| Show NATURAL GAS there seems to be wonderful possibilities in the natural gas now being found in seemingly inexhaustible quantities in so many different localities the public has become familiar with its nse for lighting and heating dwellings driving in factories etc but it now likely to supersede supercede super cede coal or other fuel on railroad locomotives alio officials of the fort wayne cincinnati and louisville railroad have tor some time past been experimenting in storing the gas under strong pressure in portable tanka and have found it entirely ablo to do so using strong steel tanks like those used in the transportation of kerosene which attached to the tender of the engine and with attachments to the firebox fire box will supply the fuel for making steam the escape of gas from all the gas wells is under so great pressure that it simply needs a connection with alie tank to store it full under ft pressure in some cases of pounds to the square inch while the flow from alie tank to tho combustion chamber can bo regulated by a gauge to as low as a half ounce pressure to the square inch or whatever amount may be required it will only need on any line of road where gas is obtainable to have a sufficient number of wells which would take the place of the present coaling stations furnishing tho roads with fuel almost literally as cheap aa air since a well once sunk and properly piped there would be no appreciable expense thereafter not only is there a possibility of its taking the place of coal as a fuel for locomotives but these gas tanks filled can be furnis hsi manufacturers away from wells the amount contained in a single tank under the pressure possible furnishing fuel sufficient perhaps for days or weeks it is hard to overestimate alie benefits that would result from a substitution of the dustless smokeless odorless gas for soft coal ss it now seems not improbably will be the the case it will be a grand estep forward in the material progress of alie age RUINED and buried cities are now known to have existed near the central regions of africa of which the modern world has until quite recently had no knowledge whatever the ruins of very ancient cities upon the seacoast just south of zanzibar have of late been discovered some way south of river ia a large region extending from the sea nearly miles inland and to miles toward the south in which ruins are constantly being covered proving that in prehistoric limes the country inhabited by people mr oneill says neso numerous ruins are nearly as v cd as those of assyria some day ab nb doubt they will be systematically stud aed their existence shows conclusively that a large region in inner africa now gh to savage men and wild beasts v subject many centuries ago to the rol of a people who were consider olo advanced in alie arte of civilization A DILL has been introduced in the senate at washington providing for the stamping of all packages containing any preparations of lard the testimony given before alie senate committee on agriculture by parties who have esam ined various preparations of lard now on the market has added materially to the stock of public information on this point A chemical examination of several prominent brands of family lard has shown them to be variously constituted one sample cx seems to have been totally innocent of any trace of hog lard and to have been made up chiefly of beef fat and cottonseed oil other brands of lard have contained varying percentages of the above articles with the addition of hog lard and st earine one brand in particular contained 60 per cent pure lard 20 per cent cottonseed oil and 20 per cent st earine TEXAS is a large state and it docs things on a large scale its new state capitol which will be completed in may is a magnificent structure looming up four feet above the calv washington it lias not cost the bealy a cent of money either and eliat is where it differs from the capitol at albany A syndicate was giann acres of public lands to build it not a very large amount considering that texas has about one hundred and seventy millions cf left the state has a balance in its treasury too of about in cash and securities we congratulate texas I 1 slay tho lone star never cease to twinkle IT ia to be wished anya arch parkhurst liere were a law prohibiting the use of spelling books and gram mere I 1 studied grammer in alie ordin iary way about three weeks just long enough to find out what a genius gome people can show in putting asunder what god hath joined together it is a splendid device for using up aboor boys time and souring his disposition but it will not keep him out of the grave nor help him pay rent and butchers bills IN a carefully prepared article on the hinde rances to surplus reduction which appears in the march forum congressman springer estimates the bounties re allting from our protective tariff system upon all tho manufactures of the county during the past year have doubtless cx bomin has completed b crazy quilt with pieces in it her 1 husband is said to button his suspenders with a horae aboe nail eat 1 ACCORDING to the annals a publication issued in the interests of deaf mutes there are now sixty nine schools for this j class of unfortunates in tho united states including the national college of these fifty six are public and thirteen are denominational and private the number of pupils instructed during the year 1887 was the total number who have received instruction from the date cf opening of the several institutions to the present time is stated to bo the whole number of hera employed is of whom are men and are women and of tem are deaf mutes or semi mutes THE snow storm that visited new york was simply a holy terror nothing like it having occurred in the present the finding of a woman frozen to death on the corner of broad way and fulsom tono of the most prominent business centeio of sew york is something that would be looked for on a west ern prairie but not in a city like new york all kinds of business was suspended including the around street car service tho interior cities of nev york and pennsylvania have suffered equally as bad most of them being pant out from the world by rail and telegraph EVES the clearest water is perfectly opaque from a certain point of view this may be discovered by raising a glass of water a little above the level of the eye and attempting to scean object held just over the surface of the water the latter appears just like a burnished mirror and the eye cau see nothing beyond it A glass of whisky if raised to a level of tho mouth an indefinite number of times will prevent abo eyes from seeing an object no matter where it ia held IT is estimated that the new tariff bill if passed would reduce the revenue by about of comes from extension of the free list from woolens bom sugar from earthen and glassware nearly from metals from chemicals from provisions from coltonq r from hemp jute etc ail a il about from sundries and now tho war begins adov HERE is how the salt lake boom is working the piece is from a salt lake paper leading benl estate men aro advocating the moving of the cemetery to some more remote part of the city its present location is in the vicinity fashionable residences naturally tend it might be well to advocate the matter and see what the people think of it surely if it is to be moved it should be done soon mn GEO P ROWELL of new york who is authority on such matters in an address before the american newspaper publishers association at indianapolis proved that five newspapers issue than one seventh of the total edition of all the daily papers printed the number newspapers in the united states now numbers about fourteen hundred times greater than tho average of tho others A TEXAS paper makes the statement that a man recently driving a oxen that one of them died from being overheated and that while he tarried by the wayside to skin the animal a blizzard came aul froze the other ox to death utah 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