| Show NOTES spain has both plenty and fam famine ine inc the vineyards and cc cereal real crops crop 4 in andalusia are marvellous marcellous ly prod productive ucal e this sea season and the promise is of a yield oo of neIrley barley unknown for years in clu ciu ciudad dad real and badajos badajoz the cereal crops have been wholly destroyed by the locusts in badajoz badajos arrobas arribas an arroba is 25 pounds of locusts have been burnt with petroleum in trenches more than troops are occupied in their destruction grace greenwood rode on a cow catcher and an exchange ob serves that she summed up her impressions in the remark 1 I shall neverda never do that again 1 Less liess clever people than grace have summed up their impressions about that sort of riding by observing that they shall never do that once don carlos carloa went to washington and is reported to say he can tell this is a great and glorious country from the number of empty bottles lying around mrs oates broke up her comie comic opera tro troupe at cincinnati july 1 the ifon iron age thinks it a good indication of improvement in the business that many furnaces that had been out ot of blast for a P long time are again at work and factories that had been idle are running on full fall time and some on double time the demand for iron lion la is not so much for railroads as forearm for farm implements and building purposes confidence is felt that the increased activity will bo be maintained and extended the trees supplying tho the gum for india rubber are said to be in exhaust ihle lYle the belt beit of land around the globe miles on each side of the equator abounding in these trees which can be tapped twenty successive seasons without injury and the trees stand so close that one man can gather the sap of eighty in a day each tree yielding on an ave average rage rago taree tareo tablespoonfuls daily forty three thousand of these trees have been counted in in a tract of country thirty miles long by eight wide the providence journal journ ai wants ladies to understand thattie that the small birds worn as hat ornaments are skinned alive A young man in V vayne co iowa deaf and ad dumb for twenty year was suddenly thrown from a wagon to the ground striking his head and on arising found that ho h c had recovered his speech and hearing he ir the omaha herald kerald says bays some of the frontier frostier counties in minnesota Blinne sota are entirely de populated on account of an indian scare the inhabitants havo left their houses fields of grain everything every thing and aud with a few household goods and teams driving their cattle before them have retreated to the more populous portions of the state the wildest rumors prevail and la a panic stricken people are flying lest the sioux horrors of 1802 be again repe repeated atod ir tr rufus S merrill of boston on in an address before tho the american chemical society recently said that between oooo and ana a people perished in this country last last year victims of rf kerosene oil accidents he is thus further reported ghe he fhe said that every lamp in tho iho he land when burning in a tempera ture lure of seventy five or eighty degrees oil of the igniting test required by law degrees is in an explosive condition and needs but ignition in the bowl to produce disa disaster Ater many scientific men had bad supposed that the flash point was the p of safet sadet safety aj but he demonstrated by experiment to the satisfaction of his au that thirty or thirty five degrees below the igniting point oil after burning fifteen or twenty minutes minute will produce an explosive gas it was also demonstrated that oil with an igniting point of degrees is in an explosive condition when burned as in lanterns on shipboard and in hallwa railway cars naptha he claimed to abe be the most dangerous of all preparations of petroleum A cample of it at 70 degrees was subjected to the test asti usually liv applied by retail dealers to satisfy customers A lighted match 1 was held to an open vessel of or it without ignition taking place A mall email portion was put into a can shaken tip up and a light introduced when an explosion occurred showing that the stuff becomes explosive upon mixing with the oxygen of the atmosphere he claimed that oil should stand a test of degrees in order to be safe sare and that no device devico could be contrived which would render safe the burning of an ar article articie ticie inherently dangerous |
