Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-04-05

l ,5OO, OOO, 900 passengers are conveyed
BY these means Of transit. r,f
"A simple and very striking test may
be made to discover the admixture Of
cotton in wooden fabrics, by unraveline
the goods and placing q little Of the
fiber into dish and dropping upon il
some strong nitric acid. The cotton
will be little or not at all affected; the
wool, on the contrary, will be changed
to bright yellow. The color is due, in
the latter instance, to the development
Of a nitrate.
"A self-winding clock, recently con-
structed in Germany, has the winding
machinery operated by the alternate ex-
pansion and contraction of glycerine or
other suitable liquid. A piston on the
surface of the glycerine is so connected
with ratchet wheels and toothed racks
that motion in either direction will wind
up the weight. The continuance will be
of great utility for self-registeriEg me-
neurological instruments.
Among the quiet little manufactures
Of the country is that Of chewing gum.
Gum from spruce trees was exclusively
used until recently, when it found q
rival in gum mastic, white and attrac-
tive article made from paraffine, which
is sweetened. The consumption of this
chewing gum in the United States is
about so tons yearly; that Of spruce gum
somewhat less, and that of gum made
IN Tennessee from balsam tolu, and sold
in thu Southern States, about 20 tons.
Lately material has been used styled
" rubber gum" 1t is from the sap of
the sapote tree of South and Central
America.
Attention is called by Mr.. w. Kent,
in an article on the D." Strength Of Mate
rial, in Van Nostrand's Magazine, to the
practical fact that the process
Of COMPRISING metal while in the liquid
has been found to cause q
great increase Of strength, and is likely
to be extensively adopted in the manu-
facture Of steel. The process Of cold
rolling has been found to increase the
of bar iron in some cases as
much as 100 per cent.
School and Church.
1t is announced that the attempt of
St. Mark Church (Episcopal), Detroit,
to go over to the Reformed body, which
they have voted to do, will be resisted
by the authorities of the diocese 80 far
as taking the Church property is con-
cerled. son.
The Cincinnati Enqu6rer says that
the compositions Of the public school
pupils in that city are worse than in
those in any other large town in the
land, and ascribes the fault to the oral
and the consequent ignorance
of written English.
Last year there were 13S.4O7 chill
dren between 4 and is years old in Con-
necticut, gain of 1,3O8 over the previ-
Gus year, and 119, 1928 were registered
as pupils in the schools. The average
Of male teachers wages fell per cent.
during the year, while that Of female
teachers salaries increased slightly.
The revision of the English Bible
now going on is conducted BY commit
tees in Britain and America, who ex-
change their results. In one case both
the New Testament companies were at
the same time on the same book. When
notes we're compared it was found that
Of 913 changes made by one party, 476
had been made by the other, acting in
dependently. A similar coincidence
was observed in the case of the Old Tes-
lament.
There is movement in the Church
of England for the admission of class
Of ministers like the local preachers in
the Methodist Church. A memorial to
TAFT asks for the accept
ance of measure "for ordaining and
licensing fit persons as deacons without
them to give up their ordina-
~ callings." The menorialists believe
the proposal, if carried into effect, would
''supply to large extent the admitted