1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

265

; Indian red, f ounce ;

yellow soap, (dry,)

5 drachms

Grind it to an impalpable smoothness.

3 ounces.

Mix with old linseed-oil.

No. 598. How to clean Silk stained by corrosive or sharp Liquor. We often lind that lemon-juice, vinegar, oil of vitriol, and other sharp corrosives, stain dyed gar- ments. Sometimes by adding a little pearlash to a soap-lather, and passing the silks through these, the faded colour will be restored. Pearlash and warm water will sometimes do alone ; but it is the most efficacious to use the soap-lather and pearlash together.

No. 599. Bow to Write in Silver.

Mix 1 ounce the finest pewter or block tin, and 2 ounces quicksilver, together, till both become fluid then grind it with gum-water, and write with it. The writing will look as if done with silver.

No. 600.

Toothache Preventive. A correspondent of the "Monthly Magazine" says : — " Although I am unacquainted with any thing which gives immediate ease in that severe pain, yet I can inform you how the toothache may be prevented. I was much tortured with it about twenty years ago. Since that time, however, by 23