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Paper Hangers' Paste

Beat up 4 pounds of good white wheat flour in cold water-enough to form a stiff batter (sifting the flour first); beat it well, to take out all lumps; then add enough cold water to make This must be spread immediately on strips of it the consistence of pudding batter; add muslin, and applied to the cracks or joints intended to be luted. It soon hardens, adheres strongly, and will bear a heat approaching to redness without injury. A leak in this lute is readily stopped by the application of a about 2 ounces of well pounded alum. Be sure and have plenty of boiling water ready; take it quite boiling from the fire, and pour gently and quickly over the batter, stirring rapidly at the same time; and when it is obfresh portion. Solution of glue, or any liquid served to swell and lose the white color of albuminous matter, may be used in place of the flour, it is cooked and ready. This will the white of eggs. 2265. Lemery's Lute for Stills or Retorts. Lemery used the following lute for stopping retorts, etc.: Fine flour and fine lime, of each 1 ounce; potter's earth, 1/2 ounce; make a moist paste of these with white of make about of a pail of solid paste; do not use it while hot; allow it to cool and it will go further; about a pint of cold water may be put over the top of it, to prevent it skinning; before using, thin this with cold water to spread easily and quickly under the brush. egg, well beaten up with a little water; this This paste will keep a long while without ferwill be found to stop exceedingly close. menting, when it is useless; mould on the top

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Boyle's Lute for Retorts, &c. does not hurt it; remove it, the remainder is Boyle recommends, on experience, the follow-good. (See No. 2273.) ing for the same purpose: Some good fine quicklime and scrapings of cheese, pounded in a mortar, with as much water as will bring the mixture to soft paste; then spread on a piece of linen rag, and apply it as occasion requires.