| Show ITEMS disasters on western rivers hive have destroyed dc worth of property during aring the current year fifty eight lie were lost by explosions ex PI onions nod and by falling i oyer overboard board the imports at philadelphia are increasing or e alinn considerably iho 1 he galui of th the p merchandise received from foreign ill birta ta cifare increased over the annual receipts of 1871 1 1 the peat deposits of italy cover an area ol of about acres site she pays pa I 1 at annilly to other nations napa for fuel and is now endeavoring in to tc economize ly by using compressed peat the there re were fane hundred and nil forty corty forthe corthe persons known to have committie commit tid suicide in new york daring the year just past which of course there were many not nol probably known fort scott is now the greatest coil coal mart west of st louis the fort scott coal anti and DI mining 0 company ships about b buchels Is per day the lowest price being acin 13 ten cents bushel the cambria iron company has opened a night school in a the ibo third thirl ward johnstown pa for the education of boys who are employed epi lloyed in the mines A avo ka arid one abat should be imitated everywhere can steam ignite is a great ques lion now nov and ILI one which seems not that ihal steam pipes will not dirc set GO fire to adjacent woodi work but bat beyond question do dry tle wood until it t is to tile the last degree 1 good tiling thing lono by one jean dol ills a great manufacturer J i celeb celebrated rated ilia bis gulden golden wod wedding ding by till tho distribution 0 pr o 40 among his bis work wort pe people ople some who have been many years in ilia his will got I 1 as is I 1 macli as an each ea h the santa sant a barbary press preas says bays that col hollister will soon hato th the largest c almond in the it will contain about tries trees besides these ho he is planting latici numbers of limes lemons and oranges p 1 and nd man miny y other fruit trees alligator leather having become tt a valuable article of commerce tile the moa ill 0 bile bild kenister Ke 0 gister i sug suggests gesti that northern capitalists interested in the hide bide and leather trade go south and manua facture the article where they can can obtain in an unfailing lyof the raw material cheap A french inventor has appl applied ioda a screw propeller to a balloon and aar carries rie fourteen passengers and a total weight of three and three quarter tons the balloon answered tho the helm and a two horse power engine is being corli strutted ted to establish and employ the principle tho paris paria goulois G informs the french people that 1 I tho the victori Vic torii bridge over the st lawrence river is ia an immense iron tube weighing 0 of measures more than yards and stretches from the shores or of portland rOTt land laDd maine to port sarnia lake II 11 uron it is estimated that during daring the I 1 last is t year the new york city horto cars r i carried one hundred and twenty five millions of passenger passeD gerse of whom forty millions mil liona rode two miles or more wasting at least thirty minutes in each trip as compared with what would be required if they had a rapid transit rai railway I 1 way A prominent citizen of virginia offen of we the state the sum bum of annually for the exclusive privilege of gathering cathering oysters in virginia ginia waters the rei baue heretofore derived from this source is only annually while tho the cost of collecting is leaving the net ro revenue venue only an I inglish medical journal describes a case of hydrophobia in which the juice of risworth rib worth the rib grass was administered with great success it is is worth noting in connection with this story that one cause of idiopathic hydrophobia in dogs doga is said to be their being prevented from physic ing themselves with grass |
