Show NEWS ITEMS A LEFT HANDED knife and fork combined has been invented by a soldier who lost his bis right arm at sailors creek the last fight of the war it is so constructed strutted str acted ted that a person who has lost his right arm can cut his food and feed himself without difficulty and shows remarkable mechanical genius IN ix one mile of the cable now being manufactured for the atlantic telegraph there are seven miles of copper wire w re seven beven miles of gutta per perelia percha clia elia six six miles of galvanized wire and fifty miles of manilla spun yarn seventy miles of material to one mile of cable THE following owing story stony is told of a alfather pa th er of the church at Athu an association dinner a debate arose as to the use of the rod in bringing up children the doctor took the affirm affirmative an and d the chief opponent active was a young minister in ister lster whose reputation for veracity was not high he maintained that parents often do harm to their children by unjust punishment from not known knowing g the facts of the case why said he tithe the only time my father whipped me was for telling the truth well retorted the doctor it cured you of it it IT is said that moore one of the concord bank robbers was married a few days ago to a girl in cochituate a few miles out of the city and is living in gay style sporting a handsome span of horses and other luxuries if robbers can zan always do as well as moore did id getting the plunder and then making advantageous terms with the losers the profession will get to be attractive 7 thel tili till folsom telegraph tele gra ph says the power of nitroglycerine nitro glycerine can hardly be estimated we are informed that at the granite quarry on the line of the tho pacific railroad near roseville Eo seville during last week a hole was drilled feet in depth and when it exploded it rent and threw loose an immense mass of granite running down feet below the bottom of the hole being far the heaviest blast ever made in the quarry this was tried as an ex pediment before the accident occurred at san francisco A PRODIGY the bohemian papers give an astonishing account of the facility for learning languages possessed by b YI a herr Sze a young bohemian only Y twenty three years old oid he is oil aid said to speak thirty languages and to be not only thoroughly conversant with all the languages of europe but also with those of china japan and malacca at a meeting lately held of the most celebrated linguists of prague herr Sze proved to the satisfaction of his bis hearers that he possessed a most intimate knowledge of the above languages especially the asiatic ones HOOPING IffAT ERIAL erlan the new dis covery is is called plastic slate roofing and purposes to be protected by a patent the process varies so little from methods now in use that it is difficult to see on what ground a patent could issue for it il the materials are slate stone ground to the fineness of flour and coal tar the two are combined in a cold state about three parts of slate flour to one of tar the whole well mixed and left to stand for a few hours when the prepa prena preparation ratio n is applied to the roots previously covered with paper or felting as in the old tar and gravel process it is claimed that by this plan a cheap and completely combustible noncombustible non roof is formed the tar combining with the slate in such a manner that the whole becomes substantially a stone roof which will not crack or change from temperature nor dissolve by the action of fire or water in time there is a complete putrefaction petre faction when all the qualities bf slate are obtained bulletin 1 I 1 I 1 2 |