Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 June 1879 — Page 2

WOMEN AT THE SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY. From'tbe Women's Journal. To the Editor* of the Women's Journal:

As everything in which women are, or ought to be, especially interested is appropriated to jour columns, I propose to call the attention of your readers to a work goir.g on at the Women's Labora tory this year, which must appeal to the heart of all womankind.

It is to be feared that the existence of this institntion is not so widely known, even within the limit? of our own city, as it deserves to be. And even those tHio frequently pass the long, low, unob truMvc'building lying under the walls of the Institute of Technology, do not know that here the Institute offers to women to study thoroughly and tcientifically the more advanced branches of chemistry. Very few. also, comprehend that this pursuit can ofl'er any atti actions to women, or can be of the slightest sprvice to them. That some women do not tind chemistry more than attractive that it has an irresutabie fascination for those who, so to speak, belong to it, one may soon learn by a call at the laboratory which is open to visitors, and a little watching of the earnest workers there Bat is is of the importance of the ubjic, to women in general, rather than its in terest for individuals, that I want to speak now. "What business has a woman to know chemistry? what good will it ever do her in the kitchen were the contemptuous questions asked not so very long ago by aoine men who claimed to be particularly interested in education. And probably the same doubts lurk in the minds of many more, if they do not give them so open expression.

Now point is just the practical value of chemis'ry in household affairs. The kitchen lies as the foundation-stone of the home and what goes on there i8 of prime importance in family lite. If it -were generally recognized that cooking -and various branches of domestic work are but practical|applications of chemical !«cience, not only would the community entertain a greater respect for these laborers, but they would also be thought worthy of more careful study.

It is growing constantly more important lor all housekeepers to understand how work may be made easier, how labor can be applied more effectively, and how good quality may be distinguished from poor, in the raw material. Especially important is it to have some reliable authority as to the ourity or adulteration of articles of daily consumption. For both the health and the income of the family are concert ed, if such injurious compounds as we have lately been warned against are taken in our food, or if the full price of an honest article is paid for one comparatively worthless.

It is in this direction that various analalyses have been made this season at the Women's Laboratory, with a view to testing the purity and value of things in common household use.

Some tests are so very simple that any woman may try them for herself, and so secure a certain degree of satisfaction. For instance, we hear frequent statements that sugar ia adulterated with terra alba, quartz, sand, and like substances. Now any one may proved for herself, in this rejpect, the quality of sugar she buys. If a spoonful or two put in a tunv bier of water, warm or cold, and stir red for awhile, will, disolve entirely, leaving no sediment, it ia clear that no such adulteration as those just mentioned present. If a sediment remains, ev. idently the sugar is not pure.

Cream of tarter may be tried in the same way and peihaps housekeepers might discover by this means the reason why they sometime* have such ill success with biscuit and other preparations raised with this article.

Candies, too, which children will probably continue to eat, might be tried by the,same simple process to detect the presence of various injurious substances with which they are said to be loaded

There are a great many other things equally common and important in domestic economy, which are not so easily

But now that so many girls learn something of chemical manipulation in the laboratories so generally connected with academies and high schools, some of this work also, may be successfully accomplished at home.

great number of

eoaps and cleaning preparations tor use in the laundry and in general house work are offered tbvhe public, each one claiming not only to be perfectly harmless, but also a great deal better than anything else of the kind ever urged upon much-deluded public. Many of these are doubtless innocent enough, except that they

cl%im to be what they are not.

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Some of them are valuable and many are quite as cc-tainly very poor things, if not absolutely injurious. Now, any girl who has studied the principles of chemistry to any purpose can test these different claimants for public favor, to a certain extent, with a little muriatic acid. The degree of effervescence when a few drops of the acid are added to the solution under trial will reveal the amount of real soda present and an excess of this is harmful and will also show by the amount of fatty matter set free whether soap is the principal ingredient of the compound and it is a good deal cheaper and better to buy soap and •oda and mix for one's self in proper proportions, than to pay a high price for small package of some preparation with a long name, which is ia all probability "only this and nothing more."

The soda used in cooking, also, not infrequently contains undesirable impurities, some of which may be easily detected by a not very advanced student of chemistry. These impurities, be it said, by the way, are not always adulterations in the ordinary senses of the word that is, they are not intentional additions to a pure article, but very probably are left by imperfection in the process of manu factures. A drop or two of a solution of nitrate of silver added to an acidified solution of the soda will show the presence or absence of comman salt, which is not infrequently found where it has no right to be while a drop or two of a solution of chloride of barium will show if any sulphate of soda is present Chloride of barium is valuable, also, when pickles or vinegar are suspected of contamination by sulphuric acid.

And no housekeeper need be afraid to allow these simple re-agents a place on her shelves. A small bottle of each, and they are not expensive, will serve for much work, and properly labelled and put away in a suitable place, they can do no mischief and may be of much service.

But chemistry is useful in the household, not merely as a detective agent it has many serviceable hints to give, which it would take too long to mention here. The value of common ammonia and borax in different kinds of washing, and of alcohol in removing the stains of grassgreen, may serve as examples.

It is greatly to be hoped that women will give serious thought to this subject and learn how to avail themselves of all the help science has to give, not only to lighten domestic toil, but to raise it to a higher position in the respect of the community than it now enjoys.

P. Y.

PARISIAN WIT.

Some one asked the master of a colored servant why the latter always wore an irreproachable white cravat: "So as lo know where his head begins," replied the master.

Master Lucien has been taught the fable of "The Wolf and the Lamb" for the edification of his grandmother upon her birthday.*

Having recited about half of this interesting apologue, the dear child stops short.

What is the matter, my love?" asks the mother "don't vou know the rest of it?"

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ves, ma but the rest is quite too

awful."" "I say," said a bank cashier to a friend, "What do you think that bloated old bondholder, the president of our deposit trap, has had the impudence to do? He has told me to have my books and cash ready for an examination to-morrow. Hanged if 1 haven't good mind to call him out." "O, never mind it can't- make any earthly difference to you, if your books are all right." "But that is the mischief of it—they ain't."

Sarah Bernhardt is by no means stout, still this does seem to be a little exaggerated: "An empty carriage drove up to the door, and Sarah Bernhardt dismounted from it."

A remark from the painter Corot when, at the outbreak of the war of 1870 he saw the first troops marching past his door bound for the Eastern Railway station: "Poor fellows how much better it would be for them to go out and sketch."

First Honest Villager—"Well, how did Did they

J«n Pierre come out? Did they con-

put to the proof, requiring something 'villager-"No there was no evidence against him and he swore solmenly that he was innocent." first Honest Villager (with a fearful sneer)—"Innocent? 5, yes, he's innocent just as innocent as I am. The confounded "scoundrel.

more of chemieal skill and appliances. Would it not be an excellent plan for heads of families to take this matter into consideration and devise some scheme by which these investigations may l»e encouraged and extended and made available for the benefit of individuals interested? An association might easily be formed which would give those belonging to it the right to present any of a certain list of articles for examination, and thus obtain certainty and security for themselves with the bestrau Us to the family health and pocket.

A servant whose bachelor employer is dead, seeks another situation. "Can I call on your last master?" says the lady to whom he applies, "and obtain yo«r character from him?" "Not at present, raadame—he is dead!" "Nothing seems to me so ill-bred," says a young man, "as to smoke in the presence of ladies." "Well," a friend Asks, "how do you manage when there are ladies present and you want to smoke?" "How do I manage? Why, I seem illbred.*' -".si'.1

In a sick room: "Ah, my dear friend, you are too kind to come and spend the evening with me, though of course it can be little pleasure to vou." "Oh, nonsense yc*i musn't talk like that—musn't think anything of the scat. Life isn't ail pleasure. We can't always ex Dec to do what would be most agreeable for us to do. Some one had to come and see you* you know." "That Venus," said a critic severely, ,'is a pretty poor piece of work.",

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"It is very easy for you to 'say so says a friend of the artist "still a man has got to have some acquaintance with art before he can sculp a statue like that." "Oh, bosh," as M. Ruskinsays, "Sculp ture, per se, is the simplest thing in the world. All you have to do is to take a big chunk of marble and a hammer and a chisel, make up your mind what you are about to create and chip off al) the marble you don't want."

A young gummy (un jeune gommeox) has offered himself a large dog of the mountain.

The other day, wishing to give the spectacle of the authority which he exercises upon his dog, the gummy obliges hiiti to mount in vehicle some persons were observing him he excites himself and taking his most fat voice "Here, Caesar! Shall they obey me when I speak?"

Cesar does not budge. "Eh, well! is it that they hear me?" And he lifts his cane and menaces to 6trike the dog.

This one here returns himself towards the gummy, pushes a deaf growling, and shows Him the teeth terribles.

As soon as that, the gummy, with sweetness: "Wilt thou mount, my toutou comes, my good dog, comes."

And he makes himself distant in caressing him with the mo6t great deference.

Saturday night at the Cirque is the night. Everybody that is anybody goes there that night and no one thinks of going on another night unless he is nobody.

A young actress sends her man-ser-vant to secure her two seats. "I want them absolutely," she says, "and if you can't get them at the boxoffice go to the speculators—you've got to get them."

The faithful servant returned in about an hour, his face radiant with complacent jo/of one who has done a good action. "You got the seats for the Cirque?" "Yes, miss only those ticket speculators are scoundrels to ask me 20 francs for a ticket!"

Oh never mind the coit-you got them-2 "Yes, miss, here they are but as I thought the price was too steep I took seats for Monday night instead. I got them at the ordinary price and it is the same play that is to be performed-I made sure of that before buying them."

This opens the great question-what do people go to the theatre tor?

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

A Statement to the Public,

in4 an Appeal for Itelp in order thai the New Building maybe ready

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Money or subscriptions may be given to either of the following persons: J. Button, Central book store, R. L. Thompson, J. A. Parker, Clift & Williams—to any member of the building committee, or to the undersigned.

C. R. HENDERSON

Pastor of the First Baptist Church.

Deal Gently With the womacfau If it proves refractory, miIt A:^6ipline is the thing to set It right.* Not all the naaseons draughts and boluses ever Invented caa do halt as much to remedy its disorders as a few wineglass fulls—* ay, three a day— of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which will afford it sieely relief. and eventually banisa every dTspeptlc and bilious gymptom. Siek beadaohe, nervensaeas, -sallowness of the complexion, fur upon the tongue, vertigo. and those many indescribable ana disagreeable sensations mused by indigestion, are too often perpetvated by injudicious dosing. An immediate abandonment of raeh random and 111 advised experiments should be the first step in the direst ton of a cure the next step the nse of this standard tonic alterative, which has received the highest medical sanction and won nnpMcedental popularity.

Senator Wade Hampton, it is said, does not look at all like an invalid, but strong and bluf£ as he sits in the Senate with his crutches laid under hit chair.

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Dealer in

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Oorapancy

NoTcmber lit.

To the friends of the first Baptist church| At a meeting, June 4,1879, it was resolved that the building committee be instructed to begin work on July 1st and make the new edifice ready for occupancy by Nov. 1st, 1879. Work will therefore begin in about four weeks from this time.

The necessity for larger accommodations has been manifest for a long time. If the church is to increase in usefulness to the city it must have better audience and Sunday school room. In order that we may complete the building without a crushing debt, it becomes necessary for us to appeal for a certain amount of aid faom our friends and neighbors not connected with our membership. Such a public building is an attraction, an ornament and a benefit to the public. As in the past, our house will in the future be open for such public meetings, in addition to regular religious and moral work, as may be helpful to the social and intellectual progress of our community. We have aided in many public enterprises and church buildings for others, and we confidently hope we shall meet with kind responses in our hour of need. Very much of our benevolent and educational work is done for those who can give us little aid. Our committee will wait on many of the citizens and give them an opportunity of subscribing to the work. Whatever is given will be gratefully acknowledged and a record kept in the church archives.

Groceries aa« Provisions. Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Corner of Second and Main streets.

Terre Haute, Ind!

Highest cask triteya 14 for W

MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS

45 Years Before the Publia

THE GENUINE

OR. C. MoLANE'S

CELEBRATED

LIVER PILLiS

FOR THE CURE OF

Sepatitis, or Liver Complaint,

OVSTBPSIA AMD SICK HSADACHK.

Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.

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\IN in the right side, tinder the of the ribs, increases en pressure sometimes the pain is in the left side the patient is rarely able to lie onthe left side sometimes the pain vjHfelt under the shoulder blade, and infrequently extends to the top of the shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken for rheumatism in the arm. The stomach is affected with loss of appetite and sickness the bowels in genera] are costive, sometimes alternative with lax the head is troubled with pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy sensation in the back part. There is generally a considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful sensation •f having left undone something which ought to hare been done. A slight, dry cough is sometimes an attendant The patient complains of weariness and debility he is easily startled, his feet are cold or burning, and he complains of a prickly sensation of the (kin his spirits are low and although le is satisfied that exercise would be beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely jummon up fortitude enough to try it. fact, he distrusts every remedy. Feveral of the above symptoms attend fie disease, but cases have occurred fhere few of them existed, vet examhation of the body, after death, has Jiown the LIVER to have been extenively deranged.

A E A N E E D*. C. MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS, IN JASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when Rken with Quinine, are productive of he most happy results. No better dthartic can be used, preparatory to, after taking Quinine. We would advise all who are afflicted with this fsease to give them a FAIR TRIAL.

For all bilious derangements, and a simple purgative, they are uny^ualed.

BEWABE OF IMITATIONS.

The genuine are never sugar coated. Every box has a red wax seal on the Id, with the impression BR. MCLANE'S UVBR PILLS.

The genuine MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS par the signatures of C. MCLANE and FLBMING BROS, on the wrappers.

Insist upon having the genuine DR. I MCIIANE'S LIVER PILLS, prepared by Jeming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the |arket being full of imitations of the une

McLane,

spelled differently but

tine pronunciation.

OTICE TO OONTBACTOBS.

City Engineer's Office.

Terre Haute, Ini., June 5th, 1379.

Sealed proposals will be received by the common council of the city of Terre Haute, at their next regular meeting to be hold Tuesday evening June 17th, 1879, for the improvement of the following: viz: Grading, curbing and cindering Twelfth street from Poplar to the E. & C. fi. R.

Jnd. Grading, curbing and graveling Water street from Main to Ohio street. 3rd. Grading and graveling alley between Fourth and Fifth streets from Oak to Crawford, according to plans and specifications for each of the above on file at this office.

The council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. &ach bid to be accompanied with a bond signed by two dis-intarested sureties

Bidders names to be endorsed upon the auta'de of the envelopes containing the bids. By order of couacfl.

GEO. H. SIMPSON, City Engineer.

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I A E O A N E S A An Agreeable Aperient dc Refrigerant Thli w*ll-kMwa preparation It htsfalr reernraMndnl t-r DYSPEPSIA, HIA.DACHK, Slcka«u of the Sumach, H*artborn, aad aU complaint* arbtag from Acidity. Billon, and Malarial firm. It (00la thi blood and ragnlaua the BoweU. It li a Ifcvotlt* madteta* for ehlldrtn, and In acidity and twaat tarta makaallcoollacaad rtfrwhln*. Pot npln (ot. bottlei.

Praparad by A. ROGERS' a SONS, Cbemliu, Jf. T. Superior to Mineral Waters, Seidlitz Powders, fto, For Sale by all Druggets.

RE-FITTED.

W. N. Scvdder has had his Ice cream

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triors wonderfully improved and reboth as to ohalrs, paperlag, decor atlon, &c., &e. Best quality of Ice cream in the city, made from purest Ingredients.

GENT WANTED

In every County. Reliable, intellint Business men can clear $1,000 to yearly, In the New Agency. Entirely new and desirable—pleasant and permanent. Can be carried on in connection with a store, shop or mill, or by any good agent.

Suitable, for overy county in the United States. ..I,

Address, J. B, CHAPMAN, 70 West St. Madison, ind.

Attention

ot persons desiring building sites is called the offer of 57 choice lots, now ofiered for sale in Gilbert's place on long time and at low prices. For full information call on B. V. Marshall, over Prairie City bank.

RE-FITTED.

W. Scatter has had bis ice cream parlors woaderfally Pmproved aid refitted both as to chairs, papering, decoration 1c., fco.

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LA.NDS LANDS!

KANSAS

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TO THE FRONT

The Leading: Wheat State in the Union in 1878, and the Fourth Corn. State—The

Great Kansas Harvest of 1878 was sold for the "Golden

Belt,"

The celebrated Grain Belt of country, in the limestone section of Central Kansas, traversed by the Kansas Pacific.

The following statements are taken from the report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture for 187S: .aiyr aT I Kansas rises from vvllk#%l the Eleventh Wheat State in 1877 to the First Wheat State in the Union in 1878, producing 26,518,958 bushels winter wheat, and 5,796,403 mhels spring wheat total,

32,315,361

Bushels Wheat, with only one-eighth of the State under cultivotion. The organ, ized counties lying in the Golden Wheat Belt of the Kansas Pacific produced 13,335.324 bushels, or over 41 per cent, and, including unreporting counties, fully 14,000,000 bushels, or 45 per cent, of the entire yield of Wheat in the State, averaging 25 bushels to the acre, while the average for the State was 17 bushels pe acre. PflDN Kansas, the Fourth Corn OUli 11 State in the Union in 1878, produced 89,324,971 bushels of Corn. Of which the Golden Grain Belt counties produced 27,399,055 bushels, or 41 per cent, nearly one-third of the entire yield of the State, with an equally grand showing in all other departments of agriculture.

Tl»e foregoing facts 6how conclusively why 29 per cent of the increase in population in the State during the past four years and 49 per cent of the increase in population during the past year and 43 per cent of the increased acreage of wheat in the State in 1S78, belonged to the "Golden Belt."

A Farai for Everybody.—62.500 farms —5,000,000 acres—for sale by Kansas Pacific—the best land in America, at from $2 to $6 per acre, one-quarter off for cash, or on 6 or 11 years credit at 7 per cent interest. It don't take much money to buy a farm on the, Kansas Pacific $26 to $80 will secure 8ofacres on credit, or $120 to $360 in cash will buy it outright

Send to S. J. Gilmore, Land Commissioner, Salina. Kas., for the "Kansas Pa cific Homestead," a publication which tells about Lands, Homesteads, Pre-emp tion, Soil, Climate, Products, Stock raising, Schools, Wages, Land Explorers' Tickets, Rates, etc. It is mailed free to all applicants.

Read all you can gather about sas, and when you decide to start, be sure and start right by locating along the KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY.

F. OAKES,

Gen'l Superint endent.

KANSAS CITY, MO.

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A RICH OPENIHQ.

Leadvllle, Colorado.—The vast deposits of carbonates of silvec at Leadyille, so manv miles in extent, are conceded to be the richest ever discovered. They lay in horizontal beds, as coal or gravel, from 2 to ten fee^ thick and from 8 to 100 feet below the surface, are mined with aid ot a pick and shovel, no blasting or deep, expensive shafts being required, as is the case with tfie narrow, vertical veins of hard silver quartz heretofore found, muscle, energy, and daily bread being the only requisites. 4*

The.Best Way There.—At Kansas City or Leavenworth take the Kansas Pacific R'y to Denver, the Denver, South Park & Pacific R. R. to Webster, 70 miles west of Denver, thence the South Park daily stages 28 miles to Fairplay, 42 miles to Leadville. This, the short line, .saves 100 miles staging. Emigrants on Kansas Pacific R'y are carried on JFast Express Passenger Traias. Rates as low as by any other line.

Colorado.—The" great4 sanitarium and Pleasure Resort „of America elevated above the influence of miasma, with its pure, tonic and exhiliarating atmosphere, its nunderous mineral springs, immense deposits of gold* and silver and the grandeur, extent and variety of its scenery, offers unequalled attractions for the Pleasure Seeker, Scientist, Artist, Capitalist, the Invalid, the Overworked and the gold and silver seekers.

Golden Belt Route.—The Kansas Pacific R'y is the only line running entire trains equipped with Pullman Sleeping Palaces and elegant Day and Second Class Coaches to Denver without change of either passengers, baggage or mails. This being the short line and quickest, is therefore the cheapest and best route in every respect.

Free.—Send to P. B. Groat, Gen Pass. Agt. Kansas Pacific R'y. Kama City, Mo., for the new "Colorado Tour ist,*' for 1879, the new ''Colorado Mine an 1879 Guide to Leadville," illustrated with the best map published. Enclose postage stamp. "V P. B. GOAT,

The McCormick is again ready for the harvest field. Farmers and wheat raisers consider this matter. Da not contract for any other binder until you see ours. For it has stood at the head of all, and will hold the reins in the future. It again took the premium at the Paris, France,, Exposition in 1878, over all its competitors. For particulars call at the Idaho grocery.

EP€00RDES &T CO

0 S W E A & O

DEALERS IN ALL KINDS O#

Farm Implements,

Ohio St., East Side of Public Square/

Open and Top Buggies, Spring and Farm Wagons. The Celebrated Hughes Sulkey Plow. Tha Hamilton, Fort Wayne, and Buckeye Breaking Plow, tor General Purposes. The Canton, Clipper, and Othei Stubble Plows. A full stock of One-Horse Plows, both Right and Left Hand, Double-Shovels, Iron and Wood Beams, Single Shcvel Plews, The Buckeye and O^ura Self-Binding Harvester. The Buckeye Table Rake, Dropper and Mower. The Wheeler Self Rake, Dropper and Mower.

The Taylor and other iim-class Sulkey Hay Rakes. 1 We would call the attention of Farmer* especially to our Bar Plow Cultivator. ffpA lull stock ot Repairs always on hand for Machines, either Reapers Threshen sold by us.

W Farmers are most cordially invited to call and examine our stock 1purchasing. All of our jooflo are Fally Warranted.

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KANSAS CITY, MO.

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