Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1871 — Whitewashing. [ARTICLE]

Whitewashing.

Good whitewash, well applied to fences rough siding, and the walls and ceilings of buiidings, has a large sanitary influence, as well as being in a high degree preservative in its effects. To be durable, whitewash should be prepared in the following ner.Take the very best stone lime and slack it in a close tub, covered with a cloth to preserve the steam. t?alt—as much as can he dissolved in the water used for slacking and reducing the lime—should be applied, and tbe whole mass carefully strained and thickened with a small quanity of sand, the purer and finer the better. A few pounds of wheat flour, mixed as paste, may be added, and will give greater durability to the mass, especially when applied to the exterior surface ’of buildings. With pure lime, properly slacijgmed and mixed with twice its weight of fine sand and sifted wood-ashes in equal proportions, almost any color may be made by the addition of pigments. Granite, slate, freestone and otlier.shades may be imitated, and without any ■ detriment to the durability of the wash. Thiscovering is very often appifed, and with good effect, f to underpinning, stone fences, roofs, and the walls of barns and other out-buildings. —Germantown Telegraph. • i The latest invention in advertising is that of a Hartford patent medicine mat), who has sheared his dog, and painted on the animal the name of the universal cure. Pbussino’s White Wine Vinegar is a most superb article for table use. Warranted pure.

If a life renewino focktaih, llica that sought for by De Soto, should hurst from the earth at every man’s door, thousands would, turn their backs on the healing springs within arm’s reach, to run after pratcuaod remedies. The observant, everywhere, accept Da. Waj.koi’s Vi.vernß Bixxua as the grua’u-st medicinal blessing of rdridcrn times, hut on the other hand multitudes do sc themselves with polaons, while this well-rprlng of health Is accessible to nil. It purifies the animal Unfits, regulates every function of the body, (jahns the nerves, invigorates the vital organs, and ia an unfailing specific for indigestion. Hahiti'al constipation leads to the following results : Inflammation of the kidneys, sick and nervous headac he; biliousness, dyspepsia, indigestion, piles, loss of up|>etit<- and strength; all of which rmiy be avoided by being regular in your habits, nod taking, say one of Parson's Purgative J'ills nightly, for four or six weeks. Johnson's Anodyne Llnhntni may be used to advantage where any I’ain Kilicr Is desirable. Incases of severe cramps and pains'., the stomach, It la undoubtedly the heat article that can be used.