The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 2, 1891, Page 13

a E£asrox, Pa., which has a population of 15,000, has six Lutheran charches. Prien CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, St. Louis, Mo., has raised in the five years Aust past $220,000. Mus. M. H. Hotcnniss, of Lakeville, | Conn., has given seventy-five acres of land and $275,000 to found apreparatory | evhool for Yale college. | Tue youngest of the cardinals at Rome is fifty-seven years of age, the oldest eighty-four, who has worn the scarlet for thirty-two years. i ‘Tux university of Arizona hasordered . trom the east outfits for the working of every kind of ore, in order to give prac- | tical inatruetion in this line. Genumax educational institutions are | largely patronized by Americans. In | the universities of Germany there sre | 1,080 foreign students. Among them | are 486 Americans, {31 Russians, 90% | Austrians, 225 Swiss and 117 English. ‘Tux British and Foreign Bible So- | elety hes been established eighty-seven | years. During ita long period of exist- ence it has issued 134,000,600 copies of | Scripture writings, translated into 290 tongues.— Northwestern Christian Ad- voeate. ARMY AND NAVY. | Aw authority on such matters states thatthe United States have lost more men in war since 1776 than any uation in Europe. Br a novel device of refiection ona seveen at their rear, heavy guns can now be aimed and fired with the great- est accuracy without the gunners being exposed or even seeing the object to be fired at. Tar most important ship of the French navy, the Brennus, has been launched, after two years and a half of building, at a cost of 26,000,000 francs. Her heaviest guas, of which there are three, are of fifty-eight tons. Bawon, Autuvr Rotuscui.p, a nephew of the house whose millions enable monarchs to put armies in the field, is pow serving his twelve months’ term in the French army as a full private with a possible marshal’s baton in his Imapeack. Tux historic locomotive General, for the capture of which the Andrews raid- | ere were executed, is soon to be sold at | auction. This engine, with oa dozen , similar ones, stand on a siding of the | Western & Atlantic road near Vinings, | Tenn. ‘ | THE NEWSPAPER WORLD. Tux Uttle republic of Uruguay has more newspapers in proportion to its population thau any other country iu | the world. | Tux first known trade journa] pub | lished in: the world wes a bookseller’s | monthly, which was called Mercurius Librarius, and which made its appear- ance in 1648. No passthan 4,965 papers daily make their appearance in the world. They | ere in forty-nine different languages, some of them appearing in two or three languages, in which case one is usually Konglish. of simplicity in the face of a foclL— SHORT POINTERS. GgxzRaty, nature hangs out a.siga Texas Siftings. t Exrremery Opp.—*‘Wasn't his leav- | ing Wall street extremely odd?” “Yes. | Very odd. He cams out even.”—Bpech. A Panisiay wit once defined expert- ence asa comb that one became. pos- | sessed of after having lost one's hair.— | Hebrew Standard. } Wars our hopeful comes home and | BRAZILIAN POINTS. of only 12,000 soldiers, but ‘the govern: | ment-can raise military force of 100,- | 00 men by eonseription. Tuenz have been over 50,000 immi- the past two- yeara Most of | hhave been Italians, Germans and Portu- | gueee. ‘Tuer razages of the yellow fever in| Brasil thie year bave been mainly ia | | tells us of an increase in his salary we | the cities of the eastern seaboard, in- | can almost fee) the glow of the son’s | cluding Bahia asd Rio de Janeiro, and | Up three-quarters of a pound. | veady agreed to return exhibits to the raise.—Boston Courier. Base says there have been 60 mony | lies told during the campeign that it is slmost im for a man to get; credit at a tailor shop.—Roston Tran- ; script. Tue American dollar should have e ; picture of the rising sun shining on a | roll of butter, emblematieof the rapid | ‘ manner in which money melts away.— Dansville Breeze. FARM, ORCHARD AND GARDEN. | Mussovun: had 6,726,000 acres in corn | this year. A SUNFLOWER fifty-two inches in cir | cumference, and eleven | pounds, was raised this fall by a farmer in Garfield, Wach. A raEMeEk in Missouri grafted a to- | mato vine into a potato vine and got | two crops, one from the top and the | | other from the roots. } SM. Turrie, of Ashland, Mo., ema hibited.» peach that measured eleven, | and one-half inches one way and $e: and one-half the other, and weighed: THE SIG FAIR. Foun wUspReD railway lines have-al- | exposition free of charge. ! ‘Tue furniture manufacturers of Chi- | cago have taken steps to make a col- . lective exhibit in their line, and they ; promise that it will open the eyes of visitors. OxvorD UNIVERSITY, England, ex- pressed its willingness to send an eight- oared crew to the world's fair, provided @ competition can ‘be arranged with American college crews. | It is announced in the Berlin news- papers that the entire organization of the Imperial opera company-of Berlin, Germany, will come (tp Chicage in 1803, | to give operatic performanees in the | music ball to be erected in the expoai- tion grounds. Fraxcs, through Edward Bruwaert, the French consul at Chicago, has asked for 150,000 aquare feet of space.in. the exposition buildings—100,000 feet in the | mnanufacturers’ building, 30,000 in the fine arts, 10,000 in the live stock and | 10,000 in the machinery. | Tux government of Russia has de- cided to haul exhibits for the fair at | half rates on all government railroads, | and at the same time it has suggested - to private companies that they make o like reduction. A like arrangement has been effected in Germany. | many thousande.cf people have suffered ; trom it. MansmaL wes preclaimed Fowssca irdeto of ie careers| NOt the Finest. years ego; and was constita- tional preaident after the adoption of | the constitution February lest. : ELECTRICAL SCIENCE. is Chicago shoes ara blackened and polished by electric power, and the ordi- nary “professor” will soon be ‘“‘nowhar.” Wuxs the electric light has been de- prived of its heat rays it is shown to have a powerful stimulating effect upon the muscles of the body. Oxx of the attractions of the Chicago exhibition is to bes pyramid of four hundred pianos connected by electricits and manipulated by one woman. Tax southern New England Telje- phone Company claims to have beaten all records by laying, recently, at t, Cann, 21,500 feet of under- | ground wire in six days and five nights. Paos. .Komtapancu, who has been | melding some curious experiments with lightning, finds that the amount of elec- | tricity in an ordinary ‘fash is so small that it would require thirty-seven | flasbes to keep a common incandescent | lamp Yurning one boar. { THE WORLD AT WORK. ‘Tuus year the Pennsylvania farm: es! upon 1,300,000 seres of wheat Jand have reised 22,500,000 bushels of wheat, or an average of 173 bushels per acre. With @ Diploma from the State Board of Pharmacy and twenty years experience in the Drug Tux latest reports from China are to the effect that the native opposition to all work of railroad construction, if less fanatical than it was a sbort time ago, is still obstinate and serious. 1m 1880 the number of cotton mills in the eoath.was 161, with 14,325 looms end 067,854 spindles. By July, 1889, these had increased to 855 mills, with 45,008 looms and 2,081,268 epindles. Tax, manufacture of paper flower- try. tanta bave been. madeaiready. Their Nght weight and non-Habtlity to break- 3 mark these pots as peculiariy sulta- le for transport purposes. * ‘Tue highest dam in the world is be- ing constructed by the Lake Hemet Compeny in the northern part of Los Angeles county, Cal. It is being built of blocks of granite weighing from five to ten tons, set closely together in beds of Portland cement. It is 100 feet thick at the base and will tower 150 feet. in the air. WATCHES — } Gold, Gold-filled aud silver eases, a) All the SILVERWARE | latest designs. CLOCKS. “Beth Thomas” the best make from large variety. All makes and styles | Forks and Spoons in handsome pat- $2 00 up—50 per cent cheaper than of movements. Ladies Gold-filled case watches; ment for 2 years, any style or make of American movement, from $15 up Zvery Lady Can afford to wear a good watch at that price. terns at BARGAIN PRICE. 2 00 per set. 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Persons at my store and satisfaction is J.G. Walker's old stand, North Side Square, Butler, Mo. FROM OVER THE OCEAN. Tur largest pyramid in Egypt weighs over 6,000,000 tons. ENGLAND possesses 1,900,445 square miles of African territory. Loxpon theater-going is said to have declined to a remarkable extent. ‘Tuere are 527 members of the house of lords and 670 members of the house of commons. Tt costa a Prussian subject about 9750 to secure the title of baron, and he has to pay $2,000 if made a count end $9,000 if created a prince. Own the eastern frontier of the “Dark Continent” coal is so plentiful that by lifting a shovelfal of clay off any par- ticular spot it may be reached. But there is no means of transporting it to market. A COMMERCIAL museum has recently been opened at Constantinople, in which samples of native and foreign products are exhibited, such as textile fabries and metallic substances, lum- ber, woodwork, furniture, chemicals and paper. PEOPLE IN EUROPE. It is now Baron von Pasteur, if the French doetor wants to avail himself of the title. The emperor of Austria has conferred upon him the order of the iron crown. Emperor Francis Josgra oy AUSTRIA recently visited Meyerling and attended maas in the new chapel erected over the very spot where his unfortunate son Rudolph committed suicide some years ago. CagpixaL LAVIGERIE wasorce a bean sabreaur. Cardinal Howard formerly held a commission in the. Life gnards, and the cardinal archbishop of Perth was in his youth the smartest of Aue- trian hussars. CaRRvTuERs, & Scotch editor, looked so much like Thackeray that upon one occasion when Carruthers called upon Thackeray, the maid who met him at the door laughed in his face because she thought her master in a fit of absent- mindedness had come home and asked tor himself. LITERARY ODDITIES. ‘TuE constitution of the United States has been published in New York-in the Hebrew language. with explanatory notes in Hebrew. Tae great Chimese cyclopedia, con- sisting of 5,000 volumes, was published during the reign of Emperor Kang. It isthe largest cyclopedia in the world. Only 100 copies are completed. Avotpa Sutpo, of California, has a he designs giving as a nucleus of a free reference library for San Francisca Mexican is extensively represented in the collection. | A Hesrew manuscript just sold in | |New York contains the Pentateuch bee by Jews in China, where the race and its religion are believed to have di It is a roll 141 feet 5 inches long and 2 feet 2 inches wide. collection of 200,000 rare books which { Not the Largest, BuT THE 1 Mock of Denes t Soaps, Cigars, Tebaccas, S., FOUND IN BUTLER. any and all prescriptions brought to my store with perfect ac- Wanling anything in the drug line are cordially invited to call H. L. TUCKER. guaranteed. SCIENCE OF ALL KINDS. | ‘Tus wear upon the Cape Cod coast is ahown to be at the rate of 755,756 cubic : | yards per year, or an annual wear of the coast equal to a distance of about eight feet. EXPERIMENTS ase in progreas under the auspices of the agricultural depart- ment lookiag to the msnufacture of bread from sawdust. The ehemical eonstitaents are identical. A Dooxy county (Ala.) man is experi- menting with wine making from the jatee of the watermelon. He claims that it makes a most dsiicious wine, and he ts storing away quantities of it. 4 REcsxT eruption on the sun's face was photographed, and lasted for fully fifteen minutes. Ite angular hei showed it to be a disturbsnce the vapors to ascend fully eighty thou- send miles. ‘Tue heat-conducting qualities of the metals range as follows: Silver, 100; copper, 7880; gold, 93.20; annealed aluminum, 88.87; unannealed aluminum, 87.96; tin, 14.60; iron, 11.60; steel, 11.60; lead, 8.50; platinum, 8.40; bismuth, 1.80. MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. | VARIED AND INTERESTING. Naw muslincurtains are from those of last season by being fla- ished with a narrower hemstiteh. IN THE UNITED. STATES. ‘Tax Digger Indians of Caltleenia pes fer insects to any-other kind of esimal Sour of the will not permit the Of the-teloghene | sical cireles that the coming piano forte will have five distinct sete of Hrgrotcessrs give 1607 as the year in which Bishop Ken wrote the “Doxolo- gy” as the last verse of his morning and evening hymns. Axoxe the eminent Jewish com; Se in this century the Jewish Chronicle et. Gebells, San ving names Meyerbeer, Mendelasohn, Mos sheles, Halevy, Herz, Hiller, David, Goldmark, Rosenham, and Rubinstein. Atone time Meyarheer was sneered at tor “putting Judaism in his musie.” Runrwstzix, who passed the summer in the Caucasus, was in the habit of playing the pisno for hours in the day, orrather night. Five or six hundred people used to assemble between eleven at night and twoin the morning “‘listen- ing with rapt attention and in religious | silence to the flood of harmony created by the mastec” Domingo, at the world’s fair. 18 fe eight inches high and siz inebes wide. Ir is not traced back for nearly 4,008 yeurs. Wars Curricr Downing, of Me., left home seventy-five years: planted an acorn in the dooryard. | he returned the other day he found ties HOME HELPS. his scorn had produced an ealrtene ata: ; _Pxwxvumen oil sprinkled on library | eatending forty feet. | seatron each as oi) of cloves, will pre- i Mut eooled by aeration is found to | werage of four persone dolly | keeploager, and to be of better qual- lin tnghane oa delirium rosie ity, than that cooled by ice. | i‘ a Gr: cad = i SURGICAL society is about te te ae ‘TCRRINE. eat cee ee Sweden. It will be com Proportion: one-third glycerine | prised Seandinavians only, ead wil} to two-thirds rose water, is very good hold ita first theeting next year. 7 for the bands. . Tas newest snmathetic nana | THE essence of peppermint will cure | “penta,” discovered ty Peele Sk | am inflamed eye. Pour five drops in | ing io Halle. It ise preparation eftir- j half eo wineglase of warm water and tiary amyl-aleohoi, and is for emell.~ then drop into the eye. | operations only. i q A warm bread-and-milk poultice, with | “4 family were taken | ws heaping tabiespoonful of pulverized | with peter. ' ee earbuncles. Apply | } warm, and w! cold apply another. sician called said that had i Onciore that has been in ue nd | planed with mine partisie aprox H soiled should be scrubbed clean, using | gic acid, which Had formed-.in the ker as little soap as will be necessary for sels. the purpose, and then varnished with sileloth varnish, which costs about fifty conts a pint.