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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-27
Denem,s Broiled Lobster.

II well remember my surprise one
night at banquet at Delmonico's. 1t
was a gathering of Wall street men,
and of course Depew was among the
lot. He was the life of the party, and
l noticed he ate very heartily, although
l have frequently read that the best
after dinner speakers eat next to moth
ing when about to speak. But our
Chauncey put down good dinner, and
made his speech afterward in the best
of form. At the conclusion of the ban
quet, and while people were crowding
around him to congratulate him on his
brilliant address, noticed that wait
er entered and handed Mr.. Depew a
box, done up in paper, and minute
afterward the same waiter brought in
his oveIcoat, and after assisting Mr..
Depew into it buttoned it up, tucked
the box under the Depew arm and held
the door open, while the man outside
whistled for the carriage.
II was mystified, but after seeing
the same thing repeated at several din
ners / asked for an explanation and got
it. The bundle was box. and it con-
tanned broiled lobster, which Mr..
Depew always took home to his wife. At
all the places where he dined there was
standing order for a broiled lobster,
to be given to Mr.. Depew for Mrs. De-
pew. And no charge was ever made.
After Mrs. Depew's death the lobster
was broiled and presented at the door,
as usual, but Mr.. Depew motioned it
away. He has never taken one home
since then.-New York Herald.
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waterprooanE cloth.

An account is given in Romen's
Journal of Doring' process for water
PROBING cloth, by which such satisfac-
tory results are obtained, when the It's
sue is subjected to precipitate of salts
of the fatty acids. The cloth is passed
into a special machine, in which 1t is
saturated with aluminium acetate, dried
and passed into a soap beck. A basic
compound being necessary, equal
weights of salts Of aluminium and lead
are employed. and care is taken not to
introduce too large quantities Of free
acid with the aluminium sulphate, since
the latter contains always a certain
quantity of sulphuric acid, which, dur
ing desiccation, displaces the 9cetic
acid. To avoid this inconvenience, they
are added per liter from 10 to so grams
of soda The most favorable tempera-
ture is 8 0 degrees, and steam heat direct
is avoided In preparing the soap bath
the fact is utilized that an aqueous So
luton of soap forms true solutions with
mixtures of fat and resins, wax, min
eral oils, and even caoutchouc, and to
this end a 10 per cent solution of gum
paraguay in oil of turpentine is taken
The proportions employed for square
meter of cloth are 80 grams tallow
soap, % japan wax, 1.5 gum paraguay,
/ gram good varnish The wax is
first melted, the gum and varnish add
ed, and for each kilo of solid is put 0.5
grams of solution, saturated in heat
of potassium sulphide. The mixture is
stirred and boiled, when sulphureted
hydrogen is liberated boiling solu
ton of soap is added, when the hath is
fit for use.
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Scour ironware with finely sifted coal
ashes.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-27
Quality of Corn Fodder.

There are many causes for variation
in the fodder made by growing corn,
some of them pertaining to the way it is
grown, and others to the skill, or want
of skill, shown in curing it. Corn that
is grown so thickly that its stalks are
thin and white is as nearly worthless as
such feed can be grown. 1t has little
sweetness and not enough nutrition to
keep anything in good condition. For
fodder alone corn must be grown so
thinly that nearly every stalk will have
a nubbin on it.
The stalks from field corn that has
borne crop of ears have more nutrition
than the average of corn thickly sown
grown for fodder alone. Sweet corn
stalks are better than those of the ordi-
nary field variety. This may in part be
owing to the fact that roasting ears are
picked early, and as the leaves continue
to gather more sweetness it goes into the
stalk after the green ears have been re-
moved. Plucking green ears from ordi-
nary field corn makes the stalks richer,
and such stalks are always preferred by
cows when fed with others where the ears
had been removed after being fully rip
ened.-American Cultivator.
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If an excited horse is practically
crazy, SO is an excited man.
The Cheviot sheep breeders are look
ing up. At their annual convention
mem bers were present from many parts
of the United States One of the speak
ers said that the duty of the hour for
the sheep breeder was apparently to
make one sheep produce as much wool
and mutton as two have done hereto
fore.
A prominent horse trainer says the
season of 1894 promises to be the most
brilliant in the history of the harness
horse.
Dashes for yearliDgs, three heats for
2-year-olds and seven heats for mature
horses, are the outside limits to be run
In determining the best horses.
Remedies for hog cholera are de
scribed as follows: Hyposulphite OF
soda, tablespoonful to hog; 10 or Il
drops of carbolio acid, u tablespoonful
of sulphur and one of salt, given to-
gether; Tablespoonful Of common soda
with the same quantity Of castor oil.
These are all remedies that can be mixed
with water or milk and gwen by put
ting in a bottle and forcing the animal
to swallow by pouring down the throat.
They are to be used when the hog cannot
be induced to drink of its own accord.
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CannibaIistio Scorpions.

During many years of scorpion hunt
ing never remember to have seen two
individuals living together in amity, and
even their more tender relations are
tainted at times with the unamiable
habit of cannibalism. The males are
decidedly smaller than their mates,
whom they approach accordingly with
the utmost caution. If the fair ina
morata doesn't like the looks of her ad-
vancing sutton she settles the question
offhand by making murderous spring
at him, catching him in her claws,
singing him to death, and making a
hearty meal off him. This is scarcely
loverlike. On the other hand, if du-
bious wife, the female scorpion is de-
voted mother. She matches her eggs in
her own oviduct, brings forth her young
alive-unlike her relations, the spiders
and carries them about on her back,
to the number of so, during their in
nocent childhood, till they are of an
age to shift for themselves in the strug
gle for existence. -Cornhill Magazine.
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Disinfection After Disease.

The disinfection of houses after the
occurrence of infectious disease is often
a matter of great trouble and inconven-
fence as well as a serious expense, and
anything which tends to lessen these de-
serves our consideration. Under pres
emit conditions the room itself has to be
fumigated with sulphurous acid vapor,
the floors and woodwork have to be
washed with some disinfecting solu-
ton, the walls have to be washed down
and repapered, and the bedding has to
be sent to some special disinfector or
chemical purifier. By the use, how
ever, of formalin-which is really 40
per cent solution of formaldehyde in
water-in the form both of vapor and
spray the bedding. furniture and walls
can be thoroughly disinfected and rem
dered perfectly innocuous. The colors
of papers, silks, satins pushes, etc.,
are quite unaffected both by the vapor
and the spray, and this adds very ma
terially to its value, while the effect is
said to be stronger than that of carbolic
acid, sulphurous acid, chlorine or bro
mine. For spraying it may be used in
the proportion of two, four or eight
drains to the gallon of water. For the
fumigation of mattresses little of the
pure formalin should be placed, say, on
a vaporizer under the bed, and to pre-
vent too great diffusion of the vapor the
lower part of the bed-that is, the legs
should be thoroughly covered in with pa
per. When one side is thoroughly done,
the mattress should be turned and the
fumigation repeated. may say that l
have tried this method and have been
satisfied with the results. - London
Lancet.
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The English naturalist, Morris Gibbs,
devoted years of study to birds nests,
their formation and their contents, and
asserts that birds lay their eggs in ac-
cordance with geometrical lines, so
that every inch of space is used to the
greatest possible advantage Birds
which lay many eggs arrange them In
circles, the pointed ends turned to the
inside. Others, whose eggs are clip
tically shaped. place them In longitude
nal rows. II an egg is moved out of
its original position by an intruder, 1t
will be found ON the following morn
ing that the bird has returned 1t to its
first position. Among the numerous
and often difficult cases which Gibbs
made a matter of study, not one was
found which would not do credit to a
mathematician. - st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-27

Emil Frey, president of the Swiss
republic, was soldier in an Illinois
regiment during the war of the rebel
lion. AT the beginning of hostilities he
was employed near Chicago as farm
hand, and on July 8, 1861, he enlisted
as a sergeant with Company E of the
Twenty fourth Illinois infantry. For a
time he was held as hostage by the
Confederacy and confined in Libby pris-
on. He left the army a major with a
record for distinguished service. but
with shattered constitution. Chicago
Mail.
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SUBSTITUTES FOR HAY.
The Importance of CornstaIks and Straw
For Stock Feeding.


The Importance of CornstaIks and straw
For Stock Feeding.
Professor E. B. Voorhees, of the New
Jersey agricultural experiment station,
in bulletin on cornstalks and straw as
hay substitutes, furnishes some valuable
information to farmers and answers the
ever recurring query as to the proper
use of cornstalks and straw for stock
feeding. As Professor Voorhees, explains,
one reason why corn fodder and straw
have low feeding value is that they are
coarse foods. They must be made finer
before they are fed. To obtain the best
results they should be fined by being
run through a cutter and softened either
by mixing with roots and grain or steam
ed or dampened with hot water. 1t may
safely be said that unless these things
are done it will be impossible to obtain
the full feeding value of these coarse
foods. The saving of three tons of hay
in a season will pay all the cost of cut
ting and softening stalks and straw.
Attention is called in this bulletin to
statements made by the French minis
ter Of agriculture: at is an error to sup
pose that animals on the farm are con-
demned tosuffer or perish if the hay crop
fails, for there are countries where horses
and cattle never receive any hay, and
these countries are renowned for their
cattle" He gives the following nutri-
tive equivalents for cattle: One hundred
pounds of good average hay can be re-
placed by 40 pounds of oat straw, 2S7
pounds of wheat straw, $50 pounds of
oat chaff, 1893 pounds of wheat chaff and
145 pounds of potatoes" 1t must be re-
membered that while these products in
the quantities given may furnish the
equivalent of nutrition, it does not fol
low that they would serve equally well
in maintaining life if fed alone. A good
feed is not equally good for all purposes,
and even animals of the same kind differ
in their capacity for using feeds. In
England great progress has been made
in feeding methods. The cut hay, straw
and other coarse products are mixed with
sliced roots, the feeds added, the whole
mass thoroughly mixed and allowed to
remain some time before feeding. This
method doubtless adds to both the palata-
bility and digestibility of the foods.
Professor Voorhees, gives number OF
rations for dairy COWS, horses and fat
tening steers, butSthese are not intended
as positive rules. Animals must be fed
as individuals, with peculiarities of APP
petite, digestion and assimilation, not as
fixed machines. The remark is made
that where stock is kept clover hay
should not be sold from the farm. The
Importance of retaining the crops on the
farm or exchanging their value for COM
mercial fertilizers should be well under
stood. Both cattle and horses will gain
in weight on liberal rations of clover hay.
For young and growing stock, as calves
and colts, hnseed meal, bran and mid
dlings are the best additions to the rough
folders, stalks and straw, in the way OF
feeds, as they are rich in the muscle and
bone forming constituents. The amounts
required should be adjusted by the feed
er according to the age of the animals.
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Profits In Champagne.

The returns are enormous when a
brand of champagne is firmly estab-
lished, but it is slow and laborious work
to build up demand for new wine.
Accident more often popularizes brand
than design. The sudden terrific rush
for dry wines some 10 years ago was
caused by a remark Of the Prince Of
Wales, made casually in the course of an
after dinner chat. 1t was Immediately
bounced upon by the manufacturers of
dry wines, the world was informed of it
and their success was assured. But it
requires continual effort to maintain the
popularity of wine. There must be no
tagging.
Brands that were in great demand a
few years ago are now dropping out of
sight. Only few hundred cases are
sold annually. Others have come to the
front with remarkable strides, and their
sales run up in the thousands. As many
as 10000 cases of certain brand have
been sold in this country in one year at a
net profit to the agent of not less than
$4,000 Such statement is enough to
make a young man giddy.-New York
Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-27

Women who are short must avoid
much trimming on their skirts, be
they stout or slender, as they are
shorter in proportion from the waist to
the feet, writes Emma M. Hooper,
in an article on Gowns For the New
Year" in The Ladies' Home Journal.
For the same reason they must omit
wearing large plaids and designs. All
full portions of the waist must be mod
crate in size, as the sleeves, bertha,
belt and vest. The short, wide revers
now worn are becoming, also round
waists and short, pointed basques. Jack
ct fronts are in good taste, but the UNI
brella back basques give a short figure
a cut off appearance, as do tiny capes,
while a close fitting jacket adds ap-
parently several inches. Materials
must be selected with view to making
the wearer look taller.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-27

81 was induced to try DR.. Greene's Ner-
vura blood and nerve remedy and the
first bottle had wonderful effect on my
condition. After four bottles were used
was entirely cured. never used any
medicine that helped me so much, and
would recommend it in the highest terms
possible, as too much cannot be said in
praise of this wonderful medicine"
We are constantly receiving just such
letters telling of the great good which is
being done by this medicine. You want
health don't you? You want to get up in
the morning and feel like doing good
days work, do you not? And you want
your children to feel strong and vigorous
don't you? Well, DIR. Greene's Nervura
blood and nerve remedy will do all this.
1t will give to you and your children
perfect health and that is exactly what
you want. 1t is the best spring medicine
known and has the great advantage o.
being purely vegetable ard harmless. II
was discovered by DIR. Greene of 81
West 18th Street, New York City, the
most successful specialist in curing nery
GUS and chronic diseases. He can be con
suited free of charge, personally or by
letter.
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SPRING NEEDS.
What Everybody Requires at
This Season.
Some Things Are Of the Utmost In
pOrtalCG to You.
This Will Tell You Just What You Most
Need Now and How to Get It,

In the spring changes always take place
in our systems which require attention.
There is a tired, languid feeling, de-
preston, the digestive organs become
deranged, the blood is bad, causing the
complexion to become affected and the
person feels an inability to work.
At such a time spring medicine is
a bsolutely necessary. 1t will overcome all
these conditions. 1t will invigorate the
blood, regulate the digestive organs, clear
the complexion and make you feel strong
and well. The following letter written by
Miss Nettie Frasher, of Paterson, N. j.,
will interest you.
"Since my childhood l have been ex-
tremely nervous, easily excited and at
times suffering with extreme nervous
prostration. A year ago last June | was
SO bad that the attacks were almost hys-
tericsl, and my appetite and digestion
we're in terrible condition. also suf-
fered with great mental depression.
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A wedding Ring In India.

The wedding ring in India is an i'm
mense nose ring which often hangs be-
low the girls chin. A beautiful little
girl of ~ years was presented an ele-
giant ring. Her father informed her
that it was the gift of the husband, who
was coming next week to the wedding
feast. There is little or no ceremony,
merely a grand feast and an exchange
of presents. Upon the day appointed
the little one, bedecked with jewels, ar
rayed in handsome clothing, in all her
beauty, stepped forward to meet the
bridegroom whom she had never seen.
Behold, he was white with leprosy |
Turning an appealing glance toward
her father, who frowningly motioned
her to advance, she approached the lep-
er. A priest mumbled a few words,
threw a sash over their heads, and they
were man and wife. Oh, Indial-New
York Advertiser.
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1t is with extreme regret that l view
the passing of the old fashioned Ken
lucky corn bread. For the last few
years its decadence has been steady and
sure. The march of progress has about
"scrouged it aside, and the improved,
new tangled methods of modern milling
have had the effect to almost Danish it
from our bills of fare 1t is true we
yet have corn bread, but it is not of the
good, old fashioned kind. On the con
trary, it is very little like it. Bread
made from the meal now on the mar
ket is damp and clammy as the hand Of
q corpse, and when cold is hard enough
to play baseball with. The old time
flavor is gone. and it in no wise com
pares with the old burr made meal. -
Letter in Bowling Green (Ky.) Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-27

An anecdote concerning General
George II. Thomas, the hero Of Chicka-
manga, was related by the Rev. Rus
sell II. Conwell. He told it to illustrate
how the valor Of obscure soldiers goes
to swell the fame of the great generals.
II sat next General Thomas in Ten
nessee train shortly after the battle ON
Lookout Mountain, declared DR.. Con-
we'll, when a crowd of soldiers ON the
platform began cheering for the hero
of Lookout mountain. Stop that con-
founded noisei Indignantly demanded
Thomas of his adjutant. l don't know
whether these men are in earnest and
making mistake, or whether they are
guying me. The fact is, if / had had
my way, the battle would not have been
fought When heard Of the proposed
attack, it seemed exceedingly foolhardy,
and ordered the plan abandoned, but
in spite of me, while | was protesting,
the men had stormed and captured those
battlements above the cloudsl Phil
adelphia Record.
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The Gazette tofficiaD of Picking pub
lished six columns giving the names Of
the 428 physicians who had attended
the emperor's mother in a recent ILL
ness. The Gazette also took occasion to
rebuke the Buddhist priests who had
been denouncing locomotives as the
cause of the illness, and to give the as
surance that the smoke and noise Of the
engines bad nothing to do with it,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-27
Star Phntopranhv.

Star photography is one of the most
tedious operations known. In some
cases the exposure of the plate must last
for several hours. During all this time
both the plate and telescope must be
moved so that the image of the star will
be stationary on the plate. The expo
sure of a star of the sixteenth magni-
tude is two hours, and only the image
Of one at time can be secured unless
those adjoining happen to be Of the
sane size. .--ExchanQe
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jeremiah, who is 10 years old, is al
ready a confirmed pessiinist. Among the
things he continually grumbles about are
his lead pencils, which never have points,
and to sharpen which he always has to
borrow knife of some schoolmate.
"Why don't you have knife of your
own, JerryY' one of the boys asked.
SCOT no pockets to keep it in" said
Jerry.
"Then why don't you have pocketY'
eff l had one I'd have hole in it."
"Well, even then you wouldn't be any
worse off than you are now"
"H'ml Yes, should. If l had pock-
eth hole in it never'd have anything
to lose through it,"
Jerry sighed deeply and went on whit
thing his pencil with the dull blade of the
other boys knife.-Lewiston Journal.
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The new science of psychology will
determine the mental laws exactly-the
laws of the individual and of society;
the laws of aesthetics, of education, OF
ethics and of every human faculty.
1t will compel men to live by these
laws, because 1t will make them plain
to all men--as plain as the law of grav-
ity. The world will then go forward
because it will see how. We shall then
have a higher manhood, because Its
type will be clear to us. We shall
have new art and new literature, be-
cause we shall know the secrets of beau
ty. Its standards shall be broader in
proportion as they shall be truer. We
may then efficiently love our unfortu-
nate brother by knowing how to make
him lovable, and how to make life low
able to him. Psychology will secure
to man wealth and art, wisdom and
happiness, by making man capable of
them. Psychology will make education
the chief function of government by
giving education a scope heretofore I'M
conceived f.-McClure's Magazine.
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He (of Chicago)-My dear, l smell
something burning. | do believe the
house is on fire, Priscilla. For heaven s
sake, lay aside your Boston serenity and
help me see what is wrong.
She formerly of Beacon HilD-My
dear husband, lay aside your western
fdgetiness and be composed. 1t is bad
form to be so demonstrative. The odor
you detect is caused by the cook burn
ing some rags.
He 90 minutes later Priscilla, per-
NIT me to ask, with true Boston com
posure, was it rat or only a mouse
that disappeared under your skirts mo
ment ago
She (wildly)-i?i?iil-Pittsburg
Bulletin.
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Remove paint spots from window b,
rubbing a copper cent over them.

1t is too plain to need demonstration
by chart or diagram that DR.. Bulls Cougt
Syrup is what the people need every
where, for cure of bronchial and pectora
troubles. 1t is sure cure.
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progres.Ive DInner Parties-

Progressive dinner parties are finding
plenty of admirers in Boston. ''If the
girl you take in is slow, all you have to
do is to take your wine glasses, your
bread and your napkin and go to other
fields. The worst of it is you can stay
but one course when you strike the pref
ty and interesting girl, is the way one
who has tried it puts the case.-Boston
RacOrd