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130 Cure for Lumbago
15 grains "Guarana" in hot water
with cream and sugar. Take it once
or twice a day, and you may also
increase the dose to 40 grains.
Lumbago It is a preparation of the seeds and
juice of the "Paullinia sorbilis" a
Brazilian plant. It is a great
stimulant and is an almost sure
curse in "Diarrhea", Dysintery, Cholera
and Neuralgia. Sept 5 1874
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Square Mile & [and] Mile Square
A mile square is square surface
Each a mile in length. A square
mile is a unit of area, and maybe
of any shape, and although it may
Square Mile be a mile square it is not necessarily
so. So says an adventurer in the
Scientific American. The editor
says the above wrong, as follows:
the differance beetween 2 quantities
is found by subtracting one from
the other. If nothing remains,
what is the differance?
June 12 1875
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Brooklyn Dry Dock at Navy Yard
286 feet long, 30 feet wide at Bottom
307 feet long, 98 feet wide at Top
with a lock chamber by which the
Dry Dock length of the dock can be increased
52 feet. The Bottom of the dock
is 26 feet below mean high tide.
The dock when filled by the tide
contains 600,000 cubic feet
and the pumps pump out
all water in 2 hours 10 minutes
June 12 1875
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Resins 131
Nine in number.
#1 "Gum Copal" is the juice of tree which
grows in South America and East Indies.
When pure, is hard, shining, transparent,
citron colored and inodorous. It is not
soluble in water or spirits, but may be dissolved
in linseed oil, heated, and diluted with
spirits turpentine to form varnish
"Shellac" or "Lac" is obtained from the
Banyan Tree on which it is deposited by an insect.
It is composed of 5 differant Kinds. Stick
Lac is the natural state. When broken and
boiled in water it is called "seed Lac". When
melted, strained and drawn into thin plates
it is called "Shell Lac"
Resins "Amber" is a yellowish Rosin and also
resembles Copal. By Friction it will become
Electrical. It will not dissolve in Alcohol,
which will disolve all resins except
"caramba Wax"
"Dammar" comes from an East Indian
tree Dissolves in oil of Turpentine,
Sulphide of Carbon, Linseed oil and
benzole.
"Elemi" from Tropical trees
Mastic from Mastic tree
Sandarae" rom a Barbary Tree
comes in white tears. Nov 22, 1873
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Ice Water
To preserve Ice Water make a hat
Ice shaped cover of 2 thickness of paper
Water with cotton Batting 1/2 an inch thick
between. Place over Entire pitcher. Sept 25 1875
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Warts
Warts Rub night and morning with a piece of
muricate of Ammonia, moistened
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