It Tells how to make a cheap Galvanic Battery; how to plate and gild
without a battery; how to make a candle burn all night; how to make a
clock for 25 cents; how to detect counterfeit money; how to banish and
prevent mosquitoes from biting; how to make yellow butter in winter;
Circassian curling fluid; Sympathetic or Secret Writing Ink; Cologne
Water; Artificial Honey; Stammering; how to make large noses small; to
cure drunkenness; to copy letters without a press; to obtain fresh-blown
flowers in winter; to make good burning candles from lard.
It Tells how to make a horse appear as though he was badly foundered; to
make a horse temporarily lame; how to make him stand by his food and not
eat it; how to cure a horse from the crib or sucking wind; how to put a
young countenance on the horse; how to cover up the heaves; how to make
him appear as if he had the glanders; how to make a true-pulling horse
balk; how to nerve a horse that is lame, etc., etc. These horse secrets
are being continually sold at one dollar each.
It Tells how to make the Eggs of Pharo's Serpents, from which, when
lighted, though but the size of a pea, there issues from it a coiling,
hissing serpent, wonderful in length and similarity to a genuine
serpent.
It Tells how to make gold and silver from block tin.
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