People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — KEWSPAPES LAWS. [ARTICLE]

NEWSPAPER LAWS.

Any person who takes the paper regularly from the postoffice whether directed to his name or whether he is a subscriber or not, is responsible for the pay. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prima facie evidence of INTENTIONAL FRAUD.

BY the act of the last Missouri legislature all able-bodied men between the ages of 21 and 60 years are required to pay poll tax. THE Utah Mormons are making a desperate fight in the courts for several hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property confiscated by the government.

STEPS have been taken towards the erection of a statue of James A Garfield, to be placed at the Washington boulevard entrance to Garfield park in Chicago. A STATEMENT issued by the president of the World’s Columbian exposition shows that the receipts to date have been $17,496,432, and the expenditures $16,708,320. ONE of the devices of the weariedout office seeker in Washington, in order to retire in good form, is to have a telegram sent to himself, calling him home on urgent business. FORTY-FOUR guns are fired for a national salute, one for each state. The national flag is saluted with twenty-one guns, the president with twenty-one and the vice-president with nineteen. TWO OF the rules which the president laid down for his own guidance in appointments to the diplomatic and consular service were: First, officials under his former administration are barred. Second, none but first-class business men need apply.

THE most noted Chinese doctor in the country has just died in San Francisco. He was Li Po Tai. He came from Canton about 1850 and built up a large practice, having white people as well as his own countrymen for patients. The emperor a few years ago sent him the highest Chinese medical diploma. THE export of frozen mutton is becoming one of New Zealand’s chief industries. The export of frozen beef has been declining of late years, but that of mutton has largely increased. There are now twenty-one freezing establishments in the colony, with a capacity not far short of 4,000,000 sheep a year. THEY are experimenting with an electric cab in Berlin by having it run races with the ordinary horse cabs. The reports to date seem to show the superiority of the vehicle propelled by electricity. A distance of six English miles was covered in twenty minutes, or at the rate of about three minutes a mile, by it. THE recent invention of Prof. Elisha Gray of what he has christened the telautograph it is said threatens to reduce the value of the services of the expert telegrapher to a minimum. A cheap boy is said to be capable of feeding the Gray machine with the copy furnished by the person sending the message and no expert is required to receive the same.

Senator Camden, of West Virginia, is getting out some large timber for the • World’s fair. One of the pieces .is an ash plank three feet three inches wide, and another is a poplar plank exactly five feet wide. Another poplar tree, eleven feet in diameter, is being hewed out to be sent to Chicago. It can not be cut with a saw on account of its tremendous size. It is claimed that the greatest exhibits of timber and coal at the fair will be from West Virginia.

Dr E. Hutchinson said, in a recent lecture before the Royal institute at London, that with the electric motor a speed of 1,000 miles an hour could be obtained, “though beyond that point they perhaps enter the region of projectiles rather than that of locomotives.” This remarkable speed is obtainable because of the great advantage of the purely rotary motion of an electric motor over the reciprocal motion of the piston and connecting rod < f the jsteam locomotive.

■One of the recent volumes issued by "the English Folk Lore society exhibits ■the extraordinary erudition of Miss Roalfe Cox, who after wading through innumerable books and pamplets in numerous languages has discovered that 'the story of Cinderella has been known ■fold in. 845 ways. The current story of the glass slipper maiden has been since 1697, when Perrault published the tale, but it bears no ear-mark to determine definitely its origin, and is found in the most ancient literature of India and Egypt A London barber explains why hair turns gray. “Gray hair is no wso common that one wonders what it comes from. Yc~ng men have it in profusion, sand young women are very proud when ■they have a coiffure in which gray has a prominent part I attribute the prevalence of it to frequent cutting and soap. Soap and the barber do more -toward taking color and strength out -of hair than anything else. The singeing of hair is done to prevent the oils -from exuding from the ends of clipped Bairs, and singeing is in this regard better. But ammonia-loaded soaps are the ■worst factors. ” The counting of the money in the -vaults of the United States treasury, at Washington, is not so very troublesome or tedious a task as might be imagined. In counting twenty-dollar gold pieces •experience has shown them to be so ■uniform that only one pile is counted, and the rest of the money is stacked and measured by this pile, until the last pile is reached, when that also is counted. Jn that way the process of counting proceeds very rapidly. Gold in smaller denominations is always counted or weighed. Silver is much snore troublesome to count than gold •ad can not be measured. ■ it