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VOL. XXVII. No. 1., 
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NEW YORK. AND ROCHESTER, N. Y 
I PRICE SIX CENTS 
i »'i.50 PER YEAR. 
that they will often absorb six or eight 
ounces of water. During a protracted storm 
rain water will trickle down both on the out¬ 
side and inside of an open chimney-top and 
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be absorbed so long as a brick or the mortar 
will drink hi another drop. Hence if there is 
a heavy coat of paint on the outside, the sur¬ 
face of the bricks to which the paint adheres 
will be somewhat softened and the hold of 
the paint will be weakened by the frequent 
wetting and drying of the bricks, until the 
thick and heavy pellicle is completely sepa¬ 
rated from the chimneys. Then, ns soon as 
cracks are formed in the paint, water will 
enter the bricks on the outside and loosen 
the hold of the paint more and more during 
every storm, until a large proportion of the 
covering can be peeled off. 
The remedy is to cover the top of each 
chimney with a broad cope-stone, which will 
carry all the water that would fall on the 
top of the wait several inches beyond the 
outer sides. A cope-stone may be supported 
by half a brick at each corner of t he chim¬ 
ney, which will make sufficient space be¬ 
neath the cope-stone to allow the smoke to 
escape. The top of the chimney may also be 
covered by an arch of bricks, laid in good 
cement mortar, leaving each end of the arch 
open, as a passage for the smoke. In either 
case there will bo sufficient space for the 
ready escape of the smoke : and all (he water 
that would descend on the inside of a chim¬ 
ney will be carried oil - clear from the outside. 
By this means the bricks and the mortar be¬ 
tween them can be kept dry. Ilonce, so 
long as the interior of chimney walls can be 
kept dry, a coat of paint will adhere, to the 
surface ns firmly as paint will stick to dry 
timber or iron. The same holds good when 
painting brick houses. So long as the walls 
can be kept dry, 
— _ — _ paint will not peel 
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DESIGN FOE A FAEM-HOTJSE 
In the accompanying elevation and plan 
for a farm-house, which was designed to be 
built of stone, the. leading ideas in the arrange¬ 
ment of the rooms were compactness and 
convenience something less pretentious and 
more cosy titan the pompous front hall and 
baluster stairs, with a chamber which would 
be equal to the necessities in case if iekness 
by being cut off from the noise of he other 
part of the house, and yet convenient to the 
ki.chenand back hull. 
The general form of the outer walls is such 
as admits of a picturesque outline in the ele¬ 
vation, and in the treatment Lho expenditure 
has been spread out in simple embellishments 
over the whole structure rather than concen¬ 
trated on an elaborate cornice. 
The idea of a real as well as a visible 
base is prominent; the arch head windows, 
the caps of which might properly be of brick, 
where cut stone would bo too expensive, and 
the simple tower ought to bo more pleasing 
than a great box of useless room, ornamented 
by a conglomeration of wood millinery. 
Presenting such a plan at this time will ap¬ 
pear strange to those who have just caught 
the French, < >r Man 
sard roof, disease; --- — ;; —— 
it, .1... iyi 
likely to bo ncarar in 
style in time to come - —- = 
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anouNa PLAN. 
A, Porch : B, Parlor, 15 by 15; C, Living-room. 
15 by 18; D, Bedroom or Ulek-room, 9 liv 12; 
E, Kitchen, 11 bv 12U ; F, bedroom, 7‘. i by 10: 
G, Pantry, 8 by 10: II, Hall; I, Wood room, 
15 by 15; J, J, J, Closets; V, Veranda. 
CHAMBER PIaAN. 
K, Balcony; L, Chamber, 15 by 18; M, Store¬ 
room ; N, Bedroom, 9 by 13 ; O, Chamber, 12 
by 15; H, II, II, Halls ; J, J, J, J, Closets. 
there the paint will 
peel off in spite of 
every precaution. 
PAINTIHQ EXTEffiOR OF 
BUILDINGS. 
N. M. G. is informed 
that we would use 
no turpentine or ben- 
nine in a paint mix¬ 
ture for the exterior 
walls of a building. 
Only use linseed 
oil, unless you desire 
I o repaint speedily. 
■. ood oil is the cheap- 
*fc in the end always, 
both becauso of it its 
durability and pre¬ 
serving qualities. 
In building a house 
or barn, make it a 
point to secure to 
each room thorough 
ventilation. 
PAINTING BEICK 
CHIMNEYS. 
An important and 
oft-recurring ques¬ 
tion is:—Why is it 
that paint is so liable 
to peel off the sides 
of brick chimney¬ 
pots, while the same 
kind of »paint con¬ 
tinues to adhere firm¬ 
ly to other parts of 
the building? The 
reason is obvious to 
every one who has 
investigated this sub¬ 
ject correctly. Most 
bricks arg so porou9 
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