Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-10
CRISP CONVERSATIONS.
Creosote isproposed as fuel for ton
pedo boats,

Creosote Is proposed as fuel for tor
pedo boats
It is said that 657 species Of Towering
plants and ferns have been already found
in Yellowstone park.
More than twenty kingdoms of the size
Of Great Britain and Ireland could be
formed out Of Australia
A species Of wild flower has been found
in the Philippine Islands, which meas
ures one yard in diameter.
The deepest coal pit in the world is
said to be the st. Andre in the Charleroi
Relgium) district. It is 3,064 feet deep.
The estimated cost Of the projected
ship canal be tween Bordeaux on the At
lantic and Narbonne on the Mediter-
ranean is $3.50, 900, 900.
There are in London Is theatres and
about 500 music halls, providing enter
tainment for 1925. 900 people every night,
or 100, DOC, 900 in the course of year.
The multiplication of 9s7, So, 1921 by 45
gives A, ~, 444,445. Reversing the order
and multiplying 123, 456, 7S9 by As a re-
suit equally odd is obtained-5,5 $50, $685.
sos.
The present population Of North Da-
kota is estimated at 230, 900, and of South
Dakota 10000. The area Of the two
Dakotas, as fixed in 1867, is las, 1892
square miles.
America publishes more papers than
all the rest Of the world combined. Last
year its 17,107 periodicals printed the
enormous number Of 1858, 500, 800
enough to supply every soul on earth
with two newspapers.
The Desert Of Sahara is slowly becom-
ing inhabitable, with the aid Of science.
The French are forming fresh Gases in
the lower part with skill and success.
After period Of thirty years forty-three
GASES have Is, 900 Inhabitants.
The Geological society, of London,
have added to their living collection in
Regents park a young specimen of the
manatee. He is placed in one Of the
large warm water tanks, and takes six
dozen Of lettuces and endives at a meal
The cottage in the village of Lazzate
in which Alessandrio Volta spent the
summer and autumn months Of so many
years, pursuing the investigations which
resulted in the discovery of the Voltaic
pile, has been secured as public property.
1t has been demonstrated in California
that peach stones make excellent fuel
and they now realize Sc per ton. A sack
of the peach stones will weigh eighty
pounds and last as long as an equal
weight of coal and give greater inten-
sity of heat.
The world now has 101 geographical
societies and $50 geographical periodi-
Gals. France and her colonies have 30
of the societies, with 1880 members;
Germany has 90 societies and 8, 200 men,
bers, and Great Britain and her colonies
have 8 societies and 5000 members.
The longest item of news ever tele-
graphed to newspaper was the entire
New Testament as revised, which was
sent from New York to The Chicago
Tribune for May %, 1882. That issue of
The Tribune comprised twenty pages,
sixteen of which were taken up by the
New Testament.
The African elephant, as source of
ivory, has been but too great a success.
Each animal has two tusks, and both
male and female carry them. Single
tusks frequently turn the scales upon
ninety pounds, pair in this case being
worth nearly e100 sterling; SO that a
herd Of elephants is about as valuable as
a gold mine.
Bellini's piano, on which he composed
his earliest operas, has just been found
in the possession Of a widow lady Of Ca
tania, whose husband bought it for CT
los. The Catanians have petitioned the
owner to present the piano to the town,
Bellini's birthplace, that the relic of their
townsman may be preserved as souve-
mir, and not pass into careless hands
Some idea may be formed Of the vast
quantity of water discharged by South
Fork lake into the Conemaugh valley
when compared to the flow over Niagara
Falls. Estimating the Niagara supply
at $4,000, 900 tons of sc cubic feet per
hour. and taking the measurement of
the lake to have been 81 miles long by
II miles wide, with a mean depth Of 80
feet, we have the enormous volume of
| 900, 900 900, 900 of tons Of water, which
would require 30 hours in passing over
Niagara Falls.