INKS.

Black Ink.

Extract Logwood 1 oz.

Soft Water 2 qts.

Prussiate Potash 20 grs.

Bichromate Potash 20 ”

Dissolve the extract of logwood in the one-half gallon of water. Have it boiling, add the potash.

Fine Black Ink.

12 Pounds Aleppo Nut Galls Bruised, boil in 6 gallons of water for one hour. Use a copper vessel, adding water to make up for the portion lost by evaporation. Strain and again boil the same galls in 4 more gallons of water for one-half hour, strain off this liquor also, and boil a third time with 2½ gallons of water and strain; mix the several liquors, and while still hot add 4 pounds Green Copperas coarsely powdered, also, add 3½ pounds gum Arabic bruised; agitate until dissolved, strain through hair sieve, keep it in tight bunged keg. This will produce 12 gallons.

Common Black Ink.

Bruised Galls 1 lb.

Logwood 2 ”

Common Gum ¾ ”

Green Copperas ½ ”

Water 5 gals.

Boil all together one and one-half hours, strain, and bottle.

Blue Writing Fluid No. 1.

Dissolve basic or soluble Prussian Blue in pure water. This is the most permanent and beautiful ink known. It is not affected by the addition of alcohol, but is immediately precipitated saline matter.

Blue Writing Fluid No. 2.

Pure Prussian Blue 6 Parts.

Oxalic Acid 1 ”

Water sufficient.

Triturate in a mortar the blue and acid with a little water to a smooth paste.

Dilute with water sufficient to make an easy flowing fluid.

Copying Ink.

Any Ordinary Ink 100 parts.

Glycerine 1 ”

Shake thoroughly.

Sugar is sometimes used in place of the Glycerine, but it is not as good.

Finer Writing Fluid.

Dissolve Ceruleao Sulphate of Potassa or Ammonia (soluble indigo) in hot water, and when cold decant the clear. It is an intense blue and dries nearly black, is perfectly incorrosive, and very permanent and easy flowing. It may be thickened with gum water or diluted with pure rain water, as required.

Purple Ink.

Infuse 12 pounds Campeachy Logwood in 12 gallons boiling water. Provide a funnel at the bottom of which a sponge has been placed. Pour the infusion through a strainer made of coarse flannel into the funnel, and thence on to 1 pound hydrate or acetate of copper (verdigris) then add immediately 14 pounds alum, and for each 17 gallons of the liquid, add 4 pounds of gum Arabic. Let these remain three or four days, and a beautiful purple will be produced.

Green Ink.

Boil 2 parts or pounds acetate of copper and 1 pound bitartrate potassa in 1 gallon of water until the solution is reduced to one-half the bulk. Filter through a cloth and when cool, bottle.

Red Ink.

Cochineal in powder 1 ounce, and hot water one-half pint. Digest, and when quite cold add 1 ounce liquor of ammonia and dilute with 3 or 4 ounces of water. Let stand 4 or 5 days, and decant the clear.

Second Hand Bottles.

By cleaning second-hand bottles gathered anywhere and everywhere, they are as good as new for blueing. A grocer using such, and when selling them tell parties buying the blue, that a couple of cents will be paid on return of pint bottles, will always have supply enough.