Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-08-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The Broad river, in South Carolina,
was so called by the whitsa The
Indian name was Eswan Huppedsy. %
"Dividing Line river" because IL WA
the boundary between the Cherokess
and the Catawbaa
-Ergot In the product Of the dis
eased seeds Of the common rye In.
stances have been known Of mon and
animals being poisoned from the lack
OF caution in separating the diseased
grains from the healthy when prepar-
ing the rye for food.
The curfew bell has been estab.
lished in suburb Of Chicago, called
Wheaton. 1t rings ut nine o'clock p
m.. after which IL Is unlawful for any.
one under eighteen years of age to ap.
pear on the streets unaccompanied by
parent or guardian. Its results are
said to be extremely beneficial.
The women Of baltimore have
formed Good Government club with
seventy members. The purposes an
nounced are to look after the econom'
ical and efficient management OF the
city affairs, to promote cleanliness
health and beauty, and 70 establish
cooking schools for the training OF
young women
Chinese pheasants were introduced
into various parts Of Oregon q few
years ago for game purposes The
birds have thrived wherever intro.
duced. and this season has been especi.
ally favorable, so that there Is every
prospect of an abundance OF sport In
this line In the near future, when the
restricted period expires
When young lion reaches the age
of two years he is able to strangle or
pull down horse or an OK, and so he
continues to grow and increase In
strength till he reaches his eighth
year when he grows no more. For
twenty years after his fangsand talons
show no signs of decay, but after that
he gradually becomes feeble and his
teeth fail him.
While conducting series OF tests
with one-hundred-ton testing ma
chirc ut the Yorkshire college in En-
CLAN |, which included the testing of n
steel wire rope. Prof. Goodman stated
that such ropes were not modern in
vention, and that he had recently seen
a bronze wire rope onc-half inch in
diameter and from twenty to thirty
feet long, which had been found buried
in the ruins of Pompeii and which
must have been Mt least one thousand
nine hundred years old.
Sir Robert Bau says that going at
the rate of the electric telegraph-that
is, $4,000 miles u second-it would
take seventy.eight years to telegraph n
message to the most distant telescope
stars, but the camera has revealed
stars far more distant than these, some
of which, II u messare had been sent
In the year A. d. that is to say, 1891
years ago-the message would only
lust have reached some Of them, and
would still be on the way TO others.
going Mt the rate of ls6,00o miles Sec
ond.
Deer are so plentiful In some parts
of Montana that the ranchmen and
fruit growers complain OF them as they
do of the coyotes. cutworms and other
pests The fruit growers complain
that the deer come down from the
mountains at night and browse on the
tender shoots of the trees, and in this
and other ways do great damage to
the orchards. The animals keep on,
of sight in the daytime, and, as 1t is
hard to shoot them at night, and they
decline to be frightened away the
ranchers have a hard time.