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250 Cement for Stone Etc
Melt together 4 oz [ounces] Rosin, 1/2 oz [ounce]
Wax and 1 oz [ounce] fine sifted Plaster Paris
Clean the article and make it hot Enough
to melt the cement, and press together.
Use as little as possable between the Edges
in this and all other cements June 22 1867
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Cement for Chemical glasses
Mix Equal parts of wheat flower [flour],
finely powdered Venice glass, pulverized
Chalk and a small quantity of brick dust
finely ground; these ingrediants with a
little scraped lint, are to be mixed and
ground up with the white of Eggs; it
must then be spread over pieces of fine
linen cloth and applied to the crack
of the glasses and allowed to get thoroughly
dry before the glasses are put to the fire June 22 1867
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Rice Cement
Boil Rice flour in cold water until
thick. It sets transparent. June 22 1867
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Cement for Stove Joints
A putty of Starch and Chloride of Lime [struckthrough]
Zinc harden quickly and lasts for months,
or wet together fine Salt with double
its bulk of Fresh hard wood ashes, or
Iron filings with white lead & [and] Linseed Oil
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Labels for Plants
Write on zinc plates with a common
lead Pencil June 29 1867
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To Lay a gasket page 244 April 16 1865
Ice Cream page 100 August 13 1864
Brush guard 36 August 27 1864
Vegitable Slicer 152 Sept 3 1864
Lost Arts July 8 1865 Page 23
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Small Pox to detect it 251
As Soon as the Eruption appears, by
pressure with the point of the finger, you
can feel the small round substance, just
as if a fine small shot had been buried
under the skin. This fewture appears in no
other Eruptive decease [disease] whatever March 5 1864
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Sore Eyes to Cure
A little Alum boiled in a teacup full
of milk and the curd use a poultice
is used for inflamed Eyes March 5 1864
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Whitewash for outside Work
Take a tub, put in a peck of Lime, and
plenty of water to slack it. When hot
with slakeing, stir in thoroughly about 1/2
pound of tallow or other grease and mix
it in well. Then add hot water, Enough for
use. Stands rain for years May 21 1864
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To powder Camphor
Rub on and ordinary Kitchen grater and
sift it over till fine Enough May 21 1864
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"Astrakan"
"Astrakan" is an Asiatic invetion. They
couple a black ram with a black Ewe.
Before the dam gives birth to the lamb she
is killed and the unborn lamb taken from
her womb. The skin is jet Black and very
fine and costs very dear. The hair is very short.
Some fine skins are worth $50 a piece. July 16 1864
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