The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-08

versal rule. Matilation, such as an
insect bears without apparent in
convenience, will kill q reptile. A
fish or q reptile disregards injuries
that would be quickly fatal to q
mammal through nervous shock.
A savage laughs at wounds that
would rack the nervous system of q
civilized man with acutest agony,
Thus in every instance capacity for
pain is the measure of develop
ment. Evolution being attended
by an ver.increasfug completely
and delicacy of nervous orgauiza-
ton, it is inevitable that increasing
liability to nervous arrangement
must mark every upward move
ment in the scale of being. Will
the price of elevation ever rise so
that direction? There would GER
tainly seem to be possibility of
such q result, when we consider the
fate of those most admirable per-
sons who are, as we say, too finely
strung for this rude world. The
acuteness and delicacy of their SEN
sibilities make them at once the
highest moral and intellectual types
of humanity, and physically the
most unfortunate. And they rare
ly or never leave behind them 8
vigorous family.
A writer in one of the daily
journals asks: "Was there ever q
neater Witticism, az well as 9 nobler
eulogy. uttered to the memory of
any man than the we'll merited re-
mark of some one concerning the
late Mr.. Chickering, of Boston, that
his character corresponded with his
pianos-sQuare, upright and grand"
The consumption of horse flesh
in Paris, which commenced in 1860
in the face of great prejudices, but
which steadily advanced and de-
rived q great stimulus from the
siege, has this year averaged one
thousand animals per mouth. The
Parisians, in fact, consume all the
horses in the city which are past
work, and have even to obtain some
from q distance, while in the large
towns hippophagy is gaining
ground.
Active preparations are going on
for the long projected work of
draining the Zuyder Zee. A dam
twenty-five miles long Is to be car
ried across the gulf, and upon this
pumping machines are to be erect
ed having 10000 horse, power, and
capable of discharging from the
inclosed sea q quantity of water
equivalent 10 6,5O0,0O0 cubic me-
tres daily. The work, it is expect
ed, will occupy sixteen years for
its completion, and its estimated
cost will be $76,000,OOO.
An experiment was made Of
ploughiDg under water at Bulfast,
Me-, last summer, with entire sue
cess. 1t was desired to increase
the depth of water in the harbor,
but the ciayey deposit forming its
bottom made it difficult to operate
the steam shovel unless the earth
were first loosened. A great plough
was therefore let down into the wa
ter, which drawn by steam power
on the shore, and guided by man
dressed in a divers armor, plough
ed oyer the bottom of the harbor.
So far as known, this was the first
experiment of this kind.
All the paper for the money is
sued by the United States Govern
ment, is manufactured on a sixty
two inch Fourdrinier machine. at
the Glen Mills, near West Chester,
Pa. Short pieces of red silk are
mixed with the pulp in the engine,
and the finished stuff is conducted
to the wire without passing through
any screens, which might retain
the silk threads. By an arrange
ment above the wire cloth, 8 show
er of short pieces of fine, blue silk
thread is dropped in streaks upon
the paper while it is being formed.
The upper side on which the blue
silk is dropped is the one used for
the face of the notes, and from the
manner in which the threads are
applied, must show them more dis.
tinctly than the reverse side, al
though they are imbed ded deeply
enough to remain fixed. The mill
is guarded by officials night and
day, to prevent the abstraction of
any psper.-Paper Trade Journal.