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Show INTELLIGENCE ITEMS. Railway engines in England have given up smoking. ---- The Pope's new organ, the Aurora, appeared in Rome on the 1st. ---- One hundred pounds of water of the Dead Sea contains forty-five pounds of salt. ---- Water, when converted into steam, increases in bulk eighteen hundred times.---- Purneil? is the latest Irish tator agitator, so to speak. Hamilton News-Graphic. ---- The Louisville Courier-Journal calls ??? Queen Isabella, of Spain, a popular old hussy. ---- A man in Tuscaloosa county, Ala. [Alabama], ate twenty-seven oranges one morning for breakfast. ---- During the conversion of ice into water one hundred and forty degrees of heat are absorbed. ---- In some of the counties of Colorado the children are obliged to go from two to six miles to school. ---- Three thousand people will turn out on a fine Sunday in New Orleans to witness a game of baseball. ---- Mercury freezes at thirty-eight degrees below Fahrenheit, and becomes a solid mass malleable under the hammer. ---- There are ten bridges across the Mississippi above St. Louis, and seven of them have spans as long as those of the Tay bridge. ---- The violence of the expansion of water when freezing is sufficient to cleave a globe of copper of such thickness as to require a force of 27,000 pounds, to produce the same effect. ---- The United States is making more than one-third of the paper in the world. The product is about 180 tons per day, or 610,500 tons a year. There are 227 mills, representing a capital of $100,000,000, employing 22,000 persons, who receive in salaries about $9,500,000. ---- In England there are over 800 kinds of bicycles. There are in this country more than 300 makers, who have invested $5,000,000 in machinery, and who pay out $6,000 a week in wages. There are in England 250 bicycle clubs, with 7,000 members, and there are in use more than 150,000 bicycles. ---- These who are building the Forth? [Perth?] bridge in Scotland have now petitioned the Board of Trade to allow them to lower the structure ten or fifteen feet. The hight [height] as at present arranged is 150 feet above high water mark. The steel for the new work will all come from the foundry of Krupp, in Germany. ---- Rhode Island is not the largest State in the world, but it is making preparations to bring what little weight it has down heavily on the tramp. A bill is now before the Legislature to have every person convicted of being a tramp sent to the House of Corrections for not less than six months or more than a year. Any tramp who carries unlawful weapons, makes threats, kindles fires, or attempts to enter a dwelling, will be sent to State Prison for two years with hard labor. The tramp who injures persons or property will find himself in prison for five years. Detroit Press.---- A big telephone experiment has been tried with complete success. Conversation was kept up between Omaha and St. Louis, the distance by wire being 410 miles. This is the longest distance that the telephone has yet overcome. Every word was heard quite distinctly and the programme [program] was varied by a St. Louis man singing the "Sweet Bye and Bye," and the Omaha person answering with "I'm a Pilgrim and I'm a Stranger," which his voice probably was when it got to St. Louis. Two jars of a Calland battery were used at the Omaha end and five in St. Louis. |