Show how it IB brought into channels it any ot our readers arc in the habit nt prosing a contractors or towns yard he will perhaps remember perceiving ce iving alongside the outer walls a going on which ho can not exactly nuke out A crowd of women toiling ami moiling amid heaps of rub bih two or three barges laden with vegetable refuse lie can plainly enough but it is not until lie MM a of duit carts slowly wending thear way towards the distant eliat the thought flashes upon hi eliat the busy human ants he has been watching arc dorting forting and arranging the of the great towns and cities s nothing particularly in a cerii yard neither tho sights nor the smells aru pleasant nevertheless tho ceno that hero meets his eye as it is could not cail in anny other than n high state of civilization when think of it tho dust bin is alio tomb of the householder it is the grave into which all our domestic surroundings inevitably sink of old in he ruder mate of society this dust and refuse found ltv anaf rest in mother earth but with us its removal by tho scavenger is onla the first of its belova lion to existence if we may so kacak in detail as it exists in every household it in a nuisance nui sanco to bo rot rid of in the aggregate it becomer ll ported into our arts anil manufactures at the great lumbering carts arrive in a dust contractors yard their contents arc emptied into isolated heaps no boner docs this take place than they are each in detail attacked by grimy men who remove all tho larger uch as vegetable matter old coal scuttles old olineor crin rather old hats and old garments this L a kind of rough bitting which prepares the heap for the attacks of the women who instantly upon heap like flock of browa that may to spy any carrion in a field each woman as hi upon the heap comes iove in hand and around her a number of baskets the man now fills the cievo anil the of separating the dust heap into its clemenci clem enLi begin the few of the sieve throw down all the fino and the coal dint this dc trian becomes a very valuable commodity when collected and put to its right use it is used by brick maker to alx with alio clay and doe its part in the baking of the brick in the neighborhood of most of our railways our readers may have noticed vast heaps of black dust burning with a slow com bullon and much smoke heaps consist of bricks which aro being baked they arc clacel in rows a little apart and their interstices are filled with the line bracic SM alio coal ashes arc termed light 1 ft below anil the aholo mass fires to dull red cicat the brecio brec zo mixed with the chiy helping to bake the inside of the brick in the mot perfect manner without vitrify ing it the breeze it the roost portion 0 alio dust and it rises or falls in value according to the amount of building going on and to alio ol 01 its production in the summer but little comparatively is indo cal duit it must bo remembered is entirely refuse from road lut which also iose sei a certain balne as we shall show by and by when sill tho finer refuse has passed through the sieve the langit and coarr articles remain upon the top there glisten some pieces of broken hl of course only to IM to be put more into circulation in the world considering the brittle nature of material and the enormous quantities of it employed it is fortunah fort that it Is almost indestructible tible when we break a window we only lter the arrangement of into a thousand pieces ft remains as good glass as vcr almo will not touch it the remnant 0 alm that are found among th roman remains that have been in alio ground tor two thousand atar arc as tit tor the glas pot as though it had been made yesterday phials and old bottler TO rarely even chipped hence thoy are merely washed and hy pas again into tho drawer ol 01 the or apothecary bones fonn another constant contribution to the cievo and a valuable m r to the daut there Is a grand kuslo going on for po noelon elon both br tho uror and ho the larger kr first in order to 01 tact all their tt and the the former Is put to are too numerous nume rou to bo mentioned good deal of the finer kind gow to mikal nd op tho is we doubt not ud as tho benlo of corx mid know is employed anthe of jujube bones alch can in the arta ro in agriculture whet ground down to 1 fine powder and mixed with sulphuric add bhoj become that great fertilizer of lime restoring to the pil alj the productive qualities eliat have been taken out of it by over cropping wheat growing is very exhaustive to alic boil indeed we could not go on growing wheat for many acar without reducing it to sterility were it not for the use of this phosphorus again is another extractive extrac tire bones old iron finds its way into a very like the alaa iu substance is to destroy indeed toine old iron is rendered much more valuable by bring knocked about thus old iron in tho form of horse adoca and horseshoe nail fetches a higher price than alic original metal from which thiry made abo toughens it acquires ity blows and concussions ives it a greatly enhanced value in alio market old tinned article such aa alop and are cirit heated to recover their tin and the older which they arc made both 0 which articled arc more val than the old iron paper is carefully collected and goes anico again to the paper mills like glass tho original fabre fibre 1 very tor air we know tho noto paper on which wo the locc let berd to conr beloved wn made from an old account book ot a tallow chandler or from the musty records of tho p mt centuries in turning over tho rag mans basket what a singular history wo bavol the ball dress of A laila drops into a rag basket and reappears as a billetdoux billet doux disappears again to reappear more in tho drawing room or the nursery as a workbox ol 01 papier mache or a doll or even into the wheels of railway trucks and other uses to which paper is now put whilst however wo iro watching the lifters sifters grubbing over the hopi as we have BO many crows bhoj all also together M we see birds do without any apparent cause and mako off to the nearest public house hut there is a caune wo may ba suro for this sudden flight if you ask the lie speedily enlightens you 0 been and found somo money in tho du dutheau ami when alicy do it is a amon them to charo it together in drink by and by their little jollification over they return if there is any thing that can bo used is food in tho dust the hill women arc entitled to it as x berqui ditc itc in thia manner they obtain many pieces of bread which the reader might not liko to cat but which they cither do not object to or put to other uses all tho pieces of wood arc also con and when they leave work they may bo seen laden with fuel of this kind which eaves them moro expensive firing tho broken china and crockery goes to make the foundations of road and paths and all the soft core namely refuse vegetable matter is returned directly to tho fields in tho shape of manure old clothes arc not the least valuable items of tho dust yard any thing in the shape of cotton even to tho covering of the crinoline cri steel and atay bones is ant aalde for tho paper mill cloth ands its way to the shoddy mills of lancashire where ft is purified and ground down and remade into coarse cloth the old woolen garments that are turned thus into shoddy are equal to a contribution of twenty five thousand tons of wool yet old not many years ago were considered of no more value than to be thrown upon tho manure heap there slowly to suffer disintegration until lit to bo placed upon the land indeed tharo Is a class of rags which is now taken directly to thu soil old house and iliah cloghn soaked with grease and animal mako capital manure in alio dust contractors yards wo may ace them spread upon the ground to dry preparatory to their being forwarded to the hop ground where they arc much aed tor tho cultivation of that plant old boots and hoes if not too much dilapidated lind their way to tho buck of the town where a class of tradesmen livo who patch them up and by tho aid of hecl aall mako them once more pro we had almost forgotten to ay that no inconsiderable amount of coal u rescued from the thin of course docs not go to tiro brickyard it Is purchased by tho poo r in well to do neighborhoods of tho town the tiac hrc rarely bitted hence pieces of coal halt burnt or mill alumns IM thrown anway overy morning this extravagance trava gance makes the dust of the lustier por lioni of the town fur moro valuable alian that collected from the poverty stricken district indeed the ilika in the portion of ahn town h every valuable refue chero aro more bones moro breeze moro refuse clothing than over lind a chance of getting into the boic and of the wo have ald that the doit from the roads Is kept the dust of the aholt Is always very rich ill manure which makij it alc lop dressing for meadow it 1 also largely aed to mix with ott clay for the making of inferior bricks and we have that it Is also aed torn more unsightly adulteration the composition with which many of the cheaply run up houses are imo othel over and made to appear 1 very ricly alicd with road dust the evil of this we ce in the green stain with which all uch structure are disfigured uch green laua being nothing more ahn a occurs in all amp pol ud landi its in dud thu the grimy and hill valuable parl in the world ily their aid we return to tho fields the riches the towns avo drawn anim thear kosit from destruction coreon alu lle product and ct them onci onoro lit in the buy world A amAr journal it Is thing that the man who know exactly how to run H nw cpr U elvry engaged in om other kind of buin abw lew |