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The preserve will be ready for use within a week after the last fruit is put in, and will keep for a number of months. We have found it good eight months after making. The second is as follows: Take some pure white vinegar and mix with it granulated sugar until a syrup is formed quite free from acidity.

Boston had been the home of a loveless Christianity; its insurrection in the War of Independence had been soiled by shifty dealing and mere acidity; but Boston from the days of Emerson to those of Phillips Brooks radiated a temper and a mental force that was manly, tender, and clean.

The inhabitants of Lapland and the north of Sweden give to milk the consistence of cream by pouring it warm from the cow upon the leaves of this plant, and then instantly straining it and laying it aside for two or three days till it acquires a degree of acidity.

Now let us turn to the varying degrees of acidity, or rather the proportions of acid radicals in salts, due to the varying appetites or combining powers of bases. Such salts, then, only partly saturated with acid, are termed basic salts. This behaviour may be easily shown experimentally. No deposit or precipitate is produced; the salt is stable.

LADIES BEDSTRAW, OR CHEESE-RENNET. The Herb. This herb has a subacid taste, with a very faint, not disagreeable smell: the juice changes blue vegetable infusions to a red colour, and coagulates milk, thus exhibiting marks of acidity. It stands recommended as a mild styptic, and in epilepsy; but has never been much in use. GERANIUM robertianum. HERB ROBERT. The leaves.

As red clover seedings begin to fail, the alsike gains in popularity, and where a soil is decidedly sour the alsike is most in evidence. The latter has less value to the farmer, rooting nearer the surface of the soil, and making less growth of top, but it has gained in favor with farmers as soil acidity has increased. The Grasses.

The acidity can hardly be due to uric acid, as the contents of the upper part of the intestine were often acid. In one case the contents of the gizzard were slightly acid, those of the upper intestines being more plainly acid.

Hence frequently arise and especially in children and persons of delicate constitution pains, nausea, and acidity, consequent on the continued presence of undigested aliment in the stomach. CHYMIFICATION. As soon as food has been thoroughly masticated and impregnated with saliva, it is ready for transmission to the stomach.

"There was a book, but there never will be a book," said Mr. Pepper with such fierceness that both ladies looked up at him. "There never will be a book, because some one else has written it for him," said Mr. Pepper with considerable acidity. "That's what comes of putting things off, and collecting fossils, and sticking Norman arches on one's pigsties."

"There is nothing like a little pleasure for driving acidity out of the system," she thought, as she finished the last spoonful of her dessert of beautifully preserved fruits. Onoye had entered, carrying a small lacquered tray on which lay a square, foreign-looking visiting card. "A lady calling to the honorable old maid," she announced calmly at Miss Campbell's elbow. "The what?" cried Mr.