The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-05-18
FACTs AND COMMENrs.

FACTS AND COMMENTS.
During and including the past four
years the United States has produced in
the aggregate 90, 131, All bales Of cot
ton, 914, 500, 600 pounds of wool, 1,713,-
922 500 bushels Of wheat, 5,S16, ,214, 440
bushels corn, and has exported $46,-
SO6,3 in live stock and 81, ,427 ,317, ,292
in other food.
In the cabooses attached to freight
trains on the Erie railroad there is placed
an automatic contrivance called the
,,tell-tale," which registers all the stop
pages and the rate of speed over every
foot of the road. Freight trains are not
allowed to run more than fifteen miles
an hour, and if this speed is exceeded
the fact is at once disclosed on inspec-
tion of the apparatus.
The wife of a clergyman in Des
Moines, Ia, has a Sunday-school which
is not attended by children, as might
have been supposed, but by business
men, professional men and thinkers"
The class has become so large that it has
been found necessary to take it into the
body of the church, where it forms
small congregation of itself. This looks
very much like the wife's running an
opposition to her husband.
The alarming statement is now made,
on the authority of New York physi-
clan of more than forty years practice,
that for the first time in the history of
that city true spotted. typhus fever,
which only originates where great filth
abounds, has made its appearance with
out being traced to importation in the
shape of ship fever. This is an an
nouncement which is we'll calculated to
intensity the excitement regarding the
terrible filth of the streets of the
metropolis.
Carelessness, says James Harrison,
secretary of the New York underwriters
bureau of survey, is the great cause of
fires. In seven years, 1874 to 1880, in
elusive, New York city had 6, 1SS fires.
Two out of five, 2,579, we're due to hot
ashes, pipes, cigars, matches and can
dies; nearly another fifth, 93S, sprang
from foul chimneys, ATT from defective
dues, and SIS from kerosene lamps.
Eixtra-hazardous inhammable materials
lead to comparatively few fires.
Since the assassination of the czar
extraordinary precautionary measures
have been taken to secure the safety of
Queen Victoria while travelling by rail
way. During a recent journey to Lon
don train of empty carriages was run
about quarter of an hour in advance of
the queens special train, which it pilot
ed throughout the trip from Windsor to
Paddington, while the entire distance
between the Windsor terminus and the
metropolis was guarded by platelayers
stationed at regular intervals along the
route, and well within sight of each
other.
An interesting paper has been recent
Iy read by DIR. Phene, at Edinburg, on
the benefits to be derived from plant
ing trees in cities. Among the beneficial
results to be attained are, he stated, the
relief to the optic nerve through the
eye resting on objects of green color.
just that which is effected by the use
of green or blue glasses in strength
ening and sustaining the power of sight
is attained, or at any rate much aided,
by the presence of green in nature; and
in streets the only method to procure
this result is by planting trees. 1t was
pointed out by the author that wherever
opportunity exists nature provides green
and blue (the latter being the same color
minus the presence of yellow, and that
as the absence of color produces snow
blindness, and in tropical calms, where
the ocean presents only white reflect
ed light from a uniform CLASSY surface,
reduced optical power soon follows a
long continuance of the absence of blue
color, which becomes Immediately ap-
parent on motion of the waves.
They have in Vienna an organization
for the preservation of the pubic health
which watches closely the articles sold
for food, and from time to time has
samples chemically analyzed. Investi-
cations of this character were conducted
on an extensive scale during the past
year. OF milk, $50 specimens were
analyzed. Most of it had been skinned
and diluted with water; some had come
from diseased COWS, and some was thick
ened with borax, soda and soap. Butter
was analyzed to the extent of 80 sam
pies. All of it contained an excessive
proportion of water, and much of it was
adulterated with fat, lard or stearine.
Lard coming from America and Hun
gary had borax and lime. OF 1880
specimens of Hungarian and Austrian
wine fifty-tWo were artificial concoction.
Artificial coloring matter and excessive
proportions of water were found in
many. Pilsner beer contained soda and
Vienna beer glycerine. OF liquors,
seventy-two had traces of arsenic OF
topper, besides injurious favoring and
perfuming ingredients. Ground coffee
was mainly roasted grain, acorns and
chicory. Even bread was badly adul-
terated.
The Jeanette search expedition to the