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The Field of Science.
The best conductor of electricity at
present known is silver,
From statistics gathered in India it |
appears that cholera is far more deadly
in the open than in the wooded districts.
M. Zenger (*‘Ciel et Terre’’) maintains
that the hurricanes of the West Indies
have a period of twelve days, equal to
that of the rotation of the sun.
Vegetable albumen in its pure state
is a thick, glairy, tasteless fluid, analo-
gous to the white of an egg. Itisfound
abundantly in the juices of green leaves,
£
the sweet gum, or liquidambar, vibur. |
num, zizania and elm—are occasionally
found.
An account is given in English jour-
nals of the performance of a locomotive
on the Great Northern Railroad, which
recently carried the Duke of Edinburg
from Leeds to London, 186] miles, in
miles per hour,
quently been equalled and sometimes
for short distances. The
engine had driving wheels eight feet in
diameter. or two feet larger than the
wheels of American engines,
This speed has fre-
surpassed
A health station for patients suffering
as well as in the flour from wheat.
Two ninety-foot lathes, said to be the
largest in the world, have been made by
the South Works.
lathe contains 600.000 pounds of
They are to be used to bore out cannon.
M. Academy of
Sciences) concludes that the seat of the
Boston iron
iron.
Spring (Belgian
the
and dry
admitted, in the regions of
atmosphere, but
superstratum.
moist
in the cold
Of the 140.000 known species of plants
M. that
makes only 300
He that cherry
known both in Greece and Italy long
before the time of Lucullus,
de Candolle finds mankind
use of about at most,
states also the was
A peeuliar tree, named the *‘Sorrow-
It flourishes only at night.
Bombay.
appear soon after sunset the year round,
and close up or fall
off as the sun rises,
Ninety-three thousand acres of trees
have been planted under the
"nnfart
boriculture act in Kansas, |
nately preference has been giver,
of its rapid growth, to the
which in every respect
as the mullen stalk.
diameter.
tion with the accuracy of
fnmbernman. Along
Southwestern Colorado, millions of
the
boa ur 3
of valuable timber have been
destroys
by these rodents,
Electrical motors have 1
introduced at several
A Gramme machine }
some time past at the
others are at workin the T
belonging to the Terre Noi
and at the mine de la Peronniere,
Professor Whitney maintains that the
earth is gradually drying up
which eommenced in cret:
The increasing dryness,
torical period of Persia,
countries around the Aral and
North Africa and Greece, is
abundant fact
The Lon
leaves of the pl
in the
cant,
ed for s
A German patent
out for the manufacture
from cast iron. containin
a compound
of the strong
recommended
of silicon,
resist the action
It
plates of zinc and iron
1
iS Ais)
galvanic
teries.
thirty-five feet long, has been uneart
ure is supposed to have stood twent
five feet high.
Ve
re $08 4 ; 1 14
The weight of the
1900 pounds,
Philadelphia,
"The tensile strength of glass has been
be between 2000 and 9000
pounds per square inch, and the crush-
ing strength between 6000 and 10,000
pounds per square inch. By trials a
short time ago M. Traulienie found that
flooring glass one inch square and one
foot between the end supports breaks
under a load of 170 pounds.
shown to
Professor Owen, in Longman’s Maga-
zine, says that ‘‘present evidence con-
curs in concluding that the modes of
life and grades of thought of the men
who have left evidences of their exist-
ence at the earliest periods, hitherto
discovered and determined, were such
as are now observable in ‘savages,’ or
the human races which are commonly
go-called.
Professor Norkenskjold, during his
arctic voyage, was perplexed by the
question : What becomes of the bodies
of animals which die a natural death ?
He very seldom found such remains,
and declared that on Spitzbergen it was
easier to find vertebre of monster
extinct reptiles than the bodies of the
seal, walrus or bird of the present day.
The problem is yet unsolved.
In an American Association paper
Dr. Britton describes a post-tertiary,
pre-glacial deposit, near Bridgeton, N.
J., comsaca enough to furnish a build-
ing material, which contains casts of
the shells of the hard clam, with silici-
fied wood, and in which very fine im-
pressions of leaves—including those of
*
The ho-
about 10,000 feet above the sea.
| borst?’ (evrie), will be built to accom-
1
modate 200 guests and be accessible by
a narrow carriage-road, as well as by a
wire-cord tramway. The construction
of the hotel is to be proceeded with at
| once, and the house is to be ready for
i .
| occupancy in two years,
recent official report
of
in
. According to the
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the use of horse-tlesh an articie
:
| human food is steadily increasing
| Paris. In 1875. 7000 horses were slaugh-
i
tered for this purpose; in 1880 the
was 9000, and in 1881, 9300,
Besides these, there were sold at the
ed
forty establishments exclusively deve
| to this business ten carcasses of donkeys
1% sat} In
1
$d. OF 1 B81,
fie irse-flesh
1220 and 400 in
| The
consumed
| 1670 Engl
{ about 18 tons of -flesh,
estimated weight of
in Paris last year was about
1 in
tons, and add
Lion
without
is used mn
ng of sausages,
on A Bossi
GCambetta’s Oratory.
higher tone, h interruptions came,
in which perhaps the orator caugit
I
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| bitter personal allusion.
gan to pace the tribune like a caged
lion. Tis
| back and his eye flashed defiance, while
massive head was thrown
| period after period was thundered forth
with of seund
drown the rising tumult, From that
moment, and for fully an hour after
ward, the chamber was spell-bound,
such a volume as to
a
A Lost Locomotive.
A locomotive ran through a broken
bridge on the Kansas Pacific Railway,
across Kiowa creek, several years ago,
sinking into the mud at the bottom, and
has never since been heard from, though
repeated efforts have been made, by dig-
ging and boring, to rocover so valuable
a piece of property. The bottom is quek-
gand, but even quicksands have limits,
and it seems very singular that the long.
est boring-rod has failed to find any
trace of the sunken engine. By-and-by
the silent mysterious operation will
drain the quicksand and harden it into
rock, and then, long after the Kansas
Pacific road has been forgotten, and the
Kiowa creek has vanished from the map,
some future scientist will discover a
curious piece of mechanism, undoubt-
edly the work of human hands, lying
under so many hundred feet of sand-
stone, and will use the fact as a basis of
calculating how many million years old
the human race must be,
i——
The Treasury Department decides
that, under the new law, *‘it is not
necessary to efface the carved figures on
a vessel's main beam showing the gross
tonnage, but that the amount of the net
tonnage, which shall also be the reg-
istered tonnage, must be carved upon
the beam as well.”
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At a recent fire in Ottawa, Canada,
gome one sent a telegram to the owner,
who was in Boston, saying : ‘Premises
all on fire, What shall we do?” The
answer came back promptly : “Put it
out.”
“1 know,’ said a little girl to her
elder sister's young man at the supper
table, “that you will join our society
for the Protection of Little Birds, for
mamma of
larks."’
“I like your new hat very much,’ he
said. *‘It’s ‘chic,’ there's of
‘abondon’ "—*“There isn’t any sort of a
band on it,” she said, pouting ; “it’s a
real ostrich feather.”
says you are very fond
a sort
A member of the rhetorical class just
finished his declamation, when the pro-
fessor said: ‘Mr. do you suppose
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n the manner you spoke that piece 7"’
“Yes, sir. i do.”
was half-scared to death, and as nervous
was the reply, “if he
as a cat.”
A cute
“A man who
he call last
us, if he was alive,
editor wrote the following :
little
and
i8 owing us a bill
said would week pay
the street ; but ag he did not call, it
naturally supposed that he is dead
around do funeral ex-
valking MAYE
penses,’’
chief,
went to a hardware store to get one of
those wooden contrivances to mash po
tatoes and said, “I want a
the {
Every man in the boss t
shop, from
the office boy, started to wait on her
(rent to walle ‘Bring me
grammatical and typographical errors.”
Waiter led at first, but
he demanded,
the st
would mount
uld
listener to repose with
At last
th
and in fortissime welody it Ww
#
a rie 1:1] #1
almost lull the
any.
jan blast that fairly made the windows
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fect silence, 6X-
‘hank
passenger,
heaven,"
claimed a ““he has
Useful servants : Aft or the war, says
i
§
our servants was much reduced, two
went to the nearest village to hire out,
The lady, to whom they applied, asked
if they could cobk.
never bin cook none,” “Can
wash ?' “ No'om, weain’t bin wash
none neither, Aunt Sally wash.” ** Can
you clean then ?"’
least we ain't never been clean none.
And so I went on through the whole list
of qualifications, receiving always the
same negative answer. ‘Well, what
in heaven's name,’ said I at iast, ‘‘have
you been accustomed to Co?’ Lucin-
da’s dusky face’ brightened, ‘‘Sukey
here, she hunt for master’s specs, and
I keep flies off de ole miss |"
“No'om we aint
Jou
house, “ No'om,
8
ar
Statistical and Useful.
The Money Order System.
The following figures are furnished
by the General Superintendent of the
money order department : The number
of money orders issued during the fiscal
year was 7,240,537 for the whole United
States. This in money reached the
enormous sum of §100,352,818,82, Over
a hundred millions passed in absolute
afety through our hands, The fees paid
to the Postoffice Department reached
the aggregate of $016,422.80, For the
transaction of all this an immense
amount of correspondence is necessary.
We wrote nearly 40,000 letters last
year,
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“You spoke of the increase.”
“True, If youare not tired of fig-
ures I will give you some more, In 1879
we had 1,161,378 transactions, amount-
ing in money to $43,0662.274.87. This
was an increase over 1878 of 100.119
transactions and £5,000,000., The next
year, 1880, showed 1,351,005 transac-
tions, amounting in all to $51,231 749.04,
This was a gain over the previous year
of 189.920
475.67. The work is constantly increas-
ing. The average of all the orders is
$13."
transactions, and $7,579,-
Quantity of Seed per Acre.
Grain Drilled, — Wheat,
rye, 1} to 14; oats,
1 bushel
bushels ;
Barley and oats
bushels of barley :
buckwheat,
hills, 6 to 9 quarts ;
2 to 3 bushels ;
to 4 of a bushel
broom corn in drills,
: beans, 1 to 14
sorghum, s Of a bushel,
Timothy.
orchard grass, 13 to 2 bushel
(3 ra88es,
Kentucky
3
bushels ; white
clover tH LO
lucerne
THC,
Vegetables ane
getabies al
The bad boy's pa, according t
pants and
table was
saucer wouldn't
stay on it
if he would put some tar o1
and then
cuffed me and I think he felt better,
but where a man ham’t
got any mind, like you, for instance
At this point the groceryman picked
up a fire poker, and the boy went out in
a hurry and hung up a sign in front of
the grocery, “Cash paid for fat dogs.”
om.
A Tickled Hoosier.
An Indiana farmer walked into the
heuse the other day, with a tickled look
on his face and his hat on his ear, and
called out :
“By gum!
think ?**
“What's happened now,”
Hanner, what do you
“You know that fellow who sold me
the churn and had me sign a paper?"
“Yes, $s
“Well that paper was a note for fifty
dollars, *’
“Noa!”
“True as preaching,
do you suppose ?°’
“He sold it ?"’
“Right you are, Went and sold it to
a bank in Vincennes, and I've got to
pay it. Think of it, Hanner— my note
good ‘nuff to be sold to a bapk four
stories high and with plate glass win-
dows, and they send me just the same
kind of a notice to pay as they would a
rich man. I must let old Sims hear of
it in some way. The Sims family look
upon us as scrubs, and here we are
treated the same as if we rode in a
And what else
"keerige behind four hosses,*
That Woman Again.
“Good morning.”
“Good
seat 1”?
morning, madam ! Take
“You don’t kuow me, do you?’
“1 am under the necessity of saying
that I do not, madam !V
“Well, I will tell you who I am, I|
am Mrs, Churchill, the editress of
Queen Dee, of Denver, Of course
of the Queen Bee,
it the She Bee,
they call it, so
but 1
long
don’t care what
a8 they
take the paper,
are good
It is
looking and
gentlemen blush and reddens their
a fearless paper
sure you, and goes for the men right an
rights
—
He Wanted a Contrasting
Shade.
“How much will I need ?*’ asked a
shopping husband of a dry goods clerk.
“That will depend upon the number
“Hum! I suppose so. 1 want enough
goods to make a dress for my only wife
-1 mean for—my wife only.” stam-
“I think twenty yards would do,”
clerk, measuring the man
ly and
ame
im mental wondering if
“shall 1
piece,
tner has
crushed
1k. mashed
$
Wile
51
ck's bloody
{sy rei-
other shments,
and
| pretending to be affronted even at these
accompli
ringlets of hair as she retires, while the
ambassadresses, having got the consent
of her parents, pursue her, take her by
force to the house of her destined hus-
Compelled to
remain there, she sits for days with di-
band and there leave her.
shevelled hair, silent and dejected, refus-
ing every kind of sustenance, until at
last, if kind entreaties do not prevail
she is compelled by force, and even by
blows, to submit to the detested union.
In cases the Greenland women
faint at the proposals of marriage; in
othersthey fly to the mountains and only
return when compelled to do so by hun-
ger and cold. If one cuts off her hair
it is & sign that she is determined to re-
sist to death, The Greenland wife is
the slave of her husband, doomed to a
life of toil, drudgery and privation,—
Ex.
some
A A ASH
During a gust at Williamsport,
Penna., two boats in which men were
returning from a boom on the river
capsized. Three young men, named
Herman Hartman, Del Rhoads and
Grant Moore, and a boy, named Wilts,
wore drowned, Four Swedes were
drowned by the upsetting of a boat on
Lake Washington, Washington Terri-
ritory,——=A *‘seale-caten '’ boiler in
Donald McCleary's planing mill, at
Portland, Oregon, burst, blowing ont
the front of the mill, and killing the
engineer. Two other men were ine
jured, ~—Mary Ayres, ten years of age,
was burned to death) atin! bonfire in
Falls Village, Connecticut.
s upon the
r be plow od
MORSBATY,
the
bad,
—. ; foun YH
1 grade 10 araw on
water, otherwise there will be a
Now with such a road the
on top
hard. There
over, and
bliged to follow in a single
road. Dry
To fill up
mud holes without draining is simply
in more dirt to make more mud,
| muddy road,
:
bed 1s solid, and the soll
scraped
| will soon pack and become
i vis Yu ¢ 4 ¥ 1
HO Gan : nn wing tipped
it, a8 it must ina narrow
is mean good ditches.
§ puting
A
Jacob Fresh applied to the Govern.
ment recently for a pension, alleging
that he was engaged in a hand-to-hand
fight with his sabre for a distance of
five miles. near Huntonville, Va., on
July 2, 1863, and that while in that fight
he was cut in the right arm and shot in
the left arm and leg. One of the Govern-
ment pension examiners at Washington
wrote in reply: ‘““The claim is inad-
missible without further and more de-
finite information. The claimant is
therefore required, with the return of
of this letter, to state, under oath, what
caused him to get into a fight with his
sabre : what kind of a sabre it was he
got into a fight with; how he happened
to have a hand-to-hand fight with it;
whether he had hands ; whether there
were any witnesses present during the
fight ; how he managed to get shot while
fighting with his sabre ; whether it was
a shooting sabre; whether he believes
the sabre shot him ; whether it shot any-
body else; whether he shot it; how
many shots were fired: who fired the
first shot; whether the soldier was in
the habit of figting with his sabre ; how
long a time he fought it, and whether
he had ever fought any other sabre, It
should be shown by competent testimony
whether the soldier shot the sabre or the
sabre shot the soldier. It should also
be shown whether they fought for the
distance of five miles apart or the sabre
was five miles long.