River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29
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brought to the notice of scientific socie-
ties that, two millions of bodies have been
inferred during the last % years within
the limits of London postal circle, has
very greatly changed the popular view
of cremation. Two years ago three of
the scientific papers said that cremation
was unnatural" and against human
| feeling" but they now think that self
preservation is the first and strongest
of laws.
The annual crop of human hair
bought and sold amounts to fully 100
tons. -Four ounces is an average clip
ping from human head: so that 100
| tons represent the product of from 800,
| 900 to 1000, 900 heads In Europe the
heads of female criminals are shorn, and
they supply large market; but the
! greater part is bought by travelling ped
| lers Between the ages of Is and 40 a
woman can grow about seven crops of
! hair.
Market gardeners, says the Balti-
more American, should know that in
Paris bonnets are adorned with vegeta-
bles, instead of flowers and birds Ar
| tichokes are Just now more favored,
| but there is no reason why q decollete
cabbage or dainty spring onion may
not be a stunning success"
The Island of Formosa is the only
part of the Chinese Empire where fore
eigners are allowed to go into the inter
Tor and superinteded the preparation of
tea. In other places the European mer-
| chant can only buy his teas as the port
in form ready for shipment, the ma
tive grower going on year after year In
the same groove; but there, by the APP
plication of little scientific knowledge,
superior class of teas is produced.
| Tea drinkers should be grateful for
the interest the government is showing
in them There have been 52,000,000
pounds of tea imported to New York
since the law requiring inspection went
into effect year ago. In that time
csc, 900 pounds of adulterated tea have
been condemned. These have been
mostly green teas, and, as a result their
| importation HAS ldllbH OlI OVER D,UUD,-
900 pounds from the previous year.
The narrowest house in New York is
25l William street, near New Chambers
street 1t is three stories high and not
| quite six feet wide. II is of red brick.
| A shoemaker occupies the lower floor,
and has to seat himself exactly equidis-
| tant from the sides to prevent the rasp
ing of his elbows by the walls whenever
| he makes stitch. There is, of course,
no room for a staircase, and persons
entering the house must either go
through the shoe-shop OF by doors lead
ing in from the adjoining houses.
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, of New York,
says: Living Christianity would end
denominations. Denominations come
because they are centerel on something
other than Christ. If Paul was stirred
up because there were tour denomina-
lions in Corinth, what would that lion
hearted Apostle say if he could come to
New York to-day and talk to twenty
! seven? Denominations are like the is
olated pools which the outgoing tide has
left behind. Oh, let the tide come in !"
The introduction of steam pipes into
enclosed spaces for the purpose of ex-
tinguishing fires has been successfully
| tried in Berlin. The owner of steel
pen factory in that city, in consequence
| of the repeated outbreak of fire in the
dining room, had steam pipes placed in
| three of the rooms, this appliance being
| shut off by short, soldered pipes of an
easily flowing alloy of lead and tin, ar
ranged to work automatically. One
day kissing noise made the foreman
aware that one of these appliances had
| been called into action. 1t was found,
on investigation, that the contents of the
drying room had become ignited, but
| that the steam thus set free had extIn-
guished the fire before it could spread.
In six years Henry M. Stanley has
succeeded in establishing chain OF
international stations across the African
continent. In 1880 he founded Viva,
the first of the series of stations in
Western Africa. Before the end OF
the third year Leopoldville, a station
on Stanley Pool at the head of the
lower cataracts, and the key of Upper
Congo, was founded, and four steamers
were launched on the great river. In
1888 the station of Stanley Falls, 1000
miles up the Ever, was founded. About
1900 miles of river transit of the Congo
and its tributaries are open to commerce
by this chain of stations. The imports
to the West Coast of Africa last year
were over $22 100000, while the ex-
ports were over $27 ,000,0