Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-08-10
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The Church of England's income 4
So. .625. 900.

S22,625,OOO.
There is man in Bucksport. Me-,
whose name is EsrOm Morse, whether
spelled backward or in the usual way.
tits considered disgrace for Hin
doc girl not to be married when she is
eleven or twelve years old.
The lightning-rod conference lately
held in England decided that copper is
the best material in use in rods.
Twenty billion wooden hoops are
used annually in this country for bar
rels only.
Hartford. Conn.,. boasts of s25. 900. 600
bank deposits, or about 5000 to every
person in the city.
| An intelligent London fish merchant
| has made a calculation showing that
72,OOO,0O0 oysters are annually con-
sumed in London.
| Iowa has the largest number OF twins
of any state in the union. According,
to reports, $40 Iowa mothers gave birth
! to twins last year.
A steamship that will cross the At.
lantic in four days. has been invented
| at Dallas, Texas, and the model works
in way to encourage the claim.
Nebraska has one woman minister,
| one woman lawyer. six women county
superintendent, and ten women physi-
clans. Many women are engaged in
. editorial work.
The regular doctors in New York
city number 1000. As many as twenty
five of them have incomes of 800 a
year or upwards In the list of pros
porous ones there is one woman
The average life of Maxim incan-
descent electric light has been found to
be 1900 hours, although some have
been burned between 5000 and 1000
hours.
Manhattan Island contains about 12,-
500 acres. of which $500 are covered
with houses, 1000 are in parks, and
5000 are still unoccupied. In the last
ten years 1000 acres have been builtup.
The colored population in the South
has nearly doubled in the last thirty
years. Those who have insisted that
the race is dying out in that region
should make a note of it.
Genesee Valley, New York, once Gel
ebrated for the quantity and quality OF
its wheat products, seems to be under
laid throughout by vast bed of salt,
much of it not over 500 feet below the
surface.
Messrs. Minkman & Co., publishers,
of Arnhem. in Holland, have begun
printing their publications in blue ink
on alight green paper. This method.
they state, gives great relief to the eye
OF the reader.
About 25.OOO,0O is invested in the
manufacture of bread, cracker and 9TH
er bakery products in this country, rep
resenting some 1000 establishments,
5000, 900 in material. and giving an
annual production of s70,00o,OO0.
Miss Martha Campbell, of Tarlton, N.
c., climbed pine tree to the height of
forty feet and proceeded to hang her
self with her apron. The knot was
bungied, and she feil into the water be-
meath and was successfully drowned.
DR.. Lyon Playfair, in recent speech
on the Scotch Universities, said:
s.Whereas. the English Universities
taught a man to spend f1.oOo a year
with dignity and intelligence, the Scotch
Universities taught him to make it. -
A writer in the Iowa Homestead gives
several instances of successful cure of
'scribbing horses by simply tacking
strips of sheepskin. wool side up,
wherever the offenders set their teeth,
and dusting with little cayenne pep
per.
When articles are stored in corner
stone cavity, toad should be included,
so that in future years, when the stone
is reopened, the toad may be found and
a newspaper item made of it. A toad
that cannot thrive for thousand years
incased in solid stone is not tit to live in
newspaper history.
Southern forests are being cut down
at such rate that it is feared that if it
is 7ntinUed the entire natural conditions
of sections of Florida. Alabama, and
Mississippi will be changed not only as
to fertility, temperature and healthful-
ness, but in many important industrial
respects also.
Boston newspaper men are in luck
this year. One of them has become the
new City Clerk: another is the new Po-
lice Commissioner; another is one of
the Health Commissioners; another is
on the Water Board. and the fifth one,
who was the law reporter of daily, is
also on the Water Board.
An Arkansas planter, finding it inn
possible to get the negroes employed On
his plantation to strike more than five
strokes per minute with the hoe while |
chopping cotton. went to town and
bought 4 fife and drum, which he gave
to couple of musicians. who marched
ahead of the choppers. playing familiar
AXIS to quick time. This increased the
strokes to tifty-five per minute.
The following is recommended to pre-
vent the hair falling off horses name
and to restore the growth: Rub the
skin of the part with the following mix
ture, viz: One pint of alcohol in one
drachm of tincture of cantharides. Give |
the horse dose of salts Twelve ounces) |
and some wheat bran. which will allay
the irritation of the skin, to which the |
loss of hair is due
This is some of the uses to which the
put their soldiers: The ia
binsk Paisk Railroad has been con-
structed by one corps. 1t is about 12O
miles long. has nine bridges, cost the
Government a little more than $4,000 |
a mile, and was finished in five months.
By the middle of this month the Trans
Caspian krasnovodsk will be finished as
far as Arvat.
In Mobile, Ala, one may see the win
how in which Ca1e GoIhoIJ Trn;+od