The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-30
Items orInterest.

The first steel pen was made in 1880.
Parissians are learning to play base
ball.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1926
The first use of locomotive in this
country was In 1929.
Wade Hampton can call oyer 5000
citizens of South Carolina by Nance
Askansas has more newspapers in
proportion to population than any 9TH
er State in the Union.
DIR. Theophilus Clark, who died in
Vermont last week, had been in prac-
tice "A years. He was 81 years old.
One cent per bushel makes differ
ence of 100000 In the value of the
annual crop of corn in the United
States.
1t takes $500, 900 yards of muslin an
nually, and eight tons of paper daily ,
TO make paper collars for the Ameri-
can public.
A donkey carrying q load OF books
is as respectable an animal as the per-
son whose head Is crammed with learn
ing that he does not understand.
The lustre of morocco leather Is re-
stored by n vanishing with the white
of an egg applied with sponge.
The waters of the Red Sea are thirty
two feet higher than the Mediterranean,
and the Gulf of Mexico is twenty-five
feet higher than the Pacific.
Kerosene oil on whetstOnes is superb
or to any other liquid for the purpose,
as 1t keeps the stone In better condition
and assists the operation of sharpen
ing.
The thermometer, as a rule, will be
found to reach the highest point indi-
catlve of heat at about two O'Clock in
the afternoon.
The Pacific ocean covers $4,000, 600
of square miles; the Atlantic 25,000,-
600; the Indian ocean, II, 000, 900; the
Southern ocean to thirty degrees is
% 100000; the Northern ocean 5,0O0,-
600; the Mediterranean ! ,000, 600; the
Black sen 10000; the Baltic La, 900
and the North sea 100000.
Chicago Is trying the plan of Still
alarms for fires. The chief of the fire
department has allowed no bell-ring-
ing since the riots, and the plan works
we'll. Great crowds at Ares are pre-
vented, and better work is done by the
unhlndered firemen.
Public opinion In Germany is thus
reflected In a conversation between two
good burghers of Berlin, taken from a
Berlin paper:
First Bergher-'So we are likely to
have another war with Francep
Second Burgher-'Let us pray that
they may thrash US, so that they may
be as poor as we are
The best paste for general purposes
is simply wheat flour beaten in cold
water to perfect smoothness, and the
whole just brought to boil, while be-
ing constantly stirred to prevent burn
ing. The addition of a few drops OF
creosote or q little carbolic acid will
preserve 1t In covered vessels for years.
Many mechanics have had their pa
thence sorely tried when pouring melt
ed lead around q damp or wet joint to
find 1t explode, blow out, or scatter
from the effcts of steam generated by
the heat of the lead. The whole thing
may be stopped by putting a piece Oi
resih the size of the end of q mans
thumb into the ladle and allowing II
TO melt before pouring.
John Taylor, the new head of the
Mormon church, is an Englishman
about sixty-nine years of age, very tall
and OF massive build, of dark complex
Ion, with sunken eyes and features
strongly marked. His hair is white
and there Is = story that it blanched
from fright In a single night. He has
rather an intellectual appearance, and
good deal of majesty in his personal
bearing.
The British team in Its trip to thl
country had shooting matches on thu
steamer evcry day of the passage. Mrs
Armitage, Mrs. Fenton, and other In
dies of the party took part In tn,
matches, It Is one consequence O
the interest taken in rifle matches II
the last few years, that the princl
pal steamers have established amateur
ranges on their decks, and Instead O
playing SWITCHBOARD and pitch pas
sengers now amuse themselves by fir
Ing at targets.
A San Francisco photographer ha
taken a photograph of the celebrate,
horse Oceident, when he was trottin;
at speed of thirty-slx feet per second
or mile In two minutes twenty-sevel
seconds The image of the horse wa
impressed upon the paper in less tim
than the one-thousandth part of a sec
Ond. The spokes OF the sullly attache,
W OCCiuCuL WcEC LNhcO separately, 81
that they can be counted. This Is Ger
family a wonderful triumph in photo
graphing.
For cementing or stopping flaws o
cracks in wood, put q quantity of fin
sawdust of the same wood the wor
Is made with into an earthern par
pour boiling water on 1t, stir it vel
and let it remain for week or tie
days, occasionally stirring It.; the
boil it for some time, and it will be Q
the c0nsistence of pulp or paste; put
into coarse cloth and squeeze all tn
molstHre from it. Keep for use, an
when wanted mix q sufficient quantit
of thin glue to make it into paste
rub It well Into the cracks. Whe
quite dry and hard, clean the work of