The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-04
KODAKS.

A field of corn in Kansas 10 reported b han
grown thirty mine inches in fifteen daya
New Jersey man gives AZ Q cure for hsy
fever the smoking of pine needles with tobacco
More United States vessels visit the Mexican
ports than those of all other nations combinsd
An English paper asserts that ,0O0.O 900 bonnss
were sold In London during one week recently
There are $1,000 women telegraph operaton in
the United States and the number II constantly
growing.
Berlin inventor has invented an instru.
ment which measures the one thousandth part
OF second.
1t is claimed that the largest floating dock Ia
the world 10 at Bermuda 1t il ISL feet long and
123 feet wide.
At an ordinary temperature mercury IN On
equal quantity in bulk weighs about twothirds
more than gold.
In the executive mansion at Raleigh. q C, d
card table presented to Governor Barriagtm
by King George III. about the year 1855.
One man in wicomico county, Nd. On the
eastern shore, shipped this season nearly 1on
quarts of huckleberries in q single week.
OF the famous English statesman Fox Il wa
said that If the Bible should get lost hs would
be able to duplicate it from memory. Racine
knew by heart the entire Euripides, Bsyls the
whole of Montsigne. Hughues Doneau the Corp
us Juris word for word, aud Metastasio I'll
Horace and Corteret
Our youngest congressman" 10 NECESSARILY
more than % years old, in accordance with the
provisions of the constitution, but tho British
house of commons has members several yean
younger. One of the newly returned memters,
William Allen, is 81. and Frederick Smiths
Mr.. Dalziel are not yet "a They do not hfeak
the record OF political precocity. howevsf. bf
William Pitt was only Is when he msds BIZ
maiden speech in the House-ths speech ihi
led Burke to say that the young orator 'wn na
chip of the old block, but the old block iusl"
The resources OF the lecture-room are decldsd'
ly increased when Professor Dewar was abb, IN
a lecture on chemistry in London lately, TO- e
duce liquid oxygen in the presence OF the suol'
ence literally by pints, and to pass liquid Gr|
about the room in claret glassea Oxygen uqui'l
fies at about go degrees below Zero and AZ al
343 degrees below zero. IL the earth were rel
duced to temperature $50 degrees below sefoI
1t would be covered with a sea OF liquid an
thirty-fve feet deep. Professor Dewars process
Of liquefying oxygen and nitrogen wss WIN
hundred pounds Of liquid ethylens and hilyl
pounds of nitrous oxide, with the aid OF two an
pumps and two compressors driven by steam
William Clark Mobiles statue of William Eli
lery Charming, to be erected in Newport ns1s|
autumn, represents the famous preacher - nD
ing his hand to pronounce Q bencdiction. "
this pose and of other features OF the design ns
Boston Herald says Though the attituoen u
critical one, in which single false suggeeuoa
would spoil the effect, the details ana gensn'
spirit OF the work maintain IL admirably. Ils
face is pronounced by those who knew ~
Claiming to be a speaking likeness; the ~
ments worn by the preacher are faithfully nn'
dered, while the old-fashioned gown. WIZ W.
pendant sleeves and innumerable wrinkles Anu
creasinps is a marvel Of realistic repYOductoh