ANNEALED IRON WIRE.
Take common iron wire, make it red-hot, and suffer it to cool gradually; this renders it soft and pliable, so that it may be easily bent in any direction.
CEMENT.
| Fine Whitening, | 2 oz. |
| Gum-Arabic, | 2 oz. |
| Finest Flour, | 1-2 oz. |
| Ox-Gall, a tea-spoonful. | |
The whole to be dissolved, and mixed well with water into thick paste.
This is well adapted for attaching different objects, and especially for fixing shells to pasteboard, etc.
GUM PASTE.
| White Sugar Candy, | 2 oz. |
| Common Gum-Arabic, | 4 oz. |
Let these be melted in a pot of hot water, and then strained through a linen or horse-hair sieve. When properly dissolved, add to it two table-spoonfuls of starch, or hair-powder, and mix the whole well together. This paste may be used for many purposes, and it never spoils. It may be dried, and by pouring a little warm water on it, it will soon be ready for use. If it is wished to be all melted, and hurriedly, the pot containing it should be placed in warm water or sand.