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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
CABINET DEPARTMENT.
We are going at our order for one
hundred dinning tables in a wholesale
manner. We hope to get them out in a
month or so.
We mean to get out a few pieces of
furniture for the state fair exhibit, and
Ave challenge any other department to
make a better showing. 'We mean to
get up something new that never hag
been on exibition; that the boys that are
in this department today are making,
go wake up, Let us show what we can
do,
Can, any boy or girl tell us hW the
words "Uncle Sam" originated?
How7 to cut or Bore Glass: Any hard
steel tooth will cut glass with great
facility when kept wet with camphor
dissolved in turpentine, A drill bow
may be used, O! even the hand alone,
The ragged edges of glasg vessels may
also be thus easily smoothed by a flat
file, Flat window glass can readily be
S3 wed with a watch-spring saw hy the
aid of this solution, In short, the most
brittle glass can be wrought almost ae
easily as brasg by the use of cutting tools:
kept constantly wet with camphorated
oil or turpentine,
WMl some boy or girl tell us why
Easter is so irregular?
Varnish formulas worth preserving;
Varnishing iron or steel the following
varnish will maintain its transparency
and the metallic brilliancy of the articles
will not be objured, Dissolve ten parts
of clear grains of rnaetic, (ive parts of
camphor, five part? of pandarach. and
live parts of clerni in sufficient -quantity
of alcohol; Apply with heat.
A brilliant black vainish for cooking
and gasoline stoves is made as follows:
AsphaltUm, two pounds; boiled linseed
oil, one pint; oil of turpentine, two
quarts. Fuse the asphaltum in an iron
pot, boil the linseed oil, and add while
hot, stir well and remove from fire.
When partially cooled ad;! the oil 0f
turpentine, Some makers add driers.
Frye,
LOCALS
Who is going to have the first rose in
bloom? We hear that Father Datin,
who lives in brooks, expects to beat
Chemawa this year and present us with
the first bloom of the season You wil
have to hurry, Father,
At the regular teachers' meeting orj
Monday evening the best method of
teaching Dr, Murphy's excellent and
valuableXpainphlet on the "Cause,
Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculo
sis was discussed. This work is of great
importance and of great benefit and will
be well taught in our classrooms.
Colonel Jamea F. Randlett who is well
known to many of our employes, has been
very ill at his home in La Mesa Cali
fornia, We are glad to report, however,
that the Colonel is recovering, is able to
be up and about the house, and has even
written to his friends here expressing
his continued kindly feeling in Chemawa.
We all will be glad to hear of our dear
friend's complete recovery,
Ebewhere in this issue "e publish an
article of great merit from no leeer
a personage than Judge Lindsev of Den
ver, Colorado. - The article in question
was delivered before those in attendance
at the National "Educational Association
which convened in Denver last venr.
We recommend that, everv emnlove give
this article a careful reading and follow
this up with a period of serious reflection.