FEVER DRINKS.— The Juice of a lemon, cream of tartar, 1 tea-spoon- ful ; water, 1 pint. Sweeten with loaf sugar. When the patient is thirsty, let him drink freely. FIG PASTE, for Costiveness. — Chop small 1 lb. of figs, and mix with them 2 ozs. of best senna, cut small, and a cupful of treacle✪ Fig Paste for Costiveness ; stew and stir it till it becomes stiff and firm. Take a piece about the size of a walnut. FININGS FOR BEER.— Isin- glass, 4 ozs. ; dissolve it in two quarts of stale beer ; simmer it till thick as a syrup, put into it a handful of salt, and half a pint of powdered oyster-shells ; mix them with one gallon of strong beer or ale✪ Finings for Beer, stir till it ferments ; cover it up close. The quantity will be sufficient for a butt of beer. FIRE IRONS, to Pievent Rusting.— Apply sweet oil, and dust them with u ns lalced lime powdered. If rusted, oil them, and in two or three hours, polish with fine emery, lime, or powdered pumice stone.— FIR 179 Tripoli and sulphur, equal parts, com- bined, will remove rust. FIRE KINDLERS. — Tar, 1 quart ; rosin, 3 lbs. ; melt them. When not quite cool, add 1 gill of spirits of turpentine, and mix as much saw-dust, with a little charcoal, as can be worked in ; spread out while hot on a board ; divide into pieces. They will instantly ignite, and briskly burn long enough to ignite coal, or wood. FIRE, to Extinguish. — Dis- solve pearlash, soda, wood-ashes or common salt in the water, before it is put into the engine, and direct the jet on the burning wood work. The pro- portion may be 20 pounds to every 50 gallons ; the more, however, the better. Or throw sulphur on the fire. A solution of s ozs. of ammonia in one gallon of water, will extinguish a large fire. FIRE, to Light. — Clear the grate, and place at the bottom a few coals about the size of a walnut, place the fuel (shavings and wood split) upon them,, then cinders, and lastly coals. This method speedily produces a good fire. FIRE, Protection from, &c. — Washing linen, dresses, &c., in a solu- tion of altim prevents them taking fire. If in a house or room on fire, crawl with your face as near the ground as you can. Wet a blanket, and throw it upon things on fire. Or dip a blanket in water and beat the flames, putting a handkerchief over your mouth and Dose if there is much smoke. If a lady’s clothes take fire, roll on the floor, or wrap her in a carpet tightly. Throw a solution of pearl-ash upon the flames. FIRE, to Revive. — Strew on a dull fire powdered nitre, or saltpetre. FIRE-PROOF STUCCO. — Take moist gravelly earth (previously washed,) and make it into stucco with the following composition : pearlashes, 2 parts ; water, 5 parts ; common clay, 1 part. Mix. This costs about one shilling and sixpence per hundred square feet. It has been tried on a large scale and found to answer. FISH, to Choose. — Carp. They have the same signs of freshness «s other fish. Cod. Gills should be tlS very red, the neck thick, flesh white, firm ; eyes fresh. Eels. Except the middle of summer, they are always in season. Those taken in ponds are not good — a flowing river is the best for them. Flounders. Should be thick, firm, bright eyes. Gudgeons are best in running streams. Her- rings. Gills red ; eyes bright, {flesh firm. Mackerel. Season, May, June, July ; they keep worse than any fish. Mullets. The sea ones are the best. Season, August. Perch. River Perch are the best. Pike.

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FEVER DRINKS.— The Juice of a lemon, cream of tartar, 1 tea-spoonful ; water, 1 pint. Sweeten with loaf sugar. When the patient is thirsty, let him drink freely. FIG PASTE, for Costiveness. — Chop small 1 lb. of figs, and mix with them 2 ozs. of best senna, cut small, and a cupful of treacle ; stew and stir it till it becomes stiff and firm. Take a piece about the size of a walnut. FININGS FOR BEER.— Isinglass, 4 ozs. ; dissolve it in two quarts of stale beer ; simmer it till thick as a syrup, put into it a handful of salt, and half a pint of powdered oyster-shells ; mix them with one gallon of strong beer or ale, stir till it ferments ; cover it up close. The quantity will be sufficient for a butt of beer. FIRE IRONS, to Prevent Rusting.— Apply sweet oil, and dust them with unslaked lime powdered. If rusted, oil them, and in two or three hours, polish with fine emery, lime, or powdered pumice stone.— FIR Tripoli and sulphur, equal parts, combined, will remove rust. FIRE KINDLERS. — Tar, 1 quart ; rosin, 3 lbs. ; melt them. When not quite cool, add 1 gill of spirits of turpentine, and mix as much saw-dust, with a little charcoal, as can be worked in ; spread out while hot on a board ; divide into pieces. They will instantly ignite, and briskly burn long enough to ignite coal, or wood. FIRE, to Extinguish. — Dissolve pearlash, soda, wood-ashes or common salt in the water, before it is put into the engine, and direct the jet on the burning wood work. The proportion may be 20 pounds to every 50 gallons ; the more, however, the better. Or throw sulphur on the fire. A solution of s ozs. of ammonia in one gallon of water, will extinguish a large fire. FIRE, to Light. — Clear the grate, and place at the bottom a few coals about the size of a walnut, place the fuel (shavings and wood split) upon them,, then cinders, and lastly coals. This method speedily produces a good fire. FIRE, Protection from, &c. — Washing linen, dresses, &c., in a solution of altim prevents them taking fire. If in a house or room on fire, crawl with your face as near the ground as you can. Wet a blanket, and throw it upon things on fire. Or dip a blanket in water and beat the flames, putting a handkerchief over your mouth and Dose if there is much smoke. If a lady’s clothes take fire, roll on the floor, or wrap her in a carpet tightly. Throw a solution of pearl-ash upon the flames. FIRE, to Revive. — Strew on a dull fire powdered nitre, or saltpetre. FIRE-PROOF STUCCO. — Take moist gravelly earth (previously washed,) and make it into stucco with the following composition : pearlashes, 2 parts ; water, 5 parts ; common clay, 1 part. Mix. This costs about one shilling and sixpence per hundred square feet. It has been tried on a large scale and found to answer. FISH, to Choose. — Carp. They have the same signs of freshness «s other fish. Cod. Gills should be tlS very red, the neck thick, flesh white, firm ; eyes fresh. Eels. Except the middle of summer, they are always in season. Those taken in ponds are not good — a flowing river is the best for them. Flounders. Should be thick, firm, bright eyes. Gudgeons are best in running streams. Herrings. Gills red ; eyes bright, {flesh firm. Mackerel. Season, May, June, July ; they keep worse than any fish. Mullets. The sea ones are the best. Season, August. Perch. River Perch are the best. Pike.

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