Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-03
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LIQUID GIUE.-To make good fluid glue,
mix the glue in the usual manner, being care
full not to burn it, and drop in gradually q
small quantity of nitric acid. After adding
the latter, remove the mixture from the FIRE,
and, after it cools, bottle it for use
HoNEY.-Four pounds of loaf sugar; IL
do. honey; l quart Of water; ] big spoonful
gum arabic; l teaspoonful cream tartar; put
all together and boil fifteen minutes. This
will almost cheat the bees themselves.
P1cKLEs.-An excellent way TO make pic.
kles that will keep year or more, is to drop
them into boiling hot water, but not boil
them; let them stay ten minutes, wipe them
dry, and drop into cold spiced vinegar, and
thev will not need to be put into salt and
wafer.
MARBLE WoRK-Never wash marble
mantles, tables, &c. with soap suds. The pot
ash of the soap decomposes the carbonate Of
lime and in time destroys the polish of the
marble.
BITES AND STISGs.-As many are preparing
for the summer, it may be useful to remind
them that an ounce vial of spirits of hartshorn
should be considered one of the indispensables,
as in case of being bitten or stung by any
poisonous animal or insect the immediate and
free application of alkali as a wash to the
part bitten or stung, gives instant, perfect
and permanent relief, the bite of mad dog.
1--WE believe) not excepted; so will strong ash
es-water.
CREAM NEcTAR.-Take six pounds Of refin-
ed sugar, four ounces of tartaric acid, and four
quarts of water; when warm, add the whites
of four eggs heated to froth Be careful not
to let it come to boil When cool, strain it,
and add teaspoonful of essence of lemon TO
favor. Directions for use.-Take two. table
spoonfuls of the above syrup to a glass filled
two-thirds full of water, and add a very
small quantity of carbonate Of soda, and
stir it until it effervesces. Drink immediately.
Make the syrup in brass or porcelain ket-
tle
Cure FOR CoRNs.-The following is from
Mobile. Alabama:
1lr Editor.-W When looking over your pa.
per some days ago, diseoved a remedy for
the cure of corns, which was simply to apply
a piece of lemon TO the affected part. was
then suffering great pain from the corns on
nv feet and resolved at once TO test its rem
edial powers. Before retiring at night, / ap-
piled the lemon as directed, and AN happy
to say that it has effected an entire cure. ]
would advise all who have corns to give II q
trial WIN. CALVERT.
A QUARr OF INK.-Buy extract of logwood
which may be had for three cents au ounce, or
cheaper by the quantity. Rny also for three
cents an ounce of hichromate Of potash. Do
not make mistake aud get the simple chro-
mate of potash, The former is orange red,
and the latter clear yellow, Now, take half
an ounce of extract of logwood, and 10 grains
of bi-carhonate of. potash, aud dissolve in
quart of hot rain water. When cald, pour ~
to glass bottle, and leave it uueoraSed for
week or two. Exposure to the air is indispeu-
sable. The ink is then made; and has cost
from FIVE to ten minutes labor, and about three
cents beside the bottle. The ink is at first sn
intense steel blue but becomes quite black,