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have been received for 
Several inquiries 
elevations, plans and specifications for first- 
class school buildings. These are not al¬ 
ways accessible at the moment. A year 
ago, while the Hungerford Collegiate Insti¬ 
tute, Adams, N. Y., was erecting, one of the 
editors of the Rural New-Yorker visited 
it, and was struck with the harmony and 
beauty of its exterior and the convenience of 
its internal arrangement. At our request, 
Gen. S. D. Hungerford, President of the 
Board of Trustees, (and whose name the in¬ 
stitution bears,) has kindly forwarded us an 
illustration of the elevation and copies of the 
plans of the floors. The architect’s specifi¬ 
cations are not furnished, but, from the data 
received we give the following facts and 
figures. 
The extreme width of the front is 128 
feet ; extreme depth, 97 feet. The wings 
are 40 by 43 feet. It is built of brick, and is 
four stories high; is heated by steam and 
lighted throughout by gas. Water is sup- 
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plied on each noor, anti muu-iuouis m uum — - 
the ladies’ and gentlemen’s departments. HUNGER 
PUiu or Basement. and ^ j n the neighborhood of $30,- 
A, dining ball, 17 by 44 feet; B, B, stew- ^ and it ig a credit l0 the liberality and 
ard’s rooms; C, store-room; D, pantry; h, ent ige of the peop i e 0 f one of the most 
kitchen, 14 by 25 feet; F, laundry, 1 > beautiful villages and desirable places of 
HUNGERFORD COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE— ELEVATION. 
xl of $50,- A chimney should embody the character- not kept clear of soot, will, in burning out, 
erality and istics of the building, and should no more be stand a good chance of setting the building 
kitchen, 14 by 25 feet; F, laundry, 14 by 19 
feet; G, vegetable cellar; H, drill room, 22 
by 02 feet; I, steam heater; J, J, water clos¬ 
ets ; K, K, bath-rooms. 
Plnn of First Floor. 
A, commercial room, 20 by 2G feet; B, 
residence in Northern New York. 
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FACTS ABOUT BUILDING. 
The center of every foundation should be 
library, 19 by 39 feet; C, Principal’s study, exactly under the center of all the weight it 
14 by 21 feel; D, gentlemen’s study,22 by 48 j 9 to support; hence, the foundation walls 
feel; E, ladies’ study, 22 by 48 feet; F, reci- 0 f a buildiug should project about as much 
tatiou room, 14 by 19 feet; G, studio, 14 by outside of the brick walls or wood sills as 
19 feet; H, reception room, 14 by 21 feet; I, 
music room ; J, Principal’s parlor, 15 by 20 
feet; K, bed-room; L,closet; M,Principal’s 
sitting-room, 15 by 16 feet; front hall, 16 feet 
wide. 
l’lan of Second Floor. 
A, A, A, recitation rooms, (the two recita¬ 
tion rooms in the rear of the chapel and 
front of the building are 22 by 27 feet, and 
can be thrown iuto the cltapel by raising 
large doors, arranged for the purpose, thus 
increasing the capacity of the cliapel to the 
extent of their area.) B, chapel 47 by 75 
PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR. 
21 feet; I, inside; and' when not so—as they seldom 
15 by 26 are—they are not right. 
Mncipal’s When column sets above column, or 
all, 16 feet over a pier, the center of one should be 
over the center of the other, and the die or 
body of the pier should be as large as the 
wo recita- base of the column above it. 
Uapel and The building that is not worth a good 
? feet, and foundation and a good water table, is not 
by raising worth a cornice. 
pose, thus The column or post that is not worth a 
ipel to the base or worth tapering, is not worth a cap 
47 by 75 or capital, however simple. 
feet. C, organ. The balance of the rooms 
on this floor are for the use of students. 
Plan of tUo Third Floor. 
A, A, teacher’s rooms, 14 by 18 feet; B, B, 
preceptress’ rooms; C, gallery; D, chapel. 
The balance of the rooms are dormitories 
for students and are (as on the second floor) 
9 by 12 and 15 feet in size. 
We believe this building cost, completed 
PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR. 
the rooms The door that is not worth being well 
ideals. made and fitted, well hung and fastened, is 
lV . not worth an ornamental casing or a pro- 
feet; B, B, tecting portico. 
D, chapel. The window that is not worth a good sill 
dormitories and supporting corbies, is not worth orna- 
;cond floor) mental casings and cornice outside ; neither 
are sash that are not worth balancing with 
, completed weights worth ornamenting inside. 
without base aud cap than the building or 
itself — not that every chimney should have pi 
a base aud ornamental cap; but he who can- sa 
not afford to put six feet of simple base aud af 
cap around his chimney cannot afford to put is 
one hundred feet of ornamental cornice 
around his house. 
A plan, well-worked half-round, or mold- 
ed, casing only two or three inches iu width, * 
l if made of good, well seasoned wood, put up 
true, and with good joints, will look, and be 1C 
much better at the cud of the first, year and lt 
forever after, than the most elaborately de¬ 
signed architrave made of unseasoned wood 
with its following consequences — warped 
sides, crooked edges and gaping joints, em¬ 
bellished with crack-splits and hammer 
marks, such as city carpenters call country 
moldings. 
Many base-boards around rooms would be 
improved by tearing off some of the mold¬ 
ings along the top and nailing them down 
to stop the crack along the floor. 
No family who has not a convenient and 
comfortable kitchen can afford a chilly par¬ 
lor. <r. e. s. 
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COLORS FOR ROOFS. 
In “ Masury’s Art of House Painting” we 
fin d the following:—“For roofs, light cool 
colors are preferable, because they reflect the 
warm rays of light, and thereby lessen the 
expansion and contraction of the metal, 
and the shrinking of the boards underneath, 
and so lessen the liability of the tin to crack 
in the scams. The temperature of attic 
rooms in summer will be materially lower if 
the roof be painted with a light rather than ^ 
with a dark color. 
The writer has learned, from long experi- 
• once, that the finest French ochre is the 
: most economical pigment that can be used 
• for that purpose. If, as is sometimes the 
i case in country houses, where the roof is a 
conspicuous object in the architecture of the 
I building, a dark color be indispensable, the 
. use of pure Venetian red, darkened witli 
lamp-black, is recommended as the most 
i durable and economical. If, by some pro- 
■> cess, the oil used in roof-painting could be 
prevented from becoming hard and brittle, 
it would be a great gain. 
The poorest oil-paint, however, is better 
than neglect; and the best economy consists 
in keeping tin entirely and thoroughly pro¬ 
tected from the corroding influence of damp¬ 
ness. Old paint, which lias become “ fatty” 
from exposure to the atmosphere, is better 
than new for roof-painting. Not a drop of 
turpentine should be used for such work.” 
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NOTES FOR BUILDERS. 
IIow to Build a Chimney. 
Austin B. Culver, Westfield, N. Y., 
writes the Scientific American :—I am satis¬ 
fied that a great many fires originate through 
poorly constructed chimneys; and, although 
not a bricklayer by trade, I would offer a 
few hints how to construct a fire-proof chim¬ 
ney. Let the bed be laid of brick and mor¬ 
tar, iron or stone; then the workman should 
take a brick in his left hand, and with the 
U-owel, draw the mortar upon the end of 
the brick, from the under side, and not from 
the outside edge, as is usual. Then, by 
pressing the brick against the next one, the 
ill whole space between the two bricks will be 
is filled with mortar; and so he should point 
o* up the inside as perfectly as the outside, as 
he proceeds. 
ill By drawing the mortar on the edge of the 
a- brick, Lhc space between the ends will not 
ec always be entirely filled, and will make, 
th (where the inside pointing is not attended 
to,) a leaky and unsafe chimney, which, if 
on fire. The best thing that I know of, to 
put the fire out in a burning chimney is 
salt; but the matter of first importance, 
after having a chimney properly constructed, 
is to keep it clean. 
Bat-Proof Walls. 
F. W. Dow writes the Rural New- 
Yorker, in answer to a correspondent: 
“ Point up your walls rat-tight. Then dig 
inside the wall and set brick endwise, close 
to each other, and light up to the wall. The 
A “Mother” inquires of the Rural 
New-Yorker for a remedy for wLooping 
cough. As we have taken cure of three 
children through this dreaded disease, aud 
have had it twice, both in infancy and In 
mature age, we feel gratified to give direc¬ 
tions for the care of children suffering from 
it. The remedy we applied was given by 
Doctor Meigs of Philadelphia to a friend, 
thence it reached us, and proved a perfect 
panacea—relieving the worst paroxysms of 
the cough, aud greatly shortening its dura¬ 
tion :—Ex. belladonna, one grain ; pulver¬ 
ized alum, one drachm; sirup gum arabic, 
one ounce; sirup ginger, one ounce ; water, 
one ounce. Shako before using; aud give 
to a baby, half a teaspoon lid ; to a child, a 
teasoonful; and to adults, a dessertspoonful, 
before each meal. It loosens the cough, 
makes the patient throw easily, and removes 
the phlegm which collects so rapidly. A 
child should be kept on a light diet, not al¬ 
lowed to eat Warm bread, doughnuts, pastry 
nor cake, but shotlld be fed on nourishing 
food, with a good supply of oat meal pud¬ 
ding or gruel. This, eaten with cream or 
milk, will prove a good diet. Baked apples, 
either sweet or sour, are desirable ; also 
roasted or broiled meats, but not tried meat 
of any kind. 
The sufferer should walk or drive out 
every sunny day at the warmest period; 
fresh air is very essential, and the bed-rooms 
should be well aired; if possible, keep a 
window open at the top and bottom all 
night, but take care that the air does not 
strike upon the bed. By giving Dr. Meig’s 
medicine, and attending to the diet and ex¬ 
ercise of the child, the whooping cough is 
PLAN OF THIRD FLOOR. 
rat will not go down a second time to get 
through. I have tried it.” 
How Creoaoriim Protects Timber. 
According to Dr. Letiieby, creosote acts 
as a preservative agent In the following ways: 
1. It coagulates albuminous substances, and 
gives stability to the constituents of the cel¬ 
lulose of the young wood. 2. It absorbs and 
appropriates the oxygen which is within the 
pores of the wood, and so checks, or rather 
prevents, the slow oxidation of the ligneous 
tissue. 3. It reunifies within the pores of 
made, comparatively speaking, a light dis¬ 
ease. 
Remedy for Worms. 
An inquirer desires a remedy against 
these annoyances, but does not mention 
whether it is for ascnridcos, or pin-worms, 
which affect the rectum, or lbr those of a 
larger growth. For the latter, powdered 
sage leaves stirred up with molasses—a lea- 
spoonful each, will usually relieve at the 
first (lose; if not, in six hours repeat it. The 
recipe is perfectly harmless and simple, can¬ 
not injure any one if it does no good, but 
the wood, and in this way shuts out both air 
and moisture. 4. It acts as a positive poison 
to the lower forms of animal and vegetable 
life, and so protects the wood from the at¬ 
tacks of fungi, acari, and other parasites. 
PLAN OF BASEMENT. 
both air we have never known it to fail after the 
r e poison second dose. 
egetablc For useoridevs, sweet oil injected into the 
i the at- rectum is the best remedy, and will usually 
sites. produce relief. s. o. j. 
To Prevent Wood from Crucking, put the arti¬ 
cles in melting paraffine, boat thorn to a tempera¬ 
ture of 212" Fahr. until bubbles nf air cease to 
escape from the wood, then allow to cool to 
about 120" Fuhr., when take from the bath and 
clean from the adhering paraffine by rubbing 
with a dry coarse piece of cloth. 
Children’!* Colds. 
The best remedy I know of for childrens’ 
colds is to give them plenty of chicken oil 
on going to bed; also, pocket handker chiefs. 
—Mrs. T. Skinner. 
