Show EASTERN NOTES the farmers of kansas are moving in the matter of establishing starch factories to work up their white com corn and in making arrange ments with oil factories to supply flax seed on contract five lines of european steamers will soon be ir opera operation tion from philadelphia that city now enjoys superior sup brior terminal facilities for the handling and shipment of western fra grain having baving a great through route to 0 chicago cago and st louis louls insanity ia Is alarmingly on the increase in in boston in 1862 there were only 92 cases reported last year there were ueary neary including not the hundreds of people who suffered with the delirium tremens cremens when committed to the city prison to bang their heads ag against the padded walls of the cells the silver smelting smelling sm elting works of omaha omalia possess a capacity of tons of ore per month in the six 1 months ending february 1 these works produced and sent to market lead of the value of S and in the same time gold and silver coin value in the same time base bullion received at tho the works to bo to refined weighed pounds I 1 A new now locomotive named the A anthracite n th which has bas been placed on the albany and susquehanna railroad has bas six driving wheel wheels and carries its water above the boiler A tender is thus diven dispensed ed with the firing apparatus is stated to be BO so arranged that the fires last all day without replenishing and the furnaces only require damping once a w week eel A Gal gai gainers tres fres new now galvanic gal gai vanie vanic battery consists of a vessel in which are contained a plate of lead and a plate of zinc the lead reaches to the bottom while the zinc is but half as long iong on the bottom orthe of the tes ves vessel elis eils is covered with a layer of red ox oxide 0 of f lead and the exciting fluid is water lr containing 10 per cent of or sal sai ammoniac the electromotive electro motive power powen of this battery is estimate estimated mated at one third that of a nun Bun bunsen cell celi its li dernai internal resistance resist anee ance is very sil all ZD lit and it is said sald to be vory vry constant it has the merit of cheapness A couple of bogus al chemists suc ruc seeded in doing two harvard professors and a bo boston boiton iton a assayer s ayer out of ten or fifteen thousand dollars by making them believe for the moment that gold could be obtained in large quantities from iron pyrites the professors of harvard were dumbfounded at what they tiley aw saw while the sayer assayer as actually gave a written certificate that gold vas was produced ro from the pyrites but arien wilen the victims themselves tried to do the same thing they tiley coul dInt nor could they find the al chemists afterward they having gone to europe for the benefit of their health their operations proved the most mort audacious clo cio usand and bucce successful irful of all the gold swindles on record several other men doing business ou on state street were also taken talen in by the tile same parties woodman Ml and guilder to to the tune of each 0 0 1 there is a difference between dogs and men and it ia Is not always in favor of men an oregon paper tells the story of a man who enciu encountered a panther and was having a deadly struggle with him when hen the dog came and attacked the fu furious flous beast drawing him ofa oal from the master tilo tile man thus relieved immediately fled with all speed leaving 0 tho the dog 0 to his fate miss kitty daughter of dr loves lovec her father rather and takes an int interest erast in his profession the other day a lady friend called to see her and asked howske how she awand was and how she was getting along ob pretty we well weli answered miss ilis ili s ritty kitty pretty well plenty of colds some bronchitis chatis and a little typhus fever but as papa fid rid said paid ye yesterday berday to make things lively what we need is a nice little epidemic two gardeners had their crops of peas killed by the frost one ono of whom who had fretted and greatly grumbled at abc the tho loss visiting his neighbor some timo time after was vms astonished to ee fee f see another fine crop emp growing and inquired how it could be these aro what I 1 sowed while you were trotting tink tind 11 was the reply why dont you fret ye but nut I 1 put it ot till I 1 have repaired tho the mischief why then theres no need to fret at abl abb a true timo tiro amran I 1 tt pot it 1 OS pee |