Miscellaneous.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 393, 14 August 1889, Page 6

Miscellaneous.

A!S T M\ Wwiion or Food J'Jii:si,nvATrov. — Has there been at last discovered a' simplo, ell'ective and ehoap preservative for food V We (/>«/£ ,]/«<!/ O'azd/e) were yesterday afternoon invited by the Food Jfresors ation Society to luncheon at the Hotel Continental, when tho menu consisted of articles from a fortnight to a month old which had been treated by cheir patented process From tho iish to the nineupplo served for dessert, the Saddle ot mutton and tho cauliflower, the roast beef and kidneys, tho chicken and tho salad, and the other items, were all of an ago which would have rendered them worthless in the ordinal y course, but in this instance they were prime, tender, and well flavou.ed. The inventor is one Danielle, of Chicago, and wo arc told that the system has been thoroughly tested m America, all kinds ol food being kept sweet and wholesome foi j, months iMgclhei. The process w nou being introduced into this country by tho j Food Preservation Company, at tho head of | which is Mr Coidncr, ol the mm Uu&sell. Cordner, and Co. The virtue lie* in a compound composed ot sugar, sulphur, | -assaims, nitrate of potassium, and j cinnamon. This powder, which is perfectly harmless to the ti^U", N placed at tho top of an air-tight chamber, in which the food to be treated is? hung. On being ignited tho compound evohe 1 * a heavy gas, which fails to tho bottom of the chamber and destioy-s the oxygen, whereupon the light goes out The meat ia ylluwed to remain in the chamber lor houi.s moie or les*, accoidmtf to its nature, and on being taken out it can bo exposed to the atmosphere for week* 1 , or even months, without any sign ot decay. It may become diy after" <«e\eral \veeU«, but it does not putrefy. W care told that food ti paled 'iv this way ban been submitlerl to scientific experts 'and authorities on food, and they aie airteed as to the icsult, although they cannot explain the chemical process by which it is effected. IvJr Hodge, M.l., who was present at tho luncheon, had a biacc of pheasants treated at the end of December. He kept them in his Under under lock and key until three days a«o, when be partook of one, and found it excellent. The other he produced tor examination. Other gentlemen boie similar testimony. Even eggs and milk can bo prescned in this way, and fish, after having a both in water impregnated with the gas, lemains fre^h for a week or two. In addition to the scope for the preservation of food at home, Sir Charles Cliftord, who spoke at tho gathering, anticipates that it .will re\olutionize our colonial dead meat trade, as the costly ice-chamber system will be superseded. The cost of piescrving by the piooess will not be more Chan one shilling 1 per head of cattle. The company does not propose fco make any appeal lo tho public tor capital, sufficient being subscribed privately to woik the patent. "Prrj-Y Wai,ki;k.V ami "Ciia-mi'-voni: F.vivMHts."— A \lmj\ Si-bLcn r.r Mn LvnuFo\.— One ot the --aciest speeches made for many a long day was dclivcied at the annual luncheon and garden party given by Mr Lane-Fox at Bramham to members of the Bramham Moor, Hunt. After some iutioductory retuaiks, he said, " You will set' in the kennels this aiteinoon hounds fit as a man used to be when he stepped into a forty ioot ring, or as a hoi>e when bo strips for the Legcr. 'No showyard fat muscle, muscle and symmetry. Weli, you see, [ am a picy old dog, and hang on the line. 1 won't bother you any more about hounds, but we must have something to say about io\e». What is the use of a thundeiing good pack of hound* and no foxes' 7 lam sony this- line old Bramham Moor countiy is not quite what it used to be. If J had a map here I could point out several large estates wheie nothing is done in support of fox hunting. I could point out certain covers were thcie are no cubs-, and I can point out certain keepers, who, ot couise with the sanction of their vnastors, have no loxeb, or, if they have, they have one or two most unfortunate and disreputable little foxes, that aie kept in some back .slum in tho neighbourhood ot the house, and put down in the cover. Then when the hounds go in one or two of them begin to feather, one or two becin to speak, halt of the hounds look about and don't know if it is a round of beef or what, and then the young fo* runs lound the cover and gets into a rabbit hole. That is not what wo want. WewanttohuntoldfoAec To breed tame fowls and then blow them away from tho end of their guns is snobbish and cocktail, and ought not. to be It it old foxes that give runs. The more you biipport fox hunting tho more demand their will bo for horses. There is an immense demand for horses for cariiages, but I want to see the farmers all again or hoipebaek. Many ot the heavy swells w he presido at, meetings for the improvement o! tho breed of horses have not a fox in theii covers. We don't want any Government grants, wo don't want any great long legged, heavy-nocked coach-horses walking about in shovv>ards. 1 hope bho farmer! won't put any confidence in parliamentary men, Government grants, or buffoonery c that sort, but work together and support one another. In prosperous times i number of scientific gentlemen came out o the towns and took farms, but they sooi found out that champagne and science die not make a farmer any more than nettlei or docks crammed into a silo will mak< bay. " • .

Mr Howard Paul, when asked in wha part of Switzerland bo felt the heat most replied, " When I was goin^ to Berne.' Bobby was admiring the tafc boy ai. tlx museum. "Mamma," ho said, " what s kind mother he must have-" Young mother : " Horrors, Jano_, tin baby is trying to swallow a pin." Nuise 44 Tt's all right, mum ; it's a safety pin."' While everyone wa aapplauding at tin opera last night, a little child exclaimed " Oh, mamma, see nil the big men patty caking." ,' Merrill— lf you Keep on, Johnnie, yoi will soon know as much as your teacher Little Johnnie— l d know as much now i I had the book before me likes she does. ■ A divine placarded tho hoardings wit) notices that he would preach on " ,~ :—: — —?— !" There was a largo and curiou congregation, to whom he announced th text " Tho Pauses of Life."