Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1850-08-02

Sulphur is valuable in preserving grapes
&c, from insects.
Lard never spoils in.warm weather, if ii is
cooked enough in frying out.
In feeding with corn, fifty pounds ground
60 as far as a hundred pounds in the kernel.
Corn meal should never be ground very
fine. 1t Injuries the richness of it.
TurniPs of small size have double the nu-
tritious mater that large ones have.
Ruta Baga is the only root that increases in
nutricious qualities as it in creases in its
size.
Sweet Olive Oil is certain cure for the
bite of rattle-snake. Apply it internally and
externally.
Rats and other ve-min are kept from grain
by sprinkle of garlic when packing the
sheafs.
PREsEyERING CuRRANrs.-S Strip them
from the stems. Allow a pound Of sugar to
pound Of currants. Boil them together ten
minutes. Take them from the syrup, aud let
the syrup boil twenty minutes, and pour it on
the fruit. Putthem in small jars or tumbIers
and let them stand in the sun a few days
To preserve Currlnts to eat WI meat, strin
them from the stem; boil them an hour, and
then to pound Of the fruit add a pound of
brown sugar; boil all together fifteen or TWEEN
ty mnutes.-To make Culrant Jelly, pick
over the curraats with care put them in Il
stone jar, and set it in "a kettle Of boiling wa
ter; strain it through seive, then ran the
juice through jelly-bag; put pound Of su-
gar to a pint Of juice, and boil it together five
minutes. Set it in the sun a few days.
On the fourth Of July there were sixteen
persons confined in the Jail At St. Louis
charged with or conY icted Of murder ID the first
degree, and another had beer committed the
afternoon before.
No CHOLERA At SANDUsKY.-Tho Sandus-
kan of the 10th says thalup to that date not
a single case of cholera had occurred, and no
premonitory symptoms of its appearance eX-
listed in that city.
CoTToS SriNDLEs.-The whole number
of cotton spindIes in the world is estimated
at 25,986. 600, of which Great Britain has
I7,5G00oO France 300 900. aud the U. S.
3,5OOOOO.
DECLINES A RE-NoHINATIoN. The Chicago
Journal states that John Wentworth, Of the
Democrat, now NJ. c. from that Coagression-
al District, declines denomination. The
Journal intimates that the grapes were sour.
The officers ard cadets at West Point have
contributed nearly $500 to the erection Of
the Washington Monument, and the odd
Fellows Of Pennsylvania during the month of
June $4,000 for the same purpose.
The number of cmigrants who arrived at
New York from foreign ports during the
mouth of June, is Il, ,763 during May d.
055. The arrivals during June of last year
numbered 3j,673, showing a large falling of.
this year.
Four thousand five hundred acres of Vir-
ginia land were sold at PittsJurg last week,
at 81 per acre. Two or three thousand more
remain for sale. The soil is rich and tie land
well tim5ered, and the climate healthy
So the Pi,tsburg Commercial says.
The total expenses of the Post Office De
partment, for 1850, IS estimated at 5,440,400
dollars.
The expense Of fuel to do the same amount
Of work with steam engines now, IS only one
third of what It was in 1918.
LEM has certained by actual experiment
that electricity is as capable of producing cold
as heat, to the degree Of freezing water rapid
ly.
There is a single religious congregation on
Long Island which contains five persons over
100 years of age, eighteen over 90, fifty one
over 80, and forty-!ivc over 80.
A RE1Ic.-The Richmond Star says an
other relic was found in that city. being dog
collar supposed to have belonged to Julius
Cesar, from the fact Of its hiring his name
eagrGred upon II.
TREATY RATITrED.-Ratifcat ions Of the
recent CouventioG with England were ex-
changed between Mr.. Clayton and Sir Henry
Bulwer. as tie accredited agents OF their
respective governments, on the Fourth OF
July.
The wild pine of the West In les, which
grows on bran hes Of trees in hot climites.
where there Is little rain, has a mug tha-
viii hold a quart; when the dew falls il IS re-
Ceived, and a valve closes at the top and pre-
vents the evaporation. Often are birds seen
to insert their beaks and procure water there
from.
Gipldi, the alleged murderer OF Newman.
who was pardoDed few days since, returned
to this town ard remained here a few days.
with apparently no more sense than a cosset
sheep. He followed those with whom he had
staid when a prisoner, dog-.iae, around the
streets. He has since gone near to Madison,
to visit the Norwegiaus in that vicinity. Ills
children seem to have lost all love Tor him.
Ste5oYgan .NDcury.