The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-14
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The business of packing sturgeon
is a new one that seems to promise
much in Delaware. A company at
for one thousand cases Of packed stur-
geon, and if this order shall be profit
able the business will be extended.
The South Park commissioners in
Chicago have decided to turn Midway
Plaisance into a canal one hundred feet
wide, with walks and lawns upon each
side. The Illinois Central railroad de-
clares that it will never allow the
canal to pass under its tracks, and
legal contest is probable.
-Bacteriologist Herman NJ. Biggs,
of New York, has made a report to the
board of health of the results of his in
vestigation into 26s cases of so-called
''membranous Group" He says that
his observations justify the conclusion
that the disease is nothing more or less
than laryngeal diphtheria. He recon-
mends that membranous Group should
be put on the list of contagious dis
eases, concerning which reports from
physicians to the health board are re-
quired. 1t is said that the recon-
mendation will be adopted.
An interesting relic in the custody
of Miss Ball, a relative of Gen. Wash
ington, living at the Louise Home, is
the painting of little girl holding in
her arms little kitten. The picture
is said by connoisseurs to be very fine,
and is the work of Joseph Hopkinson,
the author of 'Hail Columbia" and
the son of Francis Hopkinson, one of
the signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. This gentleman was the
grandfather of the well known writer
Francis Hopkinson Smith, and it is
probably from him that the author Of
'Cel. Carter of Cartersville" inherited
his artistic talent.-Harper's Bazar.
Two eminent English physicians,
Or. Warren Lomb and DIR. Vaughan
Harley, have recently made an inn
portant series of experiments regard
ing the influence of tobacco on
muscular effort That influence was
not SO marked in the experiments of
DR.. Harley as in those of DIR. Lombard.
The conclusion which DR.. Harley has
reached is that moderate smoking, in
one accustomed to it, neither increases
the capacity for work nor retards the
approach of fatigue: though, in some
cases, it may slightly diminish mus
cular power and hasten the time in
which fatigue overcomes the system.
"A New York wood dealer, who
handles many cargoes OF cordwood an
nually, finding that the time consumed
in unloading cars at the yard amounted
to considerable item of expense, has
invented a cart by which this item is
eliminated entirely. The cart has
horizontal platform hung low between
a pair of wheels on a crank axle. The
platform is held in place by button
shutting into slot in the forward part
of the frame of the cart. The driver
backs up to the string piece on the
wharf and his cart is loaded. Then he
drives to the yard and when he is at
the spot where it is desired to unload
the wood, he simply turns the button
and releases the platform and the plat
form tips backward, and thus the cart
unloads itself. The driver never stops
at all-he just keeps right on to the
wharf again. The operation Is so ex-
tremely simple and so obviously eco
nomical that it is a delight to the eye
Of even the most casual observer.
Farmer James NJ. Conners, who has
all his life voted and paid taxes in Del
aware. now finds himself, according to
the new boundary survey, a resident
of Pennsylvania His property was as
sessed last autumn by the Delaware
authorities and the taxes are now due.
but of course Conners will not pay
taxes to Delaware on property situ-
Rted in Pennsylvania He viii not pay
in Pennsylvania because he has not
been assessed by the authorities Of that
state. He viii be disfranchised for
three years by the change of boundary.
He cannot vote in Delaware because he
does not live there. and he will net be
able to vote in Pennsylvania ON local
issues. because to do SO he must have
paid state and county taxes for two
years before he can thus vote. The
change of boundary has wrought havoc
with Conner's insurance in a mutual
insurance company. to which he has
long contributed. for by its charter it
.ennot take risks outside the bounda-
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