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The Washington times., 1894-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25
SAILING The Butter.
Interesting Experiments Conducted by
Wisconsin Expert.

Interesting Experiments Conducted by a
Wisconsin Expert.
Il. G. Curtiss, of Wisconsin, gives his
ideas of sailing butter in this way: II
assume that it is generally considered
that butter absorbs salt, which it does
not In proof whereof l will state that
some two months ago / worked up a
pound of butter into a solid ball with
out salt. This butter has been kept
immersed in strong brine until the
present time, when find on cutting it
open no trace of salt, except near the
outer surface 81 the ball Salt proper
~ exists in butter only as dissolved in
the water remaining in butter; If found
in the butter in an undissolved state
objection is made by any good Judge of
butter. From this reasoning it will be
seen that the amount of salt in butter
depends somewhat upon the amount of
water in the butter when the salt is
added Let us suppose we have a guam
tity of drained graduated butter with
twenty-six per cent. of water in it
Our object is to salt only half the
water. but that is an impossibility;
we must salt all the water in the 1ut-
ter. Hence, If we are required to have
one ounce TO the pound in the finished
product twice as much salt must be
taken, for half of it will come out in
exuded brine. There is no danger in
getting in too much salt provided no
more salt is put IN than win dissolve.
Sometimes twenty pounds of butte
after sailing in the granular state will
exude three or four quarts on revolving
the churn and working into mass, and
sometimes more than one pint The
difference is undoubtedly in the fine
ness or coarseness Of tAs granules when
the salt is added"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25

time The temperature should not be
raised above 155 degrees, otherwise the
taste and quality of the milk will be
impaired.
The simplest plan is to take tin
pail and invert a perforated tin pie
plate IN the bottom, or have. made for
it a removable false bottom perforated
with holes and having legs half an
inch high, to allow circulation of the
water. The milk bottle is set on this
false bottom, and sufficient water is
put into the pail to reach the level of
the surface of the milk in the bottle.
A hole may be punched in the cover of
the pail, cork inserted, and a chem
ical thermometer put through the cork,
so that the bulb dips into the water.
The temperature can thus be watched
without removing the cover. If pre-
ferred an ordinary dairy Thermometer
may be used and the temperature test
ed from time to time by removing the
lid. This is very easily arranged, and
is just as satisfactory as the patented
apparatus sold for the same purpose.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25
SOME DAIRY POINTERS.

FEED the cows as regularly as you
milk them.
WHEN frost glitters in the stable the
cows will be poor before the spring
time.
BEWARE Of big horns and feshy nd
der ON a mich COW; they are bad
points.
If You want to make the straw stack
benefit the COW, put some of it under
her for bedding.
HAY green in color and sweet in taste
is the only quality that is fitted for a
COW in milk 10 cat
LET the COW frisk in the open air
once in awhile; co ntinuous stable life
is not good for her
BEAUTY or color does not make the
worth " the COW, but the amount OF
milk she yields and its quality measure
her value
IT Is no easy task to make winter
dairying pay. aud you must depend
more ON brains than Drawn to have il
return profit
WIEN a farmer takes cow or steer
to market unless the creature is gen
tie le@der, the most easy and humane
way is 70 transport the animal in rack
on a wagon. How often do We see oh.
stinats or tinid cows being cruelty
beaten ON country road by butchers
or farm hands, because they will not
lead or drive we'll The cruel bruising
injuries the meat, and taiuts even the
milk. = American Agriculturist
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25
IMPROVED COW STALL.
1t Saves Mach Labor In Feeding and
nsepS tho Cows Clean.

1t Saves Mach Labor In Feeding and
nsspA tho Cows Clean
The COW stall shown In the illustra-
tons from sketches by J. C. Early, Of
Virginia, is planned for dairy farm,
and win be found to be great saver OF
labor IN feeding and keeping the COWS
clean. IN feeding. in place of troughs
there Is smooth floor without obstruc-
ton, running In front of all theoows, and
five feet wide. and on the same level as
the floors Of the stalls, so the COWS can
feed without waste Gig. II. There are
long narrow bins for grain, at close in
itervals- On the outside of this floor. 50
that the grain can be taken in scoop
and poured to each COW without carry
ing heavy loads from distant meal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25
sTERILIzINc MILK.
Simple Apparatus which VIII Destroy
Injurious Germs.

simple Apparatus WINCH VIII OcsIrOy
Injurious Germs.
At the request of the secretary of
agriculture the chief of the bureau of
animal industry has furnished the fol-
lowing simple directions for the sterili-
zation of milk:
The sterilization of milk for chill
dren. now quite extensively practiced
IN order to destroy the injurious
germs which it may contain, can be
satisfactorily accomplished with very
simple apparatus. The vessel contain
ing the milk, which may be the bottle
from which 1t Is 10 be used or any other
suitable vessel, is placed inside of a
larger vessel of metal, which contains
the water. II a bottle IL Is plugged
with absorbent cotton II this is at
hand, or in its absence other clean cot
ton viii answer. A small fruit jar.
loosely covered, may be used instead of
bottle. The requirements are simply
that the interior vessel shall be raised
about half an inch above the bottom of
the other and that the water shall
reach nearly or quite as high as the
milk The apparatus is then heated on
a range or stove until the water
reaches temperature of 155 degrees
Fahrenheit, when 1t is removed
from the heat and kept tightly
covered for half an hour. The
milk bottles are then taken out
and kept IN a cool place. The milk
may be used any time within twenty
four hours. A temperature Of 80 de-
grees maintained for half an honr is
sufficient 10 destroy any germs likely
to be present in the milk and it is
found in practioe that raising the
temperature 30 155 degrees and then
allowing it to stand in the heated
water for half an hour insures the
proper temperature for the required
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25
FUR.

The use of far trimming IS frequent.
With or without the lightest garnitures,
it outlines the neck, sets off revers,
vests or sleeves and gives an extremely
stylish finish 10 skirts. Ermiue capes or
collsrettes are high style for evening
and will be a feature next summer and
a hint may be given that capes and col
lart ties of that and other furs and trim
mings as WE'LL can now be had at great
advantage from the leading furrier, c.
c. Shayne, Of this city, where sweeping
reductions are made. Good faith as
to quality. is foregone conclusion and
in furs especially, this becomes import
ant. The very stylish jackets now worn
are good for a long while and can of
course be altered at any time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25
rhe palryman and lKI. cove.

Dairying is now q business which
has t. be conducted on the same prln-
ciples with other kinds of business
where sharp competition prevails. No
manufacturer would think Of eompet-
ing with one who had improved imple-
ments, while his own were the old, in
effective sort. A COW is to the dairy
man what his machinery is to the man
ufaeturer. She is the means whereby
he changes raw material of grass,
silagc. roots and grains into milk. but
ter and cheese products. II there were
a certainty that the poor cows milk
could he sold or made into butter or
cheese at a profit, the farmer might
disregard the advice 10 change his milk
and butter producing machines for bet
ter ones In these days the improve
ment of the herd has become a necessi-
". While at first the number of first
class cows was too small TO affect the
market. it has done so now. TIE man
who viii not improve his stoe must
go out of business. -Colman's Rural
World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25

The best dairymen differ in opinions
respecting the best degree of heat for
cheese curing, some place the proper
temperature at IS degrees, Others as
high - % degrees As these are ex-
trems points. the best temperature is
between the two, and aeeords with
other experiments, in having the heat
70 or 70 degrees. Whatever degree OF
temperature is determined upon, il
shoRh be kept uniform. Ventilation
SHOULD net be neglected. but currents
of GOLD air should not be allowed to
pass over the cheeses The rind of a
new cheese viii check into thousands
OF fine sections If exposed but for few
minutes 70 . drsue ut of cold air The
room should not be kept close Farm.
ers' Voice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25

FIG. 2.-cRoss SECTION OF COW STALL.
space eight inches wide Immediately
back of the cows hind feet for the ma
nure to drop through; this space has a
door, simply board eight inches wide,
which is hinged on the side farthest
from the COW, and let down when the
cows go In or out and then raised and
kept up for the manure TO drop
through, while the. cows are in the
stable. This space must be regulated
to each pair of COWS, which is easily
done by using more or less of the three
inch strips next TO the solid floor. The
cows stand with their hind feet and
their hack parts over the grating
The manure pit extends partly under
the cows, and will hold more than a
months manure. The COWS are held
by stanchions built in front of the
stalls American Agriculturist
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
EVENING DRESSES NOVELTIES
IN oVERSk RTS AND cORSAGES,
FURS, ACCESSORIES AND
ECONOMICAL DE-
VICES
EVENING

Pretty and comparatively inexpensive
dresses for girls or young matrons, are
made of white point d'esprit lace over
silk or satin. and here the double skirt
comes in effectively if the wearer be
slender or in an opposite case, close ac-
Gordon paits are in order. The silk or
satin underskirt of course, need not be
of best quality aud can afterwards serve
turn under other dresses. The posi-
bilitiss Of re making are indeed very
great in these days of combination cos
tunes and also when the popularity of
waists differing from the skirt, is taken
into consideration. Evening dresses of
taffeta, China or India silk or the shot
satins now reckoned so handsome, are
also non-expenslve dresses and can be
varied by the wearing of chiffon waists
that are always IN order for dances
The materials just mentioned NAV be
had in excellent qualities for 81 per
yard, or less. if offered as barg aims.
TULLE DRESSES
are in some measure replaced by tulle
over skirts and while the overskirt in
general is not success, yet exception
is made in case of such light fabric
which moreover usually hangs over
moiIe or satin skirt without draping
and gives full opportunity for display
of foot trimming that is in quite as much
vogue as ever and really the leading
style. In waists, the Medici laced at
the back, is the latest introduction and
with its sharp points back and front,
much mole becoming to stout figures
than The round or almost round shapes
that have been obligatory. Curious
dlaping of material on corsages has
however lost nothing in prestige and
certainly all lovers of the artistic in
dress, must welcome the continuance of
a mode so replete with delightful posi-
bilities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25

FIG 1.-BLooR OF sELP-cLEANINe STALL
room. The silage Is shoveled into a
vheelbarrow and Is W heeled and
dumped IN front of each COW, the long
level feed Aoor making this as easy as
running . car on track. Above the
COW stable rs the room for hay and for
age, which Is all cut fine by horse
power, and distributed over the room
by carrier attached to the cutter,
which sits In tho center of the long
room. When used. after filing 10 one
end, 1t Is turned around and run until
the OPP posiec end is filed There is a
chute ta) between every other COW,
and the cut forage runs down without
the use of basket or fork. The par
titions are betw cen every two cows,
and are only three feet long, with a
tight board floor of the same length.
Back OF this, extending to stills of stable,
there is trap door the length that the
stall Is wide and hinged to sill of stable
so as 10 raise up Gig. p to get out ma
nure This door is made Of three-inch
strips, nailed to FIVE 2x4-inch scantling,
and one inch apart. The door has
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25

Not one minute elspses between the
taking of One Minute Cough Cure and
relief Why shouldn't people take One
Minnie Cough Cure? Tney should
The, do ] I Beane",
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25

THE dairymsn who permits his corn
fodder to get partly ripe or frost-bitten
before he cuts it up is the same man
who never gets around to do his hay
ing until the grass is mature.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25
LACE

Is an important factor in handsome
dressing. especially whtre a contrast of
black and white is desired. since 1t
comes in with not too sharp transition
and is really boon to elderly women
for whom it is the one adornment TO
which they can cling with increasing
tenaeity as the years advance Young
people also wear it freely and 10 the
way Of shoulder capes It's use is enor-
nous. A fayorite combustion is tlack,
MORE Of antique pattern and white
Venetian lace and when desired. a col
ored stock collar can De added. IS the
dress collar is often now transferable
article. A convenient and &C )nomieal
idea also, is TO nave two waists, one
made as long coat opening over
vest and the other low for opera or
balls and in this way dress can be
utilized either for afternoon or evening.
In a review of evening styles moreover,
too much stress cannot be laid on the
use of independent waists in colored
silk or chiffon. chiefly the latter, with
silk or satin skirts. Constant variety
can thus be obtained and where econo-
my is considered, dark skirt can be
effectively frightened.
Lucy CARTER.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-02-28
In Frozen Russia.

In Russia, where the cold is very in
tense, the markets are very curious
things. The meat is frozen; the carcases
of dead animals, as sheep and pigs, stand
upright outside the stalls; everything,
even game and poultry, requires to be
thawed before it can be cooked, and the
market peoples dress is as picturesque
as it is warm and comfortable.
Then the rivers are frozen over all the
winter long, and so thick is the ice that
every one can skate, anywhere and any
time. Stalls are put up on the ice and
busy markets held there
In the Asiatic part of Russia the peo-
pie live chiefly by hunting and fishing,
and the fur of the Russian animals is
very beautiful-the ermine, fox, sable,
sea otter and Others
At the end of the winter, when the
snow melts, the huntsman pursues the
elk, wearing long shoes, in which he
can glide over the snow very quickly,
while the poor elk sinks into the snow
deeper and deeper every step and is at
last overtaken and killed.-Good Words.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-02-28
Cannibalism In Saghalien.

The Vladivostock, newspaper pub
lished in eastern Siberia, reveals terri
BILE state of affairs among the convicts on
the island of Saghalien. 1t would APP
pear that the convicts there have been
treated by some of the subordinate prison
authorities so harshly that the governor
of the island has been obliged to inter-
fere for their protection.
A warder named Khanof and some
of his assistants, who at one time were
convicts themselves and had been raised
10 the rank of jailers, have been removed
from their posts Khanoff's treatment
of the prisoners was so abominable that
number of them crippled themselves,
cutting off fingers and toes, in order to
be treated as invalids and to be freed
from his terrible cruelties. Others fled
to the impenetrable forest, where they
suffered all the horrors of hunger.
In a satchel belonging to = fugitive
convict who had been hunted down
were found some pieces of human flesh.
Investigation revealed that this man had
been one of a party of four, and that
only one of them now remained. The
others had been killed and devoured by
their comrades. Similar cases of canni-
balism are, according to the Siberian
jour nal, not infrequent.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-02-28
A Widow.

Our house servant is Japanese, po-
lite as are most of his race Among his
duties is taking care of the chickens.
One day he CHANGED to find a nest of fine
eggs at the barn, away from the chicken
yard, contributed by hen that had es-
capped from the others, and as conse-
quence the eggs were not fertile. In ig-
norance of this fact, however, an old
lady of our households widow-imme-
diately put a hen to "set" on them. Bid
dy stuck to business, but to no purpose.
When the required time had more than
elapsed, the lady was very much put
out and puzzled that no chickens had
been Matched. Turning to the Jap, she
said. "What do you suppose is the mat
ter of those eggs, George?" George
(bowing low; Excuse me, ma'am, ex-
cuse me, but | t'ink [bows againl
tink that hen was widow" Widow
satisfied. Review.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-02-28
RAILROAD SCRAP IRON.


Il Is Carefully Saved, Assorted and Then
Sold by the Companies.
Nothing goes to waste on big rail-
road, and every scrap of iron and much
secondhand material is valued at a fixed
price and carried on the books as so much
stock on hand. The system followed by
the storekeeper's department OF one rail-
road is sample of many. The second
hand metals are gathered and placed in
piles, regularly assorted.
Then they are classified by the fore
man and taken into stock by the store
keeper or assistant. There are regular
schedules-one of material which can be
used again, which is denominated sec
ondhand, and another of material which
has to be melted before it can be used,
which is known as scrap.
The classes are arranged something
after the following order: Steel scrap,
Nos. 1, 2, 8, 4, 5 and 6, at prices ranging
from $28 ton down; wrought iron,
Nos. /, 2, 8 and a; cast iron, Nos. 1, Q, 8
and 4. Even borings are taken into ac-
count, brass borings being credited at
eight cents per pound and brass scrap
and copper at twelve.
This material is shipped to division
headquarters when carload has accu-
mulated. Here it is disposed of by the
storekeeper on order of his chief, being
shipped in carloads to big dealers in old
metals in large cities. Much of it goes to
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and such points.
Orders for as high as 100000 pounds of
one kind of material are occasionally re-
ceived from single firms. Most of the
secondhand material is used over again
in the shops, but it is previously taken
on the books at fixed price by the store
keeper and is charged up to the account
of the articles for which it is used. All
disable No. 1 wrought iron is received
and charged up at 1t cents pound, and
cast iron at one cent.-Philadelphia Call.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-02-28
WILL SHE REMEMeERi

She is coming, my love, DER tho sea.
She Ii coming back once more;
| will haste 10 the port and be
The first she shall meet on shore.
But, oh, be still, my hearu
win she yet remember the day
Her last farewell was for thee,
Tho day that she went away
Where art and poetry were born
She has fingered, In palace and dome;
She has sailed 20 the isles Of the morn,
She has trodtlen the streets Of Rome.
But, oh. he still, my heart
VIII she yet remember the day
She spoke not with scorn Of home,
The day that she went away?
She has drunk of the grape, where the vine
On the purple hillside grows;
She has passed the bound of the piEe
And siaked her thirst In the SHOWS.
But, oh. be still, my heart
WIN she yet remember the day
She drew where thy life blood flows,
The day that she went away
She has learned the language of love
From lips that laugh In the sun,
Where the skies are 80 clear above,
Her eyes fresh blue will have won.
But, oh. be still, my heartl
WIN she yet remember the day
Her tears DER our kiss did run,
The day that she went away
When she left sho was slender and
straight
"A tho youngest tree In the wood,
But now she will come back great
In the charms of her womanhood.
But, oh, be still, my heartl
VIII she yet remember the day
She promised ohangeless state,
The day tiat she went away?
Her tall ships sails arc full
With tho wind that blows from the
south;
Tho stalwart rowers pull
Her sklff from the harbor mouth.
But, oh, BIO still, my heart
VIII she yot remember the day
| was here to SEQ her depart,
Tho day when she went away?
Robert Bridges In New York Sun.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-02-28
SANTA CATALINA.

Enchanted island, In the distance dim,
With thy blue mountains shining DER the
seas,
The while gaze. what tender thoughts are
these
That fly to thee2 Where the horizons rim
Dips to the white capped wave, there dark and
grim
Thy bold rocks rise, and like tall organ keys
Echo the breakers and the rushing breeze,
To stir the soul with mingled chant and hymn.
Oh, white sails furled in harbor meath the hill.
When shall the wind thy iuttering canvas fill,
That we may speed above the crested foam
To that still haven by the rocky dome2
Green are thy valleys-ripples now the rili,
The wild flowers nod-brown bees thy can
yons roaml
Sylvia Lawson Corey In Overland.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-02-28

peas. She glanced up quickly and ne
bowed gravely.
81 am truly sorry | am SO late" he
murmured, guiltily feeling that he was
not sorry bit.
"Oh, my husband told me you would
not want breakfast till 8. If you will
kindly sit down will wait on you"
"But tell me. do you really think
am savage"
The pretty woman, unused to flattery
or Difference, gazed steadily at him.
"Why should 1? think it more Chris
tianlike to breakfast at this hour than
at daylight. If God had intended peo-
pie to begin the day before sunrise he
would have made the sun rise earlier"
A simple remark child might have
made, but her evident innocence dis.
armed him. She was no woman to be
beguiled by pretty speeches, and his
plan to be entertaining to this guileless
creature came to naught-for the time
She waited quietly on him each morning
speaking no word unless pressed.
"She is not fool, but she seems tc
have no SOUL" was his mental calcula-
ton.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-02-28
Told at the Liars Club.

mo sooner was seated in the chair
than the barber commented on the
weather and directed current of dis
course into my ears.
'Je ne comprend pas, said l, with
an inward chuckle, thinking his voIu-
bility would be checked.
I'm very good French he started in
afresh- | looked at him as if bewildered
and then interrupted him by asking:
"'Was sagen Sier
he began to repeat in German all
that ne had been saying, when I shut
him off with:
On, talk to me with your fingers,
I'm deaf and dumbr Truth.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-02-28
White As = Color.

Speaking scientifically, white is COM
bination of all colors; that is, tho pure
light of the sun, when decomposed by
the spectrum analysis, shows that it ID
made up OF all the colors. Speaking
popularity, white is color, as g paint,
and is not a color, as when we say that
a person was perfectly col@less.
New York Sun.