The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16
Build up y Homestead.

The feeling that you are settled and
fixed will induce you to work to im.
prove your farms, to plant orchards, to
set out shade trees. to enclose pastures,
to build comfortable outhouses, and
each successive improvement is a bond
to bind you still closer to your homes.
This will bring contentment in the
family. Your wives and daus shters
will fall in love with the country, your
soas will love home better than grog
shops, aud perfer farming to measur-
ing tape or professional lcafng. and
you will be happy in seeing the con-
tented and cheerful faces of your fami.
lies. Make your home beautiful, con-
venient, and pleasant, aud yo1r chill
dren will love it above all other places;
they will leave it with regret, think Of
it with fondoess, come back to it joy
fully, seek their chief happiness around
their home fireside.
Women and children need more than
meat, bread, and raiment; more than
acres of corn and cotton spread out all
around them. There love for the beau.
tifal must be satisfied There tastes
must be cultivated; their sensibilities
humored, not shocked. To accom-
plish this good end, home must be
made lovely, conveniences multiplied.
comforts provided, and cheeriulness
tostercd. There must be both sun
shine and shade, luscious fruit and ira.
grant flowers, as we'll as corn and cot
ton. The mind and heart as we'll as
the fields must be cultivated; and
then intelligence and contentment will
be the rule instead Of the exception.
Stick to, improve, and beautify your
homesteads, for with this good work
comes contentment.-Ex.
According to the Bvston Journal If
Chemistry there is now produced a
class of goods made entirely Of cotton,
but called meriro, and which have the
look of the latter fabric, owing to the
woolly surface impaired to them in the
process Of manufacture, These goods
are found both in the United States
and the Spanish American markets in
large quantities, especially in mems
undershirts and drawers. To cause the
cotton to thus resemble wool it is
scratched, and the surface raised by
particular operation. On drawing out
a thread or two and burning the same
in the flame of a taper, if the material
be cotton it will consume to light,
impa'pable, white ash; cotton being
vegetable fibre but if, on the contrary,
it is wool, and therefore an animal
fibre, it will twist and curl in the fame
and show a black ash, accompanied
with a smell which viii. at once indi-
"ate its origin. Cotton is now so clev-
e-ly treated that it is frequently taken
for silk-also an animal flbre-and the
simple test referred to can always be
restored to when there is any doubt
upon this point.
IMMENSE WIRE ROPES. .-Conmo
dore Shufeldt has ordered the proper
authorities Of the Boston Navy
Yard to make several five.incb
steel wire hawsers. These will probab
Iy be the largest wire ropes ever made
The Navy Department has use for im-
nense hawsers to tow monitors and
vessels in distress. They arc put on
board the men of war for use when
required. The usual appliance is
II inch hemp rope, but it swells when
wet, aud gets very heavy by absorption
of water. The steel-wire hawsers will
be seven inches less in diameter, much
lighter, non absorbent, more pliable
aud durable, and in every respect bet
ter. This is a curious aud, in fact,
won. 'eriul advance in the application
Of iron aud steel to commercial uses
\ hemp hawser twelve inches thick is
a wonderful thing in itself, but a steel
wire hawser FIVE inches in thickness,
better answering the same purpose, is
something fruitful of thought to the
student in shiFbuilding and rigging
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