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To make Red Sealing Wax. Take one pound of Bees Wax; of Turpentine, three ounces; if for coarse Wax, Red Lead but for fine Wax, Vermilion very fine sifted; an ounce of Oil Olive; melt the Wax and Turpentine, and when they are cooled a little, put the rest in and beat them well together.

To help Beer that begins to sour. Put a handful or two of Ground Malt into the Beer, stir it well together, and that will make it work afresh, and become good again. If you put a handful of Oatmeal into a barrel of Beer, when first laid in the cellar, it will carry with it a quick and lively taste.

To make Red Ink. Take small Brazil, one ounce; White Lead and Alum, two drachms of each; Gum Arabic, eight scruples; Urine, one pint; shake them often together. Also Gum Arabic Water mixed with Vermilion and a little Saffron, will serve.

To make good Black Ink. Put five pints of Rain Water into a pot, then put three ounces of Gum Arabic beaten, stir it with a stick once a day; when the Gum is dissolved, put to the Water six Ounces of Beaten Galls, one ounce of Green Copperas, one quarter of an ounce of Alam; stir it once a day as long as it lasts, and keep it from the frost.

To make Red Soft Wax. Take Vermilion, one pound; common Oil, one pound; Bees Wax, twenty pounds; Rosin, ten pounds; work them well together.

To clean Silver. Take the Ashes of Wheat Straw Burnt, and rub your Silver with it.

To fatten Heus, Chickens, and Geese. Boil the Blood of Beasts, with some store of Bran amongst it, until it come into the nature and shape of a blood pudding, and therewith feed your Fowl. The occasion of Eggs being musty, proceeds from want of air, therefore lay them but where the air can come at them, one by the side of the other, and they will keep twelve months togther.

To make London Ink Powder. Take Nut Galls, ten ounces; bruise them well; three ounces of Roman Vitriol; Gum Arabic and Roch Alum of each an ounce; make them into fine Powder; sift and dry them; then put the Powder up in boxes or papers close: when you use it, put a little into a good quantity of Water, and shake it well about, and in an hour it will be good.

To make Japan or Shining Ink. Take Gum Arabic and Roman Vitriol of each one ounce; Galls, well bruised, one pound; put them into Rose Vinegar, or Small Beer Vinegar that is clear; let it be kept in a warm place, often stirring till the liquor becomes Black; then add to a gallon an ounce of Ivory Black, and a quarter of a pint of Seed Lac Varnish, and it will be a curious Black:

To take Ink out of any printed Book or printed Picture

Rub a little Aqua Fortis upon it, and it is speedily out; then take a little lum Water or Vinegar, and wash it over, and it kills the Aqua Fortis; otherwise it will eat the Paper, or make it very yellow.

To make good Red Sealing Wax. Take a pound of Bees Wax; three ounces of fine Turpentine; one ounce and a half of Red Lead or Vermilion finely ground; Oil Olive, an ounce; melt the Wax and Turpentine, adding an ounce of Rosin finely powdered; and when they are well melted, and the dross taken off, put in the Red Lead or Vermilion, and stir them well together, till they are well incorporated, and then put it into what shape you please.

To make Black Wax. Take Lampblack or Black Earth, an ounce and an half; Rosin and Turpentine four ounces of each; one pound of Bees Wax ; incorporate them as the former.

To make Green Wax. Take an ounce of Verdigrease, and all the other ingredients, except the colour of the Black and Red Wax, ordering it as before.

To make Golden or Transparent Wax. Take four ounces of Clarified Rosin; two ounces of Turpentine; Bees Wax, four ounces; Olive Oil, two ounces; melt them well together, and scatter in the melting, disordered or shattered Leaf Gold, and suffer it to mix or incorporate; then polish it over,when made into form, and the Gold will appear.

To make Sealing Wafers. Take fine Flour sifted or boulted, that no bran remain therein; mix with the Glaire of Eggs, a quantity of Isinglass and a little Yeast; mingle the materials, and beat them well together; spread the Batter, being made thin with Gum Water, on even Tin Plates, aud dried in a stove, then cut them out for use.

To take the Impression off any Seal. Melt a little Brimstone, casting in some White Lead; put this mixture on the Seal, strengthen it with a small piece of paper, a little bigger than the impression is; being cold, take it off, and you will find the print of the seal upon it.

To take Spots out of Paper or Parchment. Take Roch Alum burnt, half an ounce; as much Flour of Brimstone; and being finely powdered, wet the paper a little, and put a small quantity of the Powder upon the place, rubbing it gently with your finger, and the Spots will disappear.

To perfume Sealing Wax. Mix the Oil Olive with Musk or Ambergrease, or what perfume you please.

To make a Pen, and to colour Quills and Pens. If the Goose Quill be hard and thick, with the back of your penknife scrape it to right thickness; then with spittle wet it, and roll it in the scrapings, and they will stick to it; then with the lappet of your coat rub it bright.

If your Quill is soft, put the head of it into hot ashes, stir

ring it till it is soft as may be, and when it is cool, make a Pen; observe the softer the Quill is, the shorter the slit must be.

If you have hundreds of Quills to harden,which makes them slit the clearer, set Water and Alum to boil, and while it is boiling, put a handful of the Quills, the barrels only, a minute into it, and then lay them by; and so do with all you have.

To colour the Barrels of your Quills Red. Take Alum, powdered, half an ounce; Vermilion, and the fine scrapings of Brazil Wood, an ounce of each; boil them in a pint of Vinegar till the liquor be thickish; then strain it, and put the liquor into a narrow deep skillet, and when it boils, hold the Barrels of the Quills in the liquor, being tied in bundles, until they change the colour, and they will be hardened also; and thus you may colour many at a time. For a Yellow Colour, instead of Brazil and Vermilion, use three pennyworth of Saffron and an ounce of Turmerick, bot in Powder.

To make a Pen is only to be done by practice; observe only that your slit be clear; if not, then scrape it; and so far as you would have your slit run, hold your left thumb nail, and it will rend it up just so far.

A new Method of educating and teaching Children to learn any Language quickly, by Use and Conversation.

To parents.

WOULD you have your Children to love and fear God, you may easily do it to what degree you please, provided they do not hear nor see contrary examples.

Would you have your Child temperate in meat and drink, then accustom him to proper and agreeable quantities in his diet.

Would you have him strong, hardy, and healthful, then use mean foods, and give them in order; and use him to constant exercise proportionable to his strength. Parents are obliged to make retaliation for their neglects and ill management of their children.

The abominable wickedness and villany, violence and pollutions, that are frequently committed in our nation, owe their original to mistakes in this point, for which certainly there will be a reckoning, and an account must be given, and the men forget themselves; yet, in God's providence, and his law of nature, there is no forgetfulness, though justice and punishment come slowly oftentimes, yet they surely come; and men and women shall then, when it is too late, bewail their neglect of that duty which now they might with great ease and satisfaction perform.

It is an unparalleled evil, that people should be more careful about breeding their horses and dogs, than they are about their children.

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NOTABLE THINGS.

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To harden Tin, and render it as shining as Silver. Mix Lead and Tin with Greek Pitch, and then take a lump of Potter's Clay, make a Hole in it, and pour your Mixture into it; then take of fine Tin, six or more ounces, and that being tho roughly melted, pour it on the Mixture in the remaining space of the Hole, before the Mixture is cold; then leaving a Hole in that, by thrusting an Iron through it, pour in an ounce of Mercury, which penetrating the whole mass, it will render the Tin, when wrought and burnished, of the perfect lustre of Silver; insomuch, that vessels made of it, will not by the eye be distinguishable the one from the other.

2. To make Brass in colour resemble Gold. Bruise Sal Armoniac in a Brass Mortar into fine Powder, mingle it with Fasting Spittle, till it becomes liquid, or like an ointment, and with this composition anoint your Brass things; then hold them over a Charcoal fire till the Brass becomes pretty hot; then rub it over with Whiting and Bran well dried, and you will perceive it look like burnished Gold, which will cause much admiration in those that know not what has been done unto it.

3. To clean Silver or other fine metals. TakeWhiting and Burned Alum, mix them with the Ashes of Burned Wheaten Straw, and when finely beaten, rub the plate, &c. with a woollen cloth well dried and heated against the fire, and your expectations will be curiously answered.

4. To restore the faded colour in Cloth. Take Wood Ashes, one part; Quick Lime, two parts; and put them into a Lye made pretty strong with Wood Ashes finely drawn off, and cleared from the settlings; then boil your Cloth in * Copper ve sel with them, and rince it out in warm Water wherein a lump of Alum has been dissolved; press it, and it will look glossy, and of a fine new colour.

5. To make Iron look as if gilded with Gold. Burn an ounce of Roch Alum till it looks of a reddish colour, then take of Sal Armoniac an ounce, and of Nitre half an ounce; beat them to a fine Powder, and put them into boiling strong Vinegar, in a Brass pan, or other Brass vessel, and when the liquor is a third part consumed, strain it well, and rub over smooth Iron with it, and it will appear as if it were gilt with Gold.

6. A Varnish for Wood or Metal, representing a Golden colour. Take two ounces of Gum Sandarac, one ounce of Litharage of Gold, and four ounces of Clarified Linseed Oil, boil them in a glazed earthen vessel, till they look of a transparent Yellow, and varnishing your materials with it according to art, they will appear as gilded.

7. To make Porcelain, a curious way. Take the Glaire of Eggs, and Calcined Egg Shells finely beaten to Powder; put these beaten together into Gum Arabic Water, let them stand a while over Embers and thicken, so that they may be made into Pastils; and when you have moulded them into proper forms for your purpose, dry and harden them in the Sun, and

the Work is finished.

8. To whiten Copper quite through the body of the Metal. Take such Copper as Kettles are usually made of, tough and pliable, lay the plates in a Crucible, and between every one of them a Strewing of White Arsenic finely powdered, and being melted, when the smoke is over the Copper will be as white as Tin.

9. To melt Amber. Mix strong Vinegar with the Juice of Citrons, one part of the latter to two of the former; into this put the Amber, and being set over a slow fire, you will find the Amber melt or grow soft, that you may turn or mould it like soft Wax.

10. To whiten Pearls. If they turn yellow or spotted, so that they become unsightly, losing their native lustre, burn Tartar to Ashes, and make a Lye of it with Spring Water, wherein a little Alum has been dissolved, and putting in the Pearls, let them seeth over a Stove Fire, and it will restore the pristine Whiteness as orient as ever, and render them more durable and weighty, so consequently better for use.

11. To soften or dissolve Horn of any kind. Burn the Pods of Beans well dried to Ashes, and make a Lye of them, then draw off the liquid part from the dross, and put a third part of strong Vinegar to it; add Quick Lime and Tartar; boil them over a good fire, putting in your planchets or pieces of Horn, and it will soon be soft to work or mould into any fashion, and if long boiled become a jellied substance, but the cool air will harden it again.