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202 Good Kindling for Fires
Dip the Wood in Melted Rosin
or Else take 2/3 tar to 1/3 Rosin
or take a quart of tar and 3 pounds
Rosin, met them, then cool them
and Mix as much Saw dust with a
little powdered charcoal as you can
work in. Spread out on a board
and when cold, break up into lumps
as large as a hickory nut and it
will last a long while Nov 27 1886
Mexican Mustang Liniment
Coal Oil, Liquid Amonia and
Brandy Equal parts by measure
mixed together September 20 1862
To Bronze Gun Barrels
Use Tincture Iodine
Machine Oil
Castor oil and Coal oil
Omelets
Break 3 fresh Eggs into a bowl,
add a little pinch of salt and a
teaspoonful full of water and beat
thoroughly. Put a tablespoonful of
butter in a flat fry pan. As soon
as the pan is warm, but not too hot,
pour in the Eggs and run a Knife
under to keep from burning. As soon
as the top looks dry, fold one half
over the other and eat it. Oct 4 1862
Axle Grease
1 part Black Lead and 4 parts Lard
Add a little Camphor.
To drill Glass
Wet with Coal oil
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Lattitude & [and] Longitude 203
Not withstanding the great
advances made in these days
in the art of navigation, in the
construction of ocean steamships,
and in the improvement of nautical
instruments, we are from time to
time startled by the news of the
total or partial wreck of some
great passenger steamship, Even when
all the circumstances seemed to insure
a safe voyage. Sometimes the
disaster has been caused by
collision, as in the recent case of
the Dutch steamship the "W. J. Sholton"
sometimes it arises from stress of
weather of the terriffic Kind the
Brittannia recently Encountered;
but of late years losses at sea
seemed to have occurred more
frequently from oversailing the
reconking on from miscalculation of
a vessels position in a fog or during
heavy weather, or even from a
slight Exaggeration of what travellers
so much require, a rapid passage.
These periodially recurring
calamities are now leading many
people to inquire with more interest
than formerly into the methods in
use for determining the position of a
vessel at sea, and it is for the
benefit of such inquirers that the
following brief sketch of these
methods has been prepared.
Every one who has
made a voyage of any length
knows that a ships course and
rate of sailing are carefully
noted throughout her voyage,
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