Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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Fire-eating Ghosts

Pour some strong warm spirits into a flat dish, sprinkle Equal parts charcoal and nitrate of baryta. some salt into it, and set it on fire on a table

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