The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-07-16

| in a great many manufacturing pro-
cesses, and is chiefly made from ami
NAL fats, such as lard, tallow, and
suet. 1t is known To exist IN all the
fixed vegetable oils, such as mustard,
sunflower, linseed, rape-seed olive,
almond, etc. In one concern in Lon
don (Price's) its manufacture on a
commercial scale was first undertaken.
The fat is treated in a large tank to Il
steam Jet at very high pressure; by
the elastic force of the Jet of steam the
molecule of fat is broken In two pieces,
or, rather, parts, one of basic and the
other of acid character This stearine,
the principal solid constituent of beef
fat, is split into stearic acid, white
fusible solid resembling starch, and
glycerine, sweet, yiscid, coloriess
liquid that has never been CONCEALED
or crystallized when chemically pure.
Oleine, the fluid oil of lard, is split into
oleic acid and glycerine Margarine,
the solid fat of lard oils of butter, of
goose fat, and some other animal fats,
is resolved into margaric acid. white
fusible solid, quite like stearine, ex-
cept in its lower temperature of fusion.
and these fatty acids, combined
with an alkah constitute that COM
mon and very useful article we llicall
soap.
In the United States the glycerine
makers are generally soap makers, aud
they usually obtain their glycerine by
first making an insoluble soap, Icy boil
ing the fats with quicklime and water,
when the lime combines with the fatty
acid and the glyceIine is absolyed or
set free.
The most extensive use of glycerine
is in the manufacture of that terrible
explosive, dynamite or nitro glycerine :;
then by certain mixtures and processes
of combining with other substances it
is transformed into giant powder, gun
cotton, rock-rend, etc But aside from
the foregoing uses it comes into play
extensively as an important factor in
the manufacture of medicines, and no
laboratory can be found without it as
an important chemical reagent, and IL
will continue to be used more extern
sively in proportion as its nature and
value is more generally and thoroughly
understood.
many dressing tables, for moistening
the skin, curing chapped hands, lips,
and the like, and, when properly med
icated, is a fine freckle remover and
complexion beautitier 1t is one of
the very best hair dressings and head
cleaners known when diluted with dis
titled water and alcohol; glycerine
mixes with both of these in all pro-
portions it is easily washed out. and
as it dissolves nearly all tho salts of
lead readilys it is one of the best bases
for the manufacture of hair dyes, hair
reviewers, bandolines, and the like,
known.
1t dissolves salicylic acid freely, and
q solution made by taking forty grains
of salicylic acid to one ounce Of glycer-
inc, put in four ounces of clean soft
water, is not only an elegant toilet prep
sration and should be found on every
dressing case, but of equal Importance
in the nursery to use on the eruptions,
chatting and rashes common to child
hood.
1t twill sweeten the most fetid breath,
Or a gargle will cure sore throat: if
some be swallowed it will not hurt
anything, and in the membraneous
features of Group, diphtheria and scar
let fever, it ranks second TO no known
remedy, when a sponge on a flexible
wire, a camei's hair brush. or even a
feather dipped in it is thrust into
and used as a swab to clean the in
famed throat.
A fluid drachm swallowed will ar
q ..f tl,, II.
and hence is one of the best known
remedies for those sick headaches so
common among women. A huff ounce
Of glycerine with few drops of alco-
hol or little whisky will relieve the
worst case of constipation without
purging or distress. Applied to an
open raw sore, it heals and prevents
odor. Ordinary washing soda satur-
ated with glycerine and pasted on
burn or scald will ease the pain at
once and draw out the fire. a sponge
soaked in it and tied over boil when
first appearing will at once scatter it.
Applied to cotton batting ana bound
to a cut. and the cotton kept moist
with glycerine, will usually cause
healing by what doctors call inst inten-
ton. Choral dissolved in giycerine,
with or without saicylic acid gives
one of the best liniments known, SUI
perior to all advertised remedies In
pain-killing properties, and once used
for open sores will always be found al
an ever ready and effectual remedy.
One of the best preparations ever
known, and out of which no less than
dozen people have made fortune,
the writer subjected to analysis and
found 10 TO contain:
Ulycerlne phibe
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This remedy will not only remove
pain instantaneously, but will start
any sore to healing without any putrid
odor or pus.
With starch it forms fine poultice,
which dries slowly and is very sooth-
ing. 1t dissolves glue, the solution
gelatinizes when cool: small portion
added to common Slue prevents crack