ICE CREAM. POINTS OF INTEREST ABOUT A SUMMER LUXURY, Turning Out 2,000 Gallons of the Frozen Commodity Daily in a Big Factory-«-How It Is Done. One of the largest ice cream facto- ries in the city, says the Chicago Record, is located on a busy down- town street and throngs of shoppers pass it day after day without an in- timation of its presence. The work is all carried on in a damp basement, where the atmosphere is always as raw and chilly as that o! a March morning. At one end o! the room there is a long row of tanks half full of ice water, and in them, half sub- merged, stend rows of cream cans butirecently brought fromja creamery in Wisconsin. For ice cream is really made of cream-—at least by the larger and better manufacturers. In- deed, the cream tests 1S per cent. of butter fat, while the city ordinances require only 15 percent. A taste of if from a glass brought memories of a farm house pantry, so rich and yel- low it was. In a little room not far from the cream tanks the flavoring compounds are kept lla, which is more largely used than any other, is made there by ] Fully &0 cream vanilla, ir supplies Lemon flavoring, on has almost wholly gone out of fashion ard the small « i flavored with the fruits instead of th extracts. The manufactures to employ any of the ' gsences, such a berry, none of which ticle the real { these he I served fruits themsely from r-Y The apricot strawberry. ap Mo: per « vy sent tae 11 iti ntities juantitie igice 168 $ pineapple : cal 1i8éSs avors VOT Y favorite sively us In an inder the storage pa ous endless the top drog by 2 feet i with sharp is torn the ice cream. are simple in There is an iron cream free this an s ice gar, airways a formula l never va 80 machin 25 minutes to and salt started. a CAN COMMS woods out. cream. The cost] icecream, owing to fruits used are pudding is made quantity of i cream before [reezing. loaves of ice-cream are formed by packing %in cases with layers of cream. colored with chocolate and strawberries. Then the cases are placed in ice until the layers are thor. oughly frozen together, after which the cake readily comes out and can be wrapped in oiled paper and packed in a pasteboard box, ready for the banquet. (Of late years extensively molded in artistic designs, Some entertainers have an individual model for each guest. The mold is made of pewter in two parts, hinged together. By filling it with ice cream and pressing it together the necessary shape is ob- tained. Some of the flower castings can be inade very beautiful by vary- ing the colors inside. A recent de- sign is a mold in the shape of a human foot, supposed to resemble Tritby's foot. In vanilla cream it has a startling realistic appearance, For a card party a deck of cards is cast, and molds are made to repre- sent various prominent men. The history of ice cream i8 rather obscure. Prior to 1801 the best sub- fruits Vari-colored candie in the ice cream has been unique and set on blocks of ice to cool. It con- and salt and motion was then known. the West Indies. He was a confec- tioner,and seeing the frozen puddings then in vogue set about to improve them. e¢ not only custards hard by a secrot process, but was able to mold them in various forms. This first ice cream became very popw ar 2ith the epicures of the day and Jackson laid up quite a fortune. Until recently his descend- { ants were still making ice cream in | Philadelphia. | | GOTHAM'S OLDEST HOUSE. Where the First Blood of the Reve olution Was Shed. Several decades previous to the Revolution, when the Sons of Liberty were struggling to bring the citizens of New York to a sense of the indignity that was being heaped upon them by the British Govern- ment, the city sold lots on what is now William street to enterprising citizens, who agreed to erect houses of two or three stories on them. Of the houses built at this time, or at any time previous, during the early days of New Amsterdam, the oldest now standing is a quaint three-story brick structure at 122 William street. The house, which has changed in appearance but little since it was first built, is owned by Thomas B. Gilford, of Toms River, N. J., by whose ancestor, Snmuel Guilford, it was purchased from its builders in 1773. Prior to that year nothing of the owner of the place is known, for the records of transfer have long since erumbled to dust, and nothing iow remains of the original builders but the queer-looking little house, the bricks of which have outlived the sons and great grandsons of the men whose hands laid them. In Revolutionary times the site of 122 William street was the summit of what was then known as Golden Hill. It was on this piece of historic round that the first blood of the Ji ‘ol was shed, for the battle of ( 1188 as it was w ty were battlin of our Republi A Dangerous Prastice. ancet sounds a note should be echoed the ondon L of th g : ivilized land on It relates an instance of a consumptive who hada stand on the street for selling little toys with whisties in imitation of birds. These toys were sold for penny After play the attention ol some youngster was attracted, the toy he had been using was bought by the child, who put into his own mouth wet end of the whistle until the covered with the salivaof the vendor This is but a sample of the ways in which discases are spread Who can say but that all these toys are brought by the seller from homes where diseases of all kinds run riot? The petted darling of some household where health and hygiene are ob- served may take into his month one of these pipes that some scarlet-fever or diphtheritic child Las played with the night before. Not long since, on a metropolitan thoroughfare, a man selling these bird whistles allowed hall a dozen children to take a littié toot at them. No one seemed to realize that any one of these little ones might be com- ing down with some contagious dis ease, or that the blast of a tiny trumpet might be the call of the minister of death It is quite time that some peremp- | tory measures were taken to restrict peddling by persons who are simply | hotbeds of contagious germs, and | whose very touch is contaminating. It is said that life isa choice of evils, but at least narents can refuse to | select for their little ones toys that in the nature of things are laden with the very evils that they so steadily seek to avoid, ss — A Veteran : Horse. The Virginia Military Institute at Lexington owns a draught horse | which has been at that institution | since beforethe war, and up to u few | days 8go he did service at lis place in the wagon. JAPAN'S BRILLIANT TACTICS IN SUBDUING CHINA, A Succession of Victories~-~-An Of- Which Japan Will General China's Vast Armies Should Either Be Be- sieged. The full terms of the finally avowed, and more than justify the wildest estimate that been made of the ambition of the conquering power. The independ- ence of Corea was assured, but such independence as Corea would enjoy under this treaty is a mere sham. The annexation Formosa, of the conquered strongholds and of the territory east of the Liao River is the dismemberment of China. The indemnity is $142 000,000, The sixth article provides for offensive and defensive alliance tween China and Japan, This means generals in com- mand of Chinese armies, Japanese admirals restoring China's navy, Jap- mntrol Chinese finances, commerce and foreign a word it gives to forty Japanese the power of resources the four ns of China. Japan would make of sufficiently indicated of Count Okuma, ! Affairs of ¢ be- Japanese anese c¢ of legislation, relations. In millions of handling the hundred milli What use this power is in the words ex-Mir an who e already i the 3 Lie rs if not favorabls the U the pa tu lly through the i ister Dun Denby in Pekin. The first rt sinking f the British ste Kowshing off Asan Corea, in July by the Japanese crusier Naniwa Kowshing was transporting troop reinforce the Chinese on the » suln. Two days before the Japanese in effect seized Seoul gia act of war was the mshi the king's pretense of yrean monarch. pala under prot the helpless C yee LI HUNG ———————————————— CHANG, July 20 Japan called out her re- representatives of other countries that war was on and politely informed the rest of the world that things vere just what they seemed. There were numerous engagements of minor consequence while the Japanese were driving the Chinese northward out of Corea, but the first reat battle was at Pingyang, Sept. 5 and 16, when Field Marshal (now Minister of War) Yamagata's army | captured that stronghold. Sept. 17, the sea fight off the | mouth of the Yalu River sub! stantially destroyed the Chinese | Navy. eld Marshal Oyama sailed | from Hireskima Sept. with the | second Japanese army, but was lost | to sight until exactly one month | Talien on the BShinking Peninsula of China. Marshal Yamagata meun- while lad been leading his | torious army through | Corea. Port Arthur, looked upon as {of the best fortified places in the world, fell Nov. 21. ese armies then marched leisurely on to Peking There was { fighting, but evidently the Japanese | did not press the campaign, moving along leisurely and when ready cap- River. The battle of Weihaiwei next and the final important engage ment of the war. Japan has strration about Formosa, but proba- bly in order to lay a foundation for a claim to it in the peace negotiations rather than to seize the island. About the middle of March the talk of peace negotiations, which had been heard for some weeks, crystal- lized in the definite agreement of Japan proposed. The correspondence through the !'nited States ministers in order to avoid a repetition of the incident of February, Japan kicked out two emissaries masquer- ading ambassadors, but without credentials. After some further was carried on when as peace delay Li Hung ioned to rep- ‘hina and sailed where ind : the for Shim was received sent mi ioners 1 be ex- ex- passes : on per al cans of sis rustom uthorities ¢ two value of and one-half the gobds. the liken was a tax of copper coin varying tenth to American cent alue of sales, and was imposed by the people ot China make up the de- tax during the Bil upon themseives to ficiency in the land Taiping rebellion. The moner thus raised was to get apart for military measures only- and intended to be merely a tempor ary measure, Bat it is still levied and has been recognized in treaties by foreign nations trading with be Some Queer Nests, A great comfort of the modern dwelling house was long anticipated by the birds, namely, lighting by means of electricity. This bird, called melicourvis Baya. is a tiny creature of India, and constructs a well designed nest. which is sus. pended from palm trees and roofs of houses. The nest resembles a bottle in shape and is woven together with great art. In it are found great balls of clay, and these are in reality can- dlesticks in which glow worms are got to serve as candles; these are placed about the entrance of the which is therefore luminous. This lightning is a defense against snakes and other midnight prowlers, who are frightened away by the pale fire of the glow worm. The little birds never think whether their liv. ing candles suffer any more than the as torches, —— AA A A Mine as a Paris Exhibit, M. Paschal Grousset, depnty of Paris, proposes, as a novelty for the exhibition of 190), to dig a ming to the depth of 1,600 meters, in which an exhibition of coal, diamond, gold and other mining could be given. It would be a paying ‘side show,’’ he thinks. ; POPULAR SCIENCE, An Indian Pipe With a History, Captain W. H. Tondee, of Lumpe kin, has an Indian pipe which has a | history. It is a pipe given to him by an Indian Chief. It is a beautiful picee of workmanship and demon- strates clearly the patience and in. gennity of those strange people. The bowl and stem, or shank, of the pipe made dark. mottled red red marble, bat somewhat i appearance the red obsidian of which ends are sometimes fonnd about the of Indian villages. The stom part of the pipe is about eight % long, and abont au inch , from the tail end of which bowl of the | high and gra top to about in the bowl The ster to each other, and the carved en the shank projects beyond the abont an inch. The whole pipe is hour can be obtained | beautifully polished and displays nice with a car carrying thirty-six passen- | adjustment of proportions gers, the cost being fifteen cents a mile | metry. Underneath the bowl of the with gas at one doilar a thousand feet. | pipe, on the stem, is a weli-execated carving of a horse's head and neck. And now comes the marvelous and curionsly interesting portion of the complete pipe; it is the stem proper The stem is made of hickory or some fine-grained hard wood; is two feet long and ornamented with carving This stem 1s about one inch wide aad half an inch thick, the edges being ronaded to make the upper and | It is simpls ng and shows the grain Through m are a number »1 holes ent, each about ne-qnarter of an ineh irreXniar Tt is said that seasickuess is rare on vessels fitted with bilge keels. Two pounds of potatoes are said to contain as much nutriment as thirteen pounds of turnips. ied phosphorus combines with chlorate of potash to make an explo- sive of great violence, Aare Ot some heavy, stone, faid to be They are trying to invent a phono- graphic desk on which a speaker can record his own orations, resembling in } ’ Arrow The new photograph of the heavens which is being prepared by Loudon, Berlin and Parisian astronomers shows 68,000,000 stars, It 18 reported that the United States cruiser Minneapolis, with her three screws, is mnch more economical in her consumption of coal that the twin screw vessels, i 4 Bile in 0 pe, abont four lually enlarging and a half opening in { ng inches to inches tae one dismeter, the being small, the walls thick. s and bowl are at right angles i of (Glas-engines are being used in res- den, Germany, to propel street-cars, They are of nine-horse power, and are bowl placed nuder the seats. A speed of nine miies an and sym The total horse-p ywer of the « ngines of the world, pot igeluding locomo- tives, of which there are 105,000, with a total hors 3,000,000, is 46,000,000, represents all the force that could be exerted by 1,000, - yr more than twice the total working population of the entire 1 globe. power of whisk 000,000 men, Aluminum is not, ally supposed, in itself a strong metal hané at : : 3 3 without staini It is only half as strong as wronght iron ithout stat . It i of the i ! g ia} r metals that | flattish With DDE! Fa mensio very , One : ’ ard A% i8 qnuile gener. 3 i surfaces oval, . WOO clearly. this and has a very low elastic limit, ’ 54 when combined with oth begins to appear. twelve per cent c Oval sls of diamond-shs 1L8 real value eight to making aluminun denses®, ste 210 De. ngest metals known 1s The First Commoner The position of the mediate i al ag } the firs i whole i mam—II Primitive Fire Enzine:, curious even be Aastralasiat a single disch trough chamber, and ont of turned in any Fire engines apg have used extensi early Romanus, who, furthermore, or- passe ap fa Fue been va ry 2 en] vi1lar Bre brica le . ganized regular fire brigades. and, may | ube Ler he € i th teenth hla to . > # "ort Ha . century a fire engine “water syringe’ was 408¢ | whieh, in & measure, resembles the modern forms of fire engines. This 3 1 vi 4 was mounted on wheels sud the water 3 1 amped by levers vossible a8 a Hey - introduced, ion where personal fit enters argely nto the 3 ntrasted with 30 ag i result 3 80 calculations of th selection to an import r to find dignity enco was | This form of was very generally used In England about » large brass syringes used. held several quarts of water and were operated by thres men, two of them holding the syringe at each side with one hand and direcs- ng the nozzle with the other, while the third operated the piuoger. It was necessary, after baving discharged the water from the syringe, to refill it from a well or cistern near the fire or from buckets, The syringes wers later fitted to portable tanks of water, The first snuccessiul fire was probably the Newsham engine, and this was the pioneer of manually oper- ated fire engines. The pumps 1n these engines were built on many different designs, but in most cases they were operated by levers. Fire engines similar in form to the Newsham engine were in use up to the year 1850.-- Scientific American. impartiality has wolders of the oifi Lundreds years. Perhaps ally 1m portant to find that influence of these two moral qualitis found equal to the task of maintaining order and curbing excitement daring of Natiooal lif where the coercive powers vaste holder of the office small as t« depend entirely for enforcement 1 the vote of the Honse Hr per's Weekly I The Madstoue is Light and Porous, The madstone is a light, porous stone, of a greenisi color, which 1s said to possess the property of draw- ing the venom from the bite of a dag or other animal afflicted with hydro. phobia. They are quite rare, being only occasionally found ia the Soata. —-New York Dispatch. engine in Crermany tae game tim were hose i centuries i n 1 1a the itself are fo in each case engine Horse Populauion of New York, The Board of Health has just com- pleted a horse census of New York. The recapitulation shows that there are 63,212 equines hauling everything | from garbage to pleasure seekers at all i hours of the day and night. —=Chicago | Times-Herald. That Tired Feeling It is remarkable how many people | forerunner of nervous prostration, there are who have That Tired Feeling | with all 2 hotsthle ue tein that : : ; | term implies, at Tired Feeling and and seem to think it is of no impor- Hb are sare indications a AnD tance or that nothing need be done for | jp, oup0 and impoverished condition of it. They would not be so careless if {the blood. The craving of the system they realized how really serious the | for help ean only be met by purifying malady is. But they think or say “It | the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilia is the will go off after a waile.” | one great blood purifier. It expels all We do not mean the legitimate | regulates the digestion and makes the —— AS — *A designing man I hate!” cried Nell, With scornful bead erect, And yet within a year she loved And wedded an architect. New Orleans Times-Democrat, | impurities, gives vitality and strength, hard day's work, but that all-gone, | * Io the spring 1 leit very musi ran down worn-out feeling which is especially | —no strength or appetite, I began to take overpowering in th: morning, when | Hood's Sarsaparilia and my appetite improv. the body should be refreshed and odand I did not have That Tired Feeling ready for work. It is often only the | IL R. Sqrinms, East Leverett, Massachusetts. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Makes Pure Dlood.
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