The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-28
IrsMs OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The perfection OF the early pointed
printers were forced 10 compete with
the best scribes and penmen, srs were
thus compelled 20 DO good work in
order TO justify the right OF the new
| trade 10 exist.
Paper has been made in China from
time immemorial Outside of China il
| was first made at Samarcand in Turie-
stan, A. ID. $50. Ii was imported into
Europe from the east for two hundred
years before the Europeans thought OF
making il for themselves.
According 10 German scientific
journal, q material called flexible
glass" is made By dissolving four 10
eight parts Of gun-cotton in one part
OF ether or alcohol, and adding % the
solution two to four parts OF non
resinous oil, and four TO ten parts %
Canada balsam. The mixture is spread
on plate Of glass, and dried in a cur
rent of air az a temperature OF fifty de
grees. The residuum is hard, hex.
ible, transparent mass, resisting alike
acids, alkaliesan salts
When q sugar refinery wharf needJ
Q new floor the old ono is not thrown
away or sold 70 a junk dealer, bat
carted into the refinery and boiled
/ The planks are saturated with sugar,
/ molasses, and a variety Of other things
not usually deemed edible. The re-
fnery process, however, separates the
absorbed sugar from the impurities,
Z l.. -. a
saving by boiling up tho old floor No.
body need be shocked al this economy.
as sugar refining is all that the mama
implies.
That was a novel idea, and possibly
one worth following. that was recently
carried out in a new house The archi-
tect was asked 10 design "a revolving
sidehoard set between dining room and
buffers pantry Oval in shape. il pos
sessed pair OF fronts, asst We're, either
OF which could be presented in com
pany. BY this means IL is supposed
dinners may be expedited, the plates
and accessories for course being put
ia at one side, while the previous enc
Is being served from the other.
AT one Of the annual dinners Of tho
New England society, Of New York, a.
which Mr.. Blaine and the late Gov.
Van Zandt, of Rhode Island, were both
guests a little good-nstured chat was
INDUCED in as 70 the relative influence
OF the Hollanders and Yankees In the
settlement and development Of New
York. II can give you the history OF
New York in sentence" said Van
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Dutch and Yankee blood. The Dutch
settled New York, and the Yankees
settled the Dutch
in q New York photograph coll
lector's album there are the picturcs %
one hundred criminals who were tried
and convicted IN that city last year. A.
good proportion Of them are men OF
fine appearance, with consolidating
faces and pleasant expression. Tho
owner OF the album often shows these
pictures 20 his acquaintsnces. without
telling who the men are; ard he savs
that, Of all the people who have seen
them, not one has yet guessed that thrv
are convicted criminals. or that they do
not rank among the most respectable
citizens What a remarkably hand.
some and good lot Of friends you have
said a Clergyman after looking over ths
album, all the pictures IA which have
been chosen for the purpos- which
they subserve. Two Of the photographs
represent man killers now IN prison.
Various experiments with the nevs
rides, which have recently taken Viscc
in Germany, have demonstrated n a
very conclusive manner that snothes
war would practically be one - suDi-
his;ion. A vs!l-<novn French writer
,zys that .hs battle f~la wOpld. a; tho
Termination q the engagement. 70 COW
cred with two o. three hundred thou-
sznd corpseA. al crashed and broken.
and would bs nothing cat vass
eharnel-hous~ 10 ons would b ists
- bury the dead. za1 Pest4i~ncs would
IN its turn sweep away fte country
people. Pointing The moral. he slds
that ~ nszD--euper kiny - py~Ei-
deut 81 a r~pu , -s---Eao. u7osr ts~as
condition. would sEpos< th~ human
race % such fate. vguiA b. TIE great
80 eriu1 nzl 'i.e vsor.4 had ever seen -
Army &agazins-