I BIG FORTUNE IN REFUSE. THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS THROWN AWAY IN NEW YORK WASTE. fractft Cleaned From an Kxperiment Made by the City Authorities In taring for Paper, ltngg an<l .Junk Old Shoes ' Make a Very Prominent Showing. There is a fortune thrown away an nually in the waste of New York city, writes a correspondent of the Philadel phia Record. The poor of Paris could be well housed, fed and clothed with the proceeds from the waste of this city. This statement is not based on mere supposition, but upon facts gleaned from an experiment which was tried by the city authorities last year in caring for a certain portion of the city's waste. ■ For a period of 12 months the refuse and waste gathered from street clean- ing districts Nos. 12, 14 and 16 was de livered at a special station, where it was carefully separated into its con stituent parts and such as could be Utilized for any good purpose was sold for what it would bring and the bal ance was destroyed. The area cov ered included a population, according t to the census returns, of 116,525. Ev ery class of house, shop, store and a few factories are to be found within the districts, so that the results of the year's work would form a fair ba sis for estimating the value of the waste of the whole city. During the year 12,947 loads of sep arated refuse from carts holding four | cubic yards, weighing 900 per load, or, in the aggregate 5826 tons, was burned as useless, and from 5 to 8 percent was worthless, while about 37 percent was marketable. The matter reserved for sale contains 3,058,616 pounds of paper, which was classified as follows: Manila paper, 471,385 pounds; news, , 803,301; mixed, 442,866; strawboard, ' 587,208; mixed wrapping, 635,136; | books, 18,620. ' There was a total of 576,812 pounds of rags, classified as follows: Woolen, black, 195,825; bagging, 48,055; twine, back carpet, 79,820; wool carpet, 3915; linsey carpet, 7180; old coats, 20,945; stockings, 4590. Among other articles there were found 80,840 pounds of old iron; 494 pounds of copper, 2090 pounds of zinc, 1607 pounds of brass, 303 pounds of lead, 9769 pounds of old rubber, 36,160 pounds of old shoes, 400 pounds of hair cloth, 765 pounds of curled hair, 2100 old hats, 12 loads of tin cans, 40 mat tresses, 2890 barrels and 29,205 pro prietary bottles. Beside all this, it must be remembered there was an im mense amount of matter of all classes gathered by the countless number of rag and garbage collectors who do a 1 business independent of the city do- I partment. Taking these figures as a basis for estimating the amount of refuse col lected from the boroughs of Manhat tan and Bronx for this year, at the same time allowing for the natural in crease, it would amount to 112,000 tons for 12 months. About 32 peroent, or 35,840 tons, represents the paper and rags. It is interesting to note that the daily newspapers in New York con sume 350 tons of paper per day, of which, it is estimated, one-half re mains in the city and is no sent into circulation through the mails. This one-half will amount to 63,870 tons during the year. To this vast paper heap must bo added the immense stack . of printed matter, such as circulars, posters, advertising lotters, etc., and the refuse from the weekly and month ly publications. About one-half of this vast total of waste paper finds its way back to the manufacturer through private chan ' nels while much of it is consumed in the furnaces of office buildings, Insti tutions, and the like, with most un satisfactory results. For example, the federal authorities in their building down town undertake to destroy large quantities of paper, and owing to the fierce draft due to the tall chimneys and the poor combustion, half-burnt paper is distributed impartially over the neighborhood. For weeks together last summer the atmosphere of a sec tion, including parts of Broad, Wall and Exchange street was, at certain hours, loaded with floating ashes and half-burned scraps of paper, and on several days in particular the walks and pavements in the vicinity of the custom house were literally carpeted with charred fragments of burned gov ernment records. These crude methods of disposing of this particular kind of waste are bound to become a thing of the past very soon, for steps are now under way .whereby a modernized destructor, one "which is patterned after an English destructor, will be Installed before the year is out. But it is not the intention of the authorities to burn all the waste paper. It will be utilized in two ways; First, by the sorting and saving of that which is marketable. While the worth of clean paper and rags depends upon the demand and the price upon the market quotations, yet the records of the past few years show the average would be about $8 per ton the season through for a good quality of stock, and the poorest quality about 16. Assuming the above figures to be correct and taking into consideration the fact that the waste would be dis posed of at a much less cost per ton than by the present system, more than j $300,000 would be saved ti the city in this item alone. But after disposing of the salable part of the rags and paper there re ,i mains the combustible part to get rid of, which, by following the practice of foreign cities, can be disposed of at a profit by converting the heat ob tained from the combustion into horse A power This forms the second method of utilizing the waste paper, rags and other combustible waste. Of the grand total of rubbish collected about 50 per cent is good only for combustion, and is, therefore, to be used as fuel. It has been demonstrated that this class of garbage, in the modernized furnace for its combustion and for utilizing the heat units for the creation of steam, has in it one-tenth the value of coal. This means that New York city towed out to sea last year more than 5600 tons of coal, which had a money value of $35,000. This rubbish was worse than wasted, for after being dumped into the sea it was blown, drifted and tossed about by wind, tide and waves, much of it landing on the shores and beaches of the health resorts, there to become a nuisance and menace to hu manity. WHEN PERIL CCMES. Sadden end Kxtremn Danger tlie Test of True Courage. It is when the unexpected happens that fatalism proves how fatal a prop it is, after all, for human courage. The soldier or the sailor can say to himself, when he knows that he must take a supreme risk in battle or in a storm: "I am powerless against the fate which was decreed for me from the beginning of the world. If my time has come I cannot help it; if not, all the forces of earth and sky and ocean cannot prevail to harm me." But when, without an instant's warn ing. a rock crashes through the ship's bottom and the waters rush into the gap; when confusion seizes the entire company aboard; when the fog is too thick for the captain to be seen, or the roar of the sea drowns the sound of his orders, a new test is applied. Then it is that the courage which rests on nothing firmer than a negation gives I way, and in his greed to save his own [ life the stoic becomes as a madman. | There have been steamship disasters in which men of humble station, of all j colors and faiths, have shown the fin-1 est quality of heroism; and there have > been those in which the common sail-1 ors, all whites and Europeans, have 1 earned eternal disgrace by their cow- I ardice. The point we are making is < not that it is possible to draw a hard j and fast line between one religion and j another, or one race and another, in the matter of bravery; but that ' the affirmative sense of respon- j sibility for one's own acts, of the dlf- I ference between right and wrong, be- ! tween nobility and ignominy, and of the grandeur of duty well done at the sacrifice of self, is a far surer depend- j ence in the presence of sudden peril than all the stoical philosophers ever , worked out by the mind of man.— Washington Post. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. An owl was shot 400 miles out at sea by the captain of the British steamship Ethelredn. No other case is on record of a land bird having flown so far from , shore. : A wonderful cavern, rivaling In beau- 1 ty and natural phenomena, if not in size, the famous Mammoth cave of Kentucky, has just been discovered across the Juniata river from Maple- j ton. Pa. A manufacturer at Sheffield, Eng.,' who has had trouble with the postoffice ; about registering his mail packages is taking his revenge by sending 200 em-; loyes daily to the postoffice to buy j penny stamps. Each employe is dec-1 orated with read tape and is provided j with a sovereign's worth of coppers! with which he buys one stamp at a time. During the trial before a French court between two partners of an important corset firm the debate revealed that one of the principal branches of their manufactures was men's corsets. The judge, having demanded an explana tion, it was sworn that more than 18,000 corsets were made yearly for Frechmen and 3000 were shipped to England, principally for army officers. German officers created also quite a de mand till a rival Berlin firm offered a cheaper article. Mrs. Archibald Rankin, aged 65 years, living near Sharon, Pa., was re cently paralyzed by a bolt of lightning. So many times has she been injured in this manner that she is known as the "human magnet." Several years ago she was struck by lightning and ever since then her whole system has been charged like a galvanic battery. She is so sensitive to electrical disturb ances that she sleeps in a bed upon the legs of which are glass insulators. She also sits in an insulated chair. When the air is heavily charged with elec tricity her flesh tingles and gives her great distress. Lightning striking within a half mile of the house invari ably shocks her. There are no points in Europe where the cold records of America are eclipsed, but in AsYi our lowest rec ords are thrown completely in the shade. Siberia has the coldest weather known anywhere in the world. At Werchojansk, Siberia, 90.4 degrees be low zero was observed in January, 1888, which gets away below anything ever known in the world before or since. At that point the average tem perature for January is nearly 64 de grees below. This town is situated at an elevation of 330 feet above the level of the sea and during the entire winter the weather is nearly always calm and clear. Perhaps the majority of people suppose that the coldest weather in the world is at the North Pole, but reliable observations made by explor ers disprove this theory completely. No pins were made until 1811—$1 a paper SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. The Caspian sea is literally a great depression in the surface of the earth. It is 81 feet below the regular sea level. Besides this its waters have very little salt in them, being almost fresh. Dr. Jarre of Paris has announced his discovery of a remedy for the foot and mouth disease to the Acadmie de Med ecine. It consists of a 33 percent solu tion of chemically pure chromic acid applied as a caustic. The cure is rapid and there is no inflammation. Payta, Peru, about five degrees south of the equator, has the reputation of being the driest spot on the globe. On on average a shower of rain occurs at Payta only once in two years. But the intervals between showers is often much longer. Yet in that arid climate seven species of animal plants manage to exist, and the natives earn a liveli hood by growing a species of cotton, whose long roots find moisture in the bed of a dried-up river. This cotton is readily marketed. Some birds and animals put on ex tra foot coverings for winter use in walking on snow and ice and boring into it for food. Among these are the ruffed grouse, the ptarmigan and western rabbit. The latter is some times known as the "snowshoe rabbit," because of the long and stiff hair which appears on its feet in cold weather. The ptarmigan has broad, stiff feathers on its feet, and the ruffed grouse a sharp-pointed fringe. These drop off in the spring of the year. Protective coloration is one of the well-known provisions of nature forthe safety of animal life, but it is usually seen in the natural habitat of the ani mal. Here is a case, however, in which the animal deliberately abandoned its tdd habitat and adopted a new one be cause its safety would thereby be bet ter assured. The gardens in Hamburg have, within the last ten years, been planted with white-leaf maples, and the white butterfly has chosen them for its settling places. When concealed among the white leaves the butterfly is safe from its enemies. According to Professor Bigelow, meteorologist of the national weather bureau, the highest of all clouds were discovered to be those delicate, white, fibrous detached masses of frozen va por seen high against the blue sky. Sometimes they arrange themselves in belts across the heavens. Often they appear to the groups of motionless islands far up in ihe blue, atmospheric sea. The topmost point of the highest of these measured was ten miles above the earth. These highest clouds — named cirrus—were found to confine themselves to an atmospheric stratum or belt, extending from the ten-mile height to within three and a half miles of our heads. Captain J. C. Bernier's plan of at tempting to each the North Pole by drifting with the ice. as was tried by the Jcanette expedition, has not yet ben decided upon. He has submitted also to the Quebec Geographical socie ty a second plan, namely, to start from Franz Josef Land wth a large number of dogs and reindeer, and travel dur ing the summer to the Pole by sleighs, taking with him concentrated provi sions, and killing his reindeers day by day for food. Traveling at an average rate of six miles per day he should reach his destination in 150 days. He will, however, allow himself 180 days. Elaborate calculations have been made as to the number of dogs and reindeer required for the purpose. A Mammoth Pencil Tree. A giant peach tree in Kent Co., Md., says the American Agriculturist, is about the size of an ordinary kerosene barrel, measuring 78 inches at the base, or nearly 26 inches through. One foot from the ground it is 58 inches, and at two feet is 56 inches. The The crotch is 56 inches, while the four primary limbs are 32 inches, 29 inches, 28 inches, and 25 inches, respectively. There is also one secondary limb as large as a 10-year-old tree. The tree is a Crawford type and 28 year. old. It has never missed a crop, and fre quently overbears, breaking badly, as the wood is very brittle. It is on the farm of Allen A. Harris, on Easterfi Neck island, Kent Co., Md., at the mouth of the Chester river, along the Chesapeake bay. The big tree is one of the survivors of a large orchard planted at the same time, some trees of which are four or five feet in cir cumference. This is claimed to be the largest peach tree in the United States, if not in the world. Pliotogrnpli a on Silk. 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