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The quantity of fulminating powder must be proportioned to the 

 effect intended. — Idem. 



6. Cheap mode by which farmers and others may manufacture 

 charcoal. — Provide a hollow cylindrical cast iron back log for the 

 fire place, not so long but that it may become heated throughout its 

 length. One end may be permanently closed and the other covered 

 with a cap. Drill small holes in it from one end to the other, about 

 a line in diameter. Fill this back log with blocks of wood or chips, 

 and put on the cap. When heated, the inflammable air and tar that 

 issue from the holes will aid the fire. In defect of a cast iron log, a 

 joint of stove pipe may answer temporarily. — Idem. 



7. A tried recipe for burns. — Keep on hand a saturated solution 

 of alum (four ounces in a quart of hot water) dip a cotton cloth in 

 this solution and lay it immediately on the burn. As soon as it shall 

 have become hot or dry, replace it by an other, and thus continue 

 the compress as often as it dries, which it will, at first, do very rapid- 

 ly. The pain immediately ceases and in twenty four hours under 

 this treatment the wound will be healed, especially if the solution be 

 applied before the blisters are formed. The astringent and drying 



quality of the alum completely prevents them. 



The deepest burns, those caused by boiling water, drops of melted 



metal, phosphorus, gunpowder, fulminating powder, he. have all been 



cured by this specific. — Idem. 



8. To remove a hard coating or crust from glass and porcelain 

 vessels. — It often happens that glass vessels, used as pots for flowers 

 and other purposes, receive an unsightly deposit or crust, hard to be 

 removed by scouring or rubbing. The best method to take it off, is 

 to wash it with a little dilute muriatic acid. This acts upon it and 

 loosens it very speedily. — Idem. 



9. Scotch method of preserving eggs. — Dip them, during one or 

 two minutes in boiling water. The white of the egg then forms a 

 kind of membrane, which envelopes the interior and defends it from 

 the air. This method is preferable to the varnish proposed by Reau- 



mur. 



10. Preservation of skins. — J. Stegard, tanner at Tyman, in Hun- 

 gary, completely-preserves raw hides from putrefaction, and restores 



