Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-25

 mote country to find the men and capital needed for it's execution. The investing community has right to be suspicious Of undertakings which have the support of no one of any local standing.
 George F. Barstow of San Francisco, who left an estate valued at $80, 900, gave some very sensible directions in his will concern ing his funeral. He said: Having observed that ostentatious and expensive funerals are injurious to the people, after absorbing money which poverty cannot we'll spare to vanity and pride, therefore, by way of ex- ample, for which beg pardon of the under takers, let my coffin be plain redwood box, put together with common nails or screws, without paint or varnish, with plain iron handles and all else about the funeral to correspond with this plainness. Let there be a cheap shroud and no flowers. What is dead man but a handful of dust? Instead of hesrse may just as well be carried to the grave upon some ordinary vehicle in every day use, since life is but journey and the day of death the final rest.
 People who visit the city of Mexico are surprised to find so many of the conveniences common to large cities in other countries, such as the telephone, the electric light, a police force, and an excellent strsetcar ser vice. The electric lights are on the tops of iron rods running up from the gas lamp posts. The police are far more soldierly than the regular army of the country. They wear blue flannel suit, the coat buttoned up, and their cap has covering of white, which, with the standing linen collar, is always i'm maculate. In their belts on one side they carry club and on the other large revol- yer. If one wishes to see policeman he has only to go to the nearest corner, and he will surely find him standing there, for he has no beat to walk over. The speed at which street cars go is astonishing They dash along as fast as mules can pull them, and as they ap- proach a corner the driver gives loud toot on horn for the purpose of warning people at the crossing to get out of the way. A method of treating milk has been intro duced in some of the Vermont dairies which appears to work very we'll The milk is put into several horizontal cylinders of iron,
 
 is raised to temperature of 1O5 degrees. The steam is then turned of, and cold water is introduced, which brings the milk down to temperature of 40 degrees, which requires about four hours time, at which point the milk will have decreased in volame eight and half gallons to every thousand pounds of milk. At the same time the cooling pro- cess is begun air pumps, connected with the milk cylinders, are set in motion, exhausting the air till the gauge shows 8 pressure of thirteen pounds, when the operation ceases, and the milk rests in the vacuum the remaining part of the twen- ty four hours. The benefit claimed to be de- rived from the vacuum is the freeing of the milk from offensive odors and destructive germs, and the securing of moro rapid and perfect separation of the cream by the re- moval of the pressure of the atmosphere. At the end of 2hours the milk is drawn away from the cream into vat for making cheese, and is treated as in the ordinary "acid process. Meantime the cream is churned sweet and the buttermilk added to the skinned milk for the cheese The cream is churned at 5S degrees, salted an ounce to the pound, stands twenty-four hours, and is then reworked and packed. The butter is coIored. the butter maker remarking that ''the cream being raised in the dark made coloring necessary" By this method they secure from the same 100 pounds of milk, four and one half pounds of butter and nine and one-hs1f pounds of cheese. Some analy- ses of Professor Sabin, of the University of Vermont and Agricultural college, show re- markable separation of cream. only one and 8 half per cent. of the fat remaining in the skim-milk