Morris tribune., 1881-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Although charity begins at home, it does
not end there.
Every man is as God made him, and
often times a good deal worse.
"WelI should twitter," is the latest
slang phrase. II should smile" has been
laid on the shelf.
On Monday the 9th inst, the enormous
number of 6,521. Immigrants was landed at
Castle Garden emigrant depot in New
York.
Colorado beetles are reported to be max
ing havoc with the young potato vines in
Virginia, and the crop will be short in con-
sequence.
The old Moore house in which Cornwall
lis signed his capitulation at Yorktown will
be fitted up for President Garfield's head.
quarters during the Yorktown centennial
Abiding to the Beecher's estimate that
one female house-fiy will hatch $4,000 eggs
in season, the Church Union thinks lit is
pity fly couldn't be grated OH hem
If, in instructing q child. you are vexed
at it for want of adroitness, try, if you
have never tried before, to write with your
left hand and remember that a child is all
left hand.
There are standing, according to careful
estimates, in Michigan, Minnesota and
Wisconsin, 81 $50, 600, 600 feet of pine lum-
Der, and yet, at the present rate of destruc.
ton, it is calculated that the supply will
not last more than twelve years.
Some idea of the huge proportions of the
emigration to the West may be CLEANED
from the following item from the: Mime
apolis Tribune of the 18th: 1.-THE migra-
ton from Ontario and Quebec is swelling
to great proportions. just as the advance of
theEuropean migration of the season is
reaching the West. Eight coaches of nm
migrants arrived here yesterday morning
over the Minneapolis & st. Paul road, and
were sent to Manitoba by special over the
St Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba road
Seven more coach loads arrived last night,
and will be forwarded special this morning.
The St. Paul, Minneapolis &: Manitoba road
is also advised by the Minneapolis & ST..
Paul company that the latter will deliver
to the former within the next six days, be.
ginning 10 morrow, eighty two coach loads,
or about $500 persons. Besides this rush
of special trains every regular train from
the East brings some immigrants. Lately
a great many Germans have passed
through, to settle in northern Minnesota
and Dakota"
Vanderbilt and a party of directors
made lively time over the Canada Southern
last week From Amherstburg to Buffalo
the train of two cars was drawn by the
newly invented Fountaine engine, which
made the most astonishing speed on re
cord. Two hundred and twenty nine
miles was made in two hundred and thirty
five minutes. The Fou ntaine engine, when
first built, was ridicuied as monstrosity
of ugliness and impractibility, but recent
tests have shown that it can easily out pull
or out run any engine yet built. Its great
popularity is that it has eight wheels be-
sides the two driving wheels, which are
above the main or lower driving wheels
the piston.rods from the steam chest con
Meeting with the upper wheels. Another
pecuiarity is that the machinery is above
the boiler instead of under it, as is ordi
narily the case. The cylinder is 16x24
The upper wheel is six feet in diameter
and the intermediate one fifty six inches
The track wheel is seventy inches which
makes it equal to an eight feet driver
The whole weight is forty tons. The
great advantage of this locomotive il
claimed to be that, while an ordinary five
feet drive wheel is worked by the piston
rod at the rate of forty miles an hour, the
engine in question will make sixty miles ir
the same time by the same number Of
strokes of its piston rod