Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Carious Experiment with Light. [ARTICLE]

Carious Experiment with Light.

If a piece of wood be placed in a decanter of water, and the focus of a large burning glass be thrown upon it, the wood will be completely charred, though the sides of the decanter through which the rays pass will not be cracked nbr in any way affected, nor the water perceptibly warmed. If the wood be taken out, and the rays be thrown on the water, neither the vessel nor its contents will be in the least affected; hut if a piece of metal be put into the water it soon becomes too hot to be touched, and the water will presently boil. Though pare water alone, contained in a transparent vessel, cannot be heated, yet, if by a little ink it be made of a dark color, or the vessel itself be blackened, the effect speedily takas place. Potatoes any time of the year can be made mealy if boiled in salt and water and drained aad then covered with a thick towel and left in the back of the range five minutes. To retain the color of any vegetable, plunge it into cold water after boiling. Cooks make the mistake of boiling things too much. After reaching the boiling point meats should simmer. The toughest meats can be made tender by so doing. It is always best to under season rather than to over season food. When anything is accidentally made too salt it can be counteracted by adding a tables poonful of vinegar and a tablespoonful of sugar. Meat of any kind should not be washed, but wiped with a towel to preserve the juiees and quality.

Hari-Kari. —Hari-kari is a form of suicide performed iu Japan by catting open the abdomen by two crosswise cuts with a short sword. Neatly all Japanese officials carry on their person two swords; one long, to fight an enemy with, and the other short, to perform hari-kari With, if their own. honor is at all damaged. It is a very common practice, ashy so doing a man’s honor is eared. Officials are often commanded to kill themselves by this method when by any act they have fallen into disgrace, and by so doing their children inherit all their property and their father’s position, bat not so if the suicide has taken place unbidden. Persons who have suffered unendurable affront, which cannot otherwise be satisfied, sometimes kill themselves in this way, and thus satisfy their revenge on the enemy.

Awsweb You* hrviTATiOHa—lf a person speaks to another on the street, and that other takes no notice of the salutation, it is a clear case of insult. But then are hundreds of people who are noticed every week by invitations to sotiaf gatherings, and who insult the 'senders by taking no notice of .them until they go to the party. Hien they pat in a bright and cheery gppeanaM, unconscious that anything wrong has happened. There is hardlygiven in a city a social event of say kind, —whether a Wedding, a reception, er what not—where two-thirds of the invitations are acknowledged; and yet there -is bat cue rale in the matter. The first person to answer an invitation is the politest person. « ;Lc.'i ,1o ***** S! '” J ", ' l'to* Wl i •' " : * -V' To preserve atgwnn leaves, spread and press them in a suitable dish, with alternate layers of fine sand thoroughly dry, and as hot as.the hand can bear. When the sand has cooled they may be removed, smoothed under a hot iron, dipped for a moment in dear French spirit varnish, and allowed to.try ip the air. » In a little finally dismssion the other djy, the madam remarked somewhat tartly: "When I marry again—--” “I suppose you the bushand, Beg your pardon,” she said. “I shall do nothing oftheVnd. I preferachange ” The lend and master wilted.

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