Category: Cooking & Drinking
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This is the greatest book ever published on these subjects, and contains plain and correct rules for foretelling what is going to happen. It treats on the art of telling fortune...
2. Part 2_Cholera Remedy._--Spirits of wine, one ounce; spirits of lavender, quarter ounce; spirits of camphor, quarter ounce; compound tincture of benzoin, half an ounce; oil of origanu...
3. Part 3_Mahogany Stain._--Break two ounces of dragon's blood in pieces, and put them in a quart of rectified spirits of wine; let the bottle stand in a warm place, and shake it frequen...
4. Part 4_To Make Brown Teeth White._--Apply carefully over the teeth, a stick dipped in strong acetic or nitric acid, and immediately wash out the mouth with cold water. To make the tee...
5. Part 5_To Make Magic Photographs._--Take, in the first place, an ordinary print--a card-picture, for instance--on albumen paper, beneath the negative in the usual way, and, when suffi...
6. Part 6_Scotch Butter Candy._--Take 1 pound of sugar, 1 pint of water: dissolve and boil. When done add 1 tablespoonful of butter, and enough lemon juice and oil of lemon to flavor.
7. Part 7_To make Waterproof Cloth out of thick Ducking._--The following French recipe is given: Take two pounds four ounces of alum, and dissolve it in ten gallons of water. In like man...
8. Part 8An entirely new work, and contains all the tricks and deceptions with Cards as practiced by this celebrated Prestidigitator. To lovers of the marvelous this book will be a perfe...