This gives the good, bad and indifferent, but with comments explaining the real character of each. The following list will give an idea of the contents:

It tells you how to make vinegar in ten hours from molasses, sorghum cider, &c. without drugs or chemicals; American gin without any distillation at 16 cts. per pint; Premium mead; Ale without malt or hops; Cure for asthma; Imitation cognac brandy equal to finest French genuine; Glycerine cement; Chinese art of dwarfing trees; How to raise the vinegar plant; Bee-keeper’s secret for securing fertilization of young queens by any drones desired; How to secure nearly double the usual product in artificial fish raising; Chemical paint, durable and odorless, of any color, without oil; Great water-proof varnish for boots and shoes; Kapnophyte, the new departure in fertilizers; Great art of chemicalizing manure; Great vegetable remedy for burns, scalds. &c.; Food for mocking birds; Death to the cotton worm; India-rubber cement, Pound of butter from a pint of Milk; Ottawa beer; Artifinol rubber from milkweed.

Nickel plating without a battery; Art of saw-filing; Remedy for love of strong drink; Hunter’s secrets and private guide to trappers; “Mad-stones,” how to find, how to prepare and how to use the great natural remedy for bites of poisonous or rabid animals; Seltzer aperient; Excelsior axle grease; Art of sharpening saws; Magical British washing powder; Printer’s indispensable, improving and drying inks of all kinds and colors—greatest help to good printing ever invented; Imperial fly paper, or “catch ’em alive oh!” Soluble blues, or liquid bluing; English harness blacking; Preserving grapes in their natural condition all winter; How to make brandy from shavings; Apple butter without apples; Old orchards made new, Kainite, or tree medicine; Safety gunpowder; 100 pounds of soap for one dollar. How to keep apples fresh and sound all winter; Tyler’s permeating powder; How to restore vitality of seeds; Hunter’s secret; How to make honey from tomatoes; Chinese art of catching fish; Infallible remedy for potato rot; Liquid black lead polish; “All farmers and horse owners”; Barrel of soft soap for 75 cts.; Dead shot for rose slugs; Scrofula ointment; Rat killing without traps or poison; Baking powder; Maple sugar without maple trees.

Fifty methods of making money; Fire-proof paint; Premium black writing ink; Maic copying; Vegetable salve; Counterfeit detector; Art of painting on glass; Celebrated chemical compound; Hunter’s secret; Soft soap; Starch polish; Cider better than from apples and not intoxicating; Rheumatic liniment; Magnetic ointment; Indian pills; Red ink; Blue ink; Indelible ink, without preparation; Luminous ink; Red ruling ink; Yellow ink; Invisible ink; Water-proof Composition; Gunpowder; Shaving soap; Hard solder; Soft solder; Silver plating fluid; Great pain extractor; Matches; Horse taming; Oil-paste blacking; Metals preserved from rust; Sealing wax; Cologne water; Hair restorative; Curling liquid for the hair; Excelsior hair oil; Celebrated tooth powder; Cough syrup; Universal liniment; Brick paint; Wood paint; Best varnish; Leather varnish, Almond soap; Fancy soap; Non-explosive burning fluid; Florida water; Macassar oil; Lavender perfumed water; Buffalo oil.

Sun-light oil; Corassa compound; Inman’s cure for nervous weakness, &c.; Clover vinegar; Curing pork without brine; Sure and safe remedy for warts; Electric blacking; How to add 50 per cent. to yield of grain at trifling labor and expense; Hardening gloss for printer’s inks; Whiskers in six weeks; Beautiful art of transferring any kind of pictures to glass; Great American washing fluid; Liebig’s great fertilizer; Gilding without a battery; Water witching, or art of finding hidden water, oil or other valuable fluids beneath the ground, with the forked switch; Yeast from grape leaves; How to soften hard water; Butter without milk or cream—artificial butter which cannot be told from genuine; Chinese cure for neuralgia; Pain paint; Artificial fruit syrups for soda water and a secret for adding largely to profits; Meat preserving in hot weather; Bordeaux wine imitation; Art of waterproofing cloth; Phycometic fascination, or art of soul charming; Colored fires for theatrical and other purposes; Boiler incrustation preventive; Vegetable cure for hydrophobia; Egg preserving secret; Laundry secrets; Art of pickling meat in one day. 100 pages. Price Fifty Cents.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Moved advertisements on the cover p. [2] to just before the cover p. [3]
  2. Table of [Contents] added by transcriber.
  3. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  4. Anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
  5. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers.