People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — NEWSPAPER LAWS. [ARTICLE]

NEWSPAPER LAWS.

Anr person who takes the paper regn larly from the vosujffice. whether directed to his name or whether Ssis a sub-crtt>er or not. is responsible for the pay. The courts hare decided that refusing to take aewsMcer* snd periodicals from the postoffice, or ra-.- -'De an 1 ieerine them uncalled tor it prime • .. r , rvTF.NTWNILnUCD.

The harvests in Ireland this year are fully a month earlier than any before recorded, and the most abundant that country has been blessed with for twenty-five years. In hopes of abating the smoke nuisance, the city of Boston has passed a new ordinance which requires manufacturers to consume seventy-five per cent, of the carbon in smoke before the gases escape from the chimney. Charlotte Yonge, the gifted authoress, is seventy years old, but her health is excellent She is living in a London suburb. For more than fifty years she has been devoted to literary work, and has been one of the most prolific of writers. _______________ The negotiations between the Japanese and Mexican governments in reference to the introduction of Japanese labor in Mexico have been successful Japan permits her people to emigrate to Mexico and Mexico guarantees the protection of all of them who may settle there. The new Congressional library building, which will have a larger area than that of the capitol, promises to be one of the handsomest structures in Washington. The building is of Italian renaissance architecture, and will be 365 by 470 feet in size, with cellar, basement and two stories.

A member of parliament can not resign. "When he wishes to retire he accepts the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, a nominal office in the gift of the crown paying a salary of twenty shillings a year. The acceptance of the government appointment forbids him to sit as a member of parliament. Making a mountain stream run over and above a railroad track is a unique piece of engineering that the Southern Pacific railroad is shortly to commence near Wright’s station, in the Santa Cruz mountains, in California. When completed it will probably make the largest artificial cataract in the world. Senator Proctob is soon to begin the erection of a fine house in Washington, at the corner of Vermont avenue and K street The stone for it will be sent to Washington from Senator Proctor’s quarries in Vermont, whence most of the marble used in the construction ot the western terraces of the capitol was brought. A woman named Margaret Davis recently had more confidence in her cellar than in the banks of Philadelphia, and so drawing 51,400 from the latter, deposited it in the dirt of the former. Some covetous resurrectionists broke into that cellar, however, and now Mrs. Davis wished she had trusted the cellar less and the banks more. W. H. Peece, the government superintendent of telegraph and telephone in Great Britain, insists that signaling through space by means of elec-tro-magnetic vibration is among the early probabilities. He says that this signaling has been successfully carried on across the channel and that such signaling is possible across a space of 3,000 miles.

The little toe is disappearing from ‘the human foot. At a recent meeting of the French academy of science it was demonstated that in the last two centuries the average size of the toe has decreased so much that instead of three joints it has most frequently only two, and that in addition the nerves and muscles that control it are slowly becoming useless. A celery farmer near Leavenworth devotes sijdeen acres to the cultivation of that vegetable. He reckons on an average yield of 250,000 stalks to the acre, which is worth three cents a stalk. He has worked the land seven years, and keeps it productive by scattering over it 700 loads of manure annually. The business affords steady employment to ten men besides himself and at times he employs as high as fifty hands. At the international labor congress recently in session in Brussels there was a notable display of moderation by a large section of the delegates on the ■shorter-hours question and May-day ■observance. A resolution in favor of the eight-hour day without any reduction of wages and for the abolition of piece-work was defeated, and the congress merely made a recommendation that an appeal be addressed to the governments of the world for an international conference upon these subjects.

The New York Medical Record urges fthe disuse altogether of unsterilized cow’s milk as food for young children, insisting that more harm than good comes from such food. The Record is of the opinion that cow’s milk is a fruitful source of much of the tuberculosis that now curses humanity, that in the very young the tubercles do not attack the lungs as at a mature age, but the and other lymph glands. The point is made that *in Japan, where there are no cows, tuberculosis is unknown. Ts spite of the utmost efforts and the 'influence of a particularly propitious climate the cotton growers of India are not able to produce more than seventyfive 'pounds to the acre, while the average American crops is 175 pounds. It is said that the cost of cultivating an acre of cotton on India is equal to the cost of cultivating the same area in this country, and the smaller product is at the same time inferior. At one time in history India constituted a formidable rival to the United States in her export of cotton, but most of,her product is non consumed ,