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Secrets of the Liquor Trade 3
Druggists' Department 8
Manufacturers' Department 14
The Toilet, Perfumery, Etc. 27
Hunters' and Trappers' Secrets 34
The Fine Arts and Sciences 36
Farmers' Department 43
Confectioners' Department 46
Valuable Miscellaneous Recipes for the Household and every day Requirements 48
SECRETS OF THE LIQUOR TRADE.
DRUGGISTS' DEPARTMENT.
MANUFACTURERS' DEPARTMENT.
Directions for writing with this paper: Lay down your paper upon which you wish to write; then lay on the copying paper, and over this lay any scrap of paper you choose; then take any hard pointed substance and write as you would with a pen.
For gilding brass, copper etc. The metal to be gilded is first rubbed over with a solution of nitrate of mercury, and then covered with a very thin film of the amalgam. On heat being applied the mercury volatilizes, leaving the gold behind.
A much less proportion of gold is often employed than the above, where a very thin and cheap gilding is required, as by increasing the quantity of the mercury, the precious metal may be extended over a much larger surface. A similar amalgam prepared with silver is used for silvering.
Very pale straw color, 430?--the temper required for lancets.
A shade of darker yellow, 450?--for razors and surgical instruments.
Darker straw-yellow, 470?--for penknives.
Still darker yellow, 490?--chisels for cutting iron.
A brown yellow, 500?--axes and plane-irons.
Yellow, slightly tinged with purple, 520?--table-knives and watch-springs.
THE TOILET, PERFUMERY, ETC.
FACE PAINTS.
HUNTERS' AND TRAPPERS' SECRETS.
Take one half pound strained honey, one quarter drachm musk, three drachms oil of lavender, and four pounds of tallow, mix the whole thoroughly together, and make it into forty pills, or balls, and place one of these pills under the pan of each trap when setting it.
The above preparation will most wonderfully attract all kinds of animals, and trappers and others who use it will be sure of success.
In trapping Muskrats, steel traps should be used, and they should be set in the paths and runs of the animal, where they come upon the banks, and in every case the trap should be set under the water, and carefully concealed; and care should be taken that it has sufficient length of chain to enable the animals to reach the water after being caught, otherwise they are liable to escape by tearing or gnawing off their legs.
The contents of five or six of these castor bags are mixed with a nutmeg, twelve or fifteen cloves and thirty grains of cinnamon in fine powder, and the whole well stirred together with as much whiskey as will give it the consistency of mixed mustard. This preparation must be left closely corked up, and in four or five days the odor becomes powerful; and this medicine smeared upon the bits of wood, &c., with which the traps are baited, will attract the beaver from a great distance, and wishing to make a close inspection, the animal puts its legs into the trap and is caught.
The same caution in regard to length of chain should be observed for Beaver, as for Otters, Muskrats, &c., for unless they can reach the water they are liable to get out of the trap and escape.
This means of taking fish, and the manner of doing it, has, heretofore, been known to but few. The value of such knowledge admits of no question. This manner of taking fish does not injure the flesh in the least.
THE FINE ARTS AND SCIENCES.
For patterns you can use any natural leaf, forming the creases in wax with the thumb nail or a needle; to put the flowers together or the leaves on to the stem, hold in the hand until warm enough to stick. If the sheeted wax is to be used in Summer, put in a little balsam of fir to make it hard. If for Winter, none will be required.
You can make many flowers without a teacher; but one to assist, in the commencement, would be a great help; though the most particular thing about it is to get the wax sheeted. The materials I have suggested can be procured at any drug store, and will cost from to .50.
FARMERS' DEPARTMENT.
RECIPES FOR HORSES.
CONFECTIONERS' DEPARTMENT.
All kinds of sugar for candy, are boiled as above directed. When boiling loaf sugar, add a tablespoonful of rum or vinegar, to prevent its becoming too brittle whilst making.
VALUABLE MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS, FOR THE HOUSEHOLD AND EVERY DAY REQUIREMENTS.
In the spring, a few patches or rows may be sown in open quarters expressly for green cuttings. These are most perfect and full flavored when four inches high. When too long, the flavor seems to have run to wood, and the peculiar aroma of green peas is weaker.
There is yet another mode of making green pea soup at any season at very short notice. Chip the peas by steeping them in water and leaving them in a warm place for a few days. Then slightly boil or stew, chips and all, and pass them through a sieve. The flavor is full and good, though such pea soup lacks color. It is astonishing how much the mere vegetation of seeds develops their more active and predominant flavor or qualities; a fact that might often be turned to useful account in the kitchen in the flavoring of soups or dishes, with turnips, celery, parsley, etc.
Dissolve the glue by putting it in a tin kettle or dish, containing the water, and set this dish in a kettle of water, to prevent the glue from being burned; when the glue is all dissolved, put in the lead and stir and boil until it is thoroughly mixed; remove from the fire, and when cool enough to bottle, add the alcohol, and bottle while it is yet warm, keeping it corked. This last recipe has been sold about the country for from twenty-five cents to five dollars, and one man gave a horse for it.
Another method is to use 5 pounds salt, 1 pound brown sugar, and 1/4 oz. of saltpetre, to each 100 pounds; dissolve the above in sufficient water to cover the meat, and in two weeks drain all off, and make more same as first. It will then keep through the season. To boil for eating, put into boiling water; for soups, into cold water.
TRICKS AND DIVERSIONS WITH CARDS.
THE AMERICAN VENTRILOQUIST.
THE GREAT NORTHERN WIZARD'S HAND-BOOK OF MAGIC.
THE GUIDE TO POLITENESS: A HAND-BOOK OF GOOD MANNERS.
The Lovers' Hand-Book Series.
AND THE SCIENCE AND ART OF DRESSING WITH TASTE.
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