Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-18
Paragraphs Worth Remembering.
ALCOHOL and whiting will clean silver

in any form.
GLYcER1NE and lemon Juice will aid
in removing tan from the face.
GLYcER1NE and fresh lemon-juice will
both soften and whiten the hands.
A WEAK solution of the permanganate
of potassa will deodorize your breath.
The best thing for the hair is castor
oil and brand enough of the latter to
thin the oil.
A TEAsPooNFUL of hartshorn put in
your basin of water when you wash
your body in the morning, will general
ly prevent offensive perspiration.
To Color BUTTER.-Take two or
three carrots, scrape off the skin, and
then CRATE them. Put the gratings in
cloth wet it !; then dip it in the
cream, and squeeze it well. A little ex-
perience will enable anyone to give the
butter the shade desired.
To cleanse the scalp, take one tea
spoonful of powdered borax, one table,
spoonful of hartshorn, and one quart
of water. Mix altogether and apply to
the head with a soft sponge then rub
the head with dry towel. Use once
week.
ORDINARY stains in sheet zinc may be
| removed by washing it with solution
of diluted sulphuric acid and water
one part of acid and three parts of wa
| ter. After using this preparation, the
acid should be thoroughly cleaned off
with soap and water. To scour or
brighten zinc, use glycerine mixed with
sulphuric acid.
To RESTORE RANCID BUTTER.-Wash
it well, first with good new milk, and
| next with cold water. Butyric acid, on
the presence of which rancidity de-
pends, is freely soluble in fresh milk.
Rancid butter may also be restored by
melting in water bath with some fresh
burnt and coarsely powdered animal
charcoal thoroughly sifted) and strain
ing through clean flannel.
| The Age of Ice.
Till within a comparatively recent
time, geologists never regarded the eli
mate of the prehistoric periods as trop-
ical for even temperate, but within
the last three decades numerous observ-
ers have carried out the suggestions of
the earlier geologists to very extended
application. Forbes and Agassiz ex-
plored the glaciers of Switzerland in
order to learn the laws of ice-motion
Lyell. Murchison, Ramsay, and others,
ransacked the fields of Great Britain
in search of facts from which to gener-
alize and, in our country, Hitchcock,
Mather, Whittlesey, Newbury, Dana,
and others, have made the drift period
a matter of enthusiasm. The existence
of an immense sea, when all of North
ern America and Europe was enveloped
by enormous thicknesses of solid ice,
crunching fragments of rocks beneath
its massive tread and transportings square
miles of moraine rubbish upon it's back,
is now universally accepted. Some have
gone so far as to suppose that the en-
tire globe was encirc1ed in these arctic
fetters. Prof. Geikie subdivided the
ice age as follows
1. Preglacial period, as seen in the
"Norwich Crag," where remains of the
mastodon and elephant are found in
peat beds.
q First cycle of cold, exhibiting in
tense glacial conditions, followed by an
arctic climate with mountains covered
by snow and ice, and terminating with
local glaciers.
8. Last interglacial period, with cold
climate, next continental, with climate
ranging from cold to temperate, and
| genial, and again to temperate. At the
close of this period the land sinks,
3 reaching the depth of 1000 feet below
: its present level in Wales.
4. Last glacial period-a time oi
floating ice. The climate was arctic
. icebergs foated over most of the land
: enormous blocks of stone got stranded
upon hilltcps. Remains of borea
i shells and the mammoth occur for the
. last time in the frozen sands and an
cient beaches.
. S. Preglacial period. The land ha.
# regained it's present level, terraces are
!; formed by immense rivers, arctic form
y of life have disappeared, and the use o
r bronze and iron implements show
:. what progress man has made in tn
Il arts.
Till--Throughout the length an,
breadth of Scotland occur scattere,
I heaps and ragged sheets of sand gravel
), and coarse debris, together with wide
spread deposits of clay, largely obscur
I, !, ing the solid ledges--Poputar Sci
:, e'ce Monthly.