The Celebrated Chemical Compound.—Take one pint of alcohol, 2 gills nitrous spirits ether, 2 oz. bicromate potash, 2 oz. powdered cinnamon, 2 oz. aqua fortis. Mix all the above together and let it stand twenty-four hours and it is fit for use. Bottle in ounce vials, and sell for 25 cents. To extract grease stains, etc., from cloth, saturate with cold water, dip a sponge in the liquid and apply it, and repeat if necessary, and wash off with cold water.
Gold Ink.—Two parts mosaic, 1 part gum arabic (by measure); mix with soft water until reduced to a proper condition.
Green Ink.—Powder 1 ounce verdigris, and put it in 1 quart of vinegar; after it has stood two or three days, strain off the liquid.
Blue Ink.—Two oz. Chinese blue, 3/4 oz. pure oxolid acid, 1 oz. powdered gum arabic, 6 pints distilled soft water; mix well and then strain.
Purple Ink.—Eight parts logwood in 64 parts soft water, by measure, boil down to one-half, then strain and add one part chloride of tin.
Imitation Gold.—Sixteen parts platina, seven parts copper, one part zinc. Put in a covered crucible, with powdered charcoal, and melt together till the whole forms one mass, and are thoroughly incorporated together. Or, take 4 oz. platina, 3 oz. silver, 1 oz. copper.
Imitation Silver.—Eleven ounces refined nickel, two ounces metallic bismuth. Melt the compositions together three times, and pour them out in ley. The third time, when melting, add two ounces pure silver. Or take one-quarter ounce copper, one ounce bismuth, two ounces saltpetre, two ounces common salt, one ounce arsenic, one ounce potash, two ounces brass, and three ounces pure silver. Melt all together in a crucible.
Florida Water.—Half pint proof spirits, two drachms oil lemon, half drachm oil rosemary. Mix.
Freckle Lotion.—Muriate of ammonia, one drachm; cologne water, two drachms; distilled water, seven ounces; mix and use as a wash. It contains nothing injurious.
Windsor Soap.—This is made with lard. In France they use lard, with a portion of olive or bleached palm oil. It is made with one part of olive oil to nine of tallow; but a greater part of what is sold is only curd (tallow) soap, and scented with oil of caraway and bergamot. The brown is colored with burnt sugar or umber.