Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 December 1886 — Page 10

•laasi

'SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

PITCHER SIPHON—COLLAPSED WATER TOWER IN TEXAS.

flower* that Bloom la the Snow*—Clean-

Ins

Powder for Show Windows—Hainan footprint* In Stone—A Siphon for a Sick Boom.

A simple method of constructing a capillary siphon is shown in tho cut. Apiece of 'wire is doubled and bent into the proper shape. This serves as a frame work, and around it strips of muslin are wrapped. Placed in a pitcher as shown, it soon becomes charged with water, and if time is given, it

PITCHER 8IPH0IT

will empty tho vessel. In tho treatment of inflammation of glands, notably of the mammillary glands, a cloth is spread over the seat of inflammation and a slow dripping of water opon it is maintained. To this end the arrangement just described lends itself admirably, and a slow drip can be maintained by the hour on any place. An early use of thit application for a period varying from several hours to one or two days may prevent many weeks of sickness.—Scientific American.

To Clean Window*.

A good cleaning powder for show windows, which leaves no dirt in tho joints, is prepared by moistening calcined magnesia with pure benzine, so that amass is formed sufficiently moist to let a drop form when pressed. The mixture has to be preserved in glass bottles with ground stoppers, in order to retaiu the easily volatile benzine. A little of the mix turo is placed on a 5?ad of cotton and applied to tho glass plate.' It may also be used for cleaning mirrors. Do not use near a flre or light, as the benzino vapor is very inflammable and explosivo.—Popular Science News.

Footprints In Stone.

Layers of stono containing some of the supposed human footprints latoly found near Lake Managva, in Nicarugua, have I won sent to tho Vienna Natural History museum Tho stono is

volcanic tufa, and tho im

prcssionsaro extremely

Bharp

and distinct,

and if genuine footprints, prove tho existenco of man in Central America at a very romote period.—New York Hun.

Aretlo Flowers.

There 01*0 70'J kinds of flowers in the Arctic regions. Fifty of these do not grow anywhere else.

Victoria Water Tower.

Victoria, Tex., was recently visited by a cyclone, which damaged the water tower there, ns shown in tho accompanying illustra tion. Tho Scientific American accounts for tho (latuago as follows: "Tornado winds blow at the rnto of from DO to 100 miles per hour and oxort a force of from forty to sixty pounds ,pcr square foot of area. Tho mean

VICTORIA WATER TOWER.

area exposed above the w. tor line, all of only 3-1(1 inch iron, may safely be taken at 300 aquoro feet, which, nt forty pounds per foot, would amount to 12,000 pounds, or six u«t torn' praKuro on the windward side, with no support on tho inside, while the leeward side was supported in tension by the small partial vacuum of a loo wfod, which is equal to the alight vacuum or draught caused by blowing acroRi an orifice, as is claimed Wo arc con* fident that lateral pressure caused the collapse of the stand pipe*"

A N«*w Sowing Machine.

Mr. Watersten, of Edinburgh, has just patented a new sowing machine^ of which he is tho inTentor. It is on tho rotary shuttle principle, and lie claims that it is tho simplest yet nude for effecting the lock stitch. Hi# novelty lies in a saucer shaped shuttle which is set up 011 edge and laid with its flat side against th« left hand end of tho lower shaft, while it is beki in position by a revolving cap The axis of tho shaft, the shuttle and the cup being in lino and revolving together, the result is an easy motion, far surpassing U»o old reciprocating shuttl*.

Sietl Barrels for Fiittu new method of preparing fresh ftth for transportation to distant markets Is being tried at North sea fishing ports. The fish are packed in steel barrels in an antiseptic solution of S per oanfc. bormdc and tartaric adds and salt in 07 par cent, pars water, the liquid being forced in under a pressure of sixty pounds to the square inch. Fresh fish thus prepared are now supplied to the London markste from the Danish, Scottish aad Shetland Island fisheries.

A tsale Made Wttfc a Mtetegntpfe. It is suggested in The London Field that la •butmraphiiif articks, to get working ooptm to sosK and distinct three foot role be taped on the oh)wt aad phntogiapbai 1* Tbfc wig gi?« a prm nk

USEFUL TO HOUSEKEEPERS.

Christmas IJst for Finding Out What Your Friends Want. In several families of our acquaintance the custom is followed of putting up a Christinas list two or three week* previous to the day. Each member hangs np a card, on which he writes what he would like, and tho watching of these lists as tbey appear and the whispered consultations over them furnish a great deal of amusement No limit is given to the imagination, and perhaps father wishes for a pair of horses and mother writes a request for a satin dress, but with wise forethought they also put down something which little folks can get or make, like a pair of mittens or a book mark. Th« younger ones enjoy the indulgence of wishing, which always has its charms, and tbey are perfectly satisfied if two or three of the more humble requests are met Already, by tho writer's desk, hangs 9-year-old Ethers list, which has been the result of hours of careful meditation, and includes a black kitten, a box of paints, a thimble, a little doll's teaset, and some bright yarn. Obliging grandmother, who somehow has a suspicion of what has been hurriedly put away every time she came in, has headed her list with a knit hood.—New England Farmer.

y? s?

To Cook Sweetbread*.

One of your correspondents wishes to know of some good way of cooking sweetbreads. They are a frequent dish on our table, and I always first soak them in cold water a few moments, then skin and trim them, e., removing ail mere fat, then I boil them fifteen minutes, laying them afterwards in cold water for ten minutes. They are then ready to fry, broil, bake, or stew with green peas or a simple cream sauce. To fry them they should be cut in pieces the size of an English walnut, rolled in cracker crumbs and fried quickly (in fat enough to cover) to a light brown, then pour over them a tomato sauce prepared in this manner. To one quart of fresh or canrod tomatoes add two heaping teaspoonsful of flour, cook thoroughly, strain, season well with butter, salt and pepper. Sweetbreads prepared in this way with a tomato sauce are nice for tea. They can also be cut in slices and broiled, seasoning them well with butter, salt and pepper, or dipped in bread crumbs as before and fried. In either case servo them with slices of broiled or fried tomatoes arranged to cover tho slices of sweetbread and garnished with parsley.

Sweetbreads prepared like chicken or veal make good croquettes and are very delicate when farina or corn starch is used in mixing them instead of flour. When served with green peas, cut them in small pieces after they are cooked and seasoned and odd them to tho peas just before they are dished. To the ordinary taste, sweetbreads need the addition of a vegetable flavor and are not quite so palatable when nerved with a simple cream sauce, but a little mace added to the cream sauce is an improvement.—Good Housekeeping.

Winter Bed Covering.

An anti-comfortable crusade might well be started by some woman who loves her kind, and who knows, like the writer, what instruments of disease and death tbey may become. Even a dirty blanket is for more tolerable than a dirty comfortable, for blankets are porous and allow the air to penetrate. Every wearer of woolen cloth, in whatever form, knows that tho loosely woven fabrics ore the warmest, this arising from the fact that air is held in the meshes and becomes a medium of warmth. One blanket of pure wool, no matter how coarse its quality, has more warmth producing power than a four pound comfortable, yet, boaui9etbe feeling of weight is lacking, there is immediate outcry that it is cold. Two blankets and a light com fortablo will furnish abed amply, and the lessjned weight will mean quieter sleep of afar more refreshing quality than any to be had under ten or twelve pounds of cotton. Blankets can lie washed or steam cleansed, and if childrons beds arc in question, soft gray or blue blankets may well replace white, which is soiled in a week of such experiments as most chiltlitm indulge in with the bed clothes, which are often tents by day as well as covering hy night.—Helen Campbell in Demorest's Monthly.

Fir Pillow*.

Fir pillows aro now very fashionable as well as ploasant. Their odor diffuses fine and aromatic about one's head, and it is believed to bo exceedingly healthful. It is not necessary to sleop upon them, but merely to have them lying close about one's couch or sofa. In a sick room they aro especially grateful. One of thom in a handsome cover would make a pleasant Christmas present for an invalid. A writer in Tho Household says: For an elderly lady or on invalid a pillow filled with pino needles—tlio foliago of tho balsam ilr being thought most aromatic—is a suitable gift Make a drilling case for tho needles, then a slip of ecru or gray linen, embroidered with a suitable motto, as "Give me thy balm, oh fir tree." A hop pillow, for feverish, restless heads, can bo made in tho samo fashion, with tho design a graceful cluster of leaves and hops.

Potato Yeaftt.

In two quarts of water boii six potatoes, a handful of hops in a bag, and a half teacupful of salt When tho potatoes are done, mash fine and add to this liquid a toacupful of sugar, tcaspoonful of ginger, and when milk warm add a teacuplul of yeast set where it is warm and let it ferment I use one teacupful of yeast for five loaves set my spouge at night and add threo potatoes. If you wish for moro potatoes and not so much hops, take mashed potatoes and add water to make it of the consistency of common yoast, and while warm add a tablespoonful of sugar and two of yeast keep whero warm, and let it ferment, when it will be lit for uso.

Easy Way to Smoke Meat. Moats for the consumption of a small family can be smoked by suspending the hams from bars laid across a large barrel, open at both ends, set over a smoldering fire. Corn cobs mako a good smoke, and bay leaves and juniper berries burned with them give the meat a slightly aromatic flavor. Cover the barrel while the smoking is going CHI. "r

Nice Coffee Without Kgg*»

Make small sack of cheese cloth, pot in small tabkspoonfut for each cup of coffee, need not tie the sack, put in tho pot, and pour a pint of cold water on it Sat this on in the morning and let it come to a boil, then fill np you wish with hot water. Turn sack wrong ride out after breakfast, riuse and dry for next time.

Salt and Pepper.

Mittens are knit Jersey pattern, alternate plain and seam stitch. Pick up cod fish in goodaind piece*, aoak it, roll in flour and fry in batter.

Bitter tanks, as quinine, should be taken half an hour before meals iron, ods and •elds after eating, that they may be djfsrtad with the food.

Very pwtty pfctar* framae are and* simply at rough pise hoards gilded, the rougher the better.

Tbe Louden Cetera eay» that gaae* link aboold always be banc hy tbe neck aad not tgr tbafisataa Is the common practto*

YOUNG FOLKS' COLUMf

HOW THE BAMBERRY BOYS TRAPPED SHEEP KILLING DOGS.

Johnny Rlee's Market Gmrden—A. Pas Pali of Nice, Gentle, Honestx Dog*, Whose Owners Were A*tonl*hed a* Well

Ashamed.

Mr. J. T. Trowbridge tells in the last St Nicholas a good story, which he says is true, about bow some clever boys caught a lot of sheep killing dogs.

The boys made a good deal of money oat of their flock, and it was a source of great pleasure te them besides. But tho third year the dogs got to killing their sheep. They knew it must be their neighbors' dogs, but when they mentioned tho subject to dog owners, every man was up in arms at once. His dog was just the nicest, sweetest, honestest creature in tbe world. He'd no more kill a sbeep than he'd fly.

THK DOO SHOW.

Bo tbey got no satisfaction. At length the brutes one night jumped over the bars into their sheep pen, and tore the throats and killed some of tho most valuable of their flock. This was too much. The boys almost shed tears at sight of the pretty, mangled lambs lying dead.

At length one of them said: "Boys, we'll flx 'em." There is something strange about the way dogs attack flocks. A sheep killing rage seems to possess them, just as if they were dog crazy. While the spell lasts, they go about a neighborhood in packs, like wolves, and fall on one flock after another, seizing the defenseless sheep, throwing them down, tearing open their throats, and sucking their blood. A dog is only a civilized wolf anyhow. liL i-3 iii

SHEEPISH DOGS.

"Bovs, we'll flx 'cm," said one of the Bam berry brothers. During the day they built the sheep pen much higher, so that no dog could j&mp out of it Then they made a slanting bridge on the outside, so that a dog could walk up it and jump over into tho sheep pen. But no dog alive could jump up that wall to get out again, and the rails were so close together that evon a pup could not crawl through. Thoy put their live sheep into a close shed and left tho dead ones lying in the old pen. Tho trap was just tho kind that tho pioneer farmers used to set to capture wolves.

In the morning, as truly as the world, there were twenty-three dogs in the pen. Some of them were very aristocratic, blooded dogs, belonging to tho wealthiest people of the neighborhood. Those high-toned dogs looked as slinking and ashamed as possible. Their owners looked no less so when they camo to claim their pets. You see them leading the guilty animals away, tho very fellows they had declared to bo so good and honest The Bamberry boys charged every owner Co before he got his dog, nud thus they m^yod money enough to pay damages. Sor« of tho beasts never wero claimed and theso wore shot All day people around about camo to look at the dog show and everybody who didn't have a dog in it had a good long laugh. It was a sight to see.

Johnny Rice's Garden

Johnny llieo rented a garden of his father, Mr. Waldo F. Brown writes, and raised vegetables on it They had a regular articlo of agreement such as Mr. Rice wrote out for bis farm men—Jolmny wrote it himself, and it was as follows "Mr. Rico hereby agrees to rent to Johnny one-half acre of land in tho southeast corner of tho north field, for $5, for ono year from the 1st of January next, and to allow him to have all tbe manure ho wants to use on it at 50 cents a load, and to furnish a team to plow it and a horse to cultivate it And Johnny Rice on his part agrees to plant the said half aero in an assortment of garden vegetables, and to cultivate it thoroughly, ar I to allow Mr. Rico the privilege of buying that is grown—or that lie needs in the family—any surplus to be sold, and the proceeds, after the rent and manure bill is paid, to belong to Johnny. Tho following prices are to be allowed Johnny for tho products of the garden. Lettuce, rad'shes, spinach and beets, 5 cents each for each meal at which they are on the table, snap beans and butter beans cents. Sweet corn before July 30,10 cents a doten, from July 20, to Oct 1, Scents a dozen, after Oct 1,8 cents. Potatoes, tomatoes and onions market price. Cucumbers for slicing, 1 cent each, for pickles 25 cents per hundred. Peas, 10 cents per half peck cabbage, 3 to 5 cents each. Any ether products not named are to be paid for at tbe rate of & cents for esch time they are used on tbe table."

Johnny worked faithfully all

TKRRB HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT,

spring

Abovs

!#i|

usi

and

summer. Ho bought many loads of manure, and asked advice from a vegetable gardener in the neighborhood. Bright and early bo was up every morning, full of life and entbnsiasn. His garden, as it deserved to be, was a great roccaw. Ho furnished tbe family with vegetables, all they required delicious vegetables, too. He paid for the fertilisers be bought and for some extra work be hired, and sold enough off tbe garden besides to havs a handsome sum left It was 33.01 Jolmny felt like a millionaire with so much money. He spent all he wanted to on tbe Fourth of July, at tbe fair aad everywhere dm Ha bought himself same garden tools, some books, and subacribed for a paper or two, and stall had enough left for pocket money all winter aad to boy some garden srade aad plants tbe next spuing. Jobaay Is now a prospwuus market gardener. His *1 pet lance with hie first garden mad* him healthy, manly and Independent

all, it gav« him industrious

habits, which wars worth iixwe to he

I've been fooled! I sent on twenty-five cents an' a postage stamp to a feller in Chicago 'at advertised as how he'd tell anybody fer that mucli how to make an impression, an* get fer an ans'er: "Set- down in a pan o' dough.'* That wasn't the kind uv an impression I wanted to make. What I wanted wus to make an impression on them keerless an' ignorant housekeepers 'at go on a buyin' their pervis-

ions an* sich here, thar, an' everywhere without ever payin' any attention to what I've been a tryin' to beat into 'em about E. R. Wright's, w'ich the same is the "White Frunt," on Mane street. I wanted to impress 'em with the fact that —ez fur as I know—it's the only place in town where a body in do well right straight along an' be shore all the time uv gittin' the very bost artickles at the very lowest prices, sech as:

Dressed Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Squirrel, Quail, Mince Meat, Maple Syrup, Honey, Buckwheat Flour, Celery, Cranberries, Oysters (in can or bulk), Choice Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, French and California Prunes, Fancy Raisins in pound boxes, Fancy Layer Figs. Call and examine our stock and compare prices. California wines for medicinal purposes.

QPKBA HOUSE BOOKSTORK..

E.L.GODECKE.

Bookseller and Stationer, 406 Main Street, Terre Haute,

Invites attention to his large and complete stock of attractive goods in the line of Juvenile and Standard Books of Poetry, Fiction and General Literature, Pocket and Family Bibles, Prayer Books, Christmas cards, Picture Frames, Photograph and Autograph Albums, Scrab Books, Gold Pens, Ladies' and Gents' Pocket Books, Pen Knives, Ink Stands, Games for Children, Alphabet and Building Blocks, Writing Desks, Backgammon Boards, Chessmen Portfolios, Fine Writing and Box Papers in new and elegant styles.

Ah! There!

P. J.

KAUFMAN

HAS

Japanese Pears, j-^ Tangarins, Mandarines,

Shaddux,

HOLIDAY FANCY LAYER RAISINS. Prairie Chickens, .. Mallard Ducks,

Large Fat Alive Opoasn'ftis, Dressed Rabbits,. Squirrels,

Quail,

i- Pheasants,

PURE NEW YORK BUCKWHEAT Dressed Turkeys, Dressed Chickens,

Dressed Geese, Dressed Ducks,

''J' Beef Tongues, EXTRA FINE SELECT OYSTERS. Pork Tenderloins,

Sausage,

Spare Rits, Hams, V/, Boneless Pigs Feet,

JERSEY SWEET POTATOKS Stuffed Cucumbers, Stuffed Mangoes,

Stuffed Melons, Sweet Pickles, Mixed Pickles, CHOICE CATAWBA GRAPES Malaga Grapes,

Florida Oranges, Aspinwall Banannas, Fancy Apples, i,

Cranborries, Celery,

FINE FRENCH CREAM CANDIES Assortment of Nuts, etc.

It Will Pay You

TO CAT.I. AT

BAUR'S PHARMACY

And sec tho Nicest Line of Staple and Fancy

the city,

At Very Moderate Prices.

STOP!

W. "W". ZDJLLE'S,

652 Main Street,

For yoar

Holiday Jewelry.

^*New and Elegant Line of

?. Diamonds, Watches, Etc.'

Special display 2% Karat Diamond Earring* —perfect atone*. WATCH REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.

-.-if-i FOR tS

Holiday Goods nasi

St'CH

Cigars, Odor'1and Dressing Cases, Mustache Cups,

«0 TO

Reiss' Drug Store,

N. W. Cor. 3d and Main Sts.

The Most Beautiful,

SOLID.

Stf

PARLOR

iSSllfllSl

SI!

siamcs

ABTISTS' SUPPLIES,

Picture Frame*. MooidlafS, Picture Frame* Made to Order.

MeKeen* Block. MB Mala at, bell ftfcaadTlfe.

What Shall I Give? "What Token Shall I Buy? Select, Substantial or the, Fancy Try

STOP!

SEE THE

Elegant Holiday

Superbly Constructed, Elegit Inlaid Finish,

The Most Durable,

What is Home without Nice Furniture

WHAT TO BUY FOR

CHRISTMAS!

FOLDING BED,

CHAMBER SUITE, PARLOR SUITE, MARBLE STAND, MUSIC CABINET,

LADIES' FANCY DESK, BOOK CASE, SIDE BOARD,

FULL STOCK OF NICE GOODS

-FOR

PRESENTS—CHEAP.

R. FORSTER,

AND

CHAMBER

320 Main Street. The Red Front.

THE GREAT ASSORTMENT OF

HOLIDAY GOODS 311 W abash Ayg.j bet. 3(1 and 4th Sts.

COME AND SEE US

If Low Prices are an Object.

Bring your Picture Frame Orders early to get them for the Holidays,.

R. 6AG6 Bay a Substantial Christmas Present.

We are making special prices on anything in onr line to reduce stock before January 1st. Good* delivered to any p*rt of the city.

C. C. SMITH, 303 Wabash Avenue.

•m

WHITE.

-tj

SEWING MACHINE

t. EVER MANUFACTURED.

The Most Complete

SENSIBLE. SUBSTANTIAL.

SEE IT BEFORE YOU SELECT YOUR HOLIDAY OFFERINGS

|. N. HICKMAN,

306 Main Street, Terre Haute,

ill

Iiid.

OFFICE DESK, OFFICE CHAIR, RATTAN ROCKERS,

MIRRORS

HAT RACK,

NICE WARDROBE,

.. FANCY STAND,

LEATHER ROCKERS, PLUSH ROCKERS, CHILD'S ROCKERS,

SET CHAIRS, DRESSING CASE, WASH STAND, BOOK SHELVES, BED LOUNGE.

Open Front HEATER, $20. Table Cutlery,

All Htylca and Price*.

CARVERS,

75c to $7.00.

COAL VASES, jFANCY HODS,

Brans, Japanned and Nickel

Fire Sets.

_.v

'J4

sf-:.