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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-06-15, Page 2f ,• IRo1SEEaoLs. Elora 01000 Acoti r. There era many oeoaIlous when li variety of cake is deafrable and; when a. large pre- portionof'pretty, c w este, amqu cakes seems to serve the purpose better than nay number of ]cave;], As st is this happy art of pro. Tiding .just the right thing that makes hwusekeepiug a delightful success, husked of a► weary burden, one needs to be prepared for Piet these oocaafons. With expertness, ' a morning's work in the kitchen will be enough to produce a largequantity of ex- ceedingly attractive cake's. But ono must meow exactly how. "All work is pleasant if you love it, and know how to do it," says one who is herself an expert in domestic =sitters.. The housekeeper'a work, with its eoustant and exacting demand, its perpetual re tition o£ many slightly varying details, is like all other kinds of work in this, that it is knowledge, and knowledge alone, that makes it easy. Expertnesamakee the result sure and the process speedy. And the only way to gain this expertness is by practice. Those who have learned to make fondant for ioing will find that it furnishes an easy mode of preparing several very "Frenchy" looking cakes from a single loaf. A loaf of sponge cake and one of either pound career Clio Madeline or cup oako mixture will make an excellent beginning if one wishes to pro- vide cake enough to accompany ice cream or chocolate fcr quite a company. Iced tab- lets are, made by cutting the cake with a warm knife in neat, thin slices, and these in tablettes or oblong strips an inch wide by two in length, They mustbe very neatly and exactly out, and two pieces are then put together with orange or lemon paste, raspberry jam, peach or apricot marmalade, jelly of any kind, or chocolate melted with a little sugar. Of course, the variety at command is almost unlimited, and the cake - maker will use heringenuityy, according to the stores that she has oa hand, to make something at once pretty and agreeable, and to color and flavor the icing with which she ornaments it,so as to make the combination harmonious. Of course, it is always pieta sant tocontrive something novel, if possible, and it will not be a difficult matter, goner- ally to make some little innovation that will have the charm of novelty. Freah maple makes a moat delicious fond- ant ; the sugar is made into syrup by the addition of water and stirred in the usual manner, or it is made directly from the pure =pie syrup. Thin slices of banana with a frosting of white of anegg made stiff with powdered atlgar may be used to put the cake together, and maple fondant for the out - aide. The tablets are either frosted on the top alone, or the entire slice dipped, so as to cover it entirely. The bouchees des dames of the confectioners', which are used for dreea- ibg pyramids and fancy pieces for pansies or elaborate dinners, ace made in great vari- etyy in a similar way:, Any nice cake batter may be used, bakes' annual rouns7a. I have found this -1 ectipt a a.sadsfaotgi'y one : Two large taiilespoonfuls of batter- (two ounces), a, aiinp of sugar, one egg, tydo tablespoonfuls of cream, two smallitesjspoonfuls of baking powder and flavorineo suit the combination 3atc»led. F Orange flow,er'water gives a very delicate .,ij j% 'fitter almond is most suitable with h jam, rose water withraspberry. Pink should be used with either. Cream the butter and sugar, add the egg, cream and baking powder twice sifted through two oupfelta of flour. Beat the cake well, then put flour on the kneading board and mix it lightly, about as stiff as for crul- lers Roll small pieces between the hands to make little balls about as large as English walnuts. Bake on battered paper, putting them a little distance apart, as they will ,spread and make a thin round Dake of melt- ing texture. Some of them may be finished by dropping, rather coarsely, a few nuts— almonds, walnuts, or any kind preferred— and mixing with a little fondant. This may be tinted a delicate green with spinach coloring and called pistache. The green coloring seems to give the attractiveness to the so•oalled pistache flavoring used for ice- cream and choice confectionery. The nut itaelf is expensive and difficult to obtain, and has very little flavor; other nuts are almost invariably used with it, and may be substituted for it. These little cakes niayibe need in the same way as directed for tabl- ett!ee; patting two together and dipping in fondant makes a delicious something, be- tween cake and candy, as good to eat as it is pretty to look at. The spinach coloring is made by washing and crushing (a potato masher in a bowl will answer if you have no mortar) the fresh leaves, and leaving them to stand for a few minutiae until the green juice separates; strain this through a piece of muslin or cheese cloth, squeezing hard so as to get all the liquid portion from the leaves. Set the bowl containing the liquid into a saucepan such stuff, A fair roast of beef, as good boiling piece, or .a "apply of corned beef coats only . a Crura more than shine and rumps, but they are far more economical. Fiala is better and cheaper than veal and .mutton is. better than pork, Poor living is not by any means economical living. } DANOING IN trnioIIS ? "Do you think it is wicked to dance ?" writes Elia. Well, yea, Ella, we think it is wicked for some people to deuce. Now, you,. for instance ; it m very wicked for you to dance. We saw you dancing one night last week, Every time you ,stepped you. showed the soles of your feet like semaphore acme, and you kicked like. an Ohio. River stern -wheel tawboat ; your bouquet began falling to pieces in the float round ; you fan- ned your frizzes out of curl before ten o'clock ; as you hopped around, your bustle had an independent motion of its own, as though it had no connection whatever with the rest of your costume); you clutched your partner so though you were going to drag him to the station house, and you handled your fan like a billy. Is it wicked to dance, Elia? That style of dancing, Ella isworse than winked. But there is also a respect- able way to dance, but you don't know bow, and so I wouldn't dance at all if I wore yon., —(Burdette. BASED •RxanARD. This way of cooking "the`first sauce of the season" is so superior to the ordinary stew that we again call our readers' attention to it. Wash the stalks, skin, cub into inch lengths and put into an earthenware baking dish. Allow a cup, of sugar to three pints of rhubarb, Do not add a particle of water. Cover tightly and bake until tender—the pieces should still be entire. The amount of sugar here given may not make it sweet enough for all tastes. Save your orange peel and dry it to put in apple sauce, pies, eto. it is late now, but next year try frying your parsnips in louder after they are boiled. They are good. Put a chair where you will have to move it or stumble over it if you want to remem- ber something you want to do in the morn- ing. After washing the hands in suds, rinse in clear water. If they are rough and chapped, wipe out of the suds, and while still damp rub on a little glycerine., The prepared wood stains sold at moat good paint shops, aro very convenient and easy of;applioation. They are admirable for coloring a door when one wishes to dispense with carpet. Cherry, walnut or mahogany are prettier than the lighter oak, stain. The liquid being ready mixed their can be no mistake made, and it dries in a few hours. A stained floor is both pretty and comfort- able for a bedroom during the summer. One of the moat convenient articles to be used in a'sick room is a sand bag. Get some clean, fine sand ; dry it thoroughly in a ket- tle on the stove. Make a bag about eight inches square, of flannel, fill it with the dry sand, sew the opening carefully together,. and cover the bag with cotton or linen, This will prevent the sand from sifting out. and will also enable you to heat the bag tquiokly by placing in the oven or even on 'top of the stove. After once using this, you will never again attempt to warm the feet or hands of a sick person with a £bottle of hot water or a brick. The sand holds the beat a long time, and the bag can be tucked up to the back without hurting the invalid, It ie' a good plan to make two or three of the bags, and keep them on hand, ready for use at any time when needed. Empress Victoria and the _Germans. Where the odious insinuation that the Empress has introduced a strain of unhealth- iness among the robust Hohenzollerns comes, it is very difficult to say. One sees it crop- ping up in all kinds of places ; among the nasty gossips of the backstairs ; in the very face of the evident foot that a family more vigorous than the Royal family of England does not exist anywhere. The work that they get through in the most conscientious business -like way would kill off in a year or two, a delicate or unhealthy race. Out of all her large family, the Queen has had but one delicate child, the late Duke of Albany ; all the rest of our Princes and Princesses are hale and hearty ; no •pale spectres have ever gathered about our royal board. They tra- vel, go through the mosit tedious forinalities, bow till our sympathetic necks ache merely to see it, stand till our sympathetic limbs tremble under us, and are ever ready to be called upon for a thousand uninteresting duties. The Queen herself is far from young, as must be allowed. She is a great grand- mother ;; but there ate not many working women who, within sight of seventy, would of boiling water, and a green curd will be be considered capable by themselves or any formed. Strain again, letting the whey run one else of doing the work carried on by the', off and retaining thus green curd, which is a Soverignwithouteither complaint deach Lauer Very effective and perfectly harmless color-� We cry shame. upon ourselves and each other -mg atter. A very little will color a good when toilin °d Something must be randmother of the donet for deal of fondant or ice-cream, aid as it will her; that, at least, cannot be allowed to go not keep long it is only necessary to make a on, we say. But the Queen always go on ; very little ata time. A good handful of takes long tourneys across Europe, presents leaves will probably be enough for the pun taxes after travelling two nights in nieces- p0$e' cion, nntired, ready for everything, to Lady fingers make a very dainty cake throngs of gazing strangers, although we all when perfect,• but too often those bought at know that to be stared at and crowded is the bakers are little more than a soda sponge not naturally agreeable to Her Majesty. cake. There is a knack fn getting a good And .it is the Queen'a daughter who is sup - shape with a spoon, but it can be done. I posed to have brought a=strain of weakness give a receipt for those who caro to oxperi- to the Prussian house 1 The old Emperor, meat. Three ounces of butter, four of au- like many other younger potentates, was gar, three egga, six ounces of flour. Sprits, bolstered up periodically with baths and Me a little sugar over the cake end bake in cures. The Queen requires no Gastein, no a Very quick oven --to prevent spreading, healing and soothing waters. I heard' a lessen the heat after it has set. whimsical story not long ago of a young ser- vant at Windsor who had been reprimanded for falling asleep before his work was ever. Cabbage contains 73 parts ofnutriment It was his duty to put out the lamps. "Ne - in each 1,000 and turnips 42, while potatoes body oughtn't to sit up so late," the young oontafn 120, Data 143, beans 890, peas (dry) man grumbled in self-defence. It wan the 030 , and parsnf s, squash, apples and Queen, busy overwork, who kept this hum - onions rank high as nutrition, . easily ble attendant out of bed. And the Queen's digested and wholesome vegetables for the, family are like her. There it not a sickly table. The truth, is that cabbages' and Child among her decendants. It is time that turnips areggthe moat expeitaive articles of ell odious whiepore should be contradicted. bet They aro r en can put Let the gossips name a family less subject common verage fowl e r iris � n for beasts . an se of (toddy. Nobody their pr proper place 1N the barnyard. T'he 'can do this ; but in the meantime it is coag same ride a toe to meats. The poor food to whisper about invisible taint where no eoanouilsii a�vises. the purchase of beef spina, is. reek pleges, forequarter veal, spare -ribs such thing -i- aced other outs made up of seven-tsntha bone Printed matter ie measured by , r eau," end irwro• tsntlts grinle to one of meat. The the letter rt m " beingthe unit. T`liefollow. in that a proor num ova .tor Bout the oompilation lir Prof. A. P. Lon : The bon and vitae, 'supply its Owe r and make a roru+p h one-tenth Wheat he has thrown away his he hard the eat hot cost !s the Moat wow to boy NOTES ON CURRENT a. NCS. sE The desire to be taxed is se rarely etlnced that the case of the Baptist minister at Woodstock, who has applied to be "exempt- ed from exemption," is deserving of motel mention. It seems that the Baptist clergy wish to share with the laity the expenses of municipal government, The negroes of the Southern States are showing signs of development, and are both phyafcally and mentally undergoing a trans. formation under the powerful influences of their environment, It is said that the new generation is. evidencing the eases of a high- er culture; and that the flat nosed, kinky - headed negro is passing away and is being replaced by a colored race with aquiline noses, smaller mouths and thinner lips,—R'x The Falange across the Atlantic is gradu- ally being, reduced in duration of time to a pleasant trip. The Cunard line .steamship Etruria on her last trip to New York beat all previous records, She made the passage from Queenstown to New York in six days, one hour and fifty-five' minutes, being an ave- rage run of 19i knots an hour, A prominent advocate of prohibition cal- culates that the principle will be in opera- tion in Canada in about fifteen years. If this prediction should be verified prohibi- tion will have triumphed within exactly half a century of its former narrowly missed success. A prohibitory liquor bill . passed its second reading in 1854 and woo defeated on its third reading by a majority of one. The Dunkin Act, given ten years later, was a oompromise measure. Banishment to Siberia as a punishment for political ' and other offences will soon be numbered among the traditions of the past. The Rueeian Government has decided to substitute imprisonment in fortresses or gaols for exile to Siberia, though it is thought that their object in making the change is not based on any humane motive, but is simply to relieve Siberia of the repu- tation of being a penal settlement, and then to push on its development: both commer- cially and politically. The Austrian Government is causing the arrest of emigration agents.. who resort to misrepresentation with a view to inducing the people to seek fresh fields and pastures new. This is . heroic treatment, but it is humane. So many Englishmen with their fumilies are persuaded to leave comfortable homes for a terrible uncertainty on this side of the Atlantic that it is a wonder emigra- tion frauds aro not put down by the strong arm of the law in Great Britain as well as inAnstria. The yearly average number of foreigners arriving -in Russia is over 800,000, and of those who leave the country 750,000. Exact atatistica of the years 1872 81 have been kept; and it appears that during these ten years 9,458,132 foreigners arrived and 8,025;198 departed. The 9,458,132 arrivals are thus classified. Germans come first with 4,871,571, then Austrians, 1,305- 133; Persian subjects number 255,207, French 122,771, Turkish subjects, 70,387 Roumanians, Bulgarians, and Servisn' 41,872 English 20,691, Italians 17,3598. Greek 14,885 and all other nationalities, 120,038.. Theylh(ive several societies in England for lightening the bit of the working girl. `One known as the Young Women's Help Society, has' eighty branches in the large cities and towns, besides twenty-four in London. !.'he, work is principally carried on by means of evening clubs, which furnish music and sing- ing, with coffee, lemonade, etc., and also look after sewing claazea, etc., and give the girls an occasional day in the country. Each of these clubs is superintended by a matron and by ladies who tak % so many evenings a week. In a letter to the Times of May 23 the Duke of Newcastle speaks in high terms of the Work accomplished by these ineti- tutione. upon to y gr bo illness in y ole ty BtTile contains 8,4501) r r i it ems," Webster's cation* 20,000, - a +Chamber's Enoyalo• mils'• o x,000 Jyohnson's Cyolo aiddia 000e0 ... 1`e ii''. to die 60}•600,. p fl di BrIbsnnlria 140,000,- The determination of the Queen that in future no dame from the United States shall' be presented at court unless the lady be ac- eompanied by her husband, has, it is said, caused -consternation among the grass widows of New York and other U. S. cities. The London Figaro says It cannot be denied that there have lately been introduc- ed to her Majesty ladies who across the Atlantic do not, at any rate, live in the odour of sanctity. A terrible picture of the deteiorating in- fluences of American civilization is drawn by Rev. Howard Crosby. He say's : "If America is to be ruined it will be material. ism, the accumulation of individual wealth, and the mad chase for such accumulation, It is that which will dry up human sym- pathies, divert the mind from high and healthy thought, degrade art and science and literature, destroy family life, poison the fountains of society, sanction immorali- ties, and make the nation a seething cauld- ron of selfishness and unrest, The greatest need of our land to -day is an education away from this fearful danger, which the pecu- liar conditions of our country have fostered, and which the thoughtless minds of our youth so readily accept." Lord .Charles Beresford is a firm believer in; the benefits to be derived from physical training. He proposes that the Imperial Parliament shall pass a law requiring that in all municipalities having a population of over 100,000 the future councils under, the Local Government bill shall provide a gym - maims!: open from six in the morning till ten o'clock at night, with a competent in- etructor always in attendance. The gym malum is to be free to all residents of the municipality, the costs to be met by local taxation, Lord Charles Bcreaford's idea is that the training supplied at the gymnasium will counteract to aome extent the enervat- big influences of town life on the male popu- tion. Chicago has always been famous for the prevalence of crime, but on Saturday last it truly distinguished itself. A woman, who was figuring in a divorce suit, attempted to murder her hesband'b lawyer and fired four shots into his body in open court ; a man out off the oar of a person who had offended him and Carried off the severed organ as a trophy, and throe women and a man insisted on drugging and abducting agiri. of fourteen years of age. Truly three great incidents to odour in one day in s civilized city. The son of the woman who Shot the lawyer had previously attempted to kill her husband and nearly su5ceeedded in do so. plait, with one noteworthy exception, the day of execution is not fixed by the judge ; the week is appointed, ,luring which, at the discretion of the State Warden, the sentence. Oen be carried into effect. 'Thus will the sixth day of the week no louver carry the. odium it has so long borne as 'r hangman's day." The bill forbids the publication of any detailed account of the execution in the papers, and against this clause, we think, no respeotablo journal will protest. When one paper publishes all must publish. But when such newspaper accounts of the sad and shameful death of a felon shall have served to arouse a sen'imont in favor of its gradual mitigation'or abolition, all the good that can be done by them will have been accom- plished. The; Prohibition party of the United States, through ite convention, has finally committed itself to woman suffrage. The resolution they have adopted is that the right •of suffrage depends on no mere circum- stance of sex, colour, race or nationality. It is thought by a certain portion of the press that the prohibitionists have weakened their cause by this additional plank in their plat- form ; and it is argued that as woman's suf- (rage is twenty-five years behind prohibi tion the union of the two nausea will simply retard progress. The women are, however, among the most ardent advocates of prohibi- tion, and it would have been ungrateful had the convention refused to support their claims to the suffrage. The Post Office Club. Every year about this time we begin to talk about killing the potato beetle. Pota- toes are our great crop. We have a near by market for every potato we oars raise, and a cash market too. Our soil and olimate are all right for raising potatoes, but the beetles seem to„ have taken a great fanny to our neighborhood. They are with us in armies. No matter how many we sill one year, they are ready for the fight the next year. They teach us lessons in energy and per- severance which if well heeded, would be money to us. We have generally settlen upon plaster and Paris green as about the best weapon in fighting the beetles. Most of us use the tin sifters sold at hardware stores,but we never have been able to settled upon any definite strength for a mixture. Sor1e use nearly three pounds of Paris -green to a barrel of plaster, 'while others use much less. This year I shall use one pound of the " green" to a barrel of plaster. We have all sorts of methods for mixing the poison ; but most of us still mix on the barn floor with an iron rake, If somebody could invent a cheap machine like a Blanchard churn for this mixing he would get a good sale for it. As for grubs and wue•worme, the talk this year is that chemical fertilizers are best for producing smooth potatoes. "It vas quite easy to tell der character off a man mit der looks off his potato vines. Off a man vas a good citizen he vas look oud for der gonvenience off der neighbors. He vas remember dot dem botato bugs vas haf some.spide mit all der vorld, and dot day vill make afen shorter work mit his', neighber's vinee. Gonsecfuently' it vas der duty off dor good citizen.to kill all der botato bugs. He vas haf no moral right to fatten dem bugs so dey vill eat somedink .. dot belongs mit his neighbor. , Der man dot goes mit der` beesness off breeding botato buYo dot .damage his neighbor's broperty vas shust like off dem Anargists, end vas not a save man mit der gommunity. Und der same ting vas tree off dot man dot let blenty off weeds grow shust vete der seeds vas blow ofer mit his neighbor's farm." New York Is the first state to adopt the scientific method of painless exbiaotlon fn ridding the community of its oriminals. A New York journal thinks that the time is approashing when capitalurdrhment will be sbelblrea altogether. trays s '' h. 1 1 n bolero bThmnrdr Is F ---W' Horse Breeding In Italy. One of the most useful of the leaflets which are being circulated by the agricul- tural Department is that on horse -breeding in Italy, published this week. From this it appears that a new code' of laws regulating horse -breeding was passed last June by the Legislature, by which it is provided that from June 1, 1888, and during the period of eight years from this date, not less than 800 stallions shall be purchased for the Govern- ment stallion centres, for which a sum of £19,000 is allotted. After Jan. 1, 1889, private individuals will not be allowed to keep stallions for service unless they have been duly approved by the Minister of Agri- culture, an action calculated to prevent the use of unsound and unsuitable sires. The fee charged varies in amount from 10s., the most usual charge, to £1. In the list for the ensuing year there are six stallions, for which the fee is £L 13s. 4d. (forty lire), English thoroughbreds. 0f the 362 stallions for service this year, only two, the:trotter Amber, son of Clear Grit and bred at Brantford, Ontario, and a thoroughbred, Andred, by Blair Athol, bred in England, aro.put at comparatively high rates—name. ly, £6 and £4 respectively. It is seen upon examining this list of stallions whose pedi- grees and country of birth are given, that 116 of these were bred in England, and 130 were. bred from English horses either in France, Russia, America or Italy. In the last live years 237 stallions have been pur- chased by the Italian Government, at a cost of £44,200, or an average of about £186 per head. The total number of marls covered in 1887 was 13,006.—London Live Stook Journal. Partings. Oh, Bessie dear, to me be kind 1 Don't drive me from the cushioned chair, When by the fire poor puss yon find Prepared to spend the cold night there l And Bessie, when I sing my Gong, HoWhhypindo you ory to a Sreat puss Gou 6 'long 1" And to the cellar drive your friend ! Perhaps you do not understand; But could I make my meaning clear, And you'd my language at command, These are the words would men your bar : 11CIENTII!'IC, Awob oL. We'extraot the following from a recent artiole by T, B. Wakeman, Esq,, published in the Bureau Record, It gives eorne points• of intoreab to the imbibers of- alooholie poison. It is now known that what we call fer- mentation le caused by the sudden increase, by millions on millions, of a little animal Dell, or miorobo, only visible under the microscope, and which used to be called the yeast plant, but which is now dignified by the scitn' We name of Torvula Cerevisiae, whioh is Latin for the string of twiata that appear in cereal ferments, that is, those made from corn or grain, the gift of the old geddesa Ceres. Thio little fellow is one of most wonderful, and, if rightly used, one of the most useful inhabitants or our globe. He is not a plant, as was at first Fbelieved, for he feeds only on a vegetable substance, viz.: grape or fruit sugar, called in chemistry glucose, and he, in so doing, gives off car- bonic gas, and an excrement, which is a sub- stance wholly devitalized' by the living pro- ems of the little animal, much as ashes result from the burning of coal in a stove. These breathings and excretions only result from animal life, and in every way this microbe assimilates bis eugar•food, propagates, breathes, excretes and lives like an animal; and when dead and cremated, smells just like burning animal tissue. Now this excretion of this fruit-sugar•eating animal is alcohol. Ail of the alcohol in the world comes, from this animal in just this way, and in none other. It is always the same substance, and has always the same properties—just as salt is alwaya salt. These little microbes, or yeast•animala, are in the air and pretty much everywhere. They dry up and seem to be dead, and float about, but as soon as grape or fruit sugar (glucose) is exposed, they are there, and the rate of their increase in it is marvelone. He is the father of our bread as well as of our wine. We know him best as the active agent in the yeast cake, whence cower the useful fermentation which lightens our bread previous to baking.- A penny yeast cake, dry as a ohip, contains at least, 7,000,000 .of these animals. Put in a warm dough, and in an hour he will count over 140,000,000 ! and this increase and hia minute carbonic aeid gas -breaths will have made the dough throughout as "light as a feather," and ready for tho oven. . Therein the heat vol- atszes the alcohol, which he excreted in the dough, and the result is that we have light and healthy, instead of heavy, unleavened, indigestible bread—but free from alcohol. Now, wherever glucose (fruit or grape sugar) is found, this fermentation process caused by this living and breathing and pro- pagating process of this yeast animal cal goes on, sooner or later. His food, when from, grape juice, gives us wine ; when from apples, cider ; from pears, perry ; from honey, metheglin ; from malted grains, beer, etc. In all cases the starch or cane sugar is changed first to glucose, and then the yeast cell is set to work and secretes the alcohol by fermentation. The process is, in short, this : Glucose consists of Carbon (6 atoms, or equivalents), Hydro�� gen (12 atoms), Oxygen (6 atoms) ; or C6, H:12, 06. The yeast ani- mal takes to fend and warm himself (asaimi- fates) ,just one half of .this glucose, or 03, H6, 03 ; of the other half he 'breathes off `a–a' 01, 02, which. is the formula of carbonic acid gas ; and the rest of the glucose he ex- cretes as alcohol, of which the chemical for- mula is C2, H6, 01. All alcohol comes at first in just this way and no othor:—[Hall's Journal of Health. " lmp•u-r-r-tinent pm r-r•son, why pn-r-r- eist in p.0 -r -r -suing thinu•r-r-nicious p u-r•r•poao? P-u-r•r-haps can p-u•r-r• suede you to p•u•r r -m n-r•r•asoto it Chi p a d p -u -as top�� u -r -r -severe in her p -u -r -r -pose of gu-r-r•subig her nap in peace. P•u-r•r-ched here she can p•u-r.r-petrate no p-u-r-r.ni• cions p•u••r-r-loinings of any p u r•r•son's app•u•r-r-tenanees. This is the p-tt.r-r-port of my p•u•r-r-potn- al p-u.r.r-ings, 1 hope you will p•u-r.r- oelve them to be p u-rr•tinont and p -u -r -r. 'twelve, and will p -u -r -r -form what I p-u-r.r- naive to be pu-r•r•feetly p u-r•r-m3ealble. Vim your p.tt-r•r.Seout - p•u-r' pd er. GUNCOTTON AND NITRO•GLvcsuixE. Gunpowder is slow compared with' the new explosives of the century. There are half a dozen explosive agents which can give a charge of gun -powder a fair start M a race and beat it. Scribner's Magazine says of two of these Guncotton constitutes the best military exploeive known, for, while its explosive force vastly exceeds that of gun -powder and approaches that of nitro-glycerine, it is the safest and moat stable explosive we possess, since it oan be stored and transported wet: and while in this state, though it may be detonated as described above, it cannot be exploded in any other way. As much as 2,006 pounds of wet compressed gun -cotton have been placed in a fierce bon -fire, where it has gradually dried, layer by layer, and been consumed without exploding. Besides, gun -cotton is the only military .explosive which can be detonated with certainty when frozen. In calling Wm military explosive I mean, of course, for use in torpedoes and for military mining, and not as a substitute for gun -powder in guns; but it may be, and has been, suceesefully used as a charge for shells fired from gun powder guns both in this country and abroad. Shelia contain- ing as )ouch as as 110ounds of gun -cotton have been repeatedly fired in Germany. The most prominent rival of guncotton for military uses • and the best explosive for industrial purposes is nitro-glycerine and the mixtures of which it forms a part. This substance was discovered by Sobrero in 1847, while carrying out a series of experiments under Pelouze. Its liquid foam makes ib difficult to store and transport, and permita it to find its way into unexpected places where it constitutes a source of danger. Considerations such as these led Nobel, about 1867, to invent dynamite, The name is now applied to a great variety of nitro- glycerine mixtures, but they all consist of a porous solid absorbent which makeup the liquid nitro-glycerine by capillarity, and holds it in its pores or interstices. The most impor,ant n£tro•glycarine mix- tore is explosive gelatine, also invented by Nobel. .This is made by heating nitro•gly- oerine on a water bath and adding to it from 6 to 10 per cent. soluble gun -cotton. A Mint to Young )People. Did you over nee boys or girls cat fast slam doors, rush through a room, talk laud, swing their arms, shake their ehouldere, bow es stiffly as if they, were ramrods, or act SS loose jointed as a jumping -jack, never of lir older people a neat, make up facet, say care. less things, and use bad grammar and slang! This is the kind of boys and girls that some. times stand before a looking•glase, and Wan•. dot why they aro not invited into 'moiety. A rope just finished for the Edinburgh cable tramway is 17,000 feet long. This is the longest nnsplioed cable in use in --Great Britain, but for the Melbourne (Australia) tramways rope e. 20,000 and 26,000 feet in lengh, and without splicing, hive been sap. plied. The lattr weighs tons. aa.