People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — NEWSPAPER LAWS. [ARTICLE]

NEWSPAPER LAWS.

Any person who takes the paperregularly from the postoffice, whether directed to his name or whether Be is a sob-errber or Dot. is responsible for the pay. The worts have decided that refusing to take eewsoaper* and periodicals from the post. '(Bee. or nmornii and leasing them uncalled for is prime v-«ew evidence of INTCRnuSiL FUAOD.

Lady Tbyon, who was an heiress to the peerage when she married the late admiral (it was a love match), has declined to accept the 13,000 pension to which she is entitled as his widow. A telephone for use on the field of battle is one of onr war appliances. The wire, a mile long, is wound in a kind of breast-plate, worn by a soldier, and to the head-gear is attached the eimple receiving and transmitting apparatus. It is rumored in New York that Miss Helen Gould, eldest daughter of the late financier, is planning the erection of a hospital for women. Miss Gould is probably the richest heiress in America- her fortune being estimated at from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000.

A memorial is to be ercted to the poetess Elizabeth Barrett-Browning by the inhabitants of Ledbury, Eng., the home of her childhood. It is to take the form of a clock tower and an institute consisting of reading-rooms, library, class-rooms and offices and is to cost SIO,OOO. Local telegrams are now transmitted through pneumatic tubes in most of the cities of Great Britain. At present about fifty miles of such tubes are in operation, requiring an aggregate of 400-horse power and transmitting a daily average of 105,000 messages or 80,000,000 annualy. The Pennsylvania state board of agriculture reports a reduced yield of corn, potatoes, apples, peaches, blackberries and grapes on account of the drouth. In southeastern Pennsylvania dairymen have been compelled to feed hay and grain to their cows to make up for the great decrease in the amount of pasture. According to the Montreal papers over 6,000 of the Canadians resident in the New England states have returned to Canada within the past two weeks, on account of the closing of the mills and factories in which they were employed. To the above 0,000 should be added the unnumbered thousands of other operatives who are either idle in New England or seeking employ* ■ment in other states.

TThe chair of English literature in tha 'Ohio State University seems to carry with it a singular fatality to its occupants. First, Prof. Millikin held it four years and died. He was succeeded by Prof, Short who died at the end of a four years’ occupancy. Prof. A. H. Walsh then took the chair. He lived just four years, and was succeeded four years ago by Prof. A. B. Chalmers, who lx dying at Sparta, Mich.

A prominent physician of Rio Janeiro, Dr. Domingos Freire, claims to have discovered the specific germ of yellow fever and to be able to apply a preventive vaccine and thus effectively stamp out the disease. The New York Medical Record urges Dr. Freire to prove his claim in some locality like Santos where the disease is epidemic and so have his name go down the ages with the other great benefactors of mankind. "The elm tree beetle, a greedy black "worm, is doing great mischief to the ‘ Stately old elms, with which the streets 'Of all Connecticut towns are shaded. The worms speedily strip the trees of “their leaves, which turn yellow and often fall in showers. Many handsome elms have already been almost ruined by them, and the daily press teems with editorials and letters from correspondents, telling how the pest may be destroyed. . It may have surprised some folks to learn that it would require five years for the mints of the United States government to coin 167,000,000 silver dollars, but the time is not so surprising when one has done a little figuring. The mints have scarcely 300 full working days in the year, or less than 700,000 working minutes in five years. To coin 167,000,000 in that time, therefore, it would be necessary to turn out more tthan 250 dollar pieces per minute. There are 2,661 miles of railroad in South Dakota and the property is assessed at the rate of $3,354 a mile, or a total assessment of $8,924,500. It is -said that some of the roads in the state last year did not earn their operating expenses. For example, it cost the ■Chicago and Northwestern railroad 413 ,656 more to operate the property in South Dakota than the receipts ■amounted to, while the Grand Island and Wyoming Central showed a deficit •of $56,923.

■Searching parties at Johnstown, Da., have been finding valuables lost •during the flood. A few days ago a valuable gold watch was found, and a young man named Brown found a diamond ring said to be very valuable. It is reported that a jewel box with • diamond cluster ring and an exceptionally fine solitaire were found. It is also stated that some of the most valuable recoveries have been kept secret for fear the claimants might make trouble. Canada is making an effort to induce the inhabitants of Iceland to mi.grate from that forbidding country and settle in the promising fields of the northwest, where there is a bountiful -crop of cold weather to be depended on, the same as in Iceland, and in addition beautiful crops of grain, which the land of ice never enjoyed. About the only article of food on which the inhabitants of Iceland can rely, both for their own support and for export, is fish, and that supply seems inexhaustible. As a special inducement to migrate, the cost of passage, a good farm and the impl* merits to work it are offered