People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — TO CORRESPONDENTS. [ARTICLE]

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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More than ten thousand wsmen are candidates for employment at the World’s fair. Mrs. Palmer herself has received nearly 7,500 applications from women for positions. Not content with prosecuting the publishers of Sunday papers, the socalled Law and Order society in Pittsburgh announces that the publishers of Monday papers are to be prosecuted if they have any work done on them before midnight Ist England they have an institution known as the Rural District Nursing association. The nurses are in training two years at a cost of $250. -Each nurse has a salary of $125 to $150, with board and lodging and a donkey cart in which to go the rounds of a district of 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants. A subscription has been started to bring the great Wisconsin monolith to Milwaukee and erect it in one of the city parks. The stone said to be the largest ever quarried was intended as part of the Wisconsin exhibit at the World’s fair, but the legislature refused to defray the cost of its transportation.

The crusade against cholera is begun in earnest in Pittsburgh, and will be carried on in a business-like manner. A corps of sanitary inspectors has been started out to make a house to house canvass of the entire city. The city has been districted for the purpose und inspectors will thoroughly examine one district at a time. The highest recorded speed ever achieved by a locomotive was recently made by a compound engine on a New York road, when it covered a mile in 87 seconds. This is at the terrific rate of 97miles an hour, and almost Teaches the theoretical 100 miles an hour, which some believe is to be the ordinary speed or the fast trains of the future. ' G. Wilfbed Pbarce, of New Brunswick, N. J., has issued an address to the electricians of the country, asking them to raise money to put the tombs of Benjamin Franklin and his wife in good order, erect a new fence and a bronze memorial tablet At present the graves are sadly neglected, the tombstones going to decay because of the lack of cement, and the fence about them an ugly and tawdry iron one.

A wbiteb who seems to understand bis subject says that the English locomotive is the finest thing of ita kind, but that it can not be Bold in the markets of the world to compete with the American locomotive. The reason is that it is built to run on the finest roadbed that can be made and will not bear the conditions to which it is subject on ;the roads of this or most other countries After resting many years without a monument to mark his grave and perpetuate his fame, America’s greatest •ornithologists, Audubon, is to have a •fitting memorial. The unveiling will 'take place April 26. Audubon lies in Trinity cemetery in upper New York. 'The monument, costing $10,060, has the rform of a runic cross and its shaft is ornamented with designs of animals and lairds. , The Kilauea crater in the Sandwich Islands, is the largest active volcano in the world. Four thousand four hundred feet above the sea level there is an oval opening nine miles in circumference, with vertical sides 1,000 feet "deep, and covered at the bottom with a lake of liquid lava Around the edge und from the midst of this fiery lake fifty-one conical craters send forth jets of boiling lava At Johnstown, Pa, the Johnson Ca has made interesting tests with its new electric welding machine on the street •car tracks. The machine was stopped ■over a joint and the current turned on. In less than a minute the rails at the ends began to change color, and inside of three minutes the iron was raised to a white heat. The ends of the rails were brought together under pressure and a perfect weld was made. The Australian tree ferns now on the World’s fair grounds are the most unique that ever left that country. Some of the specimens are sixty feefc high and weigh about two tons each. Larger ones could not be transported, and these were picked from whole forests which grow on the swamps of Australia. These ferns are not parasites, but epiphyte, and, although they do not live on the blood of the tree, they ultimately destroy its growth. The adulteration of baking powder tnay be detected by a simple experiment If alum is present in the powder, and this is usually the adulterant ivied in place of cream of tartar, which Sis more expensive, it may be detected by scattering a little of the powder in In a glass of cold water. The alum, if [present, will 6ink to the bottom of the [glass, a heavy white sediment. The ipowder containing cream of tartar will produce more loam and not have much ‘ It is said that the Chinese are disposed to follow the advice of the Six "Companies, which have brought them to this country and which control them, «nd will refuse to. register. If they do jthey will obey the companies rather «MR»liTng with tb* law, which la de-