The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-07
FACTS OF INTEREST.

IT has been ascertained that plate glass
will make a more durable monument than
the hardest granite
1t is said that sea water may be con-
verified into paIatabie beverage by means
of citric acid which will precipitate the
salt
padded apartment for children I'm a
parlor car is the latest railway improve
ment. IT is supplied with games. pare
goric, etc
Crude rubber. which has since been sold
at $40 per pound, was drug on the
market at cents when Goodyear began
his experiments.
A London restaurant is using electric
ally heated plates so that guests may
eat at their leisure and still have their
food warm to the end Of the meal
The wagons of a Minneapolis bakery
are equipped with sheet-iron stoves I'M
der the drivers seat and enclosed In
zinc compartment. from which a 2iz inch
pipe conducts the heat underneath the
bread box.
For polishing boots and shoes two Cam
adams have invented a box with two roll
ers At its side and a rest in the center
for the foot. polishing band heing placed
under the rollers and over the foot. 70
be drawn back and forth by loop handles
on the ends of the strap.
The Maine Farmer affirms that the TWO
articles Of daily consumption which have
stood the test for years and maintained
the NEST uniform prices are butter and
eggs. This one simple fact ought alone
Ia give sufficient qUietus 10 the fears OF
those who think the poultry business over
done. or liable soon TO become 50,
The prefecture If Paris has Just author
lied the use of an automatic register in
the csbs-a contrivancc which records the
distance covered. The time occupied and
the exact sum due the cabman Both
caoman and clients approve II, SO TIA;
some similar aFrsng & menr would doubt
less become popular in American cities.
A man In Aibermarle county, West Viz
ginla. refused offer Of Sl5ts9 for an
orchard Of pippins. II Is no unusual thing
for farmers there 10 sell their apple crop
for from s3,po0 10 IS 80. a good orchard
Is good thing for the farmers 70 have
on their farms. either North o. South
While its owner sleeps II is growing into
money.
IN an Austrian invention for charging
bottles with gas hy means OF capsules
filed with hQaeied or compressed gases.
Il hollow stopper carries AT the bottom
a capsule holder which when the bot
tia Is closed, II brought by spring into
contact with a fixed perforalor IN the
upper part Of the stopper. thus releasing
ne gas in the capsule
The experience Of John Miller. q Berk-
ley county, West Virginia is reTnarha bic
He has marketed ais immense apple crop
raised or thirtyfouy acres OF rough noun
tain Land. which is assessed 81 less than
S an acre, for s. q 30 A barrel AMI viii
realize therefrcm the handsome sum Of
s2o.o"a From his peach crop he also Melted
*, go. From much smaller acreage his
father cleared nearly $1,000.
The chainsess wheel promises 20 slim
alate the bicycle Industry In such meas
ure as 20 make trade in that line quite
as good next SEASON as it was last season.
Some OF the wheel craft predict that the
best wheels viii sell for $50 but they
may be reasonably assured the public
Will never again buy Wheels, even the
most approved specimens OF ingenuity, at
more than 500 Twenty-Five dollars rii
il all probability. be the ruling price for
chain bicycles ot standard makes next
season.