The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-11-07
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Philippe l.. of France, did not de-
serve the title of the Amorous. any
more than most other French kings,
but in spite of this IL was bestowed
upon him on account Of his numerous
intrigues with the ladies of his court
Louis Kill, OF France, was desig
mated Tho Father of His People" on
account of the high regard in which
he was held by them. His highest am.
bition seemed to be TO promote their
welfare. The same title, for the same
general reason, was also bestowed up
on Christian Ill, Of Denmark.
The Boston board Of aldermen
has given permission for pneumatic
tubes to be laid under the streets OF
that city, and il Is expected that they
will be used for the delivery of both
letters and parcels. The first use to
be made of them will be to connect the
Boston post Office withits substations.
At Mime. Tussapd's in London, is
now 70 be seen the Gladstone state
carriage, presented to Mr., Gladstone
by his father more than fifty years ago.
The only other carriages in the exhibi-
tion are those of Napoleon |. and Ma
poleon Ill Mr.. Gladstone sold the
carriage in order to obtain the money
for a charitable scheme.
AN odd step in the movement for
booming local industries, which has
lately started up and attained much
Roadway in the west, has been made
at Sioux Falls, S. d. An ordinance
bop lpny, ,,auynl ,s,,,,,;,-;,1.. ,,altiara
and hawkers who sell goods not manu-
featured or produced in the state to
pay license Of SO day.
"A green turban throughout oil Is
lam is a sign that the wearer Is d de-
scendant of the prophet Many per
sons who have the right to this mark
of honor are now In low life, and o
traveller in Constantinople or Cairo
| may have his baggage carried TO his
hotel by genuine descendant of the
founder of Mohammedanism. Il
And now it has come to pass that
the horse, driven TO grass by the COM
petition of locomotive, electric motor
and bicycle, is finding his destiny In
| conversion into an article of food, so
| that the horse meat industry of Oregon
has already grown important enough
to demand and obtain a reduced car-
| load rate on canned meats TO Chicago
! and the east. ~
OF the injuries to passengers on
| English railways, it Is said that noless
than seventy-tive per cent. are due TO
| jumping on or off trains in motion.
| OF the other deaths a considerable
number are charged to the doors of
carriages flying open when in motion
from insecure fastenings. Accordingly,
the English board of trade, in combi-
nation with the railway companies, Is
now studying a new device by means
of which all the doors in train can
be simultaneously locked and nm.
| locked. ia @
--Argon, the ACCOMPLISHMENTS gas,
is colorless and inodorous, has about
| twenty times the density of hydrogen
| and is much more soluble in water
than either oxygen or nitrogen. 1t re-
quires also Il very low temperature for
| liquifactiou. Prof. olszewslSi, Of Graz
! COW, has turned some argon which was
sent him by Prof Ramsey into liquid
at temperature of three hundred and
| FIVE degrees +. below zero, and into a
block Of Opaque ice at three hundred
and ten degrees below zero. What
argon is, however, is still a puzzle to
scientists, all attempts to unveil its
chemical nature having hitherto failed.
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