New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-18

How TO BURN CoAL.-G Graham's Magazine has
from which we select the following
One of the most important features in the use
Of all anthracite Goals is to know how to burn
them: And while there is almost universal ig-
norance on this subject-and especially among
seryants-there are very few, indeed, who are
at all acquainted with the virtues Of the poker,
that would like to acknowledge it. To make
and regulate coal fire is one of those every
day items of life with which all are familiar !;
but to do it properly and economically and per-
fectly, is point in which the great mass of con-
sumers are lamentably deficient.
A coal fire should never be started without an
abundance Of kindling wood; for, If this be
scanty or damp, the chances are on the side of
failure The ash-pan should always be emptied
before new fire is made; and when the first
supply of coal is thoroughly ignited, another
supply SHOULD be thrown on. When this is COW
cred with a red flame, the draught of the stove
should be regulated so as to preserve an even
heat, and no more coal ought to be thrown on
for at least five hours.
At II o'clock, or thereabouts, the CRATE should
be moderately agitated, and new supply of
coal added, with moderate increase of draught,
| to be lowered when thoroughly ignited
at about o'clock, another supply should be
| thrown in; and, if intended to keep the fire all
| night, another thorough raking. and slightly
| increased quantity ought to be thrown in
Now, after ascertaining the particular eharac-
ter of the stove, the chimney and the coal, these
simple directions should be observed with per-
| feet regularity, and the result will be all that
could be desired.
Servants are generally too irregular in their
attentions to the fires, and often entirely too
assiduous in stimulating them to sudden heights,
and hence make free use of the poker. The
great mistake Of all is to put on too much coal,
as if it were wood-tbe greater the quantity the
greater heat. If too much coal is supplied, the
combustion is necessarily imperfect, because the
fire is ss choked up" the draught destroyed, and
the elements of the coal, slowly escaping from
it, pass off to the chimney unconsumed, or are
disseminated in gases throughout the room
Whereas, if the stratum of coal be but moderate,
a red flame will play around the interior of the
stove, by which entire combustion and healthy
heat are secured One tun of coal, therefore,
| by thorough combustion, will often secure more
heat and healthier atmosphere than two tuns
consumed in the ordinary way; and this is a
| fact which can only be demonstrated to ignor
ant servants by close -watchfulness over theil
movements The evil of over. supplies become.
o serious one in the kitchen, where the victual
become full charged with the sulphurous gases
Indeed, if the cook cannot be made to under
stand how to burn coal properly and sparingly
it should not be used at all--rather go back t
g old hickory and oak, and thus be sure o
steaks and roast beef in their purity.
The London Dispatch expresses the following
opinion Of the United States
We sometimes have felt exceeding proyocatior
at the auarrelsome spirit of the United States
They are always ready to fght-to seek an oc-
casion for fighting They would at any time
rather go to war than not. They are perpetu
ally seeking satisfaction. Now, it is of our
selves; again, it is Of France, or Spain, or Aus
tria, or Japan. Their very ambassadors max
prsexts for duels if they cannot find them
their consuls demand compensation for injure
citizens; their captains Of the navy are ever OIL
the brink of a broadside in foreign ports, eithe
with the State in whose harbor they are at an
chor, or with some rival navy or competing ira
ders Yet they are at peace with all the work
have no national debt-their surplus reyenu
is a nuisance--eyery body is civil to them
every body comedies to them more than is thel
due. To make war in words is enough; to b