Sunflower seed, 8 oz.; hemp seed, 16 oz.; canMix ary seed, 10 oz.; wheat, 8 oz.; rice, 6 oz. as above.

2.

Sunflower seed, 8 oz.; hemp seed, 16 oz.; canary seed, 10 oz.; cracked wheat, 8 oz.; rice, 6 oz. Mix. Grind to a coarse powder. Bitters.

Wild cherry bark, 8 oz.; yellow cinchona bark, 1 oz.; orange peel, 2 oz.; cardamom seed, 1 oz.; Canada snake root, 1⁄2 oz.; dilute alcohol, q.s.; honey, 16 oz.; syrup, 16 oz. Percolate the drugs in coarse powder with 96 oz. dilute alcohol, then add the syrup and honey.

2. Hops, 4 oz.; orange peel, 2 oz.; taraxacum, 2 oz.; buchu, 1 oz.; podophyllum, 1⁄2 oz.; sugar, 1 lb.; alcohol, 1 pt; water, q.s., 1 gal. Macerate the drugs in coarse powder in the alcohol and water for a week in a warm temperature, express and dissolve the sugar in the liquid.

3. Gentian, 8 oz.; columbo, 8 oz.; orange peel, 2 oz.; coriander, 1 oz.; serpentaria, 1 oz.; cardamom, 1⁄2 oz.; whiskey, 7 pt.; glycerine, oz.; water, q.s. Grind the drugs to a coarse powder and percolate with the whiskey and

glycerine mixed, finally add enough water to make 1 gal.

4. Gentian, 4 oz.; Peruvian bark, 2 oz ; Roman chamomile, 1 oz.; quassia, 1⁄2 oz.; bitter orange peel, 1⁄2 oz.; dilute alcohol, 1 gal. Mix drugs and reduce to a coarse powder. Add the dilute alcohol, let macerate for 14 days; filter.

5. Orange peel, ground, 6 oz.; gentian root, ground, 4 oz.; Roman chamomile, ground, 2 oz. ; rye whiskey, 8 pt. Macerate one week; filter.

Ground gentian, 4 oz.; ground cinchona, 2 oz.; ground chamomile, 1 oz.; ground quassia, 4 dr.; ground bitter orange, 4 dr.; dilute alcohol, q.s. Mix. Percolate to 1 gal.

Blackberry Balsam.

Rose, 2 dr.; cloves, 11⁄2 dr.; cinnamon, 11⁄2 dr.; mace, i dr.; alcohol, 4 oz.; water, 12 oz. Percolate until 1 pt. is obtained; then add 2 oz. fluidextract blackberry root, and 20 oz. sugar.

2.

Fluidextract blackberry root, 2 oz.; tincture vanilla, oz.; elixir taraxacum, comp., 4 oz.; simple elixir, q.s., 1 pt.

3. Fluidextract blackberry root, 10 oz.; fluidextract galls, 2 oz.; aromatic tincture, 4 oz.; simple elixir, q.s., 8 pt.

4. Fresh blackberry juice, 2 pt.; sugar, 5 av. oz.; water, 20 fl. oz.; good brandy or whiskey, 5 pt.; oil of cloves, 2 d. ; oil of cinnamon, 2 d. ; deodorized alcohol, 4 fl. dr. Dissolve the sugar in the water and juice, and add the brandy or whiskey; dissolve the oils in the alcohol, add one-half to the previous liquid, and if the latter

more of the Other flavors

is not sufficiently flavored, add flavor. Finally filter the mixture. are also used, such as vanilla extract, oils of mace, orange, nutmeg, etc. The brandy or whiskey may be replaced by diluted alcohol.

5. Fresh blackberry juice, 3 pt.; powdered cinnamon, 2 av. oz.; powdered cloves, 11⁄2 av. oz.; powdered nutmegs, 11⁄2 av. oz.; diluted alcohol, 2 pt.; simple syrup, 3 pt. Mix the spices with the diluted alcohol, macerate for several days, agitating occasionally, add the other ingredients and filter. The diluted alcohol may be increased or replaced by good brandy or whiskey, and the syrup may be decreased even down to 1 pt.

6. Fresh blackberries, 1 gal.; pimento, 1 av. oz.; cloves, 1⁄2 oz.; cinnamon, 1⁄2 oz; good brandy, 1 pt.; sugar, sufficient. Bruise the berries, add the spices, simmer gently until the fruit is cooked, strain through flannel with expression, and for each pt. of liquid add 4,6 or 8 oz. of sugar, according to sweetness desired; dissolve the sugar, bring up to a quick boil, remove the scum, allow to cool, add the brandy, let stand for twenty-four hours and filter. Blackboard Slating.

Lampblack, 1 oz.; pumice stone, 4 oz.; boiled linseed oil, 8 oz.; oil turpentine, q.s.. 2 pt.

2. Shellac, 2 oz.; lampblack, 34 oz.; ultramarine blue, 11⁄4 oz.; rottenstone powder, 2 oz.; pumice stone, 3 oz.; alcohol, 2 pt.

Bluing.

Ultramarine blue, 6 oz.; sodium carbonate, 4 oz.; glucose, 9 dr. ; water, q.s., thick paste. Mix, roll out and cut up into sticks or cubes. Dry at a low heat.

2. Soluble blue, 2 lb.; salt, 2 lb.; dextrin, 2 lb.; borax, 2 lb.; gum senegal, 1 lb. ; oxalic acid, 12 oz.; water, q.s. paste. Cut up into cubes or sticks.

3. Prussian blue, 1 lb.; oxalic acid, 4 oz.; soft water, 4 gal. Mix.

into a gallon of soft water in porcelain-lined vessel and boil. When dissolved throw into 10 gal. of hot water and mix well.

7. Prussian blue, 5 oz.; oxalic acid, 14 oz.; water, 10 oz. Mix and dilute with water as desired.

Brass Polish.

Tripoli, 1 lb.; Spanish whiting, 1 lb.; powdered pumice, 8 oz.; kerosene, 3 oz.; crude oleic acid, 3 oz.; crude petroleum jelly, q.s. paste. Mix.

2. Dip the articles in a mixture of 1 p. of nitric acid and 1⁄2 p. of sulphuric acid; then rinse in water and finally rub with sawdust. If greasy, dip the brass first in a boiling hot solution of potash lye.

3. A weak solution in ammonia water makes an excellent wash. Apply it with a rag; dry with a piece of chamois, and afterward rub with a piece of chamois and a small quantity of jeweler's rouge.

4. Place 2 oz. of sulphuric acid in an earthen vessel and add 1 qt. of cold soft water; after the heat has passed off, add 2 oz. each of tripoli and jeweler's rouge. When well mixed, put in a bottle for use.

5. Sulphuric acid, 20 p.; pulverized bichromate of potash, 10 p; dilute with an equal weight of water; apply well to the brass, then wash well with water and immediately wipe dry and polish with rotten stone.

6. Rotten stone, 4 oz ; oxalic acid, in fine powder, 1 oz.; sweet oil, 1⁄2 oz.; oil of turpentine, q.s. to make a paste.

oz.; oil orange, 1 dr.; oil bergamot, 1 dr.; oil cloves, 10 min.; oil neroli, 10 min. Melt the spermaceti, add the almond oil, previously warmed, and while cooling add the perfume oils.

3. Castor oil, 2 dr.; sweet almond oil, 14 dr.; glycerine, 6 dr.; extract jockey club, 12 dr.; alcohol, q.s. 4 oz.

4. Castor oil, 4 oz.; alcohol (60%), 8 oz.; oil neroli, 6 d.; oil rose geranium, 10 d.; oil verbena, 6 d.; oil lemon, 1⁄2 dr.

British Oil.

Oil spike, 1 pt.; oil juniper wood, 1 oz.; oil origanum, 1⁄2 oz. Mix.

Bordeaux Mixture.

Copper sulphate, 6 lb. ; quicklime, 4 lb.; water, 40 gal. Dissolve the copper salt in 4 gal. water. Slake the lime in same amount of water, and mix the two solutions and enough water to make 40 gal.

Bottle Capping Mixture.

Melt 8 oz. white wax over a spirit lamp. When melted add 2 dr. of thick mucilage tragacanth and I I oz. bismuth. Stir briskly until a uniform mixture results. Dip the necks of stoppered bottles into the desired depth, the substance will congeal immediately. Repeat the operation about three times and you will have a nice white cap, firm and yet easily removed.

2. Pure resin, 7 dr. ; sulphuric ether, 10 dr. ; collodion, 15 dr.; red aniline, q.s. color. Dissolve the resin in the ether and mix with the collodion and add the coloring.

3. Shellac, 12 oz.; Venice turpentine, 6 oz.; boric acid, 288 gr.; talcum powder, 12 oz.; ether, 3 oz.; alcohol, 50 oz.; red aniline, q.s. color. Dissolve the shellac, turpentine and boric acid in the alcohol and ether, add the coloring and talcum.

4. Gelatine, 4 oz.; water, 8 oz.; dry white lead, 3 oz. ; cochineal, q.s. color; glycerine, 1⁄2 oz. 5. Glue, 4 oz.; whiting, 2 oz.; glycerine, 1⁄2 oz.; water, 9 oz.; vermilion, 1 oz.

6. Purified resin, 7 dr.; sulphuric ether, 10 dr.; collodion, 15 dr.; aniline red, q.s. color.

Bunion Cure.

Phenol, 2 dr.; tincture iodine, 2 dr.; glycerine, 2 dr. Apply with camel's-hair pencil once a day.

Burns.

Linseed oil (raw), 4 oz.; lime water, 4 oz.; menthol, 5 gr.; carbolic acid, 10 min. Mix. Apply to burn.

2. Ichthyol, 5 gr.; iodine, 1 gr.; boric acid, I dr.; carbolic acid, 3 d.; boroglycerine, 1 oz.; oil eucalyptus, 10 min.

3. Carbolic acid, 1 dr.; bicarbonate soda, I oz.; linseed oil, pt. Apply on cotton batting and exclude the air.

Butter and Cheese Coloring.

Orange aniline (oil soluble), 1 dr.; olive oil, 20 Oz. Dissolve the aniline in the oil by aid of heat. Use teaspoonful to 10 gal. of cream. (Does not color the buttermilk.)

Butter Color.

Annatto, 10 oz.; caustic soda, 12 dr.; powdered borax, 1 oz.; tincture tumeric, 20 oz.; water, 100 oz. Mix.

Freezing of Cod-Liver Oil.

The different treatises on the subject state that cod-liver oil should not freeze at zero degrees C. unless it has been adulterated, and in France the Commission of the new Codex has also accepted this characteristic, and it is to be required for medicinal cod-liver oil. But according to the researches of B. Moreau and A. Biettrix it appears that there are specimens of this oil which do not correspond to such case. They observed different samples of oil which were certainly of natural origin, and arrived at the following conclusions. Contrary to the usually accepted ideas on the subject, there exist at present in commerce among the medicinal cod liver oils certain absolutely pure oils which are cloudy in winter, because they have not undergone a previous cooling and filtration, and as for all the oils, the deposit only dissolves completely at a rather high temperature. Thus the appearance of cloudiness due to cold does not show an adulteration, but on the contrary is a natural characteristic of pure oils. This cooling of the oil does not seem to remove their active properties. The congealed and non-congealed oils are not found to be different in their usual qualities, as demonstrated by tests for iodine, saponification, percentage of iodine, etc.

No. 10. Patent No. 894,657. BOTTTE-STOPPER EXTRACTOR. John F. Jones, Wilmington, N. C., assignor of one-fourth to William J. Murray and one-fourth to William A. Coleman, Columbia, S. C. Filed Dec. 12, 1906. No. II. Patent No. 895,145. CORN AND BUNION PLASTER. Perry S. Bauer, Chicago, Ill., assignor to Bauer & Black, Chicago, Ill., a Corporation of Illinois. Filed Mar. 1, 1907. No. 12. Patent No. 899.384. BOTTLE-RACK.

Roy

B. Colter, Marinette, Wis. Filed Apr. 13, 1908.

No. 13. Patent No. 898,975. NURSING-BOTTLE. Clarence W. Fox, Saugus, Mass. Filed Jan.

New Shaving Brushes.

Shaving brushes acquire a good name mainly through the capacity of retaining the bristles in place, the means of withstanding antiseptic treatment and practical methods of casing the brush to protect it from dust, abrading, spacing, etc. These and other features make this familiar and useful implement, says the Scientific American, something for inventors to conjure with. Several recent novel forms are shown in the accompanying illustrations. In Figure 1 the shaving brush is of the fountain type. The handle forms a reservoir holding liquid soap. The knob is operated to turn a screw rod at the end of which is a spiral conveyor that carries the liquid into the bristles. The disk above the liquid acts as a follower to force the soap into the grooves of

the spiral. The cap of the handle unscrews when it is desired to refill or clean the reservoir. Figure 2 shows a rather unique brush body of oval or egg shape made of rubber sponge. The inner end of the rubber is ingeniously formed for proper connection with the handle through the medium of a cup-like neck. The improvement is a characteristic departure from the use of bristles.

The third brush is of a type which leans to economy in the use of lathering material. The soap in liquid form is contained in a soft metal tube such as oil paints are kept in. The outer casing of the brush is made of pliable hard rubber or light spring metal. Pressure on this affects the inside tube so that the soap is forced out into the midst of the bristles. The orifice in the end of the handle is controlled by a valve and the displacement of the liquid from the tube to the bristles is thus pneumatically performed and in a manner similar to the operation of an oil can.

The next illustration pictures a device particularly adapted for the traveler, but should be found useful for others as well, because it will not drip and because the bristles can be incased