120 CHARCOAL. 



it thoroughly, and sift into this mixture enough quicklime to 

 make a stiff paste. If the materials are good, and well in- 

 corporated, the above is a cheap and useful cement. 



CEMENT FOR BOTTLES. 



Mix equal portions of pounded resin and beeswax, and 

 add one fourth of their weight of mutton or beef suet. Let 

 it melt slowly over the fire, and stir in brick-dust, Spanish 

 whiting, or some basis that has the desired color. Put it 

 warm over the bottles or jars to be sealed ; or well-corked 

 bottles may be dipped in the cement. 



Cements are frequently made of resin, beeswax, and the 

 powdered substance of a like nature with the article to be 

 repaired. Pound the resin, and stir it into the melted wax, 

 and then make the whole of proper consistency with pow- 

 dered alabaster or glass or china, as the case in hand may 

 require. 



CHARCOAL. This substance, as observed when speak- 

 ing of antiseptics, is often placed around meat and game to 

 keep them from taint. Water filtered through coarse sand 

 and a bed of charcoal is often relieved of deleterious sub- 

 stances. 



Charcoal is almost indispensable in igniting anthracite 

 coal, when used in parlor-grates. It is also useful in small 

 portable furnaces for preserving; but when these are used, 

 there should be a current of fresh air to carry off the 

 fumes of the charcoal, which, as is well known, are fatal 

 to human life. 



Vessels and tubs in which meats, and substances whose 

 absorbed juices might induce putrefaction, are kept, are often 

 charred by burning shavings in them, the charcoal thus 

 induced keeping them sweet. 



