Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 20 December 1890 — Page 5

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Uses of Seaweed.

The various uses to which seaweed is oow found to bo applicable are far in excess of what were ever dreamed of in years past. Formerly iodine, bromine, magnesia, and potash salts wore the chief products of this bountiful substance of nature, which was also employed, as is (be case now, when more or less decomposed, as a fertilizer on land adjoining the seacoast, its yield of ammonia being upwards of 2 per ceut. Some varieties were collected as articles of food in Scotland, Ireland, Norway, etc. Of law years seaweed has been made into charcoal, and into a material for whif handles, and still more recently the curious substance known as algin has been produced from it, having been introduced as a stratum for photographic films, and for other purposee.

From this material, alg-iu, what ts termed alginic acid is likewise obtained, and by acting upon the latter wun nitric acid a new light colored dye, which. V» insoluble in water, but dissolves in alkalies, yielding a brown solution. Has beec discovered. It is said that the ammoaiacal solution of this new product dyes' cotton a fine Bismarck brown, which i* not removed by soap, and i.-* found to be not only equal to aniline dyes of the same description, but to excel many of them.'1 Uulike aniline dyes, this new product will dye cotton, but not wool, and its acid solutions will not act as dyes at alL —Montreal Star.

A Faithful Servant for Sixty Tears. At the present time, when one of the chief troubles of housekeeping is the getting and keeping of servants, a record of one who faithfully Berved a family for sixty years is worth recording. Ilirain Phillips, colored, was born in Goshen, N

Y., in 1816. and -when a boy of 14 was taken into the employ of Thomas and Benjamin Gale, twin brothers, who eoon Afterward removed to this city and were engaged in the wholesale grocery trad a, living on Whitehall street, then a fash'onable part of the town.

They brought Phillips with them as their butler, and he served thorn till their death and then entered the service of the Misses Thome, of No. 127 West Fifteenth •treet, the nieces and heirs of the Gales. He never left their employ, going to tho house early every tuoruing nnd return• big at night to his home at No. 125 West Twenty-seventh street, lie diet! fr-m* Did age, and his mistresses deplore the loss of an old, honest and faithful servant. lie leaves a widow and grown jjp family.—N*w Yorlr Ti-ibun*

The MurichI P-iculle.

A gentleman, v.ho had !t-tir:rt from business, devoted himself, heart vuid KOUI to the enjoyment of music. Every member of the household was b,» ilr vees involved more or less in tho mine occupation, and even the housemaid could in time bear a part in a chorus. One individual alone in the family seemed to have no taste for sweet sounds—this \va& a small poodle but the gentleman firmly resolved to make this animal bear some part or other in tho concert, and by perseverance he attained his object. Every time that a false note escaped either from Instrument or voice—as often as anj blunder, of whatever kind, was committed by the members of this musical family, down came its masters can^ on Che back of the unfortunate poodle, tili she howled and growled again.

The poodle perceived the meaning of these unkind chastisements, and insteac of becoming sulky showed every disposition to howl on the instant a false not waa uttered without waiting for th« blow. By and by a mere glance of her master's eye was sufficient to make the animal howl to admiration. In the end the poodle became so thoroughly acquainted with false notes that the slightest mistake of the kind was always signalized by a yell from her. Sometimes her marter and his friends took a pleasure In annoying the dog by emitting nil sorts of harsh sounds from instrument and roioe. On such occasions the creature Jostall self command, her eyes shot forth fiery flashes and she sent forth long and frightful howls. But persons were obliged to be careful not to go too far, for when the dog's patience was very much tired she became altogether wild and would fly fiercely at the tormentors and their instruments.—New York Mall and. Express.

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The pavers are fati of accounts of a all rer center pieco which is being mannfao tured for the queen, and which contain* £,000 ounces of silver. As there is already plate at Windsor castle valued at upward* of two millions, it is difficult to concein what the queen can wait with another

The favorite flower for the buttonhole iv perhaps, the carnation. It ia a cheerful little blossom that lasts for days with its stem in a glass of water, and smiles franklj and contentedly all day long when thrusi £n a buttonhole and uncheared by a drop of moisture. ..

Howardsvillc, Col**, has a curiosity la the shape of anIse mine. The mine is owned by parties who in ^he earlier days ran tunnel through the frozen ground and •truck a spring beyond. As the water flows out of the tunnel it freezes, and the tunnel is now filled nearly to the roof with purs Ice. It has long supplied ice for the town, and never thaws, winter or summer.

The London Zoological society possesses a white peacoefc. The bird preserves the markings which distinguish the specie^ particularly the large eyelike spots on the tail feathers. The effect of these spots is remarkable. They are exactly like the pattern on a darnr jk tablecloth.

Last year itie wul'ld raised 9,000,000,000 bushels of wheat. The United States grew «©,000,000 bushels France, 800,000,000 India, 837,000,000 Russia (with Poland), 800.000,000 Portugal, fl,COO,000 Denmark, 5,000|•00 Eoain, 73,(«C 000 Switzerland, 2,500,0006 Germany, S4.00G,»0 Hungary* 95,000,000 Aaia Minor, S7,000,000 Persia, 22,000,000.

Obstinate nose bleeding is frequently ons of tho most diflicult things to check. Sereral aggravated cases have lately occurred at the hospital of the University of Pennivlvaui .. As a last resort Dr. D. Hayes Agne\. tried ham fat with great result. Two largb cylinders of bacon were forced well into tfie nostrils and the hemorrha^s osased at once.

A remarkable surgical operation was performed recently near Red Oak, la. A week ago 14-year-old son of James Hal] was shot by hired man with a 88-caliber revolver, the ball passing into tho abdomen anrt cutting tho intestines in four placet He was placed under the influence of ?then the intestines removed aud the cuts sewed sp. He max live.

In gratitude fof their deliverance from the perils of the voyage in the Inman line» City of Paris, the passengers, before landing, subscribed £600 as a thank offering and appointed a committee to decide upoo Its application. It is understood that tht oommlttee have decided to hand over £439 to tho Seamen's hospital, Liverpool, for it* general purposes, and to endow with tht oarlance a bed in the same institution fol sick American sailors.

A considerable sum of the Russian revenue is annually spent in payment, for the corpses of wolves. The official estimate is that no fewer thau 11*0,000 of the creaturer are roaming about at large. Last year ths Inhabitants of the province of, Vologd# killed 40,0)0 of the brutes, and in the Casan district 81,000 were killed. The wolves destroyed "13 human beings in the course of the last twelvemonth.

Habit clothes are made extremely plalu, and are constructed as to dispeu&e with all the weight pomble. This matter of weight is something that women are strl ving to avoid. The fifteen and twenty pound skirts which women Ji t-n burdened with and which pbj have con demned tire judiciously '-iM-wiiiit-d now.

There seems to be go yon for fearing that the zebra is rapid! '-v i- .-ii.iit extinct. Sportsmen and travele:» '-ai ia reportIng that the zebra of Sj'jtt. Ai'.-iiia ia now more and more difficult to liml. -nd Is. liks the aboriginal races of ])rimit.'/.-n lands, di» appearing before the march .l.i i/.ation And, unlike "the noble -I'rfls uebra has ever resolute) tamed. 'fvi

In Ijondon alone there are \ip«'nrd of 170 piano factories. Over 1,800 bci.'/.h iud factories in the metropolis are devoted to tb supplying of musical goods of all sorts.

Throughout tho provinces thora are about 8,000 music establishments of various kinds. They possess in England no. fewer than thirty-seven newspapers dealing exclusive lv with muslo. At the annual banquet ol the Society of Musical Instrument Manu facturera one of the speakers estimated I that 00,000 pianofortes are manufactun*. wwj jsuur la T.^indns

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well advanced toward completion. The work can only be carried on at certain seasons of the year, owing to the unhealthInesa of the district.

A lady went to one of (be groceries in Wildwood, Fla., and bought two pounds of batter that had been bought in the country by the merchant. When fche nice yellow lamp was cut in two, there was found la the center of it a large Irish potato, nicelj peeled and carefully covered over witl butter.