The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-10-19

beverages the table this
the impregnaed solution for his perquisite. Where.
however or ice procurabe the intensity of the
freezing mixture rises TO its higher points Snow and salt
Of the greatest possible degree Of cold This was the
temperature OF his zero. Our confect0ners in the
hab OF using Tor their craft mixture OF pounded ice and
al Win n pursuance known as cnlonde o. GalcuE mk
Gu WIN snow produces most severe cold sufficiently
great to freeze mercury Mr. Walker to whose interest
ing experiments upon this subject stands much indeb
ed was on one OCCASION able by successive cooDgs. To
attain depth OF cold equal oil degrees below Fahren
hes unhappy zero In the laboratory OF the chemist,
great degrees OF cold procurahe by the Of highly
volatile liquids for evaporation Every juvenile chemists
ears have tngled With the startling enunciaton of the
possibility of freezing man to death the height Of
summer, by wettng him constantly with eher-whick is
however, fact hitherto undemonsated The suiphs,er
of carbon, and, recently. liquid suphurc acid,
both of them exceedingly volatile fuds create intense
ments of M Boutigny, in which water was frozen in a
red-hot crucibe, effected by the assistance of sui
phuric acid in the liquid form The remarkable sub
rcfngorfc agent known Mr.. Adams, Of Remington.
actually manufactures this curious liquid a. an article OF
commerce, and has occasionally much as nine gal-
IONS of il in store In drawing It from its powerful
reservoirs, il evaporates 80 rapidly as to freeze it
SELF and it is then light porous mass, like snow. Iii
deses e. ors @
touch than boiling water Ia drop or two OF the mixture
producing blsters, just il the skin had been burned
Mr. Adams states, that in eight minutes he has frozen in
this way mass OF mercury weighing ten pounds.
There have been some mechanical contryances for the
manufacture OF ice. Evaporation may be accelerated
10 s Is he q sir
John Lesles celebrated freezing apparatus In conduct
ing some experiments upon the rarefacton Of air he
led to conceive the idea OF manufacturing ice on the large
scale from little phenomenon observed in the receiver
Of his arpump. Introducing watch glass full Of water,
and IN contact with sulpharc acid into the RECEIVER Of
ton, the water was converted into mass Of solid ice
With body of pached oatmeal instead Of the acid
the absorbent OF moisture he froze pound and quar-
fer al
followed; powerful machines were constructed and va
rous improvements were adopted in the apparatus, all
res of mankind Several of these machines have been ex
ported into hot climates Dr. Ue suggested steam the
vacuizng powers and the idea has been conceived that
wherever steam engine is employed. there an ice appa
might be erected and sustained at rng cost, with
great prospect of productiveness.
The most recent icem machine "Masters' Apparatus;
the principal feature of which u.s. that metallic cyn-
der is made to undergo rapid rotation in freezing mix
ture, the motion appearing in singular manner to ex-
Some account Of the applications of artificial cold may.
perhaps, suitably conclude our paper For some time
the ingenuity Of men in this particular developed itself no
further than simply cooling wine and other beyerages
but more refined and even elegant mode Of doing
was afterwards discovered In BoyeB History OF Cold
is stated that he was accustomed to make VINE OF
ice by means of tin moulds for use in hot weather
pleasant trifes, he calls them, which impaired de-
hcious GOODNESS to the wine poured into them In an
e n 9
ice and basin of ice filled with wine were among the
curiosities upon the table Then the invention OF
ense sale for them in Paris Cream ices, and the iced
juice Of fruits were then made and found rapid con
sumption More recently ahs art q hs SGnsct4nsr
and peachesapricOts and nectarnes of cocOpyng the
originals with curious fidelity
Selections rom she London Punch.
OvERwHELsaSc PATRlARcH-The newspaper, re-
porters are certainly the funniest feows-without
represents the Morning Herald. in the mob that is now
dangling at the heels Of the queen, gives the pleasing
Sas r aaa sent aaS % TOT s e
that the occurrence had the effect Of completely
whelmng the patriarch" Being anxious to realize in
above paragraph, looked out four volume ed-
ton of Johnson the word 'overwhelm,n and we find it
means "to crush under something violent and weighty
cheque for eo nor could It have been adminsssred
with any violence, can conceive, that would have
been sufficient to overwhslm" or crush underneath it,
this literary patriarch. The reason for styling the
veteran patriarch, is TO us quite obscure the
tive for talking about his having been overwhelmed for
right" and hence our fathers get the name Of governor
The cenenaran in question turns out however, to be
wholly without relations, and having nothing to govern
pletely misappled as the word .overwheimedv is map
proprate to his condition Had the reporter told the
poor old fellow was '.abbergased we could have under
his being overwhelmed that il to say crushed under
something violent and weighy," we are COMPOUNDED by
the extraordinary image, which II IL truly painful to con-
template
The CLAssrco-MANIA.-We have been requested to
protest against practice that prevails of
afixing classical inscriptions to modern English build
ings sort of compromise is usually attempted by
sorting TO bad Latin for the accommodation those who
only read the mother tongue, the individual thrown
into the company OF Frenchman and not being able to
say word in French met his companion half way by
talking broken English. A rich specimen has been fur
nished to of an inscription on Wesleyan chapel.
commencing HUJUs WESLEYAN saceh Fundamental po-
sta stunt a GEoRGIo GREEN, Amlgero de NtgTO Mnr0.'
WEsLEYANI and GREEN certainly not remarkable for
the purity or elegance of their Latinty and the attempt
to elevate Blackwal by turning it into Niger Murus is
as bad as the effort to give lift to Turnham Green by
calling it Hete yIdes We might well call Fleet
dignity old friend Upper John street with the magni
cent sounding title Of Wa Supsriors Johapnisi No!
no! Let call things by English names; and If tho
is not comprehensive enough to accommodate
all our counrymen, will undertake to lengthen the
language, at halfpenny for every substantive, penny
verb and the rest of the parts Of speech sxpence
a dozen all round !" g' &EE s'r
appears that all English rrsters are obliged to take
oath declaring among other things that they abhor.
detest and abure, as mpous and heretica, the damna
BILE doctrine:
That princes communicated or dcposed by the Pope,
any authority Of the of Rome, may be deposed or
murdered BY their subjects or any other whatsoever"
Punch recently saw batch OF young lawyers 60 through
this operation which he calls "profane swearing. he
says:
ssWe were not much edited by this ceremony. II
seemed u.s. on the whole, Of the most hollow and
dead shams we ever suffered under No doubt the thing
had a significance once, but II IS nothing now Why
then invoke that tremendous sanction to what ID utterly