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M c M innville , O regon , T hursday , F ebruary i , 1894.
ELECTRICAL COOKING.!
laGEON AND HOMEOPATHIC
PHYSICIAN.
That
M rpstairs in tlie Garrison Building.
j. CLARK, D. I>. s.,
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i A Billion Expressed in Figures that Can Be
HYSICIANSAND SURGEONS,
(Office over Braly’s Bank.)
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M c M innville
,VCK AND DRAY CO.,
JULTER »4 WRIGHT, Proprietors
)ods of all description» moved and care
handling guaranteed. Collections will
nade monthly
Hauling of a;l kinds
»! ¡IMP
McMinnville, Oregon,
id up Capital, $50,000.
HOW THIS ODOROUS OUM IS OB
NO RED COMPLEXIONS.
It would be curious to know lio»
many of your readers have brought ful
ly home to their inner consciousness
the real significance of that little word
"billien" which I have so often seen
used in your columns. There are in
deed few intellects tliat can fairly grasp
it and digest it as a whole, and there
are doubtless many thousands who cau
not appreciate its true worth,even when
reduced to fragments for more easy as
similation. Its arithmetic symbol is
simple and without much pretension.
There are no large figures—just a mod
est 1 followed by a dozen ciphers, and
that is all it contains. Let us briefly
take a glance at it as a measure of time,
distance and weight.
As a measure of time I would take
one second as tlie unit anil carry my
self in thought through the lapse of
ages back to tlie first day of tlie year 1
of ot'r era, remembering that In all
those years we have 365 days and in
every day just 86,400 seconds of time.
Hence in returning in thought back
again to this year of grace, one might
have supposed that 1,11X1,000,000,000 of
seconds had long since elapsed, but tliis
is not so. We have not even passed
one-sixteenth of that number in all
these long eventful years, for it takes
just 31,686 years, seventeen days, twen
ty-two hours, forty-five minutes and
five seconds to constitute 1,600,660,000,-
000 seconds of time.
It is no easy matter to bring under
tlie cognizance of I lie human eye a bil
lion objects of any kind. Let us try in
imagination to arange tills number for
inspection and for this purpose I would
select a sovereign as a familiar object,
Let us put one upon tlie ground and
pile upon it as many as will reach 20
feet in height. Then let us place num
bers of similar columns in close contact
forming a straight line and making a
sort of wall twenty feet high, showing
only the thin edges of the coin. Imag
ine two such walls running parallel to
each other and forming, as it were, a
long street. We must then keep on ex
tending these walls for miles, nay hun
dreds of miles, and still we shall lie far
short of the required number. And it
is not until we have extended our im
aginary street to a distance of 2388}
miles that we shall have presented for
inspection our 1,000,000,000,000 of coins.
Or, in lieu of tliis arrangement, place
them flat upon the ground, forming- a
continuous line liken long golden chain
witli every link in close contact. But
to do this we must pass over laud and
sea, mountain and valley, desert and
plain, crossing tlie equator and return
ing around tlie southern hemisphere,
through the trackless ocean, retrace our
way again across the equator, then still
on and on, until we again arrive at our
starting point, and when we have thus
passed a golden chain around the huge
bulk of the eartli we shall be but at the
beginning of our task. We must drag
this imaginary chain no less than 763
times around the globe.
If we can further imagine all those
rows of links laid closely side by side,
and everyone in contact w ith its neigh
bor, we shall have formed a golden
band around the earth just 52 feet, six
Inches wide, and this will representour
1,000,000,000,090 coins. Such a chain,if
laid in a straight line would reach a
fraction over 18,328,445 miles, and the
weight of which, if estimated at one-
fourth ounce each sovereign, would be
6,974,437 tons and would require for
their transport no less than 2325 ships,
each with a full cargo of 3000 tons; even
then there would be a residue of 447
tons, representing 64,081,920 sovereigns.
For a measure of height, let us take a
much smaller uuit as our measuring
rod. The sheets of paper on which the
Time» is printed if laid out fiat and
firmly pressed together ns in a well
bound book, would represent u measure
of about one-three hundred and thirty-
third of an inch in thickness. Let us
see how high a dense pile formed by a
billion of these thirr paper leaves would
reach. We must in imagination pile
them vertically upward, by degrees
reaching to tlie height of our tallest
spires, and passing these, tlie pile must
still grow higher, topping the Al[« nnd
the Andes and the highest peaks of the
Himalayas, and shooting up from
thence through the fleecy clouds, pass
beyond the confines of our attenuated
atmosphere, and leap up into the blue
ether with which tlie atmosphere is
filled—standing proudly up far beyond
the reach of all terrestial things—still
pile on your thousands and millions of
thin leaves, for we are only beginning
to rear the mighty mass. Add millions
on millions of sheets and thousands of
miles on these, and still the number
will lack its'.due amount.
I»et us pause to look at the neat plow
ed edges of the book before us. See how
closely lie those thin flakes of paper;
how many there are in the mere width
of a span. Then turn our eyes upward
—in imagination—to our mighty col
umn of accumulated sheets. It now
contains its appointed numlier, and our
1,000,000,000,000 of sheets of the Time»
super-imposed upon each other and
pressed into a compact mass, lias reach
ed an altitude of 47,348 miles. Those
who have taken the trouble to follow
me thus far will, I think, agree with
me that 1,000,000,000,000 is a fearful
thing, and that few can appreciate its
real value. As for quadrillions and
trillions, they are simply words, mere
wools, wholly incapable of adequately
impressing themselves on human intel
lect.
TAINED,
Vou Push the button at Your Bedside and Your
lllections made on all accessible points.
Office hours from 9 a. in. to 4 p ni.
THE (TTY STABLES
MATTHIES BROS
Successors to
Livery, Feed, Sale !
BOOTH &. LAMBRIGHT,
Ileiilers in
SAUSAGES, ETC.
cash price paid for Pressed Meats
Poultry. Market on Third St.
live us a call.
MATTHIES BROS.
ELSIA WRIGHT
Manufactures and Deals Ln
ARNESS
¡ADDLES.
BRIDLES,
WHIPS,
SPURS,
BRUSHES,
ROBES, Etc.
sell* tl.eiii cheaper (han any oilier
r in the Valley
My all lionie-niade
sss is the favorite with all who have
them
Give me a call ami get prices.
ATTORNEY AT-LAW,
innville,
....
Oregon,
flice, Booms 1 and 2 Union Block.
• COMMERCIAL STABLE I
Gates & Henry, Props.
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Don’t Lose
Heart.
QUALEY & HENDERSON,
M. RAMSEY,
IV. FENTON,
cMinnville,
1 had heard that nne could see cook-
ing done by electricity here, and on in
quiring for Its exact location, was di
rected to the end of the north gallery of
the electrical building at the fair, where
I found it in full operation. Many
samples of delicious dainties were pass
ed around, tbe white-capped chef turn
ing out such delicately browned griddle
cakes that one’s mouth watered for a
taste,
I had for dinner
Here, by means of especially prepared
kitchen utensile, one is shown how to
was the best I ever ate.
cook in the most convenient and inex
Thanks to COTTOLENE, the
pensive manner possible, and with the
new and successful shortening.
least trouble. In fact, electrical cook
ing bids fair to prove the long-sought
solution of tlie servant problem in the
average family. All that one needs to
ASK VOUR
slart with arè the electric wires through
GROCER
t he house. There is no range. An or
dinary kitchen table suffices. Ou one
FOR
end of this the electric oven can be
IT.
placed,and on tbe other end the switch
board, with wires for attachment.
I
Three metal discs were on exhibition
just under tlie surface of which one can
Genuine made only by
at close quarters easily discern the mi
N. K. FAIRBANKS CO.,
nute liairhke iucandescent wires, tliat
ST. LOUIS and
are evenly distributed all over them.
CHICAGO, NEW YORK, BOSTO“.
Here we saw the astonishing sight of
water bubbling and boiling in an ordi
nary glass tumbler, which did not
break as it would do if placed upon a
stove or range, simply because the.heat
is so equally distributed over the sur
WILSON & HENDERSON. Props.
face of the disc.
The griddle cakes, w hich the cook
was frying on another one of these discs
were of a delicate brown tint, which
EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS. extended to their very edge in a beauti
ful uniform color. No burnt edges, or
LATEST STYLE RIGGS
AND APPOINTMENTS. white, uncooked borders with soggy,
heavy center when cooked by electric
Speelal Attention Given to
ity.
Boarders.
All the necessary kitchen utensils are
Third Street. Between E and F, McMinn prepared witli tbe incandescent wires
ville, Oregon.
in the bottom, cast in tlie enamel rest
ing plate. There are a stewpan, kettla,
grid-iron, griddle, skillet, chafing dish,
frying pan and Vienna coffee pot; each
curries its wire attachment, which has
only to lx* connected with Hie switch
board when sufficient heat is generat
ed to cook the food more quickly and
PLANT FERRY’S SEEDS
witli mudi less waste than with a
this year, and make up for lost tlma,
. Ferry’« Seed Annual for 1804 will I
coal or gas stove.
k g>ve you many valuable hints A
about what to raise and how to
Asbestos plates can also be placed un
raise It. It contains informo-^M
der the coffee pot and chafing dish
tion to I m * bud from no othei^^F
source. Free to aiL^V^
when in use on the table, to keep them
Xk D. M. Ferry A
Detroit,
from burning tlie linen, A breakfast
of steak, potatoes, coffee and pancakes
can be easily prepared in twenty min
utes, witli no fires to light and no
waiting for tilings to get hot,no smoke,
no fumes, no ashes, and everything is
ready at a moment’s notice.
It has been proven that two broilers,
Mailile and Granite a griddle
and three irons can be run at
Works.
the same expense that one ordinary
Q-CTIXTCY, ¡MASS. costs with a gas stove. Those who
have used it testify that the juices of
tlie meats broiled by electricity are
more thoroughly retained when cooked
by electricity and that only those who
have tried it know the merits of a truly
Oregon. delicious lieefsteak. There are all kinds
Are prepared to do Cemetery work in of irons also, and one of these will suf
all its branches at Isittom prices. Any fice the laundress. For as long as its
one needing work of this kind twill do wire is attached to tbe board, there is
well to call nnd examine their stock no need of changing it.
and get prices tafore going elsewhere.
The heat is retained, and a clever
combination of asliestos kept the han
Assignee’s Notice.
dles without warmth. Another great
convenience is the ability to attach tffis
Notice is hereby given that tlie iimlcr-
stgned lias been duly appointed assignee of iron to tlie wires in any part of tlie
tlie estate of W. H. Harrison, an insolvent house.
In summer weather, in the
,lei,tor of Yamhill county, Oregon. All country, tlie linen of the entire family
persons, therefore, having any claims
against said estate are hereby notified and could be ironed on the veranda, for a
required to present them to me duly veri cool, refreshing breeze does not affect
fied at tlie law office of McCain A Magers,
at McMinnville. Oregon, within three the heat of this utensil.
months from tliis 23d day of Novemlicr, A.
The oven is most complete in all its
[».. 1893,
adjuncts. With a thermometer on top
W m . M. C hrisman ,
Assignee of said Estate. and a glass window to enable the cook
McCais.t M acks ,
to inspect the inside, which is also
Attorneys for said Estate.
lighted by electricity, the temperature
and the roast itself can be carefully
watched.
There are three electric plates in the
oven, three over the spit and three be
low. Being air-tight, ft is unnecessary to
open the door to baste the meat, as the
CLEAR
generated vapor within bastes the
SKIN
latter automatically. In ten minutes
after turning ou the current tbe oven
can be heated to 300°. Then the roast
is put in and tbe heat reduced to 250°
FOR A CASE »T WILL___NOT CURr
by turning the switch. Suppose tlie
An smvenble Laxative and
ineat to weigh sixteen pounds,it should
be left there for two hours without
i opening the door. The oven retains its
temperature of 250“, the meat is natur
ally 1 lasted without trouble and Is bak-
' ed all over an even brown. No heat is
! lost,so that it Is cooked in less time thau
i an ordinary oven, where, with opening
BEST IM THE WORLD.
and shutting tbe door, with drafts et».
Its weorin« qualities ar« unsurpassed, »ctuaiiy
»4 per cent of the heat is lost and only
0 per cent saved. Here one loses only 6
r0R8ALKBYDEAI.ERSGEXFR.KLLY. lyr
per cent.
i This electrical apparatus, although
introduced only two years ago. Is be-
c lining w idely known and is much
TO
used ill the kitchens of clubhouses
throughout the country. The hotels of
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and
We want many men, women, boy«, «nd girl» to Washington are beginning to take it
work torn« a few boars dally, righl in sad sn«n. up, and many private residences are
their own home.. TV
i« e~y. I*—«.
provided with this convenience,
„rlrtlrbo.on.ble. .nd |XV« Mt’er ’h»»
U now
’
offi-red Men... Yo.
‘.'lifer an •iverv bit of fissi placed before the fas
competition- F.sperira. . •*'J*"*'*“'’J ” tidious laeiubCCJ of the Minnesota club
nrccenary. X. capital rwjalred. Weeqaipjou
w^T7r.tb<«, that ron need. Ires- y«. «> - of St. Paul is cooked by electricity, and
they al! testify (o the merits of the
.nd help yon to earn lea
Women do .. well » men. .nd No.
' roast.« and the juiciness of the steaks
make <oo.l pay. Any one, .nywhere, enn do be
work. AU .Trt«e.l alm follow onrplaln ajd rtm. and chops cooked in this manner. The
Mondamin clnb of Sioux City and ho
pie direction«.
yoa a great del »f mowr KeerytMag le aew tels in Illinois, Kentucky, and in fact
and In ger.! "lem—i. Writ, foe oar
all over the west and south, are enthus
drealsr, .nd reeeir. fnlUafcrm..b.n 3« h.™ iastic in its praise. One can furnish a
done if yo. conclude not to go on with th. kitchen with the wbote apparatus and
all the necessary utensils for $75. But
it is really not important to have them
C eorce S tingom &C o ., all
to start with. One can commence
Box <«8,
I by proenring the switch board, three
PORTLAND, MAINE.
. dises, the oven and coffee pot, using
i one’s own utensils on the discs until
' tbe experiment ha. been tried.
REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES.
•zniai tj a General Banking Business,
osits Received Subject to Check
interest allowed on time deposits.
11 sizlit exchange and telegraphic trans-
on New York, San Francisco and l’ort-
Oregon.
:ry, Feed and Sale !
rything New
And Firstclass.
I Accommodations for Commercial
Travellers.
• Second and E Streets, one block
i Cooks hotel.
J. F. FORD,
(S-vauxg-wllnt,)
* Moines. Iowa, writes under date of
Marcli 2J, 1893:
M ei >. M fg . C o .,
Dufur, Oregon.
emen.*
arriving home last week, 1
1 all well and anxiously await-
Our little girl, eight and one-
years old, who had wasted
I to 38 pounds, is now well and
'ous. and well fleshed up. S. B.
li Cure has done its work well,
of the children like it. Your
Cough Cure has cured and
away all hoarseness from me.
Ve it to every one. with greet-
)r all. Wishing you prosperi-
e are Yours,
M r . & M rs . J. F. F orm .
in wish to feel fresh and cheerful,and
for the Spring’s work, cleanse vour
i witli the Headache and Liver cure,
ing two or three doses a week.
) cents a tattle by all druggists. Sold
a positive guarantee by Rogers Bros.
KO
FRAZER GREASE
£ DOLLARS
”
PER DAY
20 Easily Made.
, L. D ouglas
i shoe «rss«
.used than any other make. Try
( .
convinced. The stamping of " J-
>ne and price on the bottom, which < us ranters
eir value, saves thousands of doilars ■nnuallv
thrw« who wear them. Dealers who posh the
'nr footwear of the dealer advertised he tmv .
r. I'
soM i ~
. JACOBSOX, McMIN’XVILLF.
—
Uader»to<Ml.
The Heat under Perfect Control.
LBRKATH & GOUCHER,
FORMOSA CAMPHOR.
NO SITOKE. NO FLAflE, NO ASHES, •
Breakfast Is Ready by the Tima You Dre-»«.
«dilate of one of tlie greatest dental
oh in America, I lie dental department
,« 1’niver.dtv of Mu lligan, lias owned
ffi. e in Room li ot tlie Union Mock. All
t in dentistry can lie performed, frown
bridge work a specialty.
WHAT IT MEANS.
A coniession has lieen secured by an
American for the construction of an
electric railway between Tokio and Yo
kohama, a distance of about thirty
mile«. Two American engineer, a.«
said to tee now on their way to Japan in
connection with the matter.
■re Orowlng Scarce and Soon Will Disappear
Altogether.
One of the chief industries of Formo
sa is the manufacture of camphor gum
from tlie camphor laurel tree. It is
fairly profitable work, but the difficul
ties connected with It are by no means
light. In the first place, the camphor
laurel grows in savage places only, and
the liillmen, the Hakkas, who border
on that territory, have to make mone
tary or other arrangements with the
savage chiefs to protect or refrain from
destroying tlie stoves or stills wbichtbo
farmers and farm bands set up in their
country.
These arrangements ure, as a rule,
very unsatisfactory, for as soon as trou-
ble arises, no niatter what may have
lieen tlie cause, they proceed witbout
delay to vent their resentment en the
stills,
whicli
are
promptly de
stroyed. Several foreign firms are en
gaged in the trade, and their method of
conducting the business is worthy of
uotice. Advances are made to the lilll-
nieu, ou condition that tucy set up a
certain number of stoves, and supply
mont lily the amount of camphor at tlie
price agreed upon, and repay the ad
vances by installments at certain stated
periods. Bonds are entered into and
securities given by tlie liillmen.
As soon as the liillmen have settled
all preliminaries with the savage chiefs
they run up a slied or rough building,
the size of which depends upon the
number of stoves it is intended to con
tain. If ten are to be used the building
would lie twenty feet long by twelve or
thirteen feet broad. In. the center of
the floor nil oblong structure, some four
feet high, ten feet long and six feet
broad is built of sun-dried mud bricks,
having five flreplaces or boles at each
side, raised a foot or so above tlie floor
of the room.
Tlie two ends of tlie structure are sol
id and without flreplaces. The latter
are so built thut an earthenware pot
can easily lie inserted above the Are in
each hole. An earthenware cylinder
connect» the mouth of each pot with
the surface of the structure, or still, as
it may conveniently be called. Be
tween the pot and the lower end of tlie
cylinder there is a round, thin piece of
wood Atting both the mouth of the pot
and the lower end of the cylinder, and
perforated so as to allow the steam from
the water in the pot to pass Into tlie
cylinder during distillation.
The top of each cylinder is UHually
about a foot in diameter, and is level
with tlie surface ot the still, Snell a
still would present to the eye u mud
structure, with ten round holes on the
top and five fireplaces at each of the
two longest sides. To complete it,how
ever, ten large earthenware jars are re
quired. These, during the process of
distillation, are placed, inverted, on tbe
top of the still immediately over the
upper end of the cylinders, so as to
form the eondeusers. To prevent the
escape of steam from tlie condensers,
bands of jute are fitted firmly between
their mouths and the top of the
still.
Suppose, then, there is a heap of
camphor wood chips at band, from
which it is required to extract the cam
phor. The pots are fllied with water
and the cylinders with chips; the jars
are in position on top of the still, and
tbe firewood is lighted under tlie pots.
When the water boils the steam passes
up througli the perforated wood into
tbe cylinders, heats and moistens the
chips and ascends to the condensers,
carrying with it the camphor fumes
whicli the chips have given forth. The
steam then condenses on tlie inside of
the jars, and when the latter are re
moved a layer of white camphor crys
tals is found adhering to tlieui. This
is brushed aft by hand and placed in
baskets.
The chips are then with
drawn from the cylinders, fresh chips,
take tlieir place, water is added to the
pots, tlie condensers are again placed
in |MHition, additional firewood is
thrown into tbe fireplaces and distilla
tion re-begins.
The camphor laurel attains an enor
mous height and girth ill Formosa.
There is to be seen a horizontal sec
tion of a stem Which was at least six
feet In diameter and which at one time
formed the entrance to the house of a
savage chief. The doorway Is cut out
of the section. It is now a trophy lie-
longing to a missionary and has to lie
accommodated ou the veranda of his
house. Much difficulty is experienced
by the liillmen in felling those forest
giants, and recourse is had to firing, so
as to expedite their work. Tbe tree
onee felled, the branches are removed
and tin- trunk sawn up into planks.
Branches and planks are then set upon
by a number of men, each armed with
a small scoop-shaped adze, every stroke
of which removes a chip about an Inch
long. In time the iriant is reduced to a
heap of chip«, which are treated for the
camphor as described. Tbe extract re
mains a grayish white powder, which,
unlike tlie camphor produced in Japan,
does not solidify under pnsanre. A
ready market Is found for Formosan
camphor, which is an important ingre
dient in the manufacture of smokeless
powder.
Excavations in Oisseau 1e Petit, de
partment of tlie Sarthe, France, have
revealed a Gallo-Roman city which ap
pears tn have been destroyed by an
earthquake. The eity probably con
tained some 30,(XX) Inhabitants, but its
name Is not kne^rn Hi French history.
The ruins include a great temple, part
of which la still standing, also a theater
and monuments. — Engineering
Mining Journal.
PROGRESS IN PRINTING.
Stereotyping and Machine Composition Ha*
Stimulated Newspaper Production.
The facility witli which events are
now recorded in the printed page, to lie
multiplied in ’countless thousands of
copies in time so brief as to be but bare
ly appreciable, Illustrates the march of
modern inventjou. The art of printing
from movable types is something over
four hundred years old; but it is only
within the last thirty years tliat tlie
Improvements have lieen such as to
make possible marvelous work now
done by modern newspapers. There
were fast printing presses before 1860,
presses which would turn oil’ twenty
thousand copies of a paper au hour;
but these presses printed direct from
the type forms, for whicli the type
were set by hand. The perfecting of
rupid stereotyping processes, by means
of which one type form would furnish
duplicate plates for several presses, was
effected between 18(H) and 1865. This
gave rise to tlie system now in vogue
of printing from an endless roll, in
stead of tlie sheets being fed singly by
an army of hand feeders. A far liiglier
speed and a great saving in the cost of
presswork were the immediate results
This lowering of the cost and making
possible tlie largest desired issues in the
shortest time, while the news was
fresh, has stimulated newspaper pro
duction to a remarkable degree.
Notwithstanding tlie improvements
made in other departments of the
prilling business,¡the typesetting—tlie
work of picking up singly by hand
each individual letter and character
forming the printed page—has until re
cently remained unchanged. Work
could be hastened by employing many
hands, each one putting in type a few
lines, but the process was slow and ex
pensive. Thus, in all descriptions of
printing, the largest item in the initial
cost is that of putting the work in type.
That inventors have long realized the
importance of improvement in this di
rection lias been plain enough, some
two hundred patents having been is
sued from tlie United States patent
office relating to typsetting and type
distributing machines. But the diffi
culties in the way of success have been
enormous. Only two styles of ma
chines have been put on tlie market of
this country, and one in Europe,
which have met witli some degree of
success commercially for a period of
fifteen years, and another and later
candidate for favor is the Mergenthaler,
or linotype machine. In tlie Mergen-
tlialer only one operator is required,
nnd the rate of speed attained probably
about four times the rate of typesetting
by hnnd.
VOL. VI. NO. 1
TECHNICAL SCHOOLS
|
well
sustained
schools
of either
supporteli by nation, by state, by
I class,
city, or by any form of public or pri
THE UNITED STATES IN NEED OF | vate permanent systematic effort.—
Prof. Jlobert If. Thurston in Scientific
THEM.
American.
Some ol Our States Ar. Very Parsimonious and
SCIENTIFIC SLAUGHTERING.
Without the Liberality ol Private Citizens
Some of Our Largest Colleges Would not Ex
ist.
Very few people have any idea what
The following facts give some idea of rigid economy is practiced at the great
Scientiflc men
tlie magnitude of the task to be assum slaughtering plants.
ed ami of the impracticability of secur are constantly cudgeling their braius to
ing permanance of an educational sys devise valuable ehemieal properties
tem by private effort; even were it | m > h - and new compounds in materials here
sible that private liberality and private tofore wasted or imperfectly utilized,
activity could give the system form and says tlie Drover’» Journal.
The cross roads butcher w ho kills a
coherent and symmetrical growth.
The United States constitute a nation few animals a week, throwing away a
of about 65,000,000 of people. Of these large part of the offal, must make a
three-fifths, about 30,000,000 are minors large profit ou the meat sold, but mod
and a large fraction of them demand ern utilization of by-products makes it
and need instruction' in acliools of a so the slaughterer who does business on
higher and lower degree. In their ed a large scale could much better afford
ucation, 300,000 teachers are engaged to sell the meat without profit than to
in 200,000 schools, and about $100,000,- waste what the old fashioned small
(XX) per annum are paid for the work. butcher cannot utilize. The packing
Tlie states usually expend $25 per business as at present carried ouutillz.es
capita and some of the cities about $35 a number of products which were for
for elementary instruction alone. The merly allowed to go to waste. For in-
Federal government has given over stauee, tlie stomachs of hogs, instead of
150,000,(XXI acres of public lands to this being sent to the rendering tanks, are
object, and the states have often as now used for tlie manufacture of pep
signed their first and largest apportion sin. Pigs’ feet, cattle feet, hide clip
ments of their own public lauds to their pings and the pith of horns, as well as
departments of education. In some some ot t lie bones are used for the
cases, single institutions have greatly manufacture of glue. The paunches of
profited by this policy, but as it rule, cattle are cleaned and made into tripe.
education, is conducted. in tlie higher The choicer parts of the fat from cattle
departments, with a most frugal hand. are utilized for the manufacture of «leo
Private individuality has as yet done oil, which is a constituent of butterine
more for individual endowments, gen and for stearine. Large quantities of
erally, than the public. For example, the best of the leaf lard are also used
in New York, the state university— for tlie manufacture of what is known
Cornell, receives as the shares of the as “neutral” also a constituent butter
state under the Mnrrill act about $20,- ine. The intestines are used for saus
000 a year from the half million or les. age casings; the bladders are used to
obtained by sale of lantl scrip; it re pack putty in; the undigested food in
ceives from the Cornell endowment, the cattle stomachs is pressed and used
which was produced by the discreet for fuel; the long ends of the tails of
holding and sale of the lands obtained the cattle are sold to mattress makers,
on the same scrip bought by Ezra Cor the liorus and hoofs are carefully pre
nell and given to Hie university over served and sold to the manufacturers of
$300,000 per annum from the $5,(X)0,0(X) combs, buttons, etc. Many of the large
or more thus privately given it; and it white hoofs go to China, where they
has still enough land for sale to make are made into jewelry. All the blood is
about 5<X) good farms. Harvard, Co carefully preserved, coagulated by
lumbia, Yale and Princeton and Johns steam, then pressed and dried and sold
Hopkins have larger incomes from pri to fertilizer manufacturers. All of the
vate endowments than have the insti scrap from rendering operations is pre
served and dried and sold for fertilizers.
tutions supported by the states.
The governments of Europe are wiser Bones are dried and either ground into
and more liberal than our own states. lione meal or used for the manufacture
Prussia lias erected at Charlottenburg of bone charcoal, which is afterward
the grandest technical institution in utilized for relining sugar and in some
the w orld, at a cost of about $4,000,000. other relining processes.
Saxony has erected a whole system of
Presence of Mind in Pulpit.
trade nnd polytechnic schools, and Zu
rich has Invested, safely and profitably
Frederick the Great, being informed
The Deepest Metal Mine.
some millions in her great unlversiy, of of tlie death of one of his chaplains, a
The United States lias now, we lie- which the laboratories alone have cost man of considerable learning and piety
lieve, the metal mine in the world. For nbout a half million dollars. With a determined to select a successor with
some time that claim lias been made taxed valuation of $(¡,500,000,000, the the same qualifications, and took the
for the Maria shaft, nt the mines of state of New York has contributed— followiug method of ascertaining the
Pitzbram, in Austria, which was 3765 and only within tlie year—just $50,000 merits of one of the numerous candi
feet below the surface at the time of the to its university, under the shadow of dates for the appointment. He told
time of the great fire in 1892; and the millions given it by Its private lien- the applicant that he would furnisli
nothing, we believe, has been done up efactors; Michigan has given about him with a text tlie following Sunday,
on it since that time. It has now been $2,000,000 to her university and tech when be was to preach at the royal
surpassed in depth by tlie No. 3 shaft nical schools. She also gives a regular chapel. The morning came and the
of the Tamarack copper mining com tax levy of large amount. Wisconsin chapel was crowded to excess.
pany, in Michigan, which on Decem gives a half million in buildings and a • The king arrived at tlie end of the
ber 1 st was 3640 feet deep, and is now tax levy of about $05,000 per annum. prayers; and on the candidate ascend
more than 3,700 feet deep, tlie average Minnesota has given to the same, cause ing the pulpit he was presented with a
rate of sinking being aliout 75 feet per about $750,000 and a tax levy of aliout sealed paper by one of his majesty’s
month. Tills makes it beyond ques $50,000; California about $1,000,000 and aides-de-camp. The preacher opened
tion the deepest metal mine in exist a perpetual state tax of one-tenth of a it and fouud nothing written. He
ence, and only one other shaft has mill, now yielding $100,000 a year, end did not, however, lose his presence
reached, a greater depth, that of a coal other states, in a similar manner, are ef mind, but turning the paper eu both
mine in Belgium, for which 3900 feet is just beginning the work which has sides, he said:
“My brethren, here is nothing and
been going on in Europe for a century.
claimed.
For the attainment of thisdlstinction The magnitude of the demand for tech there is nothing: out of nothing God
we have to congratulate Captain John nical instruction in the United States created all things.”
And proceeded to deliver an eloquent
Daniels,
the
general
manager is greater than is usually supposed,and
of the company, for the skill and suc the real need, which vastly exceeds the discourse on the wonders of the crea
cess with which the work has been demand—is far beyond the ordinary tion.— Sala’» Journal.
carried on. In Germany the comple estimates of even the educator engaged
But Few Aspirants Pass.
tion of the Adalbert shaft to a depth of in this social work. The writer has
Tbe Grogre» <le Saigon gives a de-
1000 meters (3280 feet) was thought estimated that, were the United States,
worthy to be the occasion of a public as a whole, to provide as liberally for tailed account of what purports to be
festival; and though the Tamarack the technical education of its people as the form of examination which the
shaft has t>een carried down to the <lo some of the provinces of France,and Buddhist religion, as practiced in Co
present great depth entirely as a matter of (¡erinany especially, th.re would be chin-China, prescribed for all who as
established:
pire to priestly honors. Evidently the
of business, and no especial formalities
Twenty technical universities, hav pious followers of the immovable J osh
have marked its progress, tlie remarka
ing in their schools of engineering and
ble achievement certainly deserves rec* higher technique 50 instructors and 500 are firm believers in the doctrine that
ognition, for not only has it been sunk pupils each. Fifty trade schools and man's first error was caused by woman
to a greater depth than any before it, colleges of 20 instructors and .XX) stu for all the bonzes are celibate (theoret
but it has been sunk with much great dents each. Two thousand technical ically at least) and the test of fitness is
er rapidity and at a less cost than prolc high schools, or manual training Imsed on the same doctrine.
The neophyte is introduced to a fas
ably any European shaft of anything schools, of ten instructors and 200 pu
cinating maiden specially put up to the
like its depth or in ground as hard.—
pils each.
business of tempting him, and the
and Min. Jour.
That is to say: There should 1« in forms and ceremonies of the rite are all
the United Slates to-day 1<XX) universi- designed with a few of intensifying the
The Barth’s Motion.
ty professors and instructors, and 10,-! seduct|ve charms which the fair sex
use w weU without ml-
In the December issue of Popular 000 students under their tuition, study- ' k„ow how
Aetronomy Eliza A. Bowen shows how ing the highest branches of technical nutely describing the proceedings,
the earth's revolution may be manifest work; there should be 1000 college pro which to put it mildly, would knock
to the eye. I)r. L. Swift, in Popular fessors and 15,000 pupils in trade the celebrated “Temptation of St. An
schools, studying for superior position» thony’’ higher than forty kite«, it may
Astronomy says:
Place on the floor of a room free from in the arts; 30,000 teachers engaged in be mentioned that nine oat of ten as
tremors and air curreuts a good sized trade and manual training schools, in-1 pirants fail to pass this severe ordeal,
bowl nearly Ailed with water and struct I ng pupils, 400,000 in number, | an(J arp therefore disqualified.-JAw-
sprinkle over the surface of the water proposing to become skilled workmen. ; k
Telegraph,
At MI GiMk fianrx— J
this country 1G
10,000,000
fam
an even coat of lycopodium powder, We have t in ». fkianniintrir
Road Courtesy.
and across this make a narrow black ilies, among which are at least 1,(XX),000
liue of pulverized charcoal. Place the boys who should be in the latter class
“I naw the other day," said a citizen,
bowl so that the black line shall coin of schools. The cost of such education
“a driver who had a heavy load on a
cide with a crack in the floor, or, if (lie would be, per annum, als.ut 50 cents
one-horse truck get stuck on a grade In
room be carpeted, lay a stick upon the per inhabitant additional to the present
a down town street. His load was
floor exactly parallel with the mark. school tax, and in the shops of these
somethiug in tags, which were piled
schools
less
than
$100
per
student
and
After a few hours it will be found that
up high and which projected lieyond
the line is no longer parallel with the under $300 per annum per student, for
the tall of bis truck. He bad a good
stationary object, but has moved from total costs of higher education. The
horse, but the load was too much; be
east to west, proving that, during this actual numlier of schools of the highest
just couldn’t pull it. Coming up be
class
in
this
country
—
schools
which
are
interval, the earth has moved from east
hind was a man driving a big I nick,
neither technical universities nor col
to west.
empty, with a pair of big hones. The
The reason appears to me to lie that leges, but, usually, either schools of re
driver set his pole against the pmjact-
the solid floor has with the earth and stricted curricula, as engineering I lnn> liw.-.zG zkf ♦ l*zx AnG-1 xzxmm« taxazilr aaizf
. ,
* «
, .
.[ing load of the «ne-bon» truck »nd
single
and
narrowly-limited
»
......... n .
schools,
or
i
_
bowl moved from west to east, and so
«poke to bi« hor«ee; they juat lifted the
has the water also, but at a slower rate, departments of colleges of general and
one-Lorse truck into motioo. The »in
as there is a slight inertia, of which the mainly liberal learning—Is about fifty.
gle horae «preail himself and kept hi«
yielding liquid does not instantly par The number of real trade schools pre
load going. The man with the double
pared
to
give
proper
training,
scientific
take, to be o»-ercome. It will lie seen
track turned off at the next corner
that the line or charcoal mark always and practical in any one trade, Is un
without a wool; lie had »imply per
known to statisticians, but they are ex- i
moved from east to west.
formed an ordinary courteay of the
reedingly rare, and a thorough repre
Mrs Lease ba« canceled her other en sentative trade school, like hundreds of rossd ’A’. Y. Sun.
gagements to become editor of • dally those scattered all over Europe, is un
The home of David H. Sweetzer, at
paper to be published in Topeka. It known. We have, perhaps, r. dozen Lynn, Ma»«., has lieen owned by mem
will not be called the Inirlli»g Parai* good manual training schools in the bers of his family for the past two ("en
gzer, but that is what «tee will try to larger cities; but we have no system of. turies. His ancestor, Hugh Allen, set-
make IL
carefully organized, complete and 1 tied upon the property in 1635.