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Coffee, 460 ; Alum in Bread, 462 ; Abnormal Coloration of Rye-bread, 464; 

 Sulphuric Acid in Vinegar, 103. 



Animal Substances: Substitute for Cream, 452; Artificial Butter, 465; 

 Fish and Sauce, 452 ; Prepared Meat Juice, 456. 



Vegetable Substances : Preparation of Fruit Juices, 453 ; Preserving 

 Fruit, 453; Decoloration of Fruit Sirups, 454; Ammonia in making Pre- 

 serves, 454 ; Sea-water in making Bread, 460 ; Bread from Entire Wheat, 

 460; Vienna Yeast, 461 ; Abnormal Coloration of Eye-bread, 464 ; Cooking 

 Potatoes, 454 ; Treatment of Fresh Vegetables, 455 ; Pasteur Process for 

 Wines, 464; Brandy from Sawdust, 504 ; Recovery of Waste Caffein, 465. 

 MISCELLANEOUS. 



Anaesthetics in Butchering, 455 ; Chloride of Lime for Vermin, 458 ; Bat- 

 catching, 459 ; Labels on Bottles, 458 ; Keeping Flowers Fresh, 461 ; Pre- 

 venting Wigglers in Water, 462 ; Meidinger Ice-cream Freezing Apparatus, 

 463 ; Poisonous Vanilla Cream, 465 ; Paper and Fire, 466 ; Emptying Bot- 

 tles Rapidly, 471 ; Destroying Mould in Cellars, 363 ; Preventing Mould in 

 Gum, 548 ; Cleaning Sewing-machines, 521 ; Improved Syphon, 499 ; Liquid 

 Glue, 500, 547 ; Fastening Rubber to Metal, 506 ; Preservation of Paste and 

 Size, 507, 508 ; Glycerine for Leather, 507 ; Glycerine Blacking, 547 ; Pe- 

 troleum for Pegged Shoes, 507 ; Preservation of Wood, 525, 528 ; Rubber 

 Corks, 536 ; Safety Lamp, 547. 



L. MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING . . . 473 



MATERIALS. 



Stone : Furnace Slag for Road Ballast, 475 ; Imitation Marble, 486. Metal : 

 Rupture of Iron Wire by a Blow, 475 ; Antiquity of Manufacture of Iron, 

 477 ; Russia Sheet Iron, 477 ; Height of Blast Furnaces, 478 ; Dank's Pud- 

 dling Furnace, 479, 480 ; Manufacture of Pure Wrought Iron, 489 ; Dor- 

 moy's Puddling Apparatus, 489. Wood : Preservation of Timber, 485, 525, 

 528. Cement and Mortar: Non-conducting Composition for Roofs, 474; 

 Fire-proof Composition. 486 ; Cement for Masonry, 526. 



CONSTRUCTIONS. 



Vessels : New Life-boat, 494. Canals : Between the Rhine and Weser, 

 473 ; Between the Black and Caspian Seas, 473 ; Florida Ship-canal, 493. 

 See also Geography. Tunnels : Under the Gut of Canso, 473 ; Perforation 

 of Hoosac Tunnel, lxi. Light-houses : In United States, 493 ; on Sable 

 Island, 493; Identification of Lights at Sea, 81. Water Works: Water 

 Supply of Nismes, 491. Wells : Deepest known Well, 491. Telegraphs : 

 Preservation of Poles in Norway, 485. 



MOTORS. 



Coal : Exhaustion of British Supply, 474 ; Fuel from Fine Coal, 479 ; Im- 

 proving Quality of Poor Coal f 494 ; Relation of Weather to Colliery Explo- 

 sions, 53. Tides and Currents : Flux Motors, 475. Steam : Boiler Coat- 

 ing, 476 ; Asbestos for Piston Packing, 476 ; Improved Boiler, 490. Rail- 

 roads : Indicating Stopping-places of Trains, 480 ; Registering Apparatus 

 for Passenger Cars, 481. Balloons : Manageable, 481. 



EXPLOSIVES. 



New Detonating Mixture, 482 ; New Combination of Nitro-glycerine, 483 ; 



