ounces; the muriate of morphia, two grains; muriatic acid, twenty drops; a teaspoonful twice a day.

58. Salts of tartar, two scruples; twenty grains of powdered cochineal; lb. of honey; water, half a pint; boil and give a teaspoonful three times a day.

59. Calomel, ten grains; castile soap, extract of jalap, extract of colocynth, of each one scruple; oil of juniper, ten drops; make into eighteen pills and take two at bedtime occasionally.

60. Infusion of orange peel, eight ounces; carbonate of soda, one dram; and compound tincture of cardamoms, half an ounce; take two large teaspoonfuls twice the day succeeding the pills.

61. Carbonate of iron, three ounces; syrup of ginger, sufficient to make an electuary, a teaspoonful three times a day.

62. Take of castile soap, compound extract of colocynth, compound rhubarb pill, and the extract of jalap, of each one scruple; oil of carraway, ten drops; make into twenty pills, and take one after dinner every day whilst necessary. 63. Spirits of rosemary five parts, spirits of wine, or spirits of turpentine, one part.

1275. USEFUL RECEIPTS. 1276. OINTMENT FOR SCURF IN THE HEADS OF INFANTS.-Lard, two ounces; sulphuric acid, diluted, two drachms; rub them together, and anoint the head once a day.

1277. RANCID BUTTER.-This may be restored by melting it in a water bath, with some coarsely powdered animal charcoal (which has been thoroughly sifted from dust), and strain ed through flannel.

1278. REMEDY FOR BLISTERED FEET FROM LONG WALKING.-Rub the feet, at going to bed, with spirits mixed with tallow dropped from a lighted candle into the palm of the hand.

1279. AN EASY METHOD OF EXTERMINATING RATS AND MICE.-Mix powdered nux vomica with oatmeal, and lay it in their haunts, observing proper

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precaution to prevent accidents. Another method is, to mix oatmeal with a little powdered phosphorus.

1280. WASH FOR A BLOTCHED FACE. -Rose water, three ounces; sulphate of zinc, one drachm. Mix. Wet the face with it, gently dry it, and then touch it over with cold cream, which also dry gently off.

1281 OIL OF ROSES-FOR THE HAIR.— Olive oil, two pints; otto of roses, one drachm; oil of rosemary, one drachm. Mix. It may be coloured red by steeping a little alkanet root in the oil (with heat) before scenting it.

1282. CURE FOR CHAPPED HANDS.Instead of washing the hands with soap employ oatmeal, and after each washing take a little dry oatmeal, and rub over the hands, so as to absorb any moisture.

1283. TO PREVENT THE SMOKING OF A LAMP.-Soak the wick in strong vinegar, and dry it well before you use it; it will then burn both sweet and pleasant, and give much satisfaction for the trifling trouble in preparing it.

1284. DR. BIRT DAVIES' GOUT MIXTURE.-Wine of colchicum, one ounce; spirit of nitrous ether, one ounce ; iodine of potassium, two scruples; distilled water, two ounces. Mix. A tea spoonful in camomile tea two or three times a day.

1285. TO RENDER LINEN, &c., INCOMBUSTIBLE. All linen, cotton, muslins ; &c. &c., when dipped in a solution of the pure vegetable alkali at a gravity of from 124 to 130 (taking water at the gravity of 100) become incombustible.

1286. TO TAKE GREASE OUT OF VELVET OR CLOTH.-Get some turpentine and pour it over the place that is greasy; rub it till quite dry with a piece of clean flannel; if the grease be not quite removed, repeat the application, and when done, brush the place well, and hang up the gar ment in the open air to take away the smell.

1287. DR. BABINGTON'S MIXTURE FOR INDIGESTION.-Infusion of calumba, six ounces; carbonate of potassa, one

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drachm; compound tincture of gentian, three drachms. Mix. Dose, two or three tablespoonfuls daily at noon.

1288. LEMONADE.-Powdered sugar, four pounds; citric or tartaric acid, one ounce; essence of lemon two drachms; mix well. Two or three teaspoonfuls make a very sweet and agreeable glass of extemporaneous lemonade.

1289. GINGER BEER. -White sugar, twenty pounds; lemon or lime juice, eighteen (fluid) ounces; honey, one pound, bruised ginger, twenty-two ounces; water, eighteen gallons. Boil the ginger in three gallons of water for half an hour, then add the sugar, the juice, and the honey, with the remainder of the water, and strain through a cloth. When cold add the white of one egg, and half an ounce (fluid) of essence of lemon; after standing four days, bottle. This yields a very superior beverage, and one which will keep for many months.

1290. TO TAKE STAINS OF WINE OUT OF LINEN.-Hold the articles in milk that is boiling on the fire, and the stains will soon disappear.

1291. DR. CLARK'S PILLS FOR NERVOUS HEADACHE. Socotrine aloes, powdered rhubarb, of each one drachm; compound powder of cinnamon, one scruple; hard soap, half a drachm; syrup enough to form the mass. To be di

in the openings and cracks of the bedstead.

1294. MIXTURE FOR DESTROYING FLIES.-Infusion of quassia, one pint; brown sugar, four ounces; ground pepper, two ounces. To be well mixed together, and put in small shallow dishes when required.

1295. ERASMUS WILSON'S LOTION TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH OF THE HAIR.— Eau de Cologne, two ounces; tincture of cantharides, two drachms; oil of rosemary and oil of lavender; of each, ten drops.

1296. DR. SCOTT'S WASH TO WHITEN THE NAILS. Diluted sulphuric acid, two drachms; tincture of myrrh, one drachm; spring water, four ounces. Mix. First cleanse with white soap, and then dip the fingers into the wash.

1297. CURE FOR CORNS.-Take two ounces of gum-ammoniac, two ounces of yellow wax and six drachms of verdigris, melt them together, and spread the composition on soft leather. away as much of the corn as you can, then apply the plaster, and renew it every fortnight till the corn is away.

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1298. DEAFNESS FROM DEFICIENT SECRETION OF WAX.-Take oil of turpentine, half a drachm; olive oil, two drachms. Mix. Two drops to be introduced into the ear at bed-time.

1292. TO TAKE INK-STAINS OUT OF MAHOGANY.-Put a few drops of spirits of nitre in a teaspoonful of water, touch the spot with a feather dipped in the mixture, and on the ink disappearing, rub it over immediately with a rag wetted in cold water, or there will be a white mark which will not be easily effaced.

1293. AN EFFECTUAL LIME FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF BUGS.-Two ounces of red arsenic, a quarter of a pound of white soap, half an ounce of camphor dissolved in a teaspoonful of spirits rectified, made into a paste of the consistency of cream: place this mixture

1300. SCOURING DROPS FOR REMOVING SPOTS, GREASE, &C., FROM LINEN OR ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE.-Take spirits of turpentine and essence of lemons, of each, one ounce. The essence must be newly made, or it will leave a circle round the spot.

1301. TO CLEAN MARBLE.-Take two parts of common soda, one part of pumice-stone, and one part of finely powdered chalk; sift it through a fine sieve, and mix it with water; then rub it well all over the marble, and the stains will be removed; then wash the

marble over with soap and water, and it will be as clean as it was at first.

1302. PAINT.-To get rid of the smell of oil paint plunge a handful of hay into a pailfull of water, and let it stand in the room newly painted.

1303. AN EXCELLENT JELLY. (FOR THE SICK ROOM.)-Take rice, sago, pearlbarley, hartshorn shavings, each one ounce; simmer with three pints of water to one, and strain it. When cold it will be a jelly, of which give, dissolved in wine, milk, or broth, in change with the other nourishment.

1304. IMPRESSIONS FROM COINS.Melt a little isinglass glue with brandy, and pour it thinly over the medal, &c., so as to cover its whole surface; let it remain on for a day or two, till it has thoroughly dried and hardened, and then take it off, when it will be fine, clear, and as hard as a piece of Muscovy glass, and will have a very elegant impression of the coin. It will also resist the effects of damp air, which occasions all other kinds of glue to soften and bend if not prepared in this way.

1305. TRAP FOR SNAILS.- -Snails are particularly fond of bran; if a little is spread on the ground, and covered over with a few cabbage-leaves or tiles, they will congregate under them in great numbers, and by examining them every morning, and destroying them, their numbers will be materially decreased.

1306. TO DESTROY SLUGS.-Slugs are very voracious, and their ravages often do considerable damage, not only to the kitchen garden, but to the flowerbeds also. If, now and then, a few slices of turnip be put about the beds, on a summer or autumnal evening, the slugs will congregate thereon, and may be destroyed.

1307. TO KEEP MOTHS, BEETLES, &c., FROM THE CLOTHES.-Put a piece of camphor in a linen bag, or some aromatic herbs, in the drawers, among linen or woollen clothes, and neither moth nor worm will come near them.

1308. To CLEAR ROSE TREES FROM BLIGHT. - Take sulphur and tobacco dust in equal quantities, and strew it over

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the trees of a morning when the dew is on them. The insects will disappear in a few days. The trees should then be syringed with a decoction of elder leaves.

1309. TO PREVENT MILDEW ON ALL SORTS OF TREES.-The best preventive against mildew is to keep the plant subject to it occasionally syringed with a decoction of elder leaves, which will prevent the fungus growing on them.

1310. TO DETECT COPPER IN PICKLES OR GREEN TEA.-Put a few leaves of the tea, or some of the pickle, cut small, into a phial with two or three drachms of liquid ammonia, diluted with one half the quantity of water. Shake the phial, when, if the most minute portion of copper be present, the liquid will assume a fine blue colour.

1311. OFFENSIVE BREATH.-For this purpose, almost the only substance that should be admitted at the toilette is the concentrated solution of chloride of soda. From six or ten drops of it in a wine glass full of pure spring water, taken immediately after the operations of the morning are completed.

1312. In some cases, the odour arising from carious teeth is combined with that of the stomach. If the mouth be well rinsed with a teaspoonful of the solution of the chloride in a tumbler of water, the bad odour of the teeth will be removed.

1313. TO PROTECT DAHLIAS FROM EARWIGS.-Dip a piece of wool or cotton in oil, and slightly tie it round the stalk, about a foot from the earth. The stakes which you will put into the ground to support your plants must also be surrounded by the oiled cotton or wool, or the insects will climb up them to the blossoms and tender tops of the stems.

1314. TO FREE PLANTS FROM LEAFLICE.-M. Braun, of Vienna, gives the following as a cheap and easy mode of effecting it :-Mix one ounce of flowers of sulphur with one bushel of sawdust; scatter this over the plants infected with these insects, and they will soon be freed, though a second application may possibly be necessary.

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1315. TREATMENT OF WARTS.-Pare the hard and dried skin from their tops, and then touch them with the smallest drop of strong acetic acid, taking care that the acid does not run off the wart upon the neighbouring skin, for if it do, it will occasion inflammation and much pain. If this practice be continued once or twice daily, with regularity, paring the surface of the wart occasionally, when it gets hard and dry, the wart may be soon effectually cured. 1316. TO FATTEN FOWLS IN A SHORT TIME.-Mix together ground rice well scalded with milk, and add some coarse sugar. Feed them with this in the daytime, but not too much at once: let it be pretty thick.

1317. TO DISCOVER WHETHER BREAD IS ADULTERATED WITH ALUM.-The bread must be soaked in water, and to the water in which it has been soaked, a little of the solution of muriate of lime must be added, upon which, if any alum be present, the liquid will be pervaded with milkiness; but if the bread be pure the liquid will remain limpid. Rationale: sulphuric acid has a stronger affinity for lime than for the alumina and potass, with which it forms alum; it therefore quits those bodies to form sulphate of lime with the lime of the test, which produces the milkiness.

1318. To MAKE IMPRESSIONS OF LEAVES UPON SILKS, SATIN, PAPER, OR ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE.-Prepare two rubbers of wash-leather, made by tying up wool or any other substance in wash-leather; then prepare the colours which you wish the leaves to be, by rubbing up with cold-drawn linseed oil the colours you want, as indigo for blue, chrome for yellow, indigo and chrome for green, &c.; get a number of leaves the size and kind you wish to stamp, then dip the rubbers into the paint, and rub them one over the other, so that you may have but a small quantity of the composition upon the rubbers; place a leaf upon one rubber and moisten it gently with the other; take the leaf off and apply it to the substance you wish stamped; upon the leaf

place a piece of white paper, press gently, and there will be a beautiful impression of all the veins of the leaf. It will be as well if only one leaf be used one time. The leaves picked should be of one size, as otherwise the work will not look uniform.

1319. TO EXTERMINATE BEETLES.-1. Place a few lumps of unslaked lime where they frequent. 2. Set a dish or trap containing a little beer or syrup at the bottom, and place a few sticks slanting against its sides, so as to form a sort of gangway for the beetles to climb up by, when they will go headlong into the bait set for them. 3. Mix equal weights of red lead, sugar, and flour, and place it nightly near their haunts. This mixture made into sheets, forms the beetle wafers sold at the oil shops.

1320. TO CLEAN HAIR BRUSHES.— As hot water and soap very soon soften the hairs, and rubbing completes their destruction, use soda, dissolved in cold water, instead; soda having an affinity for grease, it cleans the brush with little friction. Do not set them near the fire, nor In the sun, to dry, but after shaking them well, set them on the point of the handle in a shady place.

1321. TO CLEAN FRENCH KID GLOVES. -Put the gloves on your hand and wash them, as if you were washing your hands, in some spirits of turpentine, until quite clean; then hang them up in a warm place, or where there is a current of air, and all smell of the turpentine will be removed. This method is practised in Paris, and since its introduction into this country, thouands of pounds have been gained by it.

1322. EASY METHOD OF BREAKING GLASS TO ANY REQUIRED FIGURE.Make a small notch by means of a file on the edge of a piece of glass, then make the end of a tobacco-pipe, or of a rod of iron of the same size, red hot in the fire, apply the hot iron to the notch, and draw it slowly along the surface of the glass in any direction you please, a crack will follow the direction of the iron.

1323. ERRORS IN SPEAKING. There are several kinds of errors in speaking. The most objectionable of them are those in which words are employed that are unsuitable to convey the meaning intended. Thus, a person wishing to express his intention of going to a given place, says, "I propose going," when, in fact, he purposes going. An amusing illustration of this class of error was overheard by ourselves. A venerable matron was speaking of her son, who, she said, was quite stagestruck. "In fact," remarked the old lady, "he is going to a premature performance this evening!" Considering that most amateur performances are premature, we can hardly say that this word was misapplied; though, evidently, the maternal intention was to convey quite another meaning.

1324. Other errors arise from the substitution of sounds similar to the words which should be employed. That is, spurious words instead of genuine ones. Thus, some people say "renumerative,' when they mean "remunerative." A nurse, recommending her mistress to have one of the newly-invented carriages for her child, advised her to purchase a preamputator!

1325. Other errors are occasioned by imperfect knowledge of the English grammar. Thus, many people say, "Between you and I," instead of "Between you and me." By the misuse of the adjective: "What beautiful butter," "What a nice landscape." They should say, "What a beautiful landscape," "What nice butter." And by numerous other departures from the rules of grammar, which will be pointed out hereafter.

1326. By the mispronunciation of words. Many persons say pronounciation instead of pronunciation; others say pro-nun'-she-a-shun, instead of pronun-ce-a-shun.

1327. By the misdivision of words and syllables. This defect makes the words an ambassador sound like a

nam-bassador, or an adder like a nadder.

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1328. By imperfect enunciation, as when a person says hebben for heaven, ebber for ever, jocholate for chocolate, a hedge, a nedge, or an edge, a hedge.

1329. By the use of provincialisms, or words retained from various dialects, of which we give the following examples :

Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Suffolk, &c. 1330. Foyne, twoyne, for fine, twine; ineet for night; a-mon for man; poo for pull.

Cumberland, Scotland, &c.

1331. Cuil, bluid, for cool, blood; spwort, seworn, whoam, for sport, scorn, home; a-theere for there; e-reed, seeven, for red, seven; bleedin for bleeding; hawf for half; saumon for salmon.

Devonshire, Cornwall, &c.

1332. F-vind for find; fet for fetch; wid for with; zee for see; tudder for the other; drash, droo, for thrash, and through; gewse for goose; Toosday for Tuesday.

Essex, London, &c.