Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-08-21
How TO Keep Good Time.

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Kalmo's Watch Repairers' Gxide has
the following: If the people who have
watches and are always complaining of
them, would read and observe these direc-
tions they would save money and temper
annually: fe'''' 's'' SO"
L. DO not make toy of IL yourself or
for the children. Never open il except for
necessary purposes. Las ,......,
2. 1t should be regulated to about mean
temperature, and always kept as near the
same temperature as possible. A t.sa
3. Itshs~A aot BE- eallowea<o stop- -Dot
ter that it be kept running all the time.
4. Keep it in as uniform position as pos
sible. If in the pocket, better that the
pendant ring be upright
5. Out of the pocket, if it hang on the
wall. let it be upon some soft surface.
Never allow it to lie on bare marble or
other hard surface. lit lie on any sur
face. let it be with face up and pendant
ring right turned under, so as to keep the
upper part most elevated.
9. Let your key fit exactly, aud be kept
perfectly clean. by the former you may
save breaking chains, mainsprings, ratch-
cts, clicks, etc. by the latter, prevent in.
Producing much dust.
I. Wind, if possible, at the same hour
each day.
8. While winding, hold your watch
steadily in your left hand. Turn only
your key, and that firmly, evenly, avoiding
all quick motions or jerks.
8. Set your watch with key; never
turn by any other way. You may turn
the hands either way without danger if
they do not move very hard.
8. On regulating watch, should it be
going too fast, move the regulator triAe
toward the Slow" and ifgoing, slow do
the reverse; you cannot move the regula-
tor too gently at a time. and the only in
convenience that can arise is that you may
have to perform that duty more than once.
10. Take note that your watch, even if
good one, will sometimes be guilty of
irregularities in consequence of temper
aturc, from the effects of which none but
q chronometer is exempt; also from the
jerks and jars Of travel. @.rf .
II. Tfyou find any difficulty which you
do not understand, 60 at once to good
'chmakcr. --t-H
To Cook VEGETABLEs.-A German
professor says that :f I,vrto" Of veg
otablc be boiled in pure distilled or rain
water. and another in water in which it,
tie salt has been added, decided difference
is prcccptib!c in the tenderness Of the two.
Vegetables boiled in pure water are vastly
inferior in flavor. This inferiority may 90
30 far, in the ease Of onions, that they are
almost entirely destitute of either taste or
odOr; though when cooked in salt water,
in addition to tho pleasant salt taste is
peculiar sweetness and strong aroma.
They also contain more soluble matterthan
when, cooked in pure water, Water which
contains one.twentieth of its weight in salt
is far better for cooking vegetables than
pure water, because the salt hinders the
solution and evaporation Of the soluble aud
aavering principles Of the vegetables. 80
CmEcK lREINs.-The President Of the
Coston Society for the, Prevention of Cru
city, to, Animals says that, in his recent
travels in England and on the continent Of
Europe he found that very few gentlemen
used the check-rein for their horses and
that il was xscev used for horseJ drawing
heavy loads. One teainster. to- whom he
spoke on the. subject, said that, of course
no man Of sense who wished his horse to
draw would confine his head in such no
sition that he could not use his strength to
advantage. Our Yankee tcamsters are
not destitute Of sense, but they have not
yet applied IL 10 this subject; and we con-
stantly see horses with heavy loads, which
need the advantageous application !, Of all
their strength, and yet with; their, heads
curbed up to = degree that would be wear
isonic and annoying evcnif they were stand
ing unemployed. s@eerni s. 81 f.id" moit
~ It is said that there, are four thou
sand kinds, Of butterflies and moths in the
United States, and 1000 pair, Of moths
will produce 100000 caterpillars the first
year, $4,000, 600 tho second, and $780,
00O, 900 the third But one bird will de.
streyed i .000, 600 csterpilhrsin season,
pail. of birds double this and four Of
Eve young birds 5000, 900 more. Baron
Won Tschudi, the vel. known Swiss natur-
alist, says that without birds agriculture is
impossible. That birds annihilate in d
Few months greatcrnumber Of destructive
insects than kunan hands can accomglish
in the samensmher Of ysarssaa,i zs,ia.n' ,
w ~ The President said 70 Hon a. II,
Rice us s0on as the &c Anvil Chofus" had
died away. "This Coliseum would make
q good barn; / wish~E had it," Mr.. Rice
discovered important business elsewhere
At oaes.eYs 4Dsy 10 sssdo4ay adl s' s,ieg
7 ~ The iegicss printer, John Barns,
wholw6rked u the Government 0fice, WIS
wheeled into tho foreman's ofics Ssesntly,
and rendered his resignation, declaring
that hc would work no longer with the ne
gro. sabssa issis Esd .dsfilsf asieL b.
~ II cost twelve thousand dollars d !,