A thousand notable things. [electronic resource] : Containing modern curiosities. viz. Divers rare and experienced physical receipts. Monthly observations in gardening, planting, and grafting. To catch birds, fish, &c. To kill bugs, rats, mice, and all sorts of vermin. To make white-wine, claret, mead, cyder, punch, &c. The virtues and use of Dulwich waters. To take spots out of linen, wollen, paper, or parchment. Rules for the preservation of health. To make all sorts of ink, wax, and wasers. To educate children to learn languages speedily. Riddles, jests and stories. To dye bone. To order, encrease, and preserve bees. To make corn produce a tripple crop. How to make Covent-Garden purl, and Dr Butler's ale. How to make old people look young. To make leather last long. To make fine pictures. How to order all manner of pickles. To make window-sashes. The art of dying, colouring, perfuming, and gilding. With above nine hundred other curiosities, on various subjects. Also a new help to discourse, and directions to read, write, indite, and speak languages readily and speedily. Together with an alphabetical table to the whole, for the finding all the matters herein with ease.