The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-27
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for v;n,oa ner l0s ior summer drink That made
IoI WINTER use requires less time i'm bron,,, ond
can De put in market as soon ne h InE io suo
llr suIlner peer must be slowed away for many
h,i1 LIQUIDS. Lager beer Is made from malt and
. mnntts "a Tan only be Drewed in the cold winter
MINUS In the iall of the year the malt is pur-
THuoseu, ana stored away until about the Ist of
DeSemDer, IL is then placed in large mash-tubs
snf T& SOAKED ior some time in cold water When
S5iNiiouuy soltened ana swelled warm water is
duued and the temperature OF the water in
creased gradually until the whole mass is almost
poiiing' Thls process extracts all the saccharne
nothing but the 'huil.h This LIQUID is called
Wurt' From the mash-tubs the llquor is drawn
tio tihSo huge Kettles, where hops are added, and
lne Wnole mass boiled tor two hours. I5 Is then
carried to the coolers, which are simply inn
mense sheet-iroD pans, generally placed In and
occupying the whole OF the upper floors of the
brewery. The beer is poured into these pans
TO the depth of two or three inches the windows
ana doors of the building being thrown open,
ana the liquor thus speedily cooled. IL is then
Drawn Oil into huge termenting tubs, where
little yeast is added to facilitate the fermenta-
ton. Here the beer remains from six TO twelve
days, according to the temperature OF the at
mosphere, until ii has worked off all impurities
The beer then in its purified state is drawn into
large tanks, holding from twenty to thirty bar
rels, and stored away in immense cellars for
summer use. The process of manufacturing
lager beer occupies about one month, after
which 1t requires to stand about four months
before it is ready for use.
The City of London.-The inhabitants of the
city proper are year by year decreasing. In
1851, Tor instance, there we're l29l2s inhabi-
tants residing within its boundaries; but this
number had declined in 1861 to ll3 387, and pro-
badly in 1871 the population of the most re-
nowned commercial city in the world will not
exceed 100000 or less than the number of
people living in Kensington. The army of
people, principally male, that moves on the city
every morning IS perhaps unparalleled in num-
Der by any human tide that has ever moved
dlurnally in any city in any age of the world
The difficulty of dealing with such a vast influx,
pedestrian and vehicular, is increased in conse-
quence OF the narroWness OF the streets within
its area. These, it is true, constitute about
twentV-hye per cent. OF its entire area nine hun
dred and thirteen public ways traversing it in
every direction: but of these one hundred and
ninety-four have sufficient width tor one line of
vehicles only and one hundred and seventy
four III addition are without thoroughfares.
Thus it will be seen that upwards of tWo-thirds
OF the city streets are incapable of carrying any
considerable stream oil vehlcular traffic at all.
There are only eighty-siX which admit of two
lines OF vehicles and sixty eight which admit of
three or more. But practically the main stream
OF people coming into the city in the morning
find their way along two lines. Fleet street and
NewRate street. the two thoroughfares minglng
at Cheapside, and coming in dead lock through
out the greater part of the day at the Poultry.
The obstruction which here takes place should
and would have been removed long ago but for
the almost priceless value of land in this To-
cality.-Once-0- Week.
Paper Manufacture A method of treating
paper so that it becomes much thicker and
stronger, and capable of being glazed with
most beautiful surface, has been brought into
use. Paper, either sized or not, is taken dry
and soaked in concentrated neutral solution
OF chloride OF zinc, moderately heated; after
which 1T is washed, dried, and Is ready for use,
having the appearance of parchment The
neutral solution OF the chloride OF zinc is formed
by adding the carbonate, or oXyde of zinc, to a
solution of zinc dissolved in muriatic acid, then
evsporating the solution until il has arrived at
the consistency of syrup when cold. In this state
1t has high specific gravity, and the paper to
be treated is immersed in it for a few minutes,
then taken out, and the adhering zinc removed
by the scraper. The paper is now thoroughly
washed in clean cold water, and afterwards
pressed and dried. This treatment draws or
fuls the fbres of the paper together, rendering
the sheets smaller in size but much stronger and
closer in the texture. The process described is
conducted with cold liquors, and the paper is
only partly rendered into vegetable parchment;
when it is desired to produce the fullest change
possible in the paper, the liquor is kept heated
at about one hundred and twenty degrees Fan
reEheIt while the paper is immersed in 1t. Sheets
OF paper, when saturated with such solution,
may be joined permanently together by uniting
their edges, and passing heated iron over
them. The chloride of tin may also be used as
a substitute for the zinc.
Cholera Impostors- number of men and
women have lately tried to impose on the Lon
don Hospital with pretense OF cholerac symp
toms. Some, whose acting was of superior
order, were admitted, but they soon fell into
the fault of most amateurs. They overrated the
cramps and exaggerated the pains. This led tC
Y,
these people were drunk, and gave great dea
of trouble, repaying the kindness of the nurses
with foul and abusive language. An example
las been made OF one woman, who was charged
at the police court with obtaining medicine
under false pIetenses, and locked up for
couple of days on remand Probably the rea
object of these lmpostures was the desire TO
brandy. t.
Statistics of the Pencil Trade,-The number O
black lead pencils made in Keswick, England
is twenty five thousand per week; that is abou
thirteen millions per annum. AT an aVerag
length of seven inches this would give fourtee
hundred and thirty-six and one-quarter miles z
black lead and cedar. The cedar annual
consumed amounts to twelve thousand cubi
feet and the yellow pine in due proportion Tn
plumbago is partly the produce of the Borrow
dale mine, and partly from Mexico and PERI
The number of hands employed is two hundred
and their highest wages vary from los. to 20
per week. '.,. f.'' '.. '"
Saturday shopping.-A number of Englis
ladies. presided over by the Duchess of Suthe
against shopping on Saturdays, with view
promoting the Saturday halfholday, in comp
ance with a resolution adopted at a meeting
ladies held at Stafford House on the 23d of J "a
last, .".r,.f r T.rC. tiIL' a.a
An Absurdity.-The Bishops of Nismes az
Poictiers France, have proclaimed their bell
that the clouds of locusts which have destroy
the grass, plants, and trees in Algeria were Sc
among the settlers TO punish them for the
want of zeal in the conversion Nf the Mussl
mans! .. q H.1.I5 al.a.fr a
Posthumous Patronage-Last monih the wa
of a mart OF London were adornsd with
pIacard stating that the Walworth ,Amate
Horticultural Society would hold its annu
al ,u in few daVs ''under the patronage oft