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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 3, 17 October 1890, Page 11

Chicago's census rolls up 1,101,263 names. It now ranks next to New York in population. Daniel Webster, in the course of a speech delivered fifty years ago on Girard College, exclaimed in an outburst of honest indignation : "It is all idle, it is a mockery and an insult to common sense, to maintain that a school for the instruction of youth from which Christian instruction by Christian teachers is sedulously shut out, is not deistical and infidel in its purpose and tendency. 1 A Maine man recently devised an apparatns by which a lazy person might set the kitchen fire agoing without leaving his bed ; and now an inventor in Madison has produced an arrangement by which the lamp lights itself on dark winter mornings, when the alarm clock jingles. The mechanism of the alarm lifts a catch that holds a piece of sand paper under the point of a match. The sand paper flies back quickly, igniting the match which is inserted into a socket in the end of a plunger. As the match burns, the plunger slowly descends into the chimney of the lamp to the burner when it remains stationary for a few seconds, giving ample time for lighting the wick, and then returns to its place free and clear of the lamp. "No getting up in the dark and fumbling with a match," says the inventor ; but alai, youhave to get up just the same, and there's the rub?— Lewiston Journal.