Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-18
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i of which book is composed, were in troduced in 1872 Before that time all books were sewed by hand. The book sewing machine reduced the cost about one-half.
 -The frequency of storms in Nebras- la is due to the fact that not only do many originate there, but the storms of Dakota move southeast, and those of Kansas and Texas northeast, generally passing through Nebraska on their easterly course.
 knowing folks out on the old Bos- ton road. near New York, are able to identify the sites of their houses to in- quiring friends by giving the number of the telephone pole opposite the gate. The gigantic sticks of the Long Dis tance Telephone line stalk along the road for many miles, and as every pole is numbered q very clear itinerary may be made out for strange traveller by the aid of the poles
 MT Nathan Straus, of New York, has extended his wise system of prac- tical charity which he inaugurated III his retail coal business. and has fol- lowed it up with his sterilized milk sta tions. He has established stands in the various East Side and downtown small parks where perfectly pure and thoroughly steri1ized milk will be sold by the glass or nursing bottle at the nominal price of one cent.
 A New England street railway company has been much exercised as to how the working of it's transfer sys- tenn could be placed on a more satis- factory basis. It thinks it has solved the question approximately by printing on it's new transfer tickets pictures of men without mustaches and side whiskers and women with hats or bon nets in the upper corner. The con- l duetors are to punch out the picture nearest like the holder of the ticket. i We need not be surprised to hear before 1 long, as the natural development of this line of improvement, that the 1 transferring conductor is provided with lightning camera that imprints the photograph of the transferee on the ticket he is supplied with.
 There is q strong disposition among our naval officers to stretch the right of political asylum in the case of i Spanish-Americans To the utmost de- gree. Spanish-Ameriean governments, save those at Mexico. Chilli and the Argentine Republic, are regarded with scant respect by United States naval officers because republican, forms in most Spanish-American countries seem to citizens of the United States the mere mockery of free government. | that illustrate the peculiarities of poli- tics and of the administration of justice in the smaller republics. Brazil, under the empire, was considerably respected, 1 because there was at least the sem blance of order, authority and justice.
 -Atalantis is the name that will here after distinguish a location in the At lantic ocean about sixteen miles east of the Highlands of Navesinlt and thir- teen miles sopth of the Long Island shore. Here palatial structure is at once to be erected on hugh iron stilts. The foundations of this building will consist of thtrty-six iron cylinders if teen feet in diameter and one hundred and twenty feet in length These piles will extend thirty feet below the bed of the ocean, and will be secured to each other, according to the claim of the engineers, by girders. cross brac- ings and in other ways, so as to defy the mightiest storm wave that ever rolled in the Atlantic The officers who will be responsible for the con struetion of this ocean hotel are Capt. R. D. Evans, United States navy. in l charge; James c. Mcclure, engineer. Capt. Howard Patterson, superintend- ing gineer.-Ha1per's Weekly.
 A bronze cannon which has been standing in front of the government building at Pittsburgh since Washing ton's birthday, has been taken away to the melting pot. The piece, which is twelye-pounder, was given by the government to be east into badges and souvenirs for the delegates to the na- ti0nal eneampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which meets at Pitts burgh next September Its weight was l, 725 pounds, and it was one of nine guns of the same size and pattern cast at Cold Springs, opposite West Point, in lS4l. It had been in the Allegheny arsenal since 1856. and was oue of the eannons which Secretary Floyd ordered to be taken to New Orleans before Fort Sumter was fred upon, the att tempt to move which ordnance from the arsenal to the steamboat landing caused such tremendous excitement in Pittsburgh. The protest of the eiti- zens caused q delay in shipping the pieces, and finally the order was re- seinded.