The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1885-02-05
nIscoNery ana ExnerIment.

II is stated that tho Pennsylvania Railroad
from New York to Chicago. herailroad PEG.
pie deny II,
The Ninth Connecticut Regiment are about
TO return nag which they captured from the
Fourth Mississippi during the war.
The Union League Club, OF New York, has
rendered Senator elect william NJ. EYarts q
reception on February IL.
The students OF Union College, MY, threaten
TO send out next month Il minstrel troupe OF
Thirty members.
More than score OF persons died In Duenos
Ayres from the intense heat in the last few
days.
Dr.. Burbank, u. ). NJ, died suddenly at
Portsmouth, NJ H., last night, or heart dis
ease.
"Delta metal" discovered by Alexander
Dick, OF London, q combination OF zinc and
iroD, Is said to be as much superior to brass
as steel Is TO iron. IL is very tough, showing
tensile strength OF stxty'two tons to the
square inch when drawn into wire OF twenty
two gauge. II does not tarnlsh as easily as
braes, and takes high polish.
box or safe has been made OF asbestos ana
silicate, formed into solid, stone'like mats.
rial. IL is said TO DO proof against sound and
vermin, as we'll as Are, and will be useful In
preserving valuable papers. 1t is light,
though massive In appearance.
The sacramento River puzzles the Oldest In.
habitants by It's eccentric actions. When 1t is
high at a certain point II Is quits low at all
points lower down, and Hoods near Its head
are proof that there Will not be scarcity OF
water at It's mouth,
Two islands that were thrown up by tho
great lava earthquake last year have again
sunk out OF sight and below the deep water
line OF navigation.
DR.. Lander writes to the Drug Nsgs that II
Vines be watered with decoctlon Of bitter
plants, such as NORWOOD, worms Will be un-
able TO live upon then. The use OF quassl9
wood, he says, Kills all Insects and worms, In
Surlnam, where quassla tr0es grow, no birds
live In them, and neither Insects nor worms
are found at the roots. The me .hod 10 not ex'
pensiye or laborlous.
Parties who have returned TO tho Pacific
coast from tour through the superstition
Mountains, in Arizona Territory, report the
discovery Of extensive stone ruins, some OF
them In almost inaccessible places. The walls
look as II they had been battling with tho Gle.
ments for centuries, The prehistoric people
OF whose existence they are the only remain
Ing evidence must have been numerous.
Richard A. Proctor, In LOH0Rdn'S Md10slne,
contends that Jupiter ia not Inhabited, aud
that, though not actually sun, his condition
is more nearly akin TO tho suns than TO that
or our own earth. Aud what Is thus proved OF
Jupiter Is proved also OF his brother giaut,
Saturn, seeing that all the evidence shows
Saturn and Jupiter 70 b1 IN nearly the same
stage Of planetary life, Saturn, n anything,
being the younger and moro sun'llke OF tue
| two.
| ished popular delusions. Catgut ~ de-
| rived from sheepi German silver was not In
i vented IN Germany, and II contains no silver,
| Cleopatra's Needle was not erected by hor nor
| IN her honor Pompey's Pillar has no hlstori-
| cal connection with that parsonage; scaling
| wax does not contain particle Of wax the
| tuberose Is not a rose, but polyanth; the
strawberry is not berry, Turkish baths did
| not originate In Turkey, and are no baths at
ALI Whalebono Is not bone, and contains not
any OF It's properties.
inc Providence Baseball Association has de.
clared dividend OF 10 per cent.
In Edinburgh the death. rate for 1881 was
| but 10 per 1000 OF population. In the New
| Town It was 1902, in tho Old Town 22.Sl,
| and In the Southern Suburbs LILY. The sta.
| tstlcs arc considered interesting by saultarl.
ans from the fact that the New Town mas mod
ern sanitary appliances which are wanting In
| the Old Town, and arc comparatively less
necessary In the more widely dinnsed popu-
| lati0n OF the Southern Suburbs. Tho birth
rate for the year was 80 per 1000. Tho per-
centage OF death from zymOtic diseases was
1915 about one-halt wore due to whooplng
| cough.
/ Henry Irving has volunteered 10 recite 'VFhe
| Raven" at the unwilling OF Poe memorial AT
| the New York Auseum or Art. Tho Irving
season in Chicago closed on Sunday. The 10
! eeipts for the fourth week were S1e,250.