The Red Cloud chief., 1879-12-18
Science and Industry.

-PoStal-cardS, now almost universal,
started in Austria IN 1850.
The amount of lumber floatcd down
the Mississippi River this season is sim
ply immense. In the month of October
alone $1,000, 900 feet Of lumber and
$1,000 600 feet of lomS passed through
the Government canal At kcokuk, Iowa.
Baltimore capitalists have 700 men
at work in Il copper mine in A>he toun-
tv. y. G.. Just ON the ci@c of Virginia
and Tennessee, and 10000 pounds al
refined metal are turned ont daily. In"
ore Welding 100 pounds of copper t"
the ton.
To make IN umbrella cover water
proof, apply first "A strong, hot, aqueous
>olu. ion of soap, then "A solution of Oim,
sulphate of alumina. or lead acetate
t>ugar of lcad) again the soap Solu-
ton, aE! finally wash with hot water.
The statement of receipts from in
trrnal revenue from July | {" Scptcm-
Der 80, 1879, :S compared with = like
period IN 1873, shows an increase of
X ,n59,4lS from collections on spirits:
decrease Sl,422,276 from tobacco, and
increase S2S9,1 9l from fermcntcd
liquors.
The employment of women in the
telegraph service in France on a large
scale has now begun nj Paris, where 2iO
girls are undergoing an apprenticeship
of three months on trial. They are
cheaper than men, getting only 500 Il
year, whereas men get $500 and 800.
The girls are not expected Ia do night
work.
The summer packing season which
has just closed WAS of Il magnitude I'M
p~rcccdented in the history of Chicago.
Last winter the packing amounted to
2.?i3,oO0 hogs, and during the summer
10 2.u90.0 600, making Il grand total of
$685. 00 for the last l. months. The
aggregate net weight of the pork
product was l.oil, 10000 pounds, val
ucd at about 81, 200, goo.
school and Church.
There are two Baptist Churches in
South America: n IT Santa Barbara,
Brazil, and the other at Demerara,
Guiana.
The Gar has recently granted reli-
"iouS liberty To the Bapti>tS, who are
put on IN equal footing with his ortho-
doN subjects.
The MennoniteS are about Ia cStab-
fish 4 mission among the Indians in the
Island Of Kodjah, GOO miles West of
Sitka, Alaska.
The two Misses Longfellow, Il
daughter Of Professor Horsford, and Il
daughter Of Mr.. Authoc Gilman are
among the lady students at Harvard.
The colored Episcopal Church in
Washington, whereof DIR. Crummel is
pastor, has $50 commandments, and the
Doctor believes il could he easily in
creased Ia 500 or LOCO if he only had a
larger church. The chapel he now has
holds only 80 persons. An appeal is
made for / ,500 or $4,000 I o finish the
new and large editice now in course of
erection.
-Seventy-four pupils are educated at
the sam Houston Normal School at
Huntsville, Texas, free of charge, To be-
come teachers in the public schools.
The Legislature has appropriated Sl4.-
Oo0of the school fund TO this purpoSe,and
the Peabody fund gives $1,000 more,
making $4,000 a year forthis great and
beneficent work.
-Atlanta University opens with %
boarders and the hearty good will of
many of the white as well rs the col
ored people OF Atlanta and the sur
rounding cities. The Peabody fund, by
advice of DIR. Orr, State School Com
missioner, has established II scholar
ships, each SO per year, in the Normal
Department. The members of Con-
gress for Georgia will endeavor To Sc
cure n share of the $780, 900 unclaimed
bounty money of colored soldiers for
Atlanta University.
There are now in Germany 20 uni
versities, and all of them have the same
constitution. As they are partially sup
ported by the State, the latter claims a
right of control. I'm the days of reac-
ton which followed the Napoleonic
wars and the revolutionary outbreak Of
1s4S this right was often exercised To
the detriment of the universities, and If
Prince Bismarck continues his present
policy like experiences may befall them.
But at present each university manages
its own affairs and has the appointment
of its " professors.
The Western Michigan Methodist
Conference at its recent meeting gave
unmistakable expression to its senti-
ments on the use of tobacco by the
unanimous adoption of the following
resolutions: /. That hereafter no young
man using tobacco in any form, coming
as a candidate for the ministry, shall be
received into this Conference; 2. That
those members of this Conference al
ready addicted to the use of tObac