Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-11-16

| dy" or amungo," mix it with little new
wool, and spin and weave it into broadcloth
doeskins, pilot-cloths. druggets, coarse car
peting, baize and table covers Wooler
rags, however dirty, are bought up, torn tt
shreds, cleaned, made into an inferior shoa
dy, and wrought into the cheapest kinds O
pilot, cloths, beaverteens, Petershams, mo-
hairs, Talmas, Raglans, paletots, and othe1
snperbly-named wooden fabrics. 1t is said
that Leeds alone reproduoes from rags a.
much wool annually as would represent tht
feeces of four hundred thousand sheep
These rags may be the relics Of worn-ou'
clothing, tailors' cutting, old Rorsted stock
Eings, carpeting. etc. /; and sbere are large
quantities imported from abroad, in aid oi
our home supply. A small portion, when
ground up, makes flock paper for paper
hangers; and another portion, chiefly car.
pet.waste, is used to stuff mattresses, and
also as an ingredient in the manufacture Of
Prussian blue. All the delicate materials
for ladies' dresses, known by the name Of
balzarines, Orleans, Coburgs, alpacas, etc
are DOW initiated by mixtures Of wool and
cotton, although they may originally have
been really wool or worsted. These mix.
lures, when decayed by long wear to the
state Of rags, undergo metempsychosis
chemicals are employed to destroy the cot
| ton, and the residue is worked up with q
little new wool into cloth. 1t is within the
region of fair probability that some of the
wool in lady's balzarine this year, may
form part Of her husbands oyercoat twelve
mouths hence Cow-hair is used in making
mortar, felt, ropes, carpets, and varions sub.
stitutes for horse.hair. And when the in.
geuuity of man can find no further manu-.
featuring uses for the above varied animal
substances, the farmer is always ready to
buy them as manure; two and q half pounds
Of wooden rags are said to contain as much
fertilizing power as one hundred pounds Of
farm yard manure. ~
I Turning next to the skeleton and the in
ner portion of animals, the value derived
from trifes is not less remarkable. Of bones,
the best parts are worked up into handles
for knives, &e. !. into articles of turnery,
and into numerous useful productions -
Some portions are used to make bone black
or animal charcoal; others are boiled to
extract size for dyers and cloth. .fuishers
and all the rest are ground up into manure
for farmers. The almost Incredible sum Of
eight hundred thousands pounds is said to
paid annually in England for bones. Horns
and hsofs are used for SO many purposes
that it would be scarcely possible to emu
merate them many valuable chemical sub.
stances are obtained from these sources.--
Whalebone outings and shavings are used
for stuf6ng cushions, &C., for 6re.grate Or
nameuts, and for yielding Prussian blue
Dog-fat is used to prepare kid gloves at
Paris, and is also made to yield an oil used
as a cheap-perhaps neutrality-suspicious.
for cod liver oil. Wool scourers' waste, in
which tallow or fat of some kind is always
al ingredient, is now made to give up the
wherewithal for stearine candles. The
blood of slaughtered animals is used in gu.
gar refining, in making animal charcoal, in
producing the once famous Turkey-red dye,
and in many other ways. The bile or gall
of the OK is used as detergent for wool OIL
cloth, as medicine; and by painters fo,
cleaning ivory tablets used in miniatures,
for fixing chalk and pencil drawings, and
for mixing with certain colors, Fishes
scales are used for bracelets aud ornaments,
ana fishes eyes for undsveloped buds in Or.
ti6cial flower making. Butchers aud
knackers' ofal is cooked up in suoh modes
at to be acceptable as food for cats and dogs
Bladders and intestines are prepared into
the cases for sausages and such like articles
Of food; into water.tight covering for jars
and apothecaries' vessels; into strings for
violins and guitars; and into the beautiful
membrane named (somewhst equivocally)
"gold beaters' skin" The French buy
our old written parchments, aud return
them to us in the form of delicate kid
gloves. All the ODDS and ends of skin apd
parchment of every kind are "grist to the
mill" of the glue manufacturer. Calf's
feet are boiled down to yield ueat's foot oil
for leather dressing; and sleeps feet te
yield trotter oil, not unknown to our ma
kers of hair oil. Fish garbage, whether a
our fishing stations, or at markets such a.
Bllingsgate, is saleable as manure Las
autumn, one particular shoal of herrings of
Lowestoft was so enormously beyond The
wants of herring eaters that the fishers sole
the fish to the farmers at 4s Cd. per tom
Many a fine field of hops in Kent has beer
rendered fertile by manure of sprats ant
old wooden rags. One more example of th'
utilization of.animal substances we canno
resist the temptation to mention Ther'
are certain small brown domestic annoy
ances which tidy housewives cannot endure
to hear even named, and which have re
ceived the masqueradiug designations o
"B fats" Now, Australia has the misfor
tune to be very prolific in these B fats
and an enterprisipg colonist has devised tn
means Of obtaining useful brown dye from
them. Knowing as we do what kind of ret
dye is obtsinable. from the cochinesl insect
we have no difficulty in believing thi
statement concerning another small individ
ual. The colonist will be real "blessinI
to mothers" and to households in general
if he succeeds in using up this peculis
material. =. .--s..
1t would be scarcely possible, even