Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-12

money, or of salt, wherewith to SAVIOR
the food by which he lived. Thus
salary comes from salt-and in this view
of the word how many there are who do
not earn their salt
a PERILOUS PREDICAMENT.
One of those thrilling episodes that
occasionally punctuate the life OF miner
and illustrate its perils occurred recently
in the Wallace and Ferguson mine, at
Sheep ranch. The shaft has two COM
partments, and is 400 feet deep. Both
Compartments are used for hoisting pur-
poses, signal bells being utilized to en-
able the engineer to distinguish between
the divisions Of the shaft. One day last
week three men went down in the buck
ct, their destination being the 200-foot
level. One of the trio, Thomas Tag
CART, got into the bucket, while the other
two stood on its top and held on by the
cable the "usual way" Arriving at
the 2C0-foot station the two men stepped
off into the level, and Taggart had got
partially out of the bucket when the bell
Of the other compartment gave the sig
nal to hoist. The engineer mistook the
signal and hoisted In the compartment
in which the men had just gone down.
Taggart was in the act Of getting out of
the bucket had one leg out and one In,
in fact-when the latter started up the
shaft. The bucket, with Taggart hang
ing to it, had proceeded but few feet
when it tipped over, precipitating the
unfortunate man headlong down the
shaft. At the moment of falling lin
utter desperation, as drowning man
grasps at a straw-Taggart caught at the
rocky wall Of the shaft with his hands.
By a miracle of good fortune one Of his
wrists lodged in wedge-shaped inter-
stice in the side of the shaft, and Tag
CART hung by one arm, suspended in
mid-air, with 200 feet of space beneath
him. No one can have the faintest con-
ception Of the unutterable horror of such
position. Enveloped in impenetrable
darkness, suspended by one arm over an
abyss that invited him to certain death
if his frail support should give way, and
alive to the knowledge that the descend
ing bucket night precipitate such ca
tastrophe, Taggart's situation was so
inexpressibly horrible that its contem-
plation makes one shudder. Luckily,
however, his comrades comprehended
the situation of affairs and by acting
promptly prevented tragic ending of
the accident. Taggart was released
from his perilous position, escaping any
more serious injury than severe strain
of his physical system and mental facul-
Calaueras (Cal) Chronicle.
THE WORLDS COFREE-PRODUCTIO
The four great coffee countries OF the
world are Brazil, Java, Sumatra and
Ceylon. The data and figures Of 1879
show that Brazil itself has produced an
extraordinary quantity of beans. Hith-
erto $50, 900 tons have been considered
good yearly average for Brazil last
year the export alone amounted to 246,-
600 TONS But the consumption of cot
fee in the country itself now amounts to
10000 tons, raising the total yearly pro-
duction of Brazil to 333, 900 tons. Fort
unately for the planters in other parts
of the world, coffee has grown into
necessity in the United States, and,
thanks to this, the price has risen. AL
though the soil of Brazil, especially for
coffee culture, is very extensive, yet the
difficulty Of obtaining labor daily be-
comes greater, and this renders it doubt
full whether the above figure can be
much exceeded. The crop in Java and
Sumatra was estimated at 1000 tons
for export /; the consumption Of the in
habitants, although the population is
double that of Brazil, is not half of that
of the latter country. The production
in Ceylon, though greater than that OF
1878. shows falling off when compared
with former years; there were in all A.
200 tons exported from the island, the
native consumption being very small.
Coffee is, beside, grown in Central
America, in several of the South Ameri-
can republics, in the British and other
colonies of the West Indies, in Hayh,
Cuba, Porto Rico, Arabia, Mauritius,
Reunion, and along the northeast coast
Of Africa, in Liberia, and the African
West Coast, In Manila, Celebes, and
several of the islands of the Pacific, and,
lastly, in British India But the total
production of all these regions does not
reach half of the export of the four chief
countries named above. London Times.
II COUNTRY OF CONTRARLES.
In Australia the swans are black, fish
climb the trees, and cherry stones grow
on the outside of the fr11it. One of the