Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-11
LriA GAZETTE & VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
COOKING WITH GAS.

COOKING WITH GAS.
A leading scientific journal has long article
on the economy and convenience of cooking
with gas, from which we take the following: For
several months freud of ours has been test
ing the availability Of gas for cooking purposes.
He has used range having two separate bur
ncrs, for boiling or frying, and third burner
heating at once roasting chamber ION the
principle of Dutch oven) and an ordinary
closed oven for baking. Broiling is done in the
roasting chamber under sheet of hime which
covers uniformly the top of the chamber. The
range has ample capacity for family of six or
eight persons, though in the present case the
cooking was rarely for more than two living
modestly yet fully up to the average of people
in moderate circumstances and having two
meals always generally three meals day. Bis
cults were baked occasionally, but not bread,
which, however, was almost always toasted in
the roasting chamber under full sheet OF
fame During the three months just passed
the gas cousumed-measured by a standard
meter officially sealed-amounted to trife
short Of one thousand feet costing, even at
the high ra!e charged by our metropolitan
gas companies, two dollars aud half, and
averaging not nore than one cent NEAL
Had coal been used for the same cooking it
would have cost more to hire boy to fetch
it from the cellar and carry away the ashes.
The secret of the economical cooking can be
told in few words. There was 90 fuel
wasted. Its full heating power was scienrih-
caly developed where ii was wanted, aud just
80 much as was wanted, and no more There
was no waiting half an hour for the fire to
kindle aud heat up the stove there was no
high degree maintained when a lower degree
would suffice; aud the instant any portion Of
the heat was no longer required, that moment,
generally speaking, the flow of gas was stopped.
Was certain temperature required at gwen
point for ten minutes half an hour, or any
other interval, the gauge could be set to main
tain it uniformly and trustily. 1t was certain
the fire would not get 100 hot, or go out, or
vary in the least This divcsed the covking Of
halt its trouble and nine tentbs of Its anxiety,
and there was no food spoiled by accidental
causes 1t is true that such economical cooking
Involves more than ordinary care, intelligence,
foresight and conscleutiousness on the part OF
the cook, still it is not more than the majority
Of women are capable OF, and when cooking Is
thus made light, cleany, and free from uncer-
tainty and worry, there viii be less repugnance
on the part of well-to-do wives to this most lnl-
portant domestic duty. If costly illuminating
gas eau be used economically for fuel, there can
be no question of the feasibility of warming our
rooms and cooking our food with gas less highly
r,hued and consequently much cheaper.
\ STRUGGLE WITH A DEVIL FLsH.-Mr
Charles B. Braiuerd, OF Boston, in writing to
the Scientific American about specimens OF the
dcvifsh, relates this interesting Incident:
The strength which these creatures possess
is almost beyond comprehension, as Is evinced
by what took place when my pet (!) was cap
tured. He had seized hold of submarine
diver at work 10 the wreck of sunken steamer
off the coast OF Florida. The man was power
tu lrishman who claimed to weigh 300 pounds.
His Size and build fully verified his statement,
and, to use his own language. the baste landed
On top of my shoulders and pinned my arms
tight [ felt my armor and myself being crack
ed d,uto jelley. 1t seems that he was just
about being brought to the surface. else the
Monster would have killed him, for he was sui
trrug so from the terrible embrace that ne
could move no part of himself When drag
ged onto the raft from which be had descended
and finally released, he had tainted The men
ou the raft seized the fish ty one of its wrig-
cling arms and tried to pull 1t of, but could not
break the power of single one OF the suckers.
The FISH was only removed by being dealt q
heavy blow across the sack containing the
stomach. This sack stood stitf1y up above the
eyes, while the eyes stood out like Holsters
eyes aud cleaned like fire. The monster is,
aIIinall, one of the most frighttul apparitlons
it could be the fate of man to meet. 1t tulhis
iu every particular the horrible features attrl
buted to it in Victor Hugo's 'Tolers Of the
Sea- Notwithstanding the severity with which
the able Freuchman has been criticised to1
creating uon descript with his weird imagl
nation, the truth must he granted that MS
'uoudescript' has an actual existence, as IS EVIL
deuced by the specimens in Brighton and Ham
burg as well as my own
The ENGLISH PREMIERs SOMA Londor
letter to the Boston Post says: Mr.. William
Ii. Gladstone, member of parliament tor tht
borough Of Whilby, and subordinate oticla
OF the ministry, has been addressing his const'
tuents on the topics of the day. 1t need not II
said that be is tue eldest son Of the prime min
lister, and so sort Of hopeful by inheritance, Q
the liberal party. Gladstone the elder, with {
fond paternal instinct that does him credit, ane
viewing with honorable if partial eye the bud
ding of intellectual heirship in his boy, though
it right to follow the example of many othel
lliustrious Eugish statesmen, and push the
young man forward 10 political life with all hi
great influence. There were two Pitts aDe
two Foxes, two Yorkes and two Greys why
not two Gadstones? So as soon as Gladstone
the younger came out OF Oxford, he became
private secretary to his father, then chancellor
OF The exchequer, as the first stepping stone il
political eminence A year or two since he OF
tered himself as a candidate for parliament a
Nhtby, borough under the influence, t
some degree, of his father and other relatives
aud was duly elected very soon. Gladstone
Jeuoe was made a junior lord of the treasury
aud there are, doubtless still higher admlnistra
1--WE hono:s 10 store for him. He is sober
sS,oldlous, thoughtful youog man, with some
thing of his fathers tone of temperament b
dresses, however, much better than the prenie
SSno, truth to tell, is one of the very wors
dressed men 10 Eogaod As politician, tn
man is we'll versed IN party history and part
tactics ; as a speaker. he is not at all brillian