Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-22

SPc upI out luis one Will keep. "A Uu4OW
country girl rode into Carlisle, Pa, the other
day, wearing jaunty-looking hat of strictly
domestic manufacture. 1t was made wholly
of straw and corn shucks that grew,upon her
fathers farm, and was trimmed with chickens
feathers dyed in pokeberry juice and blue
writing fluid. She created a sensation.
On July lst a new postal arrangement
goes into effect. When addressing an in
portant letter to town OF 1000 inhabitants
you can have it delivered on arrival by af-
fixing ten cent stamp aside from the regular
postage. In this way the postmaster receiving
the letter will just pay boy ten cents to de-
liver it, if within one mile OF the office.
Yon are naturally curious to know things
that you can't know, my son; so is your
mother, your aunts and your cousi,s, etc.
You lever saw the wind, but you may really
see it by the following method:
Take polished metallic surface OF two feet
or more, with straight edge-a large hand
saw will answer the purpose. Take windy
day, hot or cold, clear or cloudy, only let it
not rain or the air be mulky-in other words,
let the air be dry or clear, but this is not es-
sential. Hold your metallic surface at right
angles to the direction of the wind. e., il
the wind is north, hold your surface east and
west, but instead OF holding the surface verti-
cal, incline it about forty-fve degrees to the
horizon, so that the wind striking. glances and
flows over the edge (keeping 1t straight) as
water over dam. Now sight carefully over
the edge at some minute and hardly defined
object and you will see the air flows over as
water flows over a dam. Make your observa-
tions carefully and you will hardly fail to see
the air, no matter how cold. The result is
even better when the sun s obscured.
The cry of "bones, bones, bones" so CON-
mon on our streets, really represents one Of
the great industries of the country. Not q
bone of any animal il thrown away. Many
cattle shin bones are shipped to Europe for
the making Of knife handles, where they
bring $40 per ton. The thigh bones are the
most valuable, being worth $50 per ton for
cutting into toothbrush handles. The fore
leg bones are worth $50 per ton, and are
made into collar buttons, parasol handles. and
jewelry, though sleeps legs are the staple for
parasol handles. The water in which the
bones are boiled is reduced to glue, the dust
which comes from saving the bones is fed to
cattle and poultry, and all bone that can not
be used as noted, or for bone black, used in
refining the sugar we eat, and turned into fer
tilizers and made to help enrich the soil. As
regards waste, it is the story of the pig.
Nothing is lost except the equeal.
The most comical incident thus tar devel-
oped in connection with the skating mania
comes from St. Louis, where g young girl
stole her grandmother's false teeth and sold
them, in order to secure sufficient money to
pay her way into the local skating hall. Any
one with vivid imagination can picture the
hapless old lady cumming it in misery at home
while her grandchild was whirling in the
dizzy mazes OF the rink on the profits of her
Srandmas grinders.
Survivors of Andersonville prison pen will
be interested to know that many relics have
been secured, and are on exhibition at the store
of Robert Dent, East State street, Columbus.
Pieces of the old south gate through which
prisoners were received, discharged and
marched for punishment; the half rotted
stump of post of the dead-line, a chip from
the north gate, a water-soaked post from the
building over the creek" and specimens of
soil, shrubs and ammunition are among the
miscellaneous contents of the box. Two bot
ties and Jug Of water from the celebrated
"Providence spring." and bottle of sand
from the bed of the spring attracted special
attention.
A box of canes, rifle barrel from Stone
river and bent, twisted bayonet from Look
out mountain.
How many boys and girls know how
sleigh bells are msde2 The little iron ball is
too big to be put through the holes in the
bell, ard yet it is inside. How did it get
there?
This little iron ball is called /" the jinglet."
When you shake the sleigh bell it jingles.
When the horse trots the bells jingle, Jingle,
jingle. In making the bell the jinglet is put
inside little ball of mud, just the shape of
the inside of the bell. This mud ball, with
the jinglet inside, is placed in the mold of
the outside, and the metal is poured in, which
fills up the space between the ball and the
mold. When the mold is taken off you see a
sleigh bell but it will not ring as it is full OF
dirt. The hot metal dries the dirt that the
bell is made Of, 80 it can be shaken out.
After the dirt is all shaken out of the holes
in the bell, the little iron jinglet will still be
in the bell, and will ring. 1t took a great
many years to think out how to make a
sleigh bell.
The following sentences from the Albu-
querque IN. NJ Journal sell plain truth in
plain way: "Tbere is no use trying to make
theological journal of daily newspaper.
Too many bad things happen"
Mrs. John L. Sullivan is authority for the
statement that the. champion has become ad-
dicted to opium smoking. Some of her stories
of abuse at his hands are horrible She saw.
that he once became angry with her on a
sleeping car on his last western trip. He was
sitting opposite her, and she alleges that he
kicked her legs above the ankle until the
blood ran down into her shoes. She nearly
tainted, but rather than expose him to the
other passengers she made no singns of suf.
fering. Mrs. Sullivan has remained concealed
from her husband, and it was on account of
bis frequent threots against her life that the