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Durable Autographic Ink

White wax, 8 ounces; and white soap, 2 to 3 ounces; melt; when well combined add lampnew, beautiful, and cheap ink is described as follows: Gradually warm the turpentine and the oleine together; put the soap on a marble plate, and gradually add, continually rubbing, the mixture of turpentine and oleine; when black, 1 ounce; mix well, and heat it strongly; well mixed, add the burnt soot, which must then add shellac, 2 ounces; again heat it first be well powdered and sifted; then add the strongly; stir well together, cool a little, and Paris blue, dissolved in the oxalic acid, con- pour it out. With this ink lines may be tinually rubbing the composition on the stone, drawn of the finest to the fullest class withthe Paris blue and the oxalic acid having out danger of its spreading, and the copy may been mixed before with water in the above be kept for years before being transferred. given proportions. A solution of soda in water is sufficient to thoroughly cleanse the type.

This ink is employed for writing on lithographic paper, and is prepared for use by rubbing down with a little water in a saucer, in