NOTES AND QUERIES

Otago Witness, Issue 2299, 24 March 1898, Page 46

NOTES AND QUERIES

Questions for reply in coming issue to lie received \ not later than Monday night. j Fkuit. — Your query was too late for reply in last j issue. To make ten gallon 3of wine tike five j gallons of cfatmon a or sloes, and mash them ; well in a cleau vessel. Then put. into the j fermenting tub, and add five gallons of hot water. Allow the whole to stand for twenty-four hours, stirring several times, then press again, and strain off the liquor. Add five more ga'lons of i hot water to the fruit and press again, putting the strained liquor to the other. This done return to the tub and add 2JIb or 31b of sugar to a gallon of liquor wir.h about 4oz of dissolved argol. Let the whole remain in an open vessel ! until feimentation is reduced, when place in a cask. Flavouring may be added in each case according to taste. S. K.I R.— Mr Beverly kindly replies :— ln the; average state of the atmosphere 1700 cubic yds of j coal gas or 1200 cubic yds of by drogeu will lift one j ton, weight of the balloon itc'tiaed. When the ( barometer is at 29 9 and thermometer at 503 eg ! Fahr., a cubic yard of air, coal gas, and hydrogen weifib 2 CBU\ about 751b, a><d \lslb respectively. Heuce tha buoyancy of coal gas is about 1"331b per yard acd of hydrogen 1 931b per vaid. If the coal gas is heavy, it might take 1750 or ISOO cubic y*rds. , Subscriber, WaiporL— Mr Beverly replies :— | About 7J-h.p. j Miner.— (i) The Mining Commission met on May j 16, 1871. (2) The names of the Commiseioners j were — John Mount (Chairman), Thomas Luther j Fhephwd (M.H 11.), J B. Bradshaw (&.J3.R.), Chailes F. Roberts. John Thomas Gwyune, John Kinaston, James Ritchie, William Henderson, James Marshall, and Jamea Watson The names '■ of the districts are not given, except in the case of Mr Gwyune, who represented Switzsrs. Scribo.— (l) Next week. (2) No ; it can only be learnt by practical experience; no text book you could get would be worth the p tper it ia wiitten on. You can of course len.ru shorthand with a very few lessons from a teacher, but learning shorthand and learning reporting are very different matters. (3) Mr Braithwaite, Waid, Lock aud Oo.'s Dunedin agent, woultl probably be able .to supply them to you. (4) Yes. New Ciium. — Will be replied toby "Agricola" iv Kotfs oh Rural Topics. Philatelist — The stamps you inquire about are respectively Austrian aad Wurtembnrg. The brown Id English cams into use in ISSO. Parnassus. — The request to reply through Notes and Queries escaped rotice, and we receivtj so > many contributions which cannot be used that it id quite impossible to mention tlie fact of receipt unless specially requested to do so. Old Subscriber. — A hubband is not liable for hi.i . wife's debts, but if a wife incius debts on her husband's behalf in acting as his agent with his implied or express authority then ho is responsible, for they are theii in fact his own debt?, and not his wife's. V.V.^-The " hall mark" is the mark on gold and silver after thf y have been assayed. The mark is different for different ahsay offices— the article will receive a leopard's head for Lo'io'on, aa anchor for Biriuinßhain, a harp for Dublin, etc. Besides the hali mark there is the standard mark, the number of carats, and a letter called the date mark. Lastly, the head of the reigning sovereign completes the mark. C. C, Dunedin. — Will appear in Supplementary Jubilee Number -and Chronological Record, to be published next week. Anxious 'Header. — An antipathy is not always a conscious caprice, foi 1 it is sometimes found that the effacts of the presence of some objects for which the person haa an antipathy are manifested on him or her though quite unconscious of their vicinity, and that substances for which an antipathy is felt when partaken ot unconsciously may produce exactly the same symptoms as if taken knowingly. It is difficult to account for this, and variou? theories are held in regard to it. If a person is gradually accustomed to ' the object of dislike the antipathy may, perhaps, ' be eventually overcome, but no law can be laid down on :he matter. M. W. G. — (1) Any very strict regimen for the reduction of flesh should only be followed on medical advice ; a greater evil than obesity may result from methods unsuited to one's constitution. As a mle the restrictions of diet are in regard to dishes of the bread, rice, and potato class. >tag<ir is prohibited, including sweet fruit and aweet vegetables. The consumption of fat is limited ; butter, cream, and fat-' ontaining flesh generally, whether of beast", bird, or fish, come ■ under this head. Lastly, liquids should be used | in moderation, and avoided altogether during meals. (2) S^ccharine and glycerine may do duty for sugar. j A. B.— There still remain in India a number of ! native or feudatory states over which the Brit ish Government has iadeed control, but not control of the direct character which it exorcises over wholly British erritory. Some, but not. ail, of these state*, pay tribute to the supreme Government. The nature of British control over these states varies, and is exerted chiefly through a political resident, who assists the native princes. These princes can manage their own internal affairs, but have no power to make war or peace. Their external relations are in the : hands of the supreme Government, nor can' they maintain more than a limited military force.