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Proportion of Crime to Population.~ To make Nectar.
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Soda Bread. A correspondent of the New~. Telegraph gives the following receipt for ~nakin~ "soda bread," stating that " t h e r e is no bread to be had equal to il: tbr in~'igorating the body, promoting digestion, strengthening the stomach, and improving the state of the bowels." He says, "put a pound and a half ofg.ood wheaten meal into a large bowl, mix with it two teaspoonfuls of finely-powdered salt, then take a large teaspoonful of super-carbonate of" :~oda, dissolve it in halfa teacupful of cold water, and add it to the meal; rub up all intimately together, then pour into the bowl as much very sour buttermilk as will make the whole into soft dough (it should be as soft as could possibly be handled, and the softer the better,) tbrm it into a cake of about an inch thickness, and put it into a fiat Dutch oven or frying-pan, with. some metallic cover, such as an oven-lid or griddle, apply a moderate heat underneath ior twenty minutes, then lay some clear live coals upon the lid, and keep it so for half an hour longer (the under heat being allowed to fifll off gradually for the last fifteen minutes,) taking off the cover occasionally ~o see that it does not burn. This, he concludes, when somewhat cooled ~n(I moderately buttered, is as wholesome as ever entered man's stomach. Win. Clacker, Esq., of Gosfbrd, has ordered a sample of the bread to be prepared, and a quantity of the meal to be kept for sale at the Markethill Temperance Soup and Coffee Rooms. Farm. Mag. d~7~'lbeF.
The beautiful amber which is found on the eastern shores of England~ and on the coasts of Prussia and Sicily, and which is supposed to be tossil resin, is derived from beda of lignite in the tertiary strata. Fragments of fossi| gum were found in digging tile tunnel through the London clay at Highgate, zleat' ][~ondon.
5Iining Journal.
Proportion of Crime to Population. According to Colonel Forsell, who has recently published a valuable work on the statistics of Sweden, the offenders against the laws in different countries bear the following proportions to the entire population:~ In England as one to 740 Wales, 2~320 Ireland, 490 Scotland, 1,180 Denmark, 1,700 Sweden, . , 1,500 l'qew South Wales, 22 T h e United States, 3~500 Farm. ~Iag.
To make Nectar. (Via des Dieux.) Slice very thinly, a quantity of apples, and an equal number of lemons. Cover the bottom of a porcelain dish with a layer of the apples, then a layer of lemon, then a third of powdered sugar and so on till the vessel is fidl enough. Pour in wine until the upper layer of lemons is well overflowed, put on a cover and let it infuse five or six hours. Press out the liquor through a cloth and filter it. Joar. des Corm,w,
71
Soda Bread. A correspondent of the New~. Telegraph gives the following receipt for ~nakin~ "soda bread," stating that " t h e r e is no bread to be had equal to il: tbr in~'igorating the body, promoting digestion, strengthening the stomach, and improving the state of the bowels." He says, "put a pound and a half ofg.ood wheaten meal into a large bowl, mix with it two teaspoonfuls of finely-powdered salt, then take a large teaspoonful of super-carbonate of" :~oda, dissolve it in halfa teacupful of cold water, and add it to the meal; rub up all intimately together, then pour into the bowl as much very sour buttermilk as will make the whole into soft dough (it should be as soft as could possibly be handled, and the softer the better,) tbrm it into a cake of about an inch thickness, and put it into a fiat Dutch oven or frying-pan, with. some metallic cover, such as an oven-lid or griddle, apply a moderate heat underneath ior twenty minutes, then lay some clear live coals upon the lid, and keep it so for half an hour longer (the under heat being allowed to fifll off gradually for the last fifteen minutes,) taking off the cover occasionally ~o see that it does not burn. This, he concludes, when somewhat cooled ~n(I moderately buttered, is as wholesome as ever entered man's stomach. Win. Clacker, Esq., of Gosfbrd, has ordered a sample of the bread to be prepared, and a quantity of the meal to be kept for sale at the Markethill Temperance Soup and Coffee Rooms. Farm. Mag. d~7~'lbeF.
The beautiful amber which is found on the eastern shores of England~ and on the coasts of Prussia and Sicily, and which is supposed to be tossil resin, is derived from beda of lignite in the tertiary strata. Fragments of fossi| gum were found in digging tile tunnel through the London clay at Highgate, zleat' ][~ondon.
5Iining Journal.
Proportion of Crime to Population. According to Colonel Forsell, who has recently published a valuable work on the statistics of Sweden, the offenders against the laws in different countries bear the following proportions to the entire population:~ In England as one to 740 Wales, 2~320 Ireland, 490 Scotland, 1,180 Denmark, 1,700 Sweden, . , 1,500 l'qew South Wales, 22 T h e United States, 3~500 Farm. ~Iag.
To make Nectar. (Via des Dieux.) Slice very thinly, a quantity of apples, and an equal number of lemons. Cover the bottom of a porcelain dish with a layer of the apples, then a layer of lemon, then a third of powdered sugar and so on till the vessel is fidl enough. Pour in wine until the upper layer of lemons is well overflowed, put on a cover and let it infuse five or six hours. Press out the liquor through a cloth and filter it. Joar. des Corm,w,