UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 10 January 1890, Page 3

UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES.

A CHVT WITH A DEALER IS. .WASTE. Some of the best of housekeepers Voald be somewhat astonished did they know to what useg a,r.e put softie of the articles of vast© ftua refuse thay are daily in the habit of jthrowing away. Of «oqrs« everybody knows the valu.fe of old bones and rancid fata and sour drippings. They go to be. cleansed aud purified boiled V^own and clarified, converter! into oleo-margitte, " olive " oil, fcoap, C* r ;tgrease, dog^' biscuits, and b«u*» jjQanure. But what is done with the K^ld corks, cigar-ends, feork-sh vings, old-letters broken bottles, old •shippings of leather, rf.gs, old sa'ltnoß^ lobster, and tamato caus, «old iron, and the myriad other bits 'of iretuse and wnste whicH the ckcU ftttiier singles out witk eagl'e eye from the dust bin or rubbish heap and which presently find their way, in .carefully assorted bund'es, to the shop of th a rag and bottle dealer the bone and old iron buyer? This was the sum and substance of ft

buostion which Pall Mall Gazette reporter put a few clays back to one of these very " mys!ery " merchants in question. The office is near Be.-mondsey, it is situated at the bottom of a blind allev, and stands in a yard which for incongruity of contents would assuredly puzzle n sa«d the Rennem-mTSTTiSgeoWm? very fino and large assortment of Ddfls and ends. " Wo . buy eypiv thing and . anything— ■ -pro Viet*' A } i We ' know that? W<y Wapiti" t\& send soi> e of oii£stnff t^all parts of the world lQ.^)^bflw aflhJhffy used in some w'ay^jUverythiug Ims flie-clmere^u classes 01 gooaspuJr cO"---our exp«nse^ alone gqes for people speck- tty Wtawh Uv Couldn't begin to tell you 6t rather to euiunera^J|^rjaaiiKP%A|jin whida-'we deal. A rag and bone and old iron dealer tj*te|iea»t||fainr.' t f j^ '• V' hat- boc&mW!?TO*%^ Why iliafc would * e< WWsfik>Wt a^ answer as your first. TIHIVjhI ttofc? a lot of it goes back to the srnel int furnaces, and is remelted-^3B^A^fi up a again Some of it, too, is' bonght, and aft?«£ ##& £Wsfei and a coat of paint goes forth as new stuff again Old tin filings and tin. refuse has a funny destination. that ? •# i*4*.^e*^*ii»^l«>^iNj carted nyrn^irii ■ f l« Mf U^ rt j I{yiat> n tfl y t have these mineral spring.^ji^jj; They dig l;oles near the waterway and bury the tin filings. So now "you know hnw you got — what do they call it ?— chalybeate wat-.r. Old leather ? to a great many usem *6&MQml4&s&i making glue, and .gelatine, ana shoddy leather, and somd-bfifcilfifijfctaj "sed fj* making but^erine. I sup-posaPfwip-Aft«!j& W f^r«feVl«eflf^ kkid of oiljvitjifXtew i%iidDfc> irf®; see a whole heap of parchment-like stuff over ia ?T W^f that is the odUe ani ends' 61 tfie'^nl calf-slrins which is used for making drum heads, and banjo and tambourine Jtf#% J^,t .xUL. mo to may perhaps be eaten as gelatine lozenges before many weeks are gone by. [.Till / 11 1 »i* * ' •» •■■«* 1/I . I '111 tell yon what some people manage to make quite a decent litt'e income out of collecting aus selling-. Cigar ends— picked up 'in the streo- 8, swept up in cigar stores, and public houses, and restaurants. Three shillings a pound, that's what they get for them. Ground down into snuff, or cut fine and crashed and dried and made into cigarettes, that's what happens to them. Or if they are long enough, they are doctored up, pr ssed out, and made up fresh into cigars or plug tobacco. Oh, cigar ends, av»alwaya capable of being used up some way, if it's only by so iking them and extracting the jjiico for flavouring or for using aajrmseffc|| cides in conservatories- Oorks, too ; there's a good joui^ of income, do y9pu^HUP4|b^Mcou]3||^ftr ft profit after paying halfa-cvowu for a bushel of old broken, used, and Half-decayed corks? Yet they do. Some can be recut, ?opp .ground- ugr fine for oork-dijs't|f{^r!lDtM> tohfii sr:mo go for life-buoys and life-belts. Thon there's the cork shavings dust that comes over here as packing for grapes in barrels ; well, I'm told the kamptulicon manufactures buy that readily. that ifßea De thrown away that has ever tee^iMj^in M.jgagffitefcutf of anytfiingT Ola letter paper is sold at the itifcrfLifibttfr'&x!* hundredweighf, anaT nutcners will tell you that 8 newspaper for wrapping. BuJcm glass all goes back to the fSSlsi factories to be melted down and used again, even ol&Qfai&Kb, fooib&» / ter, salmon and beef tins are utilized and Itavt a market value. Rags of every kind, of course, ; are of the highdrt value.