News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
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instruction in sewing was intro.
duced in the Philadelphia public
schools last week.
The free text book experiment ir
Massachusetts is said to be a uccess
1t has resulted in a larger attendance
in the schools, and is more economi-
cal than the old system.
A company in New Jersey is max
ing counterpanes and pillow shams OF
paper, which retail at seventy-five
cents a set.
81 never argy agin success" says
Artemus Ward. "When 1 see a rat
tlnsnaix's he'd sticking out of a hole,
l bear off to the left, and says l to
myself, that hole belongs to that
snaix."
At the crysanthemumm show in
New York, one of the most curious
exhibited was by Julius Scharoff, a
Japanese variety. The blossom shown
was about five inches in diameter, the
quilted rays of a dark rose color,
curved and twisted with the tips point
ing in all directions, making of it a
marked flower.
The paper shirt has been introduced.
The bosom of this novel garment con-
sists of several layers, of which n
can be torn off every day, on the
blotting pad principle, exposing a
clean white surface in its place.
The Salvation Army have bee m Ia
boring in New London, Conn. They
billed the town in this way: "Hello f!
Who is this? Why, Kansas Jack, the
saved desperate, who will swoop
down on US and lasso as many of the
devils braves as possible. But who
is this fellow? Captain Walsh, the
converted minstrel, who will speak,
play and sing for the glory of God
and the good of your SOUL The best
thing out. Take it all in"
During the year of 1882 an aggre-
gate of 56,499, 900 tons of coal were
brought to the surface in Great Brit
ain, of which quantity 99,189, 900
tons were applied to mechanical pur-
poses, and $1,000, 300 tons were en-
ployed for heating purposes only.
The number of tons devoted to vari-
Gus specific objects was as follows :
paper making and tanning, 939 900
tons water works, 2,191 900 tons ;
breweries and distillerles, 2,817,000
tons railways, $780, 900 tons +; steam
navigation, 4,695,000 tons; gas
navigation, 9,39O,O 900 tons; coal ex-
ported, 14,39S, 900 tons; iron and
steel works, 46, 100000 tons domes-
tic use, 26,918,000.
The most remarkable piece of tel
ephoning yet attempted has just been
accomplished by the engineers of the
International Bell Telephone Co., who
successfully carried out an expert
ment by which they were enabled to
hold a conversation between st. Pc
tersburg and Bologne, a distance of
5,465 miles. Blake transmitting and
Bell receiving instruments were used,
and conversation was kept up, not
withstanding a rather high induction.
The experiments were carried on dur
ing the night when the telegraph lines
were not at work. The Russian en-
gineers of this company are so con
fident of further success that they
hope shortly to be able to converse
with ease at a distance of 1865 miles,
but to accomplish this astonishing
feat they must combine all the condi-
tons favorable for the transmission
of telephone sounds. If it is found
possible to hold audible conversation
at such extraordinary distances, it is
possible that this fact will be speedily
improved upon, and it will be possible
to converse freely between London
and New York, and by and by be-
tween London and the antipodes.