Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1883 — WOOD STAINS. [ARTICLE]

WOOD STAINS.

Herr Leo, a pharmacist of Benshein, Germany, recotmnsnds the I'ol lowing stains for oak, pine, beech, etc.: 1. Yellow stain—Wash over with a hot concentrated solution of picric acid, and when dry polish the wood. 2. Ebony Black—Wash with a concentrated aqueous solution of extract of logwood'severai times, then with a solution ©f acetate of iron of fourteen degress Which is repeated until a deep black is pro duoed. 3. Gray—One part of nkrate of silver £ dissolved in fifty p .rts of distilled water; wash over twice; then with hydrocalori i acid, and afterwards with water of ammonia. The wood Is allowed to dry in riie dark, and then finished in oil and polished, 4. Li ht Walnut —Dissolve one part of permanganate of potassium in th rty parts of pure water, and ap ply twice in succession, and after an interval es five minutes, wash with clean water, and wnen dry, oil and polish. 5. Dark Walnut —Same as for light walnut: but, after washing with water, the darker veins are made more prominent <-y a solution of acetate of iron.

6. Dark Mahogany—lntroduce in to ft bottle fifteen grains alkamt rout, thirty grains aloes,thirty grains powdered dragon’s blqod and 500 grains 95 per cent, alcohol, closing the mouth of tne bottle with a piece of bladder, keeping it ic a warm place three or four days, with an occabional shaking, then filtering the liquid. The wood is first mordanted with nitric acid and, when dry. washed with the stain once or oftener, according to the desired shade: t.eu the wood, being dyed, is dried and polished. 6. L ght Mahogany, same as dark mahogatfy, but the stain should only be applied ooee. The veins of true manogany may be imitated by the use or acetate of Iron skillfully applied.

Polk place. Nashville, the residence of Mrs. Jas. K: Polk, coot ins among other valuable mememtoes, a picture of tbe world-ren owned conqueror of Mexico -Hernando Cortez and is a life-size three quarter length view of that illustrious hero. Equip, ed in his beautiful ornamented and shiDing coat of mail, holding a truncheon in the right hand, and the It ft hand resting upon the hilt of the sword, he is standing beside a table upon which lie his iron gauntlets and his helmet crowned with waving plumes. Tbe hair and beard are dark and abundant, and the large brown eyes are looking upward with a contemplative expression not to be expects ed In so restless and daring a spirit. 1 f— ■ The collection of autograph letters left by Mr. Weed inoludes from every President of the United States those from the time of Madison having been written to Mr. Weed himself -letters from most of the Revolutionary heroes, Lafayette and Baron Steuben among them, two epistles from Benedict Aunold, and a host of others from political leaders at heme aod abroad.

Some cattle which a boy of twelve was watching in Dakota were des troyed by a pr.airle fire. As the lad did not return home it was believed that he bad shared the same fate. It now appears, however, that the accident so frightened him that he wand dered off and remained away until be bad earned money enough to cover the less of the stock. Then he reappeared at home triumphantly. In a reminiscent mood a Maine paper says; “Everybody remembers what an ungainly thing the first rub-ber-shoe was. And wbat an art it was to put the thing on! Turn! g it half inside out, you thrust your toe into its interior, and then with a tug* and ajurkyou pulled the heel in place, and were inside a shoe that clung to you tighter than a brother.” " -4' ' ' At the Dundee knitt’ng mills o! Scotland a woman must spin a yarn six:y five miles long in order to earn $2.