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11 To make Furniture Paste.

Melt equal quantities of bees' wax and oil of turpentine together, you may colour it red by steeping a little anet root in the turpentine, previous to melting the wax in it.

To Varnish Prints and Water Colour Drawings.

Balsam of Canada 1 oz. oil of turpentine 2 oz.; size drawings with isinglass jelly, take care not to disturb  colours; when dry, use the varnish, then they will look like Oil Paintings.

To Engrave on Glass.

Cover a bit of glass with a thin coat of bees’ wax, then trace a design on it with a sharp instrument that will to the glass, then mix some coarsely powdered ur, spar, and sulphuric acid in a basin give it a gentle, when acid fumes will be evolved, to which the hed surface of the glass must be exposed for a minute  two, taking care not to melt the wax; the wax can be  by warming the glass and wiping it with tow l a little oil of turpentine, when the lines will be found  to a depth proportioned to the time of their exposure to the acid fumes. Great care must be taken not inhale of the fumes for its poison.

To Cement Broken China and Glass.

Mix some finely powdered quick lime and the white an egg well together, and anoint the edges of the broken vessel, and clasp them together by a warm fire; if  hand be steady the fracture will be hardly be discerned.

To Stain Wood a Mahogany Colour.

Take 2 oz. of dragon’s blood, break it in pieces, and it in a quart of rectified spirits of wine; let the bottle