The Worthington advance., 1882-01-05
Miscellaneous Matter.

A western senator ir Washington in
formed a correspondent recently that he
had paid out since last March more than
his salary for two months to relieve cases
Of distress dUe to this practice of making
government appointments depend upon po-
lltlcal favor aud Influence.
Since 1865, Tennessee has acquired near
iy 400, 900 additional population, and has
made crops every year OF an average annual
net prcht Ct S27, SEQ, 900. Since 1866
Memphis. i'll spite Of the wax and three cpl
denies. has grown from $4,000 to At COS,
white Nashville k,s c7ept rp from II .0Ol
population to Is 600. The growth of Chat
tanooga. Kao1v,l.e and other towns has
~>eeI 81 y'iti:o:tior;ssa rates.
\ green Chri5to,.s" is threatened not
alone in the United States. In some parts
of England the season is unusually
open. In Kent primroses are
in bloom, yiolets perfume the
delIs, and the song birds have not lost
their summer notes, while on the commons
the heather is purple. and the furze re-
splendent with golden bloom.
The Springfield (h1ass.) Republican re-
viewing the results Of the recent municipal
elections in that state, says that Of &c.
0C0 voters who voted on the question Of
license or no license, 81 900 voted for Ii
cense and 42. 900 for prohibition. In Bos-
ton, the vote stood %, ,427 to IL, 395, and in
the other nineteen cities the division OF
opinion was very even, the totals standing
31,687 for license to 29, ,661 for prohibi
ton.
The diffusiveness Of many of the writer's
tor the press is as lamentable as it is re-
u'arkable. Not less than twenty times a
day do we begin paragraph treating OF the
drama, of the ethics of dress, of the beau
tics Of mythology or the history of civil
service reform, only TO find the writer drift
ing into an exposition of the marvellous
cures wrought by DR.. Dristic's inevitable
aileviator, OF a eulcgy Of Mrs. Pillsbury's
Potent Pellets. We have no fault to find
selves, but & writer should stick to his text.
The drama and drugs, mythology and
medicine, civil Service and pills don't con-
sort together worth cent.
striking phenomenon noted by Gen.
Hazen is the explosive effect sometimes
produced on buildings by tornadoes This
is explained as foil. ws: AT tbe point over
which the center OF tornado stands at any
moment. or Immediately beneath the tun-
mel or spout that is seen descending from
vertical current, whose tendency to destroy
and carry upward is greatly assisted by a To-
cal elimination OF the harometric pressure
within the tunnel. hy virtue of which the
air previously confined in j dwelling exCrts
an outward pressure tnat is not counter
balanced by the exterior atmosphere The
amount OF this unbalanced pressure is. as
shown by Ferrel, frequently much more
than one inch OF mercury, Or 4 half-pounH
to the square inch, and may easily amount
to ten times this quantity. OF course. the
interval during which this expansive force
is exerted is but few seconds. correspond
ing to the time occupied by the central
spout is passing along its path, which mo-
ton OF Translation Ia, on the average, at the
rate of thirty miles an hour.
A recent publication by Matthew Bodet,
eS-fnance minister, Shows how France has
managed to steer through her financial
difficulties since the German invasion. The
war, it seems, added 81 500 0OO, 900 to the
public debt; the short but violent reign of
the Commune, $4,000, 900, and the Ger
man indemnity, S1,OO0.GO0 900. To meet
that portion of the enormous burden which
had to be discharged at once a loan of $4OO, .
00O. 900 was thrown upon the market in
1871. and another Of $500, 0,0O0 900 in 1872.
For the first no less than 81 900. 00O, coo
Was rendered and for the second the nl-
most incredible sum of $S, ,6OO, ,0OO, 900. To
meet the interest of these loans new taxa
ton to the amount of $40, 000, 900 per an
nun was devised. Not only Was this extra
taxation easily raised, but the revenues Of
the country have increased SO rapidly that
every year there has been /: surplus and
$50 600 600 has been remitted