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Best Time For Painting Houses

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
September
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tli : beat time for pmnting the exterior of buildings is lato in the autumn, or rhiring the winter. Paint then applied will endure twice as long as when applied in early sumiller or in hot weathor. In the forauT it dries slowly and benomen hard, like a glazed surfaee, not easily affected aftejwa-ds by the weather or worn offby the beuting of storms. But in very hot weather the oil in the paint soaks into the wood at once, as into ft. sponge, leavlng the lead nuarly dry ani noarly ready to orumble qjF. The last difficully, howevor, miglit, in a marnier, bo guarded against, tliough at an incronsed pxpeAse, by first going over the surfaee with ruw oil. By painting in oold weather, ono annoyance miglit certainly 1' esoaped ; namely, the eollec tion ut' Minill flies on the fresh paint. - Technologüt. ui ■■ ii An exehange has this to say of the masculino aofiömplishmcnts of cortain prominent ladies : Kato Field is a good pistol shot, -Mis. Hazlctt swims likc a duck, Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a soiintific angler, and Süsan 1!. Anthony plnys a rattling game of draw poker. They will joke in New York even aboat the swindlcs on. the fity troasury. Onf itcin complainnd of is 18,000 tbr hatohets, and it ifl defended on the gronnd that they were ordered for the purpose of " cutting down exco&eivo appropriatione."

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Old News
Michigan Argus