Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-09-19
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of Great Britain and Ireland"
The New Orleans Times-Democrnt
concludes on the basis of Mr. PorteE:s
census. that of the populatisarof the
United States So per cent Is English; =
per cent is German,g IS per cent ~
Irish; per cent. is Latin; per cent
Scandinavian, and 8 per cent Slav.
-Vergennes, VT. is the third oldes1,
| city in the United States, having b
chartered in 1853 Hartford ~
| Haven, Conn, were chartered
vergennes is probably the SINS
most quiet city in the counx
| populatian of 1,773 and ~c0
1,soo acres. Neverthe
mayor, a city council, a8
men, en-, and , all other the Officer ASD1r,
AT least 90, 900 America
go to Europe to make the
This army of pleasure-see
600, 900 to the steamship CO
$50, 0OO 900 in hotel bills,
tips, the expenses Of the oroEs
eler averaging So per day for&N
Four million dollars may
charged to presents. It will I
seen that the total amount expeS
about $50. 100000.
The exports from Italy t.
United States for the year ended JuL,
| so amounted to $25, $50, 600, notwith-
standing the immense falling off in thu
shipment of raw silk on account of tht
depression of the silk industry in the
United States and in the shipments Of
| fruit from Sicily, owing to deficient
crop. Had the shipments of silk and
fruit been equal to those of the preced-
ing year the exports would have ex.
| cecded S26, 900, 900.
The husk of Indian corn is being
used in the manufacture of paper. In
| some experiments to test this use the
husks were thrown into a rotary boiler,
| and after being mixed with caustic soda
| and thoroughly boiled, they formed q
| kind of spongy paste, full of glutiuous
| substance This paste was then placed
| in hydraulic press, SO as to separate
| the gluten from the fiber; compact
mass of fiber was then obtained, which
is worked in various wavs.
| Few reflect, when they are talking
about Sat giobules how small a thing a
| globule is OF the largestof them, laid
along in a row, it would require 1,500
to measure an inch. OF the smallest of
! them, $1,000 laid in line would no
more than cover an inch. The largest
has 4 times more diameter than the
smallest and 224 times more volume
| In 4 drop of milk the size of a pins
head there are from 1000 to 4, 900 fat
| globules. The average number of fat
| ylobules in a quart of milk is estimated
at two thousand billions-2, 600, 600, 00O,-
900.
Some experiments were recently
| made at the Riverside iron works,
| Wheeling, w. Va, on the comparative
| liability to rust of iron and soft Besse-
mer steel. A piece of iron plate and a
similar piece of steel, both clean and
| bright, were placed in a mixture of
yellow loan and sand, with which had
| been thoroughly incorporated some
carbonate of soda, nitrate Of soda, am
! monium chloride and chloride of mag
nesium The earth as prepared was
kept moist At TIE end of thirty-three
days the pieces of metal were taken
out, cleaned and weighed, when the
iron was found to have lost O. 81 per
cent. of its weight and the steel OF per
cent
| AS illustrating one of the causes
for the great cost of English railways
as compared with those in new coun-
| tries, it is interesting to note that the
proposed new Lancashire, Derbyshire
| & East Coast line is estimated to cost
s6, $50, 900. or about G41, 500 per mile,
|
per mile win be required simply and
solely for land purchase, leaving the
| actual cost of construction at about
ei3. 400 per mile, which will compare
! favorably with the cost of similar and
! similarly equipped lines elsewhere.
Over here in America it will be thought
| that 500, 900 per mile for construction
only, is pretty high, and yet it is not to
be supposed that the amount named
| represents any water. Railway Re-
| view.
"A woman entered London book
| store and asked for a particular recita-
ton, which the clerk found after a search
of twenty minutes in a volume sold for
shilling She sat down and began to
pore over it. The clerk SUP Rhe
was going to commit it to 1,a Jnt
she mildly asked if she ppy
part of it He said: ''Cerss5 e
thereupon asked him = I'd
''lend' her a piece ySw md Yet
s'lcnd" was dair' '-'>' 'SSs
ism, and he ha' {
pad to write Z
begged for a 9Ie. and fewer unin-
produced bABoston journal.
and copied 8
finished s. FIRST TINE IN MAGA-l
| without a n
copy and IT,,
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who is Tor the mole should be?'
81? An Int? Why, what do you
mean?"
"Oh, know, and Irespect your solic-
itude for her morals; but, my dear. you
- ID not have kept the matter secret
1s monde. Possibly could help you in