Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1875 — Directions for Calcimining. [ARTICLE]

Directions for Calcimining.

Buy the best bleached glue if the walls are to be white or some light tint (if dark it is immaterial so the glue is clean), and use it in the proportion of a quarter of a pound to eight pounds of whiting. Soak the glue ovpr night; in the morning pour off the water, as it simply swells while soaking. Add fresh water, put-it in a pail and set that in a kettle of boiling water. When dissolved stir it into the whiting, adding enough water to make it, after mixing, of the same consistency as common whitewash. It may be tinted any color and is applied with a whitewash brush. If the color is rubbed smooth in a little water and then mixed with the wash it will be more even. If the walls have been previously whitewashed scrape away all that will come off and wash with a solution of white vitriol —two ounces in a pail of water. The vitriol will be decomposed, forming zinc white and plaster of .Paris, to which the calcimining easily adheres. It is important to dissolve the glue in a hot-

water bath, for it scorched by too great 'heat its tenacity is impaired of destroyed. Whiting is simply chalk freed from impurities and reduced to a fine powder and is also known under the names of Paris and Spanish white, though the latter is really a white earth found in Spain., There is a great difference in whitewash brushes, and the beauty of the work as well as the ease of performing it depends very much on a good brush, making it well w’orth while to pay the difference between that and a cheap one. For the inexperienced it is more difficult to lay on tints evenly than pure white.Country Gentleman. ? A Board of Trade man of Chicago recently married, snubbed his relations and friends, and invited to the wedding all the leading jewelers Of the city. AU but two came, and half of them brought presents. If the bride noticeably glitters with diamonds, she can be identified. T *r - ■ According to the best of authorities the entire territory of Scotland is 20,047,642 acres. Fifty-seven proprietors own a trifle more than one-third of the country, and almost one-third of this (upward of one-tenth of all Scotland) belongs to the three richest of them.