People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — NEWSPAPER LAWS. [ARTICLE]

NEWSPAPER LAWS.

Any person who takes the paper ret nlsrly from the poKioftoe. whether directed to hit name or whether ie is a aeb eriber or not. is responsible for the pay. The courts have decided that refusing to taka ■ewspapePS and periodicals from the postofßoe, or renorinr and leering them uncalled for is prime *«*« evidence oi IKTkXTIONAL FRAUD.

It is estimated that the melon crop of Georgia, this year, will be worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars to -the farmers and about a hundred thousand dollars to the railroads in the etate.

A “Scottish Women’s Church Defense Union” is the form the resentment of the women of Scotland against the overflow of their national church takes. The organization is popular *nd rapidly recruiting members from the best classes of Scotch women.

It is claimed that the prize for patience must be awarded to the scientist ■who recently compiled a catalogue containing lists of the various kinds of insects which are to be found in the •world. According to him there are V 50.000 distinct species; not including insects.

Thebe is encouragement in the fact that the flow of gold continues steadily from Europe to America, amounting in the last few .weeks to upwards of $20,• 000,000. Another encouraging feature to contemplate is the fact that the price •of New York exchange enjoyed a precipitate drop the other day both in Chicago and Cincinnati.

Experiments with a bicycle fitted cut with a small chemical tank and Are ax are being made by a South Boston fire company. The bicycle has cushion tires and with its whole outfit weighs about sixty pounds. The tank holds about two gallons of chemical, which amounts as an extinguisher to »bout twelve pails of water.

A business .man of Colfax, Wash., proposes to stock that country with Chinese pheasants. A large poultry house has been built at his home and he has hatched out forty young bird* on his place. Many more eggs are now in his incubator. His hens have laid over 800 eggs since last fall, but none of them has yet offered to sit It is not often that the engineering world is called upon to witness the completion of a work nearly 2,500 years After it was first projected, but such is the case with the canal through the Isthmus of Corinth. Projected 600 years before Christ agitated again 800 years later, actually begun by the Emperor Nero, it is completed in 1893.

The London Optician, in describing *fche remarkable progress that has been made of 'late years in the treatment of •ye diseases, says that with the ophthalmoscope and ophtalmometer there are very few problems with regard to the functions and diseases of the human •ye that can not be determined by an •Xpert in a very few moments of time. '

The laying of the telegraph cable Between Queensland and New Caledonia, which is intended to form the first section of a trans-Pacific cable between Australia and Canada, will be begun very shortly, and is expected to be finished by the end of this month. It is stated in Sydney that the cable will be completed to Vancouver within two years.

i The British custom house has been Greek statuettes representing satyrs, on the ground of indecency. A n ■examination of the inculpated statu- • ettes reveals the fact that there is no indecency whatever. The statuettes •re curious examples of human and vegetable forms combined, like the well-known figure of Daphne turning into a laurel tree.

Circassian women, it is said, who •re noted for the velvety softness of itheir complexions and rosy bloom, never use ointments of any kind. 'They apply to their faces half an hour ■before their bath a thortvigh coating -of white of egg. When this has completely dried they wash it off with tepid water and then proceed to bathe ■as usual in soap and water.

The price of a first-class Pullman car is about $15,000, while that of what is known as a fiat car, such as are used to haul gravel and dirt, is about SBBO. A common flat-bottomed coal car costs <SOO, while a car with a double hopperbottom is quoted at a hundred more. A irefrigerator car costs $550. A combined baggage and mail car costs $3,500, and • first-class coach is valued at $5,500.

A Congregational clergyman of Ohio, according to the Congregationalism has forwarded to the patent office at Washington a model of a device for burnishing communicants with individual cups. They are about two inches Shigh, one inch at the mouth, tapering down to nearly five-eighths of an inch at the bottom. As many as forty can conveniently be carried in a frame, and •be replenished in a few seconds. The natural resources of South Da"kota have not been overrated, judging "by the reports of the new artesian well at Pierre. That well emits 780 gallons of water a minute at a temperature of 100 degrees, and also 25,000 feet of natural gas every twenty-four hours. The gas has a heating power equal to three tons of good bituminous coal, every twenty-four hours Other wells like •this one at Pierre are to be dug at once. Notwithstanding the drouth the prospects, according to the exhibit made by the federal agricultural department, are that the corn crop will lie 87 against the 93.2 of last year. The .-average in Ohio is 85.1, Indiana 79.1, Illinois 81, lowa 102, Missouri 95, Kansas 82, and Nebraska 84. The exhibit for spring wheat last year was 77.4 and thi» ;year it is 67, which, all things considered, is regarded as flattering. Rye is 78.5 against the 89 of 1892, and barley lees than one point Buckwheat’s condition is 88.8, a slight decline from last war, and potatoes 86, a deolineof near V points. :