| Show EDITORIAL NOTES missouri has a bill before e its legislature requiring managers manager s of circuses and shows to perform all they advertise some of of the Missour missourians ians lans have likely become disgusted by the lack of harmony between the gorgeous scenes represented upon the posters and the sickly reality no people in the world are as luxurious in the matter of fires as the american while we have the most perfect and costly nire fire departments known to men we manage to burn up property of the value of more than a quarter of a million dollars a day ayera avera averaging ing b by y t th the e loss of a year lord napier in a recent address before ore the church of england temperance society said while commanding ng the armies armies la in india a return relating ing to men showed that among the nhe total abstainers abstain ers there was no cri eri crime me but the whole body of crime was among nona non a abstainers 11 an ancient and remarkable clock h has as been recently set up in the reading room of the municipal library ot rouen A winding keeps it running for fourteen months and some odd days it was constructed in 1782 1783 underwent alteration in 1816 andaas and was vas bought by rouen for 1000 francs in 1838 and hild has recently been repaired and just set going golli german engineers are now DOW engaged in removing the foundations of an old bridge beidl e built bulit by charlemagne in the eighth century the woot wool of the piles plies used in its construction althou although ll 11 nearly 1100 years old is so well preserved that it can still be used in building the iron that was riveted to the posts can also be used since it is covered with only a thia thin layer laver of rust Ameri amerl amerlean american cati manufacturers of cartridges have received heavy orders I 1 from the english and russian govern ments monts it is said that if war breaks out the foreign factories cannot a quarter of the demand this industry is more prosperous in the united states than in europe owing to the fact that to turn ont oat a really good cartridge lake superior copper is the one indispensable article bricks made of cork now constitute one of the nev new german industries the usual size is ten by four and three fourths and two and a half inches they are prepared from small corks refuse and cement and have not dot only been used for certain building purposes on account of their lightness and isolating properties but are also employed as a covering ifor for boilers in preventing the radiation of heat sir john Sa aderson nAf M D prof professor assor of phy siolo gy in university college london while under examination before the house of lords investigating committee said my belief Is that the human race would be c situated junt just as favorably if the use of alco aico alcohol pl did not exist I 1 think this for two reasons in the first place because the evils preponderate over the benefits and that certainly is a reason and the other consideration is simply that all benefits are arc dispensable benefits properly speaking said goethe the most pec peculiar aliar allar and the deepest problem of the history of the world and man a problem to wilch which all others are arc subordinate is the conflict between unbelief and faith all epochs in which faith reigned whatever its form were brilliant exalting and f fruitful ruita ua all epochs however in in i which unbelief in any form gained a sad victory though for a moment they might seem to be brig bright ht vanish from the vision of posterity since no one cares to take the trouble to learn what is unfruitful of results A well known scientific man has lately given an order to a liverpool dealer for a hundred specimens of the electric eel for tiie the purpose of closely studying the singular power possessed by these creatures cleatur as hitherto this has not been investigated 0 so o far as to determine very positively what is the nature of the marvelous emanation anat nas has generally been beer accepted as electricity but there are some reasons lately discovered it is s id jd for doubting the identity of this power with a veritable electric shock A wallingford correspondent of the hartford tunes times writes that a peculiarity of a worker in german silver liver spoons is the color of his hair years of labor in the trim trimming minI g or buffing room of a spoon factory dyes the hair of the operative a pale green which it takes years to change aside from the disagreeable and remarkable d dye ye the manufacture is extremely dangerous the principal part of the composition of german silver I 1 is copper ane tine fine emery wheel used in trim trimming and shaping the spoon fills flits the air with minute particles artl arti articles cles cies of this noxious poison that soon fill the lungs and cause a disease similar to consumption to escape this a sponge is worn over the nostrils of the workman by a communication in another part of this issue from brother arthur stayner our readers are informed that instead of going into the business of molasses making on an extensive scale this year at farmington as we previously announced he has decided to remove ills his machinery to spanish fork where a large quantity of cane is to be planted this string spring with a view to molasses mak making 1 this year and testing the adaptability of the locality for the th sugar suar makin making business it la is believed by many that the beuch bench land in the region of spanish fork ia is specially adapted for the raising of sugar cane as there I 1 is apparently but littie little if any mineral in the soil inthis if this lioves to be the case the tile excellent water power which the spanish fork stream affords can be utilized for propelling the inachin machinery erv necessary for the manufacture of f sugar we are glad to learn that the experiment is to be made and wish brother stayner and the enterprising utah county folks who have given him encouragement s success in their efforts to provide hom home homemade e made sweets the statement prepared a short time since by the national board of health for tor the consideration of congress cone Cons ress contains some statistics on the subject 0 of f cholera visitations are of special interest now in view of ot the epidemic of asiatic cholera which many people believe to be beat at our doors they show thit in every instance when this scourge has prevailed in europe it has reached this country in the same year or year after we suffered terribly wit it will be de remembered in 1832 and cholera pre wre prevailed in india in 1826 and 1827 in russia in 1829 I 1 and in northern europe and arld england in 1831 we were visited by the S counge urge again in 1849 but this was preceded ty by its prevalence in persia in 1846 ism in russia in 1847 and in northern europe england and ireland la in 1848 the disease prevailed in russia northern europe and england in 1833 1853 and again reached the united states in 1854 in 1864 it broke out as it will be remembered ili in bombay made its way vay to europe in in ism 1865 and to the united states in 1866 in 1868 70 it again prevailed in persia in 1869 73 in masla Ilus itus sla sia in 1871 73 in austria hungary north germany and england and in n 1873 it visited the united states the tile canadian parliament was pro rogues yesterday |
