Stork

[AS.] A wading bird of the family times frames or false chimneys are made on the snakes, frogs, rats, mice, and vermin. In winter they migrate to warmer regions. Before starting on their flight they a emble in large flocks of that they consult as to their journey. When they return to Holland in spring, they are wel¬ comed as harbingers of that season. The white stork is found in Europe the black stork in Europe,'Asia, and Africa the black-necked stork iron, which stands in some part of the room, supplied with fuel from time to time through a the door Stoves are more economical than grates, ney, but they are not so healthful. Anthracite requires a stove with a base burner, that causes a smaller draft of air, much in use in the United States. Oil and gas stoves are much in use for the for cooking purposes. the Straw. [AS.] The stalks or stems of wheat, rye, and other cereal gra es, after the grain has been thrashed. It is woven into hats, and made into are boards and paper. Chip hats are not made out the of straw, but from splints of Lombardy poplar. the ground. The flowers have five petals, and are mostly white, seated on a convex receptacle, which enlarges in the fruiting season, and be¬ larly called the fruit is only the end of the flower stem greatly altered, and bearing the real fruit in the ripened ovaries over its surface, or sunk in the the succulent ma . There are many varieties. Fragaria vesca is the European kind, and Fragaria Virginica the American. The fruit has been enormously increased in size by cultivation. shade.] A strong poison got from the seeds of nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, and has a bitter, acrid taste. It is in¬ his soluble in water, but di olves in alcohol. In piece.] A kind of plaster made of lime, sand, and finely - crushed marble, for ornamenting walls. water fish, the roe of which is made into caviare, and the air-bladder into isingla . It has free gills, and its body is more or le covered with bony plates, in five longitudinal rows. The tail is heterocercal, having the vertebrae continued into the upper lobe, which is longer than the make up nearly one-third of the fish, and there are over three million in one female. Sturgeons are found in Kurope and America, and in one season 200 tons of caviare have been made on the Cas¬ pian. It is now made largely on the Delaware. of which are found in the rivers and lakes of the United States. It has no teeth, its lips being formed for sucking. It is found in the rivers in early spring, and is caught in dip-nets. The buffalo sucker of the Mi i ippi is sometimes more than a yard long. sugar-cane and other plants pre ed out and dried. It is soluble in water, generally crystallizable, neutral to vegetable colors, and is an or¬ ganic chemical compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. There are two distinct sugars— saccharoses or sucroses, and glucoses (q. v.) or amyloids. The saccharoses include cane-sugar, beet, palm, sorghum, and maple sugar. The first two yield nearly the whole sugar-crop of the world. The cane-sugar comes from the tropics, that of the beetroot from the north temperate zone, very largely from Germany. After sugar is boiled and strained and purified by adding lime, and filtering through cotton and charcoal, it is poured into molds, and when cool forms loaf-sugar. The liquid which remains after the sugar crystallizes, is called mola es, it being a dark, sweet, sticky liquid, much used in cooking. Glucose or grape-sugar is made from starch by the action of heat and acids. Much of it is pro¬ duced from maize, being largely sold as the glu¬ cose sirup.