The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15
HOUSEHOLD.

damp, as it is vulgarly called, is the source
OF infinite mischief No other single agency
Injuries the health of men so widely and seri-
ously. This gas comes principally from the
lungs OF men and animals, and from combus-
tion. A load of wood weighing ton is
drawn to the door. 1t takes a span of
horses to do it. 1t is burned in the stove,
and all that is left of it is in the form of
ashes, and may be carried away in q barrel
on a mans shoulder. Perhaps the weight
is fifty pounds. The nineteen hundred and
fifty pounds which have disappeared have all
gone up the chimney and out into the at
mosphere in the form of carbonic acid gas.
A candle weighs four ounces, but when
it is burned, there is almost nothing left,
1t has disappeared in the form of carbonic
acid gas. Put man in pork barrel, head
him up tight, and drive in the bung. Wait
few minutes. Now loosen the bung, take
it out, and peep in. If you happen to look
into the mans face you will find it nearly
black. The man is dead. He was suffo-
Gated. You see the way it happened was
this. The man at first could breathe well
enough and unless he knew about such
things, he said to himself, Well this is a
little cramped, but it is not so bad after ALL"
But pretty soon he began to find it was hard
work to breathe. Then he began to feel
dizzy, and then came a terrible pressure i'll
his head then fearful agony for moment
in his heart; then few struggles and gasps,
and all was over. Just take good look in
his face, if you have the stomach for it, and
you will see how terrible was his agony dur
ing the last moments What killed that
man? The carbonic acid gas which he pro-
duced in his own lungs. If when you first
opened the bung-hole you had put your
mouth to it and tried to breathe the air. you
would have found out at once what killed
him. We take pure air into our lungs, and
when we breathe it out it contains three or
four per cent of this poisonous gas. Now,
If we take this same air back into the lungs
and breathe it over again, when it comes out
of our lungs the second time, it is so poison
GUS that it can't be taken back the third
time without mischief
In room twelve feet square, if three per-
sons are sitting and they have one gas burner,
which will consume the oxygen and create
carbonic acid gas about as fast as the three
pairs of lungs, the air will become poisonous
IN few minutes, unless there is an opening
to let the poisoned air out and the pure air
in. The air in most churches and theatres
is simply abominable. Babies in the bot
toms of cradles, ladies under thick wells,
passengers in sleepingcars, nine-tenths of
our people in their bedrooms, are poisoned
with this carbonic acid gas. Now does not
the statement with which began, viz : that
" Carbonic acid gas is the source of infinite
mischief" seem reasonable ?-Dio Le,CiS in
To-Day.
How TO CRYsTALLIzE GRAssEs.-The long
feathery grasses are the best for this purpose.
They must be thoroughly dry; shape them
into the desired form and fasten securely
before being put in the bath. Take one
pound of the best alum, pound it quite fine
and dissolve 1t in quart of clear water over
slow fire, but do not let it boil. Take a
deep jar and suspend the bouquet in it by a
string from a stick laid across the jar.
When the solution is milk warm, pour it
over the grasses, cover it up, and set it
away for twenty four hours. Then take
them out carefully, and let them hang several
hours in the sun till all the water is drained
away. Then set them away and do not
move them for two or three days, when they
will be dry. The solution may be heated
over and used as before.
For blue crystals, use saturated solution
of sulphate of copper in hot water. For
yellow, use the yellow prussiate of potash;
for ruby, use the red prussiate of potash.
These crystallized bouquets should be kept
under glass shades or their beauty will fade.
To REMOVE BRUISES FROM FURNITURE
To take out bruises, wet the part with
warm water; double piece Of brown paper
five or six times, soak it, and lay it on the
place; apply on that hot iron till the
moisture is evaporated two or three appli
cations will raise the dent or bruise level
with the surface. If the bruise be small,
merely soak it with warm water, and apply
red-hOt iron very near the surface; keep it
continually wet, and in few minutes the
bruise will disappear To remove stains,
wash the surface with stale beer or vinegar;
the stains will be removed by rubbing them
with rag dipped in spirits Of salt. Re-pol-
ish as you would new work If the work be
not stained, wash with clean spirits of tur-
pentine and re-polsh with furniture oil.
GRAPE AND PEACH PUDDING SAUCE
Strain off the juice from stewed grapes,
sweeten to the taste, and thicken with sifted
| wheat meal, not more than one spoonful to
one pint of juice. Another good sauce can
be made by stewing tart apple-skins in barely
enough water to cover them, draining that
off, adding ali equal quantity of grape juice,
seasoning and thickening slightly as before.
The thick, sweetened juice of stewed or
canned peaches also harmonize finely with
grape dishes. A delicious peach sauce can
be made by stewing peach parings instead
of apple, adding to the strained liquid,
an equal quantity of the juice from ste~ed
peaches, and thickening and sweetning in
the same manner.
COMMON FRUIT CAKE. pound of
flour, one pound Of raisns; one pound of
currants; one-half pound of citron one
cup ofsugar; one of molasses one Of but
ter one of milk; three eggs, teaspoon of
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