The Portland daily press., 1883-07-30
Wit and Wisdom.

Wit and Wisdom.
"Wake up, husband, the day is breaking, .
| said the fond wife. sLet il break, it don owe
me cent" growls the heavy sleeper.
kScmething About Bread Making.
By the process of bread-making it is intended
to convert the -four of certain grains into q
cellular structure, in which it is most easily
chewed, saturated with the fluids of the mouth
and digested. In order to arrive at this end
alcoholic fermentation is resorted to from old
en- times, by introducing the same in the
dough by means of brewers yeast. Thus a
small part of the flour is converted into glu-
cose, which again is transformed into
alcohol and carbonic acid. The for
mer is recognized by its peculiar vinous
odor, exhaled by the loaves, when sufficiently
raised. Both gases produce the raising of the
dough-. e., the porous and spongy appear
ance.
BY this fermentation the -four mot only loses
weight, but the bread also attains qualities
which may injure the process of digestion.
In order to evade these inconvenience
chemists have, long ago, searched to impart the
spongy structure of the dough by other means
than yeast, respectively by substances evolving
gaseous bodies, or which, in the oven, are
transformed into gases themselves. To the
best known belong the bi-carbonate of soda
and cream OF tartar, certainly well known to
all housewives. And with regard to most of the
baking powders of the trade, they are mainly
preparations containing these substances.
However, it cannot be said of any of them that
they exert beneficial influence on the system,
not TO- speak OF the authorizations, to which
most of them have lately been subjected
We are glad to learn that Prof T. NJ Hors.
ford, of Cambridge, Mass, WIN held the chair
of chemistry, in Harvard University, invented
some time since. baking preparation forming
an exception to those spoken of, which has al
ready attained universal reputation
The idea by which Prof. Horsford was guild
ed, was not only to furnish a substitute for
brewers yeast, but also to provide those nutri-
tious constituents of the -four lost in the bran
ID the process OF boiling These are the So
called phosphates, which are also the nutritiya
salts of meat, and Of the utmost Importance for
the building up of the organism. IF we take
into consideration that the nrtritive value of
wheaton -four is from twelve to fifteen per
cent. less than of the wheat grain, and that
this loss is now restored by Prof. Horsford s
invention, then we must look upon it as OF the
greatest national economic importance. As
Justus Won Lebig said: ssThe result is the
same, as If the fertility of our wheat fields had
uccu iuOLCacOu Wy ODt-ScF6utu or OQe-6Igntl.
She tenderly pushed him from her as they
stood in bay window with the soft moonlight
falling upon them, and said: willie. dear, /
think you had better try some other hair-dye;
your moustache tastes like turpentine."
Horsfords Acid Phosphate Very Salts
factory In Prostitution.
DR.. P. p. Gilmartin, Detroit, Mich, says: III
have found it very satisfactory in It's effects,
notably ins the prostration attendant upon al
coholism."
The following placard hangs up in Tennes-
see store window:
Peppermint lie for
He'd AXE
Belle "
10th F"
A lady writes 81 have used AYERS Sarsa-
parilla in my family for many years, and could
not keep house without it. For the relief Of
the pains consequent upon female weaknesses
and irregularities, 1 consider it without an
equal"
sit was pitched without" said clergyman
having Noah's ark for his theme, and an old
base ball player who had been calmly slumber-
ing awoke With start and yelled foul"
The first bass from the choir came down and
put him out.
1t Is the manifest destiny of Glenn's Sulphur
Soap to supersede oily unguents for cutaneous
eruptions.
"In my time, miss" said stern aunt, "the
men looked at the womens faces instead Of
lint 1aar
torted the pretty young lady, ''you see that the
world has improved, and is more civilized than
1t ased to belt looks now more to the UNDER
standing"
II people continue to suffer "without know
ing what ails them" 1t is their own fault. All
the obscure maladies are clearly set forth in
the invaluable new medical work published
this year, entitled "The Science Of Life. !" full
ly described in the advertisement In another
column.
An Irisbman having moved West and to
newly settled country where rainy weather
was quite prevalent, was asked by an old ae-
quaiDtance from Minnesota how he liked IL.
"Och, shurel and like it first rate. You can
take up handful Of the rich soil and square
the very fat out of it,"
Many times you want to keep meat or fish
for several days. Lay it in a solution of Rex
Magnus over night and you can keep it for
weeks. You can also keep milk week or
more by stirring in little of the "Snow Flake"
brand.
"No, your honor" said an old offender at the
bar OF justice, "dont send me back to Concord
again. With the insurance presidents, town
and mill treasurers and defaulting bank cashiers
and such, Its society is getting too exclusive for
me; Ia fact can't find nobody in my own set
to associate with but the keepers"
The great sale Of Swedish Remedies is aston
ishing, and for enrichiug the blood, creating
an appetite, or strengthening the whole sys-
tenn nothing can surpass these remedies.
:. a preacher was holding forth to large au-
dience at Fort Scott, Kan, and announced for
his text: In my fathers house are many
mansions" He had hardly ceased speaking
when an old coon stood up and said ~ tell
you folks that's lie. know his father we'll.
He lives about 10 miles from Lexington. Ken.
lucky, in an old cabin, and there amt bnt one
rnnno In ha hnuaa - >S SA~S