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How to make candles.

--Mr. N. A. Isom has discovered a new and valuable process for making good candles from tallow, equal to the best star. It is this: To a quart of tallow add two or three leaves of the prickly pear, and boil out all the water that may gather. When of the right consistence, mould in the usual way. We are of the opinion that a little alum would improve the candles. Try it, everybody. The prickly pear grows abundantly in this neighborhood.--Oxford Intelligencer.

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