, 1880-03-15
Intelligence Items.

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Railway engines in England have
given up smoking.
The Pope's new organ, the aurora,
appeared in Rome on the LIST.
One hundred pounds of water of the
Dead Sea contains forty I've pounds of
salt.
Water, when converted into steam.
increases in bulk eighteen hundred
times.
Parnell is the latest Irish tator-agi-
tator, so to specialization Meas
Graphic.
The Louisville Courier-Journal calls
ex-Queen Isabella. of Spain, a popu-
lar old hussy."
A man in Tuscaloosa county, Ala,
ate twenty seven oranges one morning
before breakfast.
During the conversion of ice into
water one hundred and forty degrees
of heat are absorbed.
In some of the counties in Colorado
the children are obliged to go from two
to six miles to school.
Three thousand people will turn out
on fine Sunday in New Orleans to
witness game of baseball.
Mercury freezes at thirty-eight de-
grees below Fahrenheit, and becomes
solid mass malleabls under the ham
mer.
There are ten bridges across the Mis-
sissippi above st. Louis, and seven of
them have spans as long as those of the
Toy bridge.
The violence of the expansion of
water when freezing is sufficient to
cleave globe of copper of such thick
ness as to require a force of 27 900
pounds, to produce the same effect.
The United States is making more
than One-third of the paper in the
world. The product is about $50 tons
per day, or 610, 500 tons year. There
are 227 mills, representing capital Of
100000, 900, employing $4,000 per-
sons, who receive in salaries about $9,-
100000.
In England. there are over 300 kinds
of bicycles. There are in this country
more than 800 makers. who have in
vested S5,OOOOOO in machinery, and
who pay out $4,000 week in wages.
There are in England $50 bicycle clubs,
with Z 900 members, and there are in
use more than $50, 900 bicycles.
These who are building the Forth
bridge in Scotland have now petitioned
the Board of Trade to allow them to
lower the structure ten or fifteen feet.
The hight as at present arranged is $50
feet above high water mark. The steel
for the new work will all come from the
foundry of Krupp, in Germany.
Rhode Island is not the largest State
in the world. but it is making prepara
tions to bring what little weight it has
down heavily on the tramp. A bill is
now before the Legislature to have
every person convicted of being tramp
sent to the House of Correction for not
less than six months or more than
year. Any tramp who carries unlawful
weapons, makes threats, kindles fires,
or attempts to enter dwelling, will be
sent to States Prison for two years with
hard labor. The tramp who Injuries
persons or property will find himself in
prison for five years.-DetrOH Press.
A big telephone experiment has been
tried with complete success. Conver
sation was kept up between Omaha and
St. Louis, the distance by wire being
410 miles. This is the longest distance
that the telephone has yet overcome.
Every word was heard quite distinctly
and the programme was varied by a
st. Louis man singing the "Sweet Bye
and Bye," and the Omaha person an
swering with "I'm Pilgrim and I'm
Stranger, which his voice probably
was when it got to St. Louis. Two
jars of a Calland battery we're used at
the Omaha end and five in st. Louis.
PAUSE BEFORE SPEAKING. - Young
men, do not speak lightly of womans
virtue. There is nothing in which
young men are so thoroughly mistaken
as in the low estimate they form of the
integrity of women. Not of their own
mothers and sisters, but of others, who.
they forget. are somebody else's moth
ers and sisters. As q rule. no person