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To Prepare Soap for Bubbles

Dissolve castile soap in strong alcohol; let it settle, or filter, and take the clear solution, from which evaporate the alcohol. The solid residue is oleate of soda. To this add half its weight of glycerine and sufficient water to give the proper consistency. The beauty of the experiments will compensate for all the trouble. milk; let it rest 2 or 3 minutes, and pour off the supernatant milky liquor into a second vessel; then allow it to settle, pour off the clear water, and dry the residue on a filter.

Then add black lead in any quantity. Powder it, and calcine it at a white heat in a loosely covered crucible; cool, and most carefully repulverize; then add prepared clay and prepared plumbago, equal parts. Make into a paste with water, and put into oiled moulds of the size required; dry very gradually, and apply sufficient heat to give the required degree of hardness-the pieces to be taken care- 6194. To Produce Large and Long- fully from the moulds and placed in the lasting Soap-Bubbles. For the produc-grooves of the cedar. The more clay and tion of unusually large soap-bubbles that heat employed, the harder the crayon; less will last for hours, and exhibit splendidly the clay and heat produce a contrary effect. The beautiful colors of the rainbow, a fluid may moulds must be made of 4 pieces of wood, be employed that can easily be prepared in nicely fitted together. the following way; Fine shavings of palm- 6198. Artificial Sea Water for Aquaoil soap are shaken in a large bottle with dis- ria. A rough imitation of sea water is tilled water, until a concentrated solution of formed by mixing 100 ounces of fresh water the soap is obtained; this is filtered through with 3 ounces common salt, 1 ounce Epsom gray filtering paper, and then mixed with salts, 200 grains chloride of magnesium, and about one-third its bulk of pure glycerine. 40 grains chloride of potassium. Or, more The fluid is to be shaken up before use. By precisely, the real constitution of sea-water means of a small glass funnel, of two inches may be imitated in the following manner: diameter, connected with a tube of india-rub- Mix with 970,000 grains rain water 27,000 of MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTE. chloride of sodium, 3600 of chloride of mag-of the vessel well with the solution. Afternesium, 750 of chloride of potassium, 29 of wards scald it well with plain hot water before bromide of magnesium, 2300 of sulphate of using. magnesia, 1400 of sulphate of lime, 35 of car- 6202. Το Preserve Ribbons and Silks. bonate of lime, 5 of iodide of sodium. These Ribbons and other silks should be put away all being finely powdered and mixed first, are to be stirred into the water, through which a stream of air may be caused to pass from the bottom until the whole is dissolved. On no account is the water to be boiled, or even heated. Into this water, when clear, the rocks and sea-weed may be introduced. As soon as the latter are in a flourishing state, for preservation in brown paper; the chloride of lime used in manufacturing white paper frequently produces discoloration. A white satin dress should be pinned in blue paper, with brown paper outside, sewn together at the edges.

6203. Το Make Feather Brushes.

Boil the wing feathers of a turkey or chicken the animals may follow. Care must be taken for 5 or 10 minutes, then rinse them in tepid not to have too many of these, and to remove water, dry them and tie them up in bunches im.nediately any that die. The loss by evap- to use in greasing pans and for brushing egg oration is to be made up by adding clean over tarts or yastry. rain water. The aquarium, whether of fresh or of salt water, will require occasionally arti- In time of frost, potatoes that have been