The advocate., 1897-09-08
Advocate Museum.

blowing may now be done by machinery.
1t requires about 25O, 900 school books
to supply the demand in Kansas this
fall.
The most extensive cemetery In the
world is that of Rome, in which over
100000 human beings have been In
TERED.
News comes from South Africa Of the
discovery of important new diamond
fields in Griqualand West, in the same
district as the Kimberley mines.
1t costs the government now just S
cents for 1000 stamps, delivered any
where in the United States. One thou
sand 2-cent stamps are sold for $40.
Russell Sage, now 81 years old, attrib-
utes his mental and physical sOundness
to his methodical habits. He regards
himself as good for another decade of
business life.
Pneumatic tubes will soon be used to
connect the pOstOfices of New York and
Brooklyn, and others are to radiate from
the New York postoffice to all parts OF
Manhattan Island.
A rudder, with the figures "1794"
carved on it, was found in the Kansas
river at Topeka lately by wOrkmen who
were removing an island. The wood
is oak and is we'll preserved.
On farm near Almena, in Norton
county, Kansas, alfalfa roots twenty
four feet to forty feet in length have
been taken up and placed on exhibition
in the Chicago offices of the B. &. M.
Railway Co.
An electrical rat trap has been in
vented. A New York paper says 1t is
an ingenious affair and was used with
such success in big downtown restau
rant the other night that 123 rats were
squealing in confinement in the morning.
A Tennessee woman died a few days
ago from the effects of fifty-eight day
fast. She has been starving herself to
death under VOW. She Quarreled with
her husband, they separated, and she
vowed that she would fast until he re-
turned unto her.
A Florida man has experimental with
the sugar in watermelOns until he can
produce an ounce of fine candy from
eight ounces of melon pulp. The idea
of Americans spending $100,000,000 a
year abroad for sugar is one of our ma
tional absurdities.
Since the autumn of 1890 the beet
sugar industry of the Western States
has grown from an invested capital of
$S5O,O0 to over $500, 900, and the acre
age of beets grown from 1900 to 36,0O0
The annual production of beet sugar is
nearly 12O,OOO,OOO pounds.
A mail box, probably the largest in the
world, was placed at ArmOur's packing
establishment in Chicago last week. It's
capacity is equal to fifteen cubic feet
and is tapped by wagon collectors every
two hours. The mail desposited in this
box is pouched directly to the outgoing
trains
On the 29d day Of August, 1897, a
Smith family reunion took place at AL
toona, Pa. The attendance exceeded
1900 persons. The county directory
shows that there are $40 Smiths within
the precincts Of Blair, and they were all
present with their families. 1t is esti-
mated that, including all the collateral
relations, the family can muster 10000
individuals, which is about one-sixth of
the population Of the county.
Chemically, milk and blood, if the
blood be pure, are almost identical.
Blood, however, is not always fully oxy-
genated, and therefore may contain i'm
purities Milk cannot be unhealthful as
drawn from the udder Again and again
have experiments been made with milk
to decide whether it is, as drawn from
the healthy udder, free from germs II
has always been found free, and will
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