St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 November 1892 — Page 2

HOME AN.D THE FARM. A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. To Make Money at« Dull Season—A. Cheap and Handy Feed Cutter—Arrangement for Sorting Potatoes—Should Have a Good Lawn, Etc. A Good Sheep Shelter. A successful sheep raiser shelters : bis flock in the convenient shed shown in our illustration. The only bought lumber is for the ends. The frame is A CONVENIENT SUED FOR SHEEP, inade of posts and poles, hewed only near the mortises and tenons, and sloping gently back to a low and tight stone wall. The forward pitch is steeper and shorter, reaching to within four and a half feet of tbe ground. The roof is made of slabs and’ p3les covered with long swail grass, two feet deep at the eaves and eight feet at the ridge, and built like a stack to shed rain. The posts stand on flat stonesud/prevent decay. Board eavqs troughs carry the water to tlfe sides to prevent a mudhole in front, and the ground slopes away from the shelter. The shed opens to the south, allowing the sun to shine in, but excluding the prevailing winds. During lambing t me, one part of the shed is boarded up close and warm for ewes and young lambs. Movable feed racks extend from the front to j within three feet of the hack wall. The manure is not cleaned out until spring. Abundant bedding is used, and the dry compost thus made is a rich fertilizer. This shed is twentyfive by sixty feet, and will easily hold 100 sheep.—American Agriculturists. Sorting Potatoes Made Easy. Make a box 12 feet long and 4 feet wide, like the illustration, with three ■ Im partitions, the back piece should be about 4 feet high, the next 3 feet, and tihe next 11 feet high. Nail pickets on, forscreens. Put them rathp*cTosetogStheroaAhe first incline, ihis sofl.t- n’arF^W tha second. Shovel them on the grades cline and poke them down, and have them sorted in thr-ce grades. - Practical Farmer. Money at a Dull Season. If one has a shop, hen-house, barn or tight shed with a southern exposure and glass, he can put in a secondhand stove at a cost of $1 or 92, Reep the place warm with waste wood, which abounds on most farms, and start plants for the gardens of his neighbors and of those in the surrounding villages. These will include cabbage, tomato, pepper, egg, celery, and other plants. If the room is not the warmest it makes no difference, and if the plants grew slowly thev will be hardier and give better satisfaction in transplanting. At Gin high these seddings will be readv for sale ami should command 25c per dozen at least, if sold in little boxes filled with earth. The boxes of thrifty plants can be readily sold from house to house or left at the stores on commission. The grower will be astonished bv a neat little sum from no apparent outlay. A room 10x12 is large enough for a starter. If it is dark, insert some sashes, which many be made cheaply. Have the sashes 3x6ft and let the middle supports for the glass run lengthwise only. When setting the glass let it lap, but be sure that it does not extend over the next pan® more than | in. To make these plants the best for looks and growth, sow the seeds in fine, rich soil and transplant them an inch apart at 1 inch high. They will not be retarded long and will grow more rapidly than ever. Before being finally placed in the boxes for sale, they should be transplanted a sqpond time into boxes and beds and 2x3in apart, Nothing is more important for their appearance and after-g-rowth than two or three transplantings. Protect the Sheep. The tendencies at present are for more sheep on the farms, and more should be kept, especially on dairy farms. The great drawback has been the cur dogs, and if it were not for these a great many more sheep would have been kept. The Legislature should give us a good fair dog law, but until we have rt we mustjdevise some means to protect ourselves. One good way of protection is to fence in smaH fields with chicken wire or woven wire fences. Another is by the use of portable hurdles, which may be moved every day or two. Still another way is by the use of bells on the sheep’s ne.ck, using one to every eight sheep. These will not only scare the dogs when they get in with the sheep, but will give alarm. | Sheep owners should have a good j rifle handy and send ail dogs that are found in the to k “over the river/’ — Farm ane Home. Win terins Gcrani mu s. For the last live years, says a corre- ■ spondent, I have kept my bedding | geraniums in the cellar over winter, I and the plan has proved a very sue- j cessful one. The plants arj left in |

their beds, covering them at night to j protect from frost till the approach of severely cold weather; then t'hey are ; dug carefulllv to preserve the roots. ! At least two-thirds of the to.ps are i cut off and the plants closely packed strong, deep boxes with the roots well covered with earth which is sifted and packed among them. After be<ing thoroughly watered the boxes are placed in the shade for a few days, »and stored in a dry cellar till spring. They require no further attention : than an occasional watering. When removed from the cellar in the follow- , i ing April or May the plants are cov- i cred with new shoots, and are grad-1 bally exposed to the sun till the time to again transplant their beds on the lawn. The stocks being large and strong, in a few weeks the beds are beautiful with foliage, and soon present a mass of flowers. Live Stock Notas. The better the grade of cattle,generally the better the profit. Some breeds are best son early maturity and others for great weight. As a rifle getting a yearling fat does not materially hasten its maturity. Mill feed and skimmed milk are good materials to make growth in L'igs. Always stir the slop in the barrel well before Seeding, and never allow । it to stan’d too long. If rye is fed to hogs, in nearly all i cases it should be fed in connection | with wheat bran or cornmeal. When going any considerable dis- ■ tance grass-fed catt.e will shrink very heavily, for the flrst ten days at least, I In many cases a few cattle can be ' kept on a farm with profit when a ■ large number would only result in I loss. , [ If cattle arc .to be wintered largely i on roughness it is very important flrat j they be provided with a comfortable j shelter. The object in feeding pigs that are > to be‘marketed to push them from i the start, so as to maintain a steafly growth. Am important item in selecting a good brood sow is her milk producing powers. This is necessary if she raises good pigs. A sow that will bring an average of ' eight pigs in a litter twice a year is doing more than average work and is valuable.—Live Stock Indicator. Experiments With Potatoes In experiments at the Utah Sta-; tion for various purposes, it was ' found that dapth of planting did not I materially affect the total yield of । the crop. Also that when they were planted near the surface the tubers contained 23.1 per cent more starch than when planted deep, and were therefore worth 33.5 per cent morel Frioreating purposes besdes being I I Shallow tillage, and ■ I tiiiugej n Letter than deep lIX. be the limit of greatest production, as the yield of a greater or less d:s- --■ tance diminished. In Teasing the distance between the rows did not :lp--1 pear, to decrease the yield. Close planting resulted in an in Tease of moisture and a decrease of starch in t'hc tube s. Planting rifearer than one foot in rows three feet apart is not recommended. In the production of potatoes, quality should be one of the prime considerations, since they hold such an important position in family use. Have a Good Lawn. The charm of a lawn consists largely in its dark green color, luxuriant growth and freedom from weeds. Many try to secure this result by covering the'ir lawns with rotten manure in the fall or early winter. A much pleasanter method is to sow a mixture of, say, equal parts nitrate of soda, superphosphate and muriate of potash on t.ie lawn this fait and then next spring give another dress;ng of nitrate of soda. Apply this fall the above mixture at the rate of half a ton per acre, or say a small handful to each square yard. Sow it: broadcast, as evenly as possible. In ' the spring sow 300 pounds of nitrate | of soda per acre, broadcast, or say a small hand fail to each three or four square yards of lawn. The above treatment { ,will not only greatly improve the lawn, but will also give increasing luxuriance to the trees, shrubs, roses and flowers. Poultry Pickings. Give the chickens fine gravel and let them help themselves. If poultry arc confined, if they arc not given a good variety they eat much that had better be let alone. In very hot weather see that the chickens have some chance to get into the shade. Too hot a sun is not good. The nests and roosts should always be easy of access in order to make the work of keeping down the lice much easier. While chickens thrive best in small numbers or flocks, ducks seem to do better when a large number are' kept to£ ether. One advantage vvith gaese is that they arc hardy, easily raised an 1 rc<.u:rc less care and expensive food than ; any other class of fmvls. On large farms there is no reason i why the chick runs should not be i very large, as the ground can be put I i to few uses that will pay better. Working and Packing Butter. Butter for immediate use need not I wo:ked as clean as t-hat which is ' to be kept for some time. The nutty j flavor of Latter is caused by the form- , atkm of a volatile, oil known as । butyric acid and by tha action of a; ferment in the cheesy matter of the i butter. If this tikes place too 1 quickly and there is too much of it j

present, the butter becomes rancid, white if the butter is washed'very clean and all the buttermilk taken | out, the action is delayed. To pack , butter for keeping it should be salted (1 oz to the peund) after washing thoroughly, and packed in clean or new tubs. First scald the tub, rinse it with cold water, (hen with cold •brine, and rub the inside lightly with fine salt. Pack the butter firmly to exclude the air, and to within a half inch at the top. Sprinkle with Salt and cover with cloth a little larger i than‘the top. I’ress this down and । cover with salt, then put on the cover I and fasten dpwn tigntly. Keep the tubs in a clean, dry and cold cellar. Cheap Feed Cutter. The handy feed cutter shown in the engraving, has a steel knife made the shape of the old-fashioned grain sickle

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but wi t b wider blade. Two pieces of one - r fourth by' one inch iron are bent in Yhe same shape, and bolted t o pieces fastened to lee'd i room wall, j The irons I should b e just far

I enough apart, homemade feed cutter j to allow the knife to pass dow^n bq,-t-ween them. The knife is raised, the i sheaf placed under, and the cut made. I The sickle must be kept very sharp ।to do good work. Care must be taken . that the lingers are not caught and wounded while slicing the fe.ed. j Turnips and sugar beets may be sliced with this contrivance. The chief advantage in cutting hay is that grain may be mixed with the food. j Sliced roots are much easier eaten by 1 cows and sheep than the compact large roots. It is well to moisten chopped hav before feeding.—Ameri- ? can Agriculturist. Hints To Housekeepers. A. slice of tomato rubbed over the hands will remove berry stains. Carpets if well sprinkled with salt and then wiped with cloth squeezed out of warm water containing a । spoonful of spirits of tyrpentine to i every quart, will look brightand new, | and will not be troubled with moths I and buffalo bugs To A void du pl ica t i ng-wed ding gif ts I in silver, it would be wiser to give a ! friend line lihen. BeaMy fine linen 'to be used on special occas ons will last a long time, and .the happv bride who"receives it will always bless you for aiding her in making her table ! handsome. | Paste a list of its contents on every box or trunk or closet of stored-away , goods. Write down each one as you . put it in. Uvn t.he list will V.u U.— it is an easy thing t® find any needed article. Throw bits of nails or small pieces 'of unrusted iron into the in {stand. I The corrosive action of any acid contained in the ink will expend itself on the iron and not on the pen. After a steel pen has been used for a I time in plain ink a rusty substance is formed. This is prevented by the i presence of iron in the ink. For the distraction of the mosquito Prof. Riley, in his Lowell Institute lecture, recommends pyrethrum powder moistened, made into litt.econes, then allowed to dry, and burned in a ! clos^ roojn. The effect is to stupefy !or kill the mos inito. The professor does not think it is true that mosj quito bites sometimes inoculate the body with malarial ’poison. To fook asparagus cut in half-inch l pieces a large bunch of asparagus; begin at the top and cut till you reach the hard buits. Put these aside to i flavor soup with, and put the tender I pieces in a stewpan, with a little water. Cook for 15 or 20 minutes, when I the water should be nearly boiled I away. Add a quart of milk, butter I the size of an egg, bring to a boil, sea- । son with salt and pepper, have two i eggs well beaten; let it jpst stop boiling: stir in the eggs, which must be only scalded, not cooked hard. Henry Clay Quoting Shakspeare. Henry Clay, who left a seat in the Senate for one in the House, but after many years’ service at the other end of the Capitol returned to the Senate .Chamber, exercised a powerful control over the politics of the republic. Idolized by the Whig party, his wonderful I powers of personal magnetism, and his rich, manly voice would enable him to hold an audience for hours. He made but little preparation, and used but few notes in Speaking; but when he wrote out Iris remarks for the press, Iris manuscript was remarkably neat, without in-terlinat-ions or blots. He seldom indu ged in classical allusions, and Iris occasional attempts to make quotations of English poetry were generalL fail-

■ Ures. On one occassion, he used the well-known phrase from Hamlet, “Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung,” but misquoted the last syllable, calling it “un-strung.” The gentlemen who sat ©n either side of him noticed the error, and simultaneously whispered “unwrung.” Thia double prompting confused “Young Harry of the AVest, ” who stra ghtened himself, ami with stronger emphasis repeated “unhung.” Tlit< a general laugh, at the do«o of which Clay, who had - ■’•unwidle ascertained his mistake, shook his head, and said with one of his inimitable smilesw “Ah! murder will out! Unwrung’s the word.” The fascination which he exercised over all with whom he had personal intercourse —oven his political adversai ics^-was remarkab’ej but he was imperious and domineering, exacting unconditional and unqualified sup; 011 as the prick of his friendship.— Per : Perley Poore, in C^nturu.

after the battle. MILWAUKEE PLUCKILY BEGINS REBUILDING. Devastation More Terrinle than at First Reported — Acres of Smoldering Heaps Where Once Was Prosperous ActivityRelief of the Sufferers. The Fire as It Was. Milwaukee correspondence. No one had a real not on of the havoc created by our terrific fire till the following Sunday morning. The wind had died down and the day broke under a clear sky. Miles away the billows of smoke could be seen rising above the city, and while they did not sweep the business streets, they gave to a distant view the appearance of a heavy fog, rolling under the wind and streaking out in long, thin Lenners from the heart of the city. Near the Northwestern depot the extensive destruction worked by the fire, became seriously prominent. From the railway tracks as far as the eye equid seo through the smoke almost the entire warehouse part of the town was a mass of ashes and broken brick and stone, with here and there the skeleton of a wall or a chimney rising dimly ,out of it through the clouds. The lake was rolling vicio.usly, and the line of scorched breakwater showed where the fire had bitten down to the edge of the water. For a while during the fre even the piling of this breakwater was aflame. From the railroad tracks for blocks a prosperous part of the town lay smoking. At the limits of the fire-swept district thousands of people had gathered and were kept from crowding in by the policemen and four companies of militiamen armed with rifles. Inside* this line the tired firemen were still working. Some of them had been fighting the fire for a day and a half. They were grimy from the smoke, and their rubber coats were cased in cinders. A few of them were sitting on piles of brick wAh the nozzles of the hose in their blackened hands. Many of them were so worn out by the work of the night that they slept beside the engines while paen who owned offices in the distr.ct and boys

v. ll ail.j liiimlmwii T THE BURNED DISTRICT FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

who volunteer* d for the fun of the thing played on the embers. Sights Among the Ruins. At every corner a flattened mass of half-burned wood and brick was pointed out as the site of a big warehouse. Nothing except the brick corners of Reldeburg’s vinegar factory was left. A lot of galvanized iron sheets and a big hill of malt an 1 grain was a monument to Hansen’s malt-house. The ft Ik who saw that building burn thought it was finer than fireworks. For a moment the windows - flared like the isinglass front of a parlor stove. Then the” fire ' died out theie and a ring of green gasl eous flame ran around the building. In another minute the elevator walls parted • and the mass of flaming grain tumbled down in a tremendous catara t. The Weisel & Vilter machine shop, where a falling wall killed two of the firemen, was only a lot of brick and plaster, and Bubb «fe Kip’s factory,which gave the second start* to the fire, had been absolutely s elled. At the gas works the ruins of one end of the holders was still blazing in spite of the flo d of water poured in by the firemen, and the machinery was tang Fed and broken beyond repair. In nearly every mass of ruins men were groping for valuable papers and books and at every corner employes could be seen pouring water on a smoking safe. On the skirts of the burned district the scenes are sometimes pathetic. Little unprotected piles of bed clothing, pictures, and small household belongings had been left by fe.dng thousands. Once in a while a shivering boy was seen standing beside the wreckage of a home—a broken clock, batteied image, a lag of tablewa e and some poor clothing. In the middle of Buffalo street a deserted truck stood loaded with one trunk and a little locking (hair decorated with a neat “tidy." These things were the wreckage of small homes burned out in the Third Ward, where hundreds of cottages of Workingmen were swept away by the fire. The Distressing; Feature. The burning of these poor houses was the distressing feature of the fire. Milwaukee can stand well enough the destruction of big warehouses, for the r e are many tig warehouses th re and many rich men able to put up buildings in the

( place of those ruined. The cottages . destroyed belonged to the poor laboring ' mi n. Some of these men squatted along the lake shore years ago, and nearly all the l ouses represent hard saving and 1 long work Tr.ey went like tallow 1 before the fire and left no monumental ruins to mark their site. Family । after family applied to the relief i organizations or crowded into St. John’s Cathedral and the Northwestern depot? Prompt relief was given to them as soon as the excitement of .the night was settled, and there was as little suffering as ever followed a big fire. The hotels fed hundreds of hungry men. I Pabst’s Hotel loaded up the Chicago firemen with coffee and steaks, and jvhh the other houses sent a patrol wagon load of sod down to the smoke-stained men who were slugging the fire near the lake. Ihe people of Milwaukee had hardly turned out of bed to see the fog of the । fire rising before men were hustling I around to raise money for the unfortunate folks. Telegrams came in from

roundabout towns, from Oshkosh and l Madison and Janesville and Racine, all j of which are tributary for Milwaukee’s : business. These little towns all offered I to help as far as they could. A telegram ’ came in from Mayor Washburne, of 1 Chicago. The Mayor evidently thought Milwaukee had I een shoveled clean off the earth, for he telegraphed in a goodhearted way about Chicago rising from its ashes and hoping Milwaukee would ( rise from Milwaukee ashes. These tel- i egrams and letters were taken thank- : fully but Milwaukee went about help- l ing its own people with its own hands. I Milwaukee Raises 831,000. Hundreds of businessmen poured into I the chamber of commerce building and almost before President Bacon could make a talk $31,231 had been subscribed. It was headed by a whaling big check for $5,000 sent in by the Democratic candidates for county offices, who are not rich men; Phil Armour gave $5,000 and said he would give a lot more for his old home; the Brewers’ Association I subscribed $",000; Henry C. Payne, i the Republican committeeman, hand- i ed in SI,OOO, and the same i amount was contributed by Cap- i tain Fred Pabst, the ‘Wisconsin Fire and j Marine Insurance Bank, John L. Mitch- ; ell, Banker Ilsley, Cudahy Bros., I August Uihlein, E. P. Bacon and Mr. ; Piosseanu. long after the meeting money was rolling in and at 5 o’clock the fund was ef»imated at near $50,000. i It continued to grow until the SIOO,OOO mark was parsed. That’s not enough to , build up one of the ruined warehouses, but it will make comfortable hundreds of homeless Third Ward people. None of these was permitted to undergo hard- : ship. Every burned-out family was taken care of somewhere and by some- . body. Probably no town xas ever so badly cut by a fire to come oUt so i cheerful and happy as Milwaukee. The real estate board, which raised a considerable sum in addition to its first d< nation of $5,0( 0, turned the entire amount ov^r to the relief committee, concluding not to distribute the money on its own account. One of the most substantial contributions for the relief of the poor came from Frank A. Lappen & Co. The firm had sold furniture on the installment plan to many of those who were burned cut and had over $2,500 still due and secured by notes. I

In spite of the fact that he was a heavy loser by the fire, having had a quantity of furniture burned in Bub & Kipp’s factory, Mr. T appen announced that he would give rece pts in full to those of the sufferers who still owed him anything. The work of searching for the safes of the carious firms was commenced early. In nearly every case the papers, which alone would enable the losers to estimate correctly the amount of their loss, were in the burning buildings. To get at these a force of several hundred workmen armed with pickaxes and shovels was turned loose. Several I safes were found, but it was impossible to open them, as the locks had become so warped and twisted that the bolts could not be turned. k< k huiki!iiq; tiie Freig^htliouses. The enterprise shown by the big sufferers is exemplified by the work of the Ch'iiago and Northwestern Railroad. Both the outgoing and incoming freight w/O a a REMAINS OF REIDEBUHG VINEGAR WORKS, WHICH OCCUPIED NEARLY A BLOCK. ;

houses were burned. Nothing but the bare walls were standing, while inside of them was a mass of smoldering wreckage which occasionally broke out into bright flames. By night of Monday the buildings were nearly all roofed. At one time they were forced to quit, j owing to a blaze which broke • ut in the south end of one of the buildings while they were putting a roof oruthe north end. An engine was called and the blaze w as soon extinguished. Insurance men are doing their best to settle the trouble for the poorer of the sufferers. They are anxious that all small losses be adjusted as soon as possible and accordingly a special com- ; mittee will have such claims in charge, i One incident which has received noaY tention owing to the excitement caused by the big fire was the burning of seven cottages in the southwestern part of the city Friday evening. The people who were burned out lost everything they possessed, and they will be "included in I the list of those to be given relief.

FOODS IN SMALL BULK. How Soldiers Will Carry coffee In Cam. paij-ns of the Future. When Uncle Sam next goes to war, the soldiers who fight under the starry flag will be su^nlied with coffee in a shape so highly condensed that a 4-ounce package will serve as ■ a month’s ration ior each man. The : concentrated preparation will be . given out perhaps as a dry powder, ; but more probably in the form of i small lozenges, resembling cougndrops in sizfi and shape. These lozen- ! ges will be inclosed in tin boxes of 100, each of them weighing a gramme and represetning one cup of coffee. For preparing the beverage no coffeepot will be required, it being neccessary merely to put a coffee tablet into the cup and pour boiling water upon it, when tne coffee is instantly made. : Sugar and milk can be added to suit i the taste. In France such coffeo lozenges of comparatively large size have been recentlj' Introduced being made bulky by the addition of sugar for sweetening; but everybody does not care for sugar, and therefore those which have lately begun to be manufactured in this country have been made plain. The processes by which coffee is thus concentrated are very interesting. To begin with the beans are roasted in an enormous oven and ground in a huge mill. Then they are put into a great iron vessel, which is nothing more or less than a gigantic coffeepot. holding 240 pounds at a time. Hundreds of gallons of filtered water are pumped into the coffee pot, which acts on the “drip” principle, and the infusion is drawn off to an evaporating tank. A steam pump keeps the air exhausted from this tank, so that the coffee is in vacuo, being heated meanwhile to a high temperature by steam pipes. The water it contains rapidly passes off, and the coffee is of about the consistency of molasses when it is taken out. It is poured into tiays of enameled ware, and these trays are placed on shelves in another evaporator. When the trays are removed a short time later the coffee is a dry solid, which is scraped off the trays, ground to powder and molded iuto lozenges. There is no reason why the Government should not prepare coffee in this way on a la ge scale, in the event o" war, at a very great saving. By the process s described, one pound of the beans can be made to produce more than 100 cups. By inquiry it has been ascertained that hotels and restaurants get only from fifteen to j thirty-six cups from the same quantity, the minimum being reported from the most expensive establishments and the maximum by the cheapest eating houses. The reason for this is that the usual plan is to make the infusion and throw away the “grounds,” which still contain two-thirds or more of the original strength of the coffee. O course, for commercial pui poses, the lozenges can be made of Rio. Mocha or any | other variety of the bean, to suit the view the advantage of dispensing with i bulky untensils for preparing coffee ’ would be important Experiments । have recently been made with success J in the treatment of tea by similar ’ methods, and before long a ary solu- ‘ । ble essence, produced from the leaves, will be offered in the market a tiny drachm bottle holding twenty tablets each representing one cup. A Resnarkiib'e Mineral. ' Litho-carbon, which is a mineral somewhat resembling asphalt, is the most remarkable mineral of its class known. It is claimed that it makes a perfect insulator; that as a paint it will resist heat or gasses of any kind; , that it is capable of being rolled into ' a tissue free from odor.and-practicaliy indestructible when employed in the production of mackintoshes, canvas belting, waterproof tents, etc. It possesses peculiar powers, enabling it to enter and till the pores ol iron and steel, rendering these metals impervious to acids, etc It is also said to make common leather waler-proof, and it can be applied to wood-pulp for the transformation of that material into what looks and acts like ebony or horn. The astpration of a ship’s plates with hot litho carbon frustrates the attack of barnacles, and the plate will neither rust nor foul. A portion of the smoke stack of the steamer Dean Richmond, where the heat, through the use of a blower, rise to 800 degrees Fahrenchcit was । ainted with litho-carbon several monthsago, and remains undisturbed and unblistered, whi .e other parts of the vessel ! have necessarily been painted many times. A piece of sheet-iron covered with litho-carbon japan is stated to have been subjected to an actual heat of 415 degrees Fahrenheit, without crack or blister, and remained so tenacious that the iron could be bent at any angle without disturbing tha glossy surface. For varnishing railway and private carriages, painting iron bridges, roofs, steamships, houses, etc., this mat-rial acts as an insulator, and it is reported that it will

( neither crack nor blister under any i known atmospheric temperature. At ; great heat, litho-carbon will soften, : but will not take tire at any point’ If all that we hear of this mineral be true, it will form one of the most widely uselul substances of its own class known. —Iron. An L’alortunate Combination. ; There recently appeared in an Irish | paper this advertisem. 't: -‘Want- : “d —A gentleman to undertake the sale of a patent medicine: the adver- : tiser guarantees thjit it will be proiiti able to the undertaker.” This is [ even an unhappier mode of expression than that adopted recently in a local paper, when the editor * regretted to have to announce the death of Mr. So-and-So, but was not astonished to hear of the sad event, as deceased । had been attended for some time by ' Dr. Smith.