you about, for I’ve been thinking this matter 
up for a good while; that is where we get 
a solid instead of a liquid in the condenser. 
Let us make believe I place some dry dirt 
mixed with sulphur in the retour. The sul¬ 
phur would turn into vapor and pass into 
the condenser, where it would be condensed 
into nearly pure sulphur. This is really the 
way that sulphur is obtained from a kind of 
earth in which they find it in Italy. This 
process is called sublimation'' 
“ I wish chemistry wasn’t so full of long 
names,'” said Hally ; “ it must be more trou¬ 
ble to remember them than it is to make the 
experiments." 
“ It’s important to do both,” was the 
answer; “ and now what experiment shall I 
try first with my new machineV" 
“ Distill some dry wood," said Sally. “ I 
want to see what you get besides the char¬ 
coal. I thought that when you made char¬ 
coal all the rest of the wood went off into 
nothing.” 
“ Nothing ever goes off into nothing,” said 
JonNNY; but just at that minute be heard 
his father say, “ Yes, you will pretty soon, if 
you don’t fetch the cows. Here it is almost 
dark and no cows. I’ll switch you if it ever 
happens again.” Ho Johnny started off 
upon a run. As soon as his hack was turned 
the old gentleman went and looked at the 
beer bottles fixed to the old kettles; then be 
said to Sally, with a broad grin on his face, 
“ His, your brother’s a cute chap, ain’t he ?" 
trouble iu fitting the ends of the pipe to the 
mouths of the bottles, but after a while be 
managed it in ibis way. He made two plugs 
like that represented in the enlarged Fig. 2, 
of very soft pine, and bored a hole length¬ 
wise in each one. These holes received the 
ends of the pipe, which fitted very tightly 
into them. After the ends had passed through 
the holes they were somewhat enlarged with 
a tapering stick of hard wood. This was to 
prevent them from slipping out of their places 
by accident. The plugs of course were fitted 
into the mouths of the hollies, It is plain 
that by pulling out those plugs from the bot¬ 
tles Johnny could put anything into the 
bottles or take mil of them whatever they 
might contain. 
You see, of course, that the fire in the fur¬ 
nace around the bottle, C, will make it quite 
hot, so as to convert into vapor the sub¬ 
stances placed in it, and that these vapors 
will be driven over through the pipe, D, to 
the other bottle, B; also that if this other 
bottle, B, is kept cold by water confined 
the Creator, in his wisdom, endowed women 
as well as men with the quality of judgment, 
why should they not exercise it, at least in 
their own behalf? 
cmtfific anb (fistful 
omtstic (fe commit 
A WORD OP ENTREATY. 
The incarnation of self sacrifice finds its 
embodiment in the souls and bodies of 
farmerines, and especially such as are 
mothers. We refer now to the almost uni¬ 
versal disposition among them to convert 
themselves into absolute drudges, simply for 
the sake of saving a few dollars, which they 
believe will advance the happiness and wel¬ 
fare of those they love. Thousands of 
women go down to early graves every year, 
victims of this deplorable misappreciation of 
results, of how they may best serve those 
they wish to serve. 
At this seasou of the year, when the hard 
and earnest work of farm-life opens and 
ts its demands, and country women are 
HOW JOHNNY STUDIED SCIENCE, 
BY UNCLE OATSTItAW 
Renovating Smoked Hams. 
Is there any way of renovating smoked 
hams that were so large that the salt did not 
get through them, and consequently are 
spoiled just enough to make them unpalata¬ 
ble?—A. W. Hubbard. 
The hams should have been rubbed with 
saltpeter as well as salt, and there would have 
been no difficulty. A friend says that ham, 
as it is cut to cook, when tainted, should be 
soaked iu saleratus water before broiling; or 
if to be boiled, add a lump of saleratus to the 
water in which it is to be cooked. It will 
remove all unpleasant flavor—sweeten it. 
Sponge Cuke. 
I will give a very excellent recipe for 
making sponge cake of baking powder: 
Four eggB and one cup of sugar, rolled out 
fine and beat together steady twenty minutes; 
one piuch of salt; add two tablespoonsful of 
sweet milk or cold water ; then add to one 
cup of flour, two teaspoonsful of baking 
powder mixed thoroughly with the flour. 
Stir in and bake immediately in rather a 
slow oven. Very nice.— Rural Reader. 
Minced lleef—Excellent. 
Three and a-half pounds lean beef, chop¬ 
ped as sausage meat; six crackers, rolled fine; 
three well-beaten eggs, four tablespoonfuls 
cream, butter the size of an egg; mix all to¬ 
gether (salt and pepper) and make In a loaf, 
and bake iu a dripping pan, one and a-half 
hours. Cut cold, iu slices, for relish.—B. 
Sure Way to Uh Rid of Bedbug!*. 
I, for one, never will live where they are. 
My way is to scald thoroughly In the new of 
the moon in March, with clean water. 
Another way is to scald with strong alum 
water every new moon.—M. Connell. 
Johnny had one very good habit. When 
he undertook to learn a thing ho stuck to it 
until he knew enough to explain it to others. 
He did this on purpose, because he found 
that it helped him to remember very much 
better than if lie simply learned it by heart; 
it also enabled him to reason upon what he 
found out, and to find out new things just 
by thinking. The knowledge that is gained 
by hard thinking is even better than that 
which is got by hard study. It helps to 
strengthen the mind so that one can learn 
easier and easier every month, as one grows 
older; more than this, it fits one for using 
what know ledge he has to the best ad¬ 
vantage. 
asset -1 
deciding for themselves tliehelp question, w'e 
beg leave to put in an earnest entreaty in 
behalf of the children. For their sakes, con¬ 
sider that your life and health are more to 
them to the very last moment of your life, 
than any amount of money you may lie able 
to lay up for their use. We write from a sad 
and profound experience. Our own mother, 
a proud, ambitious woman, with a delicacy 
of constitution too often characterizing our 
country women, full of nerve and with great 
force of character, found herself at the early 
age of thirty-eight, “just ready to begin to 
enjoy life,” as she s:tdlv expressed it, obliged to 
relinquish it—to leave the comfortable home 
she had toiled so hard to win and adorn, and 
to know that her children were soon to lie 
motherless. Although a very little girl then, 
it made an impression that subsequent years 
have only confirmed. Over work, the im¬ 
pulse of which was low and ambition for her 
children, killed her. How gladly would each 
and all of us, part with every dollar that has 
come to us, from the basis of her toils, if by 
so doing we could have our mother 1 The 
mistake she made, although so palpable to 
us now, she 9aw only when too late. 
We well remember one day, during the 
time when she wos rapidly nearing the limit 
of her life here, of a conversation she held 
with a friend, in which she deplored her mis¬ 
taken love, and hoped her own daughters 
would never do as she had done. It was only 
the old story of half the mothers who go to 
heaven a great many years before they 
ought—working, consciously, beyond her 
strength, for “only this once" but doing it 
not only once, but again and again, until the 
last possibility was exhausted. 
Oh. wives and mothers, be wise before it is 
too late I Live so as to enjoy every day of 
your life. Ten years lienee, or even to-mor¬ 
row, you may die. Live so that your pres¬ 
ence will gladden the lives of your dear ones, 
more than anything your bands can win for 
them. Don’t think you serve them wisely 
or lovingly by sacrificing your health with a 
view to “ economy," which is never economy, 
New publications, (Etc 
THE LATEST AND BEST POULTRY BOOK 
THE PEOPLE'S PRACTICAL 
POULTRY BOOK: 
A WORK ON - Til* 
Breeding, Kiairlug', Cure sin<l General 
management or J'otiltry. 
around It in the pail, A, the vapors will be 
condensed, or converted into a liquid. This 
includes the whole philosophy of distillation, 
by which many useful products are manu¬ 
factured. But the apparatus varies very 
much, according to the purpose for which it 
is used, and there is one thing that JonNNY 
didn’t know, but which he found out, after¬ 
wards. That is, that sometimes when a sub¬ 
stance is distilled it is converted, not into a 
vapor that can be condensed into a liquid as 
lias just been explained, but Into a gas that 
does not condense. This ought to be re¬ 
membered, for it is a very important fact, 
and we shall see, by and by, how Johnny 
was made to understand it. 
After it was all done and put together be 
went and called Bally to come aud see it. 
“ What do you call it and what is it good 
for ?” said she. “ Are you trying to make a 
steamboat out of your old kettle aud beer 
bottles ?” 
“ I can make it blow up like a steamboat 
if you want it. to; but. if you’ll be a little 
civil, I’ll tell you all about it.” Johnny was 
a little perplexed; ho would have liked a 
Domestic- Inquiries. — A “Subscriber," Onarga, 
Ill., asks someone to tell bow to cun early green 
peas and ripe tomatoes; also, what are the most 
suitable and octmom leal cans to use. —Can you or 
any of the readers of the Rural New-Yoiikek 
inform me it there la any poisonous material 
used in the manufacture of the common starch 
which wo buy at theahops, foratllfenlngolothos? 
— M. B. B. 
BV VVM. M. LEWIS. 
224 Large Octavo Pages. Price, $1.50 
This Work Contains Practical Information on 
The* Beet HicciIn to Rent'. 
Complete Directions lor Mnnugciiiuiit. 
Number lit Fowls lo Keep. 
Plans for Building. 
Instruction* lor Dressing mid Pocking. 
Prevention and Cure ol'Disease*. 
Cnponiziug Process. 
Incubators, Poultry Enemies, Etc., Etc. 
Forming tlio most Exhaustive and Complete Book 
on the Subject yet issued. It is 
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED 
with Cuts, many of them from Original Designs. 
Printed In the best style on heavy paper, and ele¬ 
gantly bound. Sent L,v iimil. post.paid, for $1.50. 
Liberal discount to the Trade. 
Address nil orders to 
D. JD. T. MOORE, Publisher, 
New York City, or Rochester. N. Y. 
er’s desk, and looked for another definition. 1 
11c found It, and it rend like this:—“ Distil- i 
lation is the volatilization of a liquid in a 
closed vessel by heat and its subsequent con¬ 
densation iu a separate vessel by cold.” i 
“ That is quite correct,” said he to himself, 
as lie shut the book; “ and I know now 
what it means; but if I should use such 
large words before Sally, she would laugh 
at me.” So when he went back to his scat 
he wrote out a definition for himself. He 
knew it was not such an one as a man would 
put in a hook, but he wanted everything 
plain in hia own mind as he went along, and 
lie knew that his definition was right, even 
If it was not worded very nicely. This is 
what it was:—“ Distillation is when you put 
a substance in a vessel that is hot and con¬ 
duct the vapors from it to a vessel that Is 
cold, aud in which the cold causes the vapors 
to turn into a liquid." 
“ Now,” said lie, “ when I go home to¬ 
night I will carryout lay plan for making 
an apparatus to distil things with.” Then 
he turned to bis lessons and was the quietest 
boy in school all day. \ou notice JonNNY 
was getting over his mischievous tricka and 
ugly capers very fast. I think it was because 
be found the more he knew the more other 
people respected him; and the better they 
used him and the more he could do for them 
the more they were willing to do for him. 
When school was out he hurried home and 
went to work in the wood-shed and this is 
what ho did: 
He brought from behind the ash-barrel 
two of the earthen bottles, Mr. Turning had 
given him, the piece of load pipe and the 
old iron kettle with a hole in it; also a part 
of a broken gridiron that he made to fit into 
the lower part of the kettle. By this raeaus 
he had a rude furnace to burn charcoal iu; 
the piece of gridiron made,a very good grate 
and the air for the fire came through the 
bole that was broken in the side of the ket¬ 
tle. We have here a picture of the whole 
apparatus when it was finished. The pic¬ 
ture represents what those who make draw¬ 
ings of machinery, and so forth, call a sec¬ 
tional view, that is, it shows the apparatus 
as if it was cut in two parts or sections so 
that you could see the inside. The grate is 
marked a and the hole where the air comes 
in under the grate so that it may pass up 
through the coal to feed the fire is marked b. 
When the furnace was completed he put 
it on a piece of hoard that was long enough 
to hold a tin pail, A, that he had picked up 
somewhere. This was placed a little way 
from the furnace, and iu the middle of it 
Johnny set one of the bottles, B; on the 
center of the grate he put three or four pieces 
of brick; these were to keep the other bottle, 
C, up from the grate, as is shown in the en¬ 
graving. The two bottles were connected 
by a piece of lead pipe, D. He had some 
portsman 
SPORTSMAN’S NOTES, 
MONEY IN THE GARDEN 
A VEGETABLE MANUAL. 
By P. T. QUINN. 
r, or next, or the edge of a stone or log, in order to drown 
icIi to fear so the animal, when lie gets in the trap, by tlie 
but everything weight of tlie trap in deep water. Other¬ 
wise he would gnaw bis leg off and get 
tells you that away. I bait it with a piece of sweet apple 
ling summer, on u stick about six inches above aud direct- 
latter. Aside ly over the trap. The muskrat, in reaching 
u owe to them for it, will he very apt to get hia feet in the 
»we equally as trap, and pull it Into deeper water and 
a right to life drown.—A Subscriber, Dulchass Go ., N. Y. 
woman. So ,,T ' “ 
Glcmiiiuff Gunn. 
„ie ot secom j think “ Snap Shot” of Saratoga rather 
e o t mu e gevere on Harry of Scotland, calling him 
i a t leir ac ^ C | simply for differing with him on 
nng more. t j ie mode of cleauing a gun; at the same 
e liave time I think “ Snap Shot" guilty of as great 
,liat, we have error ^ Harry dare he. I care not how 
nestics where y 0H c | ean a gun, with jjot or cold water, 
An active boy only rinse with hot to dry the barrel. Now 
e will lighten hen? comes the prevailing error of oiling ihe 
f not quite as Tside of the barrel, and leaving it in that 
a i L., condition to corrode or become gummy, 
ic. oucu can is sure to do. After the inside is 
nuitry thecity oiled, it should be wiped ns clean as possible, 
olent societies removing the oily sediment, leaving the Imr- 
j demand. rel clean, dry and smooth, fit for use at any 
vnmen tn leave moment. If “ Simp Hhot” doubts this theory, 
11“ h’. !*£“ W “■ “““ «<»»t P r0 K re89 - Buck 
t would be safe t j je rural New-Yorker of April 1st, 
“men folks” there appeared an article on the old subject 
he, instead of of cleaning a shut gun, from one who signs 
, careless, and himself “ Snap Shot.” We arc sorry that lie 
1 to be “ bright did not answer long before this; it would 
, " rrv « have prevented myselfaml others from expos- 
' . y ing our ignorance. We doubt very much If lie 
ling until Sun- ever more than,snapped a cap In his life. He 
phases of con- says that tow as a cleaner is ail exploded 
nine time their idea. Now we would like to know when it 
wnrp fictnnllv exploded? We are sure that it lmsnot ex- 
7. y ploded with us. He says that none but 
lei tlie approv- lmtura | i >orn idiots will Mow the smoke out 
The physical a f ler the discharge. His reasons for not 
re intelligently blowing the smoke out are, the danger of 
of a wife is a blowing your brains out. None but a nat- 
” and the con- m ' al l,ora wou ^ afraid of blowing 
„ ( his brains out with an empty gun. We are 
ape oi anouier i, a ppy to inform him that there are others 
send of a year, than idiots and greeneys who practice tliis. 
ist, it is neither The smoke is what makes part of the dirt, 
bide by the de- Now if we can get rid of tlie burnt powder 
),ni,BP ’’ before it settles, our gun will stay clean one- 
. ’ . , third longer. With regard to the Other in- 
rour own neck. f orma tion he gave it was about the same that 
ty or quality waa given in the Rural.—Nimrod, Jr., 
and so long as Harlem Springs, 0. 
Tills Work upon Kilclu*n mill Market 
(Ltnleiiinu. itml llie Field Cullure of Root 
Crops, Ik now ready. 
If Is an ablo. practical and well illustrated limn. 
Of 268 paces, sent by mall, nost-nuUI. lor $1.60. Pub¬ 
lished by D. I). T. MOORE. 
New York City, or Rochester, N. \. 
Their History, Breeding and Management. 
BY LEWIS F, ALLEN, 
Late President New York Mali- Ayrlcidtural So¬ 
ciety. L'ditor “ A mcrlcan Short-Horn 
Herd nook," Author “ Rural 
Architecture," etc,, etc, 
This Work, which has tactui lilchly commended by 
the Press, should be carefully studied by every 
breeder or owner of Cattle. It Isa handsomely illus¬ 
trated and mill printed uml bound volume of 623 
duodecimo i ai ««!•. It wile bn mailed, postage paid, to 
any address In (III United States or Canada on re¬ 
ceipt of tlie reduced price, $2. Address 
D. D. T. MOORE, Ntnv York City. 
HP II 15 HOUSE, 
AND HIS DISEASES. 
By ROBERT JENNINGS, V. H. 
ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 ENGRAVINGS. 
This work embraces the History, Varieties, Breed¬ 
ing Management, and vices of the Horse; with tho 
Disease* to which be Is subject, und the Reim-tUos 
best adapted to their Cure. To which In added 
Knrey’B Method of Taming Horses, and the Law 
Warranty as applicable to the Purchase and Sale of 
the Annual. Ivory turmr.r will find ihla work In¬ 
valuable, especially for tt.s treatise on Diseases, It 
contains 384 papas, and will be sent by mail for *1.76 
per Copy. Address _ 
1 ” D. D. T. MOORE, 
New York City, or Rochester, N. Y. 
substances. Buppose I should put some 
pieces of dry wood into the retort and distill 
it, there would he charcoal left in the retort 
and water aud an acid and some other things 
in tlie condenser. This is called destructive 
distillation, because the thing you distill is 
destroyed.” 
“ 1 understand,” Baid his sister, “ if you 
burn subaLances containing carbon ami hy¬ 
drogen in the air where the oxygen can get 
at them, they make carbonic acid and water; 
but if you heat them hot where no air can 
get at them, they unite with each other and 
with whatever other elements there are in 
t he substance, and make all sorts of things.” 
“ Very much so. Now there is another 
kind of distillation that 1 may as well tell 
* In reality a portion of the water would be carried 
over with the alcohol, but Johnny Is explaining the 
principle of simple distillation ; the practice he had 
to learn afterward. 
PRACTICAL COOKERY BOOK. 
340 PAGES. PRICE, 91.70. 
ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 50 ENGRAVINGS. 
This ts a nteelv gotten up book, designed for a 
Domestic Guide* for every family, and teaches the 
novice 
How to Mulct* Housekeeping Easy, Pleasant 
null Economical, 
And contains over 
ONE HUNDRED VALUABLE RECIPES IN COOKERY. 
Also, full directions for Setting out Tables, Joint¬ 
ing aud Carving Meats, Poultry, &c., Ac. Address 
I>. D. T. MOORE. 
New York City, or Rochester, N. Y. 
/ a TV. I « IC t‘ Ij , 
^ * FRUIT AINU 1‘KOnU OIL 
CODIMISMIO > IH E It CHMT. 
328 GREENWICH STREET, 
NKW YORK. 
11 
IP 
v ||gB|J 
in 
1 
i n §. 
1 
' l( 
< ;• 1; 
1 
I; 
'III 
□ 
lit 
- jit 
MwByVgl 11 
ll jlll 
pyji 
