of Kino, three pounds Loaf Sugar, two
gallons Spirits. Let this stand ten days. Color, if too light with
Tincture of Rhatany, then rack it off and fine it. This should be
repeated until the color is perfect and the liquid clear.

CLEANING COMPOUND.--Mix one ounce of Borax and one ounce Gum Camphor
with one quart of boiling water. When cool add one pint of Alcohol,
bottle and cork tightly. When wanted for use, shake well and sponge the
garments to be cleaned. This is an excellent mixture for cleaning
soiled black cashmere and woolen dresses, coat collars and black felt
hats.

SHAVING SOAP.--Good white Soap in fine shavings, three pounds; Balm
Soap, one pound; Soft Water, three-fourths of a pound; Soda, one ounce.
Melt carefully over a slow fire in an earthen vessel; then add Oil of
Lavender sixty drops, Oil of Lemon forty drops; mix well and make into
forms.

LEATHER CEMENT.--Take Gutta Percha cut in Chloroform to right
consistency for use. Equal to Cook's best for putting patches on
leather, cloth shoes or boots. Well worth $100.

TO FASTEN PAPER TO TIN.--Take good clear pale yellow Glue, break it
into rather small pieces, and let it soak a few hours in cold water.
Pour off the supernatant water, place the glue thus softened in a
wide-mouthed bottle; add sufficient Glacial Acid to cover the Glue, and
facilitate the solution by standing the bottle in warm water. This
Acetic will stick almost anything.

HUNTERS' AND TRAPPER'S SECRET.--Take equal parts of Oil of Rhodium,
Anise Oil, Sweet Oil and Honey, and mix well. Put a few drops on any
kind of bait. For musk-rats use sweet apples or vegetables for bait.
For mink use a chicken's head or a piece of fresh meat.

FIRE KINDLERS--To make very nice fire kindlers take Resin, any
quantity, and melt it, putting in for each pound being used two or
three ounces or Tallow, and when all is hot stir in Pine Sawdust to
make very thick, and while very hot spread it out about one inch thick,
upon boards which have fine Sawdust sprinkled upon them to prevent it
from sticking. When cold break up into lumps about an inch square. But
if for sale take a thin board and press upon it while yet warm, to lay
it off into inch squares. This makes it break regularly, if you press
the crease sufficiently deep. Grease the marked board to prevent it
sticking.

RED SEALING WAX.--Purchase four pounds Shellac, one and one-half pounds
Veneer Turpentine, three pounds finest Cinnabar, and four ounce