The juice of garlick, pounded in a stone mortar, is said to be the strongest cement to mend broken glass.
TO CONVEY FRESH FISH.
To ensure the sweetness of fish conveyed by land carriage, the belly of the fish should be opened, and the internal parts sprinkled with powdered charcoal. The same material will restore impure or even putrescent water to a state of perfect freshness.
TO PURIFY WATER BY CHARCOAL.
Nothing has been found so effectual for preserving water sweet as charring the insides of the casks well before they are filled. When the water becomes impure and offensive, from ignorance of the preservative effect produced on it by charring the casks previous to their being filled, it may be rendered perfectly sweet by putting a little fresh charcoal in powder into the cask, or by filtering it through fresh burnt and coarsely pulverized charcoal.
TO EXTINGUISH A RECENT FIRE.
A mop and a pail of water are generally the most efficacious remedies, but if it has gained head, then keep out the air, and remove all ascending or perpendicular combustibles, up which the fire creeps and increases in force as it rises.
TO EXTINGUISH FIRE IN A CHIMNEY.
Shut the doors and windows, throw water on the fire in the grate, and then stop up the bottom of the chimney.
Another Method.