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ler, apply to the hair with a stiff brush, brushing into the pores of the
scalp, and wash out with clear water. You will be surprised at the silk
gloss of your hair. For cleaning silver ware, etc., tuy five cents' worth
of whitening, mix a small quantity with the magic annihilator, and apply
with a rag, rubbing briskly. For killing bed bugs, apply to the places
they frequent, and they will leave in short order. You will find it useful
in many other ways. (See price list of labels.)
CHAPTER IX.
MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT.
FIRE-PROOF PAINT. Take a sufficient quantity of Water for
use; add as much 'Potash as can be dissolved therein. When the water
will dissolve no more Potash, stir into the solution first, a quantity of
flour paste of consistency of painter's size; second a sufficiency of pure
clay to render it of the consistency of cream. Apply with a painter's
brush.
N. B. The above will admit of any coloring you please.
WATER-PROOF AND FIRE-PROOF CEMENT FOR ROOFS
OF HOUSES. Slack Stone Lime in a large tub or barrel with boiling
water, covering the tub or barrel to keep in the steam. When thus
slacked pass six quarts through a fine sieve. It will then be in a state of
fine flour. To this add one quart Rock Salt and one gallon of Water.
Boil the mixture and skim it clean. To every five gallons of this skim
med mixture add one pound of Alum and one-half pound Copperas; by
slow degrees add three-fourths pound Potash and four quarts fine Sand
or Wood Ashes sifted. Both of the above will admit of any coloring
you please. It looks better than paint and is as durable as slate.
PAINT FOR ROUGH WOODWORK. Six pounds melted Piteh,
one pound Linseed Oil, and one pound Yellow Ochre.
SUPERIOR PAINT FOR BRICK HOUSES To Lime Whitewash
add, for a fastener, Sulphate of Zinc, and shade with any color you
choose, as Yellow Ochre, Venetian Red, etc. It outlasts oil paint.
ART OF ETCHING ON COPPER. Having obtained a piece of
fine Copper, which will be well polished, make a mixture of Beeswax and
a small quantity of Resin; melt these together, and when thoroughly
incorporated by stirring, take a camel's hair brush and cover the plate,
which must previously be warmed by the fire, with an even coating of
the mixture.
When the mixture becomes hardened upon the plate, sketch the de
sired object upon the surface, then take an etching point, a large needle
fixed in a handle will do, and cut through the wax to the surface of the
copper, taking care to make the lines as distinct as possible.
This being done, raise a border of wax all around the plate, then
pour strong Nitric Acid on the plate to the depth of an inch. The Acid
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