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PASTE. —Cement or Mucilage for Labels, Postage and Revenue Stamps, etc.
Soak good glue, 5 oz., in water, 20 oz., for one day; after which add rock candy or loaf sugar, 9 oz., and gum arabic, 3 oz.; and when these are dissolved, it is ready to be spread on paper. It keeps well; does not get brittle nor wrinkled, and does not make the sheets stick when they are piled upon each other. —Dingler"/ Polytechnic Journal.
Remarks. —This paper said "parts" instead of oz. The author has made it plain for any one to understand; drachms or pounds can be substituted for ozs. just as well, according to the amount needed. It will be found reliable. The next receipt is from the same journal, and will be found equally reliable for labeling letters, or bottles in damp cellars, as this gum stickum is for stamps and common labeling.
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