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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Mix 1 pint spirit of jasmin, and 5 drops aniline, with 4 pounds pure glycerine. of the nitrate to the fluid ounce. This solution stains the skin as well as the hair. These solutions are usually put up in flat stoppered phials, and one of each, handsomely labeled, sold together in a case under various fanciful names, for which a most extravagant price is generally charged. They form the most con-

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