Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-03
NOTES.

The sugar planters of Louisiana have lately
been paying $3.50 per day for labor of field
hands in order to secure their crop.
To whiten silver boil it in a solution of
one part cream of tartar, two parts common
salt and fifty parts water.
William Morris, says the Glasgow News
has made discovery by which he can photo
graph under water at depth of ten fathoms
1t seems to be clearly established that in
some Tasmanian trees there are two rings of
growth for each year, and that the tallest
denizens of the forest are only about - years
of age,
To deodorize articles of India rubber place
them in powdered charcoal contained within
a vessel, which must then be closed and sub
mitted to temperature of 30 f. for several
hours.
Mr.. F. W. Cory, in the Lancet, states that
the best remedy he has found for sea sick
ness is q combination of small do SEES of
bromide of potassium and hydrate of choral
taken with citrate of magnesia during efer-
vescence.
1t always pays to keep young stock in a
thrifty, growing condition. Better to feed a
little corn and roots now than to defer il un-
til next February. Always keep young stock
in an improving condition.
Salt cod should be kept in dry place where
the odor of it will not penetrate to other
parts of the house. The best kind is that
which is called dun, from its peculiar color.
The blood Of animals constitutes but small
part, at most not more than seven to nine per
cent. of the live weight, while in old or very
fat animals the proportion sinks as low as
from four to six per cent.
The yearly consumption of butter in Lon
don has been estimated at ten pounds per
| bao1 Of he Y,rnplatin,, N
without including some 5000 tons necessary
for victualing ships leaving the port.
Good sweet milk contains ne-fourth more
of sugar than of butter this sugar turns to
acid, and if this acid is too much developed
before churning, the coveted aroma of good
butter is lost
You can get a bottle or barrel of oil of any
carpet or wooden stuff by applying dry buck
wheat plentifully and faithfully Never put
water to such grease spot, or liquid of any
kind.
The last agricultural returns of Great Brit
ain show that the growth of woods and forests
is going on very fast, and in the last five years
has increased their area half a million acres
chronological specimens may be Instant y
and easily killed by dropping bit of chloro
form on the insects head. No futtering or
relaxation Of the muscles is perceptible.
GlhSS DOllleS were urSt maze IN England
about 1858 The art of making glass bottles
was known to the Romans in the year 70
A. D., as they have been found in the ruins
of Pompeii.
According to a statistical calculation of the
amount of quinne consumed in the world it
appears that 100000 kilogrammes of the
sulphite, valued at SO, 600, 600 francs, are con-
sumed annually.
An enthusiastic Chicago inventor claims to
have discovered a method 10y which saw dust
can be made into car Wheels aud has made a
model which resists n pressure of % tons up
on its hub without showing signs of weak
| ness.
There are now produced from Indian corn
millions of pounds of starch and glucose an
nually, of which large quantity is exported.
These substances carry away no mineral fer
tilizers, they como entirely from the atmos-
phere.
mixture of parts salicylic acid and 81
parts silicate OF magnesia is said to be not on
ly a remedy for sweating of the feet, but,
when rubbed over the whole body, on the
authority of DIR. Kohnhom, a cure for night
sweating by consumptives
The pachymeter, lately patented in Vienna,
which determines the thickness of paper to
the one-thousandth part of an inch, is out
done by the micrometer caliper, now coming
into use in this country, which determines
the thickness of of paper or anything else 10
the ten thousandth part of an inch.
Beware of infammable combs little
daughter of a man in Portland, Me-, while
combing her hair before a mirror the other
day, brushed a gas jet with her hand. In an
instant the celluloid comb was in flames and
the child's hand and cheek were severely
burned. The comb was consumed as quick
ly as piece of paper would have been.
New-process cheese is the latest thing out.
The point in the new process is that the but
termilk is used for cheese making after the
butter is extracted. If the cheese turned out
from skinned milk and buttermilk proves a
marketable article, the profits of dairymen
will be considerably enlarged.
In boiling meat for soup, put into a kettle
with cold water; the process of boiling ex-
tracts the juices But when boiled meat il
to be served for q meal, drop the meat into a
kettle of boiling water. If sailed water is
used for the first washing of meat, the bloody
portions always adherng to uncooked meat
will come of readily
The tobacco grown this year in all parts OF
the Connecticut valley is said to be beyond
question one of the best crops ever harvested,
and will approximate in quality the famous
crops of 1864 and 1872. The area planted in
the valley this season is somewhat larger than
last year, extending further north into New
Hampshire and Vermont. From all the towns
in the New England tobacco growing State,
there are favorable reports as TO the quality
of the leaf.