Show HOW TO nave HAVE A CHEAP not HOT nin DIN beit r n we happened to be presen present t in may alay last at the polytechnic institute of london while prof pepper was conducting some very interesting optical experiments to a crowded and appreciative audience this institute is one of the most valuable and instructive in london and we trust that in due time we shall have something like it and even better in this CILY A large hall bull in the building is devoted to the exhibition of novel anven lions many of which were remar remarkable kabie kable lor their ingenuity at the time of our visit a very voluble little personage 0 was summoning the visitors to examine a 8 mall small contrivance which he called the norwegian an cooking apparatus it consisted of a tin vessel or stew pan havin having a closely fitting cover and into which whick a piece of mutton or beef beer potatoes and other othen er vegetable sare placed in water at the boiling point the vessel is covered so as to be water watertight tight and then carefully enclosed in a felted box and the lid sealed the apparatus before us haa had been shut up nearly three and a halt half hours and when opened in our presence we were invited along with other half hungry visitors to eat of the viands thus prepared which we found well cooked and very palatable the lecturer on the cooki cooking figi figl apparatus remarked that the peasants of norway wise in their generation 1 were great eaters of porridge they found that by boiling bolling their mess for only five minutes and then immediately enclosing the saucepan all h hot ot in ina lna a little felted box the acquired acquin ed heat h e a t was sufficient sunni cent to complete the cooking of the porridge and to keep it hot for many hours the norwegian Nor hon government it appears took a leaf iad out put of the peasants bookard boo kand adopted the same plan of cooking for the navy which has proved aluc asu C cess the lecturer went on to say that gentlemen perhaps himself was one of thern them started from paris with one of these little felted saucepans full of mutton and upon reaching london after eleven hours ride the felt covering wa removed the stew opened and the ins ner man regaled with as choice a morse as ever englishmen ate assisted I 1 of course by a generous pot of beer to which it is said englishmen are somewhat partial now for a workingman there is nothing like a good hot meal it adds force and power to human muscle therefore in every farm in every cottage let the ettle kettle bo be boiled every morning let these saucepans containing the provisions for the days daya dinner be placed to boil boll for five minutes and then shut up ina lna in a wood box well fitted ted inside with cheap felt an and the family need concern themselves no more till the dinner hour arrives at that time the food will be found nicely cooked and with the addition of bait salt and pep per it will constitute a dish fit to set before forsaking a king aking the laborer can as easily carry the little norwegian stew pan pap to the field nield as he can his little tin pail pall scientific american sir walter scott used to tell an anecdote of a worldly vicar of the olden time who was BO so wearied out with the parish clerk confining himself to the hundredth psalm that he remonstrated and insisted upon a variety which the man proposed but habit proving preying too strong for him the old words were as usual given out on the following sunday ali ail all people that on earth do dwell upon tb this Is the vicars tem temper I 1 er could hold out no longer and putting his bid head over the desk he cried out curse all people that on earth do dwell lly ill I 1 goe gol GOETHE rlue tells the following story which amusingly illustrates the capa city sity for drink of the the bishop of mayence once delivered a sermon against drunkenness and after painting in the strongest colors the evils of overindulgence over indulgence concluded as follows but the abuse of wine does not exclude its use for it is written that wine rejoices the heart of man probably there is no lio one in my congregation wb who 0 cannot drink four bottles of wine without feeling any disturbance tur bance of his senses but if any man at the seventh or eight bottle so forgets himself as to abuse and strike his wife and children and treat his best beat friends as enemies let him look into his conscience and in future always stop at the sixth bottle yet if after a drinking eight or even ten or twelve bottles he can still take his Christ lani iani neighbor lovingly by the hand band and obey the orders of his bis spiritual and tem temi i superiors let him thankfully drink his hia modest draught he musti be careful however as to taking any more for it is seldom that providence Provi dencer gives any one the special grace to drink sixteen bottles at a 8 sitting aa as it has enabled me its unworthy servant to do without either neglecting my ray dul dui duties 1 e 8 or osing my temper A few days since the passenger train on the southern missouri railroad rall Bail road was brought to a halt by a pocket handkerchief being waved by a small boy mounted on a huge log beside the track tracks 4 the train was stopped on being asked what was the matter and why he had stopped the train he coolly replied that he know but what somebody might want to get off 0 |