The morning news., 1889-04-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE winners of the first and third prizes at
| the recent beauty show in Nice presented the
| money to charity organization.
The Ohio Senate has passed the bill to exenp
| shares in building and loan associations and
! loans advanced to members from taxation.
CALIFORNIA now has a remarkable sleeper.
! He is a Swiss, and has been asleep for twenty
! five days, food being given him through a tube.
AN Iowa CLERGYMAN recently married three
/ couples and conducted two funerals in one day
/ and to do it drove fifty miles. Total receipts
THE Rev. Harry Wilson Of New Albany, Ind.
a blind preacher, who was led around by a
handsome boy, won fame and money by his
| exhortatons until quarrel showed that his re-
! ligion was only mask and his guide a girl in
\ male raiment.
LAST YEAR the United States mails carried
| 1876, 600 pieces of prepaid mail matter
| Great Britain Z, 2,279, ,522, 900, Germany S16O6
and France 1,4632i9,000 This is respectively
Il. 81, Al and "a per capita. and far gauge OF
| the commercial activity and intelligence Of the
| countries
DANIEL BAuGH. who lives with his son near
| ScoUtsburg, Ind, celebrated his Tooth birthday
anniversary by dancing jig. He also, for the
| first time In his life, sat for photograph. His
| sight is such that he shoot rabbit at a
good distance. while his general health war
| rants the belief that he has lease of life for
several years.
ENGINEERS say that after a locomotive has
been driven a certain distance il is tired" and
will work no longer till it is stalled for rest, and
| the statement leads the Boston Globe to remark
that men of the finest inteects do not seem to
know as much as the locomotive in this respect
hence the sad havoc of overwork from day to
day among actors and jaded professional men
| of all claSsesn
The brilliant meteor which passed over Port
| land Ore, was seen by hundreds of people on
Puget sound. A resident of Yelm Prairie, w.
| T., claims that the meteor fell near his farm,
on the banks of the Deschutes river He is
searching for fragments. He says that the me-
teor, in it's rapid passage through the air, made
a.nose like prolonged peal of thund r, and
when it struck the earth it sounded like the dis
charge from several heavy batteries and the
| report was heard for miles around.
SAD and unusual result followed the
| ringing of a fire alarm at Kingston, N. Y.
| George w. Shaw had been i'll for a few days.
but was apparently much better, and was sit
| ting up when the fire bell began to ring from
| the tower near his home He became greatly
| agitated at the sound, went into convulsions,
| and died soon afterward. Mr.. Shaw and his
| maiden sister lost all their household goods by
a disastrous fire a few years ago, and afterward
| Mr.. Shaw was greatly disturbed by every alarm
| of fire.
THE BARKENTINE MOSES B. TOWER, Capt Aze-
vedo, which arrived day or two ago at New
| Bedford Mass. from the Western islands had,
| among other passengers, the first and third of
| ficers of the whaling bark Mary Frazier of Ed
| gartown, seized at Fayal some months ego for
| alleged violation of the Portuguese laws in
! smuggling tobacco at the islands. When the
Tower left Fayal. nineteen days ago, the Frazier
| was still held by the authorities, and most of
| her crew had deserted, although the captain
and Two men remained on board awaiting orders
| from the owners.
| DR.. DUJARDIN- BEAUMETY states that for the
last two years the average mortality among
| persons bitten by mad dogs and VINO were not
| treated according to the "Pasteur system" was
| from IA TO 10 per cent, whereas the average
death rate among those who had been inocu-
lated was only l per cent In 1887, out of 30j
persons who were "Pasteurized" only three
died, while out of fOrty-four bitten persons who
were not inoculated seven succumbed. In 1893
1886 persons were inOculated, and four died,
while out of 105 bitten persons net treated At
the FasUeur institute fourteen died.
For THE FIRST TIME in the history of the
Great Eastern she has cleared profit for her
owners. She was launched on Jan. 81, 1858, and
her cost complete was about 81, ,25O, 900. She
was employed in various ways, but in none
more successfully than the laying of the At
lantic cable. A few months ago she was sold
for 100000. Her new owners have recently
sold the hull and fittings as follows The con
per brought $13 450, the brass $4,000 gun
metal S22, ADO, lead S209.5, outer iron plates
S6250J, inner lr n plates, rivets and beams,
Dol, l0O, Ine anchors ABOUT ~l.5UU. This Will
give the owners profit of more than 100000.
FOREST COMMISSIONER THEODORE B. BAssE-
LIN has introduced logging by steam into the
woods of Lewis county. New York. He has
built a steam sleigh which is capable of carry
ing 1900 feet of logs, equivalent to the loads
OF fifteen teams of horses. The contrivance
resembles a box car. The motive power is fur
nshed by boiler seven feet high and weighing
four tons and two engines of 800 horse-powe
each. There are four drive-wheels, weighing two
tons each and an arrangement by which the ex-
hauSt steam, condensed into water, falls con-
tinually before the runners of the sleigh
turning the snow into ice. The machine costs
SS,00J but is expected to be a profitable invest
ment on account of the saving in cost of teams
and men.
The Homiletic ReviclU thinks that those of US
not yet 50 years of age have probably lived in
the most important and intellectually pro-
gressive period of human history. within this
half century it saws, ''the following inyen-
tions and discoveries have been made: Ocean
steamships, street railways, elevated railways,
telegraph lines, ocean cables, telephones,
phonograph, photography and u score of new
methods of picture making aniline colors, kero-
sene oil, electric lights, steam fire engines
chemical fire extnguishers, anRsthetics and
painless surgery, gun-cotton, nitro glycerine,
dynamite, giant powder, aluminium, magnesium
and other new metals, electro plating, spectrum
analysis and SpectroScope, audiphone, pneu-
matte tubes, electric motor, electric railway,
electric bells, typewriter, cheap postal system
steam heating, steam and hydraulic elevators
veStibule cars, canUiever bridges. All positive
knowledge Of the physical constitution Of plan.
etary and stellar worlds has been attaiued within
this period"
A CORRESPONDENT of French botanical Jour
nal recently gave several recipes for preserving
the color and form of dried flowers One
method is to immerse the stem of the fresh
specimen in solution of 81 parts by weight of
alum, of inter and 1856 Of water for two or
three days, until the liquid is thoroughly alb
sOrbed. and then to press in the ordinary way
except that dry sand is sfted over the specimen
and the packet submitted to the action of gen
tie heat for twenty four hours. Another method
is to make varnish composed of 20 parts Of
powdered copal and 500 parts of ether, powdered
glass or sand being used to make the copal dis
solve more readily Into this solution the
plants are carefully dipped; then they are al
lowed to dry for ten minutes and the same
process is repeated four or five times in success
sion. Plants may also be plunged in a boiling
ISOLATION of one part of salicylic acid and 500 OF
alcohol and then dried in blbulous paper. But
this act should be very rapi ly done, violet
flowers especially being decooriZed by more
than an instantaneous immersion. Red flowers
which have changed TO a purpiish tint in drying
may have their color restored by laying them
on piece OF paper moistened with dilute nitric
acid lone part to 10 or II parts Of water, and
then submitting them TO moderate pressure for
a few seconds. But this solution should never
be allowed to touch the green leaves, as they
would be decolorized by it.