The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-13

stations. II Is better that subscribers
should torego the use Of their telephones
entirely for three or tour days, and let the
work OF general reconstruction progress
uninterruptediy, than to secure only partial
use Of their instruments, with probable in
terruptions for weeks. The worst part OF
the work is now nearly over and the inter
ruptions hereafter, as the work progresses,
will become less frequent and affect but
few stations.
Anything that concerns cotton and cot
ton seed has, with the last few weeks, be-
come OF much greater Importance to the
people of Cairo than it formerly was, for
the reason that those products are soon TO
be among the chief articles of Cairo's COM
merce, and will be brought here in great
quantities to serve the purposes OF the Dixie
Cotton Seed Oil mills and the cotton
compress and cotton dealers.
The numerous uses to which cotton
seed until recently thrown away to rot, is
now being put, is really surprising. lthas
been shown that, besides the oil extracted
from it, an oil by the way, that has come to
be an article of food, answering US excel
lent substitute for imported olive oil, which
il greatly resembles, the -four from the
ground seed, after the oil has been extract
ed, furnishes popular adulterant for mus
tard, besides entering largely into con
sumption at home and abroad as food for
cattle. Absolutely nothing lost from this
once despised product, but the value and
usefulness of the cotton seed does not seem
to be exhausted when all this has been SAID.
1t has still other capabilities which have
lately been made known. 1t is source
whence may be obtained ultramarine, a
blue pigment of great beauty used by
painters and which once sold for its
weight in gold, being then made only by
grinding to powder 4 precious stone known
as lapis lazuli. OF late years its manufac-
ture has been greatly cheapened by the dis
covery of other sources from which 1t
may be extracted, but the product is never
theless expensive. 1t now appears that
this substance can be made from cotton
seed. This fact is made known by Hon.
Ashbel Smith, Of Texas, who has written to
the Houston Post as follows: 1t occurs in
frequent paragraphs in the newspapers in
our State, that the manufacture of cotton seed
oil is already assuming important develop
ments in Texas. | was president OF the
section of the jury AZ, at the Paris exposi-
ton of 1878, to which section was referred
the examination for award of cotton-seed
oil and other vegetable oils. M. Godillot,
of Marseies, one of the largest oil mer-
chants of the world, and correspondent,
and believe partner Of the American
house of Thurber & Co., OF New York, IN
formed me that he obtained from cotton
seed ultramarlne blue of perfect purity
blu d'outrcmer-- in commercial quantities,
and at comparatively small cost. 1t is
color of grea. cost and large use. He said
to me. that this Manufacture was secret,
known only to his French manufacturers
that Americans do not know how to manu-
facture it. replied, "then we must i'm
port Frenchmen who will manufacture it in
America, and our people will soon learn to
do it." COL Smith is man of wide infor-
nation, accurate scientific attachments. and
what he says develops an important fact in
;. the remarkable and varied values of cotton
Iseed. 1t seems to be little short of = gold
mine.