Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-07
MINOR TOPICS.

THE Boston & Maine railroad gives each
depot ot-master $40 year with whiclr to buy
flower seeds and offers $50, $50 and $50
prizes to the depot masters who keep their
stations in the best order.
THE needle passes through the hands of
eighty wOrkmen before it is ready to de-
liver to the trade, and as they cost ut the
most only 50 per thousand. on an average,
it will be seen that the 5000 operations
are remuneratcd by the sum of twenty
cents.
One serious fault found with the new
version of the New Testament by preach
ers Of more denominations than one is the
fact that some of the alterations in the
text make it necessary for them to revise
many cf their old sermons or write new
ones.
WITHIN the last few months an immense
impetus has been given to the lager beer
trade in England. Several lager beer
breweries have lately been chartered, near
ly all under American management, and
what was formerly an almost unheard of
beverage in London is becomiug quite
popular on account of it being so much
lighter than English beer.
MIR. LUDLOW, the manufacturer of wine
presses, and Prohibition candidate for gov
ernor of OHIO, has defined his position.
He says that his presses are mainly used
for cider, which is'converted into apple but
ter, and that he does not intend to make
any presses this year. Besides this what
wine is pressed out by his machines is
chiefly used for medicinal and sacramental
purposes.
SHEEr-RAIsING is probably carried on
to greater extent in Australia than any
other country in the world. 1t is nothing
extraordinary for flock there to aggre
gate zoo, 600 head, and few proprietors own
as many as 800, 900 each. One firm in New
South Wales employed one hundred shear
ers in addition to the regular farm hands,
who in ten weeks succeeded in shearing
2G0, 1873 sheep. Much land in the great
West is now devoted to pasturing sheep,
and a much greater area could he similar
ly appropriated with profitable results.
some "Notcs and Queries ~ on our first
page to day will be found to have piquant
and original interest. They are the ini-
tial contributions to a regular department
of public inquiry and information for
which the 1NTELLIGENCER will find place
from time to time. and which, it is we'll as
sured, will engage the general attention of
its readers. Striking matters in every
realm of knowledge will be gladly received
for publication therein, and "anxious in
quirers will have their questions pub
lished and answers obtained as far rs it is
possible to get them. By this means, it is
believed, much valuable matter can be
brought out for the public information on
things local and general.
A TREMENDOUS row is being made about
the condition of the Thames from sewage.
Uuder the present arrangement London S
l
Barking, in EsseX-about thirteen miles
below London Bridge. When the Metro
politan Board of Works completed the
three main sewers which join and empty
at Barking, they flattercd themselves that
: they had got over all the sewage difficulty
forever; but the refuse of 4, 900, 900 people
is not SO readily disposed of. Not only
> are the waters Of the Thames vilely per-
nicious and dangerous to health, but the
heavier portions of the sewage arc slowly
but surely creating banks Of deposit in
the channel Of the river, the effect of
which is felt far above London Bridge.
The tide and current together, Of course,
run towards the sea more rapidly than the
tide flows back against the current, and
sewage engineers have been puzzled to
acc )unt for the undoubted fact that a
good part Of London sewage is working
! up stream instead of down.