The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-07-04


Bolivar Tenn
The USE or REFUSE, CoSDESsED FROM THE
LoNDON QUARTERLY REVIEW waste
pieces Of coat, and what IS called breeze
or coal dust and half burnt ashes, the large
pieces are sold, and the breeze is used
for burning bricks.
Bones 60 Immediately to the boiling
houses, where every portion Of fat and gela-
tine is extracted, the fat is made into soap.
and the gelatine is used for a variety of
purposes; the large bones are converted
into the hundreds Of knick knacks for which
they are suitable; the smaller pieces are
ground very fine, treated with acid, and
make the celebrated superphospbate
manure.
Scraps Of paper are used to make new
paper, papier-mache ornaments, dolls
heads, etc.
Old rags.-Scarlet rags arc treated for the
recovery of the cooLineal; other valuable
colored rags are made into flock paper. But
the great market for wooden rags is Bailey,
the famous rag capital, the taller metropolis,
whittier every beggar in Europe sends his
cast off gentility Of moth eaten coats frowzy
Jackets, worn cut clothing of every desorip
ton, and where they arc made to reappear
IN the lustrons patelot of the sporting
dasdy, the delicate riding habit Of the
belle, Or the sad, sleek garment Of the con
lessor Such o reader, is 5hoddyl
I'D iron, battered saucepans, tin paiLs,
rusty hoops, nails and horsesHoes All sol
dcred articles have the solder extracted from
them and the iron is then melted. The
horseshoe nails arc sold to gun makers for
the purpose of making stubb twist barrels.
The smaller scraps of iron are used to Sc
cure the copper that runs away in the
streams washing viens Of copper pyrites.
Glass is remelted, and used over and over
again for centuries.
Old Boots are patched up with heeIball
and sold at the Seven Dials, Mammoth street
India rubber shoes are remelted and
mixed with the new gum.
Dead horses-The hair is used by The
upholsterer, the hide made to leather for large
lodgers the intestines are made into gull
strings for lathes ETC. The hoofs are used
by the turner's and the Prussian blue makers
and the bones go to the turner's and tn,
iyory-black makers, and even the putriC
flesh is used to breed maggots, which oui
Partisan friends sell as food to Gatten fowls
and the final residue is turned into a tral
TO catch rats
For information on this subject call a
OHara's drug store, aud while you are buy
ing the paints and oil to repaint your hous
with, he viii tell you how it is done
Ss0eat Of Sheep Sheep draw from tn,
land on which they Craze considerably
quantity of potash, much Of which i
ultimately excreted from the skin with tn,
sweat. This is extracted by immersion il
cold water, from concentrated solution o
which it is recovered; this is distilled, an,
yields Illuminating gas, ammonia, and car
Donate, sulphite, and chloride of potassium
Gas tar, by distillaton yields benzol, nitro
benzol, naptha, lamp black, capitalization
which those beautiful red dyes O Hara la
them) are produced-and carbolio aciC
and from the tar liquor are produced, sal am
moniac and alum.
Refuse Of candle factories. Glycerin
was formerly refuse of candle factories
but is now largely used in skin diseases an
ear affections, and is an admirable means Q
preserving all perisnable matters, meat an
fish being kept in it for months perfect
fresh
AS this much has been done on tn
utilization of waste products and nuisaucer
we live in hope that some friend to mar
kind will, after a while find a use for pol
ticians and the freedmen's bureau, and Will
you also cherish this hope, remember ths
YOU can buy better and fresher drugs an
medicines at o Hara's drug store than 20
can elsewhere, for the reason that he buy
often and from first hands.