HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Fordwich Record, 1901-08-29, Page 2LOST THEIR MEMORIES.
remained in his memory. Doctors
could do nothing for him; and,
though it was afterwards a puzzle to
him that he had a wife and fainily,
he was greatly attached to them. He
picked up the thread of his work,
however, and turned out another-use-
ful invention—the Andrews steam-
gauge—before. his death in the Dia-
mond Jubilee year.
Still more complete, and odder, be-
cause there was no "clue" in it, was
the loss of Dr. Graham Hearne's me-
mory, the great throat specialist and
bacteria expert. He had successfully
treated over 4,000 people in his time
and three years ago—in July, 1898—
he went for one of his customary
long tramps round London for exer-
cise, returning, as usual, tired out.
Next morning he awoke to wonder
who he was and what-his business
might be. Here, again, his entire
family and circle of friends conveyed
no memory to him; but he remember-
ed one thing in the blank page
his past life—his dog, and its name,
Poppy. They were great friends.
Yet, though his brother had given
him 'Poppy, the brother himself was
a complete stranger to the doctor's
mind since that night. Of his medi-
cal knowledge,
A FAMOUS TOWER.
The famous "Tower of Remem-
brance," which was erected at Grave-
lotte by the Germans in 1895, at a
cost of more than $200,000, has been
blown up by the military. engineers.
Originally intended as a post of ob-
servation over the neighboring coun-
try, it was afterwards found that the
existence of such a watch-tower was
incompatible with the safety of the
new fort outside Metz, which it com-
pletely dominated.
WHICH WAS ENORMOUS,
he remeinbered nothing, and hardly
seemed to know a vein from a nerve.
But he took up a study entirely .hew
to him—architectuete-.-Mid mastered it
in the most wonderful way within a
year. He was good company, kind-
ly, and sane in every way, and was
the only case of the kind • in Which
everything eventually returned, for
just twenty-four months after his
lost memory. returned to him rapidly.
1Vithin six months he knew all and
everybody he .had forgotten, dropped
architecture, and took up medicine
again. He died only three months
ago, as sound in brain as he had
ever been.
It was one of these memory freaks
that was the cause of the run on
Gresford & Co.'s bank in Lombard
Street, London. A gentleman was
found in a train that ran into Queen
Street Station, Glasgow, who seemed
to know nothing about his ticket,
nor any other matter of importance.
The ticket was found in his pocket,
but he could not say who he was,
where he came from, or where he
wanted to go to. He lied ample
money. It was presently discovered,
after as much trouble as tough. he
had been an
UNIDENTIFIED "BODY"
that lie was Mr. Gresford, the popu-
lar chairman of Gresford & Co.'s
bank. No this-news got into the
papers, an it gave rise to a rumor
PEOPLE WHO FORGOT EVERY-
THING THEY KNEW.
Overwork Has Completely Wiped
Out the Memories of Some •
People.
One of the most-talked-of people in
Britain to-day is a young girl whose
past life is lost to her. Without any
apparent reason, her memory utterly
vanished a short time ago, and she
scan remember neither her family,
with which she lives, her name, nor
anything that she ever did.
These wonderful memory losers are
not so uncommon, and one of the
weirdest cases was that of Mr. Quin-
cey, a few years ago. A middle-aged
gentleman was found
AIMLESSLY WANDERING ABOUT
Wimbledon Common, dressed in a
silk hat and frock suit, wet to -the
skin, for it had been raining heavily
ale:night. Though .quite sane and
clear-headed, he could not toll who
he was or where he lived, and could
not even recollect that there was
such a thing as a police station,
which might help him. A letter was
found in his pocket—he had not
thought of that—addressed to him by
his son; but after reading it slowly
he could not remember any such rer-
son as the writer—had never heard
the name.
He was taken home, and was em-
barrassed when received by hls fam-
ily, none of whom he kneW, though
he had left them the day before
quite 'in possession of all his facial-
ties. He did not know what he had
meant to do. He was well-off, cheer-
ful and contented, never had over-
worked, and was a clever tennis
player—and this last was the only
thing he found he could do, except
-read and write, since the adventure.
lie soon got used to his family
and became much attached to them,
and also became an accomplished
golfer, as many people know; hut to
the day of his death, a little while
ago, he remembered nothing before
that rainy night, and practically be-
gan life again at
THE AGE OF FORTY-ONE.
In several cases overwork ban whol-
ly wiped out the memories of lever
people—for, whatever the cause, it is
seldom a stupid man or woman that
falls victim. And it will Maya the
brain just as fit as ever for the fu-
ture. though blotting out the r. aft,
as in the case of John Andrews, the
inventor of the Truefitt Orr:ajar-saw;
the Andrews valve, and a dozen other
clever works that bear his name all
over England.
One day, when his family was away
a batch of letters came to 1:is house
at Cainpden Hill, complaining of im-
portant appointments he had not
kept. Next day a deluge ef tele-
grams, and then a string of callers.
Andrews was found locked in his
study.
He had shut himself in, with a
spirit lamp to cook his own food, as'
he did sometimes when tackling a
big problem, and slept on a couch
when tired Out. This time ho was
found merely sitting and smoking.
He had forgotten all his appoint-
ments, could remember none of the
callers who came for him, and stared
blankly at his own family. When
asked if he would take his dinner in
the dining-room, he replied: "What
dining-room?" He did not know his
way about his own house, and knew
no more about London than if he
had never seen it. Not
ONE OF HIS INVENTIONS
CAV9SSWASW01.&
Household.
SEVS6StSSWOSSSI
FLOOR COVERINGS.
Mats or rugs are the best floor
eoveriag, because they are not tack-
ed ;loan and can be lifted easily.
The floor should have close joints
and an oil finish. Open joints in
the floors are receptacles for dirt,
and they cannot be cleaned out.
The dust on the closely jointed oil
surface can easily be removed with
damp mop, and no dust will rise
to vitiate the air or settle on the
furnishings. The damp. mop- is--also
of service in cleaning an impervious
floor, such as MI-cloth, lin,oleura,
oiled wood, rubber, flagstones, mar-
ble, tile, etc.. Linoleum is a thor-
oughly hygienic floor . covering, and
especially desirable for kitchens.
pantries, dining rooms, bath rooms
and halls and passages, particularly
If there are children around. The
best thing with which to sweep a
carpet is a modern carpet sweeper of
approved make. This picks up most
of the dirt, throws it into a receiv-
ing chamber inside the sweeper, and
reduces the amount of floating dust
to a minimum. Especially objection-
able is the "despicable feather dust-
er," which simply scatters the dust
to other places of lodgment instead
of removing it.
JELLY MAKING.
While jelly .can be made from, all
fruits some contain a much greater
proportion of pectin than others.
Pectin. is . the clement that jellies
and it resembles both starch and
gelatine.. There is considerable
more pectin in the peel and sore of
fruits than in the softer portion and
this is why it is better not to peel
them. The best fruits for jellies, are
currants, crabapples and quinces.
Barbeeries and blockbereies also
make excellent jelly. But other
fruits need more careful handling
to get satisfactory results. Do not
pick fruit for making jelly just after
a rain because the extra water must
evaporated -by boiling, and, too
long boiling changes the character
of the pectin and the jelly will be
both poor in quality and color.
Do not expect to make good jelly
with a tin-kettle, iron-spoon, brown
sugar and over-ripe fruit. Have -an
enamel porcelain-lined or earthen
stewing kettle and silver or wooden
spoons. Pick or buy fruit that is
just ripe and use granulated sugar.
When jelly glasses with covers cost
but 25 cents a dozen it seems un-
necessary, to put nice jelly in old
cups • and bowls, bit, if even this
small outlay cannot be . afforded put
- Lhe jelly' into small dishes or glass-
es and not into . large jars., 'The old
Limo way of putting sugar and bran-
dy and paper dipped in the white of
an egg over the top of • jelly glasses
is unnecessary trouble ; a coating
of parafline is much better and the
paraltine comes in cakes for the
purpose. Melt a piece in. a small
saucepan and . pour a thin coating
over the jelly ; it will harden on
the sides of the glass and make an
air-tight seal.
been touched by frost; rub them, cut
in eigths without peeling or coring,
add water to cover and cook until
soft, which will take a longer time
than for most. fruits. Strain and
follow the general rule. Another and
an old-fashioned Way is -to pare and
core and slice' the quinces thinly.
Make preserve from the slices and
use the parings and cores for jelly.
Crabapple jelly is made like apple
jelly, but the little apples need not
be cut. Be careful not to overcook
this jelly, as it may become too
thick and leathery.
Plum jelly requires a little less
sugar than currant or apple jelly.
A good combination jelly is made
from one-half each of apples and
barberry juice. Currants and rasp-
berries are also combined well.
Finally, remember that in all pre-
serving, canning and jelly making it
is the sterilization more than the
sugar that protects from fermenta-
tion. Our foremothers made their
preserves "pound for pound," but
kept them in unsealed jars. The
large amount of -sugar failed. to keep
the preserves from "working." Their
remedy was to scald the preserved
fruit and this was in reality steriliz-
ing it, but as it was put back into
the saute jars the cure was but tem-
porary.
CHILDREN'S MANNERS.
As children are imitative beings,
and as home influence is atmospher-
ic, the best table manners among the
yoenger ones will, all things being
equal, be found where the children
are in constant association with
fastLdious and refined (ethers and
mothers. How to 'handle fork and
spoon, how to take soup, how to
help one's self with grace, what to
do, and what not to do, little by
little will be learned in the best
school of rreadners in the world —the
refined home—by children whose ad-
vantage it is to live there. The
mother will not pass over awkard-
ness or blunder in etiquette -; she
will gently and tactfully call the
child's attention to _the mistake,
never wounding her child by a pub-
lic reproof, nor embarrassing the rest
of the family and sympathetic guests
by nagging and fault-finding in their
presence. Children have rights, and
one Of their rights is to be reproved
and corrected in private. If atten-
tion is given to small details from
the beginning few children will ar-
rive at the age of seven or eight
without having acquired ease and
familiarity in the use and practice
of the accepted conventionalities of
the table.
ENGLAND'S NEW Loom-.
Weaver Crossley's Invention Will
Revolutionize the Industry.
If all is realized that is promised
on behalf of the patent for a new au-
tomatic weaving loom bought up
by a British syndicate, then the cot-
ton trade of Lancashire—or that part
of it concerned with weaving—is on
the eve of brighter and more import-
ant developments, says the London
Daily Mail.
Only a few 'days ago the Secretary
of the Manchester Chamber of Com-
merce referred to a patent of the
kind perfected in the United States
but the patent purchased by the
British syndicate, ana already
sought after by a numecr of em-
ployers, is claimed to be superior to
any yet invented.
It is pointed out, by Mr. Richard
Marsden, consulting examiner to the
City and Guilds of London Institute,
and editor of the Textile Mercury,
that by its application the weaver
who now attends to four looms can
easily attend to eight, and that, on
the assumption that he earns 5s per
loom, he will now earn £2 a week
for attending, to the looms. More-
Over, as each loom, by the obviat-
ing of stoppages, will produce l'/e
per cent. more cloth, the eight
looms will bring the weaver's earn-
ings up to £2 5s, as against £1,
although it will be clear that some
Of the increase will go to benefit the
employer and the consumer.
"This patent," said Mr. Marsden
to a Daily Mail representative, "is
the invention of a young Brunley
weaver named Bernard Crossley. It
is capable of attachment, at a . com-
paratively small cost, to existing
single-box looms. There are 850,000
power looms in this country. Out of
this number Crossley's invention will
be capable of being applied to 600,-
000.
"Among the competitors for the
favor of the trade the Crossley loom,
in my estimation, stands first be-
cause of its adaptability to existing
looms, the simplicity of its mechan-
ism, the speed at which it can run,
and the rapidity with which. it af-
fects the shuttle changes.
"There is no commercial limit to
the speed of the loom of that adjust-
ment. Assuming that a loom is
working at 200 picks per minute,
ceilidh is a good average rate, this
loom, without any pause in its
action, changes the. shuttle in one
four-hundredth part of a minute--
that is, half of a revolution of the
first shaft.
"It effects this change and at the
same time entirely avoids the faults
made in looms as ordinarily con-
structedthat Is, making what ,are
termed thick and thin places in they
cloth, either by putting too much or
too little weft in.
"This loom after a change of shut-
tle, itself resumes work in such a
manner as to leave no vestige of the
change having taken place, save,
perhaps, a broken pick, which might,
extend half way acress .the shed. .It
thus makes a superior cloth . to the
existing loom."
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The oldest monkish order is the
Basiliana, haYing been established
in A.D. 863. The next, the Benedic-
tines, date from 529.
The telegraphs of Great Britain
were transferred to Government on
February 5th, 1870. The Post Of-
fice now controls 280,000 miles of
telegraph wire.
Tenants Occupy 21 million acres of
England, owners 8,700,000. In
Scotland owners occupy but 604,000
acres against 44 million occupied by
tenants.
A BUSY SPOT.
The Greatest Telegraph Office in
the World.
The. Central Telegraph Office at St.
Afarthi's-le-Grand is the busiest spot
in London. Day and night, Sunday
and weekday throughout the year,
the place is the scene of great ac-
tivity, for the building is never
closed.
At this one telegraph office be-
tween 125,000 and 150,000 tele-
grams are handled daily. The re-
cord number of messages received
and despatched in one day is 195,-
411, which was the number reached
on the day before the late Queen's
Diamond Jubilee in 1807. There are
no fewer than 1,226 telegraph in-
struments and a staff of nearly 4,-
600 persons is employed. There are
2,470 men telegraphists, about 1,-
200 lady telegraphists, 880 messen-
gers, and fifty special servants.
- It is wonderful what the little
clicking machines are capable of ac-
complishing and the variety to be
found in this immense building.
There are hundreds of duplex ma-
chines, which signal two messages
at the same time over one wire in'
opposite directions. More wonderful
still is the multiplex machine, by
which a clerk can despatch six mes-
sages at the same time in different
directions. For very rapid working
the Wheatstone apparatus is called
into play, whereby a speed of 350
words a minute can be obtained ;
indeed, the instrument has a record
of 600 words a minute.
When anything important occurs
the Central Telegraph Office is ex-
ceedingly busy sending reports
across its numerous wires. Often as
many as 500,000 words are despatch-
ed in the early hours of the morning
of a famous Parliamentary speech.
When Mr. Gladstone introduced his
Home Rule Bill, in 1886, over 1,-
000,000 words were despatched over
the wires from the head office. This
is regarded at the Central Telegraph
Office as a "night's" record,
Messages can be sent from this of-
fice to all parts of the world. In ad-
dition to the telegraph wires there
are numerous telephones, ono of the
most interesting being that from
London to Paris. As many as 300
persons have used it in a single day,
and a charge of his. is made for ev-
ery 'talk of three minutes' duration
or less.
MENACE TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
Londoners' Bread Baked in Cellar
Bake-Houses.
Half the bread'supplied in London
comes from cellar bake-houses that
violate the first principle of sanita-
tion, and frequently cause typhus
and other filth diseases, according to
Dr. J. F. Waldo, the newly elected
coroner of' the City of . London.
"The total abolition of these plac-
es," says Dr. Waldo, "is the only
means of ensuring the production of
bread under healthy conditions.
Years of investigation as health ale-
cm. of Southwark have convinced me
that the Ccivernment must take the
most stringent measures, otherwise
the opposition of the trade, backed
by the supineness of the local author-
ities, will render powerless all efforts
to remove a public scandal and a
grave menace to the health of the
community. •
"I believe that conditions are worse
in London than anywhere. Germany
recently took strong remedial mea-
sures, as did New York, some time
ago. . It is almost impossible to exag-
gerate the unsanitary state of more
than half the bake-houses of the me-
tropolis. Scarcely one is specially
constructed for the purpose. The
majority are cellars in ordinary
dwellings. The air is vitiated, and
there are many sources of active con-
tamination, to say nothing of rats,
mice, beetles, and spiders, found in
many places.
"The theory that baking renders
absorbed particles harmless is en-
tirely unwarranted, and is insflat Con-
tradiction with medical science. So
long as underground bake-houses are
tolerated, so long will the public run
the risk of being poisoned by the
bread it eats."
THE POPE'S BIG MAU.,
Gets About 23,000 Letters and Pa-
pers a Day.
A Berlin newspaper publishes some
curious details respecting the letter-
bogs of the principal European sov-
ereigns. The Pope holds the first
place, as he receives every day from
22,000 to 23,000 letters and news-
papers. King Edward VII. comes
next, with 3,000 newspapers and
1,000 letters. The Czar and the Ger-
man Emperor receive each from 600
to 700 letters, appeals, etc.; the
King of Italy, 500; Queen IVilhelmina
from 100 to 150.
The Pope, says the same authority;
employs no fewer than thirty-five
secretaries. Emperor William writes
a great deal himself, -and since Queen
Victoria's death he has used black-
bordered paper. In ordinary times
he uses large sheets of light blue or
dark grey paper.
The world produces a million
pounds of silk a. week.
Portugal is the most illiterate
countryo in Europe. 67 per cent. of
its population cannot write. In It-
aly the proportion of illiterates is
53 per cent., in Russia 36, in Spain
9, in England Si.
Bronchitis is the most fatal dis-
ease in England, next consumption,
and then heart disease, pneumonia,
and scarlatina.
Of 100 European immigrants the
United States takes 63, British Col-
onies 11, South America 18, and the
rest of the world the remaining 18.
The average duration of human life
is about 33 years. One quarter of
all the people born in the world die
before 6, and one-half before 16.
The most important tunnel in the
world is the Mont Cents, 71 miles
long. Through it passes the main
overland route from London to the
east. It took 23 years to construct,
and cost fifteen million dollars,
STROWGER'S NEW LIQUID
GAS.
MOST POPULAR NAMES.
List of Those Which Are Usually,
Given Children.
Some romantic parents love to
christen their infants with high- fain-,
tin'. names. Religious parents search'
the Scriptures before the baptismal:
ceremony. Parents in search of a
fortune will label their luckless babes
with the surname of the expected tes-
tator. But, nevertheless, the list of
common English surnames is a very
small one. Out of every hundred
fathers and mothers of male children.
some eighty-four limit their choice to
fifteen' familiar names.
The favorite name is undoubtedly
William. In all ranks of society—in
the peerage as in the workhouse—
William is the commonest of all
Christian names.
Stop the first thousand men you
meet in the street. No fewer than
170 are Williams. A long way be-,
hind come the Johns, closely follow-
ed by the Georges. Of every thou-I
sand men ninety-four are called John I
and ninety-two George.
The next commonest name -is
Thomas, which has seventy-four own-
ers, while James claims seventy-two. I
Henry and Harry between them are(
seventy in number. Of these about
one in four have received the name
of Harry at the baptismal font. Fel-
lowing them come Frederick with
fifty-seven, Charles with forty-eight,
Alfred with forty-five, and Albert'
some. way behind with ,thirty-one.;
The popularity of Albert has arisen
entirely from the personal popularity;
of our late Queen's beloved consort. I
It was practically unknown in Eng-I
rlande.before Queen Victoria's mar-' ing
The good old Saxon appellation of;
Edward is given to five arid twenty'
out of every thousand citizens, Ar-I
thur and Robert having each twenty-I
three, while of the reenae te indacercoosf
thousand men you
vav
the street seventeen are called Jos-
t4hoisn i those'
thousand
eph and fifteen Herbert. S9 we have
accounted for no fewer than 856 out
of every thousand Englishmen, and
they divide between them only fifteen
out of the many hundreds, nay thou-
sands of names from which their par-
ents are at liberty to choose.
Of the remaining-144 of our repre-
sentative thousand a few, such as
Richard, Percy or Ernest are claimed'
severally by two or three men, bun
all the rest are the sole and exclu-
sive property of one in a thou-
sand."
Nurse—I lost track of the child
mum, and—" Good gracious I
Why didn't you speak to a police.
man ? Nurse—I was speaking ti
wan all the tohne, mum.
that there was something very
wrong with the bank. The result
was the "run" on Gresford's, in
which crowds of anxious people ga-
thered, drawing out many thousands
in a few hours.
The bank, of course, was as sound
as a rock, and there seemed no sort
of reason for the strange loss of me-
mory of the chairman, who was al-
ways cheery and contented and had
no worries of any sort. The strang-
est thing was that he remembered
about half the members of his family
but had no recollection of the other
half; and as for the bank and its af-
fairs, they were a closed book to
him. Two years later; however, he
regained part of his memory; but
that memorable journey north never
found its place in nis mind.
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HEALING THE SMART.
An Incident of the Tact of the
King of England.
Everyone who has known the King
of England concludes that he is a
man of tact, and in the best sense
a good•fellow. Sometimes his ex-
sited position forces him to take an
authoritative course which his kind-
pliinoerses of heart may cause him to de-
One night some distinguished men
were at his house, and one of them,
after dinner, took his place at the
piano, and began to sing a vulgar
song. Every eye, save that of the
singer, was turned on the Prince of
Wales. He made no effort to dis-
guise his disapproval, and moved leis
chair slightly. A terrible silence fell
upon the room, but the singer took
it for attention and kept on.
The prince coughed and fidgeted.
arid then, as the offender continued
to be oblivious, began talking. He
talked more and more loudly, and
the singer' stopped, looked round,
and • grew crimson. He had been
snubbed. There was no mistake
about it.
There the matter might have end-
ed, so far as tire prince was con-
cerned, but there it did not end.
The guests of the evening went
away ..„nd told their comrade's dis-
grace. The papers caught it up and
ndmonelee. the most of it. The singer
was, so far as England was concern-
ed, socially and professionally un-
done.
The sequel came to the ears of the
prince, and he was sorry. The man
had deserved punishment, but he had
not deserved ruin. So at the next
entertainment where lie sang the
Prince and. Princess of Wales were
present. They sat in the front of
their box, and warmly applauded a
man who had been punished enough
without the interference of their fel-
lows. Then they sent for him and
his wife, chatted cordially with them
and did not forget to have the cir-
cumstance duly chronicled in the pa-
pers.
VERY USEFUL AMMUNITION.
An army officer, now in South Af-
rica, tells an odd tale of the Sikh
War in India. Lalla Moolraj was be-
sieged by tire British in klultan and
put up a stubborn defence. One day
some of his men came across a stock
of calmed provisions, left by the for-
mer British occupants, and which
were then quite a novelty. Lelia
supposed that the cans contained ex-
plosives of some kind, and ordered
them to be fired at the besiegers. So
for one whole day the British army
was bombarded with showers of kip-
pered herring, Yarmouth bloaters,
corned beef, and condensed milk.
LOOKED LINE NCR.
Sir, said the gentleman, angrily,
as he burst into the photograph gal-
lery, you have insulted my wife and
I demand satisfaction !
Believe me, sir, said the photo-
grapher,' soothingly, I am innocent
of any intended offence ; what have
I done 7
You will have to fight, sir, went
on the man ; you took a picture for
my wife and it looks like her,
HE COULDN'T.
Oh, Mr. Spooneigh, pray rise. It
is not right that :you should kneel at
my feet. Rise, I beg of you 1 implor-
ed the fair lady.
But he didn't rise. His Irish did,
though, and he replied, solemnly
I'm- afraid—er—Miss Grace—I'm
afraid I'm kneeling on your—er—
that is, you dropped your chewing
gum, and, oh, Miss Grace, I'm stuck
on you !
LONG-CHERISHED DELUSION.
The "longest day," a correspondent
writes is nothing more than a cour-
tesy title this year, since there were
no fewer than nine days (June 18th
to 26th) on which the sun was above
the horizon for the longest period of
the year. There are also no fewer
than twelve shortest days (December
17th to 28th). It is a delusion to
suppose that in any year there is a
single longest or shortest day.
IN DOG DAYS.
I notice you've got summer pants
on, remarked the dog fancier.
Yes, gasped the exhausted terrier,
but they're not loud; certainly not
as loud as some of this season's flan-
nels. •
True. Nevertheless, what you need
is muzzlire.
THE PART HE TOOK.
The Don—And what part did you
take in this disgraceful proceeding of
holding Mr. Waters under the pump?
lindergrad (modestly)—His left leg,
sir,
Jelly glasses and covers should be
sterilized by setting them in a pan
of cold water, and letting the wa-
ter come gradually , to the boiling
point. Lay a cloth folded several
times into a shallow pan, of hot wa-
ter, drain and set on the hot, wet
cloth; it is also well to place a sil-
ver teaspoon in a glass while filling
lt, as the silver• absorbs the heat
which might crack the glass. Dip
the spoon into boiling water before
putting it into the glass. -
To make a jelly bag, fold two op-
posite corners of a piece of cotton
and wool flannel three-quarters of a
yard long. Sew in the form of a
mornucopia, round at the end. Fell
the seam to make it more secure.
Bind the top with tape and finish
with two or three heavy loops by
which it may be hung.
For currant jelly pick over the
currants but do not pick them from
the stems; if needed wash and drain
them; then put into a preserving
kettle. Mash and cook slowly until
the juice seems to be extracted leav-
ing the skins white. Put into the
jelly bag and strain. Measure the
clear strained juice and allow an
equal measure of granulated sugar.
Put the juice back into the kettle
end the sugar on to a plate • and
heat it in the oven, but do not let
It melt or caramelize. Let the juice
boil live minutes, add the sugar and
boil five minutes more. Skim thor-
oughly and carefully, that none of
the scum or cloudy portions falls
into the clear liquid. Fill the glass-
es; kaep in the sun or a dry place
for 24 hours then coyer with paraf-
line and put on the tin cover. '
For blackberey Jelly follow the
same rule; raspberries should be un-
der ripe in order to jelly well.
For barberry jelly be sure that the
fruit has not been touched by frost.
Allow one- half cup of water to four
quarts of barbarries, because they
are so dry ; then follow the general
rule.
For grape jelly the wild grape is
much better than the choice cultivat-
ed kind. Pick, wash and drain the
grapes, put into the preserving -ket-
Ile without water; then heat to the
boiling point; mash with a'-wooden
potato masher and boil one-half an
hour before draining. Green grape
jelly requires on'e-quarter more su-
gar than ripe grapes. Pick the
grapes when fully grown and just
beginning to turn. -
Cut apples into quarters and take
out specks, stem and blossom. Put
Into a preserving kettle and add
cold water so that it can Just be
seen among the-pieces. Cook slowly
until soft, but take care not to let
it burn; drain through a jelly bag.
Boil the juice 15 minutes, then add
an equal measure of heated sugar.
To have apple jelly of first quality
do not squeeze the strainer bag at
all, but use the clear juice for the
first grade of jelly, then squeeze the
bag gently and make a second grade
which will not be quite as clear, but
will be good enough for cake fillings,
tarts and many other uses.
Be Sara' that quinces have not
Can Be Compressed and Placed in
a Bottle or Wheelman's Lamp.
Important scientific advances
have been made by Walter Scott
Strowger, of Rochester, N.Y., the
inventor, in studying the nature of
his new liquid gas. He has succeed-
ed in liquefying it at pleasure and
in producing it by cold chemical pro‘
cess. He can also compress it so
that a quantity can be placed in a
bottle, and by placing a pipe with a
gas burner on top, the tap may be
turned and a brilliant light will re-.
cult, just as though the regualr gas
of commerce were being used.
The history of the discovery is
somewhat interesting. When Mr.
Strowger first talked with Prof. S.
H. Lattimore, the professor was
dumbfounded and declared that it
was contrary to chemical action.
Mr. Strowger took the professor in-
to his confidence and they together
accomplished what the professor
said could not be done, viz: com-
pressed the gas until it liquefied
without 'risk of accident. An 'im-
portant feature of the gas is that
in its production there remains a ,
residue of great value, the sale of
which will cover all expenses of mak-
ing the gas, so that actually the
gas could be dispensed free of charges
and the proprietors would get rich.
The gas is said to have an added ele-
ment of safety, in that it gives forth.
A RICH, PUNGENT ODOR,
easily detected when escaping, se.
that in case of pipe leakage heti.-
holders can be warned of danger,
just as they are now with common
gas.
In demonstrating the use of the
gas to some friends air.. Stowger
used two small steel tanks, weigh-
ing about fourteen pounds, 3 inches.
in diameter and 14 inches high, con- '
taming gas compressed 500 to 1
Mr. Strowger attached a tube to tho-
neck of a tank and with a wrench
turned on the gas, which, on being
Ignited, gave &brilliant light, not-.
quite as white as acetylene, but su-
perior to common gas. It burned
with a steady glow, having at its
base a beautiful bluish tint. Mr.
Strowger explained that by using a
burner suitable to the nature of the
new gas, greater brilliancy will be
obtained. This was the first exhibi-
tion of Mr. Strowger's gas under
liquefaction, with very primitive ap-• .
plia.nces, but he assured those who
saw it that when administered.
through a simple apparatus that he
is nose perfecting the light will be.
very clear and beautiful.
Mr. Strowger says that his inven-'
tion will supersede the present modesi
of lighting in railway cars, steam-
boats and private residences and
must eventually be adopted by the.
great gas corporations. It is equal-
ly adapted for use in horseless care
riages instead of gasolene. The -
smaller lamps for wheelmen and ar-1
tistic illuminations can be filled by
his gas, he .ys, end supplies of it
can be carried along by travellers
campers, explorers and tourists'
without danger.
Mr.- Strowger's new electric stor-
age battery, which has been tested
after lying dormant for seventy-
two days is being further
tested. It has now lain dormant for:
over three months, and retains all
the electrical power with which it ill
stored.