$250 



OF ADVERTISED 



INFORMATION 



For 50 Cents. 



t' means of circulars and newspaper advertisements a thriving business is done 

 Iling recipes, rights to make or use wonderful discoveries, and various secreta, 

 &o. Some of them are good, some worthless, some fraudulent. Many invest a few 

 shillings or dollars out of mere curiosity or in hopes <.f money making or gaining 

 knowledge. We have collected at cost of over $250 all the prominent of these 

 advertised things. Their sellers we find have no exclusive right to them, so we pro- 

 pose to give our $250 worth to the public in a neat little book which we call the 



BOOK OF ADVERTISED WONDERS. 



This gives the good, bad and indifferent, but with comments explaining the real 

 character of each. The following list will give an idea of the contents: 



It tells you how to make vinegar in ten hours from molasses, sorghum cider, &c. 

 without drugs or chemicals ; American gin without any distillation at 16 cts. per 

 pint ; Premium mead ; Ale without malt or hops ; Cure for asthma ; Imitation cog- 

 niac brandy equal to finest French genuine ; Glycerine cement ; Chinese art of 

 dwarfing trees ; How to raise the vinegar plant ; Bee-keeper's secret for securing 

 fertilization of young queens by any drones desired ; How to secure nearly double 

 the usual product in artificial fish raising ; Chemical paint, durable and odorless, 

 of any color, without oil ; Great water-proof varnish for boots and shoes ; Kapno- 

 phyte, the new departure in fertilizers; Great art of chemicalizing manure; Great 

 vegetable remedy for burns, scalds. &';. ; Food for mocking birds ; Death to the 

 cotton worm ; India-rubber cement. Pound of butter firom a pint of Milk ; Ottawa 

 beer; Artifinol rubber from milkweed. 



Nickel plating without a battery ; Art of saw -filing ; Remedy for lov§ of strong 

 drink ; Hunter's secrets and private guide to trappers ; " Mad-stones," how to find, 

 how to prepare and how to use the great natural remedy for bites of poisonous or 

 rabid animals ; Seltzer aperient; Excelsior axle grease ; Art of sharpening saws ; 

 Magical British washing powder; Printer's indispensable, improving and drying 

 inks of all kinds and colors — greatest help to good printing ever invented ; Im- 

 perial fly paper, or "catch 'em alive oh I" Soluble blues, or liquid bluing ; English 

 harness blacking; Preserving grapes in their natural condition all winter; How 

 to raaTie brandy from shavings ; Apple butter without apples; Old orchards made 

 new, Kainite, or tree medicine ; Safety gunpowder; 100 pounds of soap for one dollar. 

 How to keep apples fresh and sound all winter ; Tyler's permeating powder ; How 

 to restore vitality of seeds; Hunter's secret; How to make honey from tomatoes; 

 Chinese art of catching fish ; Infallible remedy for potato rot; 1-iquid black lead 

 polish ; " All farmers and horse owners ;" Barrel of soft soap for 75 cts. ; Dead 

 shot for rose slugs ; Scrofula ointment ; Eat killing without traps or poison ; Baking 

 powder; Maple sugar without maple trees. 



Fifty methods of making money; Fire-proof paint; Premium black writing 

 ink ; Maic copying ; Vegetable salve ; Counterfeit detector ; Art of painting on 

 glass; Clebrated chemical compound ; Huntei-'s secret ; Soft soap; Starch polish ; 

 Cider better than from apples and not intoxicating; Rheumatic liniment; Magnetic 

 ointment; Indian pills; Red ink ; Blue ink; Indelible ink, without preparation ; 

 Luminous ink; Red ruling ink; Yellow ink ; Invisible ink ; Water-proof Composi- 

 tion; Gunpowder; Shaving soap ; Hard solder; Soft solder; Silver plating fluid ; 

 Great pain extractor ; Matches ; Horse taming ; Oil-paste blacking ; Metals pre- 

 served from rust ; Sealing wax ; Cologne water ; Hair restorative ; Curling liquid 

 for the hair; Excelsior hair oil ; Celebrated tooth powder ; Cough S}'rup ; Univer-, 

 sal liniment; Brick paint; Wood paint; Best varnish; Leather varnish , Almond 

 soap; Fancy soap; Non-explosive burning fluid; Florida water; Maca,8airr oil; 

 Lavender perfumed water ; Buffalo oil. 



Sun-light oil; Corassa compound; Inman's cure for nervous weakness, &c.; 

 Clover vinegar; Curing pork without brine; Sure and safe remedy for warts; 

 Electric blacking : How to add 50 per cent, to yield of grain at trifling labor and 

 expense; Hardening gloss for printer's inks; Whiskers in six weeks; Beautiful 

 art of transferring any kind of pictures to glass; Great American washing fluid; 

 Liebig's great fertilizer; Gilding without a battery; Water witching, or art 

 of finding hidden water, oil or other valuable fluids beneath the ground, with the 

 forked switch ; Yeast from grape leaves ; How to soften hard water ; Butter with- 

 out milk or cream— artificial butter which cannot be told from genuine; Chinese 

 cure for neuralgia ; Pain paint ; Artificial fruit syrups for soda water and a secret 

 for adding largely to profits; Meat preserving in hot weather; Bordeaux wine 

 imitation; Art of waterproofing cloth; Phycometic fascination, or art of soul 

 charming ; Colored fires for theatrical and other purposes ; Boiler incrustation pre- 

 ventive; Vegetable cure for hydrophoDia; Egg preserving secret; Laundry secrets ; 

 Art of pickling meat in one day. 100 pages. Price Fifty Cents. 



