Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-28
Sweet PORK.

1t is beyond doubt that cleanliness
has much to do with the flavor of pork.
The filthy state in which many fatten-
ing hogs are kept has a tendency not
only to give a rank taste to the meat
but to render it positively unwhole-
some. A very common mode of pen
ming hogs at this season is in a rail pen,
without protection from the weather,
The consequence is that such pens are
not fit to keep living animal in; wet
and filthy, cold and uncomfortable as
they are, hog will not take on fat, anf
u great proportion of the food is wasted
while they are kept i'll them, while the
filth, u considerable amount of which
the hogs will consume, must be detri-
mental to their health, and to the health
OF those who eat their flesh. 1t is not
only safer but more economical to give
iattening animals good shelter ane dry
beds and litter, and keep them quite
clean. The labor will be well repaid.
ACCORDING to Professor Wagner, the
manufacture of iodine from Chilian
saltpetre amounts at the present time to
some 10000 pounds per annum. The in
genious method invented ny M. Thier-
celn for the reclamation OF this valua-
Bile substance from the crude material
is as follows The mother liquors result
ing from the manufacture of saltpetre
are treated with a mixture of sulphur
Gus acid and sulphite of soda, in proper
proportion, and this causes the iodine
to be precipitated as a black powder.
The precipitated iodine is put into
earthen Jars, on the bottom of which
are layers of quartz sand, fine at the top
and coarse at the bottom; from this il
is removed by earthen spoons into boxes
liEed with gypsum, and a great part OF
the water thus removed. 1t is some,
times sold in this impure state, or fur
ther purified by sublimation.
The PROPORTION of land in California
under cultivation, compared with the
entire area, is very small. According to
Land Office figures, there are 6O,00O,O0o
acres capable of bearing wheat, but only
| 100000 acres are cultivated. OF this,
according to the Surveyor General,
1,263 were in wheat, giving 100000
bushels, or fifteen bushels per acre. The
Vallejo RccorciGr says it follows that if,
bv means of increased facilities, l5,000,-
| UtNj are III tlIHt SOl NHSut, WV
crop will be lS0,000,000 bushels, or ten
times the present average crop, which
is raised without irriga ton, i'll sections
lily provided with transportation.
IN PHILADELPHIA, the other day, two
women exhibited a remarkable degree
of superstition. They called at the
police station and asked if there were
any dead bodies at the morgue. Learn
ing there was one, that of a drowned
man, she requested that privilege be
given her to lay one of the dead man.
hands upon her goitered neck, remark
ing at the same time she knew of a per,
son who, by the hands of a dead man,
! had been relieved of the complaint.
| The request was granted, and the hand
of the corpse was three times applied to
the afflicted neck, and without further
ceremony the females left for then
homes. Dr..
A WEDDING in convent, writes cor
respondent, is the last event which this
century lacked in order to be crowned
as the most wonderful of the ages, and
it "has come to pass" Berlin is the
boastful mother of this striking novelty
Despite the withering influences anc
the thousand-eyed guard of cloister life
against the fatal weapons of Cupid, al
orphan maid, who was reared by tho
Ursulines, was wooed and won by {
Landsberg knight, and recently married
by him in her convent home. Tht
Mother Superior stood instead of the
parents of both parties, and the wedding
was gay. All the compay except tho
bridegroom were in petticoats.
RECENTLY, two persons travelling OF
the road to Gotham, in a light wagon
were smoking cigars, from the fire o
, which some straw at the bottom ignited
The flames soon drove them from thei
seats, and while busy extinguishing tho
. fire, countryman, who had been fol
;. some time following them on horse
! back, alighted to assist them. 81 have
; been Watching the smoke for som'
time said he. Why, then, did yol
not give us notics?" asked the travel
5 ers "Well," responded the rustic
7 there are so many new tangled no
tons nowadays, | thought you wer'
going by steam."