The morning news., 1897-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A statistical fend has figured that the
4,150, 10000 cigarettes manufactured during
1896 would reach 1s012l miles if they We're
placed end to end in line, or would girdle
the earth more than seven times.
The postal service of the United States
costs $9.OOOOOO a year above receipts. while
that of Great Britain yields a profit of
over S14OOO,OO0, that of France nearly $10,-
100000, that of Germany S6,O00,000 that of
Russia $S000,000 and that of even India
and Japan S1500,000 says the Boston Her
aid. About the only other nations whose
postal service does not pay expenses are
Canada, Norway SIAM Chilli, Peru, Bull
garia and Bolivia.
Mrs. Nellie Kimball has demonstrated
the good results of industry and business
circulation, says the Boston Advertiser.
Six years ago in the beginning of her
widowhood she decided to continue the
business left by her husband, this being
a coal and wood yard, situated near the
shore of Lake Erie entirely away from
the active portion of the town. She was
a young woman, had just recovered from
a long Illness and did not feel equal in
any way to the work before her, but she
went braVeiy in. Under her excellent
management the business has grown, and
is now large and thriving. In addition to
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for supplying all the coal used by five
dredges employed by the government for
cleaning the harbor The contract calls
for about 5000 tons. She has to "coal
UP" two Of these dredges every evening.
She is her own and only bOokkeepeT,
weighs every ton of coal sent out from
the yard, hires and discharges the men,
and gives personal attention to the care
of her horses. Her days are filled with
work, which begins at 1880 a. m, and ends
at irregular hours in the evening. Quite
recently she has added a farm of eighty
acres to her business cares. Mrs. Emma
Hamilton is the owner of large coal and
wood yard. She also sells drain pipe, fire
brick, tiles, cement, etc, has a trusty
man in her Office, but oversees her books
and the business generally herself. Be
sides this she was president of the Wo-
mans Educational and Industrial Union
for three years, when she retired on ac-
count of business and family cares.
What is believed to be the most or.
iginal and unique method yet evolved to
bring an intoxicated man back to a So
Der condition is that in use at Waverly,
an oil town in Wood county West Vir-
ginla, says the Chicago Chronicle. When
oil was first struck there among the
first people to arrive were the saloon men.
and drunkenness was a very common OC
currence on the streets of the little city
until one night the chief of police hit upon
a happy idea and proceeded to put it into
execution with the help of a number of
men about the city whom he had put on.
In a large vacant lot back of one of the
supply houses there was a huge iron gas
tank lying, and in one end of it there was
a hole just large enough to admit of
a Sood-sized man being put in. A drunk
was secured and the chief and his assist
ants proceeded to give him a free dose of
a new jag cure The fellow was compell-
ed to go along, and he was showed through
the hole in the top of the gas tank, and,
once in there, the tank was rolled around
all over the lot. and there was no chance
of him to get out until the crowd had got
tired of the sport and let him out of their
own accord. When the tank is started
rolling number of the gang with stones,
pieces of pipe and clubs walk around it.
and as fast S possible tap the tank gently
with the weapon, and this. of course, in
a hollow iron receptacle, makes a terri
BILE noise. The sound of the noise from
the outside is ear-splitting, and what it
is on the inside is hard to conjecture
Quite number of drunks have been
treated to a round of pleasure in the gas
tank, and none of them has ever been
known to get too much on board since,
and some have even quit drinking alto
gether.
There is an Old adage to the effect that
what is worth doing at all is worth doing
well. Because we cannot see the force
that prOpels the trolley car we are apt
TO forget that the humble duties of the
motorman require intelligence. 1t looks
as if he just turned a handle and that
was the end of it, but the real truth Of
the matter is something very different
1t takes just as much electric power to
start car as it would animal power
and it requires less current to keep the
ear moving than to start it, so that a
great number Of starts and stops means
a large consumption of energy In the
American Electrician there appears an
article in which the actual figures for
these two cases are given. 1t is shown
that the cost of one stop on each trip of
car during a year on a 15-car line may
amount to so, or to $i67 for a 1OO-car
road; SO that if these figures are multi
piled by two stops at each crossing on a
road operating long lines the large cost Is
evident. careful handling of the controIl-
er will save over $1,000 a year on a 15-car
road, and 5000 per year on a 10O-car road
The difference between a careful motor
man, who has been well instructed, and
careless one may amount to from 3 to
per cent. of the total energy consumed
II is perfectly safe, according to this au-
thority, TO say that 10 per cent of the
energy can be saved by more careful
roads at least Is per cent. could be saved
without doubt. The maxim of every mo-
torman should be- use the brake as lit
tie as possible and drift as much as pos
sibe." The employment of skilled mo-
tormen capable of understanding the
mechanism the" handle would result in
saving to the trolley companies, even
though higher salary were paid the men.
and at the same time add much comfort
TO the passengers.
An interesting account OF the manu-
facture of the so-called India ink, which
is made only in the Anhui province Of
China, is given by Mr.. Fraser, our con-
sui at Wuku, on the Yang-tse In his last
trade report, says the Manufacturer. 1t
IS more correctly called China ink-encre
de Chine-and from Anhui Il goes TO every
part of China, and all over the world. In
1888 about two tons OF IT, valued at 1854
were exported from Shanghai to foreign
countries. The materials with which this
beautiful black ink Is made are sesamum
or COLA OIL or the oil expressed from
the poisonous seeds Of tree extensively
cultivated in Nang-tse valley. and also
well known IN Japan. To this. varn.sh
I splF % ID.