Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-01-17
or GENERAL INTEREST,

Saturday night, and crime has increased
six times faster than population.
The Michigan State Department re-
ports that the area seeded to wheat this
autumn IN that State amounts to 1,500,-
900 acres, an increase Of $4,000 acres
over last year. The average condition
10 much better than ct the correspond.
ing date for o number OF yeara It 10
lO6 in the southern. 100 in the central
102 in the northern, and averages 10S in
the State.
Steel is said 10 corrode much more
rap dly in salt water than iron. An
Engl sh experimcnter, Mr. David
Phil ps, kept plates OF boiler iron
and OF DO Ter steel. each five inches
Sol are and three-eighths OF IN inch
thick, immersed in salt water from 1881
to 1888 The steels lost 100 per cent
more than the irons during the first
three years when the plates were in
contact; 124 per cent more IN the second
three years, when they we're insulated;
and 1875 per cent more for the whole
period OF seven years
"A German Sc enlist claims that by
means OF an acid process he can convert
sawdust into q material firm in tex
ture and extremely hard impenetrable
by q gimlet or nail, more impervious to
the action of the elements than the or
binary metals or the common building
stones and pract cally lndestructible
BY fire. 1t is claimed to be stronger
than timber for jolsts and Orders and
several times lighter than iron or steel,
and above all the cost OF manufacture Is
claimed to be 80 low as to bring 1t INTO
competition with both wood and iron
DIR. Thompson. of St Louis, says he
once traced fatal case OF smallpox to
q silver dollar. The patient was In
good health one day and died within
week, and the facts were so peculiar
that the doctor set about to ascertain
how the disease was contracted He
found that the patient had sold an
article Of merchandise to friend who
had paid him with silver dollar which
had been carried in the pocket OF o
brother who was day or two later tax
en- down with smallpox. Dr. Thompson
believes coin is as likely to carry in
feet on as bank-note
"A very gayly dressed woman came
into Delmonico's the other night wear
ing o boa Look at that senseless
thing" said one Of party Of diners
"If you want fine commentary on the
senselessness Of fashion consider the
boa, which never even looked warm"
To this spirited lady replied: III you
wish to see how little men know OF such
subjects commend that speech to study.
The boa was the most delightfully."-
warming garment woman ever put on
except full-length sealskin sacque. It
warmed her neck, and when ones neck
10 warm ons is warm all over. IN. Y.
Sun.
in Q lecture delivered to the stu
dents OF engineering at the Manchester
(Engiand) Technical School, Mr. W. d.
Bayley said: Most Of the British me-
chanical inventors who Ia d the founda-
ton Of our prosperity and whose work
had given US our present commercial
supremacy, were men Of very little
education, but of strong individuality.
But the time was now past when illit-
crate men, however able, could infiu-
ence our commercial destiniea Their
future course as engineers would be
guided and controlled by the followers
Of DR.. Joule. the great discoverer Of the
mechanical equivalent Of heat The
coming man will be the therm St"
The proprietOrs Of an uptown cloth
ing store have adopted novel method
of solici ting trade. They have hired .
man who has long been familiar to
every one in their neighborhood as
ragged, disreputable-lOoking fellow.
clothed him in o handsome full-dress
anti. furnished him with o beaver, q
fineIy-laundried shirt and every thing
else that q man accustomed to dress
we'll could possibly need, and turned
him loose to distribute neat advertising
cards about the neighborhoOd. He
usually wears some fresh flowers
pinned to the lapel Of his coat and as
he goes about distributing his cards
strikes people who have known him
/ and scorned him for so many years as
remarkable example Of what good cloth
ing will do IN. Y. Tribune.
"A locomotive engineer he's keen
t'xHeetion for his iron steed But II ono
may bel eve Maine Central engineer,
locomotives are extremely hckle. de
declares that his eng ne Will take .
tram over steep grade with o rush on
one day. whIlo perhaps on the very
next day, W h the same train and the
same CRAZE, the art'ul cOquette will
pretend TO he shy. will draw back In
felgnei TIM d ty fence, hrt and finally
d. what 1t ais asked to do with Q pout
1T sta L." ne says TO realize that
your ng ne isn't alive She acts like
b, s.. she will shy and back at .
Rrade when she feels like It and.
aga -. VII take the bit n her teeth and
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