Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1882 — Boro-glyceride. [ARTICLE]

Boro-glyceride.

A barbarous looking name this, but it is full of meaning, and if reports about it are true its discovery is one of the greatest boons to the human race. Its general use will involve vast changes in the price and diatri. button of food. This preparation is an antiseptic, discovered or At least made known by Professor Barff, of London. By using it, fresh meats, game, fish, vegetables, and fruit can be kept years untainted. At a dinner given in London, to a number of leading scientists, oysters, turtle, fish, meats, game, and fruit were partaken of which had been kept from three to six months, and yet were as fresh as if just brought from the market. The London Times, very justly declares that the discovery is of the greatest ■ practical value. One is staggered in thinking of its possibilities. In time it will lead to the killing of cattle near where the herds are grazing, for the meat can be preserved and sent to any part of the world within a year after it is killed. Hence the cruelty connected with the shipping of cattie will ip a few years be no more. This will cheapen food the world over, and will be a blow at or rather a modification of the canning business. The invention will give us Rummer berries in January, and Winter oysters in summer. We can have green peas in early spring, and salted and smoked meats will be no longer a necessity. Boro-glyceride is no secret preparation, it is known in the nomenclature of that science as C’H’BO*. It costs only about twenty-five cents a gallon. It can be used over and over again. Its value is that it can be equally valuable in preserving butter, milk, and eggs, as well as fish, flesh and game. The next step of science will be to give us artificially made food.—Demorest’s Monthly for June.

When the oil excitement was at its hight hundreds of Ohio farmers drilled wells in search of liquid fortune, and in a very few cases the farmer came out ahead of expenses. One of the poorest farms in Medina County was owned Elder Smith, who kept the even tenor of his way, and looked upon the excitement as ungodly. One night some of the boys emptied a barrel of oil into a spring on the Elder’s farm, apd within a day or two, by the help ota stranger, there was a great hue and cry. The stranger called upon the Elder and offered him .?6,000 for his farm, then SIO,OOO, then $20,000 and finally asked him if he would take $25,000 cash down. The farm was worth about SBOO, and speculation was ungodly, but the Elder replied to all offers: “I will wait and consult the Lord in prayer.” In three or four days the sell was discovered, and then some one asked the Elder if he wasn’t sorry he had refused the offer of $25,000. “Well, I don’t want to say I’m sorry,” he calmly replied, “but 1,11 admit that if the Lord hadn’t been a leetle late in answering my prayers I might have gone to York State on a visit this summer!”—Wall Street Daily News.

A Piute Giantess.—A squaw can pack more than the average mule. What would rupture the kidneys of a Mill Creek jackass would just about ballast a Piute matron. This morning on the plaza a stout buck was loading up his squaw fora tramp. He piled a lot of blankets and baskets upon her back, and started her. On one side she towed a clumsy Newfoundland dog that wasn’t broke to lead well, and it pulled back, On the other side she had a fat boy five or six years old. The boy wouldn’t go without it. The buck solved the problem at once by pitching the dog into one basket and the boy into another to balance things and the caravan started, with the big buck in the rear, sweating under the weight of a linen duster, smoking a cigarette, and not a bit 'Concerned whether his darling wife was stagering under half a ton or only three himdred pounds.—(Reno Gazette.) The first breech-loading whale ,guh ever made Las just been completed by Robert Liddle, of this city. It was made to go on the whale steamer Bowhead, which starts for Artic waters Tuesday, under command of Captain E. E. Smith. The gun in shape bears a strong resemblance to. an ordinary breech-loading rifle findT weighs 105 pounds. It has a rebounding lock, and the length of the barre is 36 inches, and is 16-16 inches calibre. It fires with precision either a harpoon or bomb lance the distance of thirty odd yards, while even furthur than that it will do good execution. The gun swings on a swivel and can be fired in auy desired direction and at almost any angle, and is about as easily handled as an ordinary firearm.—San Francisco Whale. 'to » Levi Preston, a farmer living eight miles below Memphis, was assassinated by two men, it is supposed John Clark and James Cothran, who have been arrested. - Some boys in Americus, Ga., killed a moccasin snake five feet long, which they discovered in the actor slowly absorbing an eel. The eel was thrLe feel long and one third *of its Jengfh had been taken into the snake, thouirh it was still alive. ’ 8