Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1876 — Page 7

BREVITIES.

American oysters are exported to England. The New York Sun wants a Governor who will write a .niessage only six inches long. ■ The more a man or woman knows the less he gossips about neighbors, Culture kills gab. Heavy strata of anthracite coal have been discovered in the Apennines, near Genoa. . . A Virginian goes to school to his wife, and she makes him stay after school when he’s unruly. Profanity and plug tobacco are the crutches on which many a boy walks to a loafer’s grave. The Alla California wants every man who wears a diamond on his shirt front arrested on suspicion. Centennial girls that will be in demand this year—those with red cheeks, white skin and blue eyes. “Why, Mary Ann, what in the world arfe you doing with the scissors ?” “ Shure yez tould me to scallop the oysters." According to recent statements ten steamers and 1,500 lives have been lost on the Pacific coast within the past few years. Why is it that butchers and grocers will insist on putting “ Happy New Year” at the foot of an outrageously big bill? Columbus discovered America, but when a boy he had as much difficulty in seeing an empty wood-box or water-~pail as any other boy. ,1 A contemporary gravely asserts that the entrance of the centennial year was more demonstratively, celebrated than any of its “predecessors.” Men of genius always get into debt, but every man who fails to pay his board-bill is not necessarily a genius. He is another kind of genius—a deceased vegetable. “ bo you wouldn’t take me to be twenty?” said a rich heiress to an Irish gentleman, while dancing the polka. “ What would you take me for, then?” “ For better or worse,” replied the son of the Emerald Isle. A dandy, getting measured for a pair of riding-boots, observed: “Make them cover the calf.” “Heavens,” exclaimed the shoemaker, astounded, surveying his customer: “I have not got leathe’’ enough.” ? The shortest will on record reads: “ San Francisco, Oct. 25, 1875. All the property that I have belongs to my wife, Anna Scherp. This is my will. Franz Scherp. Witnesses: Peter Kerna, Joh. Orths, T. B. Moorbrick.” The California wool clip of 1876 is estimated at 50,000 pounds; with good seasons in two years it will amount to 60,000,000 pounds annually, and in three years to 75,000,000. California is now the first wool-growing State in the Union. Prof. Tice seems suddenly to have lost his influence on the weather, as all his predictions for the winter have failed. After all we shall have to fall back on the old-fashioned almanac weather-tables for anything approaching correct prophecies. —Detroit Free Press. A young British officer having got drunk and behaved disgracefully, the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, has sentenced him to wear his uniform -constantly for one year. The British officers affect never to wear their uniform except when on duty. There is no better, no safer way, no easier way, no surer way of saving children from the debasing influences of the street, from corrupting association and from the acquisition of vicious ahd hurtful practices, than to make home attractive— W. W. Hall.

Lumbermen in Ottawa, Canada, are said to be sending up lots of teams to the woods for the winter at seventy-five cents to one dollar a day. Choppers are crowding to the offices for work and are taking whatever is offered. Wages are not within 50 per cent, of what they were last year. Two of our School started out the other day to pay a visit to one of the schools. On entering the yard they saw a little boy playing around whose face, hands and clothes were not quitfi as clean as they might have been. One of the Commissionerscalledhi nr up and told him he had better go home and get his mother to clean him up a little and make him appear more decent. On the boy approaching the speaker the other Commissioner was heard to exclaim: “Why, dash it all! that’s my boy!”— Rochester (N. Y.) Union. M. Buffet has addressed a circular to the Prefects throughout France, regulating the destruction of wolves, which are, it appears, making themselves more than ordinarily disagreeable in certain districts. In one.place, out of a flock or 397 sheep seventy, two were* found dead and twenty-eight had disappeared. In the absence of the officer specially charged with the extermination of wolves and known as the Lieut, de Louveterie, M. Buffet recommends that the gendarmes should be intrusted with the arrangements for battues. A Louisville drummer stopped not long since at one of our Green River hotels, and the next morning a chambermaid came in to arrange his room. Be approached her, and, gently putting his arm around her waist, said: “You are my darling,” and then stole a kiss from her red, pouting lips. What did she do? Why, she seized the foot-tub where he had just washed his feet, and bathed his head with the contents; then she shampooed his hair with the coal-grabs; perfumed him with the water in the slop-bucket; washed his hair and whiskers with the blacking-brush; rubbed him down with a brush that had been used the day before in painting the hearth, and knocked the dust out of his clothes with a poker. Then doubling up her fistsL and shaking them at him she said: “This (the right one) is certain death, but as l’ra not the foolkiller I’ll not use that on you; this (the left one) is six months in the hospital.” Then she hit him a blow that sent him through the window. 1 He alighted on the roof of a shed-room, and rolled off into a pig sty in the back yard. This disturbed the big dog, and his dander “ riz,” and he fastened on to that drummer quick, which brought him to a halt, and the servants hastened to his relief. He was taken to jail as a supposed insane tramp or showman, and the local paper in its next issue gave a long account of the mysterious disappearance of a Louisville drummer from the House, who left without taking his baggage or paying his hotel bill.— Hartford (Ay.) Herald.

The Common-Sense School.

as newspapers call it (that is. Prof. Jones’ School of Individual Instruction, Evanston, 111.), is a great success. Chicago papers re--sort fifteen accessions from other schools, an. 3, seven Jan. 10, and twelve Jan. 17. Scholars now at other institutions write that they will come next term. Think of a teacher actually teaching a doaen scholarsJn Arithmetic, going from desk to desk to explain to each, instead of hearing them in classes! This is common sense.

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—To Broil Calf Liver.—Ciit the liver into thin sltees, wash it, and let it stand in salt and vmter for half an honr to draw out all the blood. Season with salt and pepper, and broil, basting frequently with butter. Either fried or broiled liver is more delicate if, after it is cut in slices for cooking, it is parboiled in salt and water. —Harper's Bazar. < —An excellent sauce for pudding is thus made:. One-half cup of butter, onehalf cup of sugar; beat these together with one heaping tablespoon of flour. Pour into it (a little at a time, Stirring all the while), one pint of boiling water, and let it simmer on the stove a few minutes. Add one teaspoon of lemqn extract and the juice of one lemon or a teaspoon of lemon sugar. —lt is common to have a small hole in the pump-tube a few feet below the exposed . portions to let off the water and prevent its freezing. Where this provision has not been made the same result may be reached by placing a small nail, tack or small wire just under one edge of the leather valve which detains the water, sinking it partly into the leather to hold it. This will cause a small leak and the water will not remain long enough to. freeze. It is needed only in winter. Much labor is often spent to little purpose to remove the solid ice in pumps. It may be done very easily and with astonishing rapidity by setting the end of a lead or other tube within the pump on the ice and pouring hot water down this tube by means of a funnel. The tube carries the hot water directly and constantly against the ice.— Annual Register of Rural Affairs. —Many ladies are annoyed by their white spool cottons becoming gray with the particles of dust that will accumulate in work-baskets, but do not feel like spending money to buy a thread-case. Here are directions for making a substitute : Take a small pasteboard box (a collar box is good), cut a piece of thin board to fit it tightly, bore holes in this at convenient distances for the spools to stand, and into the holes fit small wooden pegs an inch in height and of such size that the spools placed on them will revolve easily; then in the sides of the box pierce small holes for the end of the thread to pass through, and you have a spool-case without cost, which, if not as ornamental as one bought at the shops, will be equally useful. If one chooses the box may be prettily ornamented with gilt paper, flowers cut from wall paper or any of the various methods for decorating fancy boxes.—JY. Y. Evening Post. —A Western farmer who feared to use Paris green for destroying insects and who heard that the white hellebore was sure destruction to most of these enemies, says: “ I was induced to try it upon our ten-lined beetle. My first experiment was made in July, after I got thoroughly disgusted with hand-picking. I have never known them so abundant as last year. I procured a package of the article and a dredging box with very fine holes; for convenience I attached the box to the end of a broom handle. While the dew was yet upon the vines I dusted them with the powder, and had not long to await the result. Every beetle* and slug that had been upon the vines so treated was dead. Subsequent applications produced the same results. I saved tny potatoes, but my neighbor neglected his, had them entirely stripped, and, as his abutted on mine, the whole hungry crew left his naked stalks for my better vines. As soon as I discovered their tactics I drew a cordon about them ot well-sprinkled vines, which entirely stopped further ravages. Treatment with hellebore should begin with the young vines, when a very little will suffice to kill the beetles and prevent the later brood. Care should be taken in handling this drug that none of it gets into the eyes or nose; as it is an active poison.”

Curing and Keeping Pork.

Although we Cannot class the products of the hog as food quite as high in the scale as we do beet and poultry, vet if hogs are judiciously fed and the pork, hams, sausages and lard are all well prepared and thoroughly cured, they make a valuable addition to the family stores, especially of those who live at an inconvenient distance from a retail market-or a butcher’s stall. Pork, unlike beef, can be kept for a long time in strong brine without growing over-salt and unwholesome. Some housekeepers are always having trouble with their pork barrel. The brine scums over, becomes tainted, and soon the pork is spoiled, or it gets oily am| “ rusty,” and anything but palatable; while others are successful in keeping pork nice and sweet till it is all consumed, whether it be a longer or shorter time. As the season is now at hand when the majority of farmers are laying up pork and pork products for the year, perhaps a few words about curing it may notcome amiss. To have pork keep well for a long time it is only necessary to have good, sweet, wholesome pork to begin with, a clean, tight barrel, plenty of pure, clean, coarse salt, and a cbol place for keeping it when packed. To keep pork a year, first cut out most of the lean meat, as this contains more blood to discolor the brine, and besides it taxes salt very freely and soon becomes hard like old salt beef. Procure a tight, clean oak barrel and scatter coarse salt a half inch deep over theM>ottom. Then, haying cut the pork into strips of nearly uniform width, pack them on edge, with the rind to the barrel, and follow round till the bottom is covered by a layer of strips so close and solid that no single piece can rise without bringing up the wliple layer. Then fill all tlie interstices with salt, and spread it a half inch thick over the top of tlie layer; then pack another layer, and so on till the barrel is full of the pork, all packed. Fine salt may be used for filling the spaces between the strips, but coarse salt is better between the layers, as it keeps the several layers far enough apart to admit the brine to both edges of the pork. If pork were to be packed absolutely solid it would spoil before the brine could have time to penetrate it. Pork should be packed so solid that it will remain in layers, but so loosely that the brine can reach it all immediately. On the toplayer place enough clean, flat stones to keep it from floating after the water or brine is added. After the pork is all packed it may remain a day-or two before the brine or water is added, or it may be finished up at first. In warm weather, the sooner pork is in bpne, after becoming thoroughly cool, the better, but in cold weather there is less need of haste. Some people always make a brine to turn on the pork after packing, and others are very particular to use old brine that has seen service. Old brine is as good as new, if it is perfectly sweet, but it is no better. Our own practice is to pour away the old brine as not worth the trouble of scalding and skimming. Salt is cheap now, only about a cent a pound. If there was much undissolved salt in the old brine we

save that by, washing it in clean water and pouring oft all the sediment and floating bits of pork. There is but one objection to the use of water instead of brine for filling the barrels after the pork is packed. It takes some time for the salt to dissolve, and the pork may taint before it becomes salted; out if plenty of fine salt is used between the strips and on the top of the last layer there should be no risk in pouring on fresh water. It is necessaiy in this case that the barrel be shaken a little every day for a week, to agitate the salt and help it to dissolve quicker. Always use more salt than the water can take up. It will not be wasted, as it can be used another year. Keep the pork under brine all the time. The atmosphere will injure salted pork in a short time. If little bits of pork no larger than peas are allowed to float on the brine they will become impure, and will Injure the brine after a time. This is especially true if pork is left untouched for several weeks in warm weather. Pork keeps heat where the brine is stirred often, as this keeps all the little floating bits saturated with brine. Salt-dealerrec ommend to use salt enough to cover the brine. There is no need of this if the brine is agitated every week. Hams may be kept in brine that is saturated with salt, but they soon become so hard and salt that they are unfit for the table. They may be kept soft by using plenty of sugar or molasses instead of salt, and by shaking the pickle two or three times a week, and by taking them up and repacking them two or three times. In curing hams we aim to use just as little salt as possible and have them keep. An old rule that has served us well is to have salt enough in the pickle to just float a potato. The common rules are often worthless, because they tell how much salt, sugar, etc., to use for 100 pounds of meat. There must be brine enough to cover the meat, and, if the barrel is deep and the hams pack well, less brine will be needed than if they are spread out in a shallow tub and consequently a smaller quantity of salt and sugar will be needed. That housekeepers most successful in keeping meat who examines it oftenest. Before putting the hams into the pickle it is well to run a knife around the bones in two or three places, as this will let the pickle work on the inside where they are most likely to taint. This precaution is particularly necessary if the hams are very large. If the pickle is but just strong enough to keep the hams, they may remain in it all winter, or they may be taken out and packed awav for summer use. The best way to keep liams in warm weather, that we ever tried, is to cut them in slices ready for the pan and then pack in stone jars, pouring hot lard over the whole after the jar is filled. This keeps flies away and prevents mold and there is the advantage of having the meat all ready for cooking at a moment’s warning. —New England Farmer.

Scalded Food for Hens.

In point of economy it will pay generously to grind and cook grain of all sorts or vegetables before such feed is given to hens. The grave trouble with a large portion of families who keep hens is they supply their fowls with feed at irregular times; deal out too much at one time and not enough at another; feed soft and nourishing feed one day, coarse and rough feed at another time; keep their fowls in cool apartments; provide no water nor gravel for them, and then wonder what can he the matter with all their hens that they do not lay in cold weather. A writer in the Practical Farmer, when recording briefly his mode of feeding hens in cold weather, states that those who want their hens to lay in, winter should give them a warm breakfast. > This is easily done by cooking O£; sf aiding the mess. When the scalding process is adopted the mess should be well stirred, so that all the parts are equally scalded. The feed should consist of corn and oats chopped together with wheat, bran or middlings in about equal parts. Where potatoes or turnips are plenty, a pot full may be boiled, and, when done and the water drained from them, the ground feed may be poured over them and the whole mashed up together and fed in troughs. Where it is found necessary to teed whole gfain—as corn, oats, wheat, buckwheat, etc. —it should always be boiled and ted warm in the morning. It will be a little more trouble to prepare the food thus, but eggs in winter are worth a little trouble. Fowls thus fed, and having access to a suspended cabbage or sheaf of oats or wheat, together with some ground bone or crushed oyster shells and plenty of pure water, will lay well in the coldest weather, if they have a warm house. Try it and see how it will work. We have always been satisfied with the plan.— N. Y. Herald.

How to Get Eggs in Winter.

We will not say that the farmer who leaves poultry to roost in the apple tree at the corner of the barn, and to pick up their living at the pigs’ trough and in the barnyard, may not occasionally get an egg in winter. But as a matter of fact there is on most farms a great dearth of eggs from November to March. With a warm shelter and suitable feed pullets that begin to lay in the fall will continue to lay through the winter. It is mainly a question of feed. The staple feed is Indian corn, especially in the West, because it is the most plentiful and the most convenient. It furnishes plenty of fat, and keeps up the heat of the fowls, but it is poor in albumen and the phosphates. They want a variety of grains and vegetables, and, to do their best, one feed aaily of warm cooked meal and vegetables. Most fanners have milk, and if this can be added it will be all they need. Butchers’ scrap cake is good, and may safely be kept in the poultry-yard where the fowls can help themselves at pleasure. Boiled potatoes or turnips, mashed and mixed with Indian-meal, make an excellent feed for laying hens. Fowls are particularly fond of cabbages and turnips at all stages of their growth, and eat them raw greedily every day if they ctp get them. We have found so good results from feeding cabbages to laying hens that we always lay in a large supply for the winter. Refuse from the butchers, and offal from the fish-market, also furnish good material for making eggs. These are accessible to most villagers, and can be had at small cost. A hen is only a machine for producing eggs. If you want the finished product you must put the raw material into the "hopper. It should not te forgotten that there is a liberal grinding going on in the gizzard, and. the laying bird should have free access to gravel with sharp grit, broken oyster and clam shells, which assist in reducing the grains and forming egg-shells. With a plentiful supply of egg-producing food hens will lay well in winter when eggs bring the highest price.— American Agricultural. A New York firm is manufacturing battle-field relics to sell to Centennial greenhorns.

The Weather. The followingcomments on the weather have bpen in use in this locality since November, and,as none of them are patented, anyone can make use of anything thatsuits him: »• “ Did you ever see such weather ?” “ Did you ever see such a winter ?” “Isn’Vthis odd weather?” “ Seems like spring, don’t it?” “ Did you ever see so much rain ?” “ Well, this weather beats me!” “ Never saw such a winter since 1842.” “ How would you like to own a stock of sleighs?” “ Good weather for your mother-in-law, isn’t it?” “ Did you hear about that plumber committing suicide?” “ Guess they have been flring-up down below, haven’t they?” “Aren’t you sorry you didn’t buy a drove of ducks last fall?” “ How’s your ice-house ?” “ Don’t you want to buy a wheelbarrow?” There are one or two other expressions "Sometimes made use of by people who want to inflict serious injury on the weather, but the above are siimcient for common people to use on corners and in street-cars.— Detroit Free Press.

In nothing has the advance of practical science been more clearly evidenced than in the extent to which substances formerly wasted and lost are now reclaimed and made to constitute an important element in the profits of the manufacturer. One of these applications consists in the recovery of the soap-suds from the washings of wool in woolen factories. These were formerly allowed to run down the sewers and into the streams, to the great pollution of the layer; but in Bradfora, in England, they are now run from the wash-ing-bowls into vats, and there treated with sulphuric acid. The fats rise to the surface in a mass of grease a foot or more in thickness, which is carefully collected and treated in various ways, mostly by distillation. The products are grease, used for lubricating the cogs of drivingwheels in the mills; oleic acid, which is worth about $l6O per ton, and used as a substitute for olive oil; stearin, worth S4OO per ton, etc. It is said that some large mill-owners are now paid from $2,500 to $5,000 a year for these suds, which a few years ago were allowed to run to waste.— N. Y. Tribune. In a recent exploration in New Guineas boa-constrictor fifteen feet three inches long was shot, having a protuberance in his body fourteen and a half inches in diameter, which, when cut open, proved to be the body of a whole kangaroo only partially digested. Personal.— W. J. McElroy.— I “As a general family remedy for Dyspepsia, Torpid Liver, Constipation, etc., I hardly ever use anything else but SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR, and have never been disappointed in effect produced; it seems to be almost a perfect cure for all diseases of the stomach and bowels."

Rheumatism a Symptom of Other Diseases.

The alarming extent of chronic rheumatism in the country has led to persistent investigation. It has lately been ascertained that the disease is the result of other complicated diseases of the liver, kidneys, pancreas, blood, absorbents, etc. In other words, that rheumatism is a symptom. It is also found that, by the removal of the complicated disease, the rheumatism disappears, as a result which seems tojsubstantiatc the theory. We all know, to bur sorrow, how fruitless the ordinary treatment of this disease has been, and we now hail with joy the dawn of this new discovery. We all know that the symptoms of these diseases are generally present in cases of chronic rheumatism, but few have supposed the disease to be an effect. To remove these diseases the surest remedy can be found in the Shakbk Extract of Roots or Cubativb Syrup; it appears to be working many cures. We refer to the article sold by Druggists and A. J. White. New York.

Schenck’s Pulmonic Stbuij, Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills.— These deservedly cele brated and popular medicines have effected a revolution in the healing art, and proved the fallacy of several maxims which have for many years obstructed the progress of medical science. Tire false supposition that “ Consumption is incurable” deterred physicians from attempting to find remedies for that disease, and patients afflicted with it reconciled themselves to death without making an effort to escape from a doom which they supposed to be unavoidable. It is now proved, however, that Consumption can be cured, and that it ha» been cured in a very great number of cases (some of them apparently desperate ones) by Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup alone; and in other cases by the same medicine in connection with Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic and Maudrake Pills, one or both, according to the requirements of the case. Dr. Schenck himself, who enjoyed uninterrupted good health for more than forty years, was supposed, at one time, to be at the very gate of death, his physicians having pronounced his case hopeless. and abandoned him to his fate. He was cured by the Ufm-esaid medicines, and. since his recovery, many thousands similarly affected have used Dr. Schenck's preparations with the same remarkable success. Full directions accompany each, making it not absolutely necessary to personally see Dr. Schenck unless patients wish their lungs examined, and for this purpose he is professionally at his principal office, comer Sixth and Arch streets, Philadelphia, every Monday, where all letters for advice must be addressed. Schenck's medicines are •old by all druggists. The first shipment of oil in bulk was made from Venango County, Pa., in 1815 by the late Gen. Hays, of Franklin, who gathered three barrels from what was subsequently termed the Buchanan farm, on which most of Rouseville is now situated. The oil was skimmed off thesprings along the creek with no small labor, carefully secured in strong barrels and sent by wagon to Baltimore. There it was placed in charge of a leading merchant, who frequently complained of its atrocious smell, and after storing it for a year or two emptied the whole quantity into the Chesapeake Bay. A Baltimore lady wouldn’t buy, after tumbling goods over for an hour, and when the shopkeeper scowled at her she had him horsewhipped and then arrested

S Among the due »rt« not lost In the art of children making holes In the toea of boots and shoes. Time taken, about ten days. SILVEK TIPS are an excellent remedy—never known to fall. Durability and Pliability are both combined in the “J “i 1 Cable Screw Wire gJIWHWi Boots and Shoe*: one trial will convince von: will not rip or leak. AU bear the Patent Sump. Sandwich Manufacturing Co., SANDWICH. DE KALB CO., ILLINOIS.

Economy. —Ton will save money by using Procter A Gamble’s Original Mottled German Soap. It will hot waste nor litcome soft like ordinary yellow soap when used In warm water, nor is It cheapened with articles Injurious to clothes. Remember, you bbtain s full one-pound bar If you purchase their brand. To protect their brand from imitators Procter * Gamble patented it, and the patent was sustained in the United States Courts. A’xamfnc the stamp on the bars when you buy. Ta*s their Soap only. Gentian was our grandmothers’ hobby for a tonic, and no bitter would be considered complete'without it; hence it enters into nearly all. But experience baa proved that it is injurious to the stomach if frequently used. A far better tonic is found in Guarana Bitters

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