If you like our “ Receipts,1' you will like our Medicines. DR. m R. MILLER’S TOTIVERSAIj HIGIETIC BALM This medicine may with propriety be called a I “ Universal remedy,” as it is fast superseding all others as a family medicine. It cures, as if by ! MAGNETIC INFLUENCE, Neuralgia and all pain, and is therefore very properly termed “ Mag¬ netic Balm.” It is purely a vegetable preparation. It has no equal as a remedy for Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic, and all | Bowel Complaints* Its timely use will cure Colds, ; Quinsy, and all throat affections attended with ; pain. When properly used, Fever and Ague, and other complaints incident to our western and southern climates, are easily broken up. Nervous Pain and Sick .Headache are cured by ; this medicine when all others have failed. Tooth¬ ache, Earache, and ' all internal pains, are re¬ lieved at once by its use. The great value and usefulness of this medicine has caused it to suffer more from base imitations and counterfeits, than any other medicine. The genui ne has - Dr. J. R. Miller’s “ Magnetic Balm ” blown in the bottle. Read certificates voluntarily sent, in regard to this excellent medicine, in pamphlet around bottle. I Colic or Bellyache. — “Miller’s Balm” will in- f stantly relieve and cure. We have given it in hun- J dreds of cases with never-failing success. It never misses, . Wre will give a liberal reward for any case ’ it fails to cure. Miller’s E; aim i's good for Colic in horses. i (38) PAINTING, Etc. OUSE PAINTING. —This should be done early in winter or spring’ when it is cold and no dust flying. To mix paint for different coats : — Outside, \st, 2d and 3d coats, mix the lead to proper consistency with boiled oil, allowing time between to dry hard. Inside— 1st coat, mix lead and paint in mixture one-half boiled oil, one-half turpentine. 2d, one-fourth oil, three-fourths turpentine. 3d, mostly turpentine with a little oil to hold color. No dryer required. Inside paint must have light. EST PAINTERS’ SIZE.— -Heat raw oil in a pan till it emits a black smoke ; set it on fire, and, after burning a few minutes, cover the pan over to put out the blaze ; pour the oil while warm into a bottle in which some pulverized red lead and litharge have been introduced. Stand the bottle in a warm place for two weeks, shaking often. It will then be ready to decant and bottle. LACK AND GREEN PAINT. -DURABLE AND CHEAP.— Black— grind powdered charcoal in linseed oil with sufficient litharge as dryer ; thin for use with well-boiled linseed oil. Green — add yellow ochre to above and an excellent green is obtained, preferable to the bright green, for garden work, as it will not fade. ED WASH FOR BRICKS. — To remove the green that gathers oh bricks, pour over tnem Doiling water in which any vegetables, dot greasy, have been boiled. Repeat for a few days, and green will disappear. For the red wash melt 1 ounce of glue in 1 gallon water; while hot add alum size of egg, % pound Venetian red, 1 pound Spanish Drown✪ Red Wash for Bricks, Try it ; if too light, add more red and brown. If too dark, water. COMMON OIL VARNISH.— 3 pounds resin, ^gallon drying oil; melt together and add, when removed from fire, two quarts warm oil of turpentine.

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If you like our “ Receipts,1' you will like our Medicines. DR. m R. MILLER’S TOTIVERSAIj HIGIETIC BALM This medicine may with propriety be called a I “ Universal remedy,” as it is fast superseding all others as a family medicine. It cures, as if by ! MAGNETIC INFLUENCE, Neuralgia and all pain, and is therefore very properly termed “ Mag¬ netic Balm.” It is purely a vegetable preparation. It has no equal as a remedy for Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic, and all | Bowel Complaints* Its timely use will cure Colds, ; Quinsy, and all throat affections attended with ; pain. When properly used, Fever and Ague, and other complaints incident to our western and southern climates, are easily broken up. Nervous Pain and Sick .Headache are cured by ; this medicine when all others have failed. Tooth¬ ache, Earache, and ' all internal pains, are re¬ lieved at once by its use. The great value and usefulness of this medicine has caused it to suffer more from base imitations and counterfeits, than any other medicine. The genui ne has - Dr. J. R. Miller’s “ Magnetic Balm ” blown in the bottle. Read certificates voluntarily sent, in regard to this excellent medicine, in pamphlet around bottle. I Colic or Bellyache. — “Miller’s Balm” will in- f stantly relieve and cure. We have given it in hun- J dreds of cases with never-failing success. It never misses, . Wre will give a liberal reward for any case ’ it fails to cure. Miller’s E; aim i's good for Colic in horses. i (38) PAINTING, Etc. OUSE PAINTING. —This should be done early in winter or spring’ when it is cold and no dust flying. To mix paint for different coats : — Outside, \st, 2d and 3d coats, mix the lead to proper consistency with boiled oil, allowing time between to dry hard. Inside— 1st coat, mix lead and paint in mixture one-half boiled oil, one-half turpentine. 2d, one-fourth oil, three-fourths turpentine. 3d, mostly turpentine with a little oil to hold color. No dryer required. Inside paint must have light. EST PAINTERS’ SIZE.— -Heat raw oil in a pan till it emits a black smoke ; set it on fire, and, after burning a few minutes, cover the pan over to put out the blaze ; pour the oil while warm into a bottle in which some pulverized red lead and litharge have been introduced. Stand the bottle in a warm place for two weeks, shaking often. It will then be ready to decant and bottle. LACK AND GREEN PAINT. -DURABLE AND CHEAP.— Black— grind powdered charcoal in linseed oil with sufficient litharge as dryer ; thin for use with well-boiled linseed oil. Green — add yellow ochre to above and an excellent green is obtained, preferable to the bright green, for garden work, as it will not fade. ED WASH FOR BRICKS. — To remove the green that gathers oh bricks, pour over tnem Doiling water in which any vegetables, dot greasy, have been boiled. Repeat for a few days, and green will disappear. For the red wash melt 1 ounce of glue in 1 gallon water; while hot add alum size of egg, % pound Venetian red, 1 pound Spanish Drown, Try it ; if too light, add more red and brown. If too dark, water. COMMON OIL VARNISH.— 3 pounds resin, ^gallon drying oil; melt together and add, when removed from fire, two quarts warm oil of turpentine.

Ransom's family receipt book, 1886