MISCELLAEOUS

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 241, 25 November 1873, Page 2

MISCELLAEOUS

Very good butter, it is sated, w nrnnnred n-><v bva buttery manufactory at New Y>rk, nccirtingto ti<e fo'lowing process :— A (rents are employe.! to mit s)au.;hter-hous«<, ami buy ip all the beef «net. Thn is carted t> the f.ic'orv an I cleansed. Then 'if is put into meat eh >ppers anil minced fine It is nfrerwards placed in "a l>oi'er with as mch water in bulk m itsa f. X steam, pipe is intro luced among the parti les of s-ie , ami they a c melted. The refuse of the membrane poes to the bottom of tie water, the oily substance floats, anil is lemnved. This con«ists of butter matter and stearine A temperature of 80 de/iees melts the former, an>l le.-u'es tie stearin- at the bottom. The butter matter or c eim is • Irawn off; about 13 per emit, of fresh mi'k added and the whole is churne 1 for ten to fifteen minutes. The result, is Orange county but+or at about half the usn^l fcost. The Btearine is soil at 12-. a pounl ti the cmUe-nnker. and. the refuse at 7c a pound tq the iniirifictnn*r of f >nd for "-attle. A. company with a capital of 500, 00 ft doln has been o"ginised for the in in>ifa«turft of butter by this method, and it is expee'.ed that the divi lends will vnnnnt, to 1 >0 per cent. In the nmntime a chemist in France is repnrte I *l to have-tmde milk from $ra«s, but as the milk thusynade " is muc.h more costly than old-fashioned milk, his disji« e ~)A| is not likely to be so profitable as that of the butter^Tanuturers. In the Italian c ection of the Vip»<na Exhibition, Vr Marini exhibits, nmong an assort went of I uman if ft, bauds, legs, arm*, and busts of shrivelled proportion* and deepbrnwn (»oli.\i", alurjr, rwind platenu, pvidrntlv of bnrd nnd polished mato*ial, which hns hepii likened to stale ge'sfine or ptttel bmr's bpa I. It i* a conglcnprafp of »pp-impns, illustrntivp of nn nrt invented by him — the prtriTnetinn nnd mumniificalion of hitman eorpne a . fr wm ill!* very Dr Mnrini, snvs tbe Lancet, wlio petrified Mnzz : ni, and executed >' his wurk so well that the admirers of the aroh-eon^pirntor proposed to get. up the corpse on the Capitol nnd s/»re economical Ilnly flic rxpen«o of n statue. The dicfor's preptrntionsare weiitber-oroof, and will not only stand wear, but take a high decree of polish. His mu>nmified specimens^ by a proce*s known to him alone, pan be restored to their^ original *ize mid ela^tieitv; while the petrified ones nre rs hnrd, nnd possibly hs duntble ns grnn.it**. The top shtb of th«» tuble is e>>ni>o*ed of imihcLm, fat, shipw*, nnd irhimluhir suh«tanre — all petrified together in a bWfc, the snrfiice of which ha* been planed nnd polished till i's face resembles marble. Ortificites from Nekton nnd oilier distinenisbed snr eons nre attached ( o (lie specimen limb«, setting forth that the limbs in question had, for the satisfaction of tho certifies, bepn restored to their pristine softness nnd pliancy by Dr Mnrini. ' Writing from on board the yacht Violet, Mr J R. Kirby snvs: — "I left Lo«estoft in my yneht enr'y one morning* and nhout 9 n.m. we were running hefore a pleasant. >. E breeze and moderate sea abreast of AJdboroneb. Tb* crew bnd jij*t. finished the morning toilet of onr little ernft, nnd » I wns lnzMy watching the movements of several craft in compnny, when, to my utter astonishment, a largo brignnline deliberately took a he.idcr arid went down there nnd I hen nnd (ndpnrenfly) without, rhyme or reason Could I believe myejeaP Wns it po«s.ble that on that hJnnk space on the ocean a fine sliir> »m a few moments before sniling before a^ plensant breeze? But, bnppily, it wns not qute n blnntMf spn*p«».~ In pi nee of the sunken ship, a small hoat was float- "H ing containing the crew, six in number. Of course there H «n* nothing lefl for n< to do but pirk t'>e j oor 'cllown up, cive them a good brenkfn^t, and land thrm nil flt IJnrwiel —• no, not nil, I retained a dog nnd ent winch bad jnmj ed into thebont nt. the critital moment. nj>' mcinrntnip of pneh a stiange event. I lenrnt tbnt tbe vessel WiTOu* 'Willnim, of Exeter, 200 ton*, coal Indeni from Slrtclds. I'sd sprung a lenk, nnrl, the crrw were exhausted wjlh pumping, had cone down as I describe. Moral. — Is this a ca^e for Mr Plin.soll?" ' The Times of 7»<7f<«,tellji vu n capital vny they hnve in j Persia of recovering debts. Some tune sin'c'a suitwas filed I in lUicl'ire^ajißJiisJi. all an. for debi J^hc^olaiV vns proiefJv* I but the debtor deolavrd hi* iirninSTTv to pny. "Tliereiij on the^H Prince Governor did"" not lock him ,up or Jet him ro, but | ordered him to sVreptbe streets Until the mount should bo I forthcoming. 'J be sentence «os carriefl into elßeVt. and in a I day nt two tbe ltnateur »eavangcr somehow fo'Miid the c«sh. I