Indelible Marking Ink

100 grains nitrate of silver, 1 ounce distilled water, 2 drachms gum arabic, 1 scruple sap green or indigo. Mix. This is the beat indelible ink made.

Everlasting Black Ink

2 gallons of rain water, ¼ pound gum arabic, ½ pound copperas, 2/3 pound powdered nut-galls, ¼ pound of brown sugar. Bruise all and mix. This will keep writing good for hundreds of years, and is useful in copying deedss etc. Shake the mixture occasionally for the first ten days.

Common Black Ink

1 ounce extract of logwood; pour over it 2 quarts of boiling water, when dissolved add 1 drachm of yellow chromate of potassa. Do not put in old ink bottles, as other ink decomposes it. Keep it from freezing. This will cost ten cents.

Bed Ink

No. 40 carmine 6 grains, No. 6 or 8 carmine 5 grains, gum arabic a piece the size of two peas. Put in an ounce vial and fill up with soft water.

Blue Ink

Sulphate of indigo and soft water Color to suit.

Copying; Ink may be made from common violet writing ink by the addition of 6 parts of glycerine to 8 parts of ink; using only 5 parts of glycerine to 8 parts of the ink and it will copy well in fifteen minutes after it has been used. With fine white copying paper this ink will copy well without the use of a press.

Invisible Ink

Use 1 teaspoonful of white sugar dissolved in ½ cupful of boiling water, or use sweet milk. Write with it in the ordinary manner. Holding to the fire will turn the ink brown so that it may be read, the heat affecting the saccharine matter.