Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — A Catting Argument. [ARTICLE]

A Catting Argument.

A New York gentleman came to i: the Gibson House, a few days ago and registered for a brief stay intßuulty. One of the firet things he did whs t# jrisit the barber-shop next the office aad-get shaved. Charley, the barber, having scraped the gentleman's face to a fcrffcfefactory cleanliness, noticed that Up wore rather long hair, and, alVvsyl' reddy to make a dime or two for his etnployer when opportunity offered, he thought ho had struck upon a thirty-ccnt job wltblthe scissors, sure. So he interrogated; “ Cut your hair, sir?” ' ','U > “ No,” was the reply. ~» t , “It’s mighty long hair, sir,” ventured Charley, tucking the towel down -‘behind the gentleman’s collar. There was, no reply, and, as he ran his fragers through the long, straight hair; he adued: q “ Much too long, sir, for this weather and the present style.” ■ *»_ No answer. “Better let me just sort o’ trim 4t up, sir," continued the barber, grabbing) his scissors and limbering up its rivetclose to the customer’s ear. • * * “ I don’t want it cutto-day.” “ Better not put off till to-morrow what can be done to-day, sir. It won’t tike me IBHg:" ——™--_-===™-. T “ But! say I don’t want it cut, my good fellow.” , if “ Excuse me, sir,” persisted .the kaight of the scissors, “ but it is not hdsllUfy or stylish to wear one’s hair so loqg. Just let me show you how nicety I can 4 feather’it.” <’ IP f Then the stranger looked up, .with a desperate cast to his eye, ancf said: “ Young man, must I tell you thqhL.wear a wig? Now let me alone and brush my hair.”- >l* The barber grasped the arm qhair to save himself from falling.— Cincinnati Enquirer. «3I The official report of pork-packiirg at Cincinnati,recently submitted to thaChamber of Commerce by Superintendent Maxwell, embraces the following figured relative to the winter packing for the.season from Nov. 1, 1876, to March 1, 1877: Number hogs packed, 523,570; decrease compared with the previous Reason, 39,783; average gross weight, 274 7-100 pounds; increase, 1 3-100 pounds; average yield of lard per head, 38 2-10 poubds; increase, 4-10; average cost, per hundred, gross, #5.90 18-100; decrease, #1.37 35-100; barrels of mess pork made,’ 38,480; other kinds, 8,514; increase, 3,20$ barrels. Lard made, tierce?, 01,492; barrels, 77; kegs, 3,584; production of cot meats, green meats,clear sides,7,6oo,72opounds; clear rib, 26,236,167 pounds; long clear, 2,208,164 Dounds; all other kind*; Including rough sides and bellies, 2.463,122 pounds; hams, 16,180,303 poundsrshoulders, 16,187,643. u-1 I have often wished to say something about the use of sugar ia cooking, and will here simply suggest one thoiieht: As sugar is often employed in cookings the sweetness is largely lost. For Instance, in cooking apples, if the sugar be ‘added before the apples are put to the firp, when the cooking is completed the sauce indicates no addition of sugar, but if the sugar be added after the apples are sufficiently cooked, the full benefit is derived. This is explained’ by saying that the caae sugar added before cooking” js changed .to crape sugar, and the latter is only - two-flftns as sweet as the former. This is perhqps a 9 noticeable in the use of cranberries as in any other fruit. The addition of a large amount of sugar before stewing setups to have no effect in modifying tiic extreme acid of the fruit.— Cor. Detroit Tribune. An American air-brake company recently received an order from England for #250,000 worth of brakes to be placed on 300 locomotives and 1,000 cars.