This day is published, 18mo., cloth, price Is. 4d., post free, 



COMMON THINGS MADE PLAIN. 



A LESSON BOOK ON SUBJECTS FAMILIAR TO EVERY-DAY LIFE. 

 BY JAMES MENZIES. 



PRINCIPAL CONTENTS: 



Alabaster 



Alcohol or spirits of wine 



Alkali 



Alloys 



Allspice 



Almond 



Aloes 



Alpaca wool 



Amber 



Ambergris 



Anchovies and sardines 



Animal food 



Annealing glass 



Antimony 



Arrow-root and sago 



Asphalte 



Bacon and bams 



Balsams 



Barley 



Beaver 



Beech 



Beef and veal 



Beer 



Beet sugar 



Bell metal 



Biscuit 



Black-lead 



Bleaching 



Bones 



Brass 



Brazil-nut 



Bread-making, chemistry 



of 

 Bread, fermentation of 

 Bricks 

 Bristles 

 Broadcloth 

 Bronze 

 Bullion 

 Butter 

 Cabbage 



Cambric and lawn 

 Camomile 

 Camphor 

 Canals 

 Candles 

 Cannons 



Cai'bonic acid gas 

 Cast and malleable iron 

 Castor-oil 

 Celery 

 Cement 

 Chalk 

 Champagne 

 Charcoal 

 Cheese 

 Chicory- 

 Chocolate 

 Cinnamon 



Clock and watch making 

 Coal 



Cochineal 

 Cocoa 

 Coffee 

 Coins 

 Colouring and staining 



glass 

 Common salt 

 Copper 

 Cork 

 Cotton 



rries 

 Crape 

 Crucil 

 Cucumber 



Curry-powder 



Cutlery 



Damask 



Dates 



Diamond 



Distilled liquors 



Dried fruits 



Dying 



Earthenware 



Ebony 



Eggs 



Emery 



Enamel painting 



Epsom salts 



Felt 



Figs 



Fine gold 



Fire- and choke-damp 



Fireworks 



Flannels and blankets 



Flatfish 



Flax 



Flint 



French wines 



Fresco painting 



Fruit trees, engrafting 



Fullers' earth 



Gall-nuts 



Gamboge 



Game 



Garlic and onion 



Gentian 



Ginger 



Glass 



Glue 



Goat, milk of 



Gold 



Grain 



Granite 



Greenland whale 



Grocers' currants 



Gums 



Gunpowder 



Gutta pereha 



Hard-wood trees. 



Hats 



Hemp 



Hens 



Herring- fishery 



Hops 



Horseradish 



Indian corn 



India-rubber 



Indigo 



Infusions, extracts, etc. 



Iron 



Isinglass and caviar 



Ivory 



Japanned goods 



Jet or pitch coal 



Lace manufacture 



Lamp black 



Lard 



Lead 



Leather 



Lemon 



Lettuce 



Limestone 



Linen manufacture 



Linseed oil 



Liquorice 



Loaf sugar 



Macaroni 



Madder 



Mahogany 



Malt 



Marble 

 Marine glue 

 Mariners' compass 

 Mercury or quicksilver 

 Metals, properties of 

 Milk 



Mineral poisons 

 Mineral waters 

 Mirrors 

 Molasses 

 Morocco leather 

 Mosaic work 

 Mother of pearl 

 Mushrooms 

 Musk 

 Mustard 

 Mutton 

 Naphtha 



Needle and pin manufac- 

 tures 

 Nitre and saltpetre 

 Nitric acid 

 Nutmeg 

 Oak 

 Ochre 



Oil, manufacture of 

 Oil and water colours 

 Olive oil 

 Opium 

 Oranges 



Ox, varieties of the 

 Palm oil, sugar, & wine 

 Paper 

 Parchment 

 Parsley 



Pasteboard and cardboard 

 Peas and beans 

 Pearl 

 Peppers 

 Perfumes 

 Peruvian bark 

 Pineapple 

 Pitch 



Plaster of Paris 

 Platina 



Poisonous acids 

 Porcelain 

 Port and sherry 

 Potatoes 

 Precious stones 

 Printers' ink 

 Prunes 

 Prussian blue 

 Prussic acid 

 Pumice stone 

 Quassia 



Quicklime and mortar 

 Railways 

 Raisins 

 Rhubarb 

 Rice 



Rock salt 

 Rosewood 

 Rushlights 

 Russia leather 

 Sable 



Safety lamps 

 Sago 



Salmon fishery 

 Sandstone 

 Sarsaparilla 

 Sassafras 

 Seal-fishery 

 Sealing-wax 



Senna 



Shell-fish 



Shoe-blacking 



Silk 



Silver 



Slate 



Snuff 



Soap 



Soda 



Solder 



Spermaceti whale 



Sponges 



Squirrel fur 



Standard gold and silver 



Starch 



Steamboats 



Steel _ 



Stockings 



Sugarcane 



Sulphate of copper 



Sulphur 



Sulphuric acid 



Tallow and potash 



Tamarind 



Tar 



Tartaric acid 



Tea 



Tea, consiimption of 



Tin 



Tobacco, cultivation, etc. 

 of 



Tobacco-pipes 



Tortoise-shell, 



Treacle 



Tripoli 



Turkey-fowl 



Turnip 



Turnpike roads 



Turpentine 



Turtle 



Type metal 



Vanilla 



Varnishes 



Velvet 



Veneers 



Verdigris 



Vermilion 



Vinegar 



Ultra-marine 



Umber 



"Wafers 



Walnut 



Water 



Watercress 



Wax-candles 



Whale-fishery 



Wheat 



Wheat, chemical compo- 

 sition of, etc. 



Wheaten bread 



White fish 



White lead 



Whiting 



Wine, fermentation of 



Woad 



Wood gilding 



Woollen manufacture 



Writing ink 



Yam 



Yeast used in beer making 



Yeast used in bread 

 making 



Yellow resin 



Yew 



Zinc etc., etc. 



LONDON: GEOOMBEIDGE AND SONS, 5, PATEENOSTEE EOW. 



