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 poses, however, the oxymel of garlic is still better than the sirup. It is thus easily prepared: Boil a quarter of an ounce each of carraway and sweet fennel seeds in a glazed earthern vessel, with about half a pint of vinegar; when they have boiled a short time, add an ounce and a half of garlic cut in slices, cover the whole closely up, and let it stand till cold ; then express the liquor, and mix it with half a pound of clarified honey, placing it in a boiling water-bath to dissolve. This medicine, it is said, if persisted in, will not only relieve, but absolutely cure an obstinate asthmatic cough.

IT is said that geese may be advantageously fed on turnips, cut in small pieces, similar to dice, but not so large, and put into a trough of water.

PLACE the glass in a vessel of cold water, and heat the water gradually till it boils. Glasses of every description, thus prepared, will afterwards bear boiling water poured into them without injury.

GLUTEN may be obtained from wheat flour by the following process: the flour is to be made into a paste which is to be cautiously washed, by kneading it under a small stream of water, till the water has carried from it all the starch ; what remains is gluten. Gluten is found in a great number of plants; Proust discovered it in acorns, chesnuts, apples and quinces; bar-