CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT.
HOW TO IMITATE GOLD.--Take the following metals and melt them in a
covered crucible; sixteen ounces Virgin Platina, twenty-four ounces
pure copper.
SILVER.--Forty ounces Nickel, twenty ounces Copper, thirty ounces Block
Tin.
ARTIFICIAL GOLD.--Sixteen parts of Virgin Platina and seven parts
Copper and one of Zinc. Put these in a crucible with powdered charcoal,
and melt them together till the whole forms a mass, and are thoroughly
incorporated together. This also makes a gold of extraordinary beauty
and value. It is not possible by any tests that chemists know of to
distinguish it from pure virgin gold. All I ask of men is to use it for
good and lawful purposes, for the knowledge that I here give you will
bring you a rich and permanent reward without using it for unlawful
purposes.
MANHEIM, OR JEWELER'S GOLD.--Three parts of Copper, one part of Zinc,
and one part of Block Tin. If these are pure and melted in a covered
crucible containing charcoal, the resemblance will be so good the best
judges cannot tell it from pure gold without analyzing it.
BEST PINCHBACK GOLD.--Five ounces of pure Copper and one ounce of Zinc.
This makes gold so good in appearance that a great deal of deception by
its use in the way of watches and jewelry has been successfully
practiced for several hundred years back.
SILVER FLUID.--For silvering brass and copper articles of every
description.--Take an ounce of precipitated Silver to half an ounce of
Cyanate of Potash and quarter of an ounce of Hyper Sulphate of Soda.
Put all into a quart of water, add a little whitening and shake before
using. Apply with a soft rag. This knowledge alone is worth one hundred
dollars.
ORIGINAL AND GENUINE SILVER PLATING.--Galvanism Simplified.--Dissolve
one ounce of Nitrate of Silver in Crystal in twelve ounces of soft
water. Then dissolve in the water two ounces of Cyanate of Potash.
Shake the whole together and let it stand until it becomes clear. Have
ready some half-ounce vials, and fill them half full with Paris White
or fine Whiting, then fill up the bottles with the liquid, and it is
ready for use. The Whiting does not increase the coating power; it only
helps to clean the articles and to save the silver fluid by half
filling the bottles. The above quantity of materials will only cost
about $1.50, so that the fluid will only cost about three cents a
bottle.
POWDER FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING TIN, BRITANNIA AND BRASSWARE.--Take
one-half pound ground Pumice Stone and one-quarter pound Red Chalk, mix
them evenly together. This is for tin brass. For silver and fine ware,
take one-half pound Red Chalk, and one-quarter pound Pumice Stone, mix
evenly; use these articles dry with a piece of wash leather. It is one
of the best cleaning powders ever invented, and very valuable.
SILVER POLISH FOR TIN, BRASS AND METALLIC ARTICLES.--Quicksilver,
Tinfoil or Rottenstone, equal parts, all pulverized together. Roll up
in balls, show as you go, and sell for 10 cents a ball.
ANOTHER.--Fine.--Four pounds Whiting, one-quarter ounce Oxalic Acid,
one-half ounce Cream Tartar. Stir all together, then add slowly three
ounces Mercury stirring briskly all the time so it will mix. This is
good, 25 cents a ball.
KANGAROO CEMENT.--Rubber one ounce, pack tightly as possible in a
bottle and cover it with Bi-Sulphate of Carbon. When the rubber is
dissolved you will have the best cement in the world. There is a
fortune in this to an energetic man, as it sells at 25 cents a drachm;
and costs but little to make it. This is the cement used by shoemakers
to put invisible patches on shoes.
HOW TO EAT FIRE.--Anoint your tongue with liquid Storax, and you may
put hot iron or fire coals into your mouth, and without burning you.
This is a very dangerous trick to be done, and those who practice it
ought to use all means they can to prevent danger. We never saw one of
those fire-eaters that had a good complexion.
IMITATION SILVER.--Eleven ounces refined Nickel, two ounces Metallic
Bismuth. Melt the composition three times, and pour them out in ley.
The third time, when melting, add two ounces of pure silver.
IMITATION GOLD.--Four ounces of Platina, three ounces of Silver, one
ounce of Copper.
OROIDE GOLD.--The best article is made by compounding four parts pure
Copper, one and three-fourths part pure Zinc, one-fourth part Magnesia,
one-tenth part Sal-Ammoniac, one-twelfth part Quick Lime, and one part
Cream Tartar. Melt the Copper first, then add as rapidly as possible
the other articles in the order named.
HOW TO INCREASE THE WEIGHT OF GOLD.--Take your bar of Gold and rub it
long and carefully with thin Silver, until the Gold absorbs the
quantity of Silver that you require. Then prepare a strong solution of
Brimstone and Quicklime. Now put the Gold into a vessel with a wide
mouth. Now let them boil until the Gold attains the right color, and
you have it, but do not use this knowledge for an ill purpose.
MASON'S FROZEN PERFUME.--This perfume is in a solid, transparent form,
and by rubbing on the handkerchief it imparts an exquisite perfume; by
carrying it in the pocket it perfumes the entire wearing apparel; by
keeping it in a drawer or box all articles therein obtain the benefits
of this perfume.
Solidified perfumes are superior to all liquid, as they cannot spill or
waste in any manner, but will last for years. Perhaps no article of
luxury had such a sale as this, and as the sales have steadily
increased since its introduction, no other proof of its excellence is
needed.
FREEZING MIXTURE.--Take four parts Nitric Acid, six parts Nitrate
Ammonia, and nine parts phosphate of Soda. Having first prepared a
vessel of galvanized iron four inches wide, twenty-four inches long,
and twelve inches deep, have it a little wider at the top than at the
bottom. Now make another vessel eight inches wide, twenty-eight inches
long and fourteen inches high. Put the small vessel inside the larger
one, fill the small one nearly full of as cool water as you can
procure, put the freezing mixture in the large vessel around the
smaller one, set this in as cool a place as possible. If you will have
a faucet at the lower edge of the larger vessel and first fill the
large vessel with the following it will greatly assist in freezing.
Equal parts of Sal-Ammonia and Nitre dissolved in its own weight of
water. In ten to fifteen minutes pour this off and put in the freezing
mixture.
NOTE.--I have used the above description of a vessel to give you an
idea of how to operate. Any sized vessel made in the same proportion
will work as well.
IMPROVED TROY STARCH ENAMEL.--Melt five pounds of Refined Paraffine Wax
in a tin boiler or pan over a slow fire; use care in melting. When
melted remove the vessel from the fire and add 200 drops of Oil of
Citronelli. Take some new round tin pie pans, and oil them with sweet
oil as you would for pie baking, but do not use lard. Put these pans on
a level table, and pour in enough of the hot wax to make a depth in
each pan equal to about the thickness of one-eighth of an inch. While
hot, glance over the pans to see that they are level. As this is very
essential, please remember it. If the pans are not level, the cakes
will be all thicknesses, which should not be so. Then let them cool,
but not too fast. Watch them closely, and have a tin stamp ready to
stamp the cakes out about the size of an ordinary candy lozenge. This
stamp should be about eight inches long, larger at the top than at the
bottom, so that the cakes can pass up through the stamp as you are
cutting them out of the pans. Lay the cakes in another pan to cool.
Before they become very hard, separate them from each other; if not, it
will be difficult to do so when they become very hard. Do not neglect
this. Have boxes made at any paper box maker's in any large city. They
cost about from one to two cents each; sliding boxes are the best. Have
your labels printed, and commence business at once. Put 24 to 30 cakes
in each box, and retail for 25 cents.
Wholesale for $1.50 per dozen.
_Directions for Use._--To a pint of boiling starch stir in one cake or
tablet. This gives an excellent lustre to linen or muslin, and imparts
a splendid perfume to the clothes, and makes the iron pass very
smoothly over the surface. It requires but half the ordinary labor to
do an ironing. It is admired by every lady. It prevents the iron from
adhering to the surface, and the clothes remain clean and neat much
longer than by any other method.
BRILLIANT SELF-SHINING STOVE POLISH.--This is one of the greatest
inventions of the age. It has been the result of a large amount of
study on the part of the inventor to perfect a polish that would work
easily and satisfactorily in a perfect dry state, thereby obviating the
disagreeable task of mixing and preparing. A good stove polish is an
absolute necessity in every family. It is only a question, then, of
offering the best to make a sale. To prove that this polish is the best
is an easy task. All you have to do is to have a box open and a piece
of rag to begin operations. You now approach the stove and apply the
polish. The result will be so startlingly beautiful that no further
words will be necessary. If the stove is not convenient, anything will
do to experiment with. You can produce on a piece of wood, a scrap of
paper or a potato, a lustre equal to a burnished mirror.
Now make the following points just as strong as you can:
That this polish requires no water or mixing like the various cake or
powder polishes. 2. That it is self-shining and no labor is required.
3. That no dust or smell of any kind rises from its use. And, lastly,
that it has no equal in the world.
RECIPE.--Take Plumbago (Black Lead) finely pulverized, and put in two
ounce wood boxes, nicely labeled, and sell for ten or fifteen cents a
box. Wholesale to stores and agents at $6.00 a hundred. Costs less than
three cents a box to manufacture.
_Directions for Use._--Use a damp woolen rag, dip in the box, and apply
to the stove. Then polish with a dry cloth, and a most beautiful polish
will appear.
TO FROST WINDOW PANES.--Take Epsom Salts and dissolve in beer. Apply
with a brush and you have the finest window frosting known.
THE HOUSEKEEPER'S FRIEND, or ELECTRIC POWDER.--This is one of the most
salable articles of the day and staple as flour--something that every
housekeeper will buy. It is used for gold and silver plated ware,
German silver, brass, copper, glass, tin, steel, or any material where
a brilliant lustre is required. Is put up in two ounce wood boxes,
costs three cents to manufacture, sells at retail for 25 cents, to
agents and stores for $12.00 per 100 boxes.
RECIPE.--To four pounds best quality Whiting, add one-half pound Cream
Tartar and three ounces Calcined Magnesia; mix thoroughly together, box
and label.
_Directions._--Use the polish dry with a piece of chamois skin or
Canton flannel, previously moistened with water or alcohol, and finish
with the polish dry. A few moments' rubbing will develop a surprising
lustre, different from the polish produced by any other substance.
RECIPE.--Follow the same directions as in "Starch Enamel," and perfume
as follows: Take two ounces Oil Lemon Grass and one-half ounce Oil of
Cloves, and one-fourth ounce Oil of Lavender flowers; mix them well
together. For this amount of perfume you require about four quarts of
the liquid paraffine. Pour the oils into the melted paraffine while
warm, stirring it well while pouring. Stamp into square cakes and put
into neatly printed envelopes. Sell for ten cents a cake, cost two
cents. Agents can sell 100 cakes a day.
THE LIGHTNING INK ERASER.--The great Lightning Ink Eraser may be used
instead of a knife or scraper for erasing in order to rectify a mistake
or clean off a blot, without injury to the paper, leaving the paper as
clean and good to write upon as it was before the blot or mistake was
made, and without injury to the printer's ink upon any printed form or
ruling upon any first-class paper. Take of Chloride of Lime one pound,
thoroughly pulverized, and four quarts of Soft Water. The above must be
thoroughly shaken when first put together. It is required to stand
twenty-four hours to dissolve the Chloride of Lime. Then strain through
a cotton cloth, after which add a teaspoonful of Acetic Acid (No. 8
commercial) to every ounce of Chloride of Lime Water. The eraser is
used by reversing the penholder in the hand, dipping the end in the
fluid, and applying it, without rubbing, to the blot to be erased. When
the ink has disappeared, absorb the fluid into a blotter, and the paper
is immediately ready to write upon. Put up in common ink bottles and
retail for 25 cents each.
THE MAGIC ANNIHILATOR.--To make one gross eight-ounce bottles--aqua
ammonia one gallon, soft water eight gallons, best white soap four
pounds, saltpetre eight ounces. Shave the soap fine, add the water,
boil until the soap is dissolved, let it get cold, then add the
saltpetre, stirring until dissolved. Now strain, let the suds settle,
skim off the dry suds, add the ammonia, bottle and cork at once. Cost
about $7.25 per gross; sells for $72.00. It will do everything claimed
for it and more, too. It is no mixture of soap suds as some may
suppose, but a pure scientific, chemical preparation. If you wish to
make a small quantity for trial, take aqua ammonia two ounces, soft
water one quart, saltpetre one teaspoonful. Shave the soap fine, mix
all, shake well, and let settle a day or two to dissolve the soap.
_What It Will Do._--It will remove all kinds of grease and oil spots
from every variety of wearing apparel, such as coats, pants, vests,
dress goods, carpets, etc., without injury to the finest silks or
laces. It will shampoo like a charm, raising the lather in proportion
to the amount of dandruff and grease in the hair. A cloth wet with it
will remove all grease from door-knobs, window sills, etc., handled by
kitchen domestics in their daily routine of kitchen work. It will
remove paint from a board, I care not how hard or dry it is, if oil is
used in the paint, yet it will not injure the finest textures. Its
chemical action is such that it turns any oil or grease into soap,
which is easily washed out with clear cold water. For cleaning silver,
brass and copper ware it can't be beat. It is certain death to bed
bugs, for they will never stop after they have encountered the Magic
Annihilator.
_Directions for Use._--For grease spots, pour upon the article to be
cleaned a sufficient quantity of the Magic Annihilator rubbing well
with a clean sponge, and applying to both sides of the article you are
cleaning. Upon carpets and coarse goods, where the grease is hard and
dry, use a stiff brush and wash out with clear cold water. Apply again
if necessary. One application is all that is needed for any fresh
grease spots, but for old or dried a second may be required. For
shampooing take a small quantity of the Magic Annihilator with an equal
quantity of water, apply to the hair with a stiff brush, brushing into
the pores of the scalp, and wash out with clear water. You will be
surprised at the silk gloss of your hair. For cleaning silver ware,
etc., buy five cents' worth of whitening, mix a small quantity with the
magic annihilator, and apply with a rag, rubbing briskly. For killing
bed bugs, apply to the places they frequent, and they will leave in
short order. You will find it useful in many other ways. (See price
list of labels.)