Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
Science and Industry.

-lllnOlS mas more nOrSeS IMAM any
other State in the Union, as estimated
by the department at Washington.
From the debris of their coal mines
France makes annually 100000 tons of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 100000
tons.
Some Iowa farmers have decided
that flax was the most profitable crop
raised in that State last season.
"A New Jersey paper carpeting fac
tory recently filled orders from Ger
many and South America. Formerly
Japan made all such goods.
The first cotton mill in America to
use the electric light is the hosiery mill
of the Boston Manufacturing Company
of Waltham, Mass.
Porcelain making has been resum-
ed in Philadelphia, where this industry
fiourished from 1910 to 1887. The re-
vival is owing to the present rage for
ceramics.
In 1869 the United States imported
paper to the amount of 1927 ,465, and
exported none worth mentioning. The
last yearly statistics give only $780,
487 worth of imports, against 81, ,l03,-
31S of exported paper.
"A German makes paper stock from
wood by chemical process, which con-
sists in putting the ground wood in a ves-
sci, and exposing it to a gradually in
creasing temperature, and to weak So
luton of caustic soda, which completely
pulps and bleaches the wood.
American tobacco has now found q
market in Spain. Our Connecticut
seed-leaf has long been taken to Cuba
for wrappers, and Virginia and Ken
lucky tobacco has grown in favor so
that Spain proposes to contract for 49,
500, 900 kilogrammes in March.
The Minneapolis millers are expert
menting with machinery for compress
ing bran for the purpose of shipment to
Europe. 1t is believed that it can be so
compressed as to get as much weight
into a given package as the same would
hold of flour.
Texas ranks third among the wool
producing States, having 1874 900
sheep, and so treading closely on the
heels of Ohio. California leads, of
more sheep in its limits than any other
county in the Union-656, 600.
-Mankato, Mimi, has new
Touring mill under way "A feet
square and five stories high,
built of brick, with warehouse 80
by 80 and so feet high and capacity
of storage of $4,000 bushels. The mill
will contain II run of stone with Ca
pacity of 500 barrels OF flour in "a hours.
| School and Church.
The schools of New Orleans can
not, it is said, be properly supported by
the money provided, and the authorities
have been called upon for larger ap-
portionment.
"A meeting of clergymen and physi-
clans is to be held in Detroit, to protest
against the great number of studies inn
posed upon children in the public schools
of the country.
1t is estimated that not more than
$4,000 persons, or less than one-tenth of
the city's reading population, visit the
Boston Public Library in the course of
a year, and nine -tenths of these come
for novels.
The Rev. Mr.. McAll, whose mis-
sionary work in Paris has become IA
nous, now has % mission stations in
that city with room for 5000 people.
The services are regularly kept up and
well attended.
The First Presbyterian Church OF
Springfield, Mass, is PAP years old, yet
has had but eight pastors. The aver
age term of service of each pastor has
been 30 years. The longest past orate
was AS years.
Reports at the office of the Super
intendent of Public Instruction show
that Indiana public schools contain more
male than female teachers. This is true