fhis article is in great demand for flavoring pies, cakes, puddings, etc., and sells readily at a good price both to families and at the grocers.

(39.) Shaving Soap.

Take 2 lbs. of best white bar soap and lb. good common bar soap cut them up fine, so that they will dissolve readily. Put the soap inte & copper kettle, with 1 quart of soft water let it stand over the fire, and when it is dissolved by boiling, add 1 pint alcohol, I gill beef's gall, gill spirits turpentine; boil all these together for five minutes; stir while boiling; while it is cooling flavor it with oil of sassafras to suit, and color it with fine vermillion. This soap makes a rich lather, softens the face, and can be made cheap. (40.) Shaving Cream.

Take 1 lb. soft soap in a jar and add to it one quart high proof cologne spirits, set the jar in a vessel of boiling water, or water bath until the soap is dissolved; perfume with essential oil to suit.

This is a good article for shaving, especially for those troubled with pimples on the face; it softens the skin and cures the humors. 2 or three drops rubbed upon the face with the end of the finger is enough for shaving. Dip the end of the brush in hot water and brush the face briskly and it will raise a rich lather.

(41.) Crockery Cement, which is Transparent.

Take 1 lb. white shellac. pulverized; 2 ozs. clean gum mastic; put these into a bottle, and then add lb. pure sulphuric ether. Let it stand half an hour, and then add half a gallon 90 per cent. alcohol-shake occasionally till it is dissolved. Heat the edges of the article to be mended and apply the cement with a pencil brush ; hold the article firmly together till the cement cools.

(42.) Freckle Lotion for the cure of Freckles, Tan, or Sun-burnt face and hands.

Takelb. clear ox gall, drm. each of camphor and burnt alum. 1 drm. borax, oz. rock salt and rock candy. This should be mixed and shaken well several times a day for three weeks, until the gall becomes transparent; then strain it very carefully through filtering paper, and apply it to the face during the day, wash it off at night.

The article, if properly mad, will not fail of its purpose. It sells very readily and command a good price.

(43.) Washing and Bleaching Liquid.

Takelb. unslacked lime, and pour upon it 6 qts. boiling water. stir it all up, and when it has stood long enough to entirely settle strain off the clean water and dissolve in this water, by toiling, 2 ibs. sal soda.

For washing-to every pail full of water add for boiling pint of the liquid. The clothes must be put in soak the night before washing, taking care to rub all the dirt spots with soap; then boil them with the liquid 35 minutes. They are then to be drawn and put into a tub, and clear boiling water poured over them; then rub them out rinse them well and they are fit for drying.

(44.) Beautiful and cheap Soap.

Take 1 lb. common bar soap, cut fine, and 1 lb. sal soda, to a pail full of water, boil a little, and you have good soap; with it you can wash with half the labor. If you wish thicker soap, take 2 lbs. soap and 2 lbs. sal soda to a pail full of water.

(45.) Burning Fluid.

Take 4 qts. alcohol, and 1 qt. spirits turpentine, mix well to gether, and it is ready for use.

(46.) Liquid Cement.

Cut gum shellac in 70 per cent. alcohol, put it in phials and it 18 ready for use. Apply it to the edge of the broken dish with a feather, and hold it in a spirit lamp as long as the cement will simmer, then join together evenly, and when cold the dish will break in another place first, and is as strong as new.

(47.) Bed Bug Poison.

Take 1 pint alcohol, 2 ozs. sal ammoniæ, 1 pint spirits turpentine, 2 ozs. corrosive, sublimate and 2 ozs. gum camphor; dissolve the camphor in the alcohol, then pulverize the corrosive sublimate and sal ammonia, and add to it, after which put in the spirits of turpentine and shake well together. This sells readily at 20 cents per oz. phial.

(48.) Cheap Outside Paint.

Take two parts (in bulk) of water lime ground fine, one part (in bulk) of white lead ground in oil. Mix them thoroughly, by adding best boiled linseed oil, enough to prepare it to pass through a paint mill, after which temper with oil till it can be applied with a common paint brush. Make any color to suit. It will last three times as long as lead paint, and cost not one-fourth as much. Ir $ SUPERIOR.

(49.) Ice Cream.

Take of new milk and cream, each 2 quarts, 2 lbs. sugar and 12 eggs; dissolve the sugar in the milk, beat the eggs to a froth, and add to the whole; strain, and bring to a scald, but be careful not to burn it; when cool flavor with extract of vanilla or oil of lemon. Pack the tin freezer in a deep tub, with broken ice and salt, whirl the freezer, and occasionally scrape down from the side what gathers on. The proportions are one quart of salt to every pail of ice.

(50.) Driginal and only Genuine Silver Plating Fluid.--Galvanism Simplified.

Dissolve 1 oz. of nitrate of silver in crystal, in 12 ozs. of soft water. Then dissolve in the water 2 ozs. of cyanuret of potash. Shake the whole together and let it stand till it becomes clear. Have ready some haif ounce vials, and fill them half full of Paris white, or fine whiting, and then fill up the bottles with the liquid, and it is ready for use. The whiting does not increase the coating power; it only helps to clean the articles, and to save the silver fluid by half filling the bottles. The above quantity of materials will cost about $1 61, so that the fluid will only cost about 3 cents a bottle.

(51.) Matches.

The ends of the tapers, or wood, should be very dry and then dipped in hot melted sulphur, and laid aside to dry. Then take 4 parts of glue, dissolve it, and when hot, add 1 part of phosphorus, and stir in a few spoonfuls of fine whiting to bring it to the proper thickness.

This preparation should be kept hot by being suspended over a lamp while dipping the wood or tapers. Color the ends of the matches by adding a little vermillion, lamp black or Prussian blue to the mass. Be careful not to ignite the compound while dipping.

(52.) Barrett's Certain Preventive of the Potato Rot.

Sow unleached ashes over the field once a week for six weeks, commencing soon after the second hoeing. Apply two or three bushels to the acre, using care to dust the tops well. It has never been known to fail, where faithfully tested.

(53.) Cologne-A Superior Article.

Take of 90 per cent. best alcohol 1 gall., add to it one ounce oil burgamot, one ounce oil of orange, two drachms oil of Cedrat, one drachm of oil of Nevoli, and one drachm oil Rosemary. Mix well and it is fit for use.

(54.) Silver Solution, for Plating Copper, Brass, and German Silver.

1. Cut into small pieces a twenty-five cent piece, and put it into an earthern vessel with half an ounce of nitric acid. 2. Put the vessel into warm water, uncovered, until it dissolves. 3. Add half a gill of water and 1 teaspoonful of fine salt, let settle. 4. Drain off and repeat adding water to the sediment until the acid taste is all out of the water. 5. Add finally about a pint of water to the sediment, and 4 scruples cyanide of potassa, and all is ready. 6. Put in bottom of solution a piece of zinc, about 2 inches long, 1 wide and one-eighth in thickness. 7. After cleaning, immerse the article to be plated in the solution about half a minute, letting it rest on the zinc. 8. Wipe off with a dry cloth and repeat once

Polish with buckskin.

repeating.

Thickness of plate can be increased by

(55.) Superior Washing Soap.

Take 5 pounds bar soap, or 7 pounds good soft soap, 4 pounds sal soda, 2 ozs. borax, 1 oz. hartshorn; to be dissolved in 22 quarts of water and boiled about fifteen minutes. For hard soap add to the above half a pound of rosin.

(56.) Superior Boot Blacking.

To 4 ounces gum asphaltum add half a pint of turpentine, put over fire for fifteen minutes.

(57.) Patent Burning Fluid-For Lamps.

A superior article. To one gallon of 95 per cent. alcohol add one quart of camphene oil. Mix well, and if transparent it is fit for use. If not, add sufficient alcohol to bring it to the naturaj color of the alcohol. It may be colored to suit the fancy by adding a little tincture of golden seal, or any other coloring drug. Receipt cost $10.

(58.) Superior Paint-For Brick Houses.

To lime whitewash, add for a fastener, sulphate of zinc, and shade with any color you choose, as yellow ochre, Venetian red, etc It outlasts oil paint.

(59.) Piles-Perfectly Cured.

Take flour of sulphur 1 oz., rosin 3 ozs., pulverize and mix well together. (Color with carmine or cochineal, if you like.) DoseWhat will lie on a five cent piece, night and morning, washing the parts freely in cold water once or twice a day. This is a remedy of great value.

(60.) Inflammatory Rheumatism—A sure Remedy.

Take an ounce of pulverized saltpetre and put it into a pint of sweet oil. Bathe the parts affected, and a sound cure will speedily be made. Tested.

(61.) Certain Cure for Corns.

One teaspoonful of tar, one of coarse brown sugar, and one of saltpetre. The whole to be warmed together. Spread it on kid leather the size of the corns, and in two days they will be drawn out.

(62.) Small Pox-Certain Cure.

Take one grain each of powdered Fox-glove, (Digitalis,) and sulphate of zinc. Rub together thoroughly in a mortar with 5 or 6 drops of water; this done, add 4 or 5 ounces of water, and sweeten with loaf sugar. Dose A table spoonful for an adult

and one or two teaspoonfuls for a child every two or three hours antil symptoms of disease vanish.

(63.) Pulmonic Wafers-For Coughs, Colds, etc.

Take white sugar 7 lbs., tincture or syrup of Ipecac. 4 ozs.; antimorial wine 2 ozs.; morphine 10 grains, dissolved in a table spoonful of water, with 10 or 15 drops of sulphuric acid; tincture of blood root 1 oz.; syrup of Tolu 2 ozs. Add these to the sugar and mix the whole mass as confectioners do for lozenges, and cut into lozenges of the ordinary size. Use from 6 to 12 of these in 24 hours. Equal to any in use. They sell at a great profit.

(64.) To mend Iron Pots.

Mix finely sifted lime with some white of an egg, till a thin kind of paste is formed, then add some iron filings. Apply this to the fracture, and the vessel will be found nearly as sound as ever

(65.) Glue for Cementing Paper, Silk and Leather.

Take of isinglass and parchment size, each 1 oz., sugar candy and gum tragacanth, each 2 drms.; add to them 1 oz. water, and boil the whole together till the mixture appears (when cold) of the consistency of glue; then pour it into any form you please. If this glue be wet with the tongue and rubbed on the edges of paper, silk or leather that are to be cemented, and they will, or being laid together, pressed lightly and suffered to dry, be as firmly united as other parts of the substance. It is fine to seal letters.

(66.) To Destroy Cockroaches, Rats and Mic

Take a sixpenny loaf of bread, the staler the better, reduce it to a crumb, then in a pot of water put two spoonfuls cayenne pepper, one do. pulveriszed annis seed, half a drachm of salupetre, the same of white lead, and a wine glass of extract of hops. Now throw in your crumbs of bread; digest for six hours in a moderate heat; strain through a cloth; add to the liquor thirty drops of the tincture of quassia, and let it stand until next day, and then bottle it. Some lumps of sugar saturated with this liquor will be a speedy cure for cockroaches. Some pieces of bread saturated with it, will destroy all the rats and mice. The above is extensively manufactured and sold at a great profit.

(67.) Powder for Cleaning and Polishing Tin, Britannia and Brass Ware.

Takelb. ground pumice stone and lb. red chalk, mix them evenly together. This is for tin, brass, etc. For silver and fine

ware, take lb. red chalk and lb. pumice stone-mix very evenly, se these articles dry with a piece of wash leather. It is one of the best cleaning powders ever invented, and very valuabl