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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS.

COLORADO cliff dwellers are said by
scientists to have existed 10000 years
ago.
A CAREFUL Investigator has ascer-
tanned, after long series of interest
ing experiments, that the mosquitoes
taste for human blood is an acquired
one.
FIFTY huge chests were required to
transport from Greece to Berlin the
superb collection of the relics of Troy
left by the late DR., Schliemanu to the
Berlin museum of art.
THE recent losses by fire in the cargo
| of ships carrying cotton has shown that
cottonseed oil, when held in the cotton
on the outside of the bale, rapidly oxi-
| dies and generates spontaneous COM
bustion.
HYPoDERNuC injections of chloride OF
gold are being used with wonderful re.
suits in an Illinois institution for cur.
ing drunkenness. The taste for liquor
is cradicated within ten or twelve days
with no disagreeable symptoms.-N. Y.
| Times.
CIRRUS clouds, popularity called Il
mackerel Sky, because they suggest the
appearance of school of mackerel
foretcll rain; they usually preccde Il
gathering storm of both wind and rain
of some duration, although it may
sometimes be of rain alone.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
MECHANICAL SCIENCE.

THE practice of "cold saving" of
steel and iron is being generally
adopted.
IMPROVED engine practice has caused
the adoption of a mechanical device for
constant feeding of fuel to the fur
naces.
A NEW mode of furnishing power to
motor engines by mixing steam with
hot gases is creating great deal of in
terest in English circles.
PEAT fuel has been found very sue
cessful in Russia. It is produced by a
patent process, and is cheaper than
coal, has less weight and bulk, and con-
tains scarcely any sulphur.
IRON has been rolled to the thinness
of 1-1s00 of an inch. This excessive
tenuity will be understood when it is
considered that the thinnest tissue
paper measures 1-1200 of an inch.
SCIENCE comes to the front in the
manufacture of grindstones. The best
now made are composed of a mixture Of
pulverized quartz, powdered flint,
powdered emery, and rubber. They
outwear by many years any natural
stone.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
FRESH FOREIGN FACTS.

THE population of Greece is increas-
ing faster than that of any other coun-
try in Europe at present.
A SWEDISH anarchist has started an
anarchistic Sunday-school at Nordkop-
ing, city of about 10000 inhabitants,
In Sweden.
The coachmen of Berlin wear a dis
tinctive hat when conveying physicians
and are granted the right of way by a
city ordinance.
A JUDGE in Glasgow has decided that
the amount of copper used in timed
green peas was not dangerous, and that
the process need not be stopped.
THE population of st. Petersburg is
steadily diminishing. 1t is less by eighty
five thousand than it was at the census
taken seven years ago. No other
European capital is thus decreasing.
In France a new ''magic mirror" has
lately been introduced. It consists es-.
sentially Of glass plate coated with a.
film of platinum so thin as to be trans
parent to light coming through from
behind, while being true mirror or re-
hector to light inpinging it from the
front
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
BRUSH AND PALETTE.

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS is said to have
painted but two caricatures in his life.
THE sale of the Borghese pictures has
been avoided by Prince Torlonia, who
takes the name of his father-inlaw,
coming to the assistance of his brother,
Paolo Borghese.
THE portrait of n young Earl of
Wcstmoreland' in the Metropolitan
museum is said by connoisseurs to be
one of the finest extant specimens Of
the work of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
CARL GuTHERz keeps his studio in
Paris all the year around, because the
French artists are so enthusiastically
appreciative of the poetical character
of Gutherz's figure painting. Jules
Breton calls him the father of modern
religious painting"
RoJAs, until his twentieth year, was a
self-taught historical painter. His un-
developed genius attracted the atten-
ton of Guzman Blanco, then president
of Venezuela, who sent him to Paris to
study. The artistic success of Rojas
was felt as reflected glory by the cit
liens of Caracas.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

THE Kimberly Company made clean
profit in diamonds last year of S., 900, 900.
SOUTH Africa is shipping oranges to
London, and the business promises to
become an extensive one.
THE value of the canned salmon
product of Alaska from 1884 through
1890 is estimated by the latest census
report at $7,00O,000.
MosT of the wooden shoes worn in
this country are made in Michigan. In
Grand Rapids alone there are three ex.
tensive factories for their manufacture
AN immense flume is being con
structed near Fresno, Cal, which will
not only furnish water for irrigatine
purposes, but will be used to transport
lumber needed by farmers living neal
by.
THE sponge industry of the Bahama
islands employs 500 small vessels and
about 5000 men. This industry is being
rapidly developed on the Florida coast
and the sponges in this locality are sale
to be finer than on the Bahamas.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
FADS OF THE HOUR.

SOME of the French fashion plates are
introducing distinct; if very slight,
panniers.
PATENT leather shoes are no longer
used by fashionable English women for
evening dress, preference being shown
for black satin.
The Japanese white and gold and
Chinese blue and red room fads are fad
ing before Egyptian apartments, which
are gruesome places full of dark things,
serpents, sphinxes and griffins' claws.
NEW spoons for olives retain the form
of the teaspoon, but they have perfor-
ated bowls. Some of the new large
spoons have bowls of silver in the shape
of rose leaves. The latest craze is for
Russian enamel.
AN English notion of the moment is
to tie six-inch sash ribbon just below
the waist, crossing it at the back and
bringing it around to the front just be-
low the bust, to finally tie behind in a
fiat bow between the shoulders and
reach in long ends to the hem of the
dress.
FRENCH hostesses of country house
parties have made an innovation in pro-
viding skilled coiffeurs for their guests.
The hairdresser comes every morning
from Paris, makes the round of the
chateau, and departs in the early after
noon, leaving an array of poems in Golf
feurs behind him-no two alike.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
TRYING TO UNLOAD.
Republicans Would Like to be Rid OF
Some Of Their Leaders.

There is n very evident desire on the
part of certain of the leading papers in
the republican party to free the organi-
zation from the weight it carries in the
shape of object ionable leaders. The
Philadelphia Press, for example, has
reached the point of protesting with
emphasis against the boss rule of Sena-
tor Quay, and declares that it is be
cause of him that Philadelphia gets
less than she is entitled to in the dis
tribution of the party spoils. And, not
content with this effort to s'turn down"
the great leader of the party in its own
state, the Press makes similar at
tempt in the case of the New York re-
publican boss. Pretending to believe
that the democracy of New York has
| stolen the. state it insists that the re-
publicans are largely to blame, and
that the party in the state has beeu
brought to its sad condition by division
in its ranks and bad leadership. .sOne
thing after another" it says, shas
been lost until finally they have been
ousted from every hold on power
in the state, land it adds: ssIt is peril
nent to ask the man or men who have
assumed to lead the New York repub-
licans whether the situation does not
demand their retirement and the bring
ing of new leaders to the frontP''
This desire to purge the party would
be very commendable if it came at a
time when the corrupt leaders were ut
the height of their power; but unfor-
tunately it does not. While Platt had
the whole of New York in his grasp,
and was using his power for his own
benefit and that of his friends-and in
cidently for that of the party-the
Press and the other organs had no
word of remonstrance; and it was sub
stantially the same in the case of Quay.
The effort to unload these obiectiona-
BILE and obnoxious leaders because they
have ceased to profit the party by their
iniquities, does not argue any growth
of political morality. 1t indicates only
partisan selfishness.-Detroit Free
Press.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
ALL OVER TIE FARM.

A MIXER who has nervous, un-
steady hand will soon ruin n COW.
LAND well cultivated and kept clean
year after year has fewer weeds and is
easier to cultivate.
BUTTER makers are warned to soak
and not steam their tubs. When
steamed it is difficult to get the butter
out.
CLOVER makes excellent silage when
it is put up properly, but it requires
careful handling and heavy wcighting,
or 1t is liable to spoil.
WE have no doubt that many horses
are fed too much. 1t is worth while to
experiment to see If your horse win not
do US well or better on less food.
THE man who complains that his
cows are unruly can safely be set down
as poor farmer, and very often he is a
cruel one, who deserves punishment.
Most unruly cows are made SO by
hunper
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
Lessons for a Young Mans Life.

In the Young Man for January Prof.
John Stuart Blackie publishes an in
teresting article on "reminiscences OF
his youth. Like lady's letter, the
most important part of 1t is in the post
script, in which he sets down few OF
the rules of conduct which have guided
him through life, and which he has nc
doubt may have contributed largely to
any praiseworthy work that he has
been able, in the course of long life,
to achieve.
81. Never indulge the notion that
you have any absolute right to choose
the sphere or the circumstances in
which you are to put forth your power
of social action; but let your daily wis,
dom of life be in making a good use oI
the opportunities given you.
ell. We live in a real, and a solid
and a truthful world. In such worlo
only truth, in the long run, can hope tc
prosper. Therefore avoid lies, mere
show and sham, and hollow superficial
ity of all kinds, which is at the best
painted lie. Let whatever you are
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
SCISSORS AND PAsTEBRUsH.

ICE CREAM was first made and sold in
Philadelphia ninety-one years ago.
TINY gold and silver musical instru-
ments are the newest things on the
bangle.
SUPERsTrTIoUs BARRIERS think that the
money earned by shaving dead men is
lucky to gamble with.
THERE are more than twenty times as
many Germans in England as there are
Englishmen in Germany.
Ir took two sailors who were
wrecked in the South sea five months
to reach Honolulu in an open boat
They touched at several islands, obtain
ing supplies and food.
Down in what is termed the "black
belt of Virginia, there are ten negroes
to one white man. Here blacks keeI
up their old traditions and customs
which are quite different from those oi
the whites.
A PARIS paper publishes a list oi
"American drinks" furnished at hote
in that city. There are over sixty
named, about half of them never hearG
Of in this country, and lager beer is moi
on the list at all.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
WORK OF THE INVENTORS.

A DOLL that writes letters on slate
is recent invention of machinist in
Nuremburg, Germany.
A SOLUTION called diamond ink has
been invented which enables one to
write upon glass. 1t is necessary to al
low it to remain upon the glass about
fifteen minutes before wiping off.
A SCARF pin invented by joker is
made of u genuine Glove encircled by a
silver snake. and mounted on card
with this inscription: well, what's
yours Well. III take the same!"
TO TAKE the place Of an old-fash-
ioued needle n Brooklyn man has
invented an ear piercer which looks
like a Sky rocket with long fuse. The
point pierces the ear, carrying with 1t
the gold wire, and the SHAFT is then
tuitblraWn
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
WOMEN WELL KNOWN.

n. MISS MoRIsINI drives tandem.
Mrs. STEPHEN B. EI.KINs is Senator
Gorman's cousin.
Mrs. GEORGE DE- FOREST gives the
bfs8ellest dinner parties in New York.
s. BARONESS BLANC has become noted
as whip and drive, Il fiery four-in
Hand.
psn LADY TENNYsoN preserves with re,
piigious care every pipe her husband
|pmokes and every oallcn stick he
/. earries.
Is NELLIE ARTHUR, daughter of the eX'
P'pfesident, has n well-rounded figure,
brown eyes, dark, sleek haiI
f.folled back from low brow, u sweet
smile and pretty, Girlish manner
!, Miss APARICo, II pretty Cuban girl
Ind sister of Nine. de Barros, was one
OF the bellies of Richficld Springs the
l1past summer. She is daring rider, !
sgood musician, and her beauty is of the
fegulation Spanish type of attractive
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
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TITLED EUROPEANS.

YOUNG PRINCE GEORGE, of Wales, is
said to be covered with tattooing of
mermaids and dolphins.
THE perfume used by the prince of
Males and Lord Dudley is lavender.
Il latter uses sachets for his ties,
81 |zhiefs afslt silk socks.
II r As sNs by the grace
! -: : s 8 ||sz zssss,ss ssssss
The duke of Portland a
Cor every hour Of the day 4 y \ i.
wears his gloves twice. His s}<5jef|f
,Sill is about twelve hundred dollars q
year. The Gnbe of Fife spends about
the same amount.
PARNELL was exceedingly supersti-
sious. 1t is said that he would not re-
main in a room where three candles
were burning, and regarded green, the
national color of Ireland, as being very
unlucky. Purple was his favorite
color
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
A Oueer OId-Time Wager

A very singular bet was once made in
relation to the master of the revels to
George H., named Heidegger, who was
declared to be the ugliest person in the
world. One of the kings courtiers
,wagered that he would produce per
sssn whom; te j,etseaisflssA,lil eafessas
sglier th9 ;.s ss =, ], j, 4
aiiowsd three days ID whlph to uinisesaafttls
Ms chAhapi66adi aasse sfhfeallq liie
spent in personally ransacking White
chapel, st. Giles and other quarters of
London most frequented by the lowest
of the slums. Somewhere in SE. 5siies.
he found an old woman whose fa:sfsifsa
we're sufficiently diabolical to beput Oh,
aaiasts Hsldsgg,,E il. hap.i4tlE:fl two
we're hfnusla fAee1jasa aaphl the sjlaseis
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
For The FIGURE ElEMp.


r A WATCH ticks 100, l44, 900 times a
|syear.
/. THERE aro 1876, ,973,s73 watshcs in use
at the present time.
ONE million nine hundred and twenty
five Thousand one hundred and thirty
pilgrims visited the holy coat at Treves.
In lifetime of eighty years the hui
man heart beats three hundred million
times, an average of seventy beats a
minute.
In the year 1855, according to the
| Economists Francois, there were %, Az
divorces in the United States, or nearly
1000 more than were granted in France,
England, Italy, Germany, Holland,
Sweden, Norway, Roumania and Can.
ada together.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
EUROPEAN ROYALTY.

IN order to retain her beauty the
queen of Italy has been obliged to re-
sort to mountain climbing, which re-
duces adiposity.
PARNELL gave the eldest son of the
prince of Wales his nickname of "Col.
lars and Cuffs which has stuck to him
for the last three or four years.
THE British parliament allows to
each of the daughters of the queen an
income of $4,000 n year. The younger
sons of the queen receive Sl25, 200 each
year.
MISS CoRNwALLIs WEST has forty-five
new pairs of driving gloves. Her fiance
Prince Pless, has given them to her tc
/, ,inqafe eHdhbfcome the best whip
~ sgijiIAgsa ii. 1al,s -, Nreae bassa tobacco
'EbssH ohae e4pnaaendt siisli 2ff sA.e ef!t9]s
Persian ambassalsg,Hf +
him with magnificcnt IS: 5 5 Il.
The experiment upset the z6Ihpe{5.[
stomach and he never repeated i
tithoupb LAGER in life he became a devo
,3fee of tlne snuff box.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
4 FEW LATE INVENTIONS.

y, PAPIER mache oil cans which are now
Being made are very durable and i'm
pervious to any spirit or Gil likely to be
used in u machine room.
AMONG the recent inventions is cal
sendar that will register for the next
two hundred years, besides telling any
date figure within that period.
b. A LATE invention, the cushion car
swheel, is described as being thick
rubber band placed between the tire
and center of the wheel and which acts
las a cushion, absorbing all vibrations,
4 AN inventor in Roscoe, n. Y, has
perfected a tether that can be used to
contine cows, horses, sheep or children
within certain limits. The mothers in
Middletown, near by, are impatiently
awaiting his arrival with tethers.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13

(2:l81a) for $4,000
Ed. Corrigan has secured contract
with Willie DE Long as q companion
jockey with Overton for his stable
next season.
w. A. Loose, of Bodie, Cal, has
recently instituted suit against Leland
Stanford for possession of the famous
mare, Hinda Rose, 2:l9la.
At the Jewett stock farm, East
Aurora, N. Y, Frank Smith, green
stallion, is said to have paced an eighth
of mile in ii seconds, a :52 gait.
At the inquest on the body of Hume
Webster, the famous horse breeder,
found dead in the woods near Croydon,
Eng, the jury found that Mr.. Webster
killed himself while temporarily in
sane.
The English Derby OF 1892 will be
run June l. So far there is but one
horse named in the betting and that
one is One, the son of Ormonde.
The best now offered against him is
to l, and 10 to can be had against
any of the others.
The bay colt, Worth, full brother to
Sunol e 2:08LD, was sold at the sale
of the Palo Alto trotting stock for
$l4, 800. He was bought by Albert
ii. Moore, of the Cloverdale stock
farm. The bidding was started at
SO, 900 and reached $4,000 at an in
crease of 800 at time.
Entries received for the stakes OF
the Independence driving park associa-
tion for the first week of the August
meeting are as follows: Yearling trOt-
ting, 1874; two-year-old trot, go; three
year-Old trot, 43; fOur-year-old trOt,
20; 2:30 trot, %; 2:20 trot, Is; 2:3C
pace, 26; 2:2O pace, lS; yearling pace,
81; two-year-old pace, 4S. The list
compares favorably with last years
entries.
So far as can be ascertafned at the
present time the leading starters
throughout the country have engage.
ments as follows: Caldwell, Gluten,
burg and Saratoga; Sheridan, Mem.
phis, Nashville, Latonla and Washing,
ton Park Chicago Ferguson, New
Orleans, Lexington and Louisville
Chinn, East st. Louis; Rowe, Brook
lyn, Sheepshead Bay, Morris Park and
Monmouth Park.
The Melbourne stud match stake is
one of the features of the coming
spring meeting of the New Kentucky
ASSOCIATION, Lexington, Ky, for 2-year
olds, at five furlongs, to be run on the
second day of the Kentucky associa
ton spring meeting, 1892, colts tt
carry 1lS pounds, at $500 for eacf
nomination of two years old, 5000
forfeit; one starter only to be nance
at o'clock p. m. two days before the
race. The second horse to save hi.
stake, with 81 $50 added by the Mel
bourne stud.
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Specimen Cases,

s. II. Clifford, New Cassel. Wis, was troubled
with neuralgia and rheumatism, his stomach
was diSOrdered, his liver affected TO al
alarming degree. appetite fell away, and IA,
was terribly reduced I'm flesh and strength
Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him.
running sore on his leg OF eight years stand
ing. Used three bottles of Electric Bittcrs and
seven boxes Of Bucklen's Arnica Salve. ant
his leg is sound and well John Speaker Ca
tawba, o., had five large fever sores on his leg
doctors said he was incurable. One bottl,
Electric Bitters and one box Bucklens Arnict
Salve cured him entirely. Sold at ID. W. B
Tevis' drug store. nos
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srhf'>t reception To the gentlemen Invi- T
tations in the form of dainty notes were |
cent to the gentlemen during the week, |
ns etlssssany, at $50 o'clock, the opera
house was filled with the elite of the city.
The grand march began promptly at Q
o'clock. After the dancing program had
snded, the young ladies escorted their
friends into the annex, where bountiful
supper was served, consisting of two
courses, and which had been prepared by
ne fair young maideus. After supper.
nncing was resumed and kept npuntil J.
<..sze
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ing to directions, be began
TO steadily improve, and
after the use of them for
seven months his head was
entirely well. When we
began usin z ithis head was
Q solid sore from the crown
to his eyebrows. II was
also all over his ears, mos,
ofhis face, and small places
on different parts OF his
body. There were sixteen
weeks that we had to keep
his hands tied to the cradle
and hold them when be
uas takan nm. and had tC
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-13
FIGS AND THISTLES.
CHARACTER is capital.

CHARACTER is capital
LoAFERs are never happy.
AN aimless life is fruitless life.
THERE is no rest in doing nothing.
WE are all willing to admit the de-
pravity of other folks.
A MAN is very small If you can put all
there is of him into a coffin.
A GREAT many giants become very
small when you get close to them.
EVERY dollar some men get widens
the gulf between them and Heaven.
|<xAt HUNGRY poet forgets that he Is
U|1eErE while he is reading his own
l psssse fnd people who are
ai1z okarat. somebody else's
a%a asss to- ""s'asa attend o. ss.,. :,
! A GREAT man is aft<<< s. n 4 ia
prised than anybody else, 81
out that he is great. Rams Hofz