Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-08-16
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CALIFORNIA; wheat crop is remarkable. She
expects to realize an increase of S2G. OOO. Geo
on the receipts of last year.
Iced tea is classed by some medical author
tiles among the seductive and dangerous bev-
erages The astringent power of the tea
united with the cold of the ice soon over
come the powers of the strongest stomach
and hosts of melancholy dyspeptics owe their
troubles to this source
All mortars are much improved by being
worked or manipulated; and as rich lines
gain somewhat by exposure to the air. it is
advisable to work mortar in large quantities.
and then render it fit for use by a second
manipulation.
Break hard putty into Jumps about the size
of hens eggs, place in kettle, cover with
water and a little linseed oil boil ten min
utes, stirring when hot pour off the water,
and the result it is said will be putty as pli-
able as when freshly made.
TO remove putty from glnss, dip small
brush in nitric or muratic acid, and with it
paint over the dry putty thai adheres to the
broken glasses and frames of the windows.
After an hours interval the putty will have
become so soft as to be easily removable.
Steel is a compound of iron and carbon, in
which the proportion of the hitter is from one
to five per cent, and even less in some kinds
Steel is distinguished from iron by its fine
grain and by the action of diluted nitric acid,
which leaves black spot upon steel and up
on iron spot which is lighter colored, in
proportion to the carbon which it contains
A sound, healthy tree is recognized by its
top branches being well leayed, the bark even
aud of uniform color. A rounded top, few
leaves, some of them turned yellow, a rough
er bark than common, covered with parasitic
plants, and with streaks or spots upon it, in
dictate a tree upon the decline The decay of
branches and the separation OF bari, from the
wood are infallible indications that the wood
is impaired.
prominent speaker at the recent national
| horticultural convention in Rochester remark
ed: For myself, | stand firm by the plants
of my boyhood. never see a pink, poppy
or a sweet William without thinking of my
mother, and | thaul; God she i, associated
with such pleasant memories"
Two years ago Farmer LAwton OF Carol
ton, Mo, had bread baked in eight and a quar-
ter minutes after the wheat was cut in the
field, but recently ho invited 30 men to see n
griddlecake ready to be eaten in three min
utes and tifty-tive seconds and Il pan of bis
cults in four minutes and thirty seven seconds
from the starting of the reaper. Other bis
cults were more lesurely prepared. and then
Gen. Shields and the farmer relieved the feast
with little eloquence.
The United States consumes annually be-
tween six and seven hundred thousand long
tons of cane sugar, less than II per cent of
which is OF home production. The leading
sources of foreign supply are Cuba, $50, 900
tons Spanish possessions 1000; Porto
Rico 20, 900; French islands, -, coo; Brazil.
| $1,000; Dutch East indies, II 900; British
West indies, 10000; British Guiana, 10. GOO (;
Sandwich Islands, 10000. The prospects for
n crop are good everywhere, except in few
| localities in Cuba.
Licbig declares that oatmeal is almost as
nutritious as the best English beef, and Prof
Forbes of Edinburgh, who measured students
in the University Tor twenty years, found that
| in height, breadth of chest aud shoulders, and
strength Of arms and lons, the Belgians wors
at the bottom of the list; a little above them
the French; very much higher, the English ;
and highest of all, the Scotch and Scotch
Irish from Ulster who, like the natives of
Scotland are fed in their early years with at
least one meal day of good oatmeal por-
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