, red cloth to purple.

boil

down

to a thin

paste and apply with a

brush.

This makes a strong gum.

White Liniment

Thick
1

Sweet-oil,

ounces; aqua ammonia,

ounce; spirits of tur-

pentine, f ounce; spirits of camphor, i ounce.

Mix.

This makes a kind of cream-like mixture of

very great importance for mild rheumatic pains
or bruises.

To Make Congress Water

bonate of soda,

Take of supercar-

epsom salts, ^ drachm; table salt, ^drachm; well water (soft); 1 quart; or enough to fill your black bottle, which sometimes does not hold quite a quart;
2 drachms;

mix the powders in a black bottle, and pour on the water; then add of tartaric acid 1 drachm to each bottle, and cork tight immediSoak the corks ately. Fit for use in 12 hours.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
))oiliug

109
before

in

water for

an

hour

using

them To Choose Cinnamon When it is good, is rather thin and plialjle, and about the substance color, of thick paper, of yellowish brown sweetish taste and pleasant odor; that which hard, thick and dark-colored should be is

rejected.

Palm Soap
ally stirring

(Superior)

Cut

thin

pounds

of yellow soup into a double saucepan, occasionit till it is

melted, which will be in

is

few minutes,
it;

if

the water
of a

kept boiling
of

palm oil, 4 6 cents worth of true of pound of honey, and

around
then add 4

pound

oil

of cinnamon: let all boil

together another

6 or 8 minutes; pour out and stand it by till next It is then fit for immediate use. day. Concklin's Salve Take 12 ounces of rosin,

and

ounce each, of

bees- wax

tallow; melt together, strain;

in cold water.

and mutton and work into rolls

Frey's Vermifuge Take 1 ounce of castor oil, ounce of aromatic syrup of rhubarb, 30 drops of oil of chenopodian, 5 drops of crotou oil,
1

Mix.

Magic Ink

Dissolve some nitrate

of

bismuth
jvriting

in water; write with this solution.

The

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will

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

be invisible when dry, but as soon as im

in water,

mersed

becomes

legible.

Spirit of Berganiot

Take

pounds

of the

peel of bergamot orange; 1 gallon proof spirit;

digest

for

week, and then add a quart of [This

is

water and
article;

distil 1 gallon.

the genuine
thus: 5

but a substitute

may

be

made

ounces best essence of bergamot; 2 ounces pale

essence ambergris; ^ ounce of essence musk; ^ of an ounce oil of verbena, 1 gallon rectified
spirits of wine;

mix

well].

gant perfumes and can be

realize a

Both these are elemanufactured to

good per centage.

for Easter

To Color Eggs
and
will

Bind

them round

with narrow colored ribbons in a tasteful manner,

boil

them about ten minutes.

impart their color to them.

The ribbons Or logwood

are improved

chips for purple, and onion peel for yellow, or

loaf-sugar paper for purple.
])y

They

being varnished.

Turkish Rouge
wood,
fine,

Take

pound

best Brazil

and

of golden red

color;

infuse 4

days in 4 quarts best white wine vinegar; then boil them together for i an hour; strain through
a linen cloth,

and place the liquid

in

pint

white vinegar; mix the two liquids and

well
toerether.

stir

them
arises

The scum which now

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Ill

should bo carefully taken

dried and powdered.

off,

and gradually

Put

in

small oval or round fancy boxes.

Old Windsor Soap

as thin as-possible,

Slice the
it

best white soap

ov^er a

and melt
and,

slow

fire;

take
oil

it

from the

fire,

when lukewarm, add

of caraway, or any other fragrant oil. To Choose Pepper The finest cayenne pepper consists of powdered bird pepper; as this is of a bad color, it is often adulterated to heighten itscolor. White pepper is merely l)lack pepper deprived of its outer coating, which has a stimulating property; so that white pepper is much weaker than black

Yeast Cakes
of

Make a thick

batter of a pint
salt,

good yeast, a teaspoonful of wheat flour. When risen, stir

risen again, roll

and rye or

in

Indian meal

till

of the right consistency to roll out.

When

them out very thin, cut them into cakes with a tumbler, and dry them in the shade in clear, windy weather. Care must be taken to keep them from the sun or they will ferment. When perfectly dry, tie them up in a bag, and keep them in a cool, dry place. To raise 4 or 5 loaves of bread, take one of these cakes and put to it a little lukewarm milk or water. When
dissolved stir in a couple
of tablespoons ful of

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flour; set
it

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

near the

fire.

When

light, use

it

for

your dough.

Yeast cakes will keep good

for 5 or

to use in

() mouths. They are very convenient summer, as common yeast is so very apt

to ferment.

of pasteboard in any shape

To Imitate Coral Baskets Make the basket you please; dissolve

this mixture,

three sticks of sealing-wax in a pint of alcohol;

wet the basket with

rice
it

and sprinkle on
let

which has been about

half ground;

and repeat the process until the pasteboard is covered, after which paint it with the
dry,

mixture until

it is

red enough.

brush of hair

or feathers should be used.

Soluble Glass
quartz,

To

15 pounds of powdered
of potash

add 10 pounds

and

charcoal; melt these together in cold water,

pound of and
it

then boil with 5 pounds of water in which

It is a

entirely dissolves. It is then applied to any surface.

compound of

the titmost imjiortance, and

is

used as a covering for wood, metal and other

tinizes,

As it becomes cool it gelaand dries into a transparent, colorless glass, on the surface of anything to which it has been applied. It makes wood almost incompractical purposes.
bustible.

Black Japan Varnish

Take

8 ounces burnt

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

11,3

umber, 4 ounces genuine asphaltuni,

boiled linseed
of the oil;
oil;

gallon
little

grind the umber with a

it

add

to

tlie

asphaltuin, [)nniously
oil

dissolved in a small quantity of the

by heat;

mix

all

together and boil; thin to proper consisoil.

tency with

Freckle
acid,
I

Wash Take
lavender.

drachm

of muriatic

pint of rain water, ^ a teaspoonful of

spirits of

Mix them

well

together,

and

apply two or three times a day to the

freckles witli a camel's hair brush.

Papier-Mache This is a plastic material, formed of cuttings of white or brown paper, boiled in water, and beaten to a paste in a mortar, and then mixed with a solution
of
is

gum

arabic

in

size

to

give tenacity.

It

variously manufactured
oiled

by

being
dried,

pressed

into

moulds, afterwards
size,

covered
var-

with a mixture of
nished.
Beers, Pops, etc.

lamp

black,

and

The

small beers are

made
and
the

without the use of malt, simply using sugar and

water, or molasses and water, as the base,
roots or
oil,

as desired, for flavoring to suit

taste of the sick, or to prevent the use of too

large quantities of water, as a small

acid,

amount

of

by the use of yeast as a ferment, or by

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

lemons or other
to

fruit, or by both, has a tendency quench thirst. Ginger Beer Water, 10 gallons; nice 1. lump sugar, 12h pounds; bruised ginger root, ^ pound; the whites of 6 eggs; yeast, 2 tablespoonsful; lemons sliced, 10; isinglass, ^ ounce. Put the ginger in some of the water to obtain

the strength; then strain into the balance of the

water, in which the sugar has been
dissolved.

The

isinglass

must be dissolved by heat, having

over
night.

been soaked
the
all

The

sliced lemons,

having been well squeezed, may be added, and

yeast put
is

in,

the

isinglass

also.

When

mixed,

let

stand 3 or 4 hours, then skim

off

the lemons and squeeze out the juice, and

strain all into a keg, or bottle, as preferred.

2.

Another

Water, 2 gallons;

ginger root,

pulverized, 2 ounces; white or

brown sugar, 2 pounds (white sugar makes it without color, and brown gives color); cream of tartar, h ounce, and 1 sliced lemon; yeast, 1 teacupful. Put the water, ginger and sugar into a kettle and boil for ^ an hour; then skim and pour into a jar with the sliced lemon and cream of tartar; and when cooled, to be only a little warm, add the yeast, and let it work 24 to 30 hours, strain and bottle, tying the corks firmly. Of course it

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

115
nicer
to

can

be

left in

a keg,

but

is

be

bottled.
3.

Root Beer
all

An excellent
is

root beer con-

taining
rilla

the

alterative properties of sarsapa-

and

sassafras, with the nice

aroma

(flavor)

of the uintergreen

made

as follows:
l)ark (dry), of

Sarsaparilla root,

and sassafras

each, 4 pound; wintergreen leaf and stem, 3 ounces; yeast, h pint; molasses, 1^ gallons;
water,

10 gallons, or enough to
if

fill

common

strong beer barrel,

for draught,

if

not, bottle.

Bruise the roots, bark and leaves, and boil to

get the strength in 5 gallons of the water; then
strain into the keg,
if not to be bottled and add when cooled to 65 or 60, and let stand 2 hours when the

the molasses; and

put

in the yeast
is

keg
If

to be filled with the balance of the water. to be bottled, this can be

it

it is

or jar, covering over to allow

to

done in a tub, work for 5 or

6 hours, then bung or bottle as the case may be. It will be found a very valuable alterative for a
spring or

summer

drink.

Dandelion

or

any

other root desired

to suit

may be added

or substituted

any special case

Bitters

in the line of alteratives.

Rhubarb
root,
^f

Take

2 ounces of
1

rhubarb
root.

an ounce of cardamon seeds,

drachm of

Virginia snake root, and h

drachm gentian

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
into a bottle with
a

Put these articles good brandy.

This
easily,
is

quart of

a valuable recipe for children in com-

plaints incident to

summer; it can ])e put up and meets with ready sale. Almond Powder Blanch 6 pounds of bitter almonds, dry and beat them, and press from them 1 pint of oil; then beat them in an iron mortar, and pass the powder through a sieve. Keep it from air and moisture in a glass jar. Used instead of soap for washing the hands, it

imparts a singular delicacy to

ance.

their

appear-

Excellent Rose "Water

of white sugar

Rub up ^ an ounce and 2 drachms carbonate magotto of rose;

nesia with 12 drops

ally

then gradu-

add a quart of water and 2 ounces of alcohol and filter through paper. This will

make

rose water far preferable to the distilled

sold in the shops, either as a perfume or for

culinary purposes.
Cattle Ointment

pound rosin, pounds tallow;

1

Mix with care, 1 pound tar, pound spirits of turpentine, 3

oil vitriol; 5

5 ounces

ounces sul-

phate copper and 5 ounces alum.

tin boxes.
It is

Put up

in

highly recommended as a good

dressing for any cankerous sores in cattle, and

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117

is

a valuable addition to a farmer's medicine

Gloss, or Starch

chest.

collars, etc., a

fine

Polish To give shirt bosoms, glossy appearance when

ironed,

make

the starch as follows:

Take

a piece of white
it

wax the
finely,

size of a small
it

hickory-nut and shave

and put

into

the dish with the starch for an ordinary washing

containing ^ dozen shirts and a dozen collars, and pour soft, boiling water upon it. It will
dissolve about as readily as the starch

and gives
will

the desired polish.

verized

Spermaceti, or finely pul-

gum

arable, in the

same quantity,

answer the same purpose. Common Twist Cough Candy

of

Boil 3 pounds
When

common sugar and

for

pint of water over a slow

fire

hour,

without
it off;

skimming.

boiled enough, take

rub the hands over with butter; take that which is a little cooled

and pull
is

it

as

white; then twist or braid

you would molasses candy, until it it and cut it up in

1

strips.

Purifying the Blood Take

rilla;

pound sarsapa1

^ pound guaiacum shavings;

ounce

sas-

pound elder-flowers; ^ pound alderbuds; I pound burdock root; put all these together, and add 2 quarts boiling water to ^ of
safras; ^

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it.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Take
Cider

a wine-glassful three times a day.

and

a dose of pills twice a week.

cider;

Champagne Take 20 gallons of good pounds of honey or sugar. Mix and let rest for two weeks, then refine with 1 quart of This put up in champagne skimmed milk. bottles, silvered and labelled, has often been It opens very sparkling. sold for champagne. Extract of Arnica Take 1 ounce of arnica flowers, dried; put them in a wide mouthed bottle; pour just enough boiling water over them to moisten them, and afterwards about a pint or 1|
(3

pints of spirits of wine.

In case of a burn, bruise, or sprain, wet a

cloth

with the arnica and lay

it

on the part

affected.

Renew
will

the application occasionally,

and the pain

soon be removed.

Add to | pound ground white sugar, 40 drops essence of lemon; after it

Lemon Sherbet
dries

add ^ pound

of

each, tartaric

carbonate of soda.

All the

acid and powders should be

all

well dried before mixing;

then pass
in

twice

through a hair
bottles.

sieve.

Keep

tightly-corked

Large quantities

of this

wholesome and

refreshing preparation are manufactured and con-

beverage.

sumed every summer; it It is made by

is

sold in bottles as a

dissolving a large tea-

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119
filled

spoonful
water.

in a

tumbler two-thirds

with

Ray's Furniture Oil

linseed
oil,

Put
stir 1

in a jar

pint of

into
1

which

ounce of powdered
root,

rose pink,

and
the

ounce of alkanet

beaten in

a mortar; set the jar in a

warm

place for a few

off,

days,

when

oil

may be poured

and

will

new mahogany. To Make Honey Water Take 2 quarts alcohol, add to it ounce oil of l)erganiot: 1 drachm oil cloves; 30 drops oil cinnamon; 2 drachms essence musk; 1 drachm oil neroli, and 5 drops oil rose. Mix and l)ottle. Kalydor for the Complexion Take 1 ounce bb.nched bitter almonds; 1 pound rose water. Mix and strain, then add 5 grains of bichloride
be excellent for darkening

of mercury to every 8 ounces of the mixture, and scent with rose or violet. Yellow Sealingwax To make yellow wax, take 2 pounds orange shellac; 6 ounces venice turpentine, and 12 ounces chrome yellow in fine powder. Melt and mix. Make into sticks. Scouring Drops Mix 3 ounces camphine, or spirits of turpentine with 1 ounce essence of lemon. There are several preparations for this

purpose, but this

is

about the best for extracting

grease and paint from clothes.

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To Improve Gilding
1

Mix

gill of

water with

2 ounces of purified nitre; 1 ounce of

alum and

ounce of common salt. Lay this over gilt articles with a brush, and their color will be greatly
improved.

Japan Varnish
8 ounces
oil

Dissolve 1
This

drachm camphor;
oil

turpentine;

ounces
is

lavender;

2 ounces bruised copal.

transparent

is used for tin, &c. Fountain of Fire To 6 ounces of water in an earthen basin, add gradually 1 ounce of sulphuric acid, then | of an ounce of granulated zinc and a few pieces of phosphorus the size of a pea. Bubbles of gas will be immediately generated, which on coming to the surface take fire, and in

varnish and

a short time

make

the entire surface of the liquid

fire balls

illuminated, whilst

and

jets of fire

dart

from the bottom with rapidity.

Seidlitz

Powders Add
and

together 2 drachms of

tartarized soda,

2 scruples of bicarbonate of

soda for the blue paper; and 30 grains of tartaric acid for the white paper.

Bengal Lights Take 7 ounces nitre; 2 ounces Mix well and press 1 ounce antimony. the composition into earthen tubes, and place a
sulphur;

slow match on the surface to ignite when necessary.

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121
of cloves, of boiling

well powdered,

Syrup of Cloves Take 2 ounces and put it into a pint

water in a small stew-pan. Boil for J hour, then pass the liquor through a hair sieve, dissolve it
in l^

pounds
fire

of {)owdered loaf sugar; clear

it

over the

with the white of an egg; add a

lot
it

lit-

tle rose or

orange- flower water; and

till

simclear.

mer gently

the syrup

is

formed and

which must be kept Cinnamon, mace, and all others are made exactly on the same plan. Aromatic Vinegar Throw into 2 pounds of acetic acid, 1 ounce each, of the dried tops of rosemary, and leaves of sage; | an ounce each, dried flowers of lavender and of bruised cloves. Let remain for seven days; then express the liquid and filter it through i)aper. This is a
cold, put in bottles,

When

closely corked.

very useful article for use in sick rooms.

Wagon
of lard,

Grease.
.V

Melt over

slow

fire 1

pound

and pound of black lead in powder, stirring them well; remove the mixture from the fire, and stir till cold. This lasts much longer than some preparations, and is very easily made. Essence of Nutmeg Dissolve 1 ounce of the

essential oil in 1 pint of rectified spirits

It is

an excellent
Artificial

article for flavoring.

Marble Soak

a quantity of plaster

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

of Paris in a solution of alum.

it

Afterwards bake

in

an oven and grind

it

it

to a pcvder.

When

wanted, mix

with water to about the consistIt sets into

ency of plaster.

an exceedingly hard
It

composition, and takes a high polish.

may
to

be mixed with various colored minerals or ochres

to represent various kinds of marbles,

and

many

will

be a valuable recipe.
-

Fire
together

and Water
J

Proof Cement
Strain,

Simmer

pint of each, of vinegar

until the

curd separates.

and milk, and with the

whey mix the whites

of five eggs well beaten up.

When

the mixture of these two substances are

complete, add sifted quick-lime and

make

the

whole to the consistency of putty.

fully to the

Apply

care-

broken edges, so that they fit exactly;

perfectly dry,
it

as soon as

it is

will be

found to
article is

resist both heat and moisture.

The

again fitted to bear what

recipe
is

it

did at

first.

The

sold as a great secret at $1.

Everton Taffy

This

fine,

some candy

is

made by

sugar, 3 ounces butter,

and wholepounds of IJ teacupsful water and

delicious

boiling

the rind of one lemon.

When
When

done

which
when

is
it

known by dropping
should be quite crisp.
stir

into cold water,

the J)oiling

ceasses,

in the juice of the

lemon.

Pour about a

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123

quarter of an iuch
dish.

in

thickness in a buttered

French Polish for Boots and Shoes Put 1 pound logwood chips, ^ pound glue, i ounce powdered indigo, h ounce soft soap, ^ ounce isinglass together, and boil these in 4 pints of vinegar and 2 of water; strain. When cold it Apply with a sponge when the is fit for use. If you make for sale, boots are perfectly dry.
put
in earthen pots to

hold about 3 ounces.

7

Copal Varnish
linseed

Take

pounds of the

best

pale African copal; add 2 quarts of clarified

Boil 4 hour; remove it into the and add 3 gallons of boiling oil of turpentine; mix well, then strain into a vessel and cover up immediately. To Shape Ivory Take J pound of mandrake, sliced, and put it in 1 quart of the best vinegar; into this, place the ivory, and if you keep it warm for two or three days, you can bend it in any shape you retpiire. Camphorated Oil Olive oil, 1 pint; camphor, 2 ounces. Mix, and dissolve by gentle heat.
oil.

open

air

In chronic rheumatism, sore throat, inflam-

mation of the lungs,

etc., this will

be found

powerful rubefacient (to make red) or external

stimulant, drawing the blood to the surface from

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

the painful part; and

parts) with
better, in
oil,

it

should be covered (the

fact,
it

flannel

in

would be the

applying any liniment, or stimulating

to cover the parts which increases the heat and prevents evaporation; but with very strong

liniments or oils be careful not to cause a blister,

unless the pain
is

very severe; and even then, I

prefer not to blister, but just to

make
I

as

much

counter (outside) irritation as

blistering.

can short of

Take

Camphorated Oil Liniment Very Powerful the camphorated oil and spirits of turpentine, of each, 2 ounces; laudanum and aqua ammonia, of each, 1 ounce. Well shaken. This will be found very valuable in rheumatic pains of the loins of long standing; or for any
chronic (long standing) pains.

Camphor Elixir
Pimpled Face, etc.
great,

For

Cold Sores, Chaps,

-

The

value of camphor in
etc., is

salvy mixtures for cold-sores, chaps,

as well as

very

pleasant in

its

application.

The following will be found a good combination Almond oil and rose-water, of each, by weight, pouiid; camphor gum, 2 ounces; white wax, 1
spermaceti and rosemary, of each,
1

ounce.

Melt the wax, spermaceti and camphor

in the oil

gum

by gentle

heat; then, while a little

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

\'Z'}

warm, add the rose water and stir briskly until add the rosemary and mix again. Pomade bottles, which have mouths to admit the finger, are suitable for keeping it in. For families, take h or ^ tiie amounts. It can be made softer by lessening the wax and spermaceti, and harder by increasing them. It will be found a very valuable embrocation (to moisten and rub as with a liniment) for bruises, common sores, pimpled faces, etc., especially on the delicate skin of ladies and children, who shrink from the application of liniments, or from their smarting and irritation when first applied. Dysentery and Bloody Flux Take 2 tablethoroiifjhly mixed; then

spoonsful elixir salutis,

oil,
1

tablespoonful castor

tablespoonful loaf sugar; add to this 4

tablespoonsful boding water;

hot.

skim and drink

1

The above

is

a dose for an adult; for a

child 6 to 7,

A the quantity,

year old, ^ the

quantity.

When
is

this

is

manufactured

for sale, the

water

added when used. To Make Sweet Oil With a small hand-mill, every family might make their own sweet oil. This may easily be done, by grinding or beating

the seeds of
boil
it

white poppies into a paste, then

in

water,

and skim

off

the

oil

as

it

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1

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

bushel of seeds" weighs 50 pounds, and

oil.

produces 2 gallons of
oil sold,

Of the sweet

olive
will

is oil

of poppies.
it is

The poppies

grow

in

any garden;

the large-head white

poppy, sold by apothecaries. Large fields are sown with poppies in France and Flanders, for
the purpose of expressing
food.
oil

from their seed

for

When

the seed

is

taken out, the poppy

head when dried is boiled to an extract, which is sold at 25 cents per ounce, and it is to be preferred to opium, which now sells very high. Large fortunes may be amassed by the cultivation of poppies.

They

are very productive,

and require very

tion.

little

attention in their cultiva-

Gutta-Percha Cement

This

is

made by

dis-

solving small pieces of gutta-percha (cut in shavings) in chloroform so as to

like fluid.

produce a honey-

This

is

spread upon the articles to be secured,

to

and allowed

dry.

The

pieces

are

then

warmed until
together.

the coating softens, and are pressed

Patches
boots in a

may

thus be put upon the soles of

defies equally detection

manner which

and damjiness.

Many

persons
1

ai"e

traveling,

selling this recipe for from

to 10 dollars,

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

127
oil of

Cough Elixir

Oil of

anise,
fir,

and

sweet
ounce;

almonds, and balsam of

of

each, ^

laudanum and tinctures of ipecac, digitalis and lobelia, and tincture of balsam of Peru, of each, 1 ounce; tincture of blood-root, and tincture of
balsam of
tolu, of each, 2 ounces; best alcohol,

2 ounces; strained honey, ^ pound. alcohol into a suitable sized bottle and
oils

and

fir,

and shake well

to

Put the add the cut the fir,then add

the tinctures and honey, and shake again to cut

and mix the honey.

Dose.

teaspoonful

3 to

times

daily

according to the severity and tightness of the

cough.
family.
It will

able preparation.

be found an exceedingly valuIt should be kept in every

the frequent
occur-

But, sliould these coughs become firmly

neglect, or

seated, from

rence of cold, the treatment will more properly

come under the head

in that disease, this able.

of consumption, but, even,

syrup would be found valu-

Avoid

full

meals, in these colds.

A Varnish

to Color Baskets

Take either red,

you

black, or white sealing wax, which ever color

wish to make; to every 2 ounces of sealing wax,

add
fine;

ounce of
sift
it

spirits of

wine;
fine

pound
lawn
put

the
sieve,
it

wax
till

then

through a
it

you have made

extremely

fine;

into a

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

large phial with the spirits of wine, shake

let it

it,

stand near the

it

fire

forty-eight hours, shaka

little,

ing

often; then,
all

with
it;

brush the

baskets

over with

let

them dry, and do

them over a second time. To Color Meerschaums

coloring meerschaums.

Tobacco which conis

tains a great quantity of nicotine-

the best for

most beautifully colored, when done so gradually by never allowing it to get very hot, and thus expelling the wax from the meerschaum by degrees.
is

The pipe

When you
ing, allow
it

first

use the pipe, only half

fill

it

with tobacco, and on every occasion after smokit

to cool

thoroughly before you use

again.

A meerschaum
olive oil or

boiled in bees-wax and oil

mutton tallow
oil

will color in a

short

time.

Pipes boiled in

present a beautifully

mottled appearance after having been smoked

for three weeks.

Pure Wine of Apples - Take pure cider made from sound ripe apples as it n.uis from the press; put ()0 pounds of common brown sugar
into

15 gallons of the cider, and

the barrel up to within 2

let

it

dis-

solve; then

put the mixture into a clean barrel,

gallons of

and

fill

being

full, with

clean cider;put the cask in a cool

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
place, leaving the

129

bung out

for

48 hours; then
tight;

put

in the

bung,

with a small vent, until fermen-

tation wholly ceases,

1

and bung up
fit

and

in

year the wine will be

for

use.
it

This wine
stands upon

requires no racking; the longer

the lees, the better.

Simple Mode of Purifying Water A tablespoonful of powdered alum, sprinkled into a

hogshead of water, and

all

stirred,

will

in

the

course of a few hours precipitate to the Ixittom

the impure particles, and leave the water as
clean and pure as spring water.

Four gallons

would need but

laia,

a teaspoonful.
1)

Cleansing Compound (No.

borax,
1

Extract quil4 ounces;

ounce each, ox

gall, fresh,

tallow soap, 15 ounces.

This produces a plastic

into sticks or put

mass, which
into

may be molded
It
is

boxes.

excellent for

cleaning coat

collars, hats, or

removing any kind of spots from

clothes.

Cleansing Compound (No. 2)

Oleic

acid,

ounce; bora::, 2 ounces; oxgall, fresh, 5 ounces;

tallow soap, in powder, 20 ounces.
acid should
Ije

The

oleic

incorporated

last.

Japanese Cleaning Cream

cleaning fluid the following
as any:

For an
is

all-around

perhaps as good

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Castile

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
soap,
3

ounces;

water,

gallon;

ammonia, 6 ounces;
10 drops.
the

alcohol, ether, each, 3 ounces;

oil

glycerine, 2 ounces;

of citronella or myrbane,

To Remove the Smell of Paint First renaer room as nearly as possible air-tight by closing the windows, doors, and other openings.
it

Place a vessel of lighted charcoal in the room,

and throw on
per berries.

two or three handfuls of juni-

After 24 hours the smell will have

entirely disappeared.

Gum

Arabic

Substitute

Lime,

slaked,

ounces; sugar, granulated, 12 ounces; water, 36 ounces; glue, enough.

Dissolve the sugar in

the water, then boil and add the lime.

In a

few days the lime sinks to the bottom, leaving

a clean, thick mucilage, fully as adhesive as
if

made with gum,

added

1 or 2

ounces of good glue,

it

to 15 ounces of the solution, keeps

fluid.

Superior Liquid Glue

sian) each,

Gelatine, glue (Rusc),

2^

drachms; acetic acid (glacial)

acid (20 p.
2

alcohol,

acetic

ounces each;

alum, 2 grains.

Put the gelatine, glue and

alcohol.

acetic acid over a

water bath until liquid, then add the alum and

Wlien

thoroughly mixed,

fill

into

appropriate bottles.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
" Schic-Liao," or Chinese

131

Putty

Slaked lime
parts;
is

powder, 54 parts; powdered alum,

fresh blood, well stirred, 40 parts.

Mix

thoroughly

until

smooth mass
cements

obtained of the consistency of a salve.

condition
it is

In this
for por-

one of the

finest

celain, marble, or

stoneware.
it is

When made

of

employed for rendering water-proof all kinds of objects, and the Chinese apply it to houses, kegs, etc., or for making
thinner consistency

pasteboard as hard as wood.

Fluid Sealing
turpentine,
2

Wax Melt

together
5

venice
parts.

parts;

white shellac,

When somewhat
The
tle

cooled add alcohol, 10 parts.

lit-

color

is

supplied by rubbing up with a

form a paste, cinnabar, 5 parts. This sealing wax, kept in convenient bottles, is rendered fluid for use l)y immersing the bottle
alcohol, to in

warm

water.

Stamping Inks
stamps:
1. 2.

The following
oil,

formulas fur-

nish inks serviceable for either metal or rubber

Ultramarine, 25; olive

75 parts.
olive oil,

Ultramarine,

5;

Paris blue, 10;

85 parts.
3.

Verdigris, 25;

oleic

acid, 5;

olive

oil,

70

parts.

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4.
5.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Cinnibar, 40; olive

oil,

GO

parts.

Gas

soot, 15; olive oil,

85 parts.
it is

Erasive Ink
paper, cloth,

The following composition,

claimed, will remove ink or writing fluids from

etc.:

In 2 quarts of water dissolve 4 ounces of

acid

citric

and then add from 6

1.

to 8 ounces of a con-

centrated solution of borax.

This

is

solution

To prepare solution No. 2, add to 2 quarts of water f pound of chloride of lime; shake well and set aside for about a week; decant
No.

and add from 6

solution of borax.

to 8

ounces of concentrated

This composition

is

used by saturating the

1,

ink spot with solution No.

removing excess of

liquid with a blotter and then applying solution

No.

2.

When

the'stain has disappeared, apply

the blotter and wash the spot by the alternate

use of clear water and blotting paper.

Ink destroyed

in

such a manner cannot well

be brought to view again by chemicals.

writing.

Tannic

or gallic acids will sometimes restore obliterated

Alizarin paste, grams 15; Alizarin Ink sodium carbonate, grams 7; logwood extract, grams 25; water, grams 1,000. Dissolve the carbonate in a little water; add the alizarin

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
paste,

133
in the

and

lastly the

logwood dissolved
filter.

remainder of the water, and

nails

Transfer

the liquor to a rather large bottle, drop in a few

and expose the whole to the sunlight

is

for

about a week, with occasional shaking.

ink

The

now

finished.

It

only needs decanting

and the addition

acid to insure
its

of 4 or 5

grams
parts

of

carbolic

keeping.

Indelible
oil,

Ink

Toluidin,

10;

aniline

parts 25U; dissolve and

add hydrochloric

acid, mucilage,

each parts 480.

The mordant consists of potassium hydrate, ammonia chloride, parts 2; copper sulphate,
parts 4; water, parts 144; mucilage, parts 48.

New

Sympathetic Ink
this

Write

with plain

water on dry finished paper and allow to dry.

Exposing
ing will

paper to iodine vapors, the writin

appear

violet

background.
blue,

Wetting

this the

on a yellow brown paper will turn

showing the tracings

in dark, bluish violet.

To Make Water Cold

for

Summer

It

may

be

kept nearly as cold as ice water by surrounding

the pitcher or jar with several folds of coarse
cotton, to be constantly wet.
carries off the heat inside,

The evaporation
it

and

will

be reduced

almost to freezing.
regions this
is

In India and other tropical

common.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Horse Flies
with
llies,

To prevent

horses being teased

take 2 or 3 small handsful of walnut

of soft

leaves,

upon which pour 2 or 3 quarts

let it

cold water;

infuse one night;

pour the
let it boil
it

whole next morning into a kettle and

for a quarter of an hour;

when

cold

will l^e

ready for use.

Nothing more is required than to moisten a sponge with the liquid and, before the horse goes out of the stable, let those parts which are
most
etc.

irritable

be smeared over with the liquid,

namely, between and upon the ears, the flanks,

French Chemical Soap

2

Take 5 pounds

castile

soap, cut fine; 1 pint alcohol, 1 pint soft water,

ounces aquafortis,

ounces saltpetre, 3 ounces potash,

dissolve the soap, potash

ounce lamp black, 2 1 ounce camFirst

phor, and 4 ounces cinnamon in powder.

and saltpetre by boiling; then add all the other articles and continue to stir until it cools; then pour it into a box and For let it stand 24 hours, then cut into cakes. taking oil, grease and tar from clothes, etc.,
there
is

nothing superior.

It

can be manufactprofit.

ured and sold at 100 per cent

Tar Syrup

for the Lungs, Coughs, etc.

Take

a teacupful of

common

tar,

such as the farmers

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135

use for their wagous, and loaf sugar, 2 pounds;

water, 1 quart.

Put them into a

sugar
is

tin

dish and see that the

dissolved; then boil 2 hours

it

and remove

from the stove and let out stirring, then pour

stand until cold withthe syrup.

off

Rowland's Maccassar Oil Eight ounces sweet oil, 60 drops cantharides, 10 drops oil of rose, 00 drops each oil of bergamot and oil of lemon,
alkanet sufficient to color
it.

Rosin Ointment Composed of 2 ounces of yellow wax, 5 ounces of white rosin and 7 ounces
of

hog's lard;

these must be slowly

melted
till

together and stirred constantly with a stick

completely mixed.

This ointment
scalds
it is

is

sometimes used in treating

and burns,

also for dressing blisters

when

for

wished to keep up a discharge from them This is a stimulating ointment. i\ few days.

of

Waterproof and Fireproof Cement for Roofs Houses Slack stone lime in a large tub or

barrel with boiling water, covering the tub or barrel to keep in the steam.

When
To
this

thus slacked
it

pass

quarts through a fine sieve;

flour.

will then
1

be in a state of fine
rock salt and
ture and skim
1

add

quart

gallon of water.
clean.

Boil the mix-

it

To

every 5 gallons of

13G
this

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

skimmed mixture add

pound

of

alum and

J pound of copperas; by slow degrees add ^ pound potash and 4 quarts fine sand or wood
ashes sifted.

Both of the any coloring you please.

It

a])ove will

admit of

looks better than paint and

is

as durable

as slate.

Sassafras

Mead

This

is

a
in

very pleasant,

wholesome and cheap beverage

warm

weather.

Stir gradually with 2 quarts of boiling

water 3| pounds of good West Indian molasses and ^

pound
in

of tartaric acid.
it

Stir

it

well,

cool strain

into a large jug or pan;

sassafras.

and when then mix

it

4 ounce of essence of
(it

Transfer

to clean bottles
it

will
it

fill

about ^ dozen), cork

a

tightly

and keep

in a cool place.

To prepare a glass of it for drinking, pour little of the mead into a tumbler, stir into it
small quantity of carbonate of soda

and then
the glass;

add
give

sufficient
it

ice

water to half
it

fill

a stir

and

will

immediately foam up to
suffi-

the top.

About

'?{

pound

of carbonate of soda

is

cient for above.

Odor from Perspiration

Remedy This very

may be
entirely re-

great source of annoyance

moved

as follows;

CAPTIVR SECRETS.

137

Mix a tablespoonlul of the compound spirits of ammonia in a small basin of water. By wash
iug the arms, armpits and hands with this soluthe skin will be left clean and sweet. It is cheap and harmless; and is much preferable to the perfumes and unguents which cover up and disguise but do not correct the cause.
tion,

Substitute for Coffee

Scrape

clean 8 or 4

good parsnips, cut them into thin slices, bake till well brown, grind or crush, and use in the same manner as coffee, from which it is scarcely
distinguishable.

This

is

not only a beverage

is

equally good as coffee, but

likewise a cure for

asthma.

Tooth Powder, No. 4 Take 2 ounces prepared chalk,! drachm gum myrrh, in fine powder; ^ ounce Peruvian bark; 1 ounce white sugar; 1 ounce rose pink; mix well. This is one of the best tooth powders in use; it cleans the teeth,

and sweetens the breath, and can be made and sold at a moderate
price.

hardens the gums

For Whooping Cough

salt of tartar in

Dissolve
with sugar.

a scruple of

^ pint

of water;
it

add to it 10 grains
Give to an

of cochineal; sweeten

infant the ^ih. part of a tablespoonful 4 times a

day; 2 years old, J a spoonful;

from 4 years,

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a

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

tablespoouful.

This

is

very successful

mixture.

Prize Liquid Blacking Equal to any made. Use 28 pounds ivory black, in fine powder; 8 pounds treacle; 1 pint refined or droppings sweet oil; 1 gallon good malt vinegar; 2 gallons stale but good beer; 2 ounces oil of vitriol; G Mix treacle and gallons soft water distilled. water together; and to powder add oil till well mixed; then add porter and vinegar in pan; stir well togetlier 1 hour with stick, then till for use.

This excellent prize blacking meets with ready

sale to grocers, &c., at a profit of
gross.

$8

to

$10 per

person trying

its

virtues once will be

in the future.

induced to take none other

colchicum,

Dr. Davies' Gout Mixture

1

One ounce wine of

of

ounce

spirit

nitrous

ether; 2

scruples iodine of potassium, 2 ounces distilled

water.

Mix.

teaspoouful

in

camomile tea
ounce each, and

2 or 3 times a day.

cloves,

To Perfume Clothes Take cedar and rhubarb;

it

pulverize

sprinkle

in the chest or drawer.

It will create

a beautiful scent,

and prevent
juniper

moths.

Nerve Invigorating
berries, 2

One
1

ounce

ounces orris

root,

ounce bitter bugle,

CAPTIVE SECRET'?.
3 ounces

139

camomile
it

flowers; Ijreak

them up
of

fine,

steep

tablespoonful in half a

})int

boiling

water, and drink

through the day.

Take

dose of

])ills

twice a week.

Yellow Ink A little alum added to makes a beautiful yellow ink. Peasley's Cement Prepare a solution

saffron

of

200
isin-

parts of white glue in water;

glass, 3

50 parts of

ofgum

arable,
1

and

3 of

gum tragacanth;
3
solutions

and
in

finally

another of

part of bleached shellac

alcohol.

Then

together, mix

pour these them with 24 parts

of white lead,

and at last 12 parts of the best glycerine and 200 parts of alcohol. The mastic thus obtained should be immediately put up in 1 ounce bottles and well corked.
This article
a
is sold ra2iidly in our streets from wagon, containing a bale of hay; the traces

are put together with

bility

it, thus showing its duraand strength, which is a good advertisement. Try it and be convinced. Dr.Stryker's Eye Water Mix 1 grain tartaric acid, 2 grains chloride of zinc and 2 ounces soft

water.

Wet

soft

rag with this preparation

let a

and wash the eyes 2 or 3 times a day, and

few drops
fall into

each eye.

Just before
it

retir-

ing

is

the proper time to bathe

once.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
still

There are fortunes made and

Bookbinders' Paste
in cold water,

making

in

these simple preparations for the eyes.

Mix vvhcaten
it till it

flour first

then boil

be of a glutinous
paste.

consistence; this

method makes common

Mix

a fourth, fifth or sixth of the weight of the

flour,

add a

little

powdered alum, and if required stronger, powdered rosin.

business can be

made

in the

manufacturing

of this article alone.

Curry Powder

Take

2 ounces of tumeric, 6

ounces of coriander seed, h ounce of powdered ginger, 2 drachms of cinnamon, 6 drachms of

cayenne pepper, 4 drachms of black pepper,

drachm of mace and cloves powdered fine, 2 drachms of pimento, 4 drachms of nutmeg, and 1^ ounces fennel seed; powder finely, mix, dry, and bottle for use.
This can be sold
readily
if

at

grocery stores
will

very

put up nicely, and

be found by an
etc.

epicure to be nice to eat with meats,

Rose-water,! pint; Freckles To Remove alum, pulverized, and lemon-juice, of each, 1 Apply at night. ounce. To Marble Books or Paper Marbling of

books or paper

is

performed thus:

Dissolve
of
fair

ounces of

gum

arabic in 2 quarts

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

141

water; then provide several colors mixed with

water in pots or shells, and with pencils peculiar

to

each color; sprinkle them

intermixture upon the

gum

water, which

by way of must

be put into a trough, or some broad vessel; then, with a stick, curl them, or draw them out in
streaks to as

much
this,

variety as

may be

done.

Having done
close together,

hold your book, or books,

the top of the water

which

and only dip the edges in, on and colors, very lightly; done, take them off, and the plain

impression of the colors in mixture will be upon

the leaves; doing as well the ends as the front
of the

book

in like

manner, and afterwards glaz-

ing the colors.

Imperial Pop
tartar,
1

Take 3 ounces of cream of ounce of bruised ginger, IJ pounds

sugar,
1

of

white

ounce of lemon
Mix,

juice,

and
tie

pour li gallons of boiling water on them; add

2
tablespoonsful of yeast.
the corks as usual.
bottle,

and

down
All
profit.

small confectioners

sell

it

at a

large

Imitation of

Ebony

Pale-colored
in a

stained in imitation of ebony by washing

with, or steeping

woods are them

them

strong decoction of

logwood or

galls,

allowing them to dry, and

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

then washing them over with a sohition of the

sulphate or acetate of iron.
are

When

dry, they

washed with clean water, and the process repeated, if required. They are lastly polished
Chemical Renovating Balls

or varnished.

of Fuller's earth, \ ounce of pipe-clay,

salt

of

tartar,

spirits of

wine.

ounce ounce ounce beef gall, 1 ounce Pound the hard parts, and
1

Quarter

mix the ingredients well together.

stain
ball,

Wet

the

with

cold water, rub

it

it

well

with this

then sponge

with a wet sponge and the

stain will disappear.

All kinds of grease, paint, pitch

and

tar can

be taken out from

hats,
coats,

silks, linen,

woolen, carpets,

&c.,

without fading the color or

injuring the cloth.

Almond Flavor
tial
oil

Dissolve
almonds
in

ounce of essen1

of bitter

pint of spirits
cordials,

of wine.

Used

as flavoring for

and

perfuming pastry.
ingly poisonous.

In large quantities exceed-

few drops only should be

used to several pounds of syrups, pastry, &c. Anglo-Japanese Work This is an elegant and

easy domestic
dissolve

art.

Take yellow withered

leaves,

gum, black paint, copal varnish, &c. Any articles may be ornamented with these sim-

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
pie
materials.

143

An

old

work-box, tea-caddy,
all

flower-pots, fire-screens
tions, work-boxes, &c.

screens of

descripleaves,

Select perfect

dry and press them between the leaves of books; rub the surface of the article to be ornamented
with fine sand-paper, then give
a
color-shop.
it

a coat of fine

black paint, which should be procured mixed at

When
give
in

dry,
2

rub smooth with

other coats.

pumice-stone, and

Dry.
variety,

Arrange leaves
under
side,

any manner and

according to taste.

Gum

the leaves on the

and press them upon their places. Then dissolve some isinglass in hot water and
brush
it

over the work.

Dry.

Give 3 coats

of copal varnish, allowing

coat to dry.
years,

Articles

ample time for each thus ornamented last for

of

and are very pleasing.

Turner's Cerate
yellow wax and
of calamine
till

This consists
1

pint of olive

oil,

^ pound of which are

to be melted together; this being done, h

pound
stirred

powder

is

to be sifted in,

and

the whole be completely mixed.

is

This

put in small round wooden boxes.

Spice Plaster

Half

ized cloves, cinnamon,

an ounce each, pulverand cayenne pepper; mix,

galls, or

and add
spirits, to

flour

and wine of
this plaster,

diluted

form

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
as near the diseased parts as

Spread and lay

possible.

it

pains and spasms. warming the leaf between the hands, apply printing ink, by means
It is excellent for

Leaf Printing
small
soft

After

of a

leather ball

containing cotton, or

some
finger.

substance, or

with the end of the

The

leather ball (and the finger

is

when

used for that purpose), after the ink

to
it,

applied

should be pressed several times on a piece

of leather, or

some smooth

surface, before each

application

to the leaf, that the

ink

may be

smoothly and evenly applied.

apply
use
to the paper,

After the under

surface of the leaf has been sufficiently inked,

it

where you wish the impresit

sion; and, after covering

with a slip of paper,

to press

the hand

or

roller

upon

it,

as

described in the former process.

Even

for past-time, this art will be beneficial,

and many instances profita])le. To "Write Secretly onaPocket Handkerchief. -Dissolve alum in pure water, and write upon a
fine white handkerchief,

which,

when

dry, will

not be seen at
letters
visible,
it

all;

but when you would have the

the handkerchief
in

dip
will

pure
all

water, and
over, except

be of a wet appearance
it

where

was written on with the

alum water.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

14-")

You may
dipped
ill

also write with

will

alum water upon

be visible
till

writing paper, which

water.

not

Zinc Ointment. Rub well together

oxide of zinc, and

ounces of hog's lard.

it is

ounce of This
com-

ointment

is

useful for chilblains;

for dressing the

also

monly used

sores

remaining

after scalds and burns, to absorb the great discharge which generally follows; and it is a very

good application
skin.

to cracked skin,
irritates the

from which a
neighboring

watery fluid oozes and

Put

in

metal boxes.

Taffy for "Whooping

of treacle; ^

Cough. Take
walnut; a
oil of

pound

pound

of moist sugar;

a piece of

butter, the size of a

teaspoonful of

ginger or lemon-peel, or

peppermint; and

^ a teaspoonful of jalap.
till it

Boil

them together
It

will set firm in a basin

of cold water.

requires stirring while boiling, and takes a long

time to

boil.

Make

into small squares for sale.

True Indian Curry Powder. Four ounces turmeric, 11 ounces coriander seed, ^ ounce
cayenne, 5 ounces black pepper, 2 ounces pimento, ^ ounce of cloves, 3 ounces of cinnamon, 2

ounces ginger,

3 ounces

cumin

seed.

ounce

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shallots.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
All these

ingredients should be of a

fine quality,

and recently ground or powdered.

for

An
ounce

Excellent Paste
lic^uor
1

Gloves.

Half

an

ammonia, 10 ounces chloride of

soap, ^ pint of water; soap in the water, with a gentle

potash,

pound cured

dissolve the

heat, then, as the mixture cools, stir in the other

ingredients.

Use

it

by rubbing
is

it

over the

gloves until the dirt

removed.

Prepared Ox Gall, for Removing Spots.

together,
1

Boil

pint of ox gall and 2 ounces of

dered alum; to which, add 2 ounces of

salt; let

pow common

the liquor

settle,
it

essence of lemon, pour

off into

add a few drops of a bottle, and

cork tightly.

DISINFECTANTS AND

THEIR

APPLICA-

TION DURING CHOLERA EPIDEMICS.

Although a serious outbreak of the scourge
this country
is

in

not to be feared,

still it is

well

to consider

what are thought the best methods

instructions next following are, in

of disinfection for checking the ravages of this

disease.

The

substances, those promulgated by the

German

imperial sanitary board.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
Disinfectants.

147

I.

1.

Milk of Lime.
in

Into

pints of water and place in

proper vessel put 1^ it 1 quart of fresh

quick lime

small pieces.

When

the quick-

lime has absorbed the water and become a dry

powder, add <U pints more of water. Preserve n a well-closed jar. Stir before using.
2. Chloride of Lime. A good, fresh article only should be sold. The solution of chloride

of lime

is

of cold water.

made by stirring The clear

2 parts into 100 parts

solution

is

decanted

from the sediment.

3.

Solution of Soft Potash (Green) Soap.

Dissolve 3 parts of soft soap in 100 parts of hot

water.
4. Solution of Carbolic Acid. Dissolve 1 part of commercial so-called 100 per cent car-

bolic acid in

(No.

3).

If

20 parts of solution of soft soap pure crystallized carbolic acid is

is
is

preferred, the presence of soap in the water

superfluous; but while this article

sive,
it is

more expen-

not superior for disinfecting purposes

to the 100-per cent carbolic acid, so called.

5.

Steam Chambers.
jets at

These may be arranged

1

for

steam

212F., or for steam under a

-tenth atmosphere.

pressure of not less than

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G.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Boiling Water.

The

articles to

be disin-

must be entirely covered by water and the latter must be kept boiling for at least 30
fected

minutes.

II.

Application of the Disinfectants.

1. The Excreta of Cholera Patients (stools and vomits) are collected as far as possible in a vessel and mixed with an equal volume of milk Let stand 1 hour before removing. Or of lime. stir from 2 to 3 heaping tablespoon fuls of dry chloride of lime into each pint of dejecta and let

stand for 15 minutes before removing.

2. The Hands and Other Portions of the Body must be disinfected by thoroughly wash-

ing, either with solution

of chloride of lime or

solution of carbolic acid, whenever they have

come
3.

in contact with infected material (dejecta,

linen, etc).

Bed Linen, Garments,

Towels,

and

all

other textile goods permitting washing, must be

soaked in solution of soft soap or solution of

carbolic
acid,
articles

immediately after being

remain 12 hours

soiled.

Let the

in the carbolic

acid solution, or 24 hours in the soft soap solution before rinsing

and washing.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

149

If steam heat or boiling is to be employed, then the fabrics are saturated with disinfecting solution No. 3 or 4, and laid aside in well closed

receptacles,

or

tied

up

in

a cloth, also

moist

with the same solution.

4. Garments and Other Fabrics that cannot be washed are subjected to steam heat. Leather goods are cleaned with either solution No. 4 or
2. 5. Wood and Metal work is disinfected bywashing with solution No. 4 or 3. Treat the floor in the same manner, or apply milk of lime and let remain for 2 hours before washing away.

All rags thus used are to be burned.

Cholera and Diarrhoea Mixtures.

The following are the most largely used and well-known mixtures used for Cramps, Colic, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, and Bowel comThey are useful in the first stages of Asiatic Cholera, especially the mixture of Thielmann.
plaints generally.

The dose of these mixtures for adults is uniformly from 25 to 30 drops, in a little water, repeated if necessary every hour.
These preparations
all

contain opium, and

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CAPTIVE SECRETS,

should not be given to children unless the opium

is left

out.

The most common and simple remedy

is

for Diarrhoea in children

fresh chalk mixture.

The "Sun" Cholera Mixture. Tincture of opium, tincture of capsicum, tincture of rhubarb, spirits of camphor, spirits of peppermint, of
each
1 fluid

ounce.

SquihVs

Diarrhoea

Mixture.

Tincture

of

opium, tincture of capsicum,

spirits of

camphor?

each, 1 fluid ounce; chloroform, 180 m.; alcohol,

enough
1

to

make

5 fluid ounces.

Thielmann's Diarrhoea Mixture.

fluid

Wine opium
H
fluid

ounce;

tincture

of

valerian,
oil of

ounces; ether, 4 fluid drachms;

1 fluid

peppermint,
alco-

hol,

drachm; fluid extract ipecac 15 m.; enough to make 4 fluid ounces.

Diarrhoea
Mixture.
fluid
1

Looniis^

Tincture
drachms;

of

opium and rhubarb, each 4 ture of catechu compound,

sassafras,

tinc-

fluid ounce; oil of

20 m.; tincture of lavender compound,

enough

to

make 4

fluid ounces.

Velpeau's Diarrhoea Mixture.

Tincture

of

opium, tincture of catechu compound,

spirits of

camphor, of each

fluid ounce.

Supreme Nectar Put into a 9 gallon cask, pounds of moist sugar, 5 ounces of bruised ginger,

4 ounces of cream of

tartar,

4 lemons, 8

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

151

ounces of yeast, and 7 gallons of boiling water.

Work two

or three days, strain,

in

add

pint of

brandy, bung-very close, and

14 days bottle

and wire down. Eureka Vermifuge

Take
|

^ gallon castor
oil of

oil;

^ pound wormseed-oil;
1

ounce

aniseed;

2 ounces (each) tincture of

ounce senna.
one-half;
it

Boil the pinkroot

myrrh and pinkroot; and senna

together in 2 quarts of water; strain and boil

down

mix

all

well, eo that

shall be

together and shake mixed thoroughly while

you put
Dose.

it

into vials.
1

teaspoonful, morning and evening

for a child of 3 years.

Shake
1

well, so that

the

sediment

is

mixed.

1 ounce arsenic, 4 pound antimonious sulphide, 4 pound potassium nitrate, 1 pound ferrous sulphate, 1 pound

Cure for Hog Cholera, No.

sulphur,
of slop

1 pound madder. Mix with 1 2 gallons and give 1 pint to each hog, the whole

being for

fifty.

Cure for Hog Cholera, No. 2

pound

capsi-

cum, 2 pounds ferrous sulphate, 2 pounds madder, 5 pounds calcium phosphate, 10 pounds

wood
in the

ashes, sifted.

This

may

be administered

same quantity as the foregoing. Value of Salt as a Manure Extensive exper-

152

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

iments have been

made
is

with

common

salt as

manure, until
ing

it

well

settled that salt will

hasten the ripening of wheat several days, bringit

on before the rust

will affect

it,

gives a

more plump grain, brighter straw, etc. It is recommended to use it in quantities from 2 to 4
bushels to the acre, sowing just before seeding,

and harrowing
seeding
if

it

in
is

with the seed, or before

to be drilled in.
is

the seed

For other

crops sow after the ground

broken, before

harrowing.

Value of

Wood

Ashes for

Wheat Experience
ashes, in

has also shown that

wood

quantities

of 6 to 8 bushels to the acre have a decidedly

marked same as
making
which
it

effect;
salt,

they push the wheat ahead the

it

several days, thus getting

ahead

of the rust, while they also strengthen the stem,

it

less likely to "lodge," or fall

fills

down, after

seldom

well.

Ashes are certainly

valuable upon or mixed into the ground for any

crops and especially valuable in proper quantities

around
crystals,

fruit trees.

Carbolic Salve
in

Lard,
l)y

ounce; carbolic acid,

grains;

Rub them

together

simple cerate, ^ ounce. putting in a little of the

acid at a time,

and working thoroughly together. Carbolic salves are being made and sent out

Captive secrets."
for sale as

153
proba-

wonderful
It

"cure-alls,"' but the

bility is that this preparation will

be found equal
an.l other

to

most of them.

may be used

in chaps, burns,

scalds, bruises, sores, tetter,

ringworm,

diseases of the skin, especially those having any

bad

fetor, or

smell arising from them.

Alterative Balls For Horses and Mules

low,or crocus of

Yel-

antimony, Venice turpentine,

Castile soap, niter, flour of sulphur, of each, in

fine

powder, 2 ounces; aloes, in fine powder, 4

Ijlack

ounces;

antimony, in powder,
into 8
balls,

-h

ounce.

Mix and form

honey.

with molasses, or

of these balls each

in good flesh give one morning for n week, fasting (on an empty stomach for 2 or 3 hours), then give a mash of bran and oats twice in the day, If the horse is

or 1 ball every other morning, for 2 weeks, as

may be
poor
ing:

flesh,

found best; but if the horse is in or low condition, give the follow-

Niter, yellow, or crocus of antimony, Castile

caraway seeds, anise seeds, turmeric, and ginger, of each, 2 ounces. All to be finely pulverized and made into S balls, with molasses, or honey, and give same as the above. And if this course does not clean off the scabs by the
soap,

time the course of balls

is

given, then let the

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scabs and
following:

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
all irritated

places be dressed with the

Mange Ointment Spirits

weight
lard,
J

of turpentine,

by

pound; quick

silver,

2 ounces; hog's
'2

^ pound;

tlour of sulphur,

ounces; train-

oil, 1 gill.

Rub

the silver in a mortar with the

it is

turpentine until

all

taken up, then add the

all

remainder and work well together until

united.

are

For mange which is a wrinkled and thickened skin, and for scab, after having attended to the condition of the blood, and not having effected a cure, this ointment must be well rubbed upon every affected part, if in warm weather, in the sun, and, if in cold weather, be

warmed
rubbed
to

in
in,

with a hot iron, while

it

is

being

which

will

very seldom,
if

if

ever, fail

work an entire cure,

Ointment

the blood has

had pro-

per attention.
for Spavins, Splints

and Ring-bones
lard, 2 ounces;

Take bees-wax, 4 ounces; hog's

train, or

common

tanners-oil,

^ pint;

gum

tur-

pentine, or

Canada balsam, 6 ounces.

fire
till

Simmer

these over a slow

dissolved, then put

them

in a jar,

and add

spirits of

turpentine, 4

ounces; corrosive sublimate, in powder, | ounce;

and euphorbium, and cantharides, in powder, of each, 2 ounces. Stir, and when nearly cold, add

CAPTIVE SECr.ETS.
oil of vitriol,
it

155
the whole until

h ounce, then

stir

stiffens.

This

is

most excellent ointment

for all pur-

poses when blisters are retjuired upon callouses

of joints, or tendons, or strains of long standing,

as of the whirl-bone (patella, or knee-cap) or of

the

stifle, etc.

Where
it

the blistering liniment

this is applicable.
will

would be too relaxing,

ordinary purposes,

For

be rubbed in for 8

mornings
ing
off,

in succession,

using a spatula, scrapthe last

each time, before the second and third

is

application

made, not scraping

off

time, in any case; but the

mouth

of the

animal

must be kept from them. Hoof Ointment Freshly churned and unsalted butter, and white, or pine turpentine, of each, I pound; baberry tallow, \ pound; verdi-

gris,

^ ounce; oil of origanum, Ih ounces. Let the verdigris be finely pulverized, and

it

buy that which is already pulverized, otherwise the mortar must be covered closely with a cloth, as it is a bad thing to breathe, and
is

best to

it is

very hard to pulverize; then melt the tallow,

stir in

turpentine and butter together, and

verdigris

the

and origanum (marjoram), and keep

stirred until cool to preveat a settling of tht

verdigris.

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.

This green ointment

sufficiently often to

is

valuable for contracted

hoofs, corked hoofs, cuts, bruises, etc.;

use

it

keep the parts

soft.

Suppurating Ointment for Wounds

con ointment,
4 ounce.
1

Basili-

ounce; cantharides, in fine pow-

der, 4 ounce; spirits of turpentine

by measure,
to cause a
in case

Mix thoroughly.
is

Used

wound

to suppurate, or run.

And

sup-

puration

sought, the horse should have mashes,

or soft feed, which will aid the matturation.

In

case of roweling, which however,

is

not

much

done now-a-days, the rowel sho.uld be dipped

into this before
it

is

inserted.

Purifying Powders For the Blood, For Horses and Mules Black antimony, finely powdered,

cream

of tartar, pulverized niter,

and

flour of

sulphur, of each, 4 ounces.

All being in fine

One

powder, mix together, and keep dry, for use. tablespoonful of these powders may be

used night and morning, mixed in bran, a little w^et, or wet meal, or wet oats, which ever the To be used in all cases of horse will eat best.

impure blood, especially

lions are fed this,
it

in

the spring.

If stal-

v/ill

not only

keep the

bowels cool and open, but give them a nice shining coat.

Suppling Ointment to Follow Blisters, to aid

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

157
of elder,

the

Growth

of Hair, etc

Ointments

spermaceti and marsh-mallovvs,of each, 2 ounces;

gum
small

alcohol, 1

camphor, h ounce, dissolved in the best ounce. Mi.\ all, and tie down in a
jar for use.

Wash

the

blistered part

gently with

warm

water and dry with a dry

cloth, then gently

rub this ointment

all

over as

far as the blister extended, twice daily; will soon

reproduce the hair, and keep the

while healing.
It will

parts soft

be found also valuable

in slight inflammations of the sheath of colts or

horses, or

any other

irritations.

Fever Ball For Horses and Cattle Niter, 4 drachms; tartar emetic, and camphor gum, of each 2 drachms. Molasses to make 1 ball; or

when given
pint.

to cattle,

warm

water, or gruel,

Give twice daily

to

until

the bowels are

relaxed.

Feed Sulphur to Cattle Mix 1 pound pounds of salt, and place the mixture in a box where the cattle can have access to it. The box should be under shelter so as not to be dissolved by rain and dew. Mr. Asa Bailey says in the Albany Cultivator, that he has used this compound of salt and sulphur twenty years, and has not had a louse, or a tick on his cattle in that length of time.
of sulphur with

How

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Solders
soft.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

Solders are of two

kinds, hai'd

and

Hard

solders require a red heat to melt

them; and are used for gold and silver work,

steel,

and gun metal, generally used, or fused, by means of the blow-pipe. The edges to be united must be clean free from rust, grease or

dust.
1.

Hard
silver,

Solder, for Gold

Gold,

13 grains;

pure

4 grains; pure copper, 7 grains.

roll-

Melt together and run into a bar, to aid in

2.

ing out thin, to cut easily into strips for use.

Another

Another hard solder

for gold

is:

Take gold
parts;

of the quality desired to solder, 6

silver, 1

part; copper, 2 parts

proceed
sil
1.

as above.
3.

Soft Solder for Gold

1

ver,l part; copper,

4.

part

Gold, 4 parts; proceed as in No.

1; zinc,

Solders for Gold of Different Fineness

silver, 3;

Gold, 4 parts;

copper,

part.

Used
5.

for 16 carats

gold and upwards.

Gold and silver, 3 each; copper, same as Used for 14 carats in fineness. Gold, 2; silver, 3; copper and zinc, same 6. Used for lower qualities than 8. as 4 and 5. Melt the gold, silver and copper in a crucible; then add the zinc and run into bars, rolled and
No.
4.

cut, as required.

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

159
silver,

7.

Hard

Solder for Silver

Fine

parts; copper, 1 part; melted together

and

rolled

into sheets, to bo handily cut into strips.

8.

Soft Solder for Silver

is

The softer
used,

silver
its

solder

more
be

generally

when

strength will
or melted.
1

sufficient, as it is easier

fused
brass,
it

It consists of silver, 2 parts;

part,

and

a little arsenic

added

just 89

is

melted.
9.

Another

Silver,

19 parts; sheet brass, lU

parts; copper, 1 part.

Solder for Plated Silver Silver, 10. drachm; sheet brass, 2 pennyweights. These can be run into convenient bars
rolling into sheets of a convenient thickness

for

to

cut into strips for use.

A
joint

strip of the silver solder

is

put on the
it

and the blow -pipe soon melts

filling
it

when

it

runs into the seam,

completely,

if it

and the proper flux used. These solders can be powdered for use, if deemed
was
clean,
best.

11.

Solder for White Metals

Tin, 10 parts;
and pour
It is

copper, 6 parts; brass, 4.

brass

Melt the copper and

stir
it.

and add the

tin;

then

into

cold water which granulates

then dried

and pulverized

for use.

160
If
it is

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

desired to have something to fuse or

melt easier, add 2 parts of zinc.

12.

Solder for Iron

Sheet

brass cut into

proper sized pieces, and laid on the joint with

powdered boras.
blowing.
13.
is,

Held

in the fire with

light

Solder for Tin

tin

The best

solder for tin

pure Banca

and pure

lead, of each, equal

parts.

we have is the comes from an island of that name off the coast of Sumatra; but discoveries of this metal have recently been made upon the northern shores of Lake Superior. Its quality,
As
yet the purest tin

Banca,

which

however, has not yet been determined.

This last solder

is

especially adapted for

etc.;

tin

work, lead and tin pipes,

times used on brass,

but

it

is

some-

copper and

gun-metal,

using for these last a flux of rosin and salammoniac; and for sheet iron soldering this last
flux
is

the appropriate one

for the more coma solution

of
sal-

mon

soldering
is

purposes

ammoniac

run along the seam with

a bit of

of zinc (all the zinc that will dissolve

atic acid), then

sponge, fastened to a bit of wire, or the chloride iu muri-

powdered
Zinc
is

rosin

is

dusted along
metal
to
it

the

seam

also.
it

a difficult

solder for

oxidizes (rusts) so quickly;

and

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
readily volatilizes (evaporates) also,
is

101
if

the

heat

too groat.

Poisoning by Opium, Morphine, Laudanum,

etc.

As laudanum is probably the most commonly resorted to by the insane, for the purpose of destroying themselves, the symptoms,
etc.,

treatment,

are as follows:

symptoms of poisoning by opium, morphine, or by laudanum would be the

same

Symptoms

The

stupor or
an

insensil^ility,

and

also a dispois

sition to sleep,

and so

far as the

person
to

con-

cerned,

absolute

inability

prevent

themselves
least, a

from

sleeping.

This indicates, at

part of the

Treatment

The person must

if

be aroused by

shaking, and

already very stupid, by dashing

cold water upon the f ace,neck and breast,especially

if

snoring, or as the doctors

would

say, ^'ster-

torous

breathing" has set

in.

In the meanof

time

let

some one mix a teaspoonful

ground

mustard, and J as much salt in a little warm water, or strong coffee, or strong tea, warm, and

pour it down, repeating it every five to ten minutes until free vomiting takes place; at the same time with an assistant upon each side
keep the person
in constant motion;

no matter

162

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
try to lie
of

how much he may

work
off

down,

for six to

eight hours, as the effects

entirely

porarily

insane,

opium do not in less time. But feiv, temdesire to make the second
is

attempt

the suffering

sufficiently horrible to

arouse the better feelings of their nature, and

overcome the fatuity or illusory conditions of

mind that have led to such an attempt to avoid some imaginary evil. Poisoning by Arsenic This article probably is, next to laudanum, the most frequently obtained for the purposes of suicide, and as "rat-poison," etc., is more frequently than any other poison likely to have accidents arise from

its

being about the house.

The first symptoms arising from nausea and faintness, which are soon followed with burning pain in the stomach

Symptoms
use
is

its

with obstinate vomiting, dryness of the throat,

with craving for drink; any kind of which intensifies

or increases the vomiting; finally diarrhaea,

distended bowels, small, quick and feeble pulse,

cold and

clammy
and

surface,

perhaps

delirium,

convulsions,
sufferer.

death

finally

relieves

the

Treatment

Whenever

it

is

believed

that

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

163

arsenic has accideutally or intentionally been taken,

if

there are eggs in the house let the

whites of 2 or 3 be got
if

down

as soon as possible;

hand milk, or oil, or melted lard be swallowed, then tickle the throat and fauces with a feather or with the finger, to excite vomno eggs are
at

iting without delay, as every minute adds to the danger; in the meantime repeat the mustard and
salt

emetic as with the laudanum, also repeatoil,

ing the

egg, milk or lime water, and the

for

emetic by the feather, finger or mustard

several times to get as

stomach as possible.

much of it out of the And if assistants were at

started to the

hand one should have

for the

drug

store

hydrated sesqui-oxide of iron, to be given

minutes

in doses of a tablespoonful every fifteen

until relief is obtained.

Second

Since the use of

I

jjaris

green for the

destruction of potato bugs, the following item

was

published,

think,
to

by the

Hearth

and

Home, showing how

make

a substitute for

the hydrated oxide above called for, or rather what I should call a "home made"' hydrated sesqui-oxide of iron, where druggists do not keep it. It will undoubtedly be found to answer every purpose of the other. It is made
as follows:

164
'Dissolve

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

copperas in hot water, keep warm,

and add
yellow.

nitric acid until the solution

becomes
of

Then pour

in

ammonia water
of

hartshorn

or

common

solution

carbonate

ammonia
this
bottle.

brown precipitate falls. Keep precipitate moist and in a tightly corked

until a

A
is

few spoonfuls taken soon after even

of poisoning with

bad case

paris green

or

arsenic

a perfect remedy.

Every farmer who

uses paris green for the bugs should keep this

medicine always

in his house."

Poisoning by Corrosive Sublimate

Accidents
and
it

sometimes arise from this

article

being used in
suicidal

solution to destroy bugs about the house,

is

occasionally resorted to

for

pur-

poses.

Symptoms

The symptoms are very similar to

in

those from arsenic, with the additional irritation

which extends to the urinary organs; and

case

no

relief is

obtained and the worst condithroat

tions arise, the dryness of the

may

even

prevent speech, and a doziness or stupor

also arise, as in

may

poisoning with laudanum.

mixed with same, as with the mixed water wheat water, saleratus down, be got thick as it can and the of them, lye, any flaxseed tea, weak
Treatment
flour, or

White of eggs, milk

CAPTIVE SECRETS.

165

prompt emetic

never use

lobelia, or

any other

of the slow acting emetics in case

of poison, as

the sickness caused before

they act only makes

the case worse.

of poisoning
will

saved in case by corrosive sublimate, salivation undoubtedly arise to annoy them.

If the 2)atiout is

Poisoning

by

Strychnine

Strychnine

is

sometimes resorted to for self-destruction, and accidents have arisen fron, its having been used
as a "rat-poison.''
If

taken with a purpose for

destruction, unless their hopes are to go quickly

by taking a large dose, its work is generally an quick, and the destruction pretty certain

over-dose
iting.

may

cause

its

own

rejection

by vomfrom

Symjitoms
its

The

first

sensation arising

use

is

said to be a feeling of weight,

feel)leness

and

consequent
motion; and
its

of

the limbs, followed

in

with rigidity and spasms of the limbs

if

case of

the dose

is

only such as to take

fullest

effects

the entire body will be con-

vulsed and the suffering extreme; and whoever

seesit

will
it

desire to be excused

from

ever

beholding
suffering.

again

death

closing the terrible

Treatment

A mustard, or
1,

mustard and

salt

emetic, as in No.

as there

is

nothing quicker

166
thau
oil,

CAPTIVE SECRETS
this;

pour down ^ pint to

pint of sweet
its

lard oil or melted lard, forcing

ejection

by thrusting the finger down the throat as soon as the oil is down, then repeat the oil again and

same manner for 2 gum camphor in or 3 times; then if there the house give ^ a teaspoonf ul of it in powder, and repeat in 15 to 20 minutes for 2 or 3 times, and if no camphor gum is at hand give the spirits of camphor in tablespoonful doses 2 or 3 times,
its

throwing up also

in the
is

any

after

which a

little

chloroform niay be inhaled

to quiet the remaining distress.

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Asthma, Inhalant 7 Acetate o Ivy, to make 97 Axle or Lubricating Grease. 39 Alterative Balls for Horses. 153 Aniseed Cordial 43 Arnica Liniment 54 Alspice, Tincture of 94 118 Arnica, Extract of Almond Bloom for Face... 70 Paste 83
"
Bitters,
' '

Stoughton

11

" "

Stomach Brandy Rhubarb

26 74
115

Brown's Bronchial Troches 30

Boots, Water-Proof Bronzing Fluid

Leather Bloom of Roses Blood Purifier

" "

"

38 58 59

90 93

" Flavor Anglo-Japanese

Powder

Work

116 142 142

Purifying the.. 117 Purifier for Horses. .156

83 100

Butter Jessimine Bluing for Clothes Bhie, Liquid " Laundry

89
35

Blacking
"

"
"

Harness Water-Proof Shoe Acid Free..

for

66 29
37 59

"
"

Candy, Molasses
"

without Friction.. 87 Liquid Prize 138

Kisses

"

Cream
. .

5 5 5

Baking Powders

No

Blackberry Wine Blackberries, Extract of Blackberry Brandy

29 49 29 88 89 42 63 96 49
114

Babbitt's Anti-FrictionMetal 41

Balsam

of Honey Basilicon, Yellow.. Balm of Life Beer. Root " Ginger " Spruce (Powder) " Ginger No. 2

" Peanut 5 " Cream of, French. 6 " Chocolate Caramels 7 " Hoarhound 92 " Cough, Com'n Twistii7 Catarrh, Spray for 8 Carriage Grease 40

Camphorated Vinegar

44
51

Camphor Tablets
"

Cerate for Chapp63

ed Hands

62 52
115

Camphor
Chaps

Balls to prevent
Ice
70 89 Oil 123 " Liniment. 124 Elixir for Cold
12,

Root No. 2

Camphor
"

Bed Bug Poison

No. 2

Bengal Lights Bergamotte, Spirit of

59 89 120

Camphorated

Camphor
Sores

no

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PAGE PAGE

Carminative Dalbys 28 Cancer Ointment 52 102 Caustic Vegetable Chapped Hands Ointment. 81 Cattle, Fever Balls for 157 " Hove to Feed Sulpher to 157 Cement, Marble 25
" " " "
"

Cordial, Peppermint

30
,

' "
"

Aniseed
Godfrey's Blackberry
Irish

An

43 83 94 107

Congress Water, to Make.. 108 Cloves, Syrup ef 121 Cholera Epidemics 146
"
'

Stick

26
35

Diamond
Leather
Iron

Disinfectants 147 Application of Disinfectants

148

49 79
81

"

Turkish for Water

for for

Pipes

Cement

Mending Boots
86

and Shoes

" " " Cloves, Tincture of

" " "

Mixtures 146 " "The Sun"i50 Cure for Hogs, No.l 151

N0.2

151

Cement

Mending Boots
122 ...126

94
57

Complexion, Milk of Al-

and Shoes No. 2 104 Cement, Fire and WaterProof

monds
Clothes, to Perfume Coffee, Substitute for

Complexion, Kalydor for the 119

Counters, to

Cement, Gutta Percha. ' Water and FireProof for Houses 135 Peasley's Cement, 139 Celery, Essence of 48 Clean Steel and Iron 65 Cleaning Compound No. 1.129
"
2.129

Cleam

138 137 Marble 59

82 Coral, Artificial 88 " Baskets, to Imitate.. 112 Curry Powder 140 " " True Indian.. 145

Corn Solvent, Davy's

Cleaning Cream, Japaneese 129 Cerate, Turner's 143

Chilblain Ointment Citrate Magnesia Circassian Cream Cider, Home-made " Champagne
10
..

D
Depilatory Chinese 53 108 Dye, Magic Diarrhea, Compound Blackberry Root 17 Diarrhea Tincture 17 " Mixture 149 " " "The Sun". .150
"
"
"

42 77 88
118 109

Cinnamon,

to

Choose

8 Colds, Snutt' for 127 Cough Elixir " Tincture, Dr. Hales 55 " Lozenges, Wister's. 98
.

"
" "

'

Squibbs 150 Thielman'si50 Loomis's 150

. .

Cold Cream
"
" for

Skin

22 80
16 16

Clothes Balls

Cologne Farina
No. No. No. No. No.
2

" Velpeau's. .150 Disinfectants Cholera 146 " Application of 148 Drops, Hot 38

36 3 37 4 38 " 5 39 48 7 Court Plastet No. 1 27 Black No. 2. 47 Flesh 47

Drunkeness, Cure of 35 Disentary and Bloody Flux. 125

E
Eggs, to Color for Easter ...

no
48
14

Earache, Cure for Extract of Vanilla

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PAoe

169
PAQE

Extract of Ginger " " Verbenia " ' Sarsaparilla " Sweet Smelling Erasive, Ink

25

Glue, Liquid

14

43 68

"

90
132

"
"

Earth-worms, to Keep Out Flower Pots 60

Electric Oil

"
"

72 58 71 Marine 77 Liquid, very Strong.. 79

No. 2

Stick " No. 2;

Essence of Peppermint " Ginger " Celery Eye Water, Dick's Wilson's
'

12 19

Spalding's 100 Liquid, Superior.. ..130

95 48
83 85

Gum Gum

Envelopes Arabic Substitute

for

108 130

Gout Mixture, Dr. Davie's. 138

H
Hay Fever Snuff
Hair, " " " "
8
13

" Dr. Stryker's..i39 Ebony, Imitation of 141

Eudonto

10

Tricopherous for the.

Restorative Dye, Twigg's

F
Fever Sores, Treatment
" "
7

22 28
100

The Care

of

Ointment.: 64 Fever and Ague Mixture.... 92 Freckle Lotion 22

"
"

"
"

Ointment
" Wash " to Remove Freezing without Ice
Fertilizing

74 113 140

"
"

Curling Fluid No. 1. ..101 " " No. 2. ..loi " " No. 3. ..loi " " No. 4. .101 " " No. 5... 102 " " No. 6... 102
.

Curlilolina for the... 10

45
61

Mixture for
45 120

Lawns
Fire-proof Paper Fire, Fountain of Fig Paste for Constipation.. Furniture Polish: " Paste
'

99
16 33 38 119

Varnish
of

Harness Oil 35 Honey, Receipt for 31 Honey Water, to Make iig Hot Drops 38 Horse Flies, to Prevent 134 Hog Cholera Cure No. I...151 " No. 2. .151 Horses Alterative Balls 153 " Blood Purifying

" Oil, Ray's Flowers, to Extract the Per-

Powder
Horses, Fever Ball for

fume
"
"

85

Hungary Water, Queen

Hudson's Lip Salve

Fly Destroyer " "

20

156 157 of.. 74 13

Paper

Water

47 63 Ink, Writing,

G
Glass,
"

"

Green
Silver

n
12 18

Ground

Soluble Grasses. Crystallized

.

107 112
34

Carmine
Black Blue

19

Grafting, Composition for. 37 Gilding, to Improve 120 Gingeretta, Spanish 53

Powders
Purple Black No. 2
Violet

Ginger, Essence Glue, for Labeling Tin

95
11

Black No. 3

22 25 30 38 45 48

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CAPTIVE SECRETS.
PAQE PAOE

Ink,

" " "

"

Gold Magic
Alizarin

Yellow
Indelible No. 1 No. 2

84 109 132 139 37 133

Lubricating Grease, Axle.. 39

M
Mange Ointment
154

Marking
Sympathetic New Sympathetic Stamping No. 1
" "

76
45 133 131 131 131 132 132 132 Paper 45 24 65

Marble, Books or Paper 140 Manure, Value of Salt as.. 151

"
"

"

Mead, Sarsaparilla

Marble, Artificial 121 Counters to Clean.. 59

28 i36 105 34 128
...

" " " "

No. No. No. No.

2 3
4 5

Erasive

To Remove from

" Sassafras Measures, Table of Metal Powders Meerscliaums, to Color Milk of Wax for the Skin " " Roses "

" Marking Linen Itch Ointment Insect Powder Magnetic... 15 Insectside, Universal 60 " for Agriculturist. 60
Ivory, to

56 99
57 87 59

"

Almonds

for the

Complexion
Mustard, French Mucilage, Elastic

Shape

123

N
Nector,

J
Jassimine Butter Jellies without Fruit
83 97

Supreme

Nerve Invigorating Nutmeg, Essence of

150 138
121

K
Kalydor for the Complexion. 119 King of Pain 55

Orangeade
Oxgall, Prepared to
" "

62

Remove
...146 41 41 52 64

Spots Ointment, Scald Head

L
LBelIe White
90
102

Ringworm
Cancer Fever Sore
Itch

Lavender Water Laundry Blue Lemons, Salt of Lemonade, Portable " Ginger " To Improve

" "

35 83 62

"
" "
"

Freckle Frosted Feet

Chilblains

65 74 28 10
81 116 135 145 154

62 6g
118

Lemon Sherbet
Liniment, Universal
for
. .

" "
"

Chapped Hands.
Cattle

Burns Liniment for Frost Bites. ' Arnica

'

35 39

"
"

Rosin Zinc

Mange
Spavins,
Splints

White " Horse Camphorated Lotions for Scalds and Burns

Lozenges, Cinnamon

54 108 gi Oil .123

and Ringbones 154 Ointment to Follow Blisters to Aid Growth of Hair.. 156
Ointment, Hoof " Suppurating
155 for

92 93

Wounds

156

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THE EDWARD
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Wabash

TAILORS

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CUSTOM MADE SHIRTS A SPECIALTY

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
PAQE

171
PAQE

Oil for

Harness

Oil, Sweet, to

Make

Odontine Otto of Roses

35 125 9 106

Pomatum, Stick, Black.... Powder. Gold

and Shoes

53 71

Polishing Paste for Metals. 26 Polish, French, for Boots

123

P
Plasters,

Burgundy Pitch.
Adhesive

32
32 143

78 33 Almond 83 " Flour 44 " Permanent 75 " Bookbinder's 140 " JujiTbe 91 " tor Gloves, Excellent. 146 Plate Powder 106

Spice Paper Tracing Paste, Furniture

" "

Pop, Imperial 141 Pop Corn Balls 55 Phosphorous Paste for the Destruction of Rats and

Mice
Poisoning by Opium, Morphine,
or

77

Laudanum^ Symptoms & Treatment. 161

Poisoning by Arsenic-Symp-

toms and Treatment ...162

Poisoning by Corosive Sublimate Symptoms and

Treatment
Poisoning

164

by

Strychnine

Papier Mache
Paint, "

113 to remove smell of .130 Cheap, for barns 102

Symptoms & Treatment. 165

Putty, Chinese "Shio Liao".i3l Prunes, Medicated 85 Punch, Arrack Extract 69

Painters or Lead Paralysis of the Wrist 103 Paper, Fire-proof 45

" " No. 2 Plants, Liquid for destroying Parasites 60 Plants, Chemical Food for.. 61 Pasteles for Burning 81

" "

Rum

Tea

69 69

Pain Killer

54 103

R
Rat Poison, Spanish 61 Rat Exterminator 12 Rats, Phosphorous Paste for 77 Razor Paper 31 " Paste No. 1 47 No. 2 71 Reviver for Black Cloth 81 Renovating Balls, Chemical. 142

Peppermint, Essence " Lozenges Pepper, to Choose Perspiration, odor from

ig 95

in
136 138 95 68

Remedy
Perfume, Clothes " Note Paper Pills, Brandreth's
" "

Roach Wafers

46

Headache PadophylinCompound

" Rhubarb 84 " Lee's 104 " Comstock's Female.. 104 Printing Leaf 144
Piles, Cure for Pomade, Stick

69 72

Rouge, French 34 " Turkish no Rose Water, Excellent 116 Roland's Maccassar Oil.... 135 Rosiu Ointment 135

Rhubarb Wine

65

s
Salve, " " " " "

96 20
44 64 46
15

"

Divine
Victoria Caster Oil

Golden Pomatum, Stick, White

" " "

Green Mountain.... 51 Rose Lip 64

Lip No. 1 Lip No. 2 Hudson's Lip Hull's Healing
33

48
13

46

99

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178

CAPTIVE SECRETS
PAGE

Salve, Conkling's " Carbolic

109 152

"

Eureka

26
8

Spray for Catarrh Scalds and Burns

Salts, Preston's Sarsaparilla, Extracts
of. ..
.

92
61

Soap, Complexion Snuff for Hay Fever " for Colds " Cephalic Squill Mixture Syrup, Cough

23

8 8 68
104

68 Shampooing Mixture No. 1. 66 No. 2. 67 Starch Polish or Gloss 117 Satchet Powder, Heliotrope 20 Seawater, Artificial 10 Scent Bags, Linen 65 Sweet Oil, to make 125 Seidlitz Powder, to make .120

Orange
" "
"

Lemon
Quince

No. 1 No. 2

Blackberry

Rhabarb
"
"

34 52 27 70 94 95 98
105 54 134

of Squills

Soothing

"

Tar

for

Lungs

Scents, Economical 105 Sherbet, Lemon 118 Silver-Plating Fluid 21 Skin, Milk of Wax for the.. 56 " Artificial 67 Spirit of Roses, to make 98 Silvering Powder 99 Solder, Hard for Gold No. 1 158 " " " No. 2158 " " Soft " 158
'

Tracing Paper Taffy, Evarton

78
122 134 8

Tar Syrup
"
" " "
" "

for Lungs Teeth, care of Tooth Paste, Cherry

"

for Gold of different fineness 158

158 159 159 159 159 160

" "

Rose, Saponaceous. Pink

Orris

Damak

Wash
"

g g 9 9 46
65 82 137

Solder for Gold and Silver " Hardfor Silver No. 1 " No. 2 " Plated Silver " White Metal " Iron " Lead
"

Powder
Quinine

98
i6o

Toothache Drops, Chloroform ig Toothache Cure, Instantaneous 93

Tonic, Excellent 39 Tomatoes, to dry for winter 42 Turpentine, Venice g4

Tin

Soldering Solution. gi Scouring Drops 119 Shoes, Dressing for Tan... 59 Soap, Honey 50 " Transparent 93
" " "

Toilet
.

75

Vanilla, Extract of

Bayberry or Myrtle. 76 French Chemical. ..134

Varnish, Carriage
" "
"

"
"

Palm Old Windsor

Genuine Windsor...
Erasive
Friction

109
iii

Copal Leather

" " " "

" " "

24

" " "

Cheap
Furniture

14 21 123 34 33

69
13 18

White Japan

38 82

Cheap Hard
Washing,

Cinnamon
Shaving.,

36 46 22

" Verbenia, Extract of Vegetable Caustic

120 Black Japan 112 To color baskets. 127

43 102

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Cor.

Ave. and Monroe

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CUSTOM MADE SHIRTS A SPECIALTY

CAPTIVE SECRETS.
PAGE

173
PAQE

Vermifuge, Frey's
"

Violet

Eureka Powder

109 151

Water-proof Boots Water, to make cold

38

for
133

Violets, ling "

make

44
107

Summer
Water, simple mode of purifying

scent resemb44 63 67 7o
121

129 152

Vinegar, Camphorated
'

Wheat, value of wood ashes

for

"

Raspberry No. 1 No. 2 Aromatic

Wine, Blackberry
" " "

Rhubarb No.

1.

...

No. 2

95 43 65
128

w
Wax, Red Sealing
"

Honey
of Apples, pure
to

.94
keep out
60
137

Worms, Earth,
23 44 119
131

of Flower Pots

"
" "

" Black Yeliow "

Whooping Cough

Fluid Bottle

" "

"

Grafting "

45 50 78

Taffy.... 145 Writing on Iron or Steel... 73 Write Secretly on Handkerchiefs 144

Wagon Grease I2i Washing Mixture 33 Water-proof Composition.. 37

Y
Yeast Cakes
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