The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-05
TIMELY TOfsCS.

TIMELY TOfsCS.
NJ. Grevy rs president of the French
republic will get 100000 a year, as
salary, AM $50. 600 for household ex.
penses
It is calculated that the United States
makes nearly one thousand million
pounds of paper, valued at about $780,
100000, every year.
Mr.. John B. Cough, in a lecture in
England, on the effect of alcohol on the
human system, remarked that in his
opinion it was "very much like sitting
down on a hornets nest stimulating,
but not nourishing."
The golden wedding of the emperor
and empress of Germany will be cele-
brated on the 18th of June next. They
have caused it to be given out that they
would prefer not to receive any presents
from corporations, societies or private
persons.
Fearful tempests are reported from
Algeria. During one storm at Bone
the hailstones killed woman working
in the fields. A flock of pigeons was
also killed, and after the tempest great
number of hares and partridges were
found dead on the ground.
Some of Japan's tea plants are $50
years old, and some plantations produce
over s., 900 worth per acre. Al few choice
leaves, of which small quantity is pro-
duced, sell at home as high as eli ght dol
lars per pound. Government taxes in
Japan are now levied at the rate of two
and one-half per cent; while formerly
they have, at times, been as high as
from fifty to seventy per cent. The taxes
are f5ed for Elk years in advance, 80 that
the people can known just how much
money they will have to raise.
Within the last ten years Colorado has
increased her flock of sheep from 20, 600
head to over 1000, 900 head. This not
withstanding the effort to preventive
introduction of sheep by the cattle in.
terest. As with cattle, the means used
are very simple. The sheep are herded
in focks of 1000 to $500 on the range by
day, and corraled at night. Mexican
sheep are worked in still greater 6ocks,
even up to 5000. The best hockmasters,
however, consider gangs of sheep over
1900 to 1000 head as not working satis-
factorily.
There are twenty-five Mennonite vii
lagos in Manitoba, with 489 dwellings,
and 2,841 residents. These emigrants
from Russia have 10,470 acres under
cultivation, 1862 horses, and some $500
COWS and oxen, and have already large |
stores of grain and other produce. They |
are growing rich rapidly, and are said to |
prove the very best of citizens, settling |
all their disputes among themselves, and
having in their colony neither con-
stable nor a lookup. There should be
a decidedly large influx of these people
this year, as thereafter those who re-
main in Russia will be liable to serve in
the army.
The nominal period of England's
elective house is seven years. The Lon
don Spectator advocates change 30 as
to have, instead, four years. parlia-
ment. It thinks the government would be
much stronger while it lasted, and would
be less tempted than it now is to enter
on grand and ambiguous specula-
tive policies without sounding the nation
to know whether such policies would be
approved or disapproved by it. The
American House is renewed once in two
years; the German reichstag, the Prus.
sian and the Hungarian diets once in
three; the French chamber once in four;
and the italian chamber once in fivo
years.
The Italia Agricola, writing on the
effect of thunderstorms on milk, states
that it is generally accepted belief that
it is the lightning and electrical phe-
nomena that accompany thunderstorm
which cause the spontaneous coagulation
of milk. DR.. Malhoern wished to test
the idea, and for the purpose he filled
cylinder with fresh skinned milk,
introduced into the same hundred cubic
centimeters CT pure oxygen, and then
allowed electrical sparks to pass into the
apparatus for the space Of ten minutes,
by means of the Ruhmkorff machine.
The milk quickly coagulated, clearly
proving that an acid reaction had taken
place, and after twenty minutes firm
cheese wal produced.
Death in the pan: The Boston Journa
Of Chemistry warns housekeepers
against tin vessels where an alloy of
lead and tin has been used by scampish
makers to coat the sheet.iron plate.
The alloy is readily acted upon by acids.
and salts of lead are thus introduced |
into food. In Michigan several cases of
paralysis agitans have been traced to
this sort of poisoning, and it has been
discovered that children have died of !
meningitis, fits and paralytic affections
caused by drinking milk kept in such
vessels. Analysis of large number of
specimens of tin plate used in culinary
articles showed the presence of an alloy
with lead in almost every instance, and
often in large quantities, and it is
asserted that large proportion of the
timed wares in the market are unfit for
use on this account.
Good Humor in the Family.
Good humor is rightly reckoned q
most valuable aid to happy home life.
An equally good and useful faculty is
sense of humor or the capacity to have