MISCELLANEOUS. '?47 



For mending sugar bowls or ladles, 



For mending canes, clocks, or babies' cradles; 



For mending all dishes with ease, 



On wliich you can put bread, butter, and cheesej 



And every housewife, too, declares 



It beats the world on broken chairs; 



For fancy boxes, chessboards, stands; 



For picture frames and ivory fans; 



For broken tables, writing cases; 



For fractured lamps, Bohemian vases. 



All articles of glass or bone; 

 For marble, porcelain, or stone. 

 For fancy figures, busts of plaster; 

 For images in alabaster. 

 For meerschaum pipes it can't be beat^ 

 It's all the better for the heat. 

 In biUiard halls it's largely used 

 For putting tips upon the cues. 

 For hobby-horses, wood of skates, 

 Dolls, hoops, and broken slates; 

 For parasol handles, tips, and hooks; 

 For fastening loosened leaves in books. 

 In fact, 'twould take too long to mention 

 All uses of this new invention; 

 Whatever else there is about it. 

 Whoever tries it ne'er docs without it. 



Eemarkg.— Where glue will answer the purpose, it will, of course, be found 

 much cheaper (see No. 3); but for all nice work, if carefully made, without 

 bunring, it will be found to beat it, as it takes considerable heat to dissolve 

 isin class, hence its value for dishes. I sealed the bottles with No. 3 sealing wax, 

 red, for bottling medicines. 



2. Cement for Tin Cans. — Into a small saucepan — block -tin is best — 

 put 1 lb. of rosin, }4. ^^- of gum-shellac and 2 ozs. of beeswax. Melt this and 

 mix well with an old iron spoon — both spoon and saucepan must be devoted o 

 the purpose, for they will be useless for all others. When the cans are ready 

 for sealing, pour a fine stream of hot cement from the spoon into the groove as 

 directed. It is better to fill it only half full, and when all the cans are finished, 

 give each one an additional coating. Stick labels on the can with this wax 

 while it is hot. In opening them, crack the wax, and with a pair of scissors or 

 claw, loosen a portion of it. Brush off the dust; pry up the lid, and the balance 

 of the wax will come off easily. Be careful that none of it falls into the fruit. 

 Put the scraps of wax into the saucepan, and it will help towards sealing nexi 

 season's cans. — Mrs. L. V. M. A., Morrisonville, Til., in Prairie Farm. 



3. Cement, White and Cheap, with Glue, for General Pur- 

 poses. — Best white glue, 1 lb.; gum-shellac, 1 oz. : alcohol, 4 ozs.; aqua 

 ammonia, 1 oz. ; soft water, 23^ pts. ; dry, pulverized white lead, 4 ozs. 

 Directions — Dissolve the shellac in the alcohol, to have it ready; then put the 

 glue in the water, in a basin which can be set in a pan of water upon the stove 

 BO as to dissolve the glue without burning it; when the glue is dissolved, but 



