The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-03

names of their places Of residence in
full. Letters go astray daily because
the address is given merely as City"
There are forty-five Of these United
States and many cities in each State.
No. l.
For a Subscribers Sons benefit.
recipe for making artificial ice: Take 4
parts nitric acid. 6 parts nitrate am
monia and parts phosphate of soda.
Having first prepared a vessel of gall
] vanized iron inches wide. "a inches long
and y inches deep. having it a little
| wider at the top than at the bottom.
now make another vessel inches wide
| % inches long and IA inches high Put
the small sessel inside the larger one,
| Eli the smaller one nearly full of as
cool water as you can procure, put the
freezing mixture in the larger vessel
around the smaller one; set this in as
cool a place as possible. If you have
| faucet at the lower edge of the large
vessel. and first fill the large vessel with
the following it will greatly assist in
freezing: Equal parts OF sal ammonia and
nitre dissolved in It's own weight of
water. In ten or fifteen minutes draw this
off and pour in the freezing mixture
PROSSIE.
No. 2.
Answering IA NJ. c." In edition OF
18th instant IAN Old Mans Delusion"
appeared in the magazine section of the
St. Louis Republic of September H. 1897
the author being William Chester FILL. It
is hardly probable that the publishers
have copy of same at this late date.
E. 8.
Some days ago a correspondent asked
for the origin and meaning Of the word
"grouchy," and thus far I have seen
no satisfactory answer to the inquiry. I
venture, therefore, in the interest of The
Column" to refer your correspondent
and Ruler" text and footnote page. 3SS
The author IS William OConnor Morris.
some time scholar of Oriel College, Ok
ford. an Irish barrister.
Like the word boycott" the word
"grouchy% is Il family name. and like
wise owes Its vernacular character to the
pat a opposite and pertinent Irish race.
Readers of Napoleonic history will re-
call that on the 16 Of June, 1S15-practi-
cally the first day Of Waterloo-Napo
leon defeated, almost routed the Prussian
contingent under Butcher at Ligny. Ma
poleon then entrusted the pursuit of the
fleeing Germans TO Marshal Grouchy,
and, had Grouchy done what the occa>
sion required, it is morally certain that
not & Prussian division would have
fought at Waterloo, wellington owed
Waterloo to Grouchy. the mistit, the in
competent. the failure. 'Grouchy. too"
says OConnor Morris. in a footnote,
page, 1888, failed at Bantry Bay in 1896,
and probably prevented ireland from be-
coming a French province. His name
is still a byword for incompetency and
incapacity among the Irish peasantry.
Not long ago I tried case in which
the password was Let there be no
Grouchys among you" H G. OR.
aAaa 5G5l * 5}i5 G2az. :,
III reply to IL c. r." who inquiries
about finding water with forked witch
hazel wand, YOU say: 1.-THE superstition
IS old and still popular with the ignorant
of own enlightened land You refer
to the phenomena as pretty fancy" and
to otherwise intelligent farmers al
having Tested it times without number
and with invariable success
Water wands are freshly cut from the
young air stems OF the sap roots of
vater-nourished plants. Is it at all ur-
reasc nable in these days. when science
is Studying the nervous systems of plants
to suggest that the roofing instinct turns
the wand Towards the water under- |
ground? Don't plants do wonders in |
search Of light, shelter or proper nou
rishment? s. |
No s.
Abiding to your reply In THURSDAYS |
Issue regarding the efficacy of the fGrked
stick In finding water springs under
ground and your reference to "other-
wise intelligent farmers T beg to say
that this is no myth, as the art has its
dc"otees up to this day and. if your
correspondent would like to commune |
cate with an intelligent farmer who has
practced this art, both to his and his
neigh bors benefit. all his life. and who
is row a hale and hearty old man. whose
are known and valued over quite
an extended area. I should be pleased to
give his address.
I have personally witnessed his expert
nentsy and can state that forked stick
in his hands. either of peach. apple or
hazel. will twist downward when over a
strong spring. even to the twisting and
of the bark. and strong in pro-
portion to its nearness to the surface
and it's volume. and that by its evidence
suction wells have been located
and dug hundreds OF times