Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-05-05

W$AGg@I W to the United
States and which was never tit for a
man to put on his head. 1t is hot and
air-tight, causes headache and loss of
hair. The "plug hat" is airy and its
roof is so high that the action of the
sun is not apt to Immediately affect the
brain. 1t is the most sensible hat yet
invented, unless it be q straw hat for
summer.
In paper recently read before one OF
the English associations of engineers,
the writer asserted that, according to
present methods of dealing with the
motive power of the steam engine, only
some twenty per cent. was made availa-
BILE, eighty per cent. of the energy de-
veloped in the furnace being thrown
away, and it is quite common to realize
no greater efficiency than about four per
cent. on the gross or potential energy OF
the fuel. In large factories, that admit
of the power being concentrated in one
or two great machines, condensation can
be taken advantage of, and, with water
heaters. and other appliances, double
the above figures realized-but in the
/ very best engines, with all the latest i'm
provements and elabOrations, not more
/ than twelve and One-half per cent. has
ever been realized, nor is it possible to
realize more, and even this twelve and
one half per cent. can only be obtained
by the finest of wire drawing and the
! best Of coal.
A CHURCH in a Wisconsin town is pro-
badly the only edifice in the country
which depends upon champagne bottles
for its drainage. When the church was
built funds were scarce, and many small
economies were practiced. The cOngre-
cation on first occupying their place OF
worship found that it was suncomfortably
damp. The fact WAS mentioned to one
of its members, who said: "Pll tell you
how to remedy that. Go into my cellar
and you will find enough champagne
bottles to build drain with. They are
often used for that purpose in England,
and when once laid they will last for
ever if not allowed to choke up" The
bottles were secured, the bottoms deity
knocked off, and the necks abbreviated
in length. Then by placing the neck of
one bottle in the bottom of another, and
so on, drain was constructed which
has kept the little church "extra dry
ever since.
A PHILADELPHIA drummer saw a man
in railroad car whom he thought he
knew, and. slapping him on the back,
asked him how he was. The man looked
up, and the drummer saw that he was
stranger He apologized, saying he
thought that he was a friend of his.
What followed is thus told by Jersey
newspaper: "'I hope am q friend Of
yours the man said, and they got to
talking, and the commercial man, seeing
the gentlcman's gripsack, thought he
must be a commercial man also, and
asked him what house he represented.
Il represent, said the gentleman, the
largest house in. the world. We'll,
said the travelling man, IF you repre-
sent the largest house in the world you
certainly have snap. What house is
is it, The Lords house. said the
gentleman. MY name is Bishop John
Scarborough of the Proste5tant Episco-
pal Church.
A LEADING druggist in Lynn, Mass,
tells curious story of his fathers ad-
ventures. The fathers name was John
Colcord, of Sanford, Me-, and he was a
sailorman. Years ago he was wrecked
on one of the Sandwich Islands, and be-
ing true son of Maine, set up as a
manufacturer Of gods for the ma
tives, making the idols from the iron
cast ashore from wrecked vessels. These
indestructible deities became very pop
ulaf, and so did Colcord, who married a
native girl. One day IN Honolulu he
met a Maine sailor, who had also been
wrecked. The man proved to be an old
schoolmate of Colcord. He brought
Colcord's four children to this country
to be educated, and they afterward went
back. Colcord, after the death of his
wife, came home to Maine and married
! again, and the druggist is one of the
,, children by the last marriage.
/, WILLIAM WALKER, aged II years, ant
, his younger brother Frank, sons of &
Derbyshire farmer, went 10 tend theil
; fathers sheep, and on their way home
, paid visit to Winstone Lee ITO see the
snow." While looking up the cliffs al
, immense mass slipped over the edge ant
they we're buried. The dogs returned
! home. and by their peculiar manner at
/ tracted the attention of the boys pa
? rents. who started a search. The dog
r led them to where the boys were, snt
{ they rescued the younger son, who's
heels were visible, alive. His brothe
was dug out dead from depth of man!
feet.
A CHILD or an intoxicated person vii
rarely endeavor with any great effort t
, recover their balance when they slip o
! topple over. Hence no special resisting
! force is exercised, and they sink into
!. collapsed heap without serious injury
: When an adult in possession Of hi
sound senses undertakes, with endles
contortions and gyrations, to save him
self from going down he draws ever.
. muscle and sinew taut, and if tn
wrench is too severe the bone breaks.
! RINGING the bells of locomotives b,
: steam is now effected by an ingenious ap
s parstus. consisting of small stean
e cylinder placed at one side Of the bel
a frame and resting on the boiler; tn
e connecting rod, which connects the pis
: ton to three-inch crank on the bell,
30 constructed that it will vary il
length according to the swing of th
bell, thus removing any liabity of KNOCK
n ing the cylinder out by the piston con-