The Dickinson press., 1883-11-03
A Home Made Filter.

JOnn MlchaelS, IN q communication TO
the New York Sun, says:
1 trust the home made filter here de-
scribed may sour be found in every
home, for a water supply loaded with Il
mass of filthy and poisonous contamina-
tons should be rejected without hesita-
ton until cleansed from impurities by
good filter.
Purchase q common galvanized iron
pail, which cost fifty cents. Take it to tin
shop and have a hole cut in the center
Of the bottom about the size ofive cent
piece, and direct them to solder around
it a pi;ce of tin about three-tour lis OF. an
inch deep. to form a spout to direct the
flow of water down ward in q uniform d.
rection. Obtain about two quarts of
small stones at a store where material
fol- roofing is sold; after IL go I'd washing
place about two inches of these ut bot
tom of pail to form a drain.
On this place a partition of horse-hair
Goth or Canton flannel cut to size of
pail. On this place a layer OF animal
charcoal, sold at the wholesale chemists
as boneblack at about ten cents u pound.
Select this about the size of gnnpowder
grains, and not i'll powder: This layer
| should be three or four inches. A sec
three inches of sand, us clean and fine
as possible. Those within reach of glass
makers should purchase the sand there,
as it is only with that quality Of sand
that the best results cau be obtained
| On this place another partition, II add
| more fine stones or shingle-say for two
or three inches. This serves as a weight
to keep the upper partition in place.
Your filter is now complete, hut not
ready for use. However careful you
may have been in Uashing the material,
a residue of dust will remain, and this
has to be gradually washed through.
For this purpose pass as much water as
possible through the filter during the
first day without using it. The next
day it will be ready for use, and if my
directions have been complied with
filtered water will be always at com.
mand, not only freed from all suspen-
ded circumstances, but from color due
to matter held in solution having been
removed. l found that the ~yellowish
color of Croton water, which is very
difficult to remove, was entirely absent
in water passed through my filter.
"IlcH0 OuO bi'NtSfUON buys tllc
TrOsscau.
According to Mexican custom The
prospective bridegroom must not only
purchase and furnish a house before
hand, but he must buy all the wedding
trosseau-even to minutest accessories
OF the toilette which may be needed for
years to come; and is expected to make
gifts to the brides family, and brides
maids and all the immediate friends
concerned, and 10 delray all the ex-
penses OF the wedding feast and subse-
quent festivities. 1t must ne remem-
bered that everything costs enormously
in Mexico as co pared to American
pri tes, furniture and goods Of all Xxi. DIS
being imported at great expense in
transportation as there are compar-
alivrly no manufactures AMI nc rail-
ways, and the duties are imply outra-
geous. Fortunately for the bridegroom's
depleted pocketbook there is no going
off on wedding tours, the absence OF
anything but stage and mule trans
! portation maxi, z that foolishness an im-
possibility, but the married pair 90 di-
rectly to their new home on the we'd
ding day, and eat the first %connubial
breakfast under their own vine and fig
neutrality-suspicious. Cleveland Her