Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1877 — Substitutes for Ice. [ARTICLE]

Substitutes for Ice.

The following are recommended by a Southern newspaper as freezing powders, which may prove useful in hot weather where ice is not attainable : 1. Four pounds sulphate of soda, two and a half pounds each of muriate of ammonia anti nitrate of potash ; when about to use, add double the weight of all the ingredients in water. 2. Equal parts of nitrate of potash and muriate of ammonia ; when required for use, mid more than double the weight of water. 3. Nitrate of ammonia and water in erpial proportions. Carbonate of soda and nitrate of ammonia, equal parts, and one equivalent of water. Dublng the past year the number of original advertisements for “ missing friends, or next of kin, ” in the London Times, was 700, and the number of persons named therein about 3,000. The Treasury Solicitor advertised for the next of kin of twenty-six persons. The amount of money reverting to the Crown by reason of these intestacies is seldom stated; but in one case—Mrs. Helen Blake’s—it amounted to $700,000. From one of these advertisements it appears that the heirs of a person who emigrated to America in 1083 are wanted to claim a fortune of $2,000,000. The plethoric, feverish life which was once characteristic of Stamboul has departed, owing to a long series of wars and bankruptcies. The city of to-day, no more like the voluptuous and unrestrained capital of the past than chalk is like cheese, is in the last stages of da* crepit old age. Pera is the nourishing portjc-B.