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Uses of fish-glue — Continued. 



" For family aud office use the bottle glue for general repairing, and 

 the mucilage for gumming paper, are considered very conve- 

 nient. Not only articles of wood, but crockery, glass, and even 

 cast iron can be repaired with it so as to bear the rough hand- 

 ling of daily use. A little tissue paper, applied with either 

 the family glue or the mucilage, makes an excelleut dressing 

 tor flesh wounds, as it holds the parts in perfect position, and 

 causes rapid healing, being composed of the same substances 

 as the best court-plaster, and having no deleterious ingredient 

 whatever. 



" For wood-work it possesses properties of such peculiar value that 

 in som^ branches of this industry operations are now easily 

 performed which would be exceedingly difficult, if not impossi- 

 ble, with any other glue. 



"Le Page's carriage glue is specially designed for use upon flue 

 wood-work, and is largely used by house joiners and other 

 workers in fancy woods, for whose convenience it is put up in 

 tin cans ready for use. Its points of advantage over other glues 

 are — 



1. " Being a liquid it is always ready for use, and can be applied as 



easily as paint. 



2. " It is very much stronger than any other glue. 



3. " Being very fine grained it will 'go further' tban any other glue, 



spreading out better and making a closer joint. 



4. "If the parts do not come together properly the glue itself will 



make strong work, even in a very open joint, only it will take 

 longer for it to dry. 



5. "Work glued with it will stand exposure to moisture and heat 



better than that done with any other glue. 



6. "It will glue iron to wood, and is used for that purpose in the 



manufacture of light buggies, the iron or steel axles being 

 glued to their wooden beds so perfectly that the joint cannot 

 be detected by the eye. 



7. " Having great penetrating power it will take firm hold of very 



close-grained woods, or ivory, upon which other glues would 

 have but little or no effect. 



8. " It can be easily mixed with white lead for water-proof work, or 



with cattle glue for the purpose of improving the strength of 

 the latter. 

 9. "Articles glued with it may be turned in a lathe, or otherwise 

 worked, without dulling the tools, practical experiments having 

 shown its superiority to cattle-glue in tbis respect to be as nine 

 to one. 

 10. " But perhaps its most important peculiarity is that it does not 

 set as quickly as cattle-glue, so that work done ivith it can be 



