Colored or plain engravings, photographs, lithographs, water colors, oil colors, crayons, steel plates, newspaper cuts, mezzotints, pencil, writing, show cards, labels, or, in fact, anything.
DIRECTIONS.
Take glass that is perfectly clear (window glass will answer), clean it thoroughly; then varnish it, taking care to have it perfectly smooth; place it where it will be perfectly free from dust; let it stand over night, then take your engraving, lay it in clear water until it is wet through (say ten or fifteen minutes), then lay it upon a newspaper, that the moisture may dry from the surface and still keep the other side damp. Immediately varnish your glass the second time, then place your engraving upon it, pressing it down firmly, so as to exclude every particle of air; next, rub the paper from the back until it is of uniform thickness, so thin that you can see through it, then varnish it the third time and let it dry.
These transferred pictures make lovely ornaments for table, bracket, mantel, etc.
MATERIALS FOR MAKING THE VARNISH.
Take two ounces balsam of fir to one ounce spirits of turpentine. Apply with a camel's-hair brush.
TO PREVENT HORSES BEING TEASED BY FLIES.
Boil three handfuls of walnut leaves in three quarts of water; sponge the horse (before going out of the stable) between and upon the ears, neck, and flank.
TO PREVENT FLIES LIGHTING ON WINDOWS, PICTURES, MIRRORS, ETC.
No fly will light on a window or other article which has been washed in water in which garlic has been boiled.