The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-09
Domeatlc and AErIcutur"I Matters

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The value Of fruit as Il principal
article of food is neither appreciated nor
understood. 1t is too often eaten only
between meals, or after as much other
food as the stomach can dispose Of
TOO often the value Of fruit or food is
destroyed by the addition Of sweetening
and spices.
The "Australian Meat Company"
are preserving beef for the London
market al the rate OF 100000 pounds a
month, and are making Liebig's ex-
tract OF beef at the rate of one ton of
extract a month. The company are
killing and sending to England an
average of fifteen bullocks daily.
,F-European countries grow quite ms
many potatoes as America. France
has this year 2,O4O,S64 acres planted
with them, and Austria 1, ,3OS, l4s acres.
Ireland, the great potato country, Ie-
ports l,O5O, ,4l9 acres. In Bavaria there
are 649, ,739 acres; In Great Britain, 1885,,
s43 acres; in Belgium, 369 $50 acres; in
Sweden; 344, 900 acres; in Holland, z65,-
9S7 acres; in Wuriemburg, l67, ,9iS acres;
and in Denmark proper, SO, l76 acres.
"A certain NJ. Giot has invented
"fowl omnibus" fitted up with nest
boxes and perches, by which fowls can
be transferred every day to the spot
where the most active farming opera
tions are being carried on. 1.-THE fowls"
NJ. Giot states, would then follow the
plough and harrow, clear the land
thoroughly of fly and woi m, pick up
all the stray grain after harvest, manure
the soil, keep themselves in high health,
and feed themselves without cost.
Gail Hamilton more than hints that
pretty girls are not really neat and
cleanly, while the chances are that
homely ones possess that respectable
virtue to refreshing extent. She Giles
as proof the miscellaneous If not worse
condition OF their sleeping apartments.
ing about. We circulate these hints for
the benefit of young men who may be
In the way of looking up partners for
Life excursion. The method of testing
the matter, as will be seen, is quite diff
hcult. Beauty and dirt-we don't like
the association, but the fact would be
much worse. -a .-
AT no moment OF difficulty does a
ness, draw SO closely to his wife's side
for comfort and assistance, as when. he
| wants Il button sewed on his shirt col
/ lar. e-g-g 80
The Ohio Ctttttvato1- says the follow
Ing recipe is worth thousand dollars
to any family. It is as follows:
Take one spound iof sal soda aud Il
half pound of unslacked lime, putthem
in a gallon OF water, and boil twenty
minutes; let 1t stand till cool, then
drain oil, and put 1t in a jug or Jar; soak
your dirty clothes over night, or until
they are well wet through, then wiring
them out and rub on plenty of soap,
and to one boiler of clothes, well cover
ed with water add one teacup full of
the washing tiuid; boil half an hour
| briskly, then wash them thoroughly
through one suds, rinse them and your
! clothes Will look better than by the old
way OF washing twice before boiling.
This Is an Invaluable recipe, and l
want every poor tired woman TO try It,.
j lhlDk that with a patent Yashtnb to
! do the little rubbing, washer woman
might take the old Bible, compose her
self on the lounge, and let the washing
do itself. ~.