WASTE NOT.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 694, 6 August 1870, Page 3

WASTE NOT.

A writer in Chambers's Journal, describing the manner in which various articles generally considered waste are Utilized, says : " Fusel oil, putrid jcheese, gas tar, and the drainage of !cow-houses are transformed into delicious perfumes, but it is commercially and unfair to call them by such .delightful names as ' oil of pears,' ' oil ;of apples,' oil of pine apples,' 'oil of grapes,' ' oil of cognac,' ' oil of bitter almonds,' ' oil of millefleurs.' " Blue "dyes are made from scraps of tin, old |woollen rags, and the parings of horse [noofs. Old iron hoops are employed En making ink; bones a source of phosphorus for tipping Congreve ; the dregs of port wine for 'making seidlitz powders ; the washing ;of coal tar for making a flavoring condiment for hlanc mange. Old woollen trags are the foundation of the prosperity of Dewsbury and Batley, in jjYorkshire ; these musty, fusty, dusty, :frousy garments being ground into .shoddy and mungo. Wool scourers' jwaate and washings re-appear as |beautiful stearine candles; bullocks' Hood is used in refining sugar, liu making animal charcoal, and in Turkey red dyeing ; ox gall or bile is used by wool scourers and by color makers; fishes' eyes are used for buds in making artificial flowers; both bladders and intestines are made into air tight coverings and into musical strings; and the odds and ends of leather and parchment dressing are grist to the glue maker; calves' and steep's feet yield an oil which is doctored up most fragrantly by the perfumer ; stinking fish is always welcome as manure to the farmers; and a brown dye is extracted from those small bedroom acquaintances whom few of us like to talk about, and none like to see or feel. Seaweed is used as a material for paper, as a lining material for ceilings and walls, and as a Bource whence the chemist can obtain iodine. Grape husks yield a beautiful black for choice kinds of ink; raisin stalks constitute a capital clarifying agent for vinegar ; bran or corn refuse is valuable in tanning, calico printing, and tin-plate working; brewers' and distillers' grain are fattening food for cattle. Damaged potatoes, and rice and grain are made to yield starch. Ground horse-chestnuts are not unknown to the makers of cheap maccaroni and vermicelli. Old kicked off horse-shoe nails yield the best of all iron for musket-barrels.