Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-07-27
VI GENERAL INTEREST.


The United States produced In 1870
over two.fifths of all the silver mined
In the world. the next silver-producing
country being Mexico, with producs
OF $50. 100000
The first merchantable zinc made
in this country was produced In north
ern New Jersey from mines once rich,
but which late years have fallen on
TO very small yield.
According TO the tenth census, the
proportion OF wage-earners among the
Irish was SO per cent, the same among
the Germans; among the English, 81
per cent; among the Swcdes and Nor
wegians. 81 per cent; among the I'm
migrants from Canada, 40 per cent
This fact Is due to the large prepon-
derance of males among the immi-
grants and to the additional fact that
some classes OF foreign immigrants en-
courage their women to do mems work,
both in field and factory.
"A fly in the beer: II q fly drops In
beer glass, says German paper, one
who has made study Of national char
acteristics can easily tell the drinkers
nationality by his action. A Spaniard
PAYS for the beer, leaves II on the table
and goes away without saying word.
A Frenchman will do the same, except
ne swears while he goes. An English
man spills the beer and orders another
glass. A German carefully fishes out
the fly. and finishes drinking his beer
rs IL nothing had happened. Rus
sian drinks the beer with the fly. A
Chinaman fishes out the fly, swallows
IL and then throws away the beer.
The pneumatic tires on bicycles
are exposed to many mishaps. by one
or another cause they are easily pierced
or ruptured. and on tires, rs on other
parts of the machine, there is no end
of expenses for repairs. Pretty soon
n bicycle tire will be invented that
will be not only as light as the pneu-
matte but rs lasting as the strongest
part Of the machine. In Washington
the letter carriers who own bicycles
ask to be permitted to use the car fare,
now allowed, to pay for repairs on the
wheels. The only thing thus far
granted is an allowance of from two 10
three dollars for repairs, but this would
not pay u third of the annual cost for
repairs OF the wheel.
"A seventy-seven-year.old citizen oil
Great Falls, Wash, is undergoing q
peculiar process OF physical regenera'
ton. About year ago he contracted
pneumonia, and his life was for some
time despared OF. the doctors saying
his right lung was hopeless 'ly wasted.
He recovered. however, but when just
able to hobble around he fell and
broke his thigh bone, and was confined
TO the hospital again for six months.
Since leaving, however, his physica
condition has improved remarkably.
His lungs began to open up until they
became almost rs well as ever; his skin
shed off and new skin grew, and his
hair and beard which were snow
white, are coming out jet black. HIS
| limbs and muscles have linb,red up,
| anu ne StWTtcu u WCCN VI ~ SiuNS ~
take Il herd of young horses across a
long trail TO market. lie say, II he
continues to grow young he will get
married again and grow up with the
country.
doctors in Delaware are much puz
zled to account for remarkable tenn
porary restoration 20 activity of man
who had been bedridden for seventeen
wears The man was William Rey'
nolds. of Thoroughfare Neck, Del.
who died recently. He had been con
fined to his bed for seventeen years
with spinal disease. Three days be-
fore his death h. told his wife that God
would permit him TO walk once again
before he died. and, to her utter
amazement he got out OF bed forth
with, put on some clothing. AMI walked
down stairs and into the garden unas'
sisted lie remained in the garden
half an hour. returned to the hous'
and sat in the kitchen for half an
hour, and then walked IN stairs and
went back To bed. from which he never
rose again. lie hal been an utterly
helpless cripple during the whole long
period OF his illness. and the doctors
cannot account for his strange tempo
rary recovery.