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Green Sealing-Wax

Mix 4 bushel mahogany chips for every 10 horse ounces shellac, 2 ounces Venice turpentine, 14 power. ounces resin, 1/2 ounce King's yellow (see No. 2331. Mucilaginous Substances as 2320), and ounce mineral blue. Or: 24 Preventives. Potatoes, starch, bran, linseo d parts shellac, 12 mastic, 4 turpentine, 6 verdi- meal, gum, dextrine, Irish moss, slippery elm, gris; colored with a mixture of yellow and marshmallow root, glue, etc. These substances indigo. form, sooner or later, a slimy liquid in the 2325. To Make Perfumed Sealing- boiler, which prevents more or less completely Wax. Any fine sealing-wax may be per- the settling and hardening of the deposits, fumed by mixing 1 per cent. of balsam of Some of them may even hold the lime and Peru, or liquid storax, to the ingredients when magnesia in solution. Potatoes have been considerably cooled. A little essence of musk used for many years, wherever steam engines or ambergris will serve the same purpose. are employed; half a peck or a peck are The addition of a little camphor or spirit of wine makes sealing-wax melt easier. thrown into the boiler weekly. Linseed meal mixed with chopped straw was employed on 2326. To Improve the Appearance a German railway, a peck at a time being inof Common Sealing-Wax. To make com- troduced into each boiler. Some writers mon sealing-wax appear to better advantage, object to these organic substances, on the the sticks, being still soft, are dipped in the ground that they are liable to cause frothing. powder of a better quality, and then super- 2332. Saccharine Matter as Preventficially melted, so as to produce a thin coating. ives. Sugar, molasses, corn or potato