The Osceola times., 1876-04-08
TIMELY TOPICS.

order OF legal destruction in this coun-
try is announced to take place at Salt
Lake on the 22d of June. A murderer
is To be shot instead of hanged, the laws
OF the territory permitting the ghastly
choice between these methods of making
his exit The rifle team may yet dis
place the rope, and with marksmcn who
understand their business we shall not
be under the necessity of adopting Mr..
Marwood's horrible Improvement in ties.
TnE French hygiene commission has
made report to the Paris municipality
in respect TO cremation. The report sets
forth that if the system of common
gravesis to be continued cremation would
offer great sanitary advantages. The
commission foresecs, however, that legis-
lative obstacles would arise, as the de-
struction of bodies would prevent the
detection of certain crimes. If adopted,
the commission thinks cremation should
he made optional, and an autopsy should
be made in every case where it is re-
sorted TO.
The first pure glucose made in this
country is being manufactured at the
glucose works in this city. The demand
for the article by confcctioners alone, in
the United States, is immense. The
sources Of supply heretofore have been
France and Germany, where glucose is
made from potatoes. Here il is the pro-
duct of corn wholly. 1t is pleasing to
the taste as honey. The production of
grape sugar and glucose opens new de-
partmcnt for Iowa corn. The capacity of
the works here is 500 bushels per day
This branch of manufacture bids fair to
become of immense importance to the
state and country.-Darpport Io,ca)
Gazette.
THE French ministerof marine reports
gradual falling off in the ardine fshe-
ries, owing to the inadequate supply of
bait, the roe OF Goldfish from the Ameri-
can fisheries having heretofore been relied
on for that purpose. 1t has been found,
however, that grasshoppers pounded into
a paste initiate the roe 20 exactly that
the most knowing of the sardnes cannot
distinguish the difference; and accord
ingly the French government has i'm
ported large quantities Of the insects
from Algeria in order to try the new
bait on large scale. Should the expcr-
iment prove an entire success the grass
hopper problem which has so puzzled
the western agriculturist may be consid-
cred solved.
THE London Daily News publishes
the following synopsis of the annual pro-
duce of gold and silver from all sources
for the last twenty-five years: The
quinquennial average production of gold
from 1852 to 1856 was f29, 900, 600; from
1857 to 1861, GA i,6oo,oo from 1862 to
1866, f22, 100000; from 1867 to 1871,
$500, 600; and from 1871 To 1875, f20,-
iOO, O,oOO thus showing steady decrease,
while the opposite is the case with silver,
viz. 1926, fS, 100000 1s57'6l, fs,-
200 1000; 1926, f9,?OO,0 ls67-'7l,
GlO,6OO,OOO; and ls7l-75, f1S,9oO, 900.
The News attributes the great fall in
silver, which amounts TO threcpence
in the rupee, or about twelve per cent.
in India, to its increasing disuse, while
the reverse holds good for gold.
Mr.. DIsRAELI, who is admitted by
Englishmen 10 be one of the most effcc
tive parliamentary speakers Of the last
two generations, has one peculiarly that
might be initiated with advantage by the
legislators of this country. BY far the
larger proportion of his speeches, includ-
ing many of the more brilliant, have not
exceeded twenty minutes duration. 1t
has been ascertained that the Old Testa-
ment was written with 5,642 words, that
Milton used only 5000 words for the
making of his poems, and that Shaks'
pearc employed only $4,000. The moral
of these figures is that if there are, COM
paratively speaking, so few words In the
English language, a man who talks for
two hours on single subject falls under
the grave suspicion of vain repetition,
not to say causeless cackljng.
NORTH CAROLINA claims not only that
a portion of her people adopted the first
declaration of independence of Great
Britain, over year before the famous
declaration of the colonial congress, but
that the first victorious fight of the rcvo-
luton was fought and won by North
Carolinians on North Carolina soil. This
was the battle of Moorc's creek, fought
on the 9th of February, l776. The
royal forces engaged in this battle were
mostly Scotch Highlandcrs who had set
tied in North Carolina. and who had for
their leaders chicftains who fought in the
bloody battle of Cullodcn. They were
commissioned by Josiah Martin, the royal
governor of North Carolina, and directed
to put down the "rebels and traitors +"
who had raised the standard OF revolt.
They numbered about 1900, while the
wings numbered 900. The tories were