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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1879
Page
4
Instructions on poultry roost placement to minimize parasites and ease cleaning. Guidance on open water vessels with protective grating, toppers for feed and shell, and nest box design for efficient use and ventilation. Also notes on systematic domestic work, learning through practice, and time management for housewives, with anecdotes on perseverance.
A farmer’s ration for cattle and sheep is described with corn soaked in water, then simmered and mixed with coarse sugar and pumphonule. feeding guidelines suggest six to eight quarts of meal daily. Curing sowed corn is discussed, preferring bind and stock methods to dry the fodder for winter. Techniques to destroy white grubs on cabbages use soap solutions. avoid heaping earth around fruit trees as it weakens bark. Encouragement to prepare bee equipment now and order early from reliable dealers for next season.
The piece compares household duties to juggling many tasks at once. It stresses constant supervision of a stove, kettle, sauce pan, baby, and a child, with the aim to keep all wheels in motion without mistakes. It emphasizes skill in managing multiple chores simultaneously.
A fragment of household recipes offers external remedies for venomous bites with carbonate of soda, home candy and cough syrups, a preventive for children with pine tar and chamois, toothache remedies, boil for boils, borax cold relief for hoarseness, and a note on throat watering for singe d voices in public speakers.
Scientific discussion outlines the safety margins for Cleopatra's Needle, noting calculated bearing of 90 pounds per square foot versus hurricane pressures around 25. It cites Liverpool and Sydney wind data, factory chimney stability assumptions, and early tests on torpedo air chambers and clock mechanisms using pressure gauges to detect irregular movement.
A collage of jokes and quips on manners and language, including puns about goats and garlic and a Western editor’s gag about whiskey. It also recounts a dramatic Arctic avalanche survival narrative from a mountaineering expedition, detailing the narrator’s escape and rescue amid snow and ice.
A Swiss Alps excursion led by guides Johann Joseph Bennen and others journeys toward an 800 foot snow field when a sudden split in the snow triggers an avalanche scare. Bennen declares We are all lost as the group struggles to escape, the narrative recounting the danger from the Tyndall text.
The Independent of New York offers Worcester's unabridged Quarto Pictorial Dictionary as a premium. Readers can obtain it by sending three new subscribers with nine dollars, renewing with two names and 1.60, or three-year renewals with nine dollars, or three-year new subscriptions at zero. It also advertises Rev Joseph Cook lectures and Woolsey socialism pieces, with a three dollar annual rate and free specimen copies.
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