People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — To con RESPONDENTS. [ARTICLE]

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Tin? favorable reports as to the sanitary condition of Hamburg are reassurin* to the people of this country. D«. James H. Kirkland, professor of latin of Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn., hasbeen elected chancellor to succeed Dr. K. G. Garland, retired on •ccount of age and infirmity. n '1 i” Tweb-eye is a peculiar crystallization •f quartz. Formerly very rare and costly, large deposits have been found Jn the western states, and in South Africa, so that many common articles are now made of it. A boyal commission of England on tuberculosis has almost completed experiments to show the effect on the jmeat of bacteria inoculation on the live stock. It is expected that the final report in autumn will result in a material change of laws governing the importation of cattle. Nothing in horticultural hall excites more comment than the top of the cocoanut tree from Lake Worth, Fla. Its attraction rests in the fact that the Buts are among the feathery fronds just as they grow. There are in the aame exhibit some cocoanut trees just starting from the nut.

Boup creek, McDowell county, W. Va, is a remarkable stream. The creek passes a hamlet called Vivian, and about a mile below returns, runs around a tract of land about a half mile wide and then passes under itself. This freak is caused by the lay of the Sand, which sinks spirally. Commenting on the fact that it costs Uncle Sam $750 a shot to test cannon plate and guns, the Laramie Republican arrives at the very plausible theory that if the tests are successful it will cost some other power more than that to fool with your Uncle Samuel. Recpectful treatment comes high, but wo must have it

Among the many Russian articles of Me and beauty now imported to this country are girdles for feminine waists. They are, like the most Russian ornaments, gorgeous to the last degree. The girdle itself is made of cloth woven with threads of gold or silver. The buckle is usually a large metallic affair bedizened with Byzantine decoration. All the principal actors in the Panama scandal are confined to their beds. Hertz is dying at Bornemouth, in England, Ferdinand de Lesseps is mentally and physically a wreck. Charles de Leneps is in the hospital at St Louis, If. Marius is in the infirmary of the Ifelnin prison, and ex-Minister Baihut Is in the hospital of the prison of Etampes. Portland cement, according to the Sanitary Plumber, has been put to a new use. /it is now substituted for the Bore expensive rubber and asbestos preparation for packing steam joints; Erom extensive practical trials this cement packing is found to be quite as efficient as the others hitherto employed, and its cost is only one-tenth tthat of the others.

Mbs. Stanford, when thanked refoently for the great work done by her husband and herself in founding the university at Palo Ato, said: “Do not -call it a kindness on our part; we •ehonld not be thanked, for the reason 'that we had to sacrifice nothing. If we had made a personal sacrifice to enable ns to build the university we anight conscientiously accept your gratitude. ’’ Almost the sole hereditary trade in ■the United States is that of the deepwater pilot. At most of the important •ea ports oilotage has been confined for generations to a few families. The Delaware pilots congregate at Lewes, where they have lived these many generations. To be a deep-water pilot in Delaware is to be a man of consideration, with houses, lands and portable goods ashore, a snug home, a well-clad family, and local honors of various sorts. According to a recent showing of the military equipment of Europe, the kaiser’s country leads the world in the size of its military establishment, having increased from a mobilizing strength of 1,300,000 in 1869 to 5,000,000 in 1892, positively the most elaborate military display made by any of the European military powers. Next to Cfermany’s strength is that of France with 4,350,000 men; Russia is third with 4,000,000, Italy next with 2,236,000 and Austria next with 1,900,000. A hew vegetable is about to be introduced to the people of Sta tes "through the department of agriculture. It is the root of the calla lily, which resembles somewhat in appearance the ordinary Irish tuber, with the addition of a few fibrous roots that have nothing to do with the qualities of the articles as an esculent. So prolific and palatable is the root of that plant that their propagation in many parts of the, United States may reasonably be looked forward to as an agricultural indusfay of the future. Chief Constructor Hinchbqbv at the Washington navy yard has made a -calculation showing the enormous force -of the blow that the Camperdown dealt wpon the Victoria. He says the Cainperdown has a weight of 10,600 tons, and was moving at a rate of ten knots per hour, or 16.8 S feet per second. This ■would give an impact-of 46,900 foot tons delivered by the sharp ram ofjthe Camperdown. That is equivalent to the bkw that would be struck by d railroad train consisting of six Pullman cars drawn by the heaviest of loceMfetives; •ay one of 120 tons running (ft a speed fifty miles an bone, w