The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-24
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Esy Telegraph and 7iuii.

\ BARREN REGION.
Canadians are learning TO their apparent
establishment that their immense Western
region is not as fertile as they supposed.
Mr., Russell, Of the boundary survey. SAYS
that the trcelcss desert country reached in
journeying along the South Saskatchewan
continues for hundreds of miles by that
river, as well as along the Qu'Appeile and
the Red Deer Beyond this is a stretch of
1870 miles of better land The barren re-
gon extends north Of the South Saskaich-
evan to an unknown distance.
CuIGNoNs.
just rs chgnons are going out Of fash.
ion material has been discovered which
nigh, be used proftably in their manufac-.
ture, \ dwarf palm which grows in Al
giers Africa, and on the Isthmus Of Pana-
ma has leaves the fibre of which when
died black, twisted and curled. resemble
horse hair. There is no reason why they
should not be used for wigs. How much
more satisfactory to wear vegetable wig
than the hair of some person who may long
ago have been crcmated,
NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.
An electric light of new invention has
been put in the tower of st. Ignatius Col
legc, San Francisco. The apparatus cost
1000, and weighs about as MANY bounds
1t consists of a great number of coils of
copper wire revolving close to magnets. in
such way that sparks of electricity are
produced in unccasing streams. These cur
rents are concentrated and carried through
heavy copper wires to the illuminating point
IN the tower, where the focus gives n light
equal to four hundred gas Jets.
THE MISSISSIPPI.
The bar at the southwest pass OF the
Mississippi river is source of constant an
noyance to seamen. The channel is so mar
row that the grounding of single vessel
blockades the port of New Orleans. Over
forty vessels were thus detained four DAYS
last week. 1t is a singular fact that when
the river is highest the bar is shallowest
GROWING HAIR.
Joseph b. Tilton devotcs himself to grow
ing hair on bald heads in San Francisco.
Peter Taylor, who has bare spot on his
crown, made bargain with Tilton to rem
edy the defect. The written contract specl-
fled that 500 should be paid when the hair
started, and as much more upon full re-
storation. providing the application did no
injury. Tilton claims that the hair began
to grow under his treatment, but that Tay-
lor declined to continue the remedy or to
pay the sum agreed upon. A lawsuit fol-
lowed. but the hair restorer lost it, because
under the agreement Taylor was not bound
to continue the application longer than he
saw fit.
THROUGH FROM SAN FRANCISCO
A hotel car, the private property of d o
Mills, Esq, president of the Bank of Cali
fornia and one of the largest stockholders
in the Central Pacific railroad, passed over
the Hudson River railroad Saturday after
noon last, attached to the 1886 express, en-
route for New York city. The party con-
slsting of Edgar Mills, his wife and Miss
Hooker, of Sacramento, CAL, and Henry
Wolf, of Virginia City, Nevada, are on
cir way TO New York city to meet DO.
Mills and family, who are on their way
from Paris. The car left San Francisco Il
week ago Saturday at 2 p. m, coming
through direct. It's eXcelleLtly appointed
having Kitchen, dining room, and saloon
fitted up in the most costly manner. Two
servants accompany the party
REDUCED TARIFF
The Boston and Albany railroad COM
pany have recently reduced their freights
to local points SO that grain in bulk or flour
can be shipped from the west and reshipped
to points this side of Springfield at less
than the through freight The reduction is
about thirty-three and third per cent. be-
low the old tariff. Should this be carried
out it will restore to Albany the large trade
she enjoyed years before the Through"
tariffs came into operation.
CREMATION.
A cremation society has recently been
formed in Berlin. The society in Vienna
has adopted the significant name of the
Urn. A lady seventy years of age has
joined and subscribed $4,000 toward the
building Of the cremation hall The fur
mace for the Vienna association is to be
constructed on the plan of DR.. Reklam Of
Leipslc. AT late meeting of the magis-
trates OF Nuremberg, BurgOmaster Won
Stromer moved that the proprlety of erect
ing cremation hall be considered at lhe
same time that the project for adding to
the church-yard of the church of St. Jo-
seph's is taken up. No objection was
made to this motion,
A STARVATION STORY DENIED.
The story which has been extensively
published and commented upon that a New
Yorker named Anthony Hoffman starved
to death in Conway county, Ark, is denied
by the people of that neighborhood. w.
G. Gray; the postmaster of Lewisburg, and
other respectable citizens say that not more
than week before Hoffman's death he was
largely in funds and bought provisions for
his family. Hoffman had moved from
healthy locality to the centre of dense and
sck!y swamp, a place not known to many
persons, and he died unaided because his
neighbors had no notice of his illness. On
the fact of his decease becoming known
the family received prompt attention. The
railway bonds in his possession were not
worthless, as stated in New York papers,
but readily available for cash. His family
is not destitute.