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low. Melt the rancid butter in twice its
weight of boiling water and shake it well
occasionally when in the water BY this
process the acids producing the rancidity
are dissolved and partly volatilizcd; the
OIL rises to the surface leaving the impure
ties in the water. The butter, of course,
loses its consistence by this operation,
but that may be restored to it, to a
great extent, by pouring it, when melted,
into large quantity of ice water.
second process consists in melting
the butter in a clean vessel under a slow
and regular heat, and while it is melting
add two ounces of pulverizcd alum to
every five pounds of butter, the butter
being stirred gently while melting.
When thoroughly melted it is strained
through fine strainer into clear, cold
water. The butter will rise to the sur
face, more or less pure or transparent.
The alum coagulates the albumcn, the
caseine and other foreign matter, all of
which are re- aimed in the strainer. When
the butter is sufficiently cool to be in
good working order it is taken out and
thoroughly worked, adding to each five
pounds of butter three ounces of good
dairy salt and one ounce of pulverized
white sugar.
Another mode of treating rancid but
ter is as follows First agitate the butter
in hot water to extract the salt. After
standing awhile it soon separates from
the water, when it must be again agi-
tated with an equal volume of fresh hot
water and few ounces of fresh animal
charcoal to the pound of butter. The
charcoal must be in coarse powder and
free from dirt 1t is freed from charcoal
by strainng through fine cloth while
still hot from the water by the difference
in specific gravity. The butter when
cold is well worked with fresh milk, to
which little sulphate of lime has been
added, and then revoked and sailed.
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,FIuEIuH
Pinu-PaluinE

One Of the cleverest things about a Pino-
Palmine mattress is, you get SO much moro
than you pay for. You get bed just as if
you paid twice as much for feathers or hair.
You get freedom from pain and cure for
many wretched ills, most of them, no
doubt, induced or aggravated by your old
feather beds and hair mattresses. You get
away from enough doctors bills In year
TO Keep your whole family in mattresses
Says Mary f. Bartlett, Providence, r l. Your
Pno- Pamine mattress has done good than all
the medicines have taken in twelve years. cost Of
hundreds OF dollars"
Newly married folks, about to furnish
ought to look carefully into this matter Of
bedding. They don't want to introduce
anything unclean into their houses. They
want all the health they can get to work
ont the problem of life. Take no chances
with animal filling, like feathers or hair.
Says Sanford NJ Maxey, Lumber Dealer, Gardiner,
Me: WAS troubled with catarrh for twenty years.
Three months ago bought Pine Palmine bed / got
whatever. / do not think could sleep at all on u
feather bed"
We didn't make Pino-Palmine Nature
grew 1t. We simply did what the chemist
does when he mixes you tonic. We took
advantage of natures kindness. There it
is-clean, luxurious, fragrant as a pine
forest, doing its curative work silently,
yet promptly. For twenty years Mr..
Maxey struggled with catarrh and feather
bed. He isn't bothered with either just
now. Three months on Pino-Palmine
mattress settled that business"
IL there agent you send orders with length
and breadth of bed, to Agent Pine Palmine Co., lis
Water street, Boston. Mass.
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A ShOwman's Story.

An old Snowman tells the follow
ing exciting story of his experience when
connected with well-known menagerie
during an engagement at Smithland, Ky. /:
"After the exhibition was over,n he SAYS,
81 passed into the menagerie to talk to
the Waterman. From some cause he was
absent from his post, and l walked
across the amphitheatre toward my old
friend the elephant, to give him an apple,
for we were the best of friends. He was
one of the largest elephants I ever saw,
and was as good-natured as he was
large.
81 was about half across the ring
when heard growl, and looking round
saw to my horror one of the lions out of
his cage and approaching me in a crouch
ing manner, ready for a spring.
:" l thought of thousand things in a
moment, and among them l must have
regretted perpctrating so many old,
worn-out jokes at the performance that
night. had sufficient presence of mind
to realize my dangerous situation and
know that it required the utmost caution
to extricate myself from it.
Zone hasty motion on my part and l
would be in the jaws of the monster. l
felt that my only hope was in the ele-
plant, if could reach him, but he was
chained by the foot and could not reach
me.
Nearer and nearer came the lion,
waving his tail in manner that meant
business If l turned my back he would
spring; if took my eyes from him l was
lost.
" 1t was terrible moment. glided
backward as swiftly as l dared. l had
another fear. feared stumbling back
ward, and knew if l did fall | would
never rise, but that where l fell | would
make a meal for that lion.
"AsI neared the elephant I saw that the
lion understood my movements, and,
fearing he would be banked of his prey
he prepared to bring the matter to a
crisis. l then saw that l had but one
hope-to rush with all my speed to the
elephant.
" think I must have jumped twenty
feet when turned, and know the lion
jumped thirty but he just missed me.
How completed the race do not
know. l only know that the elephants
trunk was around my waist, and he was
lifting me up on his head. l only know
was saved. "-H0usehoH Words.
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Three Ways of Opening Oysters.

\ New York restaurant keeper says
There are three ways of opening oys-
ters-cracking, stabbing and sculling.
Have you ever been in an oyster saloon
and stood up to the counter and eaten
raw oysters! Well, cracker is man
who opens oysters by laying them on the
block and breaking off the shell with his
knife first, after which to open the oyster
is easy work. 1t is the old fashioned
style, but is gradually falling into disuse
for the reason that particles of the shell
and mud are liable to fly into the face of
the customer or remain ON the oyster
when opened, Stabbing an oyster is a
Boston style. 1t is gradually being in
troduced all over, and must supersede
cracking ere long. TO stab an oyster the
bivalve is held in the hand. The knife
is then run in until it catches the eye of
the oyster, and then the shell is dexter
Ously taken off. Some men lay the 1stel
on the block and stab them instead of
holding them in their hands, but the
principle is the same.
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'nglish and American Women.

the men of the English middle class
ess hopeful and contcnted than were
r fathers in their day, so are the
ben almost as helpless as their mothers
T before them. The question, "What
we do with our girls?" is not dis
ed in the public prints, which devote
kuch space to the future of the boys.
silence can easily be interpreted.
fish girls of that class are expected
inter- domestic service if they are
|wn upon their own resources, and
if they marry poor clerks or small
esmen they have no other way of
out their husbands scanty income
by doing all the drudgery of the
ehold themselves. Now American
en- who are forced to support them
S occupy superior position in this
pct. Every year makes it easier for
|'ican women to earn their living in
way better than the common lot of
ish women who are left dependent
themselves-hOusehold service.
year there are more occupations
lich they may have recourse. Their
is better paid, they are more con-
d with their work, and their future
re secure. -Nelo York Tribune.
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Vitality of Seeds.

1t is well known among gardeners and
seedsmen that while some kinds of seeds
retain their vitality for many years,
Others soon lose it even when kept under
what are supposed to be the most favor
able conditions. AS a rule, seeds con-
tanning considerable oil, like the sun
floweran mustard, retain their vcgctative
powers much longer than the dry and
farinaceous kinds The thick shells of
some seeds might be considered as Il pro-
lection against loss of vitality, but we
do not find that the larger nuts can be
kept for any considerable length of time,
or seldom more than one year, while
some of the smaller seeds, with an APP
parent thin covering, like the pea and
bean, will vcgctate when a dozen years
old if kept under anything like favor
able conditions. Onion seed will seldom
vegetate after the second year, while
turnip seed will remain sound for half a
dozen years, and if kept in cool room
for twice that length of time. Perhaps
the best possible conditions under which
to keep most vegetable seeds is in cold,
dry atmosphere. There is, however,
much to be learned in regard to preserv-
ing the vitality of seeds, and the man
who undertakes to investigate all the
phenomena in regard to the vitality of
seeds has a large and interesting field
before him.-Nep York. Sun.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

According to writer in q foreign
paper, animal oils are unsafe to use in
air comprcssors, as they take fire spon-
taneously in compressed air, or, in other
words, they create an explosive gas.
A specimen of vegetable wool is on
exhibition at Amsterdam. 1t comes
from Java. When it is freed from its
leathery covering and the seeds, through
very simple process, it is worth between
sixteen and seventeen cents pound.
Baron Mueller asserts that palm trees
reach their extreme southern limit in
New Zealand, where noble species
extends as far as forty-four degrees south
latitude. The most southern American
members of the same tribe-Kentia
sapida-ceases in La Plata, in latitude
thirty -four degrees.
Germany has 500 mills for the manu-
facturc of wood pulp, and such a degree
of perfection has been reached in its
manufacture that even for the better
qualities of paper it is a complete
substitute for rags. Wood pulp consti-
tutes seventy-fvc per cent. of the paper
stock used in that country.
The difficulty of dealing effectively
with leprosy in India is that it is heredi
tary, and it was not until late years that
rational system of treatment was
adopted with the lower order of natives.
Now the isolation which had been prac-
tlced with this terrible disease since the
days of Moses and proper hospital care
may in a generation abate the evil.
Recent investigations at Hochst- on-the-
Main, where no fewer than 672 persons
are employed in the aniline color works,
go to prove that though aniline is adj
mittedly poisonous, none of the men who
became i'll died, and those engaged for
eighteen years in the magenta house, al
though Redeemed with dye even to the
inside of the mouth, suffered no serious
bad health.
"The best quality of charcoal" says
the Engineer, "is made from oak, maple,
beech and chestnut. Wood will furnish,
when properly charged, about twenty per
cent. of coal A bushel of coal from
pine weighs about twenty pounds.
A bushel of coal from hard wood weighs
thirty pounds. About 100 parts of oak
make twenty-thrce of charcoal; the same
quantity of red pine 90. 10, and of white
pine twenty-thrce."
S. r. Canestrini has been experiment
ing upon the effects of decapitation upon
insects. Butterflies were able to use
their wings eighteen days after they had
lost their heads. Crickcts leaped on the
third day after they had been beheaded,
and the praying-mantis showed signs
of life on the fourteenth day after the
head had been separated from the body.
He gives still more singular observations,
tending to show that the head in insects
cannot be subject to the same perpetual
strain as the head in mammals in guiding
the motions of the body.
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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLn.
Lining Meadows.

Lining meadows or old pasture lands
WITH say thirty bushels to the acre, says
the orange County Farmer, has an effect
upon the condition of the crop of grass
that few farmers would believe without
giving it trial. In fact, we do not
know how the same amount of money
can be expended upon land with the same
profit. 1t is not only certain but lasting.
We have known farmers to pasture mead
ows fifty years without being turned up
by the simple application of lime once
in six or ten years. These pastures
which are regarded as permanent and
mostly abound in clay molds, after being
grazed down thoroughly, are restored
knee-deep in from five to six weeks. We
do not hesitate to say that nowhere has
lime more marked effect and can be
used with better results than in the reno
walton of old pastures.
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The " oil spot " in the Gulf of Mexico,
about which there has been so much
talk of late as a place that is unrutled
while all about is storm, is, Lieutenant
Stamm, of the revenue cutter Andrew
johnson, says, about ten miles south of
Sabine Pass, and extends about two miles
along the shore and scaward three
quarters of a mile. 1t is not noticeable
in calm weather, but in gale it takes a
reddish hue, and is thick and muddy.
The lieutenant has pushed pole thirty
feet in length down into the soft stratum.
The mud is soapy, and has remarkable
cleaning qualities. If there is OIL the
lieutenant says, it comes from the bottom,
as none of the mud of the Sabine river
has any of the properties of that from
the - oil spot
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Manure and Manuring.

Every season the inquiry is made,
What manure is most suitable for the
garden2 | prefer good stable manure
that has been turned once or twice to
any other. and if some bone-dust has
been mixed with it in turning, 50 much
the better. If good ashes can be OBJ
tanned, so much the better, as handful
or so, applied to the hill or spread along
the row and worked into the soil when
hoeing, will prove of great benefit to the
crop. Commercial fertilizers are much
praised by some, but my experience with
them has been rather variable. In wet
seasons, on good ground, they produce
very satisfactory results; but in the
event of severe drought the result is
quite variable.
If your grapevines, pear or apple trees
show lack of vigor, give them good
dressing of wellrotted manure and work
it under with the hoe or fork. Do not
spread it in small circle around the
stem of the plant, but at considerable
distance beyond. No manure can be
much better for this purpose than that
from well-decayed compost heap, and
do not forget your currants, goose
berries and raspbcrries at the same time.
The asparagus bed Will also be consid-
erably benefited by an application of this
compost, or, if this is not at hand, scrap
ings of rich earth from the barnyard or
from where a manure heap has stood will
answer as well, if spread on from three
to four inches Cor more in depth. -Rual
NeW I0rker.
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Purifying Rancid Butter.

Rancid butter is an exceedingly unde-
sirable article for, generally speaking
when once butter has lost its sweet,
milky flavor and attained rank, I'M
pleasant taste and odor there is little
hope for it, 1t is much easier matter
to keep the butter sweet than to restore
it after it has become rancid, There are
several methods by which it is claimed
that rancid butter may be purified, but
this does not mean that any process will
ever make rancid butter really good
article again; it only means that it can
be brought back to sufficiently i'm
proved state to admit of its being CON
sumed where economy forbids throwing
1T into the soapgrease jar
Perhaps one of the best methods is one
that Professor Willard Endorsed and a
number of practical butter-worke fol-
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NORRIS & IRELAND,
BOSTON MASS.
Continued from last ireek.)
How Watch Cases are Made.

In buying 4 silver watch case great care
should be taken to secure one that is solid
silver throughout. The cap of most cheap
silver cases is made of a composition known
as albata, which is very poor substitute
for silver, as it turns black in short time.
The backs of such cases are made much
thinner than those of an all silver case,
being robbed in order to make the cap
thicker and get in as much as possible of
the cheap metal. Another important point
in asilver case is the joints or hinges, which
should be made of gold. Those of most
cheap cases are made of silver, which is
not suitable metal for that purpose. In
a brief period it warps, bends and spreads
apart, allowing the backs to become loose
upon the case and admitting the dust and
dirt that accumulate in the pocket. The
keystone SilverW atch Cases are only made
with silver caps and gold joints.
ST. LOUIS Mo-, Feb. II, 1883
Incur long and varied experience in handling Watches
the Keystone Solid Silver Watch Cases are the best
made to our knowledge Having soldering they re-
main homogeneous, hard>r and stigeT than they would
he We're they heated for soldering, and have more
resisting power against pressure than any other cases
IN the market. MERMoD JAccARD JEwELEY Co.
send stamp Keystone Watch Case Factories Phia.
drphia, Pa for handsome Illustrated Pamphlet showing how
James Boss and keystone Watch Gases are made.
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Not Hopeless.

|Prgie: Z" How is your affair with
| title heiress coming on?"
fhur: Oh, matters could not be
tier shape"
Then she has accepted you"
Nell, no not eXactly.n
Fiven you hope, then!n
10, l can't say she has"
Nell, then, how can matters be all
My, you see, her father kicked me
the house last night, and a girl
S falls in love with fellow after
f-Philddelphia CAL.
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The Mexican Central railway runs
through twenty -one cities with an aggre-
gate population of s96, 600, and eight of
them are state capitals. In these cities
are seven minis, whose annual coinage
is not less than $50, 900, 900, and the
agricultural valuation of the twelve states
: through which it passes is something like
$110, 000,0 900.
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Francisco is headed for a worlds
1887.
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W ANTED.

A first-class Job Printer at the Daily Bulletin
Office. Freeport. Ill.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-The paragraph
embracing hoop band or scroll iron being IN
der consideration on motion of Maxey and
Raxard words without reference to length
and bv whatever name called were stricken
ont On motion of Morrill, the rates in the
paragraph were reduced as follows: On
hooD band, scroll or other irons eight
inches or less wide, and not thinner than
No. ten wire gauge. From one to two
tcnths, to one cent pound thinner than
No. ten wire guage, and not thinner than
twenty. From one and four tenths to one
and two tenth cents pound thinner than
twenty. From one sixteenth to one four
teenth cents per pound.
A number Of memorials were presented
and also the petition of the council of six
nations of Indians, asking recognition of
their rights in certain lands In Kansas.
The senate then resumed the consider
alton of the tariff bill.
Bayard moved to amend so as to i'm
nose upon the unenumerated articles
wholly or partly made from the hoop,
band or scroll iron, or of such iron as shall
be the material of chief value, the same
duty as on the iron OF which they are
made. instead of one cent q pound as pro-
vided by the bill. Lost.
Aldrich's proviso was amended SO as TO
include sheet and plate iron.
On motion of Maxey the paragraph
covering iron and steel, and cotton ties on
hoops for baling purposes, was amended
SO as to apply to those not thinner than
No. twenty wire guage, instead of nine
teen as in the bill. And also making the
dutv thirty-five per cent advalorem, in
stead of one and four tenth cents a pound
as in the bill.
Barrow moved to strike out the para
graph and put cotton ties on the free list
Lost.
HOUSE.
Immediately after the reading of tn
journal, the tariff bill was considered il
the committee of the whole, with Burrows
OF Michigan, in the chair.
Beard. of Missouri, charged that TIN
dominant party was attempting to chok
the measure through without due consider
alton. In reply to Kelly's question askinI
the authority for the statement, Blani
said ha had seen it stated In the publ
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WASHINGTON FACTS AND R0MoRs.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Mr. Fades was
before the house committee this morning
and endorsed the Mississippi river com
mission plans. and denied having offered
Baldwin of St. Louis, slice of any APP
preparation.
The house committee on elections to-
day, by vote of to 1, adopted the reso-
luton providing for the seating of Ses-
siughouse, rep, and the unseating OF
Frost dem, as representative from the
Third district of Missouri.
The Marquis of Lorne occupied seat
in the members gallery to-day with
Speaker Keifer while MCKINLEY, of Ohio
was speaking on the degradation of labor
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FOREIGN LANDS.
A Letter from the Emperor William, Oi
Germany, TO the Pope.
Two Steamers Wrecked, and all of one
Crew and Part of the other, Perish.

PARIS, Jan. 27.-Admiral Jaureguiberry
the minister of Marine, has resigned.
MUMBLEsHEAD, Wales, Jan. 27.-The
German barke Admiral Prince Adalbert, is
ashore here, and life boat went to her
rescue Six of the crew were lost.
A large steamer was wrecked to-day
near Swansea and the crew perished.
DUBLIN, Jan 27.-The prisoners charged
with conspiracy to murder Field were
arranged in court to-day Brady, Kelly
and Kavanaugh were positively identified
as the assailants.
PEsTH, Jan. 27.-Violent storms were
prevalent in Hungary Friday. In the dis
trict of OromtZa most of the houses were
destroyed.
BERLIN. Jan 27.-A letter from the
Emperor William to the Pope Dec. 22s after
heartily returning the good wishes ex-
pressed in the letter from the Pope to the
Emperor. the latter declared the Pope's
letter strengthened st hopes that the satisfac
ton felt by the Pope at the re establish
ment of the Prussian legion at Vatican
win afford ground for his holiness TO re
ciprocate by similar advances. The EN-
peror believes the advance made by ths
Vatican of the ecclesiastical appointment
| to the government. IS even OF more inter
| est to the Catholic church than to the state
| IL the Emperor were convinced that hi
| desire for understanding were reciprocated
| he would be able to concede TIE diet ant
| should reconsider many laws which are no
permanently required for maintenance tf
/ the peaceful relations with the Vatican
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MINOR SPARKS.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 27-Mohr & Mohr.
distillers have assigned. Their estimated
liabilities will not exceed $3.50, 900. Assets
unknown.
PrTrsBURG, Jan. 27.-Oil is excited but
weak. and opened at $1.O23; declined to
$685.. closed at $1.oo4- Trading heavy.
NASHVILLE, Jan. 27.-Tbe account of
funds deficit by nj. T. Polk, late state
treasurer is g282, ,427.
Gen Francis A Walker win assume
charge of the census bureau at once.