The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-01-02

: of the earth to the blazing sun i
. too far future TO frighten well
. But another matter has been seiz
ed upon. The moon is craeket
and is in danger of flying apart
and when it does fly apart W,
shall have two moons, or else on,
tpiece will fly from its orbit, ant
rushing hither viii put a full stol
in terrestrial history. This is I
sensation worthy of the name. 4
is one of those delightful scares
which one reads of, exclaims Hgra
cious," and then resigns himsel
to his fate by forgetting it,
I Good temper, and the eqlani
nifty which is its result, are, gen
orally thought TO be promotive O
longevity. Yet, if We may beiievG
San eminent physician" quoted
/ by Lord jeffrey, "the wealthieI
members of the Society of Friends
often die of stupidity. and rarely
live to be fifty; eat too much ana
take too little exercise, and, above
all, have no nervous eXcitment.'
This remarkable statement was
made in 1873" Few persons will
agree with its conclusions as 6
whole. 1t may, however have the
hak- truth, and one which is by no
means confined. to the Friends
that q reasonable amount of nerv,
Gus stimulant is healthful-its ab.
sence being as injurious as an ex.
cess would be. 1t has been no.
ticed that men who have worked
hard for manysvearsa are often car.
ried of by some sudden or IN
looked for attack of disease soon
after retiring from business Rad
ical changes of habit, Incidence
and over-exertion arc like hazar-
dous 60 perfect health. e ass.1-
A Bedfordshire (England) pa
per says Jews are at Kempton
Mill again, and through this week
and the next the largest mill in
the country is occupied in making
the -four for the Passover cakes
for the Jewish community in Eng
land. On Monday the mill was
tidied and all those parts minute
ly cleaned or covered with which
the meal and flour come in con-
tact. The stones and dressing
machines were carefully brushed
and the meal troughs lined with
new sacking. Only new marked
sacks are used throughout for thu
meal and -four. The chief rabbi
came and witnessed the grinding
begin, two men being left in
charge to watch the manufacture
to the end and to put seal on the
tie of each sack as it is weighed of.
The -four is stored and delivered
to six different bakeries in Lon.
don during the winter, where men
are hard at work daily, making it
up into stiff dough and rolling it
with steel pins, on mahogany
boards into large thin cakes
(some six or eight to the pound) J,
which are straightway tossed into
an oven by the side of "a mass of
wood embers, and Immediately
pitched out again with large per
forated iron pell. ......y
A citizen of st. Petersburg,
Russia, is said to have overcome
the difficulties in tho way of ap-
plying the magnetic electric light
to the purposes of general illumi-
nation. He has constructed ma
chine, rotated by a three-horse
power engine, which, he declares.
can keep several hundred lamps
going, the lights being regulated
by q simple Continuance. Hither-
TO the want OF steadiness has been
objectionable, and was caused by
its dependence on the uniform
proximity Of two carbon points,
which, when heated by the current
and exposed to the air, were rap
idly burnt away. In this inyen=
ton only one piece of charcoal is
necessary. This is connected with
the electromagnetic machine and
enclosed in q glass tube, from
which the air is extracted. The
tube is then filed with gas, which
will not combine with the charcoal
at high temperature, and her
medically sealed. On the machine
being set in motion "a the charcoal
becomes gradually and equally
heated, and emits a soft, steady
light, which will burn at the bot
tom of a mine, or even at the bot
tom of a river, as readily as in q
street lamp, and at about one fifth
Of the cost OF coal gas. The dis
covery is Immediately to be tested
in several Of the large continental
cities. - @z