Tooth Paste

Charcoal and honey, mixed together and used as a dentifrice, will whiten the teeth with a few applications.

Furniture Varnish

Four ounces alcohol, one-half ounce linseed oil, one-half ounce balsam fir, one-half ounce sulphuric ether. Put alcohol and balsam fir together until dissolved, then add oil and ether.

Bread Crumbs

Put slices of stale bread in a slow oven till they are perfectly dried up. Break them in pieces, and reduce them to a coarse powder with a rolling-pin; sift them and they are ready for use. They are better than cracker crumbs; the latter, when powdered, are too floury.

Cologne

One and a half pints alcohol, one and a half drachms bergamot, one drachm lemon, one-half drachm rosemary, one and a half drachms of garden lavender, musk and rose water as you like.

Cream Candy

To three cups of granulated sugar take a lump butter the size of a walnut and three tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Put in enough water to melt the sugar, and boil until it will harden in cold water. Put in buttered platters until cool enough to pull. Then pull it until it is white and creamy.

Blackberry And Wine Cordial

To one-half bushel blackberries, well mashed, add one-fourth pound allspice and two ounces each of cinnamon and cloves, pulverize well, mix, and boil slowly until properly done, strain or squeeze the juice through homespun or flannel, and add to each pint of the juice one pound loaf sugar. Boil again for some time take it off', and while cooling add one-half gallon best cognac brandy

Dose

For an adult one-half gill to a gill; for a child, a teaspoonful or more according to age.

Molasses Candy

One cup sugar, one cup molasses, one tablespoonful exch of butter and vinegar; boil until it will stiffen in cold water.

Sugar Taffy

Two pounds white coffee sugar, one coffee cup hot water, one-half cup vinegar, flavor to taste; boil slowly until thick.