Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-12

A Cleveland man claims to have invented process for taking permanent pictures upon any smooth surface instantly by the action of l electricity upon sensitive coating, at an ex- psnse of one cent picture. It is claimed this will work 8 revolution in the photo graphing business. The engraver upon wood, copper, or shell need no longer consume time and patience in obtaining defective 1 counterpart of the object to be engraved, but instead can, at a trifing expense, obtain beautiful photograph directly upon the wood or metal upon which the engraving is made. In the lithographing art it will be invaluable. Instead of the slow, laborious, and defective process now employed in transferring by hand, the article will be photographed direct ly upon the stone to be engraved, and the re- suit will be a fine. complete, finished class of work heretofore utterly unobtain- able. ---.,...
 Indianapolis is excited over the discovery that the history of the United States, cover ing the period since 1861, has been excluded | from the public schools. This startling fact came out in a curious way. Two young men, presumably graduates of the Indiano- polls high school, and candidates for places in the postoffice, actually passed civil l service examination and were pronounced qualified, when the postmaster, thinking some further inquiry into the educational requirements of the applicants desirable, made the following astounding discoveries: That neither of the young men knew the number or names of the States that seeded, l nor the date of Lincoln's assassination. One ! of them never had heard of General McClel- Ian. The other said he was in the Confeder- ate army. Neither of them knew the num- l Der of States in the Union. Nor had they heard of the Pacific railroad. In short, they knew nothing of the country's history since the close of Buchanan's administration. Judge Lawrence of the Treasury depart ment has collected some very interesting facts concerning sheep and wool in this country. It appears that every State and territory in the country produces wool to greater or less extent. with total of nearly 43, 1000, 900 sheep, distributed very unevenly. Califor mia leads all with nearly six million sheep and an annual yield of seventeen million pounds
 
 lion sheep, but exceeds all in wool prodnc- tion, aggregating over twenty-five million pounds annually. Indiana, with a million and half sheep, raises over six million pounds, while Kentucky, with over one mil lion sheep, produces five million pounds. Rhode Island and Delaware have the lowest figures, the former l, I'll sheep and sixty-fiye thousand pounds of wool, the latter a few thousand more of each. Massachusetts has about seventy-fiye thousand sheep, and pro duces but three hundred thousand pounds of wool, while Maine, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming Terri tory possess in the neighborhood of 5OO,- GOO sheep each. The States and Territories owning million sheep and over are Cobra do, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ores on, l Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Michigan has about two and half million sheep, with wool clip of 12, ,O0O, 900 pounds, but this is exceeded by New Mexico and Texas, which have nearly 1000, GOO each, with produc- | ton for the first named of four and half million pounds, and for the latter of 7,0OO,- 900 pounds The total wool product of the United States, in round numbers, is estimated at about 175 GOO, GOO pounds.