Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1882 — Page 3

SPARKS OF SCIENCE.

A high heat opens the grain of steel and prevents renning. Education may not prevent, crime, but it is a crime to prevent education. A Venetian glass manufacturer is making a great success of ladies’ glass bonnets. A transparent leather, said to possess great strength, is now made in Ger many by a new process. The use of salicylic acid for the preservation of food has been prohibited by the French Government as injurious. The most ancient of all recipes known to us comes from Egypt, from an ancient papyrus roll, and is a receipt for hair dye. Tanbark, ground, compressed and Cut in half-barrel packages, promises > become an important American export to Europe. A careful exmination has convinced a French chemist that wheat normally contains copper to extent of eight or ten parts per million. False ipecacuanha is distinguishable from the pure drug by being more branched, oy its dirty white color, and by the absence of the annular rings present in the genuine article. A peculiar and newly observed property of tin is being investigated by a Moscow scientist. Some tin cans kept in one of the Government buildings during the cold weather showed blisters, then holes, and Anally fell to powder. Soldering cast-iron, says the Engineer, is generally considered to be very difficult, but it seems to be only a question of thorougly making bright the surface to be soldered, and using good solder and a clean swab with muriatic acid. Sodium amalgam might be usefully employed for the purpose. Insects, caterpillars and larvae are not destroyed as it o f ten believed by intense cold or heavy frosts. After an exposure to a temperature of eleven degrees below zero, the common caterpillar has revived on the return of sufficient warmth. Dr. Wollaston’s observations that certain sounds are inaudible to many ears was recently illustrated by Prof. Tyndall. During the lecture he blew a small whistle, the low, shrill note of which instantly agitated the sensitive flame, while full half of the audience failed to hear the sound. It is discovered that perfumes exert a healthy inAuence on the atmosphere converting its oxygen into ozone. Cherry, laurel, clover, lavender, mint jqriper, tennel and bergamont develop the largest quantity of ozone. Flowers without perfume do not develop it, but the flowers, of narcissus’ mignonette, heliotrope and lily of the valley develop it in close vessels. Odorous flowers, cultivated in marshy places, would be valuable In purifying the air. In concluding a course of lectures upon the “Ancient World and the Appearance of Man,” Prof. Boyd Dawkins said that a study of the past had shown that continued struggles with nature had developed man’s powers until he had reached his {iresent condition; and it was his beief that in coming ages man would be elevated as far above the level of to-day as we are advanced from the state of savagery of the primeval man. Good work from human beings, just as from machinery, requires good treatmeht, and the flner the quality and the greater the quantity of the work’ the larger must be the outlay. Build factories that supply pure air, and the employes will produce more, but they will ask for more pay because they will consume more food and can not live on low wages. A donkey can exist on thistles, of course, and give a donkey return, but a racehorse can not be placed on the same fare with profl t to any one. Joseph Martinho, of Cape Frio, Province of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is reported to be nearly 190 years of age, having been born, it is claimed, in 1694. He is said to be the ancestor of forty-two children 132 grand-children eighty great grandchildren, and twenty great-great-grandchildren. The average life of an English gold sovereign is about eighteen years that is, the coin loses three-quarters of a grain in weight in about that length of time. It then ceases to be legal-tender. It is said that of the £1,000,000,000 of British gold coinage, 40 per cent worn down below the legal weight. Why will grass not grow under our trees? M. Paul Bert has shown that green light hinders the development of plants. Plants inclosed in a green glass frame wither and die as though they were in darkness. M. Regbard finds tnat plants specially require the red rays. If sunlight is deprived of the red rays the plants soon cease to thrive. Various cases of poisoning from the use of perfumes have been reported in recent English journals. In on? instance a little girl had bought some heliotrope perfume at a bazaar and had applied it on her face. This caused a vesicular eruption, swelling, itching, and in fact erysipelas, which lasted for some times Tne scent was made with some of the products of coal tar, and hot with the odoriferous principles of plants, thus acquiring its irritating properties.

FASHION NOTES.

’ ' T P? T*7? - j O Thejiewest blue is the “Bapljded’The new French boots have narrow pointed t|p« t and cuffs match the new ginghams and cambrics. Satines are shown in endless variety as to color and design. Small buttons of Dresden china are among the new novelties. The new bright shade of olive is a favorite for summer woolen goods. Bonnets are still made with beaded crowns and a fall of beaded lace over the face. Roses are the most popular flower with milliners, and they are preferred unmounted. Skirts without draperies are trimmed from the foot to the edge of the basque with small flounces. Walking coats of black satin have high flaring collars closely covered with large jet beads. Bangled jet is the novelty for trimming black dresses. The long redingotes of the newest Paris dresses are a return to a style in vogue here last year. The present choice hosiery is for the plain black, either of lisle thread or silk, clocked in black or white. Small jewelled lace-pins, matching the color and design of the earrings, are now used to fasten bonnet strings. Fichus or Mother Hubbard capes made of lace and tied with moire rib; bons are worn with plain basque bodices. Sicilienne, Bengaline, Victoria, velours, and other repped silks are used for full dress toilets in preference to satin.

Shrimp pink cashmere with a chaudron (or copper) moire vest and sash makes a charming toilet for afternoon receptions. Charming toilets for the- watering places are made of Chinese crape, plain, brocaded, or embroidered like the needle work on Canton crape shawls. Sleeves of french dresses with stylish fullness at the armhole have but one long seam—that inside the arm, while the outer seam begins at the elbow. Embroidered fichus of black net densely covered with fine cut-jet bugles are something new and are considered very stylish. The “Boulevard” parasol for full dress comes in cream tinted moire with trimmings of Spanish lace and a cluster of lilies on the top. The favorite combinations in new French tea-gowns are terra-cotta,cop-f>er color, corn color, camel’s hair enivened with cardinal moire. Parasols for the seaside and country are of India pongee, mounted on a bamboo stick, lined with Turkey red silk and ornamented with red poppies. The Langtry turban with soft pouf crown and velvet brim worn far back on the head is becoming to very young ladies with small, refined feaiures. White lilacs or clematis are used to trim small black straw bonnets. Straight wreaths of roses without foliage are worn on wide brimmed garden hats. Fine colored hosiery should be washed in tepid water, with white castile soap, and rinsed in cold water. It should be dried in the shade, and should be turned wrong side out when being laundried. Black dresses are combinations of two or three fabrics. One special novelty is a black grenadine made over white watered sfik and trimmed with Spanish lace and watered ribbon. ■e .. Colored stones for jewelry are once more coming into vogue. The most popular are the amethyst, sapphire, emerald and ruby. These are set in deap gold, principally as lace pins, with ear-rings to match. One of the new caprices among imported dresses is the use of velvet on cotton dresses. For instance, the turned-over collar, cuffs, belt and bows on a dark blue percale dress are of velvet of the same color. “Corisande” basque is a stylish coat-shaped model, very suitable for the lighter qualities of woolen goods, the shirred ruffles on the lower part of the front, and the shirred collar removing the severity of the costume. Handsome Biarritz gloves of very fine undressed kid, to be worn with full dress, have wide satin bands at the tops delicately embroidered in tiny clusters of rosebuds, or painted with a monogram orcrest in gold or silver. A new cloak meant for summer use is composed of row upon row of lace covering cashmere cut In a dolman shape. The only trimming is a graduated series of rows of fringe set in the center of the back and down in front. Large handkerchiefs for the shoulders are of soft twilled silk, bordered with lace, and have the points embroidered in some simple flower pattern. They are to be worn over muslins and satins made with pointed waists and full pauier overdresses. A new caprice in millinery shows narrow turned-over collars of lace or embroidery that are open on the side of the neck insteadofln front. A neck ribbqn of pale tinted grosgrain passes around the n •>•!<, a id there is a small bow at the side.

SELECTED MISCELLANY.

Bet not too high a value on your own abilities. “Character lives in a man; reputation outside of him.” People’s intentions can only be decided by their actions. Every man is the son of his own deeds.—Spanish proverbs. When you meet a heart that is true, don’t be afraid to trust it. “A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity, as a dose of arsenic is to life.” He who waits to do a good deal of good at once will never do any. If a dog has money he is called, “Your lordship the dog.”—Kroumir. The noblest and the most useful lives are made up of small acts well done. There are troubles enough in life without adding of our own manufacturing. The whole of our life depends upon the persons with whom we live familiarly. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. There are some wicked people who would be less dangerous if they had no good qualities. Surmises are not facts. Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.—Abraham. ( Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Wounds of the heart are the only ones that are healed by opening. Devote each day to the object then in time, and the evening will find something done. We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Jealousy is the sentiment of property ; but envy is the instinct of theft. In love, women go the length of folly, and men to the extreme of silliness. The soul of the world is God, and its parts are true divinities.—Varro. To give the world a lift everywhere is the intellectual glory of the pulpit. —Prof. Phelps. “That which a man was intended to be is that which unpet verted womanhood demands that he should be.’ A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. There is no sphere of life so narrow or confined that it does not afford opportunities for doing to some one. We cannot conquer fate and necessity, but we can yield to them in such a way as to be greater than if we could. —Hannah More. “There is more of the element of ministry in Longfellow’s ‘Psalm of Life,’ than in all that Byron and Poe ever wrote. Value in character makes value in verse.” “Life is so grand, so full of meaning, * * that despite all its sorrows, I would willingly live it over again.” “A young man rarely gets a bettei vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman’s eyes, forGed himself sits behind them.” Mr. Spurgeon recently prayed: “Lord, give us the earnestness and fire of the early Methodists.” See deep enough, and you see musically, the heart of nature being ever music, if you can only reach it.—Carlyle. There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there perpetual despair.—Carlyle. ’Tie greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. —Shakespeare. “Faith draws poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it.” “I have learned that to do one’s next duty, is to take a step towards all that is worth possessing.” “A man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living, is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before.” “No idle man, however rich he may be, can feel the genuine independence ofhimwhocan earn honestly and manfully hie daily bread.” “All the things we see are types of things we do pot see—visible expressions of the things and thoughts of God.” “Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is but little truth that we get so true as that which we find in fiction.” “His marvellous accomplishments and powers won for him the respect of the great, and bis sympathy with the humble drew to him the hearts of the world.” If it is foolish to give advice too readily, it is also foolish to be too ready iu seeking it. Advice should only be asked from those whose opinions we value, and by whose judgment we are willing to be guided. The flner the nature, the more flaws will it show through the clearness of it. The best things are seldom seen in their best form. The wild grass grows well and strongly one year with another; but the wheat is by reason of its greater nobleness, liable to a bitterer blight.—Ruskin. I

MISCELLANEOUS. < . r,,j 'l, ■ * >.• ' - ' * "" " ,M ■•;f • Envelopes were first used in 1839. France thinks sheds getting moral. Good coral is worth its weight in gold. Boston saloons pay a tax of SSOO each. The Catskills are still covered with snow. Paul Boyton has gone to exhibiting whales. General Grant wears “a rusty old ulster.” i . The first balloon ascent was made in 1783. Krupp employs 13,000 men iu his gun shops. The finest pink coral is worth S6OO an ounce. Rabbits are eating up the colony of New Zeland. Pennsylvania embraces 46,000 square miles. Cincinnati sells its garbage for SB,000 per annum. • Q Mexico pays S3OO for the scalp of a hostile Indian. President Arthur’s mail averages 600 letters a day. In the music of the Hindoos there are quarter tones. In Virginia the .capital invested in "fisheries is $1,914,119. Florida has commenced the shipment of ripe peaches. The penny is growing in popularity in the southern cities. The Oxford cap has been adopted by nine American colleges. Rufus Hatch predicts another panic greater than that of 1873. The marriage insurance craze is having a southern run. Bridesmaids in pink coral appear well in a gloomy church. A new shirt bosom that laces in front like a shoe, is patented. Fort Monroe is the largest single fortification in the world. In 13 cities and towns in Italy the dead are now cremated. The first newspaper was published in England in 1588. Glass windows were first introduced into England in the eighth century. The first class passenger rate in France is one cent a mile only. Two Kentucky women were murdered the other night for eight cents. Bees in England are swarming early this year. A bee journal in the German language is to be started in Louisville, In 1881,154,184,300 tons of coal were mined in England. Cape Colony exported last year $22,500,000 worth of diamonds. It is prophesied this will be a great season for horse racing. Tiffin, 0., is to have a band instrument factory with 100 hands. “Mis” is the cat sounding name of a new county seat in Michigan. An Italian has a colony of 60,000 silk worms in a room iu St. Louis. Hand organs cannot be played in New York before 6 a. m. Cocoanut growing is becoming an important industry in Florida. The Troy car works are rushed with Mexican railway orders. Ocean gales carry spray 30 miles into England. Land in corn growing parts of England is falling offln value; They’re figuring now on Gulteau’s corpse. Emperor William has 18 uniforms. One of the newspaper carriers in Boston is a woman 87 years old. There are In Alabama 2,250,000 acres of government land. Florida has incorporated 60railroads and canals within eight years. Maine proposes to punish apothecaries who make mistakes. Judge Wheeler, of Rochester, has decided that cider is not a spirituous liquor. The Connellsville, Pa., coke region covers an area of about 40 miles wide. A lazy Bostonian likes custard better than shad, .“because it isn’t so bony.” . Senator Bayard iutends to spend a portion of the summer on a pilot boat. The Chinese in California, as a rule, dress better than white workingmen. The tables of the Monte Carlo gambling dens won last year 12,000,000 francs. The people of Geneva, Switzerland, spend more money for wine than for bread. Only eight farmers have ever been elected to congress from Maine. Canada has 10,505 miles of railroad, with a nominal capital of $289,285,000. A cargo of 3,350,000 jiounds. raw sugar is on Its way from Honolulu to New York. Cincinnati pays $200,000 a year for teaching German in the public schools. Ohio is the second coal producing state. The demand for white hats in New York can hardly be filled.

BITS OF NONSENSE.

It is an ill wind, etc.: “Yes, there is one consolation,” said the berieved Widow; ‘I look well in mourning” Classical: When Ajax defied the lightning it wasjust after an Infliction ofa lightning-rod agent. Journalistic: A Missouri paragrapher heads his column > “Tacks,” and the managing editor never sits down on it. Danger ahead: Before going to war pray once, before going to sea, pray twice, before getting married pray three times. wash-day: Mistress—.,Why didn’t you answer the door bell,Mary?”-•‘Faith mum,didn’t ye tell me ye had a ringing machine?” Agricultural: “Afellow must sow his wild oats you know,” exclaimed the adolescent John. “Yes,” replied Annie, “But one shouldn't! begin sowing so soon after cradling.” £ e ™ ei * e: “Women are,so contrary said Blobbs: “I thought when T njarried, my wife would darn my stocks and let me alone; instead of that she lets my socks alone and darns me. American statesmanship: Yes,” Said the country member, “I went to that variety show because I felt sure there’d be nobody there who knew me! Darned if pretty much the whole Legislature wasn’t there!” A dear old mother: 1 My dear son exclaimed old Mrs. Jeukins last evening “I would not go out without something over me. Put on your overcoat or your cardam jacket or you will catch your death of ammonia.” ,A bright fellow :“Charley is a bright fellow,’’ remarked Brown: “his wit is always brilliant and he always says the right thing at the right time. A witty fellow is Charley.” “Yes,”re plied Fogg,“Charley has a fine memory.” Denominatinal: “ Yes, I’v got a horrid cold,’, said Mrs. Jenkinson “I’ve dosed and dosed and I don’t get one bit better, Pon my word I believe I’ve taken no less than thirty-nine articles and I feel like an Episcopalian. Impossible: I heard Mr. Griffin has the Pneumonia,” said Mrs. Budd, who was calling on Mrs. Potts. “Well I don’t believe it.” retorted Mrs. Potts ‘jhe’s too mean. If he has any monia at all it is an old or a second-htfnd one. In mourning: B.—ls a hale old bachelor, ordinarily with white hair. The other day a friend met him and exclaimed, at seeing his purple black locks. “How’s this? Have you taken to dyeing?” “Oh, no” replied B—but I’m deep in mourning. Professionally ruined: “Yes, ’’said the doctor,“l’m wretched, absolutely miserable: What’s the matter? Why, I predicted that Gallagher couldn’t live anyway and here he’s gone and Amenities of Western life: “I think I’ve covered the whole ground,” remarked a Chicago man, in an argument “No doubt of it,” replied lhe St. Louisian; “but if you will lift up one foot it will give room for the other four of us to stand. A suggestion: “Lend me five dollars, Joe?’, „Can’t do it; in fact I’m just going over to try and borrow five dollars from the doctor.” /Well, then, you might as well make it ten and I’ll take five of it. It will make it easier to pay, you know, if 1c is divided up between us Preparing for the future Mate: “Ah my friend,” said a clergyman to a parishoner who was the husband of a termigant and who had made applications for a divorce. “We should be yielding and forgiving. “There are no divorces in heaven.” Thats the reason,’, said the sufferer,“why lam so anxious to get one here. Inter Ocean amenities: “She’s a very good girl,” said a St.Louls young man in reference to a Chicago fair one;“I assure you, she Is all soul.” “Yes, repliad his stern parent, an old prejudice against the Garden City embittering his words “I saw her footprints in the sand by the lakeside. You are right she is all sole.” Real estate note; “When I marled, said Boggs to a party of ge n Clemen who had been bragging of the successful marriages they had made, “I got a fine house and lot.” “and I exclaimed Mrs. Boggs, entering the room just in time to hear her husband’s remark. “I got a flat, the top story of which has always remained vacant! A surprise: A letter mailed in 1863 was recently found behind a shelf in a’country post office and forwarded to its destination. It wae addressed toft young lady and contained a marriage proposal. When the lady received it she seemed pleased and exclaimed: “Law me! I didn’t expect to hear from John so soon. But what a wonderful thing is the fast mail service.” Test of true love: “Is there anything I can do to satisfy you that the affection I have confessed for you is real—any further proof that I can give of my sincerity and devotion? exclaimed the youth, passionately. The face of the marble-hearted maiden lighted up with a Machiavellian smile as she answered: \ Yes therp is, Gilbert jo in the next Arctic expedition.” Bad case: A gummy whose fortune is far from being as ample as he pretends, making a specialty of showing himself iu front of expensive restaurants, where, however, he does not dine:—far from it! His friends having seen nothing of him for some days, began to ask each other what has become of him. “I heard he is laid up with an attack of indigestion.” “An, of tooth-nicks?”