Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-11-16
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
NOTHING LOST.

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wban I,ord Palms,a,on pas Home sec
:, sstsre nndsr lord Jobn Russall,s nremier
sbin bs had 10 attend % aanitarv reform
and to manyst other snb;ects far removed
from the foreien dinlomacv with which ri,
name is more espeeiallv oonnectea Will,
40 e.paSed Re nrionoundsd an snbor;sm
vb;sb a areallant hotb for ;,0 on;.ra ~ m,t;,
'nsatossa and for ;ts t,ntb ,iD;rt :. mi,
:,rss,as s, ths ,,,ans, s,.oa p,- Ie aa.s;a..
yyonld ,,,,. dam aot mon .tb;s trntb MA sSon,S
nave millions ! yssr. If instead of .consid.
er;ne m air. and refuse, sweeping 3 and cuttings,
scourines and washines, to be yalueless, we
could only bring ourselves to believe that
they are good things in the wrong places,
We we should be better both in health and in
pocket than We are now. Practical chem.
lists have long known this /: medical men
not unfrequently. impress the fact ON their
patients; patentees of new Inventions often
show an appreciation of it; and the world
is getting wiser thereon every day. A few
months after the close of the great Exhibi.
ton Of 1851, Dr. Lyon Playfair gave lee
tnre on some Of the results Of that wonder.
'fnt ,sisnlays takin, for b;s nr;nc;naly tonic
;,he ys,ent aav.ncea in ;n3natr;al cbem;.trv
ME nrodnct;on op na,fn,,es mas. not the
least curious Of these examples. The leo
tursr showed that beautiful perfumes are
now produced from the most trivial, and
often from the most fetid and repulsiye sub.
ssancea If this were all, it would be a
triumph Of chemistry, and benefit to man.
kind; but, unfortunately, the crooked com.
msrciaf morality, with which we are all too
much acauainted, stepped in. and eucour.
aged system Of cheating and DECEPTION
Itsis scientific to obtain from decayed or
unsiehtly refuse a perfume similar in odor
10 that obtained from beautiful fruit or
AoYer: but il Is dishonest to call Il bv the
name Of that fruit or flower, and to charge
q high price accordingly. ga peculiar fetid
Oh, saia D.-fiaysai,, "termed. tusei oil,
Y .os'ust ~ I.s.ug orsnaS ana Wn'Skey
snls tuss. o'', a,sell,ea Win saipaor'o aola
suu.ss0s.sse Is - po'ssn' g'yes tue 'oi. 9!
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tae oau.o ,se, o..' y u's'iiis.ion WIN SUI
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au0s =. suo a0.,su- y puts.u eleese on
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auu y .S - :. o.uao' a''I " i"pa'' inc na'
W.. W r.ou0u 'esus0 ~ nt,S.sn IN. otaaey' are
,S 0sss;.s s..o La ;.', on , I lai o.'
ss;.saa0aana =. 800 - c." e.. asOo" ~ ,s.ss assa -
s - s I =, AZ. w. - 80. e .o..loa :..::,
W : ..s ~ 80 '.'o' y, 'o 1S.a y
ss s.'..s suo .r..s ols " .T ,a.y la',
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But without dwelling further at present
on the roguery involved in all such misno.
mers and masked substitutions, let US glance
st-some among the alnos, innumerable ex.
.ampIes of honest utilization of substances
which used formerly ito be denominated
waste, or were at most regarded as posses
sing scarcely any apprseiable value. DR..
Lyon Playfair adgerted TO some of these ex-
smplss: seThe clippings of the travelling
tinker are mixed with the parings of horses
.hoofs from the smisby. or the cast off vool.
en- garments of the inhabitants of the sister.
isle, and soon afterwards. in the form of
dves Of tha briohtest blne grace .be dress
az oonrtly DANES The main inored;ent of
tbeink with which T now write vss noss;hlv
once mart of broken boon of an oId bser
barrel. The bones of dead animals y;ela
the chief constituent of lucifer matches =
The dreps Of MORT yipe-carefnllv rejected
hv the mort wine drinker in descant;no his
fasorite beverage are taken by him in the
morning, ia the form of Seidlitz powders,
to remove the effects of his debauch. The
offal Of the streets and the washiugs of coal.
gas re.appear carefully preserved in the
lady's smelling. bottle, OF are used by her .e
flavor sblsno mango for her friends" Yer,
recently, this highly interesting subject has
been traced throughout much wider range
By Mr.. P. L. Simmonds, an experienced
authority on all that relates to the material,
for manufactures. In a paper read befor,
the Society of Arts, he gave wonderful
variety of instances of the utilization of ap
parently unimportant substances. A bare