Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-19
NEWS AND VIEWS.


''sleep, Princess, at my side.'
ELLEN NJ HUTCHINSON.
NEWS AND VIEWS.
SILvER-PLATED articles are kept bright
by dipping them occasionally in a solution
OF hypophosphite of soda. Large articles,
like pitchers and salvers, should be wiped
off with rag, dipped in the solution and
dried with soft towel. By rubbing = little
with piece OF channels leather they will be
as bright as new.
ONE HUNDRED grams of ground sugar and
ten grams starch sugar are boiled with the
quantity of water required for solution, until
The mass becomes tenacious, but yet remains
transparent. Alter cooling, fifty grams of
tea, previously mixed with fifty grams of
dry sugar, are added. The plastic mas is
pressed into molds, and when solidIied forms
preserved tea.
CANADIAN paper says that the Jews are
the longest lived people. The mortality
| among infants, so great everywhere, and
| said to be unusually so in Montreal, is
among the Hebrews tut ten per cent. The
mean age of the Jewish life is given as
| oriy-eight years. One fourth of them live
to be seventy-oue, and another fourth sur
vive TO see their sixlieth year.
AN East India paper publishes it as q fact
that several bags of cloves received in Lon
don from Zipzibar were mixed with artif-
cial cloves, made of soft deal stained a dark
| color and soaked in solution of essence of
cloves to scent them. They were said to
have been made in America. Americans
| are equal TO any emergency, and as soon as
| it is known that artificial cloves meet
| "wsnt," Glove mahinery will be forthcem-
| ing.
| Ill. Il. -
| Snowman who once advertised for the follow
| ing curiosilies: A printer who carried tobac-
| co, negro minstrel who did not wear a plug
hat, q woman who did not wash her face
| with rag, an editor who had $40 in his
| pocket, dog whose hind legs were in plumb
with his front legs, business manager who
did not consider the editors robbers, and q
| pair oil shoes that were too small for the lady
who wore them. The foolish showmsn died
the death OF bitter disappointment.
THE New York Silk Exchange, located at
| 26 Broad street, New York, has been pre-
scented, throug b the consulate of Japan, with
three cases containing millions of silk-worm
eggs from the Kawjiri Company, which will
be distributed gratuitously. The eggs are
of greenish-grsy color, and are laid on
| strips of cardboard nine by ten inches each
strip having $4,000, and each case twenty
strips. The business of the Exchange has
been steadily growing since it's establishment
last August, and the correspondence now
averages 200 letters daily from all parts of
the country.
The New York Herald says that Ere drills
in the public schools are among the most
commendable features yet introduced into
our most elaborate system of education.
Yesterdays drill in the Twelfth street Gram
| mar School was particularly gratifying.
Eight classes, comprising over 1000 pupils,
were all safely out of the building in less
| than two minutes after the alarm was sound
ed. This is very commendable, but it would
hurt neither teachers nor scholars in the
public schools to have two or three such
drills every week, instead of one every two
or three months.
The increasing importance Of the petro-
leum wells of Baku, on the Caspian sea, has
led to a project being set on foot for connect
| ing this place with Batouu, on the Black
sea, by means of pipes, in order to avoid the
difficulties and dangers of the railway trans
portation Of the oil. II is proposed 10 pump
| the petroleum into tank steamers at Batoum,
| and very sanguine expectations are enter
tanned as to the possibility OF successfully
competing with the American petroleum i'm
ported into Europe. The Baku oil territory
is described as having an area of not less
than 1900 square miles.
The American Machinist prints letters from
over forty establishments (engaged in manu-
| featuring machinery, engi ines, boilers, tools,
and machiuists' supplies, representing sew
eral States, which tend to show that 1882
was signally prosperous year, and that con-
fdence in trade for the present year is not
lacking. Taken as a whole, however, prices
Of machinery and tools are lower than they
were last January, and the tendency is 10.
ri olo
materials that enter into machine coustruc-
ton are lower than in January, 1882, but az
4 rule wages OF hrst-class mechanics have not
declined.
DR.. BARD. of La Rochelle, has described
before the French Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science method of general
ing electricity by combustion. He uses a
brick OF carbonaceous matter and brick of
sfnitrate of potash or soda, separated by
sheet of asbestos. Strips of brass are i'm
bedded in these bricks TO carry Of the cleo.
! tricity developed. When placed in a furnace
the carbon is oxidized and an electric cur
| rent is generated. This is, we believe, the
| first successful experiment in the direction of
obtaining from coal The electrical force which
it may be assumed is given cut in the pro-
cess of combustion.
MEssRs. ALEXANDER & McCosH, of the
are stated 10 have successfully solved the
problem, in practical form, of extracting the
tar and ammonis, as Subsidiary products,
from their blast furnaces without increasing
the cost OF manufacture, or in the slightest
degree disturbing the process OF smelling.
Some time ago work on very considerable
scale was erected at the Gartsherrie Iron
Works, and is now said to be in successful
operation, recovering the tar and ammonia
from ast.furnace gases, which, after pass
ing through the apparatus aud parting with
their valuable products, are conveyed by
piping into different parts Of the works for
the generation of steam and other purposes.
50 successful have these operations proven
that the Gartsherrie firm are now erecting
similar apparatus for all the furnaces at
| their various works in Lanarkshire and
Ayrshire.
NEW YORK is about to change its course
OF school studies, in the direction eff reducing
the number of studies and of making the
education given in primary schools of more
| practical value TO those who have to go out
| 10 work in early life. As its school popula-
ton happened 10 be divided geographically
according to its educational wants, il is pro-
posed 10 adapt the studies in the different
achools according to the necessities of the
pupils. The downtown schools, whose pu-
pills live In crowded tenements and who
leave school early in life, will have the
studies in the primary schools simpliied,
with the view Of preparing them in a short
| time for actual work, and of fitting them to
pursue their studies in night classes. This
| is rational scheme. founded moi upon an
ideal course OF study covering several years,
but upon the known necessities of a vast
| majority OF the pupils. The standard may
not be very high, but it will be attainable.
An official OF Mexican railway illus
tra.es the difficulty of transacting business
with the natives by the following anecdote:
He had occasion to advertise for supply Of
railroad ties, and among those who respond
ed was an epterprisipg Mexican. "How
many can you fnrnishw asked the official.
"ErcetLenzu can have as many as he will, )"
| replied the Mexican with an expressive
shrug. "Well, ii we should want 500 ties,
what would they cost usp After some COM
plicating figuring and much pantomime the
Mexican announced that he could supply
| that number at the rate of fifty cents apiece.
"And suppose we should want SCOOP" in
quired the official. "Holy Madennai that
is large order" answered the native; Il
must charge at least seyenty-hve cent?
spiece." He was then langhingly asked
for what price he would deliver 100000.
Alter more pantomimic calculations he SOL
EMMY announced that on such tremendous
order as that he would have TO charge at
least 81 so apiece.