THE WORKSHOP COMPANION. 



A Collection of* Useful and Reliable Recipes, 



Rules, Processes, HolSiod*. Wrinkles, 



and Practical Hints, 



FOR THE HOUSEHOLD MJTD THE SHOP. 



CONTENTS. 



Abyssinian Gold: Accidents, General Rules; -Alabaster, how to work, polish and 

 clean; Alcohol; Alloys, rules fqt making, and r6 recipes; Amber, how to work, 

 polish and mend; Annealing arm Hardening ghss, copper, steel, etc.; Arsenical 

 Soap; Arsenical Powder; Beeswax, how to bleach; Blackboards, how to make; 

 Brass, how to work, polish, color, varnish, whiten, deposit by electricity, clean, etc., 

 etc. ; Brazing and Soldering; Bronzing brass, wood, leather, etc.; Burns, how to 

 cure; Case-hardening; Catgut, how prepared ; Cements, general rules for using, and 

 56 recipes for preparing; Copper, working, welding, depositing; Coral, artificial; 

 Cork, working; Crayons for Blackboards; Curling brass, iron, etc.; Liquid Cu- 

 ticle; Etching copper, steel, glass: Eye, accidents to;--Fires, to prevent; Clothes on 

 Fire; Fireproof Dresses; Fly Papers; Freezing Mixtures, 6 recipes; Fumigating 

 Pastils; Gilding metal, leather, wood, etc.; Glass, cutting, drilling, turning in the 

 lathe, fitting stoppers, removing tight stoppers, powdering, packing, imitating ground 

 glass, washing glass vessels, etc. ; Grass, Dry, to stain ; Guns, to make shoot close, 

 to keep from rusting, to brown the barrels of, etc., etc.; Handles, to fasten ; Inks, 

 rules for selecting and preserving, and 54 recipes for; Ink Eraser; Inlaying; Iron, 

 forging, welding, case-hardening, zincing, tinning, do. in the cold, brightening, etc., 

 etc. ; Ivory, to work, polish, bleach, etc. ; Javelle Water ; -Jewelry and Gilded Ware, 

 care of, cleaning, coloring, etc. ; Lacquer, how to make and apply ; Laundry Gloss ; 

 Skeleton Leaves; Lights, signal and colored, also for tableaux, photography, etc., 25 

 recipes ; Lubricators, selection of, 4 recipes for ; Marble, working, polishing, clean- 

 ing; Metals, polishing; Mirrors, care of, to make, pure silver, etc., etc.; Nickel, 

 to plate with without a battery; Noise, prevention of; Pairting Bright Mefals; 

 Paper, adhesive, barometer, glass, tracing, transfer, waxed, etc. ;-^Paper, to clean, take 

 creases out of, remove water stains, mount drawing paper, to prepare for varnishing, 

 etc., etc. ; Patina; Patterns, to trace; Pencils, indelible; Percil Marks, to fix; 

 Pewter; Pillows for Sick Room, cheap and good ; Plaster-of- Paris, how to work; 

 Poisons, antidotes for, 12 recipes; Polishing Powders, preparation and use of (six 

 pages); Resins, their properties, etc.; Saws, how to sharpen;- -Sieves; Shellac, 

 properties and uses of; Silver, properties of, oxidized, old, cleaning, to remove ink 

 stains from, to dissolve from plated goods, etc., etc. ; Silvering metals, leather, iron, 

 etc. ; Size, preparation of various kinds of; Skins, tanning and curing, do with hail 

 on; Stains, to remove from all kinds of goods; Steel, tempering ani,V working (six 

 pages); Tin, properties, method's of working; Varnish, 21 recipes for; ^Varnishipg, 

 directions for; Voltaic Batteries; Watch, care of; Waterproofing, 7 recipes for; 

 Whitewash; Wood Floors, waxing, staining, and polishing; Wood, polisHtg. ~> 

 Wood, staining, 17 recipes; Zinc, to pulverize, black varnish for. 



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