Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-10
WHAT'S IN A CORN STALK.
Es Can Be Tarned Into smokelesa
 Powder. Dynamite, Etc.

&$ Can Bs Tarned Into Smokelesm
 Powder. Dynamite, Etc
 An immense celIulose plant is near fng completion in Linden, Ind. and when it is in operation Indian corn pith, for ages considered worthless will be put on the market as proteo- sion for battleships of all nations. as smokeless powder. dynamite and other high explosives, as fine art paper, as varnish, kodak films, car-box packing. filler. waterproof cloth. lfnoleum. imt- xation silk, patent leather finish face powder, silieate packing. and hun dred more as novel and varied forms of which the farmer. who has been shrowing stalks away as waste. never dreamed. The outer lining-that part which incloses the pith-will be made into four as an adultefant. as cattle feed. chicken fattener anG on egg producer. Part of it will be made up futo candy, some of it into coloring dyes, and still other parts of it will become part of far more novel pro- cesses. It will add thousands of doI-
 
 meIs, will consume, only that which has been waste. and will furnish n. qloyment for skilled workers. The m. auat average corn area of the United Atates is got far from S0,000,000 acres. Each acre yields on an average about &,O00 pounds of corn stalks, or total of 160,000,000 tons. Of this weight 85 per cent, or 136.000,000 tons, has value es feed, but not over ten per cent of 1t Is actually fed. The other fifteen per cent of the total weight, or 24,000,000 tons, is the pith of the stalk, which has been total waste, or even worse. This Indiana concern has a process which makes it possible for them to pay $S a ton for the stalks, and pro- siuce a raw material which is worth seventeen cents pound, or S340 6 ton. It is figured that If every ton Of stalks in the United States could be SO handled, it would increase the value of each crop s4SO.oo0,ooo
 Telescope Napoleon I. Used.
 The telescope which Napoleon I. <sed to carry has been discovered In the possession OF aG inhabitant of Turin. It has the words: Napoleon I. R" engraved on it, and is kept in velvet case, with the arms of Queen Olga of Wurtemburg on 1t. Napoleon left the telescope, which, curiously enough, bears the mask of Dollond London, in the drawer of his camp sable when he fled from Waterloo. and 1t was taken by a French sergeant. who afterwards gave 1t to it's present Gwner.
 An Extraordinary Obituary Notice
 In the Northampton tGngland) pa- Ners recently there appeared the fol- lowing extraordinary obituary notice: Smith, January 5, at London, George Smith and John Smith, twin sons of the late James Smith, of this towr. aged ST. The twins were both eao snet-makers. and lived at Peckhaln. The coincidences do not end here. for each caught pneumonia following on Influenza, one dying in the mrninn and the other In the evening.
 Tall Mon Scarce.
 The directors of the Great Northern Sf England have issued a circular let- ter to the station agents stating that sn future the standard height tor DOT, ters in the passenger department shat be five feet six inches, and in the good department five feet four inches, This ss considerable reduction, forced by . scaycity of taller men,
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