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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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As a coating for vessels, to preserve them from injury from exposure to the the fire, nothing is better than a mixture of ordinary pipe-clay and horse dung, made into a paste with water. This compo- to boil, and is then cooled. It may be sition is used by the pipe-makers, and will stand unharmed the extreme heat of their 2275. Το Make Paste for Laying kiln for 24 hours. It is applied by spreading it on paper.

Cloth or Leather on Table Tops. To 1 pint best wheaten flour add resin, very finely powdered, about 2 large spoonfuls; of alum, 1 spoonful, in powder; mix them all well together, put them into a pan, and add by de-

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