hre. Next take the decanter or bottle and employ the process No. :, described above. If it continues fixed, add another drop of oil to the stopper, and place the vessel again before the fire. Then repeat the tapping with the wood. If the stopper continues still immovable, give it more oil, warm it afresh, and rub it anew, until it gives way, which it is almost sure to do in the end. 6. Take a steel pen or a needle, and run it round the top of the stopper in the angle. formed by it and the bottle. Then hold the vessel in your left hand, and give it a steady twist towards you with the right, and it will very often be effectual, as the adhesion is frequently caused by the solidification of matter only at the point nearest the air. If this does not succeed, try process No. 5, which will be facilitated by it. By combining the two methods numbered 5 and 6, we have extracted stoppers which had been long fixed, and given up in despair after trying the usual plans. Broken stoppers are best left to professional hands.

LIQUID GLUE AND CEMENT.-Take of crushed orange-shellac four ounces, of rectified spirit of wine (strong), or rectified wood naphtha, three ounces. The rectified spirit of wine makes a far superior composition, but the other is good enough for all ordinary work. Dissolve the shellac in the spirit, in a corked bottle in a warm place; frequent shaking will assist it in dissolving, and it should also be shaken before use. This composition may be used as a varnish for unpainted wood.

PERPETUAL PASTE.-Take one ounce of gum tragacanth or gum dragon; pick it clean, and put it into a wide-mouthed vessel of glass or white ware capable of containing a quart. Add as much corrosive sublimate as will lie on a five-cent piece. Then pour on a pint and a half of clean soft water, cold. Cover the vessel and leave it till next day, when the gum will be dissolved, and will nearly fill the vessel. Stir the mass well with a piece of stick-not with metal, because the corrosive sublimate will blacken it. Repeat the stirring several times during the day, when it must be left, and it will form thick white jelly. It must be kept closely covered, and under lock and key, as the corrosive sublimate is poisonous. It will keep for any length of time if the air is excluded, and if it is not put into a vessel of metal. For paper and many other things it forms a strong and colorless cement; and since it may be always at hand, it may tend to induce persons to do a number of small useful jobs, which would be neglected if paste had to be made. If the above rules are fol lowed, especially about not allowing continued exposure to the air, and not keeping it in metal, it will be very slow to spoil.

POLISHING PASTE.-Half a pound of mottled soap cut into pieces, mixed with half a pound of rotten-stone in powder; put them into a saucepan with enough. of cold water to cover the mixture (about three pints); boil slowly till dissolved to a paste.

CEMENT FOR Mending Broken VESSELS.-To half a pint of milk put a sufficient quantity of vinegar in order to curdle it; separate the curd from the whey, and mix the whey with the whites of four eggs, beating the whole well together;

when mixed add a little quick-lime through a sieve, until it acquires the consist ency of a paste. With this cement broken vessels or cracks can be repaired; it dries quickly, and resists the action of fire and water.

TO MEND CHINA.-Mix together equal parts of fine glue, white of eggs, and white lead, and with it anoint the edges of the article to be mended; press them together, and when hard and dry scrape off as much of the cement as sticks about the joint. The juice of garlic is another good cement, and leaves no mark where it has been used.

WATERPROOF BOOTS.—I have had three pairs of boots for the last six years (no shoes), and I think I shall not require any more for the next six years to come. The reason is, that I treat them in the following manner: I put a pound of tallow and half a pound of rosin in a pot on the fire; when melted and mixed, I warm the boots and apply the hot stuff with a painter's brush, until neither the Jole nor the upper leather will suck in any more. If it is desired that the boots should immediately take a polish, melt an ounce of wax with a teaspoonful of lamp-black. A day after the boots have been treated with tallow and rosin, rub over them this wax in turpentine, but not before the fire. The exterior will then have a coat of wax alone, and will shine like a mirror. Tallow, or any other grease becomes rancid and rots the stitching as well as leather; but the rosin gives it an antiseptic quality which preserves the whole. Boots and shoes should be so large as to admit of wearing cork soles. MOTHS.-If furs or apparel be enclosed in a box with a little oil of turpentine, they will remain free from the larvæ of moths.

Receipt for CORN BREAD.-Take half a pint, good measure, of white Indian meal, which should be rather coarsely ground; mix it thoroughly in a large bowl, with one pint of fresh milk, and do not imagine, because it seems so thin, that I have made a mistake, or suspect the printer, but do as you are bid. Put in what salt is necessary, and into the batter break one fresh egg, and with a kitchen fork beat the whole together quickly and thoroughly. Have your oven pretty hot, but not scorching. Into a splay-sided round tin pan, of say four inches diameter at the bottom, and two and a half to three inches deep, pour your batter (which will about half fill the pan), and put it into the oven instantly. It ought to bake, if the oven is properly regulated, in about half an hour. It must be perfectly done to be good. It is to be eaten hot, before the upper crust falls, and buttered to taste.

TO ERASE STAINS of Ink, GREASE, ETC.—A very weak solution of sulphuric acid will readily take ink-stains from the hands, but must on no account be used with textile fabrics. For the latter, the best preparation we have tried is Perry's ink-eraser, which can safely be recommended. The same manufacturer has also produced a preparation for removing grease stains, cleaning gloves, and similar operations, which may be thus readily and satisfactorily done at home.

SHOES. However worn and full of holes the soles may be, if the upper leath ers are whole, or soundly mended, and the stitching firm, the soles may be cov

ered with gutta-percha, and at a very small expense the shoes will be fitted for a new term of service. We have seen shoes, in appearance not worth carrying home, made quite sound and respectable, and to serve many months in constant wear, by being thus soled for the outlay of a few pence. Thin shoes that have been worn only in-doors, and which are laid aside on account of the tops being shabby, perhaps worn out, while the sewing is sound, may be made very tidy by covering with woollen cloth, or with a bit of thick knitting, or platted list, stitched on as close as possible to the regular seam. I have seen a pair of boo's covered with black jean so neatly that without very close inspection they migh. easily be mistaken for new boots bought of a regular maker. This is surely Detter than wearing them in slatternly holes till they drop off the feet and are thrown away as good for nothing.

CANDIED HOREHOUND.-Take some horehound and boil it till the juice is extracted, when sugar, which has been previously boiled until candied, must be added to it. Stir the compound over the fire until it thickens. Pour it out into a paper case dusted over with fine sugar, and cut it into squares or any other shapes desired.

PEPPERMINT DROPS.-A brass or block-tin saucepan must be rubbed over inside with a little butter. Put into it half a pound of crushed lump sugar with a tablespoonful or so of water. Place it over the fire, and let it boil briskly for ten minutes, when a dessertspoonful of essence of peppermint is to be stirred into it. It may then be let fall in drops upon writing paper, or poured out upon plates which have been rubbed over with butter.

GINGER DROPS.-Mix one ounce of prepared ginger with one pound of loafsugar; beat to a paste two ounces of fresh candied orange in a mortar, with a little sugar. Put the above into a brass or block-tin saucepan with a little water. Stir them all well, and boil until they are sufficiently amalgamated, which will be when the mixture thickens like ordinary candied sugar. Pour out on writing paper in drops, or on plates as for peppermint drops.

LEMON DROPS.-Grate three large lemons; then take a large piece of best lump sugar and reduce it to a powder. Mix the sugar and lemon on a plate with half a teaspoonful of flour, and beat the compound with the white of an egg until it forms a light paste. It must then be placed in drops on a clean sheet of writing paper, and placed before the fire-to dry hard rather than to bake.

DAMSON DROPS.-Take some damsons and bake them without breaking them. Remove the skins and stones, and reduce them to a fine pulp by pressing them through a sieve. Sift upon the pulp some crushed lump sugar, and mix it with a knife or spatula until it becomes stiff. Place upon writing paper in the form of drops; put them in a gentle oven to dry, and when dry take them out and turn them on a sieve. Then wet the paper, and the drops will separate from it, after which they are again to be placed in a very slack oven, and dried until they are hard. They are placed in layers in a box with paper betweer each layer, and in that way will keep well, if air and damp are excluded.

RASPBERRY DROPS.-Gently boil some raspberries with a little water, and then remove the skins and seeds, after which a pulpy juice will remain. To one pound of this juice add the whites of two eggs and one pound of sifted lump sugar, well beat up together. The addition must be gradually made, and the mixture well beat up for a couple of hours. When arrived at a proper degree of consistency, the composition is to be placed in large drops upon paper slightly rubbed over with butter. They may be dried either in a warm sun or before a slow fire, but not hastily. A larger raspberry drop or lozenge is made as follows: Take of raspberries two or three pounds, and boil them slowly, stirring them until there is little or no juice left; then put into the saucepan as much moist or crusted sugar as there was fruit at first; mix the two off the fire, and when thoroughly incorporated spread the compound upon plates-china or ironstone are best-and let it dry either in the sun or before a slow fire. When the top is dried, stamp or cut into small cakes of any shape you choose; set these again down to dry, and when ready lay them in boxes, with a sheet of paper between each layer. Like all similar preparations, they are best kept quite free from all damp; and, therefore, tin boxes, with closelyfitting lids, are better than any other. At the same time more depends upon the dryness of the place they are kept in than upon the material of the box.

RED INK.-Take of white wine vinegar one quart, powdered Brazil-wood two ounces, and alumn half an ounce; infuse them together for ten days, then let them gently simmer over a slow fire, after which add a good half ounce of gum arabic. When the gum is dissolved, strain the mixture and bottle it for use. Ink thus prepared will keep its color for many years.

VIOLET INK.-Boil a good quantity of logwood chips in vinegar, and add to the mixture a little alum and gum arabic. The depth of the tint may be modified by varying the proportions of logwood and vinegar.

BLACK INK.-Heat a quart of rain water till it almost boils, and then put into it two ounces of green copperas; when cold strain it, and add to the liquor five ounces of powdered galls and two ounces of loaf-sugar. This ink keeps its color well.

PASTE FOR MOULDING.-Melt some glue in water, and let it be tolerably strong. Mix with this whiting until it is as firm as dough; then work it into the moulds, which must be previously oiled.

POLISH FOR MARBLE.-Melt over a slow fire four ounces of white wax, and while it is warm stir into it with a wooden spatula an equal weight of oil of turpentine; when thoroughly incorporated, put the mixture into a bottle or other vessel, which must be well corked whenever not in use. A little of the above is put upon a piece of flannel and well rubbed upon the marble. Another : Fine rotten-stone, with olive oil, rubbed upon the marble till the desired lustre is attained.

POLISH FOR FURNITURE.-White wax and oil of turpentine, as in the direc tions for polish for marble. A small quantity applied with flannel or other

woollen cloth, and well rubbed, is excellent for mahogany and walnut. If it is desired to give a yellowish tint for light-colored wood, the turpentine should have infused into it, for forty-eight hours before mixing, a small quantity of quercitron, or dyer's oak. To give it a reddish tinge, a little alkanet may be used in the same way as the quercitron.

GREGORY'S POWDER.-Half an ounce of ginger, one ounce and a half of rhubarb, four ounces of calcined magnesia. Mix. Dose: from twenty to thirty grains. Stomachic, antacid, and laxative.

INDIA-RUBBER Varnish for Boots.-Dissolve half an ounce of asphaltum in one ounce of oil of turpentine, also dissolve a quarter of an ounce of caoutchouc in two ounces of mineral naphtha. The two solutions are to be mixed before application.

OPODELDOC.-Opodeldoc and soap liniment are the same thing. It is a popular external application for local pains and swellings, bruises, sprains, and rheumatism. There are several ways of making it. One recipe is: One ounce of camphor, five ounces of Castile soap, one drachm of oil of rosemary, one and a quarter pints of rectified spirits of wine, and one and a quarter pints of water. This requires to digest for a week, and to be occasionally stirred. When ready, filter and bottle for use.

EAU DE COLOGNE.-An excellent form of eau de Cologne may be thus prepared: Take two drachms of the seeds of the lesser cardamom, and put them into a still with two quarts of rectified spirits of wine, and add twenty-four drops of each of the following oils: bergamot, lemon, orange, neroli, rosemary, and cedrat; allow them to remain for a few days, and then distil three pints of perfume. Sometimes a stronger preparation is made by employing half the quantity of spirit to the same quantity of materials. This preparation may also be made by omitting the seeds, and dissolving the oils in the spirit without distillation. In this case the perfume will be improved by allowing the eau de Cologne, when made, to remain at rest in a cool place, such as a dry wine-cellar, for two or three months before being used.

A good kind of eau de Cologne is thus prepared: Take a quarter of an ounce of the oils of lemon and bergamot, and half that quantity of oil of orange peel, half a drachm of oil of rosemary, and forty drops of the oil of neroli, and dissolve them in one pint of rectified spirits of wine. This preparation will be much improved by the addition of a few drops of the essences of musk and ambergris. · A very superior kind of eau de Cologne may be manufactured by distilling thirty drops of each of the oils of orange peel, bergamot, and rosemary, dissolved in half a pint of rectified spirits of wine, with thirty grains of cardamom seeds, and half a pint of orange-flower water. The materials are mixed together and allowed to remain for a few days before distillation, and then half a pint of the perfume is to be distilled from them. This perfume may also be obtained by dissolving the oils mentioned, together with half the quantity of the oil of neroli, in the spirit, and allowing them to remain a few days before use.