The Dickinson press., 1884-08-02
akises,laasous Matters.

There seems to be no telling when
beer brewing was first commenced in
Germany. In 1875 doctor of laws,
Heinrich Knaust, wrote work entitled
Give books on the godlike and noble
gifts of philosophical. highly priced and
wonderful art Of brewing beer; an ex-
quisite and philosophical secret;a par
ticular gift of God to mankind, that
it may discover. know and comprehend
how to force delicious, sweet white
or red), hoppy, palatable, drink from
the preparation and cooking of wheat
or barley, that those people may have
entertainment in whose land no wine
grows, aud who would otherwise be
doomed to drink nothing but water"
The city of Brussels means to try the
experiment of using electricity to drive
its street cars in good earnest. One
ine-that of the Rue della Lois to be
equipped with motors, and separate ac-
counts kept, in order to ascertain def
nitely the cost of the running, as COM
pared with the use of horses. The test
is to last for one year, and then, should
the result warrent it, electricity will be
employed exclusively on the street rail-
ways of Brussels.
Mr.. William Glazier has sent q COM
mnnication to the American Geographic
cal Society, in which he states that he
has discovered that the Mississippi river
does not rise in Lake Itasca, Mimi, as
has hitherto been supposed, but in
another body of water to the south,
which has been named Lake Glazier.
The discoverer claims that this lake is
three feet higher than Itasca, making
the source of the Mississippi 1878 feet
above the Atlantic Ocean and 3,184
miles from the Gulf of Mexico.
Science having shown to us that all
kinds of food and drink are poisonous,
it next makes the alarming diacoverv
that houses are not safe to live in. A
French savant found that an ordinary
brick wall, covered with lime, swarmed
with disease germs, not only on the
surface, but through and through the
individual bricks. So, too, has it been
ascertained that woodwork is often
source of danger from the same cause, a
perplexing malarious fever having been
traced by the doctors of San Francisco
to certain decayed foundation and wood
floors, which abound i'll that city.
Science will no doubt eventually prove
that the earth is not fit abiding place
for man.
They had Shaksperian show in Lon
don the other day, = fair with all the
familiar charac acters and some from PLAYS
not often performed arrayed in full cos
tune, and with the baser sort of at
tendants, the hired men and wo-
men who did the laborious work,
in the dress of Elizabethan
servants. Why should not Boston re-
peat this the next time that it attempts
sale with the attendants in fancy
dress? Surely our customers and anna
teur actors are clever enough, and there
are girls enough willing to show how
pretty they could look as Juliet with
out the trouble of studying the text, as
they would be compelled to do for
complete performance.
The great danger of trifing with
electric wires was illustrated the other
day at Bridgeport, Ct, in shocking
manner. A number of boys had been
in the habit Of throwing pieces of wire
over the telegraph and electric light
wire in ovder to enjoy slight electric
shock. One evening, recently, a piece
of wire, unknown to the boys, and with
danger of which they had no knowl-
edge, cut through the insulating cover
ing of on electric light wire. and was
thus in direct contact with the latter.
One boy then touched the wire and re-
ceived o shock which knocked him
down, but did not seem to hurt him.
Another lad ventured and the shock
killed him. The lesson of the incident
is equally obvious to parents and to
children.