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Food for Mocking-Birds

Mix 6195. Το Transfer Ornaments for together 2 parts corn-meal, 2 parts pea-meal, Carriages, Wagons, &c. This beautiful and 1 part moss-meal; add a little melted art is now practiced by many painters, for lard, but not sufficient to make the mixture the sake of economy of time and labor. Detoo greasy, and sweeten with molasses. Fry calcomine pictures expressly designed for carin a frying-pan for 1/2 hour, stirring constantly, and taking care not to let it burn; this makes it keep well. Put it in a covered jar. The moss-meal is prepared by drying and grinding the imported German moss-seed. riages are now sold at the leading stationers' stores, and the amateur painter is enabled thereby to finish a job of carriage painting in fine style. These pictures may be stuck on, and the dampened paper carefully removed, leaving the picture intact upon the panel, requiring no touching with the pencil. 6191. German Paste for Feeding Singing-Birds. Blanched sweet almonds, 1 pound; pea-meal, 2 pounds; butter, 3 ounces; 6196. Το Apply Decalcomine Picsaffron, a few grains; honey, a sufficient quan- tures. The proper way to put on decalcotity. Form the whole into a paste, and gran- mine pictures is to varnish the picture careulate it by pressing it through a cullender. fully with the prepared varnish (which can Some add the yolks of 2 eggs. be obtained with the pictures), with an or-