New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03

serted her child and ran screaming
into store. The steer walked up to
the baby, snuffed it contemptu0usly,
aud kept on. He then made fero-
cious charge upon an ice-wagon and
buried his long horns in the entrails Of
the nearest horse, which died q few
minutes after. John Lalor, driver,
risked his life by seizing the steer by
the horns and endeavoring to throw
him. The animal caught him by the
clothes and easily tossed him over his
head. Fully forty shots had been fired
at him, and he finally succumbed to .
well delivered blow from an ice-ax.
Other fights of q like nature were going
on all over the northern wards, and it
was fully three hours before the brutes
were in custody or lying dead in the
streets. The animals escaped from .
herd that was being driven through the
streets. E@
A SIMPLE and beautiful method of
giving to floors an almost perfect ap-
pearance of oak or walnut has come
into vogue in London, and is largely
increasing in popularity. The method
consists in putting one ounce Vandyke
brown in oil, three ounces of pearlash,
and two drains Of dragons blood into
an earthenware pan or large pitcher;
on this mixture is poured one quart of
boiling water, and the whole stirred
with piece of wood. The article may
be used hot or cold. The boards are
first smoothed with a plane and glass
papered, the cracks filled up with
plaster of Paris, and then stiff brush
is dipped into the stain, and with this
it is rubbed in well-the brush not be-
ing rubbed across the boards, but
lengthwise. Only small piece is pre-
pared at q time. BY rubbing in one
place more than another, an appear
ance of oak or walnut is more appar-
ent. When quite dry, the boards are
sized with glue size. made by boiling
gluo in water, and brushing it in the
boards hot, and, OH this becoming dry.
the boards are papered smooth and
vanished with brown hard varnish, or
with oak varnish-the first named kind
wearing better and drying quicker, and
previously to be thinned with little
French polish, q smooth brush to be
employed in applying it to the boards.
IN. 7. Sun. -.
An alloy of peculiar beauty and
adaptation, as substitute for silver, is
now employed in one of the most
celebrated jewelry manufactures in
France. It consists of sixty-fve parts
of iron, twenty-three of nickel, four of
tungsten, five of aluminium and five of
copper. The iron and tungsten arc
melted together and then granulated,
the water into which the mixture runs
for this purpose containing one kilo-
gram of slaked lime and one of care
Donate of potash per cubic meter. The
nickel, copper and aluminium are also
melted together and granulated by rum
ming into water containing the same
proportions of lime and potash-car-
being taken during the melting to cover
the metals contained in the two cruci-
bles with q flux composed of one part
of boric acid to one of nitrate of potash
or inter. In the crucible containing
the aluminium and copper is placed
lump of sodium of about two grains in
weight when treating five Kilograms of
the three metals-nickel, copper and
aluminum-together, to prevent oxida-
ton of the aluminium, and charcoa! is
also added to prevent oxidation of the
copper. The granulated metals are
dried, then melted together in the same
crucible in the proportions above indi-
Gated, and we'll stirred, after which the
alloy is run into ingots. 1t hae the
same appearance as pure silver.-.N
p. Sun.