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All articles of glass or bone; For marble, porcelain, or stone.
For fancy figures, busts of plaster; For images in alabaster. For meerschaum pipes it can't be beat— It's all the better for the heat. In billiard halls it's largely used For putting tips upon the cues. For hobby-horses, wood of skates, Dolls, hoops, and broken slates; For parasol handles, tips, and hooks; For fastening loosened leaves in books. In fact, 'twould take too long to mention All uses of this new invention; "Whatever else there is about it, Whoever tries it ne'er does without it.
Remarks. —Where glue will answer the purpose, it will, of course, be found much cheaper (see No. 3); but for all nice work, if carefully made, without burning, it will be found to beat it, as it takes considerable heat to dissolve isinglass, hence its value for dishes. I sealed the bottles with No. 2 sealing wax, red, for bottling medicines.
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