The morning news., 1894-08-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Lexington. KY, woman mas OFQereu
/ $50 monument for a deceased IS poodle be-
( cause her heartless hus band refused to weep
| over his departed rival.
! An Atchison judge has recently adjudged a
| cabinet organ a nuisance unless some one in
/ the family learns 10 play it. One hours
/ practice day with competent instructor IS
permitted.
! Great success has been attained in Belgium
| with the ammonia process for sinking shafts
through Quicksaad The principle is that Of
! freezing the quicksand by an ammonia
/ freezer similar to that used in making artl-
/ fetal ice.
The number Of millionaires in England is
not so great as one might believe. According
| to the report Of the income tax offc1als there
are In England seventv-one persons with an
annual income OF s259,C0O, over l,l00 draw
! $4,000 annually, and only about 10000 have
an income Of $4,000.
| Seaweed has not even in our widest mo-
ments ever been dreamt of as an instrument
! Of electoral corruption, says the New York
Tribune. Yet the Toxic newspapers Just to
hand contain an account of the trial of
member of the japanese parliament who
was accused OF bribery by corrupting his con-
stituents with presents Of edible seaweed.
The drum major of a band in Lockport. N
Y, day or two ago, while leading an excur-
sion party through the main street TO the de-
pot, was seen to be keeping time to fest
music by chewing gum. Some one called out
Gum Major" and the Joke arrived at the de-
| pot before the procession. That particu-
| lar drum major has name that will stick to
| him.
Boston woman who is up in science ex-
! plains how mind can triumph over matter.
There Is boiled cabbage she says. Il feel
| that must conquer boiled cabbage. I had
/ always had belief that il disagreed with me.
! So to-day just talked to il. on my plate. told
| IL spirit is all powerful, and that it was moth
/ ing but an appearance of green leaves. hen
/ 1 ate it without fear and 1t did not hurt me -
| Il conquered sweet potatoes in much the
| same way" said her neighbor, 'only I did not
| talk to them. l merely held them in The
| thought of utter nothingness, and ate them
| fearlesSly."
The first American cent was struck off,
| and put in circulation Just 10l years ago. in
1898. Previous to that date several pattern
| pieces had been made, but they were exper-
| iments only and were never put in circula-
! uon. The so-called Washington cents. "
/ which existed previous to the date above
and were. therefore, only medals, The cent
| of 1893 was very similar to the large copper
! cents OF later days. with the exception that
/ the face OF Liberty" was turned to the right,
and the legend "One Cent was inclosed in
! chain of thirteen links.
One of Uncle Sans most faithful servants,
in Maine, but one that draws no salary lives
at the Portland Head lighthouse. says the
! Lewiston Journal This is a large gray par
! rot, brought from Africa some time ago and
! presented to the keeper OF the light. The
! bird soon noticed that when the fog began to
! blow in from the ocean somebody would cry
out, Fog coming in; blow the horn One
| day the fog suddenly tegan to come in thick
| and no one noticed 1t. as they were all busy
! Poll noticed this and croaked out, Fog com
! ing IN; blow the horn" and now, whenever
fog is perceptible, Poll never fails to give
! warning
The manufacture of artificial granite is now
carried on at a California establishment by
what is asserted to be a simple and effective
! method, and with satisfactory results. 1t con-
| sists in first tamping layer of the body form
| ing material in a mould, one inner vertical
! wall OF which is formed by vertically NOV
| able slide, after this the process is continued
| by removing the slice and tamping layer of
| the facing material in the space made by the
| lower end of the slide then replacing the lat
| ter with Its lower end resting on the tamped
| racing layer-tamplng now the second body
| forming layer, ana again removing the Side
and tamplng the second facing layer. The
| formation of the body and facing material is
! continued in this manner by successive steps
| until the face block of the desired thickness
Is an accomplished fact. In this way there is
produced material of cheap substances and
/ facing of better quality, showing any kind
/ OF finish desired, the two being united while
| in plastic condition into a homogeneous
| block.
The strongest wood which grows within the
| limits Of the United States is that known as
nutmeg" hickory. which fiourishes on the
| Lower Arkansas river. The most elastic is
tamarack, the black, or shelltark, standing
! not far below. The wood with the least elias
| ticlty and lowest Cpecihc gravity is the Fiscus
aurea. The wood of the highest specific gray
| lty is the blue wood Of Texas and Mexico I he
! heaviest of the foreign woods are the pome-
| granate and the lignum vitae: the lightest
| cork. The tensile strength of the best-known
woods is set forth in the following, the words
tensile strength" meaning the weight of
| power REQUIRED tear 1SUndpr m ra
| inch of each: Ash, 14,000 pounds. beech II =
800 pol nds; cedar, 11,4 0; chestnut 10 500; cy-
press. 6OG0 elm, 13,4O9; fir, 12,00O; lance, 25-
900; hgnum vitae, l1,eOJ; locust, 20500 ma
hogany, 2l,OOO; maple, lU500; American
white oak. II 500 pear, $500; pitch pine
1000 larch, $500; poplar 1000; spruce. TO-
29O teak, 1000; walnut. 7,800s willow, 1900
| The weight in pounds per square foot with
| out actlOns) OF the well-known woods (dry)
is as follows: Butternut, 25 cedar. 35; cherry
| a.; chestnut. 3e; cork, 10: dogwood, A.; ebony
So; BOX elder, As; elm. Al: blue gum, SO; water
| gum, 81; white hickory 40; shellbark hickory
| 80; holly AZ; juniper, 80; lancewood, 45: larch
"a; Eastwood or linn, 81; mahogany, Sc; hard
! maple 46; white maple, "a: mulberry ,35: white
oak, 81; persimmon "A; pear, Al; pitch pine
Al red pine. 50; white pine. "a; yellow pine
| 81; plum. 49; poplar 33; ounce, A; rosewood
! 45; sassafraS, 30; spruce, 81; sycamore, 3S;
| tamarack, %: black walnut, Al; white wal.
nut, 80; the willows, from 30 to 20. and the
yew 40, Four hundred and thirteen different
| species OF trees grow in the various states
/ and territories, and Of this numter, 49, when
| perfectly seasoned, will sink in water.
/ These woods Of high specific gravity grow
mostly in the arid regions of New Mexico
| Arizona and Nevada.
After many unsuccessful efforts to worm
the secret of the manufacture OF India ink
out OF the Chinese, science is finally to have
| the last say upon this product Of the Celestial
| empire Gunpowder. porcelain crackle-
| china, green indigo, and, in fact, all the very
| ancient Chinese products have been unveiled
! to us by science only; and it is science again
that is to teach US how the Chinese manu-
! facture their celebrated ink. The following
! is a brief resume of the interesting re.
searches, crowned with success that Mr.
/ Dragon has made upon this subject saws the
| Scientific American. it has ALWAYS heen
thought up to the present that the Chinese
manufacture their ink by grinding special
| lampback, unknown to Europeans, with a
| suitable mucilage discovered by them. and
that the paste obtained is allowed to drv
! slowly, like their porcelain. The light that
| has just been thrown upon this subject is due
| to the progress that has been made
in micrographic studies in recent years.
| In fact, upon submitting very
dilute solution of the most cele.
| brated India ink to an examination nv
! very powerful microscope. IL has been dis
| covered that the particles of carbon forming
| the basis Of the ink are of a uniform diane.
| ter. Upon repeating such examination with
| inferior or counterfeit India inks, IL is on
served that the particles of carbon are OF very
| variable and sometimes even disproportion-
| ate diameters. Upon sui mltting to such con.
troll ALI the numerous varieties Of lon