1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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cleanse places as simple gveen copperas dissolved, under the bed, in any thing that vill hold water, and thus render a hospital, or other places for the sick, free from unpleasant smells. For butchers' and wherever there are offensive putrid gases, dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about, and in a few days the smell will pass away. If a cat, rat, or mouse dies about the house, and sends forth an offensive gas, place some dissolved copperas in an open vessel near the place where the nuisance is, and it will soon purify the atmosphere. No. 505. Directions for making good Caiidlesfrom Lard. For 12 pounds lard, take 1 pound saltpetre, and 1 pound alum ; rAix and pulverize them ; dissolve the saltpetre and alum in a gill of boiling water; pour the compound into the lard before it is quite all melted ; stir the whole until it boils ; skim oft' what rises ; let it simmer until the water is boiled out, or until it ceases to throw off steam ; pour off the lard as soon as it is done, and clean the boiler while it is hot. If the candles are to be run, you may com- mence immediately ; if to be dipped, let the lard cool to a cake, and then treat it as you would tallow. stalls, fish-markets, slaughter-houses, sinks,

No. 506.

[low to make a Cement luhich will get, gradually/, as hard as a stone. Take 20 parts by weight clean sharp sand, 2 parts litharge, and 1 part whiting ; mix, and make them 20«