of boiling
water; pour the flour mixture into it, stirring well all the time. In
a few minutes it will be of the consistency of molasses. Pour it into
an earthen or china vessel, let it cool, and stir in a small
teaspoonful each of oil of cloves and of sassafras; lay a cover on,
and put in a cool place. When needed for use, take out a portion and
soften it with warm water. This is a fine paste to use to stiffen
embroidery.

TO REMOVE INDELIBLE INK.

Most indelible inks contain nitrate of silver, the stain of which may
be removed by first soaking in a solution of common salt, and
afterward washing with ammonia. Or use solution of ten grains of
cyanide of potassium and five grains of iodine to one ounce of water,
or a solution of eight parts each bichloride of mercury and chloride
of ammonium in one hundred and twenty-five parts of water.

A CEMENT FOR ACIDS.

A cement which is proof against boiling acids may be made by a
composition of India rubber, tallow, lime and red lead. The India
rubber must first be melted by a gentle heat, and then six to eight
per cent by weight of tallow is added to the mixture while it is kept
well stirred; next day slaked lime is applied, until the fluid mass
assumes a consistency similar to that of soft paste; lastly, twenty
per cent of red lead is added in order to make it harden and dry.

TO KEEP CIDER.

Allow three-fourths of a pound of sugar to the gallon, the whites of
six eggs, well beaten, a handful of common salt. Leave it open until
fermentation ceases, then bung up. This process a dealer of cider has
used for years, and always successfully.

_Another Recipe_.--To keep cider sweet allow it to work until it has
reached the state most desirable to the taste, and then add one and a
half tumblers of grated horse-radish to each barrel, and shake up
well. This arrests further fermentation. After remaining a few weeks,
rack off and bung up closely in clean casks.

A gentleman of Denver writes he has a sure preservative: Put eight
gallons of cider at a time into a clean barrel; take one ounce of
powdered charcoal and one ounce of powdered sulphur; mix and put it
into some iron vessel that will go down through the bung-hole of the
barrel. Now put a piece of red-hot iron into the charcoal and sulphur,
and while it is burning, lower it through the bung-hole to within one
foot of the cider, and suspend it there by a piece of wire. Bring it
up and in twelve hours you can cure a