The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20

According to the late census there
are 245 towns and cities in the United
States having . population OF 10000
and upward.
Gen. Walker, Superintendent OF the
Census, predicts that the census OF
1890 will kive the United States q
population of "a, 467 900.
There are truths which some men
despise, because they have not exam
ined them, and which they will not
examine, because the despire them.
There are fifty kinds of flowers
growing In the Arctic regions which
are to be found nowhere else. Most
of them are of a white or yellow color.
A Paris manufacturer claims to
have discovered a process for substi-
tuting the leaves OF the eucalyptus
rec which in burning emit q delicious
perfume, for tobacco leaves In making
cigars.
Even imfammable a matter as cot
ton can now be used for the contruc-
ton of fire-proof buildings. The raw
cotton is converted into q paste by a
chemical process, and this paste be-
comes as hard as stone. It is nodded
into large slabs, and designated as
architectural cotton.
The tallest trees in the world are in
Australia. A fallen tree In Gippsland
measured 435 feet from the DOT to
the highest point of Its branches. An
other, standing In the Dunenong dis
trict, in Victoria, Is estimated to be
over AGO feet from the ground to the
top.
Algiers possesses a river of verita-
BILE ink. Two streams, n starting
from a region where the soil is ferru-
ginious, the other from a peat swamp,
meet and form the river, whose inky
constituency is due to the mixing of
the iron and the gallo acid which the
two tributary streams respectively
contain.
A Philadelphia scientist recently
made an honest, though reluctant,
confessions: s.Our science OF Nature,
ike our science of man, Is a patch
work of half-stated, half worked-out
sums on a slate; and we are kept as
busy with the sponge as with the
pencil.
Mr.. Whitney, a Massachusetts man,
who has lived in South Africa,
proposes to introduce the raising of
ostrlches in San Bernardino county,
CAL, starting with one hundred pair.
He says that twelve years ago only
forty ostriches were domestlcated In
South Africa, where now there are
$50 900.
On a postal card on view at al ex-
hibition in Germany there has been
written in a German system of short
hand the large number of $4,000
words. Subsequently Mr.. Hurst, of
Sheffield, England, the publisher of
The Photograph, a shorthand mag
azine, offered prizes for miniature
shorthand. The system was to be
Pitman's, the writing to be legible to
the naked eye, and to be on one side
of an English postal card, which is
considerably smaller than a German
card-25,00O words on the former be-
ing reckoned equivalent to $4,000 on
the latter. The first prize in this
competition was awarded to G. II.
Davidson, whose Shorthand postal
card contained 32,373 words, in
Guiding the whole of Goldsmith's
"She Stops to Conquer" an essay of
John Morley, and half Of Holcroft's
ssRoad to Ruin" a
Within a very near approach to the
truth, the human family inhabiting
the earth has been estimated at ]. 0O0,-
000, 900. Now, the weight OF the an
imal matter of this immense body
cast into the graves is not less than
$4,000 tons, and its decomposition
produces 5000, 900, 900 900 cubic feet
Of matter. The vegetable productions
of the earth clear away from the earth
the gases thus generated, decompos-
ing and assimilating them for their
own increase. This circle of changes
has been going on ever since man be-
came an occupier of the earth. He
feeds on the lower animals and on
the seeds of plants, which in due tune
become a part of himself. The lower
animals feed upon the herbs and
grasses, which in their turn become
the animal ; then, by its death, again
pass into the atmosphere, and are
ready once more to the assimilated by
plants, the earth or bone su bstance
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