People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — TO CORRESPONDENTS [ARTICLE]

TO CORRESPONDENTS

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Massachusetts may be overstocked with women but such is not the case hi the country at large. A census bulletin shows that in the United States there are 1,500,000 more male than female persons. There are about seven thousand of the finest paintings in the world at the Art palace at Jackson park. Allowing the visitor ten hours a day in this building and one minute for the inspection of each painting it will take nearly twelve days of his time to see the entire collection.

A Florida man. Phares Bell, has conceived the idea of building a big hotel among the branches of a grove of live oaks in that state. He is said to have the backing of a syndicate of English capitalists and to be so confident of the success of his novel scheme that he will begin work upon it immediately. Those Indians who have sold reservations to the United States are, as a whole, the wealthiest communities in the country. Commissioner Roosevelt, who has been looking into the matter, reports one tribe of which every man, woman and child has a revenue equivalent to the interest on $15,000 each. A New York electrician is building an air ship which he elaims will solve the problem of aerial navigation beyond a doubt. He is so sure of its success that he has already selected a name for it, the pegassipede. Pegasus was the winged horse on which poets were supposed to ride to empyrean heights.

An European dentist is said to hare had gTea t sncees in curing toothache within fire or six minutes, and often in less time, by applying one pole of an electrostatic machine to the troublesome tooth and the other pole to the body of the patient. In seventy-six cases thus treated by him only three are said to have been usatisfactory. Frances Woi.pelet is the only child and heiress of the British general. Lord Wolseley, and before he would consent to accept a peerage he stipulated the title should descend to his daughter and her descendants—a favor seldom granted to the English nobility.though there are a great number of Scotch and Irish peerages which descend in the female line.

A reporter who has been at pains to corral the genuine Spanish method of pronouncing Eulalie’s name divulges the secret It is “Ay-00-lah-lee-ah,” with the first two syllables run together tepidly and the accent on the “lah.” The infanta's name is “Marie-Eulalie-Francoise - D' Assise- M arguerite-liober-te-Isabelle-Francoisc de Paullie-Chris-tin e-Marie de la Piete.” The British admiralty has just adopted the new wire-wound, quick-firing, six-inch breech-loading gun for the navy. The new weapon is forty calibers long and weighs seven tons. 11 will fire an elongated projectile weighing 10(1 pounds a distance of over four miles. It is such a quick-firing gun that at a long range when fired with cordite it has three or four shots in the air at the same time.

The Columbian stamps are really steel engravings, and form the third especial issue of stamps in the country. The first of these was a fifteen cent -stamp representing the landing of Columbus, which was issued in 18(59, and the second commemorated the 187(5 centennial by a souvenir envelope, with a shield-shaped three-cent stamp in the corner, having at the top the figures 1776 and at the bottom 1876. —» 1 A peculiar suit was recently settled in the courts at Iron Mountain, Mich. An Austrian resident of that place some time ago sent money and a ring to his finance in Austria, telling her to come to America and get married. She came for that purpose, but met another man whom she fancied better than her old lover and married him. The disappointed lover sued the husband to restore S7O and the ring, and secured judgment for that amount.

Uncle Sam has become the victim of a new game on the part of the emigrant. He ships from the port of de markation as a sailor before the mast, and immediately deserts on arriving at an American port. He thus evades the head tax exacted by the government, and escapes the examination imposed by immigration laws. During the recent naval review in New York harbor about 300 foreigners inserted themselves into our midst in this fashion. It is believed, says the Scientific American, that there are five times as many insects as there are species of all other living things put together. The oak alone supports 450 species of insects and 200, kinds make their home in the pine. Forty years ago Humboldt estimated that the number of species preserved in collections was between 150,000 and 170,000, but scientific men now say that there must be more than threequarters of a miUion, without taking into account the parasite creatures. One street car line in Philadelphia has been experimenting with a storagebattery electric car, and the Press.announces that the results are entirely satisfactory. The car runs at the rate of eight miles an hour, except on sharp curves and steep grades, where it runs four. ’lt looks as if the problem oi otreet transit without the use of dangerous overhead wires would be finally solved, li a storage battery can now be steadily run at a speed of eight miles an hour, it seems only a question of a short time when mechanical genius will be able to increase the speed to tea i «r twelve miles on the level