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Science.
It has been proved that the aurora
borealis occurs more frequently out
side the Polar regions than 1b gener
ally supposed.
Iron chess-boards and chessmen
with concealed magnets to steady
them are sold in Berlin for the con
venience of travelers.
At Rouen the Municipal Council
propose to use the current of the Seine
to drive dynamo-electric maohines for
lighting the city.
The Chemiker' Zeilung says that a
solution of quinine hydrochlorate acid
ulated with hydrochloric acid will
quickly and entirel y remove the odor
of musk from any object.
It is estimated that from 450,000 to
500,000 tons of charcoal are annually
made in the United States. No won
der the necessity for forestry culture
becomes daily more apparent.
Incandescent electric lighting with
the Swan system has proved highly
satisfactory in the Paris Opera House.
The use of gas in the foyer destroyed
almost entirely the fine decorations.
Experiments conducted between
Munich and Miesbach have proved
conclusively that electrical energy
capable of being converted into mo
tive power can be sent over an ordi
nary telegraph wire. It is said that
plaster of Paris of hardness sufficient
to be employed as a mold for metal
may be made by using 10 per cent, of
alum in the water which is intended
to be mixed up with the plaster.
An experiment is to be made in New
Orleans to adapt mesquite wood, a
native of Texas, very durable and
nearly as hard as iron, for street-pav
ing purposes. It is so abundant that
the cost of buying, cutting, and trans-
dorting will be very slight.
Dr. Denker of St. Petersburg, treat s
diphtheria by first giying the patient
a laxative, and when its operation has
ceased he gives cold drinks, acidulat
ed with hydrochloric acid, and then a
gargle of lime-water and hot milk in
equal parts every two hours. His
method is very successful.
Eighty Frenchmen .engineers,guides
foremen and navvies, with six hun
dred Morocco navvies, enlisted in Al-
igeria ; six hundred Sennegal negroes
L and two hundred or three hundred
rotmen, are about to commence the
instruction of the railway to connect
annegal with the Niger. Their oper-
tions will be protected by a column
fder Colonel Desbordes, which will
^tual the posts, plant the French
on the Niger and erect two forts
that river. A second railway
Lm St. Louis to Dakar, is also about
)be commenced, and a cable will
grtly be laid between France and
sgal.
ie breakfast we take in winter will
Ermine our efficiency for work in
I day, and will so influence our
ole being for that period of time
lat no aftermeal can correct it. The
oreakfast in winter must contain more
[nitrogenous food than in summer ; it
|is absolutely needed. You must store
ieat to furnish material for absorption
k id for maintaining vitality; add to
lis nitrogenous food something that
hll disengage heat from the blood
[ind keep up temperature, and you
lay defy the coldest day. Your face
[may feel it, your hands may feel it, but
fcyour body will be impervious to it,
Land go on disengaging that inward
"heat which can alone stand against
the lowered temperature without. If
this first meal has been properly at
tended to we may presume that vital
action can be maintained in full force
for five hours at least before it needs
replenishing.
The Prayer Cure.
OLD WINTER COMES !
The hoary hills are Btreaked with white,
The fields are swept as bare.
And, through the howling blast at night,
Old Winter cries, ‘‘Beware!”
He mocks ug with his fiery stings,
He strikes his hands together ;
And, like a hawk with flapping wings,
D - wn swoops the stormy weather.
Be binds the running water fast
In stony links of mall;
He strikes us with the sounding blast.
His mighty harvest-flail.
Away 1 away ! the forests reol,
The red leaves circle alter,
Beneath the grinding of his heel,
Beneath hlu savage laughter.
He beats his clashing cymbals—hark 1
To armsl away! away !
The lorest bellows In the dark
And mutters 1 i the day.
He drains the earth to meet hi moot!;
He strikes his hands together.
And, like a hawk upon a brood,
Down swoops the stormy weather.
Tbe Solid Side of Life.
Lentil Soup.—Two quarts and a
pint of water, one pint of lentils, a
soup bone, a small bunch of soup vege
tables, salt, and a 1 ttle cayenne; boil
gently t tree hours. When strained
there should be one quarL and one pint
of soup. Press the lentils through the
sieve with a spoon, stir well into the
broth, return to the fire and simmer
slowly for ten minutes. Serve hot
with some slices of fried bread.
Cream V/alnuts.—White of one
egg, stir into it powered sugar to make
it stiff enough to handle, flavor with
vanilla, dip the walnuts into a syrup
made of two tablespoonfuls of sugar
and one of water, boiled three or four
minutes ; the cream must be moulded
with the fingers, and then placed
between the two halves of a walnut.
Dates and Malaga grapes may be used.
To make chocolate cream walnuts stir
two tablespoonfuls of dissolved choco
late into the cream.
Loaf Cake.—One quart of dried
and sifted fl our, a pint of now milk
warmed a few minutes before using
it, one-half cup of butter, two cups of
sugar, a large cup of home-brewed
yeast or half as much brewer’s yeast,
three eggs and one pound of seedless
raisins, a glass of wine and a part of a
nutmeg; beat the butter and sugar to
a cream, and then add the other
spices, and let it rise over night.
Flour the fruit and add in after the
cake has risen ; bake in a moderately
heated oven.
French Curry of Lobster.—Boil
one good-sized lobster; when cold,
pick the meat from the shell, put It
into a stew-pan with one pint of boil-
iug water, two or three rounds of an
onion, two slices of lemon, three or
four bay leaves; mix together one
spoonful of flour and two of curry
powder, and a tablespoonful of butter.
Boil all together five or ten minutes.
Strain the gravy from the lobster, cut
the lobster in small pieces, add to the
gravy ; season with a very little pep
per and salt; add the j lice of half a
lemon,[simmer a few minutes. Serve
hot.
Yorkshire Pudding.—'This pud
ding is an especial accompaniment to
roast beef, and is served as a vegetable
would be. Take six large spoonfuls of
prepared flour, three well-beaten eggs
and two cups of milk ; beat the flour,
eggs and a part of the milk together ;
when quite smooth, add the remain
der of the milk, beat all together,pour
into a well-buttered pan and bake half
an hour. When the beef Is three-quar
ters roasted, take it from the baking-
pan, place it on a pan without sides
on the upper bars of the oven, then
place the pudding in the pan under*
neath the beef to cat<!h the stray
drops; out the pudding in slices. Serve
hot.
According to a series of reports from
Pittsburg, no less than five persons
i residing in that city or neighborhood
lave been cured of chronic diseases
Recently by the power of pr iyer alone,
ie man who had been a paralytic for
ren years crawled into a Bhed on his
fands and knees, prayed fervently for
few minutes, I ear 1 a voice saying,
[“Arise and walk,” and immediately
threw away his crutches. He is now
iveling through the country, preach-
ig the efficacy of the prayer cure
■woman was cured miraculously of a
|nal affection of two years’ stand-
and a child who for six months
Id been confined to her bed with a
lilar disease prayed strenuously
ie night and woke up well in the
lorning. A female paralytic In
Ulegheny city was unable to use her
lower limbs for seven montlfljftpent
1 onj^tfeht in pray ex and walked to
ie ij^ Sunday. It is
ese ot
English Pudding —Grate four or
five egg crackers ; pour over them one
pint and a half of boiling milk ; cover
closely until cold; then add the yelks
of four well-beaten eggs two whites
beaten to a froth, some nutmeg, the
grated rind of a lemon, two large
spoonfuls of powdered sugar, and one
tablespoonful of prepared flour; mix
all well together ; pour into a pudding
boiler and boil rapidly one hour and a
half; the water must boll constantly,
and the pudding be kept closely cov
ered. Make sauce for the pudding
with two tablespoonfuls of butter, one
oup and a half of sugur; beat the but
ter and sugar to a cream. Stir a des
Bert spoonful of corn starch aud a cup of
milk together; add to It a teaspoonful of
boiling water. Place on the fire and
when it comes to a boil add it gradually
to tne beaten butter, return to the fire
and stir constantly until it boils. Pour
into a sauce bowl, add the two beaten
whites of eggs that were not used for
the pudding,and a wineglass id brandy.
Sanitary.
A Hint for the Treatment of
Consumption.—Mr. H. Osborn Bay-
fied suggests {British Medical Jour
nal) that the use of inhalations of vol
atilized palm oil may be useful in the
treatment of phthisis. He bases his
opinion upon the fact that workmen,
engaged in tinning, where palm oil is
used as a flux,, inhale the volatilized
oil aud get fat. Those previously
emaciated or weak rapidly improve,
he Idea is worth a trial.
Tuberculosis. — Dr. Kammerer,
Imperial Health Officer to the city of
Vienna, has published an important
address to tlie magistrates of that
city on the dangers which threaten
the health and life of the population,
through animals affected with tuber
culosis. The victims are insidiously
struck down, says Dr. Kaimnerer,
through two of the most Important
articles of daily diet—milk and meat.
The milk of cows with tuberculosis
acts as an unconscious inoculation
upon adults and children who par
take of it, aud in the case of the lat
ter, the seed of tuberculosis is being
imperceptibly sown among thousands
in the great towns. Dr. Eammeror
regards infection by this channel as
being quite as frightful a source of
the disease among tjie young as he
reditary taint, to which it is usually
traced. He regards it as exceedingly
doubtful whether boiling or roasting
ever can effectually eradicate the
germs of infaction from the flash of
tuberculous animals.
Treatment of Obstinate Vomit
ing.—In the course of an article on
this subject, in the Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal, Dr. 8 G. Web
ber says : Often the best method of
treating this complication is to give
the stomach rest. Sometimes a large
amount of food taken at one time ex-
cites vomiting ; then it is sufficient to
resort to frequent feeding, giving a
very small quantity each time, a
mouthful, or a spoonful every fifteen
or thirty minutes ; thus the stomach
never contains a large mass of food
requiring considerable muscular exer
tion to roll it about, and by its weight
or bulk exciting the r flex irritability
of the nerve centres. Many timeB,
however, this is not enough ; the stom
ach requires more complete rest, and
the best treatment is to withhold ail
food aud medicine ; sometimes a few
hours’ rest is enough, again it re
quires two or three days ; then it will
be necessary to use nutrient euemata.
Where there has been much vomiting
thirst may be very annoying to the
patient; small lumps of ice held iu the
mouth will relieve this, and generally
do not cause vomiting. After the
stomach has had suffi dent r-st Jt is
best to commence feeding by the
mouth, with caution, giving a little
frequently. Milk and lime water,
equal parts, a teaspoonful every half-
hour, should be first tried; if well
borne the amount can be increased
gradually. It is a mistake to increase
the quantity too rapidly.
Odds and Ends.
Muscatine, Iowa, has a cornet band
composed of young ladies of social
standing.
At three vegetarian restaurants in
the city of London the dinners daily
ser/ed average 1550.
Americans leave their goodness be
hind them when they go to Paris.
8o Mr. Moody said in his first sermon
in that city. Their desire is to see all
the sights, and these, he thinks
Christians should avoid.
The veteran historian, Leopold von
Rinke, is now engaged iu preparing
for the press the third volume of his
“Weltgeschichte.” It will comprise
a history of the Roman Empire, aud
the beginnings of Coristianity.
It seems as if tobacoo were destined
to universal empire. The latest sign
of the times was furnished a for night
ago in England when a Croydon evau.
gelist invited the people to attend his
services in their working clothes and
smoke their pipes if thev pleased.
This example would probably have
proved more contagious if the experl -
meat had not been out short by the
evangelist’s arrest and sentence to|pay
a fine of forty shillings and oosts for
using abusivs language to a woman.
As seen In his prison, Arabi is a
man of singularly courteous manners,
tall, burly, not uncomely, with a ten
dency to baldness and snowiness
about the beard. He should be a man
of fifty-five, but Orientals are insoruta-
e in the matter of age, some of them
one hundred, while in real!
thirtdttj
I
a fellah of the fellaheen, The shape
of his eyes and cast of his countenance
show this. He has the ignorance of
the fellah, his boundless trust and
grotesquely selfish belief that Allah’s
time is occupied with specially watch
ing him above all other crmatures
The method in which Japanese
newspapers are conducted is often
amusingly naive. A r scent issue of
the Nichi Fichi Shimbun—which, like
all its native contemporaries, is print
ed not in columns, but in squares—
came out with one square blank, the
empty space being covered with a
number of straight lines. The editor
apologizes for the extraordinary ap
pearance of the paper, informing his
readers that at the last moment he
found that what he had written was
all wrong, and had to be taken out.
He had no time to fiil it up with any-
thing else, aud there was nothing to
be done but to leave the space with
nothing in it.
The trial of a suit in which two
well-known lawyers of Djs Moines,
Iowa, are the opposing counsel, re
minds The Iowa State Register of a
good joke at their expense. Several
years ago when they were on opposite
sides of a case, one of them, Judge
Nourse, in the course of his argument,
repeated the lines:
“ There Is a tide la the affairs ot men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to for
tune,”
referring to them as the very well-
known words of Martin Van Buren.
His opponent, Judge Cole, eager to
make a good point, slyly responded
that he would never have supposed
Martin Van Buren guilty of plagiariz
ing Byron.
Tacks.
Tne Dry Goods Clerk’s Guar
dian Angel.
A tack is a simple, unpretending
sort of a young nail, noted for its keen
repartee when pressed for a reply, and
possessing the peculiar power, when
standing on its head, of causing the
cold shivers to run down the back of a
man in mere anticipation of wnat
might b3. Tacks are in season all tbe
year round, but the early spring is
usually the time selected by them for
a grand combined effort, and then they
flourish everywhere ? for at least a
month. Since the inauguration of the
time-honored ceremonies of house-
cleaning, every thorough housekeeper,
with long experience in the line of
duty, so takes up the carpet as to re
tain all the tacks in their original
places, thus preventing its slipping
from the shaker’s hands, unless the
tack breaks or his fingers give out.
But the triumph of the tack is not
complete at this early stage; it patient
ly abides its time, and on the relaying
of the carpet issues forth with double
force. After searching the entire house
for a paper of tacks, without success,
the unfortunate man falls on his
hands and knees to begin, and imme-
diately discovers four tacks at least,
aud as he rolls over and sits down to
extract these finds the rest of the paper
directly under him, and then, unless
he is accustomed to put up stoves and
join stovepipes, the chances of laying
the carpet on that evening are slight.
In selecting tucks from a saucer, he
always inspects the .points with his
forefinger, as the tack instantly loses
its head when they come to blows.
In argument the tack is sharp and
pointed, but the display of either or
both depends largely on the amount
of pressure employed byjts opponent.
In direct contrast to a good joke, the
amusement generally begins before
you see the point, and this fact is easi
ly demonstrated by walking the floor
in your stocking feet, a well-kept room
on such an occasion averaging two
tacks to the square foot. The future
of the tack gives great promise of more
extended usefulness and unlimited
possibilities, as several of our most
eminent college professors, having
carefully studied tbe effect of a sharp
tack of reasonable length placed pro
perly iu a chair or under a cot, are
about to introduce tacks aud do away
with spring-boards in our college gym
nasiums.—Detroit Free Press.
“Editor in?”
“Yss,” replied the horse reporter tc
the person asklug the question—a
young man with a tablespoon hat and
a you-inay-kiss-mebut-don’t-youtell-
papa moustache, who stood in the
doorway—“the editor is in, and the
chances are that he prefers staying in
rather than run any risk of falling
against you.”
“Well, of course, you know,” said
the man, “very likely it wouldn’t be
absolutely necessary for me to see the
really and truly editor about this mat
ter that I wanted to have settled. It’s
a question to be answered you know.”
“I should surmise,” said the horse
reporter “that au average deck hand
could successfully wrestle with any
problem you could evolve.”
“Well I don’t know,” continued the
young man. “Tuis is a real hard'
question, you know, and a good many
of our set over on the West Side have
tried awfully to settla it but we can’t.
I never saw such a provoking thing
in all my life, and last night I wag
talking with my roommate about It,
and we got real angry, and it looked
once as if we should strike each oth?r.
I woul In’t have had a row with
Cholly for anything, you know, be
cause we have been in the same store
ror nearly three years now, and when
he was promoted to the ribbon counter
he always spoke to me just the samel
as when we were both in the threads.”
“In what ?” asked the horse re
porter.
"In the threads—the thread de
partment, you know—and I always
said nothing could ever make me go
back on Chollv. You know how any
thing like that makes two fellows
awful chums.”
“Yes,” said the repor.er, “but what |
is^our question ?”
“Well, you see, some people are
playing croquet and a rover is driven
close to the home stake. Nowan-i
other man he is dead on the ball, but
having stroke he forces the rover^
against the stake. Now I say the
over is dead, but the other fellows say
isn’t, and we had an awful tim
about it over on the West Side, and—”
“Yes, you told me that before. Our,
croquet editor is on his vacation. He '
spends it in the Asylum for Feeble
Minded People, but like enough I can
fix this thing up for you.”
“Oh, that’s awful jolly. Have a I
cigarette ?”
“No, thauk you, I am over nine
years old. But about this croquet.
You say the rover is close to the
stake?”
“Yes,”
“And the next player knocks i!
against the stake ?”
“Yes.”
"And then the player after him
claims that the rover is dead ?”
“Yes, that’s it; and they can’t
agtee.”
“Well,” said the horse reporter^
“I should say that the man who got
the first knock down ought^to win.”
V‘But they don’t knock each other
down. They don’t quarrel at all.”
“You said this was a croquet game,
didn*t you ?”
“Why, certainly.”
“And they didn’t quarrel ?”
“Why, of course not.”
“Then the fairies are indeed kind to
the dry goods clerks. We can give
them no advice.”—Chicago Tribune.
Eclipses foi 1883.
During tj^e year 1883 there will be
four eclipses—two of tbe sun and two
of the moon—as follows :
A slight partial eclipse of the moon,
April 22d, invisible to the larger por
tion of North America; visible to the
Pacific coast, Eastern A-da, Australia
and Pacific ocean.
Christopher Dresser, Ph. D., has
written anew book on “Japan” with
a special aim, which is to set forth
what the Japanese have accomplished
in architecture, art and art man
ufactures. Dr. Dresser visited Japan
as the guest of the nation, and had
unexpected opportunities for studying
all forms of its art industry ; and his
work, which is brought out by the
Longmans, London, is tbe most ac
curate and complete aocount of Japa
nese industry that has yet appeared.
A total eclipse of the sun, May 6th.
visible chiefly on the Snith Pacific
ocean,
A partial eclipse of the moon, Octo
ber 15th and 16th, visible iu North
and South America, and extreme
western portions of Europe and Afri
ca.
An annulai eclipse of the sun, Octo
ber 30th, visible in part on tbe Pacific
coast; also on the extreme eastern
edge of Asia and iu tbe North Pacific
ooean ; beginning at San Francisco at
3h. 47m. p. m. ; the suu setting at
moment of greatest partial eclipse.
M^or-General Sir C. M. MacGregor
has published thr ough W. H. Allen A
Co., London, his “Wanderings in
Beloochistan,” a work that contributes
considerable fresh information about
a country of which very little is
known in the West.
Women seldom stop to think,
enough, but they n